Marrying Mrs. Hou and making a living by relying on her circle of food friends

Chapter 12
The air outside the house is good.

Gu Yunyue and Guoer put on coarse cloth clothes and rushed to the morning market early in the morning. Looking at the lively scene on the street, they couldn't help but smile sincerely. Compared with the gloomy atmosphere in the Hou Mansion, this morning market was full of popularity. .

While Gu Yunyue was walking around with Guo'er, the food at the vegetable stall of a young man who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old attracted Gu Yunyue's attention.

Isn't this the green pepper she is looking for!
Although Gu Yunyue used the ready-made green peppers in the Hou Mansion to make eggplant risotto before, and it was a success, the green peppers were not big enough to make the stuffed meat with green peppers that Gu Yunyue had been obsessed with recently.But the size of the green peppers on this boy’s stall looks quite right.

Gu Yunyue felt happy, pulled Guo'er up and asked, "Brother, how do you sell these green peppers?"

When the young hawker saw the customer, he automatically ignored Gu Yunyue's strange name for him and replied cheerfully: "Five cents per catty. It's affordable, girl, my food has been in the kitchen of the county magistrate's house." Want some?"

Gu Yunyue had no idea about the value of ancient coins, so she turned around and asked Guoer, "How is it?"

Guo'er nodded, "It's not bad. I haven't picked out the green pepper stalks yet, so they should be very fresh. It doesn't hurt to buy some."

Gu Yunyue was quite surprised, "Guoer still knows so much."

As soon as he said this, he was met with a blank stare, "My young lady is a picky talker. I serve her every day. It is normal for her to understand these basics."

Gu Yunyue nodded in appreciation. While she was selecting, the noise next to her attracted her attention.

Seeing that Gu Yunyue's attention was obviously attracted by the noise over there, the young vendor couldn't help but remind him, "Girl, just mind your own business."

Gu Yunyue was confused after hearing this, and asked doubtfully: "How do you say this?"

While watching the movement in the distance, the young vendor lowered his voice and told the story, "There is a bully in this morning market named Zhang Jiashun. He is the third child in the family and everyone calls him Zhang San." Mentioning this person , there was disgust in the eyes of the young hawker, "Zhang San always comes to this morning market to collect protection fees because his family has some connections with the county magistrate."

Mentioning the protection fee, the vendor was bitter, "This is your first time at this morning market, girl. We can avoid Zhang San if we can. If we can't avoid it, we'll have to pay more protection fee, otherwise we'll overturn the stall at every turn." Or they may snatch away or break all the vegetables, so we vendors will not be able to make any money at all.”

Gu Yunyue's brows furrowed more and more as she listened.This is too much of a lie. Su Qilin actually allowed such a thing to happen within his jurisdiction.

Gu Yunyue put down the vegetables in her hands and walked towards Zhang San and the vegetable vendor.

"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang, for the sake of my stall, I will pay the remaining money next time. How about that?" The middle-aged man in front of the vegetable stall bent down and asked Zhang San.

Zhang San was a strong man with a beard. He had his hands folded in front of his chest and his arrogant look made Gu Yunyue furious. Zhang San said in an arrogant voice: "Old Li, it's not that I don't want to be accommodating. It's just that I don't want to be accommodating." I can't set a precedent for you, otherwise this stall will have difficulties in the future, and that stall will also have difficulties. It's better to pay the money on time, which will make it difficult for me." Having said this, the two thugs behind Zhang San were ready to move. Lao Li's stall was opened as punishment.

"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang, wait, wait, you can't smash this stall," Lao Li wanted to stop him again, but before he even got close to the vegetable stall, he was stopped by Zhang San.

Seeing that the stall he relied on for a living was smashed to pieces in front of his eyes, Lao Li felt sad, but he still wanted to stop it loudly.

Seeing this scene, Gu Yunyue couldn't help it anymore, broke away from Guo'er and held her hand, rushed forward, and shouted, "Stop it!"

"You bully a small vendor like this, don't you feel any guilt in your heart?" Gu Yunyue said righteously, "Since you want to collect protection money, you have knocked down this person's stall and ruined his financial path, what will you do in the future? I’ll give you the protection money.”

When Zhang San saw this young girl who suddenly rushed up, his expression was full of disdain, "If you want to avoid getting beaten, mind your own business!"

Gu Yunyue was not prepared to end it like this, and when she wanted to speak again, she was pushed to the ground by the impatient Zhang San.

"Girl, you'd better get out of here, before I get angry with you, and stay out of this business!" Zhang San said impatiently, waving his hand to expel Gu Yunyue.

Gu Yunyue looked at her clothes and scratched palms stained by vegetable leaves, and heard that Zhang San had no intention of stopping. She stood up, pointed at Zhang San and cursed: "You are also bullying others too much."

"Hey, hey, OK, OK," Guo'er saw that Gu Yunyue was about to rush forward again, so he quickly pulled Gu Yunyue back and whispered, "It's better that we don't care about this matter."

Guo'er looked up timidly and saw Zhang San and two thugs smashing into Lao Li's stall, and whispered to Gu Yunyue, "There are three big men on the opposite side, how can we two weak women beat them? "

At this time, Gu Yunyue glared at the three people fiercely and threw Guoer's hand away.Seeing a wooden stick discarded next to the stall, Gu Yunyue quickly picked up the stick, rushed forward and hit Zhang San on the back with a sap.

Zhang San screamed in pain, turned around and saw that Gu Yunyue not only did not leave, but even used a wooden stick to sneak attack, he was so angry that he tried to snatch the wooden stick.

Gu Yunyue, on the other hand, was smaller in stature and more agile. She dodged a few times and waved the stick randomly.The three strong men looked at Gu Yunyue waving the wooden stick in an unorganized manner, but they were really unable to get close.

Zhang San saw the crowd of onlookers growing larger and larger, and since he didn't want to make the matter a bigger deal, he left with two thugs.Leaving behind a tired and panting Gu Yunyue and a mess on the ground.

(End of this chapter)