Chapter 17 Selling Chili Peppers



Holy crap! So this money was lent to me. If I had known this would happen, I should have taken the money and thrown it in Zhang Xiaoju's face myself, so I could have experienced what it's like to throw money in someone's face.

Liu Xiaoyuan thought to himself!

"Auntie, I'm leaving!" Lu Siyao waved goodbye to Liu Xiaoyuan's mother.

"Yes, officer, drive carefully on the road!" Mom had a good impression of Lu Siyao because Lu Siyao personally returned the money that had been stolen from the house.

Lu Siyao waved to Liu Xiaoyuan, and then said to him, "Liu Xiaoyuan, you should get your parents a bank card and tell them how to use it. It's not safe to keep too much cash at home."

Indeed, it's not safe for parents to keep over ten thousand yuan in cash at home.

"Thank you for reminding me!"

"If you really want to thank me, tell me how you knew Liu Jun was the thief." Lu Siyao still couldn't forget about it.

"Sorry, it's a secret!" Liu Xiaoyuan wouldn't reveal that he had obtained the God-level Invincible System.

Seeing this, Lu Siyao pouted slightly, looking displeased. She glanced at Liu Xiaoyuan and said, "Stingy!"

The next day, Liu Xiaoyuan took his parents to the post office to open a bank account and explained to them how to use it.

My parents used to think that it was safe to keep money at home and didn't want to put it in a bank account because they thought it was too much trouble.

After this incident, Liu Xiaoyuan's parents finally realized that it was safer to put money in the bank than at home.

After getting my bank card, on my way back, I saw many people selling chili peppers on both sides of the town's streets.

My mom said, "The peppers in our field are just ready to be picked. We can't eat that many anyway, so why don't we pick some to sell in town tomorrow?"

My dad immediately agreed, adding that since chili peppers aren't widely available yet, they can still be bought for two or three yuan per kilogram.

Since his parents had agreed, Liu Xiaoyuan volunteered to take on the task of selling chili peppers.

The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Liu Xiaoyuan and his father went to the field to pick fresh chili peppers.

Because of the heavy dew in summer, Liu Xiaoyuan and his son's clothes and pants were soaked after they finished picking the chili peppers.

After picking about twenty kilograms of chili peppers, Liu Xiaoyuan didn't go home; instead, he drove his motorcycle directly from the field to the street.

The early bird catches the worm, and the same applies to doing business.

Upon arriving at the main street of the town, many stalls had already been set up on both sides of the road. Liu Xiaoyuan quickly found a spot and spread the freshly picked chili peppers on the ground.

Soon, residents from the street came to inquire about the price of the chili peppers. Liu Xiaoyuan replied, "Two yuan and fifty cents!"

This was the market price, so the customer didn't say anything after hearing it, picked out a pound of chili peppers and paid.

Then, several more customers came in. In no time, Liu Xiaoyuan had sold half of the chili peppers.

As time went on, more and more people came to buy vegetables on both sides of the street, and Liu Xiaoyuan's business was not as good as before because there were more people selling chili peppers.

At this moment, Liu Xiaoyuan saw three thugs. The leader was a shirtless bald man with a dragon tattooed on his body. Behind him were two henchmen, one with a buzz cut and the other with long blond hair.

The three men walked up to the stall, and the stall owner immediately took out two yuan and gave it to the bald man and his companion.

It seems this is a case of paying protection money.

There are at least fifty or eighty vendors lining both sides of the street. Although two yuan per person isn't much, it adds up over a month and adds up to a considerable income.

Three thugs walked up to Liu Xiaoyuan. Seeing that everyone else had given money, Liu Xiaoyuan figured he might as well give some too, since it was only two yuan anyway.

As a result, the bald man in front of him saw the two yuan that Liu Xiaoyuan handed over and asked, "Kid, is this your first time setting up a stall here?"

Liu Xiaoyuan nodded and said, "Yes."

The man with the buzz cut behind the bald man said, "Don't you know the rules? Don't you know that you have to pay a 50 yuan stall fee the first time you set up a stall?"

What? Fifty yuan? You idiot, why don't you just rob someone?

Liu Xiaoyuan estimated that if he sold all these chilies, he would only get about fifty yuan.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Liu Xiaoyuan to ask for 50 yuan for setting up a stall.

"I don't know!" Liu Xiaoyuan shook his head and said.

"Brother Qiang, this kid doesn't seem to know his place!" said the long-haired blond man behind the bald man.

"Brother Qiang, it's been a while since I've stretched my muscles. Today is a good day to practice on this kid. What do you think, Brother Qiang?" The man with the buzz cut said with a smile, cracking his knuckles as he spoke.

The bald man, nicknamed Brother Qiang, said, "Yeah, go easy on him, don't kill anyone, or things will get complicated."

"Kid, it's not too late to pay up now, or you'll regret it!" the buzz-cut man said arrogantly.

The elderly men, women, uncles, and aunts selling vegetables nearby saw this scene but dared not speak out in anger, and no one stepped forward to help, for fear of getting into trouble.

Knowing that a fight was inevitable, Liu Xiaoyuan immediately thought of the God-level Invincible System. After solving the case and capturing Liu Jun last time, it had been successfully upgraded to level 2, which allowed it to summon characters like Soldier A.

As a soldier, he's been trained and seen on the battlefield; dealing with these three thugs shouldn't be a problem, right?

"Hey, system, I want to summon Soldier A!" Liu Xiaoyuan said.

Upon hearing this, the system immediately replied, "No problem!"

As soon as Liu Xiaoyuan summoned Soldier A, an ancient soldier was immediately summoned.

This time, Liu Xiaoyuan was very lucky. The soldier he summoned had been on the battlefield and had experienced fighting. His sharp eyes alone were enough to send chills down one's spine.

When the three thugs saw Liu Xiaoyuan, who had previously seemed harmless, suddenly become so terrifying, his sharp gaze was like a razor-sharp knife, sending chills down their spines.

The three of them swore that they had never seen such a terrifying look in their entire lives.

"Brother Qiang... this... this kid is a bit strange!" The buzz-cut guy, who had been extremely arrogant just moments before, was so frightened by this one look that he could barely speak.

The long-haired blond man trembled as he said, "Yeah, Brother Qiang, this kid's eyes are terrifying. I think we...we should leave."

If the man called Qiang, as the leader of the two thugs, were to be scared away by a young man's gaze, how would he ever be able to continue to operate on this street?

So even though he was trembling with fear from Liu Xiaoyuan's gaze, he had to force himself to appear calm. He said, "Look at you all, what are you doing? What are you afraid of? He's just one person, there are three of us, what are you afraid of?"

"But..." The man with the buzz cut pointed at Liu Xiaoyuan with a fearful look in his eyes, like a mouse seeing a cat.

"But what?" Qiang Ge didn't dare to look Liu Xiaoyuan in the eye. He slapped the man with the buzz cut on the head and yelled, "Stop babbling and get to work!"

(End of this chapter)

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