Chapter 8: Pancakes
Wang Mengmei stuffed a steamed bun into Jian Li's mouth. Inside the hot bun was a fried egg and a handful of shredded potatoes.
The crispy crust is filled with a fried egg that is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The shredded potatoes are fried to perfection, with the slightly sticky, overcooked texture that Jian Li likes the most.
Wang Mengmei urged like a machine gun.
"Hurry up, take your dad's car!"
The family split up into two groups. Wang Mengmei went to open a shop, and Jian Feng changed shifts today to take his daughter to see a doctor. When Jian Li finished a pancake, Jian Feng patted the back seat of the car and said, "Let's go."
This is the first time that Jian Li has left the compound after her rebirth.
She looked around curiously. The road was full of potholes and dust. There were many people riding bicycles, and occasionally a few green buses passed by. There were even fewer private cars, most of which were Santanas, and there were also red Xiali taxis driving very fast.
Because it is summer, people are wearing cool clothes. White dacron short-sleeved shirts and navy blue umbrella skirts are the most common, as well as pink transparent plastic sandals.
Jian Li: ...a bit earthy.
Then she looked at her feet. Well, she was wearing a pair of shoes too. Jian Li secretly pulled her feet up. She was wearing a pair of long pants today. After she gained weight, her adolescent self-esteem made her immediately give up all the clothes that could show her skin. Now she was wearing a long-sleeved top and pants that almost reached the ground...
Jane Li suddenly became worried. It seemed that she would have to go back and talk to her mother to make some cooler clothes.
It's only July and there are still two months to go. She doesn't want to get too hot from wearing long sleeves and long pants.
The car arrived at the hospital quickly, and the car was parked at the door. A playing card was used to park the car. A playing card was divided into two pieces. One was hung on the handlebar, and the other was handed to Jian Feng by the old man who was watching the car.
"Parking the car is 20 cents."
The 20 cents parking fee is not cheap, but there is no other way. Car theft is very common nowadays, especially in a hospital. Losing a wallet or a car won't cause any ripples. People often come to see a doctor with money, but before they even enter the hospital, they find that their bags have been cut.
The father and daughter went to make an appointment at the internal medicine department. The doctor took a look at Jian Li's condition and asked her to weigh herself.
"One hundred and seventy-six pounds."
The doctor pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said helplessly: "You haven't lost much weight. Do you want to continue taking the medicine or stop for a while?"
"In fact, I suggest you stop doing it. The child's condition is also due to puberty obesity. Parents, please keep an eye on her. Through exercise and diet, the condition can be brought under control slowly. Hormonal obesity itself takes a certain amount of time to metabolize. It's not good for you to rush for success."
Jian Li nodded vigorously at the side. She was eager to stop taking the medication as soon as possible. The doctor really hit the nail on the head.
"Dad, I also think I can lose weight. Don't take the medicine. I promise I will exercise and lose weight when I go back."
Her solemn promise made Jian Feng feel extremely uncomfortable.
Jian Feng touched his daughter's head and said, "Dad knows you think the medicine is expensive. It's okay. Our family can still afford this little money. Dad will definitely cure your illness."
Over the past six months, Jian Feng has seen his daughter become more and more withdrawn. She used to have a few good friends with her, but now they don't hang out much after she gained weight. Seeing his daughter's loneliness, he is worried.
Besides being anxious, she also regretted not sending her daughter to a bigger hospital. The mistake caused by misdiagnosis now made her daughter feel so inferior.
Jian Feng stubbornly believes that as long as Jian Li takes medicine, she will lose weight, but Jian Li knows very well that her biggest problem is not hormone metabolism, but psychological.
In her previous life, she was under great psychological pressure because of obesity. Later, she tried to lose weight, but gained weight again after losing weight. This repeated cycle repeated itself, and no medicine worked. This psychological barrier only gradually disappeared after she went to college and gradually accepted herself. Her weight finally returned to normal.
However, years of hard work have caused her physical condition to deteriorate a lot. Jian Li seriously suspects that her sudden death from overwork at a young age in her previous life was also related to her excessive weight loss...
"Dad, there's really no need!"
Jian Li pointed at the scale in the doctor's office and said, "Buy me a scale. I will definitely lose weight this summer. If the weight loss effect is not good, I will take medicine again."
The doctor also chimed in: "This parent, actually what the child said is not unreasonable. Anyway, the child is young, and it will be effective if you reduce the weight slowly."
After being persuaded by both of them, Jian Feng finally accepted the doctor's prescription with some doubts.
"Recheck in a month and a half."
Jian Li patted her chest and said, "I'm sure I can do it."
As a person who has repeatedly failed in her attempts to lose weight, she just doesn't believe that she can't lose weight.
After leaving the hospital, Jian Feng handed the parking ticket on his wrist to Jian Li: "Go to the parking place and wait for me. I'll be there in a while."
Jian Li watched her father buy a watermelon at the hospital entrance and take the watermelon to the second floor of the hospital. She shrugged and left first.
The second floor of the hospital is the inpatient department. Jian Li bought a red bean popsicle and squatted at the parking lot waiting for her father.
After waiting for less than ten minutes, Jian Feng came down.
"Let's go."
Jian Feng's depression was visible to the naked eye. Jian Li looked up at the inpatient department and understood what was going on.
It is said that her grandmother has been in poor health recently and is currently in hospital.
Jian Feng sent Jian Li home and hurried to work.
Jian Li fiddled around in the house, and only went to the market at noon.
Her mother was busy in the stall at the moment, and there were three people standing in front of the stall for the first time.
I don't know when a small frying pan appeared in the shop, connected to the stove in the shop.
There were steaming shredded beans and potatoes on the frying pan, and her mother was frying eggs with sweat all over her face.
A larger-than-usual salt and pepper pancake is cut in half and stuffed with a fried egg and a few chopsticks of vegetables. Some people think the taste is too bland and will buy a salted duck egg.
A pancake with vegetables like this costs 50 cents, and adding a salted duck egg costs 80 cents.
Jian Li was stunned, watching her mother start adding new products without any instruction.
Wang Mengmei was so busy that she didn't even have time to talk to her daughter.
As soon as the three people in the queue came out, two more came in.
At noon, people didn't come in a large number, but came one after another.
Wang Mengmei was so busy that she had to get up and continue working after eating only a few bites.
But Wang Mengmei became more and more happy, and at around 1:00 p.m., the person finally left.
She hid behind the booth and counted the money.
Normally, I would only sell about 10 to 20 pancakes a day, but today I sold more than 20 just at noon!
They were all pancakes with vegetables, and I sold seven or eight salted duck eggs!
She earned more than twelve dollars for a meal!
Wang Mengmei held the money in her hand. It was not that she had never made money before. She used to work in a factory and her highest monthly salary was more than 200 yuan.
But this money is different!
She calculated in her mind that she had earned more than fifteen dollars so far today, not counting the crowds at five or six in the afternoon. Even if there were fewer people at that time than at noon, she could still earn twenty dollars a day.
Twenty dollars a day, that’s... six hundred dollars a month!
Excluding costs, it would be at least three or four hundred a month.
Wang Mengmei never dreamed that her shop could make so much money.
She pinched her thigh and cried out, then she realized it was not a dream and laughed happily.
Jian Li looked at her mother's silly smile and laughed along with her.
"Mom, why do you want to sell pancakes and vegetables?"
That wasn't what she said, her mother could have thought of it herself.
Wang Mengmei rolled her eyes: "Do you think I'm that stubborn? Isn't this thing sold at the entrance of high school? It's very simple to make."
Although she had seen it before, she had never thought of selling it in the market.
She thinks that things sold outside are too expensive and not clean, so it is better to make them yourself than to buy them outside. Take this pancake with vegetables for example, you can cook the vegetables yourself, and then fry an egg inside the pancake, and it only costs two or three cents.
It's often sold for only 50 or 80 cents outside, it's really a rip-off.
As a person who was cheated, she felt it was a waste whenever Jian Li and Jian Feng spent money to buy things outside.
But as the person who sells this thing, Wang Mengmei thinks... it smells really good.
She later realized that selling this thing actually made money.
Jian Li said angrily: "Of course."
In the catering industry, everyone starts with a 50% profit margin. This is before semi-finished products. When semi-finished products dominate the market, the profit margin of a dish from semi-finished products to the mouths of diners will be at least four or five times.
Wang Mengmei was very excited: "I will make more pancakes tomorrow. Even if we can't sell them all by night, I can go back and sell them at the entrance of the middle school in the factory."
At this time, the only ones still attending school are the senior high school students. Wang Mengmei also plans to go to the school gate to have a look. It is impossible for her to give up her current stall and become a street vendor, but it is possible for her to sell midnight snacks at the school gate every day to finish selling the day's steamed cakes.
Jian Li was stunned for a moment when she saw her mother's energetic face.
Her mother had always been resentful throughout her life, ever since she started college.
The twists and turns in the past have prevented a family from getting up. Wang Mengmei feels sad whenever she thinks about it. When her father sighs late at night, her mother also has inexplicable regrets and complaints.
Long-term resentment always makes Ms. Wang Mengmei look bitter. She is like any housewife who has worked hard but not received any reward. Because she doesn't know who to blame, she is suspicious of any new things and is full of distrust of her family.
The image of her previous life was so profound that Jian Li had forgotten that her mother was not the "extreme risk-averse" who was afraid of the ropes for ten years after being bitten by a snake once.
She will also try her best to think of a way out and try some paths that few people take.
Jian Li: "Can you sell in front of the high school? The vendors have already established their positions. If you go now, will there be a quarrel over the position? How about I go with you, Dad?"
Wang Mengmei: “No need!”
"You think I'm stupid? The high schools are on holiday now. Only the seniors are studying. There are very few students. Your aunt Xiaofang's child said that when she came out of school at night, there was no food stall. She goes home hungry now."
Wang Mengmei raised her chin and said, "I'm just doing this for the summer. I won't go when school starts again."
The city is so big, even if she goes out to be a stall vendor at night, she doesn't have to keep an eye on this piece of land by the factory middle school and compete with others for land. At worst, she can just go out and find a new place.
Wang Mengmei was open-minded and rejected her daughter's offer to help.
"Don't mess around in front of me. Since you've been to the hospital, you can go back to your grandmother's house the day after tomorrow to spend the summer vacation!"
It would save her from jumping up and down these days, making my hands itchy and want to hit someone.
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