Chapter 434 That is Cao Shujie’s lifelong shadow (300.01 million)
"Shulun, you can't think like that. I'll rent the store and decorate it. This step will cost more than 700,000 yuan. Plus other personnel, equipment costs, and daily grocery shopping expenses, it all adds up. It's unimaginable."
"It's okay if you make money, but if you don't make money, you will lose everything."
Cao Zhen told them: "You don't know, during the renovation period, I was so worried that I slept for two or three hours every day."
"Cao Zhen, you have indeed lost a lot of weight during this time." Cao Shujie didn't notice it at first, but after a closer look, he realized that the clothes on Cao Zhen's body looked very loose and a bit ill-fitting.
"No, I haven't exercised in the past two months, and I have lost more than ten kilograms. The fat I finally built up is gone." Cao Zhen joked to himself.
Hearing Cao Zhen's words, Cao Shulun immediately woke up. He had an incredible expression on his face: "Cao Zhen, you invested more than 700,000 yuan in a store like yours?"
"What if."
Cao Zhen pointed to the shop and said: "The annual rent for this place alone is more than 500,000 yuan, and another 200,000 yuan is spent on decoration. Plus buying tables, chairs, benches, and various equipment, the total of these odds and ends is not enough."
small amount."
"If it weren't for Shujie..." Cao Zhen's words suddenly stopped when he reached his mouth.
He wanted to say that if this kid hadn't given him 200,000 yuan in labor fees for helping Cao Shujie get apples last year, he would have to find someone else to raise money now.
Investing in this store basically drained the couple and their family.
Cao Shulun didn't hear clearly what he said, but he didn't pay attention to that either.
He silently calculated an account in his mind, and kept muttering: "My dear, so your total investment is almost one million?"
Cao Zhen smiled and said nothing.
Cao Shuyang came back from the kitchen and raised his thumb at Cao Zhen: "It's so clean."
"I watched them publish news on the Internet. The kitchens in many restaurants are extremely dirty. You don't have that situation here," Cao Shuyang said.
Cao Zhen nodded and said: "The first thing I ask them to do is to clean up the house. Anyone who can't do it will be fired. This is not humane."
"I now believe that your store will become bigger and stronger." Cao Shuyang said with a smile.
Cao Tiemin and Cao Fei returned here after completing a circle.
Cao Zhen got up and went to arrange the serving of food.
He said: "You guys can try the authentic Xinjiang cuisine today, it's really good."
After finishing speaking, Cao Zhen walked towards the kitchen.
Cao Shuyang, Cao Shulun, Cao Tiemin and Cao Fei are all looking forward to it.
Cao Tiemin also said that Cao Fei works here at the Five-Star Department Store. Cao Zhen's place has been open for a few days, so he hasn't come here to try it?
"You don't know how busy Cao Zhen's place is these days. It opens at 11 a.m. and stays busy until 10 p.m. without a break. How dare I come here and cause trouble for him on my own?"
When Cao Fei thought about how many people there were in Cao Zhen's shop, he still found it incredible.
However, he also did advertising planning for Cao Zhen's new store opening, and vigorously promoted this 'Xinjiang Hotel'.
He was thinking that maybe some of the people who came over to eat were just looking for something new.
After all, there are very few people in Yiling City who specialize in Xinjiang cuisine. For people in Yiling City, Xinjiang cuisine is an unpopular cuisine.
It makes sense to say it's a taste of something new.
Cao Zhen came back in five or six minutes. He said, "I asked the chef to cook it. It will be ready later. You guys can try it and give me some suggestions."
After a while, the waiter brought 6 servings of old yogurt.
The thick milky white yogurt is placed in a small blue and white porcelain earthen pot, with a few red wolfberries sprinkled on the surface. It looks very appetizing.
Cao Tiemin couldn't wait to take a spoonful and put it into his mouth. He shook his head and said: "It's delicious, it's really delicious."
Cao Zhen also said: "This is just the beginning, there are other dishes, just take your time and eat them."
Later, XJ chicken, stewed mutton, naan meat, grilled lamb chops in naan pit, shredded cantaloupe, hotan watermelon barbecue, red willow barbecue, hand-caught mutton, green pepper braised Bosten Lake carp, beef in sour soup and tripe meat were served.
"Why is it all meat and no vegetables?" Cao Fei also yelled.
Cao Zhen said openly: "Come here, I will definitely let you eat the best."
"Let me eat some meat first, and then let them make two vegetables." Cao Zhen went to the kitchen again.
This time, Cao Shujie and Cao Tiemin stopped him: "These dishes are enough. Let's eat them before serving them. If we don't finish it, it will be wasted."
"It's okay." Cao Zhen wanted to stand up, but this time even Cao Shuyang and Cao Shulun held him down, preventing him from serving food.
Of course, wine is indispensable.
Several people didn't drink beer and drank straight away.
Seeing the liquor, Cao Shujie remembered something. He said to Cao Fei: "Cao Fei, you have to contact a liquor seller for me and get two boxes of good liquor."
"Do you still want Maotai?" Cao Fei was numb.
Why did he find such a weirdo in his childhood?
But having said that, Cao Shujie has not only made a fortune himself, but has also led the whole village to develop together. Even his family is a beneficiary.
"There are two boxes from Maotai. Is there anything else?" Cao Shujie asked him.
Cao Fei said: "I also know a general agent who sells Luzhou Laojiao. How about I get you two boxes of 1573?"
"That's okay." Cao Shujie agreed.
For ordinary people, there is nothing wrong with these wines except that they are expensive.
Hearing that Cao Shujie wanted to buy wine again, several people encouraged Cao Fei to call the wine seller and ask them to deliver the wine.
"If it is delivered now, we will drink it immediately." Cao Shuyang said: "If I hadn't drank Maotai at Shujie's house during the Chinese New Year, I would have never tasted such expensive wine in my life."
"What kind of wine is that 1573?" he asked.
“The wine from Luzhou Laojiao is also very good.”
When Cao Zhen heard this, he urged Cao Fei to call the liquor seller immediately.
He also said that the wine he brought was nothing compared to these two wines.
Looking at the useless bear like a bunch of young people, Cao Shujie directly told Cao Fei to call the wine seller and see if he could deliver the wine now.
If it could be delivered, I would drink it at noon today.
"Then I really need to make a phone call." Cao Fei said.
Cao Shujie was not ambiguous at all: "Just call."
Cao Fei called on the spot.
They all deliver wine to the five-star department store, so it would be easy for Cao Fei to call them.
After hearing what Cao Fei said, both parties agreed to arrange for someone to deliver the wine.
Cao Fei also told them and brought the credit card machine over.
The dishes came out one after another, and he said that several people were so stunned that they didn't even take a sip of wine, waiting for the person who brought the wine to come over.
After eating the vegetables and filling my stomach half full, I waited until someone brought the wine.
Looking at Luzhou Laojiao 1573, after Cao Shujie paid, he opened the box and took out two bottles.
"Hey, brothers, for the sake of good wine and good food, let's have a drink first." Cao Tiemin smelled the aroma of the wine and felt greedy.
Several other people also picked up their wine glasses: "Drink."
Everyone drank a third of this mouthful.
When they put down their wine glasses, they all tasted the aroma of the wine, with intoxicated expressions on their faces. They didn't know whether it was the real thing or just an act.
"Oh, when I think about this day, I really didn't dare to think about it before." Cao Fei was filled with emotion.
He remembered that when he worked at the Five-Star Department Store in Pingyuan County, he only had 2,000 yuan a month and didn't dare to do anything.
It’s not like now that my income is higher and I have more time.
As he gradually came into contact with different people, Cao Fei's vision and knowledge became different from before.
His emotion was shared by several other people.
Cao Shulun said: "I didn't expect that one day I would become an employee of a central enterprise."
"Hey, that's it." Cao Shuyang said.
"It's just that the work unit is better and the benefits are better than those in ordinary companies, but there's nothing else."
As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Fei muttered to him: "Shu Yang, you can only stand and talk without pain in your back. How about you resign and apply for a job in an ordinary company? Are you willing?"
Cao Shuyang was speechless and stopped talking.
In fact, that's what happened. This mountain looks higher than that mountain.
Just like when Cao Shulun heard Cao Zhen say that he was very busy opening a restaurant, he was very envious that Cao Zhen could make a lot of money now, but he was unwilling to ask him to resign and invest in opening a restaurant by himself.
I was hesitant and unsure of myself.
Cao Shujie saw the expressions of these friends and thought that they had been playing together since they were young. At that time, they didn't think about anything, unlike now when they are worrying about their respective careers.
"It was better when I was a kid, when I was careless and not so tired." Cao Shujie said this.
When several people heard what he said, they nodded in agreement.
One by one, they talked about how when they were young, they went to steal melons from the fields, fish from the rivers, and apples from the orchards.
"I didn't expect that the watermelon I stole was actually grown in our land." Cao Shujie complained.
This is a shadow that he will never be able to erase.
Now I can still think of his mother Wang Yuelan's angry curse, saying which bastard stole the melons from their field?
As soon as Cao Shujie asked his mother where the melon field was, he knew it was these bastards who did it.
He hasn't said anything about it until now.
I also remember that when they went to steal apples in the orchard, they were chased by the dog in the orchard. They jumped into the river and swam to the other side before getting rid of the dog.
"Shu Yang, remember that a girl wrote to you when you were in elementary school. Grandma, I still don't know who told the secret. They threw this pot on me and asked Cao Lianfeng to tear up all my books.
." Cao Zhen was indignant.
After counting in detail, I suddenly realized that there were so many stupid things done at that time.
"Brothers, it would be a waste to drink too much of such a good wine." Cao Tiemin shouted.
He drank the rest of the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Several others are not far behind.
Cao Shujie didn't plan to go back today. He thought he would finish drinking later, leave his car in the parking lot of the Five-Star Department Store, and go find a hotel nearby to stay.
"Which of you has time at night? I'll invite you to go to the KTV and roar." Cao Shujie asked.
Hearing what he said, except Cao Zhen who wanted to look after the store at night, several other people responded.
