Since the bamboo leaf green tea was put into the store, almost all the people who bought the sugar water bought a lot of bamboo leaf green tea when they left for the trip, so that they could carry it easily. More than 200 cans of bamboo leaf green tea were sold every day.
Aunt Ye had never seen such a trend. When she set up a stall at the largest intersection, she sold a hundred cans at most, but usually only about thirty cans. She didn't expect that she could easily sell more than two hundred cans here, which made her very busy.
Many people come to the store to drink Zhuyeqing, but they are attracted by their exquisite sugar water. Some people who usually feel that the sugar water is too expensive and are embarrassed to come to the store to rest can now buy a can of Zhuyeqing and rest here.
Zhang Ercui had asked her in confusion: "What's the point of doing this? No matter how you look at it, we are the ones who are at a disadvantage."
Fubao specially placed a row of comfortable chairs inside and outside the store for people to rest. She told Zhang Ercui: "We should always look at the long term in everything we do. Although they didn't buy the syrup, with so many people spreading the word, their Xueqingquan syrup will soon be as famous as Wuweizhai."
This way, it's a win-win situation.
For seven or eight days in a row, their business was booming, and they saved 100 taels of silver in the store for easy purchases at any time.
But even so, the thieves had their eyes on him.
In the past few days, Fubao noticed people staring at the shop every day, but they didn't buy anything and didn't come in. They covered their faces with only their eyes, which made it hard not to notice them. But after many days, they didn't do anything out of the ordinary, so they didn't pay much attention.
There was someone watching the shop from morning to night, so Fubao mentioned it to Chongming and asked him to walk around the shop more often when he had nothing to do.
As it was getting close to evening, the shop put up a closing sign and Fubao went home with A Niang and Liu Er's wife.
The next morning, the three of them looked at the shop's wide-open door and said with a smile, "We are so diligent every day. The first shop to open on the street is ours."
Fubao stepped in, but strangely, he did not see Li Darong sitting at the counter. His heart skipped a beat, and he hurried to the kitchen, opened the curtain, and found that Zhang Ercui was not there either.
She hurried upstairs. All the sleeping rooms were tightly closed. She stepped over the incense ashes scattered at the door and pushed the door open while shouting, "Uncle, aunt! Brother! Are you there?"
There was no sound from inside, which made her very anxious. Liu Er's wife ran up upon hearing the sound, and Fu Bao said anxiously, "Auntie, help me open the door."
The two people pushed hard for a long time, but the door didn't move at all. Finally, Zhao Xiuer came up, picked up a chair next to her, and smashed it hard on the door. She did it five or six times before she finally managed to open the door.
Pushing the door open, the four people were all fast asleep, and they didn't hear the loud noise. Zhao Xiuer breathed a sigh of relief: "They are all asleep, I'm glad everything is alright."
Fu Bao felt something was wrong. No matter what, they shouldn't sleep so soundly. She quickly reached out to feel the pulses of the people. They were indeed asleep, but they were sleeping too deeply.
She called out and pushed, but no one woke up. Finally, she took out some water from the space and sprinkled it on their faces, and then they slowly woke up.
Fubao helped Chongxi, who was trying to stand up, and asked, "Brother, how are you?"
He looked at the people gathered around him with a confused look on his face and said, "Why are you here? Huh? Is it daybreak?"
Chongming struggled to get up, pressing his temples: "My head hurts so much, I feel dizzy and painful, maybe I didn't close the window properly when I slept last night."
Fu Bao looked at their state and felt something was wrong, so he asked hurriedly, "When did you go to bed last night? Why didn't you respond when I called you, and the door of the shop was open?"
Li Darong's face changed: "Impossible, I checked several times before going to bed, and the door was locked fine." After saying that, his face changed: "It's broken!" Then he didn't even bother to put on his shoes, and ran to the side to rummage through the drawers.
Zhang Ercui also became anxious and kept asking, "Is there anything? Is it still there?"
Li Darong sat down on the ground, sweating. "No, how could it be gone? I clearly put it here..."
Zhang Ercui hammered the bed board and rolled over: "I'll go check at the counter."
Fubao hurriedly said, "Don't be anxious, walk slowly." Looking at this situation, she already understood the current situation.
They went down together. Zhang Ercui was already crying and kept murmuring, "How could it be gone? It's lost... All the money is lost..."
Fu Bao looked at them and saw that they were all able to move freely, and heaved a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're all okay. You didn't wake up no matter how we called you. We were really scared to death."
Chongming came over, helped Zhang Ercui up and said, "Mom, we can still make money, don't cry."
Zhang Ercui: "That's one hundred taels! One hundred taels!"
Fu Bao comforted them, "It's good that you are all okay. We can earn back the money in a few days. Let's report to the police first and see if we can get it back."
Li Darong finally reacted: "Yes, yes, report to the police. I'll go now..." Then he ran out the door. Fubao shouted behind him: "Uncle, put on your shoes!"
Not long after Li Darong left, Aunt Ye came in: "Hey? Why aren't you open yet today?"
Fubao: "They are preparing it, it will be ready soon."
She persuaded Zhang Ercui for a long time before she felt less uncomfortable. Zhao Xiuer and Liu Er's wife had already prepared everything. The money was lost, but what should be earned must be earned.
Soon, customers came in one after another. Fubao stood on the second floor and looked down. The people who had been staring at the shop were gone. It was indeed them.
When Li Darong came back, he looked sad and listless, saying, "The government said there have been a lot of thefts recently, and most of the thefts have not been recovered, so we should wait."
Fubao nodded and said, "Uncle, if you don't come back the store will be really busy. The accounts are a mess now. Please go and take a look." Li Darong hurried over to settle the accounts.
Chongming was cleaning the second floor. Fubao heard him say "Hmm?" in confusion and turned around to look: "What's wrong, brother?"
Chongming raised the half-smoked incense in his hand to his nose and sniffed it: "What is this? It smells quite good."
Fubao's face changed: "Brother, don't smell it! Put it down!"
Chongming quickly let go and threw the head back to the ground. Fubao went over and picked it up through the handkerchief: "So it's this thing. I was wondering why it was sleeping so soundly. This thief had planned it all along."
Chongming squatted beside her, his head was dizzy: "What is this? My head..."
Fubao: "It might be the incense. I'll go find someone to take a look. Go wash your face."
After that, he took the things out of the door and walked straight into the medicine shop diagonally opposite the shop. There was only a little boy who was dozing off while picking medicine inside. Fu Bao stood on tiptoe and asked, "Little brother, is your doctor here?"
The young man stood up and pointed to the curtain behind him: "Over there, go in."
Fubao went into the inner room and saw a white-haired old man reading a book. She knocked on the door and said, "Doctor, I want you to help me with something."
The doctor put down the book and nodded: "Come and sit down."
When Fubao handed the things to him, he saw the surprise flash across his face: "Do you know him?"
He took a knife and scraped off some powder and said, "It's a drug that has a strong effect. It's a foreign product, so it's hard to get."
Fubao: "Do you know where I can buy this?"
The old doctor thought for a long time and said, "This thing may only be available in those dark places on the black market. You can ask somewhere else."
Fubao paid fifty cents for the consultation fee. Where could the "dark place" outside the drugstore be?
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