As a result, Shen Qingyu's business was not as good as it had been the previous two days.

After all, many people will try and compare two similar products when they see them.

After selling a batch at the dock, Shen Qingyu arrived at the entrance of the village school and was surprised to find someone selling glutinous rice from wooden buckets.

Shen Qingyu simply sat calmly beside her donkey cart.

The school bell rang, and students came out one after another. They saw two vendors selling sticky rice and exclaimed, "Wow! There are two sticky rice vendors now?"

The woman selling glutinous rice began to call out: "Glutinous rice balls, seven coins each!"

Surprisingly, it was much cheaper than Shen Qingyu's.

The students instinctively rushed over.

The woman selling donkey rolls gloated, but remained silent.

Shen Qingyu remained unhurried, setting up her sign and waiting with a smile.

Before long, a furious curse rang out: "What is this garbage? The sticky rice isn't hot! The crispy chips aren't crispy! The minced meat isn't fragrant! The chili oil is burnt... I wouldn't eat it even if it were given to me for free!"

It was the chubby young master Zhao Xiang who was enraged.

Young Master Zhao Xiang threw the glutinous rice ball in his hand on the ground and turned to walk towards Shen Qingyu.

"I also want your glutinous rice. Give me two glutinous rice balls, with pickled cabbage, minced meat, and soup!" With that, Young Master Zhao Xiang handed over a copper coin.

The other students immediately came over to Shen Qingyu.

"Then I'll eat this too!"

"You know what, this one is actually even tastier..."

"Oh dear! What a waste of my seven coins!"

Students who can afford to go to school are not from poor families. If they have a good glutinous rice ball, who would want to settle for something that tastes bad?

Now it was the woman who had just started selling glutinous rice who was dumbfounded.

She invested a lot of money and has been working since before dawn, but who knew it would turn out like this?

"I'm not cold at all..."

A student who had just bought some food kindly pointed out: "Although this isn't cold, it's not hot enough or fragrant enough! The taste is definitely much worse..."

Shen Qingyu pretended not to hear: "It's cold. Once the glutinous rice cools down, it will become hard and taste completely different."

Not everyone has a space warehouse that can stop time.

When she went out early in the morning, she was surprised to find that the space had been upgraded and a map function had been added.

Using the map, she could clearly see the main streets of her town and the types of businesses they operated...

There's even the distribution of pedestrian traffic.

For example, right now at the entrance of the village school, there are many small green dots moving around.

This all represents potential customers.

Although this map isn't really needed in Hengshui Town, it's very useful when you're in an unfamiliar place.

Once this batch of glutinous rice was sold out, Shen Qingyu simply packed up and went home: Since these people want to steal business, let them experience the pain of not being able to steal business.

Goodbye!

As the donkey cart entered an alley, a woman approached, none other than Shen Qingyao, whom they hadn't seen for some time.

Shen Qingyao was alone. When she saw Shen Qingyu driving the donkey cart, a look of disdain flashed in her eyes: "Big sister, why are you still selling this? There are several glutinous rice stalls on the street now..."

Shen Qingyu raised an eyebrow and smiled: "What? You even investigated for me?"

“I’m your own sister, of course I have to care about you… Why don’t you go home and stay with your brother-in-law? He’s finally back, don’t let him run away again.”

Shen Qingyu smiled mischievously, touching her face and asking, "Little sister, do you think I've lost weight again? My skin looks so much better!"

Shen Qingyao's face froze: "What do you mean?"

"I'm getting prettier and prettier, I don't think my husband will dislike me..."

here we go again!

It's the same old routine again!

My aunt also taught this to herself when she got home!

Shen Qingyao was almost furious!

Yesterday, her father-in-law came home and brought up Shen Qingyu, saying that Shen Qingyu was very capable and had great business potential, etc.

He even suggested that Shen Qingyao should learn from Shen Qingyu!

She's just a glutinous rice seller, what could she possibly learn?

Learn how to sell sticky rice.

She's the second daughter-in-law of the Qi family, the richest family in the world. How dare they ask her to go out and show her face in public?!

What's even more infuriating is that her scoundrel husband said Shen Qingyu has changed a lot...

That look of intense interest on his face... it's infuriating!

"Elder sister, you're married and have three children! Is it appropriate for you to talk like that?" Shen Qingyao couldn't take it anymore and questioned her.

Shen Qingyu stopped laughing: "Sister, I still have the medicine powder you gave me. If I took it to the town hall or the government office, do you think you could still be the young mistress of the Qi family?"

Shen Qingyao's expression changed instantly: "You really don't appreciate kindness! I've been thinking of you with all my heart, and you actually... you actually..."

"Shen Qingyao, I didn't report you because I'm saving face for you! If you don't know what's good for you, don't blame me for not saving face for you!"

Shen Qingyu gave Shen Qingyao a cold glance, then turned to leave.

"What do you mean? You've already had three children, do you still have designs on my husband?" Shen Qingyao looked at Shen Qingyu's back and voiced her most fearful speculation.

Shen Qingyu glanced at Shen Qingyao with disdain: "For the sake of us being sisters from the same mother, I won't hold it against you. As for that man... you can keep him."

I wouldn't even accept it as a gift for myself.

She's been wandering around town these past few days and has heard a lot of gossip.

Everyone says that Qi Han's family has two great treasures.

The eldest child is specifically in charge of his career.

The second child is specifically responsible for having offspring and procreation.

The eldest son, Qi Pengju, was obsessed with passing the imperial examinations. He was already a Xiucai (a successful candidate in the lowest level of the imperial examinations) but that wasn't enough. He even said he would wait until he passed the Juren (another successful candidate in the highest level of the imperial examinations) before getting married.

Now that he's in his twenties and still unmarried, Qi Han listens to him.

The second son, Qi Zhouhua, is a business failure, but he is very prolific.

After marrying Shen Qingyao, he took several concubines.

The concubines were all capable of bearing children, and each one gave birth to a litter of kids. Every day, the house was in chaos, with farcical situations arising from the concubines vying for the emperor's favor.

It's a pity that no one inherited Qi Han's business acumen, and it's unknown who will inherit his vast fortune in the future.

Only a woman from the old era like Shen Qingyao, who had never seen the world, would think that the life of concubines and illegitimate sons fighting each other every day was good.

She disdains it.

In times like these, even dragon meat doesn't taste good!

To be honest, we should thank Shen Qingyao for ruining this marriage!

Shen Qingyu drove the donkey cart away into the distance, and only then did Shen Qingyao stamp her foot and leave the secluded alley.

Neither of them noticed that a door in the alley creaked open, and a burly young servant peeked out, then turned around and said, "Young master, they've all left."

A thin scholar came out carrying a scroll, his gaze fixed with interest on the direction the donkey cart had disappeared in: "Qi Fei, you mean that's Shen Qingyu, the one who was originally engaged to my second brother? The one my father praised yesterday?"

The servant Qi Fei nodded: "The second young mistress only has this one older sister, so it must be her."

"Tsk tsk... What a sharp tongue!" The speaker was none other than Qi Pengju, the eldest son of the Qi family.

The master and servant accidentally overheard something.