After running around like this, when I returned home, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and Doudou had already gone to bed.
Zhou Caiyun has also made egg pancakes for Lin Mai and put them in the pot to heat up.
As soon as Lin Mai entered the room, Zhou Caiyun immediately put the egg pancake on the table and told her to eat it quickly, and thoughtfully poured her a glass of warm water.
He asked in confusion: "You went out just to buy those vegetables? Why did you buy those vegetables?"
Lin Mai was already hungry and wolfed down the egg pancake: "Let's make barbecue."
Zhou Caiyun looked surprised: "How to grill vegetables?"
Lin Mai drank some water: "Don't ask, if you sell barbecue with me tomorrow, you will know how to make barbecue with vegetables.
You hurry up and boil the bath water for me. I want to take a shower and go to bed. It will be hard during the three days on May 1st."
After a simple dinner, Lin Mai took a bath, went to bed and fell asleep.
I slept until six o'clock and didn't wake up until six o'clock.
The weather in May was already very hot. In order to cool down, Lin Mai put on the floral dress that Fang Zhuoran bought for her.
Fang Zhuoran has good taste, and the dress made her look particularly delicate and pretty.
Going downstairs, Lin Mai saw Zhou Caiyun at the door of the store talking to the owner of the meat stall who was delivering the goods.
Busy walked over quickly and asked the butcher stall owner: "You only brought the pork I ordered?"
The butcher stall owner handed a full bucket of pig blood to Zhou Caiyun, shook his head and said, "No, I have brought all the pork I want to sell today, and I plan to deliver it to your family before selling it on the black market.
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Lin Mai said "Great!"
She was worried about selling barbecue. The pork for the barbecue was not yet available, so she wanted to buy it now.
Lin Mai added twenty pounds of front leg meat, four pig feet and several pounds of ribs on the spot.
The butcher stall owner was overjoyed. He had sold so much meat before going to the black market. It was a good sign!
Lin Mai paid him the bill, and he took the money and happily rode away on his tricycle.
Lin Mai took her toothbrush and went to the backyard to wash up, and asked Zhou Caiyun to cook her a bowl of noodles. After she ate it, she went to the black market to sell poultry.
Zhou Caiyun looked outside, it was getting brighter now: "I went to the black market to set up a stall so early, is there anyone buying?"
"Why is no one buying it? All the pork sellers have gone."
Zhou Caiyun then went to cook the noodles and specially beat two poached eggs into the noodles.
Lin Mai ate noodles, drove a tractor, and took more than 500 poultry to the black market.
As soon as she set up a stall on the black market, a gangster-looking man came to collect the stall fee.
Lin Mai was stunned. She had never encountered stall fees when she came to the black market to set up stalls.
Lin Mai is not afraid of paying the stall fee, as long as it is not too outrageous.
What she is afraid of is that in the black market, there is no stall fee at all, and this gangster is just taking advantage of others.
If you pay the stall fee honestly, isn't it a waste of money?
She asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Why haven't I heard anyone say that you have to pay a stall fee when setting up a stall in the black market?"
The gangster laughed: "If you stall owners don't pay the stall fee, then we, the spectators, will starve to death?"
Lin Mai said firmly: "What I said is true. Others who came to set up stalls in the black market did not pay stall fees."
She didn't dare to mention that she hadn't paid it, for fear that the gangster would ask her to make up for the stall fee, and she would lose a lot of money.
The gangster narrowed his eyes and asked, "Did that person tell you when it happened?"
"A few days ago."
The gangster chuckled twice: "It turns out it was a few days ago, when we all went home to celebrate the New Year.
During that time, no one was watching the venue, so naturally no one collected booth fees!
Now if anyone is visiting the venue, the stall fee must be paid."
Lin Mai asked hesitantly: "Does it mean that if I pay the stall fee, I can set up a stall here safely?"
The gangster nodded: "That's almost it."
"No, you have collected the stall fee. Someone will collect it later."
"Won't."
Although Lin Mai knew better than to take this gangster's promise seriously.
But she understood better that if she didn't pay the stall fee, she wouldn't be able to do business here today.
So I asked: "How much does this stall cost?"
The gangster looked at her tractor and the poultry she wanted to sell, then held out two fingers: "Twenty yuan."
Lin Mai's eyes suddenly widened: "So many!"
The gangster explained: "You occupy a relatively large space, and the quantity and amount of goods you sell are large, so the stall fee is naturally not cheap."
He pointed to an aunt selling vegetables next to Linmai's tractor: "Look, this aunt only has one load of vegetables, and I only charged her 50 cents."
Green vegetables these days rarely sell for a few cents per pound.
Others charge 50 cents for a load of vegetables, but it seems reasonable to charge 20 cents for a tractor of poultry.
But Lin Mai just thought it was expensive, so she had the courage to bargain with the gangster, and the gangster finally got her two yuan cheaper.
People in Jiangcheng like to simmer chicken soup on holidays, and duck soup when the weather is hot.
As soon as the gangsters collected the stall fee and left, many housewives who came to the black market to buy holiday ingredients immediately gathered around and asked Lin Mai how to sell chicken or duck.
No one inquires about the price of goose, mainly because people in Jiangcheng don’t eat geese very much.
Roosters and hens still cost two yuan a pound, and ducks cost one yuan and a half.
Although no one asked about the price of the goose, Linmai still quoted the price: two yuan per catty.
Lin Mai is not the only one selling poultry on the black market, there are several others selling poultry, but they don't have as many products as she does.
Usually there is only one load of poultry, and sometimes there are only a few.
Everyone sells at similar prices, but Lin Mai has a lot of goods and a lot of room for selection, so customers love to buy from her.
Linmai sold more than five hundred poultry from about six o'clock in the morning to about twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and almost all of them were sold.
There were only two chickens and one duck left, but none of the geese were sold.
Housewives all despise goose meat as a hairy food, and eating goose meat on a hot day will cause sores.
Lin Mai thought that if he wanted to resell poultry in the future, he must tell Grandpa Fang not to buy any more geese.
Anyway, there are only eight geese. If you can’t sell them, don’t sell them. Keep them temporarily until the weather cools down, and then kill them for your own consumption.
It took almost six hours of hard work, but I earned more than 400 yuan, which was worth it.
Lin Mai drove the tractor and prepared to leave.
She was tired, hungry, and thirsty. She wanted to go home to drink water, eat, rest, and watch the business in the store.
Before the tractor started, a pregnant woman suddenly ran over and fell in front of the tractor, screaming, saying that Lin Mai had hit her.
Immediately, seven or eight fake passers-by surrounded Lin Mai's tractor and asked her for an explanation.
Lin Mai knew that he met someone who bumped into someone, so he defended loudly with a cold face: "I didn't bump into her, she did it herself!"
The truth must be explained, and this group of bad guys cannot be allowed to set the pace and make other passers-by mistakenly think that it will be bad if she hits someone.
She is now sitting on the driver's seat of the tractor, and the pregnant woman has fallen in front of her tractor. It is difficult for people who don't know the truth to disbelieve the pregnant woman's words.
A fake passerby pointed at Lin Mai angrily and said: "Do you have any humanity left in you? You hit someone and you don't admit it!"
Lin Mai shouted: "I didn't!"
"You did!" The fake passerby put on a righteous face, "I saw you hit this pregnant woman with my own eyes, you can't even think of denying it!"
Several other fake passers-by also shouted: "We saw it too!"
Many passers-by stood a few meters away and watched.