Chapter 80 Spring Breeze Restaurant
In Xinling City, the capital of Nanjiang Province, a new individual restaurant was opened a few months ago, named **Feng Restaurant. The restaurant's business license reads a name called He Xuezhen. No one in several factories in Qinshan Road has heard of this name. However, after the restaurant opened, the girl who was busy working in the restaurant every day was known to many people, and they knew that she was a child of the diesel engine factory. People who were more familiar with her knew that her name was Chen Shuhan, an educated youth back to the city, an old girl who was almost 30 years old and had not yet married.
More than once, someone asked Chen Shuhan who the owner of the restaurant was. Chen Shuhan only said that he was a distant relative of his own every time, and saw that she had no job, so he hired her to help. This explanation was naturally untenable for her mother and younger brother, because they knew very well whether there were such distant relatives in their homes. So Chen Shuhan told them that this was opened by a friend she met at the educated youth site. She would not say more details.
Chunfeng Restaurant has just opened and its business is very good. It is because there was only one restaurant on this street, and the food was not cooked badly, and several waiters had a very bad temper. They said, "I like to eat but not to eat." They repeatedly told the people who went to eat to eat before they were full of food.
The Chunfeng Restaurant run by Chen Shuhan is decorated in a very elegant manner and cleaned very clean. It is not as simple and sloppy as the individual restaurants in other places in Xinling. Chen Shuhan is born with the talent of cooking. Several home-cooked dishes are very delicious, and they are cheap and well-received. Chen Shuhan's big meat buns steamed by Chen Shuhan have thin skin and thick meat. Although each is five cents more expensive than the buns in the factory canteen, it is still in short supply. Many single workers simply stop going to the canteen for breakfast, and come to the Chunfeng Restaurant every day. The food is delicious, and they don't have to look at the black face of the canteen's cooker.
Chunfeng Restaurant is nominally managed by Chen Shuhan and Feng Lingyu, but Feng Lingyu took Feng Xiaochen's place and went to the Metallurgical Bureau to work, and the time for working in the restaurant was very limited, that is, he could come to the restaurant on this day on weekends. In normal times, such a restaurant was all done by Chen Shuhan, buying vegetables, washing vegetables, cooking, serving dishes, and washing dishes, and he was busy from morning to night. That is, Chen Shuhan exercised when he was an educated youth and had good physical strength, otherwise he would not be able to withstand such intense labor.
Feng Xiaochen, who was far away in the capital, learned about the business situation of Chunfeng Restaurant from his younger brother's letter, and immediately wrote to Chen Shuhan and asked her to ask her to ask another waiter to help. Chen Shuhan replied that he could do these things completely and there was no need to waste money to recruit people. Feng Xiaochen was a wise man and knew that Chen Shuhan was trying to save money for him, so he gave an ultimatum, either Chen Shuhan would invite a helper who knew the truth and was easier to talk to, or He Xuezhen would invite him.
Chen Shuhan then compromised and found a girl who was in her early 20s and was unemployed at home to work as a waiter among the children of the diesel engine. The girl's name is Zeng Wenxia, with an ordinary appearance, honesty and diligent hand. She was very grateful for Chen Shuhan's hiring her to be a waiter, because there were countless unemployed young people in society at this time, and finding a job was difficult. It was not embarrassing to be a waiter in a restaurant. The salary of 25 yuan a month was enough for the girl to afford the cute floral cloth and skin care products.
"Comrade, what do you want to eat?"
It was around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Before dinner was about to come, a young man over 20 years old walked into Chunfeng Restaurant. He was wearing a trendy jacket and sweater. Zeng Wenxia was cleaning the hall of the restaurant, preparing to welcome the guests who had dinner. Seeing this person in, she hurriedly greeted her with a smile. This was the rule set by Chen Shuhan for her. She required that no matter whenever a guest came in, she would greet him with a smile, making people feel at home.
"What's there to eat here?"
The young man was Feng Xiaochen who had just returned to Xinling from the capital to celebrate the New Year. He was a single employee and had seven days of family vacation during the New Year. Luo Xiangfei gave Feng Xiaochen another seven days of compensatory leave under the name of Feng Xiaochen working overtime during his overseas trip, which gave Feng Xiaochen a very relaxed time to come back and take a walk.
Feng Xiaochen arrived at Xinling the day before. When he went home, he talked to his parents and younger brother about his trip to Germany and the situation of finding Yan Leqin, Feng Hua and others. Feng Li's reaction was similar to Feng Fei and he was also crying with joy. As for He Xuezhen and Feng Lingyu, they thought more about the impact this matter would have on their family and their individuals. Feng Xiaochen knocked on Feng Lingyu's head and asked him to study German so that he could study German and study in Germany in one or two years. Feng Lingyu picked up the German-Chinese dictionary that night and asked his brother to teach him the ABC in German, which made Feng Xiaochen laugh and cry.
After handing over the foreign exchange and gifts from Yan Leqin, Feng Xiaochen went into his parents' room, avoided Feng Lingyu, and explained to his parents about the matter he was preparing to run a factory. Of course, he didn't have to tell lies in front of his parents, and directly stated that this factory was Feng Xiaochen's. Uh, of course, if Feng Li felt unhappy and wanted to take it home, he naturally had no complaints.
Feng Li and his wife were unprepared for this matter. They asked more than a dozen times before they barely accepted the shocking news. The son actually had an invention patent and sold millions of marks in Germany. What is this? If we consider the black market price, the price comparison between marks and RMB is higher than 1 to 1, which means that Feng Xiaochen has become a millionaire at less than 20 years old.
As for using this money to run a factory, it is beyond the scope of Feng Li and his wife's knowledge. However, Feng Xiaochen told them that this matter had been supported by Meng Fanze, deputy minister of the Ministry of Coal, which left Feng Li and his wife speechless. Feng Xiaochen also described his friendship with Meng Fanze in his previous family letter, which was comparable to the caliber of this time.
Feng Li and his wife spent a night digesting all this information. The next morning, they asked for leave and continued to interrogate Feng Xiaochen at home, asking Feng Xiaochen to explain everything except time travel. In the end, the couple looked at each other and agreed not to interfere with their son's affairs. In fact, they also felt that they had no ability to interfere.
After lunch, Feng Xiaochen slept for a full afternoon, and then went to Qinshan Road to inspect Chunfeng Restaurant. He did not inform Chen Shuhan in advance. This was not because he wanted to have a sudden attack, but because he could not find a way to inform Chen Shuhan. He had no mobile phone or WeChat. Chen Shuhan's family was not the kind of veteran cadre who was qualified to install a telephone. What other ways were there besides Feng Xiaochen coming to the door in person?
When she heard Feng Xiaochen ask what there was to eat in the restaurant, Zeng Wenxia quickly brought a handwritten menu for Feng Xiaochen to see. There were so many people who touched the menu with oil stains and twists. Chen Shuhan reflected thrift in every place. She was just a broken menu, but she was reluctant to update it. Feng Xiaochen took the menu, looked up and down, and couldn't help laughing, saying:
"No way, you can actually cook so many dishes in a small restaurant like this?"
Zeng Wenxia said: "These are all things we can do, but it depends on whether there are any raw materials. For example, this revolutionary pig liver cannot be ordered today. The piece of pig liver we put in in the morning was already eaten by someone at noon."
"Revolutionary pig liver..." Feng Xiaochen was covered in dark lines. Not to mention how many big meals he had in his previous life, even in this life, when he went to Xinmin Factory on a business trip, he also had good food and good food in the factory every day. He had seen some worldly appearances, but this revolutionary pig liver is really not within his knowledge.
"Who cooked these dishes?" Feng Xiaochen asked.
"We Sister Chen, her skills are very good." Zeng Wenxia said.
Feng Xiaochen said: "Who did she learn from? Have you ever attended chef's school?"
Zeng Wenxia shook her head desperately: "No, it's Sister Chen who taught herself and went to school according to the recipe. Our Sister Chen is so smart. She can cook the dishes after reading the recipe. Our restaurant has received many leaders from the units, and they all say that the dishes we Sister Chen cooked are very authentic."
"Including this revolutionary pig liver?" Feng Xiaochen asked prankly.
"Yes, the last time a director had a meal at us, he ordered this dish. After he finished eating, he said it was very authentic." Zeng Wenxia said proudly.
Feng Xiaochen knew that Xiang Zeng Wenxia could not ask more, so he said, "Okay, where are you Sister Chen now? Take me to see her."
"What are you going to do?" Zeng Wenxia asked with a vigilant look, "Are you here to have a meal?"
"Of course I'm here to have a meal. Can't I meet the chef?" Feng Xiaochen asked.
"What are you doing when you meet the chef?" Zeng Wenxia asked again.
Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Because your Sister Chen is also my Sister Chen, go and tell Sister Chen that Feng Xiaochen is back, do you see if she sees me."
"You are Feng..." Zeng Wenxia suddenly covered her mouth and her face flushed red. She had no eyes anymore. She had heard of Feng Xiaochen's name, and knew that this was Feng Lingyu's brother who would come to help every Sunday, and was Chen Shuhan's little fellow villager in the educated youth site. Most importantly, Chen Shuhan once hinted that He Xuezhen was just the name of this restaurant, and the real owner of the restaurant was Feng Xiaochen.
"Sister Chen, Sister Chen, Feng Xiaochen is here!"
Zeng Wenxia shouted all the way and went to the kitchen. She left Feng Xiaochen with a menu and laughed secretly:
Chapter completed!