With the intention of treasure hunting, Yue Feng opened the door with the key in his hand, stepped into the yard, and quickly walked around the old house.

The six rooms along the street were quite empty, with only a few rotten tables, chairs, benches, broken bed frames, etc. piled in the corners, covered with a thick layer of dust.

This house along the street, according to the two-courtyard format, is a guest room or waiter’s room.

When it was first built, it was probably a place for family servants, people working in family-related industries, etc. to live.

The probability of good things existing in such a place is low.

Yue Feng covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, walked in, took a look around, and then came out.

The house is spacious enough, but the internal layout is a bit unreasonable. If you want to open a restaurant, you need to tear down the partition walls and replan it.

Yue Feng also went into the side rooms and took a look around. Apart from a light bulb with exposed wires, the inside looked shabby.

Soon, Yue Feng came to the main house in the backyard in search of treasure and couldn’t wait to check it out.

The old man kept his word and left all the large pieces of furniture in the house to Yue Feng. Even the tables, chairs, benches and other furniture in the house were fully stocked.

Yue Feng looked down again, and then turned over the chair to look at the mortise and tenon joints on the back. In short, he tried every trick he could think of.

Through the texture of the wood grain and the details of various joints, it can be basically determined that these are old-fashioned furniture passed down from older generations, not the kind of new antique-style stuff.

Yue Feng couldn’t tell the specific wood it was made of, but when he lifted the armchair with his hand, he felt it was extremely heavy.

Now, Yue Feng felt relieved.

These old furniture are complete sets and nothing is missing.

And judging from the grain and wood texture, they should all be from the same batch, or even made of similar wood, so the degree of integrity is quite high.

After looking at the furniture in the hall, Yue Feng turned and went into the study next door.

Desks, paperweights, brushes and all kinds of study treasures are available.

On the bookshelf behind the desk, many compartments were empty. The important parts should have been taken away, but many others were left untouched.

Yue Feng casually pulled out a book and took a look at it. It was written in traditional Chinese characters in a vertical format, and the content was empty and incomprehensible.

These books must be quite old, and many of them are still thread-bound documents.

Yue Feng is not a cultured person, and these messy books are not very attractive to him.

After roughly flipping through it, Yue Feng put it back to its original place, then bent over and searched in the cabinets and drawers under the bookshelf.

There are a lot of miscellaneous items, but not many valuable things.

The only things that have a slight connection with value are a few Five Emperors’ Coins such as Kangxi Tong Bao and Qianlong Tong Bao.

After a few decades, these things, if in better condition, might be worth some small change, but to Yue Feng now, they are of little significance.

After checking the drawer, Yue Feng went around the bedroom again, but still found nothing.

The bedding in the bedroom was not taken away, and there was nothing valuable in the mezzanine or the cupboard.

The old mattress in the closet exudes a faint musty smell.

After searching around, no valuable treasures were found. The only thing that surprised Yue Feng was that there was an earthen heater near the base of the wall in the main room.

If you burn firewood in the stove in the next room, you won’t feel cold at all sleeping on the bed in this room.

I searched around patiently, but haven’t found anything valuable yet.

This was also expected. There had been so many years of unrest, and this house was so conspicuous, and who knows how many people had coveted it. It would be strange if there were any treasures left here.

After checking around, Yue Feng locked the door again, rode his bike to the second canteen.

Now that the house problem has been solved, we must notify Master Niu as soon as possible. If we want to open the business as soon as possible, we have to clean up and tidy up everything properly.

From the perspective of Yue Feng, a non-insider, it would take at least half a month to complete all the renovations and preparations.

Riding his bicycle to the back door of the second canteen, Yue Feng walked in and took a stroll around as if he was familiar with the route.

To his surprise, Master Niu was not in the lounge.

Yue Feng asked the employees who had dealt with him in the previous few deliveries and learned that Master Niu had not come to work for several days. As a low-level employee, he did not know the specific situation.

Hearing that he hadn’t come to work for several days, Yue Feng asked about the date.

After a simple calculation, I found that Master Niu is really capable.

The next day after I learned that Yue Feng had obtained the business license for an individual business owner, I submitted a report and did not continue to work.

If he is not at work, he must be at home. Yue Feng rode his bike to Master Niu’s home again.

Sure enough, Master Niu was at home.

At this moment, five people were sitting at a table in Niu Fusheng’s home.

Comrade Lao Niu was drinking at home with his young apprentice who had also been ostracized and lost his job.

“Brother Niu, hello, you guys are drinking at home!!” Yue Feng walked into the room and greeted them with a smile.

“Xiao Feng is here, come and sit down! Xiao Mao, get your brother Feng a glass and fill it with wine!
Let me tell you, your brother Feng will be a partner of our hotel in the future, and a legitimate major shareholder!
My father-in-law had asked many people for help but failed to get a self-employed business license. But your brother Feng found a way to get it! He is the first one in Fengcheng!!”

Judging from Master Niu’s expression and the tone of his voice, he was 100% drunk.

At this moment, Niu Fusheng’s face was flushed, no longer as negative and gloomy as in the past few days.

Xiao Mao stood up and got a glass for Yue Feng. While pouring the wine, he asked, “Brother Feng, when will our self-employed business license come out? My master has told us that once we get the license, we can start looking for a house and prepare to open the restaurant!!”

“Yeah, Brother Feng! The brothers have been holding back their anger lately.

Once our restaurant opens, it will be our own territory, and we won’t have to look after those bastards anymore!”

Another young man echoed.

Yue Feng grinned and took out the house purchase contract he had just signed in the morning from his arms.

“The business license information form has been submitted. It should be available within a week! Let me show you this first!! I just finished it this morning!”

“What is this?” Master Niu took the contract with a puzzled look on his face.

“Hey, look for yourself!”

Master Niu took the contract and read it word by word, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

“You bought the Zhang family’s old house near the Forestry Bureau dormitory?”

“Yeah! I was just wandering around the street looking at houses when I saw the old man from the Zhang family posting a notice for sale, so I bought it!

There are six rooms along the street, with side rooms and a main house at the back, as well as a very spacious yard!
We must have a place to open a restaurant. This house should be usable after a little renovation!”

“Fuck! You bought such a big old house to open a restaurant!!!”

Master Niu’s eyes widened, stunned by Yue Feng’s handwriting.

Originally in Master Niu’s plan, although Zhang Ganzi was “retired”, many of his original friends and relationships were still there.

At that time, find an idle public place, pay a symbolic rent, do some simple tidying up, and then you can open for business.

But unexpectedly, Yue Feng directly bought an old house in order to open a restaurant.

This old house has all the functional buildings you need, including a house, kitchen, warehouse, yard, etc.

Not only can the store be opened for business, but if apprentices or waiters want to live in the store, the rooms on both sides can be cleaned up and used as dormitories, which is definitely a one-step solution.

Yue Feng: “Just tell me if it’s enough!
I have the title deed and the land deed in my hands. If there is anything that is not suitable, we can modify it according to our needs, or we can get some more money and gather people to build it according to our needs!”

“That’s enough, that’s enough!

The Zhang family compound is a huge place!

The house formalities have been completed. Do you understand the handover of keys and other things? “

Yue Feng took out the key chain from his pocket and shook it: “The old man who was guarding the door has left, and the keys were given to me!”

When he saw the key, Master Niu stood up from his seat.

“That bastard is still drinking! Xiao Mao, ask your mistress for a rag. Let’s take the tools and go clean up and get to work!!”

“Okay, I’ll get it right away!”

Yue Feng looked at the master and his apprentice, scratching his head and saying helplessly, “Don’t worry, don’t worry. It won’t hurt to wait until now!

You all have eaten and drunk your fill, so I went to the second canteen and then came to your house. I haven’t had lunch yet!
Wait for me to eat first. Once I’m full, we can go together!”

“Oh, it’s all my fault for ignoring this!
Wife, we don’t want to drink anymore. Bring us some dry food. Eat up quickly because we have things to do in the afternoon!”

Soon, Master Niu’s wife brought out a big, still hot white steamed bun for Yue Feng.

Yue Feng didn’t bother to be polite with the people at the table. He just greeted them, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

After filling their stomachs in a short time, the other people were also ready.

A group of five or six people, each holding a rag, broom and other tools, set out from Master Niu’s house and headed straight for the Zhang family compound that Yue Feng had just purchased.

There is strength in numbers. The six men moved the chores and cleaned the dust.

After a busy period of work, the six houses along the street were transformed in no time.

Under the command of Yue Feng and Master Niu, all the rotten and broken tables, chairs, benches and other broken furniture were piled up in the open space in the middle of the yard, and when the space was empty, they were chopped into firewood with axes for burning.

Dust, useless debris, garbage, etc., all useless things should be thrown away.

It was not yet dark and the six houses along the street had been cleaned up.

At this point, Yue Feng had basically completed what he was supposed to do, and the rest was Master Niu’s turn.

Opening a restaurant is not an easy task, it requires a lot of professional arrangements and advance planning.

For example, what shape should the stove be, where is the stove located, how many burners should it have, how to plan it to make it more convenient to work after opening, etc.

They may seem like small things, but if they are not taken into consideration, problems may easily arise later.

At this time, Master Niu’s professional ability began to be demonstrated.

He walked around the room a few times.

I have a preliminary plan in my mind about how to plan the layout, where to place the kitchen, where to store the food, where to enter and exit, where to do business and other details.

When it was getting dark and time for dinner, Master Niu returned home with Yue Feng and a group of apprentices.

We still had dinner at home, but the focus was no longer on drinking, but on discussing issues such as subsequent renovation and construction.

The protagonist at the dinner table was Yue Feng, who had left the venue and obtained a license. (End of this chapter)