I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

After listening to Liu Yuyan's words, Yan Jiefang pondered for a moment.

He didn't expect that the silly couple's ideas coincided with his own.

Given Sha Zhu's intelligence, he'll probably stick it out in the steel mill for a while longer.

This plan must have been his wife, Liu Yuyan's, idea.

This woman has always had a very good plan for her life.

In previous years, she transferred her and her two children's household registration to 49 City through Li Huaide's connections.

Now their whole family also has urban household registration in 49 cities.

Then they came up with the very feasible plan of opening a restaurant.

Judging from the original drama, with Sha-zhu's cooking skills, this restaurant is bound to be good and will most likely be very popular.

Since this opportunity had come up, Yan Jiefang was naturally willing to hitch a ride.

So he asked:

Do you have a specific plan?

For example, have you found a storefront for the restaurant?

Has the business license been obtained yet?

Are disinfection and refrigeration equipment prepared?

Have you prepared the sourcing channels for all the ingredients?

..."

Yan Jiefang's casual barrage of questions left the Sha Zhu couple completely bewildered.

They could have simply rented a small storefront and started operating immediately.

Sha Zhu looked at Yan Jiefang with a face full of doubt:

"Jiefang, I just want to open a small restaurant, why do I need to prepare so much?"

Yan Jiefang nodded:

"Although the policy has been relaxed a bit, many regulations still need to be followed."

For example, the number of employees cannot exceed 7, and restaurants must have at least one refrigeration device, namely a refrigerator or freezer, etc.

If mistakes are made in these areas, your restaurant could be fined and forced to suspend operations.

Liu Yuyan asked:

"Freezers must be expensive, right?"

"I know this thing."

Sha Zhu spoke with a somewhat numb expression.

"Our cafeteria kitchen has a 500-liter freezer; I remember it cost over two thousand yuan when we bought it!"

"Oh, that much money?"

Liu Yuyan was stunned.

She originally thought that borrowing one or two thousand would be enough, but now she finds that this amount of money is not even enough to buy a freezer. How can she open a restaurant?

This one point almost made her give up the idea of ​​opening a restaurant.

Seeing their expressions, Yan Jiefang naturally wouldn't let them back down.

He tapped the table, looking relaxed:

"I can handle the money issue. Now tell me your plans, and I'll see if this can be done."

Upon hearing this, Liu Yuyan's expression brightened, and she quickly recounted the plan they had previously discussed:

"These past few days, we found a private shop in Beibingmasi Hutong near Jiaodaokou South Street, and the landlord is willing to rent it to us."

..."

After listening to her words, Yan Jiefang nodded:

"Go to the Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Market Supervision and Management Office tomorrow to register as an individual business owner and obtain your business license."

After I get off work this afternoon, let's go check out that shop you mentioned.

Also, regarding the freezers, when you go to work at the factory, ask Factory Manager Li if he's planning to sell any large freezers. I'm willing to offer a high price of 1700.

"Okay, we'll do as you say, Jiefang!"

Having received Yan Jiefang's approval, Sha Zhu and his wife felt much more relaxed.

I think this can be done.

However, even close brothers should keep clear accounts, and Liu Yuyan, being such a shrewd person, was very clear about this.

Afterwards, she talked to Yan Jiefang about opening the restaurant together.

Yan Jiefang was very satisfied with how sensible his sister-in-law was.

Doing business with smart people is easy.

After discussion, they signed a written agreement:

Yan Jiefang was responsible for the initial investment in opening the restaurant, He Yuzhu provided the technology and was in charge of cooking, and Liu Yuyan was the restaurant manager.

The net profits from future operations will be split 6% between Sha Zhu and his wife and 4% between Yan Jiefang.

Originally, the profits were split 50/50. Later, Yan Jiefang, who was a hands-off manager, saw that the entire shop was run by Sha Zhu and his wife, who put in more effort.

They immediately decided to contribute 10% of their own profits as wages for the two of them.

He wasn't like Yan Bugui, who schemed about everything.

He doesn't mind giving up some profits as long as the restaurant is doing well.

Thanks to the critical hit system, Yan Jiefang still has most of his salary left over the years, about three thousand yuan.

In addition, the royalties I've received over the past few years amount to nearly four thousand.

In addition, there was a total of more than 14,000 yuan that had been kept in the bank to earn interest.

Even though he spent over a thousand yuan on Hetian jade before, he still has over twenty thousand yuan in his hands.

Opening a restaurant is easy.

The next day, Yan Jiefang and the Sha Zhu couple went to meet the shop owner and toured the entire shop.

This shop is actually just five rooms facing the street, with an area of ​​just over 5 square meters.

It was originally considered one of the worst houses in the entire courtyard.

Now, with a sudden transformation, their value has skyrocketed.

The fat landlord demanded a monthly rent of 120 yuan, plus a deposit of 1000 yuan, with a minimum lease term of one year.

He Yuzhu tried to negotiate the price, but the homeowner and his son refused to budge an inch, insisting on the price.

Furthermore, they demanded that when checking out in the future, these houses must be exactly the same, without any alterations.

If anything changes, the 1,000 yuan rent will not be refunded.

They will carefully examine it with a lantern.

Yan Jiefang glanced at him and his son without any change in his expression and agreed to the deal.

After renting the shop, the Sha Zhu couple immediately began to busy themselves with the follow-up matters.

Factory Director Li readily agreed to Yan Jiefang's offer.

A 500-liter freezer was carefully moved into the restaurant's kitchen.

Two days later, the Liu brothers, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, received two customers: the fat landlord and his son.

Both of them died of acute cerebral hemorrhage in the middle of the night, without experiencing any pain and passing away peacefully.

These five rooms were assigned to the fat landlord's wife.

Yan Jiefang sent Liu Yuyan to handle the matter, and they quickly bought the five rear-facing rooms for 5000 yuan (including a 1000 yuan deposit and 1200 yuan rent). (According to the data, this is already the lowest price for a street-front shop. Only houses with tenants that cannot be converted into shops are relatively cheap, because even if you buy the house, you cannot evict the tenants, as they are protected by policy.)

The shop subsequently fell into Yan Jiefang's hands.

Before the Spring Festival, their joint venture restaurant finally opened for business, and its name was Chunfeng Restaurant.

The newly opened Chunfeng Restaurant did so-so business, but gradually more and more diners were attracted by Sha Zhu's cooking skills.

This was during the early stages of reform, when a large number of nouveau riche emerged.

With money to burn, they naturally became regulars at Chunfeng Restaurant.

By mid-1982, Chunfeng Restaurant had made a name for itself in the area, and its business was booming.

After deducting costs such as taxes, wages, and materials, the monthly net profit can reach around ten thousand!

The monthly income of 6000 yuan made Sha Zhu and his wife ecstatic. When had they ever seen so much money? (According to research: In 1982, money earned through legal business operations was not subject to sanctions and could be deposited in banks at will.)

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1982, Yan Jiefang looked at the Hetian jade in his spatial dimension, and on a whim, launched a super attack.