Chapter 22 - Whose Cold Jelly Is Tastier? (1/2)
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The old man shouted to the middle-aged woman, “Sister, mine is one copper coin per bowl. Why do you bother to spend two more copper coins for buying her fine words? If you want to listen to such words, I can tell you more.”
The middle-aged woman replied, “The thing is I’ve bought one of hers yesterday and hers is tastier.”
After several moments, the chubby shopkeeper who had come on the first day came again. This time the old man acted swiftly, coming to the chubby shopkeeper and pulled his sleeves. “Hey, this gentleman, you’re the shopkeeper. I remember you. You’ve always patronized my business but you seldom came to buy any recently. My cold jelly becomes cheaper now. One coin per bowl. Would you like to try some?”
Li Hongmei standing aside said aloud, “Shopkeeper, you’re a businessman too so you should know that cheap goods equal poor qualities, right? He lowered the price today and he must put less sugar or add more water in it, but ours are different. Ours are maintaining the original flavour of cold jelly.”
Ye Xiaoxian saw that Li Hongmei had been working so hard and she then followed suit. “That’s right. We’ll add one more spoon of sugar for our regular customers.”
Chubby shopkeeper looked the old man and then turned to Ye Xiaoxian. He wanted to buy cheap stuff but also felt like a qualified one so he bought one each.
People around had been witnessing the scene over there for long and they wanted to know whose cold jelly was tastier as well. Seeing that the chubby shopkeeper bought one bowl of cold jelly from each stall, a group of people started to surround them.
The chubby shopkeeper was a well-known foodie. As long as he said something was tasty, it must be so.
He tried the cold jelly of the bridgehead old man’s, however, once he poured the cold jelly into him mouth, he frowned.
He had been drinking Ye Xiaoxian’s cold jelly for days which made his palate become picky while now he just felt the bridgehead old man’s cold jelly was too chewy, not sweet enough and very plain.
He then drank Ye Xiaoxian’s cold jelly and a satisfied smile crossed his chubby face right away. Ah, it was the same ingredients and the familiar taste.