What was planted in the pot was not an ornamental pine or any exotic flower, but just an ordinary little yellow flower. The orange-yellow petals were made vibrant by the sunlight coming in through the window.
Xu Xingchen unconsciously stretched out his finger and tapped the small bud above that had not yet bloomed. Suddenly, Jun Haoyue's voice sounded behind him.
"...Stardust?"
The person lighting the flower bud was startled, turned around abruptly, and used his body to block the potted plant. "Oh, well, I'm ready. I'll call you."
Jun Haoyue nodded, "I'm done here too. Where did you put the malt sugar? I'll go move it first."
"In the yard."
After Jun Haoyue left, Xu Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the little yellow flower out of the corner of his eye, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere.
When I arrived at the yard, I saw a man who volunteered to be a porter, carrying a wooden 'takeout box' made by Xu Xingchen. It was divided into three layers, and each layer was filled with malt sugar. It seemed that Xu Xingchen was thinking of making a big order today.
Looking at Jun Haoyue's profile, Xu Xingchen exclaimed "Ah". Wasn't the little yellow flower in his pot the one he put on her head to comfort her when he scared her in the dead woods a few days ago?
But she remembered...
Jun Haoyue put the wooden box on his back and turned around to see Xu Xingchen in a daze. He called out again, "Xingchen?" This was the second time he called out to Xu Xingchen today. She was acting weird today.
"That potted plant..."
"Oh, well, I thought it looked pretty, so I kept it." Jun Haoyue replied indifferently.
Xu Xingchen frowned, but if she remembered correctly, she had placed the little yellow flower in the house after she came back that day. When did Jun Haoyue go in and get it?
Jun Haoyue seemed to not want her to worry about the flowers, so he reminded her, "Let's set off quickly. Look at the movement of the clouds. There might be snow today. Let's come back early."
The path from the village to the town had been completed, making the journey much easier. The two finally arrived in the town before noon.
Arriving in town, Xu Xingchen headed straight for his destination. Sure enough, the stall was empty. Undaunted, Xu Xingchen casually set up his stall while Jun Haoyue immersed himself in logistics.
After setting up the stall, Xu Xingchen sat on the steps behind him. Jun Haoyue stood upright and leaned against the wall not far from her, looking around quietly.
Today is not a market day, so there are fewer people in the town, but that does not affect the enthusiastic shouts of the vendors around.
What's strange is that pedestrians come and go, and even if they stop in front of her stall for a while, they won't buy anything, but just take a look and leave.
Xu Xingchen looked puzzled. Could it be that the taste of the malt sugar this time was different from last time?
She picked up a piece and ate it in confusion. It was sweet and not greasy. There was nothing wrong with it.
Listening to the vendors around him shouting their wares with all their might, Xu Xingchen thought that maybe he should shout a few times too.
So she learned to shout loudly: "Xu Ji Malt Sugar, sweet but not greasy, delicious and not expensive, don't miss it if you pass by."
The shrill female voice was very abrupt amid the rough shouts of the surrounding rough men. With just one voice, she became the focus of the entire street, and in return she received ambiguous looks from passers-by.
Xu Xingchen was confused. Seeing that there were more women on the street and considering that modern women prefer sweets, she came up with an idea.
She called Jun Haoyue over and asked him to stand in front of the stall, holding a piece of malt sugar in his hand as a human display stand.
Jun Haoyue's presence did attract female customers, but the customers all came to see Jun Haoyue and didn't even glance at the fragrant malt sugar.
Xu Xingchen stamped his feet anxiously and fell into self-doubt.
Jun Haoyue listened to the anxious muttering behind him and stopped a woman who "accidentally" passed by him.
"girl."
The woman who was stopped blushed immediately, lowered her head and twirled her handkerchief, not daring to look at the man in front of her.
"I wonder if the lady could do me a favor..."
The woman didn't even finish listening to the words before she started pecking at the rice like a chicken, "Yes, yes, sir, I agree to whatever you say."
Jun Haoyue: “…”
"Could you please do me the favor of buying me some malt sugar to help with the business?"
The woman's blushing face immediately fell, and she replied stiffly, "No need. I have something to do and I'll leave first."
After Xu Xingchen finished her "self-doubt", she looked up and saw Jun Haoyue talking to a woman. She frowned with some dissatisfaction. She was worried that she couldn't sell malt sugar, and Jun Haoyue was actually "picking up girls".
After approaching and hearing the conversation, she was slightly stunned. Jun Haoyue was using the "beauty trap" to attract business.
Jun Haoyue stopped the woman who was about to leave and said, "Miss, you've been going back and forth several times, and you've been looking at the malt sugar the whole time. Why don't you buy it?"
The woman was a little embarrassed. She broke free from Jun Haoyue's hand without much effort and apologized, "I'm sorry, I really can't help you."
After saying this, he left without looking back, as if there were some jackals, tigers or leopards behind him.
Xu Xingchen walked out of the stall and came to Jun Haoyue's side. "What did you find out?"
Jun Haoyue didn't look at her. "I didn't ask anything."
At this time, another old woman came, with a hunched back, and came to the stall tremblingly. Seeing this, Xu Xingchen quickly found a small stool for the old woman to sit down.
The old woman is quite old and has lost several teeth.
"Girl, give me three cents."
"Yeah, okay." Xu Xingchen was overjoyed. He didn't get the first order of the day.
Xu Xingchen packed the things and handed them to the old woman. The old woman took out three copper coins from her sleeve and prepared to give them to Xu Xingchen when suddenly a shout came from not far away.
"Grandma! You can't buy it!"
However, the three copper coins had already been pocketed by Xu Xingchen.
A woman stepped forward and shoved Xu Xingchen, saying anxiously and angrily, "Grandma, I told you, don't buy from this stall. This stall is not clean."
Xu Xingchen became unhappy when he heard this. What did this woman mean? She said her stall was not clean even though she hadn’t eaten there?
"No, what do you mean, girl?"
The woman glanced at her sideways and said with some disdain, "Literally. Grandma, let's go."
"Wait a minute, first explain to me what unclean means?" Xu Xingchen persisted.
Jun Haoyue stepped forward and blocked the woman's path. "Miss, we are not being offensive. We just wanted to ask why you said that. We have no other intentions."
The woman looked him up and down, and because the man was good-looking and spoke well, she reluctantly told him the reason.
It turned out that someone vomited, had diarrhea and a high fever after eating malt sugar, and the doctor diagnosed it as poisoning.
Xu Xingchen was surprised. Her malt sugar was all handmade, so how could it be poisoned?
"Miss, could you tell me which family was 'poisoned'?"
The woman's expression was filled with impatience, and she replied in a bad tone, "Chen Pi's house in the west."
"Chen Pi..." Xu Xingchen repeated with a frown.
"Alright? I've already told you everything. If nothing else, my family will leave with my grandma."
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