Chapter 489: Hospitality
After eating, Canghai and Shi Wei walked back to the hospital, and a group of people in the morning went home, and suddenly there were many fewer people in the room. But even if there are fewer people, it is much more than when Shi Wei gave birth to a child.
When the two entered the house, Shi Wei opened her mouth to say something, Shi Zhenbang glanced at Canghai, so Canghai followed her father-in-law out of the room.
"How much did it take?" Shi Zhenbang asked.
Canghai shook his head and said, "I don't know, Shi Wei paid the money."
Canghai was next to him when he checked out, but he didn't look at the bill handed over by the waiter at all, Shi Wei just glanced at it, and then took out his mobile phone to pay the bill.
"Why don't you look at the bill?"
Canghai smiled: "I didn't know that you would ask me, when our family spent a lot of money, it was Shi Wei's idea, why don't I call her over for you?"
Shi Zhenbang waved his hand and said, "No need!"
The old man turned to leave, and then suddenly turned his body back again: "How's the food?"
Canghai said: "The food is average, but today is considered to be a long experience."
As he spoke, he told his father-in-law what happened at noon.
Shi Zhenbang was not surprised when he heard it: "This is the custom in Wuding Township, and it has always been like this when eating and drinking!"
"This is too low, it's like I've never eaten yet," Canghai complained.
"Okay, don't talk about it, their townspeople have always been poor at the bottom, and they have to get everything they want, by the way, your mother and I will go home tomorrow, and you and Shi Wei don't stick to the old pestle here, there's nothing to do today, you can go back later" Shi Zhenbang said.
Canghai listened and asked, "When will Yan Li go home?"
Yan Li's birth went smoothly and she almost didn't suffer anything, which seems to confirm the water raising people in Sijiaping Village, especially the pregnant women, starting from Shi Wei, the few women who gave birth have not suffered any crimes.
"Naturally, it's tomorrow, but tomorrow Yan Li and Shi Jie are going to live at his father-in-law's house for a while...... Shi Zhenbang said.
From the old man's words, Canghai smelled a strong sense of loss, the daughter-in-law usually goes back to the small home of the two when she goes home, but now the daughter-in-law wants to take the two children to her in-laws' house to raise them for a while, and it is impossible for the old couple of Shi Zhenbang to say that they have nothing to do and run to their in-laws' house, although it is said that the two families are not far away, and it is a matter of ten minutes by car, but there is no such statement.
Just got the eldest grandson and little granddaughter, and the old couple is not rare enough, so they haven't seen each other for a month, so it's no wonder that they feel good.
Canghai doesn't want to get involved in this matter, and it is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, not to mention that Canghai is not an official yet.
At this time, the phone in Canghai's hand rang.
Canghai glanced at it, Zhang Jiusheng came, so he smiled at Shi Zhenbang, turned around and picked up the phone.
"Hey, Canghai, I heard that you came to the city?" asked Zhang Jiusheng immediately as soon as the phone called.
Canghai replied: "Yes, it's not my brother-in-law and daughter-in-law who gave birth to a baby, we came over to have a good time, I didn't call you because I was afraid of bothering you, I won't go to you this time, wait for the next time."
"Haha, I guess you can't come?" Zhang Jiusheng said with a smile.
Canghai was a little strange and asked, "How do you say this?"
Zhang Jiusheng said: "Mayor Lu called from there, saying that he had booked a quiet room at night, and said that you were here, otherwise how would I know that you were in the city."
"Hey, it's still on your side after going around in a circle," Canghai smiled.
"Mayor Lu doesn't come often, from the city to now has been here two or three times, today specially booked a small room to entertain people, I naturally want to ask more, ask the taste of entertaining guests, who knows that the secretary of this question said that Mayor Lu entertained you, I ......will call you here."
"I'm just asking Lu Yanzhi to pick a quiet place, who knows that he will pick you here" Canghai didn't know what to say.
Zhang Jiusheng was quite proud: "If you want to say that there is really no quieter place in the city than me, when the time comes, you can come and see how I am doing now."
"Okay!" Canghai said with a smile.
The two chatted about what to eat at night, Zhang Jiusheng's things here are all from Sijiaping, of course Canghai knows what is in season, don't talk about vegetarian dishes or anything, what do you say about carp and lobster at this time, you also have to have a portion.
Not long after speaking, Canghai received a call from Lu Yanzhi again and told Canghai about the location of Zhang Jiusheng.
Canghai returned to the room and stayed for a while, not to mention Canghai, even Shi Wei couldn't interject anything, listening to a group of old women instilling parenting scriptures in Yan Li, that kind of torment is only known to those who have experienced it.
Shi Wei felt that it was not interesting to hang like this, so she got up to say goodbye, and then slipped out with Cang Haixiao.
"Where are you going?" Shi Wei got into the car and asked at Canghai.
Canghai said: "Where else can I go, just turn my head and go to Zhang Jiusheng!"
"What time is it going to eat?" Shi Wei said.
"Why don't we go to the city and have fun, I'll search for any attractions around here?"
Shi Wei thought for a while: "Forget it, let's go to Zhang Jiusheng." By the way, let's stay alone tonight, don't get together with them."
"Okay, don't say it's a lonely stay, even if you go back overnight, it's no problem" Canghai smiled and set the navigation in place, and then drove out of the hospital.
According to the navigation, after driving for about thirty minutes, Canghai drove to a place with special scenery in the city, and looked at the map Canghai found that Zhang Jiusheng's place was actually next to a park in the city, in short, there was no high-rise building in this area, at most three or four storey buildings, and nine times out of ten were antique buildings.
There is a lake in the center, the area is hundreds of acres, the whole park is spread out around this lake, there is a small island in the middle of the lake, the area is not large and connected to the land by a series of arch bridges, the two sides of the lake are shaded by green trees, weeping willows row, many pedestrians stroll around the lake, from time to time you can also see some children flying kites under the leadership of adults.
"The scenery here is good, a bit like a Soviet-style garden" Canghai smiled and slowed down the car and continued to follow the navigation inside.
Shi Wei said: "It was originally an imitation of Soviet-style garden design, and it seems that a group of people were arrested for doing this at that time."
"You know that, too?"
Shi Wei smiled: "One of my college classmates and his father fell because of this."
The two drove the car and followed the navigation to the door of Zhang Jiusheng's restaurant, and when they looked up, they saw the gatehouse of Zhang Jiusheng's restaurant, which said Five Lakes Hall.
"It's still decent!" Canghai looked at the gatehouse and said with a smile at Shi Wei.
"With such a big house in this place, you will have a lot of money for rent alone in a year," Shi Wei also looked at the courtyard in front of him curiously.
The yard is quite big, it's hard to say how many into a few in, but now I see five or six northern residential buildings, looking in from the gate, ignoring the street lights, it's like walking into a TV series, in the eyes of people who engage in architecture like Canghai, the taste of Chinese houses is not only strong but also positive.
"Hello, do you two have an invitation?"
When the car arrived at the door, I was stopped just as I wanted to go in.
"Invitation?"
"Well, we are a private club, not open to the public, if you are not a member, then you have to have an invitation, or you can report the name of Mr. Banquet, as long as your name matches the list of guests, you can do it" The waiter at the door said very politely.
Canghai forgot which private room Lu Yanzhi booked here for a while, so he opened his mouth and said: "I'm looking for your boss, Zhang Jiusheng, I was invited by him, and he will know if you report my name, my name is Canghai."
Hearing Cang poster's name, the waiter turned his head to verify Canghai's name, but after taking two steps, the waiter seemed to remember something, and immediately turned around again, and the smile on his face was even bigger.
"It turns out that you are Mr. Canghai, the boss just said, if you come, go in directly, and walk along this road......" The waiter said as he stretched out his hand to show Canghai the way.
"Thank you!"
Canghai thanked him and drove the car in the direction pointed by the waiter.
After turning two corners, I arrived at a particularly quiet place, even outside, I couldn't hear the noise of people on the road, and a small courtyard of gray bricks and green tiles was so quietly placed among the birds and flowers.
stopped the car at the door, Canghai and his family got down and ran directly to the door of the small courtyard, and the two waiters pushed the courtyard door open.
Standing at the door to see, Canghai found that facing himself was an ancient building with cornices, with white ash walls on both sides, connected to the gate through a corridor, and a pond in the middle, in which a group of koi fish were raised, and lotus flowers were planted around the pond, and as soon as you entered the door, you could smell an intoxicating fragrance of lotus leaves.
"Guest, please!"
Led by a waiter, the two of them entered the house along the corridor, and as soon as they entered the room, they saw a lounge, with a few official hats and chairs, some landscape paintings on the wall, and a Bogu shelf on the wall, with some gadgets on it, I don't know if it's real or fake, anyway, it looks quite like that.
The waiter brought Canghai and his family here, introduced them to the two, and after finishing speaking, he turned around and went out.
Shi Wei listened curiously, walked to the front of the cloister at the door, picked up the fish food placed below, and began to throw it into the small pond in the courtyard.
These koi fish seem to be fed for a long time, Shi Wei stopped in the corridor here, and immediately a koi fish swam to the place where Shi Wei was standing, and the long koi fish were squeezed together with their mouths open, waiting for Shi Wei to feed.
Shi Wei had a lot of fun, Canghai studied architecture here, and when he saw that there was something wrong with this house, he made some mistakes, and he carefully admired the structure of the house here with his hands behind his back.
Judging by Canghai's eyesight, this house is a bit old, most of the components are older than the Republic, the overall architectural style is from the Qing Dynasty, and it has undergone some repairs later, but the materials used for repair are obviously not as good as the materials when they were built, and many of the original elm places have been replaced with pine.
But fortunately, the original building taste is still good.
Just when Canghai was looking at the building, Zhang Jiusheng's voice sounded like a cannon.
"Canghai, Shi Wei, I didn't expect you to come so early, I greeted the guests over there, I'm sorry, I didn't go to greet you."
Zhang Jiusheng pushed open the door and strode along the corridor.
Canghai smiled and said, "Okay, just be busy with you!
"No, the last table at noon!" Zhang Jiusheng's face was red, and it was obvious that he had drunk a little wine.
When he arrived at Canghai's side, Zhang Jiusheng glanced at it and shouted loudly: "What about tea, when guests come, they don't serve a pot of tea, make tea, go to my office and get the box of Tieguanyin to brew."
After speaking, Zhang Jiusheng asked at Canghai, "How am I here?"
"The environment here is good, and your store over there is not open?" Canghai asked.
"Open, why don't you open it, count on making money here, then I'll drink the northwest wind, now there are four stores in the bustling place of the city, here is a high-end club, don't look at the money charged is very high, but the people who really receive it are not even half, more than 80% of the profits come from four stores, and it is a loss to ......make money here."
There is nothing to hide from Canghai Zhang Jiusheng, and he told him about the situation on his side.
"The building in your yard is better than the park outside, how did you take it down?"
Zhang Jiusheng said: "If this piece is not demolished, then it will be applauded, before the liberation of this is the Liu family compound, hundreds of houses, and finally demolished only this piece of ......."
Canghai should listen to Zhang Jiusheng's story, not to mention the small Liu family compound, even the city wall was demolished at that time, not to mention the house of a small rich man.
But when he heard how Zhang Jiusheng rented here, Huahai had to sigh: Human society.