I opened a shopping mall in Xihuan

Although I had the idea of ​​making hot pot base and selling it, it is not useful for the time being. After all, the hot pot restaurant has just opened, and the reputation of hot pot has not spread. Even if it is made, it will not sell much.

At the end of the first day of business, You Xia settled the day's turnover, and then frowned.

Today, the total turnover of the new store is one gold and eighty silver coins, of which twelve silver coins are provided by myself. This business situation cannot be said to be bad, but it is indeed not very ideal.

You Xia checked the number of guest tables received today, and there are only less than fifty tables in total, which is still a long way from unlocking the new pot with one hundred tables.

Obviously, the way of eating hot pot is still too novel for the people of other worlds, especially its price is not as cheap as fried chicken shops, and the way of eating is strange, which makes it not so easy to spread among ordinary people.

You Xia had expected this situation before. In order to open up the market as soon as possible, he printed [-] discount coupons at one time yesterday, causing several stores to issue them at the same time. Each store had [-] coupons, first come first served .

The specific addresses of Xia Zhisen's stores are printed on the coupon, especially the hot pot restaurant. Because it is in the promotion period, You Xia deliberately left the front of the coupon for the hot pot restaurant, and put the pictures of various realistic delicacies in the most conspicuous place. The location allows guests to see it at a glance.

However, judging from today's business situation, the promotion of coupons obviously did not take effect so quickly.

Maybe he should print another batch of posters, just like when he advertised the opening of the fried chicken restaurant, he hired a few people to distribute leaflets on the city hall square...

You Xia had been thinking about these things before going to bed, and she really did it.

So the next morning, pedestrians passing by City Hall Square and civil servants going to work in the city hall building each had a leaflet stuffed in their hands.

"Don't miss it when you pass by. Xiazhisen Hot Pot Restaurant is newly opened. There are all kinds of food you can imagine. There is also a discount when you go to eat now. You can get [-] off when you spend two hundred. The coupon is in my hand. Zhang is first come, first served..."

"Hey, sir, the new store is open, let's take a look!"

"Give me one."

Dora, who was still holding the fried chicken shop breakfast in her hand, took the poster from the young man in the hat and flipped through it as she walked.

I thought the leaflet was about a new set menu launched by the fried chicken restaurant, but after a closer look, I found out that Xia Zhisen had opened a new restaurant called Hot Pot Restaurant.

On the promotional poster of the new store, a large mandarin duck pot occupies the upper left corner, surrounded by a circle of fat beef rolls, lamb rolls, mushrooms and vegetables, etc. Just looking at the pictures is quite attractive.

On the back of the poster is a basic menu. Du La glanced at it and found that the price is not too expensive. A mutton roll is 38 copper coins, and a glass of beer is [-] copper coins. The beer is even cheaper than the tavern.

Of course, there are also expensive dishes. For example, snowflake beef costs 38 copper per silver coin. Although I don’t know why it is also beef, this kind of snowflake beef is three or four times more expensive than fat beef rolls, but the price seems to be the same as that of ordinary restaurants. almost.

As an official of the Ministry of Commerce and Taxation, Du La has no shortage of money. His family environment is superior, and he doesn't have any hobby of burning money. His only hobby is eating delicious food.

Xia Zhisen's previous two restaurants left a good impression on him, so after reading this leaflet, he decided to go to this hot pot restaurant after get off work tonight to try.

"No. 03, Xiong Brun Street..." Du La silently read the address twice, and stuffed the poster into the handbag.

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When the marketing of the hot pot restaurant was in full swing, Youxia filled up the supplies in each warehouse in advance while he was free in the afternoon, and then went to the carriage shop to hire a groom and two horses, and prepared to take the carnac to send the goods to the store. His four-wheeled carriage headed for the manor he had just acquired.

This time when going to the manor, You Xia not only called Rice, but also brought the little leopard Hei Zai.

Hei Zi has grown up a bit now, his limbs have elongated a lot, and he can vaguely see the vigorous posture of an adult black panther.

You Xia thought to himself, although Hei Zai is very obedient and stays at home without making noise, but he is a black panther after all, so he should be released into nature.

There was no such condition in the past, but now that they have bought a large manor, of course they can't suffer for the children, so this time they simply brought Hei Zi to the manor to raise them, and by the way, they can also let the empty manor have a beast to watch over the house.

They set off at one o'clock in the afternoon. After a long journey of more than four hours, when they arrived at the manor, the sun was halfway down.

The carriage drove into the manor along the flat gravel road. Looking out from the window, the golden sunset light slanted from the direction of the White Tower, baking the large pine tree at the entrance of the manor into a silhouette.

Youxia asked the coachman to take the horse to rest in the wooden house where the serfs lived in the winery, and then he and Les led the little black panther to the vineyard through the path between the wooden houses.

In the distance, beside the sloping land full of greenery, the vines have been hollowed out and now it has become a brown field. There are only a few scattered green trees standing on the bare land, which makes the land even more beautiful. It's desolate.

"The vineyard doesn't look good without vines." Youxia sighed.

Rice knew that he would not buy such a barren land for no reason, so he followed his words and asked, "What are you going to do here?"

Youxia's lips parted into a smile, and instead of answering directly, he asked, "Can you fly magic?"

Rice hesitated for two seconds, then shook his head.

"Then I'll take you flying."

After saying that, Youxia took out the silver moon staff and recited the spell of flying magic that he had been practicing all these days.

The staff suddenly rose into the air, Youxia stepped onto the staff, raised an eyebrow at Les: "Take Hei Zai and sit up."

Les didn't ask why, as soon as he lifted the panther, he turned around and sat behind the staff.

"Sit down, I haven't flown a few times, maybe the control is not very stable, you have to hold on to the staff, and your legs have to be clamped."

Les moved Hei Zi to his chest, seeing the little leopard stepping on Youxia's back and trying to lie on the elf's shoulders, he immediately pinched the back of the panther's neck, forcibly turned it over, and pressed it onto his shoulder, and replied nonchalantly: "Okay."

"Hold on tight?"

"Ah."

"Then I'm flying!"

"Ah."

As the voice fell, the silver moon staff burst into bright light, leading the two of them into the air.

Before Les was ready, the hot wind blowing head-on rolled up the silver hair of the elf in front of him and smeared it on his face.

Because he didn't have a free hand, he had to lean close to the back of the person in front to avoid the hair attack.

The setting sun in the sky has dropped below the hillside, and the sunset glow is gradually climbing up the sky. The bright and gorgeous colors give people the illusion of being in a dream.

Les squinted his eyes, and his heart beat faster and faster as the wind brought more natural breath.

At this time, the elf's vague voice suddenly came from the front: "It's right here, it's quite flat."

Only then did Les recover from the misty eyes, and he lowered his eyes to the ground. They had already flown to the center of the vineyard, and below was the barren land they had seen before.

You Xia controlled the staff to land, and when his feet landed on the stable ground again, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Les put the flopping black panther on the ground, raised his head and looked around the surrounding wilderness and mountains, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Based on the terrain seen in the air just now, Youxia roughly planned and calculated the location of each landscape in his mind, then turned around and said to Rice: "Close your eyes, and I will make a magic spell for you."

Les blinked blankly.

"Close it quickly, I want to surprise you."

Although he didn't understand, Les nodded obediently, and closed his eyes under Youxia's urging.

"Shut it up, don't peek."

"Ah."

The air gradually quieted down, and there was nothingness in front of Les's eyes. In the silence, the sound of the elf's clothes rubbing and the sound of footsteps were amplified a lot, making him involuntarily outline Youxia's position and movements at the moment.

About ten seconds later, his imagination was suddenly interrupted by a gust of cool wind with water vapor blowing towards him.

Les took a deep breath, feeling a lot lighter for no reason.

He asked curiously, "Can you open it?"

"No."

Youxia's voice came from the right, and Les continued to close his eyes.

After a few more minutes, he clearly felt that his body was immersed in a rich life energy, and the surroundings were filled with the fragrance of grass and trees, as if he had transferred from the barren wilderness to the vibrant forest.

"Can it be opened?"

"Not yet."

This time Youxia's voice came from a distant place, and he was still walking towards the distance.

Rice could hear his footsteps clearly at first, but then the sound was gradually masked by something.

His Adam's apple rolled, and he couldn't help feeling a sense of anxiety in his heart. He couldn't stand on his feet, and he repeated the movements of clenching and opening his hands unconsciously.

Because he couldn't hear the movement of the elf, he felt more and more anxious, and wanted to secretly open his eyes to take a look at Youxia's position, but he finally endured it.

Finally, after a long wait, he heard Youxia's voice running towards him stepping on the deep grass. He suppressed the inexplicable restlessness and waited until the other party approached him before asking: "Can you open it?" ?”

"Okay."

Rice's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes, and then his breathing stopped.

In front of him, what came into his field of vision was an extremely wide golden lake. The lake reflected the magnificent sunset glow in the sky.

In addition, what shocked him even more was the towering tree growing in the middle of the lake.

This giant tree is as large as the city hall building, with thick branches and luxuriant leaves. Every leaf is shining brightly. The huge tree crown is like a sea of ​​stars gathered together, full of life energy , even so far away, Les can feel the positive impact it brings to him.

Against the backdrop of this giant tree, even the hundred lantern trees surrounding the lake are not so eye-catching.

"This...what is it?" Because it was too shocking, Les couldn't speak clearly.

"Perhaps," Youxia tilted his head and replied, "It's really a gift from God!"

In fact, Youxia's heart was no less emotional than Rice's.

Even though he took all these out of the system space with his own hands, when the holy water pool and the ancient tree of life actually fell to the ground, he was still shocked by the sight for a long time.

It was also at this time that Youxia realized that the system did not give his Ancient Life Tree a random name, but that it really had powerful life energy!

He saw with his own eyes that the moment the ancient tree fell into the holy water pool, dense grassland immediately grew on the land with a radius of hundreds of meters. The rooms are covered with lush greenery.

Even the Yinglan trees that he sprinkled on the ground and prepared to use the magic of life to help them grow quickly sprouted and grew into huge tall trees at a speed visible to the naked eye, and quickly hung a series of emerald green trees. The Lantern Fruit of...

It is not an exaggeration to call such a change a miracle!

The two of them stared blankly at the quiet old trees and the lake view for quite a while, until the sunset glow faded and the lake surface gradually became dim, then You Xia came back to his senses and beckoned people to walk to the place where the Yingdeng trees were densely packed.

Les followed his footsteps with some hesitation. When he reached the middle of the woods, the sky had already darkened slightly, and the fruits of the Lantern Tree became much more dazzling in the gray sky.

"This is the Yingdeng tree." Les said in a positive tone.

"Ah."

"Why is it in this kind of Yingdeng tree?"

You Xia really doesn't know how to answer this question. In short, the system has given it, and if you don't grow it, you don't grow it.

Although he thought so in his heart, he still followed Rice's words.

"I can't take you to see the real lantern forest, but I can build a small forest of lanterns, even if it's less than one-ten-thousandth of the real forest." Youxia said with a slight smile, "Actually , The scenery we see when we look up from the position we are standing at now is very similar to what I saw in the illusion.”

Les raised his head, admiring the gleaming fruits of the trees, but soon, his eyes were uncontrollably focused on the beautiful faces of the elves around him.

"It's not the most beautiful time yet. The lantern tree at night is the most beautiful. Let's spend the night here tonight, how about it?"

He suddenly turned around and suggested to him, Les looked away a little flustered, nodded calmly, and said "hmm".

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At this time, in the study room on the second floor of the grocery store, Li Youmen, who was leaning on a chair and flipping through the classics, suddenly closed the book and stood up.

He stared at the air with a serious face, lost his mind for a while, then raised his hand, moved the potted rose by the window to his face with magic, and said the ancient elf language to the plant: "spiritusvitae (life spirit)."

The green rose plant shook its safflower, the floating spots on the leaves lit up, and suddenly turned into a green goblin waving transparent wings.

"Take me to the place where the breath of life is strongest."

The little goblin closed her eyes and felt it for a while, then waved towards the Liyou door, and flapped her little wings and flew out of the door.

Li Youmen immediately took steps to follow.

The sound of him going out alarmed August, who was lying on the sofa, and the old man asked leisurely, "Where are you going? Do you want hot pot for dinner?"

Liyoumen had already run down the stairs, and there was only a calm answer: "There is the breath of the holy pool and the sacred tree."

"oh, I see."

August responded, then sat up abruptly, thinking to himself: Isn't the holy pool what Yolanda has been looking for all along!

He immediately turned over and got off the sofa, uttered an awkward spell and teleported himself downstairs, just in time to hit the Liyou door and run out of the store.

"Wait a minute, I'll go with you." August shouted, and immediately ran towards the city gate following the elf's footsteps.