Wu Xiaotao's face turned red, and she glared at Grandma Fang secretly, and was about to speak to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai asked with a gloomy face: "Why did you glare at Grandma Fang so viciously? Did she say something wrong? Am I your sister-in-law?"
Wu Xiaotao was left speechless by Lin Mai's three consecutive questions, so she had to pretend to be pitiful and said with tears in her eyes: "I didn't~"
Lin Mai rolled his eyes at him with disgust and nausea: "Who do you think is blind!"
Wu Xiaotao said aggrievedly: "Mai Zi, can't we just have a few words?"
Lin Mai asked back: "Are we in the kind of relationship where we can have a good conversation?"
Wu Xiaotao's tears fell down: "I know that my father, mother and brother hurt you, but I didn't. You, you can't do this to me..."
Lin Mai asked sarcastically: "Then what should I do to you?"
Wu Xiaotao wiped away her tears: "We can still be friends."
"Be friends?" Lin Mai sneered, "So you went to my parents' house and encouraged my mother and sister to come to the city to cause trouble for me?
Is your principle of being friends with someone based on stabbing her in the back?"
Since Sun Guixiang and her daughter were instigated by someone to go to the city to find her and accuse her, this person was most likely Wu Xiaotao.
Wu Xiaotao was startled for a moment. She didn't expect Lin Mai to guess that it was her.
She refused to admit it and said: "It's not me."
Lin Mai deliberately said nonsense: "My mother and sister said it was you, but you still don't admit it!"
Wu Xiaotao believed it to be true and was almost furious to death.
She didn't expect that Sun Guixiang and her daughter would betray her so easily.
Ever since he learned that Lin Mai had bought a tractor, Wu Xiaotao could not sleep all night long, always thinking about getting some benefits from Lin Mai.
That's why I came here today to try to establish a relationship with her.
But he didn't expect to be betrayed by Lin Bei and his daughter. The relationship couldn't be improved, so he had to leave in despair.
After loading the goods, Lin Mai drove the tractor and took Doudou to Zhou Caiyun's house.
Zhou Caiyun's family warmly welcomes her.
Zhou's father directed his son to kill chickens and ducks, preparing to entertain Lin Mai and his daughter.
He was stopped by Lin Mai.
The Zhou family's life was difficult, and she couldn't bear to let them spend money. She might as well let them keep the chickens and ducks and sell them for money.
Besides, she had to rush back to the city and had no time to eat at his house.
The family had no choice but to send them away.
Zhou's father repeatedly told Zhou Caiyun to work hard for Lin Mai. If he found out that she was cheating and cheating, he would slap her with the sole of his shoe.
The tractor was slow. Although it set off at 8 a.m., it didn't arrive at Sanyang Village until around 12 noon.
This is in this day and age when there are no traffic jams. If there is a traffic jam, we probably won’t arrive until around three or four in the afternoon.
When they got home, the three of them got off the tractor.
Zhou Caiyun looked at the brick bungalow in front of him in disbelief: "This...is this your home in the city?"
Lin Mai nodded calmly, opened the door, and took her to the room where Tieniu's mother had lived before: "You will stay in this room from now on."
After making arrangements for Zhou Caiyun, Lin Mai went to the black market to buy ingredients and prepared to cook a big meal to entertain Zhou Caiyun.
This is her first day at her house, so she can't eat too badly.
Zhou Caiyun came to the city for the first time. Everything he saw was new, and he wanted to follow him to see what the black market in the city was like.
Although the black market in the city is very chaotic and thieves and pickpockets are rampant.
But they were just going to buy groceries, and they didn't have much money with them, so they weren't in much danger.
Lin Mai took Zhou Caiyun with him.
Doudou was also clamoring to go, and in the end, even Ah Huang also went.
Three people and a dog were walking around in the black market.
Lin Mai wanted to buy fish or meat, but Zhou Caiyun refused to let her spend the money.
Lin Mai didn't want her to have any psychological burden and said with a smile: "If you don't come, I will cook one or two meat dishes every day. I didn't buy them specially for you."
Finally, with her persistence, she bought many good ingredients such as pork belly, pork ribs, and fish.
When they got home, the two of them cooked a sumptuous lunch together.
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and the three of them were already hungry, so they picked up their chopsticks and started eating.
Doudou ate extremely sweetly, holding a piece of spare ribs and chewing on it until the corners of his mouth became oily.
When Zhou Caiyun saw her, he wanted to take out a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe her mouth, but when he put his hand into his pocket, he froze.
Lin Mai asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"
Zhou Caiyun turned his pocket out and showed it to her.
The pocket had been slashed with a knife, and there was nothing inside. It looked like the work of a thief.
She was a little scared and said, "I don't even know when the thief will take action."
What Lin Mai was concerned about was: "Has the money been stolen?"
Zhou Caiyun shook his head: "No, I put the money in the room."
Lin Mai told her before that the black market in the city was very chaotic, but she didn't believe it.
There is also a black market in the countryside, and although there are thieves and pickpockets, they are not as scary as in the city and can rip people's pockets off quietly.
After lunch, Lin Mai took the household transfer certificate that Grandpa Fang had opened for her and went to the police station in Sanyang Village to apply for a new household registration.
When she returned home with her new household registration book, Zhou Caiyun and Doudou came to watch.
Zhou Caiyun asked enviously: "Have you and Doudou become city dwellers?"
Lin Mai smiled: "How is that possible? It's still a rural household registration, but it's just that the farmer from Simei Town has become a farmer in Sanyang Village."
In this era, it is easy to convert an urban household registration into a rural household registration, but it is even more difficult to convert a rural household registration into an urban household registration.
Have dinner again before five o'clock.
Zhou Caiyun was a little surprised: "Is dinner always so early in the city?"
Lin Mai shook his head: "No, usually people in the city have dinner around six o'clock.
Our family eats so early because we have to make and steam buns at three or four in the morning tomorrow, so we have to have dinner early and go to bed early."
She looked at Zhou Caiyun: "Can you make buns? If not, I will teach you."
As long as you are not too stupid, you can learn to make buns in just a few days.
Zhou Caiyun smiled: "I'm not boasting. I'm not good at anything else. Let alone making buns, I'm good at all kinds of pasta. Our family's ancestral home is Henan."
Lin Mai said "Huh": "Why didn't I hear that you have a Henan accent?"
"My grandfather's generation has taken root in Hu Province, and my generation is already the third generation. Isn't it normal to not have a Henan accent?"
After dinner, Zhou Caiyun rushed to clear away the dishes and then made noodles with Lin Mai.
Zhou Caiyun is very skilled in making noodles, and he looks like an expert at first sight.
After mixing the noodles, put them in the kitchen to rise.
Because we use old dough to make the dough, and the temperature is not too high now, it is quite time-consuming. It will take at least six hours to make it ready. I will get up in time to make the buns tomorrow morning.
After finishing their work, all three of them went to bed.
At 3:30 in the morning, as soon as the alarm bell rang, Lin Mai and Zhou Caiyun got up quickly.
After washing up, Zhou Caiyun kneaded the noodles, Lin Mai started the stove, put the eggs that he had washed before going to bed yesterday in brine, and then went to the black market to buy meat.
Zhou Caiyun thought of what she had experienced at the black market yesterday and was worried about Lin Mai going to the black market alone and wanted to accompany her.
Lin Mai waved his hand: "I'm already used to it. I don't need you to accompany me, and there's no danger. You can wash and chop the mustard seeds at home, and wait until I buy the pork to make the buns."
Zhou Caiyun sent her out of the house worriedly, telling her to be careful.