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Chapter 7 The Bar

() Found the way home!

"Sister, you opened this bar, right?" Chen Fang asked.

Chen Hui smiled: "Yes, you remember that in early 2004, you bought a yard here."

"Remember, have you left my yard to take care of? It seems that I have to walk four or five hundred meters from the alley in front." Chen Fang looked at the surroundings and said uncertainly.

Chen Hui said, "So I said you are a genius. You have more insights in buying things than others. Do you know how much your yard is worth now?"

Chen Fang thought for a while and said, "I spent 28 million to buy it at that time, which was the dividend given by Rong Shang. Now it will probably increase by three or four times in seven or eight years, and it shouldn't exceed 100 million."

"400 million!" Chen Hui stretched out four fingers and gestured to Chen Fang, "So I said you have a correct vision. Your yard is a standard three-entry courtyard, with a regular front, back and middle, covering an area of ​​more than 1,200 square meters. Now there is no such a good yard on the market. Last time, Lao Zhang from Fox.com asked someone to find me, but I didn't agree. Some time ago, I asked someone to help you revise it, and we'll take a look later."

Then he pointed to the store and said to Chen Fang: "This was inspired by your purchase of a house. It happened to be the complete construction of Houhai in the late SARS period, so he bought this storefront. It was 340 square meters, which was less than 8 million at that time. Now someone took over 40 million. That's why I said you are a genius!"

Push the door and enter the bar, and you can feel a completely different modern temperament than the quaint and exterior. Four or five meters away from the door is a screen wall with a height of 3 meters and width of 5 meters. The top is made of irregular black and red blocks. The silhouettes of different singers can be vaguely seen in different color blocks. In the middle of the screen wall are two dark brown solid wood carved into the bar name "Wanghai".

"Hello, welcome." There is a two-meter-high fish tank on the left side of the entrance, which houses two adult golden dragon fish about thirty centimeters long, swimming peacefully there. There is a welcome table about one meter in front of the fish tank, and two welcome personnel wearing dark red shirts and gray vests stood inside. After seeing Chen Hui enter the door, he hurriedly greeted him, "Hello, Mr. Chen!"

"You guys are busy, don't worry about me. I'm fine today." Chen Hui arrived casually.

Entering the bar, there are four pillars four meters away from the window. A hollowed-patterned iron screen between the pillars divides the bar into two parts: light and dark. The door is located next to the window, and the overall door is mainly warm tones, and the ceiling is also beige. Each door has two brown double sofas and a dining table with a width of about 80 cm. There is a ceramic vase with lilies, roses and other flowers on the dining table. There are several young men and women who are probably tired of shopping sitting in the door by the window, drinking coffee while looking at Houhai outside the window and saying something, which looks warm and romantic.

There are no windows on the other side of the screen, and the lighting is mainly based on low lumen warm-colored lighting. The colors of the tables and chairs are mostly brown, dark brown, black, dark gray on the top, and there is no suspended ceiling on it, which directly exposed various metal pipes.

There is a small rectangular stage on the inner side of the bar, about a dozen square meters, in the center of the western wall. Further inside the stage is a row of sofa booths. The semicircular sofa can accommodate seven or eight guests at the same time. There are different scattered platforms directly opposite the stage and at the entrance, including two people and four people, which can meet the needs of different groups of people.

There were a few people fiddling with musical instruments on the stage, and it was probably not time to perform, so the lights at the top of the stage were very bright and were very eye-catching in the entire bar.

On the back of the screen wall is an independent cash register with computers, POS machines, attendance machines and telephones on it. A girl in a uniform is checking out with customers.

The bar area is next to the cashier. The U-shaped bar is about 6 meters long and 2 meters wide. It consists of three parts: the front bar, the operating table and the back bar. It has a strip of coked wood ceiling and is decorated with star-like crystal lamps to make the entire bar particularly charming.

The main body of the front bar is made of 1 meter high red bricks, with a 60-centimeter wide solid wood countertop. There is a circle of light strips hidden outside the countertop, which is projected on the red brick wall, making it look strange and simple. There is a row of high-legged backrest bar stools outside the bar counter, which can accommodate more than a dozen individual customers at the same time.

The operating table is more than 20 centimeters lower than the front bar, and it is placed on it with coffee machines, juice machines, soda drink machines, beer dispensers, automatic cup washing machines, pools, sinks, wine bottle racks, and cup racks should be at the bottom of the operating table.

The rear bar is about two meters high and is cut into three pieces by two light boxes. In the middle are two wine cabinets with glass doors, and on both sides are three rows of solid wood wine racks, which are filled with various foreign wines. In the bar, there are two staff members wearing white shirts, suspenders and British bow tie busy there. One staff member is tidying up the wine on the right. The other is a man in his 30s, nodding to Shen Hui and smiling: "Mr. Shen, you are here."

Shen Hui carried the two little girls onto the bar stool and nodded, "Fang Yuan, where is Lao Lin? Call him and ask him to come. I have something to do with him." He pointed to the two little girls sitting on the stool and said, "Give them a cup of milk tea each, don't have snacks. They have eaten a lot of snacks today! Give me a cup of lemonade." Then he turned to ask Shen Fang, "What are you drinking?"

"Is Bourbon?" Shen Fang asked tentatively. When it comes to whiskey, domestic bars generally provide scotch whiskey, and the more famous are the royal salutes of Chivas for 12 years and 21 years; or the red, black, blue, etc. Bourbon is a whiskey made in the United States, which is relatively niche in China.

Bartender Fang Yuan stopped the work, supported the counter with both hands, stretched his head and looked at Shen Fang carefully, and took out a Rock cup: "We have Bourbon barrels of Four Roses, Jake Daniel's and Jimbeam (Zhanbian), and there is also a very niche IB old Fesgerard, which is especially recommended." "Four Roses", "Jack Daniel" and "Zhanbian" are both representative brands of bourbon whiskey, and they all have a strong vanilla flavor.

"Oh, 101proof's old Fizgerald can have it, I want Straight (pure drink)." 101proof is the way bourbon whiskey marks the alcohol content. Compared with the international standard alcohol content, whiskey above 50 degrees generally likes to add ice, mineral water or base wine to make cocktails when drinking, but pure drinks can more clearly smell the mellow mixed with malt sugar, and the taste is stronger and more full, rich and mellow.

"Don't test him. Isn't Old Fezgerald the small winery you bought? When did you supply me with the goods from 101proof? Are you here to fight against counterfeiting?" Chen Hui looked at the two of them fighting there, and couldn't help but smile and stretched out her hand to hit Chen Fang on his shoulder and scolded him.

"I'll tell you about it. This is my younger brother Chen Fang. There is a winery in Kentucky, the United States. Old Fezgerald was produced by him. He just returned to China the day before yesterday." Then he pointed to Fang Yuan and said to Chen Fang: "This is Fang Yuan. I invited the bartender. Don't think that he is not old, but he is very professional. He has won the prize in domestic and foreign bartending competitions."
Chapter completed!
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