My 1978 Hotel

Chapter 85: Wu Tong reveals the price of a jade paperweight given to his wife
"I have to post it on WeChat Moments."

Li Feng watched Zheng Tianxing's car leave the B&B with a helpless sigh. He composed a message and posted it on his WeChat Moments. "Due to limited supply, knife loaches are no longer available for sale..."

Sure enough, after a while, several regular customers sent messages asking questions. Li Feng replied one by one and explained the current situation.

"Who is this?"

Li Feng saw someone he didn't recognize adding him. Hey, there was an additional message. "Mr. Qin from Huicai Garden?"

"What can this person do to me?"

Li Feng clicked yes. Maybe they wanted to come for dinner. No one could say that the boss of Huicai Garden couldn't come to the B&B for dinner.

"Beep beep."

Li Feng connected the video call, and Yiyi's chubby face filled the entire screen. "Dad, Dad."

"After school?"

"Ah."

Li Yi was packing her small schoolbag and stuffing things in it. What was this girl doing? "Yiyi, what are you doing?"

"Pack up the toys and go play with the little wolf."

"This girl is going to the B&B."

Han Zhaoxia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "After all this fuss, you're not even packing your clothes and toys, and you even asked me to video call you to tell you."

"Come on, it's just right for chicken soup tonight."

Li Feng told Han Zhaoxia about the little wolf bringing back a hen from the village.

"That's really interesting. Did you take a picture of it?"

Han Zhaoxia said, "Yesterday's video received quite a lot of views on Douyin."

"Yeah, I didn't pay much attention."

Li Feng checked his phone. It turned out that some photos were taken, but they were not taken by Li Feng. Wu Tong took the photos and sent them to her. The part where Li Feng made a bitter face while paying the money was also taken.

"I filmed a video, and I'll edit it and post it on TikTok later."

"Where's Li Ran? Is he done with school?"

"Just got out of school, and I'm doing homework."

Han Zhaoxia checked the time. "Wait, we'll be there in about an hour."

"Anything you want to bring over there?"

"No, we have everything."

"By the way, bring some summer clothes." Li Feng said. "Two polo shirts."

"Isn't it too hard to wear?"

"I've lost some weight recently."

Li Feng didn't actually lose much weight, but with regular exercise and system optimization, his figure has become much better than before.

"Then I'll take it to you."

Han Zhaoxia remembered something. "My eldest sister said she's going back to Xiangshan tomorrow to celebrate Mom's birthday. I was thinking about having lunch at the B&B so Mom doesn't have to cook."

"Okay, then I'll prepare an extra health feast."

"No need, just normal is fine."

"No, leave this to me."

I'll have to call Zhang Tao later and ask him to send more beef, mutton, pork, and vegetables. "Have you ordered the cake?"

"My eldest sister has ordered it."

"Then I won't prepare it. You can go back and tell my eldest sister and the others, so that my third brother-in-law won't get engaged to someone else." Li Feng said.

"I see."

"By the way, do you want some seafood? I don't have any here. Why don't you bring some over? Sister Wu can cook it."

"Forget it, no one in my family eats seafood."

Han Zhaoxia said, "Besides, the price is not cheap."

The couple was talking animatedly, but little Li Yi was not happy. Her father ignored her and she pouted. "You stinky dad!"

"Oh, Yiyi is angry?"

"Don't be angry, come on, Xiaolang and Yiyi wave."

The little weasel waved its little paws obediently. Li Yi laughed so hard that the weasel started laughing.

Next, the protagonists on both sides of the phone changed to Li Yi and the little weasel, and the two were having a lot of fun playing.

"Okay, Yiyi, stop pestering Dad. Dad has something else to do."

"You get busy first."

Han Zhaoxia said, "I'll just pack up here and come over."

"Well, I'll wait for you to come over for dinner."

After hanging up the video, Li Feng looked at the message Qin Guocheng sent him. "Come over tomorrow to discuss cooperation?"

"Mr. Qin is not kidding, right?"

Li Feng muttered, he didn't think there was anything to discuss with Qin Guocheng. He was just a B&B and a large chain restaurant group, so they were completely unrelated. "Never mind for now, we'll talk about it later."

"I have to call Zhang Tao first."

This is serious business. Zhang Tao received a call from Li Feng. "Brother Li, you want a whole lamb? Okay. And three pairs of pig tripe. Okay, okay, no problem."

"Boy, this business is getting better and better."

"Is Li Feng calling again?"

"Of course I should. That will require me to send a whole lamb over tomorrow morning." Zhang Tao said with a sigh.

"That's a good thing."

Han Dafeng said with a smile, "Maybe tomorrow is the weekend and there will be more customers."

The reason why Li Feng got a whole lamb was actually that he was going to roast it. Han Dong had done it twice before, but since there were fewer customers and he hadn't been in the mood to do it again. Tomorrow is his mother-in-law's birthday, so it would be a good time to have some fun.

"Would you like to give me a gift?"

Not to mention that his mother-in-law and her husband were quite nice people. When they got married, Li Feng had no house, no car, and no betrothal gifts. Just imagine that most parents wouldn't necessarily be willing to let their daughter marry you. "What can I give you as a gift?"

"I'm afraid there's no time to buy it now."

It’s not a good idea to give her money, Li Feng muttered, thinking that Han Chaoxia would come over soon and he would ask her what she thought.

"Arrange dinner first."

"Sister Wu."

Li Feng called out to Sister Wu. "Chaoxia and the kids will come over tonight. Please add two more dishes, like sweet and sour pork tenderloin."

"Chaoxia is back, okay, I know."

Sister Wu and Han Chaoxia are from the same village, and Han Chaoxia has to call Sister Wu "Auntie".

"Will the health banquet at the villa area be delayed?"

"No delay, it's already been packed."

"That's fine." Li Feng was originally worried that there were not enough people, but now that everything is ready, he doesn't need to help.

After a while, Han Chaoxia came with Li Ran and Li Yi. Li Feng just opened the car door and thought Li Yi was going to hug him, but who knew that this girl didn't care about him as her father at all and hugged the little weasel.

"Yiyi, dirty."

Han Chaoxia frowned, this child.

"It's okay, I killed the bug."

Li Feng took the schoolbag and suitcase, which still contained quite a few things. "Li Ran?"

"dad."

Li Feng really couldn't handle this kid, he was usually quiet. "Why do I look thinner?"

"I've caught a cold these past few days."

Han Zhaoxia said, "She has some diarrhea. You know her health has never been as good as her sister's."

"How can you be healthy if you're picky about food and don't eat meat?"

Li Feng was helpless. No matter how many times he said it, it was useless. He was picky about food and there was no way he could control it. "Come stay at the B&B for a while during the holidays. I'll give him some conditioning."

"alright."

Han Zhaoxia said, "I saw an oxcart on the way here. Is it ours?"

"Yes, this is for Uncle Wu to borrow."

Li Feng carried the suitcase and schoolbag to his office and put them there. It would be more convenient for the two children to do their homework in the office. "Hey, why did you buy such a big safe?"

"It's big, I think it's okay."

As he got older, Li Feng felt that as time went on, he would have more and more good things, and he was afraid that by then he might not be able to put them all away. "Let's not talk about this. Have you prepared a birthday present for Mom?"

"Gift?"

Han Chaoxia was really not prepared, she planned to give one thousand yuan.

"This year is your 70th birthday, it's not right to just give money." Li Feng didn't object, but a big birthday is different from an ordinary birthday after all.

"Why not ask my elder sister?" Han Chaoxia thought so too, but she didn't have any good ideas.

"That's okay too."

This matter must be discussed together. Gifts are not given casually. It’s okay to give as much money as you want in private, but if the gift is to be given openly, it’s better to discuss it with the sisters.

"What did you say, sister?"

"My eldest sister asked if she would give me some jewelry."

Han Zhaoxia said, "My eldest sister said she wanted to buy a necklace, so the younger ones like us can pool our money to buy a ring and earrings."

"Gold?"

"Ah."

"That's fine."

A necklace costs about ten thousand yuan, while rings and earrings are cheaper and don’t have to be too heavy, three to five thousand is enough.

As for bracelets, costing twenty or thirty thousand yuan each is too expensive.

Speaking of jewelry, Li Feng looked at Han Zhaoxia. Their conditions were not good when they got married. They had to borrow money from relatives just to make the down payment. How could they have spare money to buy jewelry?

It had been years since Li Feng bought a necklace for Han Zhaoxia. Now he was thinking about the gold bars in the safe, thinking about making a bracelet for his wife.

"Nothing."

Li Feng thought that he would just give it to her on her birthday, which would be a surprise.

"correct."

Li Feng thought of the jade paperweight. "I got a jade paperweight here. It looks quite interesting. I'll give it to you."

"Paperweight?"

Han Zhaoxia took it and found it quite heavy. "It's made of jade. Will it be expensive?"

"well enough."

Li Feng didn't quite understand why it looked so pretty. "What is this carving?" he asked.

"Parrot."

"A parrot, it really looks like one."

Han Chaoxia didn't take it seriously and put it aside.

"Boss Li, we're back."

Wow, Wu Tong’s voice is really powerful.

"what."

The last time Wu Tong came here, he happened to miss Han Chaoxia, so he had never met her before. Li Feng introduced them to each other.

"It's the boss lady."

This was the first time Han Zhaoxia was called "Boss Lady"; it was rather unusual, as everyone usually called her Teacher Han.

"Well, I'm here to stay with my grandparents and recuperate for a while."

"That's good. The air and water here are good."

Han Chaoxia really didn't expect that such a big family would come.

"It's quite good." Wu Tong took the tea, took a sip, and put it on the table.

"Are you okay? Is the tea too hot?"

Han Zhaoxia quickly stood up, and Wu Tong shook her head slightly. "No, Madam, you need to talk to Boss Li. This is too casual. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things are just lying around, and you're not afraid of losing them."

"Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stuff?"

What the hell? Han Chaoxia was a little confused.

"The Song Dynasty paperweight made of Hetian white jade, didn't the boss lady, Boss Li, tell you about it?"

Wu Tong wondered if he had said something he shouldn't have. "Well, Boss Li, we'll leave the oxcart at your door. We'll go back first."

"Okay, I'll bring dinner to you later."

"Thank you then."

"Why are you running?" Li Feng muttered as he returned to the office. Seeing Han Zhaoxia still playing with the jade paperweight, he smiled and said, "How is it? Not bad, right?"

"Yes, hundreds of thousands."

"Ah, you know?"

Li Feng was a little confused. That wasn't right. Who was talking nonsense?

“Really hundreds of thousands?”

Han Zhaoxia was a little incredulous. Li Feng nodded. "If it goes up for auction, it might go up a bit. The normal market price is around 600,000 to 800,000."

"so much?"

Han Zhaoxia found it incredible. "So you just gave it to me without telling me at all? What if it gets lost? You're really brave."

(End of this chapter)