Yu Lan was the only one who was not as scared of Mei Lin as the rest, got the courage to confront Mei Lin, so she came to check on her. She was not very fast and unhappy with the resolution, but once she left the kitchen, she cornered herself and had no other chance, but to talk with Mei Lin. She was also equipped with a bottle of wine, so she had a good excuse to approach and sit in front of Mei Lin. She didn't know if the wine would be to Mei Lin's liking, but because it was the only wine that Xin Ming bred and they had a large amount of it, it was only once available in the tea-house. She was quite nervous, and the fact, that Mei Lin didn't look at the not even once was the worst.
"So tell me what happened miss? Both of you were very angry and it seems you are not talking to each other. Did something bad happen in the green zone, when you were looking for supplies and a house?"
Mei Lin didn't want to talk about what happened, which Yu Lan quickly detected by extremely depressing silence. So Yu Lan quickly prepared the wine and poured both of them a cup of wine. Mei Lin was still silent, but after drinking a few cups of wine, she finally told Yu Lan about what happened in the auction house with Feng Shi. After listening to Mei Lin, Yu Lan got an idea.
"Xin Ming has money and spirit stones. If he can sell the tea house along with your spirit stones, we can buy a house in the green zone. This tea-house is not very well equipped and almost no one is coming here. Also, this tea-house is very old and in very bad a location in the city. If you have some spirit stones were could be able to afford quite a good house maybe even a mansion. The problem is that we need to sell this house and from what we will get paid in the new house."
"Xia wants to have a florist shop." As Yu Lan heard that, she nearly got an infarct.
"No fucking way! Florist shops will not make any profit at all. If she wants to have a florist shop she will need to sell spirit herbs or spirit flowers for supporting more natural energy. Who would want to have a florist shop in the city? That will be very costly, but if we can buy a big house, we can have a florist shop and wine shop in one building. The wine shop is much more profitable than the tea-house, and we can enjoy more special wines and also serve tea as a sidekick."
"Once it will be profitable, we could start hiring more people who will be able to do the work for us and I could start to study art and start painting more and sell more of my art."
Both of them stopped caring about Xia, who disappeared into the room and started to create a strategy how would. It took them all afternoon to figure out the perfect strategy and find how much money that have.
After having their wealth together, they had three high, ten mid, and one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones. Also, Mei had a few bottles with pills, but she first needed to analyze what kind of pills they were and if they were valuable.
After more than an hour of thinking ing how to create ate most out of this situation, they decided to wait before moving on to this project until winter ends. For now, they could do whatever they want and carefully prepare themselves for this.
After discussing everything, they discovered one fatal flaw and it was preparation for Xia. The florist'sists job will be the hardest thing, which will lead to teaching her how to read and send her into the sectawakenened cultivation potential. Mei Lin also discovered that her way of awakening was not normal. After creating ing sophisticated plan about will they going to do, Mei Lin went to the second floor.
Xia was sitting on the cultivation mat on the second floor and crying. Mei Lin heard her cries as soon as she stepped on the second floor and went to her and told her about their plan, and that Xia and the girls would be attending the school. Mei Lin also had more plans for all of them and how they most effectively used them to know as much as possible about the city.
After clearing the waters with Xia, she went to sleep and Mei Lin pulled out blood tea to take a sip and entered a red cultivation state a for few hours before she went to bed. Mei Lin started to think about how to prepare are the second floor for the customer.
'Above the living part of the second floor is an attic, which no one used for a long time. On the second floor are two rooms next to each other and the rest of the second floor was made for customers to sit. The second floor is as big as the first floor. Each of the rooms had one big window and is situated at house gable.'
Mei Lin thought about, how to make the second floor as efficient as possible and if there was any way how to make more profit out of it. After knowing how the tea house is currently operating, she knew that they would not gonna do anything to have more work than necessary, and because of that the tea house was in much worse shape than houses in the Mountain village.
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Next morning. Tea-house. East part of the Peng City. Yellow zone.
Mei Lin woke up much earlier than Xia and went outside the room into the second floor to cultivate. It did take a long when Xia to wake up and go down for breakfast. She met Yu Lan and Lao Fey and found that Xin Ming was also in a cultivation state. After chatting with the girls, she found out needed need to go to the market to buy food for the day.
They talked about will they do today and will they buy as they went to the market the in yellow zone. When they arrived at the market, Xia found that almost everything was already sold and only a few basic ingredients were left there. It was not too early, but the shopkeepers were already done with the buying.
"How is it possible, that they have nothing more left?"
"Well, good things on the market are sold first early in the morning. They will have the fresh batch tomorrow if you want to have the best. Also, it's deep in the winter, so we will not have the best of the best all the time."
"So what else do you want to buy?"