Chapter 82 Buying People (1)
As soon as she stepped into Goldfish Lane, Caiwei smelled the aroma of grilled skewers flowing freely in the air. She was quite surprised for a moment. It was only the morning hour, not too early or too late. Who would come to eat skewers?
When she returned to the restaurant, she was immediately shocked by the scene in front of her!
Outside the door, several long grills were densely packed with fragrant skewers. Jiujin and Uncle Zhou were sweating profusely while grilling, so busy that they couldn't even raise their heads. The waiter ran in and out from time to time, shouting: "Table No. 6, another fifty skewers of meat tendons..."
"Upstairs Tianzi Room, another grilled pork chop..."
Outside the door, there was still a group of people queuing up!
Oh, what's going on? How can it be so popular? Will other people's restaurants survive? Caiwei was dumbfounded.
Jiujin was busy, and when he looked up, he happened to see Caiwei coming back with a big basket. The heavy basket made her half lean. He quickly put down his work and ran over to take the basket from her arm.
The basket was big and heavy. When he lifted the tarpaulin on it, he saw a basket full of green vegetables, including cucumbers, eggplants, lettuce, enoki mushrooms...
Uncle Zhou, who was grilling skewers on the side, saw Caiwei carrying so many vegetables back by herself, and couldn't help but nagging a few words with some distress: "Sister Wei, next time you go to buy vegetables, remember to hire a porter to help you carry them back. It's not worth spending an extra three or four cents. Don't tire yourself out..."
Caiwei smiled and said lightly: "Uncle Zhou, I'm not tired!"
She was telling the truth. She put these vegetables into the basket with her mind when she was almost at the door of her house. She wouldn't be tired at all!
The restaurant was busy, with plates of skewers being brought in continuously, and the diners feasted on them and applauded.
Caiwei saw that she could not help much, so she went into the kitchen to help Aunt Zhou and the others skewer the meat. After a while, Lao Haizi came to find her and said that Xie Zhongren from the tooth shop had come with a large group of men and women.
After hearing this, Caiwei got up and went to her backyard.
As soon as she entered the gate, she saw thirty or forty people waiting to sell, and they were almost standing in the whole yard.
"Miss Mu, I have brought all the good ones to you, please choose!" Xie Zhongren smiled and spoke modestly. He always treated his parents who provided him with food and clothing like this.
Mother was standing at the door of the house with Caifei, Wen'er and Wu'er, watching people. Seeing that Caiwei had come back, she let her decide to choose.
Caiwei didn't bother to be polite with her mother. She bought people to help the restaurant work, not to serve the family, so she had already planned what kind of people to buy.
"You, and you, and both of you, come to the front."
She wandered around the crowd for a while and picked out a middle-aged man with a simple and honest face, two neat-looking women and a little girl of eleven or twelve years old.
"Well, you picked well."
Mrs. Du looked at the people Caiwei picked out and nodded in praise: "I know they are familiar. Just by looking at their faces, I know they must be safe."
Mother also liked these people, so Caiwei and Xie Zhongren agreed on the price. Four people spent a total of 75 taels of silver. After weighing the silver and completing the transaction, Xie Zhongren was about to leave with the remaining dozens of people. Suddenly, a twelve or thirteen-year-old servant ran out from the crowd, knelt at Caiwei's feet, kowtowed and shouted: "Miss, please be kind and buy me too. My life is cheap. Give me food. I won't starve to death. I can do any work and endure any hardship. Please buy me..."