Luo Chen didn't know that someone was going to give him a big gift again.
After sending Mi Junping away, he got busy again.
Tables and chairs, tea sets, customized porcelain cups, charcoal stoves...
Each item that was not very valuable but was tedious was gradually prepared under his care.
During this process, the bodyguards assigned to him by the Poshan Gang made great contributions and were specifically responsible for running errands.
In comparison, his favorite store manager and milk tea girl Feng Xia did not participate in these things.
All she has to do is become familiar with making tea soup and making milk tea according to Luo Chen's recipe.
In addition, Luo Chen also asked Gu Caiyi for help.
The monks still have some taste for elegance. Whether it's drinking wine or tea, you can't just give it to him directly. You need some elegant techniques.
This is the so-called sense of ritual.
This kind of elegance is extremely obvious among wealthy monks.
For example, someone likes to play with a folding fan when he has nothing to do, but he doesn’t know how cold it is in winter.
The people at Tianxiang Tower know this very well, and Gu Caiyi naturally knows it too.
He asked Gu Caiyi to teach Feng Xia some beautiful tea-making techniques during her free time.
In other words, it is no longer a method.
It’s a summary of body shape, posture, eyes, hand posture, etc.
In short, what finally appeared in front of Luo Chen was a quiet scene of a virtuous woman making tea with bare hands.
The extremely slim-fitting robes highlight your graceful figure.
The plain white sleeved coat is draped over the body, giving an extra sense of tranquility.
She has a slightly high bun on her head, and she also wears the Miaochang bun often worn by female Taoist priests.
Under the two green ribbons, the fine hair revealed a face that was not stunning, but very attractive.
As Feng Xia elegantly added the Fuzhu deer milk mixed with herbal spring water, a steaming cup of Fuzhu milk tea was considered a success.
"Brother Qin, do you want to try it?"
Qin Liangchen waved his hands quickly, "No, no, I won't drink this stuff even if you kill me."
"Forget it, I'll do it myself!"
Luo Chen took the flowered porcelain cup and took a sip from the bamboo straw that the bodyguard had recently cut.
Feng Xia looked at him nervously, while Qin Liangchen waited to see the joke.
Over in the east wing, Duan Feng was half lying on a rocking chair, watching this scene curiously.
Without making everyone wait too long, Luo Chen nodded slightly.
"Okay, it's almost exactly the same as the milk tea I made."
When he said this, Feng Xia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
She pulled at her slim-fitting robe uncomfortably, "Then when will we open?"
"Just tomorrow! Aren't there a group of death row prisoners who want to fight monsters? There will definitely be enough potential people by then!"
Luo Chen set a time for opening, but it has been delayed for a long time recently.
It’s better to choose a day than to hit it. It’s better to open your business as early as possible and make profits as soon as possible.
"Also, let me give you a few more words. Sister Xia, try to talk as little as possible and concentrate on making milk tea and selling milk tea."
Feng Xia naturally knows the reason for talking less.
But she was still a little worried, "Is it really possible?"
"Don't worry, I've arranged everything!"
Luo Chen was extremely confident and showed a confident smile.
Seeing how confident he was, others were also infected and no longer worried.
"Xiao Duan, we may be very busy today. I've prepared your medicine for you. You can just heat it up at noon."
Just after dawn, a hoarse voice came from the living room.
Duan Feng opened his eyes and let out a dull sigh.
He knew that the small shop called "Mixue Ice City" would open today.
The boss is Luo Chen, and the shopkeeper is Feng Xia.
In fact, Feng Xia will be busy alone inside and outside the store from now on.
But even so, he was happy for Feng Xia.
Sister Xia is a very good person, and it is undoubtedly great to have a job that supports herself.
And the man who offered the job...
Duan Feng felt warm in his heart when his eyes fell on the empty jade bottle in front of the bed.
.....
In Baishi Square, the sky is getting brighter.
Many people are already busy, including Yuan Xiaoyue who left the stall early.
As the forum became more and more popular, the business atmosphere in Baishi Square gradually became more lively.
Even if there isn't a very popular battle, the vendors here will habitually set up stalls.
Occasionally, the vendors would also turn their attention to the closed shops nearby.
I was imagining in my heart how long it would take to earn enough spiritual stones to rent a shop of my own.
Work hard, the days will only get better and better!
But today, those small vendors found that a small shop had opened early.
Several unique flower baskets were placed on both sides.
"Is this a new store?"
Above the store, a wooden plaque has marked the sign.
"Mixue Ice City"
"What is this for sale?"
Listening to several acquaintances nearby discussing that store, Yuan Xiaoyue was also looking forward to it.
Milk tea was originally given to her to sell, but because it was too simple and tasted bad, she never sold much.
Now Brother Luo Chen has changed his approach and launched it in such a "grand" way.
I hope it will sell like crazy!
As more and more people came to the square, some people also noticed the Mixue Bingcheng store.
They don't know what this store sells, so they are not interested.
Suddenly, an extremely sweet voice sounded.
"You love me and I love you
Mixue ice city sweet honey
you love me i love you
Mixue Ice City Sweet Honey"
Everyone was stunned, listening to the repeated lyrics.
It's very simple, everyone can understand it, but they still don't know what it is selling.
This is the song. After listening to it for a long time, my mind and mouth are humming subconsciously.
In the corner of the square, Luo Chen looked at the crowded shop entrance and breathed a sigh of relief at first.
The Tianlai ball I bought from Wanbaolou is really useful.
After recording the singing voice of the sister from Tianxiang Tower, and then using the spirit stone to stimulate it, she could sing this plagiarized advertising song at any time.
However, this method alone is not enough to run the store.
His eyes fell on the dozen or so familiar monks in front of him.
"You must be tired lately!"
Tang Quan scratched his head and said, "You're not tired. I haven't made any elixirs recently, so we can relax."
Mi Li, Roldo and others also nodded.
"If you say you are tired, you are tired!"
Luo Chen glared at him, "Now I'll give you some rewards and treat you to milk tea!"
In the eyes of everyone's doubts, Luo Chen gave out five spiritual stones to each of them, and scattered nearly a hundred spiritual stones in total.
Everyone was so happy!
The hall master is so generous today!
He actually found a spiritual stone.
"Now, you go to the Mixue Ice City to buy milk tea. Each of you will have a cup and wait in line to buy it."
"After I bought it, I drank it in the square. While drinking it, I praised how delicious the milk tea was. The voice must be loud!"
"After you finish drinking, go around for a while, then come back and continue queuing until you have spent all the spiritual stones I gave you!"
"Do you understand?"
Everyone was stunned. It took a long time to get the spirit stone as a reward!
However, the hall master asked them to buy the Laoshizi milk tea, but they could drink it themselves.
A piece of spiritual stone and a cup of milk tea, they want to taste what it tastes like!
Normally, monks like them who are in the early and middle stages of Qi refining don't have many spirit stones in their hands.
Even though I heard that a meal in Zhong Ding's family often cost dozens or hundreds of spiritual stones, I just heard about it.
Now that I can't afford to eat at Zhong Ding's, drinking a sip of square milk tea is considered enjoyment.
Soon, they swarmed in and lined up in a long line outside the store in Mixue Bingcheng.
The first one to buy milk tea was Tangquan who was the fastest.
"Shopkeeper, what do you have here?"
Feng Xia glanced at him, then pointed to a wooden sign in front of the door.
It says, "Husband, milk tea, one cup of spiritual stone."
Tang Quan handed over a spiritual stone without hesitation, "Have a drink."
"Would you like something hot or cold?"
"Of course it's hot. Who drinks cold milk tea in the winter?"
Feng Xia nodded and started mixing milk tea.
Tang Quan was bored and looked at it casually.
At the first moment, of course, attention was focused on the shopkeeper. Not surprisingly, he had a pretty good figure!
The next time, his eyes fell on the wall at the back of the store, with several lines of words densely written on it.
"Fuzhu milk tea is made from high-quality milk source from the first-order monster Fuzhulu. The tea is carefully prepared from thousand-year-old tea trees in the Guyuan Mountains..."
After reading it, Tang Quan couldn't help but wipe his eyes.
What kind of drink is this? It has such a great origin!
Monster milk, thousand-year-old spirit tea, ancient spirit tea formula, prepared by a tea ceremony master, and only sell one spirit stone?
Unconsciously, a flowered porcelain cup was handed to him.
After taking the cup, he got out of the way and came to the square outside.
After taking a sip, the taste was a bit strange.
It has a rich milky taste but is light and sweet in the mouth. After drinking it, the fragrance will linger on your lips and teeth.
Thinking of Luo Chen's instructions, he shouted loudly.
"Delicious!"
Attracting the attention of the monk next to him.
Tang Quan's eyes lit up, and he deliberately walked past them. As he walked, he said loudly: "This kind of spiritual tea only costs one spiritual stone for a cup. It's really cheap for me. I will come to buy a cup tomorrow!"
After a while, he walked to the corner of the square.
Luo Chen didn't look at him, his eyes fell outside Mixue Bingcheng store.
In addition to the sitter he sent, there were already one or two strange monks who were beginning to line up at the end of the queue.
Looking back, Luo Chen smiled and patted Tang Quan on the shoulder.
"Well done!"
"After a while, go to the queue again!"
After being praised by Luo Chen, Tang Quan smiled.
I took another sip of the hot milk tea, thinking that I might as well try the iced milk tea later and what it would taste like.
Next, Luo Chen praised several monks in the Alchemy Hall and asked them to keep up their efforts.
Then Luo Chen quietly blended into the crowd and collected feedback from customers.
"It is indeed an ancient tea formula. It is so compatible with animal milk without any fishy smell."
"The last time I drank milk was the last time. It's been a long time since I drank milk, so it doesn't taste like that!"
"Have you noticed that the shopkeeper's tea ceremony skills are also quite good!"
"Tch, you haven't discovered the real good thing. Have you seen my steaming cup of milk tea? Do you know what the shopkeeper uses to make the milk tea ice?"
"Didn't you realize that she actually used a high-grade ice flying sword?"
"Hiss, use a high-grade magic weapon to make milk tea?"
"To be honest, I didn't believe those gimmicks at first, but when I saw her using the cold air of the ice flying sword to cool down, I started to believe it. Without such harsh means, how could such a magical tea be prepared! "
Word by word, Luo Chen collected a lot of feedback.
After the final summary, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
From the current point of view, the new formula of Fuzhu milk tea is still acceptable to the monks.
this
In these days, anything related to aura is more or less marketable.
The cost of Fuzhu milk tea is actually very low.
Animal milk is not valuable, so Ke Yuelin asked him for 300 yuan a month.
Those tea leaves are not valuable either. There are several tea trees found in the medicine hall. If they are not enough, they can be replaced with other ordinary tea leaves.
As for medicinal materials, Feng Xia can also get high-quality and low-priced materials from her former colleagues.
Overall, the materials costing one spiritual stone can completely prepare five cups of Fuzhu milk tea.
After deducting miscellaneous expenses such as rent and customized flower porcelain cups, the profit is still considerable.
"It's hard to calculate how much spiritual stone you can earn in a month, but if you manage it carefully, you won't lose money."
Luo Chen had an idea in his mind and no longer focused on it.
Feng Xia is also a female nun with rich experience, and Yuan Xiaoyue is not far away. With the two of them taking care of each other, the shop can always survive.
Moreover, when laid-off female cultivators are re-employed, their work enthusiasm cannot be matched by any employee.
He returned to the courtyard leisurely, only to find that someone was already waiting for him.
Mi Junping was sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard with a stinking look on her face.
Opposite her was Duan Feng, who was dragging his sick body and cooking medicine. His face was pale.
"Why are you so unloving? Isn't it inconvenient that you can't see the patient?"
Luo Chen trotted over and helped Duan Feng bring the hot medicinal soup.
Duan Feng nodded to him and said softly: "This woman has been waiting for you for a long time."
Luo Chen hummed, helped him back to the house, and then clapped his hands and walked out.
As soon as she saw him coming out, Mi Junping stood up suddenly.
"Just finish your business!"
"We, the casual cultivators, work hard for the sake of the great road, and we never have a busy day."
"you!"
Mi Junping took a deep breath, said nothing, and patted the storage bag.
Five formation flags of different colors appeared in his hands.
She slapped it on the stone table, sent out a sound transmission, then turned around and left.
"This is the small spirit gathering array that my father lent you. You can take care of it yourself!"
Luo Chen's eyes lit up, the spirit gathering array!
He had admired this name for a long time.
I couldn't put it down and picked up the formation flags, smiling from ear to ear.
"I will take care of myself, for sure!"...
In the room full of medicinal smell, Duan Feng put down the porcelain bowl.
Feel the heat flowing through your body, gradually spreading to your limbs.
The freezing air that originally filled his body became increasingly scarce.
"Come out!"
He opened a bag and saw a colorful pheasant coming out.
Pheasants are quite large, almost half a man tall.
As soon as it came out, it lay down next to Duan Feng, without its usual air.
Seeing this scene, Duan Feng sighed.
I have been recovering from injuries recently, so I cannot feed this first-order Yangwu chicken. I am afraid that I will starve to death if I continue to starve for a while.
From the storage bag, he took out a handful of spiritual rice and fed it to Yangwu Chicken.
Duan Feng spat out a few syllables in his mouth, and when he heard the sound, the Yang Wu Chicken cooed twice in response.
Seeing this, Duan Feng no longer hesitated, sat cross-legged on the bed, and started to run the technique.
The Yangwu chicken was pecking at the rice while keeping a watchful eye on the side.
Thanks to the small bottle of pulse-replenishing liquid that Luo Chen gave him, his meridian injuries were almost healed.
There is still some cold air left in the body, but it cannot be driven away by just relying on medicinal soup.
You have to use your spiritual power to expel the cold air as soon as possible, so that you can recover the injuries to your bones and organs.
But after the technique was running for a while, Duan Feng noticed something was wrong.
"Why is the spiritual power in the outside world so thin?"
"Is this the spirit gathering array?"
Luo Chen slowly opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and felt refreshed.
Luo Chen fell into deep thought as his eyes fell on the formation flags surrounding him in five directions.
The method of activating this small spirit gathering array is very simple.
You only need to stuff five spiritual stones into the end of the formation flag, and then you can use it dozens of times.
Once activated, the formation flag will actively absorb the nearby free spiritual energy of heaven and earth and confine it in a small area.
Monks practicing in this area will get twice the result with half the effort.
"But most of the spiritual energy in the inner city has been swallowed up by those sect forces. Even if I use a small spirit gathering array, I can't steal it from them."
The sect's spirit gathering array would only be better than the one Mi Shuhua gave him.
Even after testing it just now, Luo Chen felt that the concentration of spiritual energy around him was three to four points higher than usual.
However, there was another effect of the Spirit Gathering Array that made Luo Chen a little excited.
"Reiki can be divided into yin and yang, but it also has the attributes of the five elements. In this spirit gathering array, as long as you use the manipulation technique and use one of the formation flags as the main one, you can actively absorb the corresponding single five-element spiritual energy."
"My natal Kung Fu is the Changchun Kung Fu, which belongs to the Wood Element."
"If I use a small spirit gathering array to convert a large amount of wood attribute spiritual energy in a place with abundant spiritual energy, then when I practice, the effect will be extremely good!"
Luo Chen has a place where spiritual energy is abundant.
That is the Spirit Vein Cave under Xianyue Valley.
That was a branch of the first-order spiritual vein in Luofeng Mountain, which was usually enough to support his solo practice.
What if we use the small spirit gathering array again? .
That night, Feng Xia returned to the yard excitedly and met Luo Chen.
"This is today's profit!"
"Two hundred spiritual stones in total!"
"Luo Chen, the milk tea shop is actually so profitable!"
But soon, Luo Chen poured cold water on her.
He said that some of the guests were brought in by him, and those were the shills.
When Mixue Bingcheng has a stable customer base in the future, these shills will be removed.
"After deducting these one hundred spiritual stones, the rest is today's income."
"And not every day, there will be popular games like today, and the revenue will not be as high as today."
After hearing these words, Feng Xia's excited mood calmed down.
But even so, she was also very happy.
Luo Chen took away a hundred spiritual stones and left the rest with Feng Xia.
"The income from the store will be settled every month from now on."
"I will arrange for people to deliver all kinds of raw materials to the store."
"From now on, it's all your fault, Sister Xia."
Feng Xia shook her head quickly, "It's not troublesome, after all, I also earn spiritual stones."
Not only that, the look in Luo Chen's eyes was also filled with gratitude.
Luo Chen was not too reassured about this version of "Mixue Ice City" in the world of immortality.
Just like Chenyue Food Stall, it was just a small business he started casually.
His main business still has to be on alchemy.
Compared to alchemy, which can easily yield several times or dozens of times the income, whether it is snacks or milk tea, they all pale in comparison.
Therefore, just like Chenyue Snack Stall, Luo Chen also gave Feng Xia a share of the milk tea shop's dividends in addition to his fixed salary.
Not much, just 5%, just to inspire her enthusiasm for work.
"What about these magical weapons?"
Feng Xia took out three magical instruments, a pot, a ball, and a sword.
Tunbona Hai Kettle, Heavenly Sound Ball, Ice-type high-grade flying sword.
"I'll leave it all to you. After all, it's needed to open a shop. I will try my best to find a magic weapon that can be heated in the future, so that you don't need to activate the fireball spell all the time."
Using the fireball technique to prepare milk tea also consumes spiritual energy.
The same goes for activating Feijian to cool down.
This is also the reason why Luo Chen wants to pay dividends to Feng Xia. He earns too little, so he
Compared with the consumption of spiritual power, there is no way to make ends meet.
"If the milk tea shop gets started, we may recruit more people in the future, and then you will be the real shopkeeper."
Luo Chen smiled slightly.
Next, I discussed some precautions in the store with Feng Xia.
She was specifically told to send some milk tea to the monks in the Jade Cauldron Sword Pavilion regularly.
Whether they like it or not, the attitude must be there.
Normally you can't tell the difference between good and bad, but at critical moments, if others like you, they will always help you. .
The second day!
At the gate of the city, Luo Chen, who changed into a high-grade cyan robe and a white fox coat, set foot on the road to Xianyue Valley under the escort of two bodyguards.
Flying slowly in the sky, Luo Chen expressed condolences to Liu Qiang, who had returned from injury, and then looked back and forth.
Sensing his gaze, Zhou Yuanli explained in a low voice:
"Two brothers are scouting ahead to rule out an ambush and setting a trap."
"I've arranged for Dongfang Liang to go to the back and be responsible for looking for anyone following you."
Luo Chen gave a thumbs up. His bodyguards are becoming more and more proficient in their work!
From Zhou Yuanli's mouth, he also learned that Mi Shuhua had issued a high-grade Qimen magic weapon, which was specially used to detect large-scale spiritual power fluctuations.
This made Luo Chen even more relieved.
If someone sets a formation trap in advance, it will be difficult to cover up the fluctuations in spiritual power.
If he detects it in advance, he won't step in.
"It seems that Mi Shuhua really put a lot of thought into me!"
Luo Chen sighed inwardly.
Soon, they arrived at Xianyue Valley.
Several bodyguards were hiding in the dark, keeping watch.
Another group of people came out of the valley to greet Luo Chen.
Looking at familiar people like Qu Hancheng and Mi Li, Luo Chen didn't waste any time and waved his hand.
"Start refining the Chalcedony Pill, all departments should get busy!"
With an order, everyone started to move.
Even the most casual alchemist cleans each jade bottle, ready to contain the refined elixir at any time.
Luo Chen looked at Dantang who was regaining his vitality and couldn't help but nodded secretly.
It’s time to get busy!
After such a long period of failure and the investment of so many resources, the benefits of the Chalcedony Pill have begun to bear fruit.
With his current master-level proficiency, low-grade chalcedony pills and mid-grade chalcedony pills are almost within reach.
Even if it is a high-grade chalcedony pill, if he is willing, he can have a 50% success rate.
It can be said that Dantang, which has suffered losses for a long time, is about to reap rewards.
This can be seen from Mi Shuhua's repeated expressions of the importance he attaches to Luo Chen.
In fact, it was precisely because of this capital that Luo Chen dared to "rely on favor and be arrogant."
He didn't even have to say anything himself, Mi Shuhua sent the small spirit gathering array again and increased his security.
"Perhaps the person Mi Shuhua values most in the Poshan Gang now, besides Mi Junping, is me."
"No!"
"For Mi Shuhua who longs for elixir formation, perhaps the value of his relatives is lower than mine!"
Luo Chen stepped into the alchemy room and put down the Four Elephant Cauldron, thinking this in his heart.
