stonecrandall Chapter 176, uncle found
Chapter 176, uncle found
Once the new year is over, it will be Chinese New Year in a few days, and their two stores are still open for business every day.After discussing with the brothers, they decided to open the store until the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, and then go home to celebrate the New Year on the [-]th day of the new year.
Otherwise, if the store does not open for one day, it will earn less money for one day and give more rent for one day.At this time of the end of the year, the business in the store was very good, and the brothers were very reluctant to close the store early and go home.
At this time of the end of the year, everyone is doing New Year’s goods to prepare for the New Year, and the farmer’s market is crowded with people every day.The fish balls in their store are sold very well every day. Many regular customers will come to their store to buy meatballs. is not enough to sell.
In the past two days, Qiao Minglang went back to the old shop to help make meatballs, and let his two cousins look at the new shop.
They set up a big pot directly at the entrance of the store, and sold the fish balls while making fish balls. Next to them were people waiting in line to buy fish balls. It's gone.
"Those in front, save some for us." The people behind shouted.
But the people in front can't grab it, let alone the people who are still queuing behind.When it was the turn of the people behind to come up, looking at the empty tray, they even felt like crying.
"Ah, gone again?"
"Little boss, you should fight more, we have been waiting for this for a long time."
"Yes, little boss, we have been waiting for a long time."
"How can you wait as long as we did? I came here yesterday and couldn't buy anything, and I continued to queue today."
"..."
The people in the front bought all the fish balls, and the people in the back were gone, and everyone sighed.
Qiao Mingshan came out with a pot of minced fish. Hearing that the guests were about to quarrel, he was too busy to appease them, "Don't worry, everyone, wait a little longer, it will be there soon."
"Boss, there are too many people buying the things in your store. We have been queuing for a long time and haven't bought anything."
"I'm really sorry for keeping everyone waiting for so long. Wait a little longer, it will be here soon, and all the good things will come later."
Qiao Mingshan couldn't laugh or cry when he saw the customers complaining that the products in their store were too easy to sell.However, there are too many people buying things these days, and their original stocks are all sold out. Now they can only sell them now, and they can't sell them to customers.
But this business is good, and it was also during this period of time before this year. After a year, the business may not be so good, so even after working hard for a few days, I can still make a little more money.This is why they are reluctant to go home now.
Doing business is not just to make some money. If the business was good one year ago, the business after the next year may not be as good as it is now.
At this time, there are so many people eating in the store, they still have to look inside the store and busy outside, the customers outside are about to fight.
"Mingming, go drink some water, I'll come here." After soothing the guests, Qiao Mingshan put the minced fish in his hand on the table. Drink some water and take a break.
"Well, okay, I'll come over to drink some water."
Qiao Minglang stood in front of the pot of fish balls that had been cooking for a long time, his face was red from the smoke, he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, asked the big hall brother to take his place, and went outside.
"Don't worry, everyone, it will be out of the pot soon, wait patiently." Qiao Mingshan talked to the guests in line while squeezing the fish balls into the pot for cooking.The movements of his hands were quick, and the balls were put into the pot one by one, and they floated up after a while.
"We've waited for so long, boss, are you going to take advantage of us later?"
"This is easy to talk about, and I will give you a few more later."
Seeing the fish balls floating up in the pot, some customers who waited in line gradually smiled.Seeing that the fish balls are really not enough to sell, they can only limit the number of customers to no more than five catties, and save some for the customers who line up later.
Qiao Minglang was standing at the door of the store, drinking water from a bowl in his hand, while listening to the lobby brother joking with others, a smile flashed in his eyes.
"It should be here." When Zhang Huaiyuan looked for the address in his hand, he saw the door of the small shop surrounded by many people, and immediately recognized the boy standing at the door with a big bowl as his eldest nephew. , with a smile on his face, he shouted, "Xiao Lang."
"You are..." Hearing someone call his name, Qiao Minglang looked up and saw a young man standing not far away smiling at him.
A familiar face flashed in my mind, and I remembered that this was the boy's uncle, "Are you uncle?"
"It's Uncle, don't you know Uncle?"
Looking for it all the way, Zhang Huaiyuan asked many people on the road before he found this place.
Finally found the elder nephew, the handsome young man walked towards the boy with a smile, hugged the silly boy who was stunned when he saw him, stretched out his hand and patted the elder nephew on the shoulder, seeing the dumbfounded look of the elder nephew , asked with a worried face: "I really don't know my uncle?"
"No, I recognize it." Qiao Minglang was stunned for a moment before he realized that this person was his uncle. The two of them stood together. Their facial features were a bit similar. At first glance, they looked like a family. .
He still didn't believe it when he heard from his family that he looked like a member of his grandfather's family. Now that he saw his brother-in-law, Qiao Minglang really believed it.
"Uncle, why are you here? Come and sit inside." Qiao Minglang hurriedly asked someone to sit inside.
There were still people eating in the store, but it wasn't the most crowded time, and there were still empty tables, so he invited people to sit down at the empty tables.
Zhang Huaiyuan followed his nephew into the store, seeing that the business of this small store was pretty good, he sat down on a stool.
"Little uncle, drink some water." Qiao Minglang brought someone a bowl of water over, and sat down at the seat opposite.
"Hey, good. Uncle hasn't come back to see you for a long time, you have grown up so much." Zhang Huaiyuan is still the eldest nephew whom he met the year before last, and the uncle and nephew haven't seen each other for more than a year.
The last time he came back was because his elder sister passed away. At that time, he saw that this nephew was still thin and small, and he was still a half-grown child.When he saw his nephew this time, he realized that his nephew had grown into a teenager.
"I went back home, and after listening to Dad, it was your grandfather who told me about what happened in your family in the past six months... Hey, it's my uncle who is sorry for you. I haven't come back to see you for so long." Zhang Huaiyuan said After running around for several years, he didn't go home many times, so he didn't know about such a thing happening at home until he came back home.
Knowing that his brother-in-law passed away due to an accident, Zhang Huaiyuan was also very sad.
He was thinking about the group of children left by his elder sister. Before coming to the city, he went to Sanwan Village to see a few nephews.He didn't see his elder nephew at home, so he asked people in Qiao's family, and he found out that his elder nephew opened a shop in the city with a few cousins. The city found it.
"You don't have to blame yourself, uncle... We are living a pretty good life now." Seeing the sad expression on his uncle's face, Qiao Minglang comforted him.
Qiao Mingliang saw that his cousin brought in a young man who looked a little familiar, and he was still sitting there talking to someone.We haven't seen each other for several years, but Qiao Mingliang still recognized this familiar young man as his cousin's uncle, so he took time out of his busy schedule to come over and say hello, "Minglang, is this your uncle?"
"Second cousin, um, yes, this is my uncle." Qiao Minglang replied.
"Oh, uncle is here. It's been a long time since I saw you." Qiao Mingliang looked at Zhang Huaiyuan and said.
"Yeah, I haven't seen you for a long time." Zhang Huaiyuan recognized the elder nephew's cousins. When his elder sister was still there, he would go to see her from time to time, so he had a good relationship with Qiao. Everyone at home knows each other.
It's just that he has gone outside in recent years and rarely goes home, so we don't see each other very often.
But he still remembered the general appearance.
"You guys talk, I'll go outside and have a look, Mingming, sit down with uncle for a while and talk." Just as the store is not too busy at the moment, Qiao Mingliang came over to say hello to his relatives and asked his cousin to come here Sitting with someone, he went outside to help his elder brother.
Qiao Minglang said hello, and told his uncle that several of his cousins were here.
"Oh, I heard from your uncle. Your business here seems to be doing well." Zhang Huaiyuan saw so many people around outside, so he asked a little curiously: "Are you selling anything outside?"
"Fish balls are being made outside. There are a lot of people shopping these days, so we put the pot outside to get them." Qiao Minglang explained.
Seeing people coming from such a long distance, it was already past noon, Qiao Minglang was worried that he hadn't eaten, so he asked, "Uncle, are you hungry? Do you want to cook a bowl of noodles for you?"
"Don't bother, I'll just drink some water." In fact, Zhang Huaiyuan came to look for his nephew, and he hasn't had lunch yet.
"It's not troublesome." Seeing his uncle's appearance, Qiao Minglang guessed that he might not have eaten, so he stood up, "Sit down for a while, uncle, and cook a bowl of noodles very quickly." Uncle is cooking noodles.
Zhang Huaiyuan couldn't sit still alone, so he stood up and looked around, and saw woodcut signs hanging on the wall, which were quite beautiful.Although this small shop is a bit rudimentary, some small things in this shop can still be seen to have been made with great effort.
Seeing that his nephew was so skillful in cooking noodles, it seemed that he often did this kind of work, and he felt a little bit sorry for the child.
"How long has your store been open?"
"It's been less than half a year." Qiao Minglang replied.
When the noodles were cooked, he scooped up the noodles and put them in a bowl, put a few more pieces of fish meat and balls on top, and carried the noodles over to the table.Seeing that the person was still standing there, he shouted: "The noodles are ready, come and eat the noodles, uncle."