Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

After the hotel opened successfully, business was still good. After all, Xu Huizhen had a business philosophy that was far-reaching, with strict management and high service quality, which won many repeat customers.

After the restaurant was on track, the backyard was cleaned up and the braised food was also made. The backyard was the production workshop, and the east wing was converted into a storefront to sell braised food.

The wooden plaque reads "He Ji Lu Wei" in four large characters. This time Xu Huizhen used the name He Ji. Because stewed food is economical and affordable, it is very popular among ordinary people. With the improvement of people's living standards, it will become one of the most popular fast food industries in the next few decades.

Xu Huizhen plans to develop a chain business in the future to expand the Heji brand and open chain stores in Beijing and even other cities across the country.

In order to arrange more jobs, Director Zhai of the Subdistrict Office also tried his best to help smooth out all the links. First, a stall was arranged for He Ji in Chaoyang Market to sell braised food.

Although selling braised food is a hard job, you have to ride a tricycle to Ho Kee in the morning to pick up the goods and then sell them in the market. Even for such a job, you have to be very smart to get it.

After all the things were sorted out, Xu Huizhen went to the suburbs and rural areas to buy eggs or poultry, grain, etc. for restaurants when she had nothing to do. She had space to transport goods. Occasionally, she would go to Tianjin to buy seafood and to the Northeast to buy grain. Now that the wind was not so tight and speculation was not arrested, she could do some speculation and she would not get into trouble if she was careful.

In the tavern, a long-lost guest came that day. He was Pian'erye. Pian'erye greeted the old acquaintance warmly, with a smile on his face.

He said to Cai Quanwu generously: "Quanwu, Master Niu's bill for today is mine!" Then he turned to Master Niu and said: "In the past, Master Niu always treated me to a drink. Today, it's my turn to treat Master Niu."

Niu Ye said with a smile: "That's great. But Pian'er Ye, have you become rich now? I remember that when you left, it was quite difficult."

Pian'erye is a smart man, but he tends to speak out of turn when he drinks. He took a sip of Erguotou, shook his head and said, "I also have money when I leave."

Although Cai Quanwu was concentrating on his abacus, his ears were paying attention to the movements in the tavern. When he heard that Pian'erye was going to make a long-distance battle, he raised his head and threw a peanut at Qian Jinlai who was in the corner.

Qian Jinlai has been a frequent customer of the tavern in recent years. He and Cai Quanwu cooperate very well. Cai Quanwu gave him a look, then pointed his mouth towards Pianerye.

I heard Pian'erye bragging, "I sold my house and returned home with the money. There is plenty of food in the Northeast..."

At this time, Qian Jinlai came over, grabbed his collar, and pulled him out, saying as he walked: "Since Pian'erye has money, just pay me back the money you owe me before."

Pian'erye was small and thin and was no match for Qian Jinlai. He tried to argue by saying when did he owe him money, but Qian Jinlai didn't give him a chance to speak.

He dragged him out of the tavern until the money came in and then let him go. He said, "Pian'erye, if I don't pull you out, are you going to tell me about your grain reselling? You want to get yourself killed, don't drag others into it."

Pianerye also came to his senses at this time. He scratched his head and said, "That was a close call. Fortunately you pulled me out."

Cai Quanwu was still calculating with an expressionless face, just like Zhuge Liang sitting on the top of the city wall, calmly singing the empty city plan. I don't know why there are so many bills in the tavern, and they can never be calculated.

At He Yongqiang's home in Lijiazhuang, Xu Huizhi was ill and lying in bed. He Yongqiang had no money to send her to the hospital, so he just stayed at home to take care of her.

Moreover, because Xu Huizhi had an affair with the production team leader a few years ago, He Yongqiang had a grudge against her, and there was no real love between the two of them. They were just living together. Not to mention that they had no money, even if he had money, He Yongqiang might not be willing to spend it on Xu Huizhi.

Their eldest daughter, He Chunfen, has already married a simple and honest man from the countryside, and the family received a considerable amount of dowry. Although He Yongqiang is a stubborn man, his two daughters are both good-looking, and they are among the best girls in Lijiazhuang. There is also a little son in the family, who is the apple of the eye of the couple's eyes and they are extremely precious to him.

He Lixia, the spoiled second child in the original plot, now takes care of all the housework, while He Yongqiang sits at the door smoking a pipe, looking like a monk who is content with his job.

Hearing her mother's violent coughing, He Lixia frowned and said, "Dad, why don't you take my mother to the hospital?"

He Yongqiang took a puff of his cigarette and said expressionlessly, "Going to the hospital is a bottomless pit. How can we have that kind of spare money at home?"

In the original plot, Cai Quanwu drove a tricycle to take Xu Huizhi to the hospital. She stayed in the hospital for more than half a year and almost spent all of Xu Huizhi's family savings before her illness was cured.

But now that Xu Huizhen is gone, Xu Huizhi can only wait for death. She lies on the bed, looking back on her life, which can be said to be a series of mistakes.

Her first mistake was to elope with He Yongqiang. She thought she could suppress Xu Huizhen, but she ended up marrying Xu Huizhen. She has been paying attention to Xu Huizhen's situation over the years. She found that her life was so comfortable. Compared with her, it was like heaven and earth. Xu Huizhen's second husband became a factory director, but her husband was nothing after leaving the old He family and was still stubborn.

The second mistake was to hook up with the production team leader just to fill her stomach. For that little bit of profit, she completely separated from He Yongqiang. Now that she is sick, He Yongqiang doesn't even send her to the hospital. It's okay, it's okay to die, it's all over.

Not long after, Xu Huizhi passed away.

After Xu Huizhi's funeral was simply completed, He Yongqiang seemed to have lost his soul. Overnight, half of his hair turned white. He had hated Xu Huizhi's betrayal for all these years, but now that she was gone, he didn't even have anyone to hate. It seemed that he had no energy to live anymore.

After a period of rest, he brought his youngest son He Hongguang to Beijing. Walking on the streets of Daqianmen, everything was different and it seemed like a different world.

He came to the outside of the tavern and was stunned for a moment, then said to his son: "This tavern used to be our He family's property. It was your father who lost the ancestral property."

Then he turned to the back door, looked at Xu Huizhen's door from a distance, and said, "Your father used to live in this house. I wonder if I will have the chance to come back in the future?"