Alone at night, Comrade Xu cooked some noodles and fried a poached egg.
He has never been particular about his food.
While eating noodles, a sentence he didn't know where he read before flashed through his mind: I'll give it to you...
Then I thought of Wu Yali and wanted to go to her place tonight. After all, last night was really enjoyable.
But this idea swirled in his mind and was dismissed by himself.
——The gentle town is the Tomb of Heroes.
I have to be moderate in everything. If I go to her place too frequently, it will easily make her look down on me...
So, that night, he sat on the bedside and flipped through the "Historical Records" in the "Twenty-Four Histories" he had just bought today, squinting his eyes and reading page by page. Gradually, his whole mind sank into this.
In this book.
He has a calm heart, and with such a temperament, he is suitable for reading.
…
The next morning, it was still windy and rainy outside. When Xu was cooking noodles for breakfast in the house, his second cousin Ge Liangcai came.
I sent him another three thousand yuan.
This is what Ge Liangcai promised before. On the surface, he asked his cousin Wu Jing to bring 2,000 yuan to Comrade Xu yesterday, and today he secretly sent 3,000 yuan.
Comrade Xu left him here to have breakfast together, and Ge Liangcai happily finished the noodles with him before leaving.
After he left, Comrade Xu didn't do anything else. He washed the pots and dishes and cleaned the room again. Then he made a cup of tea and took out the "Historical Records" he read last night and continued reading.
There was no rush to go to Xiao Liu Beef Noodle House to pay the rent.
He is waiting.
Wait for Xu Tonglin to come back.
After waiting for more than two hours, Xu Tonglin came back, carrying simple luggage, holding an umbrella, and wearing rubber boots. When he entered the door, Xu Tongdao looked up and saw Xu Tonglin's bright smile.
Xu Tonglin strode towards Xu Tongdao and said happily as he walked: "The money is coming! Hehe, Xiaodao, from today on, I am also a shareholder! Right? Hehe."
A smile appeared on the corner of Xu Tongdao's mouth and he nodded slightly.
He didn't ask Xu Tonglin whether it went well when he went home to ask for money this time, but Xu Tonglin sat down next to him and said first, "Hey, my mother is really timid! You know I want these two thousand yuan, and I want to go with you."
How much did she try to keep her mouth shut? I kept talking to her and my dad until after one o'clock in the morning. They thought I was cruel and had no choice but to agree to me. Alas! It's really not easy! "
As he said that, he picked up Xu Tongdao's tea cup and drank a few big sips. Xu Tongdao noticed it but did not stop him.
"Where's the money?" Xu Tongdao asked.
Xu Tonglin immediately opened his luggage bag, took out a wad of banknotes wrapped in a white plastic bag, and handed it to Xu Tongdao with a bright smile.
"Here, here it is! Count!"
Tongdao Xu reached out to take it, squeezed the thickness, and without counting, he put down the book in his hand, stood up and said, "Let's go! Let's go pay the rent!"
…
In the morning, I paid the rent of Xiao Liu Beef Noodle House. In the afternoon, the landlord of another store came over. Xu Tongdao paid the rent of that store again.
So far, he has successfully taken over both stores.
The keys to the two stores were also handed over to him. In the afternoon of the same day, he asked someone to change the door locks of the two stores. By the way, he carefully looked at the layout of the two stores several times, bought paper and pen, and wrote
The renovation plans of the two stores were sketched on the paper.
He didn't plan to make extensive renovations, he just wanted to do some simple things.
One is to save money, and the other is... he is doing a small business, and the dining environment is simple, and sometimes the effect may be better.
In his vision, the wall between the two stores must be knocked down.
The kitchens in the two stores are not big, and he also plans to knock down the wall in the middle of the two kitchens to connect them into a larger kitchen. This is very important.
In addition, there is a bathroom in each of the two stores, and he also plans to eliminate one. Eliminating one bathroom will also make the kitchen bigger.
In addition, he plans to make a cashier counter, scrape the walls of both stores white, and make several large menus to paste directly on the walls of the restaurant.
Of course, some tables, chairs and benches will definitely need to be added.
The other thing is to buy some pots and pans.
Taking advantage of the recent rain every day, he had just finished drawing the renovation plans for the store, so he took Xu Tonglin to the dock to find a decoration worker.
He was busy again, and Xu Tonglin was busy following him.
At dinner time, Rooster Ge Lianghua came back from Feng Qinghua, and Comrade Xu said to him: "Cousin, starting from tomorrow, we will be busy decorating the store. In order to save time, we will open the store early. You don't have to run around anymore.
, give us help!”
"The store has been rented? Is it going to be renovated now?"
Ge Lianghua was a little surprised.
Comrade Xu agreed, and Ge Lianghua said: "No problem! If you need me to do anything, just ask me!"
…
The next morning, when Comrade Xu led the workers to smash the wall of the store, he saw new movement on the other side of the road. Xi Dongyang and Xi Yuehong were building a shed using logs and oilcloth.
Xu Tongdao couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Judging from the situation, Xi Dongyang also had a new idea after he did not want to continue the partnership. He was planning to build a shed to sell barbecue? Is it so that he can run the stall every day even in rainy and snowy days?
He still has some brains!
However, is it useful?
Tongdao Xu estimated that in a few days, Bald Zhang and Fatty Lu’s stalls would follow suit and build sheds on the roadside in Dongyang style.
The idea that Xi Dongyang came up with will soon be copied by those two families.
And what about the reality?
Bald Zhang and Fatty Lu copied it faster than Comrade Xu expected. The next day, Fatty Lu and his wife started building their own shed next to the shed in Dongyang, and even hired someone to help them build it.
The oilcloth shed is larger and more impressive than the one in Xi Dongyang.
Not wanting to be outdone, Bald Zhang also found someone to build a shed next to Fatty Lu's shed on the third day.
There are also two other stalls. Although they are not selling barbecue, they also follow the same example and set up tents there.
That night, Comrade Xu was cleaning up the decoration rubbish in his store. He put the broken bricks and broken cement blocks on the floor into his pocket with shovel after shovel. He accidentally looked up and saw a shabby man standing outside the door of his store.
, the man with his back to the door of his shop.
Probably to avoid the rain, this man stood in front of Xu Tongdao's shop, holding half a cigarette in his right hand, and seemed to be looking at the barbecue sheds across the road.
Tongdao Xu squinted his eyes, frowned, and secretly looked at this man.
His intuition told him that something was wrong with this person.
In the middle of the night, this man was actually wearing a black peaked cap, and the area not covered by the cap exposed his blue scalp.
What about hair?
Most people these days don't shave their hair cleanly. In Xu Tongdao's impression, most of those who shave their hair so short these days are those who have just been released from prison.