Chapter 34: Selling Dim Sum
Chu Sheng heard the conversation between Tang Shu and his sister clearly, and was sulking, Lin Xi knocked on the door and said, "I'm coming in." Chu Sheng hurriedly opened the door. Lin Xi saw that his expression was calm, and told him what had just happened: "Tang Shu came to play with you with good intentions, if you don't want to, you can also say it tactfully, and don't go directly, isn't it a loss of face for others, and it is also a loss to Tang Shu to have a good temper, don't worry about you, otherwise, you will have to quarrel." After hearing this, Chu Sheng only felt that a mouthful of blood was about to spurt out, Tang Shu didn't come to play with him, he just came to mess around. To say that Chu Sheng really knows Tang Shu. was guarded by his own sister, Tang Shu naturally couldn't go out, and he was able to sneak out because he found an excuse to pee.
Chu Sheng looked at Lin Xi aggrievedly, and told him about meeting Tang Shu on the road just now, Lin Xi was a little suspicious, looked at Chu Sheng and asked, "Really?" Chu Sheng was even more aggrieved: "Sister, I didn't lie to you." Lin Xi couldn't tell the truth from the false, so he had to say: "Anyway, you can't scare people back like this in the future, you have to learn to interact with people, if you are unhappy or dissatisfied, don't hang it on your face, you will be seen through by people all of a sudden, you know?" Chu Sheng didn't quite understand Lin Xi's words, but nodded his head to indicate that he remembered. beat Tang Shu in his heart, and he was reprimanded by his sister.
Chu Sheng and Lin Xi talked about how they wanted to learn a set of boxing techniques from Dr. Song, and Lin Xi agreed with both hands and asked Chu Sheng to study hard. Lin Xi has always felt that Chu Sheng is too homely, and he is not good for character formation, as his sister, it is no problem to take care of his daily life, but having a male elder guide him during his growth is helpful to Chu Sheng's character formation and behavior. In order to thank Dr. Song, Lin Xi will send a copy to Dr. Song if he makes any delicious food. After that, Chu Sheng went to Dr. Song every once in a while to study seriously. The so-called kung fu pays off, and after that, Chu Sheng developed a strong physique and benefited a lot.
Lin Xi is now concerned about raising chickens. Seeing that the weather was getting warmer and warmer, she discussed with Chu Sheng whether to prepare a chicken coop. Chu Sheng directly took over the matter and took Tang Shu to build a chicken nest together. Why is it called Tang Shu, it's because this guy has eaten so many good things made by his sister for nothing, how can he do it if he doesn't work?
After the chicken coop was built, Chu Sheng and Lin Xi went to Grandma Lian's house together.
Grandma Lian's family has a large population, although they are nominally separated, but in fact the houses are connected and they all live together. Dozens of fluffy little guys in the yard followed the hen and chirped, and as soon as they entered the yard, Lin Xi was attracted to it. When Grandma Lian saw Chu Sheng, a little smile appeared on her wrinkled face, and she greeted: "Boy Chu, why did you come to my house today, come into the house and sit." Lin Zhiqing, you come too. Lin Xi followed Chu Sheng into the house, where there was an old square table and four wooden stools. Grandma Lian poured two cups of sugar water, which was the treatment of the distinguished guests. Lin Xi took the initiative to open his mouth, and explained his intentions: "Grandma Lian, I heard Chu Sheng say that your old chickens are very good, I want to raise chickens, ask you to change some chicks, okay?"
If the people in the village want to raise chickens, most of them will look for Grandma Lian and exchange some food or something, and Grandma Lian is willing. Lin Xi thought that this was a very simple matter, but Grandma Lian didn't agree immediately, but asked, "Have you built a chicken nest?" Lin Xi nodded. "Have you prepared the food for the chicken?" "What?" Lin Xi hadn't thought of this yet, wouldn't the chicken just eat some vegetable leaves? What else to prepare.
Looking at Lin Xi's expression, Grandma Lian knew what to expect, and began to popularize knowledge for Lin Xi: "Chickens are not easy to raise, such a small chicken, you want to eat soybean cake and wheat bran, I raise them carefully, and sometimes I give some corn crush, the first time you raised chickens, such a small chicken was taken back, and it died in a few days." In the past, your educated youth also asked me to buy chickens to raise, but then I didn't feed them, and I talked a lot about my wife behind my back. Lin Xi suddenly felt embarrassed, and Chu Sheng took over the conversation: "Grandma Lian, I will raise the chickens, I will definitely be able to raise them." Grandma Lian touched Chu Sheng's head lovingly and said, "I know you can do it, so let's do it," Grandma Lian said to Lin Xi again: "How many chickens do you want?" I'll keep them for you, I'll raise them for you during this time, and when you're older, you can get them again." Okay?" Lin Xi thought it was a good idea and immediately agreed. Grandma Lian also made a request: "The rooster is four cents a piece, and the hen is six cents a piece, you can take the money, and you can exchange that thing." "This price is a bit more expensive than changing chicks, but the safety factor has increased significantly. Lin Xi decided to change.
Although he didn't bring the chicks home, Lin Xi was still quite happy. It's just that the old question before came to her mind again, she wants to make money, this money is only in and out, but what should I do?
As soon as the two arrived home, Tang Shu came again, this time he was not empty-handed, he had more than half of the toon in his hand. He shook the toon in his hand at Lin Xi and said, "Sister, I just picked it from the tree, it's fresh." Lin Xi took the toon, and sure enough, the leaves were all tender green, and it made people like it when they looked at it. Lin Xi cleaned it briefly, blanched it, chopped it, beat a few eggs, and made a toon scrambled egg.
For dinner, Chu Sheng and Lin Xi ate a big bowl of rice with this toon scrambled egg. Lin Xi's mouth was full of the fragrance of toon and the tenderness of eggs. Suddenly, Lin Xi came to inspiration, at this time the wild vegetables on the mountain should come out, she and Chu Sheng inquired, Chu Sheng thought about it and said: "At this time, there are wild garlic, gray cabbage, and Ma Lantou on the mountain, and my sister is going to pick wild vegetables?" Lin Xi wanted to make wild vegetable cakes to sell, so he told Chu Sheng the idea, Chu Sheng was worried that something would happen, but Lin Xi was very sure: "Don't worry, my sister is very careful, I won't be caught, I want to save more money, you will go to high school and college in the future." Chu Sheng felt a sourness welling up in his eyes, his eyes were moist for a moment, and he choked up a little: "Sister, I don't take the university entrance examination, I just need to go to junior high school." In the future, I will raise my sister. ”
Lin Xi sank his face and said, "Chu Sheng, you are a smart child, you must study." Only by studying can you leave this place, and you will have a future, understand? If you don't study well, don't call me sister. The next time I say something like this, I'll beat you. It was rare to see Lin Xi's angry appearance, Chu Sheng was instantly stunned, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Sister, I was wrong, I studied hard, and I will definitely add glory to you." Lin Xi saw that Chu Sheng was obedient, and his voice was gentle: "It's not for me, it's for yourself, understand? ”
Lin Xi had an idea, and he wanted to run to the mountain, but now that he was busy with farming, he couldn't tell Tang Zhishu: "I'm going to pick wild vegetables, you should take a vacation." "It is estimated that he will be scolded to death by the Tang branch secretary. What should I do? Lin Xi thought about it for a long time and came up with an idea. She found Tang Shu and asked Tang Shu to find the older children in the village who did not go to school, and agreed with them to exchange twist flowers for wild vegetables, but to find a strict-mouthed child. Tang Shu responded, Chu Sheng was not at ease, and told Tang Shu: "Just say that you want it, don't tell them that my sister wants to accept it, my sister is an educated youth, and it is easy to be gossiped about." Tang Shu felt that it made sense, and found three children who played well with him, and asked those children to help pick wild vegetables.
The next day, Lin Xi received a basket full of wild vegetables. After washing, blanching, chopping, and then frying with oil, the fragrant wild vegetable cakes are baked. In order to reward Tang Shu, Chu Sheng was rare and generous, and invited Tang Shu to stay for dinner, a bowl of corn porridge with wild vegetable cakes, and Tang Shu puffed up his stomach when he ate it.
Lin Xi put the rest of the vegetable cakes into the storage space, which can maintain the temperature of the vegetable cakes. The next day, Lin Xi took a leave of absence and went to the town to try his luck.
Lin Xi came directly to the alley next to the hospital. Soon someone accosted him, and Lin Xi's basket was filled with cleaned wild garlic, which was neatly packed. One winter, he lived on turnips and cabbage, and now he sees fresh wild vegetables, and the man doesn't talk nonsense, and a large bundle is round. Lin Xiyou opened the lunch box, revealing a golden wild vegetable cake. The man swallowed his saliva and asked, "How much is it?" Lin Xi gave a price: "One dime and five cents." The man frowned and said, "It's a little more expensive." Lin Xi explained: "This is made of white noodles, and it costs to fry it, and one dime and five cents are the price of conscience." The man thought about it for a long time, but still didn't resist the smell of food, and asked for two. Lin Xi took a pack of paper and took it for him.
After a while, a girl came to the alley, with a round face and a pair of big eyes flickering, looking for something. Lin Xi felt that person was familiar, and after thinking about it, wasn't it the nurse in the hospital. At that time, when Lin Xi was hospitalized with a fracture, there was a nurse with a round face who was particularly kind. The nurse also saw Lin Xi, Lin Xi subconsciously wanted to dodge, but the nurse stopped her: "Lin Zhiqing." Lin Xi couldn't help it, so he greeted people hard: "Hello." The nurse blinked and asked, "Have you forgotten my name?" Lin Xi was embarrassed, in fact, she didn't forget, she didn't know at all. The nurse was not angry: "My name is Zhou Hui." Lin Xi hurriedly greeted Zhou Hui: "Some days are gone, I can't remember clearly." I'm sorry, Nurse Zhou. Zhou Hui waved his hand: "It's okay, there are many people coming and going, and you can remember it there." Then he lowered his voice and said, "What are you doing here?" Lin Xi was shocked when he was asked, and Zhou Hui said again: "There are people here who do some small business, don't hang around here if you have nothing to do, so as not to cause trouble." Lin Xi laughed even more awkwardly. Nurse Xiao Zhou was also astute, looking at Lin Xi's stiff smiling face and asking, "Are you also here to sell things, or are you here to buy things?" Lin Xi couldn't hide it, so he simply said: "I'm here to sell wild vegetable cakes, do you want them?" "Oh, I just came here to buy this, just now we came to a patient's family and brought two wild vegetable cakes, they are so fragrant! I'm hungry, I asked people, and I came down to buy some." ”
Lin Xi opened the lunch box, and it was a wild vegetable cake inside. Zhou Hui asked: "How much?" Lin Xi directly quoted: "One cent and five." Zhou Hui was also happy and bought all the wild vegetable cakes in the lunch box. Lin Xi was still worried that she wouldn't be able to eat, so she looked at Lin Xi with disgust: "I'm not a pig, how can I eat so much, I brought it to my colleagues." "No wonder. Lin Xi wrapped the wild vegetable cakes one by one, and took two twist flowers to Zhou Hui: "This is a tie-in, you can taste it." Zhou Hui was not polite, he stuffed one directly into his mouth, finished eating, gave Lin Xi a thumbs up, and hurriedly went back.
Today went particularly well, it was not yet noon and everything was sold out. Lin Xi caught up with the tractor on the return trip, arrived home at noon, and directly canceled the fake with Tang Zhishu.