Sizzle sizzle sizzle—
At 6:30 in the morning, Tian Xiaomei was stir-frying a portion of shredded potatoes in the kitchen.
She was also pondering over the matter her son mentioned a couple of days ago, about partnering with friends to open a restaurant.
Opening a restaurant was something she and her husband Jiang Wen had dreamed of for decades but never realized.
Back when they first got married, they wanted to open a small family restaurant.
But at that time, Jiang Tao's grandparents had no savings and couldn't help.
The couple was unwilling to borrow money, so they went out to work to earn a living.
Just as they saved enough money to open a restaurant, Tian Xiaomei became pregnant with their eldest, Jiang He, and the restaurant plan had to be postponed.
They figured they would open it once their eldest entered kindergarten at two or three years old.
But then they had their second child, and then the third…
