Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 107 New Store Opens
Jiang Lesheng hasn't received any letter from Tong Xiaoyan for half a month.
This is not normal!
In the past, even if I didn't write to him on my own initiative, Tong Xiaoyan would write him at least one letter every week, and sometimes I would receive two or three in a row.
However, he had a trick. Every time he received a letter, he would open it and put another envelope inside it, writing the name of another male classmate from junior high school on it.
When his classmates asked him about it, he explained with a wry smile that the boy was his good friend, and was dating a girl from No. 2 Middle School. As for premature love, neither family nor school would approve of it, so he had to act as a middleman and send letters between the two.
This lie was so clever that since the letter was not his own, even his best roommate would not be embarrassed to snatch it to read it.
All Jiang Lesheng needed to do was to go to the boy’s class and talk to him every time he received a letter.
Everyone thought he was acting as a messenger for his classmates. Tong Xiaoyan hadn't written to him for half a month, and his roommates were even more anxious than the person himself.
Several times, after lights out, I secretly approached Jiang Lesheng to ask him whether his classmate and the girl from No. 2 Middle School were having an affair.
Very likely~
Although No. 2 Middle School is a famous "concentration camp for poor students", think about it from another perspective. It is because they are not good at studying that they focus their energy on other things, such as premature love, right?
So, Mr. Jiang, your good brother is not going to be cheated on, right?
Jiang Lesheng's face suddenly turned dark.
Where are the “good brothers”?
“Good brother” is himself, okay?
Although he had decided to make things clear with Tong Xiaoyan once he was admitted to university, the relationship between them was just the purest of pen pals, and he asked her not to think too much about it.
But the problem is that he hasn't been admitted to university yet...
If I fail to get into university, I will have to continue to stay with Tong Xiaoyan. Otherwise, how will I pay for the tuition and living expenses for university in the future?
After the eldest brother passed away, the eldest sister-in-law became a different person. It was said that she and her brother from her mother's family sold lunch boxes on the provincial road and made a lot of money, but she refused to give him a penny. As expected, the eldest brother was gone, and the eldest sister-in-law could no longer be relied on.
Thinking of this, Tong Xiaoyan cannot let go for the time being.
Jiang Lesheng unrolled the letter in a somewhat irritable manner, his face full of impatience, but his writing was warm and gentle, and he gently asked Tong Xiaoyan if she had encountered any difficulties in her studies, or if something had happened at home...
When she received this letter, Tong Xiaoyan had already mastered the technique of making glutinous rice balls and could also wrap rice dumplings quite well.
What's more, what's strange is that her parents never let her do any work before, and she had plenty of time to study every day, but she often slacked off.
But now, on the only day off every week, her father only gives her half a day to do her homework. Last Sunday, the rice ball shop was particularly busy. She was busy from seven in the morning until dark. She was so tired that she couldn't even lift her arms. When she was lying on the table to finish her homework at night, she even forgot to slack off.
He wrote furiously, doing his homework from eight o'clock to half past eleven, and didn't even think about Jiang Lesheng during that time.
During the break on Monday morning, Tong Xiaoyan was in a daze for a moment when she received the letter from Jiang Lesheng.
She seemed to have not thought about classmate Jiang for several days.
She found an empty corner and opened the envelope. The letter still had the familiar style. It turned out that classmate Jiang still cared about her as before.
Tong Xiaoyan felt sweet in her heart, but when she thought about the changes that had happened in her family during this period and the fact that her father forced her to learn a craft, she felt aggrieved.
At noon that day, Tong Xiaoyan wrote a long letter back to Jiang Lesheng.
She really didn't feel comfortable talking about her parents' divorce, so she could only talk about learning a craft and complain about how strict Jiang Tian's grandmother was and how her father didn't love her as much as before.
Most importantly, Tong Xiaoyan used a whole piece of paper to reveal a "good news" to Jiang Lesheng -
Jiang, you don't need to put too much pressure on yourself. Your sister-in-law is now selling lunch boxes at a stall and can earn several thousand yuan a month. She has even built . You will no longer have to support the three of them. Just focus on preparing for the college entrance examination and strive to get excellent results and get into the university of your choice...
At this time, Tong Xiaoyan had no idea what kind of trouble this letter of hers would bring to Hu Qiongfang and her two daughters.
Jiang Tian also didn't know that the evil wolf who had killed his own nephew in his previous life in order to keep his eldest brother's death pension for himself would once again target her and her two children because of a letter from Tong Xiaoyan.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the newly renovated "Fang Jie Lunch" was upgraded from an open-air stall to a newly built storefront.
However, the price has not increased and is still the same as before.
The only difference is that in addition to selling boxed lunches, the store also has a separate window selling braised dishes.
Many regular customers have given them feedback before, saying that the variety of braised dishes on their stall is too monotonous and asking them to prepare more braised dishes.
Nowadays, many people will bring some steamed buns as dry food when they go on a long journey. However, eating only these for one or two meals is fine, but who can bear to eat them for every meal?
It would be great if I could buy some cheap and delicious braised dishes. They won’t go bad easily even if you keep them for two days, and you don’t need to heat them up when you eat them. Just break the steamed bun and put them in the middle. They’re crunchy!
Jiang Tian had been thinking about this, but before that they were cooking in a simple shed, the place was too small, so they could only focus on cooking. Stewed dishes were just a selling point.
Now that the new house has been built, the backyard is big enough for us to move around.
In order to facilitate "expansion" in the future, Jiang Tian asked her uncle to build four stoves in the backyard, plus a few coal stoves, which were enough for making braised dishes and even steamed buns.
Therefore, after reopening, "Fang Jie Lunch" added such a braised food window.
The meat dishes included braised duck, braised pork head, braised pig's trotters, and braised chicken. She originally wanted to make some braised beef, but after asking about the price of beef, she gave up.
It’s so expensive. If it can’t be sold after it’s finished, won’t her mother be heartbroken?
There are many vegetarian dishes. Just soy products include braised dried tofu, braised bean curd sheets, braised vegetarian chicken, braised tofu shreds, and braised yuba.
There are also lotus root slices, black fungus, kelp, peanuts, edamame and other dishes braised in the brine used to braise meat.
The store’s signature braised eggs are still there, and they have also added braised quail eggs and the hairy eggs that the locals love to eat.
There are so many varieties of dishes. If the waiter were to name the dishes and ask for their prices one by one, he would be exhausted.
Jiang Tian did not hesitate to use the only "child laborer" in the family - Jiang Cheng, who was the best at calligraphy, to write a price list for her and posted it on the wall next to the cash register.
There is also one posted on the wall behind the braised food stall, it is particularly eye-catching!
As soon as the new store opened, long queues formed in front of the braised food window, even before the boxed lunches became popular.
There's nothing we can do. Even the stall selling braised dishes in town doesn't have as many varieties as Sister Fang's.
