money player

Chapter 15: Recruit two or three more people

"I found a pair of brothers for Mr.

Liu Changfu deliberately hesitated to speak.

"What is it? Liu Baochang might as well speak up."

Liu Changfu took a sip of tea and then said slowly: "One of the brothers is called Qi Longdao and the other is Qi Longque. They are both filial children. Qi's mother is a consumption ghost. She is still alive after more than ten years. It turns out that Qi's father is still alive." I could still take care of her sometimes, but now that she's gone, they have to take turns taking care of Qi's mother."

Tuberculosis is tuberculosis. At this time, there is no radical cure. We can only rely on nourishment. It is just a simple word to say, but it is not simple in expansion. Nutrition means good food, good drink, good service and good medicine, which can delay the disease for ten years. In the coming year, at least enough money will have to be spent to buy a good land for more than ten days.

"The Qi brothers are not married yet?"

"not yet."

"If Liu Baozhang doesn't mind, you might as well stay for a casual meal. After dinner, please take me to the Qi family for a visit. I want to meet the Qi family brothers."

Liu Changfu hesitated and said, "Mr. Xian, it's not easy to raise a consumption ghost."

Xian Yaowen nodded, "I understand, as long as the Qi brothers are worth the big price I pay, I don't mind raising Qi's mother too much."

Liu Changfu clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Xian is really kind and righteous."

Xian Yaowen clasped his fists in return, "That's an exaggeration. I heard that Liu Baochang had a lot of business when he was in his hometown. I wonder what other businesses Liu Baochang also ran besides running the mine?"

Hearing this, a hint of secret joy flashed in Liu Changfu's eyes, "Liu is not talented. He resigned himself to weakness and failed to hold on to his family business. He is now in a situation where he has nothing to gain. I am ashamed, ashamed. The glory of the past has passed by and I am really shameless to mention it."

"Old guy, you're good at gambling and drug abuse, and you still mess with me. If I didn't need you, I wouldn't be with you." Xian Yaowen cursed in his heart, but said sincerely: "Although Mr. Liu Bao is my elder, but I have to say a few words to you. It is inevitable that people will make mistakes. As long as they are willing to change, everything can be started all over again.

You should have seen it when you came here. I also have two shops on the first floor, which are very suitable for opening restaurants. If you are interested, I can rent one to you at a cheaper price. There is no need to rush to pay the rent. I will wait for you to complete the transaction. Get started, it’s not too late to give money after you make money. "

"Mr. Xian, are you serious about what you said?" Liu Changfu lost his sense of control and asked bluntly.

Xian Yaowen smiled lightly and said: "Of course I take it seriously, but let's make an agreement first. If the business is booming, not only will the rent not be cheap, but I will also charge more."

"Of course, of course."

Liu Changfu smiled from ear to ear, thinking to himself that the opportunity for the Liu family to turn around had come.

The bait has been thrown, Xian Yaowen did not continue the topic of the shop, but brought up the delicious food of some time-honored restaurants in Hong Kong and Macao. Not to mention, there are many restaurants in these two places that have been passed down for centuries, and he has eaten in most of them. Yes, some signature dishes can be described vividly.

Liu Changfu listened attentively, absorbing nutrients from Xian Yaowen's words. Just now, he had already thought about opening a Jiangxi restaurant in the shop downstairs, how to open it, what dishes to focus on, and how to expand operations and open branches. His The thinking has spread far away.

After all, he once had a large family business. Liu Changfu naturally knew how to make plans. Just a restaurant could not be his ultimate goal. He had to make long-term plans and be down-to-earth every step of the way.

The same goes for Xian Yaowen. Liu Changfu has been included in a big plan by him and has become a link. Otherwise, the friendship only needs to be maintained on recruiting people, and there is no need to extend to the store. He wants to use Liu Changfu as the fulcrum to pry open the wooden house area. Big treasure.

When Xian Yaowen talked about the tofu cakes at Kung Wo Bean Products Factory in Tsim Sha Tsui, Wang Xiamin had already made her decision. She looked at Xian Yaowen resolutely and said, "Sir, I have thought about it. I am willing to be a mother's sister."

Xian Yaowen glanced at Wang Xiamin's face and thought about it for a moment, "Let's do this. You will come here for a trial period of three months and become an ordinary maid, responsible for washing, cooking, and cleaning. The wages will be as Liu Baozhang said. During this buffer period, we also have time to get to know each other. If you are not happy here, you can say hello and leave. Likewise, if I think you are not suitable, I will let you go. What do you think? Are you willing to try? try?"

"I do." Wang Xiamin nodded.

"Can you cook?"

"meeting."

"Liu Baozhang, please excuse me while I take Miss Wang to the kitchen."

Xian Yaowen confessed to Liu Changfu, took Wang Xiamin to the fourth floor, handed him over to Xian Yaowu, and then returned to the rooftop to continue talking with Liu Changfu.

About an hour and a half later, Wang Xiamin brought the dishes to the rooftop. First, there was a dish of braised pork ribs, then a dish of garlic pork ribs, and then another dish of braised radish that looked like braised pork. It was hard to see without putting your eyes on it. It's easy to tell. If Xian Yaowen hadn't known that there was no pork belly at home, he would have been easily confused.

After three courses, they served a steamed duck with soy sauce, a steamed salted fish, and finally a bowl of egg drop soup. The eggs were in flaky shape, floating on the surface of the soup and not sinking to the bottom of the soup.

Wang Xiamin was very attentive and didn't let go of the stock at home. When she put the plate on the plate, Xian Yaowen and Liu Changfu gave in to each other and picked up a piece of radish to taste.

After chewing a bite, Xian Yaowen praised: "The radish is cooked in broth, which brings out the aroma of meat and hoof meat, but it is not too strong to cover up the sweetness of the radish itself, which is very good."

"Thank you for the compliment, sir." Wang Xiamin said happily.

"You're welcome. Sit down and eat together."

In fact, Wang Xiamin's cooking skills cannot be said to be very good, and they are definitely not comparable to those of restaurant chefs. But the good thing is that what she cooks is home-cooked food, which contains the taste of home. Speaking of cooking skills alone, Xian Yaowen is not bad. satisfy.

"Sir, this, this..." Wang Xiamin hesitated. Xian Yaowen said kindly: "It's okay, sit down. The place at home is small, and we don't have much furniture. There is no room for you to have a separate table. Before we moved, you and I were eating at the same table."

Seeing what Xian Yaowen said, Wang Xiamin added a pair of bowls and chopsticks, timidly sat down at the table, lowered her head, and did not dare to move the chopsticks. Seeing this, Xian Yaowen asked her to use her chopsticks, and then treated Liu Changfu to a drink without paying any more direct attention to her.

No one was paying attention, so Wang Xiamin was able to muster up the courage to pick up vegetables, but she only dared to pick up the dishes next to her, and would not touch the dishes that required stretching her hands.

Xian Yaowen is multitasking and sees everything.

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After drinking and eating, after Wang Xiamin put away the dishes, the three of them went to Baitianxia Village. On the way, Xian Yaowen did not forget to buy some fruit desserts suitable for all ages, in duplicate.

He sent Wang Xiamin back first, gave her a fruit dessert before leaving, and gave her 50 yuan to move there tomorrow morning and start working at noon.

Later, Liu Changfu took Xian Yaowen to the Qi family. In a relatively grand wooden house, Xian Yaowen met the Qi brothers and Qi's mother, who was sitting on the bedside, having just coughed and looking pale.

Xian Yaowen said a few polite words of care to Qi's mother, put down the gifts in a hurry, and called the two Qi brothers outside to talk.

Unless they are shameless traitors, most poor people will be cautious and generous, hiding their poverty for fear of letting outsiders know how embarrassed they are.

For five thousand years, poverty is not something to be proud of in any period. Only the ruling class is incompetent and cannot bring a well-off life to the people under its rule. In order to maintain its rule, it will lead public opinion to value poverty. Otherwise, poverty must be shameful.

Xian Yaowen compared his feelings and thought it would be better to leave the place of conversation outside.

Once outside, under the moonlight, Xian Yaowen could clearly see the faces of the Qi brothers and accurately estimate their heights.

After Xian Yaowen shook hands with the two of them respectively and reported their families to each other, he realized that the more handsome one was his eldest brother Qi Longdao, who was 185 centimeters tall, and the more rugged younger brother Qi Longque, who was over 187 centimeters tall. In terms of looks alone, , a bit like dragon brothers and tiger brothers.

"The two are from Penglai. Are they descendants of General Qi Jiguang Qi?"

Qi Longdao answered honestly: "Qi Jiguang can only be counted as one family with our ancestors if he goes back five generations."

"Oh, that's right, Long Dao, are you a gunsmith?"

The Qi surname in Penglai can be traced back to the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. I have forgotten the name of my ancestor Xian Yaowen, but the identity of the hereditary military household is unmistakable.

The "dragon sword" of Qi Long Dao is actually a standard long weapon of the Ming Dynasty. Its full name is dragon sword. The handle of the long sword is equipped with the blade of a big sword. The head of the spear is in the shape of an arrow. When connected together, it looks like an ox knife. Because of this, Xian Yaowen was would ask.

"Yes." Qi Longdao replied.

"So, Longque is a swordsman?"

Helian Bobo was the leader of the Huns during the Five Husties period, and he was quite cruel. It is said that in order to maintain his dominance, Helian Bobo paid special attention to the quality of weapons and took many extreme measures.

Whenever a batch of weapons is inspected, Helian Bobo will definitely kill a group of craftsmen. For example, when inspecting bows and armor, if the bow cannot penetrate the armor, the bow craftsman will be killed, and if it can, the armor craftsman will be killed. During his reign, thousands of weapon craftsmen died tragically, most of them Han Chinese.

It is precisely because of such high pressure that the weapons produced under Helian Bobo's rule are all treasures in the world, the most famous of which is the Daxia Dragon Bird Sword.

Qi Longque was named after Longque. It is very likely that the elders in his family had set the direction for him to practice swordsmanship since he was a child, and it was most likely that he practiced the ring-shou sword.

Qi Longque replied: "Yes, I have been practicing swordsmanship since I was a child."

"How are your marksmanship? I mean guns like pistols and rifles." Xian Yaowen's eyes swept over the faces of the Qi brothers one after another.

Qi Long Dao: "My marksmanship is pretty good."

Qi Longque: "I'm a little worse than my eldest brother."

Xian Yaowen nodded noncommittally, "I like to put things out in the open. You should know very well that taking care of your mother is a very troublesome and expensive thing?"

Qi Longdao and Qi Longque looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

"At this moment, we are neither relatives nor friends. If you want me to help you take care of your mother, and even find a way to cure her tuberculosis, you have to show your worth. Otherwise, to be honest, I really don't need to get into this trouble. "

Qi Longdao said: "What should we do?"

"Take your mother to my place at noon tomorrow to participate in a twenty-day trial training. If you pass, I will help you take care of my mother. If you fail, I will give each of you a month's salary and we will go our separate ways."

The two brothers were able to accept Xian Yaowen's proposal and they reached an agreement.

(End of this chapter)