Li Mingcheng had no place to live in the city. After dinner, Lin Mai went to the black market to buy two benches and a wooden board, and he set up a bunk in the store to sleep at night.
With more employees, the variety will naturally increase accordingly.
In the morning, they not only sell steamed buns, dumplings and rice wine, but also newly added northern dumplings and shaomai.
The fillings of steamed buns and northern dumplings are no longer single. There are green onion and pork fillings, pickled cabbage and pork fillings, leek and pork fillings... There are five flavors in total.
Baozi not only sells big steamed buns, but also small steamed buns and soup dumplings.
The lunch time is basically the same, but northern dumplings are sold from morning to noon.
Some people in Jiangcheng are not used to eating steamed buns for lunch, but there is no problem eating northern dumplings for lunch.
In the evening, the BBQ Linmai added red bean paste, mung bean paste, osmanthus paste and other desserts.
If you can't get drinks, you can't miss out on this dessert.
She planned to increase the types of barbecue, but she had to talk to an employee named Zhao Hansheng who worked in the poultry department of the Meat Factory to determine what types to add.
Li Mingcheng was very diligent, so Lin Mai planned to let him take a day off and start work again the next day. But after lunch, he found work on his own, and learned how to barbecue from Lin Mai in the evening.
He has little social experience and is honest and easy to deceive.
But I am a good worker. I learned how to grill various vegetables in just one night, but I still need to practice kebabs for a few more nights.
All the pork and other ingredients at home are delivered to your door, so Lin Mai doesn't have to run to the black market every day before dawn.
Lin Mai slept until half past six before getting up and selling breakfast with Wang Xiaoli and a newly recruited girl.
The business in the store was really booming. Many customers who wanted to buy dumplings saw that the seats were packed, so they had to give up buying dumplings and buy two steamed buns for one meal.
Lin Mai thought to himself, it would be great if there was an instant bowl.
But there are no instant bowls, so you can bring back a batch of lunch boxes.
Customers who want to take away can pay a deposit to borrow a lunch box, and the deposit will be refunded later with the lunch box.
Before I knew it, it was half past seven.
Lin Mai was getting braised eggs for a customer when he heard Doudou happily calling uncle.
I looked up and saw that Fang Zhuoran was here.
As soon as Fang Zhuoran entered the store, he noticed that there were more employees. He smiled and asked, "Have you increased the manpower?"
Lin Mai nodded with a smile and asked, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"
Fang Zhuoran thought for a moment: "A bowl of dumplings and two meat buns."
The store was crowded, Lin Mai loaded a bowl of steaming dumplings and two meat buns on a tray, and took Fang Zhuoran upstairs to the suite for dinner.
Doudou took Fang Zhuoran's big hand and went upstairs with him.
Li Mingcheng came out of the kitchen carrying several baskets of freshly steamed buns and was surprised to see this scene.
Quietly asked Zhou Caiyun: "Who is that man? Why did Maizi take him upstairs to eat?"
Zhou Caiyun said mysteriously: "He is Fang Zhuoran, associate professor of surgery at Puji Medical University next door. He is also an important person in Maizi. He has the privilege of going upstairs to eat."
Li Mingcheng was thoughtful after hearing this.
Fang Zhuoran left after breakfast.
Before leaving, he saw Li Mingcheng secretly sizing him up, so he looked back at him.
Men also have a sixth sense. He felt that this new employee of Lin Mai's family seemed to be hostile to him.
As soon as Fang Zhuoran left, Lin Mai stopped working in the store.
I rode a tricycle to the state-owned market first, took the reserved pig offal and pig lungs from Ma Jiaqiang, and sent them back to the store.
I went to several aluminum product factories and wanted to order a batch of lunch boxes with the words "packed with delicious food".
But after running around all morning, the leaders of some aluminum products factories refused to even see her.
Some people met her in a condescending manner, but they thought the quantity she wanted was too small and refused to take the order.
Lin Mai had no choice but to return without success.
There was a leak in the house, and it was raining continuously. We were almost home, and the chain of the tricycle suddenly fell off.
Lin Mai had no choice but to get out of the car and squat in the hot sun to repair the car. His hands were covered with oil stains but he could not repair the car.
"Did the car break down?"
A nice and familiar male voice came from above her head. Lin Mai looked up and saw Fang Zhuoran looking down at her gently.
She nodded.
Fang Zhuoran squatted down, picked up a small branch from the ground, picked up the fallen chain a few times, and then picked it back to the track.
He turned the pedal a few times and found that the chain was running well. He clapped his hands and said, "Okay."
Lin Mai also tried it, and it was indeed fixed.
He also stood up and looked at Fang Zhuoran with starry eyes: "Professor Fang, why are you so powerful? You can do everything~"
Fang Zhuoran thought about it seriously and said matter-of-factly: "This little trick can't be called great~"
Lin Mai laughed awkwardly but politely.
If this can be considered a minor skill, isn't it too useless for someone like her who doesn't even know a minor skill?
Seeing her face covered with sweat, Fang Zhuoran frowned and asked, "Why did you run out if you didn't stay in the store on such a hot day?"
Lin Mai told him the reason.
Fang Zhuoran didn't say anything after hearing this.
Zhou Caiyun had already prepared lunch for the few of them, and she would start the meal as soon as Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran entered the store.
He still smiled and said to Zhuoran, "I didn't know you would come for lunch, otherwise Maizi would have killed a chicken and simmered it for you to drink."
Fang Zhuoran knew that Li Mingcheng secretly looked at him with a very unkind look.
But he deliberately turned to Lin Mai and said, "I'll be working the night shift in a few days, so you can simmer chicken soup for me."
Lin Mai smiled and nodded.
A group of people sat down in the small living room of the suite.
Lin Mai originally wanted to sit on a single wooden sofa, but Doudou insisted on pulling her and Fang Zhuoran to sit on the long wooden sofa together.
Zhou Caiyun also advised her: "Doudou asked you to sit together, just listen to her."
Finally, Zhou Caiyun and Li Mingcheng each sat on a single wooden sofa, while Lin Mai, Fang Zhuoran and Doudou sat on the long sofa.
Doudou sat between Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran, happily looking left and right, kicking her short legs happily: "We look like a family of three!"
Lin Mai put a piece of scrambled eggs into her small bowl and said, "I can't even stop your mouth while eating."
Then Fang Zhuoran and Li Mingcheng were introduced to each other.
Only then did Fang Zhuoran know that Li Mingcheng and Lin Mai were childhood sweethearts, and he was a little jealous, but he didn't show it.
After lunch, Fang Zhuoran will go back to the hospital.
Although doctors also have a two-hour break at noon, they have to be on call at any time, in case a patient's condition changes and he has to arrive in time.
Therefore, Fang Zhuoran stayed in the lounge even if he had a lunch break so that the nurse could call him at any time.
Before leaving, Fang Zhuoran said that he would come to the store for dinner after get off work.
Lin Mai was a little surprised: "You still have to come to my place for dinner."
He rarely had dinner at her place before.
Fang Zhuoran said calmly: "It's not easy to cook dinner alone. I will eat dinner at your place from now on."
Zhou Caiyun promised on behalf of Lin Mai: "Okay, okay, no problem. Whatever you want to eat tonight, I'll let Maizi make it for you."
"random."
Li Mingcheng watched Fang Zhuoran leave.
Although Fang Zhuoran didn't even look at him, he had an intuition that Fang Zhuoran was provoking him by having dinner at Lin Mai's shop.