Chapter 1

The fragile shop of Mr. Zhen went bankrupt, and the new shop of the instigator was being renovated in full swing.

Boss Shen's decoration team was incredibly efficient, and the prototype of the new store was completed in just over ten days.

The partitions on the first and second floors have all been completed, with 120% quality assurance in place in accordance with the requirements on the drawings, and everything Jiang Qi had envisioned is in place.

The first floor is a 100-square-meter real-life large room from "Red Tears", which includes a large utility room, a toilet, a small dressing room, and a small modern room (specially used for mystery books).

Except for the toilets and changing rooms, the second floor is full of rooms for opening horror stories. The rooms are large and small, with secret passages and evidence search corridors, making them very suitable for opening horror stories.

As soon as the new store is renovated and opened, the size of Xinghe Script Agency will more than double in an instant.

"Xiao Qi, take a look at the wood used to build the stage. They are all good wood. They are definitely not the rotten wood that those lumber mills bring in and paint over to fool people." Boss Shen said cheerfully.

Ever since the decoration team took over the new store, Boss Shen, the boss of the decoration team, has been like the buyer. Except for a few cases where he was unable to come due to other matters, he would come to supervise the work whenever he had time. As a result, the owners of nearby shops all thought that it was Boss Shen who bought the cafe.

Of course, the masters of the decoration team are also very active, rarely lazy, and even take the initiative to work overtime. Especially around lunch and dinner time, the masters who have finished their work and can leave will try to find more work to do, that is, they will work if they don't leave. Their professionalism is touching.

"Very good." Jiang Qi could only nod and praise. He didn't know how to build a stage. "Xinghua, what do you think?"

"This platform is a little low." Wang Xinghua said, "It needs to be raised a little bit, and there needs to be a wide pillar at the side..."

Wang Xinghua excitedly talked a lot about the place where the stage was going to be built, and then she started chatting directly with the carpenter, and they were chatting quite enthusiastically.

"Xiao Qi, the little girl in your store is very professional." Boss Shen exclaimed.

Jiang Qi thought, how could he not be professional? This was the place where Wang Xinghua had stayed for nearly a hundred years. Fortunately, Wang Xinghua remembered that it had been more than a month since she last entered the world of Red Tears. Jiang Qi had long forgotten what the abandoned theater looked like. He only remembered that Wang Xinghua's belongings were scattered all over the floor and were trampled and crushed, and she said "pay back the money" at the end with all her strength and tears.

"She knows more about this. Her father used to be the owner of a town opera troupe and performed in the town's old theater. Xinghua has been in the theater since she was a child. Many of the decorations in this real-life room were suggested by her."

"So it's a family tradition." Boss Shen realized and asked curiously, "Although the opera troupes in the towns are not as popular as before, they are still profitable. Why doesn't Xinghua go to school... but instead comes out to work?"

Jiang Qi looked at Wang Xinghua who was describing the stage with great excitement, and said, "Her mother died of a dystocia when she gave birth to her, and her grandparents are all gone. Xinghua was supposed to go to college, and it is said that she had good grades in high school. But her father had a car accident before her college entrance examination, and was sent to the hospital but could not be saved. Because of this, she did not take the college entrance examination, and went out to work to earn money after graduating from high school."

Boss Shen looked at Wang Xinghua with a little more kindness in his eyes: "Alas, she is also a miserable girl."

Wang Xinghua's story is actually an adaptation of her original world's story moved to the modern era. If you think about it carefully, it's quite miserable, but...

Thinking of the 6666 necklace from a light luxury brand that Wang Xinghua bought yesterday with her bonus and remaining living expenses, Jiang Qi felt that she had nothing to do with a miserable life.

To be honest, given Wang Xinghua's habit of wanting to spend the money she saved, Jiang Qi had reason to suspect that she would never be able to buy the bag she had originally set out to buy in her lifetime.

But it doesn't matter if she can't buy a bag. Every time Wang Xinghua buys something in the shopping cart, her happiness progress increases by 1. In theory, a 6666 necklace and a bag worth tens of thousands of dollars can contribute the same amount of progress. Jiang Qi hopes that she can't help but buy more cheap things.

"By the way, Uncle Chen, I heard from Master Zhang (the carpenter) yesterday that you recently received a big order. I guess the reason you didn't come to eat noodles in the past few days was because of the order. Congratulations!" Jiang Qi said with a smile.

Boss Shen waved his hand and said, "What big order? Don't listen to Lao Zhang's nonsense. He is a man of few words. He speaks all kinds of fabricated and unfounded things as if they were true."

"I was talking about the amusement park in the suburbs a few days ago. Xiaoqi, you should know that amusement park, right? It was quite popular in the first few years after it opened, but business has been not so good in recent years. Every year, there are rumors that it will go bankrupt, but it never does."

"I got a piece of gossip some time ago, saying that the owner of this amusement park wants to renovate the entire park. What a big order it is. Although the business of the amusement park is not very good, the place is big enough, and my decoration team certainly can't take it all. I can also get a share of the soup for my brothers to go home for the New Year. I went out excitedly to inquire for a few days, but it's nothing."

"It may not be fake news." Jiang Qi said.

Although he didn't know the owner of the amusement park and didn't know what the rich man was thinking, since this amusement park had approached Fang Jing several times for advertising cooperation, it was obvious that they didn't want the amusement park to go bankrupt.

It is not impossible that if the boss decides to take one last gamble and spend a large sum of money to renovate and upgrade the entire amusement park to see if he can revive it, it is not impossible.

"It's most likely fake news." Boss Shen's mouth was a little dry after talking so much. He found an unopened bottle of water, gulped down half of it and continued, "Xiao Qi, you may not know that there is more than one owner of this amusement park."

"The boss of the amusement park is Mr. Fang, the owner of a very famous dairy company in our city. You know the fresh milk, right? It's from this company."

Jiang Qi nodded: "Of course I know this. My sister and I drank a lot of fresh milk from them when we were young. But this company seems to have stopped production. I haven't seen fresh milk for many years."

"It has been discontinued. I heard others bragging about it when I was out drinking. I'm not sure if it's true or not. They said that Mr. Fang actually wanted to build a resort. Wasn't it popular for real estate developers to build shopping malls and commercial streets in a place first, drive up the housing prices, and then sell the houses?"

"Mr. Fang wanted to do the same thing back then."

"It is said that the amusement park was just his first step. He had already bought the land near the amusement park. He originally planned to build a resort around the amusement park and develop it. But later it seems that the company ran into problems and the capital chain was cut off."

"The land over there was so remote that it wasn't worth much, but the amusement park business was doing OK at the time, so he split up and sold the shares in the amusement park. Now the amusement park has several shareholders."

"Now most likely the other shareholders want to close down the amusement park and sell it. Mr. Fang is not happy about it and wants to revitalize it, but he probably doesn't have much money, so the parties are stuck in this stalemate."

Jiang Qi felt that some of the logic seemed illogical. He didn't understand business matters, so who knew how these wealthy people operated.

"But I don't know if it's true or not. Just listen to what's said at the table. People nowadays can say anything when they're drunk. Xiaoqi, I'm telling you, don't learn from Uncle Chen and I who drink recklessly outside. I had to drink in the early years to run my business, and I can't change the habit."

"Drinking is not a good habit. Not only will you talk nonsense when you are drunk, but you will also get into trouble. Fortunately, I have a good drinking tolerance. I usually don't say anything nonsense when I am drunk."

Jiang Qi: That’s not necessarily true.

That time when you had a bad drinking habit, you got drunk and pulled Jiang Bing to tell him everything, almost telling him your bank card password. You kept saying “Uncle Chen, I’m sorry” and cried miserably.

Jiang Qi felt that this was not a very important past event and it was better not to let the person involved know about it.

"By the way, Uncle Chen, how long will it take to complete the decoration here?" Jiang Qi chose to change the subject.

"About 10 days, it will definitely be finished before New Year's Day. Xiaoqi, if you think it's too slow, I'll ask everyone here to speed up the work and move it up a few days."

"No, no, as long as it can be finished before New Year's Day." Jiang Qi was calculating in his mind whether he would have the money for the final payment after the work was completed.

The tens of thousands of yuan owed by Wu Meng had been paid off with the working capital borrowed from Jiang Bing. Although the new store had not been renovated yet and the purchased books and furniture could not be put in, the hardware store at Old Man Chen's place was not sold either.

Jiang Qi contacted Boss Wang the day before yesterday and asked Boss Wang to contact the Chen family to ask if they could lend them the hardware store for a period of time as a warehouse. The Chen family readily agreed.

Taking this opportunity, Jiang Qi also got Chen Zichen's WeChat (he had never added him before) and chatted a lot with Chen Zichen on WeChat.

The diagnosis given by the hospital in Peking is that Chen Zichen's ear can be cured. His hearing may not be fully restored, but his daily life should not be affected. It's just that the price is relatively expensive.

Since Chen Zichen has no medical insurance, the cost of treatment may be astronomical for an ordinary family.

Chen Zichen originally didn't want to receive treatment, she thought wearing a hearing aid would be fine, but Chen Si and Liu Xinhong insisted on receiving treatment.

Now Chen Zichen's household registration problem has been resolved and she has obtained a new ID card. She was very happy to take a photo of the ID card with Chen Zichen's name on it and show it to Jiang Qi.

"Boss." Wang Xinghua's shout interrupted Jiang Qi's divergent thoughts, "I have finished talking to the carpenter about the stage. It's 3 o'clock. I have to go to the stewed food shop to get some stewed food."

"Yeah." Jiang Qi nodded, thought for a moment and called Wang Xinghua, who had already taken one step out, "Wait for me, I'll go with you."

After that, Jiang Qi turned to Boss Shen and said, "Uncle Shen, I'll go first. Remember to come to the braised food restaurant for dinner tonight. There will be plenty of braised food and vegetable noodles."

"Okay, Xiaoqi, go and do your work. Uncle Shen will help you watch over here." Boss Shen said cheerfully.

The new worker who heard this confusing conversation looked at his master in confusion: "Master, has the boss forgotten that he is our boss?"

The chef said calmly, holding a cigarette in his mouth, "The boss has been like this for a while, you'll get used to it. Don't be lazy and get to work. If you're tired, you can have two more bowls of noodles tonight. I just don't know if there will be braised pig's trotters today. I didn't feel like eating them last time and only ate two pieces. I want to eat more this time."

Worker: ???

Outside the door, Wang Xinghua looked at Jiang Qi with a vigilant look on her face: "Boss, you are going to the braised food store with me, are you going to deduct the money I paid for the braised food?"

"Now I can't make money by knitting, and I want to perform 10 shows of Red Tears a day but you don't agree. If you deduct the money I earn from the braised food, how can I afford the bag that Tutu likes?"

Jiang Qi: ...

In fact, if you don’t buy anything, you can afford a bag if you save for two months.

"We are expanding the store!" Jiang Qi said, "I have been using the [Script Writer] to expand the script of Red Tears these days. Once the new script is out and the new store is built, you will earn more money for performing Red Tears."

"Just think about it, for such a large live-action script, I have to charge at least 288 per person. There are 9 original characters in Red Tears, and there are so many people in the script. There are also many NPCs with important roles in the host manual. If we expand it to 15 characters, it will be 4,320 per show."

"If you take 5%, that's 216. The process and duration are the same as before. Isn't that a good deal?"

"And if I can really expand to more than a dozen or even 20 characters, I will definitely charge more than 288 per person for this dungeon. I will arrange a few more NPCs and two hosts. I will directly simulate the real-life situation, so your money will be more."

"If you perform well and the customers give you rave reviews, I can increase your commission to 8%."

Wang Xinghua counted on her fingers and figured that although it wasn't as profitable as knitting, it was still okay. She nodded and said, "Boss, please work hard to open the new store."

"And that script, you should write it quickly. 15 character scripts are too few. There were originally 48 people in the crew. You should at least write half of the 24 character scripts."

Jiang Qi: ...

Can I make a script as quickly as I want?

This depends on whether the [Script Writer] is reliable!

It's just unreliable, what can he do?

Jiang Qi spent several days writing the script using the [Script Writer]. Perhaps because the 1-star [Script Writer] did not work very well, the finished product was somewhat hard to describe. Many of the newly written characters gave Jiang Qi a headache.

Moreover, the [script writer] seems to particularly like writing melodramatic love stories. The most exaggerated one was when a crew of 48 people wrote 6 love triangles. Basically, each character could be involved in several relationships at the same time, which was simply amazing.

Now Jiang Qi finally understood why Mr. X's output was so low.

The randomness of the [Script Writer] is too great. Unless you set a story completely in stone, it can really play freely and make you vomit blood.

The more characters you set, the more freedom you have.

Jiang Qi just hopes that the [Script Writer] can be reliable for once and produce a usable 15-person version of "Red Tears" before the new store is put into use.

Let him make some money.

Please.

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