In the Years When I Was a Father

The father and son prepared the things to be used tomorrow. It was almost ten o’clock at that time. After a simple wash, the two fell asleep directly, and added energy to fight a protracted battle!

Qi Sheng and Qi Xiangdong can take a good rest until noon on Saturday, when the students are on weekends.

Qi Sheng looked at his tired older son and said, “Tired, take you to the restaurant for a good meal at night!”

Qi Xiangdong nodded and was busy with noodles and cleaning ingredients every day. It was really unbearable even to turn the shaft. Especially during the meal, there were so many people around me that I could not rest for a moment, but I thought about these days The money earned is nothing to be tired. Fortunately, the students will take a rest today and tomorrow, and they can also take a rest.

Qi Xiangnan had two classes this morning. After returning home from class, he first washed the clothes of Qi Sheng and the two. He came here the day before yesterday and knew that they were both very hard. Occasionally they came to help with some housework.

When Qi Sheng came back, he saw the young son who had washed the dishes and was planning to wait for them to cook. Qi Sheng said: “Just make a little bit of it, I will take you out to eat at night!”

Qi Sheng and Qi Xiangdong slept in bed after eating, Qi Xiangnan packed up the table and sat down to read a book. Their medical school courses were very tight and difficult. Even if he felt a little too hard, he could n’t Helping his dad to sell food, he had to study harder.

It was two hours after Qi Sheng woke up and looked at his young son who was reading a book on the bench. Qi Sheng walked over to sit next to him and glanced at his son’s textbooks. Qi Sheng also had a count in his heart, but he still asked : “How about, can the course keep up?”

Qi Xiangnan’s words with his dad gradually increased, and began to talk about the first week of school fun. They are the last month of military training for the freshman year, so the students who started the class directly looked at the arranged schedule. It’s numb. Fortunately, college students love to cherish learning opportunities. Even if there is some pressure, few students think about skipping classes.

Qi Sheng was more at ease with his younger son ’s concentration, watching Qi Xiangdong who was awake because they were talking, Qi Sheng urged him: “Wake up and let ’s go to a movie first, then I will take you out of the restaurant ! “

When Qi Xiangdong heard interest, he took a good night’s sleep and felt refreshed, got up to wash his face, shaved his beard, and changed his clothes to clean clothes.

Qi Sheng looked at some stinky elder son and couldn’t help but twitched his mouth, and looked at the two tall sons, Qi Sheng was also proud.

The eldest son looks like him, and his appearance is tougher, but his eyebrows and eyes are big and his facial features are upright. The younger son is more like his mother. His first daughter-in-law was originally white and beautiful. Now she is dressed and fresh and refreshed. During this time, her eyebrows are also more cheerful. In the 21st century, it is absolutely proper. !

He led his two sons to a nearby movie theater, chose a good Hong Kong movie to watch, bought three bottles of soda, and the three of them entered the screening room.

The movies that can be released in this era have a good reputation. Although the quality of the shooting made Qi Sheng uncomfortable due to technical limitations, the good content also made him interested.

The two sons were fascinated by it. Qi Sheng turned around and looked at it at random. Most of the people who watched the movies were young men in their twenties. People like him, “old”, came to the cinema today to watch movies. Definitely very “fashionable” behavior.

Qi Sheng didn’t care too much. He looked at many young men who were attentive to the girls around them and finally realized what excited his elder son was! Forget it, the movie theater is now the favorite date place for couples!

A movie made Qi Xiangdong succeed in adding a dream goddess. Qi Sheng looked at the eldest son who couldn’t help buying a few posters, but said helplessly: “Go to dinner first, come back and buy again!”

The father and son found a good restaurant nearby, ordered a few big dishes, ordered a few bottles of beer, and had a good meal.

On the way back, looking at the eldest son turning around to buy posters, Qi Sheng couldn’t help but the black line.

The next morning, Qi Xiangnan read a book at home. Qi Xiangdong didn’t know where to go. Qi Sheng was idle and wandering around, thinking about the future development while walking, and didn’t go home until noon.

After a break from eating, Qi Sheng led his two sons to the nearby wholesale market and bought a batch of flour and ingredients.

It will be the same every week in the future. Saturday afternoon and evening, and Sunday morning are their rest time. The rest of the time is spent in busyness, but busyness also means good business and more money!

It’s been three months now, and Qi Sheng and Qi Xiangdong came to their booth as usual, and they noticed that someone peeked at him. Qi Sheng looked around and felt that there was one more shop selling buns!

Qi Sheng didn’t care too much. The volume of their father and son’s daily sales was not saturated. Even if they sold one more, they wouldn’t sell as much as they used to.

Instead, Qi Xiangdong looked down his dad’s line of sight, looking at the similar cart and shape, and couldn’t help but burst into flames.

“Dad, look at them!”

“What’s the matter? You see, there are also several sellers selling buns next to them.”

Although Qi Xiangdong was uncomfortable in his heart, looking at his dad’s unusually calm appearance, it was a good idea. As his dad said, the steamed buns are not unique to his family, so why not sell them.

Fortunately, the taste of their home has already penetrated into the hearts of the people. His father has improved a lot during this time. Even if there is one more, the impact on their business is not big. If they are selling slowly, they will also reduce some of the materials appropriately.

However, after a period of time, looking at the elder son who was depressed because of the reduction in the amount of sales, Qi Sheng comforted: “This is the way to sell food. If one thing is always sold, there will inevitably be no competitors. Some foods ca n’t even imitate you. Success, you can also learn 60% to 70%, plus some of your own characteristics, you can become a unique taste. “

“Dad, what use are you talking about, our family is not forced to sell less now!” Although the original six or seven hundred copies were reduced to more than five hundred copies today, Qi Xiangdong is still a little uncomfortable and wants to make it small Means squeeze people away.

Seeing that his son’s work is not as hard as before, Qi Shengkuan explained to him: “I said these are to tell you, don’t just keep an old hen to lay eggs, and then, think about it, we two are exhausted You can also sell more than 700 copies. The money you make every day already knows the peak, and you should think about finding other ways! “

“Dad, do you have any ideas?” Qi Xiangdong has also been quite sensible during this time, and now he can’t help but be curious to hear his father say this.

Qi Sheng made up his mind to train the eldest son. The younger son will become a doctor in the future, and will not have much time to operate. Qi Sheng has already thought that most of the money earned by investment in the future will be reserved for the younger son. The way to make money for him, with a steady stream of income, does not care about the assets he left to his little son.

Qi Sheng did not answer him, but asked: “You have also been in Beijing for several months, do you have any ideas?”

Qi Xiangdong thought for a long time and hesitated: “Dad, didn’t you say you wanted to open a store! But I have read it, and opening a small restaurant is not necessarily more profitable than we are now, and in case the taste won’t meet the preferences of people here, There are certain risks. “

Qi Sheng felt that his son said something reasonable, and continued to ask: “Is there any?”

“Ah? I … I can’t remember it for a while, but I want to do a liquor business. Dad, you don’t know how much alcohol is consumed in those small bars every day, and those cinemas and so on. The sales of soda drinks are very large. Just a bottle of tasteless water drove us a meat bun! If we can do business in this area, it would be more profitable than selling meat buns one by one! “

Qi Sheng found that his son was okay to go out to play and could find some money-making ideas. Some were satisfied with his son’s growth now, so he said: “That is a bit far, but it may not be impossible in the future.”

Qi Sheng did not embarrass his son anymore. His skills and vision were limited. It would be nice to have some ideas. “I plan to put the small shop opposite the school entrance. We will sell some lo-mei, steamed buns and chicken cutlets in the future.”

The small shop opposite was a small clinic before, but later the doctor withdrew his rent, and Qi Sheng thought about it. He planned to make the lo mei into a chain store. He first used the meat bun and fried chicken to attract the students. The lo mei naturally wants to stop. There is a large flow of students here. After the lo mei is brought to the family to taste, there is no worry about not returning customers.

Besides, he has the skill to make lo mei, and the marinade will not be able to imitate like the steamed bun.

Qi Xiangdong’s eyes lighted up, but he had eaten a lot of braised taste made by his dad, but the taste did not say that he never thought of it!

No longer counting the less-sold meat buns, speeding up the movements of his hands and reconciling the noodles in the basin, Qi Xiangdong began to ask his dad for detailed plans.

“No hurry, that store is small in size, it is a little small to open a small store, it is better to open a restaurant and sell it directly to make money, so there are not many people asking. I have been to the landlord two days ago, but the landlord was hesitant at the time. , Wait two more days, if he does n’t come to me yet, I ’ll go find him again! ”

Qi Xiangdong didn’t expect that his dad had already planned, he couldn’t help feeling a little excited, and they would have a shop here soon!

I did n’t expect the landlord to find them the next day, but this is a prime location after all. The landlord did n’t want to sign for too long anyway. They finally signed a one-year contract. Qi Xiangdong looked at the contract and could n’t help but frown. , If our business is good, what will the landlord do when the price increases! “

Qi Sheng comforted: “It’s okay, it’s enough for one year. Our family’s reputation for lofty flavors has gone out. When we go to open two branches in other places, we don’t have to worry about being here for a long time.”

Qi Xiangdong looked at the old dad who opened the store and said: “…”

His dad really wanted to be farther away than him!