The system favors me so much, I get eight meals a day while escaping from famine
Chapter 51: The little gangster is looking for trouble
Old Mrs. Jiang sighed, "Look at what's going on. Even if the business is good, people will still be interested in it. How can the rich people in the capital be so unreasonable?"
Old man Jiang sighed without saying anything, and waved to Jiang Qingyi to come over.
"Xiao Wu, that person wanted to buy our stewed food recipe. He raised the price from three hundred taels to one thousand taels, but I didn't give in. From what he said, there must be a big shot behind the Treasure Pavilion. Will this bring trouble to our family?"
Jiang Qingyi was also very worried. It has been known since ancient times that the people should not fight against the officials, let alone that the official was a nobleman from the capital.
The Jiang family had no power or influence, let alone any connections with important figures. They hadn't even gained a foothold in the capital when they were already being targeted.
Jiang Qingyi couldn't help but sigh, "Master, I'm afraid our family's business is..."
Old man Jiang gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay. At worst, our family can continue to farm. The money we earned a few days ago is enough for us to buy more land. No matter what, we can't sell this formula."
Jiang Dashan appeared out of nowhere and said, "Dad, we won't sell the formula. We don't believe that the emperor can force us to buy or sell. If it doesn't work, we'll sue the government."
Jiang Dahe and Jiang Dahai also echoed.
Everyone’s meaning was very clear: the recipe for this braised food must not be sold.
Seeing that they were very confident, Jiang Qingyi couldn't bear to criticize them. Now, only the owner of Zhenxiu Pavilion wanted to buy it. If some senior official took a fancy to it and used all kinds of conspiracies and schemes, the Jiang family would probably have to hand over the recipe of the braised food.
She instantly realized the importance of power in this place and began to make plans in her mind.
No one in the family is well educated now, so if they want to quickly cross the class ladder, they have to rely on their uncle Jiang Wenbin, whom they have yet to meet.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qingyi decided to write a letter herself to urge her uncle to study hard.
At this time, Jiang Wenbin received a letter from home that was sent from the capital. After reading the letter, he couldn't help but sigh. All his family members had fled to the capital and even had a house. It must have been a lot of hardship.
After reading the letter, Jiang Wenbin picked up his pen and wrote a reply. He planned to take part in the autumn examination next year. His household registration documents were still in Chengnan County, so he had to stay in the academy and could not rush to the capital immediately.
After writing the letter, Jiang Wenbin sent it out.
After returning to the dormitory of the academy, he sighed and wondered how he would survive the next six months. Although he would copy books to make money, and with the money his family gave him, he could barely get by. But now his family had fled to the capital to escape famine, so they probably didn't have much money. Things in the capital must be expensive, and he had to support his nephews and nieces. How should he...
Just when Jiang Wenbin was worried, Old Man Jiang in the capital was planning to buy some land outside the city as their fallback plan.
Ever since Tian Hongye came to buy the braised food recipe but failed, Jiang Qingyi would go out with Chen and the others to set up a stall every day. It would be okay if the food was spilled, but she was afraid that hooligans would hurt people without any care, so she went out to protect her family.
For seven or eight days in a row, the stall business went as smoothly as before, and no one came to cause trouble.
Jiang Qingyi also felt something was wrong. Judging from the state Tian Hongye was in when he left, it didn't seem like he was going to let him go.
Just as she expected, not long after they set up their stall that day, a group of hooligans surrounded their stall. Passersby didn't want to get into trouble and stayed away from them. Some brave enough stayed further away and watched the fun.
Jiang Dashan stood in front of Wang and asked, "What are you going to do?"
The gang leader laughed arrogantly, "You are doing business in my brother Tiger's territory, and you dare to ask us what we want to do? Brothers, come on, let them know whose territory this is!"
The six or seven thugs following behind rushed towards Jiang Dashan and his companions, waving sticks.
Seeing that they were armed, Jiang Dashan and his companions quickly retreated and avoided them.
The unnoticed Jiang Qingyi also took out the stick lying in the space and hit the gangster who was rushing in the front on the stomach.
"Ah..." The gangster screamed and immediately fell to the ground, holding his stomach.
The gang leader glared fiercely at Jiang Qingyi who suddenly appeared, "Where did this little brat come from? How dare you ruin Brother Tiger's good deeds!"
As he said this, he raised his fist and wanted to come over to deal with Jiang Qingyi.
However, before he even reached Jiang Qingyi, she was knocked down by her with a stick.
When the other thugs saw their boss being attacked, they immediately pointed their sticks at Jiang Qingyi.
Jiang Qingyi was calm and casually swung the iron rod in her hand. Every time the rod fell, a gangster fell to the ground.
Within two minutes, a dozen thugs all lay down without any fighting ability, leaving only the wailing.
Jiang Qingyi walked slowly to the gang leader and stepped on his chest, "Brother Hu, right? Go back and tell the people who called you to send a few more powerful people next time, so as to avoid the same situation as you guys... hehe..."
As she spoke, she slowly exerted force with her feet. Brother Hu felt like there was a hundred pounds of weight pressing on him. He could hardly breathe. He thought that if he didn't beg for mercy, he would probably not be able to return alive today.
But before he could open his mouth, Jiang Qingyi retracted her foot and said to Brother Hu in a cold voice, "Why don't you get out of here and wait for me to take you back?"
Brother Hu and a group of his men quickly crawled away from Jiang Qingyi's sight.
The crisis was resolved. Chen stroked her chest, unable to stop feeling scared. She looked at Jiang Qingyi holding a stick, and quickly came over to pull her back and forth to look at her. "Xiaowu, are you okay? Did those hooligans hurt you?"
Jiang Qingyi shook her head, "Second Aunt, I'm fine. Those few people are not enough for me to beat up."
Wang slowly came over to look at Jiang Qingyi, "Xiao Wu..."
Seeing Wang's pale face, Jiang Qingyi asked worriedly, "Aunt, are you okay?"
Wang nodded gently, "It's okay, I was just scared. I have never encountered such a thing before..."
Jiang Dashan saw that the previous customers did not dare to come to their stall. They were probably afraid that the gangsters would cause trouble. He knew that today's business would not be done. "Let's go back first. The business has been disrupted and customers don't dare to come forward."
Jiang Qingyi estimated that Wang and Chen were not in good condition to continue working, so she started to help pack up.
The woman selling pancakes across the street was very happy to see that her braised food stall was being bullied. She thought it was just what she deserved. Her business was so good that it must have attracted people's attention!
On the other side, Brother Hu and a group of his younger brothers went to find Manager Tian of Zhenxiu Pavilion.
Shopkeeper Tian frowned as he looked at Brother Hu, who was holding his stomach with a painful expression, "What's going on? Didn't I ask you to bring a few people to cause trouble for the Jiang family's braised food stall?"
Brother Hu was indignant. "Boss Tian, you said that was just an ordinary stall. You didn't tell us that there was a strong warrior in their family. The brothers suffered this beating in vain."
Shopkeeper Tian didn't care about Brother Hu's sarcasm, but blamed Brother Hu, "You old people can't handle two women in the past, you are just a bunch of useless people!"
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