Chapter 1198: The Zhang Family Kicked an Iron Panel

Gu Yundong was stunned, and Chen Liang frowned. He turned his head and scolded, “Why are you making a fuss? What’s not good? Brother Dajiang’s good news has just arrived, and you’re here to cause trouble?”

“Hey, I’m talking to Yun Dong.” Madam Zhou bypassed Chen Liang and immediately grabbed Gu Yundong’s hand. “Yundong, I just returned from the county city. Do you know what happened in the county city?”

When Gu Yundong heard her mention the county city, she thought about the time and roughly knew what had happened.

However, she still asked in confusion, “What happened in the county?”

“It’s the Zhang family. Do you know the county city’s Zhang family?” Madam Zhou went to the county city with her daughter-in-law early in the morning to visit her son, Chen Jincai. After all, he had been busy for a few days and had not returned.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were going to make him a delicious meal to nourish him.

However, just as they finished lunch, something big happened in the county.

Gu Yundong was relatively calm, but the others present could not remain calm. They hurriedly asked, “The Zhang family? Is it the Zhang family who sells pastries? What happened to the family?”

“That’s right. Sister-in-law Zhou, tell me quickly. What exactly makes you so anxious?”

Madam Zhou slowly exhaled, her eyes bright as she finally said, “If I tell you, don’t be too surprised. The Zhang family I was talking about is indeed the Zhang family that sells pastries. Speaking of which, their family is considered a big family in our county. Those pastries are famous in the county, but do you know where they got those novel pastries?”

“Didn’t they say that the Zhang family is generous and bought all the new and delicious pastry recipes from other families?”

Madam Zhou slapped her thigh. “What? How were they bought? They were simply snatched.”

As she spoke, she began to get excited. “You don’t know, but recently, a new pastry shop has opened in the county. The pastries made by that pastry shop are delicious, cheap, and especially novel. By the way, the mooncakes that Boss Gu is distributing now were bought from this pastry shop.”

Everyone was stunned and looked down at the mooncakes in their hands.

Madam Zhou continued, “Boss Gu has good taste. Back then, she saw that the mooncakes in this shop were better than the Zhang family’s, so she made a reservation. Unexpectedly, when the Zhang family saw that the business of this shop was good and there were many people buying it, they had an idea and wanted the secret pastry recipe of this shop. When others buy secret recipes, they have to at least offer a suitable price and both sides have to be willing. However, the Zhang family doesn’t think so. The Zhang family can let you open a shop in the county city, but the business of the pastry shop can’t be better than theirs. Otherwise, they will be going against the new arrivals. They want the secret recipe of this shop, but they don’t have any sincerity at all. They threw ten taels of silver to buy the secret recipe of others. Tell me, is this humane?”

Ten taels of silver? Everyone was in an uproar.

They looked at the mooncakes in their hands. Just the number of mooncakes that the Gu family had ordered was worth ten taels, right? Moreover, there were others.

The Zhang family was dreaming.

“The owner of the shop didn’t agree either. The Zhang family was angry, so they found some thugs to cause trouble. They started to threaten and tempt the owner of the shop. Unfortunately, they kicked an iron plate this time.”

“What iron plate?”

Madam Zhou was smug. She snorted and said, “Although this shop is not famous or eye-catching, you definitely won’t be able to guess who the owner behind this shop is.”