"Miss Chen, please accept this congratulatory gift that the master personally selected for you."
"Thank you, Sister Shuangyue. Qingtan, please take Sister Shuangyue and Steward Chen to the private room."
This surprised everyone even more. It was the Azure Dragon Escort Agency, and that Miss Qin was someone close to the owner of the Azure Dragon Escort Agency. What did Miss Qin say? That her master sent her.
No wonder this Miss Shen doesn't even respect the Lan family.
Who exactly is she?
Those powerful young masters originally wanted to cause trouble, but seeing this situation, they didn't dare to utter a single word.
If my parents find out when I get home, I'd be lucky if I don't get scolded.
"If anyone causes trouble outside and disrupts the adults' conversation, can you take responsibility?"
At this moment, the clerk came out of the shop.
She walked up to Shen Danru, looking like a sycophant: "Miss Shen, should I arrest all these people?"
"No need, sir. It's the opening day of the shop, let's not spoil everyone's fun, just let them leave."
"Good, good, Miss Shen is truly kind-hearted."
The clerk yelled at Lan Shao and his group, "Get out of here now! If you dare to cause trouble at Shenji again, you'll all be dragged to the county office and flogged!"
Which of the scholars didn't know the clerk? His words represented the county magistrate's, so even if they were angry, they couldn't confront the clerk directly.
Upon hearing the advisor's words, the men all turned and ran away.
Only Lan Shao and Lan Bing'er were left, standing there, unsure whether to leave or stay.
"What, you two want to be punished?"
Lan Shao realized what was happening and quickly pulled Lan Bing'er away.
“Miss Chen, if anything like this happens again, just go to the county government office and notify me.”
The advisor thought to himself, "This Miss Shen is someone our master values highly. Even our master thinks highly of her. How dare these few lackeys mess with Miss Shen? Aren't they courting death?"
"Okay, thank you, Master."
Not only are there many customers at the hot pot restaurants, but the braised food shops are also quite busy.
One waiter was greeting customers, while another waiter and Shen Xiaohua were weighing braised food for customers, and Shen Yu'an was collecting money.
Unlike hot pot restaurants, braised food shops mainly serve pre-made braised food. All you need to do is call out to customers to buy it; four people are enough.
Long queues still formed outside the shop.
As soon as Chai Tinglian entered the shop, she saw Shen Yu'an standing inside.
She broke off the engagement because she disliked Shen Yu'an's family for being poor, not having a decent house, and not being able to afford a hairpin.
She touched the gold hairpin in her hair, and found a sense of superiority again in Shen Yu'an.
Although she became someone's concubine, it was still much better than marrying this country bumpkin, who was always hungry, cold, and had to live in a dilapidated house.
"Waiter, weigh out two jin of braised pork and one pickled fish for me."
Shen Yu'an looked up; he knew that voice all too well.
Chai Tinglian pointed at Shen Yu'an:
"I want him to receive me."
Seeing Chai Tinglian's arrogant demeanor, Shen Yu'an frowned.
The waiter said, "Young lady, I will treat you the same way."
Unexpectedly, Chai Tinglian acted as if she hadn't heard, pointing at Shen Yu'an and saying, "Aren't you coming over here? Be careful or I'll get your boss to fire you."
Just as the waiter was about to speak again, he saw Shen Yu'an walk over, skillfully weigh out two jin of braised meat and one jin of pickled fish, and hand them over.
"Here is one hundred coins. Consider the rest a reward after you've spent money on your purchases. Remember, a lower-class person is a lower-class person. You're only fit to serve others your whole life. Someone like me is someone you can't possibly be close to."
After Chai Tinglian finished speaking, she turned to leave.
"stop."
Chai Tinglian turned her head, her eyes full of contempt.
"What? I gave you the money, what do you mean by not letting me leave? We were engaged before, and if you don't have the money to marry me, it's not my fault that I married someone else. If you keep pestering me, I'll report you to the authorities for abusing a woman."
Shen Yu'an didn't even glance at him, his face expressionless.
"You're overthinking it; you didn't pay enough."
"One hundred coins isn't enough. You must be using money as a pretext to stop me from leaving. You scoundrel."
The people in line behind him all looked at Shen Yu'an with strange eyes, wondering why this guy was still bothering the girl.
This girl has a married woman's hairstyle, so she's probably already married. The braised food at this shop is delicious, but the owner doesn't even check the staff before hiring. How can he hire just anyone?
Shen Xiaohua heard the sounds outside from inside. She poked her head out and recognized Chai Tinglian.
She had also heard that Chai Tinglian had broken off the engagement because she thought her elder brother couldn't afford a gold hairpin, and now she was insulting him again. She immediately stood up and said:
“My brother stopped you because you didn’t pay enough. Braised pork costs 45 coins per catty, 2 catties costs 90 coins, and pickled fish costs 40 coins per catty. Yours is exactly 1 catty, which is 130 coins in total. You only paid 100 coins. Isn’t it right for my brother to stop you?”
"Besides, you're being too presumptuous. Look at your appearance, who do you think you are? My brother is clinging to you, don't you even know that the whole shop belongs to the Shen family, and there's the hot pot shop next door, which you probably haven't even eaten at? My brother can have any kind of girl he wants, why would he want a slut like you who's been married before?"
Shen Xiaohua is now living at Shen Cheng's house, eating and sleeping with Shen Danru and Qingtan. She has become much bolder.
"Stop your nonsense and pay up. You still owe forty coins. If you can't afford it, don't eat here. Don't you even know where you are? The county magistrate loves our braised dishes, and the old lady of the Jiang family praises them highly. Who do you think you are? Shenji is not a place for a mere concubine like you to throw a tantrum."
It has to be said that the word 'concubine' hit Chai Tinglian hard, and she blushed with embarrassment.
However, she heard Shen Xiaohua say that the entire shop belonged to the Shen family.
The Shen family's?
She couldn't believe it; how could it possibly be from the Shen family?
She knew how famous this braised food was; her husband loved it and couldn't live without it every day.
Shen Yu'an didn't even have the money to buy her a hairpin back then, but now she's opened two shops.
And what about her?
She married a small grocery store owner, and was a concubine.
Moreover, she, as a concubine, was practically worse off than a servant at home. They probably married her just to be used as a servant, thus saving on their monthly allowance.
The eldest daughter-in-law had eight children, and she couldn't take care of them all by herself, so her husband married her.
Before she married into the family, there were two servants who did some household chores.
But ever since she married into the family, the mistress of the house has sold off all the servants, and now she's the only one left to do the work.
Every day, as soon as she wakes up, there's endless work to do. She also has to help out at the shop, leaving her with a sore back and aching waist all day long. And at night, she has to sleep with someone.
I can only rest for a while when I go out to buy things each day.
When she came out today, the old lady only gave her 100 coins, saying she wanted to buy two catties of braised food and one catty of pickled fish. How come she didn't have enough money?
"You didn't deliberately sell it to me at a higher price, did you?"
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