Tsao Kee's private restaurant has very high profits. When it originally had only three private rooms, its annual net profit was nearly HK$2 million.
Now the restaurant's business hours have been extended by one day per week, its business area has doubled, and the price of dinner has increased. After one year, the net profit is expected to exceed HK$5 million.
Sun Dahai walked around the new restaurant. After opening up, the hall seemed much more spacious. The kitchen was also two-in-one. Not only was it larger in area, some baking equipment was also added.
Zheng Peipei left her job and went to school, so the restaurant replaced a waitress. Ah-Dai's mother, Mrs. Lin, was still in charge of cleaning at the restaurant, and Ah-Dai and a Dahe were in the kitchen.
Although the number of private rooms in the entire restaurant has increased to six, the number of staff remains the same.
Sun Dahai and Ah-Dai greeted Mrs. Lin and chatted for a while. Then Mrs. Lin took Sun Dahai to the apartment where the restaurant used to be, where Chef Cao was preparing dinner.
After the grandfather and grandson met, they were very affectionate. They hadn't seen each other for two years. Chef Cao was basically the same as before, but Sun Dahai had changed a lot.
Not only is he a lot taller, but his facial features are also more three-dimensional, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and a nose that looks like a gallbladder, he looks like a handsome boy.
Sun Dahai didn't originally plan to go to Xiangjiang this time, but he missed Chef Cao and his wife, so he made a detour. He will stay in Xiangjiang for three days, and then return to the capital from Xiangjiang.
Sun Yuanyuan and Sun Dahe are about to go on summer vacation. Sun Dahai promised the second child to play with them during the vacation. As an elder brother, you can't break your promise, otherwise Sun Yuanyuan will cry to him every minute.
When a man meets again after a long absence, he will naturally not be as chatty as a woman. Chef Cao and Sun Dahai were intimate for a few minutes, and then while putting away the ingredients, they talked about their respective situations in the past two years.
In fact, everyone has been very stable in the past two years, life has basically gone as planned, and not many unexpected things have happened. The only special event was that Teacher Liu passed away in March this year.
Because of cross-strait relations, Sun Dahai has never seen Teacher Liu since the last time they met in Xiangjiang. When he came to Xiangjiang for the second time, he called Teacher Liu to say hello, and the waiter would give him a call every two or three months.
Teacher Liu wrote a letter of greetings (forwarded through Cao’s home in Xiangjiang).
Since last year, Teacher Liu's body has become increasingly weak, and he has basically been bedridden for a long time. In fact, there are no serious illnesses. It's just that Teacher Liu is old and all the organs in his body have begun to fail.
Shortly after the Spring Festival this year, Teacher Liu's physical condition became worse and worse. Everyone understood that this was the end of the old man's life, and the hospital had nothing to do about it.
In the last days of Teacher Liu, Chef Cao, his wife and Cao Yong all came to Wanwan to stay with the old man. When the old man was dying, he looked back and asked Chef Cao about Sun Dahai's situation with concern.
In the end, the old man passed away with a smile at the age of 88.
Sun Dahai was a man of two generations, and he couldn't help but cry bitterly after receiving the news. He only regretted that due to the policy restrictions of Wanwan, Sun Dahai could not go to see the old man off in person.
When Chef Cao told Sun Dahai about the old man's death, he burst into tears and sighed endlessly. The three families of Sun, Cao and Liu had been dating for more than half a century, but now, all the older generations have passed away.
The dead are gone, but the living are like this.
Chef Cao and Sun Dahai sighed for a while, and their emotions slowly calmed down. After a while, Battelle and others also came down and helped them pack the ingredients.
Before Sun Dahai set off from the United States, he had already told Chef Cao on the phone that he would treat friends from the Middle East to dinner in the evening. Chef Cao knew all the taboos in eating in Dashi, so the ingredients he prepared would not violate the taboos.
In fact, believers in the Dashi Cult are also divided into sects. Dubai is a typical moderate, relatively open-minded, and mainly relies on his own conscious compliance with the requirements of the doctrine, rather than making them infinitely stricter to the point of cruelty.
Maniel himself converted to the Food Cult halfway, and his mother was not even a believer. Now, he has decided to give up his inheritance rights, so the requirements for him from the royal family and himself will not be too strict.
Otherwise, just the fact that animals on land must be slaughtered and bled by imams would basically eliminate the idea of eating in restaurants outside.
Sun Dahai arrived in Xiangjiang today, and some of his friends in Xiangjiang will also come to pick him up. Fortunately, the restaurant now has rooms for relatives and friends, so it will not affect the normal business there.
In the evening, more and more people came to the room of relatives and friends. Li Fei, Li Liang, Gao Yi and Zheng Peipei all came. They had already gone on summer vacation and had made an appointment with Sun Dahai to return to the capital together.
Zheng Peipei is also going to the capital this time.
The gadgets she and Gao Yi bought while shopping in the capital last year before going to school actually made them a fortune.
At that time, Zheng Peipei spent more than a thousand Hong Kong dollars and bought dozens of gadgets that looked like antiques. Under her instigation, Gao Yi also spent half a month's salary as Sun Dahai's secretary and bought several gadgets.
The items were brought to Xiangjiang together.
Zheng Peipei cast a wide net, and most of the things she bought were not worth much, but one of the snuff bottles and an inkstone was spotted by a collector friend of Zheng Ziwei's, who bought them home and kept them.
The buyer of these two items gave Zheng Peipei 80,000 Hong Kong dollars, which made her extremely happy. She had worked in Chef Cao's restaurant for three years and had only saved so much money.
Gao Yi bought a total of five things, but she couldn't prepare for someone who was really lucky. She bought a bronze mirror, which was bought by the same buyer for 20,000 Hong Kong dollars.
An inconspicuous bracelet, identified by everyone as a sea-yellow bracelet from the mid-Qing Dynasty, was well-proportioned and thick, and in good condition. It was finally taken away by Mr. Lin of the property company for a friendly price of 3,000 Hong Kong dollars.
The bigger surprise came from a folding fan. Gao Yi himself couldn't remember how much he spent on it, and Zheng Ziwei's old friends who were collectors were not sure about the authenticity of the folding fan.
Finally, Gao Yi spent money to have it appraised and found out that the folding fan was an authentic one, "Bamboo, Wood, Mountain and Stone", painted by Wen Zhengming himself.
In the end, this folding fan was presented to the Asian Spring Auction held in May by Sotheby's Hong Kong office, and was bought by a wealthy Chinese businessman living in Southeast Asia for a price of 88,000 pounds.
Zheng Peipei, who had made a small fortune, specially hooked up with the goddess of wealth, Gao Yi, and planned to go to the mainland again to shop for goods during the summer vacation.
Gao Yi was very indifferent to this, but Zheng Peipei had helped her a lot in her study and life. Now that Zheng Peipei came to her, Gao Yi was too embarrassed to refuse.
The two little girls have already completed one year of preparatory studies, and after this summer vacation, they will officially enter university as trainees. Li Fei and Li Liang came a year earlier than them and have now completed their freshman year.
After a while, Wu Dawei arrived with Qiao Wanting. Although there was no official appointment yet, everyone at Erection Future Investment Company already knew that Wu Dawei would become the company's general manager.