Siheyuan, my silly column, picked up the script of Qinman

Taking the opportunity to praise Yan Fugui, Yu Li went straight to the point. She directly changed the topic to inviting Sha Zhu to be a chef in the restaurant.

Whether it is said or not, give me a definite answer.

This saves the couple from making wild guesses.

When Yan Jiecheng saw Yu Li speak, he wisely closed his mouth and turned his head to the side.

Yu Li has always had the final say on all matters big or small at home.

In the script, when Sha Zhu asked for a high salary of 2,500 yuan a month, Yan Jiecheng backed off, but Yu Li agreed without hesitation. After the business got on track, it was Yu Li who came up with the idea of ​​replacing Sha Zhu with Fatty, and let Yan Jiecheng step forward to be the villain who fired Sha Zhu. It can be seen that what Yu Li said was more effective than what Yan Jiecheng said.

However, this scene was not what Yan Fugui wanted to see.

Seeing that his eldest son had become a henpecked husband, he wanted to slap him a few times. But after thinking for a while, he took into account that Yu Li was present at the scene, and because he had secretly taken one yuan from Yan Jiecheng as a mediation fee, he was worried that if there was a fuss, Yan Jiecheng would let it slip and Yu Li would find out. So he suppressed his anger and glared at his unfilial son fiercely.

How can you be afraid of your wife?

Complaints are complaints.

There is still something to be said.

He shifted his gaze from Yan Jiecheng to Yu Li.

"Daughter-in-law, your business is Dad's business. Dad even went to see Sha Zhu today."

"What did Silly Zhu say?"

Yan Jiecheng interrupted.

The restaurant really couldn't survive.

There were no customers, and even if there were, they were only a very small number. In order to save costs, Yan Jiecheng actually made a fuss about the quality of the dishes, making the dishes, which were not very delicious to begin with, even worse, and fewer customers came. The chef simply quit his job, saying that Yan Jiecheng had ruined his reputation.

Sha Zhu became the only life-saving medicine for the couple.

"Shazhu didn't say anything, but Shazhu's wife Li Xiuzhi did. She said that the couple were also planning to open a restaurant, and they had been looking for a suitable place to open a restaurant on the street these days."

Yan Jiecheng was shocked and stood up from the stool, staring at Yan Fugui.

a bolt from the blue.

It's simply bad news.

How can Sha Zhu take care of his own restaurant? He opened a restaurant, but what about Yu Li and her husband’s restaurant?
His eyes moved to Yu Li. He was used to letting Yu Li make the decisions when something happened.

Feeling the gazes of Yan's father and son, Yu Li didn't know what to say. You allow you to open a restaurant but you don't allow others to open a restaurant. What a bunch of bullshit.

She was not sure whether Sha Zhu and his wife really wanted to open a restaurant, or whether Yan Fugui had never said so and was lying to her. There was another possibility, which was that Yan Fugui said that the reason Sha Zhu and his wife gave the answer of opening a restaurant was to take the opportunity to ask for a high price.

He bit his lips with his teeth.

"It's better to talk to Sha Zhu. If that doesn't work, give him a high price."

"My eldest daughter-in-law, now is not the time to be brave enough to take risks when faced with a huge reward. Shazhu has been unemployed for three years. He is training you. Listen to dad and find someone else. Shazhu is a good cook, but no matter how good he is, it's not necessary for us to have him."

"Dad, what do you know? You don't know the situation. Stop talking. My wife knows what to do."

Yan Jiecheng still sided with his wife.

Said a few words.

The topic turned to salary.

"Wife, what we said at that time was that if Sha Zhu agreed to be the cook, we would pay him 300 yuan a month. Do you want to increase his salary further?"

"Ah."

"How much do you think is appropriate to add this time?"

"Add another five." Yu Li originally wanted to say add fifty yuan, but then she changed her mind and thought, what's the difference between adding fifty yuan and adding a hundred yuan? No, the latter can better reflect their sincerity. "No, no, no, add a hundred yuan, give him four hundred yuan a month."

The couple sang in unison.

Yan Fugui almost wet his pants after hearing this.

Good guy.

This is not treating money as money.

They hired Sha Zhu for three hundred yuan a month, and that was not enough. Just because Sha Zhu said he wanted to open his own restaurant, Yu Li and her husband increased his salary by another hundred yuan, making it four hundred yuan.

Yan Fugui’s current monthly pension is only fifty yuan.

Sha Zhu’s monthly salary is equivalent to Yan Fugui’s eight months’ pension.

so much.

Yu Li doesn't feel sorry.

Yan Fugui felt distressed.

"More? How can you pay Sha Zhu so much? How much do I make a month? How much does Sha Zhu make a month? I wish I could go to your restaurant and work for you in person. Don't give me 400 yuan, just give me 100 yuan."

"Dad, why are you messing around? Shazhu can cook and make the restaurant business better, what can you do?"

"I can write and do some math, what else can I do? I can be an accountant." Yan Fugui's words were just random and unintentional at first, but the more he spoke, the more he realized that he was qualified for the job of an accountant. "I can definitely calculate the accounts well and not let you suffer any loss."

“No matter how well you calculate your accounts, it’s hard to do business when it’s bad.”

"What's so difficult? Where is it difficult?" Yan Fugui was too embarrassed to say to Yu Li, and took Yan Jiecheng as a target to vent his anger, and even kept his old catchphrase, "You can eat and drink well, but if you don't plan well, you will be poor. There are so many children in our family. If it weren't for me, as a father, who is always calculating, how could you have grown up? Calculate, you must calculate."

"Dad, Jie Cheng and I have things to do, so we don't want to chat with you anymore. We're going home."

Yu Li couldn't sit still anymore.

The chef's issue has not been resolved yet.

Yan Fugui is causing trouble again.

annoyed.

"Yu Li, Boss, are you leaving now? Please think carefully about my job as an accountant."

For the accounting profession.

Personally sent the two children out of the house.

As I walked to the door, I saw Liu Haizhong walking in from outside.

Yan Fugui was extremely envious. Although Liu Haizhong had been in prison for three years, he was released safely. The two families who had had a quarrel with Liu Haizhong three years ago, after Liu Haizhong's imprisonment and a series of confessions, had barely let go of the matter. They moved out of the courtyard and moved into a new two-bedroom, one-living-room building in the steel rolling mill. Their house in the courtyard was returned to Sha Zhu.

Someone wanted to buy it, but Sha Zhu refused, saying that when He Daqing came back in the future, this would be his retirement home.

In the courtyard, except for Qin Huairu and Yi Zhonghai who were going downhill, other neighbors were rising step by step, the most obvious one was Liu Haizhong. Although Liu Haizhong was also expelled from the steel mill like Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong is now doing better than Yi Zhonghai, and has no shortage of money to spend, unlike Yi Zhonghai who wanted to split a penny in half. Although Liu Haizhong was not very good to his two sons and beat them at every turn, he was really serious about teaching his apprentices. He had many apprentices, and some of them became leaders of branch factories or department heads of large factories because of technical reasons.

Yi Zhonghai is the kind of person who would starve himself to death by teaching his disciples. Jia Dongxu didn't teach him wholeheartedly, and the remaining disciples have basically become enemies with Yi Zhonghai and have no contact with him anymore.

The good and bad outcomes were revealed in an instant.

Now that we have a market economy, large-scale construction is underway all over the country, and infrastructure materials such as steel bars and cement are in exceptionally good demand.

The price changes every day. Sometimes the factory price is fifty, but it rises to fifty-five on the way, and when it arrives at the local market, it is still in short supply at sixty.

For the sake of money, people try their best to do whatever they can. Those with connections try to find ones, while those without connections create ones.

Liu Haizhong suddenly became active. He had an apprentice who was the sales manager at a cement factory. With just one phone call, ten tons of cement were delivered. He also had another apprentice who was the director of a rebar factory. With just one phone call, a hundred tons of rebar came into Liu Haizhong's hands. He didn't even need to rent a special site. He could just take the approval slip to the cement factory or the rebar factory to deliver the goods.

Relying on these convenient conditions.

Liu Haizhong's wallet was fatter and he had more money now.

The most obvious change is in his clothing. The green rubber shoes on his feet were replaced by black leather shoes, and the earth-gray steel mill work clothes were replaced by neat suits, with a shirt and tie.

Dressed like a millionaire.

Liu Haizhong and Yan Fugui ran into each other headfirst.

Liu Haizhong straightened his waist out of habit, feeling that he was a head taller than Yan Fugui. He wore sunglasses so late at night, but he didn't know why he was pretending to be so stupid.

"Yu Li, Jie Cheng, are you two going back home?"

"Uncle Liu, are you going to the toilet?"

Yan Jiecheng was very envious.

The reason he agreed to let Yu Li open a restaurant was that he wanted to become rich.

"Why go to the toilet? Someone treated me to dinner today and I just came back. I was thinking of installing a phone at home so it would be more convenient to use."

Home phone.

Now it is a manifestation of the improvement of people's living standards. There is a saying that goes, "Every neighbor has a telephone." I heard that it costs more than 100 yuan to install one, and adding the phone and the number will cost nearly 200 yuan, which is equivalent to half a year's salary.

This means that Liu Haizhong really made money.

While the official fan was speaking, he also showed his newly bought pager.

"Second uncle, you are really the only one in our courtyard. You are using this new pager? How much did you pay for it?"

"It's not much, just a few hundred yuan." Liu Haizhong, whose vanity was satisfied to the utmost, glanced at Qin Huairu and Yi Zhonghai from the corner of his eye and snorted in his heart. He hated Yi Zhonghai the most. "Business is quite busy now, so I bought a pager so that it wouldn't delay things. I installed a telephone line at home so that I can reply to the pager conveniently."

Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu not far away.

Stopped.

Qin Huairu was easy to talk to, but Yi Zhonghai's face was not right. From the day he moved into this courtyard, he never took Liu Haizhong seriously. In his eyes, Liu Haizhong was not even worthy of carrying his shoes.

Not seeing each other for one day is like three autumns.

Who would have thought that Liu Haizhong, who had been out of prison for only half a year, would have achieved such a level in his career. He now has a telephone and a pager at home, and he even hired someone to cook for them. His two unfilial sons also revolve around him.

Look at Yi Zhonghai again, what a piece of shit.

I was too embarrassed to go straight over and stopped where I was.

Liu Haizhong, who had paid close attention to Yi Zhonghai's reaction, began to show off again.

"Yu Li, Jie Cheng, I heard from your dad that you opened a restaurant specializing in Sichuan cuisine. How is the business? Is it good?"

"is acceptable."

"What can I say?" Yu Li kicked Yan Jiecheng who was lying. "No need to lie to Second Uncle in person. Second Uncle has walked more roads than the two of us combined. We can't fool Second Uncle at all. Second Uncle, business is not good and we can't sustain it. I came back today just to ask my dad to talk to Sha Zhu and prepare to invite Sha Zhu to be a chef in our restaurant."

"Did Sha Zhu agree?" Liu Haizhong didn't even bother to answer, instead he made up a story, "You guys can open a Sichuan restaurant, Sha Zhu's cooking skills are passed down from generation to generation, so inviting him to cook for you is also a solution."

"Shazhu refused, saying he also wanted to open a restaurant. We were so worried that we didn't know what to say."

"Yeah, that's what happened. If I had known you were going to open a restaurant, you might as well have done it with me. At least I wouldn't have to lose money."

In order to prove his success, Liu Haizhong took out all his clothes, including watches, sunglasses, and pagers. After showing off enough, he made way for Yu Li and her husband to leave.

Yu Li and her husband were very unhappy.

The main reason was that Yan Jiecheng was unhappy. At that time, he wanted to ask Liu Haizhong to borrow some money for maintenance expenses, but Liu Haizhong left before he could open his mouth. If he had known this would happen, he would not have flattered Liu Haizhong.

In the courtyard.

After dinner, Sha Zhu went into the study alone.

It is called a study, but in fact it is a room dedicated to collecting. Against the wall, there are three rows of wooden cabinets, which are divided into countless small squares. They are filled with extremely valuable antiques that Sha Zhu had snatched back from garbage stations or scrap yards a few years ago.

There is porcelain.

There are bronze artifacts.

A small and light collectible.

In the open space in the middle, there are wooden furniture of various colors, including huanghuali, ebony, and mahogany. Around these wooden furniture, there are also some porcelain and bronze furniture that occupy a large area of ​​the ground. Inside these porcelain and bronze furniture are some things like scrolls of books and paintings. Under the table is a secret small wooden cabinet, which contains some jade items.

Whether it is valuable or not, and how much it is worth.

Sha Zhu didn't know, but he knew that these things would allow him to have a worry-free life decades later. Although they could not be auctioned, they could be used to pay off his debts.

Every day when he came back, he would stay here for a while, wipe the dust off the utensils with a rag, and touch each one.

The door of the house was pushed open.

The person who came was his two and a half year old daughter.

The little girl stared at Shazhu with her black eyes and said something in a baby voice.

"Forget it, mom asked me to come find you. Shushu and Shenshen are here to see you. Mom asked you to go quickly."

"Dad, it's not that."

"Forget it."

"Call daddy, daddy."

"Ah."

Sha Zhu kissed the little girl on the cheek and said, "Little girl, you actually took advantage of your old man." He held the little girl in his arms, came out of the collection room, closed the door casually, and walked towards the front yard.

It is said to be a siheyuan with a single door and a single household, but in fact it is a siheyuan with a small garden at the entrance. (End of this chapter)