"Mother, it's alright, we can handle this basin ourselves." Su Dahu waved his hand, led the oxcart to the yard, parked it, unloaded everything from the cart, and walked into the main room.
Seeing the family's eager gazes, he didn't keep them in suspense. "Today, Aunt Liu set up a stall next to ours, also selling snails, and many customers went to her stall."
Su Bai exclaimed in surprise, "Liu Jinhua? How is that possible! How could she possibly make snails?"
She kept the recipe for snails a closely guarded secret. She would check the three packets of seasoning her daughter brought back every day, and not a single ingredient was missing. There was no way the recipe could have been leaked.
Su Erhu shook his head, his brows furrowing slightly. "What she sells at her stall isn't 'flavored snails,' but stir-fried river snails. It looks like the shells have been removed, and only the snail meat inside is used for stir-frying. She also adds chives and chili pepper pieces, and it smells quite fragrant."
"That woman is deliberately going against us!" Su Sanhu snorted coldly, indignantly. "Not only did she set up her stall right next to ours, but her prices are also half the price of our snails. Ten snails for one copper coin. She's taken away many of our regular customers."
Hearing this, Su Bai was furious and spat, "That Liu Jinhua! She always liked to trip me up when she was young, and now she dares to steal my business. She is truly shameless."
"When you were young?" Su Hua was taken aback and tugged at Su Dahu beside her.
The latter was immediately somewhat helpless.
He smirked and said softly, "Aunt Liu liked our father when she was little."
It was all because of Old Man Su?
Su Hua raised an eyebrow. So, this was still a scene of jealousy and rivalry.
However, Old Man Su's charm was too great. He had been dead for more than ten years, and his bones had probably decomposed by now, but Liu Jinhua still couldn't forget him and kept finding fault with him.
Truly, what is love in this world that makes people...unforgettable even after death?
Looking at the three Su brothers, one can tell that Old Man Su must have been quite good-looking and well-built, so it's reasonable that he could be remembered for a lifetime.
"But why when she was a child?" Su Hua suddenly realized the key point. Could it be that Liu Jinhua was also from Shanghe Village?
Su Dahu nodded, his expression somewhat strange. "Aunt Liu is indeed from Shanghe Village. Her husband came from another village and married into the family. After her father married her mother, Aunt Liu did not want to marry into another place, so the Liu family sold several acres of land to find her a husband in Shanghe Village."
Su Hua: "..."
"Don't spout such nonsense, or you'll offend your sister's ears!" Madam Su glared at Su Dahu. "That shameless old hag, I'll go find her today, or she'll really think I'm afraid of her?!"
After saying that, he ripped off his apron and rushed out of the yard.
The three members of the Su family stood up abruptly.
"Mother, don't worry!" Su Hua rushed forward and stopped the woman, sighing softly, "These snails are a good thing, but not many people have discovered them before. Our Su family can make spicy snail soup, and others can naturally stir-fry snail meat too. What good will it do if we go to her?"
Su Baishi was not a fool.
She gritted her teeth, "But you finally came up with this snail recipe, and now, after only a few days of selling it, she's already trying to steal my business. It breaks my heart to see this!"
The family was poor before and couldn't save up much dowry for Hua'er.
Not long ago, she broke off the engagement with the Feng family, which further damaged her reputation.
If we don't leave Hua'er enough money to protect her, she probably won't be able to go down to the underworld to see the old man in peace.
“Mother, don’t worry, it’s just a recipe for snails.” Su Hua gently held Su Bai’s hand with a bright smile. “Although this snail recipe can earn some money, it’s really too labor-intensive. Our whole family spends all day on it. Compared to the money we earn, we give up more.”
In fact, ever since she saw the Meng family's noodle shop in the morning, she had been thinking about many things.
If you're going to make money, why not make it easy and low-cost?
Therefore, she didn't take Liu the widow's sarcastic remarks to heart at all in the afternoon.
"Hua'er, what do you mean?" Su Erhu's eyes lit up instantly upon hearing this. "Besides this flavorful snail dish, can we do some other business as well?"
"Smart!" Su Hua smiled and nodded, picking up the basket she had placed on the ground earlier. "Look, this is the business we can do next."
Hearing the sound, the Su family looked into the basket on their backs, and when they saw what was inside, the hope on their faces froze.
"Paulownia wood? Can you even eat paulownia wood?"
Su Hua's lips twitched as she pulled out the top five pieces of paulownia wood and handed them to Da Lang and Er Lang. "Good boy, go and help your aunt put these pieces of wood behind our house. Remember to find a shady spot."
"Yes." Da Lang and Er Lang responded blankly.
Although they didn't know how to eat the paulownia wood.
But what my aunt says is definitely not wrong.
Su Hua reached out and took out a bunch of oyster mushrooms and a handful of wood ear fungus from her basket. Her smile deepened. "From now on, we can use these to make spicy hot pot and sell them!"
"Poisonous mushrooms?!" Su Bai was shocked. She didn't know what spicy hot pot was, but she knew that mushrooms were not edible.
He snatched the mushrooms from Su Hua's hand and threw them into the basket. "Hua'er, you can't eat these poisonous mushrooms! You'll die if you do! Absolutely not!"
After saying that, he quickly clapped his hands for Su Hua, as if afraid that they might be contaminated with some kind of poison.
Su Dahu frowned slightly. "Mother is right. We can find another way if business is bad, but we must never touch these poisonous mushrooms."
The light in Su Erhu's eyes suddenly went out, and he sighed softly, "Hua'er, you haven't been around the village before, so you probably don't remember, but there was a family in our village who died from poisonous mushrooms. We can't get involved in the mushroom business!"
Su Sanhu picked up the basket and ran out to throw it in a corner of the yard.
Su Hua: "..."
Just when the Su family was at their wits' end about how to start a new business.
In the center of Shanghe Village, the only large courtyard house made of blue bricks was brightly lit.
Meng Fu lay on the bed, groaning in pain.
"Doctor, you've been looking at me for so long, please quickly prescribe a medicine to stop my son's pain! Prescribe whatever medicine he needs, the Meng family is not short of money!" Hearing her son's groans of pain, Meng's mother felt her heart clench.
The injury is on the child's body, but the pain is in the mother's heart.
She would rather be the one suffering right now.
"Su Hua! It's all because of that bitch Su Hua!" Meng Fu's wrist hung limply, his swollen face was a mixture of red and purple, and his fish-like eyes were filled with malice.
"Mother, quickly find Father and have him report this to the county government. That little bitch Su Hua dared to hurt me today! I'll make sure she goes to jail until she dies!"
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