Chapter 403: Brother-in-law Calls

Chapter 403: Brother-in-law Calls

Chapter 403: Brother-in-law Calls
You should know that in the original drama, He Yuzhu was only a level six cook until the reform and opening up.

Although this doesn't match his actual cooking skills.

You should know that when the reform and opening up took place, He Yuzhu's cooking skills were at least a second-level chef.

According to the cook level, he is at least level four, and may be a level three cook.

Especially after He Yuzhu went to Lou Xiao'e's restaurant, after a period of time, his cooking skills definitely reached that of a first-class chef.

Of course, it is totally different from now. You know, he has at least reached the second special level now, and it won’t take long before he can reach the first special level chef.

"Okay, go and make the arrangements! Oh! By the way, you have to go and give guidance to the new store when you have nothing to do."

You know, He Yuzhu rarely cooks by himself now! He is basically instructing his apprentices.

He would only cook personally under special circumstances, such as when an important guest came or when he was specifically asked to be the chef.

At present, not many people ask him to cook, only when Li Jiayi comes to eat, will he be asked to cook.

"Yeah! I understand."

After arranging things for He Yuzhu, Li Jiayi went to contact people to clean up Taifeng Building.

This requires not only cleaning the inside, but also the outside, and most importantly, changing the sign.

Yes, this will be the second branch of Qiurizhai in the future. As for the first branch, it is still under renovation.

That’s right, it’s not that this place opened early, it’s that this is the first branch because this was all prepared in advance.

After explaining his requirements to the decoration workers, it was already noon and Li Jiayi went back to the store to eat something.

In the afternoon, Li Jiayi came to Anxin Transport Company again. When he came over, he happened to see Liu Jianshe.

"Hey, why are you here?"

You know, he arranged a job for Liu Jianshe! He had to go out and ride a tricycle every day, and he had to earn at least five yuan a day.

"Boss, why are you here?"

"I came over to see you, and you haven't answered me yet! Why are you here at this hour?"

"Boss, isn't it noon? I'm back to rest for a while. Don't worry, I only make five bucks every day."

"you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure!"

"That's fine. If I find out that you're being lazy, don't blame me for punishing you."

"Don't worry, Boss. I will never be lazy."

"That's good."

"By the way, Boss, why are you coming over here again..."

"Come over and take a look at the company's situation. Let's go to the office and talk."

"Hey! Please, Boss."

After arriving at the office, Liu Jianshe quickly made tea, poured a cup for Li Jiayi and said, "Boss, have some tea."

"Hey! Where did this first-grade jasmine tea come from?" Li Jiayi asked after taking a sip.

You know, even now, it is not easy to buy first-grade jasmine tea in the imperial capital.

People in the imperial capital like to drink jasmine tea, so jasmine tea is a hot commodity in the imperial capital.

The imperial capital is a place where there is no shortage of powerful people, and of course, there is no shortage of rich people.

So it is not easy to buy first-grade jasmine tea.

"Hey hey hey!"

"Look at the sly way you smile, I guess you got it from somewhere?" Li Jiayi said with a curled lip.

"Boss, you are right. This tea was bought in Xiayue Tower."

"Uh!"

After all this time, it turns out that it was going in my favor. No wonder this guy was laughing so meanly.

"You are really good! You were able to take away tea leaves from Xiayue Building, and it was first-class jasmine tea."

Liu Jianshe scratched his head and said, "Boss, I happened to meet my sister-in-law when I went to dinner that day, so..."

Hearing him say this, Li Jiayi had everything to understand. After all, not everyone could drink first-grade jasmine tea, even in his restaurant.

"But you can do it too! You can even go to Xiayue Building for dinner."

Others may not know, but as the boss, he must understand that going to Xia Yue Lou for a meal can easily cost twenty or thirty yuan.

This is without adding any drinks. If you order a few bottles of wine, the price will be much higher.

"Boss, please don't wrongly accuse me! It wasn't me who treated the guests that day. It was the fat guy who treated them, so I just opened my mouth."

"Fatty's treat?"

"Well! Fatty's childhood friends came back from the countryside, and Fatty invited them to dinner, and he invited me along."

"I see. Did he ask you to let his two childhood friends come to the company to ride tricycles?"

"Ah! Boss, how did you know?"

"Is there any need to ask this? Otherwise, he wouldn't have called you!"

In fact, to put it bluntly, I'm just pretending to be cool. Look, I even called the boss over. I'm so proud, right?

Of course, he wasn't just pretending. He must have a very good relationship with these two childhood friends, otherwise he wouldn't have invited them to dinner at Xia Yue Tower!
"Ah! After all this fuss, it turns out I'm just a foil."

"Come down, let's not talk about this for now. It's been four or five months. How many tricycles does the company have now?"

The four or five months that Li Jiayi mentioned was after he came here last time. It was summer then, and now it is winter.

"Boss, the company now has 6,500 tricycles, and another 500 are being modified, so the correct number is 7,000."

"Ugh! That's all."

"Ok!"

In fact, this is very normal, not to mention now! Even in the future, when transportation is so developed, there are still tricycles.

There are many alleys in the imperial capital, and there are many places that buses cannot reach. Things like tricycles are an extension of existing public transportation.

The current transportation is far inferior to that of later generations, so tricycles are even more necessary.

"That's right. Let's try to reach 10,000 vehicles as soon as possible. There are many people coming back from the countryside now, and most of them are unemployed."

"I know. That's why the number has increased so much in just a few months. You know, in the first half of the year, there were only 2,000 vehicles."

These people who returned from the countryside have their household registration in the streets, and there are simply not that many jobs for them, so they are called unemployed youth.

Although they are unemployed, they are actually worse off than students who have just graduated from junior high or high school.

Because now even the signboards of various factories are recruiting these freshly graduated high school or middle school students.

No one wants these unemployed young people, and many of them are too old.

How can older people learn as fast as those who have just graduated?

The most important thing is that these people have been farming in the countryside for so many years and are not adapted to city life at all.

This is why the factories are unwilling to hire them, but there are no such requirements for riding tricycles!
As long as they are willing to work hard, they will be fine, and people like them who come back from the countryside are especially needed.

Because they all do physical work in the countryside, and riding a tricycle is just right for them.

On the contrary, companies will not hire freshly graduated students because they are too weak to even tie a chicken. Isn't it a joke to ask them to ride a tricycle?
"Boss, how many tricycles does our company plan to get?"

"How many?" Li Jiayi thought for a moment and said, "Twenty thousand! Once we have twenty thousand, we won't increase the number any more."

"Okay, I understand." To be honest, 20,000 tricycles, in this era, even in the imperial capital, it is definitely considered a big company.

You should know that this tricycle charges a management fee of thirty yuan per month!
Thirty for one car, three hundred for ten cars, three thousand for one hundred cars, thirty thousand for one thousand cars, and ten thousand cars cost three hundred thousand per month.

With 20,000 vehicles, the management fee is 600,000 yuan per month, which is more than 7 million yuan per year.

After deducting various expenses, it is absolutely no problem to make six million a year.

Let's put it this way! Even some large factories may not make this much profit in a year.

"Oh, and we have to do a good job of management. It's easy to get into chaos when there are too many people, so we have to manage it well."

"Don't worry, boss. Our company has rules and regulations. Anyone who violates them will be fired and will never be hired again."

"Ok!"

This is pretty ruthless. You know, riding a tricycle nowadays is a high-income job! Especially after you have tried it, you will know it better.

I guess many people would not want to lose this job!
As for whether there are individuals who buy tricycles to do this, there definitely are, but those people simply cannot compete with the people from Anxin Transport Company.

And the people riding tricycles are also quite interesting, only those wearing red vests ride tricycles.

So those who are not from Anxin Transport Company are now going to places that Anxin Transport Company cannot go to.

To put it bluntly, there are some relatively remote places. It's not that there are no people from Anxin Transportation Company for these things, they just send people to those places.

Let me put it this way, throughout the imperial capital, in places where people from Anxin Transport Company often go, you basically don’t see those individual tricycle riders.

After finishing a pot of tea, Li Jiayi left, and Liu Jianshe also rode out on a tricycle.

As soon as he got home, Li Jiayi heard the phone ringing and he quickly ran into the house to pick up the phone.

"Hello! Who is it?"

"Brother-in-law, it's me."

"It's you? What's going on?"

The call was from my brother-in-law. You know, he has been very busy during this period!
Not only are there two real estate projects under construction, but the main focus is on acquiring land everywhere. He is not needed at the real estate projects, so he can just go and take a look when he has time, because there are dedicated people to manage them.

Therefore, his main business is to acquire land. You should know that this real estate company has invested 200 million yuan!
"Are you free tonight?"

"At night! There seems to be nothing to do at night!" Li Jiayi said after thinking for a while.

"In that case, why don't you come over to my sister in the evening so we can have dinner together."

"Okay! But I don't know what time Ling'er will be back."

"Just come directly. I'll ask your sister to call Ling'er and ask her to come directly as well."

"Yeah! Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Li Jiayi thought about it and decided to prepare some gifts.

This was no big deal for him. The thing he had the most was gifts.

So, he took out a lot of fruits directly from the space, put them all in a net bag, and then prepared a ten-pound jar of homemade wine.

When you are ready, put it into the space first, and then come out of the house.

After getting in the car, he took these things out and put them in the car, then drove to the pastry shop.

Yes, he planned to buy some pastries to take with him. He couldn’t just take fruits!

Although fruit is definitely the most luxurious gift at this time, don’t forget that there are children in your brother-in-law’s family.

My eldest and second uncles both have two children, while Li Jia's family has more, with three children.

So, my brother-in-law feels that his family has too few children because he only has one daughter, Kong Lina.

Just a few years ago, they had another one, and it’s a boy named Kong Hui, who is just four years old this year.

When he arrived at the pastry shop, Li Jiayi bought some snacks and some peach cakes. After thinking for a while, he went to the supply and marketing cooperative next door and bought a can of White Rabbit milk candy.

Once everything was ready, he would just drive over there.

Because several courtyard houses are no longer habitable, my eldest and second uncles, as well as my brother-in-law's family, now live in villas.

That is where Lin Linger's family used to live.

Li Jiayi used to come here often! It's impossible for him to go wrong.

Soon the jeep drove to the gate and Li Jiayi honked the horn.

Soon, I saw my sister-in-law running out of the house and opening the door.

Because there are many people living here, and my eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, and my sister Lin Sisi all don’t work, so we didn’t hire a nanny.

"Jiayi is here, come in quickly." said the sister-in-law as she opened the door.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

"You're welcome, come in!"

"Ok!"

Li Jiayi drove the car in, and then his sister-in-law closed the door again.

Soon Li Jiayi parked the jeep in front of the villa and got out of the car.

"Is Jiayi here?" asked my brother-in-law as he ran out of the house.

"Brother-in-law."

"Second sister-in-law, sister." Li Jiayi greeted everyone.

"Come in quickly!" said the second sister-in-law.

"Wait a minute, take the things out of the car first." Li Jiayi said and opened the car door.

"Just come and bring something with you," said sister Lin Sisi.

However, when no one saw what Li Jiayi took down, they suddenly stopped talking.

Even though we have now entered the reform and opening up era, the things that Li Jiayi brought over cannot be bought outside.

Yes, I’m talking about fruits. Look what Li Jiayi brought over: bananas, grapes, apples, oranges, and peaches.

In addition to these, Li Jiayi actually took a few watermelons. You know, these are things that are only available in summer!

These things were nothing to the Li Jia family because they had never lacked them all year round.

But for others, they are rare things! Even the eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law and the elder sister's family who have seen the world.

"Why don't I see that kid Kong Hui?" Li Jiayi asked.

"I haven't come back from kindergarten yet."

"Oh! All right!"

At this time, except for Henan Province, there were nurseries or kindergartens all over the country.

Only the one in Dayu Province is called Yuhong Class.

Because Li Jiayi brought a lot of things, his elder sister-in-law, younger sister-in-law, and even his brother-in-law came up to help.

After the things were brought in, everyone sat on the sofa.

At this time, the eldest sister-in-law made a pot of tea and came over and said, "Come on, have some tea."

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Li Jiayi took the tea and put it down. He turned to look at his brother-in-law and asked, "Brother-in-law, what's the matter with you calling me here?"

(End of this chapter)