The time for lunch was still a ways off, so the restaurant was empty and everyone took a moment to rest before they began to bustle about with their tasks.
Under Ms. Qian's arrangements, Zhou Dalang and the others went to fetch water and purchase food ingredients, as the unexpectedly large number of customers today meant the vegetables brought over yesterday, as well as the meat bought today, were insufficient.
The remaining people took to washing dishes and tidying up the tables and chairs, while Junior Ms. Qian led Zhou Xi, Ms. He, and others in handling the kitchen affairs.
They needed to make steamed buns and let the dough rise for making noodles…
Manbao and the other youngsters took out the money they had received that day, stringing it up piece by piece, a hundred coins per string, ten strings per bundle.
Their food wasn't expensive, and ordinary people mostly paid with copper coins, so they didn't receive any silver.
