Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 137: Instead of selling hairtail, we sell smoked fish
Yao Huifen, who was still lying in the hospital, was "divorced" just like that.
This time, He Chunling did not let Yao Huifen make the decision on her own.
Yao Huifen is not the type of person who can make decisions!
The last time, it was because He Chunling let her make her own decision and she chose to stay in the He family that she was almost beaten to death by He Zhiyong.
No matter how stupid Yao Huifen is, she is still He Chunling's biological mother and the best person in the world to her.
The He family couldn't come up with 500 yuan at once, and after scraping together some money, they could only come up with 270 yuan.
The Yao family father and son didn't push too hard, after all, the New Year was approaching.
Before leaving, the father and son said that they would come back to get the remaining two hundred and thirty next year when the summer grain was harvested. If the He family did not give it to them, they would not blame them for moving the grain themselves.
After that, the father and son took the money and moved away the boxes that Yao Huifen brought as a dowry.
He Chunling had never thought of living in her grandfather's house with her mother and brother. After the Yao father and son helped her get the money, He Chunling gave them 100 yuan in one go.
A little more than the originally agreed 30%.
Unexpectedly, this time, Old Man Yao and Yao Caibao did not ask her for the money.
"We don't know how much money your mother's medical treatment will cost, so you can take this money back." Old man Yao looked at the ten big unity bills reluctantly.
Just one look! No more, or I'll be tempted to take it back.
Uncle Yao also advised her to keep the money.
"You've seen our situation. We really have no place to live. In my opinion, you should rent a house in the county for a while. Wait until your mother is discharged from the hospital, and then think about where to live in the future."
"If you are willing to return to the village, you must leave some money. Then you can treat the village cadres to a meal, give them a few packs of cigarettes, and ask the village to give you a piece of land to build a house."
Yao Caibao was not cold-blooded and selfish and would not allow his seriously ill sister to return to her parents' home to recuperate.
But... cough! Ever since his wife divorced him, the father and son have been living a miserable life and have owed a lot of foreign debts. Two years ago, they sold the three large tiled houses that their family had built for him to get married.
Now the father and son still live in the two mud brick houses that Old Man Yao and his wife built when they got married.
There was one room for living, and the other for dining and entertaining guests. Even the kitchen was built outside with asbestos tiles. There was no room for Yao Huifen and her two sons to live in.
Looking at the mud brick house that was leaking air on all sides, He Chunling couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
It would be nice if grandpa and uncle could be like Jiang Tian’s grandpa and uncle.
If the father and son of the Yao family could be a little more diligent and not spend their money on drinking and eating meat, He Chunling would be willing to spend money to start a small business for the family.
But the Yao family father and son looked so bad that she was worried about giving them the money to do business.
What she didn't know was that a surprise was waiting for her on the other side of the provincial road.
"Chun Ling, come and take a look. My mother and I have cleaned up these two rooms in the backyard. When your aunt and your brother are discharged from the hospital, if you don't mind, you can stay here first."
Jiang Tian pulled He Chunling to her backyard.
When the house was built, the three rooms in the backyard were originally intended to be used as a woodshed and storage room.
Unexpectedly, the restaurant business was so good that there was no time to chop and burn firewood. Now the store brings back two trucks of coal every half a month and makes it into honeycomb coal, which is convenient and hygienic to use.
It’s not like burning wood, which leaves charcoal ash everywhere and is difficult to clean up.
Honeycomb coal does not take up space, so Jiang Tian and Hu Qiongfang moved all the debris and honeycomb coal in the backyard to the west room.
The two rooms on the east side were left empty and put in two beds, which was just right for He Chunling and her two daughters to live in temporarily.
"Tiantian, I..." He Chunling's eyes instantly turned red.
She really didn't know how to thank Jiang Tian's family.
If they hadn't supported her behind the scenes, she wouldn't have the courage to take her mother and brother and leave that terrible family.
He Chunling doesn't like to cause trouble for others.
But right now, she really needed a place like this that could accommodate two beds and her mother and brother.
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Yao Huifen was finally discharged from the hospital.
However, her four broken ribs will take some time to heal completely, and the hospital allowed her to go home to rest, which was also to save money for He Chunling. After all, hospitalization is really expensive, and how can rural people afford to stay in the hospital all the time?
He Chunsheng's injury was not serious and he recovered long ago. After moving here, Jiang Cheng had an extra companion to go to and from school - He Chunsheng also went to the central primary school in the town.
Although she still had a few hundred dollars from the He family, He Chunling did not dare to relax at all. After settling her mother, she returned to Hu Qiongfang and started working hard to earn money.
As the Spring Festival approaches, there are more and more cars on the provincial roads.
Hu Qiongfang's box lunch restaurant changed to selling noodles and dumplings, which were cheaper than hot pot and did not get cold as easily as box lunches. Business was booming for a while.
The dumplings in her restaurant have thin skins and large fillings. Whether they are filled with pork and cabbage, or leeks and eggs, each one is plump and white.
The dishes were also washed cleanly, and a large pot of boiling water was used to scald them for a while.
Just because of the sanitary conditions, many city dwellers who are particular about food prefer to eat at Hu Qiongfang's restaurant.
What's more, the dumplings in this restaurant are delicious, and the noodles are even more delicious.
The pickled mustard greens and shredded pork noodles are made with chewy hand-rolled noodles topped with a thick layer of stir-fried pickled mustard greens and shredded pork. The sour and fragrant taste is appetizing, and the passengers, who were originally a little carsick, can’t help but whet their appetites.
And it’s only 20 cents a bowl. Although the bowl is a little small, they can order another serving of dumplings.
Those with big appetites went straight for the braised meat noodles, which contained both meat and vegetables and was a large portion. Although a bowl of noodles cost 40 cents, it was better than eating buns, which were more filling than buns. In the provincial capital, a meat bun as big as a fist cost 10 cents each.
You can buy four buns for 40 cents and finish them in just a few bites. If such a big bowl of stewed meat noodles is not enough, you can add another 10 cents of hand-rolled noodles. In such a cold day, after eating it, you will feel warm all over, which is so comfortable.
However, city dwellers who really know how to eat still ordered the restaurant’s signature three-fresh noodles.
The local area is rich in various river seafood, and three-fresh noodles can be said to be a must-have signature dish in every noodle shop. Gourmets only need to smell the soup base to know whether the three-fresh noodles are good.
Hu Qiongfang's three-fresh noodles are made with soup base made from large bones and a whole old hen, according to the guidance of her daughter Jiang Tian.
Take out the old hen left over from making soup, remove the skeleton, and use the chicken skin and meat to make toppings for the stewed meat noodles, so nothing will be wasted.
The soup base is delicious, the river shrimp is fresh, and even the smoked fish is marinated with sugar, so there is no fishy smell at all. The bamboo shoots on the noodles are also soaked in the soup in advance, which is very tasty.
I didn’t expect that there would be a small restaurant that makes such authentic Sanxian noodles next to the shabby provincial road !
Many passengers who love to eat wanted to buy some smoked fish from Hu Qiongfang after eating the three-fresh noodles.
Hu Qiongfang was caught off guard and lost dozens of potential customers in one day. In the evening, without waiting for her daughter to ask, she took the initiative to suggest making some smoked fish and selling it in the store.
My second aunt Chen Xiaohong also wanted to make some smoked fish to sell.
Locally farmed silver carp is cheaper than frozen hairtail.
However, the price of smoked fish is higher than that of fried hairtail.
If you do the math, the profit is no less than selling fried hairtail.
