Su Qingluan bent down slightly and looked down at Su Xuanhe: "Although I think it's unlikely - you're not skipping school, are you?"
"No!" Su Xuanhe quickly raised his head and said, "Many senior brothers didn't come today, and there were two people who sent someone to tell us that they were injured in a fall and couldn't come! Master Zhou simply asked us to take a break for the time being, and he would send someone to inform us when classes will resume. !”
"Then why did you meet Mrs. Xi?"
"Hey, it's actually nothing serious. I just sent him back because he was a child alone. Madam Su, please don't blame him..." Madam Xi advised.
Su Qingluan said calmly: "Ms. Xi, you may not know something. My brother's thoughts are written all over his face. If I had really wronged him, he would have jumped three feet high before he would be caught. I'm reprimanding you like this." Generally, the most important reason why this kid can be honest is because he has a guilty conscience.
Mrs. Xi has a tolerant and cheerful personality, not to mention that Su Xuanhe is just a child. She can forgive even if she makes some mistakes. She really feels that it is not a big deal.
Su Qingluan also believed that although his younger brother was naughty, he was not a naughty kid without a bottom line and was unlikely to cause anything very serious.
However, he did have such a guilty expression with his eyes rolling around, and Su Qingluan couldn't help but think too much.
Seeing that Su Qingluan wanted to "settle accounts" with her younger brother, Mrs. Xi persuaded her by saying, "It's just a few cakes." It was really not a big deal, so she wanted to leave. Because if she were present, it would be inconvenient for Su Qingluan to lecture her brother in front of her. After all, she was an outsider.
What's more, if he reprimanded Su Xuanhe in front of him, this young man would be unable to get off stage.
Seeing that Mrs. Xi was about to leave, Su Qingluan quickly stopped her and asked which day the Liu family would have more free time to rest. After all, the "thank you banquet" she promised Liu Yunniang had not yet been arranged.
However, Madam Xi shook her head and said with some helplessness: "Right now, business is booming in Xiushuitang. The two men are working hard to save some money before the end of the year to buy some new year's goods. .”
Su Qingluan nodded and said goodbye to Madam Xi.
When she saw Lady Xi off, Su Qingluan turned to look at Su Xuanhe, who was still standing there, folding his arms and smiling slightly: "Okay, there is no one else now, can you tell me what's going on?"
"That's right, I accidentally bumped into Mrs. Xi's cake stall..."
"Why 'accidentally'? The road is so slippery today, shouldn't you be more careful?"
"Because...playing with everyone..."
Although Su Xuanhe hesitated, Su Qingluan still heard the key part: I am afraid that his younger brother passed by Madam Xi's cake stall when he was chasing and fighting with his classmates. Watching the road carefully, he knocked off Mrs. Xi's cooking cake.
Liu Sheng's sewer stall is right across the street, and Liu Yunniang is also helping her father sell sewer soup. It is estimated that Liu Yunniang noticed the movement here and noticed Su Xuanhe.
Liu Yunniang had lived in Su's house for a few days, so she naturally got to know Su Xuanhe, which was why Xi Niangzi sent her brother back later.
And Su Qingluan estimated that the reason why Mrs. Xi no longer needs to sell cooking cakes, but has time to give them away, should be——
She lowered her head and looked at Su Xuanhe: "How many cakes have you knocked over?"
"A few..."
"kindness?"
"But... maybe a dozen..."
"Don't forget, I know a lot of the neighbors selling things around. Do you want me to ask them one by one for confirmation?"
"I... all the cakes on the stall fell to the ground..."
Su Qingluan took a breath of air: Doesn't it mean that the pancakes Mrs. Xi made for a long time yesterday were basically in vain? !
It was only noon when Su Xuanhe returned home. Considering that it was cold and slippery today, he moved much slower than usual. The journey usually takes about half an hour, but this time it is estimated to take longer. So wouldn't this kid have been walking all morning? Someone's stall was overturned?
Su Qingluan suddenly became furious and pointed at Su Xuanhe's forehead: "Tell me, why are you running so hard in the downtown area?! What's more, you knocked over other people's stalls. I don't think so. The lady at the table happily thought it was not serious!"
Su Qingluan regretted letting Mrs. Xi go back first. I just heard that the other party kept talking vaguely, and I thought it was really no big deal. As a result, the trouble that this brat Su Xuanhe got into turned out to be more serious than she thought!
If she knew the whole story, she would have to compensate for some losses no matter what! The fact that the other party doesn't care means that the other party is magnanimous. As the sister of the at fault party, she can't just let it go!
"But...I, I apologized..." Su Xuanhe muttered carefully, but it was obvious that now he had the most basic ability to judge the "level of trouble", and he also understood that overturning someone else's cake stall might not be a simple apology. It can be offset, so this kid's voice is also very guilty.
Su Qingluan sneered: "What's the use of apologizing? If the pancakes are turned over and stained with mud, you can't eat them. And not only does Madam Xi not make any money, but the guests who originally planned to buy Madam Xi's home-cooked pancakes will either eat dirty food now." Dirty cooking cakes, or you will simply starve!"
In Su Qingluan's opinion, these people are more likely to tolerate eating dirty cooking cakes! After all, some mud and wiping it to remove the dirty parts are much better than being hungry! She has even seen people on more than one occasion accidentally knock off the cooking cakes, then pick them up and continue eating as if nothing had happened.
It’s not that they don’t mind the dirt on the cooking cakes, but that being hungry is worse than the dirt. If you faint and offend your employer, you will lose a day’s wages or even all the work that follows!
"But...but they can also buy other things..."
"Ms. Xi's cooking cakes are already very cheap and affordable on the whole street." Su Qingluan explained expressionlessly, "Being able to come to Lady Xi's place to eat cooking cakes for lunch is already one of the cheapest options. "
"Then... what should we do..." Su Xuanhe was really panicking now. The Su family is not short of money now, and the seven or eight-year-old child doesn't have a particularly intuitive concept of money, so just saying that he loses money may not hurt him.
But for a child like Su Xuanhe, who is relatively good at eating, the matter of "hungry" is too scary - after all, if he is asked to eat a little late, he will feel so uncomfortable that he can't hold on, and he must eat something. Snacks to fill your stomach.
If a group of people might go hungry for a whole day because he got into trouble, he felt terrible just thinking about it!
"I...I used my pocket money to buy food from other stalls for those people!" Su Xuanhe was so frightened that he almost cried. "It's so uncomfortable to be hungry. Will those people starve to death after starving for a day? I... …Would I be involved in a life-threatening lawsuit…”
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. Su Xuanhe's originally dark face turned a little pale, with an unknown expression on his face that he thought the world would end next moment.
