Return To 1998

Outside the cafe gate.

How did you hire a woman?

Tongdao Xu and Zheng Qing stood outside the gate smoking a cigarette. Tongdao Xu glanced at Hou Ying sitting behind the cashier in the Internet cafe and asked Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing smiled, What's wrong with women? Women are more patient than men. It's not pleasant to watch this Internet cafe every day. I know how it feels, so I chose her specially.

Women are more patient, Xu Tongdao agrees.

but……

But women have a lot of things to do. Is she married? Don't you have to go home to do laundry, cook, and take care of the children every day?

She's divorced, and now she has nowhere to go. She can live in an Internet cafe every day!

This is Zheng Qing's answer.

Xu Tongdao was a little surprised, nodded and said nothing.

After all, Zheng Qing had already recruited this woman. Instead of replacing her inexplicably, let her stay here for a while.

What is there to say?

- Don't watch ads, watch the curative effect!

Observe the woman's work attitude and ability for a period of time. If it works, stay, if not, it will be too late to change.

Okay! How's the training going? When can you get out?

It's almost there, just collect money, and she doesn't need to be responsible for the technical aspects, that's it!

Zheng Qing answered fluently without hesitation.

Xu Tongdao hummed, looked at a new red motorcycle parked not far away, raised his chin, This motorcycle is not bad!

He used to own a motorcycle, but since watching a TV series, the first batch of motorcycle owners in the country were mentioned in the TV series, and basically all of them died, and he stopped riding motorcycles later.

Zheng Qing grinned, Not bad? I bought it! Can you ride? Would you like to try it?

While speaking, Zheng Qing took off a bunch of keys from his waist. One of the keys was new, and it should be the key to this motorcycle.

Xu Tongdao was stunned.

You bought it?

Zheng Qing nodded, Well, didn't you let me manage two Internet cafes, the two Internet cafes are not together, and I don't have a car. How inconvenient for me to go back and forth? Right?

Xu Tongdao was speechless.

Then you usually drive slower. This thing is not safe. When you have more money, you'd better buy a car! Even if it's second-hand, it's safer than this thing, and it doesn't need to be exposed to wind and rain.

Let's talk about it later! How come I have to ride the motorcycle I just bought for a few years!

Saying that, Zheng Qing shook the key in his hand, Would you like to try it for two laps?

Tongdao Xu smiled and shook his head, No, I'm not interested, then, starting from tomorrow, the two Internet cafes will be handed over to you?

middle!

...

At this point, Tongdao Xu got out of the two Internet cafes, and finally he was freed without having to stay in the new Internet cafe every day.

On the night of his freedom, he went to find Bu Yinghui.

Accompany her to eat, go to the night market, and give her a bath thoughtfully.

When they met again, Bu Yinghui asked him how the new Internet cafe's business was going, and seemed very concerned.

Hearing that the business of the new Internet cafe was very good, she asked Tongdao Xu when he was going to open a third Internet cafe. Should she start raising money now?

She still remembers her stake in the third Internet cafe.

Xu Tongdao did not refuse, but just said to wait.

He has opened two Internet cafes in a row recently, and the rhythm is already fast. He feels that he should slow down the pace a little.

It's not that he is afraid of taking a big step and pulling the eggs, but that he currently has too little funds. Even if he raises more money through his cousins ​​and cousins, he feels that he should wait another month or two.

At least let them see the profitability of his two Internet cafes and give them sufficient confidence.

His cousins ​​and cousins, after all, were not from business backgrounds, and their adventurous spirit in investment was not that strong.

Especially after they have borrowed money and invested in shares.

Xu Tongdao estimated that they had no money on them.

If he wants them to use the money to support him to open a third Internet cafe, he has to let them find various ways to raise money.

For their courage and courage,

is a big test.

Therefore, he must give them enough confidence to let them see that the profits of his two Internet cafes are very high and very high.

So high that they can't resist the temptation to have a high probability of high returns, so that they can take greater risks and help him raise money.

It is out of this consideration that before the end of the year, Xu Tongdao remained on hold and did not rush to open a third Internet cafe.

Although he knew that if he could open a third Internet cafe a few years ago, he should be able to make a lot of money during the Spring Festival, but he still held back.

He wanted to count on his cousins ​​and cousins ​​to lend him money to open a third Internet cafe. Even if he gave them three cents of interest, he estimated that it would be difficult.

Therefore, he estimated that when he opened the third Internet cafe, the money that his cousins ​​and cousins ​​could lend to him might not be much.

If you are a little less daring, you may not dare to borrow it again.

That is to say, he wants to open a third Internet cafe, and the cost of the third Internet cafe will be his own, and he cannot expect to borrow much this time.

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month.

On this day, Ge Lianghua and Feng Qinghua were officially married.

Tongdao Xu went to the wedding, and also joined Ge Lianghua's family to pick up her relatives, and went to Feng Qinghua's hometown to pick her up in the sedan chair.

In Shazhou County in 1999, especially in the countryside, it was still popular to use a sedan chair to pick up relatives.

The person carrying the sedan chair is very hard. No matter how far the road is, the four men have to carry the bride to the groom's house. They can change people along the way, but the sedan chair cannot fall to the ground.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, substitutions are not allowed.

This is a big test for the physical strength of the four men carrying the sedan chair.

Especially the local customs - the bride sits in the sedan chair and has the custom of tossing and carrying the sedan chair.

How to toss?

A bride with a good character may be more obedient, sitting in the sedan chair and not moving around, in that case, the person carrying the sedan chair will be much easier.

But if you meet a bride who is out of character and loves to play tricks, there will be many tricks. She will sit on the left side for a while, sit on the right side for a while, and may still be in the sedan chair a few times for a while... It can really wear the shoulders of the person carrying the sedan chair. Skin.

Of course, according to custom, the bride can toss the man carrying the sedan chair.

The man carrying the sedan chair can also trick the bride, for example, deliberately turning the sedan chair upside down like a chef cooking vegetables, or deliberately immersing the bottom of the sedan chair in water to soak the bride's feet.

The most outrageous thing is something Xu Tongdao heard about when he was a child, because the bride tossed the man carrying the sedan chair too hard, and several men carrying the sedan chair took revenge. , a miscarriage on the spot.

In order to prevent this kind of tragedy, Ge Lianghua's father, Xu Tongdao's uncle, specially invited four loyal middle-aged people to help carry the sedan chair.

In addition, the good smoke and wine served in advance, and repeatedly urged and begged the four men not to tease the bride.

Before and after, Xu Tongdao did not help much, mainly to join in the fun.

I drank a few glasses of wedding wine.