Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

The weather is getting colder, and there is less room to sit at the snack stalls at the market.

When you eat outside, the food gets cold after a while.

When Zhao Yuanzhen was inspecting, he discovered this and thought that he still had 3 shops left.

There are 2 across the street and one over here.

Let’s open a restaurant.

Shops here are more valuable, they are all selling goods, no one runs a restaurant.

Zhao Yuanzhen thought it was worth a try. Although the permanent population here was very small, there were a lot of floating population, and many people visited the trade market every day.

There should be quite a few people coming and going to discuss business or have lunch.

Just do it.

She connected the two shops opposite, turning it into a shop of more than 200 square meters, half of which was used as a lobby and the other half as private rooms.

The backyard was also opened up, and several rows of houses were built in the backyard and connected to make an inn.

Zhao Yuanzhen applied to Zhao Yuanlan and wanted to build a few more houses in the backyard, and Zhao Yuanlan approved her application.

"Little sister, I have to go back to Beijing to report. I'll leave this place to Vice General Wang. If you have any problems in the future, just look for Vice General Wang. I'll tell him."

"Okay, big brother, when will you go back?"

"I will be leaving the day after tomorrow. You stay here and be careful and protect yourself. If you have any problems, come to the barracks to find Vice General Wang. He is my man."

"Okay, I understand, brother. Don't worry, I will protect myself."

"Okay, do you need anything to take back?"

"Yes, I have a few jars of honey here. Please take them back for me. Give one to my sister-in-law and the rest to Xin Bai and the others."

"Okay, then you can send it over later."

"Ah."

Zhao Yuanzhen mobilized a decoration team to quickly build the house in the backyard before the land froze to death.

The two rooms that had already been built in the backyard were connected, and two more rooms were built in the middle to connect them, and the yard was also connected.

Two rows of houses were built on the left and right sides of the courtyard wall.

The house on the right is slightly larger, built like a separate house with a small yard of about 10 square meters. These are considered luxury suites.

All the other houses are designed as single rooms, double rooms, and large dormitory rooms.

A kitchen was built next to the back wall of the shop in the front yard and used as the restaurant's kitchen.

It took half a month to build the house and decorate it.

Zhao Yuanzhen asked someone to carve the plaque.

【Home Inn Restaurant】

easy to understand.

Borrowing names is really a lot easier.

From now on, all restaurants and inns opened should be called Home Inn.

I am really smart.

Zhao Yuanzhen transferred the previous cooks over and a few more from the farm, making a total of 6 cooks, 4 servants, 6 servants, and a shopkeeper.

The female family members, such as the cooks and servants, lived in the backyard of the clothing shop, which was full of female family members and more convenient.

From now on, people from all the shops will come to the restaurant to eat.

The restaurant buys ingredients from the fresh food shop every day and the accounts on both sides are recorded to facilitate reporting at the end of the month.

The shopkeepers are all our own people. They have taken the loyalty pills and the strength pills, so they are not afraid that they will cook the books.

Zhao Yuanzhen's sign was hung up early, during the renovation. It officially opened today and there were quite a lot of people there.

At noon, the lobby was basically full of people.

There's nothing we can do. The food stalls at the market have almost all closed down, and we can't even make hot food in winter.

Zhao Yuanzhen's restaurant is the only restaurant in this trade market.

Naturally, there will be many people eating lunch.

The restaurant mainly serves various stir-fried dishes, stews, cold dishes and special dishes.

There are also some simple special snacks.

The selling time is for three meals and midnight snacks.

The staple foods include rice, noodles, rice noodles, rice vermicelli, etc.

Zhao Yuanzhen’s prices were slightly higher than those of the restaurant in Yanshan Prefecture. After all, it was the only one in the business and occupied two shops.

It should be a little higher.

The inn greatly facilitates those merchants who purchase large quantities of goods. If they don’t finish buying today, they will have to buy more tomorrow.

Usually, these Jin merchants who came to purchase goods came in the morning and returned to their own cities in the evening, or set up tents outside the market.

Now that the weather is cold, it is really convenient to have an inn.

The inn also has single rooms with privacy, which is convenient for big businessmen to stay.

It's already November and the Chinese New Year is just over a month away.

These busy days always go by quickly.

Zhao Yuanlan has returned to Beijing. When he left, he moved his parents' graves and planned to bury them in the capital.

Zhao Yuanzhen followed to pay homage.

She hasn't gone back yet. She can go back next spring when she's done with her work.

The weather was very cold at the moment, and Zhao Yuanzhen didn't like to go out much, only visiting various shops, workshops, and border trade markets every few days.

When I have nothing to do, I hide in my room and enjoy the warm fire dragon.

The same goes for the people in the village. Except for those who need to do work, everyone else stays in the dormitory.

The fire dragons in the dormitory were built uniformly according to a row of houses, and they all took turns to burn the fire dragon.

Each row of houses is allocated 20 kilograms of charcoal a day. When burning the fire dragon, various straws from the crops are burned during the day, and charcoal is burned at night. It takes only two times a night to add charcoal until dawn.

The straw in the fields is first fed to the livestock, and then the remaining stalks are sorted and used for burning.

Kill two birds with one stone and don't waste any of them.

As December approaches, various fruits and canned fruits stored in the cellar begin to be sold.

Fruits include oranges, apples, pears, grapes, dates, hawthorns and so on.

There are several more types of canned goods produced this year.

There are grapes, sand apples, peaches, oranges, apples, hawthorns and so on.

Zhao Yuanzhen’s favorite is canned hawthorn, which is sour and sweet and especially delicious.

Fruits and canned fruits are rare in this season, and the salesmen are working hard to get orders.

In less than a month, all the food except for the ones he kept for himself was sold out.

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fruit and 11 jars of canned fruit were finally sold for 38.2 taels of silver.

The cheapest fruit is 300 wen per pound.

After looking at the total bill, why sell fresh fruits? Just store them all and sell the fruits stored for the winter.

This is a profit of more than 30 times!

The entire Zhangjiazhuang's annual expenses, plus employee salaries, would cost less than 38 yuan.

This 1000-acre orchard is very profitable.

It looks like we’ll need to build another icehouse next year.

To store winter fruits, most need to be stored in ice cellars.

Write down the plan in her little notebook to prevent forgetting it.

While staying indoors during the winter, Zhao Yuanzhen would continue teaching the two maids in the clinic.

They had studied for half a year before, and now they have been teaching for several months more.

In another year or so, I will be able to become a disciple.

It didn’t take long for the hibernation days to arrive at the end of the year, and the Chinese New Year was about to begin.

If you want to buy some New Year's goods, most grocery stores have them, and the rest you need to make yourself.

On the 50rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the village began to slaughter pigs, and this time 30 pigs were slaughtered. On the day of the Little New Year, pigs were eaten, and the slaughtered pig dishes and the big pot of meat were cooked.

The whole village was filled with joy. No one could resist the joy of eating meat.

The remaining pork was frozen in a large vat outside.

The kitchen recently started recruiting short-term workers to make dumplings.

Starting from the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, people start chopping stuffing and making dumplings.

There are two kinds of fillings for dumplings, one with pork and sauerkraut, and the other with pork and cabbage.

Place the wrapped dumplings on a large winnowing basket outside and freeze them. When they are almost frozen, rinse them with water again. This can effectively prevent the edges of the dumplings from drying out.

The north in winter is a natural refrigerator.

Put the frozen dumplings in a clean large jar, cover it with a lid, and then press it down with large stones to prevent small animals from stealing them.

There are about 2 people in the village. They eat two meals of dumplings during the Chinese New Year, one on the night of the th and one on the morning of the st.

On average each person gets 35 dumplings, which is almost 10 dumplings. It will take these people two days to make them.

Fortunately, it is winter and the village is relatively idle, so many people are making dumplings.

She loved to eat beef, so she bought 30 cows at the cross-border trade market, slaughtered them there and brought them back.

It's nice that beef can achieve freedom.

Thinking that the county magistrate loved eating beef, Zhao Yuanzhen took 50 kilograms of beef, some fruits and canned fruits, and went to give the county magistrate a New Year gift.

"Hello, sir. It's almost New Year's Day. I came to take a look."

Then he asked the servant to hand the things to the servant next to him and left.

"You can come and see, but take the things back. I am not one to accept bribes."

The county magistrate quickly stopped their little tricks.

"Sir, it's nothing rare. It's just fruits grown in our orchard and livestock raised by ourselves. It's just a little gift from our manor. How can it be considered a bribe? You are our parent official. It's normal to give two fruits to our parent official."

Although Zhao Yuanzhen's rank is much higher than that of the county magistrate, as the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. She has laid out such a large position here, and if she has a better relationship with the county magistrate, it will always be much more convenient for her to get things done, and it doesn't cost much money.

"Is it really fruit?"

"Yes, sir, don't worry. I know you are an upright official with clean hands. I won't tarnish your reputation."

"That's good. I'll be honored to refuse then."

Then he gestured to his servant to accept it.

After chatting with the county magistrate for a while, he went back.

The county magistrate went to the back to see what Zhao Yuanzhen had sent.

These baskets are indeed some fruit, and that bag is meat.

Still beef.

Such a big piece must weigh more than 50 kilograms.

"Ma'am, ma'am. Come quickly."

"What's the fuss about?"

"Look, this is the New Year gift from Mrs. Zhang. This is a big piece of beef."

The magistrate's wife opened it and took a look, and it was indeed all beef.

I also opened the one next to it and saw some fresh fruits.

"My silly husband, the valuable ones are these fruits. Look how well they are preserved. They must have been stored in the ice cellar. And these canned fruits. I saw them when I went to the grocery store last time. This can is worth several taels of silver."

"So expensive? Then am I considered taking a bribe?"

"No! Let's just treat it as Madam Zhang's specialty. Don't feel pressured. It would be inappropriate if you didn't accept it."

Madam Zhang was specially approved by His Majesty to work on the economic development of Xiaoshan. The gift she gave was sincere and not particularly valuable. It would be embarrassing to return it.

It’s better to accept it and make both sides happy.