When the rebels were mentioned, Lu Quan and Shopkeeper Li felt a little uncomfortable.

Especially shopkeeper Li, if it weren't for the news that the rebels were coming, Shaodong's family would not have withdrawn the store, and he would not have gone back after staying in Jiangjiaba for more than ten years.

He has not been in Yangzhou for so many years. If he returns to Yangzhou, everything will have to start from scratch.

The old boss is seriously ill and doesn't care about anything, but the young boss has his own confidants.

Starting over from scratch is easier said than done!

Shopkeeper Li should have been feeling happy when Lu Xiaosi's study problem was solved, but because he mentioned the rebel army, he was inevitably a little depressed.

There were some words he kept in his heart that he didn't even say to his wife.

At this moment, facing the Lu family father and son, he suddenly had a desire to talk.

"Brother Lu, I won't hide it from you. Don't think I am just a shopkeeper here. When I return to Yangzhou, I may not be able to have a place in my boss's big restaurants."

Lu Quan asked honestly: "Aren't you going back to be the shopkeeper?"

"The best thing is to go back and be the shopkeeper, but then someone has to give up!" Shopkeeper Li sighed deeply. "Besides, I was the person chosen by the old boss back then, but now it is the young boss who is in charge."

One emperor and one courtier.

When he borrowed the Lu family's fish dish to show his goodwill in front of the young master's family, he had not thought about returning to Yangzhou. He just thought it would be good to continue to stay in Jiangjiaba.

But he didn't expect that the Hongying Army was about to attack, and the Shaodong family would evacuate the shop and evacuate people.

The three Laifushun stores in Yangzhou all have their own shopkeepers. These shopkeepers are either people from the old club who have now joined the Shaodong family, or they are new people from the Shaodong family.

When he goes back, his position as shopkeeper will be gone, but he can't go back to being the little boy he was before!

"If it weren't for the fact that the rebels were about to attack, the owner was ready to stop, and all the restaurants in these small places were ready to be sold, I wouldn't want to go back."

Shopkeeper Li's eyes turned slightly red when he talked about the past.

Although Jiangjiaba is a small place, the effort he put into Laifushun is no less than that of big stores in other places, and the store's annual dividends are not much worse than those of the two big stores in Nanyang County or Huaicheng.

Now that the boss is ready to stop, there are four or five people in the shopkeeper's account who have returned. He knows in his heart that there is no room for so many of them in Yangzhou.

Lu Quan couldn't help but worry about Shopkeeper Li: "What should we do?"

Lu Sheige asked: "Then what are Uncle Li's plans?"

Shopkeeper Li looked at Lu Shenge lovingly and did not look down on her because of her young age: "I'm thinking, if it doesn't work out, I'll open a small hotel by myself when I return to Yangzhou this time. Even if it's smaller, it's still my own business."

"Uncle Li," Lu Xiangge raised his head slightly and looked at shopkeeper Li, "then why don't you buy Jiangjiaba's Laifushun and make it yourself? Uncle Li opened Laifushun so well and put in so much effort.

, wouldn’t it be a pity to close the door like this?”

Shopkeeper Li adjusted his sitting posture and lowered his head to look at the Lu family's junior in front of him. The child's eyes were full of admiration and love, and it could be seen that he sincerely thought he had done a good job.

This look made Shopkeeper Li feel a certain affirmation of his ability.

In the past ten years, his dedication to Lai Fushun has been obvious to all. When his old boss was there, things were fine, and rewards and punishments were clear, which was very convincing. But his old boss has become ill in recent years, and the restaurant has become worse than before after it was taken over by Shaodong's family. Even so.

No matter how well he did, the Shaodong family did not give him more rewards because he was better than other shopkeepers.

He worked hard to earn money for the young master's family, and also recommended the Changyu Banquet to the young master's family, which gained him a lot of face in front of his old club.

Now the whole city of Yangzhou is proud to have a taste of Fushun's long fish feast.

But what he got was just a few old horses from the family as a reward from the young master's wife, and dozens of taels of silver as a reward.

Buy Fushun and drive it yourself?

It seems that it is not impossible!

Shopkeeper Li suddenly felt an impulse in his heart and wanted to try it.

Laifushun Restaurant is located northwest of Jiangjiaba, close to the gate and facing the cargo terminal not far away.

When Lai Fushun first bought land there to build a restaurant, the area was still a bit desolate. After the restaurant was built, because the restaurant was closest to the gate, you could directly see the boats docked at the pier when you entered the restaurant and sat on the second floor.

There are more and more customers inside, and most of them are businessmen passing by.

Restaurants are slowly being built in vacant areas nearby.

Even the large open space opposite the riverside pier has become the largest and busiest vegetable market in Jiangjiaba.

However, in that area, including Jiangjiaba, the biggest and best restaurant is Lai Fushun.

The news that the rebel army will attack the capital in the autumn must be true, otherwise the owner would not be so panicked that he would evacuate several restaurants along the route and prepare to sell them.

Lu Xiangge held his chin in his hands, his childish face was a little yellow, and he didn't look like Lu Quan and his wife with handsome features.

"If I sell a restaurant now, I'm afraid it won't be easy to sell."

Shopkeeper Li couldn't help but sigh again in his heart: "Yes, it is indeed not easy to sell."

"It's not easy to sell, and no one dares to buy it." Lu Sheige looked at Shopkeeper Li, his eyes straight and impartial, "Buying a restaurant now means that you, Uncle Li, are taking a big gamble. Whether the rebels come here or not, it doesn't matter.

Regardless of the victory or defeat of the imperial court, at least the hotel business will not be easy to do in the past two or three years, right?"

"yes."

This time shopkeeper Li couldn't help but sit up straight, and asked with a faint smile, "Then why are you trying to persuade me to buy Fushun? Aren't you afraid that I will blame you if I lose money in business?"

"Uncle Li is joking."

Lu Sheige was still sitting there with his chin on his head, "Uncle Li wants to sell the restaurant, handle the business, and provide the money. How can I, a young kid, influence your decision, Uncle Li?"

"Hehehe... you, you brat."

Shopkeeper Li couldn't help but raise his hand and rub Lu Sheige's furry little head, and his tone became kinder: "It's true that the restaurant is not easy to sell, but the owner is in a hurry to sell it, so it seems that the price will not be too high."

If it was a prosperous era, you wouldn't be able to buy a restaurant in this location.

But now the Hongying Army is watching eagerly in Huaicheng, and people in the capital are also floating. The river used to have boats coming and going, but now it is deserted.

Even if Laifushun loses money, it will be difficult to find someone to take over a restaurant that covers an area of ​​nearly two to three hundred square meters and has two buildings with three floors.

If he takes over at this time, not only can he take over the restaurant at a very low price, he can also ask the owner to keep the pots, pans, stools, tables and chairs in the store and give them to him.

There are also chefs and waiters in the store who were all trained by him here and can be used in the future.

If he were more bold, he would spend all his money to buy all three restaurants that Shaodong's family wanted to sell.

Maybe, all three of them can be settled with the same amount of money as used to buy one of them.

Even if the restaurant stops operating for two or three years, when the world is at peace, there will always be boats on this river, and ship merchants will always have to eat.

At that time, I was afraid that if he wanted to buy such a restaurant again, he would not be able to do so.
Chapter completed!