After becoming rich overnight, I handed over the system.

Chapter 112 The Shop Was Smashed

The Elf King wants Avalin's blood to save the Tree of Life, while Avalin wants the Tree of Life to make potions. It's just unknown who will get their wish first.

Anyway, Li Mingyue got what she wanted.

She used the rice cake flour that Lin Liuyi bought for her to make exquisite rice cakes, which immediately made her famous in Jiqing Prefecture.

"Sir, please come again if you enjoy your meal!" Li Mingyue and her parents quickly packed the pastries and handed them to the guests.

Thinking about the money she had earned these past few days, she planned to go home after work that evening and discuss with her parents about buying a small shop.

"Mingyue, are we buying the shop now? Shouldn't we buy this courtyard first?" Li Lao Er was somewhat surprised. As a farmer, he still hoped to have a place to settle down first.

“Father, you know how booming our business has been these past few days. We’ve saved enough money to buy the shop, but to buy the courtyard, we’ll need to save up some more. I’m thinking that since we’re in the food business, having a shop is definitely better. With a shop, we can expand our customer base to wealthy families, which will allow us to save up even more money. It’s not too late to buy the courtyard then.”

Li Mingyue realized that she had been too naive, thinking that her pastries would attract wealthy people to buy them simply because they were novel enough.

Little did they know that wealthy families did not eat at roadside stalls.

Li Mingyue was only able to sell to them after she personally went to their homes with bowl-shaped rice cake flour and made the cakes herself, at which point they bought them.

If only she had a shop, then even wealthy families would have a place to shop.

She had her eye on a small shop; the price wasn't high, and she had enough money.

Moreover, she was confident that she had studied some of the recipes Lin Liuyi had given her these past few days, and that once the shop opened, she could offer more varieties of pastries and wouldn't have to worry about not having customers.

"Well, Mingyue, then we'll do as you say." The family's money was all earned by their daughter, so Li Lao Er and his wife agreed. They really didn't expect that they could buy a shop in Jiqing Prefecture after only a short time.

After the family discussed it, they quickly opened a new small pastry shop.

The shop wasn't big, but it could accommodate some customers. Li Mingyue also put some new products on the shelves.

"Miss Chunxing, these are some of our newly arrived snacks: bite-sized pastries, golden cakes, crystal cakes, yam flower cakes, and these auspicious candies. What would you like?"

On the first day of the shop's opening, Li Mingyue was delighted to see the visitor, for this was a maid from the Tongzhi's household, a very important customer.

"Oh, Miss Li, you have quite a variety here! Miss said she wanted some of the fresh ones, so please wrap up some of the ones you mentioned earlier." Chunxing looked at the new pastries in the shop and thought they were quite unique. No wonder her young lady specifically asked for them.

"Don't worry, Miss Chunxing! We guarantee that Miss Tongzhi will want more of our family's pastries after she tries them!"

Li Mingyue was happy that she was about to make a large sum of money when she discovered that someone had come to her door to cause trouble.

"Is this the kind of bowl-shaped rice cake your family makes? Smash it!" Several thugs came up and were about to smash her shop.

"Wait a minute!" Lin Mingyue shouted angrily, "What right do you have to smash my shop!"

"Of course it's because the stuff in your shop made my brother's stomach hurt. Tell me, shouldn't it be smashed?" the leader of the scoundrels replied nonchalantly.

"Brother, you must be joking. I just opened the door, and this is the first guest of ours!" Li Mingyue tried to intimidate the other party by waving a big flag.

As expected, the rogue on the other side hesitated. It was just a job, and it was one thing to offend Li Mingyue, but it was another to offend the Prefect and his brothers.

“Miss Li, we, the Prefect and I, are just here to buy some pastries. We have nothing to do with your business. Since Miss Li has other matters to attend to today, I will go back and tell you that you will come to buy them another day.”

Li Mingyue's idea was good, but Chunxing was not happy. Did they think that just any Tom, Dick, or Harry could come and freeload off the Prefect?

Hmph! Chunxing turned and left.

Seeing that these scoundrels had already backed down, Chunxing's words made them realize what was happening and they were about to continue smashing the shop.

Li Mingyue and her mother rushed forward to stop them. Her father had gone to buy raw materials and had not yet returned. They hoped that her sisters could quickly call the officials over.

"Get out of the way!" The thugs grabbed her mother and pushed her away.

"Mother!" Li Mingyue rushed to help her mother up, and the mother and daughter fell to the ground together.

Li Mingyue could only watch helplessly as her carefully prepared shop was smashed and the pastries were thrown on the ground.

Not satisfied with smashing up the shop, the thugs even started walking towards the mother and daughter.

"What are you trying to do! I've already sent someone to report to the authorities!"

"Officials? Young lady, you know who you've offended, don't you? You won't be able to keep this shop open! This time it was just a few of us brothers smashing up the shop, but next time it might be different!"

The ringleader of the scoundrels didn't do anything to her; in fact, he even came over to kindly remind her.

Offended someone? She was just selling pastries on the street, who could she have offended?

"Is it Manager Liu from the dim sum shop?" Li Mingyue thought of someone who had wanted to buy her recipe for bowl-shaped rice cakes, but she had refused.

Just because of this? The other party sent people to vandalize her shop?

"Brothers, let's go!" The thugs didn't give her an answer. As they left, they kicked the things that had fallen over the shop. Li Mingyue and her mother shuddered again, and the onlookers outside the shop also dispersed upon seeing this.

"Mingyue, we're not opening the shop anymore, we're not opening it!" Mingyue's mother was terrified, but Li Mingyue remained silent.

"Miss Li? What happened to you?"

"Brother Qin!" Li Mingyue looked up and saw that the person who asked her the question was actually Qin Da, the bodyguard of the nobleman.

"It's me. I just came back from out of town. Is this your shop? How did it become like this?" Qin Dacong frowned.

Miss Li has been bullied. Who dared to be so bold? After all, Miss Li is the young master's savior.

Li Mingyue helped her mother up. "Brother Qin, this is a long story. What brings you here?"

Li Mingyue didn't want anyone to see her unsightly side, so she retorted with a question.

"Oh, I'm here to deliver some silver to you. When you first arrived in the city, the young master asked me to give you the deed to the courtyard and five hundred taels of silver. I was about to go out on a mission at the time, so I forgot to give it to you. As soon as I got back, I thought I'd bring it to you as soon as possible."

Five hundred taels of silver would have been a real lifesaver when they first entered the city.

If she had this money, she wouldn't have to sell jewelry samples, wouldn't have been deceived, and wouldn't have had to shamelessly beg Lin Liuyi to buy her things.

Five hundred taels of silver is quite a sum.

Li Mingyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry.