A leisurely life that begins with the possession of a game character

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"Breaking up should be dignified, and no one should say sorry..." Zhang Hu's cell phone rang. It was his wife calling.

"What time is it? When will you be back?"

"Don't worry about me. You guys go to sleep first. I'm having dinner with someone at Zhang Lan's place."

"I don't care about you. There are a lot of people at home. You can't ask our dad to stay up late for you."

"I understand. You don't have to worry about it. Just go to sleep."

Zhang Hu hung up the phone, shook his head and explained: "My wife asked me to go back to the chess and card room."

"That's good. There are still people who care about what time you'll be home in the middle of the night." Tian Qingyong said leisurely, holding a can of beer.

"Yes, don't always think that your sister-in-law is not good. We have been together for more than ten years, there can't be so many inappropriate things." Zhang Lan also said with a smile.

Holding hands with your lover and growing old together is the most beautiful wish. But in real life, how many couples' marriages are not a mess?

Marriage is not a love affair. It is just a few months or years, and there is still freshness and beautiful expectations for the future. Once you enter the siege of marriage, you will face decades of daily life together. Even if you love someone, how can you feel fresh after a long time? Not feeling bored is already a good ending.

When I was young, I thought marriage must be wonderful. When I reached middle age, I gradually realized that marriage is just a part of life and there is not so much excitement.

When people first fall in love, they will write love letters and have secret crushes. In their 20s, they will be willing to give everything for a woman they love. But after the age of 30, any love words that can be said without blushing or heartbeating are mostly false.

In fact, when people reach middle age, the best married life is not the romantic and sweet plot that seems to be to outsiders, but that there is always someone who leaves a light on for you and waits for you to go home no matter how late it is, and who always cares about what time you will be home, even if it makes you feel annoyed sometimes.

If one day, when you return home it is pitch dark and no one urges you to go home no matter how late you play, that would be the most painful thing.

Marriage life is never as sweet as honey or full of chaos as it is in TV dramas. In fact, the marriage of most people is just the daily life of firewood, rice, oil and salt, without so many ups and downs, but more of trivialities.

Even in the best marriages, there can be no disputes, and it is impossible to reach a consensus on everything. The happiest marriage is when you gradually become the most suitable person for each other in the midst of disputes.

When people reach middle age, they have long lost their youthful vigor. The best marriage life at this time is that even if there are quarrels, they can still sleep in each other's arms, rather than fighting at the slightest disagreement or saying they want a divorce when they are not satisfied.

For two people to meet each other from the vast sea of ​​people and accompany each other through such a long life is itself a kind of fate and luck.

When people reach middle age, it is impossible to be as young and energetic as when they were young.

Perhaps, they got together because they were attracted by each other's beauty and vitality. But after years of baptism, no one can stay young and energetic forever.

When people reach middle age, the best life for a couple is to get used to each other being around. You don’t mind that I’ve become ugly, and I don’t mind that you don’t have much ability.

Instead, no matter what the other person becomes, you can stay with the other person happily, whether it is a big meal or simple tea and rice. Don't envy others' happiness, nor laugh at others' misfortunes, just live a real life that belongs to each other.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't talk about love anymore. It's not disgusting enough." Zhang Hu waved his hand and said.

"What's the point of being in love? It's just that Fang Xia used the money to open a spicy hot pot restaurant, but lost it. Now she has no other way to make money, so she started to eye the little money I have." Zhang Hu explained the reason.

Fang Xia bought the spicy hot pot restaurant from someone else. She went there all the time to eat and became familiar with the owner. Later, the owner didn't want to run the business anymore. Fang Xia saw that the restaurant had a lot of customers and thought it was a sure win, so she bought it.

Including the store, equipment and the remaining ingredients, the store is not small, 190 square meters, and the total cost is nearly yuan.

Later, there was no other reason why we couldn't continue, it was just that the cost was too high, and there was no such thing as taking bribes. The management department simply ignored us, and all the losses were caused by operating costs.

The Malatang store is a franchise, and the franchise fee is not much, just symbolic, one or two thousand yuan a year, and they don’t care even if they don’t pay it.

What they mainly sell are the soup ingredients for various spicy hot pots that they customize. They have raw materials every quarter and place an order once a quarter. Each order costs tens of thousands of yuan, and sometimes even hundreds of thousands.

Then sometimes it still isn’t good enough, they’ll send it to you on time and tell you not to make it yourself, and then the taste won’t be right, and the number of customers starts to decrease.

There is also rent, which is a big deal. No matter whether the business is good or bad, the rent must be paid every quarter. It is not that I can't make money, but after paying the rent and buying materials every quarter, I have little money left. I feel like I am working for others, or even worse than working for others. It feels really bad.

Then there are the employees. This industry is all about earning money through hard work, but it's tiring. If you hire part-time students, the good ones won't last long, and the bad ones are not wanted, and you don't dare to offend them, fearing that they will tamper with the materials.

Besides, it is difficult to recruit people in this industry. Many people leave after working for a few days. We can’t always replace people, so we have to endure the grievances. It is really tiring.

Then there is takeout. With the rise of various apps, formerly loyal diners have more and more choices. People may open your app for your spicy hot pot, but their attention may be easily attracted by something else.

So later on, fewer and fewer people ate in the restaurant, and more and more people ordered takeout. But the takeout delivery software was too harsh. At first, it deducted two yuan from each order, and later it deducted four yuan from each order. How much could you earn from a bowl of spicy hot pot?

Hiring someone yourself also has a disadvantage. Sometimes, there are only a few takeout orders a day, and you have to support this person, which costs about the same in a month.

The next step is all kinds of tiring. I have to work from 6am to 12pm every day, doing all kinds of cleaning, picking, washing, feeding, replenishing and mixing vegetables. And I work all year round. It's so tiring.

Here comes the most critical part. After working for half a year, I calculated the profit, deducted the rent and workers' wages, and then deducted various costs. After adding and subtracting, the profit was less than 20,000 yuan, which is not even as much as I earned at work.

It sounds good to say, she opened a large store of more than 100 square meters, hired several employees, and became the boss's wife. But in reality, she didn't make as much as Zhang Hu who stayed in the air-conditioned office in the parking lot.

In addition, Fang Xia later vaguely heard rumors that Zhang Hu was playing around with the construction project. This made Fang Xia, who was busy every day, feel more and more unbalanced. She simply quit and transferred the job.