Sun Miaoyin looked at the beverage store behind her with gloomy eyes.

Sun Miaoyin secretly thought: After Xiao Jinfeng chose Mu Shuyu, he is living a good life! Although this shop is owned by Xiao Jingting, it is said that Xiao Jinfeng got the share of profits. Except for two kids, all the employees in the shop are people Xiao Jinfeng hired. If Xiao Jinfeng was willing to take some money for himself, no one would know it and even if Xiao Jinfeng doesn’t do anything, he will be a rich man after a while.

Most of the younger generations of the four major families were still asking for money from their families, so there were very few of them who were making a lot of silver like Xiao Jinfeng.

“Miss, let’s go. Miss Miao should be anxiously waiting.” The maid said to Sun Miaoyin.

Sun Miaoyin nodded and said “All right.”

“Sister, you came to see me.” Sun Miaomiao could not help being happy seeing Sun Miaoyin.

Sun Miaoyin nodded and said “Yes! How are things with you and Xiao Muhong recently?”

Sun Miaomiao’s face changed as she said “It’s fine, but he’s not as intimate with me as he used to be.” It was like a slap on the face. Xiao Muhong was cold to her and she was not as full of expectations like before. In between husband and wife, it always felt like something was missing.

The old man came out and then went into seclusion again. Now Wang Lu was in charge of the house and targeted their family branch. Higher level people in hierarchy crushed people to death. Before that, her mother-in-law Liu Xian was very energetic but now she didn’t dare to breathe in front of Wang Lu. The previous scenery was completely gone and Sun Miaomiao always felt that all the servants in the family were laughing at her.

“Before I came here, I visited Xiao Jingting’beverage store.”

Sun Miaomiao’s face became complicated when she heard Sun Miaoyin’s words. Recently, the children of the Xiao family were all drinking the drinks from that shop and many people from the Sun family also drank it. Xiao Jinfeng also sent some drinks to the house, but there was simply not enough to share.

“I heard they could earn five thousand taels of silver a day.” Sun Miaomiao clenched her fist.

It was said that the raw materials for the drinks were mostly grown by Xiao Jingting himself, so the cost was mostly some cheap labor. In this way, the beverage store should be able to earn more than 100,000 silver taels a month. This income was already similar to that of the elders in the family.

The most important thing in cultivation was resources. With silver, Xiao Jingting and his brother would be able to raise their strength sooner or later.

Sun Miaoyin nodded and said “It shouldn’t be much worse, when I went there, the beverage shop was doing very well.”

Sun Miaomiao pursed her lips and said “I didn’t expect Xiao Jingting could actually make it this far.” She had really underestimated this second generation ancestor. In the past, if she knew that Xiao Jingting was so promising, she would not have….. Unfortunately, it was too late. 

“I bought a few bottles of fruit wine from there.” Drinks were suitable for mass consumption, but this fruit wine was high-end and very expensive.

Sun Miaoyin opened a bottle of fruit wine and shared it with Sun Miaomiao.

“It’s delicious and has a very strong aura.” Sun Miaomiao remarked pertinently.

Sun Miaoyin nodded and said “It is limited to six bottles per day in the store and it is sells out every day. If it wasn’t good, it would be impossible to sell them.”

Sun Miaomiao clenched her fist and said “Indeed.” The beverage shop of Xiao Jingting was now a hot topic in the family, and all youngsters in the family were now talking about it. The most promising young people of the Xiao family were now Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng who came crawling from the ground. 

“However, I heard that many families want to open a beverage shop now. If those shops open, they might have an impact on Xiao Jingting’s store.”

Sun Miaomiao nodded and said “Yes! Business is not so easy to do! If business is a bit profitable everyone will stare at it.”

Xiao Jingting’s beverage shop had been open for more than a month, and various beverage stores in Desert City had sprung up like mushrooms.

All kinds of beverage stores, which sold things much cheaper than Xiao Jingting’s store had a great impact on Xiao Jingting’s beverage shop. However, Xiao Jingting shop already had regular customers, the drinks had a good taste and contained aura, so his shop was still widely popular. But the business was a bit worse than before.

 

……

 

Xiao family.

“Linfeng, the business of Jingting’s shop seems to be very good.” Wang Lu said.

Xiao Linfeng nodded and said “I recently saw that many children in the family visiting this place.”

“I heard my eldest daughter-in-law say that there are five to six thousand silver taels of revenue a day.” Wang Lu said.

Xiao Linfeng was a little surprised “The income is so high? I heard from Qingyan that third was just messing around. That shop was small and isolated so it wouldn’t have much business! It can’t be done.”

{edit : third as in their third or youngest son, Xiao Jingting} 

“The business is good. Recently the shop started selling some high quality spiritual wine at a high price. The price is relatively high, but many people buy it.” Wang Lu said.

Xiao Linfeng was confused, “There’s such a thing?

Wang Lu nodded and said “Yes.”

“If there is so much income in one day, it would be more than 100,000 taels a month.” Xiao Linfeng couldn’t help saying.

Wang Lu nodded and said “Yes, the second and third are only at fifth level of Qi Practice. Where could they use so much?”

Xiao Linfeng laughed bitterly and said “The second one is fine, but the third one, if he wants to spend money, it is absolutely spendable.”

Wang Lu said thoughtfully “That’s true.” The resources suitable for fifth level Qi Practitioners, even if they were a little precious, as long as you are willing to spend money, you will be able to get them.

Wang Lu was happy that Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng were doing well, but she couldn’t help but worry about Xiao Qingyan. Wang Lu favored Xiao Qingyan the most and always wanted to help him out when she saw her eldest son falling behind.

 

……

 

In the beverage shop

“You eat too much.” Xiao Xiaodong looked at Xiao Xiaofan disgusted.

Xiao Xiaofan ate so much that he burped “There’s no business right now, so I just happened to eat more. I won’t have time to eat when it gets busy later.”

“Business is not good today and it will be even more free later so you don’t need to be in a hurry.” Xiao Xiaodong said.

“Those shameless people on the street know how to bully people and open the same shop as us.” Xiao Xiaofan said bitterly.

“Our shop is going to take the high-end route. It’s different from those who can only fight price wars. After some time, customers will naturally come back.” Xiao Xiaodong said a little arrogantly.

Xiao Xiaofan nodded, and said “That’s right, our drinks are delicious, their drinks are awful. What Dad makes is the best!”

Xiao Xiaodong said nonchalantly “The fruit wine in the store makes money, as long as the fruit wine can be sold, it’s fine if the juice can’t be sold.”

Xiao Jinfeng exhaled. The price of fruit wine was a bit high. But some people still bought it. In a few days, there may be no one coming, but it wouldn’t matter if there were still 3,000 taels of silver per day.

“Daddy and Dad will need to develop new varieties again. I don’t know what kind of delicious drinks there will be.” Xiao Xiaofan muttered.

“Eat less, you have become heavier recently.” Xiao Xiaodong said.

Xiao Xiaofan patted his stomach and said “I became very strong recently. It’s fine if I eat more. It won’t cause my aura to stagnate, and everyone says I’m cute like this.”

Xiao Xiaodong curled his lips and said “They are just flattering you and you really believed it.”

Xiao Xiaofan was unconvinced “No! People really mean it.”

Xiao Xiaodong rolled his eyes and said “A little kid is just a little kid. Hewill believe everything people say.”

“Brother, you’re not much older than me!” Xiao Xiofan  argued with reason.

 

……

 

Xiao Jinfeng looked at Xiao Xiaofan and Xiao Xiaodong with a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. When the sound of footsteps came, Xiao Jinfeng subconsciously frowned and looked towards the door. Seeing the visitor, Xiao Jinfeng’s mood suddenly became complicated. “Mother, what are you doing here?”

Wang Lu smiled at Xiao Jinfeng and said “You have a nice shop.”

Xiao Jinfeng forced a smile and said “It’s all right.”

When Xiao Xiaofan saw Wang Lu, he hurriedly wiped his mouth and stood behind Xiao Xiaodong like he was facing an enemy. Peeking his head behind Xiao Xiaodong’s back, his big black grape-like eyes blinked.

Wang Lu looked at the space ring on Xiao Jinfeng’s hand “You bought a space ring. It seems that business is really good.”

Xiao Jinfeng reluctantly smiled. When Xiao Qingyan entered the Academy, his mother gave him a space ring in order to reward him. When he was in the mercenary team, he often had to give up his prey because of the limited space in his storage bag. Xiao Jinfeng also wanted to have a space ring, but unfortunately he never had this wish granted.

The one on his hand was given to him by Xiao Jingting, who said that it was more convenient to have a space ring for business. So he forcefully gave him one, saying he got two when he bought one and this was the free one.

The store was making a lot of money now, however, Xiao Jingting’s way of spending money was really not flattering!

“Jinfeng, looking after this shop, you waste a lot of your training time.” Wang Lu said.

Xiao Jinfeng suddenly raised his vigilance, not because he wanted to guard against his mother, but because Wang Lu was too biased and he won’t be able to defend himself if he didn’t. If Wang Lu asked this, she probably wanted someone else to look after the store.

The income of this shop was indeed high. Wang Lu was biased towards Xiao Qingyan, and the pocket money given to Xiao Qingyan a month was only a few thousand taels of silver. However, the business of this shop was on the right track and could earn more than 100,000 taels of silver.

“This son knows that his qualifications are limited and he was poisoned before. So he doesn’t dare to expect any great progress in his cultivation. At present, he just wants to do something practical and earn some silver to support his family. The workload of the shop is not heavy, I can work while cultivating. Mu Shuyu is busy in the fields every day. If big men idle at home, people start to gossip.” Xiao Jinfeng said.

When Wang Lu heard this, she was unable to respond for a moment “Is there a shortage of people in the store? Why are they both helping out at the shop? Mother can arrange a few people to help you.”

Xiao Jinfeng hurriedly said “In the beginning, there was a shortage of people, but now this is no longer the case. There are many shops popping up in town, and some of them are deliberately decorated just like our shop. Our shop has a great reputation and many customers, and people from other cities also come to buy. Those who don’t know how to distinguish which one is ours look for a shop that has children. Xiaodong and Xiaofan are now our store’s movable signboards.”

Wang Lu nodded and said, “Is that so?”

Xiao Jinfeng looked at Wang Lu and said “Mother, since you are here, take the spiritual wine with you.”

“This spiritual wine is brewed by you. I heard that it earns money quickly.” Wang Lu asked.

Xiao Jinfeng said calmly “There is not much money. When brewing spiritual wine, we need to add some miraculous elixirs ordered from outside at a high price. Although the price is expensive, the cost is also high, so there is not much profit.”

Wang Lu nodded and said “So it’s like this.”

Wang Lu sat for a while, chatting with Xiao Jinfeng and then left with spiritual wine.

Xiao Xiaodong looked in the direction of Wang Lu’s departure, and seeing she was gone he said “Grandma, this time, she came because she wanted dad to transfer the store and when she was talking about sending some help it was probably about inserting some spies.”

Xiao Jinfeng glanced at Xiao Xiaodong and said “Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Uncle’s wife is the lady of the Zheng family, isn’t it? I think I saw the Zheng family also opened a beverage shop. However, it is sneaky and it is not under the name of the Zheng family, business is not good at all.” Xiao Xiaodong was full of disdain.

Xiao Jinfeng rubbed Xiao Xiaodong’s head “You! It’s not just a deduction, when did you get the news?”

“I have a way!”

“Those brats?” Xiao Jinfeng asked. He had noticed that Xiao Xiaodong had a good relationship with several beggars.

Xiao Xiaodong nodded and said “Second uncle is really smart.”

“I saw Great Aunt the other day.” Xiao Xiaofan said.

Xiao Jinfeng looked at Xiao Xiaofan and said “You saw your great aunt?”

“Yes! She stood at the crossroad for a while and disappeared again.” Xiao Xiaofan said.

Xiao Jinfeng “…. “

 

Edited by: Tetsu

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