Lou Chaoxi watched people leave and then turned his attention to the street.
This was the first time he had seen the streets of Kangzhou outside.
The location of the shop was at the junction of the East and West Districts.
The East area is home to the rich, the West area to the market, and Lou Chaoxi's shop is located in the South part of the Western area.
The southern area is the most chaotic place because it is a concentrated trading area for merchants, and it is really difficult to open a store and do business there because there are many people here.
The location is not bad, but it is also not good. The shops around are doing well, but the problem here is the location is not good.
The competition is even greater. There are countless competitions for the same food. Kansai, the leader of the merchant doesn't care where they eat.
It's all same anyways.
The store before Lou Chaoxi was like this, but he was not motivated and didn't sell anything at all.
If you occupy such a store and don't work, you'll be criticized and starved.
The merchant of Kansai rested at the hotel at the end of the street and had planned to leave at this time tomorrow, but because of convenience, they decided to postpone their departure for a day and set off the day after.
The 77 taels of silver were a lifesaver for Luo Chaoxi, but it was nothing to the merchant of Kansai.
There are so many people in the merchant that they can eat 20 taels a day, but they only give a little money to improve their food for the merchant members.
It tastes really good, and it's simple and convenient, so you can soak it in hot water, even cold water.
Luo Chaoxi stood at the door and watched for a while. He closed the door with his backhand and did not go to buy at the system or read the update. Instead, he wandered through the streets and determine the current price.
He ate a bowl of Yangchun noodles at a restaurant.
Yangchun noodles, which had nothing but green onions, asked him for 15 cents. If he added eggs, he would add 5 cents.
As expected, he was right to say that he had a discount before, otherwise he would have been more likely to cause problems if he was below the market price, and he would have been able to steal other store's businesses and attract other stores to target him.
Not to mention the beef jerky in the instant noodles!
Luo Chaoxi didn't want to be a target until the market was fully opened.
After eating, Luo Chaoxi went to another store and bought a snack on the way. Only after dark did he return to his store with the information he had collected.
The system has cleaned up the desktop automatically, which is the benefit of having a system.
Luo Chaoxi put the unfinished food he bought on the table and started looking for the system to process orders from Kansai.
A pack of instant noodles costs 25 taels, and 1,000 packs of instant noodles cost 25,000 taels in total, while a box containing 100 boxes of instant noodles costs only about 2,500 taels.
The profits were staggering, but after deducting the money from the purchase, the money was barely enough to pay back the rent that had been owed.
Fortunately, the down payment alone raised Lou Chaoxi to level 2.
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Name: Lou Chaoxi
Race: Human
Bloodline: ? ? ?
Age: 16
Level: 2 [Normal]
EXP: 63,980/10,000,000
Coins: 0
Goods: None
Shop: Nine O'clock Water [In Debt]
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[System: Congratulations on your successful upgrade, you have reached lv.2 [Staller]]
[System: Congratulations on unlocking the Mall lv.3 items have been unlocked. Please purchase from the store.]
[System: Congratulations on your promotion to Level 2, [Store Protection] is unlocked. You can choose to open enchantments at a cost.]
After rising to level 2, the experience bar looks a little scary.
Luo Chaoxi had to work hard to get thousands of instant noodles to earn the money and to move up to the third level, his experience went from 0 to 10,000.
That means the Luo Chaoxi needs to sell another thousand taels.
This progress bar is too big, isn't it?
He can't keep selling ramen. How much does he need to sell ramen? Since Kansai is going to leave soon, it will be impossible to buy more things, but he will have to start a new business.
Luo Chaoxi opened his backpack. In addition to the instant noodles he exchanged, there was another treasure box in the backpack. This time a level 2 treasure box was given.
Lou Chaoxi remembered the instant noodles that were given in the first-class gift package, he wondered what was inside this time.
[Congratulations to the player for getting: [Level 2 Sword Set x1 ] [Orlean Sauce Recipe x 1]]
Sure enough!
It's still necessary to take a look!
Just now, Luo Chaoxi was worried that he had no one else to sell except Kansai, and the system sent a new solution.
The barbecue is really good, at least it tastes good enough to draw in the guests.
Above all, good restaurants are easier to get started.
Anyway, there's another problem with Lou Chaoxi. He doesn't have an oven.
There was an earthen stove in the kitchen, but it was not suitable for Lou Chaoxi to carry it out.
There are many people from the Western Regions here, they are used to eating skewers. Even if they get an Orleans flavor, they are not competitive.
Why don't you take Kansai as a genuine pig tomorrow?
Lou Chaoxi then looked to the newly opened [Store Protection] function.
This store protection is used in your shop. The primary protection costs 50 taels for 24 hours, the intermediate protection costs 80 taels, and the advance protection costs 100 taels.
Very expensive.
Even primary protection costs 50 taels a day.
Luo Chaoxi, who has left poverty, cares about 50 pennies.
A day doesn't seem like much, but it adds up to 1,500 yuan a month! 600 taels a year! He has to sell at least five thousand packs of instant noodles to earn back.
He's not making enough money a day to open special protection!
But Luo Chaoxi forgot that the business he had just done was 77 taels, enough for a family of three to live off for several years and that he would have been able to make a good start if it had not been for Luo Chaoxi's debt.
If you can open a shop, you can make a lot of money, even if you spend a lot, but if you're not bad at it, you can do it.
[The hosts can consider a store protection system because the nights in Kangzhou City aren't as peaceful as you might think. ] The system saw Luo Chaoxi to the shop protection system, even wanting to see it off, hurriedly opened his mouth to stop.
Kangzhou City is the border of three countries, where trade flourishes, but there is a mixture of fish and dragons, and there are people everywhere, and in small corners, you can often see dirty-faced beggars.
(T/N: Mixture of fish and dragons - means talented/good/honest people and stupid/bad/evil people are mixed up in the society and thus it is hard to distinguish them (when a bad guy pretends to be a good guy and mixes up with a crowd, it is not easy to find him out))
These beggars may also beg, but they can't steal or rob if necessary.
Moreover, Kangzhou is under the jurisdiction of the Shengguo, but it involves the administration of three countries. Sometimes law enforcement officers can easily be in the middle of a problem. If anything happens, there is no place for Lou Chaoxi to reason.
"But it's so expensive." Lou Chaoxi exclaimed, but listened to the system and clicked on primary protection.
His current net worth can only afford the primary protection.
A light blue curtain rises from the ground, quickly covering the small building and protecting it firmly in the middle.
Lou Chaoxi touched the air in front of the door and felt his hand had penetrated something thin, but when he felt it carefully, there was nothing.
[Invisible to anyone but the host. Primary Protections serve as an early warning to warn you. It will remind you if someone comes in. If necessary, the host can control the guests and dangerous people in the store by controlling the Protection.]
Lou Chaoxi understands, that the primary system is a warning if the opponent strikes again
"What about intermediate and advanced?"
[It has an active attack and automatic Counterattack effect, and the protection energy will also increase protection, since the danger level of Kangzhou is not much high, and the host level is also not high it does not attract powerful creatures. Primary protection is sufficient. Advanced protection is needed for more dangerous areas.] The system answered every question, but Lou Chaoxi noticed something.
"Just Kangzhou City?"
[Yes, the rest are for the host to explore on their own.]
He knew there must be another place, but what Lou Chaoxi noticed was that the system said Kangzhou City was not very dangerous.
Is there anyone more dangerous in this place?
After all, the system is positioning the current place as an intermediate fantasy place.
Luo Chaoxi's heart jumped suddenly. "System, there will be no ghosts or anything in this place!"
[ Yes, but the host can't see them, you need to trigger a special mission or system exchange.]
Lou Chaoxi has a filter on the game system. He only remembers that the store only sells various foods and specialties. When he hears that, he goes straight to the last few pages and sees what the upgraded mall is selling.
There are things like talisman, stone, scroll, spirit sword, and martial arts training secret books, which are relatively normal, and there are things like [fox demon's skin] and [ghost skin].
"Can advanced protection protect ghosts?"
[It can protect special creatures above level 3. The host's current level of development and preliminary level is sufficient. When the host opens level 3 and returns to the initial level, it can be replaced by the intermediate level.]
Lou Chaoxi groaned again.
"Was my old world not just a world of technology?"
[The system judgment is the primary fantasy place.]
Originally, Lou Chaoxi thought his life was a regular infrastructure game, but this system turned his new life into a ghost movie game.
It's interesting.
In addition, the system says that there is no need to worry about being visited by ghosts for the time being at his current level.
Originally, Luo Chaoxi felt that he had spent 50 cents a day in pain, but now, Luo Chaoxi does not feel that way.
He even thinks that the system was good and cheap.
The house that system gave Luo Chaoxi was a three-story building with a lobby and a major selling area, the second floor was developed to resemble a guest room, and the third floor was where Luo Chaoxi now lives.
Like on the first floor, the wind leaks everywhere, and when he walks on the floor, he felt like his going to step on it and fall off the floor in the next second.
Lou Chaoxi does not intend to accommodate people in the store, and the second floor does not intend to continue as a guest room. Instead, he thought about emptying the second floor and making it like a private room.
Lou Chaoxi wants to open a grocery store like the game, but it's different from opening it yourself, and if you sell everything and do everything, it's easy to get in trouble because you want too much.
And what's best for accumulating wealth in the short term is, of course
Food.
And there's a branch system. He got a restaurant, he got the money, he planned to open a new branch, and he got to sell other things.
Lou Chaoxi has a strategy in mind, but he needs to make a detailed plan.
This house doesn't belong to him.
He has to pay the rent himself and then he can renew it…
Lou Chaoxi suddenly hesitates.
If you can't renew your contract, won't you just be a street vendor?
It is not impossible, but having a storefront and no storefront are two concepts, and he always feels that he will be chased by the city government.
Luo Chaoxi didn't find anything else in the store, so he came down from the third floor and bought a stove in the system store that looked like a soil stove but was a gas stove.
It can be moved, otherwise, Lou Chaoxi won't buy it.
He spent so much money purely because it was so useful. It was convenient to have a gas stove and fire. At least Lou Chaoxi can boil water by himself.
The barbeque Lou Chaoxi that opened in the store is not considered for the time being. He wants to be a happy little street vendor, set up in a busy area outside, seducing the ancient people with a delicious barbeque.
For a while, Luo Chaoxi was thinking about buying a barbecue grill and bamboo stick at the System Store, but when he looked at the price of the System Store, he immediately withdrew his mind.
A gas stove costs only 25 taels, but a barbecue grill costs 30 taels!
That's a lot more expensive than instant noodles or something!
Bamboo sticks are cheap, but Lou Chaoxi has never asked how many bamboo sticks are in the store, so he will not buy them for now.
Lou Chaoxi closed the system store and went out again.
This time, his aim was bamboo sticks and a blacksmith shop.
Unfortunately, Luo Chaoxi was not from here. He didn't know where to find a suitable blacksmith shop and bamboo stick to sell. He finally asked the way and found a blacksmith's shop. But when he asked the price, Luo Chaoxi suddenly lost his soul.
Not only does it take time to order, but it also costs 5 taels of silver.
Then he might as well buy in the system store.
Iron is expensive, their blacksmiths can strike iron, but the market is strict in managing iron, so they do not have iron every day, and if there is too much iron, they will be reported.
Copper is a commodity directly controlled by the government and cannot be bought and sold on the market.
Lou Chaoxi came out of the blacksmith's shop and sighed while looking at the sunset on the horizon.
Street vendors have changed a lot.
The street vendors who set up stalls here during the day changed from stalls selling daily necessities and various strange things to various snacks, and soon the night market will open.
The jewelry stall next to Luo Chaoxi is packing things ready to go home.
"Hey."
Almost at the same time, the charming Western man sighed together with Luo Chaoxi.
They both looked at each other at the same time, and at the same time saw a hint of astonishment in each other's eyes.
A dark, bronzed young man with blond hair and long eyelashes, quite good-looking clothes, was set up in the present place after the owner had left. He wore tinkering gold and beautiful rubies, some of which looked like a woman's buttons, but were made of gold.
"Li monkey," said the handsome Western man.
Luo Chaoxi was at a loss for a moment, and this was reflected by the fact that the other person said "hello" only because the other person had a Western accent.
"Hello."
"Would you like some lamb skewers?"
The Western man lifted the cloth from the cart and it looked like a barbecue grill.
The kind with the gemstones.
The man from the Western Regions looked a little sad and sighed again: "Today is the last day for me to grill skewers here."
"My father told me to return and inherit the throne."
Lou Chaoxi's mouth twitched.