I run a convenience store in the Empire

[Edited] Chapter 10

[Mission 10: Get <>,<> Love Points.] The love value represents the interstellar people's affection for Tang Tang's convenience store, and a person's love value can generate up to <> points a day.

[Note: Mission 1: Unlock the game food.] Mission 2: Upgrade the game terrain. 】

After washing up, Tang Tang cooked milk porridge with milk fruit, a chicken egg, and hypericum blossoms, quickly finishing her breakfast.

She opened the iron gate. It was almost seven o'clock in the morning, a lively time. Grandparents were sending their grandchildren to school, and various fruit vendors were setting up stalls to sell fruits. Elderly people and women were picking and choosing, reminding Tang Tang of the vegetable market scenes from her past life.

This was also a good time to open the store, so Tang Tang immediately set off the opening electronic firecrackers.

Hearing the noise, more than a dozen grandparents, grandmothers, and women who were wandering around early in the morning came to see the commotion. After all, Tang Tang's convenience store was quite famous here, covering a large area but had been vacant for more than ten years.

A woman asked, "Little boss, what are you selling?"

Tang Tang introduced with a smile, "I mainly sell snacks, that is, food to eat."

Several grandparents couldn't help but sigh and shake their heads. Seeing that the little boss looked good, the old people initially looked at her with fondness. However, their expressions soon turned to pity, sympathy, disdain, and rebuke, as if Tang Tang was not selling snacks, but breaking the law.

An enthusiastic grandmother advised, "Child, selling food is not something ordinary people can do. Listen to grandma's advice, do something else. Don't let your whole family suffer because of this."

"Yes, young girl, don't be too ambitious. People need to have self-awareness and not aim too high."

"How can we make and sell food?"

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"Don Sugar, I'm going to buy thirty packs of braised beef instant noodles, and the rest pack in five portions each," Grandma Zhang's distinct, loud voice came from the iron gate before Tang Tang could respond.

More than a dozen onlookers were about to leave, but hearing Grandma Zhang's words, they immediately froze. Grandma Zhang was quite famous in the neighborhood. Her son had a significant presence, working in a nationally renowned research institute. The elderly couple often talked about their main star, but they returned to Earth and had been living in this technologically backward city for nearly twenty years out of homesickness.

Grandma Zhang was enthusiastic and knowledgeable, becoming a leading figure among the elderly in the community. Seeing her show such interest in these snacks, the onlookers thought they must be good and decided to stay.

Someone asked, "Have you tried these snacks, Sister Zhang? What do they taste like?"

Grandma Zhang smacked her lips with a smile and sighed, "They really taste like something from heaven. My Yuan Bao can't eat nutrient solution but loves these snacks. He was hungry and crying, but after eating these, he was satisfied. I need to hurry and buy more to send Yuan Bao to school."

While Grandma Zhang spoke, Tang Tang packed the snacks she wanted. After Grandma Zhang paid with credit points, she hurriedly left to send Yuan Bao to school.

After Grandma Zhang left, the group followed Tang Tang into the store. There weren't many types of snacks in the store, and Tang Tang had placed them near the door where they were easily visible.

Even so, the group was dazzled and stunned, with exaggerated expressions. They looked at the prices on the shelves, which were not expensive but not cheap either. Most people bought two or three items to try.

The best sellers were cola and milk ice cream, followed by potato chips. The least sold were the instant noodles, which were sold in packs of three.

As expected, the cheaper items sold best, but Tang Tang wasn't discouraged. She believed that eventually, everyone would realize the true value of the instant noodles and other snacks.

A few aunts and uncles who had left earlier returned to buy all the snacks in the store in one go.

By about nine o'clock in the morning, there were no customers. Tang Tang checked the credit points and found she had earned more than 3,200 credits, with Grandma Zhang alone buying more than 1,000 credits worth of snacks. Interstellar credits and Tang Tang's twenty-first-century money had the same value.

With less than a hundred credits spent on materials, the net profit for the day was more than 3,000 credits, and it only took two hours. Tang Tang felt good and energized.

The meat floss bread and chiffon corner cakes were sold out, and many other items were sold as well. She added materials to five machines to make more food, making twenty each of bread and cakes. While the food was being produced, Tang Tang looked at the desolate backyard, finding it an eyesore, and called the robot housekeeping expert to clean it.

After more than forty minutes, the three lemon trees in the backyard were neatly arranged. After cleaning, the empty, barren land was exposed. Seeing such a large area, Tang Tang's farming instincts kicked in.

She entered the game to switch the backyard scene on the round platform screen, planting three fleshy hypericum bulbous shrubs and two white sugar dandelion flower beds close to Room No. 1. This would make it convenient and beautiful, allowing her to pick food without entering the game constantly.

She wasn't worried about others seeing these plants. There were many plants in the interstellar world, many of which hadn't been discovered yet. Moreover, while the mainstream interstellar abilities were spiritual power and physical strength, some people had special abilities. She could simply say she had awakened the power to cultivate plants.

Tang Tang took 50 milk fruits and 300 apple milk leaf candies out of the game. The shelf life of milk fruit after being picked was twelve days, and she priced it at 12 credits each. Apple milk leaf candies had a shelf life of two years, priced at 1 credit point per tablet.