My sister became the empress, but I'm still growing vegetables and raising chickens

I have to get up in the middle of the night to cook the morning porridge, and I only earn ten taels of silver a month, which is really not cost-effective.

But the hot dishes and big pot stews at noon are much better. After deducting various costs, there is still so much income, and it is not as hard as cooking porridge.

Even if there are not so many customers coming to eat later, adding up the lunch and night expenses, fifty taels a month is still a lot.

It’s more cost-effective than cooking porridge and not as tiring.

The younger sister had calculated it carefully. The elder sister asked that only a hundred people be served at a time. When things were busy, even washing and preparing the vegetables took less than an hour, and they were all sold out.

At most an hour and a half.

One and a half hours at noon, one and a half hours at night, three hours a day, everyone divides the work and cooperates, so it's very fast.

Moreover, since we are not doing the morning market anymore, we can reorganize the staff. We can just make the base sauce at home instead of delaying the elder sister to go back and forth. One hundred servings of base sauce and one hundred servings of dipping sauce a day will be enough.

Leave the shop to her, she will definitely live up to your expectations and take good care of it.

After hearing what the youngest sister said, the second sister looked up in surprise: "So many?"

She also looked at her eldest sister. If it was true as her younger sister said, wouldn't their family become rich?

But Si Muyan shook her head: "The porridge shop still needs to be opened. I will consider dividing it out later. But the market is unstable now, so we can't affect the night business for the time being."

Although the younger sister felt it was a pity, she had been following her elder sister in business until now and had fully realized that many of her elder sister's practices made sense. Even if she didn't understand, it was okay as long as she was obedient.

After the youngest sister left, the second sister looked back curiously and said, "Sister, why do I feel that the youngest sister is much more obedient than before?"

Of course, the little sister was obedient before, but she loved to be cunning. Now, she puts all her cunning thoughts into attracting customers.

It fully demonstrates what it means to speak one thing to one person and another thing to another person.

Si Muyan smiled and said, "She is obedient, and I am also obedient."

The implication is that the second sister is not very obedient.

Unfortunately, the second sister was too stubborn and didn't understand the eldest sister's implication at all. She nodded seriously and said, "After the second brother passed away, we have all grown up. He will definitely be happy to see us so prosperous."

The Si Family Restaurant had only been open for a few days, but its reputation had already become very well-known, and naturally, imitators came in an endless stream.

Aunt Zhu took advantage of the break between breakfast and lunch to go for a walk on the street, and she almost got angry to the point of having her nose twisted.

"Wan girl, you didn't go to the street to see it, but I went and took a look around. There are already many shops selling our stuff on the street."

The little sister immediately put down the work in her hands, wiped her hands and went out for a walk.

It was almost lunchtime, and I could hear many people talking in the street.

"The Si Family Food Shop has been making such a big fuss these past few days. I've queued up twice and couldn't get in. Is it really that delicious? Is it just a gimmick?"

"Mala Tang and Mala Xiang Guo, right? I tried Mala Tang once, and it was delicious. I don't know what the dipping sauce was made of, but it was really good! It's a pity I didn't try Mala Xiang Guo. I heard that's even better and more exciting."

"Really? Oh, I want to try it, but unfortunately I can never get a queue. Oh, there's a place just down the alley, why don't we go try it?"

"Okay, I'll go too."

"I am coming too!"

……

Several passers-by went towards the entrance of the alley.

The younger sister's face was full of unhappiness. She returned to her own food shop and saw a long line outside. The younger brother quickly handed number tags to those people.

"A person can only get four number plates at most. No more than that."

The younger brother spoke in a loud voice, distributing the number plates as he spoke, and soon he had distributed all the number plates.

There are six tables in the shop, which can seat up to twenty-four people. After about four or five rounds, today's share is over.

As for the fact that each person only received four number plates, it was also the eldest sister's idea. The eldest sister was afraid that someone would deliberately take most of the number plates and sell them at a high price, which would ruin the reputation of their shop.

There was also a fragrance coming from the shop, and Aunt Jin and my second sister started cooking.

The younger sister went in to get busy, and the unhappiness on her face had long disappeared.

Aunt Zhu came over curiously and asked her, "Wan girl, didn't you go out and take a look? Several shops are imitating ours."

The younger sister said calmly: "It's okay, let them learn."

"Won't this...take away business?"

The younger sister chuckled, "We've been selling pumpkin cakes, porridge, and now we're selling spicy hot pot and spicy hot pot. Lots of people have copied us, but haven't we succeeded?"

Aunt Zhu scratched her head. "That's true. I saw a lot of people selling porridge in the morning market, and there were also many porridge shops on the street, but our business is the best. But I don't understand why."

"Because it's so good. You learned how to make porridge from my eldest sister, and you saw how she's generous with the meat, uses just the right amount of seasoning, and charges a fair price. As for Malatang and Mala Xiangguo, it's even more impossible for anyone to learn how to make them. The bases are all very specific, and others can only imitate the form, not the essence."

Aunt Zhu was confused and laughed after a while: "You educated people always talk differently."

Just as my younger sister thought, there were many imitators of Si's restaurant throughout Fenghuang County, but none of them were as good as my older sister's. I even heard that several restaurants were also offering this spicy hot pot, but it wasn't cheap or tasty. Those who tried it shook their heads and praised Si's restaurant for being the best.

It’s a pity that the supply is limited per day.

So it slightly affected the business for two days, but it only resulted in an extra half hour of sales.

Apart from some complaints from customers about the fixed quantity, there wasn't much else.

The young girl was good at speaking and enthusiastically explained to everyone, "Please be understanding, our shop is small and can't accommodate too many people. Also, making the base is a bit troublesome, and we don't have enough manpower and materials, so we can't make too many servings. Don't worry, we'll find another opportunity in the future!"

Many regular customers like the young lady very much, and when they see her come out to talk, they no longer complain.

After lunch was ready and the others were cleaning up, Si Muyan called her younger sister, "Come with me to buy something."

The younger sister was originally counting the accounts. After hearing this, she nodded, closed the account book, and handed the things in her hand to her second sister.

Before I could even go out, an arrogant man came in with two servants.

The younger sister immediately went to greet him and said, "Uncle, we've sold out our quota for today. If you want to eat, you'll have to get up early tomorrow."

The man glanced at her and said, "Call your boss out."

This was impolite, and the younger sister was unhappy. She said coldly, "If you're here to eat, I've already told you that we're closing for today. If you're here to pick a fight, you've come to the wrong place. Do you think you can bully us women?"

After she said this, Aunt Jin, Zhu Laoer, Aunt Zhu Er and Aunt Zhu San all stood up.