This is not the case in Chapter 5

Speaking of Zhang Shuting, when he came to Qi Zhankui's house in Xiaoqizhuang, he heard Qi Zhankui's son say that his father went to the tavern at the east entrance of the village early in the morning, thinking that Qi Zhankui was waiting for him there early in the morning, and he couldn't help but feel excited; When I came to the tavern in the east of the village, I saw Qi Zhankui drunk lying in front of the tavern table, and there were two wine jars on the table, and I felt ashamed again.

If he hadn't waited for the new governor outside the south gate, he would have arrived in the morning, and for a while, he decided to sit down, asked for two side dishes, a jar of wine, and prepared to wait for Qi Zhankui to wake up while drinking.

From noon to sunset, Zhang Shuting drank a jar of wine and asked for another jar. It is also to see Zhang Shuting for an afternoon, has been drinking alcohol, but also curious and puzzled, but also to express the enthusiasm for the guest, when the lamp is in charge, I saw the white fat old man lit the kerosene lamp, moved to Zhang Shuting's table, put it down, and sat down at the table.

"You can see that the guest is waiting for someone?"

The old man sat in the shadow of the lamp, smiled at Zhang Shuting, who was also sitting in the shadow of the lamp, and asked tentatively.

Zhang Shuting nodded.

Seeing Zhang Shuting nodding, the fat old man accosted him and asked:

"Who are you waiting for?"

The person Zhang Shuting was waiting for was in front of him, so he pointed at Qi Zhankui and said:

"Just wait for him!"

I also saw that the white fat old man looked surprised, and after speaking, he smiled again:

"I made an appointment to find him to drink wine today, but he got drunk first, so I had to pour myself a drink and wait for him to wake up!"

Who knew that the old man didn't listen to this, and when he heard this, he slapped his palms excitedly and said:

"In this way, you and Zhan Kui should be friends, this Zhan Kui, since he resigned from the errand of the shopkeeper of the North Burning Pot, he came to me every day to drink stuffy, and he was drunk again, and he was drunk and didn't wake up for a long time. No one will listen to it. ”

After saying that, he said:

"When he wakes up in a while, I must persuade him, it's not okay to go on like this every day!"

When Zhang Shuting heard this, he shook his head and smiled.

Zhang Shuting shook his head and smiled, not laughing at the old man saying that he and Qi Zhankui were friends, if according to the generation, Qi Lao's shopkeeper and his grandfather were in the same class as the shopkeeper, and when his father Zhang Genmao was there, he kept calling Qi Lao's shopkeeper "uncle", so he should also call Qi Zhankui "uncle"; Or I heard the old man say just now, wait for Qi Zhankui to wake up, and let him persuade him well.

Instead of listening to the words of the fat old man, Zhang Shuting thought that Qi Zhankui came to the tavern to wait for him, but when he didn't come, he slowly got drunk; After listening to the words of the fat old man, Zhang Shuting realized that Qi Zhankui was not waiting for himself here, it turned out that he came here to drink every day, and he was drunk like this every day. Thinking of this, Zhang Shuting couldn't help but smile again in his heart, it seemed that he was really a little amorous.

But then, when Qi Zhankui woke up from his drunken state, Zhang Shuting was even more surprised when Zhang Shuting heard what he said.

It turned out that more than ten years ago, that year, Qi Zhankui was twenty-seven years old, and the twenty-seven-year-old Qi Zhankui was still apprenticed with his father Qi Lao Shopkeeper in Nanyao. It was also in this year that I heard that the old Qi of Qijiazhuang, who was the shopkeeper in the North Burning Pot Restaurant, was gone, and the North Burning Pot also spread the word at the same time to hire a new shopkeeper.

But more than half a year has passed, but I heard that no one dares to apply. No one dared to apply, or because, before the old Qi of Qijiazhuang, Bei Potting also hired Wang Wang, Doujiazhuang Lao Dou, and Shijiazhuang Lao Shi as the shopkeeper in the pot shop. In those days, a shopkeeper was cooking pots in a house, often for several years or even a lifetime, and rarely changed the owner halfway.

But whether it is Qijiazhuang, Lao Qi, Wangjiazhuang, Lao Wang, Doujiazhuang, Lao Dou or Shijiazhuang, they have not worked in the North Pot for two years, and they resigned. When asked about the reason, whether it was Qijiazhuang, Lao Qi, Wangjiazhuang, Lao Wang, Doujiazhuang, Lao Dou, or Shijiazhuang, he only shook his head, and did not say the reason, so he knew that the shopkeeper of the North Burning Pot Store was not easy to do. It's hard to say that it's hard to do, I'm afraid it's not that these shopkeepers are not good at business, but that the owners of the North Pot are not good at waiting.

Therefore, a letter came out from the North Burning Pot, and after more than half a year, no one dared to apply. It is precisely because no one dares to apply for the job, after Qi Zhankui heard about it, he was also young and vigorous and eager to be the shopkeeper, and because his father Qi Lao Shopkeeper became the shopkeeper of the Nanyao Pot Shop at the age of 25, and his brother Qi Zhandong became the shopkeeper of the Jujiuxian Burning Pot Shop in the west of the city at the age of 26, Qi Zhankui is already twenty-seven years old, and he is still apprenticed with his father Qi Lao Shopkeeper in the Nanyao Pot. Others didn't notice anything, but Qi Zhankui felt that he was living a bad life.

Seeing that no one dared to apply, he secretly found Zhang Lianqi, the owner of the North Burning Pot, to be the shopkeeper. Zhang Lianqi didn't agree when he saw Qi Zhankui's age and the experience of not being a shopkeeper, but he heard that he was the son of the old shopkeeper of the South Burning Pot Qi and the younger brother of Qi Zhandong, the shopkeeper of the Jujiuxian Burning Pot Shop in the west of the city, so he immediately agreed.

But agreeing to agree, because Qi Zhankui can only be regarded as a guy and not a shopkeeper, if he wants to be a shopkeeper as soon as he comes up in the North Pot, and take the money of the Shopkeeper, Zhang Lianqi also put forward a condition to write a contract with Qi Zhankui: If Qi Zhankui wants to be the Shopkeeper in the North Pot, he will have to work for 20 years at a time. Within 20 years, only Bei Yao Guo was allowed to resign him, and he was not allowed to resign from Bei Yao Pot, and for less than 20 years, Qi Zhankui could only take his partner's wages and return all the extra wages to Bei Yao Pot.

Supposedly, this condition is not harsh. The guy in the North Pot Shop takes a piece of the ocean in January, and the shopkeeper in the North Pot Shop takes five pieces of the ocean in a month. A guy who has never been a shopkeeper, of course, the extra four oceans a month will not let you take it for nothing. But before signing the contract, Zhang Lianqi put forward another condition: he was not allowed to go to other pots for 20 years, otherwise, he would have to compensate three times the total amount of money that had been taken away over the years. The first condition is not too harsh, but this condition is too harsh.

With such a favorable condition, he thought that Qi Zhankui would quickly retreat when he heard it, and the contract would not be signed again. Who knew that Qi Zhankui listened, not only did he not retreat, but also wrote a contract with him immediately and drew a charge. Not only did he draw the charge, but he also moved the cover from the south pot to the north pot on the same day. This point was greatly unexpected by Zhang Lianqi, but seeing that Qi Zhankui agreed very happily, he couldn't help sneering in his heart.

But when his father, the old shopkeeper, heard about it, he immediately beat his chest. Qi Zhankui may not be completely clear, but the old shopkeeper Qi knows that Zhang Lianqi, the owner of the North Burning Pot, is not an ordinary person, he is a master who counts the sky, and the locals give him the nickname "Count the Sky". None of the shopkeepers did a good job in the North Pot. Qi Zhankui has never even worked as a shopkeeper in a pot shop, so how can he do it well!

But the old shopkeeper Qi only knew one of them, and he didn't know that Qi Zhankui and Zhang Shuwen, the owner of the North Burning Pot, also secretly wrote a contract and drew a pledge. If you know, you have to die of anger.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Qi Zhankui had been working in the North Pot for more than ten years. That is, there is no such thing as Qijiazhuang, Lao Qi, Wangjiazhuang, Lao Wang, Doujiazhuang, Lao Dou, or Shijiazhuang, who was resigned or resigned from the North Pot after less than two years. But for more than ten years, only Qi Zhankui knows in his heart that it is like a nightmare.

said that it was a nightmare, but it was not that Qi Zhankui was tortured and inhumane treatment in the North Pot, but a state of mind. To make a pot, pay attention to a name, and to be a shopkeeper, also pay attention to a brand. Especially a family like Qi Zhankui, whose ancestors have been shopkeepers for generations, pay more attention to their own set of old rules. And in this set of rules for being a shopkeeper, the first thing is to be decent. However, since he entered the North Burning Pot, the set of skills he learned from his father Qi Lao Shopkeeper is not used at all, because Zhang Lianqi, the owner of the North Burning Pot, does not pay attention to the rules.

Think about it, with such a proprietor as the shopkeeper, you can still be good! In other words, if you want to cater to such a proprietor, you have to put aside the integrity of being a shopkeeper, and the set of rules and methods; If you want to maintain the integrity, rules and methods of being a treasurer, then you have to leave. Before Qi Zhankui, the old Qi Wangjiazhuang Lao Wang Doujiazhuang Lao Dou was still the old history of Shijiazhuang, and he didn't work for a long time in the North Burning Pot, and the reason is probably here.

But Qi Zhankui is different. It is precisely because Qi Zhankui and Zhang Lianqi have a contract that they are only allowed to resign from Beiyao, and he is not allowed to resign from Beiyao. Although it was unsatisfactory everywhere, I had to do it head-on. It is precisely because he is working hard that after more than ten years, he has also developed another set of skills: in order to get things done, Qi Zhankui's words can be said to be one day and one night without repetition, and the wine can be drunk for a day and a night without getting drunk, or in other words, others drank with him and fell drunk early, but he was not drunk, not only was he not drunk, but his words became more and more reasonable. It is precisely because of such a set of skills that Qi Zhankui wants to resign, and Zhang Shuwen will not agree......

After listening to Qi Zhankui's words, Zhang Shuting was still a little hesitant, whether to wade into this pool of troubled water, or it was not appropriate to dig Qi Zhankui from the north pot at this time, and wait until 1510 to listen to Qi Zhankui's words. Zhang Shuting was angry from his heart for a while, and said that Zhang Lianqi was born to calculate, he was a master who calculated the sky, and people gave him the nickname "Calculate the sky", but he never expected that he would be so calculating, and he would calculate a person's whole life in one step.

is also young and vigorous, but he can't spray it, and he was worried that the north and south pots would not be harmonious, and his face and heart would not be in harmony, and he was hesitant to wade into this pool of troubled waters, but he was also determined to wade at this time; Originally, I was hesitant to ask Qi Zhankui to come to the south to burn the pot as the shopkeeper at this time, and I felt a little sorry for the "breaking of the sky", lest the two families add new "pimples", but I was not afraid at this time.

However, after making up his mind, once he said that Qi Zhankui would come to the south to be the shopkeeper, according to the contract between Qi Zhankui and Zhang Lianqi, he would compensate Zhang Lianqi a large sum of silver. At that time, Qi Zhankui may be difficult to come out, and I am afraid that he can only come out. This amount of silver, calculated one by one, is definitely not a small amount!