Does Shopkeeper Sun really think that everything will be fine if he buys her recipe?

That was just the beginning of another business. You know, it’s not so easy to take advantage of a little country girl!

Su Xiaoxiao didn't care whether Manager Sun could see through her or not. After all, even if he saw through her, there was nothing she could do about it.

He needed ingredients for egg yolk pastry, and she was the only one in town who could make it. Unless he gave up this snack, he would have to buy it from her.

He had already spent fifteen taels of silver on this recipe. Would he be willing to give it up? Would he be able to explain it to his employer? How did that saying go?

——Good hunters often appear as prey.

From the moment Shopkeeper Sun set his eyes on her recipe, the current situation was doomed.

Of course, Shopkeeper Sun has another option - to purchase goods from a farther place.

But if he could, why would he come to her? Obviously, the cost of buying from other places is far higher than the budget that Shopkeeper Sun can use for ingredients.

In the end, Su Xiaoxiao agreed to supply Jin Kee at the price of eight cents per salted egg yolk, which made much more money than selling the recipe.

After the first batch of orders came in the spring, Shopkeeper Sun suggested trying the food first and paying only if he was satisfied.

Su Xiaoxiao understood that Manager Sun wanted to take advantage of the New Year to ask around and see if there were other supply channels. ——The dim sum was sold out at noon.

Over the next two days, there were almost no customers on the street and most of the shops were closed.

After selling the last cake, Su Xiaoxiao clapped her hands and said, "Closing the stall! This year's business is done!"

Su Ergou was still not satisfied: "So fast."

"It's not fast anymore. It's already afternoon." In the past, when he set up the stall, all the goods could be sold out in less than half an hour, and it never exceeded noon.

Su Xiaoxiao continued, "Tomorrow is the Little New Year. You see, there's no one on the street and the market is about to close. Let's hurry up and buy some more things."

"Sister, what do you want to buy?" Su Ergou asked.

"I want to buy some peanuts and see if there's anything missing for the New Year's goods." Su Xiaoxiao said.

Su Ergou said happily: "I like eating peanuts!"

Peanuts are indeed good. They can be fried, made into peanut crisps, and made into peanut butter.

Peanut butter is a good nutrient for weight loss. It can not only replenish the high-quality fats needed by the body, but also enhance the feeling of fullness. One spoonful of it will make you so sick that you can't eat for a long time.

Unfortunately, when they arrived at the market, the peanut seller had already closed his stall.

There won't be any more stalls this year.

Su Ergou looked at the mostly empty market and said, "Sister, there are no more peanuts to buy."

Su Xiaoxiao sighed with regret. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind: "If I can't buy it... I can go buy it there!"

Su Ergou scratched his head: "Sister, where are you talking about?"

Quarter of an hour later, the two walked through the thick snow and arrived at Chunliu Lane.

The door of the Fu family was closed.

Su Xiaoxiao hid her hands in her warm sleeves, too lazy to take them out, so she called her brother, "Ergou, knock on the door."

"Oh." Su Ergou knocked on the wooden door. "Is anyone there? Doctor Fu! It's us!"

No response.

"Is he not at home? Is he out seeing patients?" Su Ergou muttered.

Su Xiaoxiao said, "Mrs. Fu is not at the stall, and Doctor Fu is not here, so she should be here, keep knocking."

Su Ergou continued to knock on the door: "Auntie Fu! It's us! Are you home? Can you hear us?"

Perhaps they were making too much noise and disturbed the neighbors next door, so a woman in her early thirties opened the door of her house and walked out.

She looked at the brother and sister and frowned, "Stop knocking! Doctor Fu is out seeing patients! He's not here!"

Su Xiaoxiao asked politely, "We are looking for Aunt Fu, is she here?"

The woman said indifferently, "I don't know about that. The old woman never interacts with anyone. Who knows her whereabouts?"

She said that and went into the house.

Something is wrong.

Su Xiaoxiao frowned.

When she went to Luo Dazhuang to settle the bill in the morning, she didn't see Aunt Fu. She was not there in the afternoon either. She hadn't been at the stall all day. Where could she have gone if she was not at home?

"Ergou, get in!"

Su Ertou was stunned: "Ah? Sister, this, this is not good, right? Don't we stop extorting money?"

Su Ergou's expression was even more indescribable: "Do you want to steal money?"

Su Xiaoxiao held her forehead in her hand speechlessly: "I asked you to go in and see if Aunt Fu is here."

"Oh oh oh." Su Ergou scratched his head angrily.

The brother and sister do the same thing, but Su Xiaoxiao usually only scratches her head when she's angry.

Su Ergou said: "Then I'll go in."

Su Xiaoxiao warned: "Be careful!"

"Okay!"

Su Ergou kicked his feet, grabbed the wall with both hands, and easily climbed into the yard.

After a while, Su Ergou opened the dilapidated door with a bang: "Sister! Aunt Fu is in trouble!"

Su Ergou found Aunt Fu in the open space in the backyard. She was lying in the snow with signs of a struggle beneath her body. There were scattered winnowing baskets and pickled plums beside her.

"What's that smell?" Su Ergou sniffed.

"Kitchen!" Su Xiaoxiao said.

Su Ergou rushed to the kitchen and took a look: "Oh my god! The pot is burnt through!"

Su Xiaoxiao squatted down.

It seemed that Aunt Fu was planning to take the washed pickled mustard greens to the kitchen to cook, but it was icy and snowy and she slipped and fell.

She tried to get up by herself, but perhaps because she was too old or perhaps because she fell too hard, she failed.

Doctor Fu was not around, and her relationship with the neighbors was not harmonious...

Finally, she fainted in the snow.

"Sister! Is Aunt Fu still breathing? Please move aside, I will move her into the house!"

"Don't touch her yet, let me check her out."

To rule out any physical injuries or fractures.

Su Xiaoxiao began to examine her.

There were slight abrasions on her forehead and palms with no obvious signs of bleeding, but her left leg was fractured.

"You're seriously injured." Su Xiaoxiao sighed, "Ergou, go to the kitchen and find some dry firewood. You need the flat and long ones. If you don't have any, just chop a few."

"good!"

Su Ergou agreed.

Old Man Su is a martial artist, so getting injured is common, and he handles minor injuries himself.

He had been following his father for many years, so he had seen a little bit and understood what kind of board his sister wanted.

Soon he had chopped off several pieces.

"Sister, do you think it's enough?"

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at it and said, "That's enough. Go to that warehouse. I remember there are clean strips of cloth hanging on the shelf on the left."

Su Ergou said: "Sister, you even remember this!"

Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "Hurry up! She is frozen, it will be dangerous if she doesn't go into the house!"

“Hey!”

Su Ergou went to get the cloth strips.

Su Xiaoxiao performed a simple braking operation on Aunt Fu's legs: "Be careful when you lift them later."

People who are frozen are prone to secondary fractures.

Su Ergou brought over an old door panel.

The brother and sister carefully used the door panel to carry the person back to Aunt Fu's bed.

Aunt Fu's condition is very bad.

Although the fracture was not life-threatening, she was suffering from severe hypothermia. If her body temperature could not be restored in time, she might never wake up again.

(End of this chapter)