Early in the morning, Lin Dong left the inn early, enjoying the sober air all the way, and marching all the way to the east of the city.

Outside a house on Taili Street, Lin Dong stopped.

The house is ordinary, just a courtyard and a two-story wooden building, at first glance, it looks like an ordinary family. But the residents of the neighborhood know that there are many people living in this house, and most of them are old people and children.

After a few moments of knocking on the wooden door, there was a creak, and a half-grown boy poked out half of his head with snot hanging his nose.

Lin Dong smiled kindly, and reached out to rub the little boy's head, but the little boy averted it violently and looked at Lin Dong with a wary face.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? ”

"Uh...... I'm here to have a drink with your grandfather Zhang. Lin Dong was a little stupid, he didn't even know himself, he should be a newcomer, no wonder he was a little blind.

"Looking for Grandpa Zhang?" Although the little boy is only ** years old, he has been helpless for many years, but his mind is much more precocious than ordinary children, and he became more and more vigilant when he heard the words: "You haven't said who you are, why are you looking for Grandpa Zhang?" ”

Lin Dong flipped his palm, and a small wine jar appeared in his palm, shook it in front of the little boy's eyes, and said, "My name is Lin Dong, and I have already said just now, I will find you Grandpa Zhang to drink." ”

The little boy asked, "Really? ”

"Of course it's true!" Lin Dong smiled and nodded.

"Hey, Uncle Lin, why are you here?" The little boy's armpits protruding from under a small head, and his pink face is full of surprise.

"Little, little ......" Looking at the little girl who suddenly appeared, Lin Dong knocked on his head, and couldn't remember the name of this little girl for a while.

"I'm Little Egg." The little girl was a little disappointed and said, "It's only been more than a month, and Uncle Lin has forgotten." ”

Lin Dong was embarrassed, he remembered, and even remembered that the origin of the name of this little egg was because the little girl loved eggs very much, and once dared to fight with other beggars at the age of four or five for a boiled egg.

"Stupid, this is Uncle Lin." The little egg glared at the little boy, dragged Lin Dong into the courtyard, and began to shout loudly.

A group of boys and girls instantly poured out of the room, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Dong was surrounded and chattered into a mess.

Fortunately, Lin Dong was prepared, and while constantly taking out the candy and snacks, he followed the uncles and aunts who came out later to say hello, and it took a long time to get out of the encirclement and enter the lobby.

"Lin Dong, why are you here?" Zhang Daqian, who came in through the side door, was surprised.

"Drink and talk!" Lin Dong raised the wine jar in his hand.

Zhang Daqian couldn't help licking his lips, swallowed his saliva heavily, and in his stomach, the wine worms began to make a fuss.

"You wait!"

Zhang Daqian turned around and ran out of the lobby, and after a while, he ran back with a plate of red-skinned peanuts in one hand and two pairs of chopsticks and two small wine glasses in the other.

followed Zhang Daqian into the side room, Lin Dong uncovered the sealing mud on the wine jar, and after pouring a glass by himself, he smiled and said nothing. Zhang Daqian is the old beggar who was worried about prison food all day long and helped him escape Fu Zizhou's plot, and after knowing him for so long, Lin Dong naturally knew that he had liked drinking since he was drunk by Wang Liumole once.

Sure enough, before Lin Dong could speak, Zhang Daqian had already grabbed the wine glass and drank it neatly.

Smacking his lips, Zhang Daqian savored it for a while, then pushed the empty wine glass towards Lin Dong with a sigh, and said with emotion: "It would be nice if you could come eight times out of ten times a month." ”

Lin Dong filled the wine glass, watched Zhang Daqian drink it all again, and couldn't help laughing: "If I can come eight times out of ten times a month, the inn's high-quality wine will not be enough to sell." ”

Zhang Daqian smiled, reached out and grabbed a peanut and threw it into his mouth, while handing over the empty wine glass.

In terms of the degree of good wine, Zhang Daqian is slightly inferior to the old man, and in terms of the amount of alcohol, Zhang Daqian, who only learned to drink at a young age, is even worse than 108,000 miles. After five or six cups, seeing that Zhang Daqian's face was already flushed, Lin Dong estimated that it was time to relieve his addiction to alcohol, and said, "Uncle Zhang, I came to you today because I wanted to talk to you about something." ”

"You say, you say." Zhang Daqian stretched out the wine glass in front of Lin Dong, but his eyes were shouting that you pour you.

"I plan to buy houses in Autumn Wind City and the other nine counties under my jurisdiction to adopt orphans and widows." Lin Dong said slowly: "This matter needs a trustworthy person, you always know that Xiaoliu is from a gangster, and they can drink and talk nonsense with you because they admire your righteousness, and they will definitely not be able to deal with a group of beggars." So...... I can only ask you to keep the bumps. ”

"This is a good thing, but just the more than 100 people in this house, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, plus asking someone to teach them to read and write for those little cubs, they will get one or two hundred taels of silver a month. If you add Autumn Wind City and the other nine counties, you will get more than two thousand taels of silver every month...... Don't eat up the inn in a month or two. ”

Zhang Daqian's slightly drunken eyes showed a little hesitation, in the past, why did the beggars in Sealand City go to the Lin Ji Inn until they were hungry? is afraid that Lin Ji Inn will be destroyed, and there will be no life-saving place in the future, and I am ashamed of the kindness of the shopkeeper Lin.

"This is not to be done immediately, it is almost winter, this period is the most difficult, for the time being, I just go to help them with some silver to survive the winter, and see if there are any people with good surnames worthy of training. After the inn's branch is opened, there will be a profit to buy a house and adopt. Lin Dong explained.

Although he received a windfall of 100,000 taels of silver, and now alone, the inn is enough to cope with this expenditure. But the development of the inn and the cultivation of the escort team also require a lot of silver, how could he do such a thing of exhaustion.

"This is easy to do, when will you leave?" Zhang Daqian felt a lot more at ease, patted his chest and said: "Don't look at me, I only have a handful of old bones left, just this old bone, the young man is not as tough as me." ”

"Just for the past two days, I'll ask Xiaoliu to arrange a few trustworthy people for you." After sorting out his thoughts a little, Lin Dong continued: "In addition to receiving help for the winter, the second thing is to try to find one or two trustworthy people with good surnames in each place, and buy a house in the future, so that they can be responsible for managing it." Again, in the next two days, it's best to find someone here to take over, and in the future, you will be in charge of the overall situation. ”

"Old man Xia is good, how about letting him be in charge?" Zhang Daqian asked.

Lin Dong nodded: "You just have to decide, and also, the old people usually go out to hang out, and the children go out to play, if they hear any news, they will find someone who can read and write it down." These news inns will be useful in the future, and the same will be true for other places to buy houses in the future. ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Daqian nodded.

"Then you're old!"

Lin Dong smiled and raised his wine glass and toasted with Zhang Daqian.

Later, Lin Dong did not talk deeply. The area of Autumn Wind City is six or seven times that of Sealand City, and the population is nearly 20 times. Coupled with the disadvantage of geographical location, after Lin Ji Inn entered Autumn Wind City, it was not difficult to have a place only with the comfort bonus and the signature dish of stewed soft-shelled turtle with maple leaves, but it was difficult to reach the sky.

The reason for this is the comfort bonus, with each doubling of the amount of spirit stones consumed. That is to say, once the comfort bonus is opened to five times, each table will have to consume eight spirit stones per day, which is basically unprofitable, and at most it can only be opened two or three times as a major feature of the inn, and one or two tables will be opened with a high comfort bonus to attract diners who can spend a lot of money.

Stewed soft-shelled turtle with maple leaves may be enough to match any signature dish, but it can only increase the physique by one percent every day, and after a year and a half, although the increased physique is still the same, the effect is decreasing. It was not enough for the big families in Autumn Wind City to give up the familiar restaurant, and did not hesitate to take a carriage for an hour or two to position the inn as the first choice for inviting guests to a banquet.

The cultivation bonus is also doubled for every time it is doubled, and the spirit stones consumed are doubled. Not to mention the escort team, just cultivating by yourself, if you rise to more than ten levels and open a tenfold bonus, you will have to get thousands of spirit stones every day, even if Bai Jingtai provides cheap spirit stones, it will be less than ** hundred taels of silver a day.

Lin Dong's goal after entering Autumn Wind City is to occupy at least half of the country.

If it can continue to develop as expected, not only will it be a good thing, but the consultation board of Lin Kee Inn will also have more information about all parts of Qiufeng Mansion, and the competitiveness of attracting large households will be enhanced. Even if it encounters a giant like Fenglin Restaurant and suppresses it by providing the latest policies and trends of the imperial court, it has the ability to resist.

Of course, this matter is just an idea, not to mention that there is no safety and management, and even the purchase of a house has not yet started, and it is empty talk to Zhang Daqian.