Capital.

"Xiaoqiang, don't tell anyone else about my return." Lou Xiao'e said a few words.

"Okay, Sister Lou, don't worry, I won't tell anyone about you."

"That's good, when I settle down, I'll invite you to dinner."

Wave goodbye.

Zhou Qiang went home.

Lou Xiao'e dressed as a noblewoman and went to the hotel.

A small courtyard near the large courtyard.

Here Zhou Qiang has been rebuilt.

It is said to be repaired, but it is actually demolished and rebuilt.

A two-storey western-style building was built.

Indoor kitchen and bathroom are available.

Zhou Qiang's three children live on the second floor.

Zhou Qiang and Wang Meili live on the first floor.

"Brother Qiang is back!"

"Daddy's back!"

Zhou Qiang went to Hong Kong Island for a few months, and when he returned home, it was indispensable to celebrate.

"Here, this is your clothes, all year round, put them on."

"This is a specialty on Hong Kong Island, let's see if it's delicious."

"Xiao Qian, you go and call your Aunt Fang and let her come and get something." Zhou Fang still lives in a miscellaneous compound. The house they want to share is still under construction.

"Yingying, go to the street office, find your Grandma Wang, call her, tell your Aunt Juan and Uncle Sheng, and ask them to come over. Remember to bring your Grandma Wang along. ”

Zhou Qiang brought back a lot of things, not only from his family, but also from some relatives and friends.

At home, in the factory, because Zhou Qiang came back, there was a lot of excitement.

Zhou Zhuang, Wang Zhuang, and Zhou Qiang also took the time to give gifts.

In the next few months, Zhou Qiang was busy with business.

He's running on a rampage.

"Orders, Hong Kong Island, a lot of orders have come back!"

"Milk powder is in short supply!"

"Beef and mutton are in short supply!"

Zhou Qiang's business is getting more and more prosperous.

After Lou Xiao'e returned to the capital, she was not idle.

She inspected the market situation, went to the relevant departments, and asked for their house.

Next, invest in other businesses.

this day.

Midday.

Lou Xiao'e called Zhou Qiang to Lou's house.

"Xiaoqiang, I have chosen a good location, it must be good to open a high-end hotel there, should you call the stupid pillar over, let's discuss it together?"

"Okay, Sister Lou, you have a phone here, I'll call Silly Zhu now."

Zhou Qiang got up and called.

"Hey, I'm Zhou Qiang, looking for the director of the canteen, He Yuzhu." At this time, He Yuzhu had already become the director of the canteen, and he was promoted and made a fortune.

"Hey, Xiaoqiang, right? What's wrong? You're a busy man, and you're still looking for me? He Yuzhu knew that Zhou Qiang was very busy.

Zhou Qiang has changed a lot in the past few years.

Zhou Qiang's life has been changing.

If a person's thoughts and thoughts have not changed much ten years ago and ten years later, then the person has lived in vain.

The people in the miscellaneous courtyard all admired Zhou Qiang.

Their common impression: Zhou Qiang is too powerful.

"Brother Zhuzi, do you know Lou Bancheng? You know where Lou's family is, right? ”

"Lou Bancheng? Lou's family? I know, no."

"Yes, this is it, you should be free now, come here, I'll wait for you."

"Okay." He Yuzhu didn't ask much.

Not much.

He Yuzhu came on a bicycle.

His means of transportation is far worse than Zhou Qiang.

When Zhou Qiang was in the 60s, he rode a motorcycle.

Now I drive a car.

In the future, Zhou Qiang plans to play with private jets and yachts.

"Are you Lou Xiao'e?!" He Yuzhu looked surprised. He didn't expect that many years later, someone from the Lou family would come back.

"Silly Zhu, I haven't seen you for a long time." Lou Xiao'e was slightly excited when she saw the people in the compound again.

"You're back?" He Yuzhu didn't know anything about Lou Xiao'e. He never seemed to have left the capital.

In this era, there are many people who have never been to another place in their lives.

In later generations, this was much less so.

"Brother Zhuzi, Sister Lou has been on Hong Kong Island before, and she only came back some time ago" Zhou Qiang roughly introduced.

"Hong Kong Island? Xiaoqiang: When you went to Hong Kong Island last time to give a lecture, you met Lou Xiao'e, right? He Yuzhu made up for it by himself.

"Yes, that's what we met."

A few people exchanged a few words and became acquainted.

"Silly Zhu, I want to invest in a high-end hotel, and I want to ask you to be the head chef." Lou Xiao'e invited.

"I'm the head chef? I'm afraid I don't have time for this. He Yuzhu didn't know what was going on, so he didn't dare to agree.

"Silly Zhu, your situation, I asked Xiaoqiang, you must be free in the afternoon, you still have a lot of apprentices, you bring them over to manage the kitchen, it must be no problem."

"I can squeeze out this time, but on the side of the rolling mill, I can't resign." He Yuzhu was reluctant to leave the canteen of the rolling mill where he had worked for many years.

"You don't have to resign, you work two jobs, one salary for the rolling mill and one salary for my hotel every month.

And I guarantee that the salary in the hotel is at least three times the salary of your rolling mill. ”

"The salary is quite high." He Yuzhu was a little moved. His two sons are old, they want to get married, and they have a lot of money to use.

"I'll interject." Zhou Qiang spoke, "Sister Lou, Brother Zhuzi, do you think this will work, Sister Lou will pay for it, Brother Zhuzi will give out the technology, you will open a hotel in partnership, and share the money you earn every year according to your contribution." ”

"Divided?" Lou Xiao'e was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "Xiaoqiang, you are deliberately favoring the stupid pillar in front of me." ”

"I don't have to divide it, I just get paid." He Yuzhu also understood what Zhou Qiang meant.

"In fact, the division is more reasonable." Lou Xiao'e took over, "It's me who didn't think it through."

Nowadays, there are many rich people, but what is lacking is a chef with real skills.

Silly Zhu, this hotel, you have technology to take shares, and I will contribute funds.

Let's calculate how much you share each year according to the proportion. ”

"Is that appropriate?" He Yuzhu felt a little embarrassed.

"If it's suitable, you should do it, and in the future, you stupid pillar will also be the owner of our hotel, and you will also be responsible for managing the hotel."

"What kind of hotel do I manage, I'm only in charge of the back kitchen, I just manage the back kitchen."

"Then I'll leave the kitchen to you."

"No problem."

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

It's been eighty-three years.

The compound has changed a little.

Aunt Yi is gone.

It walked abruptly, neatly and without bothering anyone.

It's just that after the aunt left, Yi Zhonghai's eating became a problem. He doesn't know how to cook.

Fortunately, there are silly pillars and Zhou Xiaoxia to help them.

Silly Zhu and Lou Xiao'e's hotel has opened.

He packs meals from the hotel every day.

When I went back, I also asked Yi Zhonghai to eat together.

Silly Zhu can be regarded as Yi Zhonghai's pension.

Yi Zhonghai handed over his monthly pension to Zhou Xiaoxia.

The stupid pillar didn't let him accept it, but Yi Zhonghai had to give it, and the stupid pillar couldn't stop it.

If nothing else, Yi Zhonghai's future house will be left to Silly Zhu.

Yi Zhonghai still has to rely on the stupid pillar to support the elderly in the end.

Since Silly Zhu earned money by working in a hotel outside, the people in the miscellaneous courtyard finally couldn't sit still.

First of all, there was Zhou Qiang, who opened a factory, ran a company, and made a lot of money.

And then there is a stupid pillar who works as a cook outside, and it makes a lot of money.

The people in the miscellaneous courtyard all want to go to the sea to make money.

The first to make a move was Xu Damao.

Xu Damao and Silly Zhu are mortal enemies.

What is going on in the stupid pillar, Xu Damao must take action.

Silly Zhu worked as a cook in a big hotel outside and made a lot of money, and the people in the courtyard were red-eyed.

Xu Damao was even more anxious.

He would never allow a fool to be better off than him.

Xu Damao thought about it for a few days, and finally came up with a solution.

He looked for bangs in the backyard and resold unplanned steel together.

Steel is in short supply, and there are many people who want to buy it, but there is no stock.

The apprentice in the bangs, one of whom is the director of the rolling mill branch, can get some unplanned steel through this relationship.

Although it is not a long-term business, it can make a lot of money in a short period of time.

Within a few months, Xu Damao put on a big gold chain and a suit, and people trembled.

The bangs are also loaded, and every day I drink a little wine, eat a few dishes, and eat fatter.

The two sons in the bangs, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, are still living in the miscellaneous courtyard, and they are even more filial to the bangs.

It's just that the habit of beating his son in the bangs has not changed.

From time to time, the son was bruised and purple.

For the sake of the house, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu continued to endure. They divided the house equally.

In the miscellaneous courtyard, the second one to make a move was Yu Li.

She is Yan Bugui's daughter-in-law and Yan Jiecheng's wife.

She wanted to get a small restaurant, but she didn't have the money and no cook.

On this day, she and Yan Jiecheng borrowed money from Yan Bugui and the three mothers.

"I can lend you money, but ah, I mean but, there has to be interest." Yan Bugui was careful in his calculations and would never let his son and daughter-in-law take advantage.

"Dad, what kind of interest do you want, the restaurant opened by Yu Li and I, you can pay money into shares, and you can also pay dividends every month." Yan Xie became enlightened. He wanted Yan Bugui to contribute money together and take risks together.

"That's not possible, if you lose it, your mother and I won't be able to drink the northwest wind." Yan Bugui loves money, but he is not very bold and always can't make a lot of money.

"Dad, how much interest do you want?" Yu Li asked. In fact, she doesn't want Yan Bugui to invest money in shares, if she makes money, she will give a part to Yan Bugui.

"It's not much, it's very interest." Yes, Yan Bugui Lion opened his mouth widely, which was much higher than the interest rate of the bank. He was able to eat Yan Jiecheng as a husband and wife, and there was nowhere to borrow money.

"Ten points of interest? Dad, you're robbing money! Yan Xie Cheng was anxious. Yu Li was also dumbfounded.

They knew that Yan Bugui loved to calculate, but they didn't expect to fall into the well and calculate to the death.

"What's wrong? Don't want to? Don't want to borrow money from me? Yan Bugui was not a little embarrassed, but a little proud, it seemed that he could calculate it again.

"Let's think about it." Yu Li and Yan Xie Cheng left.

"Dad, the interest you want is a bit high, isn't it?" The three mothers asked.

"It's not high, this is what they are begging us for, so we should ask for more interest." Yan Bugui has no family affection.

Yan Bugui's initial calculation was to survive.

Now that I calculate, it's obviously not.

In the past, 'calculation' was Yan Bugui's tool.

Now, 'calculation' has tied up Yan Bugui, making Yan Bugui a tool for 'calculation'.

Put the cart before the horse.

But there are too many such things.

A lot of people have become tools.

Yan Xie became a family.

"Very good, my dad is too ruthless." Yan Jiecheng looked helpless and angry.

"Yes, it's very profitable, we can't afford to borrow this 'usury'." Yu Li was also helpless.

"Why don't we wait and open a restaurant?" Yan Jiecheng had no choice.

"No, it's a good time to open a restaurant now, if we wait until later, I'm afraid that others will open it first, and we won't have a chance."

"What if you don't have money? Also, have you figured out what restaurant to open? ”

"I don't have the money to continue to borrow money. For restaurants, let's ask Silly Zhu to see if he can introduce a cook. ”

"Why don't you borrow money from a stupid pillar?"

"The children of the Silly Zhu family are about to get married, I'm afraid they won't have the money to lend us."

"Who do you want to borrow?"

"Who else has money in our compound?"

"Xu Damao? Second uncle? But they won't lend us money. ”

"There's one more you forgot."

"Who?" Yan Jiecheng thought for a moment, "Zhou Qiang? Do you want to borrow money from Zhou Qiang? ”

"Yes, the richest person in our compound is Zhou Qiang, I heard that he has several factories and companies, and he is building new factories recently."

"Can he lend us money?"

"I don't know, try it, maybe I can borrow it. I really can't borrow it, so I will borrow our father's 'loan shark'. ”

"That's all it can be."

Zhou Qiang's house.

Yu Li is here.

She came to Zhou Qiang to borrow money. Yan Jiecheng didn't come, he felt a little embarrassed and didn't want to come.

"Beautiful, busy?"

"yes, make some noodle soup." It was dinner time, and Wang Meili came back from work to cook. She is now working and studying for graduate school. She has stayed in school to become a teacher.

Wang Meimei's major is mathematics, and she studies basic mathematics, which basically does not produce any research results.

"Is Zhou Qiang here?"

"Yes, just came back."

"Sister Yu is here, please take a seat." Zhou Qiang heard the movement and came to the living room, where he was tutoring the child's homework in the study just now.

"Well, I'm here today to borrow some money from your family.

Rest assured, the interest rate or something will not be lower than that of the bank. Yu Li said directly and generously, not embarrassed.

"Borrowing money? I don't know if it's inconvenient to ask, what are you borrowing money for? Zhou Qiang asked casually.

"There's nothing inconvenient, I just want to open a restaurant and see if I can make money." Yu Li didn't hide it. She knew that Zhou Qiang didn't look down on this small business.

"That's a good idea." Zhou Qiang nodded, "How much does it cost?" ”

"It's not much, five thousand, or three thousand."

"Not much." Zhou Qiang was just about to agree, but someone came again.

Yan Bugui is here.

When he heard that Yu Li came to Zhou Qiang to borrow money, his first reaction was, "It's a bad thing, I can't earn interest." ”

He hurriedly came to Zhou Qiang's house to see if he could lower the interest a little and let Yu Li borrow his money.

Although it is said that it is less profitable, it is better than not earning at all.

"Dad, why are you here?" Yu Li asked, while thinking about what Yan Bu was going to do.

Yan Bugui nodded with Zhou Qiang and Wang Meili, and said to Li: "If you want to borrow money to find me, you don't have to trouble Xiaoqiang and them." ”

"But." Yu Li wanted to talk about interest.

"No, but, our family is easy to discuss, and the interest can also be discussed." Yan Bugui said in a low voice at the end.

"Dad, if you tell me the truth, how much interest do you want?" Yu Li didn't deliberately whisper.

"This, how about eight points?" Yan Bugui had to continue, because Yu Li had no intention of leaving.

"No, it's too much." Yu Li shook her head.

"What about six?" Yan Bugui's face hurt.

"Dad, you deposit in the bank, the interest is about four cents, how about I calculate five points for you?" Yu Li said.

"This. Yan Bugui didn't want to agree, he felt that he didn't have much to earn.

Zhou Qiang looked funny, but he didn't interject.

Although Yan Bugui is a principled person and has a bottom line, he calculates too much, and he doesn't want to have too much contact with Yan Bugui.

"If it doesn't work, I will" Yu Li looked at Zhou Qiang.

"Alright then, just do as you say." Yan Bugui agreed helplessly. He looked at Zhou Qiang's eyes, a little unhappy. But not resentful eyes.

"So you've got it done? Borrow or not to borrow? Zhou Qiang asked.

"Don't borrow it, Zhou Qiang will trouble you." Yu Li was a little embarrassed this time. She took her leave.

"Sister Yu, we'll cook right away, let's eat together?" Wang Meili said politely.

"No, I still have something to do." Yu Li is gone. She wanted to go to Silly Zhu and ask about the cook.

Yan Bugui didn't leave.

He really stayed to eat.

A meal, Zhou Qiang doesn't care.

He got some good wine and drank a few glasses with Yan Bugui.

"Xiaoqiang, I don't know if Yu Li's restaurant can make money?" Yan Bugui asked. He's thinking about whether to buy a stake.

"Three masters, there are not many people who open restaurants now, as long as you work hard, you should be able to make money."

"I don't know how much money I can make?"

"It depends on how the cook is, if the cook is good, he will make a lot of money."

"Cook? I wonder if the pillar can find a good cook? ”

"I guess so. Brother Zhu knows a lot of chefs, and those chefs also have apprentices, so if you introduce one casually, you must be a good chef.

It's just that I don't know if Yu Li's hotel can afford to invite people. ”

Yan Bugui nodded, he also understood that the restaurant was too small to support a chef.

But if you open a big hotel, the money may not be enough.

"Xiaoqiang, if we don't have enough money to open a restaurant, can we borrow it from you?" Yan Bugui had the idea of opening a bigger restaurant.

"Yes, one or two thousand is fine." Zhou Qiang said that there was an upper limit.

"What about interest?"

"Pay back the money within a year, and you don't need to calculate the interest." Yan Bugui has had a good relationship with Zhou Qiang over the years, although Zhou Qiang does not plan to have more contact with Yan Bugui, but the matter of one or two thousand is nothing.

"That's a good idea." Yan Bugui smiled and left.

"Brother Qiang, the Yan family is going to open a restaurant?" Wang Meili was curious.

"Yes, that Yan Jiecheng's daughter-in-law Yu Li has a good eye, and she is also a capable person, so she knows that now is a good time to open a restaurant."

"Brother Qiang, Jiawen said they also want to do business."

"What kind of business do you want to do? Want to borrow money? ”

"They don't know what they're going to do yet, and they probably have to borrow money."

"You can open a hot pot restaurant, you don't need a chef, and the business will definitely work."

"A hot pot restaurant? Hot pot in Sichuan? ”

"Sort of, depending on the situation, you can adjust the bottom of the pot and add more flavor."

"Then I'll tell Jiawen tomorrow and let them hurry up and find a store."

"Okay. Beautiful, you take the time to ask Aunt Wang to see if there are any shops to take, and there are courtyards, and there are any to sell. ”

"Do you want to buy shops and courtyards?"

"Yes, these will definitely increase in price in the future."

"Then I'll ask tomorrow."

(End of chapter)