General, Madam Called You To Farm

Chapter 111 – Asking for her help (1)

“Do they sell them in town?” One of the cooks asked. 

“No.” The senior cook said. 

“How about at Fucheng?” Shopkeeper Sun asked. 

The senior cook shook his head and said, “Fucheng doesn’t have it either.
This kind of salted egg is only for the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital, and ordinary small counties don’t sell it.” 

“How can it be, ah.” Shopkeeper Sun wondered, “This thing is only sold in the capital, so could it be that the girl bought it from the capital?” 

——

Today’s stall was late, and the regular customers were waiting anxiously. 

“Aren’t you too relaxed? Even Jinji has already sold two pots!” 

Shen Chuan said sullenly. 

Su Xiaoxiao asked, “Eh? Why did you come over today?” 

“I’m just passing by.” Shen Chuan said. 

“Oh.” Su Xiaoxiao wrapped five egg yolk pastries and handed them to the aunt in front of her, “Your snacks, 100 wen.” 

 

-Egg yolk pastry 

The cost of egg yolk pastry was high, which was ten wen more expensive than the wife’s cake and chestnut cake.

“Here, the list.” Shen Chuan casually handed her the list that he had kept all the way. 

Su Xiaoxiao was surprised and said, “Did you specially come here to deliver the list to me? Actually, there’s no need for that.
After we finish our business here, we will go to the academy to get it by ourselves.” 

Shen Chuan said angrily, “I have said that I was passing by, so I just brought it to you along the way!” 

Su Xiaoxiao asked, “It seems today you are not in a good mood, did you run into trouble with the dean again?” 

Shen Chuan explained the matter in his heart and sighed, “He wanted to let me go to Fucheng to study after spring, but I don’t want to go!” 

This was a family matter of the Shen family, so it was inconvenient for Su Xiaoxiao to comment. 

“Here you go.” Su Xiaoxiao wrapped a portion of snacks and gave it to him, “It’s for you, no need to pay.” 

“Why?” Shen Chuan asked.

“To comfort you.” Su Xiaoxiao said seriously. 

Shen Chuan: “……” 

Shen Chuan coughed lightly and said, “I’m an adult, do I still need a little girl like you to comfort me? Here!” 

He threw a small piece of silver to Su Xiaoxiao and said, “There’s no need to give change, this master is happy today!” 

He wanted to spend his father’s money!

Let him spend ruthlessly! 

After giving her the money, Big Young Master Shen walked away arrogantly. 

Su Xiaoxiao handed over the money to Su Ergou to keep it safe: “Do you understand?” 

Su Ergou shook his head in bewilderment.

He couldn’t comprehend, and couldn’t understand.
Why when his older sister didn’t want to be paid, but young master Shen gave more money instead? 

Su Xiaoxiao patted his shoulder and said, “Take your time to learn.” 

The flow of people on the street was significantly less than the previous days.
And because of their late arrival, many customers who had been waiting for a long time have returned back home, thinking that the stall won’t open today. 

“Jie1, the sales are a bit slow today.” Su Ergou said. 

1Jie (姐) : older sister. 

“It’s okay, it’s normal to have ups and downs in doing business.” Su Xiaoxiao’s mentality was very good, probably because a fat person also had a big heart, so she was not in a hurry at all. 

The money that she had on her hand, not counting the money earned from the snacks and pot-stewed dishes business, she earned 45 tael from selling the recipes, and the medical consultation fee from Young Master Xiang was 30 tael.
So she no longer had to worry about going hungry in the short term. 

 

-Pot-stewed dish / Lu Cai (卤菜)

However, the business always needed to grow slowly, and if she wanted to expand production scale, she had to invest more capital.

In addition, the house at home was also old.

This house was built when Mrs.
Chen and Father Su got married.
More than a decade had passed, the walls also cracked, the roof also needed to be repaired, as it was leaking wind and rain. 

She planned to put the matter of house-building on the agenda after the beginning of spring. 

After such calculation, the money that she had earned would have to be spent again before she could hold it for long. 

Just as she was thinking about it, shopkeeper Sun walked over leisurely from Jinji’s side with his hands clasped behind his back. 

“Hey, Miss Su, you’re here setting up a stall again.” 

He came to the two of them, glanced at the snacks in Su Xiaoxiao’s tray, and said with a smile: “Today’s business is not very good ah.” 

Su Ergou didn’t look kindly on this shopkeeper Sun who forced them to sell their recipes: “What are you doing here? I’m warning you, there’s no more recipes to sell to you! We won’t sell it!” 

“I’m not here to buy recipes, I’m here to get the refund money from you!” 

“What refund money ah? You took away all of the recipes, you’re not trying to blackmail us, are you?!” 

The routine of blackmailing people, Su Ergou understood it too well.