The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 265 Visiting
Sha Zhu is the only person in the courtyard who often interacts with Liu Hua. The two courtyards are not far away, and he will come to visit when he has time.

Shazhu was also having a day off today, so he came to visit with some freshly pickled Sichuan pickles.

"I've discovered that without you in the courtyard, I can't find anyone to chat with." Sha Zhu said with a bit of regret: "The longer I live in this courtyard, the more I feel that everyone in our courtyard is a bunch of jerk."

"What's wrong? Who has offended you again?" Liu Hua poured a cup of tea for Sha Zhu. "The courtyard has been much quieter in the past two years. It was not quiet before because Yi Zhonghai was worried about his retirement. Now he doesn't have to worry anymore. Only Jia Zhang is making trouble. It should be easy for you, Sha Zhu, to deal with a mere Jia Zhang. If you really can't do it, slap her twice."

"She's already in her sixties or seventies. It doesn't seem right to hit an old lady."

"It's right to respect the old and love the young." Liu Hua nodded, "But you have to know who you are dealing with. For someone like Jia Zhang who is disrespectful to the elderly, no one will mind if you slap him twice. Even if you call the police, as long as the people in the yard are willing to speak a fair word, the police will not do anything to you."

It would have been fine if Jia Zhangshi hadn't been mentioned. Once Jia Zhangshi was mentioned, Sha Zhu was overjoyed and said with a smile, "Jia Zhangshi is now arguing with the three young men who rented your house."

"Why, the young man shouldn't have provoked him, right?"

"Those three young men are from the art troupe. They practice trumpet in the morning and guitar at night." Sha Zhu said with a smile, "After all, they are from the art troupe. The music is lively and beautiful. Everyone in our courtyard thinks they are good, except Jia Zhang. Jia Zhang hates that they disturb her sleep, so she quarrels with them every day and cries for her parents. Those three young men are just like that. You scold yours, I play mine, and I just treat it as his fart. I don't know how lively it is from morning to night."

"Since Jia Zhang didn't bother you, what are you worried about?"

Sha Zhu took out a pack of Hongtashan cigarettes, took out one and handed it to Liu Hua: "It's Yan Fugui's family. Yan Jiecheng and his wife want to open a restaurant recently, but they don't have the cooking skills, so they set their sights on me."

"You don't want to go?"

Sha Zhu nodded: "Only a bastard would want to be their family's cook. When it comes to being stingy and calculating, Yan Jiecheng is even better than his teacher. If I were to be their family's head chef, there would be some trouble in the future."

"That's easy. You just ask for a higher price and let them back down, right?"

Sha Zhu scratched his head: "I just asked for a high salary, two thousand yuan a month, plus I have to bring some food every day, and I have the final say in the entire kitchen."

"Yan Jiecheng actually agreed. That's really not easy."

Sha Zhu asked curiously: "How do you know he agreed?"

"Isn't this nonsense? If he didn't agree, would you still be distressed?"

Sha Zhu nodded: "That's right, I just didn't want to agree to such a high price again, but I didn't expect that the boss of their family was Yu Li, who agreed to it right away. Now I don't know what to do."

"Go, why not? Earn some extra money?" Liu Hua said with a smile, "Get a feel for their restaurant business. When the time is right, you can open a restaurant. Being your own boss is much easier than working for others."

"I'm afraid that being a chef for their family won't be a good job."

Liu Hua waved his hand: "Of course they are not reliable. Look, if they can hold on for half a year without lowering the price with you, they are not members of the Yan family. This is a matter of you using me and I using you. Anyway, the craftsmanship is yours, and they can't take advantage of you."

"That's fine." Sha Zhu nodded: "It's quite interesting to run a wonton stall here, much more interesting than working in the kitchen of a steel mill. The atmosphere in the steel mill is getting worse and worse, and I don't want to work there anymore." "You can imagine what Director Yang is like." Liu Hua shook his head: "If you want to say he has a big problem, it's not a big one. But if you want to say he has no problem, he has a lot of small problems. If he is allowed to work in the steel mill for a few more years, I'm really afraid that he will become a prostitute."

"Not really. This is a state-owned enterprise."

"Not now." Liu Hua said indifferently: "Who knows one day in the future, but it doesn't matter to me. I'm just a technician, and I don't need to worry about management matters."

"That has nothing to do with me. I'm just a cook." Sha Zhu said with a smile, "Hey, if I open a restaurant in the future, what kind of dishes should I mainly cook?"

"If you want to save trouble, then open a Sichuan hotpot restaurant. Just cook the base ingredients. If you want to show off your cooking skills, it's best to cook private dishes." Liu Hua said with a smile, "Aren't you known as Tan's cuisine? Tan's cuisine is the representative of private dishes."

"That makes sense." Sha Zhu said with a smile, "In fact, I can open a hot pot restaurant and let my wife look after it. After that, I can focus on my private dishes. That would be all."

Liu Hua said cheerfully: "No problem at all. Let me know when the store opens and I'll go and support you."

"Of course." Sha Zhu nodded repeatedly: "If I start a private kitchen business, please give me some advice."

"Okay, let's go with each other."

After Sha Zhu went out, before he reached the gate of the yard, he ran into Cui Jian, who greeted him warmly: "Uncle, take a walk."

"Yeah." Sha Zhu smiled and nodded: "Come visit and chat with your landlord. He is a cultured man. If you have any troubles, talk to him and I guarantee you will feel better."

"My landlord, does he live around here too?"

Sha Zhu pointed to the yard a few hundred meters away and said, "It's the one that was just renovated not long ago. The gate looks like the newest one."

"Oh, is he still home?"

"Yes, you have something to talk to him about. Is there something wrong with the house? If you have any problem, let me know and I can help."

Cui Jian shook his head. "No, I've moved in for several months now. Except for the first month when the landlord came to collect the rent, he didn't collect the rent for the following months. I was going to ask you about it, but I forgot about it because I was busy."

"Hey, he has plenty of money. When I was earning 40 or 50 yuan, he was already earning more than 100 or 200 yuan." Sha Zhu said with a smile, "And he is also very busy. In addition to being a teacher in the university, I heard that he is also doing some scientific research activities. He is busy with national affairs."

"Then I'll give him the rent for the past few months while we're resting today."

Sha Zhu gave a thumbs up and said, "You are a man of integrity. If it were someone else in our courtyard, they might not even give it to you even if you asked for it."

Cui Jian smiled and said, "You mean old lady Jia? That's just her nature. Sometimes disasters and misfortunes are her own fault."

(End of this chapter)