I relied on a system to prolong my life in ancient times.

Chapter 28 New Mission

The next morning, everyone in the Xiao family gathered in the main room. Today was the day the eldest granddaughter-in-law of the Xiao family met with the Xiao family.

Xiao Siyue sat in her mother's lap, watching the beautiful couple walk hand in hand through the door. Because it was their wedding day, the two were dressed in red, looking especially joyous.

Unlike yesterday, today the elderly couple from the Xiao family are seated at the head of the table.

"Grandpa, Grandma, please have some tea," the young couple said as they entered, bowing and offering tea to the elderly couple.

"Haha, very good, this is a gift for our granddaughter-in-law." After drinking their tea, the Xiao family elders handed over the gift they had prepared.

The patriarch of the Xiao family gave silver, while his wife handed over a bracelet. These items were bought in town before the wedding. In the past two months, the Xiao family had sent several shipments of scented soap to Liuyue Pavilion, so they were not short of money and were quite generous.

"Yin'er, now that you've married into our Xiao family, please don't be shy. Just be as comfortable as before. Don't worry, everyone in our family is easy to get along with and will never deliberately make things difficult for you," Old Mrs. Xiao said softly, holding Qu Yin's hand with a smile.

"If that brat dares to bully you, feel free to come and complain to me, and I'll teach him a lesson!"

Qu Yin gratefully accepted the gifts from her grandparents, her heart filled with emotion. She felt incredibly lucky to receive such warm love and acceptance.

"Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma, I will," Qu Yin thought to herself, she would also be a good daughter-in-law.

"Alright, let Siqi introduce you to her family." Old Mrs. Xiao looked at Qu Yin's touched expression and knew she was a kind-hearted girl. She liked her very much and was very satisfied with this granddaughter-in-law.

Xiao Siqi, along with Qu Yin, served tea and paid their respects to the elders of the Xiao family one by one. Each branch of the Xiao family brought out gifts that they had prepared in advance.

Qu Yin was getting numb from receiving so many gifts. She thought to herself that the Xiao family was too generous, giving her either silver or jewelry. She had become a little rich woman right after getting married, and she felt a little apprehensive.

She hadn't expected this. Her family wasn't wealthy, and she had only prepared handmade sachets for her brother-in-law and sister-in-law before, so she felt a little embarrassed to give them away now.

After Xiao Siqi greeted the elders, he introduced his younger siblings to Qu Yin: "Yin'er, these are my younger siblings."

"Hello, sister-in-law," Xiao Siyue and the others greeted in unison.

"Hello, younger brother and sister. This is a gift for you. I made this purse myself, so please don't mind it," Qu Yin said, a little embarrassed.

Xiao Siyue took the purse and noticed the awkwardness on Qu Yin's face, thus understanding the reason.

"How could I dislike it, sister-in-law? The purse you embroidered is so beautiful! I love it so much, don't you think, brother?" Xiao Siyue said exaggeratedly, not forgetting to ask her brother to cooperate. Although it was a bit of an exaggeration, Qu Yin's embroidery skills were indeed quite good.

“Yes, I like it very much. It’s embroidered with my favorite crabapple blossoms.” As expected of siblings, Xiao Siyu immediately understood what his sister meant.

"I'm glad my little sister likes it." Qu Yin breathed a sigh of relief, no longer so worried that her gift was too insignificant and that her brother-in-law and sister-in-law wouldn't like it.

The Xiao family were not the type to be snobbish or materialistic, and they didn't care about such things. Naturally, they wouldn't look down on Qu Yin. In fact, they were quite pleased that Qu Yin had prepared a gift for them, which showed that the child was a considerate person.

After getting to know everyone, Qu Yin had completely integrated into the Xiao family.

……

It's already May, and Xiao Siyue is overjoyed that the chili peppers she planted have already borne fruit. In another month, she can harvest them and then she can have hot pot.

Before, in order to get her chili peppers approved, she racked her brains and thought about it for a long time. In the end, she told her family that she had met a peddler and bought some unknown seeds. She wanted to plant them and see how they turned out. That's how she managed to get away with it.

Because of her soap business, her family now has about two hundred taels of silver. She had always wanted to open a shop, but her wallet was empty. Now she can finally realize her dream.

Xiao Siyue originally planned to open a restaurant, but considering that Peach Blossom Town wasn't very big and already had two large restaurants, she gave up on the idea. She decided to wait a couple of years until she had more chili peppers and open a hot pot restaurant; she was sure that would be very successful. Right now, she only has 10 chili pepper plants, and she plans to save the seeds to plant more next year.

So what to do now? Open a milk tea shop? Milk is hard to find. A barbecue restaurant? Seasonings are scarce. In ancient times, Zhiming had nothing.

Sigh, Xiao Siyue couldn't help but sigh.

"Ding, host has triggered a new mission." The system's voice rang in Xiao Siyue's mind.

"No, how did I trigger the mission?" Xiao Siyue wondered to herself. What was she thinking just now?

Oh right, opening a shop, so the task isn't opening a shop, is it?

"System, what task?" Let me see first.

[Task: Please open a shop in Peach Blossom Town within one month. Completing the task will earn you 30 merit points]

As expected, Xiao Siyue has now figured out the system's nature.

"System, can't you really control the mission?" Xiao Siyue asked with some doubt.

"No, host," the system replied coldly.

This system is somewhat elusive; sometimes she even forgets she has one.

Xiao Siyue thought that she currently had about sixty or seventy taels of silver, which was definitely not enough, and her family would have to do it.

After thinking about it for two days, Xiao Siyue decided to open a toy store. Nowadays, there aren't many toys for children to play with, so she can focus on this area. After all, children's and women's money is the easiest to earn, right?

As for how to make money off women, Xiao Siyue had already figured it out and planned to wait until the toy store was operating normally before doing so.

Next, Xiao Siyue started drawing the toy's structural diagrams. Luckily, she had studied mechanical design in the modern world, so she had some experience in drawing. As for her drawing tools, she used charcoal pencils she had made herself from small wooden sticks. After all, she didn't know how to use a brush. Thinking back to the wooden cabinet she had drawn before, she felt a little embarrassed. It was too embarrassing.

Over three days, Xiao Siyue drew a large stack of blueprints, including building blocks, pie charts, and various cartoon dolls. These were all quite novel, and she believed they would sell very well.

Xiao Siyue planned to have her grandfather and second uncle make some samples first, and then ask the villagers to make them, otherwise the two of them alone could not do it. She would leave this matter to her grandfather later.

There were also dolls. Originally, she planned to make them all into cloth dolls, but since there was no cotton in this era, she decided to make fewer, stuff them with scraps of cloth, and make the rest into wooden puppets.

Actually, there are dolls now, but they are mostly human-shaped dolls. The drawings she made this time are mostly modern cartoon characters, which are quite novel and therefore have a strong selling point.

She also drew a children's stroller, a simple one that can be made of wood. It shouldn't be too difficult; this should be enough. She can make more if she thinks of anything else later.

Xiao Siyue took the blueprints and went to find Grandpa Xiao.