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

Chapter 510 Distributing gifts!

Beiguan Village. Grilled Shabu Shop!
At the bar, Long Zhanjun was greeting the new customers, and at the same time he had to pay the bills for the customers who had finished eating. He was very busy!

There are not many people in the store, but there are many customers!

So much so that Long Zhanjun, the dignified store manager, is like a handyman. No, to be precise, he is more like a fire captain. Then you have to go wherever you need him!
While he was busy, a group of people suddenly walked in outside the door, led by a rather elegant young man.

Jiang Longcheng shouted subconsciously: "Welcome to the Grassland Beef and Sheep Grilled Shabu Shop"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Li Yi and Jiang Xue behind the young man, and immediately said happily: "When did you come back? Why didn't you call and say!"

"I'm not trying to surprise you!"

Of course Li Yi couldn't say that before he came back yesterday, he called Jiang Xue but forgot about the others.

"How's it going? Is the store busy?" Li Yi asked again.

"See for yourself, I feel like a top!" Long Zhanjun said with a wry smile.

Li Yi looked towards the hall and found that most of the tables were already occupied by guests.

Based on his knowledge of the store, once the hall outside is almost full, it means that all the private rooms inside are full!

"It seems that business is good today!" Li Yi said with a smile.

"Not only is the business good today, but since the summer (summer days), the business in our store has become more and more popular. We have to be open until eleven or twelve o'clock every day. Everyone is so tired that they can hardly hold on!!" Long Zhanjun Road.

"It's not okay to go on like this. How can we make all the money? We have to close the door when we need to, and we have to rest when we need to!"

“We would have liked to close earlier, but the customers weren’t happy!”

Then Long Zhanjun said again: "Especially the guests who are drinking. A lot of our brothers and friends have called us to cheer us up. Why can't we just chase them away when the time comes? Is that even reasonable?"

"We'll talk about this later. Are there any private rooms in the store?"

"This is really gone, why don't you wait!" Long Zhanjun said.

"No, if there is no private room, let's eat in the lobby."

Just as he was talking, a customer happened to come over to pay.

Li Yi asked Long Zhanjun to greet the other guests first, while he took Jiang Xue, Zhang Ziqiang, Juanzi and others to an empty seat in the hall.

After settling everyone down, Li Yi immediately walked towards the kitchen!

刚要进门，就听到三姐李娜的声音从厨房里传了出来：“7号桌羊肉二斤、脊骨一锅、牛肉2斤、五花肉一斤.6号包厢羊肉片儿4斤、牛肉片5斤、五花肉3斤.记得客人还要了50升啤酒.”

Hearing the third sister's continuous voice, Li Yi knew how busy the store was.

At that moment, he directly opened the door curtain and walked in.

Dongzi, who was cutting meat and putting it on the plate, was the first to notice Li Yi and immediately said happily: "Brother Yi, are you back?"

Dongzi's voice alarmed everyone, and everyone else saw Li Yi, and they all put down their work and gathered around. The atmosphere in the kitchen instantly became lively.

Although the third sister Li Na was also very excited, she said: "Don't be excited. The guests can't wait any longer. Let's hurry up and prepare the dishes!"

Dongzi and others also knew the situation outside, and immediately returned to their posts and got busy.

Li Yi walked to the third sister, looked at the stack of ordering orders in her hand, and looked at Dongzi and others who were as busy as machines, and couldn't help but shake his head.

You don't have to think about it to know that there must be insufficient manpower.

Think about it, a store of this size would normally require at least 15 employees, or even more.

But now that Zhang Xinyao is pregnant, Jiang Longcheng will definitely not let her work here.

Li Yeqiao asked him to be sent to the Second National Cotton Factory. Including the third sister herself, there were only 8 people available in the store at this time, so manpower was definitely in short supply.

It seems that we need to find a solution to this matter, otherwise these people will be exhausted sooner or later!
At that moment, Li Yi took the ordering menu from Li Na's hand and said, "Sister, I'll do it. You take a rest!"

"I'm not tired. Besides, how can I let a big boss like you do this!"

"Big boss, Xiaoxue and the children are here. You go and sit with them for a while, and just leave this place to me!" Li Yi said.

Li Na did not shirk this time and immediately handed over all the orders in her hand to Li Yi.

At the same time, he said: "Then you should hurry up and don't let the guests rush you. Some guests have bad tempers!" "I understand."

Silent night!

At Li Yi's strong request, the shabu-shabu shop finally closed before 10 o'clock!
After seeing off the last table of guests and closing the store door, Li Yi immediately greeted people to the largest box.

Since there was no time to eat at night, everyone was hungry.

Li Yi immediately asked Dongzi to cut some meat and vegetables, and also got some braised lamb spines, brought them to the box and ate them hungrily.

After eating, Li Yi personally went to the car outside and brought a large suitcase in.

Then, the suitcase was opened amidst everyone's confused and expectant eyes.

When the box was opened, everyone was shocked by what was inside.

I saw that the box contained all kinds of small and exquisite things, each of which was wrapped in various exquisite packaging.

Judging from the patterns on it, they could recognize watches, cameras, and that small, square, brick-like thing.

"Xiao Yi, why did you buy all these?" the third sister asked while hugging Yun Rui.

"Electronic watch, camera, and radio!"

"You said this little thing is a radio?"

"Yes, this is the radio we know. It's just that in order to make it easier to carry, Hong Kong Island has made this thing smaller, so that it can be carried with you at any time!" Li Yi explained.

"So amazing. By the way, why did you buy so many?"

"Haha, this is a gift I brought back from Hong Kong Island for everyone!"

"You mean these things are all for us?" the third sister asked in surprise.

"Well, I brought them all for you!"

As he spoke, Li Yi took out dozens of electronic watches and a dozen radios from the suitcase and placed them on the table.

"Each person gets a watch and a radio, and you can choose the color you like!"

Liu San'er said excitedly: "I have seen this electronic watch at Youyi Store before. It costs 42 yuan to buy it with foreign exchange coupons, and the radio costs 120 yuan!"

Hearing this, everyone in the room was stunned!

After calculation, the two items added up to more than 160 yuan, which was enough for an ordinary employee's half-year's salary.

In fact, Li Yi was also shocked by Liu San's words. When he bought these electronic watches, they only cost 12 Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to 4 yuan. Unexpectedly, they were sold here for more than 40 yuan, a tenfold price difference!
In comparison, the price of the radio is quite reasonable.

The one on Hong Kong Island sells for 48 yuan, which is equivalent to 16 yuan, but here it costs 120 yuan, which is only 7 times the price.

"Brother Yi, are these really gifts for me?" Dongzi asked cautiously.

"Of course it is!"

With that said, Li Yi stuffed a watch and a radio into Dongzi's hands, and then gave gifts to others!
After a while, everyone in the room received gifts, including Zhang Ziqiang. Anyway, Li Yi was not short of these three melons and two dates!

What's more, this is my bodyguard, who can save lives at critical moments, so I naturally have to win over him.

Although Zhang Ziqiang wanted to refuse, his eloquence was Li Yi's opponent, and he could only accept the things after a few words.

Later, Li Yi gave the third sister and Long Zhanjun a camera each, and left another for Li Yeqiao. The gifts were finally distributed!
Then, Li Yi immediately asked Dongzi and others to clean the store.

And he left the third sister and Long Zhanjun behind, planning to talk to them about the store!

PS: I saw many book friends in the book review area saying that Lao Cang was wrong about the exchange rate between currencies, especially the exchange rate between Hong Kong dollar and RMB is not 3:1, but 100:120.

Lao Cang makes an explanation here. There is definitely no problem with the exchange rate. You must know that the RMB in the 80s was very valuable. In 80, the exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar was 1.5:1, and during the same period, the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar was 5.56:1.

As for the exchange of 100 Hong Kong dollars for 120 RMB, that will happen after 90 years.

Some people also say that the Hong Kong dollar has always been exchanged at 7:1 against the US dollar. This is also wrong. This is a fixed exchange rate that was only implemented in the mid-80s. Before that, it was floating.

The specific Lao Canghui will write in the plot in the next few days that Li Yi's second investment in Hong Kong Island is related to this exchange rate fluctuation.

(End of this chapter)