Chapter 38 Opening
The prices of the restaurant are not expensive, because most of the diners are neighbors or ordinary low-level casual cultivators who are not well-off. If the prices are not too high, everyone can at least afford it, and try to make small profits but quick turnover.
The restaurant's signature dish is still beef. For beef, it costs two spirit stones for a plate. It is not cheap for casual cultivators, but compared with spiritual meat or other restaurants that sell beef, it is already extremely cost-effective.
Beef noodles are cheaper. Plain noodles only cost three points of broken spirit stones, and adding beef requires six points of broken spirit stones.
For ordinary Qi-refining casual cultivators, the daily income is probably only one spirit stone and a few points more. A plate of beef needs two days of hard work to afford it. It's okay to try it occasionally, but it's impossible to eat it every day.
But you can eat meat with two spirit stones, and there is only one in Quantong Xiancheng. Even if you just want to satisfy your craving, you only need six points of broken spirit stones to eat a bowl of beef noodles.
After a few days of opening, there were more customers.
Although the casual cultivators nearby cannot eat meat every day, there are always some who want to have a good meal every day.
Some are casual cultivators with relatively good family conditions who can eat meat every now and then; some are Taoist friends who meet each other and do not want to be too lavish or too simple, so they order a plate of beef, add some side dishes, and drink while chatting.
Others are children who have made progress in their cultivation, and parents take their children to eat a spicy beef noodle to satisfy their cravings in order to reward them.
Occasionally, there are some peddlers passing by from other places. They are tired from running around. When they hear that the restaurant has meat, they want to satisfy their cravings, but because they are short of money, they hesitate and want to order but dare not.
Until they heard that a full plate of beef only costs two spirit stones, their eyes widened.
There are still concerns in their hearts, thinking that it will be very unpalatable if it is sold so cheaply.
Then they thought again that the restaurant has such a good business, the taste should not be too bad, so they tried to order a plate.
Once you have tasted it, you can't stop.
After that, the merchants who often passed by would stop at the restaurant every time, order a dish of meat, and drink a few glasses of wine. Those who used to pass by but didn't stop would now stop at the restaurant to eat meat and chat.
And some merchants who didn't pass by would even change their route to the restaurant specifically to eat a few bites of meat, just to taste the taste of the beef and relieve the fatigue of the long journey.
After all, within a radius of 100 miles, there is only one restaurant that can eat such delicious meat at such a cheap price.
As the number of diners gradually increased, the store became busy. Da Hu and the other two came to the restaurant to help. After a day of work, they ate a big bowl of beef noodles in the evening, and then took some beef and went home satisfied.
However, Tongxianmen will start school soon, and everyone will have to start practicing, so there will still be not enough manpower.
Mo Hua didn't want his mother to be too busy, so he suggested hiring someone to help. Mo Shan also took into consideration that his wife's body had not recovered yet and could not use her spiritual power, so he agreed with Mo Hua's idea.
After discussing with his wife, Mo Shan invited a family member from the monster hunting team to help in the restaurant, with 30 spirit stones per month.
On the second day, a young and shy woman came to the door, carrying a basket with some fresh wild vegetables, still with dew, which seemed to have been picked up from the mountain in the morning.
Mo Hua listened to her parents' chat and knew that the woman's surname was Jiang and her given name was Yun.
Her husband's surname was Chu. When he was hunting monsters before, his chest was torn open by the claws of a wolf monster. All the family savings were used to treat the injury. Although he barely saved his life, he was seriously injured and could not continue to hunt monsters, so the family had no income.
Jiang Yun's spiritual roots were not good. She only practiced to the fourth level of Qi Refining before leaving the sect. After a few years, she got married and had children. After her husband was seriously injured, she wanted to find a job to supplement the family income, but her cultivation level of the fourth level of Qi Refining was too low, and she could not earn any spiritual stones at all. She did some odd jobs, and the spiritual stones were meager and very unstable. In addition, she had a child who was a few years old to take care of, so it was very difficult to make a living.
Now she can have a stable job in a restaurant, and thirty spiritual stones a month is already very rare.
Jiang Yun was very grateful, but she was introverted and not good at speaking. She wanted to say something but couldn't say anything to thank her, and her face turned red because of the embarrassment.
Liu Ruhua hurriedly comforted her, telling her not to think too much and just do her work peacefully.
Jiang Yun was relieved and listened to Liu Ruhua's instructions. She was diligent and careful. Although she was not fast at learning things, she was very serious. Liu Ruhua liked her very much.
After closing in the evening, Liu Ruhua packed a few bowls of noodles in a food box, added a few more slices of meat, and asked her to take it back.
Jiang Yun hurriedly refused, blushing and saying she didn't want anything: "Sister Liu, you've been so good to me, I can't take this."
Liu Ruhua asked her to take it, but she still refused.
Liu Ruhua said: "Take it back and feed it to the child."
Jiang Yun didn't have the energy to refuse. Her child hadn't eaten enough for several days, let alone meat. She took the food box and wanted to thank him, but she was tongue-tied and kept repeating the same few words of thanks.
Liu Ruhua just comforted her, "Don't think too much, it's getting late, go back and see the child early."
Jiang Yun carefully carried the food box and walked home. When she passed the corner, she stood still. From the back, she was sobbing. After a while, she silently wiped her tears with her sleeves and continued to walk home.
Mo Hua stood in the distance and looked at her figure, with mixed feelings.
His family was not rich originally, and they lived in a tight situation, but in Tongxian City, there were many families of independent cultivators who were more difficult and more difficult than his family.
It would be great if all the cultivators in this world did not have to suffer the pain of making a living.
Mo Hua thought silently.
Liu Ji Restaurant opened smoothly. Liu Ruhua was busy with the restaurant all day. She looked thinner, but her face was rosy and her complexion was better.
Opening a restaurant can study various meals and save spirit stones for her son to facilitate his future practice and marriage. Liu Ruhua felt very satisfied and smiled more.
Looking at his wife's current appearance, Mo Shan felt relieved.
And Mo Hua was happy to eat more delicious food.
With the opening of the restaurant, the family's spirit stone income also increased, and they no longer had to be as embarrassed as before for food, clothing and daily expenses. As of the opening of Tongxianmen, the restaurant had made a total profit of more than 200 spirit stones.
Liu Ruhua gave all the more than 200 spiritual stones she earned to Mo Hua, and asked Mo Hua to go to the sect to choose a suitable practice, and told him not to delay his practice.
Mo Hua nodded in agreement.
On the second day, the summer vacation ended, and Tongxianmen opened the mountain gate to welcome disciples to enroll.
Mo Hua also waved at the foot of the mountain, said goodbye to Liu Ruhua who saw him off, and then walked into Tongxianmen.
As the disciples enrolled one after another, the originally quiet Tongling Peak gradually became lively.
However, after a full two months of summer vacation, many disciples had lost their minds and neglected their practice. At this time, they were more or less nervous about enrolling.
In order to gather everyone's attention, Yan Jiaoxi directly announced a temporary formation test.
The remaining heat of the summer was completely extinguished by the cold water poured on their heads, and many disciples showed a look of grief.
This was an on-site test, and they could not take it back to do it, and they could not do any tricks.
Mo Hua was not afraid at all.
He could already draw five array patterns, and was considered an experienced apprentice. The sect's basic array pattern assessments were not difficult for him at all.
Moreover, in the more than a month after the summer vacation, he practiced array formations day and night, and each time he consumed his spiritual consciousness to the critical line, and constantly strengthened his spiritual consciousness while constantly squeezing it.
Mo Hua was full of confidence in such a small matter as the assessment, and felt that he could easily handle it.
But when the test papers for the array formation assessment were handed out, Mo Hua was a little dumbfounded.
He confirmed it several times and finally confirmed that the assessment was not a single array pattern, but a complete array formation, and it was an array formation containing six array patterns!