Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

"Mom, have you bought a workstation..." Qin Huairu had just walked in when Kuihua's expectant voice rang out in the room.

Several people from the Jia family looked at Qin Huairu together as if they had discussed it beforehand.

Qin Huairu shook his head and answered helplessly, "Tang Dashan is Wang Dong's apprentice. We have a grudge against Wang Dong. He didn't want to sell the workstation to us, so he deliberately offered a price of 600 yuan and didn't even give me a chance to bargain."

"Shazhu doesn't show any mercy. He wants fifty dollars to kill this scoundrel, not a penny less."

After hearing this, Jia Zhang started to curse: "That bastard Shazhu..."

"My family bought his workstation because we think highly of him. But they asked for such a high price. They are so ungrateful."

"I agreed to let Huairu marry him. My conscience has been eaten by a dog."

"No, I'll go find him now..."

"Huai Ru, give me 500 yuan, and I will definitely buy back his workstation for Kui Hua."

"If he doesn't sell it, I will block his door and wait to see who can get away with it."

Qin Huairu was so angry at Jia Zhang's stupid behavior that she frowned and cursed, "Mom..."

"Can you calm down a bit."

"The siheyuan today is no longer the siheyuan of more than ten years ago."

"Not only will it not have any effect in the courtyard, but it will also offend people severely."

"Now Shazhu has agreed to sell the workstation to us for 550 yuan. If you go over and make a scene, they might not even sell it to us for 600 yuan. How can we let Kuihua go to work in the steel mill then?"

Kuihua suddenly interrupted: "Mom..."

"Five hundred and fifty is five hundred and fifty. I will pay you back six hundred and fifty when the time comes."

"If you were out there, you wouldn't be able to buy a regular job in a steel mill even for 600 yuan, let alone 550 yuan."

"I don't want to look for a job outside every day. I must seize this opportunity to work in the steel mill and earn a salary."

The reason why Qin Huairu went home was to ask Guihua for charging an extra fifty yuan in interest. Otherwise, if he gave He Yuzhu five hundred and fifty yuan, she would earn fifty yuan less in interest, and she absolutely could not bear this loss alone.

I nodded immediately: "Okay... Mom will go to the backyard to buy this workstation for you now."

Two days later, Tang Dashan and Ermao's plan to sell their workstations finally came to an end.

Tang Dashan and his wife sold their workstations to Yan Fugui and a resident in the backyard respectively, Ermao sold his workstation to a neighbor in the middle yard, and Aunt Zhang in the backyard also took the opportunity to sell her workstation.

What made Qin Huairu most desperate was that except for the 550 yuan that his family spent on purchasing the workstation, the price of the remaining four workstations was 500 yuan each.

For this reason, Qin Huairu even went to He Yuzhu's house in the backyard to cause trouble, wanting to get back the extra fifty yuan.

But He Yuzhu rejected it.

The two parties must either reach a deal at a price of 550 yuan or cancel the transaction. Kuihua will be returned to He Yuzhu's workstation, and He Yuzhu will return 50 yuan to Qin Huairu.

Now all the workstations in the courtyard have been sold out. If He Yuzhu's workstation is returned, Kuihua can only go outside and buy a workstation in the steel rolling mill, and the price will not be something that can be obtained with just 550 yuan.

Faced with He Yuzhu's threat to cancel the transaction at any time, Qin Huairu could only swallow his anger and lose the fifty dollars.

After the news spread, the Jia family once again became the target of ridicule by everyone in the courtyard.

Some people say that the Jia family has bad character, so no one in the courtyard is willing to befriend them and help them. Some people say that the Jia family has offended Wang Dong in the front yard. Tang Dashan, Ermao, He Yuzhu, and Aunt Zhang in the back yard... all have very good relationships with Wang Dong, and they must seize this opportunity to severely cheat the Jia family. Who made them so shameless in the courtyard before...

As a result, for a long time, Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi would be pointed at and criticized whenever they appeared in front of their neighbors.

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Dongjun Restaurant is the name Wang Dong gave to his own restaurant.

The huge signboard was covered with red silk, quietly waiting for the opening.

In this residential area filled with courtyard houses, two connected five-story buildings rose from the ground, instantly attracting the attention of all the surrounding residents.

Every day, countless people come here to watch the fun and want to know what these two high-rise buildings are used for.

Early this morning, Wang Dong, along with Tang Dashan and his wife, He Yuzhu, Ermao, and his wife Chen Jun, rushed into the two buildings in a mighty force.

As you enter the door, you will see a lobby that is more than 20 meters wide and more than 40 meters long. There are more than 20 thick pillars in the middle of the lobby, and there is a stage in the area closest to the inside.

At a glance, this hall can accommodate at least thirty large round tables, making it particularly suitable for wedding banquets.

For chefs like He Yuzhu and Tang Dashan, their favorite place is the kitchen.

If you want to prepare meals for hundreds of tables at one time, an ordinary kitchen is definitely not able to do it.

Without waiting for the two men to speak, Wang Dong took them straight to the corridor between the two buildings.

The kitchen is located on the first floor of the corridor.

In this way, when the annex building opens in the future, the kitchen will be able to serve food to the guests in the annex building as soon as possible.

Although the area is slightly smaller than the lobby of the main building, it is more than ten meters wide and more than twenty meters long.

A row of more than ten stoves is distributed on one side of the kitchen, with the side dish and vegetable cutting area in the middle and the plain and steamed food area on the other side.

These were all copied by Wang Dong based on the appearance of restaurant kitchens in later generations.

He Yuzhu and Tang Dashan both fell in love with it at first sight, looking here and touching there.

As the future head chef of the restaurant, Tang Dashan took a quick look and immediately put forward his idea: "Master..."

"From the perspective of the size of the kitchen, we need a total of 12 chefs for cooking, two chefs for plain dishes, two chefs for steaming dishes, and two chefs for making cold dishes. In total, we need 18 chefs."

"We only have three chefs here, and we need 15 more to ensure the normal operation of the kitchen..."

"Each chef needs an assistant, plus food preparers, vegetable cutters, and waiters... We need to hire 50 to 60 people just for the kitchen..."

"Isn't this scene a bit too big?"

It was only then that Yu Li realized how big the restaurant Wang Dong was going to open was. She was shocked and continued, "Master..."

"The lobby we saw just now can accommodate at least thirty-six large tables. One waiter is responsible for two tables, plus two coordinators, so there will be about twenty waiters in total."

"There are a lot of private rooms upstairs. The smaller rooms have one waiter, and the larger rooms have two to three waiters. On average, there are at least 20 waiters on each floor, which adds up to 80 to 90 waiters..."

"Where can we find so many people?" (End of this chapter)