Meal Sweet Home: Farm Lady

Chapter 50

After a lively night, General Yu Lianxiang and others took Yu Ranyue back to Beijing early in the morning.

For this reason, Nanyan, Aunt Zhang, Xiangmei and the others all breathed a sigh of relief, and finally hoped the "God of Plague" away.

Aunt Zhang never expected that the majestic and domineering general would be so knowledgeable, not as vicious as she had imagined before, and partly indiscriminate.Thinking of what Xiangmei has been doing against Yu Ranyue these days, she finds it both exasperating and ridiculous.

Once Yu Ranyue left, it was Nan Yan who was truly relieved.Apart from being able to move back to sleep on the wooden couch in Xitou's house, no one would oppose her openly and secretly all day long, which made her have no peace and almost lost her life.

In this way, the days returned to calm, and they lived day after day.It's just that Nanyan is no longer the one who spends all day washing, cooking and cleaning the house for Qi Yuhao. Her daily homework is to take Xiangmei, who loves to join in the fun, to the street market to sell snacks.

Of course, the food stalls are not always the three types. Nanyan makes improvements based on the degree of public acceptance of the three types of food, or researches new and more delicious foods for the common people.

Gradually, she became well-known in this gourmet street, and people gave her the nickname "Gourmet Lady".The word "beautiful" not only refers to her beautiful appearance, but also refers to the delicious food she sells.

Most of the diners are young and handsome Gongzige. Since then, Gongzige likes to look at beautiful women, but young Gongzi likes to try new food and drink for pleasure.

There are also quite a few diners, mainly rich ladies, but most of them will not come to buy in person because of the image of ladies and gentlemen.

The amount of snacks that Nanyan prepares increases day by day, but they are basically sold out by noon of the day.That's good too, I have more time to work in the field and in the orchard, and then study new delicacies, why not do it.

But when the business is good, people will naturally be jealous.These days when the stall was set up, there were more or less stall owners who also sold snacks around them, and there were a few who had trouble with her.However, it has been a long time to see people's hearts, and Nan Yan's sincerity and enthusiasm gradually moved them, making them all willing to accept this beautiful and capable little girl.

But apart from these stall owners who also sell snacks, there are also some street gangsters making trouble.Fortunately, Nanyan's popularity is good, and the stall owners around are willing to help her out, so as not to be hurt by these gangsters.

It's just that this day is different, the people who disturb the market that Nanyan meets are not ordinary gangsters.

From the west end of the village, a few men with patches on their bodies came swaggeringly. They were tall and short, fat and thin, basically out of shape, and swaggered and domineering when they walked.

"It's not good, the lobster is here. Go, go!" A stall owner who looked like an old woman was busy collecting things, and almost knocked over the pot containing the tea eggs.

"What's the use of leaving now? You can hide from them today, but what about tomorrow? Unless you don't set up a stall anymore." The fat aunt next to her dropped the melon seeds in her hand and said.

"Let me tell you, if they want the 'protection fee', just give them the 'protection fee', and treat it like ten days of this month's business is for nothing." said the hunched uncle opposite.

"How can this work? There are six children in our family, three of whom are weak and sick. His father was bitten off by a damn tiger when he went to the mountain to chop firewood the year before last. The whole family's income depends on me alone. My meager How can the hard-working money be enough for these bastards to exploit? If this continues, I really can’t do it.” On the other side, the sister-in-law, who looks in her 50s, said with a bitter face.

Listening to the people who set up the stall talking about the few people who came from Xitou, Nan Yan and Xiangmei were a little confused.

"What kind of lobster? Who are they?" Nan Yan asked the people at the nearby booth in confusion.

"Long Daxia is the one who walks in the middle of the front. These gangsters have a lot of background. I heard that they have backers. They must be here today to collect protection fees. If they don't pay, they will blow up the stall , Injure people, and see you come out to set up a stall in the future, and beat you every time until you disappear from this Yangzhou city." The old man selling salted peanuts said in fear.

"So overbearing? Are they from the government? What kind of protection fee do they charge?" Nan Yan asked with her hands on her hips.

"How can they be from the government with their ruffian-like bastards? What kind of protection fee? It's just a name. To put it bluntly, it's a regular money grab." Lao Bai sighed.

"Then who is behind them?" Nan Yan asked again.

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know about that, I heard that he is a very rich man."

While speaking, those ragged gangsters had already approached.Everyone put away their heads and whispered, and hid behind the booth in fear.

"Give me all the money, today is the day to collect protection fees, you all hurry up and be conscious." The bastard leader named Long Daxia picked up the cooked corn cobs from a stall and put them on the steamer. Knocked, then stuffed into the pig's mouth.

In the entire market, except for Nan Yan, other stalls quickly took out their money bags and escaped with a certain amount of copper coins.

"Hey? This is the peak season for stalls, you have to add another ten yuan for protection fees." The lobster said after eating two corn cobs, with corn crumbs sticking to its mouth.

"Ah? It's gone up again? Didn't you just charge more last month!" A young man said helplessly.

In the meantime, a burly gangster next to Lobster Shrimp knocked on the young man's booth with a stick, "If you want you to pay it, you will pay it. How can there be so much nonsense, I don't like to hear it!"

As soon as these words were said, a corn cob fell heavily on the top of the burly gangster's head, "When did you dare to call me Lao Tzu in front of Lao Tzu? It's against you." Lobster said with a curled lip.

"Yes, yes, the boss is Lao Tzu, and the boss is Lao Tzu." Although this man is big and big, he is extremely afraid of the one in the middle called the lobster.

"Hehe...it's just a bunch of idiots!" Nan Yan stared at them for a while, then contemptuously said.

"Sister Yan, these people don't look like good people, let's get the money out quickly." Xiangmei kept the money bag all along, and she took it out of her pocket as she spoke.

Nan Yan stepped forward to stop her, "Don't, why should we give protection money to these idlers who steal people's money for a living?"

Watching these little bastards collect the protection fees from a dozen booths separately, they arrived at Nan Yan's place in a blink of an eye.

"Where's your protection fee?" Long Daxia swayed over with big strides, and looked at the half-eaten corn in front of Nan Yan's booth.

When he looked up, his eyes lit up, "Hey, where is such a beautiful little girl! You are new here? Don't you know how much we charge for protection? Let's see, since you are new here In fact, and she looks so juicy, so if you can ease it up, just pay... 25 Wen!"

Saying that, Long Daxia put down the corn cob, and reached out to touch Nan Yan's fair face.

(End of this chapter)