Yu Caiping's case served as a wake-up call for Lin Minjun. She suddenly realized that society at that time seemed to be particularly resistant to divorce. Not only people were resistant, but society as a whole was also resistant, and there was no publicity about this matter at all.

Many women in the countryside have no idea what divorce is, nor do they know what their future holds after a divorce.

For them, marrying a husband with bad character or someone they can't get along with is bad luck, and they just accept their fate.

Lin Minjun thought, if only more people could see Yu Caiping, then they would know that there are other ways for women to live besides being beaten at home.

After much deliberation, Lin Minjun finally found Reporter Gu.

Since the last interview and report, reporter Gu has brought his whole family here to dine from time to time. They used to eat at a rice noodle shop, and later moved to a restaurant.

Lin Minjun found reporter Gu and told him her thoughts.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Shuangcheng said, "That's not okay. Isn't that the same as encouraging people to get divorced?"

"How can this be considered as advising people to divorce? I just want more people to know about this. Many people have been beaten and don't know how to ask for help. Is it right to beat them to death?" Lin Minjun asked.

"Comrade Xiaolin, let's not quarrel. Let's talk it over nicely." Gu Shuangcheng saw that she was emotional and said quickly.

Lin Minjun: "I didn't quarrel with you. I just wanted to express my attitude, to let more people know about this incident, to let those who are experiencing these things know how to deal with it and how to escape from that environment. A couple who can really live together will not choose to divorce because of this report, but someone who is really going to be beaten to death may see this and think that they can still get a divorce. It's good to save one more person."

So the two of them sat down to discuss it again, and finally Gu Shuangcheng said, "I'll go talk to the editor-in-chief and see if we can do a follow-up interview. Then all the characters will use pseudonyms, and I won't mainly write about her divorce, but about her employment situation. What do you think?"

Lin Minjun's eyes lit up. "That's even better. Everyone knows that there are jobs out there. Going out to work will help you gain some experience. Then you'll know what to do."

"Then I'll wait for your news."

Lin Minjun came out of the newspaper office and returned to the restaurant just in time for dinner. The restaurant had already started to receive customers.

Fortunately, now that Yu Caiping is here, Lin Minjun feels much more relaxed. As long as she arranges things in advance, she can go out to do things.

At this time, customers gradually came into the store. Lin Minjun took off her coat and started to receive customers at the front desk. Just as she started to serve them, Aunt Xu came over.

Aunt Xu pointed to the private room upstairs and said, "A guest arrived early and is upstairs. He said he was looking for you."

"Looking for me, male or female, did you tell me who you are?" Lin Minjun looked confused, as she didn't remember who she had made an appointment to meet.

Aunt Xu: "It's a woman. She didn't say who she is. She's waiting for you upstairs right now. Go up and take a look and you'll know."

Lin Minjun looked puzzled. After handing over the matters downstairs to Aunt Xu, she went upstairs by herself. When she walked into the private room, she saw a very elegant woman waiting for her with her arms folded.

As she approached the door of the box, the woman heard the noise and turned around.

Lin Minjun recognized him immediately, "Teacher Shen!"

She smiled and asked, "Is the old man feeling better?"

The person who came turned out to be Teacher Shen. The first time Director Su introduced Lin Minjun to host a birthday party at someone else's home, it was Teacher Shen's home.

The whole Zhang family was very satisfied with the meal that time. Later, when Lin Minjun opened a restaurant, Mr. Zhang often came to dine there, and Lin Minjun gradually became familiar with this family.

Although I am old, I was in good health when I was young. Now I have no problems with blood sugar and blood pressure, and I enjoy eating everything.

Some time ago, the old man fell on the snow while going out to eat. He was fine, just sprained his ankle. When Lin Minjun heard the news, she couldn't help laughing.

Teacher Shen also smiled and said, "Much better. You asked me about you two days ago."

She looked at the decoration around her, and when she looked at Lin Minjun again, her eyes were filled with admiration, "You have decorated this place very well, it's very impressive. My family members came over before and they said you did a great job, but I came here today and realized how well it is."

Lin Minjun was embarrassed to brag about herself, so she just smiled at her.

"By the way, Mr. Shen, what is the reason you came to see me today?"

"I almost forgot about this if you hadn't mentioned it." Teacher Shen retracted his gaze and said with a smile, "It's like this, grandpa has been at home and can't go out recently. He has been saying that he wants to eat the food here, but our family is very busy and there is no one to accompany him out for dinner. It's not that Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, so we thought of booking a table in advance for Mid-Autumn Festival and bringing grandpa over for dinner."

Because the restaurant business is good, two tables have been reserved for the Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner. Lin Minjun counted the private rooms and nodded, "Okay, how many people are there in your family?"

"My younger and older sister-in-law are coming back with their children, and people from my parents' side will also come over, so there will be about two tables." Teacher Shen did the math and then said this.

Lin Minjun: "Your family reunion certainly does not want to be disturbed, so I'll reserve the largest private room for you. It can accommodate two tables, but it's a bit crowded. The other option is the lobby, which can accommodate some but there are always people walking around. What do you think?" She gave the choice to Teacher Shen.

It was this thoughtfulness that made Teacher Shen feel very happy. He looked around and asked, "Is this the largest private room?"

"Yes, we can put one table inside and one table outside, and each table can seat ten people." Lin Minjun explained with a smile.

Teacher Shen nodded: "It's not that small actually. We don't need to have 20 people come to our house. We can just have nine people sitting at a table. You are so considerate. I think this private room is great."

Lin Minjun: "Then I'll write it down for you later."

Teacher Shen looked around and became more and more satisfied. Lin Minjun thought she was leaving and walked her all the way downstairs.

The reason I associate with the Zhang family is partly because we get along, and partly because I want to maintain these relationships.

She has no relatives in North City and her foundation is not stable, so it won't hurt to get to know more people.

These relationships must be maintained, otherwise if you really need help with something, it will be too late to maintain them by then.

Lin Minjun walked her to the door and was about to say goodbye when Teacher Shen suddenly turned around.

Lin Minjun looked at her blankly.

"Xiao Lin, do you remember that I asked you to buy a ham from Yunnan last year?" Teacher Shen asked.

Lin Minjun was a little surprised to hear this mentioned out of the blue. "I remember it. What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the ham?"

She introduced the ham to me. Axia's ham is very famous in the area. If there is any problem with it, it will ruin its reputation.

Teacher Shen saw that she was a little nervous, and suddenly came over to hold her hand, smiling and said, "No, it's delicious. My grandfather also said that the taste is very authentic. It's just that the ham is too big, and we eat it every day. I want to ask if you have any other way to cook it. When we eat at home, we are always arguing when we see the ham."

A whole ham is very large. After it was shipped from Yunnan, Lin Minjun suggested finding someone to cut it into pieces and put it in the refrigerator. It just so happened that the Zhang family had a refrigerator.

Even if I eat it this way, it still tastes disgusting.

Lin Minjun couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and she also helped to think of a solution, "I have taught you all the ways to cook ham, the other thing is... Yuntiao mooncake."

"Mooncakes?" Teacher Shen's eyes lit up. "What does it look like? How do I make it?"

"It's our Yunnan hard-shell mooncake. It tastes salty and sweet, and the outer shell is crispy and fragrant." Lin Minjun drooled as she spoke.

Teacher Shen: "This sounds delicious. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in a few months, so it would be perfect for us to eat this. But we don't have a stove at home, so we can't make mooncakes."

She looked regretful. "Anything else?"

"I can't think of anything else for now." Speaking of ham mooncakes, Lin Minjun also began to savor them. An idea popped into her mind, "Teacher Shen, how much ham do you have left at home? Can I buy some from you? I want to try making mooncakes in the restaurant myself."

"Sure, it's not easy to make it at home, but it would be more convenient for you to set up a stove in the restaurant." Teacher Shen said, "No need to buy it, I'll just give it to you directly."

"That won't do. A ham isn't cheap. I'll definitely pay for it."

The two of them went back and forth, and finally Teacher Shen took a step back and sold it to Lin Minjun at a cheap price.

Lin Minjun followed her home to get the ham. After leaving Zhang's house, she immediately went to the post office to call Axia. She said on the phone that she wanted to order two more hams, and any extra hams could be sent to her in the future, and she wanted them all.

Lin Minjun has made up her mind that the ham that was sent to her can be made into a dish and sold in the restaurant, and she can also eat ham mooncakes, killing two birds with one stone!

Back at the restaurant, Lin Minjun took out the ham she bought from Teacher Shen and asked Yu Caiping, "Sister, can you make ham mooncakes?"

Yu Caiping took the ham and looked at it. "Yes, there is a chef in the hotel who makes white pastry. I learned a few tricks from him, but I'm not a professional."

She is really too modest. She said she had learned a few tricks, but the finished product she made tastes just as good as the local ones.

Lin Minjun took a bite and heard a crisp snap as the shell was bitten open. Her tongue rolled over the crispy crust and bit into her mouth. Soon the crust melted in her mouth, and the fresh taste of the ham began to dominate her taste buds.

Lin Minjun looked at the mooncake in her hand again and felt that it tasted better than the ones from century-old brands she had eaten in her previous life.

She really got a treasure by inviting Sister!

"Is it delicious?" Yu Caiping asked nervously.

Lin Minjun finished one mooncake in no time and wanted to eat a second one. "It's delicious!"

She reached out to take it, but Yu Caiping held her back and said with a smile, "Don't worry, you like this flavor, I'll make more in the future. I'll make you another rice cloth."

When the rice cloth was ready, Lin Minjun and Yu Caiping's little daughter each had a bowl and ate it at the counter, enjoying the delicious taste.

After finishing her meal, Lin Minjun ran to find Yu Caiping and said, "Sister, I want to make this for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I want to prepare some extra ham and give one to each guest who comes to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. What do you think? Can you handle it?"

The prices in her restaurant are not cheap. Those who come to dine here are people with some financial resources. The more variety there is, the more they like it and the more they feel it is worth coming.

"We can handle the busy schedule, but we have to do it in advance and not wait until the day of the event. We also need more manpower. We still don't have enough manpower even if we put all the staff in the restaurant together."

Lin Minjun nodded and took out her schedule and wrote it down.

She is a busy person now, so she bought a small notebook and put it in her bag. She writes down what she needs to do so that she won't forget.

Lin Minjun wrote in her notebook that she was looking for someone to help make mooncakes.

After writing the schedule, Lin Minjun said, "Sister, the restaurant is not busy today. Please make some more mooncakes and I will give them to old customers. They take care of my business, so I will give them some in advance to try."

"Okay, I'll knead the dough now." Yu Caiping did what she said, and she couldn't stop smiling.

She smiled every day after coming to the restaurant and felt needed every day.

After the fragrant ham mooncakes were made, Lin Minjun gave them to Aunt Xu and Aunt Cao to taste first. The two people had different tastes, one said it was delicious and the other said it was a bit sweet.

Lin Minjun gave some to regular customers. The first one she gave was the Zhang family. Teacher Shen was at home at the time. After eating, she immediately gave a thumbs up and said, "It's delicious! I like sweet food, and this tastes better than the five-nut cake I had before."

After eating, Teacher Shen thought for a while, then pulled Lin Minjun aside and said, "Xiao Lin, are you selling this mooncake? I don't want to buy the five-nut mooncake this year, so I'll buy this one. I'm sure my whole family will love it."

"sell?"

"Yes, you can also buy some packaging and package the mooncakes. I will buy them back as gifts. I want to give you something different this year." Teacher Shen began to make requests.

"How much do you want? I'll start thinking about it when I get back and send it to you before the Mid-Autumn Festival." Lin Minjun took out her diary and wrote this down.

After saying goodbye to Teacher Shen, Lin Minjun suddenly thought that if someone wanted it, she could just mass-produce it, make some custom-made packaging, and sell it beautifully. If the food tastes good, people will come back and come back again, and the reputation of the restaurant will gradually spread.

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became, and she began to think about mass production.

Lin Minjun rode her bicycle back to the restaurant, feeling that this was a bold attempt.

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Lin Minjun finally made up her mind to mass-produce mooncakes with Sichuan ham.

If you want to mass-produce, you have to do it in a more formal way. First of all, you have to adjust the flavor of the mooncakes to suit the tastes of the people in the capital. In addition, you have to work hard on the packaging. You have to use oil paper for packaging, and large packages should be in paper boxes. They have to be made more beautiful, and finally put in paper bags so that people can carry them as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts.

There are still more than three months until the Mid-Autumn Festival, so you can start preparing now.

The most important thing is the taste of the mooncakes, and this is what Lin Minjun works on first.

As soon as she returned to the restaurant, she went into the kitchen and started to think with Yu Caiping about how to improve the taste of mooncakes. They should not be too sweet, nor lose the original flavor of Yunnan ham. In addition, they could make two kinds of puff pastry, one hard that melts in the mouth when bitten, and the other crispy and soft, suitable for the elderly.

From that day on, Lin Minjun started to get busy, often not returning home until eight or nine o'clock, by which time Aunt Cao and Aunt Xu had already returned home.

Yan Li was promoted to team leader, and his work became even busier, so he often had no time to pick up and drop off students.

Lin Minjun rode her bicycle to and from get off work. She planned to save some money in two years to buy a car so that it would be safer to drive to and from get off work.

Lin Minjun still rode her bike back home that day. The nightlife in the capital is getting more and more prosperous now, and you can still see people on the streets at night, so she is not scared.

After riding her bicycle all the way to the entrance of the alley and the gate of the courtyard, Lin Minjun saw smoke coming out of the bushes next to her.

The smoke rose up in wisps.

Lin Minjun squeezed the brakes and stopped the car suddenly, thinking that the bushes were on fire. It was dry and a random cigarette butt could catch fire.

Siheyuan buildings are all made of wood. Once a fire occurs, it will be too late to put out the fire.

Lin Minjun looked at the curling smoke and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Her heart was pounding, and she quickly got out of the car and took down her water bottle. There was still more than half of water in the bottle. She picked up the bottle and splashed it over, trying to put out the water.

Unexpectedly, as soon as a pot of water was poured, someone shouted "Ah!"

Lin Minjun was startled.

Looking closely, I saw someone suddenly stand up from the bushes in the darkness with a cigarette between his fingers.

It was a young man wearing a leather jacket and had a scar across his mouth.

The moment he stood up, he was ready to curse. Before he could say anything, Lin Minjun quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I thought there was a fire, so I poured water to put it out. I didn't expect someone was smoking here. I'm sorry."

After hearing this, the young man's anger subsided by half. When he took another look at Lin Minjun's appearance, the other half of his anger immediately disappeared without a trace.

The young man looked at her for a while, swallowed the words "Mom, you are blind" that were on the tip of his tongue, and changed his words to "It's a small matter, there's nothing to pursue."

Lin Minjun breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave, but was stopped by the young man again. He looked at Lin Minjun frivolously and said with a grin, "Don't be in a hurry to leave. Why are you back alone so late? Do you live in this alley? Do you want to get to know me?"

The expression and tone of his voice when he spoke made Lin Minjun feel offended.

Lin Minjun frowned and said in an unhappy tone: "It has nothing to do with you. I'm already married."

The young man immediately felt embarrassed, took a deep puff of cigarette, and said unhappily: "I'm just asking casually, I don't mean anything else, you are too self-indulgent."

"I just said it casually."

Lin Minjun chuckled, thinking that this man was a bit weird. She rolled her eyes at him and pushed her bicycle into the courtyard.

He pushed open the gate, turned around the screen wall, and was about to walk towards the hanging flower gate.

Lin Minjun saw Mrs. Xu, who lived in the back house, walking out of the darkness with a sulky expression on her face.

"What's wrong, sister-in-law? Why aren't you asleep so late?" Lin Minjun asked casually.

It was the middle of the night, and Mrs. Xu was already in a bad mood, but she couldn't find anyone to talk to, so she could only sit at the door and sulk.

Seeing Lin Minjun coming back, he couldn't help but complain.

Mrs. Xu held Lin Minjun and refused to let her go, muttering, "It's all because of Xiao Zhao next door. He's really not self-aware. He doesn't sleep in the middle of the night and calls a bunch of people over to play cards and shout every day. The first two days were fine and I didn't bother with him. Who knew he would go too far and call people over every night? Lingling is going to take the high school entrance exam soon, and the noise keeps the child awake."

Mrs. Xu was getting angrier and angrier. "Just now I went over and asked them to keep their voices down or stop playing cards. If they don't sleep, others will have to sleep. Guess what they said?"

"What did you say?" Lin Minjun asked curiously.

Mrs. Xu: "Zhao Wei's friend told me that if I don't like the noise, I can just move out and there will be no one to make noise. How could he say that? Am I not moving because I don't want to?"

Lin Minjun nodded, "That's too much. They were the ones who disturbed others in the first place."

"You think so, don't you? Sister Xu told me before that she could hear it from inside. It was so noisy in the middle of the night." Sister Xu said, "It's just that you and Xiao Li have good tempers. If it were the old man who managed the courtyard, he would never dare to bring such a person back."

Ever since the accident between the First Master and the First Master Ma, there has been no Master in charge of the courtyard. Usually, no one causes trouble when Yan Li lives here, and everyone just acts on their own.

But at this moment, someone appeared unconscious, and Mrs. Xu didn't know who to ask to deal with the matter.

After listening for a long time, Lin Minjun took the initiative to say, "Then I'll go and take a look at the situation. Our yard is not a vegetable market. What if we bring strangers back and steal other people's things? And they always disturb people in the middle of the night."

She comforted Mrs. Xu and ran inside to take a look.

Before I even walked in, I could hear shouts coming from Zhao Wei's room, something like "three with one" and "explosion!"

They were indeed playing cards, and they were particularly noisy. Every time someone hit a bomb there would be a burst of laughter, which was so noisy.

Lin Minjun walked up and knocked on the door. No one heard her the first time because it was as noisy as a vegetable market inside. It was only the second time that someone came to open the door. As luck would have it, the person who opened the door was the young man who had been smoking outside just now.

When the young man saw that it was Lin Minjun, a look of surprise flashed across his face, and he asked impatiently, "What's the matter?"

Lin Minjun said, "I came here to ask you to lower your voices a little and stop making so much noise. There is a girl next to us who is taking her high school entrance exam and you are disturbing her rest."

"What does her high school entrance exam have to do with us? That's funny." The young man sneered and was about to close the door.

Lin Minjun said, "If you keep making noise, get out. You are not allowed to play cards here!"

The young man got angry and yelled, "Who are you, sister? Do you think you can meddle in other people's business just because you are pretty? Who do you think you are?"

As he spoke, he rushed over and tried to push Lin Minjun. Zhao Wei was standing nearby. He had not said a word when his friend was arguing with Lin Minjun just now, but now he was quick to respond and stopped his friend immediately.

Zhao Wei leaned over to his friend and whispered, "She is the landlord's daughter-in-law."

After saying this, everyone in the room lowered their voices. It's someone else's house, so they can really take care of it.

As a result, the young man turned around and walked a few steps, complaining again, "Why do you care about us? What's so great about being a landlord?"