In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

"So I plan to do better in the exam and go to this academy."

Gu Liang said this with a serious look in his eyes.

"If I can go to the Bailudong Academy in Qingzhou, then I can help you do business in Qingzhou."

Bai Lu nodded and said with satisfaction: "Okay, I'll wait for your good news."

"If you can pass the exam and go to Qingzhou Bailudong Academy, I will naturally take you there personally."

"You can leave your aunt here with us for the time being. I will naturally take good care of her at home and give you some money!"

"As long as you pass the exam, all the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shops in Qingzhou will be under your management."

Gu Liang nodded and smiled: "Okay, thank you very much."

"Bai Lu...I will..."

"If I could become successful, I would definitely not forget the friendship we have now... that we trust each other."

Bai Lu nodded with a smile: "Okay, I believe you."

She really believed in Gu Liang. They were friends in need at the beginning.

Moreover, even if Gu Liang changes by then, it doesn’t matter.

They always need a written contract to open a shop. Even Mrs. Luo and Shen Congyun signed a contract to open the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop, and it was clearly approved by the mayor and the county magistrate.

If the above agreement is violated, she can report it to the authorities according to the contents of the contract.

If we turn around, we can take away their shops and all the profits they have made over the years. This is no joke.

......

Bai Lu, Luo Niangzi, Shen Congyun, Gu Liang and others were all busy.

Two days passed.

People in Lotus Town were talking about it.

"Have you heard? There are seven fairy milk tea shops in Xiangshan Town and the neighboring Yongping County!"

"What?? There are also Seven Fairies milk tea shops in two counties? That must be Bai Lu's work."

"Of course! Our White Lady, who is she? She is a woman who can become the richest person! The richest person in our Lotus Town is now White Lady."

"She's so amazing, so of course all of this is her doing!"

"Does the lady Luo beside her know that she has gone to Yongping County to open the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop?"

"...Oh, my hometown is in Yongping County. Doesn't that mean I can go back to Yongping County to drink milk tea after I return from the academy here?"

"I can drink it here and there, it's so delicious!"

"Oh, you have no idea how popular that milk tea shop over there is! I heard that on the first day of opening, all the milk tea ingredients were sold out. There was nothing left!"

"At noon, Madam Luo and her group hurriedly took people back to our Lianhua Town to restock the stock. However, when they were about to reach Yongping County, they thought that the sun was about to set and no one would come to buy milk tea.

But I didn’t expect that even when the sun was about to set, there were still a lot of people waiting outside, and the milk tea was sold until midnight!"

Someone continued to laugh and said, "The milk tea in those two places is very popular! Do you know Tianxianglou in Xiangshan Town?"

"I heard that there is a Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop next to Tianxianglou. This Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop and Tianxianglou are connected. You can drink milk tea at the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop and have a meal at Tianxianglou."

"There are even many customers who first buy milk tea at the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop and then go to Tianxianglou for dinner."

“This is really wonderful.”

"As for the owner of Tianxianglou, I'm sure you all know him. He's the young master of the Shen family! The one named Shen Congyun!"

"This young master is also a ruthless person. Speaking of his deeds, they are also miraculous...blah blah blah..."

After they talked a lot, some people couldn't help but ask.

"So, you guys didn't tell me, is the Xiangshan Town milk tea shop next to Tianxianglou popular? Is it as popular as Ms. Luo's?!"

"Oh, it's definitely a big hit! It's even more popular than the milk tea shop opened by Ms. Luo next door."

"You all know that Madam Luo has been with Lady Bai Lu for a long time, so she is also the most experienced one."

"But I didn't expect... to be overshadowed by the young master of the Shen family, a genius and business genius!"

"The milk tea shop he opened was really crowded with people coming and going..."

“Everyone loves to go to his house to drink milk tea!”

Some people also gossiped: "After that, if anyone in their town imitated his milk tea, basically those people disappeared the next day!"

When they talked about this, they couldn't help but sigh.

"...This young master of the Shen family is indeed a ruthless person."

"It's because he's such a ruthless person that his milk tea shop is so popular."

"As the wife of the head store, Lady Bai is in charge of the other two branches. Isn't she going to make a fortune?!"

"Oh, that's natural! White Snake, with such business strategies and means, is bound to make a fortune!"

"Just be patient and wait and see."

"Look, now she is the richest person in Lianhua Town. After a while... maybe she will be the richest person in the entire Huai County."

"That makes sense!!!"

"..."

Recently, Lianhua Town has been hotly discussing Bai Lu and her milk tea shop.

The milk tea shops opened in the neighboring Xiangshan Town and Yongping County have all become very popular.

So many people became jealous and began to envy Bai Lu.

But jealousy...there's nothing they can do about it.

Because they simply can't make the taste of milk tea.

And if anyone went to cause trouble for Bai Lu's family, he would be quickly kicked out by the guards around Bai Lu.

As for using power to suppress Bai Lu...the county magistrate and the mayor will naturally not be happy about it.

The county magistrate and the mayor naturally knew that Bai Lu and Bai Qingze had a very good relationship.

In this case, if something happened to Bai Lu in Lianhua Town, wouldn't Bai Qingze have to bring trouble upon them? !

But even so, some people couldn't help but feel jealous.

For example, Deputy County Magistrate Cheng.

Deputy County Magistrate Cheng has a younger generation who opened a restaurant, and the business is doing pretty well.

It’s just not as good as Bailu’s store.

The younger generations in their family look down on Bai Lu.

"She's just a woman, how can she run such a successful milk tea shop?"

“It’s just selling drinks, but it’s so amazing!”

"Deputy County Magistrate, please make the decision for us!!"

"You know... you are not only the father and mother official of Huai County, but also my uncle!"

Hearing this, Deputy County Magistrate Cheng pondered for a while and then nodded.

"Okay then, I'll make the decision for you."

Although he knew that Bai Lu and Bai Qingze had a close relationship, but that Master Bai Qingze... he probably had been in Kyoto for some time recently.

It is estimated that he will not be able to come here in the short term.

In this case, he could secretly trip up Bai Lu, and Bai Lu should not be able to detect it.

Unless Bai Qingze is here in person... he can't find out.

Deputy County Magistrate Cheng just couldn't believe that a commoner could know the tricks of a county magistrate like him.

So the deputy county magistrate rolled his eyes and came up with a plan...

It is now July, the height of summer.

In July, when the sun is scorching, fruit teas are naturally the best-selling drinks in the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop, such as orange juice and Peach Four Seasons Spring.

As for the other milk teas, they were just so-so.

Because the taste is a bit thick and not as refreshing as fruit tea.

In summer, few people can use ice cubes, and those who can use ice cubes are basically wealthy people.

Bailu’s drinks have the option of being served with ice, but they are expensive and in limited supply.

So Bai Lu and his subordinates have been researching these days on how to use ice cubes in their milk tea shop at an affordable price.

Without ice, some drinks lose a lot of flavor.

In Bailu's system mall, the price of ice cubes is slightly cheaper, but relatively speaking... it is still a bit expensive. After all, 100 kilograms of ice cubes cost one tael of silver.

There is no need to spend this money on ice.

With that money, it would be better to buy more raw materials for milk tea and make a few more cups of milk tea.

They gave up studying ice cubes and Bai Lu started studying cakes.

Therefore, the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop recently launched a new product - original cake.

Cakes are easy to make. You can use an ordinary large iron pan or a large iron basin at home, add some eggs, milk, flour and sugar, and you can make it.

It’s just that the proportions have to be right and it needs to be stirred constantly.

Stirring is really quite laborious, and it requires certain temperature and time.

The time must be within two incense sticks, which is within 25 minutes. Even if it exceeds five minutes, the steamed cake will not be so soft and fluffy.

Of course, you have to steam it over low heat so that it cooks slowly, and the top and bottom layers will not be overcooked.

The cake steamed in this way is fluffy and soft, golden in color, exudes a milky aroma, and tastes delicious.

As for sugar, of course you need to add more.

If conditions permit, adding some red dates or candied fruits will make the cake taste even better.

So Bailu put this cake as a new product and sold it in their Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop.

After this new cake was launched on the market, it was sold out immediately, bringing a considerable amount of income to their store every month.

A large piece of this cake is as big as a plate, and it can be sold for one or two taels of silver. Although there are few dignitaries here, some can afford it.

So they would spend one or two taels of silver every few days to buy a piece to eat, and they didn't think it was expensive.

Basically, Bai Lu can sell 50 pieces of cake in Lianhua Town in one day, which is 50 taels of silver.

If you add some red dates, wolfberries, candied fruits and other sweet things into it, you can charge an extra 100 wen, and they will be happy to buy them home to eat.

If I can sell 50 cakes a day and earn 50 taels of silver a day... then I will have an extra 1500 taels of silver a month. Such an income is quite considerable.

Next, Luo Madam and Shen Congyun's shops naturally followed suit and started making cakes.

For this purpose, Shen Congyun and Mrs. Luo came over specially and followed Bai Lu nervously, running around.

In the evening, after the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop closed, the two of them followed Bai Lu back to the Bai family.

The lights in the Bai family's house were on. Pushing open the paulownia wooden door, one could immediately see the lushly planted vegetables.

It was planted by Grandpa Li and Zhao Cuicui together.

There are cabbage, peppers, eggplants, beans... everything you can think of. No matter what vegetables you want to eat in the summer, you don’t have to go out to buy them. You can basically be self-sufficient at home.

We even raised dozens of chickens, ducks and geese.

Uncle Li and Zhao Cuicui usually had nothing to do at home, so they just helped them raise chickens, ducklings and geese at home.

There were countless chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs...and there was a pile of eggs in Bai Lu's space.

They can eat as much as they want.

As for eggs, if it weren’t for the fact that she had made too many cakes recently and consumed a large part of them, Bai Lu would still feel that some of the eggs would have to be thrown away.

There are really too many... The system rewards really a lot.

That's just fine.

"You are back."

Grandpa Li’s clothes don’t have any patches on them anymore.

He earned one or two taels of silver a month, which was a little more than what he earned every day pulling ox carts for others, and it was also easier.

You can also exchange clothes for new ones.

But even so, he was reluctant to do so.

Those clothes could be patched up and worn for several more years, so Bai Lu bought him a long gown made of coarse cloth for summer wear.

The gown looked ordinary, but it didn't have any patches.

In Xiaohe Village, it is considered well dressed.

Looking at Grandpa Li who was full of energy, Mrs. Luo smiled and nodded at him: "Yes, we are back."

Shen Congyun also smiled and nodded at Grandpa Li.

Seeing him nod, everyone was stunned, and then fell silent.

"..."

Bai Lu glanced at Shen Congyun and was a little surprised.

She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that Shen Congyun seemed very relaxed with them.

Shen Congyun came today, still wearing gorgeous clothes. He looked like he was emitting dazzling golden light even at night, and he was rich and dazzling.

The patterns on the hem and cuffs seem to be embroidered with gold thread wrapped around silver thread...so cool.

It must be an illusion.

How could a rich young man like him like to deal with ordinary people?

Bai Lu invited them into the house, then said with a smile: "I'll go cook a few dishes."

I picked some beans from the backyard and stewed them with meat, then killed a chicken and stewed some old hen soup, and then fried some eggs and served some cabbage with mashed garlic... These were just four dishes, so I just needed to keep it simple.

Anyway, there are only three of them in the room now.

The seven little moons had naturally already eaten, and Zhao Cuicui, whose eyesight had improved a lot now, and Grandpa Li heated up the meal for them on time.