She didn't understand why Li Yujie ran away with that man. Anyway, he was not the first man she ran away with.
She didn't know what happened afterwards.
She is a person who is particularly afraid of investing her feelings. Once her feelings are ruthlessly trampled upon by others, she will no longer continue to invest.
So, although they are sisters, she and Li Yujie have never met each other since then. The news she heard was from her third uncle who told her second uncle, and her second uncle who told her father.
Her grandmother was very sad. After all, she was her granddaughter and she had lived such a hard life in her previous life.
She couldn't help but comfort her: "Grandma, we just have to do our best in this life, let her study hard and get into a good school. A good school won't have students with hair dyed yellow like a chicken coop."
"Grandma, reading can make people smarter."
Li Yutong had no other hope. As long as Li Yujie could go to school diligently and find a boyfriend in college, then even if her marriage was not good, it would not be as bad as in her previous life.
Chen Xiaoying could only wipe away tears: "Okay, I must let her study hard. If she doesn't study hard and makes bad friends, she will not be my granddaughter."
Li Yujie is still young, and in order to cultivate her good character, she has been sent to a county primary school with a better environment than the village primary school. Her mother Zhao Xueyan has also been arranged a good job that is easy and lucrative, with a high salary, in the hope that her living environment will be better.
Her grandmother has already provided her with the best soil for survival. If this little sapling still grows crooked in the end, it can only be said that it is her own fault.
The grandparents discussed for a long time, but they couldn't fire Zhao Xueyan because of Li Yujie.
"Grandma, let's just take it one step at a time." She said, "Aunt San is timid, at most she's lazy and doesn't work, that's fine, as long as she doesn't put anything in our food."
She said jokingly.
Chen Xiaoying's expression immediately tensed up: "You're right, I'll ask your Aunt Cai Ling to pay more attention to her."
Li Yutong nodded. There was no other way for the time being.
After saying this, she talked about the hot pot ingredients: "They are selling very well, and the demand is exceeding the supply. This shows that our hot pot ingredients are really delicious. I plan to open a hot pot restaurant during the summer vacation."
"Okay, it's your own business, you can handle it yourself. Grandma may not know as much as you do." In her previous life, the granddaughter did very well in the catering industry.
The hot pot restaurant is very famous.
Li Yutong nodded.
The fact that her eldest aunt and third aunt wanted to interfere in the affairs of the store served as a reminder to her that she had to separate her own business from her grandmother Chen Xiaoying's restaurant.
Her grandmother wanted to help her descendants and give them a good future.
She has her own ideal. While letting her parents live a good life, she hopes that she can also accomplish a small goal and save the money she has saved at the credit union.
Dripping water wears away a stone.
When she has saved enough money, she will start buying shops one by one, and then buy a house. When she feels tired and doesn't want to do anything anymore, she can rent out the shops and houses, and she can live a comfortable life.
This is what Li Yutong thought.
She planned her own hot pot restaurant.
Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying warned her third daughter-in-law Zhao Xueyan again: "You don't know anything, but you want to open a store. If you lose money, how can you pay it back?"
"I know, it must be Hongyan who instigated you to do this. I tell you the truth, the third brother is on the side of her eldest sister. If you work hard to open the store, believe it or not, the third brother will let Li Hongyan be the boss of the store and let you go back to the village to farm."
Zhao Xueyan said that being a waitress is hard work and she is not happy to do it, but compared with doing rough work on the farm, here there is no need to be exposed to the wind and sun and do hard labor, so it is already a good and relaxing life.
She is afraid of hardship and fatigue.
"Mom, I get it. I won't open the store anymore," she said hurriedly.
After she talked to her mother-in-law, she thought about it and felt that what her mother-in-law said made sense. Her elder sister-in-law would not do anything without profit, so she would not be so calculating.
She was urged to open a shop, saying that it was all for the third brother's sake. Since she cared so much about the third brother, she should return the money that the third brother had given her over the years.
Seeing that Zhao Xueyan had thought it through and gave up the idea of opening a store, Chen Xiaoying felt relieved temporarily.
In the blink of an eye, summer vacation is here.
He Mingliang had graduated from a vocational school and had enough free time to accompany Li Yutong to look around at shops. After looking around for a long time, especially the places with the heaviest traffic, he made a suggestion.
"Why not open a store near the small restaurant, right on Renmin Street, so that you can take care of both stores."
In fact, he felt that no matter where the store was opened, Li Yutong’s hot pot restaurant would do well.
The reputation of her hot pot ingredients has spread, and she has accumulated a large and stable customer base.
Li Yutong knew this and said, "I know. I'm just thinking about how to set the price. If we open it in the new district, where there are many wealthy people, the price can be higher. If we open it on Renmin Street, the price has to be more affordable."
He Mingliang nodded: "Indeed, I think you'd better hurry up. After you choose a store, don't you still have to decorate it? When the decoration is done and the smell is a little removed, and the store is open, you can start school again."
Li Yutong thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's talk about the price first. Whether it's the new district or here, rent is a big problem. Let's see where it's more affordable."
Li Yutong had never hidden the fact that she opened a hotpot restaurant from anyone, and He Zixuan found out about it immediately. He came to join in the fun after finishing his cram school.
"Hey, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Not yet. He Zixuan, I am very happy that you have this thought." Li Yutong said with a smile.
He Zixuan couldn't help but ask: "It's not easy to open a store. How much capital do you have? Is it enough?"
He had calculated once before with his cousin Shen Jiaze how much it would cost to run the kind of hot pot restaurant that Li Yutong wanted to open.
Li Yutong nodded: "It's enough."
She repeated her idea: "The hot pot restaurant I opened is low-priced and affordable, so even students can afford it. Because we want to reduce costs, we may sell less meat and mainly sell meatballs and vegetables."
"Each person gets a small pot, or two people get a pot. The price is based on the pot base, and each pot costs a certain amount. Then you can help yourself with the vegetables and meatballs, and eat as much as you want, with no limit on the quantity."
"Unlimited? Aren't you afraid that a few big eaters will eat up all the food in your restaurant?" He Zixuan was surprised. She really planned to open a hot pot restaurant where people could eat as much as they wanted.
Li Yutong nodded solemnly: "Don't be afraid, how many big eaters can there be?"
Apart from the fact that big eaters are born with a real ability to eat, the rest is gained at the cost of their health. A human stomach is only so big, and if you keep stuffing food into it, the various organs of the body will be overloaded and will sooner or later make you sick.
Who would spend tens or hundreds of dollars to send themselves to the hospital just to save a few dollars, and then roll around in pain?