Chapter 152 The shop is set
"Mirror, please judge for yourself. I really can't understand why they can't like anyone's child. This family has never gotten along with my family since I can remember.
"My dad used to blame them for every difficulty he had at work. He was so angry at home that he told his family that the worst thing in his life was having such a weird relative in the Su family! And now these two are happily getting together?" Su Yuchen was indignant. "What's the big deal? It's just a child. My parents didn't like their son before, either. They even cursed him for being a jerk and saying that no one in their family was good!"
"Maybe it's the charm of grandparents?" Zhao Xiaojing pursed her lips. "Do they still act like a troublemaker now that your dad is working?"
"That cousin has married and moved to the next village. She doesn't go back often. Her parents and her brother who is a bad boy still live across the street. Her brother is not a good guy either. He is always causing trouble and swearing.
But you know what, this time her parents were much more normal, even showing the gentle temperament of an elder holding their grandson. It was really rare." Su Yuchen shook her head and still found it incredible.
"Maybe their generation is old and can't handle it any more, and your parents don't want to bother with it anymore." Zhao Xiaojing pulled Su Yuchen to sit on a chair and squeezed her a glass of fresh kiwi juice. "It just so happens that the children acted as a bridge, so the hearts of the elderly on both sides softened."
"You're right. My dad will have more white hair when he goes back this time." Su Yuchen took the kiwi juice and sighed.
"It's not just you. I don't have any relatives in Jiangcheng, but I still can't escape it. I'm also being urged to get married and have children!" Zhao Xiaojing found it funny when she thought about the train of thought of Chen Huiping and his wife during dinner that day.
"What's going on? Tell me more about it!" Seeing something new, Su Yuchen immediately became excited.
When Zhao Xiaojing told Su Yuchen about what happened in the past two days, she couldn't help but be surprised. She kept praising Zhao Xiaojing's efficiency and was amazed that she could accomplish so many things in five days.
After making the dessert in the afternoon, the two asked Chen Huiping for the key and went to see the store again.
"I think this place is nice. Just a simple renovation and some tables, chairs, and benches will be enough. The storage room in the back is quite large. If you want a bigger kitchen, we can knock down a wall and rebuild it." Su Yuchen looked at the two spacious shops with satisfaction. "It would be a waste to only sell pork trotter rice in such a big shop. Why not also sell fried skewers?"
"I'm planning to make rice topped with gravy. Besides the pork trotter rice, I'll make something else, some meat and some vegetables, so I can at least cook some dishes. Also, the pork trotter stew has a good braising liquid. Besides the braised eggs, we can braise something else and sell it as a side dish."
Zhao Xiaojing had thought about this before. If she opened a restaurant, she wouldn't have to worry about business if she simply ordered pork trotter rice, as long as it tasted good. But besides wanting to make money, she also wanted to improve her cooking skills and try more stir-fries. She couldn't just practice virtual cooking for so long every day and then just admire her own achievements. She needed to actually cook it and listen to the feedback from her customers before making adjustments.
"As for deep-frying the skewers, we'll see when we hire someone. Last time, I used Chef Gu's constant temperature deep fryer, and it really opened up a new world.
I don't even need to find someone who knows how to cook, just someone honest will be enough. I'll teach him how to use the wok, set the time and temperature, and mix the ingredients in advance, and he'll just follow my instructions, like an assembly line." Zhao Xiaojing smiled.
"Am I not a human being? Am I not honest?" Su Yuchen glared.
"You are the boss. If you want to make fried skewers, then who will be doing the cashiering, waiters, and serving tea and water at the front desk?" Zhao Xiaojing glared back.
"That's good enough, just count me in." Su Yuchen laughed again.
The two of them decided the matter while chatting and laughing, and came back to find Chen Huiping to sign the contract.
There was no need to pay one month's deposit and one month's payment, and she was worried that the renovation funds would not be able to be turned over if she paid for half a year. In the end, it was decided to pay one month's deposit and three months' payment. Zhao Xiaojing paid 24,000 yuan in one go.
"Your uncle Wang knows a team leader of the decoration team. He is a very reliable worker and can do both partial and full packages. We entrust him with the plumbing, electricity, and cabinet making here. You should first understand the market situation. If you have trouble finding someone, I will ask your uncle to introduce you." Chen Huiping put away the contract and gave a reminder.
"Then we won't be polite and just ask Uncle Wang for help. Even if we understand the market situation, we don't understand it." When Zhao Xiaojing heard that there was a way, she turned to Su Yuchen and asked.
"I'm fine." Su Yuchen nodded casually.
"Okay, you wait." Chen Huiping said and called Wang Jiandang, asked for the phone number of the decoration team leader and sent it to Zhao Xiaojing.
"The renovation team leader's surname is Wu. I'll ask your uncle to tell him. Then you can say that Wang Jiandang introduced you.
He's an honest man, a bit stubborn, but he's also responsible for his line of work. To be honest, my daughter-in-law asked him to install that small supermarket when she first started. I was the one who oversaw the renovations, and I argued with him several times, and he even went to your uncle to complain! "Chen Huiping pouted," she complained.
"Then are you still willing to recommend him?" Su Yuchen asked curiously.
"Because I could never win an argument with him, I ended up doing things his way. But after I finished, I realized he was right..." Chen Huiping said aggrievedly.
Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The two returned to the kitchen and chatted and laughed while preparing the 60 servings of pork trotter rice ordered by the students and the 750 servings of sweet soup ordered by Lu Hongwen in the evening. While busy, they discussed ideas for the decoration.
The storage room inside would be converted into a kitchen. Plumbing and electrical connections would have to be rerouted, waterproofing would have to be done, a range hood duct would have to be installed, a worktop, a stove, and a ducted air conditioner would have to be added. The wall would also have to be demolished and rebuilt, and the kitchen's layout and area would have to be redesigned.
The outside is quite convenient, the plumbing, electricity and tiles are in good condition, and all you need to do is remove the densely packed shelves and advertising cloths on the wall, and then repaint the entire wall. Just paint it white, it's simple and looks clean.
Then I can go to the second-hand market to look for tables, chairs, benches, fans, air conditioners, and disinfection cabinets. Finally, I can take the existing machines and equipment, pots and pans in the kitchen, and buy dozens of new sets of tableware, and that’s it.
The next day, the two of them made an appointment to meet with the renovation foreman.
Foreman Wu gestured around the shop with an electronic measuring instrument, then looked at the blueprint with a pad. "I knew it when Lao Wang told me yesterday. I still have the blueprints for this shop. I measured it again and it matches.
"You can knock down the wall, but this is the only wall in this room that can be knocked down. The others are load-bearing walls. Please give me a rough outline of your requirements, and I'll take notes and measure the dimensions and make the blueprints later."
The three of them came to the storage room. Zhao Xiaojing told them the specific requirements and her ideas. Su Yuchen supplemented them from time to time. Foreman Wu carefully wrote them down one by one, measured the dimensions and looked at the drawings from time to time, and then refuted the two.
After some negotiations, the general plan and direction were decided.
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