Chapter 274 Meeting Lin Linger Again
Because there were few people, the eldest sister brought over a slightly smaller watermelon.
It’s not that much smaller even though it’s small, at least 16 or 7 pounds.
The watermelon had just been cut, and Li Jiayi quickly picked up a piece and took a bite. After eating the cold watermelon, he felt much better.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Li Chengqian quickly put down the watermelon and went to open the door.
"Jiayi, I'm looking for you." Soon Li Chengqian's voice came from outside.
"Brother, let them come in!" Li Jiayi shouted.
“Oh!”
Soon the eldest brother came in with a middle-aged man. When he saw this middle-aged man, Li Jiayi smiled.
Because he knows him! Captain of the construction team of the sub-district office, he led people to repair this house in the past.
"Come and eat watermelon." Li Jiayi quickly picked up a piece of watermelon and handed it over.
“Thank you!”
“You’re welcome, Director Xu told you! Repair it according to my house and reinforce it.”
“I already told you, I Come and ask, when will it start?”
“Of course the sooner the better! It’s still the same as before, I don’t care about anything, how much do you think it will be?”
"I heard from Director Xu that you are providing ingredients for a meal at noon, right?"
Li Jia nodded and said, "That's right, how many people are you coming?"
" Ten people.”
“Uh! So many?”
You know, there weren’t so many people last time, but it doesn’t matter to Li Jiayi, it’s faster to work with more people. !
"Everyone is coming, but I can't help it."
"Okay, let's make your own meals. I will provide you with fifteen kilograms of noodles, one kilogram of pork, and some vegetables every day. ”
“Really?”
"Of course, I don't think I need to lie to you. Besides, you are from the street office, so you should know that I am good at this."
"Yes, yes, of course I know this, but I didn’t expect you to serve pork.”
You know, pork is a good thing now! Let’s put it this way! If he was not from the street office, he would probably be like everyone else and would not see meat or fish for several months.
I didn’t expect that when I came to repair Li Jiayi’s house, I would have one pound of meat every day. It didn’t look like much, but on average, everyone had one or two!
It’s not just meat, it’s fifteen pounds of noodles a day! Ten people working together would eat an average of one and a half kilograms each, which was simply too much to eat.
"In addition, I will give you one Qianjin cigarette every day. Don't be dissatisfied with cigarettes. You need cigarette tickets to buy other cigarettes, but you don't need tickets to buy only this dime."
9 cents for Qianjin cigarettes. A bag of money is only 90 cents a day. For Li Jiayi, it really doesn't matter.
"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it."
"In that case, how much does it cost?"
"You can give me nine hundred!"
"Uh! Nine hundred?" Li Jiayi asked in surprise.
You must know that the last time the house was repaired, it cost one thousand yuan. At this time, Li Jiayi thought it would be more expensive. After all, money is not valuable now.
Unexpectedly, not only was it not as expensive as before, it was actually a hundred cheaper.
But he soon understood what was going on. The problem lay in the ingredients he provided.
Fifteen kilograms of two-sided noodles and one kilogram of pork. Let’s not talk about pork. You have to buy these fifteen kilograms of two-sided noodles on the black market. You can’t buy them without fifty yuan.
Yes, on the black market now, a pound of white flour costs four or five yuan, and even cornmeal costs two or three yuan a pound. Double-mixed noodles are white flour and cornmeal mixed together.
Although there is less white flour and more cornmeal, on average it is worth at least three yuan!
What is most valuable now is not big and small yellow croakers, nor fixed prices, nor money, but food.
Li Jiayi promised to give them fifteen kilograms of Erhe noodles every day, but they couldn’t finish it, so they could make more and divide the rest to take home.
"You don't have to do this, just stick to the previous price! After all, we can't let you work in vain."
"Add one! Nine hundred is enough. It's different now. Except for the price of food, other materials are much cheaper."
Li Jiayi scratched his head, this is really true! Prices are indeed cheaper now than before.
"Okay! I'll give you six hundred first. When the repair is almost done, I'll give you the rest."
"Okay, okay."
"By the way, from here Open a door for me," Li Jiayi said, pointing to the spot between the main room and the side room.
“Okay, this is simple.”
“In addition, a gate is installed on the moon gate over there. There is no need to open the back door, just one here.”
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"Okay."
As soon as Li Jia took out 600 yuan and handed it over, the captain took it without counting it, just put it in his pocket and left.
A few hundred dollars may be a huge sum of money to others, but to Li Jiayi, it is nothing. He knows this very well, so he does not believe Li Jiayi at all. Give him less money.
Things were arranged, and Li Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief!
After lunch, Li Jiayi drove a tricycle and left home. He had been delayed all morning, and he had to go to make some money in the afternoon!
"Li Jiayi, wait a minute." Just as he was driving his tricycle to the family area of the embassy, he heard someone calling him and quickly stopped the tricycle.
He turned his head and took a look. A women's bicycle came quickly and quickly arrived in front of him.
"Lin Ling'er, why is it you?"
"Who else could it be if it wasn't me?"
"Uh!" Yes, it was Lin who called him Linger, as early as half a year ago, she knew that Li Jiayi had lied to her.
So the name Wu Chiren disappeared. Of course, she also knew Li Jiayi’s real name.
"What are you going to do on a bicycle if you don't want to ride in a car?"
"What are you going to do if you're bored at home, so you go out for a spin. As for cars, this big It’s hot, who’s going to take a car?”
“Okay!”
Li Jiayi forgot that in this era, domestic cars did not have air conditioning, and even abroad, only a very few cars had air conditioning.
Moreover, it is a single air-conditioner and does not have integrated heating and cooling. In winter, water temperature is required for heating.
In the United States, it was not until 1962 that integrated heating and cooling air conditioners were installed on cars, and it was only in 1963 that they gradually became popular.
"By the way, what are you going to do?" Lin Ling'er asked.
"Why not! Just like you, I am also out for a walk."
"Huh, lie. Are you going to do business?"
"Shh! Can you keep your voice down?"
"What are you afraid of? No one cares about you. Lin Linger curled her lips and said.
"What do you know? I'm afraid of trouble."
Even if no one really cares about him, if someone reports it, it still needs to be investigated. It doesn't matter once or twice. If someone reports it every day, he Don't do it anymore.
"Okay!" Lin Ling'er gave Li Jiayi a grimace and said, "Tell me! What are you going to do now?"
"I'm going to the family area of the embassy to sell some juice."
"Juice?" Lin Ling'er's eyes lit up and she said : "Let's go, I'll go with you."
"Why are you going? It's hot now, you'd better go home!"
"If you don't go back, there's no point in going home. , I don’t want to go back.”
Lin Ling'er is not an only child. She has two brothers and one sister. She is the youngest in the family.
And her brothers and sisters are much older than her, so there is no one to play with her at all.
When she returns home, she either faces her parents or the nanny at home, so she feels very bored at home.
“But if you follow me, it will be very hot.”
“It’s okay, I’m not afraid of the heat.”
Seeing that he couldn't drive away, Li Jiayi was helpless and could only say: "Okay, if you feel hot, go home quickly."
"Yeah!"
Li Jiayi drove the tricycle and slowed down just enough for Lin Ling'er to keep up with her bicycle.
Seven or eight minutes later, Li Jiayi arrived at the family area of the embassy, parked the tricycle under a big tree, and started taking cups out of the box.
To be honest, Lin Linger's presence here has added a lot of work to him.
In the past, he only had to cover up and serve the juice directly.
But now, he wants to put several wooden basins in the box, each basin contains juice, and another wooden basin contains crushed ice.
"Li Jiayi, how do you sell this juice?" Lin Ling'er asked when she saw Li Jiayi taking out cups of juice with ice cubes from the box.
Li Jiayi did not answer her, but just stretched out a finger.
“Ah! One dime a cup? It’s quite cheap.”
"What's a dime a cup! It's a dollar, and it's a U.S. dollar."
"What? A U.S. dollar a cup?" Lin Ling'er looked at Li Jiayi in surprise.
Lin Linger is not a child from an ordinary family! She knows the value of a beautiful knife very well.
In the past, their family owned many factories. Now, although his father has donated all the factories, he still owns some shares.
Sometimes her father would talk about some things in the factory at home, so she knew that if she wanted to buy equipment from abroad, she had to use American tools, otherwise they would not sell it at all.
Equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars has to go through rounds of negotiations to see if it can be cheaper by a few thousand dollars.
Now that Li Jiayi was selling a cup of juice for one dollar, she suddenly felt that the value of the dollar was not very high!
“Give me a drink.” A foreigner came over, put down a dollar knife, picked up a glass of watermelon juice and drank it.
Li Jiayi took out an enamel jar, made a glass of watermelon juice, put a few pieces of ice in it, handed it to Lin Ling'er and said, "Here, drink some watermelon juice to relieve the heat."< br>
“No need, you can keep it and sell it!” Lin Ling’er shook her head and said.
"Don't worry! This is the jar I use for myself."
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Lin Ling'er swallowed her saliva and took the enamel jar.
The cups used by gringos to drink juice are all made of glass and can be recycled back and forth. Although they are cleaned every time they are used, Li Jiayi does not know how to use them.
He prepared an enamel jar for himself, and he uses it when he wants to drink.
“It’s so sweet. Is there any saccharin in this?”
"How could there be saccharin in it? Can't you drink it?" Li Jiayi asked.
The taste is different with or without saccharin. Although saccharin is sweet, it has a faint bitter taste.
It tastes completely different from pure juice.
“I didn’t taste the saccharin taste, but is watermelon juice so sweet?”
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