Chapter 316: An oddball person's oddball suggestion

Liu Haizhong sat down, coughed, cleared his throat, and said to Shazhu:

"This, this Huaihua woke me up, ah."

"As an elder of the courtyard, when juniors encounter matters, I must certainly manage them."

"This is the Second Elder's responsibility, ah."

"Well, I also know the detailed situation."

"Go ahead and speak."

"What do you want to continue doing next?"

Shazhu frowned and said:

"I haven't thought about how to continue."

"I run my restaurant; what else can I do?"

Liu Haizhong: "Who's stopping you from opening your restaurant?"

Shazhu: "Qin Huairu, you still don't know this?"

"What right does she have to stop me from opening my restaurant?"

"She's not even my wife, yet I still owe them money every month."

"If that's the case, from now on I won't give them any."

"I, I'm saving it to marry a wife."

Liu Haizhong stared, then asked: "What, what did you say?"

"Qin Huairu won't let you open your restaurant? You still give her money every month?"

Shazhu: "Exactly, that's right. If you don't believe me, ask her."

Liu Haizhong thought to himself: "Qin Huairu is meddling too much, isn't she?"

"Taking Shazhu's money, yet not wanting him to go to work."

"Forget it, forget it; I've already promised Huaihua."

After thinking, Liu Haizhong said: "No, that, this is a new situation, right?"

"This, this I'm not entirely clear about."

Shazhu: "Now I've told you, you understand, right?"

"So there's no need for us to keep talking, right?"

Shazhu still felt quite pleased inside.

This Liu Haizhong seems to be on his side.

Liu Haizhong thought again and said: "However, this, what Qin Huairu is doing is somewhat wrong, ah."

"You say this restaurant involves such a large investment."

"Wouldn't that money just be wasted?"

"For such a big restaurant, is it easy to earn that money back?"

Shazhu exclaimed excitedly: "Oh dear, Second Elder, that's well said!"

Having said that, Shazhu poured water for Liu Haizhong while continuing to say:

"I've discovered that we two are kindred spirits, I say."

"Come on, please drink water, drink water."

Shazhu held the cup with both hands and handed it to Liu Haizhong.

Liu Haizhong took it, took a sip, and said:

"This Qin Huairu, Yi Zhonghai and them, ah."

"They've never done business, so they don't understand the reasoning behind it."

Shazhu nodded and said: "Yeah."

Liu Haizhong asked: "Wasn't it your Eldest Uncle who just persuaded you to come?"

"Was he urging you to give up?"

Shazhu shook his head and said: "That's not persuasion, that's suppression."

"If I say anything else, that would mean not acknowledging me."

After saying that, Shazhu thought to himself:

"If they don't acknowledge me, fine; if it weren't for Lin Shengli's sake, I wouldn't bother with you."

Liu Haizhong: "He, he's just uncultured."

Hearing that, Shazhu couldn't help but laugh.

"It sounds like you, Liu Haizhong, are cultured."

However, although he thought that in his heart, he still spoke up:

"You really hit the nail on the head."

"He's never gone to sea."

"How could he know the reasoning here, right?"

Shazhu happily said: "Exactly, exactly, exactly."

Liu Haizhong: "So, so you, you need to listen to me on this, ah."

Shazhu: "Yes, I'll listen to you."

Liu Haizhong: "This Lao Yi, he, he doesn't understand romantic feelings, ah."

"That's because he's the last of his line."

Shazhu: "Second Elder, you shouldn't say that either."

"Now that we have Lin Shengli, this life is more thriving than anyone's."

Liu Haizhong: "Well, well, well, that's also the case."

"He's not his son, right?"

Shazhu: "Yes, yes, yes. If you put it that way, the two of us grandpas are basically peeing into the same pot."

Liu Haizhong: "No, I'm old now."

"So I discovered an important truth here."

"That children are the most important."

"Isn't that so? Ah?"

Shazhu: "Yes, yes, yes. I'm also still unmarried; otherwise I would also think children are the most important."

"But Xiao Dang and Huaihua are fine; I've always treated them as my own daughters."

"Otherwise I couldn't let Qin Huairu keep drawing my salary."

Liu Haizhong: "You, you let me finish."

"You, look at my kids now, surrounded on all sides, right? Ah?"

"The day before yesterday, my Eldest Son came back with his wife and children."

"Why?"

Shazhu: "Why?"

Liu Haizhong: "I've changed!"

"I'm rich now."

Shazhu: "That's right."

Liu Haizhong: "So then, your restaurant, it can't be abandoned."

Shazhu: "Exactly."

"Besides, that is also the career I've pursued all my life."

"Would you agree?"

Liu Haizhong waved his hand and said: "You, you spout those grandiose words—useless, lacking vigor, ah."

Shazhu's face darkened instantly upon hearing that.

It seems he's not even peeing into the same pot as Liu Haizhong.

Liu Haizhong, of course unaware of Shazhu's mood, continued on his own:

"So on this matter, you have to listen to me."

"Right?"

Shazhu nodded and said:

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm listening, you go ahead."

Liu Haizhong: "Does Teacher Ran like you?"

Shazhu shook his head and said: "No, no one has ever said they like me."

Liu Haizhong: "That's a feeling in the heart, they just haven't said it yet."

"I ask you, that son of Teacher Ran, is he your son?"

Shazhu furrowed his brow and said: "What was said? How does he become my son?"

"No, you wouldn't think that I have a son with Teacher Ran, would you?"

"If that were true, I'm telling you, today I won't be in the Siheyuan."

"I'm going to look for my son."

Liu Haizhong: "Really not your son?"

Shazhu: "I also wish he were my son."

Liu Haizhong thought for a moment and said: "Well, well, well, Teacher Ran wants to find a father for her son."

Shazhu: "What are you saying? No one has..."

Liu Haizhong: "They never said it, but they definitely think that in their heart."

"You, now just let Teacher Ran leave the restaurant to you, and she herself returns to Gangdao."

"Then the restaurant becomes yours."

Shazhu exclaimed: "What are you saying?"

"The more you say, the more absurd it gets."

"That's too bizarre!"

"On what grounds do they give me a restaurant for free?"

Liu Haizhong: "Let me finish first."

"This is the first option."

"If that doesn't work, then there's a second option."

"That is to have Qin Huairu go to the restaurant to be the Manager."

"Then go get the marriage certificate with Qin Huairu, so that Teacher Ran knows you two are married, and stays away from you."

"That way, Qin Huairu will be relieved, right?"

"She can supervise you at any time."

Shazhu: "No, this also doesn't work."

"Qin Huairu knows nothing; how can she be a good Manager?"