Finally, Jiang Cong came back and brought Jiang Cheng with him. The two mothers took their children home with interest and made an appointment to visit Xiaopang's home next weekend.

Qin Man agreed. After all, it’s not bad to make a few more friends!

"How's the putty going?" she asked Jiang Cong.

"The second scrape is done, and the work is done. My brother came over to help, and it was done pretty quickly!"

The renovation will be completed in less than a month. The most troublesome part is to apply for a business license and a health permit before you can officially open the business.

In fact, these days, many restaurants do not have all these certificates. They have business licenses, but they may not have health permits.

She wants to be a qualified citizen, with a clear conscience, and she will be able to hold her head high when she is investigated.

She thought about the name of the store for a long time, but couldn't decide on a suitable name. She didn't want a name that was too cookie-cutter, she wanted a name with some characteristics and highlights. She wanted to develop it into a chain store in the future, so it had to have a high-end, elegant and classy name.

So, the store name is tentative, but we need to think of it as soon as possible. After all, we need to apply for a business license and make a sign, so we have to decide on the store name as soon as possible.

In the evening, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Lian had dinner at Qin Man's place, and Jiang Cong rode his bicycle to take his sister back to the dormitory as usual.

In November, all the decoration was completed. We replaced the tables, chairs and benches with new ones, bought some new bowls and chopsticks, bought a lot of trays, customized wooden number plates, and also bought a glass cabinet to store the ingredients.

As for the refrigerators for storing meat, Qin Man bought two second-hand refrigerators in Hongli's warehouse. They were the kind of flip-top sliding-door refrigerators with large capacity and cheap, which did not affect their use. One only cost 150 yuan, and two cost 300 yuan. Manager Peng also gave her a discount and finally charged her only 280 yuan.

After buying the shop, he still had 1,200 yuan left. Jiang Cong paid him 500 yuan as royalties, and together with the salary for the past two months, the total was 1,800 yuan.

The renovation, custom-made tables, chairs, benches, and refrigerators cost more than 500 yuan, and workers were hired to scrape the putty, which cost 200 yuan, plus some miscellaneous things, but it was already within Qin Man's budget.

Next, after preparing the relevant materials, Qin Man and Jiang Cong went to apply for a business license and a health permit. Qin Man chose a very resounding name for the store.

It’s called Kuaiyi Jianghu Spicy Hot Pot, and it’s quite eye-catching!

I hired someone to make a sign. At that time, signs were not so fancy, there were no LED lights, only a simple plastic cloth sign.

However, Qinman’s storefront is larger, so the sign is also larger, and it can be easily seen from a distance.

By the time all these things were almost done, it was already the end of December. Another year had passed, and Qin Man was about to usher in her second New Year in the 1980s.

She has already quit her job and will start looking for suppliers, organizing promotional activities, and then choosing a date for trial operation next year.

Jiang Lian will continue to work in Hongli's fifth store. She has saved 500 yuan this year. Jiang Cheng is not bad either. He lived frugally and managed to save 200 yuan. By May next year, he will be a regular employee and his monthly salary will be 80 yuan from then on.

Jiang Cong's salary also increased, from 70 yuan per month.

The Spring Festival travel rush is here again. This time, Qin Man was more careful. Her family bought sleeper berths for the trip back home. So they didn't suffer any hardship on the way home. They returned home safely and smoothly.

When they appeared at the entrance of the village with their big and small bags, everyone in the village came to watch the excitement, whispering to themselves.

The people in the village had already heard that Qin Man was going to open a store. She had called Jiang's mother to tell her, but she couldn't keep her mouth shut and told everyone about it. Now word had spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Everyone in the village knew that Qin Man had spent three thousand yuan to buy a storefront.

Three thousand yuan was a huge sum of money in the eyes of the rural people, and everyone praised the couple for their abilities.

For a while, voices of envy and jealousy came one after another.

"The Jiang family is now living a good life and is going to be prosperous. I don't know what smoke came out of the ancestral tomb to bring them such good fortune. In the past, people always said that Jiang Cong's life was ruined because he married a fool. Now it's good. His wife is smart. Their family's fortune has changed!"

"Yeah, I didn't expect this woman to be such a tough character! She is so capable, and I don't know how she got so much money!" The young and old in the village were discussing it enthusiastically.

At this time, Zhang Lanlan came back with a big belly. She had a conflict with her husband and returned to her parents' home.

As soon as she came back, she heard that Qin Man was living such a good and glorious life, and she got angry. What did all this have to do with her? It was just that Jiang Cong was outstanding enough.

Thinking back, if she hadn't shown up halfway and robbed her man, she would be the one living a good life now, and she wouldn't have to follow such a good-for-nothing, living a meaningless life, and indulging in all kinds of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

"What else can she rely on? She has no education, and no support from her family. Who knows if she has hooked up with a rich man behind Jiang Cong's back?

That means Jiang Cong doesn’t know, he’s been secretly cuckolded!”

Zhang Lanlan couldn't stand seeing others doing better than her. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. The more she thought about it, the more unwilling she became, so she had to slander Qin Man no matter what.

The most important thing is that the people in the village think it makes sense.

"That's right, she has a seductive face. If she smiles at someone, who can resist it?" A man showed an obscene smile.

"Shut up, Ershun. Be careful that your wife hears you. She will definitely quarrel with you!"

At this time, an old lady who was on good terms with Jiang's mother came out to help speak. She rolled her eyes at Zhang Lanlan and said sarcastically:

"Why, Zhang Lanlan, are you jealous of me? You can't marry me, so you say my wife is not good enough. But if I really cheated on Jiang Cong, and I got so much money back all at once, you can't explain it. Jiang Cong is not a fool!"

"Pa~" A crisp slap sounded, and the people at the scene were startled.

Qin Man and Jiang Lian came over at some point and slapped Zhang Lanlan in the face. Zhang Lanlan was so dazed with her big belly that she almost fell down. Fortunately, someone next to her helped her up.

There are only two days left until New Year's Eve. I originally thought that since the weather is nice today, I would go out for a walk and bask in the sun, but I didn't expect to hear so much gossip.

She couldn't tolerate Zhang Lanlan's humiliation of her. She would beat the pregnant woman anyway. She was always right.

She no longer cared about the village chief's face.

"Qin Man, you dare to hit me?" Zhang Lanlan held her belly with one hand and touched her swollen face with the other, looking at her in shock and questioning.

Qin Man sneered, her eyes cold, making Zhang Lanlan feel a little scared.

"Zhang Lanlan, I have tolerated you for a long time. You have insulted me time and again, and this time you went so far. If you weren't pregnant, I would have torn your mouth to pieces, believe it or not?"