Zhang Ran asked: "How do you charge people who come to play billiards in the billiard hall."
Zhang Dieer said: "Didn't we agree that the amount should still be the same?"
Zhang Ran shook his head and said, "I changed my mind. Anyone who wins in billiards will pay fifty coppers once."
Zhang Ran changed the amount of money because he understood the price of goods in Qiantang County. With the per capita financial resources of Qiantang County, he can afford fifty copper coins, especially for those who are rich, because two people are playing billiards, and playing billiards here is You can gamble, and the person who wins billiards can get money from the person who loses. The amount of money you get depends on the size of the previous bet. This is a good way to make money for many people who have no money. In other words, It all depends on billiards skills.
"Of course, you don't have to gamble in the billiard hall. People who don't gamble will pay less. They only need to pay fifteen copper coins." Zhang Ran then said.
Zhang Dieer understood after listening, so Zhang Ran is relatively tolerant to civilians. He just comes to have fun and does not want to make money with billiards. Even civilians who have no money can play billiards every once in a while. After all, this is not It is a poor small county but a prosperous Qiantang County, so prices here are higher.
"Yeah, yeah, follow Brother Ran's arrangement, and I will change the price from now on." Zhang Dieer's eyes lit up and she said, "Then I will make another sign, write the price on the sign, and put it outside."
"Die'er is so smart." Zhang Ran touched Zhang Die'er's little head and said, "But let's put the sign inside the house. After all, they have never seen billiards. It is most appropriate to check the price after they have seen billiards."
"Yeah." Zhang Dieer said, squinting her eyes and enjoying the touch.
"By the way, where is Wu Leng?" Zhang Ran said.
"I'm practicing martial arts in the courtyard." Zhang Die'er said.
"In the courtyard." Zhang Ran said with a frown.
Zhang Ran was worried that someone was causing trouble here and whether Wu Leng could arrive in time. After all, Zhang Die'er was only a child and Zhang Die'er's ability couldn't handle it, especially when encountering those local ruffians, he would suffer a lot.
Zhang Die'er saw Zhang Ran's expression and guessed what Zhang Ran was thinking. She shook her little head, swung her two small whips left and right, and said, "Don't worry, Wu Leng and I have made an agreement. If something happens here, I will shout. Wu Leng will come right away."
In the following time, Zhang Ran concentrated on opening the billiards hall. In just one month, everyone knew about the billiards hall. Some people even traveled thousands of miles to come here from other counties to play billiards, so The billiard hall is packed every day.
In Qiantang County, some people don't know where the county government is, but no one knows where the billiard hall is.
The billiards hall has become a scenic spot in Qiantang County.
During the process of opening the billiards hall, the billiards hall also encountered difficulties. For example, several gangs came here to collect protection fees. They said they were collecting protection fees, but in fact they wanted to take the billiards hall into their own hands. However, Zhang Ran showed his five tiger weapons. When the name of the guild revealed that he was Dong Yan's apprentice, all the gangs stopped.
But the billiards hall is so popular. Even though the Five Tigers Martial Arts Hall can publicly frighten these forces, they continue to take action secretly. For example, some people who come from nowhere come to cause trouble in various names. However, this kind of Everyone was beaten out by Wu Leng who was sitting in the billiard hall.
There were also people who used dark methods, such as poisoning and assassination late at night. All of these people were dealt with by Zhang Ran, leaving them dead and dead.
This method lasted for more than half a month before calming down, because everyone could see that unless the big forces in Qiantang County took action, they could not do anything about the billiards hall. As a result, the two became famous. One was Wu Leng, one is Zhang Ran.
Wu Leng's strength is real, and he beat out many people who came to find trouble, so Wu Leng has a reputation, and Zhang Ran's reputation naturally comes from the billiard hall, and Zhang Ran is not even ten years old now. Years old, so Zhang Ran is called a genius boy.
Because many people discovered that billiards was invented by Zhang Ran, and the methods of advertising billiards were also invented by Zhang Ran. Although Zhang Ran did not show much force, Zhang Ran had just participated in the contest to select the prince-in-law. , although he did not become a quasi-consort, he still ranked second. It can be seen that Zhang Ran's strength is also very high. Therefore, many people speculate that all those who secretly attacked the billiard hall were solved by Zhang Ran. There is no evidence, so Zhang Ran's reputation has spread far and wide.
And those big forces did not take any action because of the name of Wuhu Martial Arts Hall. This is the rule among the big forces in Qiantang County, because by this time these big forces have included the billiard hall as a subordinate industry of Wuhu Martial Arts Hall and started to move privately. The industries of other forces are taboo.
If this taboo is broken, then the various forces will not be able to survive. You want to target my industry, and I want to target your industry. Let alone development, regression is possible, so no one dares to do this taboo. break.
Therefore, Dong Yan found Zhang and had a talk. Finally, Zhang Ran paid 30% of his monthly share to the Wuhu Martial Arts Hall. The Wuhu Martial Arts Hall not only protected the rights and interests of the billiards hall, but also sent two disciples to guard the billiards hall. , of course the salary comes from the billiards hall, but with Wu Leng, there are already three people guarding the billiards hall, and among those two people is a disciple of the first level of blood refining, which is something you can't even ask for. So Zhang Ran was not dissatisfied, but very happy.
After the actions of the Five Tigers Martial Arts Hall, no one dared to mess with the billiards hall. From then on, the billiards hall has been fine.
Although the billiard hall has only been open for a month, it has made a lot of money, earning three hundred and twenty taels of silver. This is because there were not many people coming in the early days, but gradually more and more people came later.
When more people came, Zhang Dieer was overwhelmed and wanted to find someone to help him. Zhang Ran accompanied her to the market and looked for someone who sold his sons and daughters with a straw in his head. There are not many in the city, but there are many in the outer city, so Zhang Ran and Zhang Dieer came to the outer city to buy them.
After arriving in the outer city, it turned out that there were many people selling their sons and daughters. The clothes these people wore were very shabby, and the children they sold were not very well-dressed, and all they wore were patched clothes.
Zhang Dieer picked two girls about ten years old, spent one or two silver each, and took the girls back to the billiards hall.
Zhang Ran took two hundred taels of silver and charged it into the World of Warcraft interface, gave sixty taels to Wuhu Martial Arts School, and kept the remaining silver as a spare.
There were only a dozen taels of silver left on the World of Warcraft interface, and it was almost too late to open the pot. As soon as the two hundred silver were filled in, Zhang Ran suddenly felt full of energy.
With these two hundred silver, Zhang Ran felt confident. He had to do an important thing, which was to catch a big snake as his pet.
This was also the news that Zhang Ran got the day before yesterday, saying that a big snake hiding in the suburbs came out and swallowed several people. Many people went to catch the snake. In order to get more money, Zhang Ran postponed his trip for two days.
Zhang Ran hung the Xuan Dao on his waist and carried the silver gun behind his back, and came to the suburbs. However, the scene in the suburbs was different from Zhang Ran's imagination.
What appeared in front of Zhang Ran was a camp. In the camp, Zhang Ran saw many hunters, carrying bows on their backs, holding spears or knives in their hands.
Zhang Ran also saw warriors wearing strong suits in the camp, but there were not many warriors.
Zhang Ran tilted his head and thought for a moment, and instead of entering the camp, he bypassed the camp and entered the village behind the camp.
Zhang Ran had found out about this village before he came here. It was called Buxi Village. Why it was called such a strange name has not been verified. It is just that the villagers in this village have been called this name for several generations.
Now there is no one in Buxi Village. After the big snake ate several people, all the people in the village fled the village, but the big snake is still in the village, because after learning the first news of the big snake eating people, Wei Zheng The leader of the hunter came here and sprinkled realgar powder around the village, so the big snake was trapped in the village and could not get out.
It's just that big snakes are good at burrowing into the ground, so finding the big snake was not smooth. It lasted for five or six days and no trace of the big snake was found. Instead, more and more people were attracted by the big snake, and they all wanted to kill the big snake.
Don’t think that so many people are here to get rid of harm for the people. They are here for the treasures of heaven and earth in the big snake. It has taken more than a hundred years for this big snake to grow so big. Snake skin can be used to make precious armor, and snake blood can be used to bathe in martial arts. Jinjin, especially the snake gallbladder in snakes is a treasure. Legend has it that taking the gallbladder of a century-old snake can greatly increase a person's blood energy. Treasures that can greatly increase blood energy are extremely rare. If they appear, they will lead to bloodshed.
It's just that this time the news about the big snake was blocked by the county magistrate, otherwise these warriors would not be the only ones, and more warriors would be attracted. However, in Zhang Ran's eyes, there are already a lot of people, and people's hearts are deceitful, so many people don't know how to meet them. With this in mind, Zhang Ran would rather go alone or look for the big snake with them. After all, there are many people coming here to form a group to look for the big snake.
Zhou An walked into the village. This village is relatively large. It may be so close to Qiantang County, so the village is very large. It can be seen from the houses in the village that this village is very rich. Even Zhang Ran can see The brothels and restaurants in the distance are more prosperous and larger than the Dongwang Village that Zhang Ran once entered. They are about the size of the outer city of Qiantang County.
Although there are many people looking for the big snake, when they enter the village, it is like a grain of sand falling into the sea, and no trace of it can be found.
So when Zhang Ran climbed over the wall and entered the village, Zhang Ran saw no one. Zhang Ran entered from the east side of the village, where there were residential buildings, and Zhang Ran entered the pigsty of a residential building, but There were no pigs left, there was pig manure everywhere, and it smelled bad. Zhang Ran immediately left the pig pen.
Just as he arrived in the yard, two people flew out of the house and stopped in front of Zhang Ran. Both of them were two-meter-tall men with fierce expressions. Both of them were holding a ghost-headed sword. Looking at Zhang Ran with a ferocious smile.
The big man on the left said: "Boy, it seems you heard me right. I hid here and waited for the rookies to come in. Sure enough, several rookies came in this day. It was a great harvest, especially this guy's back. The gun is a silver gun, as long as we sell it, we will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of our lives."
The big man on the right said: "Brother, you haven't noticed that this boy's chest is bulging. He must have something good in his arms. This is a big fat sheep."
The big man on the left said: "This boy is only about ten years old. If he dares to come here and brings such good things, he is really here to die. But to us, he is just a boy who gives money."
The big man on the right didn't pay attention to what the big man on the left said. Instead, he looked greedily at Zhang Ran's skin, licked his lips and said, "It's so tender."
After saying these three words, he looked at the big man next to him and said, "Brother, after you rob this kid, let me have a good time, okay?"
The big man on the left is extremely helpless about his hobby. All other men like women, but his second brother likes young men. Looking at the fair and clean boy in front of him, he is better than those men. How much, it is not surprising to attract the second brother. The big man on the left said: "You are like this again. Every time you see a tender chicken like this, you can't walk. Well, after robbing it, he will leave it to you."
