Li Shuping returned to the dumpling shop, which was busy, but with Qin Rong, Qin Ye and Lin Xiaoyu around, everything was orderly and not chaotic.
Qin Rong cooked the dumplings while Li Shuping put the bags away and went outside to take orders and clear the table.
We worked until 1:30, and it was past noon, so we cooked dumplings for lunch.
"Sister Li, what kind of dumplings do you want to eat?" Qin Rong asked.
Li Shuping: "Let's eat pickled cabbage. It's hot and it's good for your appetite."
Qin Rong: "Okay, you know what, our sauerkraut dumplings have been selling really well these past few days."
The dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut and pork are new. The Honglian Brigade has set up a small pickled vegetable factory. When they delivered vegetables a few days ago, they also sent a jar of sauerkraut for them to try.
Li Shuping tasted the sauerkraut and found it delicious, so she ordered sauerkraut from the Honglian Brigade and served sauerkraut dumplings, which received a very good response.
The dumplings were cooked quickly, and the four of them sat together, eating dumplings and chatting.
"The weather has been hot recently. I see a lot of kelp and bone soup left over every day. Should I cook less?" Qin Rong said while eating dumplings.
Li Shuping: "Now that the weather is hot, people prefer to drink cold drinks. In the future, the amount of kelp and bone soup will be halved and sour plum soup will be added."
Lin Xiaoyu's eyes lit up. "Sour plum soup is good. It's sour and sweet and quenches thirst. It tastes even better if it's chilled."
Li Shuping thought for a moment and said, "Freeze some ice cubes in the refrigerator for boiled water. If someone wants to drink ice, they can add ice cubes."
Not everyone can drink iced sour plum soup.
"How much does the sour plum soup cost? It should be cheaper than the dragon bone and kelp soup, right?" Qin Ye asked.
Li Shuping: "It's about 8 cents a bowl. The cost of sour plum soup is low. If it's too expensive, people will think it's not worth it and won't be willing to buy it."
A bowl of sour plum soup costs only a few cents. It looks inexpensive, but it is actually not cheap. It has low cost and high profit, so it is quite profitable.
In the afternoon, Li Shuping went to the pharmacy and picked up some sour plum soup, and also went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a few bags of rock sugar.
When I returned to the store, I saw Qin Rong sleeping on the table.
Lin Xiaoyu was doing her homework under the fan, and Qin Ye was sitting next to her, flipping through the book she had placed on the table.
Since the summer vacation, Lin Xiaoyu would take her books and notebooks to the front to do her homework in the afternoon when there were no customers in the store. If she encountered something she didn't know, she would ask Qin Ye and discuss it with him.
"Brother Qin Ye, do you have any idea for this question?" Lin Xiaoyu pointed at the big math question on the test paper and asked Qin Ye.
Qin Ye put down the Chinese textbook in his hand, lowered his head to look at the question and started thinking. After a few seconds, he picked up Lin Xiaoyu's pen, wrote and drew on the draft paper, and talked about his own ideas.
Li Shuping looked at it and smiled, then took the sour plum soup ingredients into the kitchen.
It was time to get off work at the garment factory, and Lin Jianshe walked out of the factory in a daze.
"Lin Jianshe, don't forget my bicycle." Chen Jiaping, who was walking behind, reminded loudly.
Lin Jianshe looked back at Chen Jiaping and nodded.
Lin Jianshe took the bus to Liu's house, and when the people in the compound saw him coming, they all looked at him with strange eyes.
The door of Liu's room was closed. Lin Jianshe walked to the door and knocked.
Yang Meifeng opened the door and saw Lin Jianshe, who looked very unhappy outside. She was startled at first, then she took Lin Jianshe's hand and said, "Oh, thank God, Jianshe, you are finally released. You don't know that your father and I have been worried about you for the past two nights. We couldn't sleep because of that."
"No one in the detention center bullies you, right? Come on, come in and sit down. Mom will cook you two poached eggs."
Lin Jianshe was still a little upset because Yang Meifeng and the others didn't go to see him and didn't give him any money, but now that he saw that she cared about him so much, the anxiety subsided a little.
“Cough, cough, cough, cough…” Liu Jianping, sitting on a reclining chair, covered his mouth and coughed. His eyes were dark and he looked tired and haggard.
Lin Jianshe: It seems that my father-in-law is really ill.
"Look at you, once you start coughing, you can't stop. Why don't you drink some water?" Yang Meifeng poured a glass of water for Liu Jianping.
Liu Jianping drank some water and his coughing stopped.
"Jianshe, come out, my good son-in-law. I'm sorry that you have suffered because of dad's affairs." Liu Jianping said with a guilty look on his face.
Lin Jianshe pulled the corners of his mouth, but he didn't say "it's okay" out loud.
Yang Meifeng: "Jianshe, please sit down. Mom will cook you some fried eggs."
"Mom, please stop worrying. I'm here to get my bicycle. I have to hurry back."
"Bicycle? What bicycle?" Yang Meifeng looked confused.
Lin Jianshe's heart skipped a beat. "It was the day I rode my bicycle here. After I pushed it into the yard, I parked it against the wall." He pointed to the spot where he had parked the bicycle.
Yang Meifeng thought about it and slapped her thigh, "Oh no, it was too chaotic that day and you were taken away by the police. We were so flustered and confused that we didn't notice you riding your bike over here at all."
"I haven't seen any bicycles parked in the yard these past two days. I'm afraid that shameless guy might have stolen them."
She knew that Lin Jianshe came here on a bicycle, but the place was so messy back there that she forgot about the bicycle and didn't pay any attention to it at all.
Lin Jianshe was overwhelmed. "I borrowed the bicycle from a colleague in the factory. If it was stolen, what should I use to return it?"
Liu Jianping and Yang Meifeng looked at each other and it seemed that they had no choice but to compensate the other party.
Yang Meifeng: "Don't worry, Jianshe. I'll go find one for you nearby."
"The car was stolen, so the owner must have sold it to someone else to sell it. How could you find it?"
"Why didn't you pay attention?" Lin Jianshe complained to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Yang Meifeng's eyes twitched. "I'm sorry, Jianshe. Mom and dad were so flustered and confused that they didn't notice you riding your bike over here."
Lin Jianshe glanced at her and asked, "What's the point of being embarrassed? The key point is that the bicycle belongs to someone else, so he has to pay for it."
"Mom and Dad, I borrowed this bike from a colleague, and now it's lost, so he must ask me to compensate him. I was riding the bike to help you and lost it, so why don't you give me some money so I can compensate him."
"Qinqin said you originally wanted to help me with 300 yuan, but she didn't. I don't want all the 300 yuan, just give me 200 yuan."
Chen Jiaping's bicycle is an old one that he has ridden for many years. The body of the bicycle is rusted. Even if he wants to compensate for it, fifty or sixty yuan will be enough.
The remaining money can be kept to pay off debts.
But because of them, I didn't go to jail. A good seamstress became a cleaner. Two hundred yuan as compensation for the lost bicycle, is this not too much?
"We..." Liu Jianping wanted to say, "When did we give you 300 yuan?" But he was stopped by Yang Meifeng's eyes.
It was obvious that Qinqin was trying to coax Lin Jianshe into saying something, and if they said no, wouldn't that be a mistake?
Seeing that they were silent, Lin Jianshe said, "The three hundred yuan won't be gone so quickly, right?"
"Of course not." Yang Meifeng said with a fake smile.
In order to avoid being caught and let Lin Jianshe, the fool, see through them and stop caring about the Liu family's affairs, Yang Meifeng, with blood dripping, took out two hundred yuan and gave it to him.
She would never give this money for nothing. Sooner or later, she would ask Lin Jianshe to pay it back double.
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