Yu Xiaoyan must have been humiliated by Fu Haozhe and was unsatisfied, so she came back to cause trouble for her.

Unfortunately, I am too timid to tell the truth directly.

What's the point of just staring at her? It's not her fault that Fu Haozhe doesn't accept her.

It’s better to go to bed early and go to the vegetable market tomorrow morning.

Chen Chuchu had a good sleep that night.

The next morning, a little after five, Chen Chuchu got up, put on her clothes quietly, and went out to wash.

After that, I took the money and tickets and went to the vegetable market.

I had already arranged with the chef in the cafeteria last night, and he would give her a stove to cook bone soup. She had to buy it, wash it, and cook it before going to work at 8 o'clock, and then she could pick it up after get off work at noon.

The vegetable market was not far from the hospital, about fifteen minutes' walk away. When she arrived, she went straight to the butcher's shop.

At this time, people prefer to buy fat meat, while lean meat and bones are not very popular. Lean meat is better, while bones are the least popular.

When it was her turn in the queue, the butcher asked, "Girl! Do you want fat or thin?"

"I want pork shank bones."

"What?" The master thought he had misheard and asked again, "What do you want?"

"Pork thigh bones, which are pig thigh bones. I want them all." Chen Chuchu took out the meat coupons and money and held them in her hand. "How much are you selling them for?"

The master's face was full of smiles. He was really surprised today that someone actually wanted to buy pork bones.

No one wanted this thing in the past. It was either given away or thrown on the street to feed dogs. Even dogs didn't like to chew it when the weather was hot.

Pulling out a basket from under the chopping board, the master dug out four shank bones and some other bones and tied them up with a straw rope.

"Little girl! This stuff is not worth much. I'll charge you 10 cents per pound, no ticket required. Let me weigh it. There are 5 pounds and 9 ounces in total. I'll add some lean meat, so it'll be 6 pounds. Give me 60 cents!"

An old lady at the back couldn't stand it anymore. She put her hands on her hips and yelled at the butcher: "Old Wu! You are so wicked. How can you live with your conscience by cheating a young girl of her money?

No one wants your bones, and you dare to sell them to a little girl for a dime a pound?"

Chen Chuchu: “…”

This old lady has a sharp tongue. She can make a big deal out of a few words and almost accuse the butcher of embezzling state public property.

The butcher, Old Wu, paused, obviously feeling a little guilty, and then smiled unnaturally: "Auntie Wang! You can't say that. No one bought it before, so the bones were naturally thrown away.

If someone buys it, of course they have to pay for it. Otherwise, if the director asks me where the pork bones are today, how should I answer? "

"You're selling it too expensive." Aunt Wang argued, "How much is fat meat per pound? Bones are ten cents per pound. How could you come up with that?"

"Then how much do you think is a reasonable price per pound?" asked the butcher, Old Wu, impatiently.

"Five cents a pound." Aunt Wang started to chop off half of it. "Look for yourself. Is there any meat on the bone?"

Chen Chuchu took a look and found that there was indeed no meat, it was cleanly removed, only bones. The four large bones together only weighed six pounds. If it were in later times, each large bone would have a lot of meat on it, at least two or three pounds.

"Okay, okay, five cents is five cents, little girl! Six pounds of bones, give me thirty cents!"

As soon as the butcher Wu finished speaking, Aunt Wang picked up the pig head on the chopping board and said, "This is also a bone, just with a layer of pig skin. Sell it to me cheaper. No need to weigh it, just 50 cents each!"

Seeing this, Chen Chuchu suddenly understood that the old lady bargained with her for a purpose.

She wanted to buy a pig's head. The bones alone would cost ten cents per pound, and the pig's head with meat would be even more expensive.

A pig's head weighs at least 10 to 20 pounds, and at 10 cents per pound it costs 70 to 80 cents. If it's more than 10 cents per pound, you'll have to pay more than one dollar to buy it.

Bones are five cents a pound, so fifty cents for a pig head is very reasonable.

I have heard for a long time that aunties are shrewd. Chen Chuchu rarely comes into contact with them and doesn't understand them very well. After what happened today, she finally understands everything.

She is a master at using this roundabout tactic, and even those who try to save the country in a roundabout way are not as good as her.

A pig's head that was worth more than one dollar was bought for fifty cents just because she said a few more words in the crowd.

Chen Chuchu smiled gratefully at the old lady, paid the money, and took the bones back to the hospital cafeteria. She found a stove and scooped some warm water to wash the bones. She was afraid that the blood would not be removed completely, so she threw in a handful of salt.

It took more than ten minutes of soaking before I took it out, cleaned it, and asked the canteen's vegetable cutter to help me chop it. I put it in a large casserole, added water, threw in a few slices of ginger, brought it to a boil over high heat, and then simmered it over low heat.

Someone asked her, "Doctor Chen! Who are you stewing all this bone soup for?"

"To Captain Fu on the fourth floor."

She did not hide anything and told him openly about how Fu Haozhe was buried in a mudslide and had a broken arm while trying to save her yesterday.

Zhuang Guodong also knew about this matter. She was not talking nonsense. The other person saved her life, so stewing some bone soup was nothing.

"Really? Then we have to make some tonic for him. It would be unreasonable not to give him something in return for saving his life."

"Yes! During the two days that Captain Fu is in the hospital, I may have to come to the cafeteria to occupy a stove. I will charge you for the coal and fire fees as I see fit. You don't have to feel embarrassed."

Chen Chuchu took the initiative to say that she didn't need to be embarrassed to come and do something tomorrow. If she didn't say it, and she came tomorrow and they said the stove was busy, she couldn't get angry with them.

"No need, you can come, our hospital staff won't be jealous." The canteen chef was a 50-year-old man, very kind, "Young man knows how to repay kindness and is a good comrade. Captain Fu has been through so many hardships, he was admitted again not long after being discharged from the hospital."

"They are trying to save lives." Another woman washing vegetables patted Chen Chuchu's shoulder and said, "Doctor Chen, go and do your work! I'll keep an eye on the soup for you. You can come get it after get off work."

"Okay! Thank you!"

Chen Chuchu dropped a few drops of white vinegar into the soup pot and covered it with a lid.

The woman washing vegetables didn't understand: "Doctor Chen! Why did you put vinegar in the pot? Isn't the soup sour?"

"It's not sour." Chen Chuchu explained with a smile, "Vinegar will promote the separation of calcium in the bones."

"What do you mean?" No one understood what was going on. "What separation are you talking about?"

Chen Chuchu was afraid that the more she explained, the less clear it would be, so she just said, "It's just to make the soup taste better."

This time the elder sister understood and nodded with a smile: "So that's how it is. I understand. Next time I make bone soup, I will do the same."