Siheyuan: Fatty’s Counterattack

Yu Li angrily gave Fatty a look. How could she ask her daughter that?

On the contrary, Chen Mengqi chuckled and said honestly: "No."

Fatty and Yu Li looked at each other and finally felt relieved for the time being.

They can still hear the perfunctory and the truth.

Yu Li took the opportunity to instill "old-fashioned" ideas into her daughter: "Your task now is to study. When you graduate and are assigned to a unit, you can find someone with the same goals..."

Fatty was just about to refute her when he suddenly caught the keyword.

Yes, it’s not like it’s just a few decades from now. Graduation from college is guaranteed!

Especially in Chen Mengqi's school, every year the department directly takes the blame and doesn't let anyone go.

Speaking of which, there's really nothing to worry about.

For a moment, Fatty felt a little lost again.

After traveling through time, I always want to change my way of life. In this life, his wife is gentle and his children strive for success, but in the end, they are all too successful. No one needs a fat man to pave the way for them.

This made the family fortune and connections that Fatty had accumulated temporarily useless.

Not to mention anything else, in the TV series, the meeting between Shazhu and the Great Spirit Guide was a great joke, and he even drove the whole place!

As for the relationship between Fatty and the Great Spirit Guide, Lao Wang, Chen Baochang, etc., right...

Speaking of the great spiritual guide, he is 87 years old this year and his health is failing. He spends more time in bed than on the sofa.

His children were also transferred back to the capital to serve him.

The fat man would always visit him every now and then, accompany the great spiritual guide, talk to the aunt, and cook meals for them.

The Great Spirit Guide once said this: Whether a person is true or false depends on whether he is prepared to fulfill his words. Even if the earth falls apart, don't back down!

As for the fat man, it’s hard to say whether he is real or fake. But at least he can remember these old people who helped him.

No matter how big or small their previous positions were, and no matter what year they retired, they should always move around and pay tribute during every year and festival.

His filial piety will always be remembered...

Just look at Secretary Chen next to the Great Spirit Guide. He became the director in 84. How many years has he been here? Baked for a long time!

But even he is still a good brother to Fatty?

Whenever I have nothing to do, I like to come to Qili Pavilion to eat, and I always like to have Liu Jing accompany me...

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After the relocation of Qili Pavilion, this was the first time Li Huaide came back.

Different from the one in Bamiancao in the past, the new Qili Pavilion has four courtyards, in addition to the 4-story main building when you first enter.

Each of the four courtyards has its own name. Fatty asked Chen Mengqi to choose three and Chen Mengxiao to choose one.

As for why, I don’t need to explain it, just understand it.

Today Li Huaide came to eat, but he didn't enter the courtyard.

It is one of the private rooms in a circle built along these four courtyards.

Li Huaide is not worthy of these four courtyards given his current status.

It's not that the fat man is snobbish and has returned to his unruly self, but that the four courtyards are booked all year round. Among them is Fatty’s good brother...

These private rooms were either built on the water or in pavilions. Fatty also arranged the configuration of a farmhouse in later generations.

It is neither earthy nor foreign, just right for both refined and popular people to appreciate.

When Li Huaide arrived, Xu Damao had already arrived and was flirting with You Fengxia.

Li Huaide stood outside and frowned instead of going in immediately.

Logically speaking, he should be happy to see Xu Damao's "sexy" look, because the sexier Xu Damao is, the faster he will fall into the pit.

But look at what this guy looks like now. His little eyes are narrowed to a slit, his mustache is sticking up, but his eyes are as cold as a refrigerator...

This guy is really difficult to deal with! Li Huaide couldn't help but sigh.

Li Huaide looked outside for a while, then smiled again on his face and walked in slowly.

Before anyone arrived, he smiled and heard: "Hahaha, Brother Damao, I've been waiting for a long time."

As soon as Xu Damao heard Li Huaide's voice, he immediately pushed You Fengxia aside. If his hand strength had been stronger, he would have pushed her directly outside the railing without any hesitation.

Not to mention You Fengxia's confused look, even Li Huaide's smile couldn't help but froze when he saw this scene.

Xu Damao stood up and greeted him: "Old spiritual guide, please come quickly."

After the three people sat down again, Li Huaide looked around and said with emotion: "Fatty's business is really getting more and more prosperous."

When Xu Damao heard this, he felt proud and his mustache twitched: "No, as a brother, this is definitely what I do in business!"

Li Huaide's mouth twitched when he heard it, but he couldn't refute it.

A fat man doesn't build relationships or take shortcuts. He entered the industry in 81, and in just 7 years, he has achieved this level of business.

Ask yourself, even Li Huaide can't do this.

After just a few words of greeting, a young and beautiful waitress came in with a menu and asked what to drink.

Li Huaide took it and saw that there were more than ten kinds of tea.

There is a poem at the top: The night mortar and smoke pound, the cold furnace cooks the snow.

Let alone the conventional ones, Xu Damao mainly introduced milk tea to Li Huaide: "Like fresh jasmine, white peach oolong, and Hong Kong-style mandarin duck, these are all popular recently."

Hearing Xu Damao talk about "Hong Kong style", Li Huaide said quietly: "I remember that your ex-wife's family left the capital and went there, right?"

The smile on Xu Damao's face froze for a moment, but he soon returned to being normal: "Hey, why are you mentioning her? It's over as long as she's dead. Come on, Director Li, I suggest you try this white peach flower." Dragon, it has a unique flavor."

Li Huaide took a deep look at Xu Damao. Just now he was talking about an old spiritual guide, but now he is "Director Li"?

He was trying to remind him of those gold bars he gave to Li Huaide back then...

Thinking of today's purpose, Li Huaide stopped flirting with Xu Damao, but he didn't accept his suggestion. Instead, he asked the waiter and ordered a Hong Kong-style mandarin duck.

After a while, the tea was served, along with four small plates of dried fruits.

Li Huaide often went to teahouses, and now teahouses in various areas of the capital are also booming.

There is this cultural gene!

The big business has brought to the fore the poor and refined attitudes of the old and young in the late Qing Dynasty.

What kind of tureen, teapot, petal jar, purple sand; what kind of tea to drink, what kind of refreshments, dried fruits...

Poor people are very particular, and they always talk about the "old Beijing XX's particularities", just like that!

There is a description in Chapter 54 of "The Story of Awakening Marriage": "The grandmother asked Yu'er to bring two cups of tea, a small vermilion plate, a thin porcelain tea clock, a black silver teaspoon, and sheep's tail bamboo shoots with walnut kernels and tea fruits. Mr. Di and his son had tea, and Yu'er took the clock." (Zhong Fei made a typo, that's what the original text said)