The shopkeeper came down with a livid face.

A voice inside him was telling him that he absolutely could not admit today that these thugs were the people he had hired.

"Hey buddy, what brings you here?"

Old Su then turned his head and plopped down on the stool in the lobby again.

"Whether you understand or pretend you don't, this matter cannot be left unresolved. Let's see how you're going to compensate us."

The shopkeeper thought to himself, "If I had known, I wouldn't have done this. These peasants are probably going to try and extort me. What am I going to do?"

"Hey bro, I don't know any of these people you brought! I heard what you were saying upstairs too."

My friend didn't know I was upstairs and thought I'd gone out. Please forgive him.

"It's the money you gave us to smash up that other person's stall; the money's still in their hands." The thug next to him finished speaking and quickly disappeared.

They weren't afraid of the shopkeeper. There's a saying that goes, "Those who have nothing to lose are not afraid of those who have something to lose." If you anger them, who knows what they might do?

They didn't get beaten up for nothing; they had to make sure that old man extorted money from the shopkeeper.

Su Sanlang, who was standing nearby, also spoke up at the right moment: "Shopkeeper, we have both witnesses and physical evidence. If you don't compensate us, we'll go directly to the authorities."

Su Erlang, who was standing nearby, chimed in, "That's right. Don't pretend you don't understand or know us. We don't have time to argue with you here."

"Tell us how you want compensation quickly! We still need to set up our stall there."

The shopkeeper's face darkened; he also wanted to resolve the matter quickly, as these people were blocking the entrance to the hall.

It really affects my business, especially since I just saw that my regular customers had already gone outside. Seeing the situation inside the restaurant, I turned around and went to the restaurant diagonally across the street.

"What kind of compensation do you want?"

"I'll give you ten taels of silver," Su Sanlang said, glancing at his father.

The guy next to him stared wide-eyed; these peasants really dared to ask for money.

"Brother, that's not right of you. I don't see that you've lost anything. It's not right for you to ask for ten taels of silver right off the bat."

The shopkeeper didn't say anything to Su Sanlang, who had asked for ten taels of silver, and turned his head directly to Old Man Su.

Knowing that this is the head of the family, the final decision on how much to give will definitely be made by him.

"Shopkeeper, you're the one who acted unethically first, so you can't blame us for not arriving in time today."

Who knows, my eldest and second sons might get badly beaten by those thugs. If they escape, where will we go to seek justice? Even if it's just ten taels of silver, we'll go to the county government office to settle this matter if it's a penny less.

The shopkeeper's lips twitched as he watched. He could clearly see that even without anyone's help, the two men could still easily overpower these thugs; it was only a matter of time.

Just then, a waiter came to the door and said, "Boss, the young master said he's going to treat some people to dinner later and asked us to make preparations."

"What! Did they say when they would be coming?" The shopkeeper was clearly genuinely nervous.

The young master has always been very concerned about his reputation. If he were to lose face in front of others, it wouldn't be as simple as just being kicked out.

"The young master said he would come over at noon and told us to prepare in advance."

Old Man Su noticed the shopkeeper's nervous expression. It seemed that the shopkeeper had acted on his own initiative. Since that was the case, he decided to stick to the price of ten taels of silver and believed that the shopkeeper would definitely give it to him.

I was originally thinking of asking for ten taels of silver, but he would definitely disagree, so I'll ask for less.

Right now, even God is on their side.

"Ten taels it is. Please take the money and sign a receipt to settle the matter. Let's not bring it up again in the future."

Old Man Su nodded, and the shopkeeper then instructed the assistant to prepare paper and ink, and also to go to his room in the backyard to wrap ten taels of silver in cloth.

When he took out the ten taels of silver, he felt terrible. This was the silver he had secretly saved up little by little by manipulating the accounts, and now he had lost so much of it all at once.

After signing the agreement, Old Man Su, along with his two sons and carrying Su Muyao, left the restaurant.

The shopkeeper waved his hand dismissively, as if shooing away bad luck, telling them to get lost, but he didn't say anything more.

Only after watching the group of people walk away did the shopkeeper finally exhale a sigh of relief.

Old Su returned to his stall with his head held high, like a victorious rooster.

"Master."

Old Su looked at the little dumpling sitting by the stall, its eyes sparkling as it gazed at him.

"Wow, isn't I amazing?"

"Grandpa is the best! Grandpa is mighty!" The old man was beaming with joy as his granddaughter amused him.

Su Laosan jumped around excitedly, "My dear, Daddy's here too! Daddy's amazing too!"

He was glared at impatiently by his father and told to "Go away, go away, go to the side."

Then he turned to Su Muyao and said, "Sweetie, do you want to go with Grandpa to buy the ingredients we need for tomorrow?"

"go".

Su Laosan watched as his father, carrying his little daughter, walked away. (′△｀)

When Old Man Su took Su Muyao to buy pig offal again, all the butchers had raised their prices from one or two coins to five coins.

I found out after making some inquiries that it was that restaurant that was secretly instigating this.

They told the butchers how much money they had made. When the butchers heard that they had made so much money, they naturally didn't want to sell the offal at such a low price.

"Grandpa, we're not in a hurry. I think if they dare to raise prices, who else but us who wants pig offal will buy it?"

They used to be so poor they couldn't sell anything for even a penny or two; they were basically giving it away. Now they're acting all high and mighty—they've really been spoiled.

Old Su then went to the two meat stalls further away and bought a small amount of pig offal.

"My dear, there probably won't be enough pig offal for tomorrow."

"It's alright, I'll figure out the rest. Besides, we're not just here to be pig offal."

"Make some new things, and in a couple of days they'll be the ones getting anxious."

Just as Su Muyao had expected, two days later they not only restored the original price, but also gave the Su family a big bone as a gift.

These people's pig offal has been sitting around for the past two days and it's basically gone rotten. We've been waiting and waiting, but no one from the stall has come to buy it.

However, I also heard that the stall had added some other new tricks, and I knew in my heart that even without the pig offal, they would still make a lot of money.

They threw away so much; if they had sold it back to the Su family at the original price, they could have made a lot of money.

Once they figured it out, they weren't so stubborn anymore. If the people selling braised meat didn't buy their offal, they wouldn't make any money.

When the group returned to the village, everyone greeted them warmly.

Everyone knows they sell braised meat in town now, and I've heard their business is pretty good.

"Brother Su, you've sold out again? Business is booming! I really envy your amazing skills. But why didn't I see you selling here before?"

"Yeah, it looks like it's another recipe brought to you by your little lucky star, right?"

Someone nearby disagreed and retorted, "This little lucky star wasn't born that way, how could this formula possibly conjure up something?"

"You're wrong to say that. Haven't you heard that Little Lucky Star has a master? He must have been given this by his master."

Old Su tried to smooth things over, saying, "We country folk don't know anything about these things. It was all taught by Master Guaibao. If you want to eat these, just come to our place and we won't charge you a penny more."