Chapter 656: Old Li's Hot Pot Restaurant

That afternoon, after Chen Qingdong turned on his charged mobile phone again, he received many calls from many people and heard many similar congratulatory voices, which lasted until the evening, when it was dark, Chen Qingdong's mobile phone was about to run out of battery again, and this wave of "hotline" finally stopped. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Today, many people have called Chen Qingdong to congratulate him, and at the same time, he proposed to invite Chen Qingdong to dinner in the evening, but Chen Qingdong politely excused himself on the grounds that there were already arrangements for the evening.

In fact, Chen Qingdong hasn't set any dinner tonight, he is just worried that if there is any important dinner in the evening, he will not be able to erase the time.

However, until it was dark, Chen Qingdong did not agree to any dinner, and just as he was about to go to have some wine with Chen Hongbing and Zheng Hongtao, his mobile phone rang again.

After the phone was connected, Zhang Yungang's hearty voice immediately came from inside: "Qingdong, I'm Zhang Yungang, congratulations!"

Zhang Yungang is a heavyweight, and he is also Chen Qingdong's old boss, and his progress today has a lot to do with Zhang Yungang's strong recommendation that he go to Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory as the factory director.

Chen Qingdong smiled: "Thank you, Secretary Zhang!"

"Hehe, Qingdong, did you get dizzy when you answered the phone today?"

"What Secretary Zhang said is so right! I will definitely answer no less than one or two hundred phone calls today, and I have used several batteries alone!"

Zhang Yungang laughed and said: "I knew it would be like this! Who made you so famous in our county this time! I called you after seeing the document this morning, but your phone was busy, and after two minutes, my phone was still busy, and I knew that your phone was probably busier than the mayor's hotline today, so I have been delaying until now!"

"I actually asked Secretary Zhang to call twice, I'm really sorry for Secretary Zhang! After a while, I will make a special phone number and set it up as a special line to talk to Secretary Zhang on the phone, and there must be no more situations where Secretary Zhang can't call me!" Chen Qingdong said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"Haha, Qingdong, if you do this, my treatment will be comparable to that of a county leader!" Zhang Yungang smiled, and then changed the topic, "Qingdong, you must have arranged a lot of dinner tonight, right?"

Chen Qingdong heard Zhang Yungang say this, and knew that Zhang Yungang should also have the intention of shouting that he would eat together at night. Chen Qingdong was not very interested in other people's invitations, but Chen Qingdong was very interested in Zhang Yungang's invitation, so he said: "Secretary Zhang, I won't tell you, there are indeed a lot of people who call me to eat tonight, but I declined them all, and I originally wanted to be quiet." Today's incident, I also feel very honestly afraid!"

Zhang Yungang said with a smile: "What is the point of you eating alone, otherwise, I am in the city now, and there is nothing to do at night, otherwise I will save up a game, and call a few acquaintances, and no other outsiders will be called!

"If someone calls me today, I will push it immediately, but Secretary Zhang calls me out to sit down, then I definitely have nothing to say!" Chen Qingdong said with a smile, "Actually, I want to take time out to go to Shuangshan in the past two days! Secretary Zhang, although you are not very old, you can be regarded as the old secretary of our county, with a lot of experience and strong ability, you have to teach me a good experience this time!"

Zhang Yungang said briskly: "Don't put a high hat on me! As far as our relationship is concerned, only you have something you want to discuss with me, can I have a second word?"

"Haha, Secretary Zhang, if I say 'thank you' to you again, it will be a bit out of sight!

"Okay, let's make up our minds! I'll start calling someone to book a hotel now, and I'll call you in a while, you don't have to say yes to anyone else!"

"Secretary Zhang, with the dinner you arranged, I won't go to anyone else's arrangement!" Chen Qingdong said with Erlang's legs crossed.

"Good! good!" Zhang Yungang said in a continuous voice.

After more than ten minutes, Zhang Yungang called Chen Qingdong again, saying that the person had already called and the hotel had been booked, and he would not go to any big hotel today, but go to an old restaurant, the old Lijia copper hot pot restaurant in the northern suburbs of the county!

After making this phone call, Chen Qingdong immediately went out, bought a Chinese cigarette at a store store, and then took a taxi straight to the old Lijia copper hot pot restaurant in the northern suburbs of the county.

In less than twenty minutes, Chen Qingdong came to this county-famous old hot pot restaurant.

Lao Li's copper hot pot restaurant is a family workshop-style hot pot restaurant, and Chen Qingdong has also eaten here many times, so he is quite familiar with this old hot pot restaurant that is famous in the county and can be called the memory of a generation although the area is not large.

The ancestor of the owner of this hotel in the early 10s of the last century, has opened a hot pot restaurant in Jinan Mansion, Shandong Province, named Shun Yuanxiang, the business is very good, very famous in Jinan Mansion, it is said that even the governor of Shandong Province at that time, Zhang Zongchang, who is known as the "dog meat general", likes to eat hot pot in Shun Yuanxiang very much.

Later, due to the impact of the war, this Shunyuanxiang hot pot restaurant in Jinan Prefecture closed its doors, and the clansmen of the old Li family also scattered all over the country.

Later, after the founding of New China, a descendant of Lao Li named Li Shunyin took root in Liulin County and became a chef in the county state-run restaurant.

However, this Li Shunyin is a straight person who doesn't rub sand in his eyes, he can't get used to the corruption of the canteen manager, so he went directly to the manager to negotiate, and after the negotiation failed, he reported the canteen manager to the organization, but the well-connected canteen manager was beaten up and framed Li Shunyin for speculation.

As a result, Li Shunyin was detained in the detention center for more than two years on charges of "speculation" and lost his public position.

Later, after Li Shunyin finally came out of the detention center, within a few years, the vigorous Cultural Revolution broke out, and Li Shunyin was charged with a crime of "speculation", so people who lost their minds were stimulated by anger criticized him as a "capitalist lackey" and wantonly criticized, insulted, and beat him!

Li Shunyin, who could not bear the humiliation, finally hanged himself.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Li Shunyin was rehabilitated, and the county let Li Shunyin's son Li Zhaodong inherit the side job and work in the county government canteen.

Later, after the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew to Liulin, Li Zhaodong took advantage of the tide of going to the sea to do business and decisively resigned from his public office and opened this family-style hot pot restaurant, named "Lao Li's hot pot restaurant".

Since then, this restaurant has existed for nearly 20 years, and it has always been very popular, and it is one of the most classic old restaurants in the eyes of the people of Liulin County.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the economy, restaurants in Liulin County have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Li Zhaodong has inherited his father's stubborn character, although the business of the old Li family hot pot restaurant has been very hot, and many people persuade Li Zhaodong to expand the scale of the hotel, but Li Zhaodong has always been unmoved, has been sticking to this is located in the northern suburbs of the county, has experienced nearly 20 years of ups and downs of the old store.

Regarding the history of the old Li family hot pot restaurant, Chen Qingdong still once heard a friend who was very familiar with the owner Li Zhaodong talk about it when he was eating here, and after he finished talking about these things, Chen Qingdong and others were embarrassed, and they all said that from Li Zhaodong and this old Li family hot pot restaurant, you can almost see the ups and downs that our country has gone through in the past half century.

Zhang Yungang also came over very quickly today, and when Chen Qingdong arrived here, he had already seen Zhang Yungang standing at the door of the hotel and making a call, so Chen Qingdong walked over to Zhang Yungang.

When Chen Qingdong approached Zhang Yungang's side, Zhang Yungang had already finished calling.

"Secretary Zhang!" Chen Qingdong greeted with a smile, and at the same time handed Zhang Yungang a cigarette, "Come over so soon!"

Zhang Yungang took the cigarette and joked: "Today is my congratulatory congratulations to you, the new party leader, of course, you have to come over in advance to show your sincerity!"

If it was in the past, Chen Qingdong would have complimented him with a compliment such as "How can I make the old leader wait for me", but now he is the secretary of the town party committee on an equal footing with Zhang Yungang, so he must pay attention to his identity, and he can't say too low-key in front of Zhang Yungang, so he just said: "Secretary Zhang is so polite!"

Chen Qingdong lit a cigarette for Zhang Yungang as he spoke, and then changed the topic and said: "Secretary Zhang, the business of this old Li family's hot pot restaurant is very good, and there are few tables, let's come here at this time, I don't know if there are any seats!"

Zhang Yungang said with a smile: "If someone else came at this time, if there is no accident, there will definitely be no seat, but if we come here today, there will definitely be a seat." Hehe, Qingdong, in fact, this is all stained with your light!"

"Stained with my light?" Chen Qingdong didn't understand.

Zhang Yungang didn't say it explicitly, but patted Chen Qingdong on the shoulder, and deliberately said: "Qingdong, you'll know what's going on in a while! The room has been arranged, let's go in first! A few more people will come over in a while, they are all our old friends, let's not wait for them!"

Chen Qingdong was a little puzzled in his heart, guessing that Zhang Yungang arranged the dinner here today, it seems that it was not arranged casually, but for another reason!

However, what is the reason, it is definitely impossible to guess just by guessing, Chen Qingdong simply put this question in the back of his mind, anyway, he will definitely know the reason after a while, so he smiled at Zhang Yungang and said: "Okay, I listen to Secretary Zhang." ”