This is just one of them.
Secondly, she needed the date on the box to prove her family's innocence, but of course she wouldn't say that to the big man's face.
Otherwise, if the big man didn't hand over the box, she wouldn't be able to do anything.
So she had to find a way to force the big man to hand over the box.
An Ning was stunned, completely bewildered.
"What do you mean by that, little sister?"
Anle crossed his arms, his meaningful gaze sweeping over the poor, burly man, his words carrying a double meaning.
"This shop is so popular, there will always be people who are envious."
Some people are trying to extort money from us, to swindle some of it to spend.
There are also those with malicious intentions who want to ruin our shop.
Neither of these two situations is unavoidable.
If someone were instructed to come to my shop to buy pastries and then use their own child to frame my shop, then it probably wouldn't have been their child who ate them, but rather the person behind the scenes.
After all, that box of melt-in-your-mouth beans was worth fifty silver coins.
Who would be willing to take out such precious things and give them to his child to eat?
Of course, if using melt-in-your-mouth beans as collateral is considered a benefit to this family, then that's a different story.
However, it seems that what this family needs is silver, not a box of melt-in-your-mouth beans, and they probably wouldn't be willing to use the melt-in-your-mouth beans as payment for fifty coins.
His family would probably prefer their employer to convert the value of the melt-in-your-mouth snacks into cash rather than keep them in their pockets.
In such a poor family, fifty coins were far more useful than a box of melt-in-your-mouth snacks.
Families struggling to make ends meet, barely able to afford food and clothing, would never dare to indulge in such precious treats.
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