Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 262 Countdown to Opening

After a long silence, Jiang Longcheng sighed and said, "I lost!"

Li Yi smiled and said, "Why don't you wait and see? Are you going to give in now?"

"I'm not stupid, what's the point of holding on to something that's destined to happen!" Jiang Longcheng said.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he couldn't help it. As soon as the news came out, housing prices immediately soared.

Not just Beiguan Village, but the entire capital.

Everyone knows that these days, those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs. Everyone knows that doing business makes money, but the policy aspect is very stuck.

Therefore, most people do not dare to do business blatantly, which is why shop rents are so low.

Now that the stricture of the policy no longer exists, people can finally do business openly. In addition, there are many educated youths in the capital who have no jobs and have returned to the city.

Next, there will inevitably be a large number of young people running to do business, and shop rents will inevitably rise.

Thinking of his bet with Li Yi, Jiang Longcheng said again: "By the way, what do you want me to do?"

"Two things!"

Then Li Yi continued: "The first thing is to help me complete the procedures for opening a restaurant. I don't want to spend time queuing."

"No problem!" Jiang Longcheng said.

With the approval from above, it's just a matter of one sentence to him, and you don't even need to use your family connections!

"The second thing is that when I open the business, you invite your friends to come to my place for a meal, and invite as many as you can." Li Yi said.

"Okay, it happens to be my birthday on the 15th. In previous years, I would hire a private chef to cook a large table of dishes. This year, I will invite them to eat at your place!" Jiang Longcheng said.

"Then let's settle it!" Li Yi said.

"By the way, that kid Jianhua also lost. What are you going to let him do?" Jiang Longcheng asked again.

Li Yi frowned, and then said: "I haven't thought about this yet, let's wait until we think about it!"

In fact, Li Yi had already thought about what he asked Ye Longcheng to do. Compared to the Jiang family, the Ye family was equally powerful.

And the most important thing is that Ye Jianhua's father now works in a certain ministry. Li Yi originally wanted them to help check the files of Tang Xue's biological mother.

I think with the ability of the Ye family, they should be able to find out.

It's just that Li Yi is hesitant about this matter now.

Although he also wanted to find out Tang Xue's life experience, he also wanted Tang Xue to find his biological parents.

But at the same time, Li Yi also knew that this was a double-edged sword that could hurt Tang Xue and their newly formed family at any time.

If Tang Xue's biological parents were just an ordinary couple, then it would be nothing.

But judging from what they are currently investigating, this possibility is very small.

First, it is the files. Being able to protect the files so well is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

Secondly, it was Tang Meiling's explanation. According to that woman, Ye Lingwan was picked up by a motorcade after staying in the health center for a few days.

That was 61, and in some remote places it was rare to see a car, let alone being picked up by a convoy.

Then there is the jade pendant that Ye Lingwan left for the dead baby to be buried with. Li Yi carefully inspected the jade pendant. It was made of mutton-fat jade and was engraved with simple patterns.

Although I don’t know which dynasty it is from, it should be a valuable ancient jade.

All these indicate that Tang Xue's biological parents are unusual.

Li Yi was very worried that if Tang Xue's parents were really from a high-ranking family with an unusual status, would they recognize Tang Xue.

At the same time, even if they recognize Tang Xue as their daughter, will they recognize Li Yi as their son-in-law?
The most important thing is that Tang Xue is now more than four months pregnant, and Li Yi doesn't want her to be affected or hurt by these things.

Therefore, Li Yi decided to put this matter aside for the time being and wait until the child is born.

Anyway, so many years have passed, and I don’t care about this year and a half.

Jiang Longcheng didn't know that Li Yi had so much on his mind. Seeing that he didn't seem to be interested in discussing this topic, he immediately started wandering around the house.

Although the decoration here is still going on and the inside is dirty and messy, the general layout can be seen.After walking around from front to back, Jiang Longcheng was surprised to find that although this place looked inconspicuous, the layout was refreshing.

Not only does it have a lobby, but it also has unique private rooms, which can satisfy customers of different levels.

From this point alone, we can see that Li Yi did not open this restaurant on a whim, but was prepared.

But when he came to the kitchen, he was surprised to find that although their kitchen was not small, it only had two small stoves.

There is only two stoves in such a big hotel, which seems a little wrong.

However, he believed that Li Yi should have his own arrangements, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Li Yi didn't care about him and let him wander around the room by himself, while he directed the decoration master to continue to make progress!
At noon, several people had another meal together, but this time Li Yi did not ask Jiang Longcheng to pay.

After dinner, Li Yi continued to lead people to decorate his house, while Jiang Longcheng returned to the cotton spinning factory alone!

In the next few days, Li Yi took a few brothers to and from rental houses, restaurants and various markets every day. Everyone was as busy as a top.

It took more than ten days to finally transform the shabby warehouse of the foundry into a decent hotel.

However, these alone cannot open the business. After the hard decoration is completed, the soft decoration will come.

On November 11, the first batch of grilled and shabu integrated tables from the foundry were delivered, and then all the chairs and other utensils were delivered to the hotel.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Longcheng also completed the procedures.

After getting the self-employed registration certificate, Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

With this certificate, he can go about his business without worrying about being reported, let alone others coming to investigate him.

Then, Li Yi accelerated the pace of preparations.

By November 11, most of the things in the hotel were ready.

In addition to tables, chairs, benches and various tableware, Li Yi spent a lot of money to buy two Wanbao refrigerators, each priced at 2 yuan.

To be honest, in Li Yi's opinion, spending 2400 yuan to buy two small refrigerators is not a good deal.

You must know that this price is really ridiculously expensive. Someone has calculated that one dollar today is equivalent to 30 yuan in 225 years.

Based on this calculation, the value of these two refrigerators is equivalent to 55 in future generations!
Just ask if it's outrageous?

If this is not intuitive enough, then use the current wages of ordinary employees to make a comparison.

The salary of a third-level worker is 36 yuan, which is equivalent to the entire salary of a general worker for 200 months.

In other words, a worker would have to go without food and water for two years and nine months before he could afford such a refrigerator.

But catering is definitely not possible without a refrigerator, and Li Yi could only gnash his teeth and bleed profusely.

After the utensils, pots and stoves were prepared, Li Yi began to contact the ingredients.

Cattle and sheep breeding in Nianzishan Village has just started, so it is naturally impossible to count on it, so Li Yi can only use local materials.

As a restaurant, the most important thing is whether it can satisfy customers.

Especially since they are going to open a restaurant focusing on shabu-shabu and barbecue, the quality of the beef and mutton is very important.

So, Li Yi took a few little brothers to visit nearby vegetable markets, looking for qualified beef and mutton.

After several days of wandering around, they finally found a state-owned stall in the city that specialized in selling Saibei grassland beef and mutton.

After confirming that the quality of the beef and mutton at this stall was indeed higher than that of most stalls, Li Yi decisively ordered two sheep and a hundred kilograms of high-quality beef from here.

Although a pound of mutton is as high as [-] yuan and beef is as high as [-] yuan without meat stamps, Li Yi doesn't care at all.

Customers who can come to a barbecue restaurant really don't mind spending an extra three or two yuan. As long as the beef and mutton are of high quality and taste good, and the price is not outrageous, they can accept it.

In addition, Li Yi also contacted the Yunhu Brewery in Miyun and ordered 1 liters of beer at a price of 2 cents per liter.

After everything was prepared, Li Yi personally trained several little brothers and ordered uniform work clothes.

As the carved gilt signboard of "Grassland Fat Cattle and Sheep" was delivered to the store, Li Yi's first store in Beijing also entered the countdown to opening.

(End of this chapter)