Chapter 43 Bun Shop Opens
When Lin Chuxia arrived at the Su’s, Su Wensong had already cleaned up the yard, with the cart holding ingredients parked but not yet unloaded.
Seeing her arrival, Granny Su asked if she’d eaten breakfast and went on to make her some sugar water.
Lin Chuxia smiled as she took the water, "Granny, don’t fuss over me, I’ll be coming every day from now on."
Granny Su knew today was the grand opening of the Bun Shop and, pointing to a covered plaque, said, "What do you think of this? That naughty boy brought it back yesterday and insisted that my writing isn’t as good as it used to be. It’s true I haven’t written in a long time."
A couple of days earlier, they had discussed the name of the bun shop; Su Wensong volunteered to make the plaque himself, and Lin Chuxia trusted him fully, so she left the task entirely to him.
Lin Chuxia lifted the cloth, and below were five golden characters, "Qin’s Buns Shop". The first two smaller characters were vertically placed; the words ’Buns Shop’ spread across the entirety of the plaque, but the most important part was the calligraphy...
She looked in astonishment at Su Wensong beside her, who smiled simply, saying, "My granny’s surname is Lou," having not expected Lin Chuxia to recognize the writing.
Without her past life’s experiences, Lin Chuxia wouldn’t recognize the characters and would merely think they flowed beautifully with artistic grace.
But with memories from her past life, she clearly remembered an auction where an ancestral masterpiece by a female artist surnamed Lou, named Lu Huazhuo, pen name Yu Qiong, was sold.
It was revealed that, because of her name, her work was nearly destroyed once, and the elderly woman never picked up the brush again, making her paintings and calligraphy extremely precious. Back then, her calligraphy fetched sixty million from a collector.