Chapter 263 Yan Jiecheng plans to open a restaurant
The Spring Festival Gala ended quickly, and Li Shengli also wrote the last riddle and the answer to the riddle on the letter paper.

"Shengli, what are you doing?" Ma Jianshe asked curiously, looking at the letter paper and envelope in Li Shengli's hand.

"Oh, this is the riddle and answer of the puzzle that was just shown on TV." Li Shengli casually stuffed the letter paper into the envelope, then found some glue to seal the envelope and put a stamp on it.

"You are still doing this?" Ma Jianshe looked at Li Shengli with amusement.

"Well, it's just for fun. They also said that there are only 5,000 places available for this thing." Li Shengli didn't care about it. If his daughter wanted this thing, then he would just write it. A stamp and an envelope wouldn't cost much anyway, and at least he could give his daughter a thought.

"Hey, Dad, I want one too." Ma Jianshe's son pulled Ma Jianshe's clothes and looked at him with eager eyes.

"Dad doesn't remember what the riddle is." Ma Jianshe was so busy watching TV and laughing that he didn't even remember what the original riddle was. Besides, with his brain, there was no way he could guess what the riddle was.

"Oh? Jianshe, do you want to see the answer?" Li Shengli was about to put the letter into the envelope. When he heard Ma Jianshe say that, he handed the letter in Ma Jianshe's direction.

"Thank you, Shengli." Ma Jianshe hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't resist his son's pleading and reached out to take the letter from Li Shengli.

Afterwards, Ma Jianshe borrowed paper and pen from Li Shengli's home and copied Li Shengli's answers again. Li Shengli was about to give him an envelope and stamps, but Ma Jianshe did not take them. After copying the answers, Ma Jianshe still had some shame before taking the envelope and stamps from Li Shengli's home.

The Spring Festival Gala was over, and everyone else had left Li Shengli's home. Li Shengli first boiled some hot water. Li Chengqin had been so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. Li Shengli held Li Chengqin and took his wife and children to wash up before lying on the bed to rest.

The next morning, Li Shengli sent out the letter with the Spring Festival Gala riddle written on the lower left corner. What followed was just waiting patiently.

Originally, Lee Seung-ri didn't have much hope, but unexpectedly, his family actually received the package shortly after the Chinese New Year.

When Li Shengli took the package home, he found that inside were the gifts from the Spring Festival Gala that were mentioned on TV. This made Li Chengqin very happy. He usually treasured these things so much that he would never let anyone touch them.

Time passed quickly and spring came. Li Shengli now handed over all the work in the restaurant to his two apprentices. They had no problem making normal home-cooked dishes, except for some dishes ordered by old customers, which Li Shengli would cook himself. Now he had some free time. Of course, he also gave his two apprentices a raise. Li Shengli also planned to wait until he opened another store to separate the two and give each of them some shares.

Li Shengli was not sure whether his two apprentices would be ungrateful people, but they were just two small restaurants. Li Shengli planned to open a chain of hot pot restaurants in two years, just like the chain store famous for hot pot in later generations, and open hot pot restaurants all over the country.

After Li Shengli had some free time, he had time to spend with his wife and children. It happened that due to the development of the country's light industry, tickets were no longer required to buy cloth. Li Shengli was not stingy and bought his wife and children some of the most fashionable clothes. He also bought himself a leather jacket. Once they dressed up, they immediately became the most fashionable people in the courtyard.

Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li saw that Li Shengli was so leisurely every day and bought several new clothes, which they usually couldn't afford to buy.

"Jie Cheng, look at the life that Li Shengli and his wife have been leading since they became individual business owners..." Yu Li didn't finish what she was saying, but it was not difficult to tell from her tone that she was envious.

"Yes, you said that having a skill is very popular." Yan Jiecheng was so envious that his mouth was about to drool.

"Then what do you think of opening a restaurant there?" Yu Li also had the idea of ​​opening a restaurant. There was no new restaurant on this street that didn't make money. "It's possible, but where can we find a chef?" Yan Jiecheng was also thinking about it. He couldn't open other small workshops, but for this restaurant, he didn't need to know the skills himself, as long as he could find a good chef.

"Then what do you say we go find Sha Zhu." Yu Li thought about it and among the chefs she knew, the best cook should be Li Shengli, and the one who was slightly worse was Sha Zhu. If they wanted to do good business, they had to be willing to spend money.

"Are you crazy? Do you know how much a chef like Sha Zhu earns a month out there?" Yan Jiecheng did not have the same vision as Yu Li. The calculations he learned from Yan Bugui did not allow him to spend so much money.

"But our business won't be good without a chef." Yu Li was a little worried because it was not easy to find a chef.

"Well, let's find a chef from the factory to work first, and then look for Sha Zhu after we have accumulated some capital." Yan Jiecheng thought about it. This kind of ordinary chef is easy to find. He doesn't have to work all day. He just needs to come to the store to work in the afternoon. By then, the chef can earn some extra money.

"That's fine." Yu Li thought about it seriously and found Yan Jiecheng's method to be applicable. "Then we need to find out how much money it will cost to open a store and see if the money we have saved is enough."

"Why don't we go ask Li Shengli?" Yan Jiecheng thought of Li Shengli, the first person to open a restaurant in the courtyard.

"Is this appropriate? People say that people in the same business are enemies. How could Li Shengli tell us this?" Yu Li didn't want to find Li Shengli and Han Qiuyun. When Li Shengli opened the store, the couple gossiped about him a lot.

"Well, let's go and give it a try. It's free anyway. If they don't tell us, we can go ask somewhere else." Yan Jiecheng thought about it and decided to shamelessly go to Li Shengli to ask.

So, after Li Shengli came back, Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li came to look for him.

"Victory." As Li Shengli pushed the cart into the yard, he was stopped by Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li.

"Come over here and talk." Yan Jiecheng looked around furtively and prepared to pull Li Shengli to a deserted place nearby.

"Just tell me if you have something to say." Li Shengli slapped Yan Jiecheng's hand away. What could be so sneaky? He had nothing to be ashamed of.

When Li Shengli slapped his hand away, Yan Jiecheng's face froze for a moment, then he acted as if nothing had happened.

Yu Li glanced at Yan Jiecheng and couldn't understand why Yan Jiecheng had to go to the corner and act sneaky. It was not shameful to open a restaurant by himself.

"Li Shengli, this is what we want to ask you, what preparations are needed to open a restaurant and how much it will cost." Yu Li asked directly.

"That depends on how big your business is going to be. But the most important thing is to decide on a location and then apply for a business license. The rest is site selection, decoration, hiring chefs and so on. As for the menu and so on, you have to discuss it with the chef." Li Shengli talked about things that everyone knew.

It is indeed not difficult to open a restaurant. Things like paying taxes are registered with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, so you just need to pay the taxes on time. Other things are even simpler. The main thing is how to do business after the restaurant is opened, and this cannot be taught.

(End of this chapter)