Chen Mengqi returned home with the soda and sighed as she looked at the empty house.
Looks like I'll be eating alone again at lunchtime.
The adults in the family are all busy. Her father opened a restaurant specializing in Huaiyang cuisine in Bamiantang in 1981.
This location is between the west entrance of Jinyu Hutong and the west entrance of Dengshikou. Legend has it that as early as the Ming Dynasty, there was an octagonal stone trough for large livestock to drink water next to the well in the middle of this street, hence the name.
In later generations, Bamiantao was located in the middle section of Wangfujing Street. The entire street was not long, only about five or six hundred meters long, and it was a very small place name.
Don't let the small size of this place fool you; it's now home to many well-known businesses and buildings. Chen Mengqi's family's "Qili Pavilion" is located on this street.
Qi is his daughter, and Li is his wife. The name of the shop shows how much the fat man values his family.
Speaking of Huaiyang cuisine, the "Qili Pavilion" opened by Fatty has a connection with the famous "Yuhuatai Restaurant".
Yuhua Terrace was originally located in Bamiantang, and it was only moved to Xidan North Street in the 1960s.
The old folks still remember it, and the fat man opened a Huaiyang cuisine restaurant in this place, which can be said to have been very successful.
We were able to take over this territory thanks to the fat man seizing the initiative.
In the TV series, the place where Lou Xiao'e invested in the restaurant that Sha Zhu opened was definitely a good location! How could a place found by the Great Spiritual Guide not be good?
But do you all remember how much Lou Xiao'e invested in that place? Three million!
Even though that was the price in 1988, it was still three million! You couldn't even sell the fat guy for three million...
With no other option, he had to search in various ways; eventually, with the help of Director Wang, he finally got the shop he has today.
To open this shop, the fat man emptied out his savings.
Besides the four gold bars in Stardew Valley, there was also all the savings he had accumulated over the years.
Thanks to the rise in international gold prices, the price of one gram of gold has increased to 229.62 yuan.
The gold bars that the Lou family gave to Fatty back then were all "large yellow croakers," which meant gold bars weighing ten taels each. This weight is almost the same as one ounce of gold today.
Converted to modern weight, it is 312.5 grams.
The "small yellow croaker" refers to a small gold bar that weighs one tael each. This was the kind of gold bar that Xu Damao gave to Li Huaide. If converted to modern weight, it would be 31.25 grams.
In the era when Lou Bancheng was accumulating his wealth, "large yellow croaker" was a hard currency, and a standard item. Wealthy families usually had the habit of hoarding "large yellow croaker".
It was with these four gold bars, along with scraping together what he could from various sources, that the fat man managed to save up 350,000 yuan to open this "Qili Pavilion".
When they first started raising money, Fatty originally wanted to bring Xu Damao on board.
Xu Damao is having a tough time right now.
Because he had been too ruthless in his past actions and offended too many people, he was constantly being retaliated against.
So, the Fifth Workers' Club won't let him show movies anymore, and they've actually made him go to the entrance to check tickets!
Xu Damao's movie projection skills are second to none in Beijing! No skipping, no interruptions, hundreds of screenings without incident, and now they're letting him check tickets?
Xu Damao has been living a very stifled life these days, and he can't even hold his head up in front of Qin Jingru.
How so? Qin Jingru now has a government job! She's transformed into a state cadre, the first one in this institute to do so.
Xu Damao then realized that he, including Liu Haizhong, and all those so-called group leaders and deputy directors... were nothing but a fart to them, who climbed up the ranks by scheming against others!
In a fit of anger, Xu Damao quit his job. He decided to leave his job and start his own business.
As everyone later learned, we had three major waves of "going into business," corresponding to 1984, 1987, and 1993.
This wave swept through the streets and alleys of Beijing. From the elderly in their seventies and eighties to children who had just started elementary school, everyone was discussing going into business, becoming a taxi driver, becoming a self-employed individual, and becoming a millionaire!
However, this first wave of people going into business also had a characteristic: it was heavily influenced by the gray economy.
There are many people like Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong who made their fortunes by reselling scarce commodities through connections, but ultimately they could not escape being cleaned up and rectified.
In modern times, these two "nouveau riche" would only be considered lower-middle-class wage earners, and frankly, they wouldn't even catch the fat man's eye.
Xu Damao is rich; he has two "big yellow croakers" hidden under his bed. Not only Qin Jingru knows this, but Fatty knows it too.
Including what he's amassed over the years, Xu Damao must have at least seventy or eighty thousand yuan in his hands.
If he were to invest all that money and become the second largest shareholder of Qilige, wouldn't that be better than him dealing in rebar with that old bastard Liu Haizhong and smuggling imported color televisions with You Fengxia?
In Xu Damao's ending, he was swindled out of his entire fortune, his family was destroyed, and he was reduced to begging all the way back to his courtyard house from Changping by the two "female and female bandits" Li Huaide and You Fengxia...
However, after talking to Xu Damao, the fat man discovered that Xu Damao was not interested in the catering industry and that he wanted to start a real business, mainly a factory.
Fatty then remembered that in the TV series, Xu Damao looked down on the restaurant that Lou Xiao'e invested in for Sha Zhu. He had bigger ambitions and wanted to start a factory.
Wang Duoyu is right: "Money is a bastard, we should respect our dreams!"
Unfortunately, his dream never came true, and he became resentful and couldn't stand seeing people like Sha Zhu and Yan Jiecheng doing better than him.
As a result, he became restless and impatient, single-mindedly wanting to make quick money and take shortcuts, ultimately leading to his utter ruin.
So, after thinking about it, the fat man gave up on the idea of recruiting Xu Damao.
Roads are made by people, and doing business isn't about brotherhood; it's best to rely on one's own abilities.
To be honest, the fat man could scrape together the money if he really wanted to. The point is to drain Chen Yan's funds.
Chen Yan tried her best to persuade him to take all the money, but the fat man refused: "Second sister, this money can't be touched! This money is not only to maintain the normal operation of your service team, but also to take care of our brothers. If anyone gets sick or suffers an accident, it will have to come from here."
Seeing this, Chen Yan had no choice but to go home for help. Chen Gangqiang and Zhou Haiqin took out all their savings; in addition, after hearing about it, Chen Rong also discussed it with Cao Zhengyang, and the two of them gave all their savings to the fat man without saying a word.
It would be great if I could suddenly make another 100,000 or 200,000 yuan at this time.
Just as the fat man was getting anxious and frustrated, Master Zhou suddenly called to invite him for drinks.
Now there are two telephones in this yard, one for Xu Damao's family and the other for Fatty's family.
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