When buying meat tickets from a ticket dealer, Lin Mai bought thirty kilograms of meat tickets in one go.
Her snack bar is right next to the hospital and medical university where Fang Zhuoran works. From now on, she will often cook three meals a day for him, so the meat coupons are indispensable.
After buying the ticket, Lin Mai went straight to the state-owned market and met the meat joint salesperson who had sold her pork bones and pork intestines years ago.
Lin Mai suddenly had an idea.
I obviously don't have enough braised pork to sell today, and I may not be able to buy enough pig offal and pig lungs for braised pork tomorrow.
Why not try asking the salesperson if he can get some pairs of pig sesame and pig lungs to sell to her tomorrow.
As long as there are enough ingredients, the stewed food will be enough to sell tomorrow, and it will not be easy for the neighbors to steal her business.
Lin Mai cut off a pound and a half of hind leg meat and asked the salesperson in a low voice: "Brother, can you help me get three pairs of pig intestines, pig intestines and pig lungs? I will pick them up tomorrow morning."
The salesperson glanced at her and said, "Give me the money first."
Lin Mai knew that he had been tricked by an acquaintance before, so he could accept his request.
"That's no problem, but I want to know how to sell your pig intestines, pig intestines and pig lungs."
The salesperson looked at her and said, "I recognize you. You bought pig intestines from me before. I used to sell them to you for two cents a pound. Now the price is still the same, and pig lungs cost one dollar a piece."
Lin Mai almost didn't want it when he heard the price.
"Last time I bought pig intestines from you, I didn't know the price and it was too expensive. Why are you selling it to me at such a high price this time?
I bought a pair of pig sewers from someone else for only one dollar and a half, and they gave me the pig lungs for free.
You definitely can’t give it to me for free, but you won’t charge a dollar a pair.”
Pig offal cannot be sold, so it is not open for takeout. The meat joint sells it to internal employees at a cheap price. A whole set only costs one yuan.
No one wants pig lungs. If any internal employee wants them, they can take them away for a token 20 cents.
The salesperson saw that Lin Mai had been cheated last time when she bought pig intestines from him, so he wanted to kill her this time, but he didn't expect that she already knew the market price.
He thought for a moment and said: "I can't afford to sell a pig's guts for one and a half yuan a piece. The minimum price is two yuan a piece, and the pig lungs are only fifty cents a piece."
Seeing that he had made a concession, Lin Mai slowly talked to him: "If you are a pig in water, you can sell it to me for only one and a half yuan."
Don't say you can't afford it. If others can afford it, you should be able to afford it, you just make less money.
But think about it this way, if I get goods from you every day from now on, it will be equivalent to you having a fixed income, please think about it."
If I get the goods every day, and buy three pairs of pig sesame and pig lungs every day, I can earn almost two yuan from this black girl every day.
I have sixty yuan a month, which is higher than my salary, so why should I think about it? Just agree.
"If you can really guarantee to come and pick up the goods every day, and get more than three pairs of pig guts and pig lungs, I can give it to you at this price."
Lin Mai smiled: "You can't trust me like this? Then I'll pay a deposit of five yuan first.
If I don't get the goods one morning and I don't notify you in advance, the deposit will be forfeited, what do you think?"
Since I had a deposit as guarantee, I didn’t have to worry, so the salesperson readily agreed.
Lin Mai took out five yuan and gave it to the salesperson on the spot, and the salesperson also wrote a receipt and gave it to her.
When Uncle Qi sent scallions in the morning, he also sent coriander and parsley. Lin Mai planned to use these two kinds of green vegetables and pork to make dumplings after returning home.
Before reaching the door of her store, she smelled the aroma of lard wafting from the store and knew that Zhou Caiyun was refining lard using the suet she bought in the morning.
Entering the kitchen, I saw Zhou Caiyun had just made lard and was scooping up the last pot of lard residue and draining it.
Doudou's two little paws were firmly on the edge of the stove, eagerly waiting to eat the freshly cooked lard residue.
Zhou Caiyun shook his head and said: "I can't give you this lard residue, I have to keep it for making dumplings."
Lin Mai said: "Give her half a bowl. I bought some meat and made dumplings."
Zhou Caiyun then filled a bowl with less than half a bowl of lard residue, sprinkled a little salt into it, and asked Doudou to eat it.
He turned around and complained to Lin Mai: "If I knew you were going out to buy meat-wrapped dumplings, I would definitely stop you.
You know clearly that when I refine oil, I will produce a lot of oil residue, but you still buy meat to make dumplings!"
She tapped the large basin of lard residue with a colander: "What should I do if there are so many lard residues?"
Lin Mai didn't take it seriously: "Shouldn't the pickled cabbage dumplings be disposed of tomorrow morning? The lard dumplings won't go bad if left overnight."
Considering that boiled dumplings tend to become lumpy, Lin Mai chose steamed dumplings.
After the dumplings were steamed, it was already half past five, which was exactly the time for dinner.
Lin Mai wished he could deliver the dumplings to Fang Zhuoran right away, but Zhou Caiyun said he would deliver them after eating.
Lin Mai couldn't eat it after giving it away, because he was afraid that Zhou Caiyun might mistakenly think that she liked Fang Zhuoran.
Although she did like him in her heart, she was afraid that people would know.
I really didn’t expect that I would be reincarnated as a human being and still have such feelings as a little daughter~
When eating dumplings, Zhou Caiyun asked Lin Mai to make a simple dipping sauce using sesame oil and vinegar to dip the dumplings in.
There were only three kilograms of sesame oil in total, and Lin Mai was a little reluctant to part with it, but he still made the dipping sauce with sesame oil and vinegar as Zhou Caiyun said, but only used a few drops of sesame oil.
After eating the dumplings, Lin Mai filled a large aluminum lunch box full of steamed dumplings, and used a small bowl to prepare dipping sauce with sesame oil and vinegar before sending it to Fang Zhuoran.
Seeing that she gave so much sesame oil, Zhou Caiyun muttered: "You are so stingy when you give us some sesame oil. You only put a few drops of sesame oil on it for Professor Fang. How can you be so generous and give so much sesame oil?"
Lin Mai gave her a blank look: "Why don't you say that they have helped us so much?"
Zhou Caiyun smiled meaningfully and said nothing.
When Lin Mai was delivering dumplings, he saw several beautiful little nurses talking and laughing around Fang Zhuoran, and every little nurse had little stars in their eyes.
Lin Mai sighed silently in shame. Excellent men are always the targets of women.
The beautiful nurse named Mou Dan who stopped Lin Mai at the corner of the stairs last time and questioned her was also present.
She was the first to see Lin Mai, walked over to her, and asked arrogantly: "What delicious food did Professor Fang ask you to bring this time?"
"Steamed dumplings." Lin Mai handed the things in his hand to Fang Zhuoran, nodded and wanted to leave.
"Don't leave in a hurry, I have something to give you." The man stopped her and went to his lounge. When he came out, he had a cardboard box in his hand.
When Lin Mai took the carton, he felt it was a little heavy and asked, "What's inside?"
"Cherry, a gift from the patient's family."
Because of Fang Zhuoran's outstanding medical skills, patients' families often thanked him and gave him various gifts.
Not to mention cherries in this day and age, even in a few decades they will still be relatively expensive fruits.
Offering him a lunch box of dumplings in exchange for several kilograms of cherries, Lin Mai was embarrassed to accept it and declined: "Why do you give it to me? You keep it for yourself."
“Men who love to eat fruit.”
Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Lin Mai had no choice but to thank him and leave with the box of cherries in his arms.
She didn't realize that Mou Dan looked at her with a very unkind look.
When Fang Zhuoran received the box of cherries, Mou Dan coquettishly asked him to eat a handful, but he didn't give her any, but now he gave them all to this black girl.