Chapter 48
After the bun shop opened,
Lin Chuxia became even busier, but fortunately Su Wensong was in charge of purchasing, so she no longer had to get up early and run around to the vegetable market and the butcher shop.
She left the cart to Su Wensong and planned to buy a second-hand bicycle for herself.
She had invested all her money in the store, and was really short of money. Moreover, she had to buy a bicycle ticket even if she had money. She might as well take a shortcut and buy a second-hand one.
After knowing her idea, Aunt Sun patted her chest and guaranteed that her son could get her a second-hand bicycle. The next day, he really pushed a half-new Phoenix 28-inch bicycle to her.
The price is also good, 40 yuan.
Lin Chuxia knew that Sun Hao had a special status and could indeed help her out sometimes. Unexpectedly, he helped her out a lot and immediately counted the money and gave it to Aunt Sun.
With a bicycle, it is much more convenient to travel back and forth.
When we arrived at the courtyard, Su Wensong had already returned from shopping and was chopping meat in the yard. His two knives were flying around, leaving only shadows.
During this period, Su Wensong was the one who was chopping the meat filling, which was a strenuous job.
Lin Chuxia has also tried the meat grinder of this era. It is a purely manual meat grinder that can only grind two taels of meat at a time, which is really not ideal.
It was not used up in one go and was thrown aside by Su Wensong in disgust.
Grandma Su was sitting on a small stool picking vegetables. Lin Chuxia put away her bicycle and greeted Grandma Su with a smile, "Grandma Su, you got up so early again. Just leave these things for us."
Grandma Su smiled kindly, picking leeks one by one while talking to her, "I like doing these things, Xiaolin, you don't know, grandma likes excitement, watching you busy and lively every day, grandma feels that the day becomes more interesting, more lively than the Chinese New Year."
Lin Chuxia smiled and said, "You give me such a cheap rent, and you also want you to help me pick vegetables and do housework every day, isn't that a great bargain?"
Grandma Su also laughed, "How did you take advantage of me? We took advantage of you."
She glanced at her grandson who was chopping meat. With this job, her grandson was visibly different from before.
In the past, her grandson never said anything to her, but seeing that he was silent and frowned from time to time, she knew that he was thinking about something.
Although he gets up early and goes to bed late now, his grandson always has a smile on his face, and his enthusiasm for work is different.
Lin Chuxia and Grandma Su finished picking the vegetables while chatting and laughing, and then Aunt Sun also came.
After preparing the meat filling, Aunt Sun began to make dumplings while porridge was cooking in several large pots.
Before the first batch of buns came out of the oven, a line formed outside the shop, and the new day officially began.
Breakfast mainly consists of meat buns, vegetarian buns, porridge, and pickles.
After this morning wave, Lin Chuxia began to prepare cold dishes for lunch.
Generally, they are seasonal vegetables, which are blanched in boiling water, added with seasonings, and then mixed with her secret chili oil. They are very popular.
While she was busy, Aunt Sun behind her poked her. She turned her head in confusion and raised her chin towards the door.
I saw an old man standing outside the door, with his hands behind his back and looking up at the plaque of their steamed bun shop.
The old man was none other than the old man who sat and watched at the entrance of the train station every day.
Lin Chuxia wiped her hands and went out to greet him, but she was merciless in her words, "Why are you here today? Are you just passing by?"
The old man looked up and down at Lin Chuxia who came out of the store, and finally snorted coldly and walked into the store.
It was not dinner time and no one was in the restaurant, so the old man found an empty seat and sat down.
Lin Chuxia teased him deliberately, "I'm sorry, our store is closed right now, how about you come back at lunch time later?"
The old man's beard twitched, and he finally couldn't help it.
"Do you have any conscience, girl? It's been so many days. I haven't had a single bun. I've become skinny from hunger. And now you're telling me there's no rice. If there's no rice, what are you steaming in the steamer? Air?"
Lin Chuxia was overjoyed. She sat opposite the old man and asked him with her chin in her hand, "Old man, who told you that I opened this bun shop? If I don't set up the stall, you won't eat? Why do you still rely on me when I kindly give you a few buns?"
"What do you mean by relying on you? You are a girl with bad intentions. First I gave you meat buns, then vegetarian buns, and in the end there were no vegetarian buns left. Tell me what your intentions are. I don't care. Anyway, your bun shop will not run away. From now on, I will come here to eat my buns every day..."
As soon as the old man finished speaking, Grandma Su came in from the back door and said, "You shameless old man, Xiao Lin gave you the buns out of kindness, why are you blaming him?"
After that, he said to Lin Chuxia, "Xiao Lin, don't pay attention to him. This old guy has bad intentions."
The old man saw that Grandma Su's eyes were evasive for a moment, and then he stiffened his neck and retorted, "How can I have bad intentions? It was obviously this girl who provoked me, ask her if this is the case."
Lin Chuxia raised her eyebrows. It seemed that Grandma Su and the old man knew each other.
Seeing the old man looking at her eagerly, there seemed to be a hint of pleading in his eyes.
Lin Chuxia smiled and explained to Grandma Su, "It was fate that I saw the old man was there every day, so I wanted him to help me taste the buns."
When the old man heard this, he raised his chin proudly, as if to prove that he was not lying.
Grandma Su sneered, "Xiao Lin is a kind person. Seeing you standing there all alone all day is really pitiful. You really think you are a nobody."
The old man looked disdainful. "If you don't take yourself seriously, why are you wandering around here? Who wrote the sign at the door? I, an old man, am really enlightened. I can still see it in my lifetime..."
"Shut up," Grandma Su interrupted him, "You just want to eat buns, right? I tell you, Xiaolin is a good kid, you can't blackmail her by eating and drinking for free, I won't allow it."
The old man's beard twitched, and his face was alert. "Then...then what do you say?"
"Hey, look at that expression on your face. Old He, do you think you are rich or that you are popular? Let's not talk about it. Go wherever you want. Xiao Lin's store won't entertain you, as if we have other intentions."
"You... why are you in such a hurry? Xiaolin hasn't chased me away yet," the old man begged for mercy, "You go ahead."
Grandma Su glanced at Lin Chuxia and said, "Xiao Lin is being kind by not chasing you away. She is not your junior, so why should you eat buns for free? If you want to eat meat buns every day, you can accept Xiao Lin as your apprentice. You don't need to teach her any special skills. Just give her some of your best stuff as payment for the buns."
This time, not only the old man, but even Lin Chuxia looked at Grandma Su unexpectedly.
Grandma Su gave her a reassuring look, and Lin Chuxia understood that Grandma Su knew this old man He, and that the old man's identity must be not simple.
Grandma Su is trying to get benefits for herself.
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