Chapter 64: The Best-selling Century Eggs

  "Look, this is our family's big flower." One finger pointed and stretched out, pointing to the Ostrich that was hiding in the corner, trembling with fear.

  "Isn't it cold? Why are you shivering all the time?" asked Wen Ying weakly, unaware of the truth.

  "I don't know, probably saw how excited we were and got scared. Forget it, let's go find Second Sister and Third Sister to play with." Hey, you're talking nonsense, that chicken was clearly shaking because it was afraid of you, stop trying to save face!

  "En." The child, who had just relaxed a bit, tensed up again, with both hands clasped together in an uneasy manner. This cousin of hers was also unqualified, coming here and then abandoning her, having fun on his own.

  Pulling her little hand, she got a shy smile from the host family. This is indeed a proper young lady, no wonder her mother always said she was a crazy little girl.

  "Do you think I'm good?" With both hands holding her face, Xi Mei asked the guest opposite her who was somewhat flustered.

  In an instant, a "good" came over like the buzzing of mosquitoes.

  "If I'm this good, then my sisters must be just as good, right? You think so, don't you?" What kind of theory is this, probably can only fool little kids.

  "Right." The little princess of the Wang family nodded enthusiastically, and Xi Mei smiled even more brightly. In her heart, she thought that it was indeed easy to deceive children, but then she forgot that she was also a child.

  "Let's go." The two little girls smiled at each other and walked hand in hand into the house.

  In the courtyard, Zhao followed Chen Tianfa and said, "Old man, you say our family now collects a lot of eggs, I don't know how Zhang's family sells them, so many can't be wasted in our hands."

  Chen Tianfa put down the work in his hands, remained silent for a moment before responding: "Yes, how many people can afford to eat such expensive things? Don't let them all accumulate in Zhang's family, or we'll have to do less this time."

  "I mean the same thing," Zhao replied, "It's been two days now, and there hasn't been any news from the town over there, no one knows what's going on."

  Just as they were discussing, the sound of horseshoes came from the door, and the couple quickly wiped their hands and walked towards the door.

  As soon as the door was pushed open, Zhang Guanjia was seen walking in this direction with a person of similar age to him. Seeing the couple, they quickened their pace and came over.

  "Mr. and Mrs. Chen, sorry to disturb you." Before Chen Tianfa could even invite them in, Zhang the housekeeper had already stepped forward to apologize.

  "Look at what you're saying, you can come to our countryside, this is our good fortune, how can it be a disturbance?" Chen Tian hurriedly explained.

  "That. How are our pickled eggs selling?" Zhao's wife asked anxiously, and the man following behind Zhang Guanjia stepped forward respectfully and said: "Master Chen, madam, this isn't a place to talk, why don't we go into the courtyard to discuss?"

  "Right, right. Look at us, we were so anxious that we forgot about this. Quick, quick, Zhang and his wife, please come in quickly." After saying that, they hurriedly welcomed the two into the courtyard.

  "Rui Xuan, Rui Hao, hurry up and bring some water out." Chen Tian called out to his son to bring water while apologetically saying to the two men, "I didn't know you were coming. We don't have much good stuff in this countryside place to entertain you, next time you come, I'll definitely brew a couple of jugs of wine and we can have a good drink."

  The two of them simply waved their hands, and Zhang the housekeeper said: "Today we came uninvited, it's already very embarrassing, how can you still bear to let us trouble you?"

  "After finishing speaking, he introduced the person behind him to them, 'This is our town's largest wine house owner, Tian Guan Cai, today he came just for the sake of pickled eggs.'"

  "By the way, how's the sale of the preserved eggs going? Are there any left? Maybe they're not selling well?" Chen and his wife asked hastily.

  "Haha." Manager Tian stroked his whiskers, a satisfied smile spreading across his face. "You're joking, how could they not sell? You two don't know, but after the first batch of pine flower eggs arrived at your house, our wine shop was packed to the brim!"

  Although he said so, the smile on his face was so thick that it could crush flies. "We're not lacking in rich people, they used to think about eating but couldn't, now there's goods and they still don't live a good life? At this speed, those things won't last for a few days."

  He paused, picked up the bowl in front of him and took two sips of water, stroking his beard before continuing: "You see, our master has entrusted me to come over and tell you this. While it's still fresh, let's make some more pickled eggs and earn a good sum. He even specially sent me to deliver some things to the children at home."

  "Who is your master?" Zhao asked in confusion. "You don't know yet? Our master is the young master of the Wang family, from the Wang family in town. Today, our young mistress even came to disturb you."

  "What? You said your master is from the Wang family? The young master of the Zhang family's cousin is your master?" Zhao asked in surprise, realizing it later.

  "It's true, it's not just the Wang family, the Zhang family also has a significant share. Otherwise, how could this pine flower egg fall into our hands?"

  "It's strange to say, our old master is not worried about this matter at all. Fortunately, the young master was able to hold up the entire Wang family at a young age, otherwise..." "Cough cough" A cough came from beside him, and Tian Zhuangju finally stopped talking, smiling awkwardly.

  "Look, I've said too much. Let's just drop it and not mention this matter again. Besides this, there's another thing that I need to trouble you with..." After finishing speaking, his face looked a bit unsightly, and he looked at Zhang the housekeeper with a pleading expression, but the other person didn't even give him a glance.

  Chen Tianfa and Zhao looked at each other, their hearts lifted again. "What's wrong? Is there something?"

  Half a day later, Tian Zhanggui finally took a deep breath and said: "To be honest, the fact that this pickled egg is selling so well has attracted some unwanted attention. Our rival, the wine house across the street, can't just sit back and do nothing. They must find someone to sell pickled eggs too, and let him sell it to them."

  At first, Mr. and Mrs. Chen did not understand, but after a moment they realized what it meant. Chen Tianfa said calmly: "So please rest assured that even if your master is not our acquaintance who has helped us several times, we would not do such an unfaithful thing as to betray him."

  Looking at Chen Tianfa's resolute expression, Manager Tian felt a bit embarrassed. "Of course, I trust you, brother. Since that's the case, let's go first."

  After finishing speaking, he stood up and walked out of the hospital, shouting, "Xiao Liu'er, why are you still dawdling? Hurry up and take the things out of the car!"

  "Here comes, here comes." A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy jumped out of the carriage, carrying gifts into the courtyard.

  "This can't be received, Zhang's family quickly take the things away." Chen's couple pushed back, but unexpectedly neither of them responded to their words, and they all stood up to bid farewell.

  "You see, you can't let me take it back. Otherwise, the one who will be punished is still the little guy. You've given us such a big face, these things are not enough. It's just a token of our intention, please accept it with a smile." The two figures had already walked far away while explaining.

  "Hey, look at this guy." Zhao looked at what was in front of him, bewildered.

  Chen Tianfa watched the two people walking away, and his ears could still faintly hear their conversation. "You old thing. I was wondering why you weren't speaking up, specially waiting for me here. Now that everyone has guaranteed, can you all rest assured?"

  Zhang Guan's family laughed, "What do you mean by saying this? I don't know, I've never said that I want to remind them. It's all because of your own suspicious mind, who can be blamed for this?"

  "Alright, you old rascal..." Gradually, the two voices grew fainter. When the horse carriage was completely out of sight, Chen Tianfa finally said to his worried wife: "Don't worry, we'll just accept some gifts from them so they can feel at ease. We should focus on our own affairs."

  Alas. Actually, they were just overthinking this time. Wang Zihang wouldn't dare to suspect the Chen family even if he had the courage of a leopard. Moreover, there's also the Zhang family in between, so this matter is purely the old boss being paranoid.

  Watching the carriage disappear into the distance, the two of them returned to the courtyard, looking at the several children playing happily in the yard. Zhao's expression also relaxed into a smile, "Father, at this rate, it won't be long before we can send Eldest to school, right?"

  Chen Tianfa burst out laughing and replied to his wife, "It's not just about sending Rui Xuan to school, I reckon we can afford to rebuild our house too."

  Zhao's face lit up with surprise "Really? You mean our family will be building a house in just a few days?"

  "Yes, my dear wife, from now on we'll have good days ahead. Now we need to hurry up, as others said, this salted egg business will probably be hot for a while." After that, he hugged Zhao and walked with her towards the place where they made salted eggs.

  "In the courtyard, Xi Mei looked at the person following behind her with a face of impatience, 'Can't you just leave me alone? Go do what you need to do and also, it's about time for you to hurry back home.'"

  "How dare you chase me? Don't you know who I am?" Xiao Bao Wang's face was incredulous. "I do, aren't you just a pesky ghost and an ignored little brat?" Xi Mei replied calmly.

  "What? You say I'm a little kid? Or a hateful guy? Let me tell you, I'm popular with the girls in town, hey, I'm telling you, why are you running away, hey..."

  Under the tung tree, two little girls watched the live broadcast and Wang Wanying stared at her brother-in-law who was chasing after her with a surprised face, "Is this my brother-in-law?"

  Watching Jixia savoring the sugar cube in her mouth, she calmly replied to her: "Yes, how can't you even recognize your own cousin?"

  Not catching the teasing tone of Xi Mei, the little girl answered seriously: "No, it's just that I've never seen Brother this way before. In the past, he was always bullying others, but now..."

  "Do you know what this is called?" She leaned in close to the little girl, a sly smile spreading across her face. "This is called asking for trouble."

  "Huh?" Looking at the little girl, she still had a puzzled expression. Xi Mei smiled and didn't say anything. This little overlord was going to be even more interesting after running into her spicy little sister.

  However, the happy sister Xi vaguely remembered that there was something else she hadn't done, but after thinking for half a day, she couldn't think of it. Forget it, forget it, seeing her second and third sisters inviting two people to play rubber bands, she happily joined in.

  This silly girl has already forgotten someone in the mountain cave, and the night is slowly falling, but the Chen family is still bustling.

  But tomorrow will be even more lively.

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