Gourmet Girl: Becoming a Royal Merchant Started from Selling Buns

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Su An in the shop was dumbfounded, and immediately slammed the table and stood up, "How can this be! This is absurd! The county magistrate and I have been working hard to promote the road construction for the good of this county and for the convenience of everyone's life. And now they call it a compromise?"

Zhang San said angrily, "Boss, these people are desperate. They can't find County Magistrate Lin, so they want to find you to take the blame. There's no point in talking to you!"

"This is going to be bad."

Li Guihua's face was solemn. She grabbed Su An and said anxiously, "Xiao An, you should go back to the house and hide first. If the situation is not right, take the second brother and the others and run out through the back door. Mother will explain it to them here."

"No!" The second oldest, Su Jiang, shouted from the side, his face already filled with anger. "Mom, big sister, we are a family, we must stand together!"

He, Su Ting and Su Yue walked firmly to Su An's side, all with angry looks on their faces, and they were determined not to give in.

"Those ungrateful people still want to blame me, Yueyue is going to teach them a lesson!"

"That's right! If they dare to come, I'll smash their faces with abacus beads!"

Hearing this, Su An was both amused and helpless, and shook his head at the family, "Okay, their target is me, I have to step in..."

Before he could finish, he heard the sound of thundering footsteps coming from outside through the door.

The surging crowd had reached the door. With a burst of pushing and shouting, the door was forcibly opened with a "bang", and the crowd poured in.

Su An was startled and couldn't dodge in time, and was almost knocked to the ground. Fortunately, Li Guihua pulled her up and led her back, staring at the crowd with vigilance and anxiety.

"What do you want to do! The Su family is closed today. You will go to jail for trespassing into the house!" Li Guihua shouted anxiously, trying to get everyone to leave.

But a group of people filled with panic and anger would not be frightened so easily.

"Go to jail? Then let the county magistrate show up! His own people have run away and he's still using chicken feathers as a token of authority!" The leading burly man rolled up his sleeves and spoke first.

The others followed suit and cursed: "Usually, your Su family relied on the support of the county magistrate, so we gave them some respect. But now that Su An and the county magistrate have caused such a big mess, do you still want to stay out of it?"

These words immediately made the whole family gasp for breath, and Sanwa stepped forward without hesitation, blocking the mother and daughter with his small body.

Su Ting's face flushed crimson as he shouted, "My elder sister is right! She was wholeheartedly working to build the road for the good of everyone. It's you ungrateful wolves who are just trying to use my elder sister as a scapegoat! You're all filthy villains!"

When Su Yue saw that there were actually familiar neighbors in the crowd, her hand holding the small wooden sword began to tremble with anger.

"Auntie Li, Auntie Liu, how could you, how could you do this? Have you forgotten how much your elder sister takes care of you? How dare you!"

Su Jiang's pair of black pupils shot angrily at the farmers and workers over there.

"Have you forgotten that when you fled here, it was Big Sister who taught you how to cook, which allowed you to settle down in the county?"

"A bunch of people who have received Big Sister's kindness, but in the end they betray her and bully her, you are nothing!"

Everyone who was caught in Sanwa's gaze suddenly looked embarrassed and ashamed.

Whether it's the food street, food recipes, disaster relief or road construction, the entire Fuyou County has almost benefited from the Su family and Su An.

Now that they were being pointed at and criticized by a few kids, they felt ashamed but more than that, they were furious.

Someone immediately stiffened their neck and cursed back: "Su An has done a lot of good things, but this time she wants to harm the people of our entire county! What's wrong with us asking for justice?!"

"Just because we ate some of her food and learned some skills, does that mean we have to pay with our lives?"

"That's right! Isn't Su An doing all this just to win over our hearts? Who knows what her purpose is in winning everyone over? And if it weren't for her, this evil person who bewitched the county magistrate, how could there be such a mess today?"

"Now that County Magistrate Lin has gone into hiding, we have no choice but to use her as a scapegoat. After all, the road construction chaos was caused by her!"

"Su An, get out! Come out!"

All kinds of insults were heard continuously, and fell into the ears of Su An who was blocked by his family behind him.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar faces in front of him, Su An felt a cold wind whistling in his heart, as if he was in an ice cellar.

These people are really...

She was so angry that she wanted to laugh, but she couldn't. No matter how she comforted herself, she couldn't suppress the sadness that rose in her heart.

What they said was right... The prefect sent troops, and it goes without saying that it was because of the embezzlement of materials, which was probably caused by her.

Su An slowly pushed his mother and siblings away, took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and said to everyone, "Alright, stop arguing!"

"Something went wrong with the road construction. It's true that I've offended the prefect. I take full responsibility for my actions. I'll go and apologize to the prefect right away. I hope this matter can be resolved."

"Xiao An!"

"No, big sister!"

The whole family, young and old, were the first to change their expressions and scream in panic.

But faced with the ferocious crowd, their insignificant resistance was powerless.

"Hurry, don't let her get away!"

As soon as Su An walked out, the crowd immediately surrounded her, as if afraid that she would run away, and pushed her towards the city gate.

The city gates were tightly closed, and the Fuyou County officers and soldiers guarding the gates retreated back into the city to continue guarding. They seemed to be armed and ready for battle, but their constant whispering revealed that the soldiers were also uneasy.

"The county magistrate has disappeared, and there are no orders or instructions. What should we do? Should we continue to defend the city walls?"

"Well, let's defend. There's no movement from Qingzhou. They're just surrounding us and not letting anyone out. It doesn't look like they're going to start a fight. But if this continues, the county's food supply will be depleted..."

"Why doesn't the imperial court intervene? Qingzhou is too arrogant!"

"You're stupid! The whole county is surrounded. The emperor is far away. Our news can't even reach the court. How can we control it?"

"Stop talking, Miss Su is here, maybe there's hope!"

When Su An heard these words as he walked over, the heaviness in his heart soared rapidly.

After obtaining the soldiers' consent, she climbed up the city wall in full view of everyone, preparing to negotiate with the Qingzhou soldiers outside the city.

The Qingzhou soldiers stopped about thirty feet away. There were about four or five hundred of them, with the Qingzhou flag dancing in the wind, looking majestic and intimidating.

Su An looked down from above and couldn't help but let out several breaths of nervousness.

Then she raised her voice and shouted to the people below: "Officials from Qingzhou across the way, the road construction was all caused by me, Su An. I have made the prefect unhappy. It is my fault for not recognizing the great man!"

"I am willing to sacrifice my life in exchange for the peace of the people of Fuyou County. I hope you can convey my wishes to the prefect and ask him to withdraw his troops!"