Survival rules for restaurants: cooking and eating melons at the same time

Everyone laughed out loud when they heard the innocent words in the nursery rhymes.

The little girl tilted her head, not understanding what these strange adults were laughing at.

Everyone chatted and laughed and finished their meal.

As it was getting dark, Tong Yiyi and An Qiao had to return to Kyoto. Aunt Tong was reluctant to let them go and repeatedly gave Tong Yiyi many instructions.

Then she said, "You must take to heart what my mother just said to you."

Tong Yiyi nodded and said goodbye to everyone in the village.

Also taken away along with Anqiao were some freshly picked Chinese cabbages, radishes and a few bars of soap.

An Qiao hasn't figured out how to sell these soaps yet. The milk tea shop has just been opened for a short time, and now she has to open a new shop. Also, if she only sells soaps, wouldn't that be an overreaction? Plus, there isn't much stock now, and An Qiao is afraid that it will be more troublesome when demand exceeds supply.

So I only took a few pieces back to use.

The two of them jolted back to the restaurant. The customers who had dinner had not left yet. The restaurant's business was getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people came to eat. Many times, they even had to queue up and wait for a number like in modern times.

If there weren't seats at the door, I'm afraid we would lose a lot of customers every day.

Anqiao was fortunate enough to expand the restaurant, but did not want to open a second one. Managing one was already troublesome enough. Although he now has a grocery store and a milk tea shop, he may have other stores in the future.

But Anqiao's foundation is in this restaurant, and she has to worry about it the most. If she opens a second one, she might not be able to handle it.

Moreover, the people here are familiar with the food and can cook for themselves. If we open a second store, I wonder how many more people we will have to recruit to learn how to cook.

When the Tong family came to the farm, I took on the main responsibility for a long time alone, and I bought a lot of people to see who could do a good job. It took a lot of effort to get them all working together, and I really didn't want to bother with a second family.

But it's also embarrassing to look at the diners waiting at the door.

An Qiao originally wanted to buy a shop opposite to her to serve tea to people waiting for their turn. But the shops opposite her were not willing to sell, so she had to give up.

An Qiao pushed the door open and saw several people from the Dali Temple coming down from upstairs. An Qiao thought they were full, so she smiled and made way for them.

Zhao Huaiqing sniffed hard, "I'm already here, but you're not letting me eat?"

"Who stopped you from eating? Didn't you eat at night?" Gu Qingyun nudged Zhao Huaiqing with his elbow.

Zhao Huaiqing said aggrievedly, "Can the food we eat tonight be compared with the food in Kyoto restaurants?"

"?" An Qiao looked puzzled.

"Let's ask Shuanzi a few questions about the little beggar." Gu Qingyun explained.

An Qiao understood and nodded. It seemed that the Dali Temple was very busy again recently.

"I won't disturb you from doing business." Gu Qingyun nodded slightly.

Wu Huan and Xin Hai also nodded to An Qiao, and the group left the restaurant.

"Shuanzi said that those little beggars have been there for more than a year." Gu Qingyun said, "In addition to those few, there are many more. Shuanzi said that the little beggars who don't talk to them have been there since they first came to Jingdu Prefecture. Although we can't say that they are all from the Tiandi Sect, there should be some from the Tiandi Sect. Judging from the scale, if there is no support, they may not be able to build it in ten or eight years on their own."

"Someone supports it, but who would support such a sect?" Zhao Huaiqing opened his mouth and choked for a moment. Who on earth supports such a mysterious sect?

Gu Qingyun shook his head. "It's hard to say, but... there should be someone supporting it. Apart from anything else, there is manpower in such a valley even if it is used for hunting or making weapons.

Not doing it now doesn't mean there is no plan, or maybe it's the manpower hidden by other forces. Look at that girl in the big house, her words and actions are all the style of a big family. If she was a child who grew up in the mountains, she would never do that."

After thinking about it for a while, they felt that the girl really looked like a lady from a wealthy family.

In fact, Gu Qingyun didn't say that the emperor had issued an edict and most likely sent someone to check it out, otherwise he wouldn't have been so serious.

This case has been upgraded from a minor sect case. In other words, no matter who is behind it, Gu Qingyun can submit a petition and investigate the power behind it.

"We have to go there again tomorrow. Shuanzi mentioned a stronghold. It is said that those little beggars would occasionally go there to rest. Shuanzi has heard them talk about it once or twice. Let's go and take a look, what if we get anything?" Gu Qingyun thought about it. It would be best to let outsiders think that they were investigating the case of missing children. They must not disturb the power behind the Tiandi Cult. Once that power stops... this case will be the same as the previous one.

For some reason, Gu Qingyun always felt that the cases he handled over the past year had a beginning and an end, as if some hidden force had been trying to withdraw before him.

This made Gu Qingyun very depressed. He couldn't alert the enemy this time.

The group returned to the Dali Temple, and Wu Huan took out a stack of drawing paper. "I drew all the little beggars and people from the Tiandi Sect that I saw these days. I found that the shifts and people of those little beggars are alternating. Now I see three groups of people, and these three groups change every day. In short, they will not have the same lineup in ten days. First they change every day, then every three days, and then every two days, and the location is almost unchanged. In this way, a few different people appear on the street every day."

"They probably take shifts so that passers-by won't remember their faces, so that they'll think it's a new kid every time. Didn't Xinhai think it was a different person last time?" Gu Qingyun just felt that this group of people were quite smart.

Xin Hai nodded embarrassedly, "Every day they went there in a hurry, no one would pay attention to remember who was who. They wore different clothes every day. I went there for a few days and didn't see any repeated faces. I always felt that they were different people."

"I now suspect that they kidnapped the children back to the village because of these reasons. Plus what Shuanzi said, if they are really a group of people, then the older ones are probably not allowed to leave the village because they have their own ideas, and then the younger children are sent out again, and the cycle repeats." Gu Qingyun said so, but he still didn't quite understand. Can beggars really make so much money?

Although looking at the situation in the past few days, it is true that you can make a lot of money, which is much more comfortable than doing hard labor.

But they are from a village, and even if they earn a lot, they can’t afford to support them.

Then why go to all this trouble?

"Are they going to so much trouble to cover up something?" Zhao Huaiqing had the same doubt.

"Even if you want to cover up something, it's too complicated. But Shuanzi just said that those kids occasionally spoke, which meant they had a place to live, and they asked other little beggars if they wanted to go home with them." Xinhai spoke at the right time.

"Even so, is their purpose to kidnap children? Why do they kidnap so many children?" Gu Qingyun was puzzled. His head started buzzing. He really couldn't use normal thinking to think about these perverted ideas.