Su Liuer asked Wang Po and Zhu Hongan to wait in the restaurant while she and the shopkeeper went to the yamen to find Captain Zhang to sign a document.
When signing the agreement, Su Liuer took the initiative to mention the weather issue. If the business was affected by the weather, the shopkeeper would not have to pay compensation.
Su Liuer did not hide the fact that she was cooperating with the shopkeeper from Wang Pozi. Although Wang Pozi was not good at doing business, she was not worried that Su Liuer would be cheated because she had Captain Zhang as a guarantor.
The three of them left the inn and went to the town entrance to wait for the donkey cart. On the way back, Su Liuer and the driver asked about the price of the donkey cart.
The driver was also from Shangyou Village. When he heard Su Liuer wanted to ask about the donkey cart, he said directly, "Dashi, are you thinking of buying a donkey cart to transport the Herbal Medicine Honey? I'll help you with it. You won't need to waste this donkey cart if you buy it."
Normally, when Su Liuer took up extra space on the donkey cart with her herbal jelly, she would have to pay extra, and the driver was naturally happy to do so.
If Su Liuer bought a donkey cart herself, the driver would earn less every day.
Su Liu'er didn't refuse, but said anxiously, "But sometimes when your donkey cart is crowded, I may not be able to carry the goods. And your departure time is fixed, so I may not be able to meet you by chance."
"That's easy. I'll ask my son to ask you the departure time in advance every day. Then I'll just take you guys to the town. Is that okay with you?" This is actually chartering a car.
This was a good suggestion. Su Liuer nodded and asked, "How about giving you ten cents per trip?"
Ten coins isn't a lot, but ten coins a day adds up to three hundred coins a month! And that's just one trip a day. If we make more than one trip, it'll cost even more!
"Okay! Then I'll have my youngest son go to your house tomorrow morning to ask for the departure time. I'll be waiting at the town entrance in advance and make sure I don't delay your business!"
After making an arrangement with the driver regarding the donkey cart delivery, Su Liuer plans to increase production tomorrow. Now is a good time as supply exceeds demand, so naturally she has to earn more.
She really wasn't too worried about the price increase tomorrow. The restaurant owner was so smart that he must have carefully considered the price of five cents, which was almost the same as what Su Liuer had thought of before.
As usual, Su Liuer went to the back mountain to pick magical herbs after returning home. Zhu Hongan continued to practice calligraphy on the ground with a wooden stick in the yard, while Wang Pozi was doing her needlework.
After going up the mountain, Su Liuer found that someone was following her.
She quietly went around a big tree and hid herself. The person who followed her couldn't find her and hurried out.
Fang Chunhua?
When Su Liuer saw it was her, she walked out directly.
"Why are you following me?" she asked.
Fang Chunhua denied it, "This mountain belongs to the village, not you. I can come up here whenever I want, so who's following you?"
Su Liuer curled her lips into a smile, then turned around and continued walking up the mountain.
Later, when she picked the magical herbs, she no longer picked them near the foot of the mountain. She picked them in scattered places farther up the mountain, otherwise it would be too obvious and easy for others to see.
Fang Chunhua followed her probably because she already knew about her herbal jelly honey business and wanted to learn from her.
Su Liuer walked up the mountain slowly, and Fang Chunhua followed her at a distance. When Su Liuer looked back at her, she pretended to look around, but refused to leave.
Fang Chunhua hadn't been up the mountain for a long time. In recent years, Liu'er was the one doing the hard work of chopping firewood. After walking for about an incense stick of time, she wanted to go down the mountain.
Because Su Liuer was walking towards an area with lush vegetation and couldn't see the road clearly, she was both tired and scared. Could there be snakes here?
Fang Chunhua was looking at the ground carefully when a scream was heard in front of her.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?!" She looked over hurriedly and found that Su Liuer was nowhere to be seen!
Fang Chunhua's first reaction was not to go over and look for someone, but to turn around and run down the mountain.
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