Chapter 85: Building a Shop in the Village

Chapter 85: Building a House and Opening a Shop in the Countryside

"You're speaking up for this unscrupulous boss. Tell me, are you her?"

"How much did the boss pay you to say such immoral things?"

...

"A bunch of sheeple online." Jiang Yingxue closed the video. The friends who spoke up for her were probably customers from the Food Group.

Jiang Yingxue sent two messages in the Food Group.

"Everyone, rest assured. All the food has inspection reports from J City's Guanhua Testing Agency." "Picture"

"Just ignore the false information online. Seeing is believing. There's no need for us to argue with those who have never tasted our delicious food."

"Ring ring ring~" Just after sending the messages, her phone rang. It was Jiang Peiyu calling.

As soon as the call connected, Jiang Peiyu's excited voice came through, "Sister Yingxue! Did you know people are trashing you online? Those people on the internet are so awful! Sister Yingxue, don't listen to their nonsense!"

Jiang Yingxue smiled gently. "Peiyu, it doesn't bother me at all. Don't worry. The food at the stall has inspection reports, so we have nothing to fear from inspections. It's understandable that those people online, who haven't tasted the food, say such things. These online comments can't hurt me. You shouldn't pay attention to online matters either."

"Are they the same reports as last time? That's good then. Forget about the netizens, but the person who filmed the video must be a bad person."

"Hmm, indeed not a good person." (After all, that woman ended up crashing into a tree.) Jiang Yingxue continued, "Peiyu, if you encounter bad people in life, you must tell me, okay? I'll take care of them for you."

"There are no bad people. Oh, right, Sister Yingxue, why didn't you tell me you were setting up a stall in the city? My school is on the next street. I'll come help you tomorrow!"

"Focus on your studies. You can come over if you have time."

After hanging up with her cousin, Jiang Yingxue brought the storage bag downstairs.

"Grandpa, Grandma, try my newly brewed wine." Jiang Yingxue made a "please" gesture. A large wine cabinet appeared on the dining room wall, filled with various flavored wines, a dazzling array, a real feast for the eyes.

They were used to things appearing from the storage bag by now.

Lu Caiyun looked at the full cabinet of wine and said, "That's a lot! You just mentioned brewing wine the other day. How is it ready now?"

"Did you use spiritual power to accelerate it?"

Jiang Yingxue smiled lightly. "Not at all, Grandma. I just set up a time-accelerating array. The time inside the array is sped up, so we can drink it today."

Jiang Xianzheng had already picked a bottle of Spirit Flower Wine from the cabinet. He poured a glass for everyone present, including Xiao Zhao.

"A Yun, Ying Xue, Xiao Zhao, quickly try the Spirit Thorn Flower wine."

Jiang Xianzheng took a small sip and praised, "Not bad."

Jiang Yingxue took out a bank card. "Grandpa, Grandma, this card has two million yuan. I want to build a house on the plot of land in front of Rabbit Stone, a house for opening a shop."

Rabbit Stone was a landmark in Nanhe Village, located at the village intersection. Nearby were a small supermarket, shops, a barbershop, and the village fitness square, making it the liveliest spot in the village.

Jiang Yingxue had only been setting up her stall at the private school entrance for a few days. Due to good business and the introduction of membership cards, she quickly made a lot of money, enough to build the house. However, she didn't spend all the recent income on construction, as the money in the membership cards was prepayment, and members could cancel and request refunds at any time.

If she continued setting up the stall at the town middle school, it would take longer to raise the construction funds.

Jiang Xianzheng and his wife had already heard Jiang Yingxue mention building a house to open a shop, and they supported it.

Jiang Xianzheng said, "Building a house doesn't require that much money."

Jiang Yingxue replied, "It's not much. We should build the best house within our means. If it's not enough, I'll add more later. I already have the architectural design drawings and have contacted a construction team. If possible, we can start work in a couple of days."

Because the Jiang family's homestead plot in front of Rabbit Stone wasn't large enough to build a manor, they could only build an ordinary multi-story house with a yard. In the design, the house had three floors: the ground floor for the shop, the middle floor for living quarters, and the top floor for storage. The house would have an elevator, making it easy to move goods from the third floor to the first.

"No problem then."

They happily settled on the plan to build the house.

*

The issue of "Xuehe Stall selling overpriced boxed meals and snacks" was blowing up online. Less than three minutes after Jiang Yingxue arrived at her stall location, officials from the relevant department showed up, as if they'd been waiting nearby.

Probably due to the widespread attention online, four people came: Zhu Wenfu, Cheng Huibai, Pan Juan, and Mo Yongjun.

Seeing Jiang Yingxue's appearance, they were taken aback for a moment. They hadn't expected the shop owner to be so beautiful, not at all like someone who would sell overpriced food to scam customers. Was there more to the story?

But looking up, the price sign at the stall was indeed outrageously high.

"Ahem," Cheng Huibai cleared her throat, speaking in a normal tone. "Ms. Jiang, is your phone working properly?"

Jiang Yingxue placed the soft jade crystal keyboard on the table. "It's fine."

"Did you call me yesterday? I was busy getting today's food ready and didn't have time to check my phone. Sorry about that."

Pan Juan wasn't as polite as Cheng Huibai. Her tone was somewhat urgent. "Then do you know that the matter of you selling overpriced boxed meals has been posted online? Do you know this will have a negative impact on our J City?"

Jiang Yingxue replied, "I know. I stand by what I said in the video: the food at my stall is high quality and fairly priced. My customers can accept it, so my pricing is not wrong."

Then, she took out a stack of papers from the cabinet. "Please take a look at these reports first. These reports were all done at J City's Guanhua Food Testing Agency, legitimate. You can verify the authenticity of the agency's official seal by visiting the agency in person, or you can call the agency's Director Tao Penghai or Professor Yu Yuande from J City University."

Pan Juan and the other three sat at the Warm Crystal Round Table, reviewing the reports and photographing them for evidence.

Jiang Yingxue brought over four cups of Immortal Brew Honey Water. "Read the reports and then have a taste. See if you think it's worth 200 yuan."

There was plenty of delicious food and Spirit Food at the stall. She could freely give food to people she took a liking to, or use it to solve problems.

To others, casually giving away high-quality food might seem excessively generous. But in Jiang Yingxue's view, only resources from the cultivation world were truly valuable. The food at this stall contained pitifully little spiritual energy, insignificant. The fish and shrimp in her family's pond ate better than the food at the stall.

Pan Juan and the other three exchanged glances. "Shall we try it?"