The old lady smiled. "You just focus on making your money. We don't need to be so formal about these things." 'An old gal like me could probably make about ten yuan a day, too,' she thought. 'If I wasn't worried about holding Ding Bang back, I'd have set up my own stall ages ago.'
"Got it!" Lin Lan smiled and brought a chair for the old lady to sit on. She then turned and went behind the stove, opening the cupboard and taking out a mortar.
Seeing that the area in front of and behind the stove was spotless, the old lady nodded with a smile, then took Little Douzi by the hand and sat down to watch Lin Lan work.
Lin Lan poured some white sugar into the mortar and ground it into a powder to set aside. She then went back inside to get a pair of scissors and began snipping open the fully soaked broad beans at their sprout-ends, which filled a large wooden basin. Little Douzi also grabbed some broad beans to help.
