Ahem –

Everyone picked up their teacups and took a sip of tea almost at the same time, in order to hide the embarrassment of being led astray by Xu An's kid. In the end, it was the Han middle-aged man who came out to play a round and began to ask about Xu An's fast food restaurant. The middle-aged man had heard about it from the old village chief before, and he had seen it on TV, but now he still wanted to hear what Xu An had to say.

Xu's fast food restaurant is doing a legitimate livelihood, not an unsavory business, and there is nothing to hide. Xu An started with the idea of setting up a stall to sell boxed lunches, and told that until now, Xu's fast food restaurant can sell 3,000 boxed lunches a day, and after the expo starts, it can be directly doubled.

At first, the middle-aged man asked with the idea of listening to the career situation of the younger generation, and learned that the three stores of Xu's fast food restaurant add up to an area of only 200 square meters, and the daily sales have reached more than 3,000 copies, and the sales will double in the future. The most important thing is that Xu's fast food restaurant only does business for lunch at noon, and after such a high sales volume, he became interested in Xu's fast food restaurant and began to inquire about Xu's fast food restaurant.

For example, how many employees are there in the store, what time is the working time, can so many people be busy, and a series of questions.

When they heard that Xu's fast food restaurant was equipped with automated kitchen equipment to undertake tasks such as washing and cutting vegetables, which greatly saved time, manpower and material resources, the middle-aged Hanhan's interest in Xu's fast food restaurant reached its peak directly.

"Now the boxed lunch in the store is eight yuan, three dishes and one soup, can this price be pushed down a little more?" After the middle-aged man asked a few questions again, he suddenly asked a little abruptly.

A hint of embarrassment flashed in Xu An's eyes, the quality and quantity of the meals produced by Xu's fast food restaurant are obvious to everyone, and they are better than 95% of the fast food on the market. At present, the price of eight yuan is in a delicate balance point, if it is cheap, it will not make money, and if it is expensive, customers will feel that it is not cost-effective. If the price is lowered, you can only choose to reduce the quality of the food, otherwise it will be similar to doing charity.

"The quality of the lunch boxes produced by Xu's fast food restaurant is worthy of this price, or even surpasses this price, and if you press it down, you can only make a loss-making transaction." After thinking about it again and again, Xu An didn't slap his swollen face and become fat, and directly rejected the proposal.

The middle-aged man nodded thoughtfully, stopped the topic and started a new round of inquiry. For example, how are the lunch boxes of Xu's fast food restaurant transported? Where are fruits and vegetables sourced? Can you issue a certificate?

When answering these questions, Xu An felt that he was back at the bidding site of the Haishi Machinery and Equipment Expo. The questions asked by the middle-aged man were more in-depth and detailed than those asked at the bidding meeting, and almost turned out the old bottom of Xu's fast food restaurant.

After asking Xu An, the second grandfather chatted with Professor Yu and the middle-aged man Han Han on the topic of 'tidal flat farming' for a while, and the three finally reached an agreement. Professor Yu verbally promised that as long as Xujiacun leased the entire tidal flat, he would immediately submit a project research application to the school, and if there was no emergency in the next three to five years, Professor Yu and others would spend most of their time in the sea market, and the second grandfather could ask him if he had any technical problems or incurable diseases.

The only regret is that the second grandfather originally put the 300,000 yuan promised by Professor Yu into the lease reserve fund, but now he has to wait for Xujiacun to lease the tidal flats, and this money will be given to Xujiacun for the development of tidal flats. As a result, there is an additional 300,000 shortfall in the reserve fund.

Professor Yu made such a promise in front of the second grandfather and the middle-aged man, and it will not change easily, it seems that he has to start taking out a loan from the Haishi Bank, after all, it will take some time for the loan to be approved, and the sooner you prepare, the better. Xu An secretly thought in his heart.

After chatting a few words, Xu An and Xu Dongliang were invited to the courtyard to admire the moon, and there were only three people left in the room: the second grandfather, Professor Yu and the middle-aged man Hanhan.

After Xu An and Xu Dongliang left, the second grandfather looked at the middle-aged man and asked unceremoniously, "How do I feel that you want to trap my nephew?" ”

"Haha, how can it be, I have always done things above board, how could I do things that harm others, especially if Xu An is still the nephew of the old village chief, it is even more impossible to harm him. If I can find him, that must be a great thing. The middle-aged man added: "But this thing earns fame rather than money, it depends on what your nephew thinks, if he is not happy, I will not force it." ”

Since it was not a bad thing, the second grandfather did not continue to ask, and turned his head to talk to Professor Yu about the details of the cooperation

After Xu An and Xu Dongliang were taken to the courtyard by the doorman, the doorman retreated to an inconspicuous corner on the side, put his hands in his wide sleeves, lowered his head and lowered his eyes, and made a look of not seeing and not listening to indecent things.

The two walked dozens of steps along the stone path, listened to the sound of gurgling water, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and finally walked to a pavilion and sat on a stone bench. Xu An estimated the distance, and after the conversation between the two would not be heard by the doorman, he finally couldn't hold back his mouth.

"Uncle Dongliang, let's talk about the relationship between the second grandfather and the middle-aged man." Suddenly, Xu An thought of an extremely outrageous guess, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Could it be that the middle-aged man is the illegitimate son of the second grandfather!" ”

Ahem cough – cough cough cough ————

Xu Dongliang was so frightened by Xu An's guess that he choked, and after a violent cough, Xu Dongliang rubbed his hands on Xu An's hair, and said angrily: "If your words are heard by the second grandmother, I guarantee that you won't be able to eat and walk around in the future, don't you see the second grandfather like this?" What are you thinking about at such a young age, filthy! ”

Hey!

Xu An, who knew that he was wrong, did not refute out loud, and smirked twice to get by. Xu Dongliang also knew that Xu An just said it casually, and after a few reprimands, he didn't grasp the problem, and opened his mouth to explain to Xu An the relationship between the second grandfather and the Han Han middle-aged man.

In the eighties and nineties, the second grandfather saw that other people were making a lot of money as a fallen master, so he also moved his mind, and planned to take a trip by himself to see, if the difficulty of operation is not high, the risk is not large, he will take the people of Xujia Village to do this together, and strive to make every household in Xujia Village become a 10,000 yuan household. So, the second grandfather took the thousands of pieces that the whole village put together, and embarked on the journey to the south in the expectant eyes of the whole village.

Not to mention the railway stations in the eighties and nineties, even in the early twenty-first century, there are many Jiangyang thieves, as well as the notorious bikers. The second grandfather didn't have a beard at that time, and his appearance was not as fairy as it is now, with his burly and majestic body, he was a bandit, and no one dared to beat him along the way.

But on the way back, I still encountered an eyeless thief, but the thief did not come for the second grandfather, but for a young couple with a child sitting opposite the second grandfather. Just by looking at the dress, you know that the family of three is in good condition, plus the child has been eating non-stop since he got in the car, and he actually took out a hamburger and fries halfway. It is very logical that this family of three was targeted by thieves.

The second grandfather ate two French fries under the warm greeting of the little boy, which can be regarded as a foreign meat. If the road is safe, then everyone is a nodding friend, and after getting off the car, they forget each other in the rivers and lakes, but the three thieves made a move.

The second grandfather did not say anything about the process of subduing the three thieves, but in the end, the second grandfather was like carrying a little chicken, and the enthusiastic people who helped also caught one and handed it over to the law enforcement officers. Law enforcement officers recovered five knives from the three unconscious people, one of which was a kitchen knife.

The second grandfather also appeared in the news newspaper because of this, if you ask the second grandmother, the second grandmother can also find out the newspaper and show it to everyone. Because of this experience, the second grandfather felt that this business was too risky, so he sold out the goods sold back this time, and after distributing the money to everyone, he never mentioned it again.

The rest of the plot is very old-fashioned, the little boy is the current middle-aged man, and the young couple is the parents of the middle-aged man. After getting off the train, the second grandfather kept in touch with the parents of the middle-aged Hanhan, and greeted them every New Year's Day, until a few years ago, the middle-aged Hanhan came to work in Haishi, and the two had direct contact.

So that's the case, no wonder the second grandfather was able to go to the city to attend the meeting, no wonder the second grandfather was so confident, no wonder the second grandfather was not in a hurry at all.

The three people in the room seemed to finish talking, and the three of them came out of the room together and beckoned Xu An and the others to come over and leave together.

After bidding farewell to the three old village chiefs and Professor Yu, the middle-aged man returned to the office and found a document on the desktop - "Proposal on the Policy Subsidy Program for the Lonely and Widowed Elderly and Empty Nesters in Haishi". The middle-aged man then opened the file and flipped to the penultimate page, which contained a supplement.

After investigation and research, the vast majority of lonely elderly and empty nesters have mistreated themselves in life, and the rice, flour, grain and oil distributed will be stored until the expiration date has not been opened. It is recommended to establish a canteen for the elderly, issue meal tickets for the elderly to go to the canteen to eat, increase volunteers, deliver meals and condolences to the elderly who are unable to go out with inconvenient legs and feet, and help solve some normal living needs.'

When he looked through the documents, the simple look on the middle-aged man's face faded, his eyes became sharp, and his eyebrows were full of perseverance, composure and calmness, which instantly filled people with a sense of trust.

"Xu's fast food restaurant, daily sales of 6,000, eight yuan, three dishes and one soup." The middle-aged man muttered, the fingers of his right hand flexed, and he tapped on the table with great rhythm.

Xu An didn't return home until ten o'clock in the night, Grandma Xu, Xu Kang and Xu Le had already fallen asleep, Xu An washed his face with a basin of well water, and only saw his appearance in the mirror when he wiped his face, with two sausage mouths hanging on his face. Xu An stretched out his fingers and flicked his lower lip in disbelief, and saw his lower lip 'duangduang' throb twice, and when he spoke, his upper and lower lips also shook 'duangduang', but he didn't feel the slightest feeling

Sure enough, whether it is the second grandfather who seems to be five big and three coarse, or the smug Uncle Liang, or Professor Yu who concentrates on academics and does not care about the world, and the seemingly innocent and harmless middle-aged man, all of them are human spirits! Otherwise, how could he be able to chat with such a face as usual and seriously!

Xu An tiptoed back to the bedroom, although the movements were very soft, the sound was very small, and the phone screen was not even turned on, and he returned to bed directly in the dark. Xu Kang and Xu Le still heard the movement, their eyes opened a small slit, and after seeing that it was Xu An, the two of them sat up suddenly, with a little dazed on their faces.

"Why did you fall asleep, didn't you say that you would wait for your brother to come back and sleep together?" Xu Le's villain sued first, and his chubby fingers poked directly at Xu Kang's fleshy little face.

"You fell asleep first! Called you several times and you ignored me and then. And then I fell asleep too. Xu Kang slapped Xu Le's little finger away with one hand, and said confidently, but the more he spoke, the lower his voice became.

"Didn't my brother say on the phone that he would come back later tonight, so let you go to bed first. You promised your brother on the phone, you two don't talk much! Seeing that the two seemed to be arguing about who would fall asleep first, and seeing that the spirits of the two were getting more and more full, Xu An hurriedly interrupted the two.

"We miss my brother, my brother is not there, and the room has become so scary!" Xu Kang and Xu Le hid in Xu An's arms and stretched out their hands to the wall: "Brother, look, there is a shadow on the wall that keeps moving, is it an old witch who has come to arrest us!" ”

Xu An looked at it steadily, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. The shadow of the old witch in the mouths of Xu Kang and Xu Le was the shadow of the moonlight shining on the longan tree and falling on the wall through the window. The evening breeze shook the leaves of the longan tree, and the shadows on the wall kept moving.

"Do you see the moon outside, it's the shadow of the moon shining on the trees, not the old witch?" Xu An explained to the two seriously, but looking at the bewildered expressions on their faces, he knew that the two did not understand.

Xu An thought about it, got off the bed and walked to the window, hooked the thumbs of both hands, and put the other four fingers together, and after some angle adjustment, a shadow of an eagle appeared on the wall. With the change of Xu An's gestures, the shadow on the wall turned into a running rabbit for a while, and a turtle with a shrunken head for a while, causing the two little guys to exclaim continuously, leaving the old witch's shadow behind.

(End of chapter)