Chapter 316 The journey home is complete
Chapter 316 The journey home is complete
Early in the morning on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, the two were woken up by Su's mother. After breakfast, it was just half past six and the sky was just getting light. The two set off again under Su's mother's urging.
Su Yuchen knew that Su's mother had put the prepared things in the car the night before, but he was still shocked when he opened the trunk.
Not only were there a bunch of snacks like second aunt's fermented fish with lees, third grandmother's sesame candy, cousin's fried dumplings, Su's mother's own fried sazi, sesame leaves, meatballs, and so on, but even homemade braised pork, sausages, bacon, braised beef, and even dried radish, salted duck eggs, dried beans, pickled cabbage, and other dishes that were both easy and difficult to carry.
There was also milk, biscuits, Want Want gift packs, orange juice, cookies sent by relatives, and the most exaggerated one was a vacuum compression bag, which actually contained several quilts.
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"What are you doing? Are you going to empty the house? Why do I need a quilt? We can buy all these things from you. We are not fleeing famine!" Su Yuchen was shocked.
"I brought the quilt for Xiaojing! You only care about yourself!" Mother Su slapped Su Yuchen on the back, "How can the quilts we bought be as warm as the cotton quilts we made ourselves? Oh, you should carry it if I ask you to. Why are you making so much trouble? We have a car here, and I'm not asking you to carry it!"
Before leaving, Su Yuchen was yelled at by his mother again, and the journey home was a complete success.
They took the highway all the way back and didn't have to stop in Yangcheng. They arrived in Jiangcheng at just half past nine.
There was a cart full of miscellaneous things. The two men moved quilts, snacks and other things to the rental house, cleaned and put them in order, and then went to the store.
"Oh, Sister Geng and the others are here!" As soon as she drove to the store door, Zhao Xiaojing, who was sitting in the passenger seat, found that the store door was already open. Geng Mingyan and Hou Guihua were mopping the floor, one and wiping the windows, respectively.
The two lived in the building above ** Ping, very close to the store. They often got up early in the morning and came to the store early. Zhao Xiaojing simply left a key for them. Unexpectedly, they responded more actively than their two bosses.
"Xiao Zhao and Xiao Su, you're back so early!" Hou Guihua saw their car, dropped the mop and ran over shouting. Geng Mingyan saw this and hurriedly got down from the stool and followed.
Zhao Xiaojing was immediately happy, "Happy New Year, ladies! I didn't even say hello to you, but you said it first."
"We sent Chuchu to school yesterday, and we have nothing to do anyway, so we'll be there in the evening."
"Yes! We said that no one had been in the store for half a month, so we cleaned it up first and made it available for you to use directly when you came in the afternoon. We wanted to give you a surprise! Who knew you would come so early!"
Zhao Xiaojing was touched. Sister Hou and Sister Geng felt a sense of belonging to the store and treated them as their own family.
They chatted and laughed as they moved all the things into the kitchen. The hall had not been cleaned yet, so Su Yuchen stayed to join the cleaning. Zhao Xiaojing went to the vegetable market to pick up goods and buy some seasonings.
The pig's trotters have to be made in advance, and the order was agreed with Boss Huang yesterday. This time, under Xiaozhi's plan, the order quantity was doubled. Boss Huang looked much kinder when he saw Zhao Xiaojing, and the smile never left his face.
However, Zhao Xiaojing was still doubtful: could she really sell so many items on the first day of business after the New Year?
When they returned to the restaurant with the bags of food, the restaurant had been completely cleaned. Several young people were standing in the store, talking to Su Yuchen.
Zhao Xiaojing gently honked the horn. Hou Guihua heard it and hurriedly pulled Geng Mingyan out to help. Su Yuchen glanced over here and originally took a few steps out, but the people around her seemed to still be talking, so she had to stop again.
"What are these selling?" Zhao Xiaojing asked curiously.
"Oh, it's time to eat! The kids have been talking about it for a while and they insist on eating!" Hou Guihua took the two heaviest bags of food directly from the open trunk, looked up and said happily.
"I even pestered Xiao Su to play guitar, which made Xiao Su feel embarrassed." Geng Mingyan chuckled and divided the remaining things with Zhao Xiaojing, each carrying several bags.
Playing guitar? Zhao Xiaojing was just wondering when she saw several people turning their heads to look at her. They suddenly became excited, waving at Zhao Xiaojing and pointing at the bag in Hou Guihua's hand.
"The dishes are here! Aren't those pig's feet? Can we have pig's feet rice? We can wait even if it's cooked now, sister!"
"The chef sister is back too, so this is all right, right?"
"Sister, we can listen to you play the guitar first, and then wait for the chef to cook. We have time!"
"Yes, yes, sister, sister..."
"The pork trotter rice has to be made a day in advance. It can't be made today. It takes us two or three hours to process the pig's trotters, and then we have to soak them overnight to make them tasty. I'm really sorry." Su Yuchen explained with a headache.
"Then we can eat something else. What else do you have, sister? Anything is fine. Just cook us something." A girl turned her head and looked at Zhao Xiaojing pitifully.
"Sister, just tell me what you bought today? What can you do with it?" another boy continued.
"This...what I bought today were pig's feet and seasonings, as well as a few handfuls of vegetables for us to eat. The store will open tomorrow, and I didn't buy any other vegetables..." Zhao Xiaojing was stunned. Seeing that the young people were aggrieved and unbelieving, she deliberately opened the bag and showed it to them.
"Really not..."
"We came all the way from Shengte District. It took us a long time to find your store..."
"Before I came here, I searched for your phone number online, but I couldn't find it. Otherwise, I would have called and asked."
"I looked for it too! I searched for the Baidu entry, the Pretty Group, Hungry or Not, and the map..."
"Sister, are you really fine? Is it too late to go out and buy groceries now?"
Several people looked at Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen with grievance.
"I'm really sorry, we didn't expect this situation to happen. Let me write you a note, and when we open tomorrow, you can come and get 20% off on all the rice with toppings. I'll also give each of you a free boiled egg, and I'll reserve whatever you want to eat for you in advance, okay? We're still cleaning today, and we haven't even cleaned up the kitchen, so it's too late." Su Yuchen discussed with a few people with a wry smile.
"Let us figure out how to set up the contact number, and then we'll get on the phone right away. I guarantee you'll be able to find us next time," said Zhao Xiaojing.
Seeing that the two men really couldn't do it and were saying it with sincerity, they looked at each other and agreed reluctantly.
"Okay then, let's come back tomorrow. What's the earliest time we can start cooking tomorrow?"
"Eleven o'clock, eleven o'clock is fine, I'll write a note for you." Su Yuchen breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran to the front desk to get a pen and started writing.
"Is this our old customer or your fan? Why are they so concerned about our meal?" Zhao Xiaojing asked in surprise after they left.
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