Seeing that she had made up her mind, Zhou Caiyun had no choice but to agree with her, but asked to learn barbecue techniques, Lin Mai readily agreed.
Even if Zhou Caiyun learns and wants to go it alone, she won't be angry.
Water flows to lower places, and people move to higher places. If you have the opportunity to be the boss, who is willing to work for others for a lifetime?
Although he can accept this situation, it doesn't mean that Lin Mai likes this situation to happen.
Who wants to lose the talent they have trained and then train them again?
Therefore, Lin Mai has certain conditions for recruiting barbecue apprentices this time.
After learning skills, you must work in the store for at least three years before resigning, otherwise it will be regarded as a breach of contract.
Lin Mai finished recruiting new employees and rode a tricycle to Uncle Qi's house to haul vegetables.
Now her family sells barbecue and there is a huge demand for vegetables.
When Uncle Qi was asked to deliver groceries, Lin Mai couldn't bear it because he was an old man and picked so many groceries, so he rode a tricycle to his house every day to fetch groceries.
Anyway, the place where she lives now is not very far from Uncle Qi's house, and it doesn't take long to go there.
After buying vegetables from Uncle Qi's house, Lin Mai rode a tricycle back to the snack bar.
The sun is so scorching that people can't even open their eyes.
Even a ragged young beggar on the street was too hot to move and sat motionless in the shade of a roadside tree.
Lin Mai glanced at the young beggar indifferently, filled with contempt in his heart.
Now that all the land is contracted to each household, this young man instead of staying in the countryside and farming, actually went to the city to beg!
But it was this look that made her stunned on the spot.
That young beggar turned out to be Li Mingcheng!
Li Mingcheng was Lin Mai's childhood sweetheart. Although they lived in different villages, they went to elementary school and junior high school together.
When they were studying, he was very kind to her. On his birthday, even if his mother boiled eggs for him, he would bring them to her.
In her previous life, when she wanted to marry Wu Xiaoyu, he tried to persuade her, saying that Wu Xiaoyu was not worthy of her lifelong trust.
It's a pity that she was so obsessed at the time that she couldn't hear a word he said, and she broke up with him because of it.
Later he died in an accident, and she gradually forgot about him.
This rebirth happened on her wedding day, and she never remembered the people she had forgotten for many years.
If Li Mingcheng had not appeared in front of her today, she might still not be able to remember him.
Lin Mai stopped the tricycle and shouted in surprise: "Li Mingcheng!"
Li Mingcheng, who was sitting against the tree, opened his eyes, recognized her, and shouted: "Maizi!" He was so excited that his voice broke.
Lin Mai got off the tricycle and looked him up and down: "How did you do this? I thought I recognized the wrong person~"
Li Mingcheng stood up, patted the dust on his body, and said sheepishly: "I came to the city to work, but I couldn't find a job. I was robbed and wandered for a few days, and I ended up like this."
Lin Mai puzzled: "It's the busy farming season now, why do you come to the city to work? At least you have to wait until the busy farming season is over before you come back."
Li Mingcheng smiled dryly: "The fields in the countryside have been contracted to each household, as you know. Our village has few fields, but my family has a lot of labor. How can we cultivate enough fields?
Instead of just sitting around at home, why not come to the city and see if you can make some money?"
Although it was true that his family had little land, Li Mingcheng had the courage to come to Jiangcheng from the mountains to find a job, but it was not all because he wanted to make money.
But I heard someone say that Lin Mai was kicked out of the house by Wu Xiaoyu and was living in Jiangcheng.
Some people say that she is doing well, and he wants to see with his own eyes that she is doing well, so that he can rest assured.
But he was embarrassed to tell Lin Mai these words. This girl never knew that he liked her and always regarded him as a buddy.
Leng Buding lets her know his feelings, I wonder if she will be disgusted~
Lin Mai smiled and said, "Then you can come to my store and be a waiter." After that, he pushed the tricycle forward.
Li Mingcheng hurriedly grabbed the tricycle to help her push it, and asked in surprise: "You opened a shop yourself."
Lin Mai hummed.
"What are you selling?"
"snack."
Li Mingcheng said "Oh" and looked at the girl next to him.
We haven't seen each other for more than half a year, and Lin Mai has become different from before, confident and full of vitality, and is no longer the silly little girl.
Lin Mai curiously asked him why he was robbed.
Although the public security is not very good now, with pickpockets and thieves running rampant, Jiangcheng's public security is still good.
Being robbed in broad daylight in a busy city rarely happens unless it is in a remote alley.
Li Mingcheng laughed twice and told Lin Mai how he was robbed.
A few days ago, he took a train to Jiangcheng and walked on the bustling Station Road.
Someone in front dropped a stack of money, and someone behind him rushed up to pick up the stack of money and was about to put it into his pocket when he saw him staring at him and felt guilty.
He told him that he was willing to share the money with him equally, but only if he kept quiet, so he took him to a remote alley.
Unexpectedly, there were several accomplices of the money picker in the alley, who robbed him and ran away.
Lin Mai was speechless after hearing this: "This looks like a trap. Don't be greedy when you go out from now on. If you don't have greed, you won't be fooled."
Li Mingcheng's face turned red: "I am not greedy. I told the liar at that time that I would not participate in sharing the money.
But he said that if I didn't participate in the money sharing, he would report him, and he forced me to go to an alley."
"You can shout loudly. As long as you shout loudly, the scammer will be scared and run away."
Li Mingcheng said weakly: "I'm afraid... he's not a liar, he just wants to share money with me with good intentions."
Lin Mai saw how naive he was and didn't know what to say.
Seeing that Li Mingcheng had nothing, he took him to the mall to buy two sets of clothes and toiletries and returned to the store.
Zhou Caiyun saw Lin Mai bringing back a man and asked him who he was.
Lin Mai introduced them both and asked Li Mingcheng to go to the suite upstairs to take a shower and change into clean clothes.
By the time Li Mingcheng came downstairs looking fresh and fresh, he was already a energetic young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Don't be careless when entertaining old classmates. Lin Mai killed one of the two remaining chickens.
I went to the black market to buy some other good ingredients, made a sumptuous lunch at noon, and entertained Li Mingcheng in the suite upstairs.
Old classmates chatted while eating.
Lin Mai casually asked about the Lin family, especially Lin Bei's situation.
Li Mingcheng lives in a village not far from Wangjia Village, so he should know the Lin family's situation.
Li Mingcheng told her that her family had become even poorer since the land was contracted to each household.
It has become a joke among the villagers to eat one meal but not another, and to live in poverty.
Her sister-in-law couldn't bear it anymore and broke up the family.
After Lin Mai heard about the tragic situation of her parents' family, not only was she not sad, she also felt in a good mood.
"My mother-in-law's family has become like this. How about Lin Bei? How is she doing?"
"She!" Li Mingcheng's face turned a little ugly when he mentioned Lin Bei.
"She transferred from Yunlai County No. 1 Middle School to Yunzhen Middle School and is still living well.
I see, no matter how hard your whole family is suffering, she is still enjoying a happy life."
Lin Mai was a little surprised. Hadn't Lin Bei been expelled from Yunlai County No. 1 Middle School? How could he be transferred to Yunzhen Middle School?
Although she was full of doubts, she didn't say anything, and planned to investigate what was going on when she had time.