Li Mai dropped Hao Hao off at school and drove to a nearby vegetable market to buy groceries.

He did these things a few months ago, when he and his son were still living in the cheapest rental building in Harbour New Town, and they were still working in the dark with a dark heart to make money.

Later, when the career started, the environment was better, and there were more women, they all rushed to do these things. Although the business is getting bigger and bigger, personally, it is back to a few months.

You have to worry about everything at home.

However, Li Mai enjoys doing these trivial things. It seems that by doing so, his guilt towards his son can be alleviated.

"Auntie, how do you sell this flower crab?"

The noisy market is divided into several sections, the seafood section is filled with fishy smells, and the floor is always wet. In the morning, there are mostly aunts and uncles and middle-aged women who buy groceries, and there are almost no young people in sight. Li Mai, a handsome guy, appeared here in a set of expensive casual clothes, which was a little abrupt.

I saw a rather large aquatic product stall, the owner of the stall was two old couples in their fifties, the man was busy vacating all kinds of fish, shrimp and crabs from the tank, and the woman was carrying a waist bag around her waist, busy buying and selling.

Li Mai pointed to the dozen or so flower crabs in the plastic box in the middle and asked the aunt.

"One hundred and three!"

A few uncles and aunts picked on the side couldn't help but look at it, this thing is really expensive.

"No, it's only sixty over there. Li Mai put his hand into the water and stirred it gently, and a fat flower crab waved it over with its pincers, but Li Mai had already taken his hand back. This scene stunned everyone else, this young man is really fast.

The aunt weighed a pound of shrimp, handed it to the guest, collected the money, looked at Li Mai, and pointed to the flower crab with one hand and said, "Young man, you can see clearly, this is a safflower crab." I've been in and out of so much seafood this day, just thirteen. Sell for one hundred and three, it's a great deal!"

Li Mai smiled, pointed and said, "Okay, I'll do it." ”

"Okay, you wait!" Auntie was overjoyed, and put aside the other customers for the time being, giving priority to Li Mai to weigh her.

Li Mai doesn't really think it's expensive, but he thinks that buying vegetables in the vegetable market doesn't talk about the price, and it will look stupid. In fact, at this moment, in the eyes of others, he is a fool of money.

Actually, Li Mai knows more things. The scales in the vegetable market, especially in the seafood area, are all eight taels of scales, and even some black-hearted ones are engaged in five taels of scales. In addition, there is a lot of water mixed with aquatic products, and when the store weighs, the action is a little more deliberate, and one pound is sold as two pounds, which is a normal thing.

Even if he meets someone like Li Mai who knows the inside story, he still waits for eight taels of scales. I don't think the scale is enough, that's okay, and I can find a fair scale all over the market.

The whole market is silently abiding by such a rule, and the same thing is weighed the same wherever it goes.

In fact, Li Mai understands this approach very well and is willing to accept it. Nangang is known as the mecca of seafood, and the export volume of aquatic products has ranked first in the country for decades, and the seafood here is notoriously cheap. It is normal for prices to differ between the place of production and the place of sale, but it is not possible to have a price difference of several times.

The products go from the fishing boats to the shore, to the wholesalers, and then to the secondary distributors, and then to the hands of these terminal sales stores, and the profits are actually too thin. Li Mai even thinks that if he walks on the scales, he believes that it will not be long before the citizens of Nangang will find it difficult to eat seafood - because no one will do this business again.

The profits of stores and stalls are actually those two taels.

Thirteen fat safflower crabs totaled six and a half catties, Li Mai is not a fool, these crabs are hypertrophied, but except for three of them that are relatively large, the others cannot have half a catty.

The aunt probably felt that she had made a lot of money, and her smile was a little embarrassed, and she said while packing for a year, "It's eight hundred and forty-five in total, you give eight hundred and four, and five yuan is enough." ”

Li Mai smiled, took out the money, counted nine and handed it over.

The people on the side couldn't help but look at it again, this young man's hundred-dollar bills were taken out one by one, and at first glance he was a person who didn't buy much vegetables. Money can't be exposed, especially in a place like the vegetable market.

After paying, when Li Mai was waiting for change, he habitually shook his head and glanced around, then lowered his head and weighed the flower crabs full of nets, and then his movements stopped suddenly. Immediately, he quickly replayed the scene he had just seen in his mind, and turned his head to look to the right.

In the bustling crowd, a horse's tail flashed.

Li Mai picked up the flower crab and chased it quickly at the start!

The aunt found fifty yuan, looked up and saw Li Mai walking away quickly, shouting at his back: "Oh, hey, young man, looking for your money!"

Li Mina still had the heart to care about this, and quickly chased forward through the crowd. The jet-black tail was still fluttering unhurriedly.

Struggling to chase after her, Li Mai saw her, strode over, and patted the girl on the shoulder, and the girl stood up sharply and turned back.

But it was an unfamiliar face.

"I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person. Li Mai was stunned for a moment and apologized.

"Idiot!"

The girl cursed, turned her head and walked away quickly, for fear of meeting a bad person.

Li Mai stood in place, looking around blankly, but he didn't see the familiar back again. Did you really recognize the wrong person? No way. Li Mai will never mistake Zhang Xiaoyu - the background with a simple ponytail he just saw is Zhang Xiaoyu!

However, where is she in this vast sea of people?

Li Mai unwillingly but aimlessly searched around the vegetable market, and then he was completely dead and couldn't find it. Maybe I really recognized the wrong person.

Sighing lightly, he walked towards the parking lot, and the mobile phone rang, it was Pei Xiaoshuai who called, and he connected it.

"Boss, let's win the Z001 project!" Pei Xiaoshuai was particularly excited, and said in a controlled tone.

Li Mai suddenly stopped, stunned.

This result is exactly the opposite of what he wants to see!

"Taken?" Li Mai asked in disbelief.

To Pei Xiaoshuai's ears, the boss was too happy.

"Yes, Mr. Zhan personally called me, and the bid was won!" Pei Xiaoshuai said.

Taking a breath slowly, Li Mai recovered his state and said lightly, "Well, I know." ”

Hung up the phone, Pei Xiaoshuai was depressed for a while, it sounded like the boss seemed unhappy, it was really strange.

Li Mai walked to the back of Land 6200, opened the tailgate, put the vegetables on the special railing, and then put the dripping flower crab in the water basin, and he had a sealed water basin fixed on the car for a long time, which was used to hold seafood.

Somewhat stunned, he closed the door, and was stunned for a while before he got in the car and went home.

Before he got home, Zhan Tianqi's call arrived.

As soon as the phone was connected, Zhan Tianqi's voice came out of the thirteen car speakers, real and clear.

"Where are you? I'll look for you. ”

Li Mai also gradually got used to Zhan Tianqi's crisp and neat style, and he personally liked this style, like the style of the army.

"What happened on the way home from the market?"

Over there, Zhan Tianqi choked visibly and said, "Vegetable market, you're not going to buy vegetables, are you?"

"What's wrong?"

Zhan Tianqi was speechless for a moment before he said, "A big man goes to buy vegetables early in the morning, you can really do it." ”

"There's no rule that big men can't buy groceries, and it's already 9:37, and it's no longer early in the morning. ”

"You can enjoy the feeling of a big man buying groceries by yourself, and I will go to your house to find you immediately. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The bidding was over, and we won the Z001 project. ”

"Okay, I see. You don't have to come over, I'll go to the company in the afternoon. ”

"No, I have to meet you right away!"

Zhan Tianqi's categorical appearance made Li Mai a little embarrassed. He knew what Zhan Tianqi wanted to ask, but according to Zhan Tianqi's character, if he didn't figure things out, he would probably ask in the future.

"Okay. ”

When Li Mai returned home, Zhan Tianqi had just come out of the Yuanfan Hotel. As soon as the meeting ended, she called Li Mai, and only later went out to meet Qin Guohua, and there was the scene in the previous chapter.

After getting all the dishes into the kitchen, Li Mai rolled up his sleeves and began to cook.

It takes a lot of thought and time to make the food look and taste, and it is appropriate to start making it. It's almost 11 o'clock when it's done, and then I pick up the kids from school and eat when I get home. One morning, that's it.

The main dish is obviously flower crab, steamed flower crab, baked flower crab with ginger and shallots, these two dishes at noon, and then a boiled cabbage heart, green onion beef, and fish head tofu soup, the feast of the two of them will come alive.

The rest of the flower crab will not be on the table at night, just make a raw knurled crab porridge, with some side dishes, it is Haohao's dinner. Before going to bed, a whole cup of fresh milk from Sunshine Farm will ensure that the little one is raised strongly.

Eat well at noon and eat well at night. That's what it means.

Li Mai's cooking skills are no joke either. When he first joined the army for the first time in field training, his aim was to be able to cook and eat it. The subsequent survival in the wild, at the beginning, in order to replenish the body, was limited to the environment, and basically ate it raw, and the mouth was full of blood. Later, I became proficient, and it was like a meal to survive outside the field of vision. The demands are rising. Even if you are behind enemy lines, you will find a way to make a delicious meal into a delicious meal that you can eat and fill your stomach.

Gradually, sometimes when I was idle in the camp, I would go to the cooking class to cook and stir-fry all kinds of small stoves. The cooking skills were also practiced by Nima.

What I didn't expect was that the skills I brought back from the army could not be used for the various skills that I usually practiced day and night, but this cooking skill came in handy.

This fully shows how correct the truth is that the skill is not pressing.

I'm sweating here, and the access control is sounding over there. Li Mai stopped for a while, hurriedly walked to the side of the control platform, opened the door, and said, "On the second floor, you can sit casually, wait a while, I'm cooking." ”

After saying that, he turned over and went back to the kitchen.

The electric door outside slowly opened, and Zhan Tianqi heard the voice coming from the loudspeaker, glanced at Zhang Dongyue, and said, "He just said he was cooking?"

Zhang Dongyue nodded, "That's how it is." ”

Rolling his eyes, Zhan Tianqi walked in, Zhang Dongyue hurriedly drove the car in and parked it, and then took the briefcase and followed Zhan Tianqi upstairs.