Chapter 112 It would be nice if you were my father
A nurse who had a crush on Fang Zhuoran held back her sourness and asked: "Professor Fang, who are you, that girl? You were so good to her, you gave her a whole box of cherries."
Fang Zhuoran thought about it and said, "My grandparents' best friend, she can be considered my sister.
By the way, she opens a snack bar next to our hospital, called Baohaochi Snack Bar. You go take care of her business."
When Lin Mai heard this, he sighed silently in his heart, reminding himself over and over again not to have any bad thoughts about him, because he had no such intention towards him.
After Fang Zhuoran finished talking to the nurse, he looked up and looked at Lin Mai. He had already disappeared at the top of the stairs and couldn't help but laugh.
I asked her to deliver the food, mainly because I wanted to ask her what kinds of braised ingredients were needed for braised food.
She ran away before I even asked. Does she really dislike having more contact with me?
Forget it, I’ll ask again when I have the chance, don’t rush it now.
Taking the cherries home, Lin Mai, Doudou and Zhou Caiyun enjoyed them together.
The cherries were very sweet and delicious. Zhou Caiyun winked at Lin Mai while eating them: "Professor Fang is so kind to you. If you give him dumplings, he will give you cherries."
Lin Mai rolled his eyes at her: "I can't stop your mouth even if I eat it. Are these cherries for me to eat alone? It's mainly for Doudou."
Doudou clapped her hands: "Uncle is so kind. It would be even better if uncle were my father!"
Lin Mai hit her moderately: "Talk nonsense!"
Doudou suddenly felt resentful.
Considering that there was an extra competitor, and a competitor with no martial ethics, Lin Mai reduced the amount when he went to buy meat on the black market the next morning.
The stall owner was a little unhappy at first, but when he saw that she bought another pork belly, he felt better again.
Although pork belly is a good thing, because of its relatively high price, it is not easy to sell except during holidays. Lin Mai bought the pork belly, which relieved him a lot.
Lin Mai not only bought pork tripe, but also red dates, yuba and peanuts, and was going to make pork tripe soup for Fang Zhuoran to drink.
It must be very hard for him to work the all-night shift and he needs to make up for it.
After shopping and riding a tricycle home, Lin Mai saw two more breakfast shops on her street.
The two families had just set up stalls at the door, and they couldn't see what they were selling.
But Lin Mai doesn't care what breakfast they sell.
This street is full of front-end shops, and the threshold for selling breakfast is low, so there will be more and more people selling breakfast.
She had expected this for a long time, but she didn't expect it to come so quickly.
When I got home, the three aunts working in the kitchen had already come to work. Even Zhou Caiyun, all four of them were unhappy.
Lin Mai adjusted the atmosphere and said, "I haven't treated you badly, right? Why are you all unhappy so early in the morning?"
Zhou Caiyun tried her best to be gentle and said: "It's none of your business. I just saw two more breakfast shops and I felt very upset."
"What's the point? Everyone is doing their own business. Don't have such a big appetite. If you want to eat up all the businesses in the street, we don't have the ability to eat them all."
After appeasing everyone, Lin Mai began to chop the meat filling and told Zhou Caiyun to make two small steamed buns when making the meat buns later.
Zhou Caiyun asked: "Is it for Professor Fang?"
Lin Maiqiang gave a gracious hum.
Zhou Caiyun originally wanted to make fun of her, but when she thought about the presence of outsiders, she smiled meaningfully and said nothing.
Lin Mai saw her expression in his eyes and could only force himself to remain calm.
She also secretly brainwashed herself: Dr. Fang and I are purely friends and have no other ideas. Those who are clean will clean themselves up. If Sister Caiyun wants to make random guesses, let her go.
As soon as six-thirty arrived, Lin Mai and Wang Xiaoli set up their stall in front of the store on time.
When the peak period for selling breakfast came, Zhou Caiyun came out specially to watch the sales next door.
Seeing that Aunt Hu was not shouting buy one get one free with gongs and drums, I felt relieved and went into the kitchen to continue working.
Lin Mai also felt relieved.
As long as the neighbor doesn't offer buy-one-get-one-free, it won't have a big impact on your own business.
There were so many customers during peak hours. Lin Mai and Wang Xiaoli were so busy that they heard a customer say: "Huh? The meat buns next door only cost ten cents each. I'll buy the ones next door."
When everyone heard what he said, most of them immediately left.
The rest are in a hurry and don't have time to queue next door.
Lin Mai frowned and glanced at the neighbor next door. He didn't know when the neighbor had put a big sign at the door with the prices of all the food on it.
Except for the steamed buns and flower rolls, which are not sold in Linmai's store, the food is at market price. Steamed buns, rice wine paste, porridge and dumplings are each five cents cheaper than hers.
——Is this the rhythm of having to fight hard with her family?!
Wang Xiaoli also saw what was written on the big sign next door, and wondered: "Does the next door not want to make money?"
Lin Mai also felt that Aunt Hu had a strange mind. She was already very old, and she didn't do business well and only knew how to mess around.
A meat bun sells for only 15 cents, and the profit is only 50 or 6 cents, but she is 5 cents cheaper, so she still makes a shitty amount of money.
Although her home is her own store and she doesn't have to pay rent, the hired workers must be paid.
With this kind of business, can I pay my salary at the end of the month?
Forget it, don't worry about other people's affairs.
Lin Mai went to the kitchen to inform Zhou Caiyun and the others that they would reduce their intake today.
Zhou Caiyun widened his eyes and asked, "Reducing the dosage again? Why?"
Lin Mai told the whole story.
Zhou Caiyun's face turned black with anger: "Does the neighbor next door force our family to close down?"
Lin Mai waved his hand: "Don't be too anxious, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on until they force us to close our doors."
Fang Zhuoran got off the night shift and went straight to Lin Mai's snack bar for breakfast.
Seeing that the business next door was better than Lin Mai's, Shu Zhang's brows frowned slightly.
Lin Mai saw him and enthusiastically invited him to come in and sit down, and asked Zhou Caiyun to bring over the pork belly and bean curd soup and steamed dumplings prepared for Fang Zhuoran.
Zhou Caiyun placed Zhuoran's special breakfast above and smiled meaningfully at him: "This breakfast is specially made by Maizi for you. It doesn't even include Doudou."
A strange emotion filled Fang Zhuoran's heart.
Doudou ran over with two short legs and shouted happily, "Uncle, uncle!"
Fang Zhuoran picked her up and asked gently: "Have you had breakfast?"
"I've eaten." Doudou stared at the pork belly soup and steamed dumplings in front of him with bright eyes, and said shyly, "But I want to eat these."
Fang Zhuoran smiled and gave her a small steamed bun, and after she finished eating, he fed her pork belly soup.
Doudou was not greedy. He only ate one xiaolongbao and drank a few mouthfuls of pork belly soup.
Fang Zhuoran asked her with a smile: "Why don't you eat?"
Doudou patted her round belly and said, "I can't hold it anymore."
She hugged Fang Zhuoran's neck and stared at him intently.
Fang Zhuoran stuffed a small steamed bun into his mouth and asked with a smile: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Little Douding sighed softly: "How great it would be if you were my father!"
She said seriously: "My mother is beautiful and good at cooking. Uncle, just marry my mother."
Fang Zhuoran scratched her little nose: "Do you know what marriage means?"
Doudou scratched her little head in embarrassment, she didn't understand what the word "marry" meant.
She only heard from children that a man who can be a father must first marry his mother.
There were children at the door of the store looking for Doudou to play with. The little cute baby happily agreed, slipped off Fang Zhuoran, and went to play with the children.
After Fang Zhuoran finished his breakfast, he saw that Lin Mai's business was not very busy, so he called her out of the house: "I heard you said yesterday that you were short of some ingredients for braised cooking. Tell me and I will ask someone to buy it for you."
Lin Mai hurriedly refused: "No, I will try it on the black market slowly."
Fang Zhuoran looked at her gently: "I know you are afraid of troublesome me. It's not troublesome. I know a lot of people. Just say hello to them."
Lin Mai still refused.
Fang Zhuoran looked at the neighbor and said, "Do you want your business to be suppressed by the other party?"