Xie Yuyan narrowed her eyes and pondered for a moment before saying in a cold tone, "I am determined to avenge this. You should frequently walk around Jinxiu Pavilion to gather information. I need to know the whereabouts of those people. Also, do not alert them. Strike at their vital point. This time, we must teach them a bloody lesson!"
She said this because her stepmother was recently looking after a husband for her and had already told her to be careful with her words and actions, lest she give others cause for gossip. For a young woman, reputation is the most important thing, and regardless of her stepmother's intentions, this statement is always true.
Moreover, according to her governess, the Xie family's daughters are all expected to marry into high-class families, which is inseparable from the Xie family head's machinations. Although her seemingly dignified elder sister said she was unwilling to follow the crowd, she didn't think that way. She was willing to marry into a wealthy family as the mistress or even a second wife, even if the other party was a playboy.
"Yes, Miss! I will certainly live up to your expectations!"
"Oh, by the way... I went to buy a headband today, and the headbands from Jinxiu Pavilion cost one tael of silver each. The one you requested, inlaid with pearls, costs more than ten taels, making a total of one hundred and thirty taels." Seeing that her young mistress seemed to be in a good mood, Xiao Cui quickly reported the expenses.
Hearing that a few headbands could be so expensive, Xie Yuyan was shocked! Jiangnan is indeed wealthy! But looking at it this way, it seems she really made the right choice coming here!
Given her status as a daughter of the Xie family, she should at least be able to find a wealthy and powerful merchant family, right? Imagining herself wearing gold and silver and dressed in fine silks and satins, Xie Yuyan felt even better!
"Alright, I know you paid for it. With your meager savings, I don't even care." Saying that, she got up, took out ten taels of silver from a drawer and tossed it to her. "Here, take this. Also, this silver bracelet is quite well-made; you can play with it!"
Having gotten her silver back and received a silver bracelet, Xiao Cui sweetly uttered auspicious words! She also promised to do her best to fulfill the task assigned to her by her mistress!
Qin San Niang and Da Wa'er went to He County town again. They had made an appointment with the big man who sold hawthorn berries to buy some today.
Si Ji's business is still booming. Manager Si asked Xiao Wu to pass on a message to Qin San Niang, asking if they could come up with another recipe to launch in the first month of the lunar calendar. They estimated that they could make another profit. Most importantly, as long as they can get through the first month of the lunar calendar, the shop will be stable! They might even be able to turn a profit!
For Sili Ren, more important than making a profit was escaping Chen Ji's conspiracy and getting his shop back on track in He County, which could be considered the second spring of his career!
At the same time, he could stand out among his peers in the Si family, which would make his aunt's life easier. All of this was thanks to Qin San Niang. Therefore, this time he planned to show more sincerity and give Qin San Niang 20% of the shares.
Don't underestimate these 20% shares. The Si family is a merchant family with chain stores in various places. If the main family can promote it, then these 20% will be very considerable!
Hearing this, Qin San Niang was also very interested, and in the next few days she began to prepare some hawthorn pastries, such as hawthorn shortbread, hawthorn cake, and canned hawthorn.
On Willow Street, the man selling hawthorn berries had his family drag a cart to the market early in the morning, and the group hadn't even had a sip of hot water yet.
Once they arrived, they took out a few flatbreads and started eating them with pickled vegetables, occasionally gulping down some cold water. The flatbreads were coarse grain flatbreads made with bran and sorghum flour; if you didn't sip your saliva, you would choke.
"Husband, you're not just making things up with that woman you're talking about, are you? When did she say she was coming?" The woman next to the man asked suspiciously. The skin on her cheeks was chapped from the cold wind, and her hands were rough and covered with fine lines. She looked like someone who had worked hard all year round!
A while ago, my husband came home and said that all the hawthorns were sold out, and the woman who bought the hawthorns even said she wanted to buy all of their hawthorns.
Those little fruits were so sour they were unbearable; even she wouldn't eat them. Would anyone actually buy them?! And at five coins a pound? If it were her, she definitely wouldn't do that! Wouldn't that be a huge rip-off?
"Yes, Father, is that lady just teasing us? These red berries look like wild berries, oh no, they're not even as tasty as wild berries!" The man's son took a bite of his flatbread in the cold wind and asked in surprise. In fact, the mother and son had already questioned this many times at home.
Their area is all mountainous, and these red berries were transplanted from the mountain by his grandfather when he was young!
It wasn't because the fruit was delicious, but because Grandma and Grandpa thought that the red fruit was plentiful, easy to grow, and a good omen! So the red fruit tree survived year after year. Now their family has more than a dozen old fruit trees, each of which can yield several baskets of fruit.
However, these red berries don't taste very good. Although they are sweet and sour, they are not bad to eat occasionally when there are no other fruits to eat. But as long as there are other fruits available, no one would choose these sour little berries. Not to mention that they don't look good, even the taste is unsatisfactory!
So when his father told him that someone wanted to buy all their red berries, his first reaction was that the person was a swindler. But then he thought, if someone wanted to swindle, they must have some motive, right? Could these few red berries really be worth swindling?
Even if he was a swindler who cheated them out of all the red fruit, their family didn't lose anything. At most, they would lose the strength to pick the fruit! They had nothing left but strength now, and strength was the least valuable thing!
The man selling hawthorns thought for a moment, then remembered what Qin San Niang had said, and said to his wife and children with great displeasure, "I don't think that lady is just talking nonsense. She will definitely come to collect these hawthorns. Let's just wait here patiently." As he spoke, he gulped down a large mouthful of cold water.
Seeing this, Qin San Niang was genuinely worried about his stomach discomfort.
Drinking ice water in winter is popular in other countries, but according to Qin Sanniang herself, it is not advisable. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes health preservation, and the spleen and stomach should be protected first. Ice water is too irritating to the gastrointestinal tract and should not be taken seriously!
She sent Da Wa to Si Ji Pastry Shop and asked Xiao Wu to look after him, so she could come and buy the red fruit by herself!
"Brothers, you've arrived so early? We're sorry to have kept you waiting!" Politeness never hurts! This family must have started loading the truck before dawn, ready to depart! And the dozens of baskets of hawthorns on the back cart were neatly stacked there, showing they'd put thought into it.
"Madam, you've finally arrived!" The man nodded to his wife and son, indicating that this was the woman who intended to buy hawthorn berries. His eyes sparkled, as if to say, "Look, here I am!"
After carefully examining the quality of the red berries, Qin San Niang nodded in satisfaction.
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