Chapter 399: It is impossible to take a share

Chapter 399: It is impossible to take a share

Chapter 399: It is impossible to take a share
"Okay, I'll come right away."

Aunt Cheng is retired now. Since she was a front-line worker, she retired early.

And her job was also given to her daughter-in-law.

Yes, her job was not given to her son or her daughter.

The main reason is that her son has a job, her daughter has been married for a long time and also has a job, only her daughter-in-law does not have a job.

Her family's conditions are pretty good now. She receives a pension every month, and her son and daughter-in-law both have jobs.

"Auntie Cheng, didn't you go to look after Ning Xia's child? When did you come back?"

"I came back the day before yesterday. I just went to help take care of her during the confinement period. After the confinement period is over, she has her grandparents to take care of her. She doesn't need me at all."

"Okay! I think you are worried that Ning Xia won't be able to rest well during her confinement period!"

“What parent doesn’t worry about their children?”

"Uh! All right!"

"By the way, your mother will retire soon, right? When she retires, you can take the child back home."

"My mother still has a few years left! She can't retire for the time being."

"How many more years? I remember your mom was only two years younger than me. How come it still takes a few more years?"

"Auntie Cheng, it's different! You work in the front line and retire earlier, but my mother can't retire until she's 55."

"I see! Your mother is better. She'll have a higher pension when she retires."

This is for sure. Not to mention that Ye Xin's salary was originally high, even if his salary was the same when he was working, his retirement salary would be much higher if he retired a few years later.

However, most people still hope to retire early, especially those whose families are not short of money, such as Li Jia's family.

As they were talking, they arrived at the front yard.

"Hello, are you looking for me?" Li Jiayi asked.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Li Jiayi?"

"it's me."

"Hello, Mr. Li! I'm from the Friendship Store. I'm here to deliver an air conditioner to you."

"Oh! So it's an air conditioner delivery!"

Two people came over from the Friendship Store, along with a tricycle. With the help of Li Jiayi, the tricycle quickly entered the yard.

"Come on, the air conditioners are installed in these two rooms downstairs, and also in the west room upstairs."

Li Jiayi said to two Friendship Store employees.

"Okay Mr. Li, I just don't know where to put the external unit."

Normally, the outdoor unit must be placed at the back of the house because there will be no noise.

But for now, it’s better not to be too ostentatious. This doesn’t mean that you are afraid of others knowing.

Now that I have changed my tune, how could I be afraid of others knowing? The main reason is that air conditioning is a new thing.

Many people don’t understand this thing at all. If they think the outdoor unit is the air conditioner, they will steal it when no one is around.

It's not impossible! You know, there are many unemployed young people in the entire capital!
These people are all those who have returned from working in the countryside. With so many people coming back, it must be hard to find a job, so many of them just wander around the streets every day.

It was also from this time that incidents of beating up women became common on the streets, and fights also broke out because of this.

Of course, we can’t say that all of them are bad people, but there are definitely some, and quite a few of them, so we still need to be careful.

“The outdoor unit is placed in the yard, and the same is true on the second floor.”

"Ok."

Knowing where to put it, there won’t be any problem for the person who installs the air conditioner.

Because they will choose a particularly suitable position for you, which may even be better than the one you choose yourself. After all, they are professionals.

"Come, have a cigarette and take a break." Li Jiayi walked into the room and took out two packs of Zhonghua cigarettes and handed them to the two workers respectively.

"This... this is inappropriate. We can't have it."

If it was any other cigarette, it would be fine, but this is Zhonghua! Now that the prices have changed, this box of Zhonghua cigarettes costs more than three yuan.

"Hey, it's just a pack of cigarettes, take it!" Then he put it directly into their pockets.

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome. Oh, by the way, I'll make you a pot of tea. You can drink some when you're thirsty."

"Well! Thank you, Mr. Li." This time the two workers were not polite.

It's very hot today, so it's easy to feel thirsty. And the work they do makes them sweat, so it's normal to drink water.

"Don't be polite, just wait."

Li Jiayi came into the room, took out a box of jasmine tea from the space, and brewed a pot.

There is a lot of jasmine tea in Li Jiayi's space.

What's more, what he took out was first-grade jasmine tea. You have to know that if this grade of jasmine tea is not up to a certain level, you can't drink it!

Even among those who ate at his restaurant, only a very small number of people could drink it.

When I came out after brewing the tea, the two workers had already started working.

Li Jiayi moved out a chair, placed the teapot on it, and then took out two enamel pots from the house.

"The tea is here. Pour it yourself if you are thirsty."

"Ok."

Although it was only a short while, Li Jiayi was sweating, which was normal. You know, this is the hottest time of the year!

He quickly turned on the electric fan and took out a kettle from the space. The kettle was filled with ice-cold beer!
I opened it and took a few big sips, and immediately felt much better. With the help of the fan, I quickly cooled down.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, two workers finally installed the air conditioner and then debugged it.

"Mr. Li, now it's installed, let's go back."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

“It’s not hard, that’s what we do.”

After the two workers left, Li Jiayi hurried back to the room and turned on the air conditioner.

After a while, the whole room became much cooler. It really is more comfortable to have air conditioning!
But there is one thing! This thing is also very energy-consuming. Just these three air conditioners, the monthly electricity bill is estimated to be higher than the salary of a third-level worker.

There is no such thing as energy saving at this time. As long as it is turned on, the electricity meter will whirr.

But Li Jiayi didn't care about it at all. It was just the salary of a third-level worker. How many people did he have to pay salaries to every month?

Not long after, my parents came back from get off work. When they saw two large boxes under the window of the stuff room, they heard my mother shout, "Jiayi, come out for a moment."

Hearing his mother calling him, Li Jiayi hurried downstairs and ran to the yard.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

"What is this stuff?"

"Oh! You mean this? This is the outdoor unit of the air conditioner."

"Air conditioner outdoor unit?"

"Yes! I installed three air conditioners at home, one in your and dad's room, one in my room, and one in my sister's room."

"Your sister and her friends also have them installed in their rooms?"

"Ok!"

"You kid, your sisters don't come back many times a year, and when they come back they don't live here, why are you installing it?"

"Mom, even if my sister and the others don't come back to live here, the kids can still stay here when they come back in the future!"

"Uh! All right."

"Son, is this air conditioner really blowing out cold air as others say?" Dad asked. "Yes, Dad, it blows out cold air now, and it blows out hot air in winter."

"Wow, that's good."

"Of course. Come on, I'll take you back to your room and tell you how to open it."

"Uh-huh!"

Li Jiayi took his father back to his room and said, "Dad, look here, just press it."

Today's air conditioners don't have remote controls but have a control panel. The one he installed was made in the U.S., with a cooling and heating function, and wind speeds from one to seven levels.

Dad quickly learned how to operate it, it was actually very simple.

After just a few minutes of being turned on, the air conditioner started to deliver cool air.

"It's comfortable. Sure enough, it's all air-conditioned."

"How about it, Dad? Isn't this more comfortable than the fan?"

"Of course! Although the fan blows air, it blows hot air and is not comfortable at all."

Hearing his father say this, Li Jiayi curled his lips and said, "Come on! Why didn't you say this before?"

You know, even if it is a fan, not many people have it now. For example, in their courtyard, only a few families have it.

"Son! Now that we have air conditioning, do we no longer need fans?"

"Who said that? We still need to use it in the living room! And we also need to use it in the kitchen."

"I mean except for the main room and the kitchen."

"Uh! Dad, what do you mean?"

"Hehehe, it's nothing. We don't need it at home anymore. Wouldn't it be a waste to keep it?"

"Dad, are you out of money again?"

"Go away, what are you talking about! Who said I have no money?"

Li Jiayi said helplessly: "Who needs to tell me this! Are you planning to take out the unused fans and dispose of them?"

"Why are you speaking so loudly, kid? Are you afraid your mother can't hear you?" Dad glared at him and said.

Although their family is not short of money, there is an exception, and that exception is his father.

Yes, his father is always short of money. There’s nothing he can do about it since his mother keeps a tight control on money!

I keep all my monthly salary and leave at most one or two yuan for pocket money for my dad.

Don’t think that this or two dollars of pocket money is too little. You should know that your dad doesn’t need to spend money on smoking or drinking!

In this way, he would have no place to spend money, not even on meals.

You said that besides eating, smoking and drinking, where else do men need to spend money?

"Dad, you're really awesome. My mom controls you so strictly." Li Jiayi said and shook his head.

"What can I do? Do you think everyone is the same as you?"

Hearing his father say this, Li Jiayi reluctantly reached into his pocket, took out a few big unity banknotes, handed them over and said, "Spend sparingly!"

"Uh! I..."

"No?"

"Yes, why not? My son is giving me this gift, why should I refuse it?"

"In that case, don't even think about selling the fan. I guess even if you sell it, Mom will take the money."

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, his father scratched his head and said, "That's right!"

"Okay, I won't tell mom about this money, and don't even think about selling the fan. Just give it to someone in the hospital who needs it."

"Well! Then you can do whatever you want! I won't care."

"it is good."

The only families in the yard that have fans are theirs, Liao Kai's family, Nan Yi's family, and He Yuzhu's family.

Even Uncle Sun’s house doesn’t have one. You have to know that Uncle Sun is my cousin’s father-in-law!

Now that we have air conditioners at home, we have two extra ones. We can just give them directly to Grandpa Sun’s family later.

As for others, forget it! They are not relatives or friends.

We helped in the past because we were in trouble, but now it seems that no one in the hospital is in trouble.

While eating, Lin Linger returned home and saw that the air conditioner had been installed at home. She asked, "Is it installed so quickly?"

"Yes! It's not that difficult. Once you buy it, we will install it for you right away."

"Then do you think it would be possible to install air conditioning in our hotel?"

Hearing Lin Ling'er's question, Li Jiayi said, "I was just about to tell you about this!"

"Ah! Are you really planning to install air conditioning in the hotel?"

"Yes! Here's my plan. First, install air conditioners in the private rooms upstairs. As for the lobby downstairs, we'll talk about it later."

"But if that's the case, it'll cost a lot of money!"

"I know. If I had enough dollars, I would have installed the lobby."

"Uh!"

"By the way, this is what Taifeng Garden said? Are they planning to sell it directly or..."

"Taifengyuan has contacted me these past two days. They want to cooperate with us. They don't want us to pay, but they want us to own 51% of the shares."

"Then forget it!" Li Jiayi shook his head and said.

"Yeah! They're even asking us to send someone over to take over the kitchen. If that's the case, I might as well just open a new one."

"That's right, so next time you come, you don't need to bother with them. At worst, you can just open a few more."

"Yeah! Actually, we can open a few more. There are too many people in the store now, and after this period of time, everyone's cooking skills have improved a lot."

In fact, even if they want to open a few more restaurants, these chefs will not leave the current restaurant for a while.

Because opening a restaurant requires choosing a location! And after choosing the location, it needs to be renovated, which will take at least several months.

By that time, the cooking skills of Liao Kai, Nan Yi and He Yuzhu's disciples will be improved even more.

You know, even now, the three disciples that He Yuzhu and the other three had accepted early on can all stand on their own.

For example, He Yuzhu’s eldest disciple Ma Hua has second, third and fourth disciples.

Liao Kai's eldest disciple and second disciple, Nan Yi's eldest disciple and second disciple, can all directly manage a restaurant.

Of course, these disciples also have to bring some of their fellow apprentices with them.

"How about this! I'll go out and pick out some shops tomorrow when I have nothing to do, and then start looking for people to do the renovations."

Li Jiayi owns a lot of houses, especially storefronts, and he also has quite a few places suitable for opening restaurants.

The reason why we chose these three places was not because they are the largest, but because they are more prosperous.

But things are different now. The imperial capital is being built at an accelerated pace, and it can be said that there is no place that is not prosperous.

Besides, even if it is not so prosperous now, it will definitely be prosperous in the future. Don’t forget that all his shops are within the Second Ring Road in the future!

"Okay, about the air conditioner..."

"It doesn't matter. While I'm looking for a storefront, I can also check out the air conditioner!"

"Ok!"

To be honest, Li Jiayi prefers large air conditioners, that is, central air conditioners, but I don’t know if they are available now.

(End of this chapter)