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

these three years.

This is Li Xiuzhi's favorite phrase.

When will you open the restaurant?

Since the day when the couple had a late-night chat three years ago, opening a restaurant has become Li Xiuzhi's lingering obsession.

Every time, Sha Zhu used excuses like "it was not the right time" or "the timing had not arrived" to fool Li Xiuzhi. At first, Li Xiuzhi did not understand, but later she understood Sha Zhu's good intentions.

Not quite.

That's it.

Some time ago, many people who were hanging around on the streets of Beijing were arrested. The previously unregulated business environment has become much more formal. At least no one will make things difficult for you maliciously.

Sha Zhu was waiting for this opportunity. He found Li Xiuzhi and told her about opening a restaurant. Li Xiuzhi, who had been married to Sha Zhu for more than 20 years, screamed like a little girl, threw herself into Sha Zhu's arms and kissed him gently.

The eldest son is 21 years old and is currently studying at university.

My second daughter is nineteen years old and is currently in high school.

The third son is sixteen years old and is also in high school.

The fourth daughter is thirteen years old and attends the middle school affiliated to the steel rolling mill.

The fifth daughter was two years old, a typical baby. Sha Zhu did not go to work and wandered around all day. He and Li Xiuzhi accidentally caused a death. He was worried that the children would not be able to accept it, and he felt embarrassed that he was too old to give birth to a pearl. So he wanted to abort the child, but after the children knew about it, they refused to agree and insisted that Li Xiuzhi give birth to the child for them. They kept saying that no matter whether the child Li Xiuzhi gave birth to was a boy or a girl, they, as the older brother and sister, would raise him.

A few months later, Li Xiuzhi gave birth to a little girl weighing six kilograms. Her nickname was Liu Jin and her full name was He Nini.

The little girl became the darling of the whole family. Whenever they came home, the children would hug the little girl in their arms and give her a kiss. The one-year-old girl was so scared by the kisses from her older brothers and sisters that she uttered a few words of baby talk that Sha Zhu and Li Xiuzhi still remember vividly.

"Long time me, long time me."

No one calls Liujin by his nickname anymore, and instead he uses Jiujiu as his nickname.

Other children become more naughty as they grow older, and are disliked more by others.

Jiujiu was different. The older she got, the cuter she became. She gave people a more quiet feeling. Because several children all wanted to hold Jiujiu, they got angry and raged at Shazhu and Li Xiuzhi, complaining to them why they didn't have three more children so that the four older brothers and sisters could each take care of one child.

Sha Zhu was speechless.

Li Xiuzhi was speechless.

But Xu Damao also joined in the fun and insisted on recognizing Jiujiu as his goddaughter. Regardless of whether Shazhu and Li Xiuzhi agreed or not, Xu Damao and Liu Yufeng unilaterally announced that from now on, they would be Jiujiu's godfather and godmother. In their spare time, they wondered whether they should also have a cute little girl like Jiujiu.

Open a restaurant.

You need to find a suitable place to open a restaurant.

At least the customer flow needs to be good. Without customers, you can only expect to lose money.

Geographical location is the first consideration.

The couple hugged each other for a long time. Just after they came out of the house, the fourth girl who was doing homework at home became unhappy. She hung on Sha Zhu like a koala and looked at Li Xiuzhi pitifully.

Li Xiuzhi finally had no choice but to throw the two-year-old Jiujiu in her arms to the fourth girl.

The fourth girl got what she wanted, and happily carried the little girl back to the house to play.

She stared with her dark eyes for a long time, looking at her irresponsible parents with tears in her eyes, and finally accepted her fate. She knew that she was born to be played with by her four brothers and sisters.

The problem of taking care of children has been solved.

Sha Zhu and Li Xiuzhi can also look for a place to open their restaurant without any worries.

on the street.

Take a walk and have a look.

They hadn't found a suitable place, either because of the bad location or other reasons, and they always felt that it was not good enough. So the couple came to Nanluoguxiang unconsciously.

Sha Zhu looked at Li Xiuzhi, Li Xiuzhi looked at Sha Zhu, then turned and headed towards the alley next to them. They had lived in this place for seventeen or eighteen years, and they knew with a simple guess that this was not the place they were looking for, unless the entire street was completely overhauled and replanned.

Just as I turned around and hadn't taken a step forward, I heard a few shouts from behind.

"Zhu Zi, Xiu Zhi."

The two turned their heads.

It was pretty much what they had guessed.

It's Yan Fugui.

"Uncle, you didn't go to class today?"

"Boss, today is Sunday, what class do you have?"

"I'm confused."

"It's not Sunday, and I don't have to go to class."

"Uncle, are you retired?"

"Retired, retired."

"When did it happen?" Sha Zhu said jokingly, "Didn't you set up a few tables to celebrate?"

"I just retired for a few days, and I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable. Just now I saw two people looking at you, and I shouted, it's true."

Yan Fugui looked at Sha Zhu.

Even if he couldn't meet Sha Zhu today, Yan Fugui would find a way to go to Sha Zhu's house to find Sha Zhu.

The plot reappears.

Yu Li and her husband recently thought that opening a restaurant was a good idea and a way to make money, so they invested a large sum of money and also borrowed some from Yan Fugui.

Lao Kou is a well-known calculator.

Of course, this money is not borrowed for free, and a certain amount of interest will be charged.

The son asked his father to borrow money, and the father asked for interest clearly. This happened in the Yan family.

The money was invested, but the business was not good. Yan Fugui was worried that the money would be wasted, so he asked Yu Li and her husband to pay him back with full interest. Yu Li and her husband had no money, and during their chat, they suddenly mentioned Sha Zhu, saying that Sha Zhu had been idle all day for the past three years and made a living by taking private jobs at banquets for others. Their restaurant needed a chef with excellent cooking skills, but Sha Zhu needed a stable job.

Got an idea.

They felt that hiring Sha Zhu to work for them was a good choice. With Sha Zhu's cooking skills, the Yan family could just wait to count the money.

On the one hand, Sha Zhu did not live in the courtyard house nor worked in the steel rolling mill. On the other hand, the relationship between Yu Li and her husband and Sha Zhu and his wife was not very close, not as close as that between them and Yan Fugui.

At least Yan Fugui still has the title of the third uncle in charge, and he was nice to Sha Zhu and his wife.

This matter was handed over to Yan Fugui.

Because of this incident, Lao Kou privately asked Yan Jiecheng for one yuan as a mediation fee.

When I saw Sha Zhu, I had something in mind.

That is how to talk to Shazhu.

In fact, they just wanted to lower the price and have the best of both worlds. They wanted to invite Sha Zhu to their restaurant to work for Yu Li and her husband, but they didn't want to pay too high a price. They thought that if they succeeded, they would be the biggest contributor to the Yan family and could use this opportunity to ask Yu Li and her husband for some money.

Playing a little trick. (End of this chapter)