Baozi Xishi's Struggle

She sniffed, held back her tears, smiled, bowed to the shopkeeper who was squatting, and whispered, "Thank you, shopkeeper. I'll remember what you said. I'm fine."

The shopkeeper looked at Shen Yu's tearful and forced smile, shook his head helplessly, sighed, and changed the subject with a smile: "Miss Shen, I heard that your sweet cakes are also very good. When you order food tomorrow, add three more sweet cakes. Those brats love sweet food."

Shen Yu also responded with a smile, said goodbye to the shopkeeper, and went home with Li in the empty cart.

Time is fair and will not change because of your happiness or sadness. In the blink of an eye, a few days have passed.

During the past few days, Shen Yu set up her stall and sold buns as usual. Although some people talked about her behind her back, no one really embarrassed her in person. At most, they would look at her a few more times when buying buns.

On the surface, Shen Yu had returned to being the same as before, smiling and doing what he was supposed to do, and he didn't feel uncomfortable when others were staring at him.

When they went to the store to deliver food, the attitude of the young men also softened. Li watched from the side and muttered about it after returning home, wondering if the store owner had scolded these half-grown brats. Shen Yu just smiled when he heard it.

Shen Yu has been subjected to a lot of strange looks in the past few days. He felt uncomfortable at first, but after a while, he didn't care anymore.

Whether you are doing the right thing or not is up to you to have your own standards, so why do you care about what others think?

Shen Yu despised himself in his heart. When did he become so worried? He should cheer up, make money to support his family and live a good life. This is the serious thing to do.

One morning, when it was almost time to close the stall, there were still a few vegetable and mushroom buns and two red bean paste and candied date buns in the winnowing basket.

Li sighed as he looked at her, "Business has not been as good as it was a few days ago. Could it be because of that incident?"

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Mom, who has so much free time to talk about it every day? Let me see, this is the normal sales volume. When we first set up the stall, people wanted to buy something new and try it, so it sold out quickly. Most of the customers who come to buy now have bought several times. These are regular customers."

Li nodded thoughtfully. The mother and daughter were discussing business when suddenly a black hand stretched out from the side of the winnowing basket, grabbed two buns and retracted it. Then a figure jumped over and ran away.

Shen Yu didn't react for a moment, but Li saw it clearly. In a hurry, she picked up the bamboo clips next to the winnowing basket and chased after him, shouting, "Someone is stealing buns, catch him, catch him quickly."

When Shen Yu saw Li chasing out and then looked at the figure running desperately in front of him, he realized what was going on. He hurriedly said to Yutao and Yucheng, "You just stay here and guard the stall." Without waiting for Yutao to reply, he also chased after Li.

Shen Yu watched Li running farther and farther away, worried that Li would chase the man who stole the buns and might follow him to some secluded place. Two buns were worth nothing, and if they ended up in a deserted place, Li, a woman, might not be able to defeat the thief.

Shen Yu ran and shouted: "Mom, come back, stop chasing, stop now."

People on the street heard the shouting and some of them stopped to look out of curiosity. Not knowing what was going on, they saw Shen Yu running over like the wind.

Li was probably feeling angry recently, and today when he saw someone stealing buns, his anger was ignited, and he actually ran very fast to chase the man. He could see that the man in front was running slower and slower, and he was about to catch up.

Seeing that he was about to be caught up, Li shouted, "I told you not to run, and I told you not to steal my buns." As she said that, she threw the bamboo clip in her hand hard, hitting the man right on the back, and he fell to the ground.

Li saw what was going on and leaped forward in two steps, pinning the man's arm tightly and pressing his knee against his back, forcing him to lie prone on the ground, unable to get up. He shouted angrily, "Run, run again."

At this time, Shen Yu caught up with him out of breath and saw that Li had pushed the man to the ground, and the man was still kicking the ground in vain. She felt relieved.

At this time, people gathered around. Li saw Shen Yu also chasing after them. She pressed the man hard and called Shen Yu, "Yuzhi, hurry up and report to the authorities. Let the officials arrest him and bring him to the government office."

People gathered around, pointing and talking, and slowly more and more people gathered.

Shen Yu squatted on the other side, holding the man down with Li. For a moment, he didn't know whether he should hold the man down with Li and wait for the officers to come, or let Li stay here alone and go find the officers himself.

As he was hesitating, he heard someone shouting, "What happened? Why are you all gathered here?"

Looking up, I saw two people in official uniforms pushing through the crowd and coming in.

Shen Yu hurriedly stood up and came forward and said, "Officer, you two came at the right time. This man stole my buns."

Two yamen runners stepped forward and lifted up the man who was still struggling under Li's hold.

When Li saw someone taking over, he let go, patted the dirt on his hands and stood up.

She picked up her shoes whose heels had fallen off, looked around, found the bamboo clip, and then came back triumphantly.

The man was taken away by the police, and Shen Yu saw that he was a boy about the same age as Yu Cheng.

She was a little surprised and didn't know what to do for a moment.

The two yamen runners were also a little surprised. The little boy was caught by the yamen runners and still struggled desperately, shouting, "Let me go, let me go, you bad guys."

Li came back with the bamboo clips and was stunned when she saw that she had caught a child.

One of the yamen runners turned his head to look at Shen Yu, then looked at her carefully and exclaimed in surprise: "It's you, girl."

Shen Yu looked at the yamen runner who was speaking with a bewildered look on his face.

The yamen runner was not very old, about 18 or 19 years old. He said happily, "Miss, you saved a child when you were watching the river lanterns two days ago. I was right there."

Shen Yu looked at the yamen runner carefully. It was dark and all his attention was on the child. He really had no impression of the man in front of him. He could only smile apologetically and said a little embarrassedly: "Sir, you..."

The yamen runner was not annoyed, and continued to smile and said, "It was dark, so it's normal that the girl didn't remember me. I was the one who helped the fourth young master to call the doctor. When Doctor Chen and I arrived, the girl had already left."

Shen Yu could only smile and thought, this guy is quite sociable.

Seeing that everyone around was looking at them, she had no choice but to change the subject. She whispered to Li, "Mom, forget it. He only stole two buns. It's not worth much. He looks like a child. How about, how about..."

Before Li could reply, the child who was being twisted raised his head and snorted coldly, "Who wants your pity? I eat your buns because I think highly of you."