Chapter 101 The most likely source of danger on this trip
She is a well-known shrew in the streets near her home. It's okay if you don't mess with her, but anyone who dares to say a word to her will be scolded like this, even the head of the family is no exception.
Wang Chengping was scolded so much that he didn't even dare to raise his head. He was not good at talking, so how could he be a match for the sharp-tongued Zhang Xiu Lan?
I could only look away and let her scold me, and she would stop when she had scolded me enough.
When he shifted his gaze, he happened to see two people carrying large bags walking past him, a man and a woman. Judging from their ages, they should be father and daughter. He knew them both.
He tugged at Zhang Xiulan's hand, interrupting her angry scolding: "Madam, stop scolding. I saw the father and daughter I mentioned to you before today."
Zhang Xiu Lan could curse for fifteen minutes straight without stopping, and she felt a little unsatisfied when he suddenly interrupted her.
But after hearing his words clearly, she suddenly lost the mood to curse and was left with only overwhelming anger.
The two markets of Yongxing and Yonghe are located in remote areas, and most of the people coming and going are low-income residents living nearby.
After deducting daily expenses for food and clothing, at most, there would be ten or so coins left. Whether to use this money to sell candy, buy scraps of cloth, or buy snacks for the children was entirely a matter of personal preference.
Before, the couple sold candy in two markets respectively, and with some unethical means, they made a lot of money every month.
But ever since Wang Chengping met the father and daughter selling candy, his family has been unlucky.
After that day, Wang Chengping's business plummeted and he was closed for four or five days.
Zhang Xiulan met a silly little girl who asked people to taste the candy before buying, and her business was taken away from her. She also didn't sell two taels of candy for several days.
To make matters worse, my old father's old illness relapsed and he needed tiger bones as a medicine.
Tiger bones are very precious these days. You can't just spend money to buy them. You have to ask others for help and use connections.
Wang Chengping spent a huge amount of money to buy it, and most of the money he had saved over the years was spent.
Looking at the little money left at home, and then looking at the stall that no one patronizes, the little money earned is not enough to pay the business tax.
The two of them simply stopped going to the market and sat at home all day sighing.
Seeing that her family was on the verge of collapse due to her husband's illness, Wang Chengping's mother put aside her dignity and took the initiative to go to her young girlfriend to ask for help and borrow some money from her.
The two men calculated that they could not make much money by doing small business in Yongxing and Yonghe, so they took the silver and bought a batch of goods and came to Shengpingfang.
I thought that since there were many buyers here, they would have many opportunities. As long as they could open the business, they could earn the same amount of money as they used to earn in a month.
But they never thought that anyone who was sent out by a restaurant to do purchasing work must have good eyesight.
Even if someone is short-sighted and is fooled by the color of the malt candy they make, they will understand after tasting a piece.
You say you won't let people taste it? Wouldn't that be a clear sign of guilt? No one would buy it.
The couple set up a stall in Shengpingfang for three days, but they couldn't sell even one or two pounds of candy, and they were very worried.
"You saw it? Where?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiu Lan looked around for someone, but she accidentally saw a familiar face. Wasn't that the silly girl she met that day?
Wang Chengping pointed in the direction she was looking and said, "Look, isn't that it?"
Zhang Xiu Lan didn't react at first. She looked in the direction he pointed, but didn't see the father and daughter duo next to them.
After she recovered, she couldn't help but sneer: "Oh, I spent all day hunting geese and got pecked in the eye by a goose. The little girl is young and full of lies, but I actually believed it."
Wang Chengping finally understood: "Madam, is this the silly girl you were talking about earlier?"
"Who else could it be if not her? My husband and I have been tricked. They've taken our business away from us and they really don't take us seriously at all."
Zhang Xiu Lan stared at Sang Yu with hatred in her eyes, her back teeth gritting, as if she wanted to eat her alive on the spot.
A fierce light flashed across Wang Chengping's seemingly honest face. After whispering a few words in her ear, he stood up and walked out of the stall.
After Sang Yu and Sang Yongjing got the signs, they searched all the way to their stalls and were surprised to find that there were low tables on the stalls where they could place their goods.
After gently placing the two bags of sugar cubes aside to avoid accidentally breaking them, Sang Yu took out a stack of clean dry cattail leaves from the small basket he was carrying.
Last time she saw them wrapping medicine with dried cattail leaves in the pharmacy, she put it into practice and collected the previously dried cattail leaves.
Now take it out and spread it on the low table. It serves as both a tablecloth and a package. It looks nice, neat and clean.
Most of the candies in the bag were intact due to careful attention along the way. Sang Yu selected the best ones, picked out those with square shapes and uniform colors, and piled them into small pyramids on the cattail leaves.
Sang Yongjing, who was helping, suddenly reminded softly, "Yu'er, it seems like someone is staring at us over there, and the look in their eyes is not friendly."
If he hadn't said anything, Sang Yu, who was already used to being stared at, would not have noticed.
She didn't look over there immediately, but continued with what she was doing, glancing over there when she turned around to take the candy from the bag.
At just one glance, she recognized who the person was. It was Zhang Xiulan, the vendor next door when she was selling candy in Yongxingfang.
The thing she least wanted to see happened. Last time, she used the excuse of being bullied by her family members to sell all the candies she brought in front of them.
Zhang Xiulan might not have realized it at the time, but now seeing her "returning to her old ways" here, she would probably figure it out immediately.
This can be confirmed from the look in her eyes that seems to be about to burst into flames.
When Sang Yu turned around, she saw Sang Yongjing staring at Zhang Xiulan stupidly from several stalls away. She quickly said, "Dad, stop staring at her."
"Ah? Why?" Sang Yongjing couldn't understand.
"She is the most likely source of danger on our trip."
As soon as these words were spoken, Sang Yongjing retracted his gaze and didn't dare to look at her again.
After a long pause, he asked, "She seems to me to be just an ordinary woman. Could she really be so cruel to us?"
Sang Yu smiled slightly: "There is a futon next to her, but no one is sitting on it. Guess where that person went? And the most important point is that I stole her business."
She is a person who likes to report good news but not bad news. She once went out alone to sell candy and accidentally got heatstroke and fell into a coma when she came back. This had already made her family very worried, so she didn't mention it again. But now she has to talk about it.
After briefly explaining the whole story, Sang Yongjing couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, no wonder you always felt that selling candy was dangerous. I should have gone with you that day."
"Dad, what are you talking about? Whether I go alone or you accompany me, what is coming will eventually come."
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