Once you become a boy, marry a good man, and become rich together

Chapter 259 Warming House Banquet

"You a brother?"

His eyes were full of contempt.

"Stewardship."

A tall, strong man with a slightly fierce face walked towards this side from behind and stood behind the manager without moving.

The man was frightened by the look in the approaching man's eyes and stuttered. The confidence he had just built up seemed to have a hole in it, leaking out bit by bit.

"We need to verify this matter first."

"Verify, verify! Aren't they all here?" The man weighed the corner of the plate again, and part of the food on the plate fell onto the table. The fly that was next to the plate just now ran to the middle with the weighing.

The manager did not touch the plate, but squatted down to observe it carefully.

The man who was joining in the conversation next to the man clenched his sleeves when he saw his action.

"What are you doing?" he said and wanted to go forward and touch the plate.

However, his hand was blocked by the tall and strong man behind the manager.

"How can you tell if it's real or not if you don't take a closer look?"

There were issues with the hygiene of their food and judging by the reactions of these two men, the people at the Fanjian Restaurant knew it clearly.

Jiang Ci, who was in the private room on the second floor, listened with great interest to the waiter's description of the situation below.

Jiang Ci asked the waiter to go down first, but did not let him close the door of the private room.

The other people in the box frowned to some extent.

Ye Shuyun asked uncertainly, "Are you here to cause trouble?"

Lin Xi chimed in, "He must be here to cause trouble. If I really had a hair fly in the restaurant, what I would want most is an apology and compensation, not a big fuss like this. It seems like he's just trying to make things worse!"

Ye Bei looked at Lin Xi with some surprise and admiration, "Xi'er is really smart."

"It's okay, don't worry. The restaurant manager can handle this matter."

This was an era where people were divided into different classes. An ordinary person would not react like him if he encountered unclean food in such a big restaurant.

I don't know who is behind this. Can't you just spend a little more money and find an actor with good acting skills?

Ye Shuyun held his chin up and thought, "What good is there for them to do by deliberately causing trouble like this?"

Lin Changfeng gave his guess, "Since the opening of Fanjian Restaurant, customers have been pouring in, and it may have had some impact on other restaurants."

They listened attentively to the noise downstairs.

After a while, the loud and noisy sounds disappeared and the buzzing noises became quieter. The problem should have been resolved.

The people on the first floor who had just joined in the commotion felt a burning sensation on their faces and sat quietly in their seats, feeling embarrassed.

"what is this?"

The steward handed the thing in his hand forward again.

The two men now had completely lost the momentum they had at the beginning, and looked extremely guilty. They avoided looking at the thread in the manager's hand.

The steward placed the thread on a clean piece of paper that the waiter had just brought over.

He bent down and tapped the edge of the plate, "Why don't you squat down and take a look here?"

The two men's brains were working rapidly, trying to find ways to make up for the situation, beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads due to nervousness.

He raised his hand, touched his head and said with a smile, "This might have fallen in there accidentally."

"It fell in there accidentally. The fly had been slapped for who knows how long. The hair was tangled with the thread. There were also large particles of dust on the edge of the plate—"

"It was just an accident. It's not as serious as you say! I won't bother with you about this matter."

After saying that, I wanted to go outside.

"You two haven't paid yet?"

"Pay, pay now, how much?"

"44 Wen."

The man hurriedly took out a copper coin from his waist, put it on the table, and left quickly.

"I'm sorry for disturbing you all with what happened just now. To express my apology, I'll give you a free side dish with every drink you buy."

Who wouldn’t be happy when something is free?

"it is good."

“It’s really grand.”

"Those two guys just now didn't look like good people."

They all started to criticize the two people just now. As long as they were given a little benefit, they would stand on the side of the person who gave them the benefit.

After the two men hurriedly left the Fanjian Restaurant, they did not notice the person following them.

Jiang Ci and his friends rested in the private room for a while and went home after the sun was at its hottest.

The weather is getting hot now. It's okay in the restaurant because it's cool with ice, but I really don't want to stay on the street for even a second without any trees to provide shade.

……

Jiang Ci took out all the clothes in the closet and threw them on the bed. It was time to tidy up.

When Lin Jingsheng opened the door and came in, he saw that the bed was almost full of clothes, and Jiang Ci was still taking clothes out of the closet and throwing them on the bed.

Finally, Jiang Ci held a wooden box and placed it on the table.

"I plan to pack up all my clothes, fold them neatly and put them in the closet if they should be here, and move the rest into the new house."

"Okay, I'll help you sort it out."

Jiang Ci opened the wooden box and said, "Come and see our small treasury."

"There are quite a few banknotes in the small treasury."

There were neatly stacked piles of silver bills, all of which were silver bills but no silver. Some pocket money was placed in another box.

He received a large amount of banknotes every month, but in fact he didn't spend much money in his daily life.

For a moment, he even felt like he had made a lot of money but had no place to spend it. He shook his head to get rid of this outrageous idea.

Jiang Ci fiddled with the banknotes inside a few times and closed the box.

"Oh, by the way, everyone who should be notified has been notified."

"Tell them everything."

The two of them worked for an hour before they finally sorted out all the clothes.

Jiang Ci almost put her face in the ice bucket on the small table, "It's still cooler with ice. I'm used to a good life and don't want to feel the heat at all."

That day, Jiang Ci got up early in the morning, but when he woke up, Lin Jingsheng was no longer by his side.

When Jiang Ci walked to the new house, many families had already brought in fresh vegetables picked from the fields.

The aunt and uncle over there were politely trying to refuse the few coins they had to spend on buying vegetables from Ye Wan.

But in the end, he couldn't stand Ye Wan and accepted the few copper coins from the vegetable vendor.

Some people brought baskets of eggs to sell, and some brought slaughtered chickens.

These are the ingredients for the house-warming feast at noon.

"All the aunts and uncles are here so early."

"Hey, Brother Ci is here!"

"It's early in the morning anyway, so just pick the vegetables and send them over so they won't be wasted here."

"It won't be too late even if it's one hour later."

Jiang Ci talked to them for a few words and then went in. They delivered their things and went back, otherwise there would have been a lot of people crowding at the door.

The servants in this yard were brought in yesterday and are all in place.

There were not many servants, only five or six. However, since there was a house-warming party today, everyone in the village would come. So Xu Xia brought more people over early in the morning. Nine people came the first time, and now he went back to get the second group of people.

A few simple earthen stoves were built outside the big kitchen in the yard yesterday. The stove in the kitchen was obviously not enough to cook so many meals.

Many stoves were also built for cutting vegetables and storing the best dishes.

On the cement floor in front of the kitchen were the vegetables and meat that they had just brought in, and several people were washing them.

Lin Jingsheng and Lin Jingchen brought two slaughtered pigs from a butcher in the next village.

Those who work in the soap factory and essential oil factory have been unusually active from the beginning today, and always want to take a look at the greenhouse party in the back.

Especially the workers working in the essential oil factory, who are closer to the big house behind and can hear the noisy and lively sounds.

It is summer now and the working hours are half an hour earlier than before. Because they are invited to attend a house-warming party today, they are asked to leave work half an hour earlier.

So some of them would go out from time to time to look at the sundial at the door.

One of the cooks was brought over from a mortal restaurant, and the other chefs were people in their village who often prepared banquets for others or cooked delicious meals.

The other helpers who cut and washed the vegetables were all brought over from the compounds in the town.

Now people outside have started to put out tables, chairs and benches in places with concrete floors and some trees for shade.

It seems that God is celebrating for Jiang Ci. In cloudy weather, the sun usually comes out in the morning, but now it seems to be blocked by a large cloud. Judging from the speed of the clouds, it may block the sun for an hour.

Lin Jingxuan brought five or six children of similar age to move benches, ensuring that there were benches around each large table that could seat at least twelve people.

Lin Bo walked around the table and the benches around it, "Xuanxuan, look, there are words written with a brush on the legs of the table and the benches."

Lin Huan also moved closer and looked at the benches closest to him.

Lin Jingxuan explained to him, "There are so many tables, chairs and benches here. If we don't mark them, how are we going to divide them up in the end?"

"Oh, yes!"

"Come on! Let's continue moving the benches."

Another half hour passed, and people came to the door one after another to submit their gift lists.

When Jiang Ci and Lin Jingsheng walked out of the corner, they saw the villagers weighing things and queuing up to get the gift list.

The ones who wrote down the gift list were the village chief and his grandson. His grandson was probably the best student among the people at home now.

Lin Jingsheng and Lin Jingchen went to the mountains yesterday to dig two baskets of saltpeter, and started making ice last night.

Nowadays, large blocks of ice are used in crowded places.

Ye Yunting and his mother were standing in line to record the gift list. He leaned to the side and counted the people in front of him.

"It's so cool in this yard. Even though so many of us are standing together, we're not sweating."

"Yeah, it's a lot cooler here than other places."

Ye Yunting looked at the seemingly useless covered buckets scattered around, "But I feel like they might have ice in them."

"Putting ice in this place? This?" She didn't even dare to think about it.

"Mom, look at these buckets placed randomly."

At this moment, they took two steps forward and were only two steps away from the barrel on the left.

She went over and touched it. The wall of the bucket was icy cold, and there was indeed ice in it.

"Mom, is there ice in there?"

"Yes, it's cold." She put her hand, which had touched the ice bucket and was still wet with cold water, on Ye Yunting's hand.

The people in front and behind also heard their conversation and saw their actions, which immediately sparked a lot of discussion.

They all reached out to touch the bucket next to them.

Jiang Ci had instructed the village chief yesterday that the gift should not exceed twenty cents, and the number of eggs should not exceed twenty. The same goes for other things, that is, they should not be that many.

Lin Jingsheng also mentioned this when he went to tell them yesterday. When the ceremony just started, the village chief repeated it again as he looked at the long queue of people behind him.

These two times were very effective. No matter how much money they planned to pay, it would not exceed twenty cents when they saw the village chief.

In fact, many people raised questions at the beginning. They earned the 20 cents in less than a day, and all of it was earned from Qingyunfang. They felt bad for only letting them take 20 cents when their family came to eat.

Jiang Ci's answer was, "We are all from the same village. The success of Qingyunfang is also due to the contributions of the villagers. Today's warm-house banquet is more important than anything else, and it is also a treat for the villagers who have worked hard for Qingyunfang during this period of time."

Of course, I received a lot of good things.

After work at the soap factory and the essential oil factory, they really wanted to come here to join in the fun. Some of them went directly there, completely forgetting what their wives had said last night and in the morning.

Then he was taken home by the ears.

"You stink of sweat, wash yourself before you go!"

I washed off the sweat with soap and took the best summer clothes handed to me by my wife and husband.

Ye Fan looked at the long row of tables, and thought about how many times he had moved the benches just now.

Too many to count.

"How many tables are there in Xuanxuan's house?"

“50 tables.”

As soon as this number came out, the others who were eating ice grapes behind him paused.

"How many?!"

Lin Jingxuan held her chin and tilted her head to look at the two people who shouted the loudest. "50 tables, are you surprised? I was also shocked when I heard there were so many tables."

“50 tables!”

“When we were doing the warming, we didn’t even have five tables.”

"Don't mention my five tables. I only have two tables at home."

"Your brother Ci and your eldest brother are going to invite everyone in the village."

Lin Jingxuan nodded, and saw shock in these people's eyes again.

"Not only the people from our village, but also my uncle and aunt's family."