Chapter 10 The Pick-up Man

Zhen Feng made the decision for the eldest lady, and brought losses to the restaurant and the Zhen family, which made Zhen Jili angry and happy. Finally found the back of the pad.

Zhen Jili called Zhen Jian over, the brothers pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and after three rounds of wine, Zhen Jili said embarrassedly: "Second brother, you also know that it is not easy for the younger brother to run a restaurant, and the newly opened restaurant is stormy, but I didn't expect this Feng brother's words to make it even worse!" ”

Zhen Jian also felt guilty in his heart, and when he heard this, it was like a seven-inch snake that had been held: "Third brother, you understand your sufferings as a brother, and I will bear this debt." ”

Zhen Jili pretended not to go: "No, no, no, second brother, you misunderstood what the younger brother meant." It's all a family, the second brother's family is also conscientious for the restaurant, and the younger brother is also thinking about how to repay, it's better to do this, this Qinhuai River restaurant, even if the second brother is half of the shares, no, this restaurant is the second brother's hard work, get seventy percent, those inputs are recorded in the account first, and then deducted after the dividends. ”

Zhen Jian felt as if he had eaten a bowl of flies in his heart, all of them were treacherous and business-free, and his own family even calculated his own family, on the surface, he made himself the owner, no longer a sensitor, but in fact, once he took over seventy percent of the shares, it meant that he had an early investment, half-year losses and debts, and he immediately took on a debt of more than 500 yuan, even if it was the old restaurant of the Zhen family, it would take about two years to save this money, and seeing that he had to pay the next year's rent of hundreds of yuan after the New Year, this is taking himself as a big wrong.

For some reason, Zhen Jian frowned and agreed after making a bowl of wine, without too much prevarication, he drank two bowls of wine to make Zhen Jili much happier, and the originally prepared rhetoric didn't come in handy, and he felt a little dazed when he drew his sword and looked around.

After half a year of operation and attempts at the new restaurant, I thought that I would make a net profit after two or three years of returning to the capital, but the hole is getting bigger and bigger. Although he favored his concubine Xia Xiaoniang, he took advantage of this mistake to reverse the inheritance of the family property, but the eldest son was also born by himself, and the old man always talked about treating his filial grandson badly, so he wanted to transfer the debt to his son, and he couldn't delay for a moment.

Early the next morning, the housekeeper of the Zhen family came to Zhen Jian with three contracts to sign, which already had the signatures of Zhen Jili and the guarantor. After signing, the housekeeper specially summoned everyone in the store to read the contract with emotion, strength and excitement. At this time, the eldest lady, the second uncle's family and Zhen Feng knew that Zhen Jian wanted to hide it, but he couldn't hide it.

Zhen Jian first persuaded his wife and children, and then made an explanation, not letting them criticize Zhen Feng harshly, for fear that Zhen Feng would blame himself. He was just about to comfort Zhen Feng, but he didn't expect to be greeted by Zhen Feng's smiling face and congratulations: "Second uncle, congratulations, you have finally become the big owner of the restaurant, and you are no longer under the fence." ”

It's bad, this kid is really stupid, he doesn't even know what everyone knows and is so easy to understand. Zhen Jian felt bitter in his heart, but his face was not good, so he could only nod and say, "Let's do a good job together in the future", turned around and left.

Zhen Feng looked at Zhen Jian, the pick-up man, and hurriedly chased after him: "Second uncle, you are now a big boss, and it is not suitable to be a shopkeeper again, it is better to let your nephew practice for the time being, anyway, our restaurant is already like this, how bad can it be?" You say yes. ”

A sentence poked Zhen Jian's heart. yes, how bad could it be? That's it, let the young people experience the experience, if they are swept out of the house one day, maybe the young people can still have a craft, so that they will not go hungry.

With such a mentality, Zhen Feng became the shopkeeper of this restaurant, and Zhen Jian left Jiangning in a carriage with businessmen traveling in the same city the next day on the grounds of going out to select the source of special products. In recent years, Zhen Jian has been going on a long trip every year and a half.

After this incident got out, Zhen Jili smiled, Xia Xiaoniang was happy, and she was about to watch Zhen Feng step by step towards a desperate situation, but she remembered the hatred of the previous slap in her heart, and she waited for the last moment to kick again. Everyone said that "Zhen Silly" is getting more and more stupid.

Zhen Bangxin asked bluntly: "Big brother, are you crazy?" It is said that our restaurant is a bottomless pit, and the second uncle is forced to take over, why do you jump into it? ”

"Who said it was a pit? I think it's an opportunity, and with that opportunity comes with risk. The greater the risk, the higher the possible gains. We can't just see the risks and not the opportunities. ”

Even the people in the store heard this, and they all felt that Zhen Feng was not only stupid, but also crazy as his name suggested.

In the next few days, Zhen Feng is an inseparable topic for the entire Zhen family, and everyone wants to know how he will go crazy and sell stupidity in the position of the shopkeeper. It's a pity that in the first few days, the restaurant hasn't changed at all, Zhen Feng is busy going in and out, no one knows what he's busy with, he often goes out for a long time, or locks himself in an empty room in the backyard, occasionally moves in some things, and a lot of jar wine.

The people in the new restaurant, from the big lady to the cook, are all worried. The proprietor has no confidence in the restaurant and abandoned the restaurant in disguise, and the shopkeeper Zhen Jian left after becoming the big owner, leaving a foolish young man in charge of the restaurant, I don't know what he is busy with, and occasionally smells him full of alcohol, is he borrowing wine to drown his sorrows?

The faces of the people in the restaurant are obviously sad, there are fewer and fewer guests, and the kitchen guys, handymen and others are already looking for the way of the Zhen family's housekeeper or Xia Xiaoniang, seeking to be transferred out of here, whether it is to go to the Zhen family's old restaurant to help, or to go to the Zhen family's house to be a housekeeper, it is better than being tortured here. Zhen Feng happily agreed to their request to leave, and in addition to the men's exhibition hall, only the second uncle's family, the eldest lady's master and servant, and the eldest son of the Zhen family were left in the new restaurant, which can be described as a pure old and weak woman and children.

It wasn't until September 25 that Zhen Feng made an arrangement for the only remaining young and middle-aged exhibition hall in the restaurant, but it pushed everyone into the cold abyss, and the coldness in his heart was worse than the autumn breeze outside the window. Zhantang looked at the eldest lady with a bitter face, the eldest lady sighed and nodded, signaling to do as instructed, after all, this is the first time Zhen Feng has given orders since he became the shopkeeper, and he still has to give a little face.

The task of the exhibition hall is to remove all the plaques and couplets on the three floors of the main building of the front courtyard of the restaurant or paint them with new paint, and the entrances to the gates, staircases, balustrades, terraces, and private rooms, whether they are delicate lacquered wooden board couplets, or stickers, painted couplets, large and small, seven or eight places, all of them are empty, and then painted with red paint according to the size and length of the command, and even the plaque of "Zhen Restaurant" at the door has been removed.

The restaurant seems to have returned to the time when it was renovated half a year ago. When the paint was dry, Zhen Feng led a down-and-out old man into the door. Everyone knows this person, isn't this the fortune teller who is setting up a stall on the street next door? The fortune teller wears a Taoist robe, his temples are white, his body is thin and thin, and his body exudes a slight smell, and his business is usually worse than that of a restaurant, because the whole Tang Dynasty is heavy on Buddhism and suppresses Taoism, under the guidance of the policy, many Taoist priests have become monks overnight, and those who eat Taoist rice can persevere, basically it is only enough to eat a mouthful, and it is difficult for this fortune teller not to change his career to become a monk.

Zhan Tang frowned, panicked in his heart. These days, even the usual business is gone, and the new shopkeeper in front of me is not doing business, so why not bring a fortune teller to transfer it? Anyway, he is idle, he is idle, just behind the fortune teller and Zhen Feng, he wants to see what the hell Brother Feng is doing.