Chapter 128 - 128 Breathtaking
128 Breathtaking
However, he was helpless. After all, Su Ji had become the Qi family’s favorite.
Old Madam Qi had said that she would look for Su Ji next time!
With the Qi family’s protection, no one in town would dare to suppress Su Ji’s business anymore!
Downstairs, Su Xiaoxiao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
It was not that she was unwilling to do more. In fact, she had already done a lot. From a hundred the day before, there were now more than three hundred in a day, but even so, she still did not have enough to sell.
As for expanding the production scale of snacks, she did not consider it for the time being.
Old Madam Qi’s birthday banquet gave her another layer of inspiration.
Of course, whether it could be implemented depended on what came after the birthday banquet.
It was never easy to enter a new market. She had to be patient. Strength and luck were indispensable.
“Sister, I’m done selling!”
Su Ergou said.
He was a little happy and unsatisfied.
Everything sold too quickly and he hadn’t had his kicks yet!
“Close the stall,” Su Xiaoxiao said.
“Alright!” Su Ergou obediently put away the folding table.
On the other side, Father Su swaggered over with a big knife.
He laughed as he said, “Daughter, was everything sold out so fast?”
Su Xiaoxiao said, “Dad, you don’t have to come over tomorrow. Sleep more at home.”
Old Master Su waved his hand. “That won’t do! What if some ignorant people think they can cause trouble when Dad isn’t around?”
Su Xiaoxiao put the tray back into the basket. “No, they don’t have the guts anymore.”
Father Su picked up his daughter’s basket and carried it on his shoulder. “That’s hard to say! I have to protect you for a while longer!”
Su Xiaoxiao glanced at him and said bluntly, “Dad, you just don’t want to learn to farm, right?”
Su Cheng coughed.
“What nonsense were you talking about? Aiya, I’ll go see if that brat Zhang Dao is back. I want to hack him to death!”
Su Cheng slipped away!
Manager He’s eyebrows twitched at Su Cheng’s words.
Hacking people?
Was he serious?
Was there anyone normal in this family?
However, Su Xiaoxiao was right. Manager He did not dare to touch Su Xiaoxiao easily now.
Firstly, this family was too good at fighting. Ordinary martial arts practitioners could not do anything to them. He would have to pay a higher price to invite more powerful experts from the prefecture capital, but that was not something that could be done easily.
As the saying went, the soft was afraid of the hard, the hard was afraid of the rough, and the rough was afraid of the dead.
He was arrogant but this family did not care about their lives!
Secondly, he had just blocked them once, and that girl had joined forces with Manager Sun to snatch a big business deal from Jin Ji. He felt that if he continued to block them, Jin Ji might suffer even greater losses.
He had to slow down and reconsider his plans.
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Su Xiaoxiao and Su Ergou returned to the village first.
Many villagers came to get water from the well at the entrance of the village and saw the siblings.
Su Ergou was visibly taller. He was originally half a head shorter than Su Xiaoxiao, but now he was almost at her eyebrows.
Su Xiaoxiao had also changed a lot. The last time she weighed herself was more than half a month ago, and she had lost 20 pounds.
Su Xiaoxiao felt that she had lost eight or nine pounds recently. The belt of her pants had clearly loosened, and the villagers could tell that her face had shrunk.
And her skin was really tender.
As the villagers looked at her, they could not take their eyes off her.
“Daya! Are you done with Ergou? How’s business today?”
It was Auntie Liu.
Su Xiaoxiao said politely, “Thanks to you, it’s not bad.”
“Sister Fatty!” Goudan greeted her.
“Does your throat still hurt?” Su Xiaoxiao asked him.
Gou Dan shook his head. “It doesn’t hurt anymore!”
Goudan was the little boy who went to her to get the fish bones extracted. In the past, he was also afraid of Fatty Su. Now, he was not afraid anymore and praised Fatty Su every time he met someone.
Some people didn’t mean any harm by calling her Fatty. Su Xiaoxiao was used to it.
The women began to whisper.
“Did you notice that the fat girl has become prettier?”
“You just realized?”
“Has she lost weight?”
“Her face is fair and tender. It used to be dark and yellow and she had acne.”
“Do you think she’s a young lady? She’s married! I heard that as long as the man is powerful, the woman will be… nourished!”
This group of aunties started talking dirty.
Su Xiaoxiao decisively pulled Su Ergou away.
“That fat girl’s face is almost better-looking than Jinniang’s.”
Just as the Sun family’s daughter-in-law finished speaking, Su Jinniang walked over with a bucket.
Someone tugged at the sleeve of the Sun family’s daughter-in-law. When the latter saw this, she hurriedly shut up. She hoped that Su Jinniang didn’t hear what she said just now. Otherwise, it would be awkward.
Su Jinniang greeted everyone as usual and chatted happily.
Thinking that she probably didn’t hear it, the Sun family’s daughter-in-law was relieved.
However, when Su Jinniang walked back after getting the water, her expression quickly darkened.
… .
Since Su Yuniang refused to return to her in-laws’ house, Zheng Lanxiu and Cripple Feng really lived with the Su family and refused to leave.
When Su Jinniang walked to the door of the house with a bucket of water, she saw Cripple Feng looking at a certain place in a daze, looking like he was about to drool.
Su Jinniang followed his gaze and saw Fatty Su and Su Ergou gradually disappearing into the distance.
When Fatty Su entered the house and could not be seen, Cripple Feng smacked his lips and turned to return to the house. He bumped into Su Jinniang.
He quickly smiled. “Yo, Jinniang is back! Did you go get water? Why didn’t you tell me? I’d have helped you! Come, come, come! Give it to me!”
Su Jinniang frowned and avoided his perverted hand. “I’ll do it myself!”
Cripple Feng chuckled and Su Jinniang entered the house in disgust.
Dinner was prepared by Su Jinniang and Madam Fang. There were six dishes, a soup, and four vegetarian dishes. The meat dishes were a bowl of fatty meat fried with cabbages, and a plate of fried pickled fish wrapped in flour.
The Su family’s conditions were not bad in the village, but they did not eat meat every meal, especially after the new year. The family usually ate vegetarian food for half a month.
There were guests at home, so Old Master Su asked Madam Fang to make two meat dishes.
Su Yuniang was still eating in her room during her confinement.
It was a rule in the countryside that women did not go to the table. It was also a rule of the Su family.
Old Madam Su, Madam Fang, and Su Jinniang usually sat in the kitchen to eat, but Zheng Lanxiu was a guest after all, so it was not appropriate for her to stay in the kitchen. Hence, she went to the central room to set up a separate table.
After Zheng Lanxiu finished her food, Su Jinniang went to refill her food in the kitchen.
Su Xiaoxiao happened to pass by through the back door and was about to go up the mountain to dig up some wild vegetables to make three favorite wild vegetable meatballs.
Su Jinniang looked at her up close and her expression changed slightly.
The Su family only ate two meals. The second meal was earlier, unlike the Su family, which had three meals and only made dinner at night.
It was still early, so it was obvious what Fatty Su looked like.
She was still the same person, but she seemed different in every way.
She didn’t seem to be so fat anymore. Her skin had also improved. It was fair and smooth.
Was this really Fatty Su?
Why did she suddenly look better?
Su Xiaoxiao glanced at her. “Why are you looking at me? I didn’t wear the same clothes as you today!”
Su Jinniang clenched her fists jealously.
… .
When they returned to the central room, Su Jinniang handed the bowl of rice to Zheng Lanxiu and sat down beside Madam Fang.
The two tables were not far apart, and Cripple Feng was sitting behind her.
She picked up the bowl and ate some rice. She said in a low voice, “Fatty Su is really something. She’s still running up the mountain alone at this hour. Isn’t she afraid that she won’t be able to come back if she encounters any danger?”
Cripple Feng’s ears pricked up.
Was the little fat girl… going up the mountain alone?!