General, Madam Called You To Farm

Chapter 96 – Deliberately make things difficult (2)

“Silly girl! It’s too late to regret now! Even if you beg me on your knees, there’s no way I will agree to your marriage with Erlang1!” 

1Erlang (二郎) : Lang meaning is gentlemen or a youth, it is usually used to call someone (man) who is more familiar or intimate with them, they usually will also add the ranking of that man, for example this called Erlang, because he is the second son in that family.

Who wanted to be your daughter-in-law!

Was Wei Ting not handsome anymore? Or was it that Wei Ting’s waist was not good?

However, what Mrs. Huang said was correct, after Chen Haoyuan was elected, then the life of the Su family would not be easy. 

Mrs. Huang said to the shop owner, “You ah, don’t do business with her. In the future, my son will become a juren2 master, and he will come to your shop to buy things!” 

2Juren (举人) : is a kind of status of a scholar, and the rank is above the xiucai. a successful candidate in the imperial examinations at the provincial level in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After she said that, she walked away and left triumphantly.

Su Ergou snorted and said, “He still hasn’t passed the exam yet, but she is already showing off and ordering others around. Boss, here it is!” 

He handed the money bag to the shop owner.

Unexpectedly, the shop owner didn’t take it.

“What’s wrong?” Su Ergou asked.

The shop owner’s eyes flickered, he was hesitating and said, “You, you guys can take the money back. There is no flour, it is sold out.” 

“How could there be none?” Su Xiaoxiao asked. 

The shop owner said, “It’s already sold out this morning!” 

Su Xiaoxiao said, “I had made a reservation yesterday, you should have sold it to me first.”

“I.…..” The shop owner was flustered by Su Xiaoxiao’s gaze, and he turned around to tidy up the grain bags. “Anyway, you can go elsewhere to buy it, I just don’t have it here!” 

Su Ergou said angrily: “Hey! You need to be honest when you are doing business! You are not selling the flour you promised before, how can we do business? You are not going to believe her words, right? Her son is just a xiucai, and there are no signs of his success yet, who knows if he will be able to pass or not ah?” 

The shop owner felt embarrassed and said, “There’s nothing I can do either. Miss, you should go buy it somewhere else!” 

“You——“

“Forget it, Ergou, let’s go.”

Su Xiaoxiao took Su Ergou out of the shop.

Su Ergou complained, “Jie, why are you stopping me? He’s such a masculine man, how could he be bluffed by a woman?” 

“It’s not Mrs. Huang.” Su Xiaoxiao said. 

Su Xiaoxiao changed the way she called her aunt, Su Ergou adapted very quickly and felt extremely comfortable. 

Su Ergou was puzzled and said, “If It’s not her. Then just what’s going on? Why did the shop owner break his promise and stop selling it to us?” 

Su Xiaoxiao had a guess in her mind, and after a moment of thought, she said: “Let’s go to another store and ask.” 

Originally, there were many stalls selling flour at the market. All of them were folks from various villages. It was almost the new year, and they were no longer setting up the stalls. So Su Xiaoxiao could only go to the shop to buy it. 

Su Xiaoxiao remembered that there were two other shops nearby. 

However, when they came to the shop to buy it, without exception, they all said that they were sold out.

“Isn’t that bag of white flour?” Su Ergou asked, pointing to a bag of flour in front of the counter.

The shop owner smiled embarrassingly and said, “That.….. that was reserved by someone else, and already paid all of the money.” 

“What about this?” Su Ergou found another bag of white flour behind the rice jar again. “What are you hiding for?” 

The shop owner’s smile stiffened and he said, “I… It’s for me to eat at home, after all it’s almost the new year ah.” 

The two of them came out of the third shop.

Su Ergou finally couldn’t bear it anymore and said: “Jie3, in the end, just what is going on? In the past, it was not so difficult to buy flour during the new year ah.” 

3Jie (姐) : older sister

Yes, it was not a year of disaster or famine, the price of the food was stable. There should not be a shortage of supplies, not to mention that the rice and wheat were not out of stock, it was only the flour that was not available. 

It was really strange.

Su Ergou said, “I remember, there is also a grain shop in Xitou, but it’s a bit far away. Jie, you wait for me here, I will go buy it!”  As he said, he put on the back basket and was about to leave.

-The back basket

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, “No need, no one will sell it to us.” 

Su Ergou was stunned and said, “Why?”

Su Xiaoxiao was looking ahead and said calmly, “Our business is too good, so we’re getting in the way of some people.”