After Su Qingyu and Xu Shaoyan reached cooperation, she became even busier.

The store brought back several carts of fruits and vegetables every day, and many fruit and vegetable farmers personally brought vegetables to sell, and Su Qingyu collected them all.

The store was too busy, so Su Qingyu asked Grandma Zhou’s two grandchildren to help, asking them to do some washing and cutting work, and also gave them a salary. The two siblings worked particularly hard.

Su Qingyu’s store was working in a hurry. However, the Su family in Qiaotou Village, who had been busy with the autumn harvest, was not so happy.

Every year, the grain harvested in autumn, after paying taxes, was mostly saved as food for the family, because no one knew whether the next year would be good or not, and most farmers would store the family’s food for the next year at home.

But this year, Old Su and Wang Shi sold most of the grain for money.

The second and third rooms were particularly dissatisfied.

Feng Shi from the second room had talked about it several times. She had a grandson now and had to make plans for him. Moreover, Xia He and You Wu were also going to get married. The family had not yet found a new house to build for You Wu. Moreover, the money brought back by the first room was used by xiǎo shū zi^[1]husband’s younger brother for business, and the family did not see any money at all.

It was okay to bring money home from business, but what was brought back was much less than what was spent. Now the family had to sell the grain that should have been stored for the next year. Her grandson would be born next year, and if there was a famine, she would not be able to support her grandson.

Feng Shi took Liu Caoya, who was pregnant with a big belly, and said that she was going to take her to the town to check her body, and went to the town without telling Wang Shi. As soon as they arrived in the town, they went to Su Ergu’s^[2]second sister of father store.

Su Qingyu only knew about this when Father Su went home to bring Old Su and Wang Shi to the town and sent them away.

Now that she was pregnant, everyone would not tell her other things casually, for fear that she would worry.

“Second shěn shen^[3]wife of father’s younger brother went to the second gū’s shop to ask for money?” Su Qingyu was quite surprised.

Su Qingliu nodded. “Exactly. Later, the commotion got out of hand and scared away all the customers in the shop. Seeing this, Second gū became even more furious and was even more unwilling to hand over the silver. Later, Father happened to return, so they went to find him. Unable to resolve the situation, he simply brought yé and nǎi^[4]parental grandparent from home.”

“Did they get the money later?”

“Yes. Later, the matter became a big deal. Customers from the oil shop next door came to watch the fun. People from the whole street came to watch. Second gū’s parents-in-law couldn’t stand it anymore and came out to take yé and nǎi home and paid the money.”

Tsk tsk, it seemed that they had to make a big deal.

“Yé and nǎi were here. Why didn’t anyone notify me when it was such a big deal?”

“You were sleeping in the backyard at the time, and father said not to call you.”

Su Qingyu’s stomach was heavy now, and she was particularly sleepy. She often dozed off while working, so when the shop was not too busy, she slept in her sister’s room.

“Second gū is not particular about what she does. It’s not that she has no money. She lets her parents’ family advance the capital for so long, but she is doing business without any capital and just sits back to collect the money. The profit of the vegetable shop can’t be compared with the profit of her oil shop. If she ruins the oil shop business, do you think Second gū fu^[5]husband of paternal aunt will be angry with her?”

Su Qingliu nodded repeatedly: “That’s right. Second gū fu is a very shrewd person. Usually, when he takes a jar of oil back to Qiaotou Village, he will take a cart of local products from home, for fear of being at a disadvantage. If the oil shop business is damaged, he will definitely be angry with Second gū.”

Su Qingyu thought about Second gū fu. She didn’t deal with him much. Even if she married into the town, she would rarely see him.

“It’s good to get the money, otherwise the family will have to pay a lot. The second shěn shen and Third shěn shen will definitely not agree. Winter is coming soon, and the family depends on the income of Father and fourth shū shū. If fourth shū shū still doesn’t give money home, no one will agree.”

Su Qingliu nodded, “That’s right. Yé and nǎi just came to our store for a walk. I wanted to call you, but yé said no, let you sleep, so I didn’t call. I gave a few fried chickens to take back to yé and nǎi. Seeing that Caoya was craving fruit, I also filled a sack for her. Second shěn shen pulled me and kept thanking me, saying that she has been craving sour fruits since she knew she was pregnant.”

Su Qingyu nodded, not caring, “Then let father bring her some every time he goes back home.”

“Okay.”

Maybe it was because a lot of money was paid to the Su family at once, but the Second gū’s store looked quite sluggish. Su Qingyu was a little puzzled.

After a few days, Su Qingyu found that the business of her own store had become visibly prosperous.

In the past, when she was free, Zhou Dajiang would go to the countryside to collect goods, but now her two sisters and Zhou Dajiang were too busy to handle it. Xiao Qingxing no longer went to Yangwei Martial Arts Hall, and the little person followed to help in the front store and the backyard. During the evening market, even Xiao Qingyang had to go to the front store to help.

Su Qingyu was a little puzzled. Did the other four stores close down?

She sent two little guys out to spy on the enemy and found that the business in several stores was not very good, and there were few customers.

To compete with Su Qingyu’s store and grab business, the four stores bought vegetables, chickens, ducks, eggs, and poultry around the town at high prices, resulting in her having no vegetables to collect, and Su Dahu could only go to a very far and remote village.

Then they transported the goods back and sold them cheaper than at the market, attracting customers from the market.

After selling for a few months, they learned everything from Su Qingyu.

Su Qingyu sold peeled melons and hulled edamame, and they followed suit to peel melons and hull edamame. Su Qingyu delivered goods to customers’ homes, and they also delivered goods to customers’ homes. When Su Qingyu started selling dumplings and wonton wrappers, they also followed suit. When Su Qingyu put kimchi and pickled vegetables on the shelves, they also followed suit. When Su Qingmei sold cooked meat, they also followed suit.

Su Qingmei was speechless.

Fortunately, she kept a tight grip on dried vegetables and fruits and also kept a tight grip on the fruit ripening technique.

But now, it was not known whether the other party’s profit was too thin or the service staff couldn’t keep up. Several stores had raised the price of vegetables, and customers who wanted affordable prices had flowed back to the market.

Villagers often came to her store with fresh vegetables to sell to her. After asking, she found out that originally, villagers nearby would wait at home and someone would come to buy vegetables at a high price, but now the price was not that high, and the other party was picky and had many demands. After the villagers calculated, they might as well pick the vegetables themselves and sell them in the town. When they arrived in the town, they would first go to Su Qingyu’s store to see if she wanted them. If she wanted them, they would sell them to her, and if she didn’t take them, they went back to the vegetable market to sell.

In this way, several stores offended the villagers nearby. They could not get vegetables from the source, and the store raised the price. The customers who were used to cheap prices could not accept it all of a sudden and left one after another.

And the profit could not keep up, so the service of the store could not keep up. It was said that the vegetables in the two stores were not fresh, and the leftover vegetables were still sold the next day. The meat was not fresh either.

People who went to buy vegetables in the afternoon also found that the vegetables on the vegetable racks were wilted, so the store sprinkled water on the leaves, making the store full of water stains.

Customers went to the store to buy vegetables because they thought it was clean. Now the store was like the vegetable market, with flies and mosquitoes flying everywhere. Who would buy vegetables in the store?

Old man Xie was still very proud and told his old servant that he had said that those stores would not last long. Opening a store in a prosperous city, the rent was so expensive, how could you support it without other means?

The owner of the store liked others to rent the store for a long time. Who wanted to change the renter every now and then? Once the renter left, the store would be vacant, and you had to find another person, and you had to pay a brokerage fee.

It was very annoying.

So he was wise. He saw that this woman was a good business material early on, and he was willing to let her open the store first without charging rent.

Look, he not only got the rent but also got more interest. He also made friends with people, had cheap and fresh fruits and vegetables to eat every day, and bought cooked meat cheaper than others.

Madam Su also helped dig the cellar, and she would definitely rent it for a long time. If she rented it for a long time, he would have long-term rent. Even if he didn’t rent it to her, his shop with a cellar could be rented at a higher rent per month than others.

Just thinking about it makes him happy.

Hey, where was Qiyou again? Did he go to play with the twins again? Was this child wild? He used to be a formal little adult who never went out, but now he was rarely seen all day.

Old man Xie thought about his grandson’s appearance in the past and then thought about his current appearance… He shook his head and thought, forget it, let it be, it was good to be as lively and energetic as he was now.

(End of this chapter)