Gourmet Girl: Becoming a Royal Merchant Started from Selling Buns

Upon hearing this, Su An couldn't help but frown and looked at the man carefully.

The other person was short and thin, with the brim of his straw hat pulled down to cover his face, but his voice was inexplicably hoarse and sounded a bit malicious.

How long has it been since milk tea was targeted?

She suppressed her smile and refused outright: "Not for sale."

The man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Su An to not negotiate at all, and quickly raised the price: "Three times!"

"Not for sale."

“…Five times!!”

Su An raised his voice impatiently and said, "I won't sell it to you no matter how much money you pay. Just buy the buns and leave. Don't block the people behind you."

"That's right! What are you doing in front? We bought buns and we're in a hurry to buy milk tea!"

The man couldn't help but get angry, but he couldn't say much in front of everyone. He grabbed the bun angrily and turned around and ran away.

Su An snorted lightly. In her previous life, when she was a private chef, she had experienced all kinds of storms and waves. This kind of poaching was something she had expected.

So she didn't take it to heart, and continued to greet the guests behind her with a smile.

After a busy day, Li Guihua counted the accounts in the evening and found that her income had not decreased but increased. She sold three taels more than usual. She and Sanwa couldn't stop smiling.

On the first day of the milk tea going on sale, we invited Uncle Lin to our house for dinner to celebrate.

Uncle Lin's face was beaming with excitement as he brought over two chickens. After summing up the revenue from milk tea today, he found that he had sold 37 taels of milk tea on the first day, which was almost the same as the revenue from the bun shop!

After deducting the cost of seven taels, the 40% profit goes to Su An, which is twelve taels.

Another source of income!

Su An was also happy and happily cooked several delicious dishes, including spicy diced chicken, braised fish and pork with vinegar.

I sent a copy to the neighbors, and then the whole family happily chatted about the night watch, and went to bed after saying goodbye.

However, the exhausted family did not notice that not long after they returned to their room, a "thump" sound of footsteps was heard in the yard.

Su An, who was not completely asleep yet, suddenly opened his eyes. Is this... a thief climbing over the wall and entering the house? !

After her surprise, her heart tightened instantly and she quickly fumbled to put on her clothes and stood up.

I carefully approached the door, held my breath and looked out. Sure enough, a thief dressed in black was sneaking into several rooms of my house!

Su An's eyes suddenly turned cold, but before she could come up with a solution, suddenly -

Another figure appeared behind the thief like a ghost, covered the thief's mouth tightly, and then quickly took the man to the next room.

"This..." Isn't this the highly skilled guard from the neighboring house?!

Su An was stunned. After she came to her senses, she did not disturb other people in the house. She quietly went out of the yard and knocked on the door next door.

"Little boss?"

It was Zhou Li who opened the door. Su An nodded, peeking inside from the corner of his eye, and said, "I just saw a thief breaking into my house..."

Well, needless to say, the little thief is tied up here!

Fu Zhun was sitting in a wheelchair with his usual expression, and the guard he had just met was standing beside him.

The thief was still begging for mercy in front of Fu Zhun: "Master, please spare my life, Master, I was just blinded by greed and wanted to steal some money and property, not to hurt anyone!"

Zhou Li hurriedly invited Su An in. "Young boss, you've come at the right time. My guards were protecting the master at night. When they saw a thief breaking into your house, they caught him. Can you recognize this man's face?"

After Su An entered, he first nodded gratefully to the masters and servants in the yard, then frowned and looked at the little thief.

"Never seen it before."

She had some doubts in her heart, but when she saw that the thief was tall and thin, she found that he was not the kind of person who came to buy the formula during the day. Her brows furrowed even tighter instantly.

This little thief didn't come earlier or later, but chose to target her house today when milk tea was sold. I'm afraid his purpose is also to get the milk tea recipe.

But the other party straightened his neck and shouted, saying that he was just here to steal things.

Fu Zhun then turned to look at Su An and said, "How do you want to deal with this thief?"

Su An naturally didn't believe the little thief's words, and said directly: "Send him to the authorities!"

However, seeing that the little thief was quite indifferent, she suddenly curled her lips and smiled coldly, "It seems that the law clearly states that if the thief does not cause major losses, the sentence will be light, right?"

"How can that be possible?"

Su An then took out his purse from his pocket and calmly stuffed it into the thief's body, "This man is obviously a habitual criminal, I have to get rid of him for the people!"

"There's a hundred taels in this purse, which is my family's monthly income. If I send it to the government office like this, even with all the evidence, I'll probably get a prison sentence of at least twenty or thirty years!"

After saying this, she blinked at Fu Zhun with her pure, harmless, inquiring eyes.

Fu Zhun raised the corner of his lips imperceptibly and nodded in agreement: "That's right, stealing a hundred taels of silver is considered a serious crime and must be punished with a beating."

The young thief was dumbfounded. Zhou Li couldn't help but admire the young boss's wit again. He quickly suppressed his laughter and exaggeratedly added: "Oh my! The county magistrate nowadays is so ruthless and impartial. He might even be sentenced to exile!"

"You, you guys..." The little thief was angry, anxious and scared, his face flushed instantly. No, how come these people are even more shameless than thieves?!

Fu Zhun narrowed his eyes, waved his hand in boredom, and said, "Such a noise! ​​Send him to the authorities immediately."

Seeing the guard rushing towards him, the little thief's pupils suddenly shrank, and he was completely scared: "Wait, I confess! Is it not okay for me to confess?"

"I'm not going there to steal the money. I'm under Wang Mazi's orders to kidnap the boss and force him to reveal the milk tea recipe!"

What? It wasn't stealing, it was kidnapping!

The faces of Fu Zhun and his servant suddenly turned cold. They had just caught the thief and had not had time to interrogate him when Su An came, making it difficult for them to interrogate him.

Who knew that this was the purpose?

The guard immediately stepped forward and found a hemp rope from the thief's lower back.

Su An's eyes instantly filled with anger when he saw this, and he asked, "Tell me clearly, who is Wang Mazi!"

"Yes, yes..." the little thief said with a pale face, "It's the brother-in-law of Mr. Liu from the Xinxiang Teahouse!"

Teahouse owner, great, you are indeed my rival. If you can’t buy the recipe, you want to steal it.

Su An was furious. After taking back the silver, he decisively chose to report to the police. The county magistrate was alarmed and sent people to arrest Boss Liu and Wang Mazi after hearing about the case.

But the subsequent interrogation went unexpectedly smoothly. Boss Liu, with a big belly and a confused look on his face, had no idea anything was going on and kept putting all the blame on Wang Mazi.

Su An also recognized that Wang Mazi was the man who came to buy the formula during the day. He admitted it, but only said that he asked someone to steal the formula and that the thief was clever enough to kidnap him, and it had nothing to do with him.

Due to the lack of other evidence, Wang Mazi was imprisoned for three years, and the thief was sent to hard labor for five years.

This result made both Su An and Fu Zhun, the master and servant, dissatisfied.

After Boss Liu left the court, he walked past them with a smug look on his face.

His eyes fell especially on Su An, and he lowered his voice and said disdainfully, "Humph, some people really overestimate their own abilities. If they were smart, they would hand over the things themselves, so that no one would climb over the wall and break into the house in the middle of the night!"