"Chuan Fu Lao Chen" is under intense renovation, but the eye-catching large light box has been installed.

The store is not big, but the store is not small.

Because we rented a two-bedroom apartment facing the street and a three-bedroom apartment facing the street next to each other. Someone had used these two houses to open a restaurant before, and the four bedrooms facing south had already been connected. There is a long corridor from east to west.

To the north are four rooms, and a living room will hold four to six four-person tables.

The other living room will serve as the only private room in the hotel.

There is also a small bedroom not facing the sun, which is connected to the original kitchen and used as a back kitchen.

There is a row of carports behind this building, and Boss Chen rented four of them as a place for frying hot pot ingredients and as a storeroom for the restaurant.

Precisely because someone has opened a restaurant here before, Boss Chen does not need to carry out any large-scale construction work, nor does he need to worry about being criticized by the residents above him for smashing the wall. After all, smashing the wall is likely to affect the structure of the entire building.

What we need to do now is to make this hotel in an old building look more upscale, more western-style, and more distinctive!

There are already doors and windows on the south-facing side of the street. Now the doors need to be replaced with tempered glass, the windows should be opened wider, and the walls should be pasted with high-end and elegant aluminum-plastic panels. The floor and steps at the door should be

Install clean white non-slip tiles.

The decoration workers are asked to buy this now and then that, and there are a lot of kitchen utensils to be purchased.

Boss Chen is not only extremely busy, but also spends money like water.

He came back after purchasing the materials needed for decoration, got out of the van he had just bought, opened the back door, and was about to call the decoration workers to come out and move, when his wife and the newly hired foreman came to greet him.

"What are you doing out here? You can't move the things in the car."

"I'm not moving things, I'm asking you to go shopping." The young boss lady shook her long hair and handed over a long shopping list.

Boss Chen adjusted his glasses, took the purchase list, read it and asked: "What kind of bucket is it and what is it used for?"

Boss Chen is not old, he is thirty-three this year.

Maybe he is the second eldest child in the family, so many people call him the second brother.

The landlady is younger, she seems to be only twenty-eight this year. She is tall and fair-skinned. She is not only beautiful, but also very fashionable and elegant.

Zhang Hongmei likes to deal with young bosses and proprietresses. After all, compared to older bosses and proprietresses, young bosses are more energetic.

She quickly came over and explained: "Second brother, the bucket is a big stainless steel bucket, specially used for lifting soup."

"Dry soup?"

"Well, it needs to be used for hot pot and cooking. If there are many people eating hot pot, there won't even be enough soup."

"Where's this big iron pot?"

“For hot pot ingredients.”

Every other line is like a mountain. Boss Chen really doesn't understand this.

He didn't want to buy the wrong things like before, so he raised his head and asked, "Where's Master Xiang?"

The proprietress was very satisfied with the newly hired chef, turned around and said with a smile: "I am repairing the diesel stove in the kitchen."

"The diesel stove will be repaired later. Hongmei, ask your master Xiang to go upstairs and change clothes, and go shopping with me. Didn't he say yesterday that he was going to check out the seasonings? He would stop by to take a look when he bought the buckets and cauldrons.

"

"If you want, I'll call him."

"Master Yang, you need to buy something. Come out and move it. I will go out to buy something soon."

"coming!"

…

While we were busy, a middle-aged man who looked like a cadre and an aunt in her fifties came over pushing bicycles.

The reason why the middle-aged man looks like a cadre is not only because he has a black briefcase hanging on the driver's head, but also because of his extraordinary clothing and temperament.

Boss Chen is also considered the son of a cadre, but he is just the son of a corporate cadre. His father used to be a factory director, and he grew up in a factory. Unfortunately, the large-scale factory went bankrupt, otherwise he, the son of the factory director, would

It's not like we're going to open a restaurant.

The middle-aged man who came up to me with a smile gave people the impression that he was similar to the cadres in the factory in the past.

"Hello, what's the matter?" Boss Chen couldn't help but ask.

The middle-aged man looked up at the large light box that had just been installed in the morning, parked his bicycle, took out a Soft China and handed one over, and asked with a smile: "Comrade, are you the owner of this restaurant?"

"Well, what's wrong?"

The hotel hasn't even officially opened yet, so why should we charge at the door?

But it doesn't look like it. Those who charge a fee don't give people cigarettes, they only smoke other people's cigarettes.

Boss Chen was feeling strange when the middle-aged man smiled and asked, "What's your last name, boss?"

"My surname is Chen."

"No wonder you're called 'Chuanfu Lao Chen'. It turns out your surname is Chen." The middle-aged man smiled and asked, "Boss Chen, do you have a chef named Xiang here?"

"Yes, what's your name? What do you do? Do you have anything to do with him?"

"My surname is Liang, and I am a relative of Xiao Xiang. I heard that he works here, so my wife and I came to see him."

"Are you a relative of Master Xiang?"

"Um."

There aren't many people in Xichuan on the riverside, otherwise it wouldn't be so hard to find a Sichuan chef.

Thinking again that the foreman seemed to have mentioned that he had relatives in Binjiang during dinner last night, Boss Chen couldn't help but smile and said: "Master Xiang, I went upstairs to change my clothes. I'll be out soon."

"Okay, okay, don't be in a hurry." Finally, he found the place and could find the person right away. Lao Liang was very happy. He looked up upstairs, then turned around and looked both sides, and asked curiously: "Boss Chen, the accent sounds like you are from the urban area."

People."

"Yes, I am a native of Binjiang."

"It must have cost a lot of money to open such a big hotel."

"It's not a big hotel, I'm opening a small shop. But the investment is quite large, and the decoration is a bottomless pit. I don't know where the hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone."

"Your place is both a storefront and a residential building. There must be fumes from cooking. The range hood makes a roaring noise when cooking. The residents upstairs won't say anything."

"It won't work in other places. It's okay here. Look, there are restaurants all around. But you're right. When opening a restaurant downstairs, you need to have a good relationship with them. Once the decoration is completed and the trial operation is completed, I will

Invite the neighbors upstairs to have a hot pot meal."

The young proprietress came over, looked upstairs and smiled: "There are not many real residents upstairs, most of them are rented out. I don't know about the two units next door. I asked about this unit. The one on the east side of the second floor rents

It was given to a shoe seller, the one on the west side of the third floor was rented to a salesperson from Wenfeng Shopping Mall, and a few mobile phone sellers lived on the fourth floor."

Liang Xiaojun's mother smiled and asked: "How many others are there?"

"We rented two apartments upstairs, one for Master Xiang and his friends, and one for ourselves."

"Boss Chen, you consider the store your home!"

"I have invested so much money and I am not afraid of your jokes. We have really sold everything to open this store. We have no way out. We can only make the store our home."

While chatting, Xiang Aidong simply washed up, put on clean clothes and ran out. Zhang Hongmei trotted behind him.

"Master Xiang, your relatives are here!"

relative?

I don’t know him!

Xiang Aidong was stunned when he looked at the stranger who was staring at him with a smile.

Lao Liang was also surprised. The fair young man in front of him did not look like a cook. He calmed down and said with a smile: "Aidong, right? My surname is Liang, and my name is Liang Xingguo. I am Liang Xiaojun's father. My family

Your grandma and your dad came here when Xiaojun married your second cousin, your dad should have mentioned me to you."

It turns out that he is the second cousin's father-in-law and the second cousin's husband's father.

Xiang Aidong reacted suddenly and was stumped again when he thought about it. What should he call his second cousin's father-in-law?

Zhang Hongmei reacted faster than him. She quickly pulled her boyfriend's arm and said obediently: "Hello Uncle Liang, Uncle Liang, how did you know we are here?"

"You are Hongmei, right?" Liang's mother held her hand, looked at her and said with a smile: "You are such a beautiful girl, so graceful. Aidong is so lucky to find a girl like you."

Zhang Hongmei was very embarrassed when she was praised.

Xiang Aidong realized that it would be impolite not to speak any more, so he quickly said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Hello, Uncle Liang, hello, Auntie."

"Okay, okay, good boy."

Lao Liang patted Xiang Aidong's arm and explained with a smile: "Sister Mengmeng and brother-in-law Xiaojun are on a business trip. Although they are not far from home, they won't be back for a while. They know you are coming, so give me

I called. I originally wanted to invite you to stay at home for a few days, but your eldest cousin and eldest brother-in-law said that you were at work and were not very busy today. Your aunt and I asked someone to help take care of the children and come over to have a look.

Yours."

"Uncle, aunt, it's good for us here. The boss and the boss's wife are very kind to us."

"I can see it, Boss Chen. I'd like to ask you to take more care of me in the future."

"Not to mention caring, Master Xiang is the head chef of our store, and Hongmei is our foreman. Whether I can open this store depends on them!"
To be continued...