Border Cook

Chapter 35 Strange

Jiang Erniu was still a little afraid of his brother-in-law, and his tone was full of flattery at this time.

"I just finished a convoy mission these days and paid my bill. I am planning to go to your house to visit my sister." Feng Dali said, "I know your family is having a hard time, so I specially brought a piece of meat over so that you can have a good meal."

"I'm sorry to have caused trouble to my mother-in-law and elder brother." Jiang Erniu's face was full of shame.

"I'm worried about this because I feel bad for my sister and nephew, not because of you." Feng Dali snorted.

"understand."

Scorched by Feng Dali's fiery gaze, Jiang Erniu felt a burning sensation on his face, and his body, which was originally slightly bent, became even more bent.

Seeing Jiang Erniu's timid appearance, Feng Dali, who usually walks outside, feels even more angry. His voice becomes two degrees higher, "Understand? What do you understand? I think you understand nothing!"

"If you really understood things, you should have thrown away your broken pancake stand and followed me out to try your luck. You could have made more money and my sister wouldn't have to live like this!"

On his birthday, he couldn’t even bear to eat meat dumplings, and during Chinese New Year, he couldn’t even bear to buy an extra pound of meat.

My sister who loves her reputation so much, but the gifts she brought back for the Chinese New Year were so shabby that my two nephews almost drooled when they saw the snacks at home!
When Feng Dali thought of this, he was filled with anger and pointed at Jiang Erniu's nose and scolded him, "If you have any potential, you should fight for your reputation. Don't be like this now, you have no ability and don't even think about letting others find a way out for you!"

No ability...

These three words once again hurt Jiang Erniu's heart, causing his face to turn red. The resentment suppressed in his heart gradually turned into anger, rising up little by little.

He clenched his fists, veins popped out on his forehead, and he bit his lips so hard that they bled.

The fishy-sweet taste quickly spread in his mouth, and Jiang Erniu, whose eyes were red, regained some of his sanity.

His originally tense body relaxed instantly.

"No future!" Feng Dali added, glared at Jiang Erniu, and left angrily.

Jiang Erniu stood there for a long time. After a long time, he lifted his legs that felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead and walked into the grain shop.

"Brother Erniu?"

Jiang Erniu's wandering thoughts were finally pulled back to reality. When he saw that the person who greeted him was Zhang Laifu, he let out a sigh, "It's Laifu."

"Yes, I'm here to buy some flour." Zhang Laifu narrowed his eyes, "Brother Erniu is here to buy flour too?"

"Yes." Jiang Erniu said to the waiter, "I want twenty kilograms of white flour."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll weigh Brother Lai Fu's first." The waiter responded, brought the scale bar over, and scooped white flour for Zhang Lai Fu to weigh.

"Brother Erniu, is this all you want to buy?" Zhang Lai Fu asked.

"Business has been slow these days, so buy less. If you buy more, you're afraid they'll get overstocked." Jiang Erniu said in a low voice.

"Brother Erniu has thought of everything. I'll buy less, too. The business of the bun shop has been average these days." Zhang Laifu sighed, "I was just chatting with the waiter, and he said that Madam Xia always orders 100 kilograms of flour. The good business is different. The ones who buy flour are all wealthy."

"But speaking of this Madam Xia..." Zhang Laifu said to the waiter, "Hey, waiter, you have to be careful when you weigh the flour for Madam Xia. Don't mix the glutinous rice flour in. If it gets mixed in and Madam Xia doesn't notice, the dough we mixed in advance won't rise, and we won't be able to do business tomorrow!"

"Don't worry, I won't make this kind of mistake again." The guy replied with a smile.

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have worked in this shop for so many years. Look, I'm nosy. They say that people in the same business are enemies. If Madam Xia can't do business tomorrow, the buns and sesame cakes will definitely sell well. I'm reminding you so eagerly. Really, you've cut off your own source of income!"

Zhang Lai Fu spoke with a smile, as if he was joking.

The guy was so amused that he couldn't stop laughing. "That's why you say Brother Lai Fu is a good person. He would rather not make money himself than think about others!"

As they were talking, Zhang Laifu's flour had already been weighed. Zhang Laifu paid, picked up the bag and put it on his shoulder, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

"Okay, drive slowly on the way." Jiang Erniu saw him off for a while, and when he came back, his eyes fell on the bag of glutinous rice flour next to the white flour.

What Zhang Lai Fu said just now was not wrong.

If Madam Xia's dough goes bad, we won't be able to do business tomorrow.

If she couldn't do business, others who wanted to buy cakes would come to buy his.

If the business was good, his brother-in-law might not point at his nose and scold him for being incompetent, nor would he always persuade him to throw away the pancake stall that he had worked so hard to build.

At this moment, the waiter was using a half-gourd ladle to scoop flour for him...

Jiang Erniu gritted his teeth and reached out for the big bag of flour that he was going to give to Xia Mingyue.

……

The clerk took advantage of the time when the shop was not busy to deliver the flour and various grains to Xia Mingyue. When he went there, he brought a scale on the flatbed truck.

Weighed on the spot, it was exactly the right weight, and the tail of the scale was tilted high.

Such details made Xia Mingyue feel very good, "Thank you."

"Ms. Xia, you're welcome."

The waiter poured all the white flour into the flour jar, put the other grains in order, and then drove away on the flatbed cart, not forgetting to add a sentence as he left, "Mrs. Xia, your business is booming."

If business is good, more flour will be needed, and the shop will do better.

The guy saw things clearly and was not at all stingy with his blessings.

"Thank you." Xia Mingyue smiled as she saw the waiter out, then tidied up a bit and went back to her room to take a nap.

I slept until I woke up naturally, then had a simple dinner and started kneading the dough.

……

The next day, Xia Mingyue's stall business was still booming.

Meat patties and vegetable patties are sold one by one, and wontons are sold in bowls.

Zhang Lai Fu stood on tiptoe and looked again and again, with more and more doubts on his face.

strangeness.

Yesterday he clearly saw Feng Dali scolding Jiang Erniu like that. If Jiang Erniu was any human being, he would be extremely angry and would hate Xia Mingyue to death.

He told Jiang Erniu exactly how he had done the evil, and when Jiang Erniu came out of the grain shop, he looked a little panicked, which showed that he had obviously succeeded.

How come Xia Mingyue can still do business as usual today?

Did you find something wrong when you were kneading the dough last night and changed the flour to white?
This doesn't make sense. His bun shop is right between Xinghua Lane and the grain shop. If Xia Mingyue really went there to exchange for white flour, he should be able to hear some noise and detect it.

Yes……

There must be some noodles left at home that have not been used up, so when setting up the stall today, the previous noodles were used and the new noodles have not been used yet!
The more Zhang Lai Fu thought about it, the more he felt this was the case, and he could only advise himself to be patient and wait for a few days.

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