The shopkeeper expected Gu Yi to be a young master of a rich family, but he did not expect him to be so rich that a small maid could casually give out a thousand taels.
He stood there frozen, his face turning from green to white.
Seeing that he was standing still, some curious customers looked over and when they saw the amount on the silver ticket, they couldn’t help but look at Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue twice.
“Shopkeeper, looking for money?”
Song Wangyue’s tone was still as calm as it had been earlier, as if she was not the one who took out a thousand taels and made the shopkeeper turn around.
The shopkeeper’s brain had countless thoughts turning, finally ruthlessly gritting his teeth, arching, his attitude changed a hundred and eighty degrees, “The plate is not worth a few dollars, it is considered our compensation, the girl take the silver ticket back, no need to accompany.”
“That won’t do.”
Song Wan Yue put away her aggressive stance just now, and added a bit more unobtrusive arrogance, “That won’t do, how much should be compensated is how much, our young master is not short of this amount of silver.”
The kneeling fellow looked up when he heard the shopkeeper’s words, and when he saw the amount of the silver ticket, his face turned blue and white.
The customers inside and outside the shop began to whisper.
The shopkeeper understood that this was Song Wangyue’s way of making things difficult for him. A dish was only a few hundred dollars, but she had taken out a thousand taels of silver.
As he listened to the chatter outside the shop, he had no other choice but to hold up the silver ticket with a smile on his face, “Wait a moment, I’ll give you the change.”
He took it to the counter and found one five hundred taels, two two hundred taels, one fifty, two twenty, and brought back the rest of the broken silver and copper plates and put them on the table, “The plate is one hundred taels, the girl gave you one thousand taels, I’ll give you nine hundred and ninety-nine taels, the broken silver is five taels, the copper plates are two hundred, the rest are all silver tickets, the girl check them.”
Song Wangyue first took a good look at the silver ticket, and then weighed the broken silver, and then began to count the copper plates carefully, “one, two, one ……”
The count was unhurried, and the clear, crisp sound echoed through the shop.
The customers inside and outside the shop also followed her voice and silently counted along with her, ignoring even the greetings of the staff.
Gu Yi’s eyes were all smiles.
The shopkeeper, however, was so anxious that he was sweating, afraid that if she counted wrongly and then recounted again, then his shop would really be out of business.
When Song Wangyue’s last “two hundred” fell, the shopkeeper almost collapsed.
“Not too much, not too little, just right.”
The shopkeeper braced himself not to reach for the table and squeezed out a smile that was worse than crying, “In that case, you two ……”
Song Wangyue stood up painfully, “We’re leaving, we won’t delay your business.”
The two of them personally sent out the door, the shopkeeper really did not hold up, stretching to hold the door frame to slow down for a while.
“Little girl ……”
Not much farther out, Gu Yi stopped and looked at Song Wan Yue, his eyes seemed to gather into the sunlight, burning and dazzling, “Just now you were standing up for me?”
“What do you say?”
“You were standing up for me.”
Gu Yi couldn’t contain himself with joy, his smile was radiant, and the unique affection of a teenager flowed from his burning gaze.
Song Wan Yue averted her eyes, eyes looking around, saw another pastry shop not far ahead and quickly walked over.
Gu Yi followed behind her with a smile on his face that he could not contain.
This shop was only a few dozen feet away from that one, but the business was worlds apart. There was not even a greeting staff, and only an old man and an old woman, who looked like a couple, were sitting inside the shop with sad faces.
When he saw the two enter, the old man’s eyes lit up and he stood up to quickly greet them, “What kind of cakes do you need, sir?”
“Any lotus paste ones?”
Song Wangyue asked.
“Yes, yes, yes, you two wait a moment, I’ll bring it over to you.”
Then she greeted the woman again, “Wife, bring tea to the two guests.”
The old woman answered.
“No need, we just had it in that shop.”
The smile on the old man’s face receded, “That, that, that ……”
“We’d like to try some of the pastries in your shop.”
The smile returned to the old man’s face, the two men were empty, so they must not have bought the pastries from that shop, there was still hope of selling them themselves.
The old man quickly brought out two plates, “We just made these, they’re fresh, try them.”
The pastries on the plates were bigger than the ones in the shop, so Song Wan Yue pushed one plate back, “We’ll just try one piece.”
The old man pushed the plate over again, “You two can eat without worrying, this is a taster, no money.”
“Thanks a lot then.”
The two of them took a small bite and finished the pastry.
“Are you two satisfied with your food?”
The old man asked apprehensively.
Gu Yi nodded, “It’s delicious, I’ll pack a piece to take away with me.”
The old man was stunned, obviously not expecting him to just want a piece, but it was only a stunned moment, then he happily greeted the woman, “Wife, a piece of lotus seed paste, pack it up and take it away.”
The woman responded and took the paper and packed it.
Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue looked at each other, and Song Wan Yue asked, “We tasted your cakes, why did so few people come to buy them?”
The old man sighed heavily at the mention of this, “You don’t know, but in the past, the two of us used to share the business equally, but then they hired a master from somewhere and developed a few new cakes every month.
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The only thing left is us, the old couple, and if this continues, even the two of us won’t be able to support each other.”
“This is your ancestral art, right?”
“Yes, our family has been making pastries for generations, and when it was booming, the queue was half a block long, but now ……”
The old man sighed and shook his head.
“You haven’t tried making some new pastries out?”
“I have tried, but it didn’t work out. After a while, my wife and I lost the mood, and when we couldn’t afford to feed ourselves anymore, we sold the business and followed our children to their old age.”
“I do know how to make some new cakes, if you trust me, you can prepare the ingredients and I will come over tomorrow to make them. ”
The old man was overjoyed, “Really?”
The woman also came over with the wrapped lotus paste pastry and placed it on the table, saying joyfully, “You don’t look like an ordinary person, so the cakes you make will be extraordinary.
“You two trust me that much?”
“Look at what you said, we don’t have any enemies, how could you do us any harm? Our shop is dying, so maybe the cakes you make will bring us back to life.”
“Okay then, I’ll write down the ingredients to be used, you guys get ready and we’ll come back tomorrow morning.”
The old man hurriedly went and got the paper, Song Wangyue wrote it down, everything else was fine, except when he saw her write down the milk, the old man blushed with difficulty.
