Chapter 45
Lin Qingqing brought rice and clams to the Third Company's kitchen. She chose a small stove, put the rice and clam meat in it, and started to cook porridge. This canteen has one advantage, that is, there are enough stoves. Even if she uses one, the remaining stoves are enough to make breakfast for others.
Today, the breakfast of the Third Company's kitchen is sweet potato porridge. Lin Qingqing doesn't need to arrange breakfast in the canteen, because there are only a few kinds of food for breakfast, and there is no need to arrange it in a fancy way.
It's not yet eight o'clock. At about 7:30, the canteen welcomed its first guest... Lu Haici. Lu Haici doesn't bring a lunch box to the canteen. Since everyone in his family eats in the canteen, the lunch boxes are all placed in the canteen.
Lu Haici walked to the back of the cafeteria as if he knew the way there, and saw his mother washing things. "Mom..." Lu Haici called out.
Lin Qingqing and Qi Shao and others were washing cabbage for cooking at noon. Hearing Lu Haici's voice, Lin Qingqing turned around and saw that the little boy was wearing his clothes neatly, not backwards or inside out, which was amazing. "Are you hungry? I'll get you some porridge to cool it down."
"No." Lu Haici shook his head, "Eat with mom."
Lin Qingqing said softly, "You eat first. You still have to go to kindergarten after you finish eating. If you wait for me to eat together, you will be late for kindergarten."
"Comrade Lin, go eat." Qi Shao said, "Let's take a break and have dinner. The comrades from the company will be here soon, and we won't have time to eat."
After hearing what Qi Shao said, Lin Qingqing didn't refuse.
Others ate sweet potato porridge from the cafeteria. Lin Qingqing served Lu Haici a bowl of clam meat seafood porridge that she cooked herself. In fact, there was only a little clam meat, but after soaking and chopped, it looked like a lot. Lin Qingqing also served herself a bowl. She did not sit with Qi Shao and the others, but ate with Lu Haici.
The little guy eats slowly, and he would blow a few times after each bite, because the freshly cooked clam porridge was still a little hot.
"Mom, why did I wake up in the crib today?" God knows when Lu Haici woke up and found himself sleeping in the crib, he was stunned.
Lin Qingqing said: "Guess."
"Hmm..." Lu Haici thought about it, and then seemed to think of something. He asked with a red face, "Mom, did I wet the bed?"
Poof... Lin Qingqing almost vomited the porridge in his mouth. I don't know how he thought of this. "Why do you ask that?"
Lu Haici glanced at Lin Qingqing shyly, then lowered his head: "I... I wet the bed when I was little, and my aunt would carry me to bed when I wet the bed, so... so when I woke up, I was in another bed." His voice became softer and softer, ashamed. When he thought that he had grown up and still wet the bed, his little face turned even redder.
Lin Qingqing didn't expect that the kid would have this logic. But Lu Cheng said that he went to sleep in the crib because he was hot. She was dazed at the time and didn't think much about it, but now think about it, how is it possible? A five-year-old kid would go to sleep in the crib by himself when he was hot? No matter how stupid Lin Qingqing was, she knew that it was Lu Cheng who carried him over.
But she didn't care about the fight between them, she found it quite interesting.
After dinner, Lu Haici went to the kindergarten alone, while Lin Qingqing and Liu Honghua went to the back of the cafeteria to continue washing the cabbage, which would be used for lunch.
"Deputy Regiment Lu, this is your breakfast." Qi Shao saw Lu Cheng in the queue and handed him the lunch box that Lin Qingqing had placed in the window in advance, "This is the breakfast that Comrade Lin prepared for you."
Lu Cheng took the lunch box: "Where is she?"
Qi Shao: "She is arranging lunch in the back."
When the soldiers heard Qi Shao mention lunch, they immediately asked: "Qi Squad Leader, what are we having for lunch?"
"That's right, can you tell us a little bit?"
Qi Shao smiled slightly: "Chinese cabbage."
"Tsk..."
Qi Shao retracted his smile: "Really Chinese cabbage."
The soldiers stopped talking. They were actually looking forward to lunch, but when they heard it was cabbage, they immediately lost their expectations. Maybe after the two meals yesterday, they had too many expectations for lunch.
Lu Cheng shook his head, holding his lunch box and found a seat to sit down. He opened the lunch box, and the aroma of the porridge inside came out. The smell of seafood porridge was so fragrant that everyone around him could smell it.
"Deputy Colonel Lu, your rice porridge is really fragrant."
"That's right, Deputy Colonel Lu, I didn't see any rice porridge in the window today."
Lu Cheng: "It's not from the cafeteria, it's made by your sister-in-law." The word sister-in-law was said as a matter of course, and he was very proud.
"No wonder it smells so good, your sister-in-law is so good to you, Deputy Colonel Lu."
"That's right, when I get married in the future, I want to marry someone who can cook like my sister-in-law."
"Dream on, there is no way you can get a female comrade like this, it's better for me to marry her."
"You kid..."
After breakfast, when the soldiers dispersed, the cafeteria returned to silence. The cafeteria is not busy today because they are cooking halved pork intestines and cabbage. The halving was done yesterday afternoon, and the cabbage was prepared in the morning. So the morning is very free.
Or rather, yesterday we had a lot of free time, because we spent time washing the pork intestines. Yesterday afternoon, we were also very free when we were making smashed cucumbers and salad eggplant.
Qi Shao found it strange. In the past, when they cooked, it was like fighting a war. Since Comrade Lin arranged the dishes, they have been free.
Having nothing to do, Lin Qingqing listened to Qi Shao talking about the mission. Qi Shao had just said half of it when a voice came from outside: "Qingqing... Qingqing..."
Lin Qingqing listened, wasn't that Yu Xiuyao's voice? "Sister-in-law, I'm inside." She responded while walking outside.
Yu Xiuyao's face was full of joy. She said to Lin Qingqing mysteriously: "Guess how much I brought today?"
Lin Qingqing understood what she meant: "Generally speaking, for two pigs, the pig intestines and pig heads are only about 60 to 70 kilograms, which is about the same as yesterday. But seeing that you are so happy, it should be doubled, right?"
Yu Xiuyao gave her a thumbs up: "More than that, it has tripled, almost 200 kilograms."
What? Lin Qingqing was shocked: "So much? Director Ma didn't loot all the pig intestines and pig heads from other supply and marketing cooperatives, did he?"
Yu Xiuyao laughed and then said: "But Qingqing, now the problem comes. I'm afraid I can't wash this 200-pound thing by myself. What do you think we should do?"
What to do? It's simple. Lin Qingqing didn't expect the business to come so quickly. She thought Director Ma would have to wait for a few days at least. "Sister-in-law, go and call a few trusted people together and give them a profit of 1 cent per kilogram. Of course, if they also deliver goods, they can compare their profits with yours." But the problem is that those people don't deliver goods, so half a cent will be deducted. "But sister-in-law, you are needed to take care of these people. You will be the team leader and I will give you five yuan a month. What do you think?"
"No, no, what money do you need? I will take care of them. I will ask a few people who have a good relationship with me, the ones who sent you to the hospital that day, to do the delivery. They are all diligent and easy to manage. As for the money, you don't need it. Those who have bicycles can deliver goods, and those who don't have bicycles can't deliver goods. In this way, those who have bicycles do the same work as me and have the same profit as me, while those who don't have bicycles will have their profits reduced by half." Yu Xiuyao also planned for Lin Qingqing.
Lin Qingqing said, "Okay, just do as sister-in-law said." As for the management fee of five yuan a month, she would just give it directly when the time comes.
Yu Xiuyao: "Also, I have bought some of the condiments you asked for. There's no one at your house, so I just kept them at home. But Qingqing, if it's a few dozen kilograms, the stoves in our two families will be enough, but if it's 200 kilograms, I'm afraid our two stoves will not be enough. If we have to make brine from morning to night, the neighbors won't be able to eat because of the delicious smell."
Lin Qingqing thought for a while: "Can the other sisters-in-law who participated in the cleaning make brine together? I will prepare the ingredients."
Yu Xiuyao: "If you are confident, they will definitely be willing to do so. If not, just don't ask them to participate." But who would refuse such a job? Even if there is only one cent profit per pound, if it is 60 pounds a day, it is 60 cents, and 18 yuan a month. Such a good way to make money can't be found anywhere else. "But there is one more thing, this method of washing pig intestines must be known to others."
"That's okay." Lin Qingqing didn't care. Not to mention that some people already know how to wash it, and even if they know how to wash it, they may not know how to do it. So she didn't care. In the future, this is not a secret at all.
Yu Xiuyao: "Okay, I know, I will find someone to do the work now."
Lin Qingqing nodded, she was a little impatient to think about noon now.
Kindergarten
The little ones have a good memory. Early in the morning, after everyone arrived at the kindergarten, they started a discussion about yesterday's extortion.
"Lu Haici, I went home yesterday and asked my grandmother. My grandmother said that if my mother gave money to my grandmother, she would be a beggar. But my mother should also give her some respect during the Chinese New Year." Anyway, that was the meaning. Qin Ming couldn't remember the details. In short, he concluded that his grandmother asked his mother for money, so his grandmother was a beggar.
After hearing what Qin Ming said, Lu Haici apologized: "I forgot to ask my mother, but I can ask her at lunch."
Chen Zhou: "I also asked my father, and my father said that my grandmother was a beggar."
Qin Ming: "Then let's ask your mother at lunch. What about Ji Yang, have you asked your mother?"
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