After his father died of illness, Shen Mingtang took over a banquet shop that owed money and had no customers.
The first old contract was the Xu family's twenty-four-table wedding banquet.
An hour before the banquet started, the sedan chair had already entered the alley, but the stove in the kitchen collapsed.
There was only one stove left, twenty-four fish were waiting to be basketed, and the front yard was filled with guests. Shen Mingtang borrowed the big pot from the sauce shop, rented the fishmonger's stove, and rearranged the people who were in charge of the stove, watching the fire, and running errands. The first hot dish was served on time, but the host came to ask again: Do you want to take over the three extra tables temporarily?
She replied: "Negotiate the price first, then open fire."
After the party was over, I got eighteen taels of money. After paying the cook's wages, fish money, charcoal money and the old debt left by his father, there was only one tael left in the account.
Shen Mingtang took the money and started with a small banquet of five tables.
Chen Jiuniang, who runs the stove, wants to get her back wages, Xiaoman wants to learn how to be a swordsman from running errands, Luo Erniang wants to earn her own stall at the dock, and Xu Yunying wants to do more than just dowry work. No one helped the other in vain: the fish was bought at the market price, the stove had to be borrowed, and the wages could not be less for a day. But if you have been doing business on a long street for a long time, if you are short of people, out of stock, or encounter difficulties, there will always be someone willing to help.
As for Mr. Lu who writes deeds for others at the east end of Long Street——
Shopkeeper Shen and him really just settled the accounts by page at first.
Reading tips: It is an imaginary story about ancient times, no time travel and no system; it mainly manages group portraits of women, and the emotional line is slow to develop and the proportion is low.
Purpose: Women rely on craftsmanship to make a living by helping each other.