After dinner, Lin Mai drove the tractor back to the city.
As soon as the tractor drove out of Simei Town, she saw Tieniu standing on the roadside waving to her.
Lin Mai stopped the tractor and asked calmly: "Is something wrong?"
Uncle Tieniu blushed and stammered: "Are you still short of manpower? I, I want to work for you. You also know that I have no energy to work."
Lin Mai said coldly: "You are indeed willing to work hard, but I am also willing to pay you wages. Do you suffer a loss when you work here?"
Tieniu's face turned purple: "Just because you are a nice person, I still want to work for you."
"But I don't want to invite you anymore. I think you should know the reason." After saying this, Lin Mai drove away on the tractor.
Tieniu returned home angrily, and Tieniu's mother quickly asked: "Have you seen Maizi? What did she say?"
Tieniu's anger exploded at this time: "You have offended people so much, what do you want them to say?"
Tieniu's mother immediately darkened her face: "You mean, Maizi won't ask you to work for her anymore?"
Tieniu said angrily: "It's too late to hide from you, so how can you ask me to work!"
Iron Niu’s mother’s face became even more ugly: “Didn’t I just want to bring you and her together? I haven’t done anything harmful, so why does she have a grudge against me? What the hell!”
Tieniu couldn't stand listening anymore: "You call me a toy and you still want me to work for them, then we are not even as good as a toy!"
Iron Niu's mother was almost angered to death by her own son.
When Lin Mai drove the tractor back home, it was already ten o'clock at night, Doudou had gone to bed long ago, and only Zhou Caiyun was waiting for her.
As soon as Lin Mai's tractor drove into the small backyard, Zhou Caiyun came out of the house and moved things into the house with her.
Although it is only a small two-story building, there is no room for storage on the first floor because of business needs.
But both of their rooms are large, and they can put food, oil, eggs and other things in the room.
They all come from rural areas and are not so particular.
Zhou Caiyun picked up a bottle of oil that weighed about three kilograms, smelled the aroma of sesame oil, and said, "What fool is this? He sold you the sesame oil as rapeseed oil. Now you will lose a lot of money."
Lin Mai's face turned slightly red involuntarily: "They didn't sell it wrong. What I bought was small sesame oil~"
Seeing that the weather was getting hotter day by day, she bought this bottle of sesame oil and planned to eat it when making cold dishes or noodles for Fang Zhuoran, but she was too embarrassed to tell Zhou Caiyun.
Fortunately, Zhou Caiyun didn't ask any more questions.
Although he went to bed late at night, Lin Mai still got up at five o'clock in the morning and rode a tricycle to the black market to buy ingredients.
This time I not only had to buy the front leg meat for making steamed buns and dumplings, but also pork bones and pork suet.
Today I rarely came across a pork vendor selling pig intestines, small intestines and lungs.
In this era, pig intestines are far less popular than in 2021. Few people eat them in Hu Province, so the selling price is very low.
People in Hu Province hardly eat pig lungs, so pig lungs are sold even cheaper.
Taking advantage of the large amount of meat she bought, Lin Mai worked hard with her boss and spent $1.5 to buy the whole pig offal. The boss gave her the pig lungs for free.
The butcher's boss was also a good person and told Lin Mai that if she came to his stall every day to buy pork, he would sell a pair of pig intestines and pig intestines at a cheap price every day and give her a pig lung for free.
Lin Mai is very shrewd and it is difficult for her to jump into the trap.
"Unless the meat you sell is the lowest price in this black market, I will buy your meat. Otherwise, I will not buy your meat every day for a small profit."
The butcher's chest banged loudly: "Don't worry, I won't cheat you. I will definitely give you the lowest price."
It is now the beginning of the summer of 1982. As the above policies have been relaxed, more and more small vendors come to the black market to sell agricultural products, and pork is not as in demand as it was a year ago.
There are several stalls selling pork, and the competition is fierce. It is rare to seize a big customer. How can the meat seller let it go?
Today is the first day for the recruited employees to come to work.
After buying the ingredients, Lin Mai returned home. It was a quarter to six o'clock and the three aunts working in the kitchen had not yet arrived.
Zhou Caiyun had already steamed the first batch of steamed buns quickly. Hearing the sound of the door opening in the backyard, he immediately ran to carry the ingredients into the kitchen with Lin Mai.
Seeing a pair of pig lungs, she happily said to Ah Huang, who was milling around her feet: "You have pig lungs to eat again today."
Sometimes Lin Mai would go to the black market to buy meat and come across pig lungs. He would buy a pair and cook them for Ah Huang to eat.
Ah Huang is a wolfdog, so he must eat some meat every once in a while, otherwise he will not grow well.
Ah Huang happily blocked Lin Mai's path and wagged his tail to express his gratitude.
Lin Mai pushed it aside with his feet: "I can't give you these pig lungs to eat today, I have to keep them for lunch."
Ah Huang was very disappointed when he heard this and let out a resentful whimper.
Zhou Caiyun looked disgusted: "If you sell pig lungs to customers, who will buy them?"
Lin Mai winked at her: "Maybe the customer is licking the plate."
Zhou Caiyun curled his lips in disbelief.
Lin Mai threw some pig bones to her: "Stew these pig bones with radish."
Zhou Caiyun said "Eh": "Isn't the bone soup needed for dumplings simmered every night?
It has already been simmered tonight, why do we still need to simmer it? Besides, the bone soup used for dumplings does not add radish."
Lin Mai threw the pig lungs into a big basin: "Didn't you hear a customer say there was no soup when you were selling egg fried rice at noon yesterday? That's why I bought pork bone soup and radish soup and sold it with egg fried rice."
Zhou Caiyun said oh and went to wash the pig bones under the faucet.
I thought to myself, no wonder she can only be a waiter and Maizi can be the boss. She can always pay attention to the demands of customers.
At five minutes to six o'clock, the three aunts working in the kitchen all came one after another.
Everyone said hello and started to work, those who rolled out dumpling wrappers, and those who made steamed buns.
The dumplings are made and sold freshly, so the aunt who makes the dumplings and Lin Mai chop the meat filling together.
Chopping meat requires special arm strength. Lin Mai plans to hire a master who specializes in mincing meat when his business grows.
In order to avoid mincing meat for a long time, my arms will be very thick and my figure will not be beautiful like in my previous life.
In his previous life, he worked hard to earn money, allowing the Wu family and the Lin family, especially Lin Bei, to enjoy hot and spicy food and live a comfortable life.
Lin Bei and Wu Xiaoyu, on the other hand, laughed at her because her arms were as thick as a man's.
But I have never thought about why her arms are so thick, or I have thought about it, but I feel that she deserves it.
At half past six, Xiaoli, who was in charge of the business, came in from the backyard to go to work. Lin Mai asked Zhou Caiyun to open the business.
Zhou Caiyun opened the door and returned to the kitchen with an angry look on her face. Lin Mai asked in surprise: "You're so early in the morning, what's wrong with you?"
Zhou Caiyun's eyes suddenly turned red, and she said angrily: "The Yangyang family next door is also selling steamed buns."
When the aunts who were busy in the kitchen heard this, they all ran out to see what was going on. When they came back, everyone had serious expressions.
[The author has something to say]
Last night, more than a dozen little fairies gave good reviews, thank you, okay?