Su Hua looked up and saw a pig's head face wrapped up tightly. She couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Oh, is it because you were so happy to be beaten up yesterday that you want to come up to me again and ask me to give you a couple more punches?"

"Su Hua!" Feng Zicai's eyes were bulging with anger as he stared at Su Bai's vegetable basket for a long time, a hint of ill intent flashing in his eyes. "You even snatch these lowly chicken and duck things to eat, which shows that your family is so poor that you can't even afford to eat. How about I introduce you to the Meng family's noodle stall as a helper so you can earn a few copper coins to fill your stomach?"

"Chickens and ducks are lowly?" Su Hua sneered. "I think the most despicable one is you, Scholar Feng."

She didn't even care about the good treatment offered by Zhou's Pharmacy.

She even went to help out at her ex-fiancé's mistress's noodle stall; she must be out of her mind.

"Don't push your luck!" Feng Zicai angrily flung his sleeve. "Now that I'm a student at the Fucheng Academy, I wouldn't bother using my past relationship to ask for a job for you."

"Ha! You're still asking for it! How could Scholar Feng possibly have the face to give it to anyone now?" Su Hua sneered. "Your Feng family's reputation for being ungrateful, opportunistic, and freeloading has long been ruined. The Meng family's money should be left to Scholar Feng. After all, who knows how long he can live off her? It's better to save it!"

“Su Hua…” Feng Zicai felt that this conversation was completely unsustainable.

Where did he live off a woman?

It's just borrowing some money from the Meng family first. When they achieve success in the imperial examinations and become famous, won't the Meng family be the ones to benefit?

"You said those words!" The young man straightened the turban on his head, and his tone was seven parts indifferent and three parts cold. "If you ever find yourself in dire straits in the future, don't come crying to me and begging for help!"

"Don't worry, that day will never come!" Su Hua waved her hand, not wanting to give him another glance.

This kind of scumbag should get as far away from her as possible; he shouldn't be interfering with her making money, that's what's important!

Feng Zicai gritted his teeth in resentment and finally limped away.

When he passes the imperial examination next time, he will be worlds apart from someone like Su Hua. There will come a day when Su Hua will kneel down and beg for his forgiveness!

“Hua’er, this Feng Zicai is no good person. Why do you have to make things difficult for him?” Old village chief Su Chengde stroked his goatee and sighed, his eyes filled with worry. “He’s now in the best academy in the prefecture. If he really rises to prominence one day, I’m afraid he’ll come back for revenge.”

"The situation was already at odds. If this scoundrel hadn't run away so fast, I would have given him two more big slaps!"

Su Bai spat at Feng Zicai's retreating figure, "If the Yu Kingdom really wants to use someone like Feng Zicai who has neither virtue nor ability, I don't think the emperor of the Yu Dynasty will amount to anything."

"Oh dear, my good sister-in-law, you can't say things like that!"

Su Chengde was so frightened that he jumped up.

It almost pulled off a chunk of his already meager goatee.

She dared to discuss even the emperor; it's likely that only her eldest sister-in-law in the surrounding area would do something like that.

“I know, aren’t we all family?” Su Bai waved her hand and smiled, taking out the flavored snails from the vegetable basket. “Uncle, this is a new flavored snail that my Hua’er came up with. I specially brought it for you to try.”

Su Chengde smelled the aroma and secretly swallowed.

"What brings you here today, sister-in-law?"

He took the plate with one hand and instinctively reached into his pocket with the other.

After all, his eldest sister-in-law never came to his door unless she needed something, and now that things were going through a financial crisis, she was probably short of money.

As for the food that Su Hua made, he just smiled and didn't think much of it.

The youngest daughter of the Su family, who can't even distinguish between rice and wheat on a normal day, is probably more likely to set the kitchen on fire the moment she enters it, let alone cook.

"Hey! Uncle, don't be in such a hurry. I didn't come here to borrow money today." Su Baishi looked at the loose silver in Su Chengde's hand and laughed heartily. "Hua'er came up with this flavor of snails and wants to go to town to see if she can earn a few copper coins. But the road is far, so I wanted to borrow your oxcart."

"I thought it was something serious. You can take the oxcart yourself."

Su Chengde chuckled.

These snails smell delicious.

However, selling silver for money will probably not be an easy task.

As Su Bai and her daughter led the ox out, the gate of the neighboring courtyard opened, and a plump and robust woman came out. She wore a dark red thin cotton jacket, a silver plum blossom hairpin in her hair, and two heavy silver bracelets on her wrists, which jingled with her movements.

"Oh, where are you headed, Big Tiger's mother?" The woman's eyes lingered on Su Bai and her companion for a moment, a smile spreading across her plump face, her squinty eyes instantly narrowing into slits with laughter. "We still need an oxcart!"

"Let's go for a walk in town," Su Bai said calmly.

After a brief greeting, he pulled Su Hua toward the end of the village.

"I've never seen anyone so shameless." Madam Su curled her lips and muttered to herself, "She used the money her eldest son earned with his life to build a big brick house and to get a wife for her second son, and in the end, she even kicked her eldest son out. She's just as ungrateful as that ingrate from the Feng family. It's just a pity for that Jinhan boy..."

Xiao Jinhan?

Su Hua raised an eyebrow slightly.

Is this woman Xiao Jinhan's mother?

The image of that tall, slender figure from last night involuntarily surfaced in her mind. Comparing him to the woman from earlier, she immediately clicked her tongue. It was a bit too outrageous that such a bad bamboo could produce such a good shoot.

However, genetics has always been a mysterious field.

Perhaps it's because Xiao Jinhan's father's genes were too strong.

In the Su family's courtyard, Su Erhu was chopping wood in front of the woodshed with a large axe. As soon as he saw the two of them return, he stood up abruptly. "Mother, Hua'er, now that we've borrowed the oxcart, I'll go to the market at the town entrance right now."

It takes about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn for an oxcart to get to town.

He had to sell the snails quickly before the sun went down.

Madam Su didn't hesitate. She only left a small dish of snails for her two sons to try, and put the rest into a large basin for Su Erhu and his sister to take to the town entrance to sell. "Hua'er, it doesn't matter whether these snails sell well or not. Even if we don't sell them all, we can bring them back to eat. If you get hungry in town, just buy some flatbread and noodle soup..."

Listening to her rambling words, Su Hua nodded with a smile.

Having an oxcart is so comfortable. Su Hua sat by the cart shaft and only took a short nap before they arrived at the town gate.

As the sun began to set, many vendors set up their stalls at the town entrance, lining up in two rows. Only the last spot was left for the Su siblings. Su Erhu took out a large wooden basin filled with snails and placed it on a pre-prepared wooden board. To make buying and selling easier, he had also prepared many large leaves to wrap the snails.

He lifted the wooden board covering the basin and cleared his throat with a light cough.

He then imitated the shouts and calls of ordinary street vendors and began to sell his wares.

"Come on everyone, come and take a look! We're selling snails! Fresh and delicious snails! One bite and you'll live to ninety-nine! You can even use a stick to fight tigers and bears! Adults and children alike love them..."

Su Hua's lips curved into a smile.

My second brother is truly a talented person.

If you didn't know better, you'd think they were selling some kind of miracle cure.

However, after his shout, many people who were buying vegetables gathered around.