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

Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye were stunned by the scene in front of them. The small courtyard in the backyard had been renovated and had many more stoves. Neat rows of stoves were a bit like the venue for the initial assessment of the top chef in "The Cooking Master Boy".

After counting carefully, there were exactly ten independent stoves, and there were people busy at each stove. Most of them were young wives and aunts, and the few who were there were grandmothers in their forties or fifties.

If you don’t know, you might think you have accidentally entered some women’s culinary school!

Everyone was busy and sweating profusely.

In order to prevent people from working under the scorching sun, cloth strips are hung on the four sides of each stove. Those from poor families would find scraps of cloth at home, sew them together to make a large piece, giving the look of a patchwork quilt.

Some families who are well-off have put up waterproof cloth, which has little impact on light rain and can protect against both sun and rain. They "punch in for work" almost every day.

It is not convenient to make pastries when it rains heavily. Moreover, not many people come out to stroll around and buy food when it rains heavily, and it is not convenient for people to make pastries in the backyard.

Father Li considered that it was not cost-effective to drive from the muddy roads in the countryside to the county town to open a shop in strong winds and heavy rains, so Li's Grocery Store formed the habit of closing on rainy days.

Other regular customers who come to Li Ji Grocery Store to buy vegetables will not go to Li Ji Grocery Store to buy vegetables on this day, but will just buy whatever they want at the vegetable market.

The waiters in the shops across the street or next door must be envious of the waiter in Li's Grocery Store. Since Li's store is closed, he can also rest at home and still get paid...

Alas... I guess he can only envy the waiter across the street in his life. I heard that the uncle who works as a waiter is from the same village as the shopkeeper. I guess he will also look for waiters from the village in the future.

The shop owners of the shops opposite and next door also don't like heavy rain, and they don't want to see Li Ji Grocery Store close when it rains. Once Li Ji Grocery Store closes, their business will instantly drop by almost half!

"This is..." Hua Murong was also shocked by the scene before her eyes, and then frowned slightly, "What if it rains? Wouldn't it be impossible to make cakes here?"

I thought about freeing up a few rooms in the backyard to make a big kitchen, but when I thought about freeing up the warehouse, where would I put the goods?

"Uncle Li can buy the neighboring house."

Xin Ye explained on behalf of Father Li: "The neighboring shop is doing pretty well, so I don't think it will be sold. Besides, it's a bit of a waste to spend a lot of money to buy a house just to build a kitchen.

We opened the grocery store not to make a lot of money, but to earn some living expenses, give my father something to do, and occasionally help the government promote agricultural products.

I looked at the quantity they made and it wasn't much, so I guess people wouldn't buy much. Guyang County is so small, and there are only a few thousand people in the city. If it's not a big market day, there won't be a lot of customers."

Hua Murong seemed to be thinking: "Is this what Uncle Li came up with after he didn't have a chef like you to make pastries?"

"We have to ask him." Xin Ye smiled. His father was a restless person. He probably couldn't control himself and would run around everywhere after looking after the shop for long. Otherwise, he wouldn't have let Uncle Zhang come to be a clerk. This meant he had found a successor.

But think about it, if he hadn't suddenly fallen seriously ill, he would still be travelling around as a escort, often not returning home for several months.

He likes to live a free life, so I naturally won't be a burden to him and tie him down in the village.