Su Qingluan bent down slightly and looked down at Su Xuanhe: "Although I think it's unlikely - you didn't skip school, did you?"
"No!" Su Xuanhe quickly looked up and said, "Many of my senior brothers didn't come today, and two of them sent messages from their families saying they were injured and couldn't come! Master Zhou simply gave us a temporary holiday and will send someone to notify us when classes resume!"
"Then how did you meet Madam Xi?"
"Well, it's actually nothing serious. I just sent him back because I saw that he was a little kid alone. Madam Su, please don't blame him..." Madam Xi advised.
Su Qingluan said calmly: "Madam Xi, you may not know that my brother's thoughts are all written on his face. If I really wronged him, he would have jumped three feet high and would not have been scolded by me like this." Generally speaking, the most important reason why this kid can be honest is that he feels guilty.
Madam Xi has a kind and cheerful personality, and Su Xuanhe is just a child. Even if he makes some mistakes, she can forgive him. She really thinks it is not a big deal.
Su Qingluan also believed that although her brother was naughty, he was not a child without bottom line and was unlikely to cause anything serious.
But he did have that guilty look on his face and his eyes were rolling around, so Su Qingluan couldn't think too much about it.
Seeing that Su Qingluan was determined to "settle accounts" with her brother, Madam Xi kindly said, "It's just a few pancakes," and it's really not a big deal, so she wanted to leave. Because if she were present, Su Qingluan would not be able to lecture her brother in front of her, after all, she was an outsider.
What's more, if he scolded Su Xuanhe in front of him, it would make the young man lose face.
When Su Qingluan saw Madam Xi was about to leave, she hurriedly stopped her and asked when the Liu family would be more free to rest, after all, the "thank you banquet" she had promised to Liu Yunniang had not yet been arranged.
Madam Xi shook her head and said helplessly, "Business is booming right now for the offal soup business. These two are competing with each other to work hard, hoping to save some money before the end of the year to buy some New Year's goods."
Su Qingluan nodded and said goodbye to the lady at the table.
After she saw Madam Xi off, Su Qingluan turned to look at Su Xuanhe, who was still standing there, and crossed her arms, half smiling. "Okay, now that there's no one else around, can you tell me what's going on?"
"That's right, I accidentally bumped into Madam Xi's pancake stall..."
"Why 'careless'? The road is so slippery today, shouldn't you be more careful?"
"Because... playing with everyone..."
Although Su Xuanhe hesitated, Su Qingluan still heard the key part: it was probably because her younger brother was chasing and playing with his classmates when he passed by Madam Xi's pancake stall. They were playing and didn't pay attention to the road, so they knocked over Madam Xi's pancakes.
Liu Sheng's offal stall was just across the street, and Liu Yunniang was also helping her father sell offal soup. It was likely that Liu Yunniang noticed the commotion here and thus noticed Su Xuanhe.
Liu Yunniang had lived in the Su family for a few days, so she naturally knew Su Xuanhe, which led to the incident of Madam Xi sending her brother back.
Su Qingluan guessed that the reason why Madam Xi no longer had to sell pancakes and instead had time to give them away was probably because—
She looked down at Su Xuanhe and asked, "How many pancakes did you spill?"
“A few…”
"kindness?"
"But... maybe more than a dozen..."
"Don't forget, I know a lot of the people selling things around here. Do you want me to verify this with them one by one?"
"I...all the pancakes on the stall have fallen to the ground..."
Su Qingluan gasped: Doesn't that mean that all the pancakes Madam Xi spent half a day making yesterday were basically wasted?!
It was not yet noon when Su Xuanhe returned home. Considering that it was cold and the roads were slippery today, he moved much slower than usual. The journey that usually took him about half an hour would probably take even longer this time. Doesn't that mean this kid had overturned someone else's stall early in the morning?
Su Qingluan was immediately furious and pointed her finger at Su Xuanhe's forehead. "Look at you, what are you doing running around in a busy city?! What's more, you knocked over someone's stall, and I thought it wasn't a big deal just because Madam Xi was so happy!"
Su Qingluan regretted letting Madam Xi go back first. She had just listened to the other party's vague words and thought it was really no big deal. But the trouble Su Xuanhe had caused was even more serious than she had imagined!
If she knew the whole story, she would definitely have to compensate for the losses! The other party was being magnanimous and magnanimous. As the sister of the person at fault, she couldn't just let it go!
"But... I, I apologized..." Su Xuanhe muttered cautiously, but it was obvious that he now had the most basic ability to judge the "degree of trouble". He also knew that overturning someone's pancake stall was probably not something that could be offset by a simple apology, so the boy's voice was also very guilty.
Su Qingluan sneered, "What's the point of apologizing? If a pancake gets covered in mud and falls on the ground, it's inedible. Besides, not only does Madam Xi lose money, but the customers who originally planned to buy Madam Xi's pancakes will now either eat dirty pancakes or go hungry!"
In Su Qingluan's opinion, these people were more likely to endure eating the dirty pancakes! After all, a little mud, wiping off the dirty parts, was much better than going hungry! She had even seen more than once people accidentally knock over their pancakes and then pick them up and continue eating as if nothing had happened.
It’s not that they don’t mind the dirt on the pancakes, but being hungry is more terrible than the dirt. If they faint and offend their employer, they will lose a day’s wages or even all their subsequent work!
"But...but they can buy other things..."
"Madam Xi's pancakes are very cheap on this street," Su Qingluan explained expressionlessly, "Being able to come to Madam Xi's place to eat pancakes for lunch is already one of the cheapest options."
"Then... what should we do..." Su Xuanhe was truly panicking. The Su family wasn't short of money, and a seven or eight-year-old child didn't have a particularly intuitive understanding of money, so simply offering compensation might not be a big deal.
But for a kid like Su Xuanhe who can eat a lot, "going hungry" is too terrible - after all, if he eats a little later, he feels too uncomfortable to continue and must eat some snacks to fill his stomach.
He found it terrifying to think that a group of people might have to go hungry for the whole day because of the trouble he caused!
"I... I'll use my own pocket money to buy food from other stalls for those people!" Su Xuanhe was so scared that he almost cried. "It's so uncomfortable to be hungry. Will those people starve to death if they go hungry for a day? Will I... will I be involved in a murder lawsuit..."
The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. Su Xuanhe's originally dark face turned pale. If you didn't know his expression, you would think the world was going to end in the next moment.
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