Chapter 4: Selling Candied Haws and Meeting Her Ex-Fiance
I saw people coming and going at other stalls, and then I looked at the stall in front of my own. It was deserted.
Mu Chenglin sat calmly, while Shen Yunxi couldn't sit still.
She looked around and saw that everyone was shouting!
"Good eggs. My hens lay two eggs a day. They are the fighting chickens among hens. If you eat their eggs, you will immediately become smarter!"
"My hens lay three eggs a day, come and buy mine!"
"The next four or five of my family, come and see me!"
"It's a big sale! If you miss this opportunity, you will have to wait ten years!"
"It's a hanging sale, buy one and get one free, buy two and get three free, buy three and get four free!"
"Two copper plates for one, ten copper plates for four. The more you buy, the cheaper it is. Come and have a look!"
Shen Yunxi dug her ears, and she remembered the anchors in the "Pumpkin" video, who had different styles and characteristics.
She decided to do something different!
Shen Yunxi cleared her throat. She, a science student, racked her brains and came up with a poem.
"The red beads are wrapped in sugar, the blue ones are not independent, and the bamboos on both sides are piercing the heart, so they are together and never separated." After reading a poem, Shen Yunxi looked around proudly.
No one paid attention to her, only Mu Chenglin looked at her with unclear eyes.
Could it be that the description in the poem is rather obscure and people in the market can't understand it?
Then let’s do something simpler.
"Look, these carefully selected round and red hawthorns are wrapped in a layer of shiny sugar coating."
Shen Yunxi said, holding the candied haws on display in his hand.
"The strings look like lanterns. Just looking at them makes people salivate and make them want to take a bite!"
She took a deep sniff and looked quite intoxicated!
Now many people stopped to look at her!
Shen Yunxi was so happy that she immediately took a small skewer to try, "If you buy it now, you can also enjoy the discount of buying one skewer and getting one free~"
But everyone just stopped and looked at her, no one came forward to ask, and the scene was a bit awkward and quiet for a while.
A little child's voice broke the tranquility, "Grandma, what is this sister doing?"
"Who knows what's going on with her? Come on, come on!" The little boy's grandmother immediately pulled the little boy away, as if Shen Yunxi was some kind of monster.
Isn't this right? Is it because her words are not vivid enough and not deeply rooted in people's hearts?
"How did you come to the market to sell goods before?" Shen Yunxi approached Mu Chenglin and asked him secretly.
"I have never sold goods in the market. The wild animals I hunt are always sent to fixed hotels!"
"Then you want to try shouting?"
"No!" A trace of embarrassment flashed across Mu Chenglin's face.
Haha! You have come here to sell goods, and you still want to carry them!
Forget it, it’s up to her, the little fairy, to save these candied haws!
She cleared her throat, "Tanghulu, red candied haws, sour, sweet, crispy and fragrant. I guarantee you will have endless aftertaste after eating it and forget your worries."
She picked up a piece of candied haws that she was trying to taste and took a bite. Her expression was particularly satisfying, "Hmm~ It's sour and sweet, sweet and sour, ah! I'm about to melt from it!"
Shen Yunxi's exaggerated performance made more people stop. At this time, she seized the opportunity and immediately picked up a few candied haws for trial and gave them to the children in the crowd.
"Brothers and sisters, try it. If it doesn't taste good, you don't have to pay."
Several children were already greedy because of her satisfied look on her face. They picked it up and started eating.
"Wow! This is so delicious! Mom, please buy me a bunch!"
"Grandma, I want it too!"
"I want it too, I want it too!"
The children who tried it all clamored for their parents to buy it.
Shen Yunxi immediately said, "One skewer of candied haws is three cents, two skewers is five cents!"
"Three pennies? You have hawthorn here, right? There are a lot of these things in the mountain, and you actually sell them for three pennies!" a parent of a child questioned.
When she said this, many parents who were ready to pay also hesitated!
Shen Yunxi calmly took out a bunch of candied haws, "Look, everyone, it's covered in a thick layer of sugar coating. I don't want to tell you how much a pound of sugar is. My uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc. should be better than me." Know better!”
"Besides, we have done some processing. These hawthorns have been washed cleanly and the seeds have been picked, which makes them even more enjoyable to eat!"
Several parents looked at it and nodded.
"Give some to my naughty kid!"
"I have two kids, please give me two skewers!"
"I want three skewers at home. It's cheaper. Is it okay for seven cents?"
Shen Yunxi was busy picking candied haws, and Mu Chenglin was busy collecting money.
"No, aunt, we are a small business. We will lose money on the seven cents. How about this? How about I give you two more samples?"
After this wave of crowds, the business at the stall gradually stabilized. From time to time, people were attracted by Shen Yunxi's shouts, and some people came here because of the reputation.
"Brother Mu, why don't you shout?" Shen Yunxi asked, smoke rising from her throat!
This guy is so good, he's stuck here like a stake, and he's taken all the money!
Mu Chenglin's dark face looked a little unnatural, "Hurry up and go back to eat after selling!"
The seventy bunches of candied haws on a stick sold out very quickly, and many people rushed over with their children but found nothing. Shen Yunxi gave the remaining candied haws of food to the children and said that they would come back tomorrow.
The money bag around Mu Chenglin's waist was bulging. After counting, he sold a total of one hundred and ninety cents. Excluding the cost of sugar, he made seventy cents.
It’s not much, but it’s so popular for the first time, so business should be even better tomorrow.
After selling the candied haws, Mu Chenglin sent the wild things to the restaurant and asked Shen Yunxi to wait for him here.
Shen Yunxi sat on the basket in boredom, watching the crowds of people coming and going at the entrance of the market.
The commodities exchanged here are very simple, nothing more than vegetables grown at home, chickens, ducks and geese raised, and various eggs. Some even sell the eggs that children dig out from the trees.
There are several stalls that can be considered craftsmen, making their own baskets, baskets, brooms, etc.
The meat sellers are at the end of the market. In the summer, only one pig is slaughtered every day, and the stall is closed when it is sold. By this time, the butcher stall has already closed.
There are also shops on both sides of the market, and the things sold in the shops are relatively fixed, such as various seasonings, breweries, blacksmith shops, porcelain shops, etc.
I didn't see anyone selling fish.
The entire area where Hong County is located has a lot of water and a lot of fish and shrimp. However, due to the relatively backward cooking technology here, the fish produced does not taste good. If you want to eat it, you will catch it yourself, and few people will buy it.
I didn’t see anyone buying cooked food either.
I don’t know if it’s because the hot weather makes it difficult to preserve cooked food, or if people here don’t have the concept of braised food.
No memory of this aspect was found in the original owner's missing memory.
Shen Yunxi felt that this was a good breakthrough for her.
"Yunxi?" Just when Shen Yunxi was immersed in planning for the future, an uncoordinated voice sounded in her ears.
Shen Yunxi raised her head and saw a thin and small man with barely handsome features, but unfortunately there were a few pimples on his face.
The original owner had met this man several times, and he was the legendary Cui Xiucai.
Shen Yunxi only felt that she didn't read the almanac when she went out.
"Yunxi, what are you doing here?" Cui Zixuan thought he was very cool and smoothed his sleeves and said to Shen Yunxi.
"They sell candied haws!" Shen Yunxi shook the straw stick in his hand, "Oh, they're all sold out. If you come early tomorrow, I can give you a bunch of them to try!"
"Yun Xi, you are a girl, why are you showing your face outside? Why don't you just stay in the Shen family?" Cui Zixuan put away his expression and said with a serious look on his face.
In the memory of the original owner, the few times he met Cui Zixuan left a bad memory. Cui Zixuan relied on his status as a scholar to criticize the original owner, while his stepmother and Shen Pingping added to the jealousy.
"Don't you know? I thought you knew it a long time ago!" Shen Yunxi was still sitting on the backpack, no longer looking at Cui Zixuan, her neck was sore as she kept looking up.
Sure enough, Cui Zixuan coughed unnaturally, "But you can go back to Shen's house the next day! This is just a mistake!"
"Oolong?" Shen Yunxi pointed to the scar on his finger, "You think this is an oolong? I almost died!"
"There is also the Mu family's one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Is that a mistake?" Shen Yunxi's tone was a bit unpleasant.
Cui Zixuan immediately said seriously, "Yun Xi, I don't know what the Shen family has done. There is no need for you to be angry with me, right?"
"Anyway, I'm married to Mu Chenglin now and have nothing to do with you anymore. You can leave!" Shen Yunxi was too lazy to argue with him.
"Yunxi, are you driving me away? Do you know who I am?" Cui Zixuan just felt that he could not save his face. In the past, no matter how he preached, Shen Yunxi would always lower his head and remain silent.
Shen Yunxi now dares to drive him away!
"Who are you? Aren't you Cui Zixuan and Cui Xiucai? You were engaged to me and received a lot of benefits from my mother. Are you Cui Xiucai who is now engaged to my step-sister?"
Cui Zixuan looked around, "Shen Yunxi, what are you talking about? When will I get engaged to your stepsister?"
"Shen Pingping has already told me what happened to you. A little girl like Shen Pingping dares to take the blame, but you, the great scholar Cui, don't dare to admit it?"
Cui Zixuan looked disdainful, "I, Cui Zixuan, am not blind, will I fall in love with Shen Pingping?"
Shen Yunxi:??? Could it be that the memory of the original owner was not only missing, but also had errors?
Cui Zixuan looked around, lowered his head and said softly to Shen Yunxi, "It doesn't hurt to tell you. The one the Shen family wants to engage me is your little aunt Shen Xiujuan."
Shen Yunxi was shocked!
At this moment, she finally understood why the Shen family allowed the mother and daughter to do whatever they wanted. It turned out that they wanted to betroth the scholar to their own daughter.
Cui Zixuan is only sixteen years old this year. He was the head of the case when he was selected as a scholar. He is very famous in the whole town, and many people want to marry their daughters to him.
He actually agreed to marry Shen Xiujuan. It must be Mrs. Shen who gave him good conditions.
"How much dowry will my grandma give you?"
Cui Zixuan held out three fingers and said, "Thirty acres of land, plus two hundred taels of silver!"
Good guy! This amount of money is astronomical to the banker.
The land was bought with the money left by the original owner's mother, and among the two hundred taels was Mu Chenglin's one hundred and twenty taels.
"Why did you come here and tell me?"
Cui Zixuan looked around, squatted down, and said to Shen Yunxi, "Yunxi, the person I like most is still you. Marrying your aunt is just a temporary solution."
"I am going to take the provincial examination next year, which requires a lot of money. After passing the provincial examination, I will continue to take the examination. That's why I agreed to marry your aunt."
"But Yun Xi, you are the most important girl in my heart. Come with me, and I will ensure that you have a good time and drink hot food from now on."
"At least I won't let you do business in public!"
Shen Yunxi was immediately amused, "Cui Zixuan, where do you get your confidence? You are just a scholar, and a few girls in the town are hanging around you, and you feel like you are a piece of gold?"
"Let me tell you, since I, Shen Yunxi, have married Mu Chenglin, I will be a member of the Mu family for the rest of my life. Please keep a good distance from me!"
Cui Zixuan stood up and said, "Shen Yunxi, don't be so shameless. Mu Chenglin has no money anymore. He is just a poor hunter and he has a loser at home. You will only suffer hardship if you follow him!"
"That's better than being shameless like you!" Shen Yunxi raised his head and looked at Cui Zixuan with contempt.
First, Shen Pingping and Mr. Liu misunderstood, then kicked the original owner away, and then married the original owner's aunt. Now, he wants to make the original owner his lover and enjoy the blessings of everyone!
It's just a little scholar who dares to do this. When he goes to high school in the future, how can these women from the countryside catch his eye?
Cui Zixuan had never been looked at by anyone like this before. Many people in the town knew him, so the commotion had a bad impact on him, so he quickly left in despair.
Before leaving, he didn't forget to ask Shen Yunxi to think about it again.
As soon as Cui Zixuan left, Mu Chenglin came over.
Shen Yunxi seriously suspected that this guy should have arrived a long time ago. When he saw that he was talking to Cui Zixuan, he deliberately did not come forward.
She wanted to explain, but she didn't know how.
She didn't do anything wrong, and she and Mu Chenglin were just a couple in name only.
"I spent all my money on sugar. I bought ten kilograms of sugar in total." Mu Chenglin spoke first.
"So much?" Today I only made one pound of sugar, but now I bought ten pounds of sugar.
"Do you think your recipe is very advanced?"
As soon as Mu Chenglin reminded him, Shen Yunxi knew his intention.
This recipe for candied haws on a stick is super simple. After today’s success, some people will definitely pay attention to this recipe and imitate it.
Fresh food is very attractive when it first appears, but when everyone follows suit and the market reaches saturation, they won’t be able to sell much!
The news of Shen Yunxi selling candied haws in town soon spread to the Shen family.
Chen Yunxi's stepmother Liu didn't believe it, "Mu Chenglin accompanied her to sell candied haws on a stick? What is a candied haws on a stick?"
Mrs. Shen squinted her eyes. Although her inverted triangular eyes were not big, their eyes were extremely sharp.
She had always been dissatisfied with this daughter-in-law, who was too far behind the Su family, and even brought a bottle of oil.
"I don't know, I heard that children love to eat! But for the second child's family, didn't you say that Mu Chenglin would send Yunxi girl back?" the old lady said, staring at Mrs. Liu.
When Mu Chenglin proposed to marry Shen Pingping, Mrs. Shen did not agree, because Shen Pingping was brought here by the Liu family. The Shen family has raised her for so many years, so they must receive some reward. Mu Chenglin is just a hunter from a foreign country, how can he have money?
But Mu Chenglin really took out one hundred and twenty taels. Even if the Shen family was very wealthy, one hundred and twenty taels was still a lot of money. The old lady was very satisfied, but Mrs. Liu, her mother-in-law, disagreed!
She has long been eyeing Shen Yunxi's marriage and has been thinking of ways to get Shen Pingping to marry Cui Zixuan instead of Shen Yunxi.
Finally, Ms. Liu came up with a way to let Shen Yunxi marry her instead!
In this way, the old lady can not only get these one hundred and twenty taels, but also get rid of Shen Yunxi, an eyesore! This chapter has been completed!