68 Laughing Yan Yan
◎My wife is extremely intelligent, what more could a husband ask for◎
"Two million!" Tian Nongxi slammed the table, crossed his arms and said firmly.
Opposite her sat a middle-aged man who was fat but not greasy. He had a long and thick beard. When he brushed his beard, the gold thread embroidered on his brocade robe shone brightly. At first glance, it looked like fish swimming on his body.
"This is totally illogical. Sir, please don't let your wife make fun of you." Chen Yihao narrowed his eyes and looked at Wen Tingluan who was standing beside Tian Nongxi without saying a word. The vicious look of a veteran made him realize that the man in front of him was no ordinary person.
Hearing this, Luan smiled and said, "My wife is the boss of the family. I am just a freeloader."
"Yes, doesn't he look like a gigolo?" Tian Nongxi took over the conversation, his eyes sweeping over the follower standing behind Shen Yihao, or to be more precise, over the red sandalwood box in the follower's hand, which looked very heavy and filled with a lot of gold.
She swallowed hard, putting on the air of someone with thirty years of experience in the industry. "Shopkeeper Chen, you and I are both businessmen. You've come all the way to see me, so you must trust me. I'll be honest, every ten days there were at least three or five people looking for business opportunities with me. From the capital to the various counties and towns, wave after wave of people came, and I rejected them all. Can you guess why?"
After receiving Chen Yihao's interested question, Tian Nongxi continued to lie with his eyes open: "Of course they are not as sincere as you, and they don't have your brains! There are some who complain as soon as they sit down, and I don't even bother to see them; there are also some who look down on me because I am a woman, not knowing that their shops combined cannot compete with Hao Zai Lai. Hao Zai Lai is well-known among the people, and many people have recognized it. As the shopkeeper, I have to be more careful about my reputation and not cooperate with others casually. Seeing you today, I know that you are different from other mortals. I know a little bit about your appearance. Shopkeeper Shen's forehead is shining with gold. This is a Buddha statue. I use Shopkeeper Shen really—" Tian Nongxi paused, and caught a glimpse of Chen Yihao's high-covered carriage parked in front of the shop, almost blocking half of the road. He shook his head and sighed, "It's like old times at first sight, it's like old times at first sight!"
"Manager Tian is joking." Chen Yihao brushed his beard, raised his head and laughed twice, his voice as loud as if his throat was filled with a gong made of gold.
"It's rare to find someone as sweet-talking as Shopkeeper Tongtian! A mere two million is worth it." A laugh filled with money kept rolling out of his throat. Shen Yihao put forward his conditions while laughing, "But I have two unwelcome requests. I'm sure a straightforward person like Shopkeeper won't refuse."
"Shopkeeper Shen, please speak."
"As for the first one, if my business is successful, I will naturally return to my hometown. However, I have been doing business for many years, and this is my first time setting foot in a restaurant. I don't know how to hire a chef. I hope that Shopkeeper Tian can give me some guidance. It would be even better if you can invite a former chef to come to my shop and teach me."
"Of course you can." Tian Nongxi already had a candidate in mind and replied with a smile.
"Haha, Shopkeeper Tian is really straightforward." Money makes people laugh, and Chen Yihao's face was full of smiles.
"The second one is, I want Shopkeeper Tian to stop cooperating with other people for the next six months." Shen Yihao added slowly, "It will take a month for the shop to rest and a month for the customer flow to stabilize. This is not too much, is it, Shopkeeper Tian?"
Tian Nongxi remained silent. She had originally wanted to make more money by "franchising" so that she would be less busy and could sit back and enjoy the fruits of her labor - anyway, if she made a profit, she would just walk away and it wouldn't affect anything. But her exorbitant demands were too obvious, and there were obviously no fools in the business world.
"Add another million!" Shen Yihao waved his hand.
There are still some.
Putting on a beautiful smile, Tian Nongxi eagerly filled Shen Yihao's cup of tea and said, "Deal."
Asking him to stay for lunch, Shen Yihao said that he had to go and discuss another business deal. He hurriedly got into the carriage pulled by four white horses, lifted the gauze curtain and asked Tian Nongxi not to see him off.
Seeing his conspicuous carriage rolling over the bluestone road and the rolling wheels rolling into another alley, Tian Nongxi withdrew his gaze.
Behind him, a clear voice sounded as pleasant as the gurgling of a spring:
"My wife is extremely intelligent, what more could a husband ask for?"
"Kind words are worth a reward." Tian Nongxi turned around, took out a silver ingot from his arms and pressed it on Wen Tingluan's chest.
"Give me something else as a reward." Wen Tingluan covered her hand holding the silver with his hand and looked at her kindly.
The snowflakes were paused. Amid the endless shouting in the streets and alleys, Tian Nongxi felt the hot heart of the person in front of her. She blinked slowly and felt warm in her heart.
"How disgraceful." Tian Nongxi glared at him and pulled him back to the shop.
Because she was afraid that she would be found by Wen Tingluan and would not have time to escape, she did not rent a house in Xiling Town. She had been living in an empty house in the backyard for some time, living back to back with all kinds of sundries.
"Fortunately, the shop has just opened, so there is not much dust on these items." After explaining to Wen Tingluan, Tian Nongxi put his hands on his hips and looked at his own business with satisfaction.
Hearing that Luan originally wanted to invite her to his house, his eyes fell on the cramped couch inside the house, his voice lingering, and finally turned into a reply: "Okay."
Tian Nongxi raised his eyes to look at him, a look of surprise on his face, "What's good?"
"I've been hanging out with Xiaoxi here these past few days."
Tian Nongxi: “?”
She looked at the calm man in disbelief, suspecting that at least one of her memory and eyes was wrong.
The property he just handed to her, the top one was clearly the property in Xiling Town!
"I just invite you to rest here for a while." Seeing Wen Tingluan's eyes suddenly dim, Tian Nongxi added dryly, "Of course, it's okay if you want to sleep here, but this bed is too small and you'll have to sleep on the floor, and that's not a good idea..."
"good."
“…”
At midnight, Tian Nongxi tossed and turned, unable to sleep. He was silently calculating in his mind how much money he had earned and how far he was from his goal when the system announced that the rewards for the sixth and seventh levels had arrived.
Looking at the amount of money in her account that kept rising rapidly, she felt a little melancholy - the goal that she once thought was out of reach was now only a few million away from being successfully achieved.
Although a lot of this was due to the system helping her out due to unexpected circumstances, or even most of it, she still felt that she was very capable.
Who she is...does it matter?
Tian Nongxi recalled the day when he first "came through". He was lying in a place that he thought was unfamiliar with, with a fever and a splitting headache. Before he had fully recovered, he was asked to sacrifice himself.
She hasn't been back to the yard that carries so many bad memories for a long time. It might have been abandoned, but she still remembers everything clearly.
If she was Tian Erniang, why would she choose to come back?
What's more, compared to Tian Erniang's memories, Tian Nongxi's memories are more real.
Tian Nongxi thought, she must be Tian Nongxi, one of the most insignificant beings in the ordinary modern world.
She felt a heavy feeling in her heart and couldn't help but sigh.
In the darkness, a slight rustling sound was heard. Tian Nongxi listened for a while and realized it was the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.
After a while, Wen Tingluan lay back on the ground.
She didn't hear the door open, and with her back to him, she couldn't guess what he was doing in the house.
While he was guessing, he smelled a pleasant and soothing fragrance. When Tian Nongxi was about to fall asleep, he smelled that it was the agarwood that had just appeared in the house.
Quiet and peaceful, like smelling the scent of mountains.
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Early the next morning, Tian Nongxi was awakened by the noise in the front yard.
The customers had not arrived yet, and the waiters were busy washing and rinsing, chatting happily while doing their own work. After washing up, Tian Nongxi stood behind the counter with sleepy eyes to check the account book.
She stopped a passing clerk and asked, "Where is that young man from yesterday? The tall, thin, handsome and cool one?"
Man: "He left the house before daybreak."
"Oh." He left without saying goodbye again. Tian Nongxi pursed his lips, feeling a little sad, and wrote with even greater weight.
I spent less than a cup of tea venting my anger with the account book when a laughing voice rang in my ears: "Xiaoxi, what are you angry about?"
She looked up and saw Wen Tingluan concentrating on looking down at where she was writing. A bowl of wontons had appeared on the counter without her noticing.
The corners of her eyes curved, and she consciously brought the bowl of wontons closer, waiting for Wen Tingluan to hand her the chopsticks.
A passing waiter looked at Tian Nongxi, who was busy eating, and asked, "Boss, has Chef You returned home?"
Tian Nongxi replied in a completely unrelated tone: "Well, he believes in Buddhism."
"Do we need to hire another cook then?"
"Yes, that's right. I'll go look for it later." Tian Nongxi wiped the corner of his mouth with satisfaction and looked at Wen Tingluan, "Let's go?"
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