Siheyuan: Father Yi Zhonghai and Sister-in-law Lou Xiaoe

"Yes, that's right. Yi Bufan and his wife both work, and sometimes they don't have time to cook, so they ask me to help."

Yi Zhonghai was stunned for a moment before answering.

"Yes, they said yesterday that they wanted to eat dumplings, so I made them today."

An old lady also echoed Yi Zhonghai's words.

"That, that dumpling..."

Sha Zhu looked around as he spoke. This expression was so familiar, it looked exactly like the way he had come here before to look for food.

"He paid, two dollars for a meal. If he has to pay again, two dollars for the meat and one dollar for the vegetables, we can't cook for him for free."

Yi Zhonghai took over the conversation and took a few deep puffs of his cigarette.

"Two dollars is a bit of a loss, I heard from Brother Dongxu that two lunch boxes of meat dumplings and fried meat are available. If it's this price, I want you to make it every day."

Sha Zhu came here for this purpose. If Yi Bufan could do this, then he could definitely do it himself. Then he could just sell them separately and treat it as wholesale.

"Dongxu told you?"

Yi Zhonghai was silent for a moment. He didn't expect these two guys to talk about everything.

"Yes, Brother Dongxu has been to Yi Bufan's place."

Sha Zhu looked at Yi Zhonghai and knew that he couldn't miss any opportunity that would benefit him.

The aunt was worried and looked at Yi Zhonghai.

About to be exposed?

Two dollars is not enough to buy so many dumplings, plus scrambled eggs and stir-fried pork with beans.

Doing it for my own son is a willingness and a happiness, but doing it for others... forget it.

"I'm telling you, but don't tell Yi Bufan and Xu Xiaoran."

"It's Xu Fugui."

Yi Zhonghai took a few more puffs of his cigarette, silently saying, "Xu Laogou, just bear the blame, it's all for the children anyway." Then he spoke.

"Xu Fugui gave me ten yuan and five kilograms of meat coupons, saying that his son-in-law and daughter had just started working and were having a hard time making ends meet, so he asked me to help with the cooking occasionally. He gave me five yuan for the dumplings."

"Xu Fugui also said that if they want us to help cook in the future, we should cook according to the price I just mentioned, and he will give us an extra two dollars."

Yi Zhonghai felt that Sha Zhu and Xu Fugui had very few opportunities to meet, and their relationship was not very good to begin with, so it was impossible for him to ask about this matter.

"That's higher than the prices in state-owned restaurants!"

Shazhu was shocked when he heard this. It would cost at least one or two dollars more.

"It's indeed high. So, since Xu Fugui is such a sucker and is offering me money, there's no reason for me to refuse it."

"He just said that Yi Bufan is his son-in-law, and men need to save face. If he directly gives money to help, he will feel ashamed and will not accept it. But he is afraid that his daughter will suffer, so he did it."

Yi Zhonghai felt ashamed. He really told a lie and had to cover it up with more lies.

However, this should be considered a white lie.

"Yi Bufan is really lucky. Xu Fugui is so good to his daughter."

Sha Zhu felt a little jealous. He also had a father, so why did he run away with another woman?

Thinking of this, he silently raised his head and looked at Yi Zhonghai. He was his godfather now. It would be great if he could treat him like this.

I'm not afraid of being embarrassed. I'll take whatever money is given to me in person.

"Who says it's not true? Who would give a daughter a sewing machine as a dowry? It's a big item, usually prepared by the man's family."

Yi Zhonghai also nodded. Old Xu was indeed very good to his daughter.

"When I get married, I will definitely get all three major items, and I can't be worse than Yi Bufan!"

Sha Zhu remembered that the deaf old lady and Yi Zhonghai had said before that his marriage would be the biggest happy event in this courtyard and would be held in a grand manner.

"That's right, the three major items must not be missing!"

Yi Zhonghai responded casually, and finally there was no need to continue the previous topic.

However, to Sha Zhu, these words were a confirmation of what he had said before and they still counted.

"Okay, by the way, uncle, do you have any extra meat tickets? We also need flour tickets and other things."

All Shazhu is thinking now is to grab as much as he can.

"you need to?"

Yi Zhonghai looked up in confusion.

"Well, I'm planning to do something with Brother Dongxu, and I need some tickets."

Shazhu didn’t go into details, after all, it hasn’t been done yet.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I've spent all my meat and flour coupons on the trips to the countryside and the Great Northern Wilderness. I'm still waiting for next month's coupons. I need to arrange everything when I go out. Giving these coupons is more useful than giving money."

Yi Zhonghai has a lot of money in his hands, but he has used very little of it every month over the years and has been saving it.

Now, all that money is used to buy things for Yi Bufan, how could it be given to Sha Zhu?

"Tickets are indeed more valuable than money!"

"It's okay, I just asked casually."

"Then I'll go back first. I still have to discuss this with Jia Dongxu."

Sha Zhu stood up with a smile, his doubts resolved and he felt much more relieved.

"By the way, don't tell anyone about Xu Fugui, or you won't be able to make the money!"

Yi Zhonghai didn't care what Sha Zhu and Jia Dongxu were discussing.