Siheyuan: A Cook in the 60s

"Don't talk to me about that. Just tell me whether you want to accept it or not."

"Okay, we are all family. Tomorrow, I will ask my master to mobilize his connections and call over some people, all of whom are acquaintances. You can come too. Let's come and listen together."

"Wow, it's so big?"

"Of course. It's boring if it's too small."

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

After resolving the issue and returning home, I saw Qin Jingru looking at me with eager eyes.

Cao Wei couldn't help but laugh.

"What? Are you worried about the money again?"

"No! All the flowers have been spent!" Qin Jingru snorted first, then asked: "Tell me, are we taking too big a step? My heart is in knots."

"Really? Let me touch it."

"Go, go, go, don't mess around. You always do bad things. I'm telling you." Qin Jingru took out a small notebook from somewhere: "We lost a lot this time. We have to earn a lot. I calculated that even if we earn a thousand yuan a month, it will take more than ten years to earn it back..."

"What do you mean by earning a thousand a month?" Lou Xiao'e walked in.

"She said that she only makes 1,000 yuan a month, and it will take her more than ten years to earn back the money. She is feeling very aggrieved."

"Come on, he still earns a thousand a month from that restaurant." Lou Xiao'e said with disdain.

"That's not even enough to earn a thousand!" Qin Jingru widened her eyes.

"No, the starting price is 10,000 and there is no upper limit. Also, I heard from them that they seem to be planning to set their own prices recently." Lou Xiao'e said.

Now, we are not following the market economy.

What does that mean?

In other words, the prices of things on the market are not based on supply and demand. For example, in winter, there are few watermelons, so the price of watermelons is high and few people buy them. This is because of the changes brought about by the market. In winter, watermelons are only sold in greenhouses, and not many people buy them. The current situation in China is that no matter whether you sell this watermelon in summer or winter, I will set a fixed price for you. You cannot change it.

I don’t care about supply and demand, you have to sell it at this price.

So, overall, prices are very stable. You won’t starve to death, but you can’t get rich either. This is probably the situation everyone is in now.

But now we need to develop the economy and business, so we can’t stop people from making money. Therefore, the higher-ups are considering liberalizing the prices of some products.

This news is good news for Lou Xiaoe. No matter what Cao Wei's plan is, if the higher-ups keep controlling prices and there is no profit, then they can only consider making money domestically and then sell it abroad as much as possible. But if there are signs of relaxation, then all these investments are worth it. The key is that investing now is cheap!

It cost less than a million to renovate the entire street.

Yes, Cao Wei’s investment plan was not a restaurant at all, but an entire food street!

When talking about this food street, we have to mention a tragic figure - Jing Yu.

In order to help Cao Wei deal with this matter, this deputy director, at a young age, has already started to lose his hair. On the day of completion, he cried and laughed under the plaque of the food street. Looking at his appearance, he was only one step away from going crazy.

God knows how many issues are involved here.

First of all, the proposal of Cao Wei’s plan required countless meetings to be held.

What is Food Court?

What is the kernel?

Sino-foreign joint ventures, what are the contents of the joint ventures.

After the food court was built, why didn't they move in the existing state-owned restaurants, but supported the entry of individual businesses? Why was the largest restaurant left to individuals?

Okay, after the meeting, everything was made clear, and the higher-ups gave the go-ahead, so we can do it.

He still has to coordinate.

It doesn't matter if it's not coordinated. Once it's coordinated, my head will start to buzz with pain.

Cao Wei gave them a site, not a big one, but there were already people living there. They had to arrange accommodation for these people. After all, they wanted a street, and there was no precedent for this. It was not an easy job to drive people away. They had to give them a place to live, and they had to be given some benefits to move people, right? You know, in this era, there was no strategy for evacuation, and he had to coordinate with the street office himself.

The key is that it is difficult to coordinate because the housing supply in the street office is already tight.

The matter was not resolved until later when Lou Xiao'e stepped forward and said with great pomposity that the problem could only be solved by building a building.

Do you think everything will be fine once it’s resolved?

At the beginning, Jing Yu also thought so, thinking that he could finally take a break. But who knew, damn, when the project was just beginning, many people came to visit, and also asked him for advice and how he wanted to do it. Come if you want to, explain it, and the key is that several groups came and took several groups of essence.

Saying something three times is as plain as water, and he himself doesn't even know how many times he has said it.

I didn't see any benefits, but I was exhausted.

In just one year, who knows how many departments he coordinated with and how much work he did. He almost cried.

It was not until the plaque of the food street was actually put up that he felt that his whole being was sublimated. Then he fainted, but luckily Cao Wei was right next to him, who supported him and sent him to the hospital.

You ask him why he doesn't help with the treatment.

What a joke! Cao has no medical qualifications, so what disease can he treat? Comrade, please obey the law!

"Doesn't that mean we can get our money back in one year?" Qin Jingru was shocked. "Is the money so easy to make? Brother Wei, have we lived in vain for the past ten years?"

In the past ten years or so, Cao Wei made only a few tens of thousands of yuan, which was not a lot, but not a little either.

Earning more than 100,000 yuan this year was indeed beyond Qin Jingru's expectations.

"Not really. At least you gave birth to two babies." Cao Wei gave Qin Jingru a thumbs up.

Qin Jingru rolled her eyes and said, "You just know how to tease me. By the way, how is the director? I heard that he almost died on the job because of the food court incident."

"It's okay, young man. It's only right that you endure a little hardship." Cao Wei said in a mature manner.

"Go." Lou Xiao'e patted him and said, "You really are using people to death."

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, this has nothing to do with me."

"Yes, yes, it has nothing to do with you. When people finally had a break, you whispered nonsense like "the first case in the country", "a name that will go down in history", "all based on experience" and so on, making them so excited that their faces turned red. How dare you say that?"

Lou Xiao'e was nearby and saw it all clearly.

This bitch, when she draws cakes, she has a set of tricks. Even her assistant was fooled.

One day, he even privately told Lou Xiao'e to work harder, otherwise she would not be worthy of Cao Wei.