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275 Preparing for a Treat

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    Although he returned to the urban area, everything still hasn't returned to normal.  Maybe, because of my father's departure, for me, life will never be able to get back on track.  In addition to picking up and dropping off the children and cooking, we also have to deal with matters of entertaining guests.  You may be wondering, haven't all the relatives and friends who came to the funeral have already hosted a banquet, so why bother to arrange a treat?  In fact, this time Zhang Luo entertained not relatives and friends but colleagues.  After all, the leaders and colleagues of my wife, sister, and brother-in-law left immediately after they came to pay their respects.  From a rational point of view, when someone came to pay homage to his father and paid a gift, we naturally had to have a banquet to show our gratitude.  "Courtesy reciprocity" has always been a relatively important part of Chinese culture.

    The first thing to consider for this banquet is the choice of address.  Because my wife and I don't work in the same place.  My wife's unit is in an urban area, while mine is in a small town.  Although the number of people in our unit is relatively larger, after all, the restaurants in the town are not as good as those in the urban area.  Furthermore, even if it is a treat in the urban area, it may not be inconvenient for the leaders and colleagues of our unit, because we can definitely charter a car to pick them up.  So, in the end, my wife and I unanimously decided to place the treat in the urban area.

    The second consideration is the choice of time.  In normal times, everyone has to go to work, even if you invite someone to come, they may not be free. Therefore, my wife and I preliminarily set the time for the treats to be on weekends.

    Just as we were starting to prepare, I suddenly thought of my sister and brother-in-law.  Because, my sister's unit is also in the urban area, and they also need to entertain colleagues.  If everyone invites each other, then when we treat guests, my sister and brother-in-law need to be present. Similarly, when my sister and brother-in-law treat guests, we also need to be present.  After all, we were entertaining on Father's business, so of course, as Father's children, we all had to be there, or it would be considered rude.  In this way, not only is time wasted, but there will also be a lot of overhead invisibly.  After all, when entertaining guests, the number of people may not be exactly full.  Therefore, there are bound to be unsatisfied tables every time.  Of course, every time there will be wine wastage and so on.

    After thinking about it, my wife and I both felt that it would be more cost-effective to combine the two families together for a banquet at the same time.  No way, who made us all poor working class?  Perhaps, you will think that we are stingy, but I think this should be called frugal.

    Now that you have decided, you have to act quickly.  After all, there are quite a lot of things that need to be prepared for this treat.  So, I called my sister immediately and told the truth about our thoughts.  Of course, my sister agreed with one bite.  So next, we have to inquire about the prices of restaurants of various grades.

    Those that are too high-end and luxurious are simply not something people like us can afford to entertain; those that are too low-grade, it is better to invite them directly with relatives and friends in the hometown.  Therefore, what we choose are all mid-range hotels.  We set the standard of treats at around 1,000 yuan per table.  Through comparison and comparison, we finally decided on a restaurant near the downtown square.  In addition to its low price and high quality, its superior geographical location is also a very important reason for our selection.

    After the location was confirmed, we started to get busy officially.  The first is the preparation of drinks.  Of course, there are not no restaurants, but the prices of hotel drinks are generally high.  Therefore, from the perspective of saving money, it is more cost-effective to buy it yourself.  Drinks are better. After all, no matter how expensive the drinks are, they usually cost more than ten or twenty yuan, which is completely within our tolerance.  The most troublesome thing is the problem of liquor.  It can't be said that it is expensive. A bottle of expensive wine can cost thousands of yuan, which is enough to pay for a table of meals. It is not something people like us can afford.  Of course, since you are inviting colleagues, you can't use the price too low.  In the end, we set the price between 150 and 200 yuan a bottle.

    Although everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, smoking is absolutely unavoidable when you treat guests to dinner.  Regardless of whether the guests smoke or not, as a treater, you have to prepare.  Cigarettes are much easier to solve than liquor.  After all, under normal circumstances, each dining table only needs to put two packs of cigarettes, plus the handouts when you welcome guests, in fact, it doesn¡¯t take much.  We estimated that at most two would be enough.  Therefore, we were not stingy in this regard, and directly chose Zhonghua, which is about 50 yuan a pack.  Such cigarettes are considered the best when treating guests.

    After initially positioning the drinks and cigarettes, the next thing to do is to purchase.  Coincidentally, my wife's cousin is in the wine business.  The price of cigarettes is well known, so there is basically no flexibility.  But drinks are different. The price difference between acquaintances and strangers can be described as huge.  My wife's cousin is also very straightforward. He promised that he can definitely make it for us for a little more than 100 yuan.A bottle of liquor that is not lower than the market price of two hundred yuan.

    Speaking of my wife's cousin, what makes me the happiest is not being able to buy absolutely super-valuable liquor, but finding a super savior.  As mentioned before, China's wine culture has a long history and deep roots.  When entertaining guests, if you can't accompany the guests to the full (drinking and drinking), it is definitely a very rude behavior, not to mention that the guests invited this time include me, my wife, sister and brother-in-law from all units  lead.  Of course I didn't want to be rude, but unfortunately I really don't drink alcohol now, so naturally I can't accompany the leader and colleagues to have a good time.

    You might say, isn't there a brother-in-law?  My brother-in-law is slightly better than me and can drink a little.  It's a pity that my brother-in-law's drinking capacity is really not flattering, commonly known as "two liang pour" (you will get drunk after drinking two liang).  With the amount of alcohol my brother-in-law has, how can I have fun with my boss and colleagues?  When planning to treat guests, I have actually been worrying about such problems, but I just have no solution.  Therefore, when my wife mentioned her cousin who was in the wine business, I immediately felt a bright light in my eyes.  If you are in the "drinks" business, how can you drink less?  It may not be "a thousand cups without getting drunk", but it should not be a problem if you want to have ten cups and eight cups.  Of course, not everyone who drinks heavily can be accompanied.  But, my wife's cousin is not an outsider!  My wife's cousin, isn't that my cousin?  Is there anything wrong with my cousin accompanying those massive leaders and colleagues?  Ever since, all problems have been solved.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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