Although everyone knows that "wealth should not be exposed", many times it is still "revealed" when one is not careful.

On this day, when Su Qingluan was preparing the braised soup, she found that the spices were not enough, so she thought of setting up a stall today and asked her parents to look after the stall while she went to the stall selling spices to take a look around.

First, you can compare prices and choose high-quality and low-priced goods. Second, if you visit the spice stalls frequently, you can occasionally see what new spices the foreign merchants have imported.

Of course, not all of these "spices" were introduced as "ingredients." Some were used as spices for burning and fumigating, some were used as medicinal materials, and even more exaggeratedly, Su Qingluan even saw some spices being sold as raw materials for refining pills.

It's just outrageous.

So gradually, Su Qingluan developed the habit of visiting various herbal medicine shops, spice shops and the like every time she strolled around the town, as she could definitely make some new discoveries.

Unfortunately, so far, she hasn't found anyone selling tomatoes or peppers - even as ornamental plants.

Spices are expensive, so Su Qingluan brought some extra valuables today.

In fact, large silver ingots or silver notes were not common during trade. What people were most accustomed to was using cloth and strings of copper coins as a channel for "cash payment".

This led to a problem - whether it was a string of copper coins or a piece of cloth, "circulating currency" took up space and was very bulky.

Therefore, the journey from Huaxi Village to Lefeng Town today seemed particularly long - after all, that pile of copper coin strings was quite heavy.

Of course, spices are expensive commodities after all. In order to prevent the possibility of purchasing some particularly expensive spices, Su Qingluan also brought some silver ingots and broken silver in case of emergency.

Su Qingluan had a clear plan: she would first go around all the possible target stalls and shops, then ask the shop owners to transport the required spices to her stalls, and then pay them in bulk.

After all, Su Qingluan needs to purchase a large amount of spices at one time, so for such "big customers", "extra after-sales services" such as door-to-door delivery are generally provided.

However, Su Qingluan did not expect that during the time she was away, some restless pickpockets and gangsters wanted to take advantage of the time when Su Guangfu and Yang were busy with their business and steal a string of copper coins and a few taels of silver.

In fact, it is no wonder that Su Guangfu, who has always been careful, did not notice it. It was really because the other side sang the same tune. Su Guangfu and honest farmers like Yang were no match for them.

Here, Su Guangfu and Yang were serving soup and collecting money respectively, cooperating very skillfully. The people who were originally queuing were also very quiet. They handed over the wooden signs with numbers on them and waited patiently to receive their portion of offal soup.

As a result, there were two people in the line, and one of them accidentally knocked over the soup of the other person when handing over the sign, and the person whose soup was knocked over had not even had a chance to drink it.

"Hey, you have no eyes! You even spilled my delicious soup!" The victim whose soup was spilled was unhappy.

"How can you talk like that? Didn't I apologize already? I didn't mean it!" The instigator retorted indignantly.

"You have to compensate me for my soup! And this dress costs six taels of silver!"

"Six taels of silver?! Why don't you just go and rob me?! I think you spilled the offal soup on purpose so you can blackmail me, right?!"

"Well, you splashed me with water, and you're going to accuse me?!"

"When did I ever falsely accuse you? I think you did it on purpose... Ouch!"

After a few words of disagreement, the two men started fighting.

No matter when or where, there's always someone who enjoys watching the fun. So while the two were arguing, a crowd gradually gathered around them. By the time Yang and Su Guangfu realized they were getting too crowded and their business was being affected, it was too late to intervene. The two men had already started fighting, and it was already a fight!

"Hey, guests, please stop fighting... I'll serve you another bowl..." Yang shouted at the top of her lungs. Although her voice was usually clear, this was a busy street after all, with many people around. No matter how hard she tried, one person couldn't shout louder than a group of people.

Seeing his wife being pushed and almost falling, Su Guangfu didn't care about the stall and rushed over to support Yang, holding her in his arms and pushing away the crowd that was crowding around.

Not to mention the Su couple, even the skinny guy selling eggs and Aunt Yang selling cloth nearby were so scared by these two people that one of them took the eggs and hid in a place with fewer people, while the other wanted to come over and pull Aunt Yang aside to avoid the crowd.

The crowd was so noisy that Yang and Su Guangfu, and even Skinny Monkey and Aunt Yang, who were as close to the couple as friends, did not notice that a nimble and thin figure had sneaked up next to the Su family's stall.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he first looked around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he moved very quickly to the place where the silver change and copper coin strings were kept.

He was very agile and knew how to "grab the big and let go of the small". He first swept the more valuable broken silver and silver ingots into his sleeves, and he had no intention of buying the copper coin strings that took up more space.

The pickpocket saw that everyone around him was focused on the two people fighting, and thought he could get away easily.

Unexpectedly, before the pickpocket could retreat and escape, his arm was twisted behind his back by a huge force. When he struggled a little, his arm and half of his body felt a sharp pain as if they were being torn apart.

"Ah! What are you doing? Let me go!" The pickpocket couldn't help but scream.

He was agile and small, so he relied on his agility and swiftness to often do sneaky things. Especially with the cooperation of the other two "leading actors" who were fighting together, he rarely failed.

Why did you mention iron plate today?

The pickpocket's screams finally made several people around him turn around. The pickpocket was about to cry "thief, thief!", but the man who restrained him pulled out the small change and silver ingots in his arms and said, "Brother and sister-in-law of the Su family, please take a look and see if this is the silver that's missing from your family!"

The voice was a little hoarse, but very bold - what was even more surprising was that the person who came to help was a woman!

When Su Qingluan returned to her stall after a round of shopping, she saw this scene—

A slightly plump woman twisted a thin man, fixing him in a tight spot like a twisted dough stick, unable to break free.

My parents were standing in front of the chaotic stall, trying very hard to pull apart two customers who were fighting each other.

Su Qingluan stared at the woman's back and asked uncertainly, "Excuse me, are you the 'Cooking Pancake Beauty' across the street?"