Lin Mai has long wanted to try out the business of selling egg fried rice at the pier at noon on weekends.
Today happens to be a weekend, the weather is nice, and there is no law enforcement team to enforce the law.
So I went to the black market the day before and bought a lot of eggs, and asked Uncle Qi to give me an extra pound of spring onions and several pounds of carrots today.
After finishing her breakfast business in the morning, when she got home, she cooked two large pots of rice and spread them to cool.
Rice just out of the pot is not suitable for making egg fried rice. When the rice is cooled, it will be rice grains one by one. The egg fried rice fried with such rice grains will be the sweetest and the best looking.
Although people in this era do not have high requirements for food, Lin Mai worked in the catering industry for decades in his previous life and has developed high requirements for himself.
There were no rice cookers in this era, so rice was cooked in a large iron pot.
After the rice is added, there is a layer of fragrant crispy rice left on the bottom of the pot.
Lin Mai cuts the crispy rice into small pieces with a spatula, coats it in a thin layer of starch liquid, and deep-fries it in oil to make a delicious snack.
She goes to the pier to sell fried rice with eggs at noon. If Doudou is hungry, he can eat deep-fried rice dumplings first.
Around eleven o'clock, Lin Mai went to the pier to sell egg powder rice.
In Jiangcheng, state-owned restaurants are always overcrowded during holidays, and it is not easy to find a place to eat when you are tired of shopping.
As soon as Lin Mai set up her food stall, people came to ask her what she was selling.
Lin Mai smiled and replied: "Egg fried rice."
A few decades later, egg fried rice would not be considered a delicacy, but in the 1980s, many people loved to eat egg fried rice.
A customer asked about the price and heard that it only cost 25 cents a bowl, so he ordered a bowl on the spot.
I haven’t eaten much of the lard made at home, mainly because Lin Mai doesn’t like to eat lard.
Doudou eats dumplings or sausages, fish, and bacon every day. There is no shortage of oil and water in his stomach, so he doesn't eat much lard.
Lin Mai then used lard to make egg fried rice.
She scooped a spoonful of lard that looked like mutton fat jade into the hot pan.
The lard melts quickly when heated, and the aroma of lard wafts in the air, making people salivate.
People of that era loved meat oil the most.
Lin Mai added the beaten egg liquid to the hot lard. The aroma of the egg mixed with the aroma of oil made people's index fingers tickle even more.
Many passers-by couldn't help but take deep breaths as they passed by, just to smell the fragrance a few more times.
Once the eggs are fried until fragrant, add minced green shallots, diced red carrots and pickled white diced sour radish. The aroma will become even better, and many diners looking for food will gather around.
Linmai's egg fried rice is full of color, flavor and flavor, and is praised by everyone who eats it.
Everyone buys and I buy too, business is booming.
After obtaining the customer's consent, Lin Mai fried egg fried rice for three people at a time.
Not only does it save time, customers don't have to wait too long.
Fifty portions of egg fried rice were sold out in more than an hour, but there were still many customers who didn't eat.
Lin Mai said she was helpless. She had only one hand and a child to worry about, so she couldn't sell it for too long and could only sell so much.
It would be better to sell more if there was a helper, but the problem is, there is no helper.
Although I only sold fifty portions of egg-fried rice, I still made six yuan, which was pretty refreshing money.
After closing the stall and returning home, Lin Mai made lunch for her mother and daughter.
Simply braise homemade tofu, simmer meatballs with coriander and a green vegetable, and your lunch is ready.
As soon as the mother and daughter sat down to have lunch, they saw Aunt Gu's eldest daughter-in-law Hongxiang hurried in and said with a serious face: "Maizi, something's wrong, someone is looking for you!"
Lin Mai was confused: "Who is looking for me?"
No matter who is looking for her, Hong Xiang will not be in danger.
Hongxiang said: "Two women calling themselves your mother and your sister are asking about you all over the village.
I wonder if it was really your mother and your sister, how could they not know your address?
Most likely, bad guys are looking for you, so they came here to give you a tip."
Lin Mai wondered why Lin Bei and Sun Guixiang were here? And they also knew she lived here?
At this time, Dabao’s mother’s gloating voice sounded outside the courtyard door: “Your girl lives here.
You have to teach her a lesson when you go in. How can you hide in the city and enjoy life while your parents suffer in the country? You slap her!"
Then, Dabao's mother and Lin Bei's mother and daughter appeared at the gate of the hospital.
Dabao's mother didn't come in. She leaned against the door frame and ate melon seeds leisurely, pretending to be watching a good show.
As soon as Sun Guixiang entered the hospital, she targeted Lin Mai and pounced on him like a mad dog: "You little bitch, you are so vicious. You actually made your sister unable to study. I won't beat you to death today!"
Hongxiang hurriedly hugged her: "I'm telling you, Maizi Mom, if you have something to say, please tell her. How can you hit someone as soon as you come?"
Although Sanyang Village is a village in the city, the villagers here love to watch the excitement just as much as the villagers in the countryside.
If there is any disturbance in any house, everyone will come to watch.
Lin Mai's house was noisy, and Dabao's mother stood at the door of her yard and fanned the flames with a loud voice, which attracted many villagers to come to see what was going on.
When the villagers saw that Sun Guixiang was about to hit someone, they all stepped forward to hold her back and asked her to talk to her.
Sun Guixiang jumped up and down, trying desperately to get away from everyone: "What's there to say? The little bitch has hurt her sister so miserably, I can spare her!"
Lin Bei glanced at the dining table. In her eyes, home-style tofu and meatballs in soup were both delicious dishes.
Their family doesn't have much meat and tofu to eat throughout the year, so they can only go into the water and touch a few fish to improve their lives.
What a shame, the little bitch actually eats both meatballs and tofu!
She immediately started wailing, crying so hard: "Mai Zi, you have hurt me, I don't blame you, but you can't ignore your parents.
Do you know what we eat at home, sweet potatoes and boiled vegetables, we can’t even afford oil, but you...you hide in the city and eat meatballs..."
Although the villagers in Sanyang Village have a good impression of Lin Mai, as children, regardless of whether their parents live or die, this is still difficult for these simple and upright villagers to accept.
Everyone looked at Lin Mai with complicated eyes.
Lin Mai ignored Lin Bei's cry, walked up to Sun Guixiang, and asked sarcastically: "I hurt your precious eldest daughter? Then tell me in front of everyone how I hurt her?"
Sun Guixiang shouted: "Isn't it miserable that she was expelled from school and has no school to study?"
Lin Mai clenched his fists in his heart. The report letter he wrote to the Education Bureau finally paid off!
She asked calmly: "I don't run the school. Why can I cause your eldest daughter to be expelled from school? There must be a specific reason. Please tell me the specific reason and let everyone listen."
The specific reason cannot be said at all.
Lin Bei softly stepped forward to pull her away: "Maizi, let the past be bygones, I don't blame you.
I just want you to come up with some money to support your parents, it’s not easy for them!”
"Don't touch me! I'll be disgusted!" Lin Mai shook off her hand and sneered, "You don't blame me? If you really don't blame me, you will encourage your mother to come and sing like this!
It’s not your parents who you want me to spend money to support, but you!
You are the vampire in the family. You used me to exchange gifts for you to study, and now you want to get money from me in the name of your parents to provide yourself with good food and clothing!"
Although Lin Mai has lived in Sanyang Village for some time, the villagers only know that she is a divorced woman with a child, and they know nothing else.
Now I heard her say that her sister was reading with her bride price, and everyone looked at her sympathetically.
No wonder she doesn't associate with her mother's family. Her mother's family is so inhumane to her!