Versatile Mage: Soul and Demon Dual Cultivation.

Chapter 401: Changes in the Yan Family
After Master Li visited Sha Zhu, he still felt a little disappointed. This visit was actually somewhat tentative. Compared with Yipintang, who would go to the small restaurant opened by the Yan family?

He also noticed Sha Zhu's hesitation, but when he left Sha Zhu's house, Sha Zhu did not show any intention of winning him over.

The next day, Master Li came to Yan's restaurant as promised.

I have to say, there is a difference between having a master and not having a master. Over the years, Sha Zhu has changed a lot. He Daqing came back early, and many of his skills were passed on to Sha Zhu's apprentices.

The taste of Yan's Restaurant suddenly reached a higher level, making the business of this small restaurant booming.

But no matter how good the business is, the daily volume is still limited. After all, the space of a small restaurant is limited, unlike in later generations where there is take-out to increase volume.

After a month, the Yan couple discovered something was wrong. Although business had improved a lot, the money they earned was only slightly better than before, and still not as much as Master Li alone.

This won't work. How can the bosses work for the chefs under them?

Not understanding the reason, Yan Jiecheng and his wife decided not to take any action and decided to try for another month to see if there would be any improvement.

Unfortunately, the idea is good, but the reality is cruel. The couple’s income the next month was not as high as the previous month.

Yu Li is a shrewd person. Since the restaurant opened, she has also met many colleagues in the same industry.

After inviting their colleagues to have a meal, the couple finally understood where the problem lay.

The Yan family's restaurant is very small, with only five tables in total, and the number of guests that each table can accommodate each night is limited.

These days are not like the later times, when people would go out for a midnight snack at any time.

So the limit of the restaurant is there. If they want to make money, they only have two ways to go. One is to expand the scale of the restaurant, and the other is to reduce the finished product.

Since their restaurant is small, the cost of ingredients cannot be reduced any further, and the only cost that can be reduced is in the kitchen.

However, once the cost of the kitchen is reduced, the business cannot be guaranteed, so it is equivalent to working for the chef, and the monthly income is not as high as that of the chef.

As for the fact that the income in the second month was less than that in the first month, they also understood the reason. In the first month, the new chef just came and many people came to try the food for fun, but after the novelty wore off, the business entered a stable period.

After understanding the problem, the couple realized that the only way to change the status quo was to expand the scale.

As for the wages of the kitchen staff?
Is five hundred yuan a month high?

Five hundred yuan a month is indeed a lot, but without it, their business would certainly not be able to succeed.

It is obviously unrealistic to expand the scale in the short term. A penny can make a hero fall, and they still owe foreign debts.

Yu Li and her husband gritted their teeth and decided to do this. After all, it was better than working.

But as time went on, they found that business was getting worse every month.

Although the chef's skills were good, the restaurant's business eventually went into a downturn due to the lack of innovation.

In half a year, the income of Yu Li and her husband returned to the time when they first opened the restaurant. They broke even and made a small profit, which was a little better than working. "Jie Cheng, this won't work. I have a feeling that we will lose money soon!!!!" Yu Li said with a frown.

Yan Jiecheng sighed softly. It seemed so easy for others to do business, but why was their business full of troubles?

Only when you run a household do you know how expensive food, oil, salt and firewood are. Since they opened the restaurant, they found that doing business is not as smooth as they imagined.

Their current profit is less than 200 yuan per month. Excluding their wages, their actual monthly earnings are less than 100 yuan.

"Why don't you say something? If you continue like this, we'll be the ones paying for it!" Yu Li said anxiously.

"Lily, if it doesn't work, let's sell the restaurant. We can definitely recover the costs and even make a small profit! I understand now that this business is not something that ordinary people like us can do!" Yan Jiecheng said.

"What's the point of you giving up so quickly!"

Yu Li was unwilling to end her career as a boss lady like this. When she thought about how the Yan family couldn't help her business at all and instead asked them to pay high interest, she couldn't help but complain.

As the saying goes, a poor couple has many sorrows, and this saying is fully reflected in front of these two people!
"What can I do? I also want to expand the scale, but where can I get the capital!!!" Yan Jiecheng said helplessly.

In desperation, the couple decided to sell the restaurant. After recovering their capital, they made a profit of more than 1,000 yuan. After a year of hard work, they made more than 1,000 yuan more. How could they be willing to just accept this?

But no matter how unwilling they were, the two were helpless. The couple even blamed Yan Bugui for their business failure.

Yan Bugui probably never expected that he would encounter such an unexpected disaster, and his already precarious family suddenly fell apart.

Yu Li was a woman who was unwilling to be ordinary. Not long after the business ended, she came to He Yushui for help.

He Yushui arranged for Yu Li to work at Yipintang because of their past friendship. Yu Li took to it like a fish in water and showed great interpersonal skills. She soon became the hall manager with her own abilities.

Yu Li's ambition immediately highlighted Yan Jiecheng's ordinariness. Now Yan Jiecheng is middle-aged and it is impossible for him to find a hard labor job like before.

But Yan Jiecheng was not good at anything, and his expectations were too high but his skills were too low. In the end, he could only stay at home and became a hutong boy in the old city!
Faced with such an unmotivated man, Yu Li made a prompt decision to divorce Yan Jiecheng.

The divorce made Yan Jiecheng, who was already frustrated, direct all his anger towards Yan Bugui.

Yan Jiecheng, who has no job, can only rely on his parents for support. Yan Bugui hates this very much, but he can do nothing about it because Yan Jiecheng is his son after all.

Fortunately, he still has a pension, so he can afford to feed his son.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Yan Bugui's wife suddenly fainted. After being sent to the hospital for examination, it was found that her condition was very serious and required surgery.

Although Yan Bugui is a bit stingy, he is still good to his wife. He sold all his belongings to buy surgery for his wife, but her recovery after the surgery was not ideal, and his wife still needs high medical expenses every month to maintain her life.

What Yan Bugui could never have imagined was that when he was at the end of his rope, Yan Jiecheng ran away without a word. Not only did he not bring any help to his family, he also took away all the only savings.

"God wants to destroy my Yan family. Damao, I kneel down in front of you, you must save me!" Yan Bugui knew that the only wealthy family, the Xu family, could help him. With nowhere else to go, Yan Bugui immediately found Xu Damao and begged him.

(End of this chapter)