It was the morning after three days when I returned to Jiangcheng from Inner Mongolia.
Grandma Fang and others knew the date Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran were coming back, so they asked Doudou to take Ah Huang out to see them several times. However, they failed every time.
When Doudou took Ah Huang out again, he saw Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran just walking to the courtyard gate. One person and one dog were so happy that they ran to open the door for them, barking happily.
Doudou Nai asked in a coquettish voice if they had brought her anything delicious.
Lin Mai touched her little head and said with a smile: "Yes, I brought you dried beef."
When Doudou is so big, he has only eaten beef once.
It was the beef brought by Fang Zhuoran that I ate at Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang’s house during the Chinese New Year last year.
When I heard about beef, my mouth watered.
Lin Mai grabbed a large handful of dried beef and gave it to her.
Xiao Douding chewed the air-dried beef vigorously and said it was delicious.
He also told Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran that the family would have potato and beef stew for lunch.
The group entered the house, and Lin Mai smiled and asked Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang if she had consigned the beef at home from Inner Mongolia.
Grandma Fang smiled and nodded: "If you didn't consign it from Inner Mongolia, why would you have beef at home?"
Lin Mai put down his things and went to the kitchen to watch the potato and beef stew.
She took several tomatoes from the refrigerator, chopped them, and threw them into the beef and potatoes stew.
Grandma Fang looked on blankly: "Is it delicious to cook together like this?"
In her eyes, there is no other way to eat tomatoes other than scrambled eggs with tomatoes, or eating them raw.
Lin Mai nodded: "It's super delicious."
After the beef soup was cooked and served to the table, everyone tasted it carefully. It was sour, sweet and delicious.
While everyone was eating, they listened to Lin Mai telling interesting stories about Inner Mongolia.
After lunch, Lin Mai packed up the dishes and went out to inspect the Fuduoduo market.
After being away from home for so many days, she felt uneasy if she didn't go around.
Before he even got there, Lin Mai saw the entrance of Fuduoduo Market decorated with lights and colorful decorations. It was very festive and there was an endless stream of customers.
When she got closer, she saw that both sides of the market gate were lined with stalls selling various agricultural products.
The stall owners are all old men and women dressed in shabby clothes. Many customers buy a handful of vegetables or two pieces of tofu in front of their stalls.
Zhao Liang was directing several employees to unload the grain from the truck at the door. He accidentally saw Lin Mai and was so surprised that he ran to her in a few steps.
Seeing her staring at the small vendors, she touched her head and explained: "I think those small vendors have little impact on our market, and they are all poor old people, so I didn't drive them away.
As long as they don't sell in large quantities and don't block the door to sell, that's fine.
If you feel bad, I'll ask the security guards to drive them away." As he said that, he wanted to call two security guards over.
Lin Mai hurriedly said: "I don't feel bad."
As Zhao Liang said, those grandparents sell very few agricultural products.
Some stalls only have one or twenty kilograms of vegetables, or a few live chickens, and a basket of eggs, which has little impact on their market.
Those old men and women look like they are living in poverty, so let them take advantage of the popularity of your own market and sell agricultural products, which can be regarded as a help.
She herself had been poor, and it was inevitable that she would feel pity for the poor people when she saw them.
When Zhao Liang saw that Lin Mai was not angry at all, he immediately felt relieved and went shopping with her at the market.
The market has everything you need, and almost everything is sold.
There are also many customers, and they are crowded with each other.
Lin Mai looked around for a while and asked, "Didn't I consign a lot of beef and mutton? Why didn't you sell it?"
Zhao Liang said: "After selling it for a day, as soon as it was put on the counter, customers almost started fighting over it.
I stopped and planned to sell it for two days on the 28th and 29th of the twelfth lunar month.
With so many people in Jiangcheng, the beef and mutton are only enough for two days."
Lin Mai said: "We can supply it every day starting next month."
Zhao Liang asked curiously why.
Lin Mai then told him about hiring Tana's mother as a buyer.
At this time, there was a commotion at the entrance of the market.
Lin Mai looked over curiously, and it turned out that Niu Lili was interviewing.
After she finished the interview, Lin Mai walked over and joked with a smile: "Is your newspaper so short of articles that you even have to interview the food market?"
Niu Lili walked out with her: "It's not that we are short of articles, but some readers called the newspaper and said that your market sells beef and mutton.
I suspect that you have bribed cadres from the Ministry of Planning and Economy to sell planned beef and mutton that should be supplied to ethnic minorities in your market.
My boss sent me to investigate and interview, and it turns out you didn’t sell beef and mutton today.”
Lin Madao: "Zhuoran and I personally purchased all my beef and mutton in Inner Mongolia.
I have the receipt for the consignment from Hohhot Railway Station, do you want to take a look?"
Niu Lili nodded: "Yes."
Lin Mai found the receipt from Hohhot Railway Station for checking in and showed it to her.
Niu Lili took a photo of the receipt and said, "With this receipt, I can clear your grievances."
Lin Mai thought of the last time someone anonymously reported selling smuggled goods at the market, and this time another reader distorted the truth to the newspaper.
I wonder if these two people are the same person?
If these two people are the same person, they must be the ones with whom they have a grudge.
Otherwise, no one would be so boring as to report her anonymously without any basis.
She then asked Niu Lili which reader reported the situation to the newspaper indiscriminately.
Niu Lili said: "I told you it was a reader calling, and she didn't tell her whereabouts. It's impossible for us to know who it is."
Lin Mai rolled his eyes: "Can you get the audio tape so I can listen to it?"
Niu Lili reacted quickly: "You suspect that someone deliberately called the newspaper anonymously just to accuse you wrongly? So you want to know who this person is?"
Lin Mai nodded.
"Then I will take a risk and make a copy of the audio tape for you to see if you can identify who the reader is."
Lin Mai said thank you and asked with a smile how she and Fang Zhuoyue were getting along.
Niu Lili looked at her in surprise: "Don't you know that Fang Zhuoyue has broken up with me?"
Lin Mai smiled awkwardly: "I have been on a business trip during this period and am not in Jiangcheng.
I just came back at noon today and haven’t met Zhuo Zhuo yet, so I don’t know anything.”
She gossiped and asked: "Why did you two break up?"
"He said the two of us weren't suitable."
Lin Mai was speechless after hearing this.
Thinking that he once told Fang Zhuoyue that if he didn't like Niu Lili, he would break up with her.
Since Fang Zhuoyue doesn't like Niu Lili, then the person he likes is really Tao Zhiyun?
This is really exciting!
Lin Mai next went to Qingnian Road Community.
What she is most concerned about outside is the sales of residential properties on Qingnian Road.
The sales department of the Qingnian Road residential property is very good in terms of decoration and furnishings.
The four sales ladies and one sales manager all wore uniform suits. Each of the sales ladies had exquisite makeup, making them look particularly tall and classy.
It's a pity that the sales department is deserted, not even a ghost is seen.
None of the sales manager and his four sales ladies knew Lin Mai.
When I saw a girl in brightly dressed clothes, I thought business was coming.
Four sales ladies rushed forward, vying to serve Lin Mai.