Chapter 127 Chapter 127 The more I think about it, the more I feel...
The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed, and the smile on Jin Buhuan's face deepened.
Sure enough, Su Li’s words the next second confirmed his thoughts.
"Manager Jin, last time you said you wanted to sell the restaurant, I've been scraping together some money these past few days. I wonder if I'm too late?"
"It's not too late, Madam Su, I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. A few families did come to ask me, but the prices they offered were too low, so I drove them away." Jin Buhuan said as he complained about the people who came to inquire about the price in the past few days. They either found fault with the restaurant or said the location was not good. Some even mocked and belittled them while talking, just to lower the price. Jin Buhuan was fed up with the diners' anger on weekdays, and he didn't expect to suffer this kind of anger before leaving. Jin Buhuan directly drove people away. Anyway, he was not in a hurry. He just didn't believe that the restaurant could not be sold.
After hearing this, Su Li felt sorry for what happened to Manager Jin, but she was still happy that the restaurant was not bought by anyone.
"Madam Su, you don't know. Some people say that the stairs in my restaurant are not good at first glance. They say they are afraid of stepping on air. Some say there are ants near the corners of the pillars. Some say that there might be nothing inside. Some say that the feng shui layout is not good..." Everyone in the restaurant was dismissed. Jin Buhuan finally found someone to complain about. His mouth was dry by the end. He picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Suddenly, he realized that the other party was here to buy the restaurant. He smiled embarrassedly.
"Haha, look at me, I'm talking a lot of bullshit."
Su Li smiled and said, "It's okay."
"Hey, then I'll take Madam Su to see the restaurant." After Jin Buhuan finished speaking, he took Su Li to see the restaurant. The restaurant was divided into three floors. The first floor was the lobby, and the second and third floors were private rooms. Jin Buhuan introduced the name and story of each private room as he walked.
"This restaurant has been passed down from my ancestors. When my great-grandfather first came to Qinghe County, he met my great-grandmother and decided to settle down here and bought this piece of land. It is said that this place was originally just a small snack shop, and it slowly developed into what it is today thanks to my great-grandfather's craftsmanship. I also learned how to run this restaurant from my father since I was a child. Unfortunately, I am not good at cooking, I have no talent, and I am not smart. I am not good at management, and now I have to sell my ancestral property and move away..."
As Jin Buhuan was speaking, he suddenly sighed at the end, and looked at every inch of the restaurant with a reluctant look. For a moment, he seemed to see the bustling and prosperous scenes of the past through the scene in front of him, and he could hear the sound of his father calculating on the abacus and his laughter greeting guests.
"Shopkeeper Jin..."
Su Li's voice pulled him out of his memories. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Look at me, look at me. Let me take you to the kitchen, Madam Su."
Then Jin Buhuan took Su Li to the kitchen again.
It is indeed a big kitchen, with a particularly large space and five stoves. It is spacious and bright. Su Li fell in love with it at first sight.
Really good!
Su Li could imagine how comfortable it would be to cook in this kitchen. The kitchen of this food shop was a bit small and narrow.
"It's pretty good." Su Li said as she toured the place, which made Manager Jin feel proud instantly.
Jin Buhuan took Su Li on a tour of the entire place, inside and out, and Su Li was quite satisfied.
Finally, it was time for bargaining. Although Shopkeeper Jin had previously offered her a lower price, anyone who had purchased something before knew that the first price given was not the real price, so Su Li still asked symbolically, "Can it be a little less?"
Shopkeeper Jin had lost all confidence in himself these past few days due to the bargaining, and he actually managed to reduce the price by another hundred taels. "Madam Su, let me be honest with you. This is the lowest price. If it's any lower, forget it."
"Okay, deal." Su Li agreed readily.
"I knew that Madam Su was a straightforward person." These were Jin Buhuan's true words. In the past few years of cooperation, the two families had never had any conflicts. She was not like other partners who would take the opportunity to raise prices once the products sold well. Madam Su would never do that, so this was one of the reasons why Jin Buhuan was willing to give Su Li such a big discount.
Next, the two of them were busy with signing the deed, signing the agreement, and other matters. They were busy until noon before they got everything done.
The moment he got the title deed, Su Li's heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment, and he felt like he was riding a horse high in the wind. In contrast, Jin Buhuan's face looked a little bad.
But soon he became happy when he saw the disappointed and regretful faces of those who had come to the restaurant to ask for the price before after they learned that his restaurant was sold.
I gave them such a big discount before, but they were still picky. Now you regret it, Jin Buhuan snorted in his heart.
"Oh, little brother, I'm so sorry, I've sold this restaurant."
"Ah, yes, there's nothing I can do. They really like our restaurant and wanted it right away after seeing it."
Jin Buhuan said sorry, but there was a gloating look in his eyes.
The man's face turned pale as if he was in a dyeing factory when he heard this. His expression changed again and again, and finally he said, "Boss Jin, can you sell the restaurant to me if I pay you a little more money?"
Jin Buhuan had a helpless expression and said, "I'm sorry, little brother, the contract has already been signed."
Upon hearing this, the man could only leave angrily.
"What? You mean he sold the restaurant?" Jin Mantang looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with disbelief.
How dare he?
Is it that Jin Buhuan is crazy, or is it that Jin Mantang is deaf?
How dare he actually sell his family's ancestral property to someone else?
"Yes, boss." Wu En lowered his head and sweat kept pouring down. The boss gave this matter to him, but he couldn't even handle such a small thing. What if the boss suspected that he was incompetent?
Jin Mantang's eyes flashed with white light, and he slumped down in his chair. It took him a long time to recover. "Who did he sell it to?"
"Mrs. Su from Su's Food Shop."
"Su Ji Food Shop?" Jin Mantang's eyes were filled with confusion. Where did this person come from? He even forgot that he had sent someone to Su Li to buy braised meat a few years ago, but Su Li didn't sell it.
Upon hearing this, Wu En cut out the beginning and the end, adding fuel to the fire and telling the story of Chef Qu going to Su Li's restaurant.
Jin Mantang said "oh" and didn't take it to heart.
He doesn't care about Madam Su or Madam Lin. He just wants to get his ancestral property back.
"Go and tell someone to find that Madam Su or whoever she is to buy back the restaurant. No matter how much money it costs, you have to bring it back to me."
"Yes, boss." Wu En nodded quickly and then arranged for someone to find Su Li to buy the restaurant.
Of course, the result was naturally a failure. In the end, even after adding 200 taels of silver, Su Li still refused to sell. Wu En had no choice but to tell Jin Mantang about it. Jin Mantang was so angry that he smashed everything in the house.
However, the problem was still not solved after the smashing, so Jin Mantang had to go to Su Li's food shop himself.
Su Ji Restaurant, Jin Mantang looked at Su Li's restaurant with disdain, and was very disapproving in his heart. It happened to be not meal time now, so there were not many diners coming and going. Jin Mantang was even more convinced in his heart that this was a shop with poor business.
However, he still looked amiable on the surface. In addition, he and Jin Buhuan were brothers from the same mother and looked very similar. Su Li initially thought that it was the shopkeeper Jin who wanted to see her about something, or that Wen Liu, the apprentice of Chef Naqu, recognized the man and told Su Li quietly.
Su Li looked at the person who came and suddenly remembered that someone had approached her a few days ago wanting to buy a restaurant. The two things were connected immediately.
Sure enough, Jin Mantang came straight to the point and said he wanted to buy back the restaurant. However, unlike the people who came before, Jin Mantang played the emotional card from the start. He said that the restaurant was his family's ancestral property and he couldn't just watch it go to waste. Then he asked Su Li how much silver she wanted before she would return it to him.
At first, Su Li was somewhat moved by his words. After all, people in this era really cared more about ancestral inheritance. However, when Su Li hesitated, Jin Mantang thought Su Li was unwilling and changed his face again, threatening, "Madam Su, you must think carefully about the consequences of offending me, Jin Mantang."
The blatant threat in his words instantly made Su Li change from hesitation to determination. "I'm sorry, Shopkeeper Jin, we have decided not to sell the restaurant. Please go back."
"Madam Su, are you sure?" Jin Mantang's face darkened and he looked at Su Li sinisterly.
"OK, please go back."
Jin Mantang stood up angrily and wanted to throw something to vent his anger, but when he saw that everyone around him was Su Li, he gave up.
"Okay, very good. You must remember what I said today."
After saying that, he left in a hurry.
After the people left, everyone gathered around. Chef Qu and several of his apprentices came over and expressed their concerns. After all, they had worked in Xiangmanlou for so many years and had some understanding of the character of their former boss. Naturally, they also knew how Jin Mantang usually excluded dissidents, was stingy, and how he dealt with his opponents.
To put it bluntly, he had been considerate of Yaoyue Tower in the past and didn't want to do anything too extreme and get criticized by his clansmen. Otherwise, he would have been forced out by his despicable means. How could he have stayed there for so many years?
But now if it is Su Li, there won’t be so many concerns, so Chef Qu and others are a little worried about whether something bad will happen. After all, they have seen too many things before.
However, Su Li wasn't worried. Ever since she bought the restaurant, she'd already come to terms with it. After all, life is full of risks. Even stepping outside could result in being crushed to death by a flower pot on the upper floor. But was she supposed to stay home and not do anything just because she was afraid? What was the point of living like that? She might as well just stay at home and not go out.
Since she had already decided to open a restaurant, she was naturally not afraid of the other party causing trouble. She believed that those who were well prepared before the storm came would definitely not be drowned by the sea.
"Thank you, just let him come."
Seeing Su Li like this, Chef Qu also relaxed his mentality, but he soon realized that the other party was obviously only a few decades younger than him, so how could what she said be so convincing?
It was as if there was some kind of magic that whatever she wanted to do, she could do it.
But precisely because of this, everyone felt that Su Li was right and would not refute her.
"Okay, let him come."
"Yes, let him come."
"Yes, let him come."
Everyone agreed at once, as if this way they would no longer be afraid of the unknown.
Of course, this was just a small episode, and soon everyone was immersed in the joy of buying a restaurant, especially Chen and Mrs. Wu. They were stunned when they arrived at the restaurant.
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