Chapter 1273 New Destination, Cai Xiaoli Pays Back the Money
During the conversation, two months passed.

In June, the weather gradually becomes hotter.

The highest temperature in Yanjing at noon is about 34 or 35 degrees.

The temperature in the dumpling restaurant's kitchen soared to fifty.

Several female helpers couldn't stand the heat, so they moved the big pot for cooking dumplings to the backyard to work, just like in previous years.

As the chef, Su Mingzhe is responsible for cooking and can only work in the kitchen.

As the only male helper, Han Chunming could only stay in the kitchen.

After a busy afternoon, both of them looked as if they had just washed.

After half past one, the number of customers gradually decreased.

After packing two boxes of food, Su Mingzhe asked for leave from his manager Ma Dayong:

"Manager, everything is fine now, I'm going back first!"

"Master Su, thank you for your hard work..."

Ma Dayong, like a lackey, handed over a big front door with both hands and said with a smile:
"Chunming is here to watch over you. You can go back and catch up on some sleep. Just come back before five o'clock!"

When everyone in the dumpling restaurant saw Su Mingzhe riding away on his bicycle in a cool manner, they all looked at him with envy.

As the saying goes, good wine needs no bush.

As word spread among customers who dine there, Su Mingzhe's cooking skills have become a well-known master chef in the city.

Many factory leaders and big restaurants heard the news and rushed to the scene. After tasting the food cooked by Su Mingzhe, they offered high prices and were prepared to spend a huge sum of money to poach Su Mingzhe.

With so many choices, Su Mingzhe doesn't have to hang himself in the dumpling restaurant.

By the end of May, Su Mingzhe had already reached an agreement with his "new boss".

The new workplace was not a large restaurant that matched my professional background, but a machinery processing plant.

The reason is very simple. The leader of this processing plant promised that as long as Su Mingzhe went to work there, he would be allocated an apartment of more than 50 square meters.

In an era when houses could not be bought and sold, being able to live in a building was definitely the ceiling for the working class.

Of course, as the old saying goes, when you drink water, remember the person who dug the well.

Ma Dayong, the manager of this dumpling restaurant, is, after all, the "mentor" of the original owner.

You should not consider the monk's face but the Buddha's. Su Mingzhe cannot become successful, so he should just quit and leave, right?

Su Mingzhe now begins to train Han Chunming to be his successor in the dumpling restaurant.

After returning to his residence, Su Mingzhe first fetched a bucket of cold water and took a shower in the yard. Then he went back to the rental house and began to pack up the furniture and luggage.

At the latest by this weekend, he will start moving.

The Dragon Boat Festival wedding will be held in the new house.

dong dong dong-

"Who?"

When Su Mingzhe heard the noise, he quickly covered the things and then went to the door to open it.

"Cai Xiaoli!"

As soon as he opened the door, Su Mingzhe was immediately amazed by Cai Xiaoli's makeup today.

She was wearing a white waisted dress that covered her feet today, and her long, beautiful black hair was tied up with a hairband. Her long hair fluttered in the breeze, and a faint fragrance penetrated into the man's nostrils.

"Lao Su——"

Cai Xiaoli was naturally very proud to see that the man was amazed by her makeup and appearance. She felt that it was worth her several days of preparation for today's meeting.

I have to say, Cai Xiaoli really understands men.

The legendary 'long, straight black hair', how many men can resist it!

Seeing the man's eyes seeming to be secretly glancing at her, but dodging, Cai Xiaoli was both angry and amused:
"Lao Su, aren't you going to invite me in to sit down?"

"Please come in!"

Su Mingzhe used his spiritual sense to look around, and found that no one was paying attention to this side, so he stepped aside and let Cai Xiaoli enter the house.

The room is cramped.

There was no place to sit except for the table and chair in front of the desk. Su Mingzhe could only let Cai Xiaoli sit on the chair, then picked up the teapot and poured her a cup of cold tea:
"This is all we have at home, let's just drink it!"

Cai Xiaoli had no appetite for drinking herbal tea, but when the man handed her the cup, she just took it.

After taking a sip of herbal tea, Cai Xiaoli calmed down and took out a wad of change from her bag and handed it to the man:
"Lao Su, this is the thirteen dollars you lent me last time, please count it!"

After Su Mingzhe found a new job, he also went to Lao Han's house and delivered the betrothal gifts and other things.

The betrothal gift of two hundred yuan is much higher than that of other families.

After three turns and a ring, everything is ready. We just have to move to the new home and everything will be in place.

The Han family was also an honest family. Seeing that Su Mingzhe had fulfilled his promise and paid the betrothal gift, they immediately took Su Mingzhe to discuss the wedding and invitations.

There are only some distant relatives left in Su Mingzhe's family. For example, Su Meng is a relative who is five generations away from the ancestors. It doesn't matter whether to invite him or not, because they have no contact with each other for a long time anyway.

The old Han family, however, planned to hold a grand ceremony. After all, the Han family members all like to save face.

So in early June, Su Mingzhe and Han Chunyan started sending invitations everywhere.

Cai Xiaoli also received the invitation and then remembered to pay back the money.

Looking at the stack of change handed over by Cai Xiaoli, Su Mingzhe took it without hesitation and threw it into the money jar, smiling indifferently:

"What else can I buy with this little money?"

Cai Xiaoli saw that the man’s money jar was full of small change, but she didn’t say anything.

After paying back the money, Cai Xiaoli should have left.

After all, if a man and a woman are alone in a room together, people will easily gossip about them if they see them.

However, Cai Xiaoli came here today not only to repay the money, but also for another reason.

In the original plot, Cai Xiaoli fell in love with Han Chunming because Han Chunming lent her ten dollars and saved her father's life.

Now, Su Mingzhe lent Cai Xiaoli ten dollars to save her father's life, and Cai Xiaoli transferred her love to Su Mingzhe.

However, the Cai family's gene of despising the poor and loving the rich is at work.

Although Cai Xiaoli fell in love with Su Mingzhe out of gratitude, she had no intention of marrying him.

After all, Su Mingzhe's family was really poor. They didn't even have a house. They rented a house, which was an old and small back house!
Cai Xiaoli couldn't imagine what it would be like if she married Su Mingzhe and the two of them lived in such a cramped room.

So, she came here today not only to pay back the money, but also to say goodbye to her "first love".

With this strange thought in mind, Cai Xiaoli looked around the man's room.

In the already narrow room, there were more than a dozen large wooden boxes, stacked up as high as the roof.

In addition, there are many bottles of wine placed in the corner.

There are many books and newspapers on the desk.

He also had all the necessary things, such as pens, ink, paper, and inkstone, which was quite consistent with his nickname of "nerd" when he was an educated youth.

It's time for the truth to come out.

When Cai Xiaoli glanced at the books on the bookshelf on the desk, she saw a book called "Blood Romance" at a glance, and immediately pulled it out from the bookshelf in surprise:
"When will this Bloody Romance be published in physical form?"

Bloody Romance began serialization in the magazine in early April.

Up to now, five issues have been serialized, totaling 25 chapters, and about 250,000 to 260,000 words.

Cai Xiaoli flipped through the table of contents and saw directly that the whole book had a total of forty-eight chapters.

When Su Mingzhe saw Cai Xiaoli flipping through the physical book of "Blood Romance", he secretly exclaimed "Oh no!"

The "Blood Romance" in Cai Xiaoli's hand is a sample jointly produced by a magazine and a publishing house, and it has not yet become popular in society.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine first made a sample and gave it to Su Mingzhe for preliminary verification and checking.

Once the 48th chapter is serialized in the magazine, the publishing house will start printing the physical book.

Cai Xiaoli doesn't have a job yet. When she has nothing to do, she likes to borrow books from everywhere. She is quite fascinated by the recently popular serialized novel "Blood Romance".

She has read every one of the five issues of the magazine.

Now, she looked through the physical book again and saw the revision marks on it, and immediately realized that something was wrong:
"Old Su, the author of this book Bloody Romance, isn't it you?"

(End of this chapter)