"Two bowls of noodles, I want two bowls."
Qin Ershen looked up at the person's face, remembered who wanted two bowls, flicked her arm, and continued to make noodles.
"Five steamed buns, give me five steamed buns," the person behind in line shouted loudly.
A man with a bulbous nose behind them heard this and was somewhat displeased, "Those in front, buy less, there's none left for those behind."
"What? I have money, so I'll buy five."
Qin Mu's chopping action didn't stop, and she said with a smile, "There are still steamed buns, you can buy them."
The bulbous-nosed man didn't seem happy even after hearing there were still some, "If you can buy them, hurry up, woman. We've been queuing for ages, when can we eat?"
"These women, they only know how to wear colorful clothes, but they're no good at work."
This kind of talk was not new to Qin Mu and the others. Qin Erniu couldn't help but rush forward but was held back by Qin Ershen. She and her sister-in-law had long considered this possibility when they decided to earn money themselves.
Seeing that the women cooking noodles and chopping meat didn't react, the bulbous-nosed man sneezed, chuckled, and said, "You guys, what kind of a useless man would let his wife come out to do this?"
"Is he soft on the bed, so his wife has more free time?"
As soon as the bulbous-nosed man finished speaking, the people in line burst into laughter.
Qin Junyao, who was collecting money and making flatbreads, Qin Erniu, who was tending the fire, and Qin Mu, who was washing bowls, all stopped what they were doing.
As soon as the man finished speaking, Qin Mu first looked at Qin Father, "Husband, Junyao, Erniu, hurry up, after we sell out, we'll go back..."
"Bang!"
Before Qin Mu could finish her sentence, a man rushed out from about five or six people away from the bulbous-nosed man, ran to the front, and punched the man to the ground. It was Qin Lin.
Qin Ershen covered her mouth, and Qin Erniu dropped the firewood he was holding and rushed over.
Having worked together for twenty days, some relationships had naturally become closer. As soon as Qin Erniu went over, it turned into a free-for-all.
Qin Father stood on the side, initially at a loss, but then he also joined in to fight, and Qin Lin even had to pull his hand away to help him.
Qin Junyao watched for a moment, then pulled out two burning sticks of firewood from the stove and got off the donkey cart.
Suozi, who was watching the excitement from a distance, widened his eyes and pointed at Qin Junyao, who was conspicuously standing out in the brawling crowd, "Holy crap, Hammer, Miss Qin is really fierce. Burning clothes, whacking?"
Suozi turned around and saw that Zhao Liangcai was nowhere to be seen. He had already run to the Qin family's donkey cart.
By the time he ran over, both sides had already stopped fighting.
The bulbous-nosed man lay on the ground with a bloody nose, Qin Father sat on the ground with a bloody nose, and four or five other people were rolling on the ground, covered in sand, with burnt holes in their clothes.
The general had arrived, and everyone became as quiet as a mouse. The three guards watched with their eyes on their noses and their hearts on their minds, not daring to even lift their heads. Su Dan Novel Network.
There were fights and brawls at the salt lake every day. As long as no one was killed and they could still work normally, the guards wouldn't interfere. Who would have thought that not only did the general arrive, but he also took sides?
Zhao Liangcai's eyes were fixed on Qin Junyao as she took out the firewood she had stuck in the sand to extinguish the flames. Seeing that there were still embers, she stuck it back into the sand, not even glancing at him.
He stepped forward and stood in front of Qin Junyao, "How much more food do you have? I'll buy it all."
Qin Junyao looked up at Zhao Liangcai's face and thought of the five hundred taels. She said in a deep voice, "We can't sell it, we don't have enough bowls to serve the noodles."
Zhao Liangcai pointed to a guard and told him to go to the military camp to call over those who hadn't eaten, then looked at Qin Junyao, "Can you sell it now?"
Qin Junyao nodded, turned, and told Qin Erniu to get on the donkey cart and cook noodles, while she would make the meat sandwiches.
Qin Ershen, accustomed to her husband's frequent fights, got on the cart behind Qin Erniu. Qin Mu cried as she looked at Qin Father, who was bruised and swollen, wiped her tears, and also got on the donkey cart.
The five meat sandwiches were made first, and Qin Junyao gave them to the person who had been in line before the bulbous-nosed man.
"For me?" The man seemed a bit hesitant to take it, and turned to look at Zhao Liangcai.
Qin Junyao placed the meat sandwich, wrapped in oil paper, on the wooden board that was extended, "You paid for it, so it's yours." Then, she continued to cut the flatbreads in half with a knife.
Suozi, who was watching all this, sidled up to Zhao Liangcai and asked, "Hammer, what do you mean by buying all the food? The camp can't afford the money, you'll pay for it yourself."
Zhao Liangcai's eyes swept over those who hadn't bought food but were still lingering, and he said to Suozi, "Tell them later not to come tomorrow."
"I'm not going. If you want to say it, you say it. I think it's good they came. If they can't eat good food, without the second and third departments instigating them, these people can cause trouble themselves."
Zhao Liangcai rubbed the corner of his clothes, "It's not appropriate for them, women, to sell food here when it's all men."
"Then where is it appropriate to go? To your shop? All women are there," Suozi was interrupted before he finished by a cold glare from Zhao Liangcai.
"What? Did I say something wrong? They're coming out to earn a bit of money, and you're interfering."
"No, Hammer, you have that kind of idea too?" Suozi turned his head and looked at Zhao Liangcai in surprise.
Zhao Liangcai ignored him. After thinking for a moment, he walked to the donkey cart and said to Qin Junyao inside, "You shouldn't come tomorrow."
Qin Mu, who was chopping meat nearby, moved her knife slightly and looked up at Zhao Liangcai. Just as she was about to plead, she heard Qin Junyao ask, "Why? Are you not allowed to set up stalls here? Or are we not allowed to set up stalls?"
Qin Junyao didn't believe it was the salt lake's prohibition. If it was, the guards would have driven them away when they arrived.
Zhao Liangcai rubbed his temples, unsure how to explain it more reasonably. After thinking, he said, "You can make some needlework to sell, or..."
"You're not letting us set up stall because we're stealing your business?" Qin Junyao's teasing words, seemingly laced with ice shards, made even the battle-hardened Zhao Liangcai feel a chill run down his neck.
Qin Mu even put down her knife and instinctively moved to the side.
This was actually due to Qin Junyao's frequent recitation of the space bamboo slips. When her mental fluctuations occurred, her emotions would amplify.
Although she didn't have the cultivation method, just watching and reciting the contents had already significantly increased Qin Junyao's mental power as an ordinary person.
That's right, those three bamboo slips were top-tier mental cultivation techniques from another world, and the space was also a mental space opened and forged by its cultivator.
By a stroke of luck, it attached itself to the modern Qin Junyao, forming a birthmark.
A massive sandstorm ended the modern Qin Junyao's life, but it also activated the space and saved her life.
Qin Junyao looked at Zhao Liangcai, who was finally shorter than her, with anger. Others might not know her family's situation, but he shouldn't be unaware of it, especially since she had signed an IOU for five hundred taels.
Just looking at the items on the donkey cart, one could tell how much money had been invested in this stall.
They were being told not to continue before the day's business was even finished. On what grounds? Because Zhao Liangcai had a lot of beards?
Zhao Liangcai's brow furrowed tightly, and the headache caused by days of lack of rest pounded in his head.
He took a deep breath and said meaningfully, "It's all men here. It's not proper for you, your mother, and your aunt to show your faces."
Qin Junyao looked at Zhao Liangcai strangely, "My mother doesn't care about me, and my grandmother doesn't care about my mother. What are you so concerned about?"
"Indeed, being a general in the desert, you have such a broad scope of management." After saying that, Qin Junyao lowered her head and continued to split the flatbread.
Suozi, who was eavesdropping on their conversation, almost burst out laughing. Qin Erniu, who was tending the fire in the cart, was trying so hard not to laugh that he almost stuck his head into the stove fire.