Siheyuan: A Cook in the 60s

Li Yue returned home with a heavy heart.

"Are you back? Let's eat." Seeing his wife coming back, Wu Hao put down the last dish and happily invited his wife to eat.

Speaking of which, their family is quite strange.

Li Yue is responsible for making money outside.

Wu Hao is responsible for being beautiful.

Ahem, I was wrong. It’s not that Wu Hao is unemployed, it’s just that his job is easier, not so busy, and not so tiring.

Therefore, Wu Hao usually cooks the meals at home.

"Mom, why are you unhappy today?" The sensitive little daughter immediately noticed that Li Yue seemed to be in a bad mood.

"What's wrong?" Wu Hao reacted slowly.

"Hey." Li Yue sighed: "There is something I need you to give me some advice on."

Li Yue took off her coat and Wu Hao took it.

"Let's eat first. Come, have a chicken drumstick."

"Um……"

"Mom, have some soup."

"Okay, thanks, honey."

"Wife, why do you have two faces?"

Li Yue rolled her eyes: "How old are you? You're still arguing with a kid."

After all the fighting, Li Yue felt much better.

"I was not selected again this year." Li Yue was not surprised by the result, but she was somewhat discouraged: "It was expected, but today, Mr. Liu gave us a choice."

"What choice."

"Become a store manager."

"Manager?" Wu Haosheng paused and frowned, "Didn't you fail to be selected?"

"What are you thinking? Even if you are selected, you want to go out and work on your own without working for three to five years? The company will not agree. Mr. Liu wants to be the manager of a hamburger and fried chicken shop. It is not under the Samadhi House, but a brand in Hong Kong."

"Not under the Samadhi Tower? From Hong Kong? Then why would she let you go?" Wu Hao didn't understand.

"What's the big deal? It should belong to Director Lou. You know that Director Lou is in Hong Kong and thinks this brand has great potential. Besides, I heard that the farm seems to be able to raise white-feathered chickens on its own."

"The chickens that grow too fast?"

"Correct."

"I'm undecided whether to go or not. Mr. Liu said that we don't need a very good chef for this matter. With the right equipment, even an ordinary person can do a good job with a little training."

"Do you think this is reliable?"

"It's reliable. How can it be unreliable?" Wu Hao said without thinking.

"Be serious." Li Yue slapped him unhappily.

"Really? Think about it. Among us common people, who would go to Samadhi Tower for a meal? Not to mention your salary, who would go to Samadhi Tower for a meal without spending ten days or half a month's salary. Even the restaurants under your Samadhi Tower are following suit. The best-performing restaurant in the entire Samadhi Tower is not a restaurant, but the Samadhi Canteen. You don't deny this, do you?"

"You mean..."

"Yeah, that's the reason." Wu Hao nodded. "Those are for the rich and powerful to eat. We can't afford them. And, let me be frank, can you learn the way those team leaders talk to those rich and powerful people? You haven't been promoted for so many years, isn't it because you want to be down-to-earth? So, it's better for us to deal with our own people."

"has experience."

"One more thing, do you think Samadhi Tower will lose money? No. They have never done a business that lost money in all these years!"

Wu Hao has always been conflicted. He is a scholar and thinks that everyone should be equal. But the problem is that what Cao Wei did was not equal. The entry threshold of Samadhi Tower was too high. He thought it was not good to spend so much money for a meal. But then again, all those dishes were carefully prepared by the chefs. They were expensive, but they were all made of real ingredients.

If the product cannot be sold at a high price, it doesn’t mean that the efforts of the craftsmen are meaningless.

This is a contradiction.

So, he simply stopped thinking about it. He preferred the Samadhi Canteen, which tasted good and was also cheap and affordable.

Since his wife had an opportunity to do a people-friendly business, he felt that she should do it.

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If we were to ask which place in the city has the largest flow of people at this stage, it would definitely be the food street.

Since the establishment of the food street, it has not only been a food street. In the late 80s, department stores appeared and gradually began to radiate to the surrounding areas until a not-so-small-scale business district was formed. Now, the people of the old city like to gather here when they have nothing to do. There is everything you need to eat, drink and play here.

"It's not easy to develop to this point in just a few years," Lou Xiao'e sighed.

"Of course not." Cao Wei held her hand and listened to the songs coming from the audio store.

"The bitter sand blowing on my face

Like my father's scolding and my mother's crying, I will never forget them.

When I was young, I liked to be alone at the beach. ”

"Sailor" is one of the classic songs of later generations. It is a song that Cao Wei often hums. Listening to the sound, he couldn't help but hum a few lines along.

"You have a great talent for music. You can hum it after listening to it for the first time?"

"The song is well written and catchy." Cao Wei chuckled and said, "Let's go."

They came to a shop on the street and stopped.

At this moment, the store was crowded with people.

It’s so lively.

The decoration of the shop is very rare, with two large floor-to-ceiling windows standing in front of everyone, through which one can see the environment inside. When one enters the door, there are fancy-looking tables and chairs on both sides, and in the middle is the counter. In front of the counter, there are several waiters who are registering something.

Standard "KFC" style decoration.

There were a lot of people, some took their food away directly, while others chose to sit down and eat.

There were some people watching the fun at the door of the store.

These things are hard to see in later generations, but now, everyone is extremely curious.

"Hey, man, what are they selling inside? Why are there so many people?"

"Hey, you don't know this, right? Did you see the sign? Hanbei brother, a foreign brand, good stuff!"

"No, it's a foreign brand, but it has to sell something, right? What does it sell?"

"I don't know. I heard it's bread with meat?"

"Isn't that roujiamo?"

"Nonsense, how can Roujiamo be compared to bread with meat? Look at this sign, it's in English, Hanbei Ge'er, do you understand?"

Listening to people's discussions, Lou Xiao'e burst out laughing.

It's not that I'm mocking their lack of knowledge, but the conversation itself is very interesting. The semi-Western English is quite interesting.