When Feng Yifan, Zhuang Daozhong, Shi Jiahui, Su Liancheng, Mei Ru and Catherine returned to the ancient street together, they had just finished lunch and were at Su Ji, next to the Lin family shop.
The renovation of Su Ji has not been completely completed, but it is basically done.
After further discussion, the kitchen was changed to a semi-open style.
The part inside is used for stir-frying dishes so that the fumes will not affect the diners' meals.
As for the outside part, there is a counter similar to that of an ancient wine shop, which lies between the restaurant and the kitchen.
The counter is much wider than a normal counter, and there is a stove inside for cooking.
Outside the counter, there is a row of places where people can sit.
This row allows diners who come specifically for noodles to sit in front of the counter and watch the chef cook firsthand, and then they can be the first to taste the various kinds of Yi Fu noodles that Su Ji is proud of.
The layout of the restaurant also matches the quaint counter, giving it an antique feel.
The first floor is not planned to be equipped with large tables. Instead, it is planned to be equipped with wooden square tables, which, combined with antique decorations, will give diners a feeling of returning to an ancient tavern, and also give them the taste of eating at home.
According to the previous design, four private rooms were separated upstairs, each decorated according to the four seasons.
In spring, flowers bloom in abundance; in summer, there are lotus ponds and bamboo forests; in autumn, there are red maples and golden wheat; in winter, there is the fragrance of plum blossoms in the snow-covered mountains.
The four rooms upstairs can actually be connected to each other. If a family comes to hold a banquet, they can connect the rooms upstairs to accommodate many people at once.
Everyone who visited Su Ji’s decoration felt that every design was great.
Lin Yanmei said: "Before I came here, I really didn't expect that Su Ji is now a different world inside. The decorations are really amazing."
Wang Cuifeng smiled and said, "These are all designed by Ruoxi."
Everyone immediately looked at Su Ruoxi. Even Catherine, Hans and Tom, three foreigners, were surprised that all the decoration of Su’s was designed by Su Ruoxi.
Facing everyone's gaze, Su Ruoxi felt a little embarrassed: "I just designed a draft. Some other designs here were modified by the decoration company later. I didn't expect that they could present everything that my father, Yifan and I had imagined so well."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "This is all thanks to the company that Grandma Feifei found for us."
Some people don’t quite understand who the “Grandma Feifei” that Feng Yifan mentioned is
Su Jinrong explained to everyone: "Fei Fei, her name is Chen Yaofei, she is Ruoruo's good friend in kindergarten. Her grandparents are amazing, both are great people. Her parents are also amazing, they are both abroad."
Han Wenwen couldn't help but say, "We've video chatted with Feifei, she's so pretty."
Yue Qihao also said: "Yes, sister Feifei is very beautiful."
After hearing what his sister and brother said, Wang Chenchen said to his mother, "Mom, I have never met Feifei. Can you let me meet her?"
Yue Qihao said to his brother, "No, sister Feifei is still abroad and hasn't come back yet."
Wang Chenchen suddenly felt very disappointed.
Han Wenwen smiled and said, "It's okay. We can let Ruoruo video chat with Feifei and the others tonight. That way you can see Feifei and Xixi."
Lin Yanmei first thanked Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao, and then comforted her son.
Children are always like this, they don’t want to fall behind other children.
And this afternoon, after meeting Feng Ruoruo, Wang Chenchen found such a lively sister very interesting and liked playing with Feng Ruoruo.
However, sister Feng Ruoruo is accompanied by two older children, Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao.
Most of the time, Wang Chenchen could only play behind the three children.
If the three children were alone together, Wang Chenchen would easily be ignored by Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao. After all, Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao would be more familiar with each other and relatively unfamiliar with Wang Chenchen.
But as long as Feng Ruoruo is around, she will always take care of every child.
Sometimes, Wang Chenchen was ignored by Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao, and Feng Ruoruo would take the initiative to pull Wang Chenchen to play together.
But Feng Ruoruo is taking a nap now, so Wang Chenchen can’t play with her sister and brother.
Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao didn't care. The two children still huddled together, whispering about things they found interesting.
Ning Guang was also somewhat isolated, and he could only follow Ning Cheng.
Everyone visited the progress of Su Ji's renovation. Su Ruoxi pushed her father and had a conversation with the team leader in charge of the renovation.
"Thank you so much, I didn't expect you to be so efficient."
When the captain heard Su Ruoxi's words, he smiled and said, "You're welcome. Our company has done a lot of projects like the one you're visiting. In the commercial center of Huaicheng, several companies wanted to build restaurants with classical decorations like this, and they all asked our company to be responsible for it."
Su Jinrong nodded and said, "That's why we found you because we know you have the ability."
The captain continued, "Old man, although the location of your restaurant is not good, the atmosphere of the ancient street outside is great. We also made some modifications based on your design plan to make it what it is now."
Su Ruoxi asked: "Then, can we reopen in September?"
The captain roughly estimated the progress and nodded: "September is no problem. The materials we use for you are all environmentally friendly materials, so it will not affect your use. It will be completed by the end of August. There will be no problem opening in September."
Su Ruoxi said happily: "Thank you so much."
Feng Yifan also came over and said, "By the way, have you installed all the stoves I mentioned before?"
The captain replied: "It's all installed, you can go down and take a look now."
Then a group of people followed the captain to the kitchen downstairs and took a look at the several stoves there.
The captain introduced: "Here are the row stoves you need, and this is the three-hole stove you want. We have also re-laid the drainage facilities below for you to ensure that there will be no problems. Oh, by the way, if you want to install an oven or something like that, we have also reserved space for it."
Feng Yifan looked around and nodded immediately, very satisfied with the overall decoration.
Su Jinrong raised a few questions: "What about ventilation? Especially the counter over there, if you cook inside, will there be any problems with ventilation?"
The renovation team leader said, "Don't worry, old man. According to your requirements, we have also re-arranged the ventilation pipes for you. The air will be directly drawn into the sewer, and the fumes will not be discharged upwards and affect the environment outside your ancient street."
As he spoke, the decoration team leader led everyone to the front counter.
As you can see, there are exhaust devices in front of the stove inside the counter, which can directly draw out the fumes generated during cooking at the counter, and then pass through a complete set of internal ventilation facilities, all of which are directly discharged into the sewer without causing any residual fumes.
I have to say that the decoration company that Grandma Feifei found for Feng Yifan and his friends really took everything into consideration.
Such a complete set of design ensures the overall cleanliness of the restaurant, and there will be no residual smoke and fumes in the restaurant due to the semi-open kitchen. It is really perfect.
Su Ruoxi was also a little surprised when she saw these: "I didn't expect that it has become so advanced now?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said to his wife, "Of course, there are many high-end restaurants abroad that are even open-style, allowing every diner to see the chef cooking on the spot, and even then, it will not affect the dining environment at all."
Catherine said at this time: "The restaurant where the chef led us to work before was that kind of restaurant."
Su Ruoxi nodded, and then went on to get acquainted with Catherine, Hans and Tom.
"Hello, it's really troublesome for you to come all the way here."
Hans said in a foreign language: "You're welcome. We are willing to follow the chef and we also hope to work in the chef's restaurant, but the chef won't let us come."
After hearing what Hans said, Feng Yifan was also a little amused.
Su Ruoxi did understand some foreign languages, but Hans obviously didn't speak English, so she could only look at her husband.
Feng Yifan had no choice but to translate it.
Su Ruoxi asked curiously: "Why don't you let them come to work in the restaurant?"
Feng Yifan smiled and asked, "Don't you think it's inappropriate for Su Ji to let three foreigners work here? And I've already told them to open a Western restaurant."
Su Ruoxi was still very curious and asked, "Open a western restaurant? On the ancient street?"
Feng Yifan nodded: "Yes, didn't Ma Xiaolong rent a shop? Let the three of them run it."
Ma Xiaolong heard this and came over quickly: "Chef, I, I still want to follow you. I don't look like a foreigner like those three. I can do it, and I have been studying Chinese cuisine since I came back."
Seeing Ma Xiaolong's nervous look, Feng Yifan immediately smiled and said, "I didn't ask you to go to their place. Didn't you already say that you would stay at Su Ji? I mean, you should hand over the shop you rented to them and let them open a small restaurant here."
Hearing this, Ma Xiaolong immediately realized and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he walked over and communicated with Catherine, Hans and Tom.
It was probably just giving them the shop and asking them to contact someone to come and renovate it later. Ma Xiaolong thought it would be better for them to do it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be more troublesome for them to renovate it after the ancient street was repaired.
Hans punched Ma Xiaolong first, and complained unceremoniously: "John, you actually betrayed us. You followed the chef alone and let us run your restaurant. You are such a jerk. Hans tells you that if you don't do a good job in the future, Hans will replace you at any time."
When Su Ruoxi saw Hans attacking Ma Xiaolong, she looked at her husband with some concern and asked him whether he wanted to stop it.
Feng Yifan translated Hans' words.
"Don't worry. They often belittled each other like this before, and they never really fought. If they really dared to fight, I would definitely chase them away."
On the other side, Catherine translated Feng Yifan's words to Hans.
Hans immediately hugged Ma Xiaolong and said, "No, we didn't fight."
And in his panic, Hans actually spoke Chinese.
When everyone heard Hans speak Chinese and saw how nervous he looked, they all couldn't help but burst out laughing.
After seeing the progress of Su Ji’s renovation, everyone returned to Lin’s shop together.
Feng Yifan and his wife went to the back room to see if their daughter had gotten up.
As for the others, they sat in the Lin family shop to take a short rest.
Feng Ruoruo was lying on the bed. As if she could sense something, not long after her parents sat down beside the bed, the little girl slowly woke up, opened her eyes and saw that her parents were there.
"Hehehe, Dad, Mom, why are you both here?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said to his daughter, "Of course we are here. Mom and Dad want to accompany Ruoruo. Did Ruoruo sleep well?"
Feng Ruoruo turned over from the bed and threw herself into her parents' arms.
"Ruoruo, you've slept well. Mom and Dad, where are we going to play this afternoon? Oh, no, no, are we going to watch Uncle Xiaolin and Uncle Xiaoma compete?"
Feng Yifan hugged his daughter and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Uncle Xiaolin and Uncle Xiaoma won't be competing until tonight. Once Ruoruo is up, we can go out and play together. We can take Sister Wenwen, Brother Haohao, and Brother Chenchen with us and take them to our place to have a good time."
When Feng Ruoruo heard that she was going to take her sister and brother to play together, she cheered happily: "Okay, okay, Dad, let's take sister Wenwen and brother Haohao to the park. They have never been to our park."
After hearing what his daughter said, Feng Yifan thought about it and realized that he had never taken his daughter to the park in such a long time since he came back.
Feng Yifan immediately agreed: "Okay, let's go to the park."
Feng Ruoruo cheered again, but then the little girl asked, "Dad, which park should we go to first?"
Feng Yifan was a little surprised: "Why? Are there more parks?"
Su Ruoxi smiled and said, "Look, you've been back for so long, and you haven't mentioned taking your daughter to the park. Don't you know that there are so many parks in Huaicheng now?"
Feng Yifan looked at his wife, a little surprised: "Are there really so many parks?"
Feng Ruoruo immediately said, "Yes, there are many parks, many animal parks, many flower and grass parks, and the kind of parks where you can ride horses and boats..."
The little girl also knew everything about it. After talking for a while, she suddenly said, "Yes, Dad, let's go to that park. There is a very tall windmill in that park. We can ride on it and see very far away. Mom and Dad, let's go there."
After listening to what his daughter said, Feng Yifan couldn't help feeling guilty.
I was really too careless. There are so many parks, but my family has never taken my daughter to any of them.
Thinking of this, Feng Yifan agreed: "Okay, let's all go. In the next few days, we will go to all the parks that Ruoruo mentioned and let Ruoruo have a good time."