mesbooks Chapter 154: Pond Digging and Canal Construction
Chapter 154: Pond Digging and Canal Construction
As for why it is called Maozhu Fast Food Restaurant, Xiaocaoer explained: the brothers' nicknames all have the word "Mao" in them, and their full names have the word "Zhu" in them, which together make "Maozhu". Our store mainly sells fast food, so let's just call it Maozhu Fast Food Restaurant. It's more down-to-earth and you can tell at a glance that it is opened for the common people.
Fast food restaurants completely copied the modern model. A stove was set up at the door of the store, and the pre-fried dishes were kept warm in the pot. There were meat, vegetables, and tofu, and you could freely mix meat and vegetables. The staple food was multi-grain rice and multi-grain steamed buns, which you could mix as you like.
Maozhu fast food restaurant has a very good business. Whether you come to buy a mixed bun and a vegetarian dish, or a roast duck and white rice, the restaurant welcomes you. The staff in the restaurant are dressed in uniform and are all energetic. Whether you are rich or poor, the service attitude is the same, unlike other restaurants that do not welcome poor people.
Therefore, the reputation of Maozhu fast food restaurant is deeply loved by the people.
Some of the people working in the store are graduates from technical schools, and some are retired soldiers who don't want to go back to their hometowns. With these people here, those local hooligans don't dare to cause trouble, and don't even think about protection money. There are retired soldiers here, and they still need you local hooligans to protect them. Who is protecting whom?
Xiao Caoer knew that many retired soldiers did not want to return home, but had nowhere to go if they did not return home, so she suggested to Qi Xingyun and others that they could set up a courier team.
These retired people all have martial arts skills, and riding horses and driving carriages is no problem. The business model of the express delivery team is between the escort agency and the post station.
In a town or county, if you have matters or goods to be delivered to the surrounding villages or county, you can pay a courier team to help run errands instead of going yourself. After all, it costs money to make a trip yourself.
As long as you are willing to pay, if you live in the east end of the town and want to invite your friends who live in the south or north end of the town to have a drink at Jixiang Restaurant, when you go out and see a courier team in uniform, they can get it done for you for a few cents, and it saves a person’s work.
This express delivery team has been operating for more than a year and is now doing quite a lot of good things. They have spread out to the surrounding areas. After all, there are quite a few people who have retired from the military camp. Who wouldn't be happy if they could make a living without having to go back to their hometown to see their family, brothers and sisters-in-law?
It would be so pleasant to have a stable job and find a wife to start a family.
Qingshan Village Yang Family
Now that Sanmao has transformed herself from a scholar to a businessman, Xiaocaoer no longer has to worry about business matters. All of them will be taken over by Sanmao. What she does most now is writing and painting.
Sanmao's original words were: I have been working hard for the family since I was young. It has been so many years. Now that my brothers have grown up, it is my brother's turn to work hard. Xiaocao'er's most important task now is to accompany grandma and parents to enjoy happiness, and all other things are left to my third brother.
Although she is enjoying a good life, Xiaocaoer still has to work at home every day. For example, the new products in the furniture workshop and the new products in the embroidery workshop are not made by her hands. Can she really let go of everything and not care about anything?
Xiao Caoer wanted to do this, but the strength does not allow it! You need someone to continue to provide the workshop with new product design drafts.
That day, Sanmao came back and asked as soon as she entered the door: "Sister, what new ideas do you have during this period?"
"I have no idea." Xiao Cao'er said without raising his head.
Sanmao: Well, that’s a very good answer. Having no idea is the best idea.
Xiao Caoer is reading a book that she got from a bookstore in the mall. There is a Xinhua Bookstore in the mall, which she only discovered in the past two years. Before that, she had been shopping in the supermarket in the mall because her family needed food from the supermarket. She only went to places like clothing and bags. The pens, inkstones, and inkstones that she used to give to her brothers were all from the supermarket.
Since she found a Xinhua Bookstore in the mall, she has been reading more books. She has a book in her hand whenever she has nothing to do. She also has an idea: I want to see if I can read all the books in the bookstore in my lifetime.
"Sister, you can boldly tell me any ideas you have, and I will find a way to help you realize them. If you say to buy land, we will buy it. If you say to buy a mountain, we will buy a mountain. If you say to dig a pond or a ditch, it's all up to you."
Sanmao has not been busy these days, and as soon as she has some free time she wants to find something to do.
When it comes to digging ponds and ditches, Xiao Caoer immediately thought of a main idea.
"Third brother, look for places near water sources. The land there must be a place where it is not easy to grow crops. Don't occupy arable land. Use these lands to dig a pond. After the pond is dug, plant lotus roots, build a winding plank road on the pond to connect several pavilions, and put tables and chairs in the pavilions for people to rest.
When the lotus flowers are in full bloom, we invite some literati and poets to come and recite poems and paint together. We charge an admission fee and provide some tea, snacks and the like, so that the nearby villagers can also earn some income.
In winter, you can dig lotus roots and collect lotus seeds. Even lotus leaves can be used as medicine. These are all good gains. What do you think of this idea? "
"This idea seems good. Literati like these elegant things. Sitting in the pavilion by the pond is like being among the lotus flowers. The cool breeze brings the fragrance of the lotus flowers. That feeling is indescribably peaceful."
Sanmao nodded and said, "That's good, but digging a pond is too big a job. It can't be done in a short time."
"Then think about it yourself, is there anything that can be accomplished as soon as you think of it? A new dish needs to be prepared and cooked several times before it can be successfully put on the recipe. Can something as big as digging a pond be accomplished in one go?" Xiao Cao'er asked back.
Sanmao: It seems not yet possible.
"Third brother, just digging the pond will take you three to five months, and you also have to repair the plank road and build the pavilion. These are all safety-related issues, so you have to be more careful. It's best to find a professional to do it. Things that involve safety can't be done by just finding a few laborers outside and paying them ten or twenty cents." Xiaocao'er reminded Sanmao again.
"If this plan is to be carried out, we must hire professionals to do it. Also, we cannot just use random wood for the pavilion and the plank road. We must choose the right one."