Li Mu calmed himself down and when he walked into the house, he saw Lin Wan playing with Ruoruo with the tin frog.
As soon as Ruoruo saw Li Mu, she ran up to him with a smile and hugged his thighs.
Looking at his daughter's cute appearance, he smiled from the bottom of his heart, picked up Ruoruo and kissed her cheek.
"You two are so close, I'm going to be jealous later."
Lin Wan sat on a chair in the yard, looked at the two of them and joked with a smile.
"By the way, Li Mu. Brother Shen just delivered something here. You can take a break and go take a look."
Li Mu walked forward holding his daughter, pulled Lin Wan up from the chair and hugged her.
He smiled and said, "Then we will stick to you too, so don't be jealous. I'll get the stuff later. I don't know how business will be today."
Lin Wan raised her head and was about to go home when she saw that Li Mu's eyes were a little bloodshot. Just as she was about to ask something, Li Mu stuffed Ruoruo into her arms and turned to go to the kitchen.
Looking at Li Mu's back, Lin Wan always felt that Li Mu was hiding something from her this time he returned to Qingshui Village, but Li Mu didn't seem to want her to know, so Lin Wan didn't dare to ask directly.
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Li Mu was afraid that Lin Wan would find out something, so he didn't dare to look at Lin Wan when he was talking just now, for fear that Lin Wan would notice something, so he could only escape to the kitchen.
Li Mu hid in the kitchen, closed his eyes and tried not to recall what he learned today. However, this incident was imprinted in Li Mu's mind like a repeated brand and could not be erased.
Li Mu was somewhat numb as he prepared things for tonight's stall. No matter what, life had to go on and the most important thing now was to make money.
Having learned from his experience of setting up a stall last time, Li Mu did not rush to the place where he set up a stall last time. Instead, he looked around for a more stable place. It would not be enough to rely solely on the consumption of students.
After all, students of that era didn’t have much money and their spending power was limited.
After some consideration, Li Mu decided to place the restaurant at the entrance of an alley with heavy traffic at night. Many workers who worked the night shift in the factory passed by this place. Generally, many male workers would make an appointment to find a place to have a drink before going home after get off work.
Before that, Li Mu sent some fresh vegetables he brought back from Qingshui Village to Uncle Liu, and repeatedly said that he might have to trouble Uncle Liu to lend him a tricycle for a few days, and he would buy one when he made money.
After all the preparations were done, Li Mu rode his tricycle to the location he had originally planned.
Just when Li Mu had just put the tables, chairs and benches in place, he saw three men in strange clothes swaggering towards him from a distance. When he got closer, he saw that the three men had messy hair, cigarettes in their mouths, and looked at Li Mu fiercely.
"Hey, who told you to set up a stall here? This place is ours."
The fat man with a face full of flesh poked Li Mu's shoulder unceremoniously and warned him.
Li Mu raised his eyes and glanced at him. Not wanting to cause any trouble, he packed up the food he brought from home and did not answer.
Feeling that Li Mu was ignoring him, the fat man's eyes gradually became fierce. He grabbed Li Mu's collar and said viciously:
"Boy, are you so arrogant? If you want to set up a stall here, you have to pay me protection money, one thousand yuan, understand?"
After saying that, he patted Li Mu's cheek with his palm.
Li Mu, who was already in a bad mood, pushed the fat man away and said through gritted teeth: "Don't mess with me, you'd better stay away from me."
"Hmph, interesting. It seems like you don't know what's good for you! Brothers, beat him until he surrenders."
The fat man moved his fingers, signaling the boy behind him to beat Li Mu up.
However, before the men could get close, Li Mu threw a left hook and a kick, and the fat man's little brother fell down like a weak chicken.
The fat man, who had been looking fierce at first, suddenly looked very ugly, and he squeezed out a few words as if he was constipated.
"You...just wait for me."
After saying that, he grabbed the two people lying on the ground and ran away.
I thought it was just a small episode, but not long after, I saw a fat man with a face full of flesh, leading a group of people walking towards Li Mu.
After seeing this, Li Mu curled his lips and thought to himself:
"Why do you have to come and cause trouble today? Aren't you just walking into a trap?"
Li Mu had already prepared for a fight with them, but what he didn't expect was that this group of people didn't come to visit him, but to buy Li Mu's grilled fish.
This made Li Mu a little confused, but he didn't ask anything. After serving them the grilled fish as they requested, Li Mu waited quietly for the next batch of customers to come.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are there flies in here?"
"Why does your grilled fish taste wrong? Did you use dead fish?"
After seeing what these people were doing, Li Mu instantly understood that they were trying to ruin his business and ruin his reputation.
We are all adults, what's the point of doing these little tricks?
"Hello, we kill fresh fish here. Do you think the taste is wrong? If you think the taste is wrong, why do you eat it so cleanly?"
The man was speechless after hearing what Li Mu said, but Li Mu's grilled fish was indeed good and full of fragrance, making people unable to stop eating it. He ate it all up. He originally came to cause trouble, so he could only bite the bullet and say that the fish tasted wrong.
"Also, big brother, there are no flies in this weather. Where did this fly come from? It looks like its body has shriveled up. Where did it come from?"
Seeing that they failed to find fault, the few people became a little angry and were about to overturn Li Mu's stall.
Due to the huge disparity in personnel between the two sides, Li Mu was a little overwhelmed. Just when several people were about to smash the stall, a voice came from the end of the alley: "Stop."
Uncle Liu walked towards Li Mu. After seeing Uncle Liu's face, the people who were about to take action changed their expressions. The leader smiled and stepped forward and said:
"Uncle Liu, why is it you, old man? Did you just come home from drinking?"
Uncle Liu snorted coldly: "You are so brave that you even dare to smash my car. Do you want to live?"
Li Mu looked at Uncle Liu in surprise, as if he had met him for the first time. Usually, this old man lived alone. When he had nothing to do, he would plant flowers, play with birds, and occasionally drink a little wine.
I can't tell at all that it has anything to do with these bastards.
When those people heard Uncle Liu say this, their faces all changed, and they said in a panic: "What...what, this is your car, Uncle Liu, we really didn't know, otherwise we wouldn't have the guts to smash your car."
Seeing the state of several people, Li Mu was sure that this old man must be no simple person. Maybe... maybe he was investigating Wang Jianguo's affairs. He could ask Uncle Liu about it.
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