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019: School starts

The uncle drives as coolly as ever.

Li Jianghe sat in the passenger seat, and Tong Shuyao sat in the back seat.

This distance actually allowed the two people to continue chatting in the bar.

In 2001, we were not far away from the era when white clothes were flowing, a bunch of people were sitting on the lawn, playing guitar, and loudly discussing poetry and dreams.

The specialty of the times in recent years is the various literary and artistic youths.

In the midst of the heated conversation, the driver's voice interrupted at an inappropriate time, "You two, we're here."

Li Jianghe, who was sitting in the passenger seat, paid and the two of them got out of the car together.

"It's great to be young." Looking at Li Jianghe and Tong Shuyao getting out of the car, the uncle put his arm on the open window, took out a cigarette, and slowly blew out a smoke ring.

"By the way, I'll give you the car money." Tong Shuyao took out a delicate small wallet from her bag and counted out the money, "Do you live near here?"

"Ah, this", Li Jianghe scratched his head, it was really difficult to explain.

"If you don't want to say forget it," Tong Shuyao stretched out, showing off her good figure, "Don't forget to go back and watch "Rhinoceros in Love", I'm leaving."

"Oh, goodbye", Li Jianghe nodded.

"Goodbye", Tong Shuyao turned and left.

...

In the days that followed, Li Jianghe continued to decorate the coffee shop according to his own ideas.

A new long horizontal beam was nailed to the wall to serve as a table, and the previous iron chairs were replaced with Nordic-style wooden armchairs. The seat cushion and backrest were all burgundy red.

I didn’t buy a new bar counter, I just bought black marble tiles and put them on it.

The original floor of the store was covered with ceramic tiles, but Li Jianghe bought some stickers with complicated patterns and pasted them on the floor.

The coffee shop has a new look!

When Qiao Jianguo, the original owner, now the barista and waiter, and maybe sometimes the cleaner, returned to the cafe, he was almost unrecognizable.

Qiao Jianguo is a reliable middle-aged man, resolute and hard-working, but his luck is not good.

He remembered the date clearly on December 21, 2000. On this day, Qiao Jianguo's father-in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Qiao Jianguo's wife is an ordinary worker. He did open a cafe, but it can be seen from the previous decoration that he is not good at the specific marketing of cafes.

Opening a cafe was the idea of ​​his brother-in-law who went to Japan to study abroad.

In fact, he paid for his brother-in-law to study abroad.

His brother-in-law's idea is actually fine. The cafe is quite profitable, but he only makes suggestions but doesn't give a plan. Qiao Jianguo is not the type to run a cafe at all.

So his store has been open for one year, which means it makes neither profit nor loss.

This is already considered good luck.

Faced with the sudden serious illness of the old man, the young couple with little money had no choice but to sell their cafe to raise money to treat the old man's illness.

Qiao Jianguo's father-in-law is a distant relative of a frequent visitor to Li Jianghe's parents' breakfast stall. That's how Li Jun and Pang Shulan knew about Qiao Jianguo.

Li Jun and Pang Shulan, who bought the store, told Qiao Jianguo that his boss would be their son in the future, and Li Jianghe would decide on the decoration and marketing.

Qiao Jianguo is not optimistic about this. What does a child who has not graduated from college know about business?

But when Qiao Jianguo walked in today, he felt what knowledge is power and what a "decoration genius" means.

Li Jianghe and Qiao Jianguo exchanged a few pleasantries and then got straight to the point.

He starts school tomorrow and doesn't have time to be too pretentious.

There is no need to be pretentious, the busy life of the past month has allowed Li Jianghe to put himself in the position of the shop owner.

A few hours later, Li Jianghe finalized the contents of the coffee shop menu. Regular coffee, plus seven days a week, there will be a special coffee cocktail every day.

He left a resolute and resolute image to Qiao Jianguo.

"Are universities teaching so good now?" Qiao Jianguo suddenly felt full of hope for his brother-in-law who was studying in Japan.

Knowledge is power.

Of course, bartending requires Qiao Jianguo to learn now. Li Jianghe also discussed with Qiao Jianguo to see if he could learn to make desserts.

This was really difficult for the middle-aged man Qiao Jianguo. In the end, Li Jianghe decided to temporarily order some from a specialized dessert shop every day.

When the coffee shop makes money, hire someone who can make cakes. After all, if the business of such a shop is relatively good, it won't be a big deal if only Qiao Jianguo, a busy man with multiple jobs, can do it.

Other ideas such as the membership system are not yet easy for Li Jianghe to implement, so he can only put them on hold for the time being.

.......

School has started, and although he can live in a cafe, Li Jianghe is still planning to go back to the dormitory.

The atmosphere in their dormitory is good. Besides, if he suddenly moved out, it would be hard to explain.

It seems like I can no longer continue my work-study program in a restaurant.

Cleaning tables is actually a very trouble-free part-time job. In school, it is safe and you won’t be defaulted on, and you can also eat for free.

Li Jianghe now has a surplus of food, and it would not be in line with his consistent values ​​to take a "fat job" in the part-time job of a poor student.

The only thing that makes Li Jianghe regretful is that he no longer has the chance to interact with Ruan Xiang.

Li Jianghe had a good chat with Tong Shuyao, but he was not as moved by Tong Shuyao as he was when he got along with Ruan Xiang.

Li Jianghe and Ruan Xiang are similar. They are both "ugly ducklings" in the quagmire for the time being. They have not turned into swans yet, but Tong Shuyao was already a proud crane in college, and there is still a gap between him and the ugly duckling.

It's a species.

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This time, Li Jianghe was the first one in the dormitory to arrive at school. He took out a broom to clean up the dust that had accumulated all winter on the ground, and mopped the floor along the way.

Taking advantage of the nice weather, he dried his quilt in the sun again.

After all this was done, the others still didn't come back. He dug out the basketball from the balcony that Guo Ce had left behind but didn't take it home, found a pump, pumped up the basketball, and went out to exercise.

After all, he was in the sports department of the school and still had two sports that he could excel in.

One for swimming and one for basketball.

He mainly plays point guard and shoots pretty well. Because he is always tallest in the class, he often plays small forward and center.

Li Jianghe's jumping was pretty good, but unfortunately he couldn't dunk, so he was still a little behind.

Although this thing is only a small difference, many times, even in a lifetime, you will not be able to jump that high.

In dormitory 305, the real basketball master is Guo Ce, a second-level basketball player. He joined the school team not long after entering the school. He is the leading basketball player in this class of the School of Economics and Management.

There were already several people on the basketball court, playing basketball with each other. Li Jianghe went to join six people in a 3V3. It was not until noon that the sweating and panting people went to eat.

After finishing his meal, Li Jianghe came out of the cafeteria and met Guo Ce, who was pulling his suitcase.

"Okay, you're being unreasonable, you're going to practice without telling me?" Guo Ce smiled and handed a bag in his hand to Li Jianghe.
Chapter completed!
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