stonecrandall Chapter 179, A friend who happened to meet
Chapter 179, A friend who happened to meet
Early the next morning, Zhang Huaiyuan appeared at the door of the small shop on time again. This time, he was accompanied by a man in a black trench coat. He introduced this to his nephews as his friend, saying that they met by chance in the city. , introduce to everyone.
"He's older than you, just call him Uncle Feng." Zhang Huaiyuan originally didn't plan to bring this man here, but he went out this morning, and this man followed him, so he had to bring him along. .
He knew that even if he didn't bring it, the other party would still be able to find it here if he had grown legs.
"Haha, it's too old to call Uncle Feng, I don't think Brother Feng is much older than us, we still call Brother Feng." Zhou Xing saw that the man was only in his early thirties, and he was not much older than them, To call uncle is to call people old.
Zhou Xing came to the store today, and didn't go out to do other things.
At this time, the factory is already on holiday, and the last batch of shipments will come back, and it will be Chinese New Year when they are sold out.There are people led by Zhang Lei and Peng Long over there. Knowing that the store here is busy, he stays here to help.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Huaiyuan quit, "Don't you call him brother and my uncle, doesn't it make me look too old?"
This is a generation away!
"Uncle, you are not old at all, you look about our age." Zhou Xing said with a suppressed smile.
In fact, Zhang Huaiyuan is really young. He is the youngest son in the family, and he is more than ten years older than the two brothers and sisters above. When his second sister got married, he was only about ten years old.
Now that the eldest nephew is so old, he is only in his 20s, and he looks very young and good-looking.The nephew and uncle stood together, looking more like a brother and a younger brother, not a little uncle and a nephew.
"Uncle, have you ever cooked? If you haven't eaten, sit down and eat something, and I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you." Qiao Minglang nodded to the person next to Uncle, without doubting anything, and turned Looking at his uncle, he said.
"It's really not. I haven't seen anything to eat since I came out. I always wanted to eat your noodles when I went back yesterday." This is true. When I went back to the hotel last night and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, Zhang Huaiyuan kept thinking about it. Noodles made by my little nephew.
Qiao Minglang put the cut noodles into the pot, "Uncle, sit down and wait, it will be cooked soon."
"All right, you don't need to order too much noodles for us, we can just eat whatever you want." Coming so early, Zhang Huaiyuan really didn't eat, so he was not polite to his nephew.
"Let's go and sit over there."
Turning his head and whispering to the man standing beside him, Zhang Huaiyuan took the man to find a seat and sat down. He went to his nephew to see if there was anything he could do to help.
Seeing that my uncle was coming here, Zhou Xing said, "You just go and sit down, uncle. I'm here, so I don't need your help."
"I'll just take a look, I'll just take a look." Seeing that his nephew really had nothing to help, Zhang Huaiyuan went back to his seat and sat down, looking at the man in front of him.
The two looked at each other, and the man looked at his young man with deep eyes.
Zhang Huaiyuan felt a little disgusted with this person who came with him, but since he had people follow him here, he didn't say anything after all.The man's feet under the table touched his feet on purpose, he retracted his feet, and gave him a glare, telling the man to calm down a bit.
The expression on Chen Feng's face didn't change at all, as if nothing happened.
At this time, Qiao Minglang was busy, so he didn't care much about his uncle's side, so Zhou Xing asked Zhou Xing to help bring over the cooked noodles.Seeing that this classmate who was his nephew brought them noodles, Zhang Huaiyuan thanked him and ate noodles with his friend there.
After taking a bite of the noodles, Chen Feng knew why the young man couldn't forget the noodles here, but he didn't know how the soup was cooked and how the noodles were made. He glanced at the boy who was cooking the noodles over there, wanting to learn Now, go back and make it for his youth to eat.
After they had eaten the noodles, Zhang Huaiyuan didn't leave when he saw that the store was busy. He stayed here to help, and lowered his head to the man who was following him, "Why don't you go back to the hotel and wait for me."
The man's meaning is very clear, if you don't leave, don't think about me leaving.
"..." Zhang Huaiyuan regrets bringing this person back now, why on earth did he bring this person back to his hometown!Chen Feng knew what the young man was worried about, so he lowered his voice and said to the young man, "I'm here with you, and I won't let them find out."
"If you don't want to tell them, I won't force you."
"Okay, if you want to stay, you can stay."
Zhang Huaiyuan looked at the man who lowered his posture, and felt that he was too selfish and cruel. After all, he didn't drive this man away, but let him stay.
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There were still so many people at the stall at the entrance. Today, Qiao Mingshan and his cousin Qiao Mingjing were selling fish balls outside.
The farmer's market here is not very big, which one has good things, you pass it on to me, I pass it on to you, and word is passed on, and everyone will know soon.I originally thought that the business in the next two days would not be better than the first few days, but I didn't expect that there were more people shopping today than yesterday.
As soon as the freshly made fish balls came out of the pan, they were swarmed by people lining up behind them.
"Why is it gone again?"
"Yes, boss, why is it gone again, you see we have been waiting for so long."
"..."
Sometimes business is too good to be an annoyance. Customers are urging and complaining. Qiao Mingshan hasn't sat down to rest since morning. The big pot of minced fish is used up, and the second pot is brought over to continue to use. He didn't know how many catties of fish balls he had made, but it was still not enough to sell.
"Brother, wait, don't worry, it will be here soon." Qiao Mingshan comforted the shoppers, when he saw that his brother-in-law was coming to help, "Little brother-in-law, why are you here... I really don't need your help , you go and sit inside."
Where is the reason for asking relatives to help with work?
"I'd rather be here to help you than just sit there." Zhang Huaiyuan said indifferently.
The young man has a good appearance, as soon as he stood here, many eyes fell on him.
Zhang Huaiyuan had long been used to the way other people looked at him. Seeing that Qiao Mingjing was too busy here, he helped him pack the bags.
Although the man next to him didn't have much to say, he was more efficient at work than Zhang Huaiyuan, his brother-in-law.The man helped pack the things and collect the money. The accounts were calculated quickly and accurately, and there was nothing wrong with it.
"Boss, is this your brother?" A regular customer who often comes to sell things in the store knows the boss. When he saw such a good-looking young man helping their stall, he asked curiously.
"Oh, it's our brother-in-law." Qiao Mingshan replied with a smile.
"It's your brother-in-law. Where does he work? Do you have a wife?" The man asked again, the purpose of which was self-evident.
Hearing others talking about him, Zhang Huaiyuan listened with a smile on his face, but didn't respond.
Only the man next to him heard the woman ask the young man about marrying a daughter-in-law, and then said to introduce her to the young man, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Haha, our younger brother-in-law's affairs are not up to us as juniors. We have to ask our brother-in-law about it." Qiao Mingshan is used to these women who spend all day thinking about being matchmakers for them. In fact, he knows Everyone is just kind and sincerely wants to introduce their daughter-in-law.
But it's really not their turn to care about this brother-in-law.
"Are you here to care about my brother-in-law, or are you here to buy things from us?"
Seeing that his brother-in-law didn't talk to him, Qiao Mingshan hurriedly changed the subject. At this moment, a pot of fish balls was served, and he shouted, "Come here, everyone wants a few catties. Our fish balls are out of the pot."
"Buy less for those in front, save some for those behind us."
"It's finally our turn, and we have to pay five catties for everything."
Everyone thinks that five catties is too little, but because the boss stipulates that they can only ask for five catties at most, they can only buy this little.If there are a lot of people in the family, five catties of fish balls will be enough to finish two meals. The market will not open until the third day of the Lunar New Year, and it will take three to five days for them to buy these vegetables.
At this time, someone asked, "Boss, when are you going back to celebrate the New Year?"
"Oh, it's still on sale tomorrow morning, and the stall will be closed in the afternoon. Our shop won't open until the sixth day of the new year after the fifth day of the new year. Then everyone will eat and buy something, so come and buy." Qiao Ming responded kindly. road.
Today is the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and they are going to open until tomorrow morning, and they will clean up in the afternoon before going home for the New Year, or they will come back after returning, it will be next year.
No matter how good the business here is, they still have to go back for the New Year.It will be the new year in two days, and there may not be people who will come out to buy vegetables by then. Maybe their business will be better in these few days.
"Do you want me to help?" Seeing Qiao Mingshan shaking his arm, Chen Feng knew that his arm might have an old injury, so he asked aloud.
"Yeah, brother, if you're tired, take a rest, let Ah Feng come, and you just tell him what to do." Zhang Huaiyuan doesn't regard himself as an outsider, and he thinks it's not difficult to eat fish balls.
Qiao Mingshan was about to refuse, when he heard his brother-in-law say that if he was tired, he would ask his friend to help him.The brother-in-law had already helped them when he came here yesterday. Knowing that his cousin had a good relationship with the brother-in-law, he also treated the brother-in-law as himself.
From the beginning of December to now, he has been busy for nearly a month without stopping every day, and he doesn't know what happened these two days. This arm hurts so much that he can't lift it up. His arm was injured when he was a child. Injury, he suspected that it might be an old injury.
But at this time, everyone is busy, and he can't say that he should rest and not work, so he can only grit his teeth and persevere.It's just that the arm is uncomfortable, which affects the speed of making fish balls, so he nodded and told the other party how to make the fish balls, "...you just use the tiger's mouth to squeeze it out and scrape it off with a spoon. Not too big, not too small."