Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 420

After the new workshop was built, Zhong Ruyi left it vacant for half a month, and only allowed people to move in and start work after it was ventilated.

The original workshop now only produces meat floss and pork jerky, and the new workshop has a smaller yard and is used to make canned chili peppers.

A group of the recruited workers stayed in the old workshop, while another group was taken to the new workshop. Several people also moved into the staff dormitory. All of them lived far away from home, so they thought it would be more convenient to just stay there since they would only save two hundred coins a month.

In this way, the new and old workshops started working together, and canned food was shipped out batch by batch and delivered to the village entrance. Naturally, the Fang family's convoy would come to pick them up.

The villagers have made a lot of money in recent years from watermelons and canned food. Every household has built a big brick and tile house, even the laziest family of Wang Laizi.

When Butler Fang and his men were waiting at the entrance of the village, they couldn't help but sigh, "This Xinghua Village is getting better and better. There is no other village within a hundred miles that is as prosperous as this one."

Although other villages have also started growing watermelons, Xinghua Village started two years earlier than them. The money earned from the extra two years is far beyond their reach.

What's more, the village has workshops and orchards, which solve the employment problems of many people. People from several surrounding villages also come to work in the workshops, and can earn more than two taels of silver a month!

When the cans were brought over, Butler Fang asked about the quantity, but did not count them again himself. He just took the cans and left.

As they were leaving, they happened to meet a few carts carrying watermelons. The villagers pulling the carts saw that the person sitting on the carriage was Butler Fang, and they enthusiastically gave him a few watermelons, "They are all freshly picked from the fields. Brother Fang, take them to quench your thirst on the road!"

Butler Fang politely refused twice but finally accepted it. Now the family doesn’t have to buy melons these days! It saves a lot of money!

After a busy morning, Zhong Ruyi finally loaded all the canned food that the Fang family wanted onto the cart and sent it out. Finally, he had time to eat.

In the cabin, two children were playing with Miaomiao, and Zhong Ruyi was eating the meal that Li Guihua had just brought to her.

Miaomiao was holding her favorite tiger-head doll in her hand and was about to put it into her mouth when no one was paying attention, but one of the children saw her and stopped her.

Zhong Ruyi quickly swallowed the food in her mouth and said to her with a stern face, "Didn't mom tell you not to put everything in your mouth? How dirty is this baby that you hold in your hands every day?"

My daughter is over eight months old now. She is in the teething stage and wants to bite anything she sees.

Zhong Ruyi saw him several times and even after he was corrected, he didn't understand and kept putting the food in his mouth. However, he knew he had to be careful not to be seen by the adults and could only bite it secretly.

Once, Chen Dongzhi was helping her look at the account book while paying attention to his daughter at his feet. He was so absorbed in looking at the account book that he didn't even notice that his daughter was chewing on the table leg. Zhong Ruyi thought that the child must be acting strangely because she was so quiet. When he looked down, he was so angry!

The child was lying on the ground chewing on the table leg, which was covered with her saliva, forming a wet piece.

Miaomiao blinked her big eyes, which were exactly the same as her father's, and looked at her mother innocently. Although she didn't understand what her mother said, she knew that she was scolding her. She immediately pretended to be innocent, which made Zhong Ruyi soften her heart.

No matter how soft-hearted you are, you still have to scold those who deserve to be scolded.

"Next time I see you eating something messy, I'll pull out your teeth!"

When these words were spoken, Chen Miaomiao, who was too young to understand, but the two children next to her heard them and were a little afraid of this boss who looked gentle but dared to pull out people's teeth.

Zhong Ruyi hurriedly finished her lunch, asked the two to help her look after Miaomiao, and then went to the new workshop to check on the progress.

The older boy of the two was eight years old. He waited until Zhong Ruyi left before he dared to say, "The boss looks pretty and gentle, but she wants to pull out Miaomiao's teeth! She's so fierce!"

My younger brother is four years old this year and can understand what adults say. He looked at Miaomiao with sympathy as she bit the tiger-head doll again. She looked so pitiful!

Miaomiao didn't understand what her mother said, nor could she understand the way her two brothers looked at her. At this moment, she was completely immersed in the happiness brought to her by the tiger-head doll.

After Zhong Ruyi finally finished her work and came to take her daughter home, she picked up her daughter and then casually took the tiger-head doll in her hand.

As soon as I got it, I found something wrong. Why was the tiger-head doll completely wet?

She turned around and asked the two children beside her, "Did Miaomiao eat this doll again after I left?"

The two looked at each other and nodded timidly.

Zhong Ruyi took a deep breath, took the saliva-stained doll, and strode back home holding the still confused Chen Miaomiao.

There was no one at home and Chen Dongzhi was still working in the fields.

I put my daughter on the wooden cart, confiscated the row of dolls on it, and gave her a chewy piece of dried sweet potato for her to grind her teeth on, so that she wouldn't have to pick up the dirty doll and start chewing it again.

Compared to the tasteless dolls, the sweet dried sweet potatoes are of course what Chen Miaomiao likes more.

When Chen Dongzhi came back, the meal was already prepared at home. Chen Miaomiao, who was sitting in the wooden cart gnawing on dried sweet potatoes, was so excited when she saw her father who had not been seen for a day come back. She jumped up and down and almost fell over. Fortunately, Chen Dongzhi was quick to help her.

"Don't worry, don't worry!" Chen Dongzhi calmed his daughter who wanted to hug him and said softly, "Daddy is dirty, wait until I take a bath before hugging him."

Zhong Ruyi brought out the last dish. Chen Miaomiao was already crying in the yard. She was so angry that her father didn't hug her when he came back that she started howling at the top of her lungs.

This made Chen Dongzhi want to hug the child, but he couldn't because the child was dirty. However, if he didn't hug him, the child would cry loudly.

Zhong Ruyi put the food down and watched the father and daughter arguing back and forth.

Just when Chen Dongzhi finally couldn't stand his daughter's tears anymore and was about to shake off the dust on his body and wanted to hug her, Zhong Ruyi coughed heavily twice.

Chen Dongzhi immediately went into the bathroom to take a shower, not even daring to look in the direction of his wife.

After waiting for a long time, I sat at the table to eat. When I saw that my daughter's face was white and clean without any signs of tears, I knew that this child was all talk and no action.

After dinner, Zhong Ruyi brought up the incident of Chen Miaomiao eating the tiger-head dolls again today. She looked serious and didn't care whether the child could understand or not. "Starting tomorrow, mother will collect all your tiger-head dolls and return them to you when you stop biting them."

Chen Miaomiao didn't understand, but when she couldn't find a single tiger-head doll in the entire house the next day, she became anxious.

He gestured with his hands and feet: Tiger-headed doll! Miaomiao’s tiger-headed doll!

Zhong Ruyi was as hard as iron. How many bacteria and viruses were there on the tiger-head doll? Even if it was washed many times, there would still be some. It would be better to put it away to avoid being chewed every day.

Zhong Ruyi casually gave her a piece of dried sweet potato and, ignoring her daughter's pitiful expression, put her down and continued to go about her business.

Chen Miaomiao cried while gnawing on dried sweet potatoes, but she was too small to resist, so she could only let the doll be taken away.