"Granny, I didn’t spend a di, the buns were given by Lin, and from now on the Bun Shop will sell this kind of at bun."
Hearing that it was from Lin, Granny Su hurriedly took one and tried it, her eyes widening, "This at bun is delicious, and the way Lin looks, of course, the buns are as exquisite as her appearance."
Su Wensong didn’t take it to heart, Granny liked Lin Chuxia, and she had rose-colored glasses when it ca to her. Even if he bought random buns outside and said they were from Lin, Granny would probably still praise them.
He took a at bun, bit into it, paused for a mont, then took another bite, and after three bites, Su Wensong slapped his thigh and laughed out loud.
"I’ve really t my benefactor."
With such at buns, it would be a cri against heaven if the Bun Shop didn’t succeed.
With money in hand, Su Wensong was more devoted, and the renovation was quickly done. The tile workers finished in two days, and due to waiting for the dinsions of the windows and doors, the carpenters waited an extra day. By the fourth day, the two rooms had been transford according to Lin Chuxia’s blueprints.
Lin Chuxia could see the bustling scene from the train station entrance, and occasionally she would co to check on things. She was very satisfied with both the progress and the quality of the work.
Once the rooms were renovated, it was ti to prepare tables, chairs, benches, and cooking equipnt.
The money from last ti had not been used up, Lin Chuxia gave Su Wensong another hundred bucks, and even provided him with the contact for the coal depot.
Su Wensong was reliable, and this was the first Bun Shop she opened, with second and third ones to follow...
As a boss, knowing how to use your employees is also an art.
According to this pace, the Bun Shop would be able to open in just a few days.
But for these two days, she still had to run her stall.
She set up her stall, picked three buns as usual, two at and one vegetarian, and brought them to the elderly.
But before she could even put down the buns, the old man, who had been silent since the first day he refused her, spoke up again.
"Take the vegetarian one back; I like at."
Lin Chuxia: "..."
This old man, really...
"Coincidentally, today all three buns are vegetarian, if you don’t like them, then I’ll take them all back."
The old man imdiately glared at her, "How dare you switch my at buns for vegetarian ones?"
Lin Chuxia couldn’t help but laugh, "Old sir, since when did these buns beco yours?"
The old man, puffing up with anger, watched Lin Chuxia as she pretended to leave, then snatched the buns and took a big bite.
After noticing the at filling, he gave Lin Chuxia a sidelong glance and snorted coldly, "Liar."
"I didn’t lie to you, it’s still two at buns and one vegetarian. You’re old; you can’t just eat at all the ti. You must eat so vegetables too."
The vegetarian option was an addition she had made yesterday; it wasn’t good for the old man to eat at all the ti.
While she was talking with the old man, a clamor arose from the direction of her stall.
Lin Chuxia didn’t have ti to finish talking with the old man and hurried over.
Across from her bun stall, a crowd had gathered, and so people even stood next to her stall.
At the center, a middle-aged couple was arguing with Granny Sun, who was selling buns across the road.
"I didn’t eat anything else yesterday, just the buns from your place, and I started to have diarrhea all evening until today. We just went to the hospital, and the doctor said we ate sothing unclean, your buns must have a problem."
Granny Sun was not an easy target; she replied calmly, "You’re saying my buns have a problem. How co you didn’t notice when you ate them? How many buns did you buy? How many people ate them? Did everyone who ate the buns get diarrhea?"
As the woman faltered, betraying her guilt, she refused to back down, "Who knows what happened? My husband said sothing tasted off when he ate them. I thought I was just unlucky and got buns from a bad cook, little did I know, it wasn’t just bad cooking, it was rotten buns."
"I heard there was a place selling tasty buns at the train station, so I ca to buy them, not realizing there were actually two places selling buns here. I asked you whether you set up shop here every day, and you said yes, aren’t you tricking people?"
Today, she ca and saw two bun vendors; she realized she bought from the wrong one because the other vendor seed to have more custors.
It was bad enough that she went to the wrong place, but she got food poisoning and had to spend several bucks on a doctor.
Granny Sun snorted, "You’re the one tricking people. Ask around, am I not here every day setting up shop? You’re just spouting nonsense. Perhaps you’ve been eating on the sly behind your family, got sick, and then blad it on . You think I’m an easy target old woman? Let tell you, my son is a policeman, so don’t think you can bully people around without consequences."
The sound of her son being a policeman made the woman shrink back.
At that mont, a woman around sixty pushed through the crowd and threw several buns in front of her, "These buns have a problem, I had diarrhea after eating them yesterday, you have to compensate."
One person complaining about the buns could be a misunderstanding, but with two people now making accusations, the onlookers began their murmurings and pointing fingers.
"I also think these buns have a problem, you can tell by the look of the bun skins, they seem leftover."
"Yeah, they do look that way. Look at the buns from the seller across the street, as soon as she opens the stear, there’s steam and they look freshly made. Hers, on the other hand, are almost cold. While it’s alright to eat cold buns in the sumr, they just don’t seem fresh."
"Not only do they seem un-fresh, but they also taste bad. The last ti I bought two from her when that girl across didn’t show up, my grandson wouldn’t even touch them."
The two were pressuring Granny Sun to compensate, and the surrounding voices were all blaming her, making Granny Sun finally lose her calm, her face showing a flicker of panic.
The next second, she saw Lin Chuxia across the way, and with a quick twist of her eyes, she pointed at her and shouted loudly, "You say my buns have a problem? I saw with my own eyes you bought from across the street. Why don’t you go there for compensation, trying to blackmail an old woman?"
The middle-aged woman looked at her with contempt, "Don’t try to lie; we know where we bought our buns from."
The old lady nearby chid in, "We definitely bought them from you, you won’t admit it and still tell us to blackmail soone else, your intentions are terrible."
Granny Sun was not backing down, "How co I don’t rember you buying from ? I would say you ca over from the opposite side to fra , trying to push out of the business here, no way."
Her outburst made so bystanders, who were unsure of the truth, also turn their gazes towards Lin Chuxia.
"I rember at first there was only one bun seller at the train station, now there are two, so competition is inevitable."
"Co to think of it, I recall that this spot was the first to sell buns."
"Even if there is competition, using such nasty tactics is not right; it’s not easy for soone of her age to co out and do business."
"It’s hard to say what the truth is, let’s just watch."
Lin Chuxia was originally just a spectator, but who knew that soon the drama would co knocking at her door.
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