Feng Yan grasped the key point in An Le's words.
"We can only wait to be assigned to the outside? What does 'outside' mean?"
Anle analyzed the situation for Feng Yan with a smile.
"Well, hasn't Linghe Town been renamed Linghe Commercial District? This street is just a food street in Linghe Commercial District, which is part of Linghe Commercial District."
The entire Linghe commercial district is going to undergo major renovations.
Feng Yan's lips curled up slightly; he had indeed heard some interesting news.
This little kid knows quite a lot.
Commercial area?
So that means the entire Linghe commercial district is used for doing business?
Then the Feng family doesn't necessarily need to fight for the shops on this food street. They can take a longer-term view and look elsewhere.
After all, Linghe Town is not a small place. If you only rely on the local population to do business, it will be difficult to open up the market unless outside merchants come in.
"So, according to Miss Yue, there will still be a chance to compete for shops outside this commercial street?"
Anle nodded and whispered mysteriously, "Yes, that's how it is. I'm only telling you this because of my friendship with Madam Feng, so don't tell anyone else."
She said this specifically to Feng Yan, as a small favor to him; she would never have said it to anyone else.
It would be better to pour all the money into the government, so that it can be used to build Jincheng. It's free money, so why not take advantage of it?
Just like the He family, the government has made a lot of money off them.
These prominent families and influential clans are all vying for a shop in this food street.
There's no need for everyone to crowd into this food street. It's not just this food street that will be built; the entire Linghe District will be like this.
It's just a matter of first come, first served.
There may be some differences in timing.
But it's not a big problem. She has the capability, so demolition and construction will be very convenient and shouldn't take too much time.
Upon hearing this, Feng Yan smiled and nodded.
"This meal is on me. If there's anything else you'd like to eat, feel free to eat as much as you want."
Although the prices of the food in this hot pot restaurant are within their acceptable range, for ordinary people, eating hot pot here once would cost a lot of money, at least several years' worth of expenses.
The meal they ate here, and the dishes they ordered, must have cost them six taels of silver.
Yan Qingxue had originally planned to pay for the meal, but after hearing what Feng Yan said, her eyes lit up and she decided to take advantage of him.
So he nudged the little sprout beside him and urged her without any politeness, "Eat quickly, eat quickly, don't waste time. After we finish this meal, we'll go to the next place to eat."
Xiaoya glanced at her good-for-nothing mistress and asked, "Miss, do you even have room to go eat at the next restaurant?"
Yan Qingxue rolled her eyes.
"How can you not have a stomach if it's free? Are you stupid?"
Anle said with a grin.
"Let's go get something easy to digest later. There's a candied hawthorn shop over there, with all kinds of candied hawthorns. I've been wanting to try them for a while now, so this will be a perfect dessert." Candied hawthorns aren't just made from hawthorns; there are also many other kinds of fruits strung together, creating quite a few new variations.
Ladies of high society would definitely love to eat these, especially the kinds of fruit, many of which they wouldn't normally be able to get their hands on.
It's definitely a novel gadget for the guests.
She didn't underestimate these little gadgets, especially since they could sometimes be very profitable.
Yan Qingxue blinked, a little disgusted. "Candied hawthorn? What's so good about candied hawthorn? It's sour!"
"But the candied hawthorns in that shop look different from the ones sold on the street. You've never even tried them, how do you know they're not good?"
Go and try it!
There are lots of new and fancy candied hawthorn skewers there.
Yan Qingxue was highly skeptical. In her mind, candied hawthorn skewers were just skewers of hawthorn berries coated with sugar. The sugar itself was alright, but the candied hawthorn skewers were simply unpalatable. They were sour, and she had never liked sour foods.
Feng Yan didn't care whether Yan Qingxue wanted to go or not; since An Le had spoken up and expressed interest, he was naturally happy to accompany her.
So after eating hot pot, the group went to the candied hawthorn shop in front to buy candied hawthorns. Yan Qingxue was stunned by the dazzling array of candied hawthorns.
Is this what candied hawthorn looks like?!
The candied hawthorns at this shop truly overturned her entire understanding of food from childhood to adulthood.
Did she eat fake candied hawthorns before?
Not only Yan Qingxue, but also Yan Linglan and Xiaoya stood to the side, staring in disbelief at the various fancy candied hawthorns.
Those were things they had never seen before... candied hawthorns!
"Mommy, were the candied hawthorns I ate fake?" Little Sprout licked her lips, showing a renewed 'appetite' for candied hawthorns.
That's right, my little cousin is right, these candied hawthorns do look very appetizing.
"Miss, that bright red candied hawthorn looks so delicious!" Xiaoya pointed at the candied hawthorn made of cherry tomatoes and licked her lips.
Yan Qingxue pointed at the cherry tomatoes and said to the shop staff without any politeness, "Give me five skewers of these candied hawthorns." There were five of them, so of course they would all eat together.
The money was naturally paid by Young Master Feng, who volunteered himself.
Each skewer of candied hawthorns cost half a tael of silver, and the five people spent two and a half taels of silver, which was a piece of cake for Feng Yan.
Just as Feng Yan was reaching into his wallet, he ran into his nemesis again.
Yan Qingxue paused for a moment with a cherry tomato in her mouth, but didn't react much.
Wei Jingran glanced at Feng Yan, who was reaching for his wallet, and froze completely, his eyes practically popping out of their sockets in shock.
Isn't this the young master of Hongcheng?
How did I end up here?
This isn't the problem here, the problem is how I ended up following them around and taking money out of my pocket?
This is unbelievable!
What did she see?!
Is there something wrong with her eyes? Yes, she must be seeing things.
But--
Wei Jingran recalled that when he was arguing with this woman before, it seemed that this young master was standing... to the side, right?
So, the dignified young master of the Red City Lord's Mansion was... shopping with these women?!
Oh my god!
How is that possible?
Shouldn't someone as aloof as Young Master Feng always keep people at arm's length?
I never imagined that one day I would be hanging out with a woman like that!
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