Siheyuan: Taking over the steel mill

Sha Zhu sighed, and the white hair on his forehead shone slightly. But standing here in a daze would not solve the problem.

After hesitating for a while, he walked into the yard carrying two bags of buns and quickly returned to his usual appearance.

"Third aunt."

Sha Zhu saw the three aunts cutting vegetables and went over to say hello. "Look, these are the buns I just bought."

"Who would believe that? It's not like I haven't worked there before." The third aunt looked up at him, then lowered her head and continued cutting vegetables.

The son made such a fuss that his mother was driven back home, and she also lost her salary.

Seeing Sha Zhu bringing back the steamed buns from the restaurant, Third Aunt felt mixed emotions. "Third Aunt, I'm just like you, fired by my son and daughter-in-law."

Sha Zhu said this half to complain and half to spread the news.

After hearing this, the third aunt looked at him for a long time and shook her head.

"I don't believe it."

"Look, they bribed my apprentice. If you don't believe me, go and ask."

After saying this, Sha Zhu snorted twice and walked towards the yard with the buns in his hand.

The third aunt looked at his leaving figure, thought for a moment, and quickly put down the kitchen knife and ran into the house. "Old man! Old man! My son fired Sha Zhu!"

Sha Zhu entered the middle courtyard and found the second uncle and the first uncle sitting at the table, eating peanuts and drinking tea. "Everyone is here."

The second uncle said.

"Silly Zhu, you came back so early today."

"My wife hasn't cooked yet."

As he said that, the second uncle grabbed a handful of peanuts and threw them into his mouth.

"We're not going to eat what's cooked at home today. We have something ready-made. Let's eat buns tonight." Sha Zhu found a seat and sat down.

"Is Sichuan restaurant business not very good?" asked an old man.

Qin Huairu heard the sound and walked out of the room. "Why are you back?"

Qin Huairu walked to Sha Zhu with a thermos in her hand and poured water for him.

"Just like the third aunt, she was fired by Yan Jiecheng, you see."

Qin Huairu poured him some water while looking at him with eyes full of disbelief. But Sha Zhu still pretended to be fine.

At this time, Qin Huairu could not hear what others were saying, and she felt confused. Even the scene of how to bring these buns back to the house gradually became blurred.

Now she has lost her job at the steel rolling mill and was fired from Chunfeng Hotel. What will she do if Sha Zhu can't support her in the future?

Qin Huairu stood in front of the table with a bun in her hand, at a loss as to what to do.

It was not until the child inside cried out for food that Qin Huairu reacted and brought the buns in.

The meal was tasteless. Qin Huairu didn't know what she had eaten. She just sat at the table feeling disappointed.

Bang Geng heard the noise outside the door and knew that Sha Zhu had lost his job at the hotel. People who had already looked down on him now looked down on him even more.

Bang Geng was mumbling while chewing on a bun.

"He said he would take me to the store, but now he's being kicked out."

Qin Huairu glared at Bang Geng and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

But Qin Huairu was still worried. If Sha Zhu really had no money, how would their family survive? Sha Zhu didn't take Bang Geng's words to heart at all. While chewing the buns, he said,

"I have my own skills, I can also open a restaurant," "With my skills, I can always make a living."

In fact, Sha Zhu had had this idea a long time ago, but originally he wanted to stay in that restaurant and learn from Yan Jiecheng's approach.

Now that he was fired, he decided to open his own restaurant.

Rather than having to swallow his anger and look at Su Chen's face at the steel plant, or facing the sarcastic words of Yan Jiecheng and his wife at the Chunfeng Hotel, it would be more comfortable to run a small restaurant by himself.

However, he had no money because he gave all his salary to Qin Huairu.

"Wife, I am planning to open a restaurant now. You have to give me some start-up capital so that I can rent a storefront."

Sha Zhu believed that the money he had given Qin Huairu over the years was enough to cover all the expenses of opening a new restaurant, but his consideration of this point was doomed to be in vain without communicating with Qin Huairu in advance. When Sha Zhu made such a suggestion, Qin Huairu hesitated and could not take out the money.

"You suddenly asked me for a large sum of money to open a store. How could I have so much savings?" Qin Huairu stood up suddenly and turned her anger towards Sha Zhu.

"You always change every day like this. You also changed like this when you were working in the factory a few days ago."

Over the years, Sha Zhu has saved every salary he earned, but the family expenses are huge, especially to provide better care for his son Banggeng.

Any additional expenses for the children's nutrition came from his salary.

Banggeng had no idea that the money his mother had used to supplement his nutrition in recent years actually came from exploiting Shazhu.

In addition to spending the money to provide special treatment for Banggeng, Qin Huairu also had some of the money saved in fixed deposits for fifteen or even twenty years, and had never considered withdrawing it early.

She had always been worried about the lack of financial support in her life, so once she received Sha Zhu's salary, she began to calculate and arrange various uses of the money.

I originally thought that since his job in the factory was quite stable, he wouldn't be in urgent need of the money for a while.

She hopes that once those long-term savings reach the withdrawal period, she can take them out together and use them to prepare for Banggeng's wedding.

However, she never expected that Sha Zhu would become unemployed one day, and Qin Huairu had no way of getting a considerable amount of money at that time.

Seeing this scene, Sha Zhu, who was originally very aggressive, couldn't help but lose his momentum.

After listening to Qin Huairu's words, although Sha Zhu was full of questions in his heart, he could not refute it.

"Please trust me this time. As long as you pay me that part of the money, I will rent the store. I can guarantee that our business will definitely be ten or even a hundred times better than Yan Jiecheng's."

This wasn't the first time he had the idea of ​​opening his own restaurant.

During this time, Yan Jiecheng's Chunfeng Restaurant became a place for Sha Zhu to hone his skills, and he secretly learned a lot about restaurant operations. Sha Zhu confidently believed that it was his cooking skills that made Chunfeng Restaurant so popular. Without him, with the abilities of Yan Jiecheng and his wife, the restaurant would definitely not be able to survive.

Therefore, he also firmly believed that as long as he had the funds to open a small shop of his own, he would be able to prosper and soon surpass his performance in Chunfeng Hotel in terms of income. However, this wishful thinking faced an insurmountable obstacle - Qin Huairu was now determined not to provide start-up capital.

"Don't even think about stepping over this threshold tonight!"

"You don't even have a stable job right now, and you want to start a new business? Forget it!"

"Just stay out here tonight."

After saying this, Qin Huairu angrily returned to the house and locked the door. She was half angry and half worried about exposing the secret of the family's expenses over the years.

Qin Huairu knew that she was unwilling to face any in-depth discussion about the use of her income. If Sha Zhu knew that the hard-earned salary was used to support others, he would not be willing to share any money he earned with her in the future.

Sha Zhu, who knew nothing about this, could only beg outside the door, "Honey, please be kind, this is so embarrassing."

“I really know what went wrong.”

"I'll take care of the money myself, so don't worry about it, okay?" Even so, no matter how much people begged, Qin Huairu still turned a deaf ear, it seemed that she was determined not to give in. Fortunately, the place where the deaf old lady was originally in the house could accommodate Sha Zhu overnight, so Qin Huairu was a little relieved. Seeing this, Sha Zhu had no choice but to walk to the hut in the backyard with his head down. He never expected that just because he took some food home, he would lose his position in the steel mill cafeteria, and was kicked out by Yan Jiecheng, a shrewd man.

Full of resentment and frustration, Sha Zhu finally walked into the room where the deaf old lady originally lived.

Listening to everything calm down outside, Qin Huairu finally put down the heavy stone in her heart. Although the current problem was solved, she knew it was only a temporary measure, and she still needed to find a way to make Sha Zhu no longer worry about the distribution of those wages. At this time, Jia Zhang and the children who were enjoying dinner at the same time also felt helpless and impatient about this matter, especially Jia Zhang, who sighed secretly in her heart.

"Shazhu is such a disappointing person. He even lost his job at the restaurant." If he could not earn money to support the family, Jia Zhang would definitely not agree to let him live with Qin Huairu. Now that he has lost his job, how can he support himself in his old age?

Thinking of this, the food in her hand also lost its taste. But as an old woman, there seemed to be nothing she could do except sigh and swallow a few mouthfuls of food. Xiaodang and Huaihua looked at each other in silence. No matter what they said, it would be useless. Huaihua wanted to persuade her brother to return home, but she looked at the locked doors and windows, and considering that her mother might still be furious, she had to continue eating silently.

For a moment, everyone had their own thoughts, and the meal tasted like chewing wax. At the same time, Su Chen was preparing to enter the exhibition site.

Although he had come to check out the venue in advance, there were still many details that needed to be adjusted before the official opening.

Su Chen brought water pipes and selected the location of the booth with the workers, and began to rearrange it.

I reviewed the things that were arranged the day before today and felt that they needed some improvement, so I simply took the workers with me to rearrange them.

Su Chen worked efficiently, and the workers were in high spirits after yesterday's rest, so it didn't take long for the booth to be arranged in an orderly manner.

Su Chen observed the booths set up by other manufacturers and soon noticed the difference: their booths were simple and elegant, and were not decorated with exaggerated banners or posters.