Chapter 115: Chinatown at the Late Thirty Years of Chinese New Year's Eve (Part I)
After the accounting and auditing firm is registered, it is a matter of recruiting talents and selecting the location of the office.
Of course, the office space cannot be located in the building where the company is located. Pei Pei gave Reese the business card of the real estate agent Sherlock, and through Shylock's recommendation, she quickly chose the location of the office.
The office space of the office is leased, and the office building selected for rent is located on the same street as the company's headquarters, which is only a 10-minute walk away.
For an accounting and auditing firm to develop, it is simply not possible to rely on Michael as an accountant. So, after obtaining Peipei's consent, Michael brought part of the staff of the company's finance department to the new office. He also contacted some of his peers, and in addition to the excellent solicitation conditions, he also gave a promise of "partner treatment after five years", and the newly established accounting and auditing firm finally opened.
The first business after the opening was to sign an outsourcing contract for accounting and auditing with "Pell Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd." The second business, hehe, is still signed with the "Xiaoquanshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company" under the name of Peipei.
While Michael's office was in full swing for renovation, Dougal had already circled Europe and flown to Asia.
By the time Michael's office was completed and officially opened, Dough had returned to Silicon Valley after his trip around Asia.
Then Fu Ya talked to Dougel, and after finalizing the cooperation agreement, Dougel resigned from the original law firm, and poached a group of good colleagues from the original firm, and began to be busy with the registration and establishment of the law firm with Fu Ya.
The office of the law firm was located in the same office building as Michael's accounting and auditing firm, one upstairs and one downstairs.
While Dougal's law firm was busy renovating. The day is also approaching the Chinese traditional Chinese New Year's Eve.
Many staff members in Pell Biopharmaceutical Company are Chinese, Peipei discussed with Zhang Yinuo, decided to treat everyone equally, and gave all employees in the company a three-day "Spring Festival holiday". Of course, this three-day holiday. The security department still has to be manned at all times.
Pei Pei also specially asked Fu Ya to find a Chinese restaurant with a good environment in Silicon Valley, organized all the employees together, and on the day before the "Spring Festival holiday", that is, on Chinese New Year's Eve, according to the custom of the Hong Kong boss, the big guys ate a "tail tooth meal" together.
White employees in the company, such as Dr. Duma and Tucker Sr., are still curious about traditional Chinese festivals, and their impressions of Chinese dishes mostly stop at "scrambled eggs with tomatoes", "shredded pork with fish flavor" and "kung pao chicken".
At the dinner table of "tail tooth rice". Faced with a dazzling array of colorful Chinese dishes, the white employees in the company gave a thumbs up while eating, especially after hearing that every dish of the Chinese has its origin and saying, they inquired curiously.
In this regard, Reese, who has lived with the boss for a while, is one of the more vocal members of the company's white group. On the dinner table. Reese relied on her ignorance to point to the plates of dishes she had eaten, and explained the ingredients and recipes to her white colleagues.
"Year-end rice" ended happily. Early the next morning, Peipei, Xiaozhi, Zhang Yinuo and Aunt Qin drove back to the big mansion in Los Angeles.
Speaking of the Chinese New Year, the Li family spent the first and second years when they first came to Los Angeles, buying vegetables and cooking them home. From the first year, the master of several children, Mr. Peng, will be taken to the family to celebrate the New Year together.
The first year or two. The old lady always felt that the "New Year's flavor" of the year spent in Lao Mei was wrong, and felt that there was no "Chinese flavor" at all.
So, Old Man Peng proposed a build to the old lady. On this day of Chinese New Year's Eve, you can go to the "Chaoyue Pavilion" in Chinatown to book a table and have a Chinese New Year's Eve meal there. After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, you can also visit Chinatown's annual dragon and lion dance performance, which is followed by a traditional fireworks competition held by various neighborhoods in Chinatown.
So, from the third year onwards, every year on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. The whole family will go to the "Chaoyue Restaurant" in Chinatown to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the Spring Festival.
This year is certainly no exception!
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Pei Pei and the others had already returned to their house in Malibu. After helping the family clean up the old and welcome the new. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon.
With the old man's order, everyone in the family got into three cars. I drove to the "Chaoyue Pavilion" in Chinatown.
The door of the "Chaoyue Pavilion" has already been lit up at this time, Wang Laohu is busy sitting behind the cash register, and the phone is continuous, and he hears the reservation call to book a seat and a private room.
The Li family had already booked a private room, and seeing that the boss Wang Laohu was busy green, the old man and Li Chenghua and others came forward to greet each other with a smile, and greeted the guy in the lobby with a familiar way, and asked the guy to take everyone to the pre-booked private room on the second floor to sit down.
Not long after he sat down, the guy from the restaurant came in with a teapot again, and after pouring a cup of tea for everyone, the guy asked if he wanted to serve the cold dishes first.
The old man waved his hand at the guy, "Don't worry, wait a while, I'll call you when the food is served." ”
The man put the teapot on the table and stepped back lightly.
Old Man Li looked at his granddaughter and asked, "How long will your master arrive?" Do you want to pick him up? ”
Pei Pei looked at her watch, it was half past five, and she had already said that she would come to pick up people in person at six o'clock.
So, she nodded to her old man, got up and patted Xiao Zhi who was sitting next to her, and then pointed to Xiao Hao who was sitting opposite, "You two go to the hospital with me and pick up the master." ”
Out of the gate of the "Chaoyue Pavilion", it is not dark at this time, but the entire Chinatown, the doors of each house are lit up in a festive atmosphere.
Pei Pei took her two younger brothers for a walk, and soon arrived at the door of the "Peng's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hall".
The door frame outside the door of the "Peng's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hall" is clean and clean, which is much colder than the festive appearance of several neighborhoods next door with colorful red lanterns hanging high.
Alas~ The entire medical hall is only one master. I think he hasn't had time to arrange it yet, so he hasn't had time to arrange it. Pei Pei felt a little astringent, patted her two younger brothers, and took the lead in pushing open the door and walking in, "Master, we're here to pick you up!" Pei Pei shouted as she pushed the door open.
As soon as you enter the door. Pei Pei saw her master standing in front of the medicine cabinet with a rag, carefully wiping the ashes. Hearing the voices of the apprentices, Old Man Peng turned around and smiled at the three children.
Pei Pei hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the rag, threw the rag in the direction of the two younger brothers, and commanded the two younger brothers to clean up quickly. Then she found two red lanterns and a roll of red ribbons. Put the red lantern and the red ribbon on a stool, hold the stool and go out.
Old Man Peng followed him to the door with a smile, and watched his proud disciple standing on the stool, hanging red lanterns and pulling red ribbons. After a while, the gate of the "Peng's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hall" also became jubilant.
By this time it was getting dark. The red lanterns hanging at the entrances of various neighborhoods in Chinatown are also lit up one after another. Pei Pei raised her hand and looked at her watch, and before she knew it, most of the hour had passed.
Pei Pei greeted the two younger brothers, and then locked the door of the medical hall, hugged the master, and the master and apprentice returned to the "Chaoyue Pavilion" with laughter all the way.
Everyone arrived, and Li Chenghua ordered the guys, saying that it was time to start the banquet. Afterwards. One after another, first the cold dishes were served, and then. Hot dishes were also served one by one.
In the private room, there is an oversized TV hanging from the wall. As soon as the old lady saw that the time was almost up, she asked the man to turn on the TV, and then picked up the remote control and turned it up one channel at a time. After a while, it was tuned to the satellite channel of China's CCTV.
In the past, when I was in Hong Kong, the old lady never cared about mainland TV programs. That is, after immigrating to Los Angeles, he was recommended by other Chinese friends. began to pay attention to the Spring Festival Gala program held by CCTV every year.
It was also the Spring Festival Gala of Tongguò CCTV, and everyone in the Li family fell in love with Uncle Benshan's cross talk sketch show. Even Li Yigang and Old Man Peng. I also like the famous Northeast old man who "sold abduction" in the Spring Festival Gala.
This year's Spring Festival Gala, after the opening song and dance flowers bloom after the Chinese New Year >. It is a series of songs and dances of ethnic minorities and ethnic integration.
The old lady was indifferent to these singing and dancing singing and dancing programs, and picked up chopsticks to beckoning everyone to eat and drink.
After the singing and dancing series ended, I heard the host on the TV announcing: "The next show, cross talk, performers: Feng Gong, Li Zhiqiang." ”
As soon as she heard that it was cross talk, the old lady's interest immediately returned to the TV screen. She put her chopsticks down and stared at the TV screen with relish.
Feng Gong, who has a small nose, small eyes and a small mouth, has a vivid cross talk performance, which makes the big guys laugh from ear to ear.
After the old lady's favorite cross talk performance, there was a series of singing and dancing combinations.
Looking at the TV screen, several of the singers singing were famous artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the old man thought about it.
"Just watching the Spring Festival Gala program year after year, you can imagine that this continent, after the reform and opening up, it is definitely a great change, and it is getting more and more progress year by year!" The old man sighed.
After Li Chenghua heard his old man's sigh, he smiled and said to the old man: "Daddy, I want to wait for Kangmei to go to the mainland for another investigation after it is listed." In the past few years, Lao Ge, who is in charge of the purchase channel of medicinal materials, has been lamenting to me, saying that the mainland has developed rapidly in recent years and opportunities are everywhere. Lao Ge has been building yì me, thinking about returning to China to invest. ”
After a pause, Li Chenghua organized the language, and then said: "It was also Pei Pei who gave me a reminder, this girl bought a mountain by herself to study medicine, regardless of whether it can succeed or not, the idea of planting medicine by herself is still very correct." First, it can save costs, and secondly, raw materials can be produced and sold without being affected by external prices and output.
I have also thought about whether to let Kangmei also set up a raw material planting base. Some time ago, I also made a special inquiry with Lao Ge about the procedures for contracting mountains in the mainland. He told me that Chinese Americans like me who have returned to China not only have a lot of policy support in the local area, but also enjoy a lot of tax incentives.
Lao Ge's old man in his family is said to be retiring in a few years, and he said that if I really have plans in this regard, it is best to make a decision, and he can also try to help me smooth out the relationship while the old man of his family has not retired.
However, listening to what he meant, it is estimated that he also wants to get involved. Kangmei, I will never let him get involved, but it is still possible to consider investing in the establishment of a Sino-US joint venture medicinal herb planting base with Lao Ge. ”
While saying these words, Li Chenghua scooped a bowl of soup for his father and put it in front of the old man.
When he had finished saying this, he filled himself another bowl of soup, blew on the hot air, and drank it slowly.
Li Yi just put down the soup bowl after drinking the soup, and casually replied to his son: "Tonight is the Chinese New Year's Eve, don't nag me about work!" You are the chairman of Kangmei, and you can decide what you want to do. I'm a retired old man, but I don't have the time to listen to you talk about work, and I still have to watch the show. With that, he turned his gaze to the TV screen again. (To be continued)