A peasant girl travels through time with a hospital, rising to become an empress.

The door to the main room of the Liu family's old house was tightly closed, and the sound of Liu Xiong counting could be heard from inside.

Liu Xiong's hands were large, like his name, resembling bear paws, but they were very dexterous. At this moment, he was counting the coins one by one. Every time he counted 100 coins, Liu Yan would string the coins together with a red string and tie them together. After tying them, Liu Yan would count them again.

Nie Qianqian looked at the medical book from the side. She found the task of counting coins extremely tedious, but Liu Xiong and Liu Yan, the two siblings, were enjoying it immensely.

Liu Xiong: "Eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two..."

Liu Xiong gathered the strings of coins he had counted earlier together. "One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, six hundred and eighty-two! A total of six hundred and eighty-two coins were sold!"

Liu Xiong got a little excited as he spoke, and his face turned red. "Qianqian, we made 682 coins on the first day."

That's more than half a tael of silver. If he went to work in the county town, it would take him more than a month to earn that amount.

Liu Yan gently stroked the coins with her hands. During this period, she had handled quite a bit of money, including wages for building new houses, but this money was earned by herself, which made it different.

Nie Qianqian put down her medical book, picked up the list she had written down, and said leisurely, "The first ten servings today were given away for free. Apart from the free ones, we sold 35 servings of braised pork, 29 servings of pickled cabbage noodles, and 23 servings of spicy hot pot, all at half price. In addition, we sold 80 servings of flatbread. The total sales amounted to 682 coins. There's no problem with the money. It matches up."

Liu Xiong: "Qianqian, how come your mind works so fast? You figured it out in no time."

Nie Qianqian smiled and said, "I learned it from the accountant at Jishetang. It's very simple. If you want to do business, arithmetic is an essential skill. I'll teach you after this busy period."

Liu Xiong said excitedly, "We've only sold for half a day today. If we prepare more ingredients tonight and sell for a whole day tomorrow, wouldn't we make more than a tael of silver!"

The brother and sister never dreamed they could earn one or two taels of silver a day!

Nie Qianqian wasn't blinded by joy. She calmly did the math for the two of them: "Pork offal is cheap, the market price is 20 coins, I bought it for about 16 coins. We used about 20 catties yesterday, 320 coins; for the pickled cabbage and pork soup, we used 15 catties of pickled cabbage at 4 coins per catty, and 3 catties of pork at 40 coins per catty, totaling 180 coins; each serving of spicy hot pot ingredients cost about 4 coins, and the soup base is 1 coin. We prepared 23 servings, totaling 115 coins. We also used 15 catties of wheat flour to make flatbread, about 120 coins. Adding all of these together, yesterday's cost was 735 coins."

After listening to Nie Qianqian's calculation, Liu Yan and Liu Xiong felt as if they had been hit from a great height and crashed to the ground with a thud, their previous excitement vanishing instantly.

They were overjoyed for a long time, but they never expected that they would lose money on the first day.

Nie Qianqian had calculated it herself before. The cost of a serving of braised pork was about 8 coins, the cost of a serving of pickled cabbage and sliced ​​pork soup was about 6 coins, and the cost of a serving of spicy hot pot was about 5 coins. If sold at the normal price, a serving of braised pork could earn 7 coins, a serving of pickled cabbage and sliced ​​pork soup could earn 4 coins, and a serving of spicy hot pot could earn 5 coins. The profit margin was more than 4%.

Of course, this is all calculated according to Nie Qianqian's so-called purchase price. In reality, all her ingredients are obtained from supermarkets, with zero cost. She basically makes a profit on every item she sells.

Nie Qianqian smiled and comforted the two people who were crying, "We're offering freebies and half-price deals, so naturally we won't make any money. Our goal for the first three days isn't to make a lot of money, but to let as many people as possible know about Liu's Restaurant. Once our reputation spreads, the money-making days are yet to come."

She only lost 50 coins a day, which was equivalent to spending 50 coins on advertising. In Nie Qianqian's opinion, this amount of money was nothing, especially since she was doing business with no cost. Losing money was simply not an issue for her.

Liu Xiong nodded vigorously, "Qianqian is right. Once we restore the original price, we won't have to worry about making money."

Nie Qianqian: "Today, we only need to increase the amount we prepared yesterday by 20%, no need for too much more."

The next day, the three of them drove the oxcart towards Fulin County as the sun was just rising.

Liu Yan: "Business was so good yesterday, I wonder what it will be like today."

Liu Xiong: "It shouldn't be bad, right?"

Nie Qianqian smiled without saying a word, appearing calm and composed.

When the three arrived, there were already many vendors setting up their stalls. Upon seeing the three, they kept glancing over with curious eyes.

"The people from Liu's Restaurant have arrived; they became famous yesterday."

"That's right. When I got home last night, my old man heard that a small food stall had opened in the West Market, and the food it sells is unique in the whole city."

"I'm going to buy one to try later."

"Didn't you say yesterday that you'd never heard of their stuff and that nobody would buy it...?"

"Who would have thought so many people would buy it? I wonder how much it will sell today."

Everyone is curious to see if Liu's Restaurant can maintain its extraordinary popularity from yesterday.

At dawn, the West Market opens.

As usual, a large number of people who had gotten up early to go to the morning market had already gathered at the entrance of the West Market. As soon as the West Market opened, they poured in in droves.

Unlike usual, the crowds that usually flock in would quickly disperse, some going to buy meat, some to buy vegetables, and some to buy cloth. But today, the flow of people was unusually uniform. From above, one could see a stream of people rushing straight from the entrance towards Liu's Restaurant.

"I'm the first one! The first one! I get my food for free!"

"I'm second!"

"Hey old man, don't push me!"

Who stepped on my shoes?!

Liu's Restaurant stall was instantly surrounded by people who had come from far and wide.

Some of them had queued up at Liu's Restaurant yesterday, some had heard about it in the afternoon, and some had heard about it from neighbors and relatives. In short, they all wanted to try it out.

Liu Xiong and Nie Qianqian were both as busy as spinning tops. Liu Xiong felt even busier than yesterday, sometimes busy maintaining order, afraid that a fight would break out at the door, sometimes rushing to serve dishes, sometimes rushing to serve wine, and he didn't get a break at all.

Soon, all the ingredients brought were sold out, and the entrance was once again filled with diners who were still eager for more.

And so, to the astonishment of the other vendors, the three members of Liu's restaurant packed up their stall an hour earlier than the day before.

After getting up, Liu Lizheng brought Xiaogang to the West Market of Fulin County, intending to take Xiaogang to Liu's Restaurant for a meal. He thought that once they arrived, they would be able to eat there. However, to his surprise, the entrance to Liu's Restaurant was surrounded by three layers of people, and the two of them, an old man and a child, could not squeeze in at all.

Liu Lizheng had never seen a restaurant with so many people queuing up in his entire life. "Hey, this is really strange. How can there be so many people queuing up?"

Xiao Gang burst into tears, "Grandpa, I told Pipi and Mili yesterday that we would be able to eat braised pork today, but we didn't get to. Waaah, we didn't get to eat it again."

Liu Lizheng hurriedly picked up his grandson, feeling heartbroken, and gently comforted him, "Grandpa will get up a little earlier tomorrow and make sure Xiaogang gets to eat braised pork offal."

On the third day, the situation became even more chaotic. If Nie Qianqian hadn't anticipated this and brought in Da Ma and Xiao Ma to help maintain order and do chores, the anxious diners might have started fighting.

Within three days, everyone in the entire West Market knew about Liu's Restaurant, and more and more people in Fulin County heard about it. The reputation of Liu's Restaurant's delicious food was spread by word of mouth among diners.