Chapter 393 Sugar Shop

Yu Jie nodded when he heard this, then looked at Xu Miaomiao and said, "I don't know what happened to my wife a few days ago. She suddenly lost her sight and fainted while having dinner at home. The fire ignited the curtains and burned them directly. I couldn't do anything about it. It was Aunt Li next door who saw the flames rising into the sky and immediately came to the department store to find her. I happened to meet my brother at the time, so I asked him to help me open the shop for two days and let him live here to take a good look. I was anxious to go home. Madam Xu, I was indeed wrong in this matter. I shouldn't have done this."

Xu Miaomiao shook her head when she heard this. She looked at him and said, "It's a good thing that you care about your wife, but you shouldn't abandon your responsibilities. It's also human nature. If I were a member of your family, I would run back to see what was happening. If I didn't go back and only thought about taking care of the shop, wouldn't I be a heartless and ungrateful person? It's terrifying for such a person to deal with her. You did nothing wrong in this matter, and I don't blame you."

When Yu Jie heard this, he looked at Xu Miaomiao in disbelief.

Seeing Xu Miaomiao's serious expression, he nodded half-believingly, and Yu Zhen on the side also suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

But who would have thought that Xu Miaomiao would change the subject and look at Yu Zhen with a sharp gaze. She looked at him coldly and said, "Although I don't blame your brother, it doesn't mean that I can forgive you."

When Yu Zhen heard this, he became anxious and immediately knelt on the ground and begged Xu Miaomiao for mercy.

When Yu Jie saw this, he immediately pulled Xu Miaomiao's sleeve and said, "It's all my fault as an elder brother. I didn't teach him well. Madam Xu, if you have any crime, just blame it on me! You sent him to the police, but he will ruin our Yu family in this life. He is my only relative, and I absolutely cannot leave him alone."

Xu Miaomiao looked at Yu Jie beside her and said comfortingly, "Don't worry, I don't want to embarrass him."

Then Xu Miaomiao slowly raised her eyes, looked at him and said, "I just want to ask, I heard from you that you had a shop before, what happened? You have to tell me everything."

Hearing this, the man breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the ground with empty eyes, looked at Xu Miaomiao and said, "Before, our family had a sugar water shop on the street, which had been open for many years."

Hearing this, Yu Jie patted himself in regret and said, "This matter is all my fault. It has nothing to do with him."

“Brother, you…”

The man on the ground immediately looked at Xu Miaomiao and said, "At that time, we did have a dessert shop. Because our desserts were good, people often came to eat them. But later, because there was a landlord named Wang Buren who often caused trouble for us, I was really impulsive one time and couldn't help it. I had a conflict with him and we fought. But who knew that County Magistrate Hu would punish me for no reason just because Wang Buren's family paid a lot of taxes and they colluded with officials and businessmen. After fifty strokes of the cane, I can't even think about my legs. It was my brother who exhausted the family property, sold the dessert shop, and gave the secret recipe to Wang Buren. Only then was Wang Buren willing to pay money, and we redeemed me from County Magistrate Hu. In the final analysis, I am the one who let him down. So Madam Xu, no matter what, I can't let him go today."

"So that's how it is." Xu Miaomiao nodded when she heard this. She had known for a long time that Wang Buren was not a good person, but she did not expect that she would force him into this state. She was really used to being an accomplice to the evil.

Xu Miaomiao thought calmly, then sat down and said, "You said before that your family opened a dessert shop. Is that the red sign next to it when I came here?"

"Yes, yes, yes, Madam Xu has been there?"

Yu Zhen on the side spoke up.

Xu Miaomiao nodded. In the past, Erbao and Xiaobao loved to eat the sweet soup from that shop the most. However, she didn’t pay attention to the person selling the sweet soup at that time. She was accompanied by Gu Yuan’s mother, but unexpectedly, he turned out to be an acquaintance.

Xu Miaomiao's eyes turned, and she looked at the two people in front of her and said, "Now there is a chance to redeem yourself. Although your brother opened a shop on the street and lacks some proper rules, he is not an unteachable person. Why don't you let him stay in the department store and learn with you? I believe that with you around, you will naturally be able to teach him well."

When Yu Jie heard this, he almost knelt down in front of Xu Miaomiao. He looked at her with tears in his eyes and said, "Madam Xu, I really thank you so much. Even though something like this happened, you are still willing to let us continue to take over the department store and even let me take my brother with me. I have no way to repay you for this kindness."

Xu Miaomiao nodded at him and said, "But I also have conditions."

Madam Xu, just tell me, no matter what the conditions are, I will agree to them. "

"Don't say it so early." Xu Miaomiao's expression turned cold, and she looked at the two people in front of her and said, "If I say I want the secret recipe of your dessert shop, are you willing to give it to me?"

As soon as the voice fell, the two began to confront each other. After looking at each other for a while, no one could make up their minds. They patted Yu Jie's thigh, turned to look at Xu Miaomiao and raised her head and said, "Since Madam Xu wants it, there is nothing I won't give. At that time, I was down and out, still moving things at the dock and couldn't find a job at all. It was Madam Xu who kindly brought me back and trusted me, and handed over such a big store to me to manage. Today, it is obviously my fault, but Madam Xu can still forgive me and let me take care of my brother by her side. I have no way to repay this kindness. Although the secret recipe of this sugar water is indeed my family's ancestral inheritance, I have no complaints about giving it to Madam Xu now.

"Are you really willing?" Xu Miaomiao asked again with some uncertainty. After all, this secret recipe was of great importance. If it was mastered, it would be possible to open such a shop throughout the South Country, and the income it brought would be immeasurable. Besides, this thing had been passed down in their family for several generations. Now it was given to outsiders. The value of it was probably difficult to measure. Xu Miaomiao did not force the two people in front of him. Instead, he looked at them and said, "Don't make a conclusion so quickly about today's matter. Go back and think about what I said today. Tell me when you have figured it out."

(End of this chapter)