novelden Chapter 204 I'll Marry You
Chapter 204 I'll Marry You
After eating the noodles, everyone continued to wash the dishes.
Lin Jiaojiao didn't sleep well last night, and now she started to feel sleepy when she had nothing to do. She moved the table to the stove, warmed herself by the fire, and fell asleep on the table.
After Lin Dadan and others finished washing, she did not wake up Lin Jiaojiao. Instead, she took others to move all the pots, bowls, chopsticks and tea sets into the restaurant.
Lin Dadan directed two women to move the large pot to the stove at the entrance of the restaurant and placed it there. The others stacked the large bowls and placed them in the cabinet under the stove. The men put the chopsticks in bamboo tubes and placed them on each table.
Because there was no plaque yet, passers-by just looked inside out of curiosity, and it looked like it was another restaurant.
Someone recognized the busy waiter inside and walked to the door of the restaurant and shouted.
"Xingzi, are you here to work?"
The girl named Xingzi was placing dishes next to the stove. The stove was very long. She stood up and looked over, and recognized the person as her childhood playmate.
"It's you, Tian Tian. Long time no see. Didn't you go to Qingzhou to find a job? You didn't come back during the Chinese New Year. Are you on vacation now?"
Although Xingzi was talking to her, he did not stop the work in his hands.
Seeing that she still recognized her, Tian Tian was about to step over the door to take a closer look. The layout of the store looked pretty good.
"Yes, it was too busy during the New Year. There were too many people in Qingzhou. Now that I'm done with the work, I'm back to rest for a while."
Xingzi saw her about to come in and hurriedly stopped her, saying, "Tian Tian, our store will only open tomorrow, and we are still cleaning now. How about you come to the door to find me when you are free in the evening, and we can reminisce about the past?"
When Tian Tian heard her words, she understood what she meant and retracted the half leg that had just stepped in.
"Okay, you're not going home tonight?"
"Well, I stay in the store at night."
Tian Tian didn't expect that her home was just in the alley not far away, but she actually lived in the store. I guess it must be the store's requirement, right?
In order to save money, other stores don't provide accommodation and only provide a lunch at most. It seems that the owner of this store is rich.
She looked around the store again, but didn't see the staircase entrance to the second floor. Could it be that the first and second floors were separated?
She retreated to the middle of the road and saw that there were two closed doors on the far right. She looked up at the second floor and found that the window grilles on the first and second floors were different.
It seems that the place where Xingzi works is not very big, and it includes accommodation and food?
She ran back to the gate and said to the busy man, "Okay, I'll come to you tonight to chat about the past. I'm going back now."
"Okay, walk slowly."
The woman next to Xingzi asked doubtfully, "Can we go out tonight?"
When Xingzi was asked this, she immediately reacted. After all, she was forced to live here, and she didn't know whether she could go out for a stroll after work.
Zhang Tong was placing tea sets on the other side. In fact, she had been paying attention to this side quietly since the woman came to the door to chat.
"Yes, as long as you finish your work, you can go out after work, but there is a curfew, and you must come back at the second shift. If you don't come back, it will be considered absenteeism."
Everyone else in the store was listening, and the women were secretly noting down the time so as not to be late when they came back.
The men certainly would not go out for a stroll, but they also noted the time just in case.
After waking up, Lin Jiaojiao rubbed her sore neck and found that the firewood in the stove was still burning. She must have added firewood to her by Lin Dadan and the others.
She stood up, stretched, walked out of the kitchen and into the store, where she saw everyone was busy.
The empty shop became much richer after adding these utensils, and the restaurant looked much more presentable.
"Aunt Lin, haven't the plaques been delivered yet?"
Lin Dadan put down the work in his hands and walked over.
"Not here yet, how about I go and urge her?"
She looked at the sky outside and felt it was still early, so she decided to wait a while.
"Don't worry, wait a little longer. Let's clean up the shop first. I'll go to Zhishi to see how the candied haws are selling."
"Okay, I'll go get the carriage and take the master over."
She quickly refused: "No, I can just walk over there, you stay here, in case the plaques come over later so you can see them."
After she finished speaking, she walked towards Zhishi Dessert Shop. It took her more than a quarter of an hour to reach the door of the shop, but she found a carriage parked next to the door.
But she didn't care and continued walking into the store, thinking that it must be some rich person coming to buy food.
"Boss, you're here. As soon as the candied haws arrived this morning, they were sold out in an hour. Someone just asked if there were any more."
She walked in and checked around. There wasn't much left in the store, only plain bread and shortbread.
"That's ok. Are there many people asking?"
"A lot. Customers who come to buy things later will ask about it."
"Okay, are the two girls from yesterday here?"
Liu Wen smiled and said, "They are here. When I came to open the door this morning, I saw them standing guard at the door. Later, when Lin Fen came to deliver the goods, I gave them the candied haws. They all chose flat hawthorns and ate them right away. Then they ran back to get the money and bought another bunch."
"Children just love to eat these sweets. Did you let them continue to pick them later?"
"Yes, but some people came later to give me some hawthorn berries. I took them all and asked Lin Fen to take them back. I guess they heard the news and went to pick hawthorn berries from the surrounding areas."
"Okay, there are still people coming to sell fruit, so take them all and continue to stock new ones tomorrow."
Because she thought that she could also make some of the fruit leather and hawthorn slices that she ate when she was a child. After all, the candied haws alone would not sell for long, but this one could still be sold for a while.
After staying in the store for a while and seeing that there were no problems, she said goodbye to Liu Wen and walked towards the door, only to find that the carriage next to the door was still there.
She vaguely felt something was wrong and looked at the carriage curtain with a frown.
Because she didn't see the coachman, she didn't know if there was anyone in the carriage, but she still planned to ignore it and walk out.
As I passed by the carriage window, I heard a familiar voice.
"What? You just left like that? Without even coming up to say hello?"
She raised her head to the side and looked over. Sure enough, the car curtain was opened by Qi Yao, who was looking down at her with a smile on his lips.
"Isn't it a bad idea for a woman and a man to stay together alone?"
Qi Yao picked up the flat hawthorn candied haws and took a bite. "Is that so? How about I marry you? Then we won't be alone anymore."
The last part of his tone was full of ambiguity, and even the way he was biting the hawthorn made her feel that he was deliberately seducing her.
"No, I'll come up."