Chapter 151 Suffering a loss
But after all, she was making a living under her master's family. Thinking about her monthly salary, she could only hold her nose and put the sausage into the pot to steam.
During the process of burning the fire and steaming the meat, the smell of rotting meat became stronger and stronger, and even the smell drifted into other people's yards along with the air circulation.
People from several nearby courtyards cursed loudly: "Damn it, why is it so smelly!"
"It stinks! Could it be that someone's toilet exploded?"
"It stinks! Mom, it really stinks!"
The servant couldn't bear it any longer after opening the lid of the pot. Even though she tried her best to hold her breath, she still couldn't resist the urge to vomit and ran out of the kitchen to rest for a while.
She had a dark face and was not in the mood to slice the sausage. She brought it directly to the table for the host to taste.
Everyone from the second house gathered in the hall, but they all held their breath and tried to breathe as little as possible because the smell was really too stinky. The smell of the steamed sausages was several times stronger than that of the sausages soaked in the yard.
The whole hall was filled with a foul smell, and Mrs. Pei Er's face was as dark as the smell in the room, so shameful to look at.
Pei Shun broke out in sweat on his forehead. He wanted to say something to ease the embarrassment. After all, these sausages were made according to his own method.
Looking at his grandmother's gloomy face, he could only utter, "Maybe someone would like this..."
The wife of the second concubine also hurried to defend her son, saying, "Yes, yes, maybe this thing just smells bad but tastes good! I've heard of such a thing before."
The old lady suppressed her bad mood and said, "In that case, Shun'er, go and try it and see what it tastes like."
With the old lady's order in front of him and everyone's eyes on him, Pei Shun had no choice but to step forward. Looking at the brown and black things on the plate, he swallowed several times.
Don't get me wrong, he was just like that because it looked so unpalatable and he was so nervous!
But he also knew that he had to taste it himself. Maybe it was just as his mother said, it just smelled bad but tasted delicious. Otherwise, how could it be sold at a high price of more than ten taels of silver!
Pei Shun closed his eyes and ignored the strange thing in front of him. He made up his mind, poked it with chopsticks, dipped it in the juice, and put it in his mouth.
The moment the chopsticks touched his mouth, his whole face wrinkled like a bitter gourd, and his mouth was filled with a foul and rotten taste. He had never eaten anything like this in his life.
Even during the exile, a lot of the food was hard to swallow, and some of it was irritating to the throat, but compared to this thing, the hard-to-swallow food tasted a million times better!
The taste in his mouth made him feel extremely nauseous. Even though he wanted to endure it, he couldn't suppress his body's instinct and he started to dry heave while holding onto a pillar.
Seeing this, Mrs. Pei Er was well aware that this sausage was totally inedible, let alone anyone spending more than ten taels of silver to buy it.
Thinking that all the meat she bought was wasted, her face became even uglier. She said coldly, "This is the sausage that can be sold for more than ten taels of silver?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the people who were originally whispering suddenly fell silent. The old lady was angry, and no one dared to bump into her. They just wanted to reduce their presence.
"Grandma, I..."
"Okay, more than ten pounds of meat have been wasted. You figure out how to solve the problem yourself. You will have to bear all the losses!" After saying that, Mrs. Pei Er shook her sleeves and turned to leave.
Others also thought of the white, tender pork. These more than ten pounds of meat were enough for the entire mansion to eat for several days. Even if they were born out of wedlock, they would definitely be able to get a lot of this meat. They didn't feel how delicious meat was before, but after being exiled, they really became greedy.
Pei Shun is really unreliable.
The other rooms pointed at Pei Shun, some accusing and complaining.
"A bastard's daughter is a bastard's daughter, so useless!" Pei Yuanyuan felt a little distressed when she thought of her perfect plans. It was all Pei Shun's fault that he messed them all up.
Pei Shunniang stepped forward, her eyes full of distress, and asked her son with concern, "Are you okay?"
Pei Shun's face looked grim. The noisy discussions of the people around him and the lingering bad smell in his mouth made him extremely unhappy.
He picked up the tea on the table and took a few gulps to suppress the disgusting taste in his mouth.
As the cold water moved in his mouth, his sanity began to return. Looking at the sausage on the table, he realized that he was being tossed around.
No wonder, no wonder... everything was going too smoothly. His eyes were sinister. He had suffered such a big loss this time, and he had a grudge with the first wife.
He will definitely not let the eldest wife and her group go!
After the other concubines' families knew that Pei Shun had failed this time and had lost face in front of the old lady, some of them gave up their thoughts, thinking that if Pei Shun couldn't accomplish something, they certainly couldn't do it either.
But some smart people knew that this was a good opportunity. If they could complete their plan, their status in the family would definitely rise.
Pei Ye is one of them. He still comes to work at Baiwei Restaurant as usual.
Actually, he also had a little selfish motive, which was that the food in the restaurant was so delicious. He had meat at home, but when the meat was placed in front of the eldest son's family, they could only smell it.
He has no money. Even if he goes out to earn money, he will have to give it to the old lady in the end. Instead of doing this, he might as well go to Baiwei Restaurant to work as a waiter. He can eat delicious food and at the same time please the old lady.
Ji Zhisui heard about it yesterday. Several families living near the second branch of the Pei family thought someone's toilet had exploded, and the sausages they made smelled extremely bad, like rotten meat. Needless to say, his method of punishing the second branch of the Pei family was successful.
I originally thought that after this incident, no one from the second house would come to my house to provide free labor, but I didn't expect that someone would come to my house on their own initiative.
However, this was not within Ji Zhisui's consideration. Under Pei Yian's nose, that person could not cause any trouble and could only serve as free labor.
What she is more concerned about now is another thing. Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, which is the most important day besides the Chinese New Year.
In a blink of an eye, they have been in Qizhou County for more than half a year. Ji Zhisui couldn't help but be amazed. Time flies so fast!
The Mid-Autumn Festival is not just a good day, it is also full of business opportunities to make money. She needs to think about it carefully.
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