Chapter 127 The Young Couple is Really Sloppy
After sending Su Zhen away, Lin Li said that she would let her second brother and Lao Ning take care of Ling Xiao first while she was going out for a while.
But Ling Xiao insisted on holding her and looked at her with wet eyes.
"I'll really be back in a while...be good..." Lin Li coaxed gently.
Lao Ning and Lin Hua: "..."
The two men said they couldn't stand such a disgusting scene.
Even when they are coaxing their children, they just chat with them over carrots and wine, saying whatever they want to say directly without any dragging words.
So the two of them went out without being bothered.
Lin Li helped Ling Xiao tidy up his slightly long hair.
In fact, having such a hairstyle these days would make you look like a gangster.
But Lin Li thinks Ling Xiao is really cool and handsome like this. He used to have a buzz cut, which greatly affected his good looks.
It took a lot of effort to coax Ling Xiao into submission.
Lin Li took out the two remaining fish in the pot and gave them to Sister Liu.
He said that we would be closer from now on and should take care of each other.
Sister Liu was naturally happy. She tasted the fish and found it delicious. Her three sons and two daughters happened to be dawdling and had not finished their meal yet, so she quickly shared some of the fish with the children.
After a short while, the children's cheers could be heard one after another.
In fact, even if Lin Li didn't have any special skills in cooking fish and just made it casually, the children would still praise it for being delicious. After all, the poverty level of a family raising so many children can be imagined.
Lin Li didn't know that Sister Liu had so many children before.
Sister Liu also sighed and said that this was the first time in her entire life that she had eaten such delicious fish.
Lin Li said, "My sister-in-law and I often cook and set up stalls at the commune market, and there are quite a few people who come to support us. So in the future, my sister-in-law decided to do business regularly. I'm thinking about renting a small shop..."
Sister Liu gave a thumbs up and said, "Sister, you are not only smart, but also a good planner. I admire you more than anyone else. From now on, your life as a young couple will surely be more prosperous."
Lin Li said, "Thank you for your good wishes. Tomorrow I will cook some pig lungs and bring them over for you to taste."
In this era, among all the internal organs of a pig, pig lungs are the cheapest.
But normally there aren't many pigs slaughtered at the farmers' market, and pork isn't available for purchase. There are purchase limits.
Moreover, you had to take the meat coupons to the state-owned supply and marketing cooperatives or commercial cities to buy meat. You used the meat coupons for each kilogram of meat you wanted to buy. After you had the meat coupons as vouchers, you could then spend money to buy meat.
If you don’t have a meat ticket, you can’t buy meat even if you spend money.
Unless speculators buy it secretly on the black market.
But the black market is a secret place and it’s hard to find it without connections.
Generally speaking, when you buy meat at the farmers' market, you will get a variety of pork offal as a gift.
Of course, a lot of meat tickets are needed. Ordinary people can't get that much.
Lin Li got Ling Xiao's money. He used to be very stingy and couldn't afford to buy meat or grain, so he had piles of grain and meat coupons.
Then Lin Li used the meat coupons to buy pork offal instead of meat.
The price of pork is 40 cents, and the price of pork lung is about 10 cents.
But buying one pound of pork requires one pound of meat coupons, and buying one pound of pork lungs also wastes one pound of meat coupons, so the salesperson at the agricultural market thought Lin Li was stupid.
But Lin Li had a lot of money in his hands, so he didn't care. On the contrary, he thought it was easier for him to plan.
Now, Lin Li told Sister Liu that he would send her some pig lungs to eat tomorrow. Actually, he knew that her children could not afford to eat more meat, but it was really impossible for them to not eat meat all year round, so he wanted to recommend her some very affordable pig lungs.
Sister Liu laughed and said, "Sister, don't send things to my house all day long! You bought all these with money, and you have a patient at home who needs more nutrition. Your life is not easy either!"
Sister Liu looks carefree, but she actually has a high emotional intelligence and is not the kind of person who is greedy.
Lin Li also said a few polite words and then got to the point.
She asked, "Big sister, I asked you to ask if there are any dentists who are looking for apprentices. Do you have time to ask them recently?"
Sister Liu immediately said, "Hey, sister, how could I forget the job you entrusted to me? I've found out everything for you!"
Then Sister Liu said that there was a small shop to the west of the sewing machine accessories shop on the south side of the avenue. There lived a childless and spouseless old man. His ancestors were all dentists, and there were some prescription medicines for curing toothaches, which had been lost in other places and could only be found in his shop.
Even elderly people don’t use anesthesia when they have their teeth pulled out. Instead, they use some strange fumigation medicine. They just fumigate the tooth and the tooth can be pulled out easily without any pain or bleeding.
Lin Li was delighted when she heard this. She urged: "Big sister, please take me to see it..."
"Sister, wait a minute, I haven't finished telling you about his situation." Sister Liu was a little embarrassed again, "Sister, this master, he is an old bachelor after all..."
"So what? Is he a bad person and likes to flatter people?"
"It's not that he's lying. He accepted a male apprentice and said he would pay him five dollars a month while he was an apprentice. After three months, he would pay him ten dollars a month. He also provided food and lodging, but he was responsible for buying food and had to let the apprentice cook for the two of them."
"That's fine. The main thing is to learn a skill." Although the state-owned factory could earn 20 yuan a month, Lin Li knew that his third brother was a restless person. Most of the factories worked in two or three shifts. Even if some of them were all day shifts, they still had to work long hours.
Lin Fu couldn't do that kind of job that required long working hours and no time to slack off, so he was made to learn dentistry. After working for a long time and becoming famous in the area, it would be easy for him to get a dental certificate.
Then in the next few decades, he can support his family with his skills.
In the future, as long as there are new improved materials, let him keep up with the times and use them, and let him learn new techniques every few years. This will be a very popular profession in the future.
He himself wanted to learn how to repair watches, but jobs like watches, radios, recorders, and even TVs will become obsolete. Although it seems good now, they will be of no use in less than 20 years.
Lin Li wanted him to choose a career that would last him forever.
Sister Liu sighed again, "But this master had two apprentices before him. They just settled down in the commune and used him as a seesaw. After working for a year or so and getting paid, they used the money to find jobs in state-owned factories and stopped working for him. Both of them were like this."
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"And... what others said makes sense, that is, if you work for this old man for many years, if something happens to the old man in the future, the apprentice will have to take care of his funeral, right? So sister, you have to think carefully about it. Besides, there is not much business in dentistry. The old man just wants to pass on the craftsmanship passed down from their ancestors. I heard that the salary he paid to his apprentices was sometimes so low that there was no business for a month. It was all used up from his coffin money... Who knows when it will be squandered? Then the apprentice will have to pay for his funeral out of his own pocket..."
"Oh," Lin Li suddenly realized, "So the two apprentices saw it. After deducting the salary of the apprentices, there is not much left from the monthly income of the clinic..."
"Yes, yes, that's right. So sister, I have to advise you not to take up this unprofitable business..."
"No, no, no. Once you learn this skill, you can use it for the rest of your life. I plan to let my third brother go and take a look." Lin Li said, "See how my third brother and that eldest master get along..."
Since the master's craftsmanship was excellent and there were so many lost heritages, Lin Li was very interested.
"Sister...you have to be careful..."
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