Here, after Li Hongyan got the news revealed by her second brother Li Hongjian, she walked a lot lighter. She was no longer under pressure, so she felt relaxed all over.
She ran to the hot pot restaurant to meet Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle.
The two of them were washing vegetables in the kitchen and didn't know she was coming.
"You're here." Li Xiaojuan recognized Li Hongyan and was about to say something with a smile.
Li Hongyan was afraid that Li Xiaojuan didn't recognize her: "I am Xiaoyu's aunt. Xiaoyu is not in the store?"
Li Hongyan said this specifically. She knew that although Li Yutong was the owner of the hot pot restaurant, she did not work there every day. She heard that she just came to take a look and then left.
She just mentioned Xiaoyu to let the employees in the store know that she was Xiaoyu's elder and they had to be polite to her.
"Xiao Yu didn't come today, what's the matter?" Li Xiaojuan smiled and said, "Are you looking for Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle? I'll go get them for you."
Li Hongyan was puzzled: "Do you know me?"
This attitude is like seeing an acquaintance.
Li Xiaojuan nodded: "I am from Lijia Village, I know you."
Li Hongyan looked at Li Xiaojuan for a few times before she recognized her immediately and smiled: "Oh, you are the daughter of Lao Laizi from the fourth team of the village? You have grown up and become more beautiful. I didn't recognize you at first."
In the past, when Li Hongyan went in and out of Lijia Village, she would pass by the village and often see Li Xiaojuan's back working. The little child, wearing tattered clothes, hunched over, and working in a dusty face. People in the village all knew that this child not only had to turn off the fire every day, but also had to be beaten every day. She was very pitiful.
I didn't expect it to have changed so much now.
Just as I was thinking about it, Li Xiaojuan said, "What a coincidence, Xiaoyu is here."
Li Hongyan looked back and saw Li Yutong walking into the house.
"Aunt? Do you have something to do with my cousins?" Li Yutong didn't expect that her aunt would come to her store to see Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle.
"It's okay. I just came to see if they are working for you honestly. How are they doing their job? I hope they are not causing you any trouble?" Li Hongyan said this politely.
Li Yutong shook her head: "Fine."
Li Hongyan glanced at Li Xiaojuan, and when she knew who she was, she felt extremely unbalanced: "Xiaoyu, come here, I have something to tell you."
She called Li Yutong out and muttered at the corner of the store entrance: "What's wrong with you? How dare you let the old man's daughter work here? Aren't you afraid that she will steal your money and spend it on her father?"
This was hard to hear, so Li Yutong had to explain: "Xiaojuan is not that kind of person. I have to reconcile accounts every day in my store, and I know if there is a dime missing."
"Didn't that old rascal come to your store to cause trouble?" People in Lijia Village all knew that the couple were as lazy as pigs, but whenever there was a wedding or funeral in someone's family, that family would go there and eat and take everything. They had a very bad reputation.
Li Yutong shook her head: "Aunt, he doesn't dare. He came once and I asked the public security brigade to arrest him and educate him. He doesn't dare to do it again."
"Public Security Team?" Li Hongyan's eyes widened. "They came just because you called them? How much benefit did you have to give them?"
Li Yutong laughed: "No benefits were given. Our street is full of merchants. The public security brigade doesn't allow people to cause trouble. Don't you see what kind of society we are in now? How can there be protection fees?"
She could understand what her aunt meant. She was curious about how she bribed the family so that they would come when she was called.
Probably because Shen Jiaze had used people there when he was there, and their leader knew that she had this golden thigh, and also because she often interacted with Secretary He and wanted to gain Secretary He's favor.
And who did Secretary He look to? Secretary He looked to Shen Jiaze for face. It turned out that Shen Jiaze accounted for half of the investment in the food factory. That's why the progress was so fast and it started to produce profits in the shortest time.
Li Yutong would not explain this matter to her aunt Li Hongyan, because she was very good at grasping anything that was beneficial to her and trying to get benefits for herself.
Li Yutong was just thinking about this when her aunt Li Hongyan said, "Xiao Yu, you are my elder. I am old and have experienced more than you have. I don't think Xiaojuan is suitable to be the store manager. Her parents are not good people. What if they cause trouble for you in the future?"
"Manager, you'd better hire your own people. Your eldest cousin Pengfei is idle all day long, so give him a chance and let him try for you. Family members working for family members will definitely work harder than outsiders. Just like working in the fields, if you are there, the hired people will pretend to do some work. If you are not there, they will not be able to finish hoeing an acre of land in a whole day, and they are just being lazy."
Li Hongyan had a lot of reasons to herself. She felt that being a store manager was both poor and lucrative. Originally, she didn't think highly of Li Yutong as the manager of a restaurant. But now, the second floor had been connected, with two floors, large French windows and colorful lights, which looked so grand. If Pengfei could be the manager of such a store, others would think he had a promising future.
Li Yutong looked at her aunt and admired her in her heart.
Why do thick-skinned people easily take advantage? That's because they can open such a mouth when many thin-skinned people can't.
It was so small that they asked, "What are you going to eat?" and asked, "Let me try some." People were polite and said, "Then you try some." Then they grabbed a handful of them.
She had heard of a case: The house downstairs is not reliable if you rent it to an outsider for business, why not rent it to me? We are cousins, aren't we better than outsiders? So, after the foolish landlord drove the tenant away, his cousin came to eat at his house and asked his wife to take care of the children. He was too busy to take care of them, so he asked his cousin to help. Of course, he didn't spend a penny, and he was a relative, so he should help each other.
As a result, he paid the rent in the first few months, but later he said that business was bad and kept delaying the payment for several years. He was asked to leave, but he still refused to leave. He said that if he lost the business, his wife would divorce him, and if his wife and children ran away, how would he compensate her?
The landlord was not angry enough to get sick, and he said he regretted it and thought he should not have let the wolf into the house in the first place.
Li Yutong is not stupid, of course she would not agree: "Aunt, don't say such things, it's not appropriate."
"Why is it inappropriate?" Li Hongyan frowned. In her eyes, even if Li Yutong opened a big restaurant and had a promising future, she was still her niece and as her aunt she could say something about her.
Li Yutong didn't want to say anything too harsh: "Xiaojuan and I signed a five-year employment contract. If I break the contract, I have to pay ten times the amount. Will you give me the money?"
When asked for money, Li Hongyan remained silent and looked at Li Yutong with her eyelids fluttering.
"Aunt, aren't you looking for my cousins? I'll go and call them for you." Li Yutong immediately went back to the store.
Li Hongyan then remembered that her two children were still working in Li Yutong's store. Although their grandmother paid for their tuition, wouldn't they be able to save some living expenses by working in the hot pot restaurant for two months? That would make her feel much more relaxed.
Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle came out.
She asked, "Are you tired from the work? Are there any old employees in this store bullying you? You are Xiaoyu's cousins. If anyone dares to bully you, let Xiaoyu fire them."
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