Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant

"This wall is opened, so we don't need to redecorate this side, just put the other side in the same style." Ming Qian stood at the door of the store wearing a short sleeve and said to the person in charge of the decoration company, "I will come over this afternoon. Look, if you find any problems temporarily, you can call me directly."

Now that it is almost autumn, you will feel cold if you wear only a short sleeve, but you will feel hot if you wear a coat.

Under the sun, Ming Qian squinted his eyes slightly to see the empty noodle restaurant, feeling a little empty in his heart.

Before Brother Zhang left, someone dragged away the tables and chairs. He probably found someone to take over. He gave some things from the back kitchen to the people who opened a shop nearby. Ming Qian got two kitchen knives and a special storage box from Brother Zhang. Small freezer to freeze drinks.

Brother Zhang didn't say anything when he left, as if he was just going on a trip, with a smile on his face, only when he got into the car, did he take a last look at the store reluctantly.

The owner of the fried chicken shop brought an ice cream to Ming Qian, and the two stood on the street eating and chatting.

"Do you think Lao Zhang will come here in the future? If his baby passes the college entrance examination here, the whole family will be able to come here again." The owner of the fried chicken shop said optimistically.

The owner's surname is Han, and she runs the fried chicken shop by herself. When Mingqian is not here, she can only lower the price, and her source of income is basically from takeaway.

She couldn't compete with well-known fried chicken brands, and the extremely low price meant that she couldn't make much money at all. After earning the rent every month, the rest was only enough for living and for her children to study.

Later, when Mingqian came, the business in this street improved with the drive of the hotpot restaurant, and her income also increased a lot. People in the store often came to eat fried chicken fast food, and her life took a qualitative leap.

She judged others by herself, and she felt that Brother Zhang's family really had no choice, and they would definitely not go back to their hometown.

After all, the most difficult period has persisted.

Will definitely come back again whenever given the chance.

Ming Qian took a bite of the ice cream, which was blueberry-flavored and very sweet: "We are all in the same group. If Brother Zhang wants to come back, he will definitely tell us."

Boss Han: "That's true."

"Did the decoration company tell you how long it will take to install?" Boss Han asked.

Ming Qian: "One month if it is fast, or more than two months if it is slow, there is no need to do anything about the back kitchen and the floor, but the walls need to be re-smeared and dry, and people have to be hired to paint murals."

Boss Han: "That's really a waste of time, how much less money will be earned."

Ming Qian said with a smile: "I have a solution. The store is closed during this time, but it can deliver food. Anyway, as long as the back kitchen is available for food delivery."

"No wonder you can do a good job in business." Boss Han sighed, "I never thought of this."

So this month or more than two months, Mingqian and the others still can't have a long vacation, Yiyi and Suiru can both deliver food, Yao and Chen Yan can't fly, so they can only prepare with Mingqian in the back kitchen, and research and develop by the way. Check out the new dim sum and side dishes.

During this period of time, Mingqian felt that he needed to add more features to the store.

When people think of these foods, they think of Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant.

The brown sugar glutinous rice cake was rejected by Ming Qian, the ones bought from the county are not unique, and making it by hand is too time-consuming and energy-consuming, Ming Qian decided to take some time to go to Yiyi's hometown with Yiyi, to see what raw materials are there, maybe he can find inspiration.

With Yiyi as a temporary delivery colleague, Sui Ru looked more energetic than usual. She also said to Ming Qian: "I am not enough as a delivery person, and now there are more and more orders. It would be wrong for me to arrive too soon." .”

Although her speed is very fast, it will take a while for Mingqian to serve food, and she has to calculate how long it will be suitable according to the speed of the human race, so Sui Ru is at most a little faster than the human race to deliver food, but not too fast.

Ming Qian: "There will definitely be more recruits. I'm going to recruit two takeaways, and two more waiters."

Sui Ru was a little worried: "You won't invite humans, right? What if they find out?"

Sui Ru, who has watched a lot of American dramas recently, is particularly worried: "Will we be arrested for research? I'm not Ying Long yet, and I can't deal with missiles."

Ming Qian laughed: "You even know about missiles."

Sui Ru proudly said: "I've been watching a sci-fi movie recently, don't underestimate me."

Chen Yan interjected: "I don't like watching science fiction movies, I can't read them, and a lot of explanations make me dizzy. I just like watching movies where a group of people fight back and forth."

"I like watching idol dramas!" Yao said while chopping vegetables, "Last time I watched an idol drama, the heroine was so miserable, I cried several times."

Yiyi took out her mobile phone and found a sense of participation for herself: "I like watching movies about solving crimes."

Ming Qian put the fried pumpkin pie into the box: "You all really like different things."

Sui Ru: "Boss, what movies do you like to watch?"

Ming Qian thought for two seconds: "Horror movie commentary."

Everyone: "..."

Ming Qian said without shame: "I don't dare to watch the original film, I only dare to watch the mosaic commentary, it doesn't scare me, it's very exciting."

Sui Ru: "...it can still be like this."

Ming Qian handed the food to Sui Ru and Yiyi: "Be careful on the road, it doesn't matter if the food is spilled, stay away from the plane."

Sui Ru straightened her back: "If I can be hit by a plane, I will never dare to say that I am a dragon in the future."

The store cannot receive customers, so Yiyi and Sui Ru want to go out through the door of the back kitchen.

The decoration company has already pushed the wall, faster than Ming Qian imagined.

It's just that Mingqian has been receiving at least a dozen or as many as dozens of calls every day these days, all of them are regular customers asking him when he will open, and there are also impatient complaints that he will renovate soon after the official opening. These people who come to eat every week have no place to go.

It was Mingqian who reminded him that the takeaway was still picking up customers before he realized it.

Anyway, every call received, more takeaway orders.

It may be because I order more at home than at the store. After all, I can freeze it in the refrigerator if I can’t finish it at home, and I can continue to eat it for the next meal. It’s not so convenient to pack it up after cooking in the store.

"Yiyi, let me go to your house with you tomorrow." Mingqian said to Yiyi after washing his hands, "If you don't have time, you can tell me. I can't find two more people from your hometown."

Yiyi nodded fiercely, her eyes lit up. Ever since she came here, she has always hoped that her clansmen could also work here.

Not only because they want more opportunities and benefits, but also because all the people working here are aliens except for the boss.

It is not easy for a strange beast to integrate into human society, and the opportunity is rare.

Ming Qian told You Jun about it when he got home at night.

"Tomorrow morning, I'm going to Yiyi's hometown." Ming Qian took out the clothes to be worn tomorrow from the closet and hung them up, then turned his head and said to You Jun.

You Jun hasn't been to the store since the renovation of the store. He seems to have his own business to do, and Ming Qian didn't ask about it.

Ming Qian doesn't think it's necessary to ask. There is a distance between people, and there may be secrets between husband and wife, not to mention his current relationship with You Jun. Said he would not take the initiative to ask.

People need to pay attention to the sense of boundaries when interacting with people, even if they are parents and brothers.

You Jun sneered: "What good place can a snake live in?"

Ming Qian put the clothes he wore today in the laundry basket and was about to take them to the balcony to wash. After hearing this, he said: "Her family has contracted a mountain."

Youjun: "This deity was more than a mountain back then."

Ming Qian became interested, he put down the clothes basket, sat by the bed and asked, "Was anyone there at that time?"

Youjun: "No, the human race was still mud back then."

"Is it really made of mud?" Ming Qian pinched his own face, "Nuwa Empress is very good at pinching people."

Ming Qian asked again: "Is Empress Nuwa really a monster?"

Youjun said contemptuously: "Where did you read the legend? Nuwa is an orthodox god with a human head and a human body."

Ming Qian touched the back of his head.

"Does she really have an older brother named Fuxi?" Ming Qian continued to ask.

Youjun: "Stop reading miscellaneous books."

Ming Qian continued: "Isn't it recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas that the Empress Nuwa has a human head and a snake body?"

You Jun was already impatient: "That's the Annotation of the Classic of Mountains and Seas."

"The Yellow Emperor commands five hundred gods, and Nuwa is one of them, the orthodox god." Jun You said again.

Ming Qian blinked: "Understood."

What Mingqian was most curious about before was that it was said that Empress Nuwa created human beings in her own image. If Nuwa really had a human head and a snake body, why did humans have two legs?

"Is Dayu really his father's own?" Ming Qian changed the question.

You Jun: "Yes, after Gun's death, his body did not rot for three years. His stomach was cut open and Yu was born."

Ming Qian: "Can men also have children?"

Youjun was helpless to Mingqian's curiosity, and said patiently: "The Yellow Emperor ordered only women in the world to have children. Xing Tian is not angry. Before that, both men and women can have children."

Ming Qian felt that his knowledge had increased, and expressed regret: "It would be great if men could have children, and the problem of aging would be solved. A couple should have at least two children."

However, since Mingqian knew too many myths and stories, and could not remember enough, he didn't ask any more questions.

"Were there many nine-tailed white foxes in the past?" Ming Qian remembered that Youjun said that he was the last nine-tailed white fox in the world. Did it exist from ancient times to the present, or did the nine-tailed white fox become extinct later?

You Jun sneered: "At that time, the strong were respected, and the weak died."

Ming Qian felt that the logic was a bit illogical: "Yiyi and the others have lived to this day."

You Jun: "The weak will naturally continue the race."

Ming Qian felt that the logic made sense again.

Weak races, such as humans, will spend all their energy on continuing the race and raising young children, so that even if adults encounter danger, the children can survive under the protection of the ethnic group.

This is the case with Yiyi and Yao. Yiyi's race is still a matriarchal clan.

He heard from Yiyi that there is no father in the snake clan. To be precise, the children don't know who their father is, only their mother, and the patriarch is also a woman.

Moreover, very few males were born. Later, no new snake cubs were born, and the entire snake race had no males.

He carried the laundry basket to the balcony and stuffed all the clothes into the washing machine. This washing machine was an all-in-one washing machine bought by his parents back then, but drying consumed too much electricity. Mingqian never used the drying function again. Now use it again.

If he has time in the future, he would also like to redecorate the house. There were problems with the decoration back then, and there were many unsanitary corners. Mingqian didn't have much time to clean up. Redecorating can make the house look more tidy.

As soon as Ming Qian returned to the room, he found that You Jun had already sat up.

"What's wrong?" Intuition told Mingqian Youjun that he had something to tell him.

It may be because of the long time spent together, Ming Qian can understand You Jun's emotions.

Youjun can understand negative emotions such as anger, impatience, and irritability.

"I know you love money." You Jun had a cold face, but Ming Qian could see that he was proud, "These are enough for you to squander your whole life."

After finishing speaking, Youjun suddenly waved his hand, Ming Qian watched helplessly as the space in the area where Youjun's arm waved was distorted, as if an invisible flame was burning, and a big hole appeared out of thin air after burning.

There are countless gold in the cave.

The gold is all purified gold nuggets, stacked one on top of another, like a hill, with no bottom to be seen at a glance, it seems endless.

The corners of Youjun's mouth curled up slightly, his pride was self-evident, he raised his chin slightly and said, "Is that enough?"

Ming Qian was speechless.

He has never seen so much gold, and probably few people have seen it. These golds form the gold mountains in the storybooks, shining under the lights.

The shock to Ming Qian was not less than the shock when he first saw Youjun's true form.

"This, have you been busy with this all this time?" Ming Qian stuttered, almost incoherent.

Youjun didn't hear Mingqian's praise, so his slightly hooked lips dropped.

After Ming Qian was shocked, he was not happy, but fearful: "Did you hollow out some gold mine?"

That's state property!

Youjun was angry: "I think of you in everything, you are so ignorant!"

Ming Qian took a deep breath: "At least I need to know the source, right?"

You Jun: "Could it be that this deity will steal it?!"

Ming Qian shook his head quickly: "I'm afraid you will snatch it."

Youjun was even more angry, and laughed back when he was very angry: "The world is so big, mountains, rivers and rivers, who dare to say that they belong to them?"

Ming Qian whispered: "That's not what I said..."

Although what You Jun said is very reasonable, Ming Qian cannot agree with the education he has received since he was a child.

You Jun: "If you don't want it, the deity will naturally not force it."

He also added: "As long as you don't regret it."

Mingqian: "..."

No, he couldn't continue talking at this point.

Of course Youjun gave him gold out of good intentions, otherwise gold is useless to Youjun. If you want to pursue a superior life, Youjun has a way, even if it is to learn Fengshui from Chen Yan?Youjun will definitely earn a lot of money.

But to Ming Qian, a piece of gold may be a surprise, and a mountain of gold is a shock.

What he was worried about was that You Jun had dug the country's gold mines.

That is the property of the state.

Ming Qian could only coax: "When you first came, I didn't have a job, I was squatting at home, and I was carrying so many loans. Of course I needed money."

"Now that I have my own store, I have a stable income, and I can afford everything I want. As long as I don't waste money, our life is still very rich."

"I also know that you are thinking of me and hope that I live well, I understand." Ming Qian slowly approached Youjun.

Youjun turned his head away from him, Mingqian rolled over from the bed again, and looked directly into Youjun's eyes again: "Or do you want to live a richer life instead of living with me now?"

You Jun was furious: "Is this deity so dislike the poor and love the rich in your eyes?!"

Ming Qian grabbed You Jun's hand: "Of course not."

The skin of You Jun's hand was slightly cool and delicate, and Ming Qian felt quite comfortable after grabbing it.

"You gave me the soup stone, you found the employees for me, and even the troubles were solved for me." Ming Qian was extremely sincere, "On the contrary, I didn't pay anything."

You Jun: "... as long as you know."

Ming Qian laughed: "So the only thing I can do for you is to work hard and earn a lot of money. Now you give me so much gold, what else can I do for you?"

You Jun was silent, he avoided Ming Qian's sight again, his ears were slightly red.

Ming Qian: "Give back the gold, you always give me a chance."

Ming Qian let go of Youjun's hand, held Youjun's face with both hands, and "forced" Youjun to look at him: "How about it?"

Youjun snorted coldly and said after a while, "That's all."

Ming Qian breathed a sigh of relief.

You Jun pursed his lips, feeling that the post was useless and full of nonsense.

He followed the post and did not see Ming Qian kissing him excitedly.

The person who wrote the post is a piece of crap.

Ming Qian: "By the way, I'm going to Yiyi's hometown tomorrow morning, haven't you forgotten?"

Youjun replied indifferently: "Yeah."

Ming Qian turned back to his sleeping side, lifted the quilt, closed his eyes and said, "Then I'm going to sleep, good night."

After a long time, You Jun responded softly: "Good night."

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If you go to Yiyi’s hometown by car, you have to take a train first, then transfer to a bus, and then charter a car to a nearby town. If you don’t rely on Yiyifei, but take a vehicle, it will take more than a day to go back and forth, and you can’t stop halfway. Just sit in the car all the time.

This is Mingqian's first visit to Yiyi's hometown.

It may be because of the remote location, and the fact that people here basically make a living by farming and family farming, so the development is very backward. Many houses are still old-fashioned single-story mud houses, and only a few have been built into modern rural areas. look.

Even the toilets are dry toilets, and there are pigs in the toilets.

Yiyi flapped her wings and landed slowly. Her family is considered a wealthy local family. After all, they contracted a hilltop. Although the contract price for the hilltop here is not high, her house is big, like an enlarged version of a courtyard house, with a front hall and a The atrium, and the backyard.

It's just that there are no floor tiles, and the ground is all smoothed concrete.

The roof was still made of tiles. Ming Qian stood at the door and looked up for a long time but couldn't find where the solar panels were.

But the air here is very good, Ming Qian can smell the fragrance of green grass, and also smell the fishy smell of the soil, insects and birds can be heard from the nearby woods, it rained last night, and there are still drops of water hanging on the treetops.

The green mountains and green waters are like a painting.

Ming Qian said to Yiyi: "This place is very beautiful and suitable for people to live in."

Yiyi smiled and said: "The patriarch chose this place because it has beautiful scenery, few people, and is suitable for living."

Ming Qian was startled: "Can you talk?"

And to Mingqian's surprise, Yiyi's voice is a child's voice, and even feels like a baby who has just learned to speak.

Yiyi: "After I told the people that you were coming, they set up a formation, and within this formation we can all talk."

Ming Qian asked curiously: "Then can we also set up this formation in the store, so that you can talk."

Yiyi shook her head: "Even if I can talk in the store, my voice will only scare people."

This is true.

Yiyi also told Mingqian: "In the past when our clan made a sound, the human race would think it was a baby crying."

She finds it very interesting.

Ming Qian asked: "Then can you really cause a flood?"

Yiyi shook her head: "The heavens and the earth are natural, and there is a way of heaven to maintain the balance. We can only warn our people that the flood is coming, but the human race heard it too many times, so they thought it was us who attracted it."

Ming Qian: "Since this is the case, why do we need to set up a formation to speak?"

Yiyi whispered: "Grandma Grandma said, if there is no formation, the human race will panic when they hear our voices. If there is no formation, you can only hear me crying now, boss."

Ming Qian was amused by Yiyi, and Yiyi made a crying expression when she said the word "crying".

"Yiyi?" Someone came out of the courtyard and looked at Yiyi and Mingqian who were standing at the door.

This person is wearing a blue long dress, the weather is slightly cool, and she is wearing a thin blanket. She looks very similar to Yiyi, but there are differences that can be distinguished. Her eyebrows are very thin and very light. Sometimes it always makes people feel that she is sad.

"Auntie, this is my boss." Yiyi introduced to the woman.

Then he said to Mingqian: "This is my aunt, you can call her Qinggu."

Ming Qian greeted Qing Gu.

Qing Gu pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Come in and sit down, we haven't had any visitors for a long time."

On the way in, Yiyi asked, "Where's Xiao Liu? Didn't she come back?"

Qing Gu shook her head: "I don't know where I went to play like crazy. Since you went out, she also clamored to go out. Now I can't control her."

Yiyi comforted: "Xiao Liu is still young, she will definitely get better when she grows up."

Qing Gu sighed: "I hope, everyone else has arrived."

Mingqian walked into the yard, and was startled by the scene in front of him—the yard was full of people, all young women, they were talking in whispers, looking at him with excitement, as if he was the meat of Tang Monk, eating Then you can achieve enlightenment and become immortal.

Ming Qian took a step back subconsciously, and retreated behind Yiyi.

Yiyi quickly explained: "Knowing that the store still needs to recruit people, they all came, and they all came to apply for the job."

Yiyi also seriously stated the advantages of their clan: "We are also very strong, we can fly, we can deliver food and serve as waiters, and we are also capable of doing things."

Ming Qian whispered, "But I can't speak in front of people."

After all, the service industry needs to communicate with customers, one or two can't say nothing, this time he wants to recruit four people, if all of them can't talk, then it won't work.

Yiyi remembered this only after being reminded by Mingqian.

She was stunned, as if she had been greatly shocked.

Ming Qian hurriedly comforted him: "The waiters and takeaways are not good, but the workers and purchases are fine. Let's hire two."

Then he watched Yiyi recover for a second. She was suspicious of life just now, but now she smiled happily again.

Ming Qian was stunned.

All the beasts in his shop are talents.