Chapter 22: The Enemy's Road is Narrow
The three of them jingled and carried a bunch of ragged houses on their backs, locked the door and walked down the mountain. They arrived at the rented place and left Ma Tianrou to sort out the things. The two of them went back.
After all the things were moved, after lunch time, the three of them decided to have a luxury and went to the street to find a noodle restaurant, each with shredded pork noodles.
After returning, the landlord and aunt became unhappy and stopped the three of them at the door.
"Xiao Yao, I see you have moved all the stoves and the like to the room. We are not allowed to make fires and cook... If a fire occurs, it will be dangerous..."
Hearing this, Ma Tianrou immediately made a grievance expression, pouted, and looked at the landlord and aunt with tears flashing in her eyes.
The landlord and aunt had no choice but to compromise.
"Okay, you can cook, but you can't put the stove in the room. I heard that it's easy to get poisoned and it's also very dangerous. If you want to cook, put the stove in the yard."
"Thank you aunt!"
Ma Tianrou immediately screamed sweetly. Seeing the little girl being well-behaved, the landlord touched her little head with a smile, and then took out a square-shaped chocolate from her pocket. It was obviously half melted and stuffed it into Ma Tianrou's hand and said.
"Haha, the little girl is so cute. This is still sent to me by my son. Take it and eat it. If you have any problems in the future, please contact the aunt."
Ma Tianyao originally wanted to say that she was planning to set up a stall, but when she heard that the landlord actually agreed to let her cook for free in the yard, she simply shut up.
Everything was ready, and the three of them put things in the room again. Ma Tianyao noticed that the door opposite seemed to be locked, and the two should have gone out.
Shi Xiaoxiao was very satisfied with this place because the environment was a hundred times better than Ma Tianyao's family.
At 4:30 pm, Ma Tianyao carried a square table and a pot and pan in a bamboo basket. Ma Tianrou held four or five stringed stools. Shi Xiaoxiao held a honeycomb coal stove in a bitter way. The three of them walked towards the street.
"Tianyao, it's great that we will open tomorrow morning. It's impossible for anyone to be there now. When is this..."
There are also people selling supper in the town, mostly porridge, steamed buns, etc. Most of them set up stalls, put a few stools, and then build a stove. Basically, they are nearby villagers, and there is no craft, at most they are commonplace.
However, not many people come to eat at night. Most of the people who can come here are lazy people living next to the town, or business owners who open shops on the street to do business without the conditions to cook.
Because there are not many people setting up stalls, there are more places for Ma Tianyao to set up stalls. Without thinking, she chose the location next to the station where the bus enters and exits on the west side of the street.
Here there is a small bus to various towns and county towns. Many people will choose to have a meal when they go to the county town or come back from the county town.
Of course, she was more than one of them to think of. When she came, there were already five stores here.
Two sell porridge, one sells leek boxes, one sells steamed buns, and one sells Xiaolongbao.
Most of the people selling porridge here have several kinds of porridge to choose from. What surprised Ma Tianyao was that she knew one of the two people selling porridge!
"Huh? They actually came to sell porridge too?"
"Who?"
Shi Xiaoxiao was confused, so she followed Ma Tianyao's gaze and found that a young man and woman he didn't know. Ma Tianyao's mouth showed a strange smile.
"Haha, I really didn't expect that I could meet here, and he was still traveling with us? This is really an enemy, but the road is narrow..."
Before Ma Tianyao could tell Shi Xiaoxiao the story of the two, she was particularly surprised to hear that the two of them were actually living opposite each other.
The two of them obviously saw Ma Tianyao coming. The man was fine, so they smiled at Ma Tianyao and said hello. The woman snorted and turned her head to see the scenery.
"Sister, where to put the bench?"
"Haha, let me introduce these two people, come and put them next to us to enhance their relationship with our new neighbors!"
Ma Tianyao smiled and put the square table next to the two. Ma Tianrou fiddled with the bench and bowls and chopsticks, Shi Xiaoxiao stuffed a stack of dried wheat straw into the stove, and then sprinkled some salt on the honeycomb coal.
When the wheat straw is lit, the salt grains are crackling. When the wheat straw is burned, the honeycomb coal on it is also burned. Adding salt to burn coal is an old tradition here, and it is absolutely foolproof.
Then peel off the furnace cover and add coal for three to five minutes. The furnace will die or live. It’s that simple.
As for the water used to make porridge, you need to go to the landlord's house to collect the rice. The rice is My Zhenxiang brand rice that Ma Tianyao had already been garrisoned. Add water to the pot, wash the rice and cook it, cover it, and it only takes 30 minutes.
This is somewhat similar to the ancient stall selling tea. It is simple and easy to make, but everyone needs it, so it only costs hard money, so the price is not high, so the profit will naturally not be much higher.
There were only five stools in total, and there was only one table. Three people stood beside them and didn't dare to sit. Liang Yan next to her glanced, pouted and despised the three of them.
No one can laugh at anyone, so the stalls here are naturally selling customers by car.
About ten minutes later, a line bus from the county town drove into the station. After a minute or two, a dozen men and women rushed out of the car.
The people who were setting up the stalls were dead at the beginning, and now they were like flies seeing blood and immediately became corpses.
"The leek box, the leek box that just came out of the pot!"
"Butterbread, hot steamed bun, two yuan per dollar. Uncle, how many do you bring back?"
"Black rice, white rice, millet porridge! Sit quickly!"
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What made Ma Tianyao very unhappy was that Liang Yan's stall next door was opened, and there were three guests sitting at one time. What made her even more depressed was that she really didn't understand that she had started preparing to set up a stall last night. These two goods had been exercising all night. Why did the two of them become stall owners in a blink of an eye? And they also made several porridges.
Liang Yan served the meal for the guests and looked at Ma Tianyao proudly.
"I'm starving to death, come and have a porridge late!"
At this time, a man with a backpack came out of somewhere and sat on Ma Tianyao's stall. Shi Xiaoxiao excitedly made a victory gesture towards Liang Yan, which was quite a bit of a counterattack.
Who knew that he was happy for only three seconds before he heard Ma Tianrou speak awkwardly.
"That... I'm sorry, the rice is not yet cooked, why don't you wait?"
The guest was about to talk, but Liang Yan next to him laughed.
"Haha, brother, let's sit here and eat it. Our porridge is cooked and there are all kinds of porridge."
Chapter completed!