Chapter 126: Heat's Small Business (Part 3)
"We met twice more after that. I learned that he had a younger brother with cerebral palsy who was raised by his grandmother. His father went to jail a long time ago, and his mother remarried in the next village and never thought of coming to take care of the child. He really planned to cut off all ties with her."
Because of this, the young man started to hang out in society before he even finished junior high school. The old lady disliked him verbally, but once he didn't come back after a certain time, she would come out with a flashlight to look for him and would not stop until she saw him.
"I remember Zhang Sheng told me that one time he got fed up with this family and his grandmother who only knew how to preach, so he hid himself from her so she wouldn't find him. As a result, his grandmother really walked for a long time with her bad legs... He said he accepted his fate and that maybe he was born to repay this kindness.
I feel that a child who is grateful will not be a bad person. "
Shi Qingqing wanted to say, that wasn't that good. During the past few years, he had probably done a lot of bad things, whether he did it intentionally or not.
Is it really possible for Zhao Fengnian, who is so kind and honest, to deal with such people?
Zhao Fengnian stretched out his big hand and covered Shi Qingqing's eyes. "Don't look at me with such a look that seems to be afraid that I will suffer a loss. I am not as vulnerable as you think, wife."
Shi Qingqing grabbed Zhao Fengnian's hand and pulled it away. "If I'm not worried about you, who should I worry about? Tell me about someone and I'll worry about that person."
Zhao Fengnian?
Wife, don't play tricks on him, he will take it seriously.
Shi Qingqing looked at Zhao Fengnian's embarrassed expression for a while, and suddenly sighed: "You are already the backbone of the family, a man who stands tall and proud. You should weigh the decision yourself. But as I said, nothing is as important as a hair of yours—"
"Not as important as me!"
The two of them said the last few words in unison, and Zhao Fengnian said with a grin that he would just think of it as spending two hundred yuan a month to hire an errand boy.
Shi Qingqing nodded and said, "If you just sympathize with their situation, and if you have rice and oil at home, you can take some to help them. It's not a difficult thing for our family with our current financial situation."
But if you want to have a deeper contact, you still have to think twice, mainly because this business is not ours.
Zhao Fengnian saluted and said with a grin that he would promise to follow his wife's instructions.
Shi Qingqing thought to herself, are there any such glib TV scripts on the color TV that I recently brought home?
If it wasn't TV scripts, where did he learn them from?
Shi Qingqing's daily life is still fishing and making delicious food.
On days when there were no appointments, Shi Qingqing did not skimp on the meals.
Pork tripe soup, old duck soup, hoof soup...all kinds of delicious food were arranged for Zhao Fengnian.
We told him to come back and have a rest, but now he has work to do. However, he will not let go of the other thing he promised.
Zhao Fengnian is just a little active. Otherwise, if he continues to eat like this and doesn't exercise, he will gain weight in less than three months.
When he came back in the evening, he would tell Shi Qingqing about who he met, what happened, and what news he heard during the day.
Shi Qingqing also heard that Zhao Fengnian and the kid named Zhang Sheng were getting closer and closer.
Less than two weeks after the school started, my cousin came to my house and told me that someone wanted to cooperate with him, but the quantity they ordered was exactly the maximum he could make in a day, and they would provide geese, which meant he had to do extra work.
Shi Qingqing would not interfere in other people's business, and originally thought that her cousin should make his own decision.
In the early days, she helped out for Zhao Fengnian's sake. Anyway, it became a mutually beneficial relationship later on, and it wasn't like anyone was taking advantage of anyone.
But Xiang'er was particularly concerned about this matter. "That person was very strange. He even filmed the whole process of us making smoked goose. I deliberately took the seasoning into the kitchen halfway through the process and pretended to add more ingredients. He immediately chased me and asked me in detail. How can you ask questions like that? I think it was just a fake cooperation to get the recipe!"
My cousin said that the manager was not that kind of person and how could a manager of a big hotel do such a thing.
Shi Qingqing raised her eyebrows. That’s not necessarily true.
At my cousin’s age, it’s impossible that he doesn’t know that one should not judge a book by its cover.
She asked Xiang'er, and it seemed that this manager was very good at deceiving people. During the meal, he almost called his cousin "godfather".
"Really? It's just a little thing. Is it really that rare? And you believe me so much after just meeting me once, and you're eager to give me guidance..."
Shi Qingqing is hard to describe.
She couldn't say for sure whether her cousin was thinking this way. After all, the idea of raising children to provide for old age couldn't be said to be completely wrong.
But isn't it a bit naive to be so unguarded against strangers?
She planned to talk about this matter with Zhao Fengnian again. Zhao Fengnian's idea was to ask his cousin to invite the man to their home, and he would go over there for a meal to see what was going on.
"I travel a lot outside. I don't know every restaurant, but I have been to more than 60% of restaurants and catering shops in the town, on the roadsides at the entrance of the village, and in the city."
Even if that manager's restaurant happened to be in a blind spot, he could go there in person. His cousin was tied up in the yard with smoked goose all day and couldn't leave, but Zhao Fengnian was not like that.
"Okay, you will handle my cousin's problem." Shi Qingqing said that she would not refuse if she needed help, but she would still try to avoid suspicion. Some things could be helpful, while some things might be considered meddling.
If you can't tell the line between helping someone in need and meddling in other people's affairs, then let Zhao Fengnian, a younger generation with whom he has a closer relationship, take care of his relatives' affairs.
The date for dinner was quickly arranged, and the other party drove over two days later, bringing more gifts and seeming to have hit it off with my cousin.
Shi Qingqing also cooked a few dishes and sent them over, including abalone, shark fin, bird's nest, and even Western food, with a curry added.
When the manager saw the table, his expression froze for a moment. Then he looked at his cousin's family again, who were obviously still living in poverty, and then looked at Zhao Fengnian's outfit, which was not luxurious but of high quality and fashionable style.
Shi Qingqing brought up a plate of fruit, and on her wrist was a gold bracelet weighing almost half a pound.
After learning that Shi Qingqing had an uninterrupted source of seafood and that Zhao Fengnian was the person in charge of the smoked goose shop, the manager became very warm to Zhao Fengnian and even wanted to become sworn brothers with him. After a conversation, it became clear that he had some ulterior motives but would not force his way through.
The only explanation for this being pointed out is that the boss is afraid that the diners will not feel safe eating the food, so he asks them, the errand boys, to be on the lookout for ready-made meals.
"Actually, our restaurant doesn't have enough time and space to make smoked goose..." He even said this in order to relieve Zhao Fengnian's vigilance.
"Haha, Manager Xu, you don't have to explain. We are all workers. We understand that the words of the leaders are as heavy as a mountain. But we can give you a guarantee on the issue of food hygiene. We will never cut corners or use shoddy materials. We use live geese..."
After a few words exchanged and the meal was over, Zhao Fengnian and Manager Xu became arm in arm, and the matter of recognizing each other as godfathers was temporarily put on hold.
After the meal, Zhao Fengnian watched the man leave and then told his cousin what the man was thinking. He came for your method of cooking smoked goose.
Once you learn it, it means you have started to compete for business.
My cousin seemed a little bit unbelieving. It was just a snack, but was it worth it for someone to lower himself to acknowledge him as his godfather and try to please a fellow villager like him?
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