Gourmet Girl: Becoming a Royal Merchant Started from Selling Buns

"Hmph." The graceful woman behind the screen sounded displeased, her soft voice revealing a hint of viciousness like a poppy.

"Just do what you should do. You don't need to interfere with the rest. Don't cause any more trouble."

Xu Datong shuddered and kowtowed fearfully, "Yes, yes, I understand!"

"But the position of county magistrate in a remote and poor village is nothing to be proud of. When the matter is accomplished, you will surely enjoy wealth and glory."

After the beating, the woman slowly threw out a sweet date, which immediately made Xu Datong even more excited.

"But Su An is being watched closely now..."

"You come forward."

The woman waved in a delicate voice. Xu Datong couldn't help swallowing his saliva again, but he didn't dare to act rashly. He lowered his head and walked forward respectfully.

Then something that looked like a bamboo tube was handed out.

"This is spider poison. If you get bitten, you will feel unbearable pain and hallucinations. After being tortured, you will be weakened and die. Let Su An have a taste of this."

Xu Datong took it with a look of horror. The bamboo tube was actually shaking from the impact of the things inside, which was frightening to watch.

He hurriedly put it away in fear, and after returning to the yamen, he waited until the second half of the night.

He transferred the jailer on duty away. He looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he quietly sneaked into Su An's cell.

"Su An, Su An, if you want to blame someone, just blame your bad luck. If you were strangled to death earlier, you wouldn't have to suffer from this poisonous insect torture..."

Xu Datong couldn't help but smile grimly, placed the bamboo tube at the entrance of the cell and opened it carefully.

Under the moonlight, a spider the size of a wrist quickly crawled out. What was even more bizarre was that the spider was jade white all over, and seemed transparent at first glance.

Xu Datong was so scared that he quickly hid backwards.

The spider's eight pointed legs crawled towards Su An and soon got on the bed.

"what?"

At this moment, Su An didn't know if he was lucky. He tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. Suddenly, he heard a faint "rustling" sound beside his ear.

Like some animal crawling swiftly and darkly—

Su An immediately opened his eyes in surprise, and a spider that was neither white nor yellow suddenly appeared. Its body was covered with fine hairs, and its chelicerae opened and closed slightly, rushing towards him!

"Fuck!"

What a terrifying spider!

Su An turned over in horror and instantly picked up the wooden pillow on the bed and hit him.

However, the spider moved incredibly quickly and jumped onto the pillow. Then in the blink of an eye, it climbed up Su An's arm and opened its mouth to bite.

"not good--"

Su An immediately felt uneasy. This ghost thing was probably here to harm her again. What would happen if she got bitten?

She hardened her heart and was about to lift the wooden pillow and hit her arm hard.

At this moment, a female voice suddenly rang out from outside the prison window: "Don't worry, girl!"

Then a porcelain bottle was thrown in and shattered to the ground with a "pop".

A light white smoke dissipated, and then Su An was surprised to find that the agile spider on her arm seemed to have been acupunctured in an instant, and it raised its two front paws stiffly and motionlessly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su An quickly shook the spider to the ground, then quickly and accurately kicked it to death!

"Huh, almost!"

Su An patted her chest with lingering fear, and after making sure that the spider was really dead in a ball, she quickly slipped to the window.

"Ahem, may I ask which female hero came to the rescue?"

She asked in a low voice with a little caution, how come a strange spider happened to appear, and someone happened to save her by dropping a bottle.

Could it be that he is directing this and acting it out to get close to her?

The female voice from the window quickly replied, full of respect: "My lady, my name is Jian Wu. The master sent us here to lurk beside the prison to protect you."

Su An blinked in surprise. Is it Fu Zhun?

"The spider just now was a poisonous insect. The master suspected that the person behind it would do such a vicious thing, so he ordered us to prepare something to restrain it. Fortunately, the girl is fine."

"Hmm..." Su An thought about it for a moment and didn't believe it completely. After all, the voice sounded unfamiliar.

"Since you said you were Fu Zhun's man, then quickly exchange signals."

Su An cleared his throat and tentatively asked, "Your Majesty the Cake King?"

"..."

There was silence on the other end for a moment, as if choked, and after a long moment, he replied, "Cream is as sweet as a picture?"

"Yeah, that's right, we're one family!" Su An immediately smiled.

These secret codes were made up by her imagination when she was practicing calligraphy. Later, Zhou Li heard them and would repeat them whenever he was greedy.

Only people around Fu Zhun know about it, it’s confirmed!

Jian Wu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling both amused and helpless. "Please rest assured, young lady. We are always on guard. If you encounter any danger, just shout."

Su An couldn't help but feel his eyes warm. This God of Wealth was really reliable.

I feel much more at ease!

"Everyone has worked hard. I will definitely treat you all to delicious food and drinks when I get out!"

Su An greeted her sweetly, but Xu Datong, who was squatting outside, had a face as black as charcoal.

I didn’t expect that this damn Su An would be so difficult to kill!

He was so angry that he had to leave quickly.

On the second day, knowing that someone was protecting him, Su An had a rare good night's sleep and felt much more refreshed.

But when he woke up, he found that there were cells on both sides of him, but now they were filled with people.

Especially the beautiful woman locked up on the right, her skin was as white as snow, she was delicate and charming, and she was extremely charming.

The woman was sitting on the dry grass, also looking at her.

Su An felt like he had guessed something, so he silently moved over and winked at the woman: "Master Hot Pot Man?"

"……what?"

The woman was stunned, confusion in her eyes.

Seeing the woman's expression, Su An was also stunned.

The Jian Wu who appeared last night sounded like a woman, and when she woke up in the morning, a beauty was locked up. She thought that Jian Wu had sneaked in on purpose.

It turned out not to be the case, so embarrassing!

Su An tapped his toes slightly, waved his hand with a wry smile and said, "Nothing, I just think the girl looks familiar. Have we met before?"

She just casually interrupted and wanted to fool the person, but she didn't expect the woman to cover her mouth and burst out laughing.

"Young lady, you're joking. I'm Mudan, born in a brothel, and I usually stay there. How could I have ever seen you, unless you liked to dress up as a man and hang out there?"

Hearing this, Su An couldn't help but look at Mudan a few more times.

It’s not that she looked down on the prostitutes, but in this day and age, most prostitutes were ashamed of their origins, so how could they talk about them with strangers so openly?

It's a bit weird!

Su An had nothing to do and was in no hurry, so he just sat down cross-legged facing each other, looking at the peony with curiosity.

"This girl is so beautiful, so polite, I would have believed her if she said she was from a noble family, but she was actually captured and tortured. What a sin!"

As she said this, she slammed the floor with a look of genuine pain on her face, which immediately made Mudan on the opposite side a little confused.