Chapter 114: Leasing a Shop
"Shopkeeper Liu is polite, I don't know if I have eyebrows in the matter of the commission?" Fang Yan is not arrogant, this Liu Yuanqi is a formation mage who is proficient in all kinds of magic circles, and those who can open a shop in Shibaofang City are people with some ability, and this Liu Yuanqi himself is a late-stage Qi refining cultivator.
Liu Yuanqi smiled slightly, and after letting the dialect into the inner room, he said while making tea: "How dare you slack off on the things entrusted by Fang Daoyou, it was already prepared yesterday, just waiting for Fang Daoyou to come and check." ”
As he spoke, Liu Yuanqi quickly brewed the tea, took out three jade boxes from the storage bag, pushed them in front of Fang Yan, and said with a smile: "The three sets of formations are here, and there are jade slips for arranging the formations inside." Please forgive me for saying one more sentence below, two of them are used for alchemy, can you still do alchemy?"
Fang Yan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Liu is also too proud of the following, with this little bit of Taoism in the next, there is still a dare to get involved in alchemy, but it is just the order of the family elders, buy two sets to try, see if you can train an alchemist, so as to alleviate the dilemma in the family." ”
"I see, that would be a real shame. Don't hide it from fellow Daoists, I have the intention to get acquainted with an alchemist early in the morning, but it is very difficult to find in this fortress, and some of the pills needed for cultivation cannot be bought at all. But if you leave this place to go to the big city, you are reluctant to open this small shop, these years in this place, it is really not easy to open this shop to such a point, if you have a familiar alchemist, can you recommend it, I am grateful. ”
As soon as he heard the dialect, it turned out that this alchemist was even more popular than he imagined, and his heart was suddenly happy, but he didn't show it on the surface, but said modestly: "It must be, if you are lucky enough to know you, you must introduce it to Shopkeeper Liu." However, Shopkeeper Liu's formation technique is also quite clever, and there are many people who want to get acquainted with Daoyou. ”
Liu Yuanqi said a few words modestly, opened the three jade boxes in dialect, looked at them one by one, nodded after a while, and paid the balance in full according to the price he had said at the beginning. Later, Liu Yuanqi explained a little about the precautions of several sets of formations, especially the formations used in the two sets of alchemy, which were particularly detailed, and repeatedly said that if the monk in the dialect clan succeeded in alchemy, he must recommend it to him, and the dialect agreed.
Later, Fang Yan bought some demon beast corpses and beast crystal spirit beads in this market, all of which were rations for demon vines and black evil, and each time he had to consume a lot of spirit stones in dialect. The reason why he still wanted to buy a protective formation was to arrange it on that gentle slope, not only to protect it, but also because the dialect had a plan.
During this period of time, Fang Yan learned from Qingluan's mouth that there were really a lot of demon beasts in the valley below the slope, and dozens of demon beasts were caught in just two months, not including the many demon beasts that were driven away, so that the pair of demon spiders were full of fat. Every time Fang Yan goes back, he will put the Demon Vine and the Black Demon Devil there, as long as during that time, the two demon pets don't need to worry about Fang Yan at all, and they can solve the problem of eating every day, which saves a lot of spirit stones that are decreasing in Fang Yan.
Speaking of dialects, there are still 100,000 spirit stones, but he has to bear the cultivation and food of himself and his demon pets, as well as the daily consumption of large arrays, these are all medium-grade spirit stones, and the consumption of spirit stones in a month is not in a small number, so Qingluan has reminded him more than once. Now Fang Yan has handed over most of his belongings to Qingluan to manage, and Qingluan also knows Fang Yan's net worth, and at first he also thought that his family was rich and rich, but after a while, he found that these 100,000 spirit stones could not withstand such losses, and he had to find a way to open up sources and reduce expenditure.
And the demon beasts here were put on their minds, Qingluan calculated an account, the flesh and blood and beast crystals of each demon beast can be used for the demon pets to eat, so that a sum of spirit stones is saved, and the demon beast materials that can be collected can also be worth a lot of spirit stones, although each is only worth dozens of spirit stones, it can be at least thousands, or even tens of thousands, over the years.
This calculation made Fang Yan startled, he had to catch up with Lingtian's income, this piece naturally couldn't be given up, and his own store was still specialized in collecting demon beast materials, so he could produce and sell it well, and the harvest would be even greater. Besides, there is another good thing in the dialect that is useless, that is, ** incense, this kind of spiritual incense that specializes in trapping low-level demon beasts, if it is used in the valley, the harvest may be amazing, and it is an excellent financial route.
It's just a pity that Nanyue doesn't have the materials to refine ** incense, these Eastern and Western dialects were originally reluctant to be used indiscriminately, but now it seems that they can be used in small amounts, but they also need to be used under the premise of a strong formation, otherwise the demon beast has attracted a lot, but the mountain peaks he has worked hard to manage are rushed, it is really a big joke.
Even Qingluan didn't talk about these things in dialect, just silently prepared. This time, the three sets of formations cost the dialect nearly ten thousand spirit stones, in addition to the two sets of formations to control the Dan furnace and collect the Dan, the dialect also had to buy this set of small four elephant arrays, which was to prepare a large number of low-level demon beasts, which not only relieved the pressure of the spirit stones, but also supported their own small shop, killing two birds with one stone.
Don't underestimate this set of small four-elephant arrays, Fang Yan has read the introduction, the power of this set of formations will not be less than the King Kong Soul Locking Array, as for the four-phase Fulong array that Fang Yan bought before, it sounds more terrifying than this set of formations, in fact, it is simply screaming, and the power of this set of small four elephant arrays is not known how many times worse.
According to Liu Yuanqi, this set of formations is derived from the ancient formation of the Four Elephant Array, which is deduced by his master according to the fragments of a set of ancient formations, although the power is far inferior to the four-phase array, but after all, it is derived from the ancient formation, which is much stronger than the ordinary formation. After his master passed it down, Liu Yuanqi also studied this formation for many years, and constantly improved it, becoming a treasure for him to open a store in this city, and this set of formations asked for five thousand spirit stones in dialects.
However, this is nothing compared to Fang Yan's plan to make a fortune, and after buying some things to use, he walked around this small market, and Fang Yan returned to the lounge and began to make talismans again.
In the following days, Fang Yan worked day and night to make talismans, not because he was idle, but because more and more monks were looking for him to exchange talismans during this time. It's nearly September, and it's the best time of the year to hunt demons, and many monks who are about to end their tasks will choose to go demon hunting, and monks who have already been there once will also have to replace the last harvest with an elixir talisman, and directly exchanging dialects has become the best choice, which makes the daily transaction volume of dialects surge and become more busy.
There are all kinds of materials to exchange talismans with him, and the most are beast blood and animal skins, which are the favorite of talismans, and it is easier to change to dialect talismans. However, it is a little strange that Fang Yan will even receive some spiritual herbs and elixirs, which can also be exchanged for talismans, although everyone is a little inexplicable, but they will also take them out and exchange them with him. There were even monks who didn't know what rumors they heard, and they also took out some aphrodisiac monster materials and spirit grass, pointed out the usefulness and dialect exchange, and made the dialect confused, but in the end they also accepted it, and they could be sold in their own stores anyway.
After another seven or eight days of busyness, it was time to return, Fang Yan cleaned up a lot of materials, and then returned to the sect camp. This time, Fang Yan didn't leave immediately, except for the captain, the rest of the people stood there and winked their eyes, not leaving, but looking at Fang Yan.
Fang Yan glanced at them with some puzzlement, then said hello and walked directly to the steward's pavilion. He had come to find Ji Ming, and he had already made an appointment with him last time to rent a shop in the camp's market.
Coming to the second floor of the steward's pavilion, Fang Yan found the place where Ji Ming was on duty, and Ji Ming beckoned him to sit down as soon as he saw him coming, it turned out that he had been waiting for him here for a long time. After a brief chat, Ji Ming took the dialect and came to the place where the steward's pavilion handled the lease of the shop, and it was the registration and filing, and the signing of the spirit stone, all the way unimpeded, just in a short quarter of an hour, Ji Ming took him to get things done.
Then Ji Ming led him to a small room, instructed a disciple of the Steward's Pavilion to let him take Fang Yan to see the shop, and said a few words to Fang Yan, telling him to come to him again if he was not satisfied, and then let the disciple take Fang Yan to Fang City.
The disciple also saw that the relationship between Fang Yan and Ji Ming was not ordinary, and he didn't dare to slack off along the way, so he led Fang Yan directly to Fang City. This Fang City is very close to the camp, but ten miles away, built in a mountain col, there is a small river in the middle of the Fang City, and more than ten small bridges have been built on the river to connect the shops on both sides of the Fang City.
The environment of the whole fang market is very beautiful, and I don't know what kind of person the person who established this fang market was in the first place, and actually chose a trading place in such an elegant place, and built the fang market like a garden, which has a special interest.
The area of this market is not large, but there are people living on both sides of the market, and some places are connected to the market, so it is impossible to tell where is the market and where are the houses. Seeing that Fang Yan was a little puzzled, the disciple hurriedly introduced that most of the people who lived here were the families of some monks who had been stationed in the fortress for a long time, as well as their descendants, and some were residents who had moved from the vicinity.
Since these shops could only be rented by the monks stationed there, and these monks had a task and could not operate here for a long time, many people brought their families and servants here to help watch the shops and trade. And so many people can't all live in the shop, and the inns in the fang market are too expensive, so they will choose to buy a house to live in this neighborhood, plus the scenery here is pleasant, many people simply settle down, and over time it became a market town connected to the fang market, and then slowly connected with the fang market.
However, whether it is a shop or a house, it is planned and built by Lihuomen, and the residents here are not allowed to build shops and houses without permission, otherwise they will be punished by the stewards of Fang City. Moreover, all the shops can only be rented by the monks stationed here, which can be regarded as a little welfare for the monks stationed here, but the mansion is not among them, and anyone can rent it, and it can be handled in the market.
The location of the shop rented by Fang Yan is quite good, in the middle of the whole market, a two-story building facing the river, and there is a horizontal street next to it, which is connected by a small bridge opposite, which is also a prosperous place. It seems that Ji Ming has put a lot of thought into leaving this shop for him, and there must be many people in such a good location who will also make up his mind, so he owes Ji Ming a favor again.
The place where the shop is located is the most concentrated place in the entire market, and there is a small backyard behind the shop, with more than a dozen houses and a covered warehouse, which is the most suitable for starting a business to buy monster materials.
However, it is used to live here, and Fang Yan feels that it is still inappropriate, because if the Lin family lives here, it must be a bad rest for people to come and go every day, although Lin himself may not feel anything, but Fang Yan does not want his mother to suffer like this, so he made up his mind to rent another house nearby.
As soon as he told the monk who had brought him about this idea, he immediately brought the dialect to a small three-story building in the middle of the city, with a hotel downstairs and a rented house on the third floor. When he found the person who had gone through the lease procedures, he saw that the monk who had come with him whispered a few words to him, and the man immediately became very enthusiastic, and helped Fang Yan choose a house that was closest to his shop and was not a small area.
However, the rent of these two places is not low, the shop is 600 spirit stones per year, and this house also costs 400 spirit stones a year, and the next two are 1,000 spirit stones a year. However, the dialect still thinks it is worth it, these two places together are big enough, if the business becomes bigger in the future, it can be expanded, and there is no need to bother to rent a place. And the two places are very close, just a few dozen feet away from the side street next to the shop, and it is not a few steps away.
Fang Yan immediately rented this place, like the shop, for three years at a time, and then signed an agreement to register, and soon completed these things, just waiting for the Lin family to bring people over, after some renovation, the small shop can be opened.
After doing these things, Fang Yan and the monk returned to the steward's pavilion, and on the way, Fang Yan handed the man a small spirit stone bag containing twenty spirit stones, and the man excused himself again and again and let him accept it.