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Chapter 20 Slap in the face

Of course, you can't charge money for that bowl of wontons.

The scholar didn't say much, and after eating, he smiled, said thank you and left.

Li Su was absent-minded all day and raised her ears. From the whispers of the neighbors, she remembered that name - Chu Fan, and her fellow Yunmeng.

The next day when the sun rose, Chu Fan came again, but this time he was carrying a food box.

He had good eyes and saw a middle-aged man in the shop from a distance but didn't leave after finishing his meal. He took two rat whiskers, had a fat body, and was wearing a robe.

Early in the morning, I appeared near the vegetable market. I was busy and had short-brown clothes, all the people in the city who made a living, and they were suffering. It was very rare to wear robes, but there were no ones like him dressed as scholars. The middle-aged man must be the housekeeper of a small mansion. There was an important banquet in the mansion today, so I came out to buy it myself.

Chu Fan didn't care, but the words over there floated into his ears. After hearing this, he frowned.

Mung bean's small eyes emitted a lewd light. While Li Su was facing away from cutting vegetables, she reluctantly turned around her slender waist and round buttocks for several times. She swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, as if she wanted to swallow the whole person and the water. However, she pretended to be serious on her face, and tapped the table with her knuckles and sighed:

"Hey, you are only twenty years old. It's not easy to escape from Yunmeng alone with your little daughter, and you don't have any relatives to help you... I mentioned it last time, why not follow me..."

Li Su stopped suddenly, and without looking back, quickly interrupted him and said:

"Don't mention it again, Li Su can't afford to win. My husband is just separated, maybe he will come tomorrow..."

"Hahaha, girl, don't hide it. I heard that when you first arrived here, you pawned the jewelry and begged the couple Li and his wife opposite to rent the shop to you. They said they had hit a bandit and everyone ran away in scattered their lives. Your husband disliked you, mother and daughter, and ran away secretly..."

The answer to him was the sound of cutting vegetables, and the cutting board was almost chopped.

"Girl, you're lucky if you escape the bandits. But if you escape the first day of the lunar month, you can't escape the fifteenth day. Look at this market, who doesn't want to chew you and swallow it into your stomach? How many days can you keep your innocence? Why don't you find someone to marry as soon as possible? I, Liu Quan, don't have anything else, I have money. I have saved 80 to 90 taels of silver over the years and took care of six or seven servants. How many daughters are asking for a visit, but I ignored..."

"Then you go find a girl in the yellow flower, what are you entangled with!"

"Oh, look at how you talk... Hahaha, don't say it, I'm just fine with your mouth, it's charming. I don't know if you can give me some sweetness in the quilt..."

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The sound of cutting vegetables was like raindrops and it ended abruptly.

Li Su was so angry that her chest was undulating, and she couldn't let tears flow down her back.

On the chopping board, the vegetable leaves were chopped into pieces.

In the unspeakable anger and desolate silence, a kind voice from the dream last night sounded in her ears.

"Please, have a bowl of wontons."

Li Su's body trembled and froze, thinking it was an hallucination. After reacting, he quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe his eyes, and forced a smile. According to the scholar's habit yesterday, he quickly burned the chopsticks and bowls first, and added half of the wontons.

Seeing that a white-robed scholar appeared in the market, Liu Quan curled his lips contemptuously. He was probably a dilapidated child who was willing to save face, and there was not even a servant, so he had to go out to buy vegetables by himself. Seeing that Li Suge was particularly attentive, he couldn't help but snorted coldly and glanced at him.

After Chu Fan finished eating, he pushed the food box over and asked Li Su to put four more bowls away.

Liu Quangan sat for a while, and there was an outsider who was inconvenient to speak, but the woman ignored him and felt bored. He stood up twice, took out a few copper coins, and shouted: "Checkout."

Li Su stretched out her slender jade palm and saw that the other party was placing money down. She hurriedly retracted and said, "Put on the table, put the three cents."

After saying that, he turned around and used bamboo strips to grab the four bowls he had just put down.

A hint of anger flashed in Liu Quan's eyes. He put the copper coins in his palm and folded them. Then he slapped the table heavily, fearing that Li Su would not know, so he said loudly: "Four cents."

"No need for four quotas, only three quotas."

"How many copper coins can you earn a day? Just keep it for Siwen. Don't be shameless. I'm not short of money, uncle."

"That won't work."

While talking, Li Su took the wontons into a bowl and put them in a food box, and mentioned them to Chu Fan. Seeing that Liu Quan was about to leave, he grabbed a copper coin and returned it.

Liu Quan refused to let him go, but Li Su threw the money into his cuff, then left with his hand.

The copper coins leaked out of the sleeves and jumped a few times on the ground. Liu Quan's face turned purple and turned into pig liver. He snorted angrily, and he couldn't bear to leave the money. After a while, he leaned over and picked it up.

Puchi, someone really couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud.

Liu Quan turned around and glared, his eyes almost popped out.

A big ingot of snowflakes appeared on the desktop, a total of ten taels!

Chu Fan said softly, check out.

Looking for it, I can't find it... Li Su bit her lip and twisted her fingers weakly.

No need to find it, it’s worth so much money... Chu Fan smiled gently.

Three, three cents a bowl, and only twelve cents were collected... Li Su's face turned redder and became redder. Even her earlobes began to get hot, she was both ashamed and annoyed, and her mind was in a mess.

"You're wrong." Chu Fan corrected with a smile: "A bowl of three cents is a bowl, and five bowls are fifteen cents..."

"I, I can't take your money. I saved Yingying yesterday."

"One code is the same as one code, and brothers have to settle the accounts clearly. If you don't charge money, wouldn't it be that someone in Chu was stabbed in the backbone and ate the king's meal? If the government knew that the person who was working was free to eat and drink, then I would not be able to do this as a vain."

"Then, that, that, three bowls and five cents..."

Puchi, Chu Fan laughed out loud again.

Li Su paused for a moment, and became even more uneasy, feeling that he had never been so stupid.

"Haha, don't worry, let me calculate the details."

Chu Fan explained:

"My bowl and chopsticks were particularly hot, and it took a lot of time. Half the wontons in the bowl were added. So someone else's bowl costs three cents, and I cost at least five cents a bowl. Are you right?"

"This, this..."

"There's nothing like this and that... Look, if the wontons of five cents per bowl only charge three cents, the government will also be dismissed from my post if I know that I will be dismissed, and maybe it will also implicate the chief of the Shi Mengshi. Alas, money is a small matter, but a bad reputation is a big matter."

"Well...even if that's the case, then there's no ten taels of silver."

"Let me count again. Five bowls of wontons a day, five hundred and twenty-five. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and another month, it is four hundred days. Four hundred days totaling ten thousand cents, exactly ten taels of silver, not a cent, not a cent, not a cent. So this ingot of silver pays for the whole year and a month of food."

"Then, that, you can divide it into every payment."

"Hehe, look where you are talking about it? Although I, Chu Fan, are so poor that I don't even have a copper plate, I never lack silver. You must know that I am a scholar at least. When did you see a scholar pay a lot of copper coins at once? If your husband is proud of his lectures, you will jingle like a chime when you shake it, and you won't be driven out of the school by a big stick..."

Puchi, Li Su covered her mouth and laughed out loud, charming and natural, like spring flowers blooming.

Chu Fan was stunned for a moment and continued:

"My sister and I were hungry every morning and had to eat a bowl of hot food to feel comfortable. But we didn't know how to do it, so we had to go out and stayed up for four hundred days. If you don't pick it up, then we brother and sister will have to be hungry and stand up. As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda..."

"Then, then...you can go to someone else's house..."

Li Su lowered her head, her voice as thin as a mosquito, subconsciously shaking her toes.

"Hey, it's all my little sister who is too clumsy. After eating the wontons you cooked yesterday, she never wanted to eat other people's products."

"Well, that's OK...but, I'd better take the money back and come back to check out the bill some time later. I'm afraid I'll be snatched up by such a large ingot."

Chu Fan looked around and felt right.

A wooden house is actually a dilapidated shack that can be kicked open with one foot. Keeping such a large ingot of silver will cause thieves and uneasiness.

Several men from the village households wanted to come over to eat a bowl of wontons, but when they saw two people wearing robes, they were timid and wanted to change their family, but their eyes were shaking by the big white silver ingots and they sat down against the table outside.

What kind of drama is the huge ingot of silver? One is to give and the other is not allowed. What kind of drama is it?

Those who passed by were amazed and stood by the street and stretched their necks to watch.

Humph, a pair of dogs, flirting in broad daylight!

Seeing that the onlookers gathered more and more, Liu Quan snorted coldly and wanted to get out of the crowd. The big snowflakes and silver were pressing heavily on his heart, making him dare not say a harsh word in the end.

Seeing that Liu Quan was about to leave, Chu Dasan was unhappy.

The slap in the face just now was really unpleasant. Qing Piaopiao did not touch the soul, and no one around understood it. The guy teased Li Su in obscene words. If he didn't let out this breath, he would be so frustrated that he would be afraid that he would come and get entangled again.
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