Chapter 401 The Zhou Family’s Shock

Nanning.

Wuyue Square luxury residence.

Zhang Xiuping and Gu Caiwei, the two sisters-in-law, are helping their sister-in-law dress up.

Women love beauty the most. In later generations, many women, in order to make themselves more beautiful, really endure what ordinary people cannot endure, and cruelly undergo surgery on various parts of their bodies. Their madness is really chilling.

Of course, not all women love beauty so much. There are also many women who don’t care about their appearance, especially rural women who work all day long. How can they have the time to dress up? However, no matter whether they are women who love to dress up or women who don’t care about their appearance, they will dress up well when attending some important occasions.

And blind dates are undoubtedly very important occasions for women.

Even women in later generations who go on several blind dates a day would dress up well, let alone in today's era when blind dates are still taken very seriously.

Today at noon is the first time Deng Yunzhu will attend a blind date. The blind date partner was personally selected by her father. Of course, she takes it very seriously and asks her eldest and second sisters-in-law to come and help her dress up.

It has to be said that women who are good-looking are naturally better at dressing up than women who are not good-looking.

The reason is actually very simple. A woman with good looks can become even more beautiful after dressing up. However, a woman who is not good-looking will still look ugly no matter how she dresses up, unless she uses makeup to transform herself into another person.

The former naturally has an interest in dressing up, while the latter often gives up on themselves and becomes an unkempt woman.

Zhang Xiuping and Gu Caiwei are both beauties picked from thousands. With such a foundation, they naturally love beauty since childhood and are much better at dressing up than ordinary women, so Deng Yunzhu asked her two sisters-in-law to help.

The result was undoubtedly satisfactory. With the help of the eldest and second sisters-in-law, Deng Yunzhu, after some dressing up, was not very beautiful, but she could barely be called a beauty.

Coupled with the temperament she has cultivated in the past two years as a hot pot restaurant owner, she still looks pretty good.

Zhang Xiuping immediately praised: "Azhu, you are really dressed beautifully. I guarantee you will charm the other person."

Gu Caiwei also smiled and said, "Sister-in-law is right. When Ah Zhu is dressed like this, she is a real beauty!"

Deng Yunzhu looked in the mirror, at the girl who looked very familiar but a little different than before, and couldn't help but smile with satisfaction: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, thank you for helping me dress up, but the two sisters-in-law are naturally beautiful, so I'll trouble you to stay at home and wait for news when we go on a blind date later.

Otherwise, with my two sisters-in-law around, it would be useless no matter how beautifully I dress up.”

Zhang Xiuping and Gu Caiwei couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this. The two sisters-in-law were indeed not comparable to their sister-in-law in terms of appearance. If they really appeared at the blind date scene, it might really affect the sister-in-law's blind date.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiuping nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for your good news at home with your second sister-in-law."

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In Nanning, before the 1980s, the most famous restaurant was undoubtedly the Wanguo Restaurant.

This restaurant opened in 1945 and was originally named the International Hotel. It is famous for its various traditional dishes and snacks. It is well-known throughout Nanning and Guangxi.

Before liberation, many military and political leaders and dignitaries were its guests. After liberation, it was renamed "Wan Guo Restaurant" and became the main venue for many conferences in Guangxi and Nanning at that time. It is one of the oldest restaurants in Nanning.

At that time, there was a saying circulating in Nanning: "Food in Nanning is the best in all countries." Most people could brag about having a meal here for half a year.

However, as the saying goes, "No one is good forever, and no flower is red forever", after entering the 1990s, this famous restaurant fell into decline.

Today, there are two most famous hotels in Nanning, namely Ruyi Restaurant and Xiyuan Hotel.

Ruyi Restaurant is the first place in Nanning where you can listen to Cantonese opera and drink morning tea. Since its opening in the mid-1980s, it has been always packed with guests from morning to night, and its popularity is even greater than that of the Wanguo Restaurant.

The Xiyuan Hotel is even more awesome; it is the "state guesthouse" of Nanning that specifically hosts leaders.

Over the past few decades, senior leaders from Guangxi have all stayed here, and it is very prestigious.

After the reform and opening up, this high-end restaurant also opened up to the public and its business was extremely prosperous.

Zhou Haidong and Deng Yunzhu’s blind date was scheduled at the Xiyuan Hotel.

Zhou Haidong and his father and mother arrived in Nanning yesterday, but it was already evening when they arrived, so it was not suitable for a meeting, so they set the time for noon today.

At this time, the Zhou family of three were waiting for the Deng family to arrive at the hotel entrance.

Although mobile phones are already available in this era, not only are they expensive, the key point is that the domestic mobile network has not yet been established. Buying this broken thing has little practical value other than using it as a brick. This is also the reason why Deng Shirong has never used a mobile phone.

Without mobile phones, it was difficult to find guests at the banquet.

In order to show respect to the woman, the three members of the Zhou family simply waited at the door.

While waiting, Zhou's mother couldn't help but ask, "Old Zhou, do you have a good eye? This trip will cost our family a lot of money!"

Old Man Zhou said, "Don't worry. I have been in the government for decades, so I have a good eye for people. I think Uncle Jiu is not an ordinary person. His little daughter is one year younger than Haidong, and he is planning to open a third hot pot restaurant. No one in our family can match his ability to make money."

Zhou's mother said: "She has such a great ability to make money. If it is true, then she is worthy of Shanghai Dong. Anyway, we have come all the way from Guangzhou. If we feel that she is okay after meeting her, we will definitely find a chance to go to her hot pot restaurant to take a look.

After all, seeing is believing!"

Old man Zhou nodded: "It's good to go and take a look."

Zhou Haidong continued, "I don't know if the hot pot restaurant she opened can compare to the one opened by my cousin."

Zhou's mother said, "It probably can't compare. Your cousin's hot pot restaurant is over 200 square meters. It's one of the best hot pot restaurants in our area."

Old Man Zhou pondered and said, "It's hard to say. The area of ​​the hot pot restaurant may not be as big as your cousin's, nor as grand, but the business should be good, otherwise they wouldn't have opened one hot pot restaurant after another, and this third hot pot restaurant is ready to open."

Zhou Haidong nodded and said, "Business should be good. If it were bad, one store wouldn't be able to handle it, so why would they think of opening a second store?"

Mother Zhou said, "You'll know when you see it."

The family of three stood at the door of the restaurant and chatted for a few minutes, and then they saw Deng Shirong and his youngest daughter Deng Yunzhu walking over.

When two parties meet, they introduce themselves to each other and say hello, so it is omitted.

A few minutes later, both parties entered the hotel and came to the reserved box.

When it comes to ordering food, both sides naturally have to exchange some politeness.

After they ordered the dishes and the waiter left the box, the two sides started chatting.

During the whole process, Zhou Haidong and Deng Yunzhu were silently looking at each other.

In Deng Yunzhu's eyes, the man in front of her named Zhou Haidong was indeed as tall and handsome as her father had said. He was attractive at first sight. Coupled with his degree from a key university, she was very satisfied with this first impression.

In Zhou Haidong's eyes, the girl in front of him was obviously well-dressed and had a good figure and appearance. What was particularly rare was that she looked very confident and behaved gracefully in front of the three of them, unlike other girls who were too shy to look up.

Anyway, at first glance, he looks like a man who has seen the world and is not petty at all. He is very satisfied with this first impression.

Deng Yunzhu's performance also made Zhou's father and mother very satisfied. Everyone in the Zhou family had a decent job and was paid by the government, so they naturally paid more attention to their reputation. If their daughter-in-law was petty or cowardly and couldn't hold up the situation, they would naturally not like her.

A confident and graceful daughter-in-law like Deng Yunzhu is the ideal daughter-in-law in their hearts.

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Generally, there is a matchmaker present during a blind date, and the topic of conversation revolves around the man and the woman.

However, today's blind date between Zhou Haidong and Deng Yunzhu was somewhat different from a regular blind date. Old man Zhou and Deng Shirong had explained to each other the basic situation of both parties' children, and there were no other matchmakers on the scene. This blind date was purely for the man and woman to meet each other.

After they chatted for a while, Zhou's mother said, "Azhu, you are the owner of two or three hot pot restaurants at such a young age. That's really amazing. Are these three hot pot restaurants all in Nanning?"

Deng Yunzhu shook her head and said, "There are only two in Nanning. One is the first to open, one is preparing to open, and the other is in Liuzhou."

Zhou's mother said: "It's easy to manage in Nanning, but who will help you manage the hot pot restaurant in Liuzhou?"

Deng Yunzhu smiled and said, "Of course we can hire someone to help manage it. As long as there is a corresponding management system, we only need to check the accounts every once in a while."

Old Man Zhou continued, "We need to do a good job of supervision to avoid cheating superiors and embezzling money."

Deng Yunzhu nodded and said, "Uncle Zhou is right. Supervision is very important. We have been improving this aspect and trying our best to prevent people from taking advantage of loopholes. A high school classmate of mine has made an appointment with me. She is a top student from a key university. When she graduates next year, she will come to help me run the hot pot restaurant.

By then, with talents like her joining us, I think we can come up with a more reasonable management system, allowing the hot pot restaurant to develop faster and more steadily.”

Zhou Haidong was surprised and asked, "A top student from a key university is going to help you run a hot pot restaurant?"

He graduated from a key university and naturally understood the importance of key universities in this era. No matter which unit he joined after graduation, he would be a key talent.

After all, there are very few college students nowadays, especially students in key universities, who can be said to be one in a million.

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Unlike later generations, where any brick thrown down could at least hit three 211 universities and one 985 university, the value of the money would naturally be different.

Such a top student could actually ignore the job assigned by the state and come to help Deng Yunzhu manage the hot pot restaurant. This really surprised Zhou Haidong, and he even couldn't understand why.

Deng Yunzhu smiled and said, "Yes, that's what she said."

Old Man Zhou also understood the importance of top students from key universities. Hearing this, he asked in surprise, "Azhu, what's going on? Why is your classmate willing to give up the job assigned by the government to help you run the hot pot restaurant?"

Deng Yunzhu smiled and said, "She wanted to repay me. In her last semester of high school, a big thing happened in her family. If it weren't for my help, she might not have had the opportunity to go to college."

The three members of the Zhou family asked curiously, and Deng Yunzhu did not hide anything and briefly recounted what happened to her classmate Li Shuqin.

When the three members of the Zhou family found out that the brother had sold his own sister for gambling, they all cursed.

At the same time, I also understood why a top student from a key university was willing to give up a good job assigned by the state to help his classmates run a hot pot restaurant.

While we were chatting about this, the restaurant started serving the food.

Afterwards, the two sides ate and chatted, and the atmosphere was quite nice.

The meal took more than an hour to finish.

The bill will naturally be paid by the man. All expenses of the blind date are the responsibility of the man. This is basically a customary thing.

If it is a normal blind date, it is reasonable for the man to be responsible for the expenses.

However, in later generations, there have been many examples of people treating blind date partners as gullible fools. When a blind date comes, all the relatives and friends come, and then they order a lot of food, and the most expensive dishes are served. A meal can cost people thousands of dollars.

They even call it a test on the man, which is really shameless.

The most satisfying thing about this kind of blind date where the other person is taken advantage of is that the man finds an opportunity to sneak away, leaving the woman to pay the bill herself.

After leaving Xiyuan Hotel, Deng Shirong said without waiting for Zhou Jia to speak, "Old Zhou, let's go back to the hot pot restaurant to drink tea. There are special black broken teas that I brought from my hometown Bobai. They are all fine products produced by century-old tea trees."

Old Man Zhou smiled and said, "Okay, there is such good tea, I have to taste it carefully."

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Half an hour later.

Deng Shirong and his daughter brought the Zhou family of three back to Wuyue Square. The Zhou family of three saw the eye-catching sign of La Meizi Hotpot at a glance.

Old Man Zhou immediately praised: "Azhu, you chose a good location for this hot pot restaurant. It's in the city center with a high customer flow. The business will definitely not be too bad."

Deng Yunzhu smiled and said, "It's OK. Uncle Zhou, thank you for the compliment."

Soon, the group walked up the external stairs to the second floor.

Needless to say, after seeing the super large hot pot restaurant on the second floor, the three members of the Zhou family were all shocked.

Mother Zhou pointed at the hot pot restaurant, which was larger than she had imagined, and trembled all over: "This...this...Azhu, is this the hot pot restaurant you opened?"

Old Man Zhou also trembled and said, "Oh my God, this hot pot restaurant is too big!"

Zhou Haidong is not much better off. His cousin's hot pot restaurant is more than 200 square meters, which ranks among the best in terms of business area alone in a big city like Guangzhou.

The hot pot restaurant in front of him was really bigger than he had imagined. It was more than ten times bigger than his cousin's hot pot restaurant. And it was located in Nanning, a city that was not even ranked among the best in the country. It was simply incredible.

Deng Yunzhu had long expected the Zhou family's reaction. Who wouldn't be shocked when visiting her huge hot pot restaurant for the first time?

Deng Yunzhu didn't need to answer Zhou's mother's questions, because when the waiter in charge of welcoming them came in, he greeted them respectfully, "Boss!"

Deng Yunzhu nodded to the waiter, then looked at Zhou's father and mother and said with a smile, "Uncle Zhou, Aunt Zhou, please come in."

After entering the hot pot restaurant, after accepting the unimaginable area, the Zhou family began to look at the decoration of the hot pot restaurant. The result naturally made them praise it highly. Not only is the area of ​​this hot pot restaurant several blocks away from his nephew's (cousin's) hot pot restaurant, the decoration is also very beautiful.

Especially the built-in hot pot setting really opened the eyes of the Zhou family.

It was not until they sat down and Deng Yunzhu personally served them tea that the three members of the Zhou family slowly recovered from their shock.

At this moment, the three members of the Zhou family realized that they had greatly underestimated the woman's strength.

Mother Zhou took a sip of tea, calmed down her excitement, and asked, "Ah Zhu, are the other two hot pot restaurants also this big?"

Deng Yunzhu shook her head and smiled, "No, the hot pot restaurant in Liuzhou is only one-tenth the size of this one. The other hot pot restaurant in Nanning that is being planned is even smaller, probably only about 200 square meters."

Zhou's mother praised: "An area of ​​more than 200 square meters is not small. Haidong's cousin also runs a hot pot restaurant. His hot pot restaurant is more than 200 square meters. In addition, the hot pot restaurant can also be placed in front of ten or eight tables. It feels very large."

Zhou Haidong couldn't help but ask, "Azhu, why did you make this hot pot restaurant so big? Even in Guangzhou, such a big hot pot restaurant can't be full. Even during the peak dining period, less than half of the space is occupied. In Nanning, the number of diners may be even less. Isn't the remaining space wasted?"

Deng Yunzhu glanced at her father and said with a smile: "This hot pot restaurant is the head office of our Spicy Girl Hot Pot chain, so it must be run decently. There is indeed a lot of wasted space now, but now that the country is reforming and opening up, there are more and more wealthy people, and business will get better and better.

I believe that in another ten or eight years, the customer flow of my hot pot restaurant will increase, and one day it will be full of customers. "

Although Zhou Haidong still had many questions in his mind, the relationship between the two parties had not reached that stage yet, so it was not appropriate to ask too many details.

Old Man Zhou nodded and said, "Nanning is an ancient city with a long history. It is also an emerging city. As the capital of Guangxi, I believe it will usher in great development in the future. Ah Zhu, your hot pot restaurant will be packed with customers sooner or later."

"Thank you Uncle Zhou for your encouragement!"

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PS: I'm having a bit of a writer's block, so this chapter only has 5,000 words. I'll find a chance to make up for it later. Thank you all for your rewards and monthly tickets.

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