As soon as he arrived at the villa, Lin Mai started preparing dinner.
Just as I was worrying about how to kill the eels and clean the crabs, I heard Fang Zhuoyue's loud voice coming home.
Then, his voice came: "Sister-in-law, I bought you all the new tape recorders and second-hand tape recorders you wanted. You have to pay me for the errands!"
Then Grandma Fang’s voice sounded: “Your brother gave you the money to buy the tape recorder, right?
I just asked you to run an errand, but you still want money for the errand, so I’ll beat you to death, you brat!”
It is estimated that Fang Zhuoyue was beaten and screamed several times.
Lin Mai quickly wiped his hands with a towel and ran out.
I saw two big Sanyos that looked very new on the coffee table.
Fang Zhuoyue touched the head that had been brutally beaten by Grandma Fang and said to her aggrievedly:
"Sister-in-law, I bought you these two tape recorders and saved at least fifty yuan. It's not too much for me to ask you for ten yuan for errands."
"It's not too much." Lin Mai asked, "Did you call me specifically to ask you to buy it?"
"No! I just got to work in the afternoon and I received a call from my brother, asking me to get off work early and buy you a tape recorder."
He came closer to Lin Mai and said with a smile: "You see how good my brother is to you, he cares about everything about you.
I have been his biological brother for so many years, but he has not been so kind to me."
Lin Mai watched Fang Zhuoran enter the house, change his shoes, walk behind Fang Zhuoran, and lift him aside.
He said to him seriously: "Don't get so close to your sister-in-law. Next time, don't even think about taking a penny from me."
The suppression of bloodline made Fang Zhuoyue stand aside obediently.
Seeing how pitiful he was, Lin Mai took out ten yuan from his pocket and gave it to him: "Your errand fee."
Fang Zhuoyue smiled as brightly as a child and stretched out his hand to take the ten dollars.
Fang Zhuoran struck decisively and slapped his hand away: "Don't ask your sister-in-law for money."
He took out his wallet from his pants pocket, drew a big unity card and gave it to Fang Zhuoyue.
No matter who pays for the errands, as long as they give it, Fang Zhuoyue will be happy.
Grandpa Fang looked at his grandson with an expression of hatred: "You are such a big man, are you ashamed to ask your brother and sister-in-law for money?"
Grandma Fang’s point is: “I heard you say that you saved your sister-in-law fifty yuan. Who knows if it’s true or not?”
"It's true!" Fang Zhuoyue clapped his chest and said seriously, "Those bosses on Baocheng Road want to play tricks in front of me, a talented student majoring in electrical machinery, they are just trying to do what they want.
Not to mention I can find a hundred problems with a second-hand Sanyo, but I can also find a lot of problems with a new Sanyo.
I only spent five hundred yuan on these two Sanyos. If you go and buy them, you may not be able to get them back even if you buy them for six hundred yuan."
Lin Mai was so impressed that he fell to the ground.
When she went to buy an old Sanyo, the boss offered it for RMB 500.
Fang Zhuoyue's request for ten yuan for running errands is not excessive at all.
Fang Zhuoran fiddled with the two recorders and found that the sound quality of the new one was pretty good.
That second-hand unit made a lot of noise.
Grandma Fang teased: "This is the bargain you brag about. What's the use of such bargains?"
Fang Zhuoyue explained: "This tape recorder broke down within three days after I bought it, and I brought someone to argue with the boss.
The boss saw that he had a lot of people, so he couldn't return the product, so I bought it for 100 yuan."
Grandpa Fang frowned and said: "Although it is cheap, it cannot be used. Isn't this equivalent to a waste of money?"
Fang Zhuoyue took out a handful of parts from his pocket and said with a smile: "I will replace a few parts for this recorder, and it will be almost like new."
When Doudou, who was playing with the new tape recorder, heard this, he stopped playing with the new tape recorder and stared at Fang Zhuoyue replacing parts for the old tape recorder.
Lin Mai went back to the kitchen to continue cooking dinner, and called Fang Zhuoran to the kitchen to help her kill the eels.
As for crabs, he didn't dare let him wash them for fear of hurting his fingers and affecting his operation.
Fang Zhuoyue disassembled the old tape recorder, replaced the parts in a few clicks, installed it, put a tape in, and played it for everyone to listen to.
Sure enough, as he said before, the sound quality is as good as a new tape recorder.
Doudou happily clapped his little hands and kept praising Fang for his excellence.
Lin Mai heard it in the kitchen, and the other party Zhuoran said: "Your brother is awesome, he repaired the old tape recorder in no time.
I just don’t know if he, a talented student who graduated from the electrical engineering major, knows refrigeration technology.”
"Yes." Fang Zhuoran said while killing eels, "One of the subjects in his major is refrigeration technology.
Not long ago, there was a problem with the 10,000-ton cold storage. Their own technicians couldn't solve it, so they went to the excellent factory for help.
Even the senior engineers in the factory couldn't solve it, but Zhuo Zhuo solved it quickly after he went there.
Even though that guy doesn't know how to organize his life and spends money lavishly, he still has some talent."
Lin Mai said happily: "Then I'll ask him later if he can install a small cold storage for my Fuduoduo market."
Fang Zhuoran nodded: "It should be possible."
After he finished killing the eels, he saw Lin Mai preparing to wash the crabs and took her aside: "I'll do it."
Lin Mai pushed him with his hand: "I can't let you do this. If you hurt your finger, it will affect the operation."
Fang Zhuoran was silent for a few seconds: "There is some truth in what you are worried about."
He washed his hands, walked out of the kitchen, and quickly escorted Fang Zhuoyue to the kitchen: "Help your sister-in-law wash all these crabs."
Fang Zhuoyue looked at the crabs in the basin and reluctantly agreed.
For dinner, Lin Mai cooked a large table of delicious dishes.
Autumn has finally arrived, and although the weather is still very hot during the day, once the sun sets, the cool breeze blows, making it very comfortable.
Together, everyone should not have dinner in the dining room, but go directly to the leisure area in the front yard to enjoy the moon while eating.
During the meal, Lin Mai asked Fang Zhuoyue if he could help him build a small cold storage.
Grandpa Fang and his wife asked curiously why she wanted a small cold storage.
Lin Mai told them the whole story.
Fang Zhuoyue happily ate the steamed river crab and nodded: "Yes, as long as you can get the materials, I can install it for you."
After a pause, he added with a smile: "I will install a small cold storage for you, and you can cook me some delicious meals."
Lin Mai nodded: "No problem."
Lin Mai, Grandma Fang and others were having dinner happily, and Tao Zhiyun's family was also having a Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner.
Although tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, both sons will accompany their wives back to their parents' home to visit their parents, so the Tao family's Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner will be eaten in advance.
Tao Zhiyun bought all the ingredients for the reunion dinner.
She works in Linmai's factory, and her salary plus bonus is much higher than the total income of her two brothers and sister-in-law.
It's no big deal for her to buy some ingredients and eat them together. She can also make her parents, brother and sister-in-law happy, so why not do it.
Not long after the family started eating, Tao Zhiyun asked his eldest brother and sister-in-law a little uncomfortably if they had seen Section Chief Lu.
The elder sister-in-law said: "After searching for it, your brother and I bought gifts and went to Chief Lu Ke's house as soon as we got off work.
First thank him for saving you, and then volunteer to introduce him to a blind date."
Tao Zhiyun burst out laughing when he heard this: "My sister-in-law is still awesome, she thought of such a move."
The sister-in-law wiped her son's mouth, which was full of oil from eating, and said, "Oh! I'm not that powerful.
Compared with that Chief Lu, I pale into insignificance."
Tao Ma asked with a solemn face: "What did Section Chief Lu say that made you think he was more powerful than you?"
Her eldest daughter-in-law works as a cadre in the work union and deals with trivial matters between employees every day. She is very capable.
If she thinks someone is more powerful than her, that person is definitely not simple.