"Chen Langjun, you have something to say. What is the use of these dozen empty rooms?"
The madam must find out why. It's okay to hand over the operation and management of the restaurant to Chen Chang. After all, she is a woman who doesn't know how to do business.
The dozen or so vacant rooms in the back are always vacant. It is not impossible for Chen Chang to use them temporarily, but you must know what he is using these rooms for.
It seems that we don’t need so many rooms to store goods. Normally, a restaurant’s warehouse has at most two rooms.
"Well..." Chen Chang couldn't decide for a moment whether he should tell his wife the truth.
After all, this restaurant is already in dire straits. If I make a request rashly, I will undoubtedly be seen as having dozens of troubles in the eyes of others.
"Chen Langjun, since you want to cooperate with me, you should be open and honest."
Madam is asking for her right to know.
After thinking for a moment, Chen sang: "I told you, madam, not to be angry."
The lady looked at him coldly: "If you didn't use it to commit crimes or bring in unrelated people to live in, how could I be angry?"
Although she is a woman, her mind is indeed not small, really not small. However, the people who come to live with Chen Chang are all unrelated people, at least not related to his wife at all.
Seeing that Chen Chang was hesitating, the wife's eyes widened and she said, "Are you going to tell me or not? If you insist on not telling me, then our cooperation will end here."
"Madam, actually I rented these ten or so empty rooms of yours to provide accommodation for some students from poor families. To be more precise, they are all children from poor families."
After hearing this, Madam frowned and looked even more confused. Obviously, this answer was beyond her expectation. She thought about it and said, "I'm so anxious about you. What on earth is..."
"Actually, it's very simple. I will select some children from poor families and come here to teach them how to read and write for free. I'm afraid there will be dozens of children, so the place to live must be prepared in advance..."
"Wait a minute..." Madam stopped immediately, "Why do we need to teach them to read and write?"
Chen Chang looked at his wife, worried that she would reject his proposal, and then the deal would be difficult to continue. It seemed that the span of his charity was a bit large, which was really unacceptable.
"Only by reading can one understand the truth and change one's own destiny, which is what we often call the carp leaping over the dragon's gate. No matter what these children do when they grow up, they should read and read."
"Then are the parents of these children willing to let them come?"
His wife's words caught Chen Chang off guard. He originally thought that his wife would object, but he never expected that she would consider the issue from the perspective of a parent.
That's right, seeing as Madam is at her age, she must be a mother, so it's quite normal to have such thoughts.
"This is very simple, because we have free food and lodging guaranteed here. They can have enough food and clothing here, and they don't have to worry about three meals a day. It also reduces the burden on their families."
"Oh." Madam seemed to be deep in thought.
What people in this era ultimately pursue in life is to have a shelter from the wind and rain, without having to worry about whether they have a good meal or not.
"Madam, madam..."
The lady was obviously distracted, so Chen Chang couldn't help but call out to her.
"Well!" Madam's face turned red and she cleared her throat, "Dozens of children are not a big expense. I wonder what Chen Langjun planned?"
Hey, his thoughts changed quickly. Chen Chang nodded slightly, "This is easy to handle, work-study!"
The lady’s beautiful big eyes blinked: “What?”
She knew how to write all four words, but when they were put together, she had no idea what they meant.
Chen Chang smiled lightly: "Work-study is a very simple term. It means that these children will help restaurants or other places to do things in exchange for remuneration to pay for their tuition, accommodation and meals."
Chen Chang felt that he had spoken thoroughly enough.
The lady was stunned for a moment, "You mean to let them be apprentices?"
pretty!
"It means the same thing, but their final achievements are far more than just apprentices. Some may even enter temples and become officials, some may become generals guarding the country's borders, and some may become businessmen like my wife.
, and some will become ingenious craftsmen, and..."
The lady interrupted him: "Are you a little too whimsical?"
Chen Chang didn't understand it if he put himself in his shoes, so he patiently explained: "Madam, what I just said about reading wisely doesn't just mean reading the books of sages, but reading a wide range of books. Read the ones that are useful.
Those ones."
Although the books of sages are good, many of them are useless nonsense and cannot be put into practice.
"Madam, are you worried that these children in the backyard will have any negative impact on the restaurant, such as making noise?"
Chen Chang felt that the top priority was to quickly persuade his wife to agree to his proposal, and did not want to take the topic too far.
"That's okay. I'm just worried that you won't be able to spare the money to support them?"
Chen Chang felt vaguely unhappy that he underestimated me, but looking at Madam's beautiful and delicate appearance, he couldn't get angry.
Well, for the sake of your good looks, I won't argue with you.
"Madam, you can rest assured that instead of being a burden to the restaurant, these people will become our help. Madam, I know that you are not very interested in doing business, but I still have something to ask of you. Please
Madam, can you help me discipline these children?"
Chen Chang originally wanted to do business with this beautiful and outrageous lady.
Such a beautiful woman is like a walking advertisement, and I don't know how many diners she will attract.
However, if he really regarded his wife as a vase, Chen Chang would not be able to bear it.
No matter how you look at it, Madam's mind is not on this, so it would be better to let her take care of the children.
There are dozens of children, and it is impossible for me to watch them every day. I have to find someone who is kind-hearted and considerate to take care of them. At present, my wife is the best candidate.
"I'm going to take care of the children?" The lady's pretty face suddenly turned red when she heard this.
Chen sang: "Madam, please don't underestimate the king of children. As the saying goes, it takes ten years to grow trees and it takes hundreds of years to cultivate people. Your words and deeds will affect their lives in a subtle way. Most of these children are from poor families. If you don't educate them,
They study and practice calligraphy, but they remain illiterate all their lives and can only do some menial and backbreaking work. Even if they marry and have children, they will live a mediocre life."
"It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to grow people?" Madam felt that she was deeply shocked in her heart.
"On the contrary, people who are literate can engage in more professions. Of course, I don't want them all to be officials. Madam is a person who has read books, and the morals involved must be clearer than me. That's it.
Let me tell you, madam, what you want to do is a major event that benefits the people and is related to education..."
I won’t say anything about the great responsibility and the glorious mission, for fear that my lady’s tender shoulders may not be able to bear it all at once.
Chen sang eloquently, and the lady's beautiful eyelashes kept blinking, her beautiful eyes sparkling.
"Madam, I'm not saying that, although there will be gentlemen teaching academics and skills in this school in the future, daily learning cannot be ignored. After all, those gentlemen are just good at dropping school bags. And those children need to master the etiquette and life skills
There are many aspects to it, and we also need to recruit female students, so only Madam can make this happen."
"Madam, in fact, the conditions I told you before are also selfish. You may know that I seem to be running a business without capital, but once the restaurant makes a profit, most of it will benefit my wife, and part of it will also be my wife's.
reward."
After all, this school is what Chen Chang wants to open. It has nothing to do with his wife, so he can't let others do things for him in vain.
The lady looked at him blankly. It turned out that this guy had planned it long ago and had even set aside the reward. He was really deliberate.
"Madam, you are the backbone of the school. Madam will need to make decisions on many things in the future. Shopkeeper Qiu and I will be your right and left hands. I can guarantee that as long as madam takes care of these things, the morale of our school and the restaurant will be greatly improved.
"
"Of course, how to balance the time and energy between school and restaurant still needs to be weighed by Madam herself. I just hope that Madam can treat these matters as her own family's business!"
"I can say with certainty that the business of the restaurant is definitely getting better and better, and the popularity of the school is also getting higher and higher. This is a great opportunity for a win-win situation, and Mrs. Xi can seize it."
As for the win-win situation, Chen Chang did not say it clearly. I believe that his wife Bingxue is smart and will be able to figure out many of the joints involved.
He had long seen that the reason why his wife's inner scars could not be healed after she became a widow was mainly because she spent all day thinking about things in the inner house, and the more she thought about it, the more she became more and more sad.
It would be a good thing if you give her something to do.
After all, women have maternal love, and letting her take care of those children can also divert her attention, and maybe she will forget all the previous unhappiness.
Worrying is something you get out of your spare time. If you are busy running around every day, you may not even have time to worry.
If the lady refused, he would try to persuade her again, using the same energy as when Emperor Liu visited the thatched cottage three times to invite Wolong to come out.
At this time, a person suddenly flashed in at the door, it was Shopkeeper Qiu who had left and returned.
When Chen Chang saw shopkeeper Qiu putting pen and ink on the desk, he secretly made eye contact with his wife.
Shopkeeper Qiu must have returned a long time ago. He stood outside the door and eavesdropped on his invitation to his wife to come out.
Chen Chang was slightly worried. After all, her wife was from a womanly family, and although Shopkeeper Qiu was not her family member, she would refer to Shopkeeper Qiu's opinions on many matters.
If Shopkeeper Qiu had taken advantage of this, his wishful thinking would have come to nothing.
Thinking of this, he quickly said: "Madam, Shopkeeper Qiu must also support you in doing this, isn't it Shopkeeper Qiu?"
This chapter has been completed!