my home is in the northeast

42. Two Encounters

The three members of the Zhang family looked sideways, and there was a woman of indeterminate age standing beside them.To say that you can’t tell the age is mainly because of the other person’s skin and appearance. It seems to be less than thirty, but if you look at the temperament, you feel very graceful. This kind of indifferent and peaceful feeling can only be found in women who have experienced years of precipitation have.

The three of them felt that they smelled a good smell, and seeing each other speak in a friendly manner, their affection increased greatly.

Sun Cuifang handed the pearl over, but the other party didn't catch it right away, but asked for a pair of white gloves from the waitress at the counter, then took it lightly, and after a long while, she breathed out a sigh of praise, "It's so beautiful. This is Dongzhu, right?"

"Can you tell?" Zhang Yuhe asked in amazement. If the pearl hadn't come out of the fish's stomach, he wouldn't have been able to tell whether it was a freshwater pearl or a seawater pearl.

"I understand a little bit. Dongzhu is almost extinct now. I didn't expect to see such a one. It's rare." The woman noticed Zhang Yuhe at this time, and after a moment of stunned, she returned the pearl to Sun Cuifang.

Seeing the other party's seriousness, Sun Cuifang didn't dare to hold it with her hands.

"May I ask, this pearl... do you guys have any plans to sell it? I really like it too..."

"Sorry, this is a gift from me and my father to my mother, so..."

"Understood." The woman nodded and looked at Sun Cuifang, "You are such a happy woman. I have seen it, and it is considered fate."

The woman smiled and turned to leave.

Zhang Yuhe held the pearl, "How long will it take to inlay this?"

"This...you, let me find the manager on duty for you?" Seeing the lady just now, the little girl knew that the pearl must be very valuable, and she wanted to ask if it could be done well.

Not long after, the service lady brought a man over, "Hi, I'm the manager on duty, can you show me your pearls?"

Zhang Yuhe passed the things over.

The other party's eyes widened suddenly, obviously this pearl was beyond his expectation. "It's quick to make, but this pearl... I think the perforation may not be worth the loss. It's better to use the craft of wrapping and inlaying..."

Looking at the majors mentioned by the other party, the three members of the Zhang family nodded, "You can do it as you see."

The other party immediately brought an album with various patterns on it, and asked Sun Cuifang to choose one.

Zhang Yuhe let his mother pick it up, while he went to the side to see if there was any suitable platinum chain.

Compared with gold, there are many styles of platinum. Zhang Yuhe picked a few that cost [-] to [-] yuan, and waited for his parents to come and pick them later.

In the end, Sun Cuifang chose a style, because the pearls were too beautiful, neither the other party nor Sun Cuifang wanted to hurt the pearls, so they chose an inlay method of wrapping the pearls.

"What is the price?"

"Our pendant is made of platinum. If it is inlaid, we will waive the processing fee and only charge for the material. This pendant is [-] yuan."

"Well, it's done!" Zhang Changgui nodded, agreeing very happily.

More than 1000 pendants, I will buy a chain later, and I don’t feel bad at all if I spend less than 5000 yuan on my wife.

They have been married for decades, washed and cooked for him, and gave birth to three children, but he has never sent anything decent.This necklace is thanks to the son who caught a big pearl while fishing, otherwise he would not have remembered it.

Now that he bought it, he naturally wanted to buy a good one for his wife.

"When will it be inlaid?"

"It only takes a few hours. Our designer is just here. The pendant you selected is not difficult to inlay." The manager on duty smiled, "It's 11:30 now. You can come and pick it up."

"Okay, then let's go eat first." Zhang Yuhe nodded, asking for his parents' permission.

The Zhang sisters have also been looking at jewelry, but the two are used to simplicity, and they have the jewelry that Zhang Yuhe just gave them, and the two are just addicted to their eyes and did not buy it.

"Sister, third sister, you didn't even buy it?" Zhang Yuhe laughed, "Aren't you reluctant? I'll buy it for you!"

"Forget it, you can save it for your future wife to buy." The two sisters smiled and followed Zhang Changgui and his wife out of the gold shop.

The commercial street is not too far away from Zhao Yihu's Tiannan Hotel, but they don't want to go there. If they go to Tiannan Hotel, Zhao Yihu will definitely know that they will never accept their pre-dinner meals. This is obviously an advantage. Zhang Changgui couldn't do anything.

Besides, the food at Tiannan Hotel is really not cheap. The family can find a restaurant outside to eat, and it only costs a few hundred yuan if they are exhausted.

At noon, Zhang Yuping called and called Wu Lide out, and asked for a private room in a fairly large restaurant on the side of the commercial street.

When Wu Lide arrived, the food had been ordered, and Zhang Yuping also ordered two of Wu Lide's favorite dishes.

"It's late, it's late." Wu Lide apologized with a smile as soon as he came in.

"Dad!" Wu Zihao rushed over after not seeing his father for several days.

"Son! Why do I think you are fat?"

"Is it possible to not gain weight by eating so much every day?" Zhang Yuping laughed.

Since I arrived at my grandma's house, I have been eating delicious food in different ways every day.When he was at his grandfather's house, Zhang Yuping cooked every day. After a day's work, he came back to buy vegetables and cook. Basically, he didn't do too much time-consuming cooking, that is, stir-frying.Those time-consuming stews and ribs are basically only eaten once on weekends.

Now in the Zhang family, almost every meal has meat, either stewed pork, stewed chicken, or big fish stewed in an iron pot.When not eating rice, there are all kinds of meat pies, dumplings, and oil cakes. If it is not possible, you can also have all kinds of sauced meat and stewed vegetables.If you eat like this and don't grow meat, then there is a problem.

"Father, Mom, you have bothered Yuping and the child." Wu Lide said to Zhang Changgui and his wife.

"What you said, we take care of our daughter and grandson, thank you. Sit down and eat."

After Wu Lide sat down, he saw that the food in front of him was his favorite food, and he knew that Zhang Yuping ordered it, so he glanced at him with a smile.

Don't look at the fact that the two live separately now, but Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and the relationship between the two is better than before.Wu Lide looked at his wife with a radiant face, which was much better than when he was at home, forcing a smile every day, and he felt like he had found the time to fall in love again.

"Why did the whole family come out for dinner today?" Wu Lide chatted with Zhang Yuhe with a smile.

"Pay wages today."

"What?" Wu Lide didn't understand.

"Today marks the one month since the establishment of our Sauce Meat Shop, and our parents paid us a salary of 1 yuan per person."

"How much? Ten thousand?" Wu Lide was dumbfounded. He stayed at the old man's house for two days during the holiday on New Year's Day, and saw people from Tiannan Hotel come to buy goods every day.But I didn't expect to be able to send so much money to the three brothers and sisters of the Zhang family in one month.

"That's right." The Zhang family sisters laughed. "How about it?"

"How?" Wu Lide smiled wryly, "I want to resign and do it with you!"

"Brother-in-law is fine if he is willing to be a civil servant, but our family will get better and better. Don't worry about brother-in-law. When the time comes, we will ask people to go up."

Wu Lide took his brother-in-law's words seriously.

Although 1 yuan is really a lot of money, more than twice his current salary, but he is just talking and has no real plan to resign.When he got to this stage, his father's generation had retired, and if he didn't retire, he couldn't speak. If he wanted to climb more, it depended on his connections.

Ever since he got to know Zhao Yihu, Wu Lide hoped to use the other party's power, but he and the other party only had dinner together once. look at the situation.

What the brother-in-law said was very pleasing to him. If the family can't do it now, it doesn't mean it won't work in the future. According to the Zhang family's trend of making money, he will definitely be able to help him in the future.

At this moment, Wu Lide really wanted to go back and let his mother see that the Zhang family was not as useless as he thought, and in the end it was his wife who could help him.

But thinking about it, Wu Lide would not really do such a thing.But I was happy in my heart, and it showed on my face.

"Look at you, is it worth 1 yuan?" Zhang Yuping said, but her tone was a bit coquettish.

"You are really arrogant now, 1 yuan is not enough?" Wu Lide laughed.

"By the way, have all our things been moved there?"

"Well, they've all moved in, Dad said, let's go back and have a meal before leaving."

"This is what it should be, Yuping, why don't you go back today?" Zhang Changgui said.

"Thank you dad."

"It's not normal for your daughter-in-law to go home with you. Thank you for nothing. But the family still can't do without her. Let's move to a new house after Zihao starts school."

"Listen to dad."

"Oh, that's right." Wu Lide stopped after taking a few mouthfuls, "Father, has the sauce shop at home expanded? Do you want to apply for a business license? I am quite familiar with the people over there. I can do it with the materials.”

"Do you need it?" Zhang Changgui didn't understand. He used to make stewed dumplings and sauced meat to sell in the market. Every family did the same thing. I never heard of anyone who even applied for a license.

"Does this have to be taxed?"

"Father, I think it's a good idea to start a business. In the past, when we were in a small business, we sold a few dozen catties for a hundred and eighty dollars, and no one cared about it. Now we are doing this big, and it doesn't matter to pay a little tax. If you don't pay it, you will be in trouble." Zhang Yuhe thought for a while and said.

"Yeah, dad, we have all the documents, and we are not afraid of anyone making trouble."

"Okay, let's do one."

"Yuhe, later on, take your parents and your sister to the hospital to get a health certificate, and then give me everything, and I'll call you when I'm done," Wu Lide said.

"okay!"

After a meal, Wu Lide left in a hurry. Zhang Yuping and Wu Zihao were going back to Wu's house at night, so they went back to the new house first, and Wu Lide picked them up when he got off work in the evening.

Zhang Yuhe took his parents and third sister to the nearby county hospital to have a physical examination for their health certificates, and then returned to the gold shop. Sure enough, the necklace pendant had been made, and it looked pretty good.

Zhang Changgui and Sun Cuifang went to buy a necklace again, and after paying for it, they happily left the gold shop.

Halfway there, Zhang Yuhe thought of another question, so he asked his parents to sit in the car first, and then went back to ask how to maintain the pearls.I wasted a little time to go out, and I was a little anxious when I went out, and I just bumped into someone.Looking closely, it turned out to be the woman I met in the morning again, and apologized quickly.

Fortunately, the other party didn't care too much, and nodded slightly towards him.