Time Traveling: The Man and Wife Heads the House

Zhang Chi rubbed his nose and drank the last mouthful of porridge, "I'll tell you after dinner."

Gu Xihe seemed to see a bit of excitement and a bit of shyness on his face, shyness?How could Brother Chi be shy?When he looked again, Zhang Chi had returned to normal. He calmly took the tofu with his chopsticks and put it in Xiao An's bowl, "Xiao An, eat some tofu, don't be picky eaters."

"Thank you father and father."

Xiao An obediently ate the tofu in the bowl, but he didn't understand why his father always let him eat tofu.

Gu Xihe confirmed that Zhang Chi was nervous, because Xiao An had already eaten several pieces of tofu.

After eating, Xiao An, who has always been very energetic, began to yawn.Thinking that he didn't take a nap today, Zhang Chi took his hand and took him to wash and sleep.

Gu Xihe hurriedly said, "Brother Chi, let me take him there! You've been tired all day, do you have leg pain?"

Zhang Chi smiled, "It's been so long, why does it still hurt?"

Xiao An also held Zhang Chi's hand, "I want my father to accompany me, and I want to listen to my father telling stories."

This little guy has been entangled with Zhang Chi since he heard the story told by Zhang Chi, and he has to listen to a story every night before going to sleep.

Gu Xihe had no choice but to let them go.

He sat on the chair and looked down at the paper Zhang Chi put on the table, with words written in a mess on it.The words are written crookedly, not in rows or columns, and the words and sentences are not coherent, as if writing whatever comes to mind.

Gu Xihe knew it was written by Zhang Chi, because Xiao An's handwriting was better than his. "Teahouse, hardware, tables and chairs, walls, software, Wang Jiang, Uncle Cui... renovation, training..."

He knew most of the characters, but the more Gu Xihe read, the more he didn't understand the meaning.And some words. . .Is this a word?It looked like words, but he didn't recognize them.

Zhang Chi coaxed Xiao An back to sleep, and said with a smile, "If I knew it, I wouldn't have told him a story. Once I started, I couldn't stop."

He saw Gu Xihe sitting at the table with a few pieces of paper he wrote in his hand, his face suddenly became hot, he took two quick steps, and stepped forward to take out the paper in Gu Xihe's hand.Holding the paper in his hand, he realized that his behavior was too rude, and said quickly: "Xihe, my handwriting is too ugly, you, don't laugh at me."

How could Gu Xihe laugh at him?He knew that Zhang Chi was the eldest son of the family, and Chen Guihua never treated him as a twin, and let him do housework when he was seven or eight years old. He did all the rough and heavy work at home when he was a teenager, and he never went to school.He can write, maybe he learned it during the two years he joined the army?

Gu Xihe was very distressed, but he had a smile on his face, "Brother Chi, I didn't even know you could write! It's just that I don't know some characters."

Just now Zhang Chi was thinking and writing, all of them were written in simplified characters. Gu Xihe, who had only learned traditional characters, didn't know most of them.

Zhang Chi put down the paper awkwardly, "I haven't been to school, so I wrote some complicated words in simple ways, only I understand."

Gu Xihe picked up the paper again and looked at it more carefully this time.Pointing to a word, he asked, "What is this word?"

Zhang Chi walked over and sat on the chair beside him.

"This is old and new. There are too many strokes in this word, so I will write it simply."

"what is this?"

"Buy, buy something."

"what about this?"

"this is..."

After reading all the unrecognizable characters, even though Gu Xihe couldn't fully understand what Zhang Chi wrote, he could see the general meaning.

"You want to renovate the teahouse?"

"Yes." Zhang Chi became excited when he mentioned this, "Xihe, after I visited the teahouse today, I think the location there is very good. If it is well managed, the business will not be bad."

"What are you going to do?"

"I think the walls in the teahouse need to be repainted, the tables, chairs and benches should be repainted, placed, and..."

As soon as Zhang Chi started talking, he kept talking, but Gu Xihe didn't interrupt him, but just listened carefully.

"Xihe, I think our teahouse should insist on quality. It doesn't matter if it's more expensive. There may be fewer people for the time being, but the people who really like to drink tea will be retained. Also, Uncle Cui and Wang Jiang should take good care of each other. Training is needed, their working attitude is really problematic.”

Gu Xihe looked at him with a look of excitement on his face, and his eyes were even brighter.

"Brother Chi, I'm really not good at doing business. But I support you, and you can do whatever you want."

What Zhang Chi wanted was Gu Xihe's words. He was not afraid that he would not do things, but he was afraid that he would point fingers and make his plan impossible to carry out.

"Xihe, thank you for your trust. It's just that I have never done business, so I don't know if what I think will help the teahouse."

Gu Xihe lowered his eyes slightly, "Brother Chi, what you said made me ashamed. If I don't believe you, who else can I trust?"

Zhang Chi hurriedly said, "Xihe, that's not what I meant."

Gu Xihe interrupted him by raising his hand, "Brother Chi, I think it might be helpful if you are willing to talk to father."

Zhang Chi chuckled, "I'm afraid your sister-in-law will say again that I asked the old man for money."

Gu Xihe held his hand on the table, "Brother Chi, we just need to have a clear conscience.

Zhang Chi met his clear eyes, and suddenly felt that he was wrong, and it was meaningless to say these things.

"You're right, you can go with me tomorrow!"

"it is good."

Gu Zuocheng was very happy with the arrival of Zhang Chi and Gu Xihe, and specially asked Mrs. Gui to make a pot of good tea.

Zhang Chi took a sip and sighed again and again: "Good tea! Father, what kind of tea is this?"

Gu Zuocheng didn't answer, but looked at Gu Xihe, "Xihe, what kind of tea do you think this is?"

Gu Xihe took a sip, "This should be green tea, isn't it Tieguanyin?"

Gu Zuocheng's eyes swept over the faces of the two people, and finally fell on Zhang Chi, "You two are going to run a teahouse, and you don't know how to tea?"

Zhang Chi rubbed his nose and laughed, "Father, I am here this time because of the teahouse."

Gu Zuocheng took a sip of tea, leaned back on the chair, and said, "No matter what you do, you must know how to do it for a long time. Just like the reason why I asked your elder brother to run the rice shop is because he helped me make rice shops since he was a child. In the Limipu business, you can’t say that you can recognize the type of rice, the place of origin, the quality, and the price at a glance, and you can’t be far from it. Only in this way can you not be fooled by others. It’s the same for you to run a teahouse Reasonable. If you don’t know the type of tea, good or bad, and its source, how can you do business?”

Zhang Chi nodded quickly, "Father is right. It's just that I rarely drank tea before. Although Xihe has dabbled in it, it didn't go deep. That's why we came to ask Father for advice."

Gu Zuocheng's face softened a little, "I am so old, how can I have the time to teach you from scratch?"

After finishing speaking, she turned to Sister Gui, "Sister Gui, there are some tea scriptures on the second shelf in my study, go and get them."

"Yes, sir."

"Thank you father."

Gu Zuocheng took a sip of tea before saying, "When I sold that teahouse, I only knew a little about tea ceremony, but at that time there was only this teahouse in the town, and it happened that the boss was about to transfer out. I saw a business opportunity, so I quickly accepted it." It came down. Who knew that it hadn’t managed well, and it became seriously ill.”

Speaking of this, Gu Zuocheng sighed, "That teahouse is such a pity. When Pinmingzhai opened, I was too sick to get up from the kang, your elder brother was busy taking care of the rice shop, Xihe was reading in the academy, Xibao I was young and didn’t care about the business of the teahouse, so I let them take the lead. If we made changes at that time, the teahouse might be better now.”

Zhang Chi nodded, "Yes, timing is very important when doing business, but people are also very important. Uncle Cui should have been doing this for many years, right?"

"Yes. Old Cui was originally from the teahouse. I thought he was old and calm, so I kept him here. Wang Jiang was recruited later. He was from your sister-in-law's family, although he was lazy. A little, but nothing mean."

Wang Jiang was actually a relative of his sister-in-law, but he didn't say anything.

Gu Zuocheng said again: "The way of tea is extensive and profound. The teahouses in our Gucheng town, even the big ones like Pinmingzhai, don't reflect its essence. For teahouses, I always think that the quality of tea comes first. It is my original intention to open a teahouse, drinking tea and tasting tea, meeting friends through tea, but unfortunately, I did not succeed."

Zhang Chi saw a trace of regret and regret on Gu Zuocheng's face.

"Father, my thoughts are the same as yours. It's just that the quality of tea is good, so the price will naturally be high..."

Gu Zuocheng said solemnly: "Zhangchi, there are too many ordinary teahouses now, maybe insisting on quality is the way out for our teahouses."

"Father, with your words, I will feel more at ease."

Gu Zuocheng looked at Zhang Chi and said after a while: "Zhang Chi, you are fine. It's a pity... Zhang Chi, I'm old and I can't help much, but I like chatting with you very much. When I'm free, I often Come sit down."

Zhang Chi knew that this meant the old man was willing to help.He doesn't want the old man to help him with anything, but the old man has heard and seen more than him in the town for so many years. Sometimes a word can save him a lot of detours.

"Yes, Xihe and I will come back often."

After Zhang Chi returned home, he put the book on Gu Xihe's bookshelf without bothering to read it.He has more important things than reading books, and that is to make a complete teahouse restart plan.To be honest, even with Gu Zuocheng's affirmation, Zhang Chi was still a little flustered, no matter in his previous life or this life, he had no business experience, and he had never even gone to a teahouse to drink tea.

He sat at the desk, writing and drawing, if Gu Xihe hadn't called him to eat and sleep, he might have sat from morning to night.

After Gu Xihe cleaned up the dishes and tucked Xiao An into the bed and put her to sleep, he sat beside Zhang Chi.

"Brother Chi, you've been thinking about it all day, take a break!"

Zhang Chi put down his pen, pinched the base of his nose, and sighed.

"Xihe, I have no idea!"

Gu Xihe put his hands on his shoulders and rubbed them lightly, "Brother Chi, let's take our time, I will always stand by your side."

Zhang Chi held his hand and gave a soft "hmm".