Chapter 34 The First Beating
Cheng Yuzhu picked up the not-so-delicate hawthorn slices and stared at the Su family's servant with half-glanced eyes.
The man who buried the hawthorn slices among the cheap goods was so angry that his heart almost jumped into his throat. He prayed secretly in his heart that the hawthorn slices would make the Su family a lot of money, and that the man named Cheng would not steal the hawthorn business!
It doesn't even have a proper shop, it's just put on a chopping board, but it's sold like a well-known thing. Cheng Yuzhu's half-closed eyes moved, what if it is sold in a shop?
Mrs. Yao's face was full of calculation, which frightened Shu Tongxin so much that he trembled with fear, but he maintained a fake smile on his face and remained calm.
Cheng Yuzhu loosened her grip, and the hawthorn slices fell to the ground and broke into several pieces in an instant.
The maid stepped forward and raised her hand to support her master's arm, "Madam, it's cold, let's go back."
Cheng Yuzhu twitched the corner of her mouth slightly, turned around, and left in great style.
Shu Tong stared at the receding figure for a long time without moving.
Dashi seemed to sense that his business was about to be squeezed, and gently nudged Shutong: "Brother Tong, do you need to restock?"
What's that expression on Mrs. Yao's face? Is she looking up to him or looking down on him? Shu Tong was just thinking about it when Dashi brought him back to his senses: "Make up!" He always felt that the business of hawthorn slices would not be so good in the future.
As soon as he got home in the evening, Shu Tong told Su Ruojin about what happened when he met the Cheng family's eldest daughter in the evening. She was very calm.
Shu Tong was surprised: "That's Madam's sister, aren't you angry?"
Unexpectedly, the eldest daughter who married into the Marquis's family would be interested in such a small business. Su Ruojin was of course angry, but from another perspective, wasn't the eldest daughter of the Cheng family actually not living well?
When she thought of this, Su Ruojin actually felt a kind of Ah Q-like happiness. Could it be that those vicious people in the Cheng family were also having a hard time without her knowing?
"Hey, hey..." Shu Tong felt goose bumps all over his body when he saw his little master smiling mysteriously.
Su Ruojin put away her gloating thoughts and reminded him, "Haven't you seen the example of fried dough sticks, soy milk and steamed dumplings?"
"But...this..." How can he make much money? Shu Tong was very depressed.
Su Ruojin smiled slightly, "Around the New Year, people not only eat and drink well, but also eat to their heart's content. The demand for hawthorn slices is of course high, but after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the demand is not that great, and they will be bought like ordinary snacks."
Although the Feng family's father and two sons knew that they would have to return to their hometown after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they still felt disappointed when they heard it. If they wait any longer, it would be winter, and by winter many people would be doing this business. Would it be their turn to make money then?
Shu Tong was unwilling to give up. "Then let's quickly sell the stock we have before they catch up."
That's true.
Su Ruojin cheered them up: "Thank you for your hard work!"
In order to avoid losing their business, several people, including Dong's mother, stayed up late in the workshop.
At dusk, Su Yanli returned home with a chill. His son and daughter, one of them prepared water for him to wash his face, and the other served him dishes and rice. They surrounded him and made him feel soft-hearted. He reached out to either stroke his eldest son's head or rub his daughter's head, "Have you studied hard at home?"
"Dad, I finished reading the Doctrine of the Mean today and practiced five pages of regular script and five pages of running script."
Su Yanli nodded, smiled approvingly, and continued to encourage: "Try to finish learning the Four Books and Five Classics this year."
"Yes, Dad."
"Dad, it's time to eat!" Su Ruojin called out crisply, and asked with a smile, "Dad, how about you, how's your progress?"
Su Yanli: ...He only checks his son's homework, but hasn't started the task assigned by his daughter.
Su Ruojin looked at his father with a smile to see what he had to say.
"Today I went to where Cheng Baotai works, and spent half a tael of silver on a cup of tea..." Su Yanli felt heartbroken when he thought about how he had spent the money for a book in the blink of an eye.
The Jiaosifang is a place that tests a man's character. She was the one who coaxed her father to go there, so... she has to test it out.
Su Ruojin deliberately asked: "Did you see the beauty?"
"Yeah." Su Yanli nodded, but then he thought it was not right. This was a question a daughter was asking her father. He glared at her and said, "Su... Ruo... Jin..."
Su Ruojin was not really a seven-year-old kid who was not afraid of him, but she pretended to be so and deliberately hid on the other side of the table. "How did that beauty greet you? Were you shy?"
It’s terrible. It’s a rebellion against heaven.
Su Yanli really reached out and hit someone.
Su Ruojin walked around the table, trying not to let his father reach it. "Dad, are you afraid of being harassed by a beautiful woman, so you ran away and hid in the bookstore?"
"What does a beauty have to do with me? I only saw my students..." Su Yanli realized that his daughter had tricked him into saying something, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Stop right there."
"I won't stand." Su Ruojin knocked his father, "I asked you to go to the teaching office to save my aunt, if... hehe..."
Su Yanli was really troubled by his little daughter. "Don't think that your father has never been to the music hall or the brothel. Your father is also a man who has seen the world. Those women have their own way of living, and your father also has his own way of dealing with the world. Where did you, a little girl, learn all these messed up things?"
What, dad has been to a brothel, no way!
Seeing his daughter's eyes wide open, Su Yanli felt a headache, "What do you know?"
Su Ruojin's lips puffed up in anger: "Don't think I don't understand anything."
Su Yanli really wanted to die. He shouldn't have listened to his daughter and gone to the teaching office, causing so much trouble.
"Dad, why are you silent?" Su Ruojin snorted angrily, "I didn't expect Dad to be this kind of dad."
He was not angry at all. This little guy was so cunning that he was trying to turn the tables. If he didn't explain himself today, he, as a father, might become a different kind of father. "Do we have to drink when we go to a restaurant?"
He doesn't have to drink it. Can't he just sit for a while?
oh!
Su Ruojin smiled triumphantly, "Sure enough, my father is still my father!"
He knew that Su Yanli was so angry that his heart was pounding. This was outrageous. This kid had to be beaten today. Su Yanli grabbed a feather duster, pinned the little devil to his legs and gave him a good beating.
"Help! Mother, save me..."
Tonight, someone in the Su family courtyard was crying louder than Su Silang.
Uh-huh... I'm dying. Su Ruojin was too embarrassed to see anyone.
When Cheng Yingzhen heard her daughter crying, she was shocked and surprised. She put on her clothes and hurried to the dining room, "My husband..." At a glance, she saw her daughter being pressed on her husband's legs and spanked, with tears on her little face.
When Su Yanli saw his frail wife coming out without properly dressed, he was so scared that he quickly put down his beaten daughter, came over, tightened her clothes, and half-hugged her in his arms to keep her warm.
Cheng Yingzhen pointed at her tearful daughter and asked in confusion: "What is this..."
"This child wants to rebel against heaven, so he must be punished."
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