Chapter 663: Reporting and Rumors

Zhang Yanping's bean work was done with both heartache and sore hands. At the same time, Sun Ziqiang had returned to land reclamation work, and while drinking water, he didn't forget to send a message to Tian Tian—

【It's so hot today, did you wear the hat I bought you last time?】

Tsk tsk tsk, the sour smell of love was fully visible.

Fortunately, both of them were workaholics. Sun Ziqiang was focused on working and earning money, wanting to reduce Tian Tian's psychological pressure. And Tian Tian herself was also focused on earning money. She now had a fixed stall at the cultural center, and she wished she could sell three or four hundred eggs a day. After deducting costs, she could get 500 yuan a day—

That's 15,000 a month!

Good heavens, when she was doing sales and selling clothes before, her best performance didn't earn this much, and she had to be exhausted during big promotions!

And now, although running around every day was a bit troublesome, and the 40 or 50 yuan for the round trip was a bit expensive, compared to doing sales from morning till night and having to count inventory late at night, this money was earned too easily!

This was all thanks to Song Tan.

Of course, she also had to be quick-witted and nimble herself.

Tea eggs at 4 yuan each were really quite expensive.

If placed in a place like a vegetable market, unless it was like Old Zhao who had accumulated fixed wealthy customers, no one would buy them at all.

But she chose the cultural center.

During the summer vacation, students and their parents came and went every day. Students didn't earn money themselves, but their pockets were quite generous!

To ask how prosperous the business was, just look at how many people were setting up stalls here.

Tea eggs at 4 yuan each, buy!

Especially when a child who loved to show off took one to the classroom... it was so fragrant!

Even though the eggs were so expensive, after layers of customer screening, they could still maintain a sales volume of three to five hundred a day.

Today's business was clearly still as smooth as ever.

It was not even ten o'clock yet, and there were only five or six eggs left in the pot. The students were all in class, and only then did Tian Tian breathe a sigh of relief.

Looking at the message sent by Sun Ziqiang, she raised her hand to touch the sun hat on her head, and just as she was about to reply, she saw someone rushing to the stall.

She subconsciously looked up and put on a smile: "Are you buying eggs? How many—"

However, when she looked up, she found that the person standing opposite was an old lady with gray hair, who was staring at her with fierce eyes, and then turned to look at the police beside her:

"Police, it's her! She must have put opium in these tea eggs!"

Opium? What opium? Isn't that poppy?!

Even though Tian Tian was smooth and slick, she was stunned for quite a while before she reacted!

How is this possible?!

However, no matter how impossible it was, the two police officers beside her were very cautious: "Are you sure it's her?"

"It must be her!" The old lady was extremely certain: "She has been selling here for half a month, and it's just her every day. Police comrade, tell me, what kind of tea egg dares to sell for four yuan each?"

She became more confident as she spoke: "I'm not wronging her! My grandson, he used to be so obedient, he would eat whatever I made! Now it's great, he won't even eat a bite of the tea eggs I make, and insists on coming here to buy them. If I don't let him buy them, he cries and makes a scene at home..."

The old lady seemed to have been observing for a long time, so the details she gave were also many: "Not just him, many of his classmates buy them here."

"You tell me, in such a small place like Yuncheng, who can afford a tea egg for four yuan? Yet they don't think it's expensive at all and are all scrambling to pay—could there be no problem with this? It must have opium added, hooking everyone so they feel uncomfortable if they don't eat it!"

With such a commotion, the people around gathered one after another.

The whispers one after another:

"Oh my, the stalls outside are still too scary, they even dare to put poppy in just to sell at a high price."

"That's what I said, how could her business be so good, hundreds of people come to buy every day..."

"Exactly, how could those tea eggs be so delicious?"

"Don't say that, it really is quite fragrant. I wanted to buy some before, but I couldn't bear to..."

Among those setting up stalls nearby, who hadn't had their business intercepted by Tian Tian's tea eggs?

Many regular customers clearly had their eyes fixed on the stall when passing by on the road, but before they even walked over, they turned their steps and went to her stall instead.

If it were someone else, a tea egg for one or two yuan wouldn't affect anything; they would eat it with pancakes or noodles.

But hers cost four yuan! After eating this, many people didn't have enough money for snacks.

This invisibly must have affected the other party's business.

Now that there was this explosive news, it was truly everyone talking at once. The person involved hadn't even said two words, and those standing slightly further away were already convinced that she must have added something!

Tian Tian was almost crying.

Even if she were proven innocent today, this reputation would be spread by others, and parents would never let their children buy things here tomorrow!

What's more, it might affect the entire cultural center's stall permit—why didn't this group of people think about it?

And the two police officers looked at each other, but had other guesses in their hearts.

The old lady's reasoning was very reasonable, and this statement was told to them before when reporting—but looking at the scene now, why was it not quite right?

Because these tea eggs were really fragrant, very fragrant. It made their own cravings come out.

And as far as they knew, although adding poppy to meals would make people addicted, it wouldn't make people who ate it for the first time crave it so much they couldn't walk, and be amazed.

The two pondered, thinking: Is it possible that the person just has good skills in boiling eggs?

But no matter what, food safety is a big deal, and since it involved poppy, it was a crime of poisoning.

Since the old lady had this suspicion, they couldn't relax their vigilance—

However, just as they were about to speak, they suddenly heard someone say with surprise not far away:

"It's here! It's here! I smell the fragrance, it's exactly the same as the eggs we ate before, someone must be selling them!"

Everyone turned their heads and saw that the speaker was a middle-aged man, dressed a bit plainly, a bit old-fashioned, and sweat was dripping down his face in the sun.

But his eyes looking toward the crowd were intense and full of hope.

But then, he looked at everyone and was stunned, then instantly stood still.

Behind him, an older man also appeared there, and seeing so many people gathered together, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"This is..." he hesitated.

"Oh my!" How could the onlookers not know? They hurriedly explained:

"Are you here to buy tea eggs too? Let me tell you, don't buy them! This shopkeeper put opium in them! It's that, that... that poppy!"

"How is that possible?" The slightly younger man raised his voice instantly upon hearing this. ===== CHAPTER 664 =====