The woman figured it was probably because she had just started. She noticed quite a few regular customers greeting Shen Wei, so she assumed that once she built up her own regulars, things would get better.
Today she only sold half of her buns, and still had half of the filling left unwrapped. She planned to finish making and sell it the next day.
Anyway, it was already autumn now, so the ingredients wouldn’t spoil.
……
The next day, Shen Wei not only sold buns, but also tea eggs.
The tea used to make the eggs was given to her by Li Na, who said it was someone’s gift to her father high-grade Da Hong Pao tea.
She put the eggs in cold water, boiled them, then cracked the shells evenly all over. After that, she simmered them in a broth made with spices and tea leaves. Once the heat was turned off, she let them steep overnight. When she woke up the next morning, the whole room was filled with the fragrance of tea eggs.
Shen Wei placed fifty warm tea eggs next to her buns, and anyone passing by her stall could smell the aroma.
“Are you selling tea eggs too?” Wu Minjun sniffed. “They smell amazing. Give me two!”
After buying the tea eggs, Wu Minjun stayed and chatted with Shen Wei for a while.
“My husband is extremely picky. If the food is even slightly off, he won’t eat it. I have to put a lot of thought into cooking for him every day but he really loves your buns! This saves me from waking up early every morning to make him breakfast.”
“Sister, you and your husband really have a good relationship,” Shen Wei said sincerely.
Wu Minjun smiled happily. “Yes, he treats me very well he’s just very busy with work.”
So he can’t spend much time with her.
“Capable men are always busy,” Shen Wei said. “The more capable someone is, the more responsibilities they have.”
“You really have a way with words!” Wu Minjun laughed.
At the stall next door, the chubby woman rolled her eyes as she watched Shen Wei chatting and laughing with customers.
So this little girl was quite scheming after all afraid she would steal her business, she immediately started selling tea eggs today.
Who didn’t know how to boil tea eggs? Tomorrow she would sell them too!
Although her business wasn’t as good as Shen Wei’s, at least she had sold out all the meat filling from yesterday without wasting anything.
What could customers even taste anyway?
Changing meat filling every day was troublesome, and she was sleepy in the mornings. From now on, she might as well mix the filling every two days.
The next day, the chubby woman next door really did start selling tea eggs as well.
Not only that, she even came up with a “brilliant idea” she wasn’t selling ordinary tea eggs, but eggs boiled in “virgin boy urine.”
Made using the urine of her thirteen-year-old son. Just thinking about it made it sound nourishing.
She even had her son write a sign: “Virgin Boy Urine Eggs – Cures All Diseases.”
Hehe, now she didn’t believe her business would still lose to that little brat!
When Li Na saw the “urine-boiled eggs” at her stall, she was completely confused.
She asked Shen Wei, “Do you think she has a problem with her brain?”
Boiling eggs in urine would anyone actually believe it could cure diseases?
And it smelled absolutely awful.
Shen Wei was speechless, her gaze landing on the sign that read “Virgin Boy Urine Cures All Diseases.”
This woman was really courting disaster.
“Let’s stay away from her!”
Shen Wei pushed her tricycle a bit farther away and continued selling her own tea eggs and buns as usual.
Her stall still smelled fragrant with buns and tea eggs, while the chubby woman’s stall was filled with a strong urine stench.
More people gathered than the past few days, but most of them were just there to watch the spectacle.
“Is this really boiled in boy’s urine?”
The chubby woman nodded repeatedly. “My son’s urine! 100% genuine!”
“Can this cure my diabetes then?” an old man squeezed to the front and asked.
Someone in the crowd playfully said, “It probably can urine curing urine!”
The chubby woman herself didn’t actually know whether her eggs could cure diabetes. But she had indeed heard elderly people say before that eggs boiled in a boy’s urine could treat illnesses.
So she sold one to the old man.
With the first buyer, others started to follow out of curiosity. Most of them were elderly people with some kind of health issues.
As for the younger people, they avoided her stall completely, afraid of getting the smell on themselves.
Lu’s mother also bought two eggs. She thought that since it was “boy’s urine,” it wasn’t dirty anyway. If it really could cure illness, it would save her and her husband from becoming a burden to their son.
As she was about to leave, she saw Shen Wei selling buns at a stall.
The girl wore a simple white shirt and black pants, which highlighted her neat and graceful figure, and her high ponytail made her look capable and sharp.
No matter how you looked at it, she was far better than that Liu Qingqing her son was obsessed with.
Sigh. It would have been perfect if her son could have married Shen Wei.
Now that her son’s relationship with Sun Xiaoxiao had also fallen apart, and his reputation nearby wasn’t very good, she was growing more and more anxious.
“Does that girl come here to sell buns every day?” Lu’s mother asked a vegetable vendor by the roadside.
“Yes.”
“How’s her business?”
“Good!” The vendor was an old lady. “Very good. That girl also has a kind heart once when I skipped lunch, she even gave me a meat bun!”
Lu’s mother couldn’t help feeling even more regretful. If it weren’t for that shameless Liu Qingqing causing trouble, maybe Shen Wei would have already become her daughter-in-law.
She brought the two “boy urine eggs” home and gave one to her husband.
“Eat it quickly. I bought something good from the market.”
Lu’s father was almost choked by the smell from the oil paper. “What exactly did you buy? You old woman, always wasting money.”
“It’s a good thing eggs boiled in boy’s urine. If we’re lucky, it might cure our illnesses,” Lu’s mother said excitedly.
She peeled one and directly brought it to his mouth.
At that moment, Lu Cheng came back from outside and frowned when he smelled the room. “Did you two pee inside the house?”
“Watch your mouth!” Lu’s mother glared at him. “Your father and I haven’t reached the point of peeing indoors yet! This is a miracle cure I bought it cures all diseases.”
“Mom, you weren’t scammed, were you?” Lu Cheng said worriedly. “This egg smells a bit strange, you should ”
Before he could finish, Lu’s mother shoved the egg into her mouth as if afraid someone would snatch it from her. The strange smell rushed straight to her head, almost making her vomit.
But she still forced it down with sheer willpower. She had been sick for too long even if this was a lie, she was willing to believe it.
“Here! You eat yours too!” She peeled the second egg and shoved it toward her husband. Lu’s father refused and even got slapped twice.
“If you don’t eat it, do you want to keep spending money on medicine? Do you want to keep dragging down your son and this family?!”
Hearing this, Lu’s father could only endure the strong urine smell and swallow the egg whole, nearly choking himself in the process.
Seeing that her husband had eaten it, Lu’s mother finally felt relieved.
“Son, guess who I saw at the market?”
“Who?”
“Shen Wei!” Lu’s mother said eagerly. Now that the Sun Xiaoxiao match had fallen through, she had turned her attention to Shen Wei again. “She’s selling buns right across from that stall selling the boy urine eggs. Tomorrow morning, you go help her sell buns!”