Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival was over and the Li family had to start preparing for the shop they had been planning for a long time.

Father Li has a small courtyard at the end of the vegetable market. The courtyard is a bit shabby and not practical to use as a shop, but the courtyard is large and has a well. After renovation, it can not only be used as a shop, but the backyard can also be used as a warehouse and for living.

Guyang County has a plan. Vegetables and meat must be sold in the vegetable market, while livestock and poultry are sold in simple thatched sheds close to the city gate.

Other shops will not be subject to mandatory planning as long as they can ensure the streets are clean and tidy.

Yan Yiyi considered that she might sell the vegetables from the field in the future, so she asked Father Li to look for a yard near the vegetable market and asked the pawnbroker to keep an eye out for it.

After waiting for such a long time, there was finally news from the dental clinic. After Father Li went to see the location, he asked Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye to see it together. The three of them unanimously decided to buy this courtyard.

Although the store is located in a remote area, their main business is to go with the flow, as their store mainly sells pickles and salted vegetables.

Or maybe Xin Ye is practicing new dishes and makes too much. Instead of giving it away for free, he might as well sell it and make some profit, or slowly promote fresh dishes such as sweet potato dishes.

The shop still needs to be renovated. During this period, Father Li went to the county every day, and Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye started to work in the fields, turning the soil and weeding.

They didn't need to work too hard, just pretend to do it for others to see. At night, Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye drove a small tiller to work in the fields together.

The reason for choosing a small size is that we don’t want the machine to be too big to attract people’s attention. Also, we chose a silent model. Otherwise, if it makes a lot of noise in the middle of the night, wouldn’t the villagers have to come out with torches to check it out?

Yan Yiyi asked Lu Youyou to buy a lot of farming machines, mainly for Xin Ye to grow herbs in the space. Otherwise, how could he take care of the endless land in his space by himself?

Lu Youyou planted all the vegetable seeds, medicinal herb seeds, and fruit tree seedlings that she had found one after another. Miraculously, all the seeds and seedlings grew!

Maybe God turns a blind eye to it, so this "medicinal use~" is quite strange, which means that all plants can be used as medicine, and if they cannot be used it is because you do not understand the prescription.

Or you can understand it as, poison is also medicine. If you can't make a medicine to cure the disease, you can make poison. If that doesn't work, you can make a medicine for diarrhea. Can you say that all plants are useless?

The current space of Xinye is planned by Yan Yiyi into three major areas: one is dry land, one is farmland, and one is a lake.

With excavators, streams are used to draw water from the lake, and the lake water is used to turn over the paddy fields. Not only rice can be grown in the paddy fields, but if the fields are dug deeper, lotus roots, water chestnuts, water caltrops, water chestnuts, etc. can also be grown.

The dryland area is divided into fruit area, medicinal material area, vegetable area and staple food area.

Corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, wheat, etc. are all planted in a small plot, about one acre of each. Xin Ye harvests them when he has time, and leaves them on the field to dry if he doesn't have time, as they won't overripe anyway.

Xin Ye's medicinal materials space has changed a lot now, and it has been completely turned into a planting space. No matter whether there will be chaos in the world or famine in the future, at least their family will not starve to death with this space.

At the end of March, the shop was finally renovated.

"Crackle, crackle..." As the sound of firecrackers rang out, people who went to the market to buy vegetables in the morning heard the sound of firecrackers and thought there was something exciting, so they gathered around to watch.

Father Li bowed to the people and said cheerfully, "Fellow villagers, our Li's Grocery Store is officially opened today, and we welcome your continued support.

To celebrate the opening, today, for every item purchased by folks in our shop, we will give a special steamed bun made by our Li Ji Grocery Store. Buy ten items and we will give ten steamed buns for free. Please take a look at the special steamed buns in our store!"

Yan Yiyi immediately brought out a plate of big steamed buns. The buns were as big as an adult's fist, a little smaller than those sold in the steamed bun shop, but they smelled especially sweet and had a hint of milk.

Each steamed bun is printed with the Li Ji Grocery Store logo, making it easy to remember the store’s pattern and name.

The onlookers could not help swallowing their saliva when they smelled the rich aroma of the steamed buns. It was the first time they had seen such snow-white and tempting steamed buns. The steamed buns in the steamed bun shop were not that white. It was obvious that Li Ji used the best white flour!

"Boss, what do you sell?" someone shouted. They all knew grocery stores and grain stores, but this was the first time they had heard of a grocery store.

“We sell a variety of things, including ordinary pickles, special pickles, dried vegetables, chili sauce, and dried mushrooms. We will also sell fresh mushrooms in the future.

There are pastries, which are different every day and may not be sold. There are fresh vegetables, eggs, or seasonal wild fruits. There is also game from time to time. Today there are several wild animals and rabbits, and a wild boar.

Anyone who passes by can come in and take a look. What if you come across cakes or other wild game or fruit that you like? "

After hearing his explanation, people understood what a grocery store was. It sold so many foods with different varieties, and was worthy of the word "grocery store".

"Boss, will you give away steamed buns if I buy a bunch of vegetables?" an old woman asked loudly.

"Yes, we can deliver it, but we have limited vegetables, so the minimum delivery amount is one kilogram," replied Father Li.

"Boss, you are too generous, aren't you? If you give me this kind of gift, won't I lose a lot?"

Father Li bowed to the man and said with a smile, "Today is the first day of our shop's opening. Giving you some food is just a small token of our appreciation for your support. We hope you will not think our shop is too shabby."

"Buy three cents worth of vegetables and get two cents worth of steamed bun for free. How is that shabby?" Uncle Zhang shouted. He originally came to help greet the guests, but was arranged by Yan Yiyi to be a stooge.

When the people heard this, they thought, "That's right! On ordinary days, they have to buy vegetables, and it's also three cents per pound. Today, they get an extra big steamed bun. They are making a lot of money, right?"

Immediately, an old lady took a bunch of spinach to pay the bill. Everyone saw that after she paid, the young woman in the shop picked up the steamed bun with a pair of chopsticks and placed it on a large washed leaf beside her, then wrapped it in the leaf and handed it to the old lady.

The old lady happily took the steamed buns and put them into her vegetable basket, then walked away with a smile on her face.

Seeing this, other people rushed in to grab the vegetables, and then went to the shop to choose other items. In a short while, all the 100 kilograms of spinach were sold out.

Aunt Qi, Uncle Zhang, the two brothers of the Wang family, and Uncle Gu's family each provided 20 kilograms of spinach. There was not enough spinach in Shen Ye's small vegetable garden. Aunt Qi picked all the spinach in the garden but was still half a kilogram short of 20 kilograms. It was Yan Yiyi who picked half a kilogram of spinach from his own garden and finally made up the number.