Chapter 118: The Hidden Master (2)
The shopkeeper's face was pale, and his eyes stared coldly at the back of the beggar who was gradually moving away, not knowing what he was thinking, but there was no doubt that the scene that happened in the inn just now seemed to the diners to have another meaning.
Although they don't know the inside story, it is not difficult to hear from the conversation between the two that this beggar didn't know what he helped the shopkeeper in business three years ago.
"Well, I think business at this inn seemed to have picked up three years ago," someone in the crowd recalled
"Well, that's right, I also have an image, this inn has been open for many years, but because of the remote location, the business has been very bleak, but there was a sudden improvement in a period of time three years ago", another person suddenly remembered something and answered,
"Yes, I heard that they have been very withered before, and they are about to close their doors, but I don't know what method they used, and suddenly business is getting better again",
The diners in the inn chattered about it, and as outsiders had their own opinions on what was happening in front of them,
"So, does the inn's business really have anything to do with the beggar? This is incredible", someone in the crowd spoke, with a slight shock in his tone,
"Let's not talk about whether the inn's business can get better because of the beggars, but since the boss promised to take no money, and now he wants to kick them out, isn't this a breach of trust?"
"Yes, they don't even talk about the minimum credit of this inn, we eat here with him, maybe we will be deceived one day",
"That's right, we don't want to go to their house to eat in the future, everyone is also a businessman, no sincerity, no faith, no standing, such an inn is not worthy of our cheers for him",
"That's it, don't come back in the future."
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Many of the people present are businessmen, they are very dissatisfied with the shopkeeper's dishonesty in others, and everyone is secretly surprised at the same time as condemning the inn's treachery, who is the beggar in tattered clothes, who has the ability to make a business withered store popular in a short period of time
The shopkeeper's face was ugly, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a while in the face of everyone's doubts, but he knew that after today's incident, the reputation of the inn would plummet, and the business would be greatly affected.
Good and evil are rewarded, like a shadow, I didn't expect all this to come true, why the business of this inn suddenly got better three years ago As the shopkeeper, he naturally knows, and he knows the agreement between him and the beggar three years ago.
This inn has been open in Qiancheng for ten years, but due to the remote location and few people care, coupled with the fact that Qiancheng is far away from the main road, the passenger flow is scarce, this inn has been operating dismally, and has been struggling to support for several years.
But three years ago, the beggar suddenly came to the store to beg for wine, because the inn was operating dismal all year round, he couldn't make ends meet, and he was about to go out of business.
The beggar drank to his heart's content, and then told the shopkeeper that he had a way to make the inn's business better, and the shopkeeper didn't believe it, but the beggar drank it big and opened his mouth.
But these are just legends for ordinary people, in this troubled era where sword cultivation and martial arts are respected, divination yin and yang are not the mainstream among the major factions, and few people deliberately practice divination.
What's more, the beggar is like this, no one will seem to think that he is a hidden master, if he really has such ability, why did he fall into such a field now,
Looking at the shopkeeper's disdainful eyes, the beggar chuckled, looking at the latter and wrote lightly, "The sun and the moon come, the moon comes, the sun and the moon phase pushes and the bright moon is born, the cold comes to the summer, the summer comes to the cold, the cold and the summer push each other and the years become, the avenue of heaven and earth is like this, and so is everything in the world.
The shopkeeper was dumbfounded when he heard the beggar's words, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, didn't he really meet some hidden master today, but looking at the beggar's tattered appearance, he felt that it was not very reliable,
After weighing it, the shopkeeper finally decided to let him give it a try, he didn't have much hope, he had the right to try his luck, anyway, the business was bleak and was about to go out of business, even if there was no way to make the inn's business improve in the end, it couldn't be worse than the current situation.
The shopkeeper ordered the man to serve good wine and food, and after the beggar had eaten and drunk enough, he wanted to ask him to change the feng shui of the inn, and promised that as long as the business of the inn could really improve, no matter when the beggar came to eat and live in the hotel in the future, he would never take a penny.
The rise of the beggar drink, until the eyes began to blur before the shopkeeper explained the things, the shopkeeper and the small and medium-sized two looked intently, wanting to see how the beggar changed the luck of the inn,
The powerful spell that everyone expected did not appear, and the beggar did not use any means, but kept calling Xiao Er to change the layout inside and outside the inn, he first ordered someone to cut down the locust tree outside the gate, the tree was there when the store opened, it has been some years, the inn has been doing bleak business over the years, and the tree naturally has no intention of taking care of it, and now it seems to be dead, and the shopkeeper didn't care, and told Xiao Er to do what the beggar said,
After the old tree was cut down, the beggar asked the shopkeeper to dig a well in the east of the inn, and the shopkeeper's doubts told the beggar that there was a canal not far south of the inn, and the people of Qiancheng took water there on weekdays, and the inn took water there enough to meet the needs on weekdays, and it was more convenient.
The beggar was full of smiles, looking at the shopkeeper drunkenly and said, "There is water in the east to gather wealth, as the so-called purple gas comes from the east, let the shopkeeper do it",
The shopkeeper was suspicious, and finally ordered Xiao Er's work to dig a well in the east, and then asked the beggar what else he wanted.
Immediately afterwards the beggar said another sentence that made him jaw-dropping, "Tear down the gate of your house",
The shopkeeper was surprised, looked at the beggar and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing when you open the door?" The shopkeeper's face showed a trace of impatience, this inn is located in a remote location, the spacious door is the last façade of the shop, and it is all about the bright façade on weekdays to attract a small number of guests to come in and cheer, if the door is demolished, then no one will come to this inn after that,
It's just that a mortal in charge of the shopkeeper can understand the implied feng shui way, as the innkeeper he just thinks that the façade is spacious and easier for people to see, and the grand atmosphere is easy to attract customers to walk in, but I don't know that in feng shui, the layout of the small door mansion will lead to the exposure of wealth, which is a typical layout of broken wealth.
It's just that the beggar didn't mean to explain to the shopkeeper, just looked at the latter and said indifferently, "Listen to me, tear down the gate, and replace it with a façade of the right size according to the size of the house, your family's business will soon improve, and after the well of the east gate is repaired, it won't be long before I guarantee that your business here is prosperous."
The shopkeeper thought about it again and again, and finally did as the beggar said, even if there was some suspicion, but the inn's business was too bleak over the years, and it was about to go out of business, and the feng shui layout that the beggar said may be the only chance to change the fate of the inn, so the shopkeeper still decided to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and plugged the beggar on this beggar, and a very important point is that the cost of the method said by the beggar is not high for the inn, whether it is digging a well in front of the east house, or renovating the façade, it will not cost a few dollars in the end, And the shopkeeper did so, after some calculation.
After that, the beggar instructed Xiao Er to make some changes to the layout of the inn, compared to the rectification of the façade, it was nothing more than to make some changes to the stove and the position of the tables and chairs in the inn, and then ordered someone to ask for a statue of Pixiu to be placed near the door of the inn.
After all this was done, the beggar fell asleep deeply, and the shopkeeper and Xiao Er were busy until dark as the beggar said, and the inn was still the same as before for the first two days, and there were no guests.
But on the third day, after the façade renovation was completed, a surprise scene happened, the inn from noon that day, there were many customers one after another, some of them were old customers, but more of them were new faces, after all, there were no customers in this store before,
The cold inn on weekdays suddenly became lively, everyone was a little uncomfortable, the shopkeeper was happy, and hurriedly ordered Xiao Er to greet the guests, you know, the inn has been open for so many years, but there are few times when business is so good today,
In the next few days, the business of the inn was also surprisingly good, and many customers visited every day, and after the well in front of the east house was repaired, the business of the small shop was even higher than in the previous days.
Before the well was laid, although the business of the small shop had improved, it was only a daily intermittent number of people coming, but after the well was laid, the opportunity of the shopkeeper could be busy from noon to midnight, most of the people who came to the inn before were people nearby, but now, more and more passing business travelers have begun to enter and exit the inn.
The shopkeeper smiled, and at the same time he believed what the beggar had said, and he respected the latter more in his heart.
Although the shopkeeper did not know his background or where he settled, he understood that this ragged beggar was not an ordinary person, and he also kept his previous agreement, no matter when the beggar came, no matter how busy the inn was when he came.
The shopkeeper will instruct Xiao Er to entertain the latter with good wine and food, and he doesn't take a penny, but this situation didn't last long.
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