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In the blink of an eye it was time for dinner.

My mother is also considered diligent today, knowing that someone is coming, she has prepared a sumptuous meal early, and is calling for her father to carry out the big round table placed at the back of the study.

That guy is also an old wooden furniture, and the material it is made of has long been a little unclear. I just remember that the table is covered with traces of time, and it seems to be a round older than the young lady when she was born.

This was a token of love when my parents got married, and it was especially commemorative. At that time, the Xia family was quite poor, so it was already very luxurious to be able to find such a big thing.

It's just that I don't know if it's a musty smell accumulated from not being used for a long time. When I moved out, it was obvious that Xia Xiaolan frowned and moved a step to the side, as if deliberately trying to avoid something.

The old man shook his head, but he didn't care much about it.

Instead, he yelled at the child's mother to wipe it with a rag, but the mother was busy in the kitchen, so she didn't yell, so the eldest lady came over to help.

Then I don't know if the action was a little too big, causing dust to fly in the room.

The people in the room were unhappy again.

"I said Xiaolang, you are too shabby, you are so old, you can't buy something good." Sure enough, it was my own, and I saw my uncle frowned, subconsciously wanting to sarcasm, his eyes After wandering around the room twice, "The tables, chairs and sofas are okay, and they are made of brand-name leather? Where can I buy them second-hand? Next time, I recommend you to take a look. I'm worrying about decorating my lower parts."

second hand?

Lao Xia secretly laughed in his heart, this was bought during the renovation last year, and it has only been used for less than half a year, how can it become second-hand with just one mouth?

It's just that these pear wood furniture can't be considered the most luxurious. As a big businessman, it's not uncommon for the eldest uncle to dislike it. It was too eye-catching, so my father pushed it away, saying that my family doesn't do any fancy things, and it's better to keep a low profile.

After all, his father is at most the position of a deputy general manager, and the company's profits cannot be said to be as high as the sky. Kickbacks from others.

"The meal is here, the meal is here!" The old mother brought one after another steaming dishes to the dining table, and greeted everyone to sit around the round wooden table.

Originally, there was such a custom in Yecheng that when it was time to celebrate the New Year, they would go to the temple in the county to pay their respects, but the eldest lady also entered high school anyway, and the after-dinner scene came from a secret comparison between parents in each class. Naturally, there is no meaning, and the distance is so long, so my mother doesn't care much about running more.

He just entrusted Father Yu, who happened to be away on business, to pay homage to their old Xia family's chazhu incense when passing by, and this year can be considered as a smooth and safe one.

The New Year's Eve dinner is always the most sumptuous meal in all seasons, and this point is no exception even in the Missy's house.

As soon as he saw the steaming hot food being served, the little brat immediately became interested, and wanted to paw at Xia Xiaolan's body with all his teeth and claws.

As a result, the eldest lady saw that her cheap cousin frowned, as if she didn't like the little brat very much, she hid to the side, and the rambunctious little brat suddenly disappeared.

"Go to the side to play, my jeans are new, so be careful not to damage them."

After finishing speaking, he patted the corner of his clothes and pouted with disdain.

The little cousin didn't expect such a scene, and immediately froze in place, blinking, suddenly giving people a feeling of crying.

The eldest lady quickly carried him to the chair next to her.

It seems that Xia Xiaolan in this life doesn't even want to see her well-behaved little cousin anymore, which is a bit beyond Missy's expectation.

Maybe it has something to do with family background?But it doesn't matter, around 13 years ago, my uncle's family will have made a fortune, and then it will be my uncle running there diligently, and the scene will be completely reversed from the previous disdain.

"What do you mean, girl? Hurry up and apologize!" Instead, my uncle saw it, and came over with a dark face and reprimanded her.

He came all the way from another city today to discuss with his uncle's family, what if his daughter messed up?

"Why? It's obvious that he picked me up, okay?" However, Xia Xiaolan didn't seem to be too convinced, and she pouted and planned to refute.

"You girl!" Uncle seemed a little annoyed, and raised his hand to hit her.

She was still stopped by Xiao Hehe from the eldest lady's mother, "It's all Chinese New Year's Eve, don't make it difficult for the children, eat and eat."

The eldest uncle thought for a while, and didn't think about what the eldest lady's mother said. He just thought that today is to discuss business matters. It must be bad if the atmosphere is disturbed.

He simply snorted and stopped talking.

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On the dining table, there are cups and cups staggered, and it is a joy to eat.

The three brothers didn't talk about anything else, just casually talked about small things in life, and it was rare that they were not as mean as before.

In fact, most of the time, it was the elder uncle who was talking to his two younger brothers, and most of the time, it was the uncle who spoke to each other, as if he was afraid of neglecting him, and there were some faint compliments in his words .

It also happened that the uncle was not good at talking. Although he opened a restaurant, but after several years of operation, the proprietress still managed a lot outside, so he could only keep returning to the wine at the moment.

On the contrary, Lao Xia was left out in the cold, often halfway through the conversation, no one answered, and he was a little embarrassed for a while, and finally had to drink alone by the side and listen to the two people's nonsense quietly.

"Well, my son is still young, and his academic performance is not good, so you should take care of him." The uncle raised his glass and couldn't figure out the topic, so he had to talk about it.

"How can you say that? I think your children are pretty good! They are beautiful, filial, and good-natured. How could our Xiaolan be like this when he was so young?" Uncle said a few compliments.

Lao Xia smiled at the side, only thinking that the topic might lead Li Xia's head, and was thinking about how to praise his own baby, but was surprised to find that when the two finished talking, Sheng Ji and Xiaolan were in school. After his performance, unexpectedly, he stopped talking about it?

Lao Xia coughed dryly twice, and felt a little embarrassed immediately, so he had no choice but to pour himself wine in silence.

The eldest lady snickered at the side when she saw it. Although this uncle was not good at her, it was really rare to see Deputy General Manager Xia, who usually called for the wind and rain, look deflated.

Dad Xia has been promoted all the way, and in terms of his current status, it is really not bragging.

"Sister, sister? What are they talking about?" The little kid seemed not old enough to understand the atmosphere, and looked curiously with a pair of big eyes.

"Should we talk about something that needs to be talked about?" The eldest lady touched the brat's forehead and said a few perfunctory words.

Anyway, they don't have any sideshows here. The eldest lady was so bored, she took advantage of the few people not paying attention, and secretly sent the meat that his mother gave her to her bowl, and then helped my brother fill up the whole bowl ginger.

Looking at the young lady with a cute pouting expression on her face full of displeasure, she found it particularly fun.

Just kidding, if you don't have to play with your younger brother, what a waste?

Turning to the dining table at the side, the uncle seemed to have started a conversation. At first, it was just the parents' short talk, but then the topic was brought to work.

Li Xia immediately opened his ears, thinking of the matter that his uncle's family had discussed before when the banquet was not held, he reckoned that the conversation would finally reach a point.

Sure enough, my uncle laughed, first toasted his uncle, and after a pause, he said meaningfully: "Xiaotao has been doing well in recent years, the restaurant is so loud that even Beilin can hear you all." The reputation of West Street Waves is not bad.”

Lao Xia thought about it for a while, and it seemed that there was such a thing.

This is what happened in Artemisia agaricus last year.

The local industrial and commercial bureau seems to be deliberately against the vendors in this street. They have both qualification certificates and product certificates. Can roll up the bedding and get out.

At that time, the uncle was really at a loss, so he came to ask Father Xia for help, and told him to pool up 30 yuan, and added the [-] yuan he had saved from his previous small business to make up for it, so he barely escaped the catastrophe.

But just because they escaped, doesn't mean the rest of the shops are just as lucky.Within a few days, the merchants around the restaurant were cornered.

The street itself is privately owned, and just as the storefront contract is due to expire, many people who don't have the spare time to spend the [-] yuan to play liquidated damages have to fall apart.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, it's their territory, and others say that it's the same, even if Lao Xia is in Yecheng or Sanhuai's yamen, there is no way to reverse this in the slightest.

On the contrary, the uncle opened it smoothly. It was just a small restaurant at first, but after seven or eight months of keeping a low profile, it gradually became famous.

Of course, this is also related to the connection with West Street.

In the batch of new projects on 88th Street, Xia Xiaotao's name did exist in the latest batch of investment promotion lists.

At that time, when the list was given to Li Xia, Boss Li reminded the young lady specifically, asking what kind of relationship this person had with Li Xia.

Originally, it was just a casual sentence about relatives, but Boss Li was worried about it.

Among the first batch of restaurants that were promoted to become famous, Xiaotao Restaurant had a foothold.

In fact, at the beginning, my uncle’s restaurant was not called Xiaotao, but after seeing the kindness of Mr. Li’s vigorous promotion on West Street, it was hard to wipe out, so the original name was naturally changed to the current one. The name, and the word West Street is specially added in front of the plaque, which looks full of flattery.

But this kind of behavior similar to flattering the horse's legs won the satisfaction of Boss Li. After all, who doesn't want to expand their power?

And Xiaotao Hotel also felt that there was nothing wrong with such an action, and it was a simple and easy-to-understand reason that it was good to enjoy the shade under the big tree.

Simply put, it's a win-win.

This matter was naturally brought up by Lao Xia, but to be honest, Lao Xia didn't quite understand why Boss Li was able to find out his family background at the time, but at least someone else was helping his family with good things. It's not good to ask more questions.

It's just that I didn't expect that it was regarded as an episode at the beginning, but now it was brought up by the uncle's family without any warning, and Lao Xia was suddenly a little surprised.

Because from a certain point of view, Blue Sky Company and West Street have cooperated in certain economic chains, and with the passage of time, the cooperation between the two companies has become increasingly close, and the restaurant of the uncle's family has already belonged to the subsidiary branch of West Street. It means, so to a certain extent, uncle Xia Xiaotao's family can also be regarded as Lao Xia's subordinates. From a logical point of view, there is nothing wrong with it.

"Just... casually support the family and pass the time to play, how can it be so exaggerated?" When he said this, the uncle's family smiled awkwardly, and then glanced at Lao Xia intentionally or unintentionally after finishing speaking.

Boss Li also told him about the details of the merger work. If there is no accident, Lao Xia will start to take charge of the local catering industry in the next year. Then, his immediate boss should be the person in front of him The second brother of the Xia family who doesn't look like a mountain and doesn't leak water, right?

"Are you talking about opening a restaurant? I know something about what my elder brother wants to ask." Lao Xia was still holding on to the rice balls, but when the two talked about their familiar fields, he smiled and explained to his uncle's family. Their relationship between Xiaotao Restaurant and West Street.

In the end, the uncle's family didn't even bother, and shook their heads as if they didn't see it.

Instead, he took out an extremely luxuriously packaged New Year's gift box from the gift box behind him, and placed it on the dining table.

However, he smiled as if no one else was around, and gently patted his third brother on the shoulder.

"Well, Xiaotao, my brother really wants to discuss something with you at work, or should we deal with your brother right now?"

Chapter 40 39, call your ancestors got it

Anyway, he is also my elder brother. After so many years of friendship, my uncle immediately put on a smile, "Brother, tell me, what is there for me to help, and I will definitely try my best to do it."

In fact, things are not complicated at all.

Xia Dahai used to work in other places, so he didn't want to go into business at first, but after accumulating a large amount of savings, he started to figure it out and try to make some tricks.

Naturally, he didn't open a restaurant like his third son, but chose another way.

With the funds in his hands, he invested in a meat joint factory in Beilin, and he has about [-]% of the shares in it. It was doing well before.

The Kobe Slaughterhouse of the meat joint factory is much more high-end. It not only merges the slaughter of livestock, but also integrates cold meat production, cooked meat products, meat development, biochemical pharmaceuticals, refrigerated storage and transportation, and wholesale and retail. Class joint processing enterprises.

In the beginning, the income was really good, but unfortunately, the city of Beilin was developing extremely rapidly with each passing day. Within a year or two, brother companies established around it sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Beilin is a big city, and the competition is extremely fierce. Unsaturated markets like this are usually the primary targets of local big entrepreneurs.

In addition, Xia Dahai and the others are small businesses, and even the meat joint factory is only a small-scale one, so naturally they can't beat the price suppression war of those local snakes.

After coming and going again and again, it has reached the point where there is no way out.

Although the outside world sees the bills and bills that make people extremely jealous, but in fact, he knows that Xia Dahai has been a businessman for a few years, and he knows that if he continues to let this go, the end of his meat joint factory must be closed or closed. was merged.

So he put his eyes on his third brother for help.

Isn't the third brother the restaurant he owns?I heard that he has recently established a relationship with West Street, and West Street is a big boss.It is said that New Year’s Eve will also expand the 88th Street. By then, many restaurants will be united together, right?

This is an opportunity.

After thinking about it, Xia Dahai put on a little flattery, and toasted his third brother: "Well, third brother, why don't you think about it, go to your boss Li and talk to her, If you can’t find any source of fresh meat, why don’t you consider our Beiping Meat Joint Factory?”

"Ah?" The uncle scratched his head when he heard that, feeling a bit difficult to deal with.

It's okay to talk about other things, but I really don't have a say in this matter.

When I was in Longhao before, the restaurant I opened had a fixed source of meat. After so many years, others are very familiar with it. It is not very good to suddenly say that I want to change the source of meat.

Besides, on West Street, could such a big boss come here by himself?At most, I am the kind of small soldier who can be replaced if others are unhappy. In terms of status, I really can't compare with my second brother Xia Xiaolang.

Thinking of this, the uncle was stunned, and looked at Father Xia sitting beside him with a questioning attitude: "Brother, what do you think about this...?"

Father Xia pondered for a while, and felt that this matter was very difficult.

It's not that this cheap relative has a bad attitude towards him, so he must not help him.

It’s just that West Street’s control over meat quality is indeed very strict. Even the well-known regular meat factory in the local area will take the form of sampling for testing when purchasing, let alone those from other places. The road is somewhat unknown to the factory building.

His father Xia used to work in a clerical job, similar to cultural communication. He can be regarded as a layman in this kind of food safety, but after being mentioned by his boss overtly and secretly before the Chinese New Year, he Just made up for some knowledge.

If it weren't for the lack of people in the company, the boss would not have found him.

There are frequent personnel transfers, and the work of professional counterparts is not easy to do. I can be regarded as a second-in-command on my side, with two salaries, so Dad Xia is not easy to shirk.

However, thanks to his blazing eyes, he looked at this kind of issues from a professional point of view, and no matter from which point of view, his elder brother's behavior of going through the back door was not very advocated.

"Not to mention whether the meat quality is unknown, the freight from Beilin to Yecheng, the insurance of the meat quality, and the reserves of various meat products are all difficult problems." The three old men hadn't opened their mouths to speak. The young lady sighed, put down the chopsticks in her hand, and suddenly opened her mouth.

As soon as this sentence came out, the three people sitting there were all stunned.

Xia Dahai was a little surprised, why did this kid who had just entered high school say such a professional term, but after thinking about it carefully, he came to his senses. Didn't that mean that he was running on his meat joint factory?

He frowned immediately, ignored it, and turned his eyes to the third brother for help again, "Look, third brother, can you help me with this?"

The implication is that you are a ball, the purpose of coming today is to discuss things with your uncle, and it is not related to the second brother, the children should eat at the side.

"This." The uncle suddenly became in a dilemma, looked around, and didn't know how to respond, "Let's take a look first, we don't know the situation on your side, and I will tell Boss Li tomorrow. Let me know, what do you think, big brother?"

It seemed a bit perfunctory to say this, the elder brother frowned, feeling a little displeased.

Half of my net worth was taken by the bank as collateral and pawned in the meat joint factory. When the time comes, there will be no open source here, and what should I do if it closes down?

"You can't say that. Your elder brother has lost all his wealth in the meat joint factory. If he is really desperate, isn't this going to punish him to death?"

"Brother, what you said is too serious, but I really have nothing to do with this matter. I am just a marginal figure in West Street. Even if this kind of thing is left to me, I can't take care of it..." The uncle smiled wryly and evaded, honestly He said that if Lao Xia wasn't there, I'm afraid he could still brag about his bullshit, but he had no choice but to sit next to half of his boss, so if he wanted to say something grand, it would really be inappropriate.

"Why is it on the edge? Tell me, why is it on the edge?" Unexpectedly, Xia Dahai patted the table with his palm, and said loudly with impatience, "You think I don't know about the running water in the store. Last month , the profit of hundreds of thousands is almost going to exceed one million, and it will spread all over our North Forest! Boss Li doesn’t value you as a business elite? Impossible!”