Doudou gave him another try: "Our family not only has a new TV, but we also have pig's trotters and braised eggs, but you don't!"
The naughty kid with a heart of glass completely collapsed and ran home crying all the way.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Grandma is lying! She said the poor guy next door is the poor guy, but the poor guy next door is not the poor guy."
Their family bought a new TV, and they also have pig’s trotters and braised eggs to eat, and I want to eat pig’s trotters and braised eggs too!”
Aunt Hu said with a slumped face: "Why aren't their family poor? Do you think Doudou's mother bought the TV? No, it was her wild father who bought it."
Yangyang asked in a twitchy voice: "What is a wild daddy?"
"Those are the men who benefited her mother. Her pig trotters and braised eggs were all given by her wild father."
Yangyang's mother couldn't stand hearing it anymore: "Mom, why do you say that to others?"
Aunt Hu glared: "I'm not talking nonsense. It's that little bitch who said she didn't have a husband. How can she have children without a husband?
And I also saw with my own eyes the handsome guy who helped the little bitch smash and sell buns in the morning, carrying a brand-new TV into her shop in the afternoon.
If the little bitch didn't have an affair with him, would people buy a TV set for her?"
When Yangyang's mother heard that this was really what happened, she remained silent.
Grandma Yangyang took a mouthful of rice and looked around at her son, daughter-in-law, and little daughter who was about to get married: "I have been observing all day today, and I saw that the business next door is good, so I might as well open a shop selling steamed buns at our house."
Before liberation, her family only sold pastries such as steamed buns and steamed buns. She was not confident in doing other small businesses, but she was quite confident in selling steamed buns.
Moreover, she had already made an agreement with the craftsman selling Linmai steamer to make a steamer for her as well.
The younger daughter ignored her, and the son and daughter-in-law exchanged glances.
The son took two mouthfuls of food and said, "Let's observe it for two more days. If everything remains safe next door, it won't be too late for us to open the store again."
He and his wife are both workers. If they are judged as following the capitalist road because of their small business, they will be fired. This is a risk they cannot take.
Aunt Hu nodded: "Okay, let them take the lead."
After dinner, there was an extra piece of pig's trotters and some oil soup as well as lard and egg fried rice.
Lin Mai didn't stay either, so he soaked lard and egg fried rice in oil soup, and gave it all to Ah Huang, including the piece of pig's trotters. Ah Huang wagged his tail happily.
Zhou Caiyun thought she was too wasteful: "Ah Huang is just a dog, why do we feed him so well?
That piece of pig's trotters, those oily soups, and rice can be saved for breakfast tomorrow morning."
Lin Mai rolled his eyes at her: "The weather is so hot now. These leftovers will go bad overnight. Eating them will cause diarrhea. How can we keep them?"
After clearing the dishes, Zhou Caiyun steamed the rice with glutinous rice. After steaming, it had to be cooled before adding koji to make rice wine.
Lin Mai went to check how much sauerkraut was left at home. There was not much left. He could only last for four or five days at most before he had to go back to the countryside to buy sauerkraut.
Zhou Caiyun said: "Don't buy sauerkraut. Return those sauerkraut jars to the folks. From now on, I will pickle the sauerkraut at home. I am not bragging. The sauerkraut I pickle is delicious."
Lin Mai can actually pickle sauerkraut, but his skills are not good enough and the pickling is not sour and crispy enough, so he buys the ones from fellow villagers.
Since Zhou Caiyun said that her sauerkraut is good, let's give it a try. It saves the trouble of dragging sauerkraut from the countryside and also dragging it from other people's vegetable gardens.
…
Fang Zhuoran kept reading until ten o'clock at night before going to bed.
He always sleeps well and can fall asleep within a quarter of an hour after going to bed.
But I don’t know why tonight, I’m a little tossing and turning, and I’m recalling what Zhou Caiyun said to him over and over again in my mind: Lin Mai is a good girl, she has suffered too much.
Such a good girl deserves to be treated tenderly by God and have a good man to give her happiness, but... is this man herself?
…
After a night's sleep, Doudou's fever subsided and she returned to her usual liveliness.
When Fang Zhuoran came to Lin Mai's house for breakfast in the morning, Doudou appeared as his full-time maid.
They brought him steamed buns, braised eggs, and a large bowl of steaming rice wine.
However, she didn't take more than two steps with the rice wine, and Fang Zhuoran immediately stepped forward to take it, fearing that the little diced beans would be burned if she didn't hold it securely.
Xiao Douding was lying on the table watching him drink rice wine, and asked in a milky voice: "Uncle, is the rice wine made by mom very sweet?"
Fang Zhuoran stretched out his hand and scratched her little nose: "Well, it's very sweet."
"Then you can move to our house and you can drink the rice wine cooked by your mother at any time."
Fang Zhuoran smiled, but his eyes couldn't help but look at Lin Mai.
She sells steamed buns, braised eggs, and boiled rice wine. She only has one pair of hands, but she is not in a hurry. She is really a capable girl.
After breakfast, Fang Zhuoran went to work.
Around ten o'clock, all the steamed buns and glutinous rice wine were sold out. Although there were still braised eggs, Lin Mai ended his breakfast business.
Let Zhou Caiyun steam a few large pots of rice and let it cool, so that he can sell lard and egg fried rice at noon.
She rode a tricycle to Uncle Qi's house and bought dozens of kilograms of cabbage and radishes with him. She also bought two large jars that could pickle fifty kilograms of kimchi at a time for Zhou Caiyun to pickle sauerkraut.
When we got home, it was almost eleven o'clock, and Lin Mai and Zhou Caiyun set up a stall of egg fried rice in front of the store.
Although there is a kitchen, it is more convenient to make egg fried rice in the kitchen.
But this is a newly opened store. They don’t even have a signboard or set up a stall at the door. Who knew she sells egg fried rice?
Within a few minutes of setting up the stall, someone came and asked, "What do you sell?"
Lin Mai replied: "Lard and egg fried rice."
The man asked again how much a bowl cost.
Lin Mai held out three fingers: "Thirty cents a bowl."
Although she only sells a bowl at the dock for 25 cents, she is now renting a storefront to do business and has to pay rent. The cost has increased, and the selling price will naturally increase.
However, many people can accept a bowl of lard and egg fried rice for 30 cents.
After a while, Lin Mai and Zhou Caiyun's woks were crowded with customers who wanted to eat lard and egg fried rice.
Before two o'clock, several large pots of rice were all fried, and Zhou Caiyun was full of a sense of accomplishment.
The lard and egg fried rice she fried was praised by customers as delicious in front of her.
When she and Lin Mai were selling lard and egg fried rice, Doudou couldn't stand the aroma of lard, so she ate a big bowl of lard and egg fried rice early, and her belly was bulging.
After the business ended at noon, only she and Lin Mai ate the lunch cooked by Zhou Caiyun.
A plate of stir-fried cabbage, a plate of spicy and sour shredded potatoes, and a plate of braised small crucian carp.
Zhou Caiyun put a small crucian carp into his bowl and wondered: "Why didn't Professor Fang come to our restaurant for lunch? I burned the small crucian carp in vain."
Lin Mai was eating and said, "Isn't it convenient for him to eat in the cafeteria of Puji Medical University? Why does he have to come to our store to eat?
Moreover, the food in the medical university cafeteria is rich in variety, unlike ours, which only has a few dishes.”
Zhou Caiyun was silent after hearing this.
She really wanted to lure Fang Zhuoran's soul into the store with delicious food. Only in this way would he come into regular contact with Lin Mai, and the two of them would be able to create a spark of love.
She really wants them to be together.
After lunch, Lin Mai went to the construction site to find Master Zhang and asked him to help him get a rectangular wooden board and cut it into the shape of a sign.
I asked him to help me get some leftover red paint, and I personally wrote the words "Pack a delicious snack bar" on the rectangular wooden board. After the paint dried, I dragged it back with a tricycle.
Thinking that there was no ladder at home and there was no way to hang the sign, Lin Mai even borrowed a ladder from Master Zhang.
Zhou Caiyun wanted to climb a ladder to hang up the sign, but the ladder Master Zhang lent to Lin Mai was not very strong. Lin Mai was afraid that the ladder would not be able to bear Zhou Caiyun's weight and cause her to fall, so she insisted on climbing up by herself.
Although Zhou Caiyun is also very thin, she has a big frame and is still heavier than Lin Mai.
Lin Mai climbed up the ladder to hang the signboard, Zhou Caiyun was supporting him at the bottom, and Doudou and Ah Huang were playing nearby.
At this time, a reckless young man riding a bicycle rushed towards Doudou.