Chapter 89 089
It was mid-September when Qingxi returned to Hangzhou. He got off the train and watched passengers from different places leave the station one after another, blending into this beautiful metropolis like a river flowing into the sea, Qingxi seemed to see another world.
A brand new world full of hope.
Mrs. Xu, Qingxi, Yunxi, and Master Zhao were the last group to set out to Hangzhou. Meng Jin called a rickshaw and came to pick up the station early. Master Zhao was just here and stayed in Xu's room for the time being. When the restaurant was settled, Master Zhao would rent another house to pick up the wife, children and children from Xiucheng to live in Hangzhou.
In the evening, Qingxi personally cooked a table of good dishes, and the family gathered together again. The father and son of the Luo family were retribution, and Mrs. Xu no longer had to bear hatred and looked more kind-hearted. Lin Wanyin had really thought her husband was killed by the robbers before, but her mother-in-law said that the robbers at home were all because of her old love with Gu Shiqin. Lin Wanyin had been living in guilt. Now the truth has been revenged, and Lin Wanyin also took off the burden of carrying a year. From then on, she only hoped that her three daughters would grow up smoothly, get married and have children.
"Mom, tomorrow weekend, Miss Han wants to invite Qingxi and the other sisters to visit. Do you think it's okay?"
After chatting after dinner, Lin Wanyin mentioned Han Ying's invitation.
The ladies of the dignified bank president like to make friends with their granddaughters. Old Mrs. Xu was happy to see it, and smiled accurately. He specifically told Qingxi to look at her two sisters carefully and not to quarrel with Han Ying over trivial matters. Boys are naughty, and girls are prone to disputes when they are together. Old Mrs. Xu has taken everything into consideration.
The next morning, the Han family sent a car over, and Qingxi took two sisters to set off. Because the girls had to play, Han Ying didn't need to learn the piano, and Lin Wanyin didn't go there and stayed at home to honor her mother-in-law. Old Mrs. Xu didn't need to serve her daughter-in-law, and went out to play cards with her card friends. Lin Wanyin was rarely idle, so she simply sat alone in the study to read books. Qingxi bought some books run by business. Lin Wanyin had a good time reading since she was a child. She wanted to read books at home, and even if she had books in the book, she might not be able to use them.
Han family, Han Ying enthusiastically ran outside the villa to greet the three partners. She was about the same age as Yuxi, and the two were the best chattering. Han Ying admired Qingxi and Han Ying more. To Yunxi, who was four years old, Han Ying became a steady and sensible sister and liked to take care of her little sister very much.
Out of etiquette, Han Ying took her friends to see her father first.
Han Rong was in the living room and had a rare opportunity to get along with the daughters of his beloved women. Han Rong was ready. As soon as the girls came in, Han Rong smiled, a handsome and elegant middle-aged uncle.
Qingxi felt that Uncle Han was very approachable.
Yuxi thought to herself, Uncle Han looks so good when he smiles, he is even more handsome than the movie stars on the poster.
Yunxi stared at the two dishes of chocolate on the coffee table and swallowed quietly. She liked to eat chocolate, but her grandmother only gave her one for three days, saying that if she had eaten too much, she would have small insects.
"Hello Uncle Han." Walking to the sofa, Qingxi led his sisters to salute. The three sisters all had a pair of almond eyes that looked very much like Lin Wanyin, and stood in a row, like three delicate and tender sisters.
Han Rong liked it the more he looked at it, and said with a smile: "Everyone sits, you don't have to recognize your child."
"Thank you, Uncle Han." Seeing Han Ying sitting next to Han Rong, Qingxi also took the lead in sitting on the sofa opposite.
"Eat chocolate, it's sweet." Han Rong held the plate in one hand, grabbed a handful of chocolate in the other, and handed it to the smallest Yunxi first.
Yunxi wanted to eat, but looked at her elder sister obediently.
Qingxi smiled and advised Han Rong: "Uncle Han just needs to give Yunxi a piece. She is still young, and eating too much will easily damage her teeth."
Han Rong immediately remembered that his daughter had teeth when she was a child, so she picked one for Yunxi.
Yunxi took it, and Han Rong stuffed the rest of the handful to Yuxi.
Yuxi thanked him and then picked up a piece.
The girl was kind and polite. Han Rong didn't force her anymore. She also divided Qingxi and sat back.
After chatting for a few words, Han Ying despised her father for wasting their time playing games, so she invited the Qingxi sisters to play in her room upstairs.
The girls didn't like the middle-aged uncle, and Han Rong had no choice but to sit alone in the room to read the newspaper. After a while, the girls went downstairs to go to the garden to play. Han Rong seized the opportunity and waved to Qingxi with a smile: "Come here, uncle has something to ask you."
Qingxi guessed that Han Rong was mostly going to inquire about Xiucheng, so he asked his sisters to go out to play first.
Han Rong had just congratulated Qingxi on winning the chef god. Now there is no child by his side. Han Rong poured a cup of tea for Qingxi and asked in an elder's tone: "That day, I heard your mother say, are you going to open a restaurant in Hangzhou?"
Qingxi was slightly surprised, then nodded and admitted: "Is this plan? Do Uncle Han have any suggestions?"
Han Rong smiled, leaning against the sofa. He touched his head and looked at the girl who was becoming more and more calm across the street and said, "In terms of restaurant management, uncle is an amateur, but uncle has some connections in Hangzhou, so he can help you find a good place suitable for opening a restaurant. If Qingxi is tight, he can also talk to his uncle at any time. Uncle will not charge you interest."
He wanted to give Qingxi a big restaurant directly, but doing so would expose his thoughts, so Han Rong had to propose a loan.
Qingxi has the support of her grandmother and is not short of money. The location of the restaurant is her first step to opening Xu Qingtang. It has different meanings and she wants to do it herself.
"Thank you, Uncle Han, that's right, my grandmother and I have made an appointment to visit each other tomorrow. Let's pick and take a look first. If you really can't find a good location, please help us with your advice. Since we moved to Hangzhou, Uncle Han has taken great care of us. We are really embarrassed to trouble you unless we have to."
Qingxi said sincerely.
Han Rong could see the girl's sincerity, and even more so that Qingxi just regarded him as an elder in ordinary relationships, respected him but became unfamiliar.
He rubbed his hands, and for the first time he was helpless in front of a sixteen-year-old girl.
"Uncle Han has something to worry about?" Qingxi asked in confusion, always feeling that the president opposite was in a dilemma.
Han Rong held his forehead with one hand and his knee with the other, and his eyes turned around Qingxi's simple face several times. The six words "I like your mother" were still unspeakable.
"Suddenly I remembered a business. In this way, if Qingxi encounters any trouble in the future, come to me and don't be polite to uncle." Han Rong stood up and took the initiative to end today's conversation.
Qingxi thanked again. Seeing that Han Rong was about to go upstairs, she recalled the conversation just now and made sure that she was right. Qingxi threw Han Rong's strangeness behind her and went to the garden to find Han Ying and her sisters.
In the next few days, Qingxi, grandmother and Master Zhao successively looked for shops for renting shops in the central area of Hangzhou. Mr. Yang's noodle shop is located in Yuqiao Street and the location is very good, but the noodle shop is too small. It is impossible to rent the mountain guest and Western restaurants on both sides. Moreover, Qingxi does not want to open it directly next to the mountain guest. Both shops are restaurants, which are more likely to cause conflicts than business.
After four days of traveling around, Qingxi, Old Lady Xu and Master Meng finally fell in love with a teahouse next to Nanhu. In the past, the people loved to drink tea and listen to music. The teahouse faced Nanhu, which was elegant and quiet, and the business was very good. However, in recent years, Western restaurants, cinemas, cafes and other foreign things have become more and more popular. Young people have been chasing fashion. Only old men and women come to drink tea occasionally, and the business of the teahouse plummeted. Therefore, the teahouse owner wanted to sell the shop that was losing money and make a living.
But the teahouse owner asked for a very expensive price, and he only asked for a price of 6,000 yuan, so he was not allowed to bargain.
Old Mrs. Xu has the money, but she thinks it is expensive and drags her granddaughter away and wants to dry it out for the teahouse boss in exchange for price reduction space.
As a result, the next afternoon, Gu Huaixiu sent someone to send a letter. In addition to one letter, there was also a teahouse land deed.
Old Mrs. Xu looked at the land deed without any expression for a long time.
A man who is willing to spend money on a woman may not really love this woman, but if a man is reluctant to spend money on a woman, he will definitely not love her.
Over the past year, Gu Huaixiu saved Qingxi and helped Xu's mother collect evidence of the Luo family. However, the old lady Xu still couldn't see through what Gu Huaixiu had for her granddaughter, the sincerity of being a gangster who was not married, or the rich man's favor for a beauty that suited him, but sooner or later this favor would be snatched away by another more beautiful woman?
Mrs. Xu could see through everyone, but she couldn't see Gu Huaixiu, but she knew that Gu Huaixiu was the wolf, a wolf who had spent so much effort to pursue her granddaughter. Old Mrs. Xu believed that she could not help her granddaughter escape. Since she could not hide, she might as well agree to Gu Huaixiu's proposal. As long as her granddaughter takes over Gu Huaixiu's title of Gu Huaixiu's wife, she would marry her concubine in the future. With Gu Huaixiu's wealth, her granddaughter would not be a loss.
Putting down the deed, Old Mrs. Xu unfolded the thin letter paper:
I heard that the old lady returned to Hangzhou, prepared some gifts, expressed her feelings, and accepted them with a smile.
Huai Xiu respects.
Old Mrs. Xu pulled the corners of her mouth and called Liu Qianyang Bo Li. Is Gu Laosan showing off his wealth?
Old Mrs. Xu really doesn't care about these six thousand oceans. Gold and silver jewelry from Gu Lao San gave his granddaughter were all gadgets, but the restaurant is a heritage of the Xu family's ancestors for generations. Old Mrs. Xu will never use the shops sent by others to open a restaurant. As long as the restaurant belongs to the Xu family, even if the granddaughter and Gu Huaixiu have a quarrel in the future, the granddaughter will still have the retreat to run a restaurant.
Old Mrs. Xu went to search for her small treasury, then brought a stack of banknotes and land deeds from her box, and went to find Gu Huaixiu in person. When she went out, she did not know that she would play with Yunxi.
Gu Huaixiu specifically pointed out that the teahouse gave to Mrs. Xu because he knew his woman's temper and Qingxi would never accept this gift worth 6,000 oceans. Now Mrs. Xu came with money and claimed to buy the land deed from him. Gu Huaixiu also believed that Mrs. Xu was definitely not willing to welcome her but refused. Therefore, he didn't say much nonsense, and directly accepted the money as required by Mrs. Xu, and then pressed his fingerprints on the land deed.
The man didn't ask anything, as if everything was clear. The little girl might be fascinated by such a man, but Old Mrs. Xu became more and more disliked Gu Huaixiu. Her favorite grandson-in-law was like Gu Mingyan, who was as sweet as her. As for Gu Huaixiu, besides money and Quan, what else could he look like a good grandson-in-law? She didn't even have ordinary respect to her!
"No need to send it to you."
After buying the land deed, when Gu Huaixiu proposed to give her away, Old Mrs. Xu snorted coldly.
"This is the etiquette, please ask for it for the old lady." Gu Huaixiu made a gesture of invitation with expressionless face.
When Mrs. Xu heard this, her chest became even more stuffy. Although she had wrapped her feet, she walked faster than Gu Huaixiu.
Watching the rickshaw pull the old lady away, Lu Duo couldn't help but hit his uncle's shoulder, and gloated: "Are you not afraid that the old lady will get angry, and you won't allow Miss Qingxi to come out to see you?"
Gu Huaixiu glanced at his nephew and turned around and went in.
After Mrs. Xu returned, she handed over the land deed to her granddaughter.
The land deed stated all the owners in charge of the teahouse. When Qingxiu saw Gu Huaixiu's name, he was stunned.
Old Mrs. Xu explained the whole story with a tense face.
Qingxi didn't know what to say, she understood Gu Huaixiu's kindness, but she agreed with her grandmother's approach.
"I told you to spend money. When the restaurant makes money, I will pay you twice as much." Seeing that my grandmother was angry at Gu Huaixiu, Qingxi smartly did not inquire, but pressed her grandmother on the bed and sat. She acted coquettishly and pinched her shoulders for her.
"Come on, make money for me. If I die in the future, wouldn't I leave it to you?" He was so angry that he could not look at Gu Huaixiu. He might not care if he sent it. Old Mrs. Xu had to vent fire on his granddaughter. Staring at Qingxi, Old Mrs. Xu continued, "You don't have to be happy. This restaurant is the dowry I gave you in advance. The remaining money is from Yuxi and Yunxi. In the future, the restaurant makes money and loses money to me. You don't have to worry about my money anymore."
Qingxi knelt beside his grandmother and said flatteringly: "Yuxi, I'll give Yunxi's dowry, you don't have to worry about it. Grandma just eats, drinks and enjoys it every day."
Old Mrs. Xu curled her lips. She was content with Gu Huaixiu's prospective son-in-law.
"He doesn't have me in his eyes, so you are not allowed to see him again!" Lu Duo really guessed that Old Mrs. Xu had a temper and said this indeed.
Qingxi lowered his eyes, and a trace of loneliness flashed across his little face.
On the way to Hangzhou, when she thought that Gu Huaixiu would touch him after meeting her, Qingxi hoped not to see him. But now she has been back for several days, and Gu Huaixiu has never shown up, and he didn't say hello without saying a word, without any news. If it weren't for the fact that Gu Huaixiu was in Hangzhou today, and he was always paying attention to them, Qingxi would have doubted whether Gu Huaixiu had forgotten her...
After Mrs. Xu’s age is alive, how can she not tell the girl’s thoughts?
She was afraid that her granddaughter would be deceived by Gu Huaixiu. Now her granddaughter is worried about Gu Huaixiu's gains and losses, but Old Mrs. Xu felt distressed again and hugged the little girl in her arms with pity and comforted her: "Silly girl, he has spent so much effort on you. If he doesn't come to you recently, he must have been delayed by the serious business. Don't think about it."
Qingxi nodded, and she didn't think about it either, but she just thought of him occasionally.
In order to prove that he didn't care so much about Gu Huaixiu, Qingxi began to devote himself to the planning of the renovation of the teahouse. He opened a restaurant at home. Qingxi was better than an inexperienced layman. With Master Zhao's help, the drawings of the new restaurant were quickly drawn. Just when Qingxi was about to select workers, on a drizzling morning, Gu Huaixiu sent someone to send a letter.
This time, the letter was sent to Qingxi. I have known each other for so long that Gu Huaixiu officially asked her out for the first time.
The heart of the clear stream is like a deer bumping into it.
Old Mrs. Xu rushed over and asked her granddaughter what was written in the letter.
Because there was no ambiguous words in the letter, Qingxi handed them to his grandmother openly.
The letter Gu Huaixiu wrote to Qingxi was also concise and indifferent. He only asked Qingxi to accompany him to watch a movie tonight, and also thoughtfully marked the movie playback time, which lasted from 7 o'clock in the evening to 9 o'clock. At the end of the letter, Gu Huaixiu explained that he had booked the cinema all night, so Qingxi did not have to worry about being seen.
Qingxi observed his grandmother nervously, fearing that his grandmother would not let her go, after all, it was a bit late.
But Mrs. Xu thought of today's rainy days. There are few people on rainy days and the cinema is also reserved, which is indeed suitable for young couples to date secretly.
Chapter completed!