Transmigrated into Substitute Bride ‘Fu Lang’

Chapter 39.2

TSBFL Chapter 39.2

By the time Shen He managed to stabilize the things on the tray, his temper came up and wanted to scold him twice, but he found that the reckless underhanded person just now had already left, leaving only Chen Xing looking at him with a perplexed face, and now those caustic words got stuck in his throat again at once.

Chen Xing looked at the changing face of the person in front of him and asked with some uncertainty, “Gongzi, what happened?”

Shen He looked at his face, squeezed out a smile, then looked at Qiu Jiu who was starting to get busy next to him. He said with some gnashing of his teeth, “Nothing.”

Chen Xing looked at the person in front of him whose expression changed too quickly, always feeling a little puzzled. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that there was an empty seat not far away, so he directly said, “Gongzi, you go find a place to sit down ba! This tang yuan (boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during the Lantern Festival) won’t taste that good anymore when it melts later.”

Shen He had the intention to chat a little more, but his hands were still taking something, as well as behind him, there were people urging, so he could not help but nodded, helplessly went to find a place to sit down. He originally thought that after he finished eating, he would go to find Chen Xing to chat for a while, but who knew that until he left, Chen Xing was not available.

Only after watching Shen He leave did Qiu Jiu come over to Chen Xing who was preparing to clean up the dishes. He muttered in a low voice, “Chen Xing, you have to stay away from that Shen He in the future.”

Chen Xing, who was calculating what dishes to buy at the food market later, heard Qiu Jiu suddenly say these words and asked with some confusion, “Why?”

Qiu Jiu looked at the confusion in Chen Xing’s eyes and as his eyeballs rotated, he immediately said, “I see that Gongzi has a fiery temper, so maybe one day, a single word can provoke him, and then it would be a problem for us; after all, we are only opening a small business, so staying away from him will also avoid some trouble.”

Chen Xing looked at all serious Qiu Jiu and felt that there was something strange about his words, but for a moment he couldn’t recall where it was strange, so he could only nod along and didn’t say anything else.

Qiu Jiu looked at Chen Xing’s perfunctory appearance, felt that he did not completely listen to his words, and after calculating in his heart, he felt that regarding this matter, he still had to go back and tell his family’s young master, or else when Chen Xing was really abducted by that person, his Gongzi would want to cut him to vent his anger.

Recently, a new dessert-Jelly had suddenly become popular in the city, and it was extraordinarily popular amongst the ladies and madams from the noble and wealthy families. Even because of its expensive price, limited daily portions and ‘supply falls short of demand’, it has become a particularly suitable way to entertain close friends who come to visit and show off one’s family’s wealth.

If you went to someone’s house as a guest that day, after the host served out this stuff but you didn’t know what it was,it would invite a little bit of good-natured teasing, which was enough of an embarrassment among the proud and arrogant noble young ladies.

Therefore, he didn’t know when it started, but previously, he came to the stall every day, it would still take some time before he could sell all the jellies. Basically, as soon as he arrived at the stall, it was distributed cleanly to the subordinates sent by each family.

Because some people had bought too much, it forced Chen Xing to put up a sign informing everyone that a person could only buy six at most, and that more would not be sold, thus stopping the scene of a wealthy and powerful family buying everything in his stall at once.

“Here, this is your share.” Chen Xing smiled as he handed the packed box to the page boy who had come to make the purchase, calculating in his heart how much was left.

That page boy took the box depicting beautiful flower patterns handed over by Chen Xing, and looking at the smiling and gentle little boss in front of him, he still couldn’t help but ask, “Little Boss, this stuff of yours is very popular, so why don’t you make more of it,so you can also make money?”

Chen Xing raised his head, smiled with arched eyebrows, and said gently, “This stuff is not easy to make. If you make a lot of it and make it in such a hurry, it will affect the flavor. If that’s the case, the loss will outweigh the gain, so for now, it can only be like this first.” Furthermore, he also understood the reasoning that things were cheaper when there were more of them, so, it would be good to be like this for now.

That young male servant stared at Chen Xing’s smiling face, in fact, he didn’t understand what he was saying at all, he only felt that what this little boss said was very reasonable and after nodding his head carelessly, he left, bringing the goods.

After he left, from the back, immediately a small maid ran and hurriedly said: “Today, is there more peach flavor’s one?”

Chen Xing looked at the sweat dripping out of her forehead, handed her a bowl of chinese herbal tea, and said in a warm voice, “Yes, there are three more.”

That maid took the Chinese herbal tea handed over by Chen Xing, and a few struggles appeared on her face. In the end, she could not resist that ice-cold temptation and drank a clean one in one gulp, and when she looked at the completely empty bowl, a few embarrassments appeared on her face. When she looked at Chen Xing, she felt awkward; why did she drink it like that, like she hadn’t drank at all in several lifetimes!?

As if Chen Xing did not see the embarrassment on her face, he continued to ask: “How many portions do you want, and what flavors do you want?”

Hearing this, that maid couldn’t care less about the embarrassment, she didn’t buy this dessert last time, and was punished by her young lady when she went back. The reason was that when her young lady and other young ladies had a party, the other young ladies had bought it and her young lady didn’t have it. If she couldn’t buy it this time, her family’s young lady would definitely punish her severely!

Thinking of this, this little maid immediately and anxiously said, “I want six portions, three peaches and for the rest each flavor one portion.”

“Okay.” After hearing the words of the little maid, Chen Xing then helped her pack up with nimble hands and feet, and when he finally handed her the two boxes, he also said, “This is a bit heavy, this lady, please be careful.”

The maid looked at Chen Xing’s gentle face and couldn’t help but blush, carrying the two boxes and leaving in a hurry.

Only after that maid left did Chen Xing look at the soon to be empty boxes and said happily, “We’re almost sold out again today, looks like we can go back early again.”

Qiu Jiu who was next to him glanced at the maid who had just left, and then looked at Chen Xing beside him who started calculating when they could go back. He was silently sighed in his heart while at the same time being a little glad that his family’s young master was not here, or else he felt that there were some chances that Chen Xing would not be able to come out to do business.

That maid carried the jelly she just bought all the way to the mansion. Along the way, there were people constantly looking at her, more accurately towards the box in her hand with the exquisite star pattern, at the same time, envy and jealousy constantly surfaced in their eyes. It seemed that what she was carrying was not a dessert, but two boxes of golden treasures.