Chapter 129
Yu Cai Ping things to Lin Minjun a wake-up call, she suddenly realized that this time the society, for the divorce seems to be particularly resistant, not only people resist, society is also resisting, completely did not publicize this aspect of things
A lot of women in the countryside, simply do not know about divorce, and do not know divorced their own road where
For them, married to a bad character or can not get along with the husband, that is bad luck, they resigned to fate
Lin Minjun thought, if only more people could see Yu Cai Ping, then they would know that there are other ways for women to live besides being beaten at home
Lin Minjun thought about it and finally found Reporter Gu
Since the last interview, reporter Gu has been bringing her family over for a meal from time to time Previously, it was at a rice noodle store, but later it was moved to a restaurant
Lin Minjun found Reporter Gu and told him about her idea
As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Shuangcheng said, “This won’t work, isn’t it tantamount to persuading people to get divorced?”
“How can this be persuading people to divorce, I just want more people to know about this, there are a lot of people who have been beaten up, don’t know how to ask for help, do they have to be beaten to death to be right?” Lin Minjun asked rhetorically
“Comrade Xiao Lin, let’s not argue, let’s talk things out” Gu Shuangcheng saw that she was agitated, and quickly said
Lin Minjun: “I’m not arguing with you, I just want to express my attitude, so that more people know about this matter, so that those who are experiencing these things know how to deal with it, how to escape from that environment, couples who can really live with it, won’t choose to divorce just because of this article, but those who are really going to be beaten to death, maybe when they see this, they’ll think that they still can get a divorce? It’s good to save one more person”
So the two sat down to discuss again, and in the end, Gu Shuangcheng then said, “I’ll go and discuss with the editor-in-chief to see if we can do a follow-up interview, and then all the characters will use pseudonyms, and I won’t mainly write about her divorce, but rather write about her employment from her induction, what do you think?”
Lin Minjun’s eyes lit up, “That would be better, everyone knows that there are positions out there, coming out to work can more or less grow a bit, by then you’ll know what to do”
“Then I’ll wait for your news”
Lin Minjun came out of the newspaper office, just in time to step on the dinner hour and return to the restaurant, which had already started serving guests
It was a good thing that now that Yu Cai Ping was here, Lin Minjun was a lot more relaxed, as long as things were arranged in advance, she could go out and do her business
At this time, the store is slowly coming guests, Lin Minjun took off her coat to receive at the front desk, just started to entertain, Auntie Xu came over
Auntie Xu pointed to the upstairs box, “A guest came early, upstairs, said he was looking for you”
“Looking for me, male or female, said who they are?” Lin Minjun was at a loss, didn’t remember who she had arranged to meet with ah
Auntie Xu: “Female, didn’t say who she was, waiting for you up there right now, just go up and see”
Lin Minjun had a puzzled look on her face, and after handing over the downstairs to Auntie Xu, she went upstairs by herself, and when she walked up to the box, she saw a rather temperamental woman waiting for her with her arms wrapped around her
She had just approached the door of the box when the woman heard the movement and turned her head
Lin Minjun instantly recognized it, “Teacher Shen!”
She smiled and asked again, “Is the old man feeling better?”
The person who came was actually Mr Shen, before Director Su first introduced Lin Minjun to someone else’s home to fix a birthday party, it was Mr Shen’s home that she went to
That time, the whole Zhang family was very satisfied with the meal, and later when Lin Minjun opened a restaurant, Elder Zhang came over to eat often, and Lin Minjun gradually familiarized herself with the family
The old man is very old, because of the good health when he was young, and now there is no blood sugar and blood pressure problems, eat well
Some time ago, the old man in order to come out to eat, fell in the snow, people are fine, just a broken foot, Lin Minjun heard the news can not help but laugh
Mr Shen also smiled and said, “Much better, he even asked me about you two days ago”
She looked around at the decorations, and when she went to look at Lin Minjun again there was a lot more in her eyes, full of appreciation, “Your decorations here are really nice and grand Before it was all the family coming over and hearing them say you did a good job, today I came over and realized it was done so well”
Lin Minjun was too embarrassed to boast, so she smiled towards her
“By the way Ms Shen, is there something you came to see me about today?”
“I almost forgot if you didn’t mention this” Teacher Shen withdraws her measuring gaze and smiles, “It’s like this, the old man can’t go out at home for a while, and recently he’s been saying that he wants to eat the flavors you have here, but our family is busy and no one is able to accompany him out to eat, it’s not that we are looking at Mid-Autumn Festival, so we’re thinking of booking a table in advance at yours, and we’ve booked it to be on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we’re bringing the old man over to have dinner ”
Because the restaurant business is good, the Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner has been booked out two tables, Lin Minjun counted the boxes, nodded and said, “Can, how many people in your family?”
“My sister-in-law and great aunt are coming back with their children, and the ones from my mother’s side are coming over, about two tables” Mr Shen did the math and that’s what he said
Lin Minjun: “Your family reunion definitely don’t want to be disturbed, I’ll leave you the biggest box, it can put two tables, it’s just a bit crowded, the other is the lobby, it can be put, it’s just that there are always people walking around, what do you think?” She left the choice to Mr Shen
It was this kind of thoughtfulness that made Mr Shen’s heart ache, looking around, “Is the biggest box this one?”
“Yes, when the time comes, there can be a table inside and a table outside, ten people at a table” Lin Minjun explained with a smile
Teacher Shen nodded, “Actually it’s not that small, our house is not so full that twenty people come, when the time comes a table will sit nine, or you are thoughtful, I think this box is very good”
Lin Minjun: “Then I’ll turn around and write it down for you”
Ms Shen looked around, the more she looked, the more satisfied she became, Lin Minjun thought she was leaving and sent her all the way downstairs
Half of the reason for hanging out with the Zhang family was because of the cast, and half was also because she wanted to maintain those relationships
She didn’t have any relatives in the North City, and her foundation wasn’t stable, so there was no harm in getting to know more people
These relationships had to be maintained, or else if there was really something to ask for help, it would be too late to maintain them at that time
Lin Minjun sent to the door, was about to say goodbye, suddenly Mr Shen turned around again
Lin Minjun looked at her with a blank expression
“Xiao Lin, do you remember last year when I asked you to buy a ham from Yunnan?” Teacher Shen asked
Coldly mentioning this, Lin Minjun was a bit surprised, “I remember, why, is there something wrong with the ham?”
The ham was introduced to her, Axia’s ham is famous in the surrounding area, if there is any problem with it, it would be a bad reputation
Shen teacher to see her a little nervous, suddenly came over to pull her hand, said with a smile, “No, delicious it, our old man also said that the taste is very authentic, it is more delicious things are tired of eating, the ham is too big, our family ton eat every day to eat there are still a lot of them, I want to ask you there is no other way to do it, our family to eat, see the ham all pendulum ”
A whole ham is very large, after the shipment from Yunnan Lin Minjun idea, find someone to cut into a piece of a piece in the refrigerator, just Zhang family has a refrigerator
Just eat it, or get tired of eating it
Lin Minjun couldn’t help but laugh when she heard this, and also helped to think of a way, “I taught you all the tricks that ham can do, the rest is cloud leg mooncake”
“Mooncakes?” Mr Shen’s eyes lit up, “What does it look like and how do you make it?”
“It’s our Yunnan hard shell mooncake, it tastes like it has a salty and sweet flavor, and the shell is crispy” Lin Minjun’s mouth was secreting saliva as she said this
Teacher Shen: “This sounds delicious, in a few months it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, it’s just the right time to eat this, but we don’t have an oven in our house, there’s no way to make mooncakes”
She looked regretful, “Is there anything else?”
“I can’t think of anything else for now” Mentioning cloud leg mooncakes, Lin Minjun also started to crave them, an idea popped into her head, “Mr Shen, how much ham is left at your house, can I buy it from you? I want to try making mooncakes at the restaurant myself”
“That’s fine, it’s not good for me to do it at home, it’s convenient for you to get an oven at the restaurant” Teacher Shen then said, “No need to buy it, I’ll just give it to you directly”
“How can that be, a ham isn’t cheap, I definitely need to pay for it”
The two people went back and forth, and in the end, Teacher Shen took a step back and sold it to Lin Minjun at a cheaper price
Lin Minjun followed her home to get the ham, and immediately went to the post office after coming out of Zhang’s house to call Axia, who said on the phone that she would order two more hams, and that she could send any extra hams in the future, and that she would want them all
Lin Minjun thought well, send over the ham can be made into dishes in the restaurant to sell, he can also eat cloud leg moon cake, two birds with one stone!
Back at the restaurant, Lin Minjun took out the ham that she bought from Mr Shen and asked Yu Cai Ping, “Sister, do you know how to make cloud leg mooncakes?”
Yu Cai Ping took the ham and surveyed it, “Yes, there is a white case master in the restaurant, I’ve learned a couple of hands, not professional yet”
She was really too modest, saying that she had learned two hands, but the finished product was completely not inferior to the flavors eaten locally
Lin Minjun took a bite, heard a clicking sound of crunching, the shell bit open, her tongue rolled around the crispy outer skin and bit into her mouth, soon the outer skin melted in her mouth, and the fresh flavor of the ham began to dominate her taste buds
Lin Minjun looked at the mooncake in her hand once more, and felt deeply that the flavor was better than any of the century-old ones she had eaten in her past life
She had really picked up a big treasure by hiring Sister!
“Is it delicious?” Yu Cai Ping asked nervously from the side
Lin Minjun finished one mooncake in three tries and wanted a second one, “Delicious!”
She reached out for it, Yu Cai Ping pressed her down and laughed, “Don’t be in a hurry, you like this flavor, I’ll just make more in the future, I’ll make another rice cloth for you”
When the rice cloth was made, Lin Minjun and Yu Cai Ping’s little daughter had one bowl each, and sat at the counter and ate with great flavor
After Lin Minjun finished eating, she ran to find Yu CaiPing, “Sister, I want to make this for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and prepare a little bit more ham, and give one to each of the guests who come over to eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival, what do you think? Can it be busy?”
The price of her restaurant was not cheap, and those who came to eat were all people with some financial strength, the more fancy the food, the more people liked it, and the more they felt it was worthwhile to come
“Busy is busy, but we have to do it in advance, we can’t just start doing it on that day, and we also need more manpower, the manpower of the restaurant is not enough”
Lin Minjun nodded and took out her schedule to write it down
She was also a busy person now, and had bought a small book to keep in her bag, writing down when she had to do something so that she wouldn’t forget
Lin Minjun wrote down in the book about recruiting people to come over and help make mooncakes
After writing the schedule, Lin Minjun added, “Sister, the restaurant isn’t busy today, so make some more mooncakes, I’ll take them out and give them to the old guests, people take care of my business, so I’ll give them some to taste in advance first”
“Good, I’ll knead the dough now” Yu Cai Ping did as she said, the smile on her face couldn’t be stopped
She had been smiling every single day since she came to the restaurant, and every single day she felt like she was needed
The fragrant cloud-legged mooncakes were made, Lin Minjun first gave them to Auntie Xu and Auntie Cao for a taste, they had different tastes, one said they were delicious, the other said they were a bit sweet and greasy
Lin Minjun also took it to her acquaintances, the first one was the Zhang family, Mr Shen happened to be at home, and immediately gave a thumbs up after eating it, “Delicious! I love to eat sweet, this flavor can be compared to the previous eaten five kernel to my taste”
Mr Shen thought about it after eating it, and pulled Lin Minjun and said, “Xiao Lin, are you selling this mooncake? I don’t want to buy five-kernel mooncakes this year, so I’ll buy your mooncakes, and my whole family will love them”
“Sell?”
“Yes, you can also go buy some packaging and package the mooncakes, I’ll buy them as gifts later, I want to give something different this year” Mr Shen began to make requests
“About how many do you want, I’ll go back and start thinking about it, and send it over to you before the Mid-Autumn Festival” Lin Minjun took out her agenda book again and wrote down this matter
After saying goodbye to Mr Shen and coming out, Lin Minjun suddenly thought of it, if someone wants it, she can produce it in quantity, customize some packaging, make it beautiful and sell it, and if it tastes good, people will be repeat customers, and the restaurant’s reputation will gradually spread
The more she thought about it, the more excited she got about mass production
Lin Minjun rode her bicycle back to the restaurant, feeling that this is a bold attempt
Lin Minjun finally made up her mind that she wanted to mass produce the mooncakes with cloud legs
To mass production will have to do a little more formal, first of all, to adjust the flavor of the moon cakes to adapt to the taste of the capital people, in addition to packaging must also work, to use oil paper packaging, large packaging to cardboard boxes, do a little bit of good-looking, and finally loaded with paper bags, so that people can be carried to send Mid-Autumn Festival gifts
More than three months from the Mid-Autumn Festival, this can start to prepare
The most important thing was the flavor of the mooncakes, and that was the first thing Lin Minjun was busy with
As soon as she returned to the restaurant, she got into the kitchen and began to work with Yu Cai Ping to figure out how to improve the flavor of the mooncake, not too sweet and greasy, not to lose the original flavor of the cloud legs, in addition to making two kinds of crispy skin, one hard and hard, after biting into the mouth to melt away, and the other kind of crispy and fragrant a little softer, suitable for older people to eat
From this day onwards, Lin Minjun began to busy, often busy until eight or nine o’clock to go home, when Cao Auntie and Xu Auntie long gone home
Yan Li was promoted and became a captain, and his work got busier, so he often didn’t have time to pick up and drop off
Lin Minjun rode her own bicycle to and from work, and she thought that in two years, she would save up some money to buy a car, and it would be safer for her to drive to and from work
This day Lin Minjun is still riding her own bike back, now the capital’s nightlife is getting richer and richer, and you can still see people on the streets at night, so you won’t be afraid
So all the way riding a bicycle to the hutong entrance, walked to the door of the courtyard, Lin Minjun saw next to the bushes there is smoke coming out
The smoke was rising upwards in wisps
Lin Minjun pinched the brakes and stopped for a moment, thinking that the grass was on fire, now the weather is dry, just throw a cigarette butt may be on fire
The courtyard is a wooden building, once the fire, it is too late to extinguish
Lin Minjun looked at the curling smoke, all of a sudden shocked out of cold sweat
Her heart pounding, hurriedly get off the car to take down their kettle, kettle still has a large part of the water, she lifted the kettle to splash over, want to splash the water to extinguish
Unexpectedly a kettle of water poured down, heard someone ah scream
Lin Minjun was startled
Taking a closer look, someone in the darkness suddenly stood up from the bushes, with a cigarette in his fingers
It was a young man, wearing a leather jacket with a scar on his mouth
The moment he stood up he was ready to curse, Lin Minjun didn’t wait for him to open his mouth and hurriedly apologized, “I’m sorry, I thought it was a fire and splashed water to put it out, I didn’t think it was someone smoking here, sorry”
Hearing this, half of the young lad’s anger subsided, and then looking at Lin Minjun’s looks, the other half of his anger immediately disappeared without a trace
The young man looked around for a couple of moments, swallowed the sentence that came to his lips, ‘Auntie, you’re blind’, and changed his words to say, “A small matter, nothing to be pursued”
Lin Minjun sighed in relief and wanted to leave, but was suddenly stopped by the young man, who looked at Lin Minjun frivolously and said playfully, “Don’t be in a hurry to leave, how come you’re still back alone so late, do you live in this alley? Want to get acquainted”
That look and tone of voice when he spoke made Lin Minjun feel like she was offended
Lin Minjun frowned and said in an unpleasant tone, “It has nothing to do with you, I’m already married”
The young man instantly felt his face hanging, took a deep drag on his cigarette, and said in a bad mood, “I’m just asking casually, it’s not like I mean anything else, you’re being too self-absorbed”
“I just casually said it”
Lin Minjun laughed, feeling that this person is a bit inexplicable, blanked him and pushed his bike into the courtyard
Pushing open the gate, turned the shadow wall, was about to go towards the hanging flower gate
Lin Minjun saw Xu’s sister-in-law, who lived in the inverted room, come out of the darkness without a good mood, with a sulky expression on her face
“What’s wrong sister-in-law? Why aren’t you sleeping so late” Lin Minjun casually asked
In the middle of the night, Sister-in-law Xu was already unhappy and couldn’t find anyone to talk to, so she could only sit at the door and sulk by herself
Seeing Lin Minjun return, she couldn’t help but complain
Xu’s wife pulled Lin Minjun not let go, muttered: “It’s not the next Xiao Zhao, really not consciously, not sleep in the middle of the night, every day called a group of people over to play cards yell, the first two days is also even, I do not bother with him, who knows that he is more and more over the top, every night to call people over, Ling Ling is about to have a midterm, noisy children can not sleep ”
Sister-in-law Xu said more and more angry, “Just now I went over to let them lower their voices, or simply do not play cards here, they do not sleep others have to sleep, guess what they said?”
“What did say?” Lin Minjun asked curiously
Sister-in-law Xu: “Zhao Wei’s friend told me that if it’s too noisy, then move out yourself, surely no one is noisy, how can he talk like that, I’m not moving because I don’t want to?”
Lin Minjun nodded, “That’s too much to say, it’s supposed to be that they’re noisy to others”
“You think it’s right too, before, sister-in-law Xu even told me that she could hear it even from inside, yelling in the middle of the night, noisy” Sister-in-law Xu said, “That’s because you and Xiao Li are good-tempered, in the past when there was a yard-keeping grandpa, he would never have dared to bring this kind of person back”
Ever since the accident involving Master Yiyi and Master Ma, there has been no master in charge of the courtyard, and usually no one makes any trouble when Yan Li lives here, so we all rely on our own consciousness
But when there is an unconscious person, Xu does not know who to find to deal with this matter
Lin Minjun listened for half a day and took the initiative to say, “Then I’ll go and check out the situation, our yard isn’t a food market, we always bring strangers back, what if they steal things from other people’s homes, and they always disturb the people in the middle of the night”
She comforts sister-in-law Xu and runs inside to take a look herself
Before she even walked in, just by being close to Zhao Wei’s room, she heard yelling coming from inside, something about ‘three with one’ ‘bomb!’
Sure enough, they were playing cards, and it was especially noisy, every time someone played a bomb there was a burst of laughter, noisy
Lin Minjun went up to knock on the door, the first time no one heard, inside the noisy as the market, the second time before someone came over to open the door, coincidentally, open the door is just outside the smoking boy
The young man looked at Lin Minjun, face flashed a trace of surprise expression, impatient: “What is it?”
Lin Minjun then said, “I came over to say, please lower your voices, don’t make a lot of noise, there’s a girl next to her who is going to take the midterm exam, you’re disturbing her rest”
“What does her having a midterm have to do with us, funny” The young man snorted and was directly about to close the door
Lin Minjun said, “If you make any more noise, get out, no playing cards here!”
The young man’s anger immediately rushed up, defiantly loud and noisy: “Big sister who are you, think you can meddle in other people’s business just because you’re good looking, who do you think you are?”
He said, also rushed over to want to shove Lin Minjun, Zhao Wei was standing next to him, just now his friend and Lin Minjun quarrel when he did not say, now is fast, immediately stopped his friend
Zhao Wei came to his friend’s ear and whispered, “She’s the landlord’s daughter-in-law”
As soon as this was said, everyone in the room lowered their voices, people’s houses, people can indeed manage
As a result, the young man turned back and walked a few steps, and then complained with dissatisfaction, “Why should we be regulated, is the landlord marvelous!”