Blissful Days After Widowhood

Can the Wang family endure this?

Immediately she put the long-handled spoon in her hand and shouted: "Feng Cheng's family, what do you mean? It's fine if you sell the steamed buns, where did the 'Mr. Wen's porridge' come from? ?"

The daughter-in-law of the Feng family said: "Who said that this 'Grandpa Wen porridge' can only be sold by your family? Besides, the world is not limited to the old lady Wen from Hanshan Town. There is also an old lady surnamed Wen in the same village as my mother's family. , what's the matter?"

Get up.

Gu Yin held Wang Shi, Wang Shi turned around and saw that the people who were lining up in front of her stall were already urging them to start selling quickly, so she had to go back to do business first.

Guests who have tasted Gu Yin's craftsmanship before know that their home is authentic, and naturally they will not go to the Feng family's daughter-in-law's stall to line up.

But the bad is the bad, and now there are people from other places who come to patronize it under the nickname "Grandpa Wen Porridge".

When they first arrived, they saw two stalls next to each other, and they thought they belonged to the same family, so they arrived at the end of the line and began to line up.

If you are lucky, you will naturally buy authentic ones from Gu Yin's house.

If I had some luck, I bought a copycat.

Is it preserved eggs? You are clearly salted egg porridge with lean meat! And not only this porridge, this bun is so salty, is this a salt seller who was beaten to death? It’s really unpalatable!”

The preserved egg is a product that has not yet existed in this era, and it was made by Gu Yin herself. Others naturally can't imitate it, so they sell salted egg lean meat porridge.

The two stalls were next to each other, and Wang Shi immediately said: "Their family is fake! Our family is the real one!"

The daughter-in-law of the Feng family did not change her face: "My family only said it was 'Grandpa Wen's porridge', and it didn't say that it was selling preserved egg porridge with lean meat, just salted eggs. Otherwise, why only charge a penny? If you want to eat preserved eggs, go to the next door and queue up."

The man finally got in line, and took a look at the long dragon in front of Wang's stall. Naturally, he didn't want to. From the beginning, you started to help me with every word.

"You don't suffer from a big bowl of salted egg porridge and meat porridge for a penny!"

"That's right, if you want more money, go to the next door to buy the two cents. Don't get in the way of us queuing."

That person was not a local person at first, so he could only pinching his nose to recognize such a tall and powerful local man.

Can't you sell me another bowl?"

If you want to put it aside, Wang will naturally sell it to him.

But she hasn't answered yet, and the other guests in front of the stall have their opinions.

"It's your fault that you line up in the wrong line, why do you join our line?"

"That's right, I came from other places too, and I'm patiently lined up here!"

The man had to admit that he was unlucky and left.

This happened several times this morning. At first, Mr. Wang was still saying that he would wait for Mrs. Wen to come over to testify for her family, but unfortunately, when Mrs. Wen didn't come, his servant said, saying that Mr. Wen has been blowing too much river wind these days, causing a headache. The master did not allow him to go out. It will take a few days for the old man to be completely healed before he can come back.

When it was almost noon, Gu Yin's porridge was almost sold out, so it was time to close the stall.

There is still a lot of porridge left at the Feng family's side, and this is not enough. The man of the Feng family's daughter-in-law, the one named Feng Cheng, came over with two porridge buckets to make up for it. Goods.

The suffocated Wang Shi had already rubbed his back molars and wanted to hit someone. Gu Yin persuaded her, and asked her to go to the court. Thinking of Tie Mian's selfless arrest, Wang Shi suppressed his anger and asked Gu Yin to look at the guy first, and she immediately went to invite someone over.

Guan Capitou naturally knew that Gu Yin's porridge was authentic. After hearing Wang's explanation, he immediately brought people to see it.

Feng Cheng and his wife hid aside when they saw Guan Sutou like a mouse seeing a cat.

Although the Feng family's daughter-in-law was also afraid, she still managed to argue: "Guanhuotou Mingjian, our family sells steamed buns porridge and soup in the town every day, all of which can be asked. Yes. As for the 'Mr. Wen's porridge', it's just a name. No one said that it can only be sold by her family!"

Guan Jutou didn't talk to her about that, only said: "'Mr. Wen's porridge' is indeed a name, but we all know in our town that it refers to preserved egg and lean meat porridge. If you If you can make the exact same thing, you can use the title. If you can't make it, you shouldn't shout like that."

"My mother's home, Quanshan Town, also has a well-respected old man, he likes my salted egg lean meat porridge very much, my porridge is called 'Quanshan Town Wen's old man's porridge', right? "

Guan Capitou has already seen the difficulties of the family, but the laws of the dynasty did not clearly stipulate these, so he could only nod, "That's okay."

The Feng family's daughter-in-law gave Wang a proud look, and then asked the old woman to shout according to the new name.

Afterwards, Guan Yutou went to patrol, and the last bit of porridge on Gu Yin's stall was sold out.

, but it is still easy for out-of-towners to be deceived.

Wang shi naturally would not sit idly by, she asked Gu Yin to go back to rest first, and she stayed on the pier to explain to others that this was a fake.

Gu Yin picked up the guy and went home, first went to the next door to take a look, Li Zhaotou and Gu Ye were not at home, she went to the other side next door, and asked Xu to borrow the book of the dynasty .

The Xu family has some books, and the Xu family lent it to her without hesitation.

I simply flipped through the law book, and sure enough, there is no registered trademark in this era, and naturally it is impossible to sue someone for infringement and counterfeiting. Gu Yin also began to analyze today's events.

The daughter-in-law of the Feng family is obviously here for her own family, with inferior methods and can't imitate the porridge she makes, but she specially set up a stall with her own family, and took advantage of the laws of this era , took on a name similar to his own, and hired people to line up, creating the illusion of a prosperous business and deceiving guests from other places.

Feng's family lives in Zhenyi Lane, and their life is not as good as their own, otherwise, if they didn't learn the craft from him before, they would have all kinds of pantothenic acid. If such a family has such ideas and means, it is long overdue to make a fortune and get rid of poverty. And there are three people in his family, and the only one who knows how to cook is the Feng family's daughter-in-law. Later, his man brought freshly boiled porridge over. Naturally, she didn't make it herself, but someone else gave it!

So there must be a master behind her family, and the Feng family is just a puppet pushed out by the people behind her to be a club master. You can't sue for infringement and counterfeiting, but if you can find out who is behind it, you can sue someone for maliciously disrupting the market.

Not long after, Mrs. Wang came back from outside, with a smile on her face, she said: "People from other places also know that our family only has a half-day stall, so after noon there are no foreign guests coming. Besides, I said next to them that, except for the few of their own family members who were queuing in turn next door, they didn't make a single sale all afternoon!"

Seeing Gu Yin frowning and pondering, Mrs Wang said, "Don't worry, although I was busy with you in the morning, I actually kept my mind, and they sold five in the morning. A bowl of porridge, three or four steamed buns. If you don’t know how much money you lose in a day, it will definitely not grow!”

Even Wang noticed it, and Gu Yin naturally knew this.

Gu Yin got up and poured a bowl of water for Wang Shi, "Mother, have you ever thought about it, maybe they don't think about making money."

Wang almost choked on the water, "It's not for making money, what's wrong with his family?"

"What if they are just to ruin our reputation? Today is only their family, right next to us, we can spare our efforts and explain to the guests while doing business. They spend another stall, or even two or three, a dozen stalls, and hire dozens or hundreds of people to line up... There are only two of us, even if we count the two children of Wu An and Gu Ye, there are four people in our family. Can you explain it clearly? If things go on like this, I am afraid that our reputation will also be affected by them. Do you think the few people who are in the wrong line today, if they go back and ask people, they will be embarrassed to say that they have been deceived. Wouldn't you just say that our porridge is not good?"

Wang sternly said: "No, our business is not so good, what is it?"

"But you're right, business is all about word of mouth. Don't let them fool around and risk our name..." Wang shi stood up as he spoke, circling the room anxiously, "Do you think we want to hire some people to help us debunk rumors? I don't know how much it will cost to hire people a day. We'll open a shop next month, and something went wrong at this time!"

Gu Yin thought about it for a while, and said, "Don't worry, mother, it's not as good as I said right now. We don't need to ask someone to refute the rumors, I have a way. Let's make a sign, I wanted to There is no need to make a sign on the stall, but now it is impossible to do so.”

The Wang family naturally listened to her, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the shop outside to make a signboard, and they made a plaque with the same content, but a little smaller. That kind of card. The big signs are naturally hung on the stalls, and the small cards are placed in the back of the queue to prevent the wrong queues from happening again today because the queues are too long.

Because this is to be used the next day, Gu Yin paid a lot of money and let someone make it on the spot.

When they got the signboard and went home, it was almost dusk.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had just returned to the entrance of the alley, and met Wu An who was returning home from school, and Li Chutou and Gu Ye also came back.

Gu Ye jumped in front of him, while Li Xuetou followed behind panting and staggering.

As soon as Gu Ye saw Gu Yin, he went up to him and helped her hold the things in her hand.

Gu Yin took a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and said in a low voice, "Where did you go?"

Wang said with a smile: "Li Zhaotou took it, so naturally he went to learn martial arts, right?"

Li Zhaotou gasped and laughed awkwardly. After all, he was a young man. He breathed and said, "I'm running with Ono."

Wang shi couldn't laugh after hearing this. She also knew that Gu Yeduo could run, and said in surprise, "Why did you run with him? How long have you been running?"

Speaking of this, Li Zhaotou's face froze, "Morning... I have run to this morning."

"Ouch!" Wang Shi immediately went home to put things away, and then came out to support Li Zhaotou, "We Xiaoye are used to being wild outside every day, but the wild ones can't stay at home, I just went to beg your master to let him practice martial arts. You are the same kid, why are you so honest with him for a day? Have you eaten at noon?"

Li Zhutou blushed and shook his head, while he was talking, he let Mrs Wang bring him into the house.

He wanted to refuse, but he had no choice but to feel nothing before, and now he stopped, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and his stomach was growling.

Gu Yin also put things away, called Gu Ye to her, and reluctantly whispered: "They are taking you to practice martial arts, not letting you walk around! How can you walk around? people all day?"

Gu Ye stopped laughing and explained seriously: "He said take me to run, and I will run."

Li Chuotou drank a bowl of hot tea poured by Wang's family, and explained embarrassedly: "I don't blame him, it's true that I said at the beginning to run with him until he can't run anymore. ."

But I didn't expect this little guy to be able to walk outside all day without getting tired.

What makes him even more unacceptable is that he has been practicing with his master for more than ten years. Although he can't be as light as his master, flying over the eaves and walls, his feet are still much faster than ordinary people. Yes, I thought that Gu Ye didn't have a kung fu foundation and had short legs. One step he stepped out was equal to Gu Ye's three or five steps, so he could naturally accompany him easily.

But Gu Ye understands the terrain of Hanshan Town better than him. With his small and nimble body, he knows how to walk in narrow alleys that ordinary people can't enter, even dog holes. How to drill, and he can only go the same way to chase.

He lost people several times, but every time he didn't know how to walk, Gu Ye would suddenly appear from the corner and wave at him, motioning him to follow .

Li Zhaotou was embarrassed to say this, and only said: "If you don't advance in martial arts, you will retreat. I'm really fine, just practice."

Wang shi and Gu Yin are really sorry, they kept him to eat the evening meal, Wang shi opened the door for him again, and sent the staggering Li Zhaotou back.

"What a little ancestor," Gu Yin reluctantly looked at Gu Ye who was happy, "Let people say something good about you."

Gu Ye smiled ingratiatingly, and helped Wu An to clean up the tableware.

Several of them went to wash and sleep, Wu An had a day's class, and fell asleep with the pillow.

Gu Ye was rolling on the kang excitedly, and it was because he slept on a large kang now, and he had to sleep on the old bamboo bed, so he really couldn't stand his movement.

"Going to sleep." Gu Yin slapped his little butt, "I'll tell you again, mother, you are not allowed to compete with people tomorrow, and you are not allowed to bring people with you. It's all over the town. You know what?"

Gu Yin had never heard that it was uncomfortable not to run, so she asked him why it was uncomfortable?

He couldn't tell, so he said, "I just like it, I used to run every day. And I can run very well!"

He is really good at running, except for Guan Zatou, who is very skilled in martial arts.

Before he was adopted by Gu Yin, he was always haunted.

"Don't say 'please'!" Gu Ye lay beside her ear, "Mother hurry up!"

…

As soon as it was dawn, the daughter-in-law of the Feng family got up. Instead of getting up and doing chores, she dressed up and went elsewhere.

As soon as she got out of the alley, she was blown by the cold wind in the spring morning.

There was no one behind her, she muttered and scolded the wild cat that was flooded in spring, and walked away quickly.

Walking all the way to the back alley of Wangyuelou, Chef Zhao was already waiting for her.

Seeing her coming, Chef Zhao complained: "Didn't I tell you to come earlier? Today our shopkeeper Zhou will be back, unlike yesterday, I can give you things at any time! "

The daughter-in-law of the Feng family did not dare to reply when she was scolded, and smiled flatterly: "Isn't this an errand explained by your boss! What does it mean to be a weekly shopkeeper? Aren't you the only one who has the final say?"

Chef Zhao was flattered by him, and finally stopped cursing, but said: "It is indeed the owner who explained it, but now we can't let the surnamed Zhou know. Alas, in short, don't worry about it. , do this errand well, and your family will use the kitchen waste from our restaurant in the future, and you won't have to pay any more money, and it will be given to you for nothing in the future. Let's benefit each other!"

Feng family's daughter-in-law was in a hurry and carried two heavy porridge buckets.

Cook Zhao saw how hard she was and didn't help, but asked, "Where's your man? Why didn't he come to help you?"

Feng Cheng is tired and lazy. Yesterday, he helped her to carry porridge from Wangyuelou once, and he cried out that his arm was hurting and he wanted to rest at home.

But the family couldn't count on her in the past, and the daughter-in-law of the Feng family was used to it.

"Then I'll go first, and I must finish the errand you gave me."

The two are separated.

When it was dawn, the daughter-in-law of the Feng family went to set up a stall, and Gu Yin and Mrs Wang came first.

The only people they hired were in front of the Feng family's stall.

Gu Yin's house put up a sign at the back, and then put up a sign along the line of people, and now fewer people are misled.

As the morning passed, the food of the Feng family was given to the people who were hired to line up.

Gu Yin and Mrs Wang closed the stall at noon, the fewer the guests in the afternoon, and the statistics in the evening, only three out-of-town guests were deceived in one day.

The old lady of the Feng family couldn't bear it anymore, and she scolded before closing the stall: "What are you talking about, we sell well elsewhere, so we have to go to the pier to go to the muddy water. You said that if you got the same thing as others, it's fine, but you will only make up a similar name, and you can't make something like that! How much money do you think you will lose this day?"

The food at their own stalls, even the rent of the pier, and the money for hiring people to line up are all paid by others.

But the daughter-in-law of the Feng family knew that her man and her mother-in-law were unreliable, so she didn't give them the bottom line before, she just said that she was also hired.

She lowered her voice and said, "What do you care about business? We will receive a day's money on this day, and we don't care about profit and loss."

This Mrs. Feng knew it before, but she knew it, and when she saw that the stall next door was making a lot of money, could she not be moved?

"I don't care, that money is what we should receive, and we must earn another share in business, you can find a way!"

After speaking, Mrs. Feng took Feng Cheng and left, leaving the stall to the daughter-in-law of the Feng family to clean up.

Feng's daughter-in-law thought and thought, but she could only secretly send a message to Chef Zhao. She didn't say that her mother-in-law wanted to earn another share of money, but only said that Gu Yin made that This kind of card, you can't deceive anyone by yourself.

The next day, the Feng family also used the signboard and insert, which said "Authentic Quanshan Town Wen old man porridge".

On the third day, a new stall opened next door to the Feng family, selling steamed buns and salted egg lean meat porridge.

On the fourth day, there were two more restaurants on the wharf called "Grandpa Wen Porridge of Qingshui Village, Hanshan Town" and "Grandpa Wen Porridge of Taohua Village, Hanshan Town".

As soon as you arrive at the pier, you will see all kinds of big signs, small cards, and every house is full of people.

Guests from other places don't know what to do, and they ask people to find them. Of course, normal people say that the one in Hanshan Town is authentic. But there are also a lot of people who ask about those nurses, all kinds of delusions are messed up, some stupid people really believe it, some smart people don't believe it, they just feel that there is a lot of confusion here, so don't go into this muddy water.

Gu Yin's business was not actually affected, but as she had guessed before, the bad was in word of mouth. She and Mrs Wang inquired about the merchants who were running the boat, and they said that there are several shops in Hanshan Town that are known to sell "Grandpa Wen's Porridge". It is easy to be confused by outsiders who don't know the bottom line, and it is extremely unpalatable to buy. Yes, I was fooled, so although the reputation of this porridge is getting better and better, it doesn't have a steady stream of new customers like it used to.

After closing the stall that day, Mrs Wang said with a bitter face: "You think right, this family really has a problem, obviously they can't make a lot of money, but they keep learning from us, just to waste Our reputation and word of mouth! Son, if you thought of this long ago, did you think of a way to deal with it?"

Gu Yin patted Wang Shi's hand and said with relief: "The way didn't exist long ago, but it does exist now. Mother, go to bed early today, and I'll show you the fun tomorrow morning."

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In the early morning of the next day, Li Xuetou was soundly asleep, when he was half asleep, he suddenly noticed another very shallow breathing sound in the room.

Out of the instinct of a martial artist, Li Zhaotou immediately sat up.

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Gu Ye smiled and waved at him.

Li Zhaotou had no choice but to get up and get dressed and follow him out.

Two people, one big and one small, went out of Jinyi Lane. Gu Ye took him to the back alley of Wangyue Building, hid in a small shack, and put a cover on their heads. A rotten grass mat.

"What is this for?" Li Zhuotou asked in a low voice.

Gu Ye didn't answer, he just put his short fingers to his lips to silence him.

Not long after, the daughter-in-law of the Feng family and several other stall owners from the cottage stalls came over one after another.

Not long after everyone gathered, Chef Zhao opened the back door and distributed the newly boiled porridge to everyone.

"Everyone alert me! It's been a few days, how many bowls of porridge have you sold? Do you still want to get paid?"

& nbsp; What a lot of trouble! I did as you ordered!"

"Ha!" Gu Ye lifted the rotten straw mat over his head and jumped out of the shack.

Several people were startled by his "ha", and they were relieved when they saw that it was a child not taller than an adult's waist.

"Where are the children making trouble?" Chef Zhao scolded and chased people away.

When he saw Li Zhaotou who followed Gu Ye out of the shack, his expression changed immediately.

Li Zhaotou came out in a hurry, without shackles, but with a saber.

He pressed the scabbard and said: "The law does not stipulate that the name of a certain food can only be used by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Wu family, but you are so organized and planned, you are deliberately maliciously disrupting the market, It can be incriminated. Do you explain it now, or go back to the yamen with me and go to the jail?"

The daughter-in-law of the Feng family and several other vendors were ordinary people. When they heard this, they immediately turned pale and began to beg for mercy.

I'll give you the fine right now!"

It was at this time that Gu Yin and Mrs Wang came out.

They arrived earlier than Gu Ye and Li Zhaotou, but they were afraid that Chef Zhao and others would find out, so they just avoided it.

Gu Yin said with a smile: "Who said you were only suing you for disrupting the market? I sued you for selling kitchen waste to guests!"

Chef Zhao's face turned pale again, "You have no evidence..."

Gu Yin said without hesitation: "Your food is made so salty, and salt is not free of money, just someone told me a 'trick' for food business, saying it was not fresh If there are too many seasonings in the kitchen, the guests will not be able to eat it." Her eyes first fell on the pale-faced daughter-in-law of the Feng family, and then on the porridge buckets next to her, "Why don't you invite someone to test it? Find someone to check it again, and see how many disputes the Feng Cheng family has had over the years in business, there should be records in the yamen, right?"

The law states: Whoever smells bad food is poison. The breast meat is poisonous, and if there is any excess, it will be quickly burned, and those who violate the law will be punished with ninety sticks. . ①

The torture rods in the yamen are as thick as an adult's forearm, and with thirty rods down, they can tear people's skin to pieces and kill them half-life!