Chapter 26
Su Miao walked over, raised her head, and asked innocently, "Excuse me, are you the police officer who came here a few days ago?"
The policeman lowered his head and replied, "Yes! Little sister, you have a really good memory. You can even recognize me even when I'm wearing plain clothes today."
"Yeah! Because I'm very grateful to the police uncle for helping us out, so of course I remember it!"
"That's our duty. No need to thank me. I thought your food was delicious the other day, and today I have a day off and wanted to come over for a meal. Why don't you have a stall?"
"Oh, because some uncles and aunts don't know that this stall is rented by my family, they parked their cars here. We will set up the stall after they leave."
Su Miao's voice was clear and loud, so how could everyone not understand what he meant? They all looked at the vendors who were occupying the stalls with contempt. Even the security department came to chase them away, but they still lingered and refused to leave. How shameless they were.
The other vendors also felt a little embarrassed and moved their carts faster, but the lady mixing the noodles was the only one who was still moving slowly.
Su Miao rolled his eyes secretly and thought, then don't blame me for going too far.
"Uncle police, Auntie Mixed Noodles said that the old lady who came that day had a son who fell ill because of his own poor health, and it had nothing to do with eating. Thanks to you for investigating this matter thoroughly, otherwise my family and Auntie Mixed Noodles' family would have suffered an unjust accusation."
The policeman frowned and stood up: "Who told you this?"
"It was Auntie Mixing Noodles who told everyone that the uncle's family wasn't well off, and after he fell ill he couldn't even afford the medical bills. In the end, Auntie Mixing Noodles was so kind as to help pay for them!"
Su Miao blinked innocently, using her 11-year-old advantage to the fullest. Yes! She was only 11! Could she lie?
The lady mixing noodles was still immersed in selling noodles and had no idea that the policeman had come to her side.
"This comrade!"
The noodle-mixing lady only then recognized the policeman. A hint of panic flashed in her eyes, and she quickly said with a smile, "Ah! I'll move out of the way right now!"
The police officer pressed down on the front of her car with one hand and said righteously, "It was clearly because of your family's use of overnight pork offal that a customer was hospitalized a few days ago. We have already investigated the facts. How can you lie like that?"
The noodle-mixing uncle saw the workers around him start to whisper, and panicked. He took a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to them, saying in a low voice, "Comrade police officer, let's talk aside."
The righteous police officer stopped his hand and said unmoved, "The other day, because you admitted your mistake, actively compensated for the medical expenses, and the victim's family expressed their willingness to not pursue the matter, I gave you a lighter sentence. If you continue to show no remorse, I will report you and revoke your business license!"
"No, no, no! Officer! This is our fault! We accept the punishment and will abide by the law in the future. Please be so kind as to forgive us this time. We will never do it again!"
The noodle-mixing couple were so frightened that their hair stood on end. These street vendors looked tired and hopeless. Only insiders knew that their income was much better than that of formal workers. If they really couldn't do it anymore, they would really jump into the river.
The two men apologized and drove the car out, fearing that the police would catch up with them.
After they walked away, the workers took the initiative to help the Su father and daughter set up a stall. Now they almost treated this place as a canteen, drinking porridge and chatting.
"If you ask me, your stall has a very unfortunate fate. It's only been open for more than half a month and you've already encountered so many problems."
"You can't blame them for this. A good business always attracts envy."
"So it turns out there really is something wrong with their pig offal. They even dared to come back and tell lies!"
"Exactly! I heard that the people hospitalized are employees of our factory. They're so brave, they're not afraid of being exposed."
"Anyway, I will definitely not buy food from his family in the future. It will be troublesome if I get poisoned again one day."
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In order to thank the security department and the policeman for their help, Su Miao invited them to drink porridge. The guys from the security department accepted it carelessly, but the policeman insisted on paying.
"Oh! Little sister, we can't take a single needle or thread from the masses. Please don't let me make a mistake!"
"Alright! You're truly a principled and reasonable police officer. With your protection, we can live and work in peace!"
Su Miao no longer insisted on not charging money, but the pork offal he scooped over was visibly heavier, and he also gave it a burst of fragrant flattery.
The policeman was very pleased with the compliment and was happy for a long time.
The next day, the security guard, Uncle Wang, came back and heard about this farce. He was so angry that his beard was twitching. The area at the gate was his jurisdiction, and those vendors actually dared to cause trouble while he was away!
He pointed at those people at the door and scolded them for a while, then took out a piece of chalk and wrote a big word "占" on the stall and circled it.
"I'm telling you! If you want to do business here, behave yourself! Don't even think about doing anything crooked, or get out of here!"
With the factory's endorsement, no one wanted to take over this stall from that day on.
After the scandal of the mixed noodle stall spread, the workers at the sugar factory no longer dared to buy food from him.
After three days of being ignored, the noodle stall disappeared from the entrance of the sugar factory and went to look for business elsewhere.
The workers at the sugar factory went home and talked about what had happened in the past few days as gossip. The self-service porridge became famous overnight, and many people came from far away out of curiosity to eat it.
Now the good reputation of the self-service porridge is not limited to the sugar factory, but half of the county knows about it.
However, no matter how many people come, the father and daughter still do their own thing calmly. They still sell two buckets of porridge every day and close the stall after they sell them all.
However, the amount of pork offal taken away was rising sharply. Later, there were so many orders that Su Miao began to limit the purchase to only 30 kilograms a day.
She felt that one should eat as much as one's stomach could hold. She and her father could only make so much in a day. They could not lower the quality or exhaust themselves in order to take on more business.
Su Yuanzheng now feels very accomplished in his work and thinks it would be a pity to turn down the business, so he discusses it with his daughter.
"Miao Miao, Dad can still handle the current workload, so why don't I do more."
"Dad, you feel more relaxed now with my help. I'm going to start school in half a month, and you won't be able to handle the workload then. If you sell too much now and reduce production later, people might spread rumors about it. It's better to leave it this way for now."
Su Yuanzheng felt that what his daughter said made sense, so he didn't insist. He took out his passbook and showed it to her: "Miao Miao, now after deducting the costs, we can make 70 yuan a day. If it were in the past, I wouldn't even dare to think about it!"
Su Miao looked at the two thousand yuan newly deposited in his passbook and said with a smile, "Dad, the bigger your dream, the brighter your future will be! As long as we work hard and down-to-earth, we will have more to gain in the future. Now is just the beginning!"
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