Chapter 241: Waiting for Someone
A few days after the festival, the business of Haiqin Restaurant is almost like a replica.
Every day, the house is full of friends, and the business is booming.
It's jaw-dropping.
In the past few nights, Zhang Zhaohai and Song Wenqin counted their turnover every night, from the initial ecstasy, to the shock and incomprehension in the back, and then to the numbness in the back.
They seem... I finally began to accept the fact that my hotel was inexplicably on fire.
At noon that day, Zhang Zhaohai stood outside the door of the restaurant, looking at the noisy lobby, smoking cigarettes one by one.
"Is it really going to be on fire?" He muttered to himself.
Two days ago, their family had just negotiated the filming details with the [Taste of the World] documentary director team, and the time had been set, just waiting for the recent door-to-door shooting.
What he originally expected was that in the future, the documentary would be released, and he would take advantage of the east wind to hype up a wave of his own restaurant.
The restaurant that can be on the penguin video food show, thinking about it is enough to have a topic, according to the local Yinghai people like to join in the fun, the business will definitely soar to 90,000 miles.
However, at the moment, the shooting has not yet begun, how can this enter this rhythm in advance?
"Ancestors bless!" He closed his eyes tightly and prayed silently.
"Lao Zhang, go to the kitchen to help again, the newly recruited chef will be here in the afternoon." At the bar, Song Wenqin began to greet again.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Zhang Zhaohai responded as he turned around and walked into the kitchen.
The boom in business has dwarfed the original number of chefs, and in the past few days, whether it is a chef, a waiter aunt, or a dishwashing aunt in the back kitchen, they are urgently replenishing manpower.
He's a boss, these days it's ... To put it mildly, it was almost used as a livestock.
At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the store took a breather.
Zhang Zhaohai and Song Wenqin stood outside the restaurant, chatting while blowing the wind and breathing in the fresh air.
"Stop smoking, don't you smell enough of the kitchen fumes?" Song Wenqin saw Zhang Zhaohai's enthusiasm for smoking, so he took down the cigarette butt and threw it away.
Zhang Zhaohai didn't care, just smiled to himself.
Laughing and laughing, he took a deep breath, and his eyes were not cloudy at all, but extremely bright.
"Sure enough, men still have to work hard to be energetic and look young."
He smiled and hugged Song Wenqin's shoulders.
"Brother Zhang, I really envy you and your sister-in-law, after so many years, the relationship is still so good." The owner of the cigarette hotel next door came out just to see this scene and joked.
"Of course that's good, the relationship between the two of us is like glue." Zhang Zhaohai was triumphant.
is smiling, and the soft flesh around his waist is a pain.
"Got carried away, didn't you?" Song Wenqin said with a smile, "If you float like this again, go back and explain to me that you have been watching Maybach go out to see your old classmate recently." ”
"I'm buying, talking about business, don't wronged me." Zhang Zhaohai hurriedly raised his hand and swore.
"Believe you, by the way, there is still dinner in the evening, don't forget." Song Wenqin suddenly thought of something and reminded him.
"You know, your brother and sister's birthday?" Zhang Zhaohai said with a smile.
Today is the birthday of his brother-in-law Song Wenbo's wife, that is, his aunt Zhou Xiaona.
Although the relationship between the two families has not been good since the last incident, it does not mean that they have broken off contact, after all, they are Song Wenqin's younger brother and sister.
It is his son Zhang Yang's brother-in-law, aunt-in-law.
Although the skin of that face is on the verge of tearing, but... Isn't it not torn after all?
"It's good that you haven't forgotten, just have a meal." Song Wenqin looked at Zhang Zhaohai's expression, and said with a smile, "Don't take the two of them to heart, anyway, our family is cooking oil on the fire now, and they only have envy." ”
"No, I'm not so guilty." Zhang Zhaohai smiled, "Don't worry, I won't talk less on the scene, and I won't make it difficult for you." ”
"If only you knew what I meant." Song Wenqin breathed a sigh of relief.
said a thousand words and ten thousand, after all, it was her brother.
She just hates those two people no matter how much she doesn't want to make a drama about the breaking up of her sister and brother in front of her mother, which makes the old man worry in vain.
Just like Zhang Zhaohai just said, the work on the scene is passable.
"I also said to Zhang Yang, let's go over together at night." Zhang Zhaohai thought for a while and asked, "Let's drive a car?" ”
"Why don't you drive three?" Song Wenqin asked with a smile all of a sudden, as if she saw Zhang Zhaohai's thoughts.
"Huh? Wouldn't it be too deliberate? Zhang Zhaohai was stunned for a moment, and said with a rare embarrassment.
When the time comes, maybe others will murmur behind their backs.
said that this family, at first glance, it was deliberate, obviously one car was fine, but he had to drive three cars to show off.
"Don't pretend to be you, don't you just want to show off? It's good to be generous! Song Wenqin said with a smile.
Whether it is deliberate or not, it depends on the situation.
If you drive three ordinary cars over, of course it is very strange, very deliberate, very pretending, others must be talking behind their backs, saying what to pretend? It doesn't add up enough for the price of a Mercedes-Benz, so what's there to pack?
But what if it's a combination of Cullinan, Bentley, Maybach?
You are just showing off in the past, showing off in the past, even if others know that you are showing off, what can others do? The roar of the V12 engine is enough to cover up some gossip...
"Ahaha." Zhang Zhaohai rubbed his hands excitedly, "Then our family will drive three cars!" ”
It's approaching evening.
Zhang Zhaohai and Song Wenqin explained some things to the staff in the restaurant, and then went to the restaurant of his brother-in-law Song Wenbo's house first.
Two cars, Bentley and Maybach, go hand in hand and head straight to their destination.
Downstairs at the Four Seasons Hotel, Zhang Yang had just walked out of the hotel and went straight to his Cullinan.
After a while, the throttle was lightly pressed, accompanied by a roar, and went straight to the destination.
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When night falls, Wenbo Restaurant.
Three cars, one in front of the other, stopped next to each other in the parking lot in front of the restaurant.
The sky is dark, and the autumn is slightly cool, so there are naturally no people outside at this point. After the family of three got out of the car, they talked and laughed and walked straight to the restaurant.
"Dad, how do you feel?" Zhang Yang asked half-jokingly.
"This..." Zhang Zhaohai looked at the restaurant in front of him that he had worked in for a long time, smacked his lips, and had mixed feelings.
From sending people under the fence to now having their own restaurant, and the business of their own restaurant, any day is more prosperous than the business of the restaurant in front of him on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
This feeling·· It's really proud...
If you don't have a good time after leaving, your resentment will naturally only accumulate, and you will only feel more sorry for yourself. But now, my family is living so beautifully, and those unhappy pasts are just a smile at the moment, and they go away with the wind.
It was only at this moment that he truly understood what it meant to be an adult who does not remember a villain.
"It's all gone." Zhang Zhaohai just said it plainly.
Walking in, in the box on the second floor, a large family gathered together.
Grandmother, several aunts and uncles, only Li Kaiguang is there for juniors, after all, everyone else, who goes to school, works in other places. is the little cousin Song Yumeng, her mother's birthday, and she was not present because of her heavy studies.
"Third sister, third brother-in-law, you are here!" Song Wenbo stepped forward and opened his mouth a little unnaturally.
"Hmm." Song Wenqin nodded lukewarmly.
It was Zhang Zhaohai, whose face was as usual, and he naturally took out his cigarette and scattered around.
Of course, cigarettes are good cigarettes, they are the golden leaves of the sky that he always smokes, thousands of packs, he used to smoke for a while, and there was a little pain, but gradually, ushered in the send, and now he has long been accustomed to it in his life.
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they all happily took the cigarette in the greeting.
When he handed it to Song Wenbo, he was stunned for a moment, took it and hung it behind his ears.
"Hello, uncle, aunt." Zhang Yang also nodded, which was regarded as a greeting.
Song Wenbo and his family, at first glance, Zhang Yang were a little dumbfounded.
This eyebrows and eyes are handsome, just like a dragon and phoenix among people, as for the shadow of the past, it took a lot of effort to find a trace of it.
"Zhang Yang, you are really..." Song Wenbo searched for a long time, he was stunned and couldn't find any words to describe it, and in the end, it was just a dry sentence. "The appearance of character is becoming more and more outstanding."
"Zhang Yang, did our Song Yumeng go to your place to play during the summer vacation? I heard her say, you seem to have a girlfriend, why didn't you bring it back? Zhou Xiaona, the little aunt on the side, said suddenly.
"What else did Yumeng say?" Zhang Yang asked with a wink.
"Isn't that all? What else? Zhou Xiaona asked inexplicably.
"It's really nothing, my girlfriend is busy in the magic capital, so she didn't come back." Zhang Yang explained briefly, knowing that the little cousin really did what he said, and did not reveal too many details.
Including those things that bought her things.
He bought things for his little cousin, it was purely a brother-sister relationship, and he never expected his little aunt to be grateful to him.
Therefore, it is better to have more than one thing, and it is better not to tell it.
"You're really, it's a big holiday, and you don't know how to bring your girlfriend back to show up and meet everyone, my Yumeng doesn't praise your girlfriend." Zhou Xiaona said a few simple greetings, "In terms of age, it's almost time to get married at the age of twenty-five, don't patronize your career, how big is your career?" Are you really planning to buy a house in the magic capital? ”
She still stayed at the last time Zhang Yang drove a Porsche and came back. At this moment, he put on a posture of elders.
Zhang Yang smiled, didn't say anything, and went straight to the table.
"Zhang Yang, come, sit here with me?" Li Kaiguang, the elder brother of the aunt's family, hurriedly signaled.
"How's it going?" Zhang Yang sat down and casually greeted Li Kaiguang. "The one in your WeChat·· It's called Zhou Tian, right? Still in touch? ”
"It's still like that." Li Kaiguang stroked his thick glasses. "It's not salty, it's not light, I understand, mentality is king, she hangs me, I hang her, resolutely not humble."
"Very good." Zhang Yang nodded and did not express any opinion.
"By the way, the Wang Luyao who went to the nightclub with Zhou Tian last time, Zhou Tian's best friend, do you remember?" Li Kaiguang asked, "I heard Zhou Tian say that after people broke up with their boyfriends, they have been thinking about you." ”
"I remember." Zhang Yang nodded.
"Every time Zhou Tian takes the initiative to find me, she is always talking about her best friend, but you have nothing to do, but you take care of others." Li Kaiguang's mouth was infinitely emotional, "That's you, you can't take such a girl to heart." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, we're pure friendship, okay?" Zhang Yang chuckled lightly and added in his heart.
The kind of friendship that comes in the last friendly game.
Sitting next to Li Kaiguang, Zhang Yang felt that after all, he couldn't go back to the state of mind that the brothers exchanged their experiences with great interest many years ago.
The levels are different, and those topics that used to be exciting have long been unable to arouse his interest.
It's like Li Kaiguang excitedly said which colleague in the company is a goddess, a beautiful batch, Zhang Yang went over to take a look, and the actual appearance is just the female employees who can be seen everywhere in his hotel industry.
Like a carp crossing the river, there are as many as you want.
"Who are you waiting for?" Zhang Yang looked around, and felt that almost all the people had come.
relatives on his own side, as well as his parents on his aunt Zhou Xiaona's side.
"I heard that it is a distant brother of my aunt's family, who has been doing business in other places all the year round and is very powerful." Li Kaiguang lowered his voice and explained, "It seems that he has had business in Yinghai recently, so he came back, and this time it was my aunt's birthday, and I specially invited him." ”
"Oh." Zhang Yang nodded, but he was not reassured.
In the box, he and Li Kaiguang were chatting.
Not far away, the elders were also chatting, and the topics occasionally revolved around Zhang Zhaohai and his family. After all, everyone knows that their family also has a restaurant now, and I heard that the business is not bad.
"Drying a restaurant and being a chef are two different things, not the same." Zhou Xiaona said sour beside her.
"Take your time." Zhang Zhaohai drank tea and said with a smile.
Facing the face of the past again, there is really no ripple in my heart, and in terms of self-cultivation, I don't know how much higher than the one in front of me.
"Take your time? As long as the business can't go up for a day, housing, water, electricity, labor, which doesn't need money, how can there be a chance to take it slowly? Zhou Xiaona muttered.
Song Wenbo was beside him, gently pulled Zhou Xiaona's sleeve, and Zhou Xiaona broke free impatiently, and glared at him fiercely by the way.
On the side, Zhou Xiaona's parents coughed twice.
"Xiaona, you call your big brother Wencheng, where do you see it? It's not early. Zhou Xiaona's mother, who was chatting with Zhang Yang's grandmother, reminded her.
"How can this be urged, Mom, it's not that you don't know how busy other people's careers are, understand." Zhou Xiaona said, raised her eyes with a smile, and greeted everyone, "Wait, big guy, it's coming, it's coming." ”
Everyone looked at each other, seeing that it was close to seven o'clock, and they all wanted to stop talking.
Besides, you didn't even call to ask, how did you know that it was going to be soon?
"Come on, come and play cards, wait a little longer, wait a little longer." Song Wenbo stood up to play a round and beckoned a few uncles to play cards together.
The crowd was not in the mood to play cards.
After all, it's time, everyone is hungry, usually at this time, I went out for a walk after dinner early, and I haven't even moved my chopsticks today.
"It's okay, it's okay, let's drink tea, and we're not in a hurry, so the cards won't be played." It was the eldest aunt who stood up and said something.
(End of chapter)