Chapter 1
Escape from home and return to the old business
[The system is activating...]
In a daze, Xiao Yue heard an electronic sound in her ears, with a crackling sound of electricity, which was particularly disturbing.
She frowned slightly and struggled to tear open her eyelids.
What I saw was a completely unfamiliar environment. The wooden beams above my head had an ancient feel. The curtains beside me had not been changed or washed for a long time and had turned white. The furniture around me all had an antique feel...
But Xiao Yue clearly remembered that he was hit by the collapsed shelf in the kitchen and then lost consciousness.
Where is this now?
She stared at her surroundings, seriously wondering if she was still asleep.
Before Xiao Yue could think clearly, the electronic sound just now rang in his mind again.
【System activation successful!】 】
[Congratulations to the host for binding the "Infinite System". This system has unlimited ingredients and kitchen and restaurant utensils, which will help you change the trend of food here. 】
[Ding!] The novice mission has been started. Please find the house deed and inherit the restaurant left by your parents. Complete the task to get points: x1000 and unlock the unlimited mall! 】
A series of electronic sounds made Xiao Yue confused.
Infinite system?
Newbie mission?
"What the hell is that..."
Xiao Yue couldn't help but complain. Just as he was about to ask more questions, he heard the sound of iron chains and wooden doors colliding behind him, as if someone was unlocking the door.
Her heart skipped a beat and she turned her head to look, only to see the door creak open.
A beautiful woman in a long emerald dress with an elegant and graceful figure walked in. The pearls and jade on her head swayed with her steps, and she looked out of place in this shabby room.
"Why are you still lying there?" The woman's tone was especially urgent: "Hurry up and get ready. People are coming soon. What will it look like if they see you?"
Xiao Yue was alert and couldn't help but sit up in bed, guessing the woman's identity.
But she felt pain on her forehead while moving, causing her to gasp.
"What's wrong with your head?" The woman's face changed, and she quickly came over to check her forehead. After checking, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, this injury should not be a problem, otherwise how can you let your mother explain to others?"
mother?
What to explain?
The more Xiao Yue listened, the deeper his frown grew. Coupled with the unfamiliar environment and the inexplicable system, an unbelievable thought emerged in his mind.
It was at this moment that her head began to spin and an unfamiliar memory flooded into her mind.
Her original name was "Xiao Yue". She was an ordinary farm girl. Her mother died early, and her father raised her by running a small restaurant alone.
Later, her father found a stepmother for her named "Liu Mei". At first, she treated her kindly, but her true cruel and ruthless face was revealed until her father died of illness and the restaurant closed down.
Not only did she forcibly seize the family property, she also beat and scolded me at will, and even took away all the money I earned from working.
Later, Liu Mei got addicted to gambling for unknown reasons. Not only did she lose all her family fortune, she also owed a lot of gambling debts. With no other options left, she even wanted to mortgage the deed to the restaurant!
Although her original body did not inherit her parents' cooking skills, the restaurant was the only thing left to her, and she would do anything to protect it.
Who would have thought that in such a rage, Liu Mei actually decided to sell her original body to the master of a wealthy family in the city as the thirteenth concubine!
Last night, she had snatched the deed from the original body and locked him in the room. In despair, he slammed his head against the bedpost and died in his own room...
After recalling the tragic life of his original body, Xiao Yue couldn't help but feel dazed. When he looked at Liu Mei's face again, he instantly got goose bumps all over his body.
This vicious woman!
In the room, the woman hadn't received a response from Xiao Yue for a long time, so she waved her hand in front of her eyes, her tone becoming more impatient.
"Look at you, why are you ignoring me? I beat you yesterday, but wasn't it all for your sake? You're already so old, how can you get married in two years? Look at the Li family, but we're a wealthy family, and the master likes older and more mature women. You'll have a good life if you become a concubine!"
As he spoke, Liu Mei moved closer, trying to ease the relationship between the mother and daughter.
"Okay, okay, it was wrong for me to hit you yesterday. Isn't it painful for me to hit you physically?" Liu Mei sighed softly, her face full of worry: "I did this because I had nowhere else to go. Besides, I don't want to push you into the fire pit. I just introduced you to a good family. I hope that you can live a better life in the future and help me..."
As Liu Mei spoke, she squeezed out two tears, and she looked very emotional.
If Xiao Yue had not received the memories of the original body, he might have been frightened by this long and miserable speech!
But at this moment, Xiao Yue stared at Liu Mei's extremely hypocritical face and ruthlessly exposed it: "A good place? If there is such a good place, why don't you go there yourself?"
Liu Mei froze and looked at her with wide eyes in disbelief: "What did you say?"
Xiao Yue sneered and was not polite to her at all: "I said, no matter how old I am, I can't be as old as you, an old woman. Since you think being a concubine is a good thing, then I decide to give this overwhelming wealth to you..."
Before she could finish her words, a fierce palm wind suddenly fell towards her!
Xiao Yue's eyes turned cold and he quickly grabbed Liu Mei's wrist.
"Why, you want to hit someone again?"
Liu Mei's wrist was strangled and she couldn't hit or pull the weapon free for a moment. She was so angry that she couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.
She tore off her disguise completely and said sternly, "You stupid girl! You didn't listen to me when I spoke to you nicely, and you insisted on making me angry. So are you going to the Li family or not?"
"No." Xiao Yue raised his chin and answered without hesitation.
"Okay, okay, this is really outrageous!" Liu Mei was so angry that she laughed: "I want to see how long you can be stubborn! The Li family's people will be here soon, and they will tie you up. Can you still make trouble?!"
After she finished speaking, she raised her other hand, as if she was going to teach Xiao Yue a lesson first.
Xiao Yue quickly turned over and grabbed the quilt on the bed, pulling it over Liu Mei and then kicked her out hard!
Liu Mei was caught off guard and fell on the table opposite the bed with a scream of pain.
Despite this, Xiao Yue still saw her waving her arms and trying to lift the quilt, cursing and calling her a "dead girl".
Xiao Yue's face was gloomy and he forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart.
The verbal pleasure was only temporary, and this vicious woman actually called for help.
The body she had now entered was just that of a weak girl. Unless she had three heads and six arms, she could never fight them head-on.
If we waste time teaching Liu Mei a lesson, by the time the Li family arrives, I'm afraid everything will be irreversible!
Xiao Yue made a prompt decision and got out of bed, taking two steps at a time and rushed to the door less than ten steps to the right.
But the dizziness on her forehead made her legs weak for a moment. As soon as her hand touched the wooden door, the corner of her clothes tightened behind her.
Xiao Yue turned around and met Liu Mei's ferocious face.
"Want to run?!"
Xiao Yue's breathing stagnated, and she saw a flash of silver light on the door out of the corner of her eye. She looked closely, and the next second she curled the corners of her mouth and reached out to pull the chain off.
“W-What are you doing?!”
Liu Mei's face changed, and before she could react, the chain was put directly on her.
Xiao Yue didn't care and used all his strength to take the opportunity to wrap the chain a few more times, forcing Liu Mei back.
The iron chain previously trapped the original body, and now it is just right to be used to tie up this vicious woman!
Xiao Yue gritted her teeth and ignored Liu Mei who was struggling after coming to her senses. After she fixed the chain to the head of the bed, she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Didn't I tell you that I would give you this opportunity?"
"You stupid girl! How dare you do this to me? Believe it or not, I will break your legs! Let me go!" Liu Mei looked at the chains on her body and realized that what happened was beyond her expectations. She struggled desperately.
But the chain was bought specially, how could it be easy to break free?
The problem is that Liu Mei never took the weak "original body" seriously from the beginning to the end. Now that she is treated like this, it is naturally unbelievable.
Xiao Yue thought it was funny, so he slowed down his tone as if teasing, "Look at you, why are you so anxious? I'm doing this for your own good, right? You said that the old man likes older, more mature women, so wouldn't it be better for you to be his concubine yourself?"
The original body is dead. As a modern person with modern thoughts, Xiao Yue would never become someone's concubine!
Recalling the pain of her original life, she had no reason to stay in this home that was not her home.
The best solution now is to be bolder and just run, run far away!
As for the mess that followed, what did it have to do with her?
Liu Mei had it all her own fault. Now her plans had failed. Not only did she owe a lot of gambling debts, but even her deal with the Li family had come to an end.
After all, she took the money but couldn't hand over the person, so the Li family would never let her go.
Kill two birds with one stone!
And...it could be considered that she traveled through time and space to this body to avenge her cowardly original self.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yue restrained his expression and ignored Liu Mei who was shouting and screaming. Recalling the stolen house deed, he searched her body without thinking.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, Xiao Yue found a dark yellow, old piece of paper from the inside of her clothes.
It’s the restaurant’s title deed!
"This is mine!" Seeing this, Liu Mei's struggling movements made the chains clang, and her eyes seemed to be spitting fire: "Give it back to me! Give it back to me!"
Your stuff?
"You don't even care about your reputation anymore." Xiao Yue sneered, put away the house deed, and turned away without mercy.
"Xiao Yue!!"
The moment she walked out of the room, Liu Mei fell to the ground along with the table, her clothes were stained, her hair was disheveled, and she screamed like a madman.
"Xiao Yue! You can't do this to me! If your father knew in the underworld that you treated me like this, he would never let you go!!"
Xiao Yue looked at him mockingly and slammed the door shut.
…
Liuyun City is located in the south and is a medium-sized city. At this moment, the red glow in the sky is like a flaming cloud, and the arrival of night will soon bring peace to this small city.
Even so, the number of pedestrians on the street did not decrease.
Some were drinking together in groups of two or three, some were traveling with loads on their shoulders, the hawking of vendors from the stalls on both sides could be heard incessantly, and there were countless delicacies displayed everywhere as far as the eye could see.
Along the way, Xiao Yue's eyes were almost dazzled, and he slowly put the ridiculous things that had happened before behind him.
As she watched, she sighed in her heart, it was indeed a place where delicious food was popular!
It seems that if I want to open a store in the future, I must show my unique skills.
The moment he left the Xiao family, Xiao Yue, holding the house deed in his hand, had already planned his future in his mind.
After all, she didn't know how to return to the modern era, so she had to find a way to make a living.
Xiao Yue thought about it and decided to go back to his old business and open a self-service restaurant.
She learned from her original body's memory that the country where her original body lived was called Dachen. It was a rich country with a strong people. Not only was there no war, but the people also lived and worked in peace and contentment.
When almost everyone had enough food and clothing, the entertainment and food industries gradually flourished.
The same is true in Liuyun City, with restaurants and food stalls everywhere.
But unlike what Xiao Yue thought, that so many stores would compete to lower prices in order to attract customers, they generally sell at extremely high prices.
For example, a serving of stir-fried pork with green peppers costs at least two hundred copper coins!
This is just an ordinary home-cooked dish, and the cost of ingredients is not high at all.
If it were Xiao Yue, she could not only cook delicious dishes with the same ingredients, but also price the dish at no more than ten copper coins.
Of course, regardless of how this dish turns out, Xiao Yue, after understanding the food trends of this era, seized the opportunity to explore a new business path.
For example, self-service restaurants, which were already novel in ancient times, can now be made more affordable!
No matter how powerful the Dachen Kingdom is, the remote Liuyun City is not an extremely wealthy city. The food prices are so high that ordinary people have long been helpless.
Well, if a cheap, delicious restaurant with unlimited food appears at this time, it will surely attract customers like a bolt from the blue.
Xiao Yue is confident that this way of making a living is feasible.
But of course there was a problem, which was... she didn't have much money.
Even if he took the purse from Liu Mei without any guilt, there was only less than one or two taels of silver in it, which was probably only enough to buy groceries for half a month.
Not to mention...
Xiao Yue slowly stopped and looked at the shabby little restaurant in front of him, falling into deep thought.
Not to mention, perhaps the money to renovate the small restaurant would have to be added.
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