Mao Long's Life

Mao Long was originally just a poor ghost, more exactly speaking, a beggar. During his childhood, his family encountered a flood which not only destroyed their fields, but also took away the lives of his parents.

After his parents died and the situation with the flood was controlled, the greedy people in his village took away his rights to the fields that belonged to his family.

However, they couldn't just take them away, so they even tried to kill him to get rid of all the problems. Mao Long knew that something was wrong and managed to escape in time, but without his parents and any money, he could only slowly walk towards Shenyang and become a beggar.

When he was older, after living on the streets for years, Mao Long entered a local gang and started his turbulent life. However, at one point in time everyone will get older and will want to get a more stable way of life.

With the money earned in the gang and some of his friend's help, Mao Long managed to open his stall with snacks. And so, he has been here for almost 10 years.

But it was also then that Mao Long realized a problem. Even if he managed to open a stall selling snacks, he didn't have much experience and skill in doing them. Because of that, most people ignored his shop and bought things from his competitors.

Angry, Mao Long asked for help people from his old gang, and so for the last 10 years he's been slowly getting rid of all the competitors nearby his shop.

Because of this, his business in this region started earning him a lot of money, and after paying part of it to his old gang, they've also became more interested in helping him keep this street as his own.

This also helped Liu Xiaolan, otherwise where in the city was she supposed to find such a good spot? Most streets where the money can be earned already have lots of sellers, and it's only here where Liu Xiaolan could find a not occupied spot.

Well, partially not occupied.

It's a good thing Mao Long didn't know Liu Xiaolan's thoughts, otherwise if he did know her thoughts, he would probably be angry enough to puke blood. He didn't clean up this place specially for her, alright?

Mao Long thought about Mu Yuchen and his stall for another moment before pushing it to the back of his mind.

After all, the gang has been taking care of these things for him for years. No point in thinking more about Liu Xiaolan and Mu Yuchen's stall, since they won't be here for long anyway…

Meanwhile, Mu Yuchen had no idea about the fact that his stall had gained the attention of his competitors. Well, even if he knew, Mu Yuchen would just scoff and forget about it, since the most important thing in his mind right now is to quickly sell out and go back to his lady.

Mu Yuchen looked at the group of people in front of his stall and had a slight smile on his face. "Everyone, you don't need to worry, just come one by one. Everyone can get what they want…"

"Boy, how much are your chestnuts selling for?" A middle aged man asked.

Mu Yuchen answered, "150 copper coins per bucket...:"

"What, so much? Are you trying to rob us?"

"Boy, can't you make them cheaper?"

"Wasn't it just 100 copper coins previously, why is it so expensive now?" A woman asked, who seemed to have already bought some chestnuts previously.

Mu Yuchen looked at the shouting group of people in front of him and sighed. If not for the fact that his lady loved the feeling of having money, he wouldn't want to be here at all…

He took a deep breath and said, "It's not expensive, you need to consider the cost of seasoning, the wooden bucket, chestnuts itself etc. Once you add all cost, we don't have much income…"

"Also, I can't make it cheaper, since I'm just here to sell, I'm not the owner…" Since he can't lose money for his lady, he might as well push the responsibility for the prices away from his head. This way these people should stop asking for a discount, right?

The woman asked, "Boy, what about my question? Why are the chestnuts now more expensive than when I bought them before?"

Mu Yuchen looked at her face and thought for a moment. Oh, this seems to be the woman who bought chestnuts from him yesterday…

He smiled a little and said, "Miss, when you bought the 2 buckets of chestnuts yesterday, you bought the old version. In the new buckets we have, they can carry more chestnuts, so the price went up."

"Would the lady want to buy 2 buckets of chestnuts again?" Mu Yuchen asked.

Yu Xiaomei thought about it and decided to buy them anyway. Well, this increase in price doesn't hurt her much, and the chestnuts sold here are still tasty.

At least they are much better than what that old Mao sells, so even with the increase of price, it's worth it!

Yu Xiaomei said, "Boy, give me 3 buckets of chestnuts this time. I'll take some for the staff in my shop as well…"

Well, when she bought the chestnuts yesterday, she gave some to her people for a taste and they've liked it. So she might as well buy a bucket for them, it won't cost her much.

Mu Yuchen pushed 3 new buckets of chestnuts to Yu Xiaomei and said, "Lady, the total amount you need to pay will be 450 copper coins."

"I've got a silver coin, do you have change?"

Mu Yuchen took the silver coin and gave her back 550 copper coins. Well, for him taking silver coins home is much more convenient than going around with a big bag of copper coins. "Here you go, lady. Come back again in the future!"

Yu Xiaomei smiled a little but didn't answer him. She took the change, picked up her buckets with chestnuts and went away.