CHAPTER 66

Yang Yunyan was well-dressed and had a pretty face. She looked like a lady from a wealthy family. How could such a girl’s words be false? The diners nearby all thought so.

Some diners began to murmur, “This girl looks like someone who is used to eating delicacies from land and sea. She doesn’t seem like a liar at all. She said that the one on South Street tastes better, so it must be the one on South Street that tastes better.”

Some diners began to ask, “Will the queues on South Street also be very long?”

The girl in yellow clothes who sat at the same table with Yang Yunyan said, “The one on South Street has a lot of people, but you don’t have to wait in line for such a long time.”

The diners began to murmur, “If the one on South Street tastes better and doesn’t require such a long queue, why not go to the one on South Street?”

The girl in green clothes who was at the same table with Yang Yunyan had already put down her chopsticks. “I heard that this snack stall on this street is delicious, but I didn’t expect it to be so far from South Street. If we had known this, we would have gone to the one on South Street. Waiting in line for so long here is simply a waste of time.”

The girl in green clothes stood up as she spoke.

Yang Yunyan and others stood up one after another.

When many diners waiting in line saw that these fairy-like girls were going to eat at South Street, they also became shaken and eager to try and eat at the restaurant on South Street.

Seeing this, Su Wan stood up and asked in the direction of Yang Yunyan and the others, “Girls, do you really think the one on South Street tastes better than this one?” Su Wan was supervising the work here, but she still wore a hat and mask. Not only did she wear a hat and mask, but Su Wan and the three women also wore hats and masks. This was also for hygiene reasons, to prevent hair or something from falling into the food.

Therefore, the rumor that Su Wan was the Beauty of Snack Street died down after a few days. After all, Su Wan wrapped herself up so tightly that her face could not be seen at all.

Therefore, the diners who came next were really here to eat the Malatang, not to see the beauty in the snack street.

Yang Yunyan and the others turned around.

Yang Yunyan recognized that it was Su Wan’s voice. When Su Wan was in the Wang family, Yang Yunyan had dealt with Su Wan and was very familiar with Su Wan’s voice.

Originally, Yang Yunyan was very unhappy with Su Wan’s reputation as the Xishi of Snack Street, but now that she saw Su Wan, she had her head and face covered tightly, and she didn’t even look like a girl, let alone a pretty girl.

Yang Yunyan felt inexplicably relieved, pretended to be fair, and said, “My dear girl, the one on South Street is indeed better than yours. In addition to being spicy, the one on South Street also has a different flavor. Yours is just spicy, and the taste is not as rich as the one on South Street. It is ten times worse than the one on South Street.”

Su Wan smiled and said, “It’s just that one flavor is missing. The taste shouldn’t be ten times worse, right? Are you exaggerating a bit?”

Su Wan naturally knew that Yang Yunyan was deliberately trying to sabotage. The Yang Yunyan in the book was just like this. She only cared about her own interests, and when she talked about things, she sometimes exaggerated and sometimes avoided the important issues, causing the original owner to suffer a lot of grievances.

However, Su Wan was also somewhat curious as to whether the one on South Street was really better than this one. Su Wan still wanted to get the diners’ real reactions. After all, she still wanted to open a chain based on the one that was better.

Yang Yunyan still looked serious. “If you don’t believe me, go to the one on South Street and try it yourself, and you’ll know.”

When the diners heard Yang Yunyan’s confident tone, they all started to rush out to eat at the restaurant on South Street.

Yang Yunyan raised her chin slightly and looked at Su Wan. “The food on your stall is still not as good as others. You should improve the taste. You can’t keep it fresh for a long time.”

Yang Yunyan always has this confident look as if she sees through everything. In the book, she also looks wise enough to see through everything and gives Wang Luosheng a lot of ideas.

The original owner saw the problem and told Wang Luosheng that this method would not work and would bring disaster. However, Wang Luosheng was very annoyed with the original owner. If the original owner said one more word, Wang Luosheng would say that the original owner was guilty of jealousy, one of the seven offenses. The original owner had no choice but to quietly resolve Yang Yunyan’s bad idea.

In reality, Yang Yunyan still hasn’t changed her habit of exaggerating the facts. The base ingredients of the spicy hot pot in the two shops are both made by Su Wan, and there are indeed differences, but the difference is not in the unique fragrance of the one on South Street, as Yang Yunyan said.

The basic soup base used by the two shops has the same recipe, and the spicy flavor of the soup base is exactly the same, except that the degree of spiciness is different. The one on Snack Street is spicier, while the one on South Street is not as spicy. So, there is no such thing as a special flavor at all. It was just something Yang Yunyan made up.

Su Wan asked, “The spicy flavor you just mentioned—the spicy flavor at South Street is more fragrant than the one at my place, but you haven’t tried the clear soup flavor, right?”

When Yang Yunyan heard that Su Wan was still struggling, she realized that what she had just said meant that the spicy flavor of the food at South Street was better than hers, so she started to focus on the clear soup flavor, hoping to retain customers by relying on the clear soup flavor. After all, a large number of customers would follow her to South Street to eat.

Yang Yunyan has already made a plan. Today, after taking a large group of customers from the snack street to South Street for a meal, she can have people spread the word that the Malatang on South Street is better than the Malatang on the snack street. Many customers will no longer want to eat the Malatang on the snack street and will go to eat on South Street instead.

Yang Yunyan believed that after this incident, Su Wan’s shop would no longer be as prosperous as before, and Su Wan would not be able to take the limelight.

In addition, Su Wan’s reputation as the Beauty of Snack Street also made Yang Yunyan feel uncomfortable, but fortunately, there was no such rumor in the past few days, so Yang Yunyan’s focus was still on ruining Su Wan’s business.

When Su Wan asked her about the taste of her clear soup, Yang Yunyan still pretended not to recognize Su Wan and said seriously, “Miss, I’ve also had the clear soup from the one on South Street. I also tried a few bites of yours just now. It’s the same as the spicy flavor. The clear soup from the one on South Street is ten times better than yours.”

Many customers who had only eaten Malatang at Su Wan’s stall and had never eaten it at the South Street stall were getting more and more eager to try it. It tasted ten times better; how much better must the one at the South Street stall be?

As a result, many customers who were queuing stopped waiting and planned to go to South Street. The originally long queue was reduced to less than one-third of its original size.

Logically speaking, whether diners go to the snack street or South Street to eat, they are all eating at Su Wan’s stall, and Su Wan is making money, so there is nothing wrong with that.

But Su Wan immediately realized another problem. As the saying goes, when a wall falls, everyone pushes it. So many people suddenly left this snack street and went to the one on South Street. It was another gossip. It was inevitable that public opinion would ferment. Everyone would say that the one on Snack Street was not as delicious as the one on South Street. This would cause many diners who had not eaten at both restaurants to have a preconceived idea that the one on South Street was better, and they would go to the one on South Street. Influenced by such public opinion, diners would go to the one on South Street instead of the one on Snack Street. In this way, she had no way of judging which one was more popular with the people in this place based on how much money the two restaurants made.

Before Su Wan obtained accurate data about the taste, it was not appropriate to influence diners to have irrational preferences.

Yang Yunyan was very pleased to see so many customers leaving at once, thinking that the method she had thought of was indeed very effective.

“Please stay,” Su Wan said to the diners who had already turned around.

Yang Yunyan sneered in her heart. Su Wan was also struggling to survive. Could it be that everyone would stay because of her boastful words? The taste of the food in this restaurant is not determined by the store owner’s words. The diners’ opinion on which one is good is the golden rule.

However, someone asked the diners to stay, and the diners who were about to leave stopped.

Su Wan slowly said, “Everyone, actually, the taste of the one on South Street is the same as the one on Snack Street.”

Yang Yunyan wanted to laugh out loud. Su Wan was indeed an ignorant country girl. She could even come up with such a lame excuse to keep the guests.

The girl in green who was following Yang Yunyan had already spoken, “How come they taste the same? I tasted them, and they were completely different. The one on South Street tasted like heaven, while yours tasted like hell. How can they be compared?”

Su Wan said calmly, “This girl is talking nonsense. This girl is dressed so elegantly and luxuriously, but she is talking nonsense. She is really not worthy of these clothes.”

The girl in green yelled, “Why am I talking nonsense? It’s obvious that the taste of your restaurant is far inferior to that of South Street. If you want to keep the guests, you shouldn’t throw dirty water on me.”

Su Wan said seriously, “The Malatang restaurant on South Street and the one on Snack Street are both my stores. I personally mix the seasonings. The spicy flavors of the two restaurants are slightly different, but the clear soup tastes exactly the same. Just now, Miss Yang Yunyan said that the clear soup on South Street tastes ten times better than this one. That’s completely nonsense.”

Yang Yunyan was stunned. The Malatang restaurant on South Street was the same as this one, both owned by Su Wan.

And, obviously, Su Wan didn’t want to pretend not to know her anymore.

Though many people in Qingyun County have never seen Yang Yunyan, they have all heard of her name. She is the daughter of Master Yang of Songshan Academy, the most talented woman in Qingyun County, and she is both beautiful and talented.

No wonder they thought this girl was beautiful; it turned out to be Yang Yunyan. However, judging from what she just said, she was trying to instigate others to slow down this business, and she didn’t seem to be a good person.

Yang Yunyan had ill intentions, and Su Wan didn’t mind exposing her true colors.

“Also, the spicy flavors of both restaurants use the same soup base. As for what Miss Yang said about the South Street restaurant having a mellow fragrance while this restaurant doesn’t, that’s completely groundless.” Su Wan said slowly.

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T/N :- Hey guys, sorry about the zero updates till now in this week. I had so many work piled up that I couldn’t update the chapters. So I am updating all the 3 chapters today !! And I think i will try to schedule the chapters of next week i.e on Mon, Wed, Fri.

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