Trafford’s Trading Club

Cold house.

It is truly a Chinese-style four-house building named Cold House. It's just that a high wall was erected outside this four-house, and it was enclosed inside.

Otherwise, if this cold house is completely exposed, it would seem to be out of touch with the architectural style of this ancient city… this beautiful Gulf Ancient City, Cartagena.

In the cold house, it is not just the outside completely following the practice of the Old King's City courtyard, even the setting inside is ancient.

At this point, a red sports car parked in front of a tall wall door outside the cold house and slowly drove into the cold house, waiting for the door to open.

A girl of about twenty-two or three years of age walked out of a sports car with a long body, black shorts and pink purple hair.

The name of the front door of the cold house is‘ Dragon Hall ’. At this time, he slowly walked out of the Dragon Hall of a middle-aged man of forty and fifty years of age, reaching out with two women, in their thirties, wearing a maid's uniform.

“Miss Sakura, welcome back. ”

“Uncle Wu, where's Grandpa?” The girl named Miss Sakura handed the car keys to one of the maids behind Uncle Five and walked straight into the Dragon Hall.

“The master is in the kitchen now.” Uncle Five replied.

Miss Sakura suddenly stopped, stunned: “He didn't just come out of the village, why didn't he take a break and run to the kitchen at the cold house? ”

Uncle Five laughed: “Yes, sir, when he was in the village, he brewed the finest dry bao. He brought it all the way out, and now he needs to prepare the other ingredients for stewing. He's going to make a pot of Buddha to jump on the wall, please. ”

“A treat?” Miss Sakura is stunned, "who's so big? Grandpa hasn't cooked himself for a long time, and this time he's deliberately cooking super troublesome dishes like Buddha Jumping Wall? The Fire King or the President? ”

“Heard it was a young man.” Uncle Wu also showed a puzzling expression, "as if the master had brought it back himself, he had just got off the plane, and it was estimated that he was an hour away from the cold house. ”

“Uncle's back?” Miss Sakura winks, "he doesn't go to Brazil, is the job done? ”

“It should be fine.” Uncle Wu smiled. “What else can I do for you if you do it yourself? Miss Sakura, can I get you some hot water? ”

Miss Sakura shook her head and put her hand behind her waist. She drew a large, slap-sized pistol and handed it over to Uncle Wu. “I don't need it now. I went to check on Grandpa in the kitchen. I haven't seen him in months. ”

When Miss Sakura arrived in the kitchen, she found several servants standing outside the kitchen. She came to the door and wondered, “What are you all doing standing here? ”

A servant hurried, “Miss Sakura, the master told us not to go in. He left only Uncle Four in there and said to try to do it personally. ”

Fourth uncle is the chef of the cold house, and fifth uncle is a brother-in-law, has served the Song family for decades. At this point, Miss Sakura was even more surprised.

She had never seen her grandfather take a Guest so seriously, not just making the most troublesome dishes, but just leaving a seventh uncle to help.

Miss Sakura frowned and broke into the kitchen.

“Ah four, is the sea cucumber ready? ”

“Ready, sir. ”

“Well, put it on me, I'll cut it later. ”

In front of the table, Song Tianyu, with his white hair, was tied to an apron and was slicing dry shoots across his body. He looked seriously focused and didn't seem to find anyone quietly walking in.

Miss Sakura made a silent gesture toward Uncle Si, allowing him to take the prepared sea cucumber from his hand and walk behind Song Tianyu.

Song Tianyou saw a pair of white hands quietly put the vessel down, then shrunk back, and then continued to cut the drying shoots on the anvil board.

Miss Sakura blinked... the grandfather was totally going to put PLAY on herself... obviously noticed, okay?

She quietly reached out and touched the quail egg, which had already been handled, next to Song Tianyu. But it hadn't happened yet, so Song Tianyu waved quickly, knocking her back with a kitchen knife on the back of Ms. Cherry's hand.

“Grandpa! You're trying to chop me up!” Miss Sakura eats painfully.

“Who told you to eat?” Song Tianyou dressed up and knocked gently on Miss Cherry's forehead: “When did the Grinch come back? ”

“Just now.” Miss Cherry still brings a quail egg quickly into the entrance. "That doesn't mean it's almost New Year's Eve, so I was busy checking out the bill, then collecting some external debt. When I heard you were here, I rushed back. ”

“How's it going?” Song Tianyu dropped the knife and started wiping his hands while walking to the stove beside him.

This creates the type of stove that was common in the countryside in the old days. It burns wood branches and has enough firepower. The large pot is filled with steam cage, steam erupts and the aroma is excellent.

“Don't worry, Grandpa, everyone's doing a good job this year, no credit.” Miss Sakura laughed, “There are several bosses, even paying off last year's accounts. They also said they appreciated you and when they'd see you or something. ”

“I don't need to see them and tell them not to give me anything.” Song Tianyu caught fire: “Everyone is the grandson of Yan Huangzi. They all live in other foreign towns. It's not easy. If you can help, help them, make a fortune. ”

“Well... but if everyone does, isn't it becoming dependent?” Miss Sakura shook her head.

“Our ancestors have a saying, Grace does not expect anything.” Song Tianyu stood up, "Besides, if people don't help each other in other's towns, no one will help us anymore. ”

“Well... I get it, but I can't do it right now.” Miss Cherry shrugged her shoulders.

Song Tianyu laughed. “What can you do? ”

Miss Sakura turned her eyes and suddenly held Song Tianyu's arm. "Of course you can eat your grandfather's Buddha jump wall! ”

Song Tianyu patted Miss Sakura's forehead. "This Buddha jumping wall is not for you, you've already eaten it. ”

Miss Sakura nooked, “Is that the one you ate when you were ten? How many years ago... Grandpa! ”

“The elders' Buddha jumped the wall, the Song family, eating once in their lives is enough.” Song Tianyu suddenly said softly, "When your uncle was 10 years old, I made him a meal myself. When you were 10 years old, I made you a meal myself. Now... it's his turn. ”

“He?”

“You'll find out when we meet.” Song Tianyu smiled: “Okay, don't stand there. Now that you're here, help me, go and pick those dishes for me. ”

“Ah? No... I'm going to take a shower ~”

……

……

“Nephew? ”

The car slowly drove past the streets that retained a lot of ancient architecture, and while Lo Qiu measured it quite interesting, Song Hao ran was illustrating something.

The car should have been specially bulletproof, and the front and rear seats were separated, and the back seats conversation would not be audible to the front seaters, and the privacy was pretty good.

“is my sister's orphan.” Song Hao suddenly sighed: “My father married my mother when he was middle-aged and gave birth to me. Until then, there was a wife. But my sister and brother-in-law died 15 years ago in an accident. Left behind Song Cherry, who was only eight years old. Oh... by the way, my brother-in-law is burdensome. So Song Sakura followed our last name. ”

“Want to meet?” Lochu nodded.

“Of course.” Song Hao Lan took it for granted: “Our young family, now counting you, will be three, sooner or later will have to meet. Besides, after Song Cherry graduated, he started to take care of our business in Cartagena, and did a good job, which was sometimes not steady enough. You're almost the same age, same age. Get close. ”

Boss Lo won't let it go.

“Chinatown, too? ”

When the sedan crossed a street, Lochu suddenly asked.

“Well, it was built with Dad's help.” Song Hao ran laughed, “Dad is also the honorary president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce here. He said," I couldn't see our people doing business outside, and foreigners bullied me, so I helped build this street. "It's not Chinatown, it's Chinatown. ”

“Can I get out?” Lochu suddenly said.

“That's fine.” Song Hao Run shrugged his shoulders and didn't ask why, just let Aoni park the car at the entrance of ‘Chinatown', “you guys wait here, I'll just go in with Rochu. ”

“OK!” Ornie nodded and walked them into ‘Chinatown'.

At this point, LLUVIA was frowning straight, and Ornie looked curious and said, "What is it? ”

Lluvia said: "Do you feel this street... it seems a little chilly? ”

Ornie looked up and said, "Speaking of which, I remember there seems to be a shop selling Chinese snacks, it tastes good... it doesn't seem to be opening today? ”

Lluvia looked in the past and said that the store door was closed and some garbage had accumulated in front of the door... it seemed like it had not been open for a while to do business.

……

“There are still a lot of people here. ”

It's a relatively large Chinese place, and of course, there may be some Oriental faces, but it comes from several other Asian countries.

But for Rocchu, there is a sense of being back home - at least many of the signs you see are in Chinese.

“It's Saturday, and there's still a lot of people.” Song Haoran looked around, "I haven't been to this street in a long time, and I feel like there's no one else before. ”

“Why is it so hard to do business in real life right now?” Rochu responded casually.

“What, you want to buy something or just take a walk around?” Song Hao suddenly asked.

Lo Qiu looked at Song Hao Run, “I intend to buy some fruit. ”

“Buy… fruit? ”

Rochu nodded, “Is that weird? If you go to visit elders, should you buy something? Does Master Song not like fruit? ”

“Ha-ha-ha!” Song Hao suddenly laughed, "Buy fruit... buy fruit. Not strange, not strange! Good fruit, Pop. He loves to eat, especially persimmons! Come on, I remember a fruit shop up ahead, selling the best fruit in the whole street! I'll take you! ”

Under Song Haoran's lead, the two soon arrived in front of a fruit stall in the middle of the street. A young man in his twenties is playing with his phone in front of his mouth.

“Is the boss here?” Song Haoran greeted him in front of his mouth. The young man seemed to be unreasonable. Song Haoran didn't mind. He shouted again: “Is Mr. Yoo here? ”

“Who are you?” The young man reacted, looking up, "Our boss is not here. What can you do for him? ”

“Nothing, old friend, just talking to him.” Song Hao Run shrugged his shoulders, "since he's not here, let's just buy something... do you have persimmons for sale here? ”

“No, some of them are over here. See for yourself.” The young man looked down at the phone and looked distracted.

Song Hao ran glanced at the store, then looked at Lochu, then picked up an apple, "but what I wanted to buy was persimmons. ”

“Then there's no other way. Persimmons are not easy to store and we haven't bought them in a long time.” The young man pointed the way forward: “There's a new big supermarket ahead, and you can buy it anywhere you want. But if you don't want to go over there, you can also look at what you call yourself, all at half the price. ”

“Half price? So good?” Song Hao ran over.

“Loss of money, this place is closing, so clear the field.” The young man was helpless.

Song Hao nodded and said: "Finished? Why, I remember the owner of the swimming fruit opening for more than 10 years, the business has been good... is he making money and intending to enjoy Qingfu? ”

“Qingfu? For the rest of your life?” The young man shook his head: “He, he can't even pay me this month's wages, and now he's helping me wash dishes in the restaurant in front of him! ”

“This is not right. What the hell happened?” Song Hao ran wondered: “Is the business of the swimming boss so bad? Besides, I think the shop next to last year belonged to the owner of the tour, right? Why is it a garment store now? ”

The young man sighed: "Last year, you didn't know. Starting in the first half of this year, the rent on this street has increased several times! Then a new big supermarket with everything inside, cheaper than ours, robbed the Guests of everything. The owner couldn't afford to pay the rent, so he had to shrink the store, but he insisted on it for most of the year. The worse the business went, the worse the cost is now. ”

“It's impossible.” Song Hao Run frowned: “I remember that the Chamber of Commerce of China Street has regulations, the rent here will only increase once every five years, and it will still rise to the minimum standard, not more than 5% each time. ”

“It's already changed!” As the young man spoke, he looked around and lowered his voice: “The Chamber of Commerce changed the subject, everything changed. I'm telling you, the owner behind the new supermarket, or the person behind this story, is behind it, to force us away! ”

“Drive you away? What's the point? ”

“Don't you get it?” Young people shrugged: “I hear you're planning a new project here in cooperation with the government. So they want to drive us away. If we don't go, we'll raise the rent and open a supermarket to rob our business. If we can't hold on, we'll have to obey God's orders. Over the past few months, a lot of them have been closed. In two days, we'll be closed here too. ”

Song Hao nodded, “Well... the stuff here is good, I'll come back later. ”

Song Hao ran patted Lo Qiu's shoulder and walked away from the fruit trail.

Luo Qiu did not see the look of discomfort or anything from Song Haoran's face. He just smiled and gave a sense of danger. He suddenly looked at Rocciu and said, "Guess where I want to go now? ”

“Chamber of Commerce.” Lochu thought about it.

Song Hao ran laughing: “Why not go to that supermarket and take a look? ”

“Shouldn't the Chamber of Commerce be closer to the answer?” Rochu asked back.

Song Haoran nodded after looking at the time: “There's still time. Let's go. ”