Eldest Sister Yun thought that Second Brother Yun’s business wasn’t doing so well.
"The business is actually not bad."
After all, starting this shop really cost a lot of money.
Last year, buying these few shops spent all the family’s savings.
This year, opening the shop used up this year’s savings from the family as well.
Because of the shop opening, we also bought a freezer.
Laoer was just putting on a brave face.
After the two kids finished eating, they still seemed to want more.
"Uncle, the noodles are really tasty."
How could they not be?
Fewer noodles, more pickled meat.
"Mother-in-law, come sit and rest a bit."
Mrs. Zhao retired after handing over the work to her daughter, and these past few years she was busy helping with the grandchildren, not idling around.
Now that her son-in-law had opened a shop, she also came to help out.
Even though he’s a son-in-law, he lives under the same roof as them.
They say a son-in-law is half a son, but this son-in-law is even better than other people’s sons.
Apart from being a bit too straightforward, he really has no other faults.
Everyone sat down for a chat, and when customers arrived, they went to cook noodles.
"How many shops do you have for this store?"
"Three shops, I renovated all at once, but now I’m only using two, I plan to set up a bed in the other one as a rest area. Now that the shop is open, it’s not convenient to go back for a rest."
Running your own shop isn’t like working at a state-owned restaurant, where you come to work on time, leave for lunch on time, come back in the afternoon on time, and can go home for a nap. But with your own shop, it’s different.
In the afternoon, if there are no customers, you can’t go back either, plus, it’s a bit of a distance from where they live. However, there’s a direct bus that goes to their area.
And Second Brother Yun also has a bicycle.
How much would that have cost?
As they talked, Eldest Brother Yun and Eldest Sister-in-law Yun also arrived.
"Younger uncle, your noodle shop is really hard to find, we looked for a long time until..." Eldest Sister-in-law Yun hadn’t finished speaking when several pairs of eyes focused on her, cutting her words short.
How could they not know the in-laws were there?
The eldest sister also came over.
And there’s the mother-in-law of the younger uncle.
"Laoer..." Eldest Brother Yun looked at his younger brother, Second Brother Yun, seeing him dressed in a white chef’s uniform, complete with a chef’s hat.
And this noodle shop, its walls were freshly painted white, the prices were posted, and inside there were new tables, long tables, and long benches.
"Big Brother, Eldest Sister-in-law..." Second Brother Yun saw the couple arriving and maintained a superficial amiability.
He didn’t suggest or even think about cooking noodles for them to try.
He really didn’t want to cook noodles for his crafty sister-in-law to eat.
"These noodles, are they that expensive?" Eldest Sister-in-law Yun looked at the price list on the wall and exclaimed in surprise.
Ordinarily, a bowl of plain noodles cost 50 cents, but the prices here, the cheapest, which was plain noodles, costed 50 cents, with an egg it was 60 cents, with intestines 70 cents, mixed sauce noodles 80 cents, and other meats needed one yuan, not cheap at all.
But she didn’t consider how much topping Second Brother Yun added. Just an extra portion of toppings could make up a meat dish.
Now, the meat that didn’t require ration coupons cost one yuan and fifty cents per half a kilo, those that did were one yuan, twenty.
The pricing was also discussed between Second Yun Er and his father-in-law, Chef Zhao.
"The kind that doesn’t need coupons," Second Brother Yun said, not very pleased.
"Eldest Aunt, the noodles that younger uncle makes with more meat are delicious."
I haven’t tasted it, so I wouldn’t know.
Eldest Sister-in-law Yun’s eyes shifted and she managed to flash a smile, saying, "Younger Uncle, you opened a shop, and we still don’t know how good your cooking is, why not let me and your big brother have a taste?"