The aroma of cooking filled the house: I sent my eldest brother to become the Grand Secretary.

The four seasons urge each other on, and a gentle breeze brings the heat overnight.

Just before summer arrived, Shi Ye, the village chief of Shitou Village, along with his wife and children, worked for half a month straight to process all the bamboo shoots in the village's bamboo forest into dried bamboo shoots according to the method taught to him by Shen Cao.

Shen Cao asked Shen Yu'an to find a servant to go to Stone Village and collect all the village chief's dried bamboo shoots, a total of one hundred catties. At three coins per catty, the village chief earned a full three hundred coins this time. This was only half a month's harvest.

This was unimaginable in the past; you could earn three hundred coins in just half a month.

With the money he made, the village chief gained even more confidence. He took great care of the seeds that Shen Cao had given him to plant, going to the field at least once a day to check on them. Now the chili peppers in the field have sprouted and are growing very well.

There will definitely be another bumper harvest in a few months.

Shen Cao has been busy preparing for the opening of the store recently, and her older brother has also returned to school.

Following the decorating style of the snack shop from her past life, she set up ten dining tables in the main hall of the restaurant, with four tables on each side, each table seating four people, and two large tables in the middle that could seat ten people.

On the left side of the hall, near the kitchen, there was a counter for collecting payments, and some wine was placed behind the counter.

The restaurant will be temporarily named Shen Family Restaurant.

She even went to a blacksmith's shop to have a frying pan made for making jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes), with a handle at each end for easy operation.

Due to limited funds, she only plans to open a snack shop this time, selling breakfast, lunch and dinner.

For breakfast, I prepared jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes), steamed buns, tofu pudding, and soy milk.

For now, we plan to sell fast food, such as noodles, for the Chinese restaurant.

Dinner was wontons, quick and easy.

Shen Chen now goes home to live every day, and every day after school he finds that his family's shop has changed a lot.

As soon as he entered the door today, his younger sister stopped him.

"Brother, I need your help with something today."

"Your handwriting is the best in our family. I'd like you to help me write the name of the restaurant and the menu."

"Tomorrow, I'll have to take it to the carpenter and have him make it into a signboard and a menu."

Shen Chen readily agreed and walked into the study with Shen Cao.

After laying out the paper, Shen Cao ground the ink for his elder brother. Shen Chen sat upright at the table, his eyes focused and firm. He gently held the pen, and the tip of the pen glided lightly on the paper, making a soft rustling sound.

The strokes begin forcefully, flow smoothly, and end steadily, each character brimming with power, the handwriting ancient and vigorous.

Shen Cao picked up the written words and carefully laid them out to dry. Her older brother's handwriting was really beautiful. From now on, she would ask him to write the names and menus for every shop she owned.

Mr. Shen had already quit his previous job, and he and his wife were preparing to help Shen Cao.

The next morning, after the Shen family had breakfast, Shen Cao went into the kitchen. She hadn't sold vegetable dumplings for many days, and today was her last day at the dock. From now on, she planned to have her father push the cart to sell vegetable dumplings every day.

Now that she lives nearby, she first tidied up the kitchen and carefully checked the necessary items.

Wei Siyu delivered the seasonings she had promised to give her a few days ago.

I have to say again, Wei Siyu is indeed the young master of the biggest shipping gang. He has found more kinds of spices than Shen Cao collected in his previous life.

Shen Cao never expected that curry already existed in ancient times, and there was more than one kind of curry.

Shen Cao secretly tasted it, and it wasn't much different from the taste of her previous life, except that it wasn't as rich.

She also asked her father to build her a wooden cabinet that took up an entire wall in the kitchen. She neatly arranged all kinds of seasonings on it and was very satisfied with the spice wall in front of her.

When Shen Cao arrived at the dock, her spot had already been taken, so she had to find another place.

She searched for a long time but couldn't find it. Just when she was at her wit's end, Wei Jie saw her.

Wei Jie finished work early today. He originally planned to skip dinner and go straight home, but unexpectedly ran into Shen Cao.

"Miss Shen, are you planning to sell vegetable dumplings?"

"Yes, Steward Wei, would you like to try some? It's fresh out of the oven today, and it's sure to taste even better than before."

"it is good."

"But you'll have to wait for me while I find a place to set up the stall."

Seeing that Shen Cao hadn't found a stall yet, Wei Jie pulled her towards where the Wei family's boat was moored.

"Miss Shen, why don't you set up your stall here?"

Shen Cao looked at the Wei family's large cargo ship behind him. Wow, they really are rich and powerful. This cargo ship is as tall as a three-story building and almost a hundred meters long.

"Won't this delay your unloading?"

Wei Jie pointed to the spot next to him, "Miss Shen, you can just stand there. It won't be a problem in such a small space."

Shen Cao set up the stall, took out three vegetable dumplings and handed them to Wei Jie, "Butler Wei, please try them."

Wei Jie took the vegetable dumpling from Shen Cao and started eating it.

It was lunchtime, and the boatmen were disembarking one after another to have lunch. As soon as they got off the boat, they saw their steward eating at a stall nearby.

It looks like vegetable dumplings. I'd heard before that there was a little girl at the dock who sold really delicious vegetable dumplings. Seeing that Steward Wei was eating them with great relish, everyone stopped and lined up to buy some.

Shen Cao looked at the line in front of her, handed the matter over to her younger siblings, and walked into the crowd herself.

"Everyone, I am the owner of Shen Family Restaurant, and these vegetable dumplings you are eating are made by me."

"Our restaurant will open tomorrow. We hope you will come and support us if you have the chance. There will be a discount on the first day."

Upon hearing this, everyone expressed their willingness to go and asked Shen Cao for the address.

After Shen Cao gave the address, everyone said they would definitely go when they had time.

"In addition, our restaurant also offers delivery service."

"What is a food delivery service?" Everyone started discussing it excitedly.

Wei Jie, in particular, was very interested in the delivery service that Shen Cao had mentioned.

"Delivery service means you can order in advance at the store and they will deliver your food to you."

Upon hearing that such a convenient service existed, Wei Jie was certain he would check it out.

"However, in order to ensure the taste of the food, the number of meals offered for delivery is limited."

Taking advantage of the opportunity to sell vegetable dumplings, Shen Cao promoted her family's vegetable dumplings and pointed to the icon she designed on the cart, telling them to recognize the icon, as only this icon represented food produced by Shen Family Restaurant.

After buying the vegetable dumplings, everyone carefully examined the icons on the shopping cart.

It must be said that Shen Cao's anti-counterfeiting measures were very well done, which saved her a lot of trouble later on.

Shen Cao received 600 coins today, and she didn't need to wait at all. The boatmen who came down from the Wei family's boat bought up all her vegetable dumplings.