With Director Liu personally coming forward, Lin Mai obtained the business license in less than a quarter of an hour.
After leaving the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Lin Mai asked Fang Zhuoran to go home and rest as he had to go to work tomorrow.
Back home, Lin Mai let Zhou Caiyun take a look at the business license, then went upstairs and locked it in the cabinet, then rode a tricycle to buy glutinous rice, distilled yeast, and bowls and chopsticks.
Glutinous rice and koji can only be bought on the black market, while bowls and chopsticks can be bought in stores.
Since the late 1970s, some items that are not in high demand no longer require tickets to be purchased.
Lin Mai rode his tricycle back home from the backyard and heard the commotion in the front door.
I didn't even have time to put things away, so I immediately walked through the kitchen and came to the front to take a look.
I saw that the store was full of aunts, and those aunts surrounded Zhou Caiyun in the middle, chattering without knowing what they were talking about.
Lin Mai was a little surprised.
At first glance, these aunts are not customers. I don’t know who they are.
An aunt saw Lin Mai and shouted: "The boss lady is back!"
Those aunts immediately threw Zhou Caiyun aside, and all of them huffed and puffed around, saying, "Xiao Lin, I heard that your family is hiring someone, I can come and work at your house."
"I can do it too. My dumpling wrappers are very good."
"I can settle accounts quickly, and I'm the best at selling steamed buns!"
Lin Mai asked strangely: "How come you all know me?"
Zhou Caiyun said hurriedly: "These aunts all live on the same street as us."
Lin Mai didn't know these aunts, but on the day they moved, all these aunts came to watch, so they knew Lin Mai.
Lin Mai smiled and said, "You must have come here after seeing the recruitment notice at the door.
Isn’t it clearly stated in the recruitment notice that we will only be recruiting in the morning the day after tomorrow, but we will not be recruiting today.”
An aunt was not happy. She rolled her eyes and said in a sullen tone: "Oh, you're just a self-employed person. Why are you showing off? You have to recruit according to the date in the recruitment notice!"
Immediately, several aunts sang with her: "That's right, we are neighbors after all. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.
We are all here, why don’t you recruit now, and you still want us to make another trip? You are so incompetent!"
Zhou Caiyun dared to be angry but did not dare to say anything. How could a bully neighbor bully someone like this!
You look down on Mai Zi as a self-employed person, but you still want to work in Mai Zi's shop. Can you be more shameless?
Lin Mai smiled and said, "It's just because we are neighbors that I feel embarrassed to invite you."
An aunt said: "Why are you so embarrassed to ask me? I can just pay my salary how I want!"
Lin Mai still had a smile on his face: "You also saw that I only invited four guys in the recruitment notice, but you have so many people here, who should I hire?
If you don't invite anyone, you'll offend others. Rather than doing that, it's better not to invite anyone, and the relationship between everyone will be better."
Zhou Caiyun glanced at Lin Mai with admiration, her move of giving away a thousand pieces of gold was really powerful.
Those aunts were all dumbfounded. They couldn't let Lin Mai invite them but not others. Wouldn't that bring hatred to themselves?
After sending the aunts away, Lin Mai saw that only a few braised eggs were sold, and asked Zhou Caiyun to bring in the desk and stove placed at the door to prepare dinner.
This dinner is easy to make, just heat up the unfinished food at noon.
However, Lin Mai only heated up the vegetables, but not the rice, so he asked Zhou Caiyun to practice making fried rice with lard and eggs.
Making lard and egg fried rice does not require strong cooking skills. Under Lin Mai's guidance, Zhou Caiyun quickly learned how to cook lard and egg fried rice, and it was very delicious.
When dinner was ready, Lin Mai stood at the top of the stairs and called Doudou to come downstairs for dinner. He called twice in a row, but there was no response from upstairs.
Zhou Caiyun came out of the kitchen with two plates of food, looked up the stairs, frowned and said, "Doudou is a little unusual today, why did you take a nap for so long?"
Lin Mai also felt something was wrong and hurriedly ran upstairs.
When I entered the room, I saw that Doudou was sleeping soundly.
She quickly stretched out her hand to test her body temperature. Her forehead felt a little hot, but not very hot. She should have a low fever.
This child's health is really bad. He actually gets a fever on a hot day!
I haven’t finished the cold medicine I got from my last visit to the hospital.
Lin Mai took out the medicine and poured another cup of warm water. Then he woke up Doudou and asked her to get up and take the medicine.
Doudou woke up in a daze, leaned into Lin Mai's arms and took medicine, only to wake up a little.
Got out of bed and went downstairs to eat with Lin Mai.
When passing by the small living room of the suite, I saw the TV set on the five-drawer cabinet.
One moment he was sick and listless, but now he was radiant and asked in surprise: "Mom, did you buy a TV?"
Lin Mai thought to himself that the money for the TV would have to be offset by breakfast for Fang Zhuoran, so it could be considered as buying it for himself, so he nodded.
The little guy happily hugged Lin Mai's thigh and kept saying: "Mom is so good, mom is so good!"
Lin Mai patted her little butt: "Okay, stop flattering her and go downstairs to eat."
Doudou pointed at the TV and said, "Mom, can you take the TV downstairs and watch TV while eating?"
"You can go upstairs with your food and watch TV, why do you have to watch it downstairs?"
Lin Mai was afraid that customers and neighbors would come and go downstairs, and the crowd would damage the TV, so he placed the TV upstairs.
The little cute baby pointed at his fingers and said, "I want Yangyang to see that we also have a TV at home."
Children also have self-esteem. Lin Mai can completely understand why they feel uncomfortable when being laughed at and want to feel proud.
Although it was related to vanity, she could accept it within the normal range, so she nodded in agreement.
"But I can only put it downstairs to show off today, but I'll still put it upstairs tomorrow, okay?"
The little cute baby asked in confusion: Why? ""
Lin Mai said: "Put it downstairs. If you touch this or that, what should you do if it gets damaged? There will be no TV."
The little guy nodded and said, "Okay."
Lin Mai carried the TV downstairs.
Zhou Caiyun has already set out the dishes and chopsticks.
Mumumai put on the TV, and the three of them sat down to eat together.
Doudou smelled the aroma of lard in the lard and egg fried rice, and almost drooled. She clapped her hands and said, "I have lard and egg fried rice to eat!"
At this time, Yangyang, the naughty boy next door, ran to the door of Lin Mai's store with his rice bowl and showed off his power to Doudou: "I can turn on the TV right away. You poor guy can't see it. If you dare to come and watch my TV, I will
I’ll hit you!”
Doudou Nai said fiercely: "Who cares about your broken TV? My mother bought me a new TV. If you dare to touch my new TV, I will bite you!"
When Ah Huang, who was eating fried rice with lard and eggs at the dinner table, heard this, he immediately bared his teeth and barked at Yangyang, as if he was going to rush over and bite him at any time.
Yangyang was doubtful: "I don't believe it! My grandma said that your family is poor, how can you afford a TV? Our house and Xiaopang's house are the only ones on this street that have TVs."
This naughty kid has bad eyesight. Her TV is placed on the cabinet in the corner, and he can't even see it!
Lin Mai walked over silently, plugged in the TV, turned it on, then silently returned to his seat and sat down to continue eating.
Doudou pointed at the TV with an arrogant look and said to Yangyang: "Did you see it? Our new TV is bigger than your TV, and it doesn't have any snowflakes at all. It's not like your broken TV, which is full of snowflakes."