Su Qingluan was stunned when she heard what the tavern owner said: "More money?"

"Yes!" The tavern owner looked down at Su Qingluan with a pair of narrow eyes. "Since your business has been booming, you've come to wash dishes more often. You use more water, so naturally I have to raise the price!"

Su Qingluan's face turned cold. "Madam, what you said is inappropriate, isn't it? My family pays you ten cents a day, and it's not for water. After all, although the well is near your tavern, it's not yours, right? The ten cents is just a convenience, and I ask you to help look after the dishes."

To put it bluntly, it's just paying for convenience, but it's not necessary.

Seeing the proprietress's gaze shift away somewhat vaguely, Su Qingluan calmed down again: "Actually, my Su family does business here, selling some local snacks. Wouldn't that attract customers to come here? That way, the proprietress's wine shop business will also be better, right?"

For small vendors like these, talking about feelings and reasoning is of little use. Only interests can move their hearts, so Su Qingli didn't waste any words. He first belittled the other party's necessity and then put forward the common interests.

The proprietress felt a pang in her heart: she was only jealous of the Su family's prosperous business, but forgot the chain effect of shared prosperity.

After figuring out the benefits, she immediately changed from her harsh, half-smiled expression to a genial, narrow-eyed one: "Hey, Su girl, I was just too narrow-minded just now. We do business next to each other, so if you round it up, we're neighbors. How can you say there's a price increase, right?"

Su Qingluan didn't care about the rudeness in front of her husband, nor did she mind the "extra" expense of three hundred coins a month. In her opinion, if these three hundred coins could make the owner of the tavern pay more attention to the dishes she brought in to wash, it would save her a lot of energy.

Su Qingluan had also managed to find a source of coal in the past few days. She didn't look for a centralized coal trading place because the coal business was very large and the price was almost monopolized, making it difficult to bargain.

So Su Qingluan simply chose an old man in his fifties who brought coal to sell every morning - this reminded her of the story of "The Charcoal Seller" in the textbook - as her "supplier".

She wanted a lower price for coal, while the old man urgently needed a customer who could buy coal from him stably and long-term, so the two hit it off. Su Qingluan and the old man agreed that after the market opened every day, the old man would go to the Su family's stall and wait for the Su family to come. The Su family would pay and the old man would give them coal, so that the old man would not have to work hard carrying coal around on the street every day.

However, on rainy days, since coal cannot come into contact with water, the two parties agreed that if it rains before the market opens that day, the old man will not have to sell coal.

For example, today, it started to drizzle in the middle of the night, and when I went to set up my stall in the morning, there was no sign of the weather clearing up, so it seemed that I would not be able to set up my stall today.

"Sister, aren't you going to the stall today?" Su Xueyan glanced at the braising pot in the corner with some concern, "Will the offal get spoiled?"

Su Qingluan squatted down and pinched her sister's nose: "Don't worry, this stew has a lot of seasonings added to it, it won't go bad so easily." Not to mention one or two days, if it is kept boiling, some stews can last for decades.

The little girl felt relieved and giggled, but Su Xuanhe could no longer laugh.

As a "student", he would still go to Master Zhou even on rainy days - not to mention that it was not a heavy rain.

Originally, Su Xuanhe was whining and trying to pretend to be sick in bed, but when Yang glared at him with a broom, he was immediately frightened and his true colors were revealed. He obediently got dressed, had breakfast and prepared to go out.

"I'll go see him off." Su Guangfu put on bamboo hats for his son and himself, and held down Yang, who was about to leave. "You've had back pain lately, so you should walk less."

Yang smiled at Su Guangfu and said, "Then I'll go back to my room and lie down for a while."

Su Qingluan stood aside and said that there could be more of this kind of dog food.

It was another rainy day and she didn't have to go out to the stall. After breakfast, Su Qingluan planned to stay in the house and read a book to pass the time, and watch her younger sister practice calligraphy.

However, by noon, the sky had cleared up.

Su Qingluan went out and looked at the sky - there were almost no clouds, and the blue seemed to be gradually becoming transparent. It was almost difficult to see that less than half an hour ago, the sky was still covered with dark clouds.

Su Qingluan leaned over to her sister and took a look. "Wow, you've already written two long pieces of calligraphy? That's great! Do you want to go out and play with me?"

What child doesn't like to go out and play? When Su Xueyan heard her elder sister's words, she was a little wilted after practicing calligraphy for a long time, and immediately stood up like a seedling after being watered!

"Sister, where are we going?"

Su Qingluan thought for a moment and said, "The rain has just stopped. Why don't we go to the back mountain to pick mushrooms?"

The little girl immediately became as excited as a bird released from a cage.

Su Qingluan said hello to her parents and went to the back mountain with her sister.

Although they said they were going to the back mountain, Su Qingluan actually did not take Su Xueyan to the inner part of Taixiang Mountain. Instead, they picked mushrooms in the surrounding area and picked some wild flowers to make a wreath for the little girl and put it on her head.

Su Xueyan was not angry at being "thrown away" by her elder sister, but just laughed happily.

While picking mushrooms, I unexpectedly met Tian Xing'er and Liu'er who were also there to pick mushrooms.

Su Qingluan greeted them both and introduced her little sister to her two friends.

"Oh, this is your sister, she's so cute!" Looking at Su Xueyan, who was like a snow-white jade ball, Tian Xing'er's already lively almond-shaped eyes were shining.

Liu'er also nodded: "When I see your sister, I want to rub her face!" As she said that, she wanted to start, but when she looked at her hands covered in mud from picking mushrooms, and then at Su Xueyan's fair and tender little face, she finally controlled her "Lushan Claws".

The little girl may have realized that the two weird sisters were planning something bad to her, so she said obediently: "Wash your hands later, and then you can touch my head..."

She was obviously a little girl under four years old, but she was so serious that the other three girls burst into laughter.

After laughing enough, Su Qingluan looked at Tian Xing'er and Liu'er: "By the way, why are you two the only ones picking mushrooms here today?"

Even if Que'er wants to get married, aren't there two other people?

"The two of them?" Tian Xing'er shook her head. "They don't like the humidity on rainy days, so naturally they won't come out!"