A few months later, the tavern was finally rebuilt and resumed business.
Qi Zhixi worked hard for half a year and finally became an official bartender. When he stood there handsomely, he saw a beautiful scenery.
Since it is a scenery, there will naturally be people who appreciate it. Unfortunately, there is a familiar face among the people who appreciate it.
"Qixi!" A gentle and elegant middle-aged man blurted out in shock when he saw Qi Zhixi, who was mixing drinks with a handsome face and a smile at the bar.
Qi Zhixi subconsciously raised his head and saw his eldest brother's dark face. He was startled and quickly looked around. He didn't find Liu Shichu's figure. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his voice and said to his eldest brother. : "Brother, why did you come to the capital?"
Brother Qi's face was dark, and he glared at him and said: "Of course I have something to do when I return to Beijing! And you, serving people drinks in this tavern? You are really promising!"
Qi Zhixi replied seriously: "Brother, I am not pouring wine for others, I am mixing them. This is different. Don't get me wrong."
"What's the difference between pouring wine and bartending? Aren't you the one who waits on others? You are a noble son of a big family. You neither have a family nor a career, and you don't pursue an official and economic career. Instead, you went to the capital to serve others? What are you doing? Did the broken jar break?" Brother Qi said with hatred.
"Brother, I'm not a servant. I didn't sell myself. I work as a bartender to make money to support myself. Brother, how can you look down on me?" Qi Zhixi said with some dissatisfaction.
"Are you doing something that is respectable?" Brother Qi cursed loudly in anger.
Qi Zhixi hurriedly stopped him: "Brother, please lower your voice. People here don't know my identity. They only think that I am a poor scholar."
People nearby began to pay attention to them. In order not to be exposed, Qi Zhixi paused his work, pulled Brother Qi out of the tavern, and found a quiet corner before stopping to talk to him.
"Why did you sneakily drag me here? Are you guilty of being a thief?" Brother Qi was furious when he saw him like this.
"My boss doesn't know my identity. She will be suspicious of me when she sees me talking to you. She has already made an exception for accepting me as a bartender. If she knows that I have deceived her, she might fire me. I don't want to do that yet. Let's go, brother, don't expose me." Qi Zhixi said confidently.
"Why do you have to be a bartender? Even if you want to be a bartender, can't you just use your original identity? If your boss knows that you are the famous Mr. Xizhou and lowers your identity to be a bartender, she Wouldn't it be an honor to welcome you? But you insist on going to extra trouble!" Brother Qi glared at his younger brother.
Qi Zhixi shook his head quickly and said: "Brother, do you think my boss will accept me if I come here as a bartender in my original capacity? Even if they accept me, they will treat me as a mascot. It is impossible to be as useless as I am now. Teach me on my own, I’m here to learn real skills, I’m not here to be a boss. Of course, I’ll start as a waiter so that I can better understand the nature of bartending…”
Qi Zhixi chattered a lot. Brother Qi's ears were buzzing and he frowned and said: "If you are interested in such novel things, wouldn't it be the same to find someone to study it yourself? What can you say? Learn your true skills, I think you are just greedy for wine! Look what you have done? You are becoming more and more careless. No, when I finish my work, you should follow me back to Jiangbei."
"This is not possible. I haven't finished studying yet and I don't want to leave." Qi Zhixi said firmly.
"You, you are simply unreasonable! Look at those young men who grew up with you, who came to the tavern to wait on people like you? It's not embarrassing. If people know that Mr. Xizhou is so willing to degenerate, let's What do the world think of you?" Brother Qi was so angry that his heart ached.
"What do you think of me? Do you think I'm a deviant and do whatever I want? It doesn't matter. Brother, you're making too much fuss. What's the point of being a bartender? I once went to a grassland horse farm to work as a groom in order to get a good horse. I went and learned how to raise horses, look at horses, vault horses, and even learn a lot about veterinary medicine. Brother, if you want to buy a horse, you can come to me, and I promise to pick a good horse for you!" Qi! Zhixi was beaming as he spoke, patting his eldest brother on the shoulder with a "brother will protect you" expression on his face.
Brother Qi looked at the veins on his forehead that were about to pop out. In the end, there was nothing he could do about his younger brother who had been very independent and rebellious since he was a child.
He sighed and said: "You have been gone for two or three years, and you have come to the capital without returning to Jiangbei. My grandmother, mother, and father all miss you very much. Even if you don't go back, you should write to them more often." .”
After hearing this, Qi Zhixi nodded obediently: "I can't go back recently, but I will often write letters home."
Brother Qi looked at his younger brother, who was obviously handsome but was almost thirty years old and had not yet gotten married, and advised him earnestly: "Even if you don't go home, you still have to think about important things in life. You are not young anymore. People of the same age You are about to have grandchildren, but you haven’t married a wife yet. What will you do when you get old? Can’t you just listen to your grandmother and mother and go home to marry a wife and have children? Do you have to travel all over the world? "
Qi Zhixi smiled playfully again and said: "Brother, although I don't have a wife or children, I'm not yet thirty years old, so why do I always think that I'm old? Besides, even if I really don't have children in my life, it's not Do you still have a nephew? Can my nephew leave me alone?"
"Of course my nephew will take care of you! But you clearly know that your own children are different from your nephews. Asking you to marry a wife and have children does not mean that you will go to the mountains of swords or the sea of fire. Why are you unwilling?" Just like your father's generation. Brother Qi, who follows the rules, can't understand his younger brother's thoughts.
"Brother, we haven't seen each other for a long time. Do you have to use this matter to spoil my fun when we first meet? Now that we're at the tavern, brother, try my bartending skills to see if it's great!" Qi Zhixi changed the subject blatantly.
Brother Qi saw that he was a pig that was not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, so he had to follow him into the tavern. As expected, Qi Zhixi was like a peacock, showing off his skills by mixing several glasses of his signature cocktails, and he was very generous He said: "Brother, I've invited my brother and I to invite you to this table of wine. You can drink to your heart's content!"
Brother Qi came here to drink with friends from the officialdom today. Unexpectedly, he suddenly saw his younger brother who had been away from home for a long time. After chatting with him for a long time, Qi Zhixi said again. Treating guests, his friends were surprised:
"Brother Qi, do you still know Brother Qi? Didn't you just come to the capital? Isn't this the first time you come to this pub today?"
