Running a Food Stall to Support My Deceptive Omega - Chapter 34.2

She would make sure those people learned a bitter lesson!

When there were only a few pieces of fish cake left in the last basket, Mu Jinyu decided not to sell anymore. She had Rong Heng finish the remaining pieces, and together they packed up to go home.

Throughout the evening, whenever she wasn’t facing customers, Rong Heng’s brow was furrowed and her lips were pressed thin.

Her eyes would occasionally glare into empty space.

She was clearly still furious.

Even the late-night snack Mu Jinyu made for her tasted bland.

Seeing this, Mu Jinyu patted her head and said, “Don’t be angry. I’ve already thought of a way to deal with the people who blocked our stove.”

Hearing this, Rong Heng’s mind turned much faster. She immediately realized Mu Jinyu knew who had blocked their stove.

“Tell me, who did it?” Rong Heng stopped eating her snack, put down her chopsticks, and asked with a serious and stern little face.

Looking at her, it seemed as though she would do something big once she found out who it was.

Mu Jinyu immediately wondered if Rong Heng was going to beat those two people up.

She wasn’t worried about Rong Heng getting hurt; with her strength, hitting two people would be easy.

But if they actually got into a fight, the matter would escalate and wouldn’t be so easy to resolve.

Rong Heng’s identity was sensitive; they couldn’t afford to attract officials or let any secrets slip.

Thus, Mu Jinyu rubbed her hair again. “I will handle it, don’t worry.”

Rong Heng couldn’t stand hearing that. She was very angry too and wanted to vent; why should Mu Jinyu be the only one to solve it?

She wanted to solve it too!

The angry Rong Heng glared at Mu Jinyu and swiped away the hand on her head, refusing to let Mu Jinyu touch her.

She said bluntly, “No! I have a way too! I’ll mince them into meat paste!”

She was very good at mincing meat paste anyway; at worst, she would just turn those people into meat paste!

Rong Heng only had a vague concept in her head; she didn’t think too much about whether doing so was excessive or whether it would cause trouble.

Mu Jinyu: …

Mu Jinyu’s expression went blank for a moment. For a split second, she felt like she had met the legendary, ruthless Regent.

However, when she looked closely at Rong Heng’s expression, she realized she was just talking out of anger and probably didn’t understand the weight of her words.

Mu Jinyu didn’t give her a long lecture or tell her that it was wrong or what the consequences would be.

Rong Heng cared about those two small stalls as much as she did, which was why she was just as angry. These were words of frustration, and there was no need to take them too seriously.

She said, “I’ll teach those people a lesson first and make them come apologize to you. If they really refuse to change, I’ll leave them to you to deal with. How about that?”

“I’ll need your help then.”

Mu Jinyu smiled at Rong Heng, looking completely as if she believed Rong Heng was more capable than her and better at solving this.

Seeing that Mu Jinyu was no longer stopping her from helping and was instead trusting her so much, the earlier rage and harsh words on Rong Heng’s face gradually faded, replaced by a look of careful thought.

She started thinking about how she should help Mu Jinyu if she couldn’t handle it.

Since she was going to help, she had to be serious about it.

Thinking this over, Rong Heng nodded and agreed, promising that she would definitely help.

Seeing that she had successfully persuaded Rong Heng, Mu Jinyu urged her to finish her snack so they could wash up and rest.

The next morning.

Mu Jinyu first went to the fish vendor’s stall and told her to save all the fish offal, scales, and other scraps for her.

Since she was making both Knocked Fish Noodles and fish cakes every day, she bought a lot of fish, so there were many scraps left over.

Hearing this, the fish vendor looked up and asked, “Jinyu, do you have a use for them?”

Mu Jinyu used the excuse she had prepared. “I plan to take them back to use as fertilizer for some vegetables.”

The vendor nodded. “Growing vegetables is good. I often grow some to eat myself. If the offal you take isn’t enough, you can come back and ask for more.”

She had plenty of offal left over every day. Usually, she gave it away for free to people who made pet food or fertilizer.

If Mu Jinyu wanted it, she had more than enough.

After talking with the fish vendor, Mu Jinyu wandered around the meat market and bought some meat to cook at home.

In the afternoon, she took the processed fish meat and the remaining offal from the vendor and brought them home.

There were four bundles of offal wrapped in lotus leaves. She didn’t even open them; she just placed them in the corner of the yard to let them rot.

She also told Rong Heng about her plan, which made Rong Heng very excited, looking forward to doing “bad things” with her.

While making the Knocked Fish Noodles and fish cakes, Mu Jinyu had a premonition that their stove would surely be blocked again by those two today.

So, she didn’t bother simmering fish soup, made one fewer basket of fish cakes than yesterday, and didn’t plan to exert herself moving tables and stools behind the cart.

She only made a larger quantity of Knocked Fish Noodles.

Raw noodles sold faster and in greater quantities than cooked ones, so making more would earn more silver.

After a busy afternoon with Rong Heng, they returned to the night market. They checked their stove first, and as expected, it was filled with mud clumps again.

Mu Jinyu was no longer as depressed or angry as she was yesterday. She comforted Rong Heng first, telling her not to worry and that this would be resolved within two days.

The offal was in the corner, and she had even poured some water on it; the decomposition would be very fast.

By tonight at the latest, they could dump the offal in the yards of those two.

When those two woke up tomorrow, the offal would have already started to reek.

Thinking about it, Mu Jinyu didn’t feel angry; instead, she almost wanted to laugh.

After a busy night, they returned home. Mu Jinyu specifically told Rong Heng not to sleep too early and to wait a bit so they could go do the “bad deed” together.

Rong Heng, who was eating her late-night snack, tilted her head and agreed without a second thought.

Since they were going to do something, the two of them didn’t lie in bed. Instead, they sat at the stone table drinking tea, counting copper coins, and chatting.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was the Yin hour—around three in the morning.

Mu Jinyu estimated the time was about right. She stood up and signaled for Rong Heng to follow her, first picking up the fish offal from the corner.

Having sat for a full day, the offal was already starting to smell.

At first, Rong Heng was reluctant to hold it, but thinking about what they were going to do, she became happy again. She actively carried two bundles and urged Mu Jinyu to hurry up.

At this hour, there was no one on the night market street. It was dark and shrouded in a faint mist.

If they were walking this path on a normal day, they might have found it scary.

But now, since they were out to do something “bad,” they didn’t feel scared; in fact, they were slightly excited.

They first arrived at the place where Owner Zhang lived.

There were no trees inside or outside Owner Zhang’s yard, so the two of them couldn’t climb the wall to throw the offal inside.

After some thought, they simply dumped the offal in front of Zhang’s front door. A faint stench began to spread.

In any case, the effect was achieved.

Then they went to the yard of Owner Zhang’s nephew.

There was a tree here. Rong Heng was more agile than Mu Jinyu; she climbed the tree and pulled Mu Jinyu up.

Thus, the two of them flipped over the wall and entered the yard.

Three in the morning was the time when stall owners, who had worked all night, slept most soundly.

It was the same at the nephew’s house. Two sets of snoring rose and fell; they were sleeping very well.

Rong Heng and Mu Jinyu quietly opened the lotus leaf bundles they had brought and dumped the fish offal all over the yard along the walls.

The natural fishy smell of the organs mixed with the nauseating stench of slight rot—it was absolutely foul.

Before long, the smell filled the entire yard.

Even Mu Jinyu and Rong Heng were nearly choked by the scent.

After they finished, they threw the lotus leaves into the yard as well, climbed the tree, hopped back over the wall, and walked away while covering their noses.

On the way back, Rong Heng walked very close to Mu Jinyu, hooking her arm around Mu Jinyu’s, almost resting her head on Mu Jinyu’s shoulder.

She said with excitement, “Doing bad things, feels good. No need to apologize?”

Mu Jinyu was all smiles. “They should be the ones apologizing to us. It’s not like we provoked them first.”

Even with this eye-for-an-eye approach, she didn’t feel it was entirely fair yet.

She had to pay them back double for provoking her in the first place; only then would it be fair.

“Anyway, it’s not like our business can’t go on. They’ll have to leave the night market sooner or later.”

She could still sell raw noodles and fish cakes, whereas those two had no business at all and were just losing money.

Even if they kept targeting each other like this, she and Rong Heng wouldn’t be the ones suffering the most. Those two would eventually leave in disgrace because they couldn’t keep their stalls open.

The two of them walked back with light steps and spirits.

However, Rong Heng would occasionally look back at something.

Behind them, two dark shadows moving and jumping through the trees at high speed met up.

One whispered, “Is that really the Master?”

“Yeah, didn’t you see her face? It’s exactly the same.”

“Then why is the Master hanging out with that other person?”

“I don’t know.”

“…As long as the Master is fine… go investigate those two families.”

These two were Rong Heng’s secret guards, One and Two. Some time ago, they heard from their subordinates that a secret signal left by the Master was found at the night market in Louxu County.

So they had come looking.

However, there were too many people coming and going in the night market. It took them several days of effort until tonight when they finally discovered Rong Heng helping out at a stall.

Fearing this was part of the Master’s plan, they didn’t go up to her.

In the end, they saw their own Master acting so intimately with that stall owner.

The Master let that stall owner hold her hand and touch her head without objection; she was even clinging to the owner’s arm and sleeping in the same room.

Was this the Master’s temporary tactic, or had the Master truly become a “wife” to someone else when they weren’t looking…

Secret Guard One and Secret Guard Two: ???