The weather in Jiangcheng is like a menopausal woman's temper, it changes at a moment's notice.
In the middle of the night, it suddenly started raining heavily and it didn't stop until dawn.
Tien Niu's mother looked worried at the rain outside the house. If it rained every day, she would have to work less for a day, and the money she would get at the end of the year would be less.
Lin Mai was not in a hurry at all. He sold the second batch of chestnuts and already received more than 900 yuan. Including the remaining money on hand and the money from selling sweet potato noodles, the total amount was more than 1,200 yuan, which was enough to buy a house.
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Even if the remaining sweet potatoes cannot be sold and are left to rot, the impact on her will be limited.
After working hard for so many days, it was rare to rest. Lin Mai picked up an empty basket, borrowed an umbrella from a neighbor and went out. He wanted to buy some meat tickets on the black market, and then went to the state-owned market to buy some meat. He planned to cook a few delicious dishes.
Eat a big meal.
Of course, I would like to send out the written report letters and complaint letters by the way. I had a hard day yesterday and never had time to send out the letters.
After sending the letter, when Lin Mai went to the black market to buy tickets, he saw many people selling agricultural products.
Some sell chickens, some sell ducks, and some sell eggs, peanuts, vegetable oil and even rice flour.
Every stall was crowded with people shopping for New Year's goods. Everyone rushed to stuff money into the hands of the vendors, as if they were stuffing waste paper instead of money.
Lin Mai squeezed in curiously and asked about the price.
Usually the black market only sells live chickens for 1.50 pounds, but now they sell for 2.50 yuan. No counter-offers are allowed. Anyone who counter-offers will be told by the stall owner to get out.
Rice that usually costs two cents per catty on the black market was sold for thirty cents per catty.
In short, prices for almost everything have skyrocketed.
This situation is all caused by the planned economy, and not every household’s planned supply bills are sufficient.
If the tickets were enough, who would buy such expensive New Year goods at high prices on the black market!
Looking at this situation, Lin Mai could guess that even if he bought meat tickets and went to the state-owned market to purchase meat, he probably wouldn't be able to buy anything.
If you could buy things at the state-owned food market, the transactions of various commodities on the black market would not be so hot, and people would have rushed to buy tickets.
But the ticket sellers are very busy today.
Lin Mai just walked around, and many stall owners' items were sold out. The customers who didn't grab anything looked disappointed and refused to leave.
Lin Mai did not dare to delay any longer and bought a large grass carp and tofu, five pig feet, a pound of tenderloin, and two pounds of soybean sprouts at a high price.
I bought an industrial ticket and a pound of candy tickets from a ticket seller who was so idle that I almost got moldy. I went to a state-owned store and bought an umbrella and half a pound of fruit candy.
This umbrella is used often. You can't borrow the neighbor's one all the time. You have to buy one.
After buying the things, Lin Mai returned to the village.
I first went to my neighbor's house to return my umbrella, and grabbed a handful of fruit candies as a thank you.
The neighbor was very happy and kept saying that she was too polite.
Lin Mai said goodbye with a smile and returned to his home.
As soon as she entered the house, the two little lolita surrounded her and grabbed the new umbrella she had just bought out of curiosity, paying no attention to the ingredients in her basket.
Lin Mai gave the umbrella to the two little lolita, and gave one of them two fruit candies, telling them not to damage the umbrella.
The two little guys couldn't wait to peel a piece of candy and put it in their mouths, saying "Hello" vaguely.
When Tieniu Ma saw Lin Mai coming back with so many ingredients, she asked, "It must have cost a lot of money to buy so much fish and meat."
Lin Mai said casually: "It didn't cost much, about ten yuan."
When Iron Cow Mom heard that she had spent so much money, although she didn't say anything, she felt disgusted in her heart that she didn't know how to live.
However, if Lin Mai can become a couple with her son, she must be the head of the family. If Lin Mai is the head of the family, no matter how much money she earns, it will not be enough for her.
Lin Mai knew nothing about Ti Niu Ma's inner drama, so he started cooking delicious food as soon as he came back.
Tieniu had nothing to do. When he saw that she wanted to kill the fish, he rushed to kill the fish.
Lin Mai was not polite to him, and asked him to kill the fish, wash all the fish offal and parts, chop off the fish head, chop the fish fillets into minced fish, and she would make fish ball soup.
The two little ones are still too young. When making braised glutinous rice cakes, a home-cooked dish from Hu Province, they are afraid that they will get stuck in their throats when eating. Making fish balls will prevent this from happening.
She then cleaned the hair from the five pigs' feet.
Iron Cow Mom helped her make it, and couldn't help but muttered: "There is no meat in pig's feet, and we country people don't buy them. You still spend money to buy so much, and you only have these few yuan to buy two kilograms of fat meat."
Doesn’t it smell good?”
Lin Mai sighed helplessly in her heart, she spent her own money.
At noon, Lin Mai cooked a spicy hotpot with fish heads, fish offal and tofu for several adults to eat. He also prepared fish ball soup and sweet and sour pork loin for the children. The two little ones all ate it with smiles on their face.
In the evening, there is homemade tofu, cold bean sprouts and soft and juicy braised pig's feet.
As soon as the braised pig's feet were ready, Tieniu Ma put three of them in a bowl and put them on tiptoe in the cupboard hanging on the wall, saving them for tomorrow.
He said that he had eaten well enough at noon, so how could he eat and drink so much in the evening?
Lin Mai smiled and reminded her: "Auntie, it's my money you spent to buy these things."
She specially bought five pig's feet, just so that each person could eat one more.
Her aim is to eat to her heart's content.
Tieniu Ma said solemnly: "I know you paid for it, but life is going to be slow and steady..."
She said it was hers, and Lin Mai took the pig's feet out of the cupboard and put them back on the plate.
Iron Niu's mother was a little unhappy when she saw that she didn't listen to him.
Lin Mai didn't want to take care of her emotions. She spent her own money to treat everyone to delicious food. Why should she take care of it? How does she stand to take care of herself?
During dinner, Lin Mai didn't see Tieniu Mama not eating pig's feet, and her mouth was full of oil from chewing them.
The rain lasted for three days before it stopped.
During these three days, Lin Mai cooked delicious food in various ways, but he did not buy fish and meat like the first day.
In this era, eating big meals every day is unrealistic. At least for her, she doesn't have the financial ability yet.
But it’s okay to have a meal of egg fried rice or a pot of pork bone soup.
In addition to making delicious food, Lin Mai also asked Tieniu to fry two to three hundred kilograms of chestnuts at home every day. She would drag them to the black market on a cart several times a day, and every time they would be snapped up by the aunts who were shopping for new year's goods.
I didn’t expect that roasted chestnuts are so easy to sell on the black market. If I had known that I should have gotten them on the black market from the beginning, why would I have racked my brains to hold a lottery!
All the chestnuts were sold out and the rain stopped.
In order to sell out all the sweet potatoes as soon as possible, Lin Mai has been selling fried sweet potato noodles from 6:30 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon.
Sweet potato nests can be eaten as breakfast or snacks. Thousands of them can be sold in a day, which can consume two to three hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes.
The sweet potatoes that Grandpa Fang harvested for Lin Mai were all more than three kilograms. They were roasted and sold as roasted sweet potatoes. They sold quickly, selling four to five hundred kilograms on the first day. Although the business was not as good the next day, they still sold
It weighed about three hundred kilograms.
It took a total of three days, and all the sweet potatoes were sold out, and it was the evening of the 27th of the twelfth lunar month.
That night, Lin Mai paid Tieniu and his son all their wages.
Although his mother and son did not work for half a month, Lin Mai gave Tieniu and his son a bonus of fifty and thirty yuan respectively based on fifteen days' wages, which made Tieniu and his son extremely happy.