Lin Mai hurried back home, put the things he bought into his room, and immediately rushed to the Guangdong-Hankou Pier without stopping.
Tieniu Ma breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Lin Mai: "You're back, after all. Today, several vendors selling roasted seeds suddenly popped up, disrupting our business."
Today, her mother and her son did business for most of the day, completely giving up the idea of going it alone.
Let’s not talk about the fact that city people are shrewd and difficult to deal with. If there are too many people buying, they can’t even do the accounting, which makes them unsuitable for business.
But Tieniu Ma's years were not in vain, and it was impossible for her to tell the truth to Lin Mai. Doing so would make the mother and son appear to be incompetent, so she blamed her peers.
Fortunately, there were so many people selling roasted seeds and nuts popping up today, otherwise it would be difficult for her to shirk her responsibility.
Lin Mai smiled and said nothing, replacing Iron Niu Mom.
As soon as she came on stage, she started shouting: "Fried chestnuts, sweet and pink chestnuts cost fifty cents a pound."
Iron Cow mother and son were shocked: "Wheat, even if it costs 40 cents per catty, it is not selling well today. If you still sell it for 50 cents per catty, won't there be no one to buy it?"
Lin Mai really wanted to say, just because you can't sell it doesn't mean I can't sell it.
She smiled: "Try it."
A regular customer came over and asked unhappily: "Why are your chestnuts getting more and more expensive?"
Lin Mai sighed and said, "You think I think, if the price of selling raw chestnuts has increased, I can only follow the price increase.
Although the price of raw chestnuts has increased, we can't get much goods. Today, we grabbed less than two thousand jins in total. How many days will these two thousand jins be enough to sell?"
The regular customer was hesitant, thought about it, and didn't buy it.
After walking a certain distance, he turned back and bought half a catty. He saved himself and said: "I love eating your chestnuts so much that I feel like a cat scratching me if I don't buy them."
Lin Mai hummed twice, but did not persuade him to buy more. In the past, she would persuade customers to buy more.
The customer bought chestnuts and looked back at Lin Mai while walking and eating.
I thought to myself, could what this guy just said be true? She didn't have many chestnuts left, so she wasn't worried about not being able to sell them, she was just worried about not having enough to sell, so she didn't persuade him to buy more.
After the customer left, Lin Mai gave Tieniu Ma money and asked her to go to the black market to buy a small pot, an iron spoon for frying the sweet potato noodles, and a stainless steel wire mesh for draining the oil, so that she could fry the sweet potato noodles tomorrow.
Sell.
He told her that if she didn't know how to buy these things, she would ask a woman from the village to accompany her to buy them.
Iron Cow Mother took the money and left.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Grandpa Fang arrived on a tractor delivering goods.
Lin Mai handed him all the supplements and down jackets she bought for him and Grandma Fang.
Grandpa Fang said angrily: "Why are you spending money so randomly? You still have to..."
He didn't say the next three words about buying a house because there were other people at the scene.
Today, Tieniu and his son were hampered in their business. Lin Mai continued selling chestnuts until the stall closed at eight o'clock in the evening, and only sold less than 400 kilograms of chestnuts.
Fortunately, there weren't many chestnuts on hand, so Lin Mai didn't feel anxious.
When I returned home from the stall at night, Mother Tieniu had already arranged for the two little ones to sleep, while she sat under the lamp and scored the chestnuts.
He asked casually: "Mai Zi, why did you buy so many sweet potatoes?"
"Making sweet potato noodles for sale."
"What is a steamed bun nest?" Tieniu Ma asked curiously.
Steamed noodles are a local snack in Jiangcheng. Although Simei Town is not far from Jiangcheng, this snack does not exist, so she doesn't know about it.
Lin Mai gave a rough explanation, then went to wash the sweet potatoes and prepare for selling the sweet potato noodles tomorrow morning.
Tie Niu's mother asked Tie Niu to score the chestnuts, and she and Lin Mai washed the sweet potatoes together.
A sweet potato noodle nest requires about two taels of sweet potatoes. Lin Mai only plans to do business with office workers who catch the ferry to work in the morning, so he plans to sell only one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes every day.
When frying sweet potatoes, you must peel them.
After peeling one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes, there are still eighty kilograms left, which can be used to fry about four hundred sweet potato noodle nests.
The four hundred sweet potato noodle nests should be sold out easily in one morning.
While washing the sweet potatoes, Iron Cow Mother asked: "I heard from people in this village that you bought this house. Is it true?"
Now that you already know it, there is nothing to hide.
Lin Madao: "I didn't buy it, I just signed a house purchase contract. If I can't get the money within the specified period, the house still belongs to the landlord."
Iron Cow Mom broke the casserole and asked: "How much is the house price?"
Lin Mai said softly but firmly: "Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang will not ask me these things,"
Tieniu Ma smiled awkwardly, but what she was thinking was that Lin Mai must have bought the house in full, otherwise people in the village would say that the house belonged to her.
But she still wanted to hide it from her, her scheming was deep enough.
She was secretly worried that Lin Mai had already bought a house in the city, so it would be difficult for her to fall in love with her stupid son.
Just after five o'clock the next day, Lin Mai got up and went to the kitchen quietly.
I took fifty pounds of sweet potatoes that I washed last night, peeled them, cut them into cubes, and put them in the batter with seasoning.
Then he loaded all the things needed to sell the sweet potato noodles onto the cart and quietly went to the pier to set up a stall.
It was just past six o'clock in the morning at the pier. Apart from the cleaners, there were almost no pedestrians in sight.
But Lin Mai knew that when the first ferry entered the pier at 6:30 and the passengers disembarked, the pier would become lively.
Lin Mai took the time to get ready. When the first batch of passengers disembarked, she had already fried more than a dozen sweet potato noodle nests.
The smell of lettuce oil is a bit strong, but after frying it is fragrant.
Coupled with the sweet and glutinous aroma of the fried sweet potato noodles when they are freshly cooked, it immediately attracts many office workers who go to work hungry.
Those who bear the brunt are basically unmarried young people. These young people have not yet shouldered the responsibility of supporting their families and have little pressure, so they are willing to give up food and clothing.
As soon as those young people arrived at Lin Mai's stall, they asked, "How much does your sweet potato noodle nest cost?"
"It's a dime each, no food stamps."
The sweet potato noodles are very oily, and they are really not expensive for a dime.
For girls with small appetites, buying one is almost enough. For boys with big appetites, buying up to three can satisfy them.
In this era, no matter what kind of dough sticks and noodles you have, they are much bigger than they will be in the next few decades.
The key is not to get food stamps.
In the city, many families don't have enough food stamps, but they have plenty of money.
If you don’t need food stamps, it means you have no threshold. Lin Mai’s fried sweet potato noodles can be bought as long as you have money.
The dozen fried noodle nests were all sold out in less than two minutes, and those who arrived late could only stand and wait.
After all the first batch of passengers dispersed, Lin Mai had sold about 60 sweet potato noodle nests.
The ferry comes every twenty minutes and only three times an hour. Three trips can sell nearly 200 sweet potato noodles.
From 6:30 to 8:30, we can sell almost 400 pieces, just in time to sell out all 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and then continue selling chestnuts, perfect!
Around 7:30, Tieniu Ma came with two well-fed little diced beans and a large pot of diced sweet potatoes. This was what Lin Mai had told her last night.
As soon as Tieniu Ma arrived, she complained that Lin Mai didn't wake her up to help her.
Lin Mai saw the two little bean sprouts staring at the steamed rice noodle nests on the stainless steel wire mesh with saliva, and gave one to each of them, telling them to be careful not to burn their hands.
Then he said to Tie Niu Ma: "I have agreed in advance that I will only let Brother Tie Liu help me fry chestnuts and sell them, and I will let you help with housework and cutting chestnuts. Then I can't increase your workload any more."
Tieniu Ma said: "My fellow villagers, what is this?"
Lin Mai smiled and said: "Just because we are fellow villagers, I can't take advantage of you."
Tieniu Ma handed Lin Mai the breakfast she had brought and asked her to eat it while it was hot.
Lin Mai shook his head: "I don't have time to eat. Let's wait until I finish buying the sweet potato noodle nest."
Tieniu Ma had no choice but to take the lunch box and go back with two little diced beans.