Next, the exchange between Comrade Xu and the landlord, Sister Fang, became much more pleasant.
In fact, it was normal for Sister Fang to be angry before. After all, her house was sublet to Tongdao Xu, and she didn't get a penny. One of the walls of the house was even knocked on.
Just think about it: Who can do this without getting angry?
I didn't get any benefits at all, and a wall of my house was knocked out, so I only saw losses.
Comrade Xu understood her psychology correctly, and in the name of negotiation, he gave her tangible benefits, extending the lease...
The extended lease rent must be given to her. This is a real benefit.
Secondly, Tongdao Xu said that his store still lacked two waiters and a dishwasher, and he wanted to ask her to help introduce relatives at home.
It seemed like he was asking her for help, but in fact it was Comrade Xu who was deliberately giving her a favor.
How to say?
Because these days, citizens living in the county, or in any city across the country, no matter what their conditions are or their status, who doesn’t have a few poor relatives in the countryside?
In the new era, counting three generations up, whose ancestors were not farmers?
In 1998, there were really few ways for rural people to make money. Many young wives were beaten black and blue by their husbands from time to time, and they did not dare to divorce. Why? It was not because after divorce, they had nowhere to go, let alone find a way to earn money.
A life-saving job?
Therefore, it is easy to recruit workers these days.
Being able to introduce people to jobs is a great favor to most people in rural areas.
Xu Tongdao asked Sister Fang to help introduce relatives at home to work in his store, which was to give her an opportunity to sell favors to relatives.
As for...will Sister Fang care about this favor?
Xu Tongdao thought she would like it. In his impression, women in their forties or fifties love face most. They would feel very satisfied if they could help their relatives and make their relatives grateful to them.
No, the two of them had agreed to extend the lease, and Sister Fang happily asked Comrade Xu about introducing relatives to work at his place.
The question was very detailed,
Do you want a male or a female?
How old do you want to be?
How much is the salary? Does it include room and board? Are there any days off? Wait, the question is even more serious than when they were talking about extending the lease of the house.
Tongdao Xu knew at that time that the wall did not need to be restored.
In order to finalize the matter, she was still asking about the recruitment of workers with great interest. Comrade Xu temporarily changed the subject, "Hey, Sister Fang, um... let me think about it, that wall in our store... I can wait until later
Will I restore it to you when I don’t want to rent it anymore?”
Sister Fang was startled, blinked, hesitated a little, and suddenly waved her hand happily, "Catch! Catch! This is easy to talk about! This is easy to talk about! As long as you remember to restore the wall for me when you don't rent in the future.
.Hey, by the way, is it OK for a waiter in her thirties? Don’t worry! The waiters I introduce to you are definitely not ugly. Although they are over thirty, the little daughter-in-law is so young! I think she
It should be no problem to work as a waiter for you, she does things very quickly!"
"Win! Why not? Sister Fang, I can rest assured about the person you introduced! Haha."
Tongdao Xu was smiling on his face and in his heart.
Not only did the wall not need to be restored for the time being, but it also saved him the trouble of recruiting waiters and dishwashers. In fact, he had not thought about finding people from his hometown village, but he was a little worried that the people in his village would be difficult to manage.
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Moreover, I am also worried that there are so many women in the village. If he invites this one or not that one, he will easily offend others.
It's fine now, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.
Of course, there are some things that he should tell Sister Fang first, such as: If the relative she introduces is not good at things, he can deal with it as he should, and he may not be able to give her face.
In this regard, Sister Fang acted very reasonable and said: "It should be, it should be!"
…
When Tongdao Xu and the landlord Sister Fang returned to the door of the two stores that were being renovated, and they waved goodbye with smiles on their faces, Ge Lianghua and Xu Tonglin in the store were stunned.
Seeing the landlord Sister Fang carrying the vegetable basket with a cheerful face and twisting her waist to leave, Ge Lianghua couldn't believe his eyes and blinked again and again.
Xu Tonglin murmured to himself: "How did Xiaodao do this?"
They all saw what the landlady's attitude was when she first came in not long ago.
His sharp words and stern expression, with his dark clouds looming over the city, were just enough to have "finding trouble" written on his face.
Therefore, when Xu Tongdao walked into the store with a smile, Xu Tonglin and Ge Lianghua hurriedly came over.
Xu Tonglin: "Xiaodao, do we still need to restore our wall to its original state?"
Ge Lianghua: "You don't need to recover, right? By the way, how did you persuade that old woman? I don't think she is an easy talker!"
Comrade Xu chuckled lightly, "There is no need to recover! In fact, Sister Fang is a very nice person, but you have misunderstood her!"
"Yeah?"
Ge Lianghua frowned, expressing doubt.
Xu Tonglin looked again in the direction where Sister Fang left, and asked hesitantly: "You said she is a nice person? Why didn't I see it?"
"So you have misunderstood her!"
Comrade Xu did not explain much.
He felt that their doubtful and confused look was good and should be maintained.
…
A few days later in the afternoon.
Comrade Xu is pasting a large menu on the wall in the store. This menu is very large, almost two meters long and half a meter wide. He specially bought rice paper and asked someone to help write it.
These days, there are no advertising companies on the streets. It is not easy to create such a large menu. It is easier to find someone to write it with a calligraphy pen.
Xu Tonglin and Ge Lianghua were helping him, each holding one end of the rice paper.
Tongdao Xu was holding a bowl of paste in his hand - rice soup he had made himself.
I am using a brush made from wild grass to apply paste on the wall.
In a few days, the decoration of his store has been almost completed.
The kitchen has been remodeled and all the pots and pans are stocked. The front halls of the two stores are also stocked with all the tables and chairs that should be purchased.
Even the signboard in front of the door has been prepared and hung up long ago.
Wait until this big menu is posted tomorrow! If everything goes well, it will be officially open to the public tomorrow.
So the three of them were in a good mood at this time, with smiles on their faces.
The brushes tied with weeds, covered with rice soup, were swished on the wall, just like the couplets posted every New Year in their hometown.
In their hometown, when they post Spring Festival couplets every year, they cook their own rice soup to make paste.
Soon, the three of them cooperated and posted this large menu on the wall.
Then they all jumped off the table, walked a little further, distanced themselves, and looked at the large menu that had just been posted on the wall.
Ge Liangcai touched his chin and nodded slightly, "It's pretty straight, right?"
Xu Tonglin folded his arms and nodded in agreement: "Well, it's perfect! What do you think, Xiaodao?"
His last sentence was obviously a question to Comrade Xu.
But Xu Tongdao ignored him and turned to look at the door - at some point, Xi Xiaoqian appeared in front of his shop.
He hasn't seen her for some days.
And the Xi Xiaoqian who appeared in front of him today... looked much more haggard than before, her hair in a ponytail was slightly disheveled, the skin on her face seemed to have lost its luster, and there were faint dark circles under her eyes.
The most important thing is... Xu Tongdao noticed that the white sneakers on her feet were no longer as spotless as he remembered. The white shoes on her feet were dirty and looked a little yellow.
He was not even interested in stepping on such white shoes.