Siheyuan, my silly column, picked up the script of Qinman

After seeing Xu Damao off, Sha Zhu and his wife did not rush to meet Zhou Gong. They first found an abacus and then paper and pen in the cabinet.

What Xu Damao had just said to them became the cornerstone that determined Sha Zhu and his wife to open a high-end restaurant. The couple suddenly felt that they should open a high-end restaurant.

Sha Zhu is a family chef.

Li Xiuzhi worked as a street clerk.

Many things can be seen through at a glance, one using an abacus while the other holds a pen and paper to record them.

How much does a low-end restaurant cost, how much does a mid-range restaurant cost, and how much does a high-end restaurant cost? During the conversation between Yu Li and her husband and Sha Zhu and his wife, they mentioned the specific investment amounts for a mid-range restaurant. The investment for a high-end restaurant is two to three times that of the restaurant Yu Li and her husband are currently opening, or possibly more.

Make bricks without straw.

How to open a high-end restaurant without money?

The restaurant's area, interior decoration, and rent all require financial support, and it's a considerable amount of money.

After calculating this figure, the couple counted their own assets, that is, how much money they have now. In the past three years, Sha Zhu has basically been living off his savings. Most of the money he earned from private work was turned into valuable antiques, and he didn't have much savings.

After searching through all the drawers and cabinets, I found less than a thousand yuan.

This amount of money is not enough to open a high-end restaurant.

Unless Sha Zhu sells some valuable antiques he has and gets some money.

The problem is that Sha Zhu can't bear to part with the antiques, calligraphy and paintings he has collected. Each of them is as old as Sha Zhu's children. Sha Zhu can't do such a thing as exchanging them for money.

As for the money issue, we have to think of other ways.

Silent all night.

The next day, after squatting in the toilet for more than ten minutes, Sha Zhu suddenly had an idea of ​​how to make money. He rushed to Li Xiuzhi and told her the idea he had thought of.

In fact, it’s not a good idea.

loan.

Li Xiuzhi thought about it for a moment and agreed to Sha Zhu's proposal.

Nowadays, the economy in the market is much more active. If you seize the opportunity, you can build your own career. Li Xiuzhi also doesn't want Sha Zhu to spend his whole life cooking, so she tells Sha Zhu to go for it boldly.

After breakfast, the couple split up.

A man went to the bank to discuss a loan.

A man went looking for a suitable place to open a restaurant.

It is easy to become an official if you have someone in the court. This is an old truth passed down for thousands of years. No matter what, Sha Zhu was once the deputy director of a steel rolling mill with tens of thousands of employees. Because of the triangular debt, he became a well-known celebrity. He has a good relationship with the big leaders and also has a good relationship with the big leaders' secretaries. Under this background, the loan matter went extremely smoothly.

Go on the same day, talk on the same day, and agree on the same day.

The money is kept in the bank and will be withdrawn from the bank account when it is needed.

Things were also going smoothly for Li Xiuzhi. She found a location that was very suitable for opening a high-end restaurant. Relying on her experience as a street clerk in the past, she bargained down the price and bought this five-story building, with each floor covering more than 1,000 square meters.

The "take" here refers to renting.

Then they found Sha Zhu, and the couple briefly told him about their gains that day.

The building that Li Xiuzhi liked belonged to a textile factory. In the past few years, the textile factory experienced a transformation from a planned economy to a market economy. The tertiary industries that did not make money or needed funding from the main factory to maintain the most basic living were all cut off. The four words "self-financing and loss-making" covered everything. Capable people ran the factory successfully and further developed and expanded it, and even acquired the original main factory that was not developing well. Those who were incompetent relied on the mountains and rivers to make a living, and relied on selling the fixed assets of the tertiary industry to make a living, and eventually closed down.

Money is needed to pay the salaries of the people left behind and to pay for the daily maintenance of the buildings.

At a loss of what to do.

The current caretaker of this building met Li Xiuzhi. He knew Li Xiuzhi and they were former colleagues in Hongxing Street. One wanted to rent out the building and make a living on the rent, while the other wanted to open a restaurant in the building.

The two sides hit it off.

After agreeing on the terms, we know how much the rent will be per year and how many years the lease will take. If we pay the rent in one lump sum, how much more will it cost and how much cheaper it can be.

Li Xiuzhi always lets Sha Zhu make the decisions on major issues.

The masters are in charge, which is also the custom in the capital.

The couple had a simple lunch, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, they met the caretaker of the tertiary industry of the textile factory in front of the building.

His last name is Liu and his given name is Shu.

As for why he was given such a name, it is said that his father saw a willow tree in his eyes the first moment he was born, and because his surname was Liu, he gave him such a name.

After a brief greeting, Liu Shu brought Sha Zhu and his wife into the building.

Li Xiuzhi had a good eye. This place was very suitable for opening a restaurant. The first floor could be designed as a hall, and the second to fifth floors could be designed as private rooms. Because this place was previously used as a meeting place for the textile factory, it was very spacious overall. By using a few wooden grilles, it could be perfectly transformed into a private room.

The more Shazhu watched, the more he liked it.

Li Xiuzhi, who followed behind him as Sha Zhu's wife for many years, saw a small clue from Sha Zhu's face but did not point it out. No matter how good her relationship with Liu Shu was, they had not seen each other for more than ten years, and she looked like Sha Zhu was making the decision.

Liu Shu originally wanted to use her relationship with Li Xiuzhi as a colleague to ask Sha Zhu to increase the rent, but when she saw Li Xiuzhi's expression, she knew that her little trick had failed, so she spoke with the mentality of trying her best.

"Deputy Director He, you have walked back and forth here two or three times, you have seen it with your own eyes, touched it with your own hands, and stepped on it with your own feet. I will not say some words. You are an expert, and Sister Xiuzhi and I are not outsiders. We really will not fool you about this matter. Otherwise, I will not see Sister Xiuzhi. The total area of ​​the five-story building is nearly 5,000 square meters. If the factory is not in a recession now, the workers have not received their salaries for several months. This place will have to be left alone for a few years."

Sha Zhu's brows furrowed.

Not stupid.

I understood the implication of Willow's words.

The workers couldn't even afford to eat and were anxiously waiting for the rice to be cooked.

"The amount you told my wife is a bit too much."

As soon as I heard Sha Zhu's tone, I knew he wanted to lower the price.

He immediately looked at Sha Zhu with a frown.

"Deputy Director He, it's not much at all. It's a 5,000 square meter building. The contract is for five years. If you pay the rent in full in one lump sum, I'll give you a discount on the original price. Where can you find such a good deal? This is because of my good relationship with Sister Xiuzhi. If it were someone else, they would definitely pay more than this. The karaoke bar in Baoziwan is about the same size as mine. I'll charge the same price as they charge."

"I heard my wife mention you before. She said you're great. Friendship is friendship, and business is business. You just said that theirs is a karaoke bar with sofas all around and a rolling lamp on the roof. I run a restaurant, and I need to decorate the interior. The two cannot be confused."

Willow takes Shazhu very seriously.

Tens of thousands of dollars.

Hold it in your hand, and you can do anything with it.

"For Sister Xiuzhi's sake, let's go with the number I told her this morning."

Shazhu nodded.

This willow tree still has some ideas.

"Sign the contract now?"

"How do you calculate the money?"

"Of course, we have to pay the money and sign the contract at the same time. If you are worried, I can call someone from the bank over and have your finance staff contact the bank staff."

Sha Zhu has seen many troubles and people causing trouble because of the handover of money.

The money given out either has problems with the amount or the authenticity.

Just let the bank and finance people take over. From beginning to end, Sha Zhu will not interfere, and it will be out of his control. If something goes wrong, no one will be able to blame Sha Zhu.

He speaks quickly.

But the willow tree was in trouble. He felt that his brain was not enough. As the saying goes, a man gets his name, and a tree gets its shadow. He was worthy of being the deputy director of a steel rolling mill. He had real background. He spent so much money as soon as he said it.

Looking at Li Xiuzhi who looked like an outsider standing next to him, Liu Shu finally held back.

"Then do as Deputy Director He said. I'll go back and prepare the contract now. See you at 8 o'clock tomorrow." Liu Shu left quickly.

Sha Zhu didn't stop Liu Shu and gave her a deposit of several hundred yuan.

There is no evidence without words, so it's the same as not giving the money.

The next day.

Eight o'clock.

Sha Zhu and Li Xiuzhi finally saw the willow tree as they wished.

I thought that the next thing would be a smooth process, but unexpected things still happened.

Liu Shu brought some news that shocked Sha Zhu and his wife.

The tertiary industry of the textile factory held a special leasing meeting yesterday afternoon. All employees of the tertiary industry attended the meeting, even those who were sick and hospitalized or resting at home participated.

It is roughly divided into three factions.

One group agreed to lease the building to Sha Zhu. They thought they could barely make ends meet, so what dignity did they have? Eating was more important than anything else. The only flaw was that they felt the five-year contract period was a bit short, and they wanted to increase it to twenty years. Sha Zhu had to pay twenty years' rent in one lump sum.

One group disagreed with renting out the building, saying that the building was the asset of the textile factory. Even if the textile factory asked them to be responsible for their own profits and losses, it was still a public property. If it was rented to Sha Zhu, it would become a private property. Those who had been looking after the building would then be unemployed.

The two factions had almost the same number of people, and it was almost a draw.

In addition to these two groups, there is another group, which is the self-contracting group. They want to rent the building, but because of the rent problem, they delay as much as possible, and wait until the time that is most beneficial to them, and then contract the building at a very low price.

They are ready to make accommodation.

A Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared on the way.

Sha Zhu and his wife came and wanted to rent a building to run a restaurant.

There was a conflict of interest between the two sides.

Looking at the price offered by Sha Zhu, they were worried but unwilling to accept it, so they thought that if they were not well off, neither should you. They set up an obstacle artificially and proposed not to rent the building but to sell the five-story building directly to the tenant. These people in the tertiary industry of the textile factory took the money to set up a collective enterprise and do things within their capacity.

The proposal to sell was approved by the vast majority of people.

Because this matter was brought up by Liu Shu, she was granted the right to negotiate the sale of the house with Sha Zhu.

have what.

Just say nothing.

He told Sha Zhu the whole story, the whole process, and everything in between.

Li Xiuzhi's gaze fell on Sha Zhu.

There are some things the willow tree won’t say in person, but it will signal with its eyes.

If I buy it, do I have enough money?

It's a matter of money.

Liu Shu also looked at Sha Zhu with an apologetic look on her face.

"It's okay, you don't have to say that. It's a matter of buying and selling. No one knows what will happen in this."

What Shazhu said was beautiful.

I still feel a little depressed.

If he had money, he really wanted to buy this five-story building.

Isn't this because we have no money?

A day wasted, and I’m still in the predicament of having no money.

The words came back again.

It's not impossible to buy it, but the price has to be lowered. At this time, Sha Zhu must not be exposed.

How to act?

Many things are forced out of unavoidable situations.

"Can you tell me about the third plan? Who proposed it?"

"The current deputy head of the tertiary industry did mention it once, saying he wanted to take over the contract."

Sha Zhu understood that it must be this deputy who wanted to get something for nothing. The conditions he proposed were very low, beyond other people's expectations, so the negotiations failed. When the other party was waiting to lower the price, he rushed forward and proposed to contract to open the restaurant, which made the other party unhappy and deliberately made things difficult for him.

"What conditions did he propose?"

Li Xiuzhi asked calmly.

As Sha Zhu's daughter-in-law, she has some things to say.

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

If the other party is trying to make things difficult for you, then you have to understand the other party.

This is the key.

"It's nothing, actually. He just wants to contract one floor, but he has to use the remaining four floors. As for the rent, he has to pay it every other month."

Willow's tone.

Very disdainful.

It's a pure trick of trapping a wolf with nothing.

"So that's what happened. That's what I was wondering. How could an accident happen out of nowhere? Boss, what do you think about this?"

Li Xiuzhi kicked the ball to Sha Zhu.

Buy it or not.

Sha Zhu makes the decision.

"Such a large sum of money is not a small amount. My husband and I need to go back and think about it. We will get back to you tomorrow."

Sha Zhu gradually calmed down.

What I want to do and how to do it, in the beginning I was doing it randomly based on my passion, but now I have to take all aspects into consideration.

This building.

honestly.

Want to buy.

This building is explicitly mentioned in the script, and the surrounding areas of this building have all appreciated in value after thirty years.

Buy it and do nothing. Thirty years later, you will be a billionaire.

"Then let's make it a deal. I'll wait for your reply tomorrow. This is the phone number of our textile factory."

Seeing that Shazhu was lost in thought, Liushu stopped beating him.

She stuffed the note with the phone number on it into Li Xiuzhi's hand and left.

When there was no one around, Li Xiuzhi moved in front of Sha Zhu and whispered her thoughts.

"Boss, I looked at the location of this place. If we buy it, we will definitely not lose money. It's up to you whether to buy it or not. If you buy it, we will continue to think of a solution. If not, we will continue to look for other ways out. The capital is so big that I don't believe we can't find a place suitable for us to open a restaurant." (End of this chapter)