Chapter 35

Let’s not talk about that

Dog Egg felt that he was a very good boy, and after receiving the candy, he had to work, and three days later, wrapped in a leaf, and carrying a dead mouse, he knocked on the front door of the house of the First Mothers

Knock, knock

At this time of the day, only one aunt is at home, and is just waking up from a nap, ready to get up and work hard to make dinner

“Who is it, what’s the matter at this hour?” She yawned and opened the door

Looking around, she didn’t see anyone, and muttered, “Who’s got nothing better to do than open the door and run away”

“Auntie, I’m here!” A voice came from below

Auntie looked down and saw, “Yoo-hoo, if it isn’t Doggie,” “What are you doing here?”

“You forget, three days ago we agreed, I catch a dead rat for you, you give me five candies, now I brought the stuff, where are the candies?” The dog egg is a big boy, jumping and bouncing

A big mom almost forgot about this matter, hurriedly slapped her face to wake herself up, “You first give me something to see”

“That can’t be, I’m a kid and you’re an adult, what if you take the stuff and don’t give me the candy, handing over the candy in one hand and handing over the goods in the other” Dog egg insisted

Just like Dog Egg said, he is an adult, he can’t run away anyway, a big mom went back to her room and took five milk candies and handed them over

“Here, take it” Dog egg finally handed over the leaves

Inspecting the goods on the spot, First Aunt lifted the leaf and looked at it, a finger-long mouse lay dead on the leaf with its claws outstretched and glaring, looking like it wasn’t breathing anymore

Yelp, so disgusting ah

A big mom who is most annoyed by rats, can not help but hit a dry heaving

But then feel disgusting have to dry down, this is all in order to drive away Lin Minjun, to earn money for their own family!

Dog Egg took the candy and didn’t go, tiptoeing around, he asked with particular curiosity, “First Aunt, I still want to ask you, what does crockery really mean?”

After going back that night, the dog asked his parents this question, what is the crockery in the end, sounds so strange ah

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But the parents are especially taboo, is so said: “pooh pooh pooh, children are not allowed to blindly inquire, give me the mouth shut, not to mention these three words”

So the dog egg brought to ask a big mom

For a child with no conflict of interest like Dog Egg, Auntie One was kind enough to explain, “It’s just foaming at the mouth, eyes rolled up, mouth crooked, eyes slanted, hands and feet shivering constantly Children, this is not a good disease, you can not go out and talk nonsense, to the people as a crohns, you will be difficult to get a daughter-in-law, this disease can not be cured, and, the whole life will carry, know?”

“Oh” Dog egg nodded thoughtfully, turned around and ran out

A big mom held the dead rat to her own kitchen, picked up the prepared taro and peeled it, ruthlessly put a lot of oil in the pot, put the taro pieces down and fried them, soon, a fried taro also came out of the pot

Although the taste is not as good as Lin Minjun sold, but from the look of it, is eight or nine, after all, fried potatoes this kind of thing practice single, decide the flavor is good or bad seasoning, seasoning more like less like is a huge difference

After the fried potatoes, a big mother endured the regurgitation of dead mice hidden in the bowl filled with fried potatoes, but also deliberately hide hide, so that others can not see what is inside

After all this, a big mom picked up the bowl of fried potatoes with ‘ingredients’ and found her son Cao Bin, “How about it, son? Mom, this is not bad, right? Does it look good?”

Cao Bin took a good look at it and said, “Yes, it does! Mom, you’re really good, not only does it look like it, it smells and tastes the same, it seems like it doesn’t have much skill, so I’m relieved, I’ll find her”

This she is of course said Lin Minjun, props have been prepared, Cao Bin of course, ready to act

Before he left, he didn’t forget to remind an older woman, “Remember what I said before? The action must be fast and must not be seen by others I’ll go first, you’ll go out in a while”

Obviously, the mother and son had been planning for a while in order to bring down Lin Minjun

A big mom immediately nodded, “Don’t worry, I’ve remembered everything”

Cao Bin felt that everything was safe, and wandered out the door all relaxed, skulking all the way to Xiushui East Street like a punk

He didn’t go anywhere else, and directly found Lin Minjun’s stall, and said with his mouth open, “Give me a fried yam”

“Okay, wait a moment, I’ll make yours after I finish these” Lin Minjun was busy and asked in passing

After asking, she suddenly felt that the voice was a bit familiar, and looked up to see if it wasn’t Cao Bin

Lin Minjun took a look at this guy’s thievish look, and knew that today he was running for bad things

She knew that Cao Bin had come for a bad reason, but she didn’t know how he planned to make trouble

At this moment, she took a deep breath and planned to go along with him first to see what he was planning to do

Lin Minjun pretended that she didn’t see it and calmly asked, “Comrade, do you want green onion and cilantro flavored, or folded ear root?”

“Whatever, I’ll eat it here” Cao Bin said, revealing a stray smile

There were still people lined up in front of him, Lin Minjun skillfully frying the yams and adjusting the flavors, striving to do her best at every step so that people couldn’t pick out the thorns

She glanced at Cao Bin, “Get in line behind you”

At the same time, a big mom this also started to move

She took the bowl of fried yam and headed out the door, all the way to the hutong

The warm winter afternoon sun was never enough, so everyone in the hutongs who wasn’t working today came out to bask in the sun, and as soon as they saw that Auntie Yi was carrying a bowl of fried yams out the door, everyone of course felt curious

“Xiu Hua, it’s already this time of the day, why don’t you cook dinner at home and go out with a bowl?” one lady asked An older woman asked

An older woman deliberately made a big fuss to draw attention to herself The idea was not to be afraid of you asking, but to be afraid of you not asking

At this time found that someone noticed her, a big mother is not in a hurry to go, come over and said, “This is not the last time I brain fuzzy, wrongly blamed the second child stole my family’s bacon, for this matter also with the small forest and the second child had a bad time”

She cried for the rats and wiped her non-existent tears, “Alas, now that I think about it, I’m really blinded by lard, Xiao Lin is such a good person, he gave me food on the first day he came”

One of the amazons nodded, “It’s good that you can figure it out, after living here for such a long time, we all know that Xiao Lin isn’t a bad person, and you aren’t a bad person either, we all keep our heads down and don’t see each other, it’s better not to have any conflicts”

“Well, this is not, she sent me fried yams, I also learned to make some to give her to eat, to make amends to her, what do you guys say?” A big mom showed off her fried yams

An elder is willing to apologize to the younger generation, this is really uncommon, when the other people heard it, they felt that Auntie Yi, this person really understands the etiquette, she really knows that she is wrong, and gave her a thumbs up, “OK, too good, Xiu Hua, originally we all thought that you have a bad mouth, but now it seems that you have a knife’s mouth and a bean curd’s heart, go on and send it over to Xiao Lin, she has already gone to do business ”

Other people let her go, a big mom instead stopped, and added, “But I still have something I don’t know if I should remind Xiaolin, this matter concerns her, also concerns us ah, alas!”

This alas of hers really whetted her appetite

“What’s the matter, what’s the matter you tell us first, we’ll all come up with an idea together”

“Isn’t Xiao Lin selling fried potatoes at the street corner? I’ve been vaguely listening to a lot of people say that her stall seems to be not very clean, eat into the stomach of the things must be careful, if you eat unclean will have diarrhea, we adults are okay, the child diarrhea is not a small problem, but also a fever” An older woman revealed a worried look, “I’m just a neighbor, I don’t know if I should remind her, this is not a small matter, she may have just come to the capital, and is used to doing it in the countryside, and doesn’t care much about hygiene”

As soon as these words were said, one of the older women brushed up and her face changed, “Impossible, did you really hear someone say that her stuff is not clean?”

“No? She’s a girl from the countryside, have you ever seen anyone in the countryside whose things are clean?” An older woman asked rhetorically, speaking in a very serious manner

Those who live in the hutongs are basically city dwellers, who rarely go to the countryside, and their impression of the countryside is basically chicken shit and cow dung all over the place, flies and feces that can never be driven away, and it’s this kind of stereotypical impression that connects this with the deep-fried potatoes that Lin Minjun sells, and everyone is immediately unsettled

“This can’t be done, my little granddaughter loves to eat her fried yam, every time she comes back she asks me to buy it, if it’s really unclean, what if the child eats it and gets a bad stomach?” Auntie said and stood up, pulling on an aunt to go out, “This must be told to her, I’ll go with you, let’s go now”

Anyway, there was nothing to do in the afternoon, and everyone was bored, so they went to see what was going on

So, half of the people who were watching, half of the people who were genuinely reminded, everyone followed behind an older woman in a group, and headed towards Lin Minjun’s stall

Dog egg is leading a group of children in the alley to play tunnel war, but tunnel war which has this lively, so also led his younger brother to follow up

In front of Lin Minjun’s stall, there was a long line of people waiting to buy fried yams

Since the last brainless and unhappy to come after, her stall business has become particularly hot, the original flavor of many people love to eat, would have been sold very well, folded ear root flavor attracts a large number of people, many people have eaten after the big mouth do not want to lose, and anyway, the sale is not expensive, three to five from time to time, someone with their own lunch box over to buy

So, when it’s busy, the line can even go from this side to the opposite side of the road

Good Lin Minjun hand action is not slow, fishing up the fried taro on the side of the drain, and then the next batch of taro under the frying pan, while the frying pan stirring time began to give the taro seasoning, stirring, boxed

This set of actions she did in a smooth flow, did not waste a second

Customers one by one with fried potatoes contentedly away, finally Cao Bin’s turn, he inhaled a nose wafted out of the fragrance, but did not buy, one hand on the tricycle handle, posed a self-considered very handsome, but in fact, very greasy posture

He seemed to be waiting for someone and didn’t ask for anything

Lin Minjun also didn’t talk nonsense with him, directly skipped him and asked the next one, “Comrade, what do you want”

The sharp frying of the yams and mixing of the seasonings, during which time he just kept watching Cao Bin to see when exactly he was going to lash out

But no, Cao Bin waited for half a day, he froze and did not say a word

Lin Minjun was a little skeptical that he was wrong, and that Cao Bin was simply here to eat? Otherwise, when exactly was he going to do something bad?

While frying yams for the remaining guests, Lin Minjun was still thinking

But just at this time, not far away staggered up, and from afar, he heard someone saying, “Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin I’m here to make amends and apologize to you”

This voice sounded like a big mom, right? What is she apologizing for?

Lin Minjun followed the voice and saw a big mom walking steadily with a bowl in her hand, followed by four or five old ladies and amahs from the hutongs, and at a closer look, there were two sneaky kids

“The day I falsely accused Erwa and said you were nosy, it was my fault, I have to apologize to you” An older woman said, stuffed a bowl into Lin Minjun’s hand, saw that she didn’t take it, and put it on the countertop of the stall, then said again, “I don’t have any other intention today, I just came to apologize to you, I’m sorry”

Lin Minjun subconsciously looked at the bowl, which was also filled with a bowl of fried yam, not much different from what she made to sell

She raised an eyebrow

This mother and son, what kind of drugs were they selling?

Lin Minjun was puzzled when she suddenly heard someone slamming the table next to her stall and making a scene as well

She turned her head to see that it was Cao Bin

Cao Bin, who had been standing peacefully just a moment ago, suddenly walked over to a customer and slammed the table and yelled, “I saw a dead rat in the bowl!”

This sound can be described as a thunderclap, just like pouring a bowl of water into a frying pan, simply caught off guard

In the back of Cao Bin there are two guests, but also here to eat, are eating the beauty of it, suddenly heard the bowl of dead rats, a guest mouth of fried potatoes directly spit out, squatting on the ground vigorously dry vomiting

Another chopsticks have not moved, also stood up at once, a face of disgust

Cao Bin was still adding fuel to the fire, and said in a strange voice, “A black and unkempt rat with an especially long tail, as if it had been deep-fried, ah, so disgusting”

He said so, the guest next to him was again a dry heaving, favor has been swallowed, nothing can be spit out, weak dry heaving half a day, propped up the table to get up after the first sentence is, “your mom, refund!”

“That is, refund, dead rats can eat it, this is not in the harm!” Cao Bin continued to add oil and vinegar, fearing that things will not get out of hand

Customers want money back, Cao Bin still keep stirring the water

From picking the yams to deep-frying them, to stirring the seasonings, to filling the bowls and taking them out of the pot, all of the processes were done by Lin Minjun herself, who was confident that her own stuff was cleaner than what other people ate at home

And no matter what era, food safety is a top priority, it can not be ignored, so today he lightly threw a pot of dirty water, Lin Minjun must find a way to wash it

Lin Minjun immediately went up, looking for a plate to Cao Bin said the bowl of fried potatoes poured in the plate, all the potatoes and seasonings are separated to find a circle, not to mention the dead rats, not even a black shadow have not seen, she raised her head and questioned, “Where are the rats? You saw it, where is it? You find it for me now”

The people who were attracted to the side also gathered their heads to take a look, “No ah, didn’t even see a mouse hair, where is the dead mouse?”

Lin Minjun had already turned this bowl over and searched for it again, and froze without seeing the dead rat in his mouth, by all rights Cao Bin should have been embarrassed, because it showed that he was deliberately picking a fight and lying

But Cao Bin actually shrugged his shoulders and said in a very roguish manner, “Then I was wrong, it was in your pot”

Lin Minjun took a deep breath, by this time, she already knew that Cao Bin was making a fuss over nothing, he looked at a f*cking rat

“In the pot? Maa, that’s even worse, wouldn’t the fried yams we’re eating be made of fried rat oil?” Someone yelled with a start

“That can’t be right, how dirty this thing is, aigoo, don’t really have rats, I feel like my stomach hurts a little bit” Another person followed and covered his stomach because of his own mental suggestion

The group of old ladies and amahs in the hutong, originally heard an amah say that Lin Minjun’s stall is not clean, only to follow aggressively, once they heard this is not bad, also followed the response, “If there really are dead rats, Lin you can not set up a stall, this is not a harm to people? This stall is not just for adults to eat, there are also many children, how can you explain to people’s parents if they eat a bad stomach”

Everyone came over to talk about the rats, some people covered their stomachs and said they had a stomach ache, some people were dry-heaving as if they had really seen rats

Lin Minjun walked to the front of the stall, in front of the crowd, used a colander to fish out the pot inch by inch, fried yams on the pot, and looked around the stall again

The mouse was nowhere to be found, but she saw an older woman move with a particularly quick retraction of her hand

Seems particularly careless a movement, Lin Minjun did not voice, took a closer look at their own stall, this look found that something is not right

An older woman just sent a bowl of fried potatoes similar to the one she made, even the bowl was exactly the same

Now Lin Minjun realized that the place where she put the clean bowl was missing one, and there was an additional dirty bowl next to it

Thinking about what First Aunt had just done, she ventured a guess that First Aunt couldn’t have just taken advantage of the fact that everyone was up in arms and she was busy dealing with that side of the house to pour the fried yams that she had made at home into her own bowl, pretending to have made them herself, right?

A big mom just needs to take a clean bowl and pour the stuff in, this is called indiscriminate

Cao Bin is still saying that he saw a dead rat, it is not possible that the mother and son made a bowl of fried potatoes with dead rats at home, and came over to frame her?

In this moment, Lin Minjun figured everything out

Cao Bin first came over to buy something, and halfway through the purchase staggered up, saying that her stuff was unclean and had dead rats

In fact, a big mom took advantage of all the commotion and dumped a bowl of fried yams that really did have dead rats into her bowl, falsely blaming her

In this way, the two of them, mother and son, working together inside and outside, were able to completely put her business out of business

Good thing Lin Minjun work carefully, have the habit of counting things at any time, but also fortunately she had long realized that the mother and son to do bad things, in advance to guard against it, not really got into the way

The more dangerous time Lin Minjun more let himself calm down, she took advantage of a big mom not pay attention, not move the bowl really have dead mice bowl back, placed in a conspicuous place, at the same time, the heart also has a way to deal with

One bite of a dead rat, it seems like you really want to eat it

Lin Minjun glanced at Cao Bin, and said, there is a saying, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and today I will let you taste what it is like to be slandered as well

Over there, after Cao Bin’s a lot of jealousy, everyone has been especially suspicious of Lin Minjun’s stuff is not clean, and just bought fried potatoes of people are making a fuss to refund money, Cao Bin shouted especially energetic, “Refund! Cao Bin shouted with particular vigor, “Refund! This kind of unclean things eat diarrhea how to do, hurry up the refund!”

Lin Minjun did not panic, first a big mom brought the bowl of fried potatoes on the front of the front of the counter, especially conspicuous place, said loudly, “This is our yard a big mom sent fried potatoes, not I do, just now you have seen her sent over, this I will put in the front first”

After saying that, she added, “If what I made is really unclean and made you guys eat bad, I’m willing to refund the money, or even, I’ll pay for it, but now that I haven’t found any dead rats or any evidence, I can’t refund the money based on a few words, and I also can’t just put a label on me”

“You can only prove that there were no dead rats in that bowl just now, and I saw one jump in the frying pan just now, so let me search it” Cao Bin immediately snapped

Lin Minjun had already fished out all the yams in the frying pan just now, and at this time, she reached in and fished it out twice, “Is there one?” She asked in return

“Is there any, I won’t know until I search” Cao Bin stuck his hands in his pockets, his eyes particularly roguish

Lin Minjun let out a laugh, her eyes were somewhat contemptuous, “You search, you’re a smelly rascal, with one sentence you’re going to come and search my things, on what grounds? What qualifications do you have, in what capacity do you come to search, based on your status as a hobo?”

Cao Bin choked on these words, and for a while, he didn’t really think of anything to say in rebuttal

“No, you’re not a hobo, you’re the leader of the gangsters in this neighborhood” She told the others, “Do you guys remember two days ago, two punks came to my stall, making it a point to say that the food wasn’t good, and then I specifically asked, and they said that Cao Bin was the one who told them to come and smash my place and pick a fight, in order to make it impossible for me to work here”

Someone sucked in a breath of cool air, “Really?”

“It’s true!” The vendor selling baked sweet potatoes next to him slapped his thigh, “I remember, it’s true, but Xiao Lin, those two punks really said that Cao Bin is the head of the gang?”

“Yes, personally told me that, I think he’s just deliberately picking a fight trying to collect protection money from us” Lin Minjun nodded her head and asked Cao Bin, “You’ve been looking for punks to come and smash up the scene three times, and if you can’t do it once, you go on your own, what is it if not to collect protection money? This is still the law of the land, still talking about the law? Cao Bin, this is a new society, not an old one, it’s not your turn for bandits and hooligans to go around”

Cao Bin almost jumped up at these words, he threw a pot of dirty water on Lin Minjun, who would have thought that Lin Minjun would pick up the dirty water in the next second and douse him with it

Bandits and hooligans is a big hat, these years okay, some years ago is to give the shot, God knows, he did some bad things some years ago, is a small head, but with the reform and opening up and take off the hat, that group of little brother long ago did not give a damn about him, and now the bare-knuckle commander of a, how to become Lin Minjun in the mouth of a big gangster head of the well on

“When did I say to collect protection money?” Cao Bin which still have just gangster rogue look, simply long eight mouth can not say

Lin Minjun clearly organized, and then asked, “That or else, what do you want to do? Eat did not eat to slander me, said my things are not clean, but also search, what do you have to search? You’ve been a punk for so long that you think the whole world is yours, right?”

Gazing at Cao Bin, Lin Minjun said in her heart, punk, our war horn has just sounded, you do not dare to meet the battle