plum city

Chapter 36
Xiao Yu pushed the scientist over, and Fang Yan was shocked when he saw it. Xiao Yu had always said brother, brother, and Fang Yan thought her brother was a young man in his 20s. Unexpectedly, the one who came over looked like a middle school student, who seemed to be older than Xiao Yu. Still young.

He is very thin, about 1.6 meters and a half tall. He wears a pair of glasses, a white shirt on top, a pair of casual pants on the bottom, and a pair of Nike shoes on his feet. He looks like this, which does not match his identity as a chef. He's a bit like a scientist, but he's too young.

The guests at the other two tables were obviously regular customers. When they saw him being pushed over by Xiao Yu, they shouted:

"Xiao Feng, today's food is delicious, thank you."

"That's right, when I mentioned Meicheng, I thought of coming to eat your cooking, Xiao Feng."

Xiao Feng smiled shyly at them, bowing and nodding from behind as a greeting.

When the two people arrived, Fang Yan looked at Xiao Feng and asked Xiao Yu suspiciously: "Is this your brother?"

"Yes, he was born two days earlier than me, and he's my brother two days earlier. There's nothing I can do about it, even though I'm not convinced."

Xiao Yu said, but Fang Yan's mind didn't turn around. Born two days earlier?What does it mean and how is it done?Even twins cannot be born every two days.Fang Yan was stunned for a moment and understood, and asked:

"Then he is you..."

"My uncle's son, no no, he is my uncle's father. My uncle often says, don't call me dad, I should call you dad." Xiao Yu chuckled.

Xiaofeng rolled his eyes at her and blushed. Xiaoyu glared at him and asked, "Why, it's not the truth? Isn't that what your father said?"

Xiao Feng was stupid and wanted to reply but couldn't think of what to say. Fang Yan quickly came to his rescue and said to him:

"Sit down, Xiaofeng, sit down quickly."

Fang Yan glanced at Xiao Yu and thought, if you two are together, no matter where you quarrel, it's you who bullies him. No wonder he avoids you.

Xiao Yu looked at the guests at the other two tables and asked Fang Yan softly: "Would you like to drink the beer my brother made?"

After she finished speaking, she looked at Xiao Feng and asked, "It's time, can you drink?"

Xiaofeng nodded.

Fang Yan became interested as soon as he heard it and asked Xiao Feng: "You can also brew your own beer? This is amazing."

Xiao Feng smiled, and Xiao Yu said "Shush": "Quietly, drink quietly. If they know, they won't drink enough."

Fang Yan lowered his laughter and nodded repeatedly: "I understand, I understand."

The beer came, not in glass bottles, but in white clay bottles with corks plugged into the mouths.

After bringing the beer, Xiao Yu pushed Xiao Feng with his knee: "Go, sit inside."

Xiao Feng obediently moved inside, and Xiao Yu sat down next to Xiao Feng. She pulled out the cork, gave Fang Yan half a glass, and said to him:

"Quickly try to see if it tastes good. If it doesn't taste good, let him take his wine with him."

Fang Yan couldn't help laughing. He picked up the cup and tasted it. Then he drank half of the beer in one big gulp, and then said:

“It tastes so good, so refreshing!”

Xiao Yu and Xiao Feng both laughed.

"No, no, this wine has a special taste. Xiaofeng, did you add anything?" Fang Yan asked.

Xiaofeng nodded.

"Don't say, don't say, let me guess." Fang Yan waved his hand, then lowered his head to think for a moment, and smacked his lips. He looked at Xiaofeng and said, "It's green plum, right? You added green plum in it? "

Xiao Feng opened his eyes and nodded, and Xiao Yu gave a thumbs up to Fang Yan: "Uncle, you are also awesome, this is it."

Fang Yan smiled proudly and thought to himself, I am not pretending to look down on others. When I drink red wine, I can tell the year and place of origin. Not just anyone can do this.

Fang Yan leaned over and asked Xiaofeng: "How did you do it, add green plums to beer?"

"It's very simple." Xiaofeng said, "Cut the green plum into slices, extract it in vodka for a few days, save the extract, and add some to it when making beer."

Fang Yan nodded: "This wine tastes so good, how did you make it?"

"It's not difficult. Brewing is the same as cooking. The main thing is to choose and match. You can match the most suitable rather than the most expensive barley malt, caramel malt, hops, yeast, etc., and then control the time. That’s it.”

When Xiaofeng talked about this, he didn't seem shy at all, but confident.

"Xiao Feng, where are you..." Fang Yan originally wanted to ask in which school you learned these things, but looking at Xiao Feng and Xiao Yu, at their age, they didn't seem to have gone to any university. look.

Xiao Yu seemed to know what Fang Yan was thinking. She said, "Uncle, don't guess. None of us have ever gone to college. I didn't pass the exam and my grades are rubbish. He has always been a top student, but he stopped going to college after he reached the third year of high school." Even if I kill him, he won’t go to school. He has never passed the college entrance examination. What, uncle, do you want to despise us uneducated people? "

Fang Yan laughed, and he said he didn't dare, "You two are both talented people. If you didn't go to university, it's not your loss, it's the university's loss."

"That's a good thing to say!" Xiao Yu tapped the plate in front of him with his chopsticks and said to Fang Yan: "Uncle, if you say such nice things every day, I can't repay you. I can only pledge myself to you." Xiaofeng laughed.

"Then the man and the wine will stay?" Xiao Yu asked.

"Stay, stay, of course, stay. By the way, you can eat and drink together, otherwise it will be boring." Fang Yan said.

"Okay, we won't be polite to you." Xiao Yu said, "This is our home, why should we be polite to you, right, uncle?"

Fang Yan smiled and nodded.

He felt that it was so interesting to have dinner with these two children, and it seemed to release all the jealousy he had suffered from Director Zhao in the afternoon.

Fang Yan picked up the cup and touched it with Xiao Feng and Xiao Yu. All three of them took a big sip.Putting down the cup, Fang Yan asked Xiaofeng:
"You won't go to school in your senior year of high school, and your parents won't care about you?"

Xiaofeng shook his head and Xiaoyu said:

"His mother ran away with someone a long time ago and eloped. My uncle couldn't control him at all. He had already called him daddy. This guy usually listened to my grandma and my dad the most, but it didn't work. They and I No matter how many times he said it, it was of no use. If he couldn't tell, he just wouldn't go. The day he decided not to go to school, he burned all the textbooks and everything on fire, right?"

Fang Yan asked Xiaofeng: "Why are you so resistant to going to school?"

"It's boring." Xiaofeng said, "In the third year of high school, there are no new classes at all. They are all reviewed. The things in the textbooks are boring to begin with. What's the point of having to be boring again? "

"What about the university?"

"It's even less interesting when I think about college. When I think about having to read what's in the textbooks for another four years, I go crazy. I feel like everything is dark in front of my eyes. If I continue to study, I'm not courting death." Xiaofeng said.

Fang Yan smiled: "I understand, but even though I have been dead, I don't like reading. But if I don't read, what will I do in the future?"

After Xiaofeng drank, he relaxed and started talking more and sharply:
"What can I do after I go to college? I go to college for four years and then go out to look for a job. I can't find a job. I'm tired. Even if I find a job, I'm still tired. I get a salary of several thousand a month, half of which I pay for rent, and then I'm tired. I'm as busy as an ant. I've been busy for a month and haven't saved anything. Is it interesting? It's so boring."

Xiaofeng said, looked around, and continued: "I just cook for the guests when they have them. It's not like I live a good life. Those who have graduated from college want to be as relaxed and stress-free as me every day, but they still can't do it. , why should I become them?”

Fang Yan had to admit that Xiaofeng was right. This little guy was not a scientist now, but a philosopher.

What he said is also the true situation of most people nowadays. They immerse themselves in reading as if there is some goal in front of them, and they go towards that goal desperately. When they graduate from college, they feel that their goals have been achieved and their hopes have been realized. , but was disillusioned, looking around at a loss, not knowing what would happen next in this city.

The lights of the city are so bright that they turn all hopes into glimmers and gradually extinguish them.The sound of the city is so noisy that all individual voices will be quickly silenced in the noise.

Fang Yan knew very well that if Fang Guofei had not taken advantage of the most suitable time to help him work hard, he would still be living like an ant in Hangzhou now. Xiaofeng was not wrong, and Fang Guofei was not wrong either. He deserves him. .

"Don't you have any regrets?" Fang Yan asked Xiaofeng.

Xiao Feng twitched the corner of his mouth: "Of course I have regrets. Who doesn't have regrets? My regret is that this place is too small. All available space must be used as guest rooms for guests. If I had a bigger one, I just want to make more things, not only beer, but also liquor.”

"I never thought about opening a shop by myself, I mean a restaurant. With your skills, if you open a restaurant, the business will definitely be good." Fang Yan said.

Xiaofeng shook his head without even thinking about it: "No, that would be too tiring."

Fang Yan's eyes suddenly lit up. He sat up straight and asked: "Xiao Feng, have you ever thought about opening a store in Hangzhou? I have the space and the investment money. How about our cooperation? I can guarantee that if this store is opened, , it will definitely open into a personalized store and internet celebrity store.”

The joint-stock bank downstairs built its own building in Qianjiang New Town and will move out in two months. Now the storefront is not easy to rent and the rent is also plummeting. Fang Yan has really thought about it, or just take it back. , do something yourself.

If he were to open a hotel by himself, he felt that with Xiaofeng's energy, he could really prop up the store and turn it into a treasure for himself.Besides, our company spends millions every year on welcoming domestic and foreign customers, eating and drinking.

Those foreigners, when you go there, they won’t even want to buy you a hamburger, and they think it’s normal.When I arrived in China, I felt that it was abnormal for me not to treat him to a good meal. The greedy look when I ate it would probably make them scream non-stop if Xiao Feng was around.

"He? Going to Hangzhou? Are you cooperating with him? Uncle, stop joking." Xiao Yu said.

Fang Yan smiled: "Who says I'm joking? I'm always serious when talking about business. I really have this idea, Xiao Feng, how about it?"

Xiaofeng looked at Fang Yan and said nothing.

Fang Yan continued: "Xiao Feng, you don't want to go to Hangzhou to develop and stay in Meicheng all your life? By the way, there is also you, Xiao Yu, I think you are born to be a boss lady, how about you go too, Xiao Feng is in charge of the kitchen and you are in charge of the management. I think people are not wrong. When I say that you two are talents, I am not complimenting you. I think you really have this ability."

As soon as the dialect was spoken, Xiao Yu also became excited. She looked at Xiao Feng, and Xiao Feng shook his head:
"It's better not to do it. Although you have space, you will also invest. If you do it well, we will get a bargain. If you don't do it well, we will come back at worst. There seems to be no pressure. But in this way, I will put pressure on myself. I won't let myself go and won't allow myself to do poorly. This pressure will be greater than what you give me, so I don't want it anymore, it's too tiring."

Fang Yan sighed and said okay, "Xiao Feng, you can think about this again. Come on, let's add a WeChat account first. My words are valid for half a year. If you want to go within half a year, just tell me, okay?" ?”

Fang Yan said and picked up his mobile phone. Xiao Feng sat motionless. Xiao Yu hit him and cursed: "Hey, I want to add you to WeChat, but you are still so arrogant?"

Xiaofeng said "Oh", took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and exchanged WeChat messages with Fang Yan.

Fang Yan looked at Xiao Yu and said to her, "See, I'm Xiao Feng's licking dog now."

Xiaoyu chuckled.

Xiaofeng looked at Fangyan and then at Xiaoyu, wondering what they were talking about.

(End of this chapter)