Chapter 020 Western Fantasy Town 11
"Didn't you say there were mission objectives for opening a shop?"
Xie Yunsui summoned the little bee and asked in confusion, otherwise he would not have opened a shop in Ika Village.
The little bee huddled in the corner, trying to hide itself.
"I don't know either. The previous shop owners didn't have any mission targets, so everyone just opened the shop casually."
Xie Yunsui frowned slightly and went to the main body of the Wanjie Shop to study the contents on the cash register computer. The mission objective was clearly written on the screen, with a countdown.
More than half a month has passed since he came into this world, and the countdown is also less than half a month.
In other words, if he had not prepared to open a store so early, but instead lived casually in this world, there was a high probability that the mission would have failed.
"Will there be any punishment if the mission fails?"
[If the mission fails, all the shop owner's energy will be taken away.]
This sentence is left on the screen.
Xie Yunsui narrowed his eyes, realizing the urgency of the Wanjie Shop in absorbing energy.
Then why not issue the mission as soon as he arrives in this world?
The little bee knew nothing about this, otherwise it would have reminded Xie Yunsui.
Unable to figure out the reason, Wanjie Shop obviously did not give any further explanation for this, but just kept the task objectives on the homepage.
Xie Yunsui knocked on the table unconsciously. If he wanted to achieve 50,000 transactions within a year, he would have to have an average of 140+ transactions per day. Even the Adventurer's Guild in Laize Town did not have such a large transaction volume in a day.
Then he needs to adjust his store opening strategy slightly.
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Early in the morning, Nelson woke up in the morning light.
He first went to the vegetable field to check all the crops and judged that he should be able to harvest a large crop tomorrow.
"I have to go to the town to set up a stall again."
Nelson was watering the vegetable field on the other side and turned around to see that Graya had also gotten up.
"Grea, you can sleep a little longer. Leave this to me."
Graya shook her head silently and tended the vegetable patch with Nelson.
When Nelson went to the town to set up a stall, all the vegetable fields in the family were taken care of by Graya, who was used to such labor.
With Graya's help, Nelson finished his work quickly. Thinking that Mrs. Anita should have prepared breakfast, he said, "I'll go to the hotel and get some breakfast."
Graya is naturally shy and doesn't communicate much with the villagers, so Nelson brings back meals from the hotel three times a day. When Nelson is not around, Mrs. Anita will ask her daughter to deliver the meals.
Yesterday's work exhausted the villagers' energy. Mrs. Anita, who was cooking this morning, was listless and panting.
"Bread won't be ready until noon. How about porridge?"
Nelson's face twisted. "If it goes with the barbecue from the night before."
Anita grilled the leftover scraps of meat from the night before and said, "The remaining beef will be made into steaks for Charles."
Speaking of Charles, Nelson's expression relaxed. "I didn't expect someone would be willing to open a shop in the village. I wonder what he wants to sell?"
"There are no customers coming to the village, and we can't let Charles have no business at all." Anita quickly brewed the wheat flour paste and said, "I still have some money. When I'm done, I'll go to Charles's shop to see if there's anything I can buy."
Nelson was silent for a moment. After returning home, he counted the family savings and found only two silver coins and dozens of copper coins.
Even though he often goes to the small town to sell vegetables, he actually doesn't make much.
In fact, there are very few people like him who carry vegetables on their backs to sell. Their stalls are small, with few varieties, and they are not setting up stalls for a long time, so they cannot attract regular customers.
If he wanted to open a shop, he would have to pay rent for the shop and hire staff. He couldn't afford this money, so he could only set up a stall. Setting up a stall also required a stall fee, 10 copper coins for 3 days.
Most of the money earned was used to buy seeds. A pack cost 10 copper coins, which was a considerable expense.
Graya was growing bigger every year. Clothes could be made by picking up old clothes from the women in the village, but shoes had to fit her feet, and together with his own shoes, this was another fixed expense.
Broken farm tools need to be repaired, and occasionally some meat needs to be bought back to supplement Graya's nutrition...
The two silver coins were only saved up because Mrs. Anita was kind enough to confiscate Graya's food expenses.
Nelson put down the two silver coins, put all the copper coins in his pocket, and walked towards Charles's shop.
Charles's shop is officially open for business.
There are only four words "Charles' Shop" on the doorplate, and it is unclear what is sold there, unlike the bakery, tailor shop, grocery store and other shops in the small town, which are clearly visible at a glance.
Nelson remembered that Agnes seemed to have said last night that the customers in the store were mainly adventurers traveling to Villansted.
Adventurers mostly bought potions or weapons, which were very expensive items.
Never mind, Nelson thought, I'll just go in and take a look.
The door was open. Xie Yunsui was not sitting behind the counter, but was reading a book at a table in the shop while having breakfast. When he saw someone coming, he greeted them with a welcoming gesture: "Come in."
Nelson walked in with a bag of copper coins in his hand. "Charles, what are you going to sell in your shop?"
As long as it wasn't something expensive, he would just... buy a little.
"We just opened the store, so we don't have much preparation. Just take a look around." Xie Yunsui said.
Nelson is short but strong, a good farmer. He looked at the shelves in the store rather stiffly.
The shelves were against the wall, with a total of two areas. In one of the areas, the shelves were full of apples, which were placed individually. There were a total of ten apples, and the price "1 silver coin" was marked below.
Nelson then understood that this was a magical fruit sold to adventurers.
On another shelf were small paper bags with the price "1 copper coin" also marked on the front.
Nelson exclaimed, "One copper coin?"
Xie Yunsui said, "These are the vegetable seeds and common herb seeds I bought at the grocery store. There are about 50 seeds in a package, and there are many varieties. You can choose whatever you like."
The seeds I buy at the grocery store cost 10 copper coins a pack, but here they only cost 1 copper coin?
Nelson rubbed his eyes repeatedly in disbelief.
Xie Yunsui had no choice but to take a small loss in order to achieve the mission target of 50,000 transactions.
Xie Yunsui stood aside with a smile: "From today on, our store will purchase all kinds of vegetables, fruits and herbs at market prices."
"Huh?" Nelson was the first to sense something was wrong. "The market price is usually higher than the purchase price."
In addition to people like Nelson who sell their own vegetables at the market, there are also people who specialize in purchasing vegetables. They buy vegetables from villages near the town at the price of 1 copper coin per catty, and then sell them at the market at the price of 2 copper coins per catty, making a profit from the difference.
Nelson often goes to the market to sell vegetables and knows the market conditions.
At first, some people in the village followed Nelson to the town to sell vegetables, but later there was no business. The money they earned was not enough to cover the stall fees, and they could not even make back the money they spent on the seeds. So everyone gradually gave up the idea. Occasionally, someone came to the village to buy vegetables, and they would sell them for 1 copper coin per catty or 1 copper coin per 2 catties, making a little profit.
Ika Village has a small population and not many vegetables are grown. After coming a few times, the buyers are reluctant to come again.
After all, this is not lacking.
Only Nelson persisted and became a familiar face at the market, but it was still difficult for him to sell his products.
If Charles is willing to buy it, then the stall fee can be saved!
And the price of seeds is so low! 10 copper coins can buy ten bags of vegetables, and I can even open up a few more vegetable plots in the yard to plant more!
Nelson's heart was burning with excitement, but he regained his composure and asked in confusion, "Charles, what are you buying so many vegetables for?"
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "I've contacted a store called Wanjie Store outside. They buy vegetables. I plan to buy more here and make a trip there every month to deliver them."
He pointed to the blue and white backpack and said, "This backpack can hold an unlimited amount of things, so you don't have to worry about it being too heavy."
Nelson had seen such a backpack in a pharmacy. It was said that it had unlimited space and the price was in gold.
Nelson stopped worrying and asked, "Are there any seeds here?"
Xie Yunsui said, "We have most of the seeds, and we also have fruit tree seedlings. However, the fruit tree seedlings are a bit more expensive. If you need them, I will take them out."
"The cabbages in my field are ripe, but there aren't many. Should I harvest them too?"
"I'll take anything, even a cabbage."
Nelson immediately made the decision: "Give me ten packets of seeds!"
Xie Yunsui smiled and shook his head: "Each person can only buy one bag of seeds a day."
Nelson was stunned: "Why?"
Xie Yunsui said, "Because the price is too cheap, I'm worried that someone will buy too much and store it before they can use it. If they keep it there, it will waste the seeds. Also, if one person buys too much, others won't be able to buy any."
Nelson knew that if Shire had not imposed purchase limits, the villagers would indeed buy many bags at once like he did. Perhaps some people would take the seeds bought at a low price and then sell them to others at the original price in the town.
He nodded, took out a copper coin, and bought a bag of cabbage seeds.
The cabbage seeds at home have been used up. After this wave of cabbages is harvested, we will have to buy new ones.
Nelson left with the cabbage seeds and sold them for Charles along the way. Many villagers who had just woken up came to Charles' store to buy seeds without even washing their faces.
1 copper coin is still affordable.
It wouldn't take much effort to open up another vegetable patch in the yard.
More than a dozen transactions came in at once, and Xie Yunsui secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After seeing off the last villager, he sat behind the cashier and saw a notebook on the table with transaction information appearing one after another.
[Sold a bag of cabbage seeds.]
[Sold a packet of tomato seeds.]
[Sold a pack of purple eggplant seeds.]
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As the transaction was completed, Xie Yunsui could vaguely feel the energy that Wanjie Shop obtained through the transaction, as well as the energy that was slowly growing after it was bound to the shop. These energies were divided into two, and half was given to Xie Yunsui.
This time's journey through the other worlds consumed all the energy obtained from the deserted island world, and the Wanjie Shop had to accumulate energy almost from scratch.
Just looking at the amount of energy is not clear enough, so Xie Yunsui converted the energy value into an integral number to distinguish it from the energy creatures in each world.
After conversion into numbers, the energy gained becomes clear.
One transaction volume can earn you 1 energy point, or one point.
After officially opening the store, you can also gain a little energy value every day.
The Wanjie Shop can only be bound to one store in each world, because it is feared that the store owner will forcibly seize the energy of the current world. Otherwise, the third warmongering store owner of Little Bee would have more than thirty worlds.
The little bee looked at the screen in the main store, which showed the points number: 20.
The little bee thought for a moment, then seemed to recall something: "Shopkeeper, to travel through a world with a one-star energy index, the energy required is 100,000, a two-star world requires 1 million, and a three-star world requires 10 million."
Xie Yunsui asked, "Is the highest only three stars?"
Little Bee said, "Previous shop owners have only ever been to three-star worlds. Shop owner Wei Ling speculated that to go higher, one needs to reach a certain level of cultivation, otherwise they won't survive."
"What kind of star-level world is Fairy Wei Ling's original world?"
"Two stars."
Is it true that the world of immortal cultivation where Fairy Wei Ling lives, where the strong prey on the weak, is only a two-star world?
"What's the star rating system for the Wanjie Store? How much energy can be obtained from each world?"
Little Bee shook his head: "I don't know, no shop owner knows."
It seems that only Xie Yunsui can explore the answer himself.
"My own cultivation..."
Xie Yunsui murmured the words of the little bee, always feeling that something was wrong.
Doesn’t the energy provided by the Wanjie Shop count as one’s own cultivation?
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