“Rubbish!” The shopkeeper cursed as he looked at the nosebleed fellow.
These fellows were all carefully selected by him at the beginning, all of them were resourceful and capable, but he never thought that they could be found out even with a person.
The fellows lowered their heads and did not dare to defend themselves.
The boss looked up in the direction of the Huang family’s pastry shop and the ruthlessness in his eyes flickered.
……
The next day, with nothing to do, Gu Yi wanted to take Song Wan Yue for a walk around that busy street.
“Little girl, that street is lively, selling food, drinks, games, everything.”
Song Wan Yue readily agreed, changed her clothes and took the silver ticket and followed Gu Yi to the street he mentioned.
The street was very busy, with the sounds of hawkers and shops lining both sides.
Gu Yi took her by the hand and led her to a jewellery shop, asking, as if casually, “I saw a gold hairpin in this shop the other day, it’s very beautiful.
As he spoke, he secretly looked at Song Wan Yue’s expression.
Today was the day to come out and have fun, it was fine to look at anything.
“Good.”
Gu Yi was delighted, tugging her hand into the shop.
The mate recognised him at once and immediately brought out the gold hairpin, saying enthusiastically, “My lord, that day you said you were going to get the silver, I thought you would be back soon.”
Gu Yi didn’t expect the mate to remember him and had a moment of embarrassment, “That …… day I went back just in time for something to happen at home, I forgot for a moment, I brought someone to see it today.”
The mate’s gaze fell on Song Wan Yue, seeing that she was dressed in fine cotton cloth, obviously not some grand lady.
The servant was very puzzled, but he didn’t show it on the surface, his attitude was still very enthusiastic, he handed the box containing the gold hairpin to Song Wan Yue, “Please look, Miss.”
“It’s beautiful.”
Gu Yi went to take it, “I’ll put it on for you to try.”
Song Wangyue stopped his hand, “It’s too expensive, it’s not suitable for me to wear.”
“You can keep it to wear later.” The mate was busy saying.
Song Wan Yue shook her head, “I’ve never liked anything too flashy.”
The mate was a little disappointed, but still maintained a warm smile, “We have other jewellery in the shop, you and Miss might want to take another look.”
At this moment, two women came into the shop.
“Have you heard? The shop that sells snow maidens is not open today, it says the owner fell last night and didn’t get up to do it today.”
“I heard, I sent my maid from home to buy them early this morning and she came back to say so.”
“Now we won’t be able to eat snow maids for a long time.”
Song Wangyue and Gu Yi looked at each other and turned to walk out at the same time, Xiao Si hurriedly followed behind, several people went out of the market and went straight to the Huang family pastry shop.
From afar, they saw that the shop’s door was closed, and the doorway, where there had been long queues two days before, was now empty.
A few people walked over quickly and Xiao Si knocked on the door, “Is there anyone there? Anyone?”
It took a while before the woman’s voice could be heard, “There’s something going on at home today, so I won’t be open for business.”
“It’s us.” Song Wangyue uttered.
There was a pause inside, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, and the shop door was quickly opened, and the woman came out, “Your guest is here, please come inside.”
“We heard in the street that Master Huang had a fall, is he alright?”
“It’s nothing serious, the doctor said he’ll be fine after ten days and half a month’s rest.”
“Can we go and have a look?”
The woman led them to the backyard house.
Yellow Cake was sitting on the bed, covered with a thin quilt and his right hand was wrapped in it.
When she saw the man enter, she said apologetically, “I accidentally bumped my leg last night, and the doctor told me to walk less, so I’ve been slow in treating your servant.”
“How did you suddenly fall down?” Song Wan Yue asked.
“People are getting old and their eyes are failing, last night I got up and accidentally stepped out of the way.”
“This has happened before?”
The woman asked the two men to sit down quickly, “Not before, perhaps I was too tired these days. After the two noblemen left yesterday, we wanted to make more iced moon cakes while we had some spare time, so we worked until dark, and only ate a bite of dinner hastily.”
Song Wangyue did not believe that there was such a coincidence.
Only yesterday the shopkeeper had approached them, and then the yellow cake had fallen?
“In this way, I’ll be idle and help you guys make some snow maiden and ice skin moon cakes out, it’s a good time to sell them for money these two days, so we can’t just waste them.”
“This ……”
The woman was pleasantly surprised, she was worried just now, she had missed such a good opportunity to earn money for nothing.
But Huang Gao waved her hand, “No, how can we let the nobleman do it for us? There’s no end to the money, it’s not too late to earn it when I’m well.”
“We’re just idle, if you’re sorry, you can pay us some money for our work after these few days.”
Huang Gao knew she was joking, she had taught him the pastries for nothing, so what did she care about the wages?
He was about to say no when Song Wangyue got up, “Didn’t you make some ice-skinned moon cakes yesterday? Open the door and sell them first, I’ll make some more for you.”
“By the way, Xiao Si ……” Xiao Si came in at the sound of his voice.
“You go to the house and call four people to come and help.”
Junior answered and turned to go out.
Song Wangyue said to the woman again, “If you’re at ease, let our men accompany you to the shopping later, and if people ask who they are, just say they’re relatives of your own family.”
“Good, good, everything is at your servant’s disposal.”
……
The door of the shop soon reopened and the two boys left behind carried a table to the door and brought out iced mooncakes.
Someone had been watching the movement over here and, seeing it, ran over first, “Give me two snow mille-feuilles with grapes.”
“Sorry this guest.”
One of the boys said, “We have to wait another hour for the snow maidens, we are selling ice skin moon cakes today.”
“Ice-skinned mooncakes?”
The boy nodded and opened the cloth covered on top for him to see, “This is the kind, it’s also new to the shop, no limit, feel free to buy it.”
“Can I try it first?”
“Of course you can, just a moment.”
The boy took a piece out, turned and went into the shop, and came out a short while later with a cut mooncake, which was divided into six, and the boy took a piece to the customer.
The customer only took one bite and his eyes lit up, “Give me a box.”
“Give me two boxes.”
The people who ran over after him shouted after them, as if they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to buy them if they shouted too late.
As they shouted, those running behind them also raised their voices and shouted.
“Give me a box too.”
“I want a box, too.”
The boy filled the box nimbly, saying as he did so, “Our boss said that anyone who buys the ice-skinned mooncakes will come back in an hour to buy unlimited snow millets.”
The boss of the pastry shop in the distance saw this scene and his face turned gloomy as he instructed the fellow beside him, “Go and see, where did these two people come from?”
