Tao Yao originally intended to tease Yun Ling for fun, but unexpectedly, she was teased back, leaving her in a dilemma. She immediately got up and went into the kitchen, grabbed a handful of chopped green onions from a bowl, and sprinkled them on Yun Ling's bowl of ginger and duck soup.

Yunling completely collapsed!

"Sister, how could you do this?"

"Who told you to tease me? My aunt told me that you dislike scallions the most, so I'll let you choose."

Although Tao Yao had been staying at Granny Fan's house for the past two days, she had been eating, drinking, and taking care of all her needs at the Yun family's place. Feeling a little embarrassed, she thought she would go to the kitchen to help Zhang Shi. Naturally, their conversation revolved around Yun Ling.

Tao Yao naturally learned that Yun Ling didn't like eating scallions.

"It's your turn, you have no manners and you're making fun of people."

"Mother."

Yunling playfully tried to get Zhang to switch their soup bowls, but Zhang's bowl was full of scallions. Yunling peered into the other people's bowls at the table; each bowl had bright green scallions floating on its glistening surface. This…

"Sister, how awful!"

Yunling had no choice but to bury her head and use her chopsticks to pick out the scallions one by one, which made everyone laugh.

**

The next day, before dawn, Yunling struggled to get up, washed herself clean, woke up the five people in Tang Ling's room, took the fishing net that Yun Shenghua had found earlier, and also grabbed two bolts of light-colored cotton cloth. Then she drove the carriage towards the city.

When they arrived in the county town, it was just before dawn. Shengfu Restaurant was not open for business so early. Seeing that Wu was not around, Yunling was afraid that he had forgotten their agreement, so she thought of going to the Craft Street to remind him.

Just as she was about to drive off, she vaguely saw several figures in the distance. As they drew closer, she saw Wu the shopkeeper and his men pushing a long wooden plank towards them. Yunling quickly waved and called out:

"Shopkeeper, here it is."

"Oh, I thought the young lady wouldn't be here so early, so I thought I'd come early to show her our power. I never expected that the clown would just be me."

Yunling hadn't expected that the shopkeeper Wu would harbor such ulterior motives, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"It's fortunate that it's summer. If it were autumn, I would definitely be sleeping in. I certainly don't have the shopkeeper's courage. It's not completely light yet. Why don't we leave our things at the entrance of Shengfu Restaurant for now and go fill our stomachs first?"

"Just leave it like this?" Shopkeeper Wu looked around. It was dark all around. What if a thief jumped out from a corner and snatched the planks? Wouldn't that be a loss for him?

"Let's just leave it like that. Even if a thief comes, he won't be able to move such a long and heavy plank in a short time. Besides, we can eat some snacks at those stalls up ahead. If a thief tries to move it, we'll see it. It won't cause any trouble."

Shopkeeper Wu was initially a little worried, but since Yunling, the employer, felt there was no problem, what was the use of worrying? Even if the wooden plank was really missing, it couldn't be blamed on him, since he had tried to persuade her, but Yunling just wouldn't listen.

Yunling would never let these important wooden planks go to waste. When Wu and the others pushed the planks to the entrance of Shengfu Restaurant, she secretly used her supernatural powers on them. To the petty thieves, these planks were like heavy stones, impossible to move without risking their lives.

Yunling also asked Tang Ling and the others to get off the carriage and go to the stalls in front to eat something. The mealtime was uncertain today, so they had to eat and drink their fill for breakfast.

The vendors on both sides of the road had just started setting up their stalls and lighting their stoves. Yunling chose a slightly more spacious one and helped move the stools and tables herself. Tangling also went to help wrap wontons and steam buns. After dawn, everyone would be able to eat hot and spicy wontons and buns.

Shopkeeper Wu originally wanted to order a pot of liquor, but then he remembered that he had serious business to attend to later, so he had to give up. When Yunling asked him if he wanted anything else, he shook his head and refused.

After leaving the stall, it was already broad daylight. The group chatted and laughed as they headed towards Shengfu Restaurant, only to find the doors tightly shut and no waiter in sight. This piqued their curiosity.

"Young lady, have you made an appointment with Manager Zhou this week?"

Yunling didn't know why the door wasn't open today. She frowned slightly and replied:

"I made an appointment, it was supposed to be today, it's impossible."

"You made an appointment, did you tell him what time he would come?"

Yunling's heart skipped a beat. She seemed so focused on securing the venue and discussing the dates that she'd forgotten to mention the specific times.

"I forgot."

"Forgot? Then let's make it..." Shopkeeper Wu originally wanted to say "Then let's make it my ass," but he had just eaten breakfast treated by Yun Ling and received a good wage. He felt obligated to help her, so he suppressed his dissatisfaction slightly.

"Oh dear, that's impossible. Restaurants and teahouses don't open that early. They usually start serving lunch customers shortly after opening. If that's the case, we'd have to work our butts off to make it."

Yunling was also very troubled. She didn't expect that she could make such a low-level mistake. Unfortunately, she didn't know where the shopkeeper was staying this week, otherwise she could have driven the carriage to find him.

Tang Ling thought for a moment and said, "Young lady, how about we look for the back door? A restaurant this big would probably have some servants staying there, just in case something unexpected happens."

"Yes, you're right."

However, when Yunling pounded on the back door, no one came for a long time. She had to find another way. She couldn't just sit and wait for death and waste her time.

Yunling noticed that the wall behind the door wasn't high enough for her to leap over, but with so many eyes watching, she couldn't be too outrageous or perform a circus act, lest she arouse suspicion.

She quickly ran back to the carriage, grabbed a fishing net from the compartment, then ran back to the back door and tossed the net up. Whether it caught anything or not, it was just a cover-up, and as long as she could get it done, that was enough.

Yunling climbed over the back door as she wished. There were two small rooms inside the back door. She peeked through the window and saw that there were people inside, but the blankets were pulled over their heads. It seemed that her knocking earlier had annoyed them, so they made this small move.

If it were a dead body, a collapsed building, or a fire or explosion, these two probably wouldn't have made a move. Yunling was quite angry. If she hadn't been able to climb over the wall herself, she would have poured a bucket of cold water on them and started cursing and wailing at them.

"Tang Ling, you all go to the front gate, I'll open the main gate."