Song Tan's Notes

The wailing outside was so loud that Grandma Qi was a little unhappy:

"The New Year isn't even over yet, why don't you say anything festive when begging for food, but start crying right away?"

Aunt Lianhua was quite disdainful: "These beggars are organized. If you can't give them money later, just say you don't have change."

The seventh cousin, however, is well-informed: "Wait a minute before you say that, he'll take out the QR code for you to scan. His phone might be even more advanced than yours."

The three of them murmured and decided to pretend that no one was home. Otherwise, the beggar would not leave, and they would have to listen to his crying and give him money. How aggrieved!

However, just after they had discussed it, someone at the door asked:

"Who are you? What do you do?"

It was Zhang Yanping's voice.

The seventh cousin sighed: Yan Ping is soft-hearted, so I guess he has to give the money.

Outside the yard, Chef Bai's voice became choked up and his emotions were a little out of control.

Zhang Yanping looked at him - he was dressed OK. But why did he start crying right away? This wasn't the way to seek cooperation, was it?

He frowned and looked at the man with increasing suspicion.

  But the other party shrank subconsciously, his nose and tears were half falling, and he became stiff. After a long while, he whispered:

"I……"

  Tsk! Why is a grown man so slow?

Zhang Yanping was a little impatient. The pig had just eaten so happily, and now he was hungry, so he asked again:

"Huh? What's the matter?"

The man opposite cautiously shrank back and silently took a half step back:

"I just came... ahem... to..."

Chef Bai's voice became lower and lower until he could no longer speak.

Because standing opposite him was a fierce, dark and strong man.

His face was tense, and when he looked at me sideways, it seemed as if he could raise his fist as big as a sand bowl and hit himself at any time.

If he is really beaten, wouldn't it be like pounding garlic? And if he is beaten, whether he can get out safely in this remote mountain village is another matter!

  Moreover, the other person's expression was very ferocious when he spoke, and it was obvious that he was not a good person!

His face turned pale.

Zhang Yanping looked at him and came to his senses. He quickly pulled at his jacket and said gently:

"Don't worry, I won't hit you. Tell me, what are you doing here?"

  He started to threaten people!

He seemed like he was really going to hit himself!

  Chef Bai was really a little panicked and subconsciously took out his cell phone. He wanted to find someone to give him courage, but after looking through the call records, he found that there was no one else except the driver who had just picked up the passengers!

But he had come all the way to this mountain village with great difficulty, and he couldn't just return empty-handed after travelling such a long distance, right?

At this moment, Chef Bai was afraid but trying hard to hold on, but he was still a little scared in his heart and couldn't speak for a while.

This attitude made Zhang Yanping very angry.

  He was already acting so gentle, what was wrong with the person opposite? Other bosses didn't get so scared at the beginning when they came over!

So he raised his brows and asked, "What on earth do you do?"

Chef Bai shuddered visibly and took a deep breath. Just as he was about to speak, he heard the sound of talking and laughing coming from the road on the side.

He turned his head and saw a large group of people coming around from the bamboo forest, each holding a hoe, shovel and rake, and staring at him with the same tense expressions.

Look at Zhang Yanping again...

  Chef Bai took a deep breath, finally mustered up the courage to avoid Zhang Yanping's sight, and then made a phone call:

"Hey... we've got the wrong place. You, you, you, please drive forward quickly along the path where you got off. I still want to take a ride back..."

The driver who had just arrived at the county road responded blankly, thinking that 400 yuan was really not expensive. Didn’t I hear from my colleagues that it only costs yuan to charter a car here?

But it would be a waste if he didn't make money, so he turned the steering wheel and quickly went back.

  The seventh cousin came out of the yard slowly, and seeing everyone gathered at the door, he couldn't help wondering:

"What are you doing?"

"Oh," Zhang Yanping came back to his senses, "I was hungry and was about to eat when I saw a strange man standing at the door... I asked him for a long time but he didn't say anything, acting like a thief."

"A beggar, huh?"

The seventh cousin laughed cheerfully, looking at the figure jogging along the road in the distance - a little fat, not running fast, and panting, it's only a few steps? His body is not as strong as his!

"But Yan Ping, you can't blame others. You look fierce, and anyone who looks at you will be stunned for a while."

They were originally worried that Yan Ping would give money out of pity, but after listening for a long time without any response, they knew that he must have scared the other person again.

Alas, when this child first came, he was like a steamed bun made of leavened dough, but now he has become a hard, black-faced steamed bun.

Who can he go to for justice? If you don't know him, you would think he is very hardworking in the countryside.

As soon as the seventh cousin said this, the fellow villagers at the door also spoke up:

"That's right! We were just about to put the shovel back, but Zhang Yanping was standing at the door like he was going to hit someone, and we were so scared that we didn't dare to say a word."

"That guy just now was acting sneaky. What does he want to do? Don't think he's here to scout out the place."

"Well, you see Yan Ping was scared away as soon as he came back, so you know what a coward he is - the hoe is here, if you need it in the afternoon, we can take it with us on the way."

Everyone said goodbye in twos and threes, and now staggered home with full stomachs.

Zhang Yanping walked into the yard with a gloomy face and sighed: "If I go out now, I'm afraid my ID card will be checked several times on the way."

"Isn't that good?" Aunt Lianhua laughed, "From now on, only people will be polite to you. How safe it is. With you in our family, we don't have to worry so much..."

"Have you noticed? There are also lazy people working in our village. If you stick your head over there, they will work faster."

"Oh, by the way, you can't stand at the front desk when your B&B opens. Let Teacher Xin go. He's fair-skinned and gentle..."

Zhang Yanping:......

……

At this moment, Boss Chang also received a message.

"What? That Bai guy went to Yunqiao Village?"

"Well, he invested his house in a restaurant, and now he has lost all his money. He is old and has little money... You know his reputation, and it is not easy for him to find a job. I don't know how he found out about Yunqiao Village..."

"That's fine. The Song family won't sell anything to him anyway."

Boss Chang does have some confidence in this.

but……

"You'd better be careful. I think he is very proud and confident. Maybe he has some trick up his sleeve..."

The chef of the restaurant got the news and told him about it. Boss Chang said that he didn't care, but in fact he cared a lot.

As soon as he hung up the phone, he called Song Tan.

"Boss Song..."

Song Tan was tearing the tape with a crackling sound. At this moment, he took out his cell phone and was a little puzzled: "I told you that the spinach is gone. You just wait another month... 20 days will be enough!" Next, a large area of ​​land will be planted with some fast-growing vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, spring spinach, lettuce and the like. These vegetables grow fast and you really can't wait for a few days.

Boss Chang quickly explained: "It's not about buying vegetables. It's about the Youran Ecological Base across the street. The chef who left our competitor said he found his way back to the village."

  what?

Song Tan was stunned: "It's no use looking for it. Didn't I say I'll sell the vegetables to you?"

It's not easy to meet someone as generous, straightforward and open-minded as Boss Chang.

  Boss Chang laughed proudly and confidently on the other end of the phone - I knew it, he really has great charisma!

At this moment, he quickly said: "I know, I know, we have always had a pleasant cooperation. I mainly want to remind you, in case he does something bad in the past..."

"That's okay."

Speaking of doing bad things, Song Tan is more confident: "I added security this year, more than 20 people patrol back and forth, and the work is full every day."

For example, right now, more than a dozen people are still digging spinach in the fields!

Boss Chang was also completely relieved, and he repeatedly warned: "Chashan! Chashan must send more people to patrol!"

"I want an orchard, too! Otherwise, don't sell your orchard to Qian and Wang this year. They're not willing to pay you... just sell it all to me!"

"The vegetable field, the vegetable field cannot be taken lightly. The return rate of growing vegetables is so high! And you can plant it one crop after another..."

Song Tan: ...

The Song family gave him the nickname Chang Baobao, and it was not wrong.

  After hanging up the phone, Song Tan didn't take the incident to heart at all, until he went back to eat, Zhang Yanping was holding the bowl and looked unhappy:

"You said the B&B is opening, can't I just stay there and watch over it?"

The foundation has already been laid. He and Xin Jun have discussed this countless times and they still have quite a lot of feelings about their first entrepreneurial venture.

Qiao Qiao was also curious: "Why not? Although Brother Yanping looks fierce, he is not fierce at all!"

Xin Jun laughed out loud: "Maybe he is a guest staying in the hotel and doesn't want to spend time to understand his inner beauty."

Qiao Qiao thought about it and said, "When I went to the beach before, the receptionist was very nice to me, but I didn't know her very well..."

Song Tan thought about it and said, "Not necessarily. What if you market something like 'The Safest B&B' and put his face on the promotional picture, maybe it will really attract people."

Speaking of this, the seventh cousin laughed and said, "Don't mention it, Yan Ping's face is really good-looking! At noon, a man came to the door. I don't know what he was doing, but he was scared away by Yan Ping's face before he even entered the door."

Zhang Yanping looked even more innocent: "I asked him what he was doing here and who he was. He hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything. In the end, he ran away..."

"Compared to him and me, who is not a good person?"

  Huh?

Song Tan remembered the call from Boss Chang.

"Maybe he really is here to discuss cooperation. Boss Chang called and said that a chef from his rival is coming."

She said it casually, but Wulan and Song Sancheng became nervous: "I think Boss Chang is a nice guy, very generous. It's not fair for you to sell it to him when his neighbor comes to you! He's already paying a high price for it, it's considered a unique product."

"I'm not planning to sell it." Song Tan was just a little curious: "Boss Chang said the other party was quite confident. I was wondering if there was any particularly high price..."

After hearing this, everyone started to think about it.

"Maybe the guy who was scared away at noon really was... But when Boss Chang came to see us Yanping, he didn't look like that!"

When Song Sancheng said this, he had clearly forgotten that Boss Chang had brought two tall and strong cutters with him when he came.

At this moment, he was very disdainful: "He doesn't even have this little courage. Is he really guilty? He probably didn't come here to discuss cooperation sincerely, but to sabotage our fields."

Song Sancheng was very cautious: "You see in the TV shows, sabotage in the mall, that idiom... intrigues and schemes, it's all like that."

This is not impossible.

Song Tan thought of the more than 20 security guards he had hired, and he became happy again.

"As expected of me, I am so foresighted."

Uncle Seven ate his meal in silence, and at this moment he was a little angry:

"It's right not to cooperate. This person doesn't look festive and doesn't fit in with our family."

He took a sip of soup from the bowl and commented, "Who would come to discuss cooperation on New Year's Day empty-handed? He's already crying before he even enters the door."

"I thought he was a beggar."

Qiao Qiao felt a little regretful: "I didn't see it! What was he crying for?"

Uncle Seven shook his head: "I don't know. I was busy pounding garlic and I only heard a cry."

That's really unlucky. No wonder I can't compare to Boss Chang in business.

Everyone continued eating and quickly forgot about the matter.

Meanwhile, Chef Bai, who was sitting in the car, looked depressed and gritted his teeth.

  Damn it!

He was just a supplier, but he was so strict! A village had developed such a group of people... Fortunately, he didn't call Chef Song, otherwise if the other party got angry, he would be beaten first!

but……

After all, I was raised by Chef Song since I was a child, even though my parents were a bit cruel back then and they blocked my door and scolded me...

But over the years, he brought the old couple to the city and they had no contact again.

As time goes by, Chef Song is probably too old to walk. He goes to cry and beg again... and if he persuades Chef slowly, there may be some reconciliation.

Thinking of this, Chef Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

only……

He stared at the driver: "When you said you wanted to rent a car, it should be the round trip price, right?"

The driver is not happy!

"No, that won't work. I was almost there when you called me to go back. I was pedaling so hard all the way..."

"You're ripping my customers off, aren't you? I can complain when I get home!" Chef Bai was also unhappy. He had not been successful today and he felt even more financially strapped.

I have to find a way to borrow money when I go back to fill the hole at home. I can no longer take 400 yuan lightly.

  However, when it comes to complaints, the driver becomes even angrier:

"Invest now! Invest now! This rubbish company does nothing but charges us over 100 yuan a month..."

  He cursed so fiercely!

Chef Bai instantly became nervous again. Now that the steering wheel was in someone else's hands, he didn't dare to provoke the other party at all.

After cursing for a long time, the driver finally grunted:

"Forget it, let's just call it 200 for this trip..."

(End of this chapter)