Chapter 13
"Purchase restrictions again? Boss, you are using hunger marketing!!"
There were wails from the crowd.
Shu Mo didn't take it seriously. He responded with a few words and then lowered his head to do his own thing.
But some people secretly started to have some thoughts.
In the extremely cold apocalypse, warm food is more precious than gold. After the news of Shu Mo setting up this stall spread, a long queue that stretched as far as the eye could see formed in a short time.
Although most people were anxious, they still followed the rules and stood in the line waiting quietly. But there were also many people who arrived late and were afraid that they would not be able to buy anything, so they wanted to cut in line, so quarrels broke out from time to time, making Song Wei and her colleagues exhausted just from maintaining order.
At this stall, only the young female owner was busy with the cashiering and packaging.
She has a slender figure and fair skin, which is in stark contrast to the soldiers who have been fighting in the wild for a long time. At first glance, he is a life player with little fighting power.
That man had evil intentions.
The bunch of candied haws were placed carelessly on the table. It seemed that there were probably dozens of strings left. If I picked them up and ran to other towns to sell them, wouldn't I make a fortune?
His profession happens to be an assassin known for his agility, and his level is not low. This man is very confident, and his running speed is absolutely beyond the reach of ordinary people.
The assassin made up his mind and quietly left the team.
He quietly went around to the back of the stall, waiting for the right moment to sneak up on them.
Who knew that before he could reach out his hand, the young man in black clothes and black hair who was standing not far away and staring at the crowd seemed to have eyes on his back. He suddenly turned around and walked to Shu Mo, glancing at him casually.
The boy's eyes were so deep that one would feel as if they were drawn into them at a glance.
The assassin player had something on his mind and was frightened. Looking at his position, she knew that it was impossible for her to attack him, so she pretended to be just passing by and ran to look at other stalls.
Mo Bai narrowed his eyes slightly.
"What's wrong?" Shu Mo noticed something was wrong.
Mo Bai did not hide anything and whispered to her about the assassin.
Shu Mo thought for a moment, "I see."
A man is innocent unless he is in possession of a treasure. She had expected something like this to happen, but she hadn't expected that Guangming City had a clear ban on fighting, and that person would dare to have evil thoughts in public.
I don’t know whether he was too brave or the temptation of the food was too strong.
Shu Mo secretly felt lucky that Mo Bai, who had a weak combat ability, came to her on his own initiative, otherwise she would have found it difficult to handle such a situation alone.
No wonder the system gave her a barrier for self-defense at the beginning.
A new pot of oden is ready, bubbling and emitting an enticing aroma.
Shu Mo withdrew his thoughts and became slightly more alert. He told Mo Bai to go back and do his work.
The boy nodded, and not far away, he stopped beside the stall with an expressionless face, acting as a bodyguard, looking quite intimidating.
When Shu Mo saw him like this, his tense heart relaxed a little.
*
Hou Qingping stood outside the crowd with a grim face.
People kept walking by, holding steaming bowls of oden, and the feeling of happiness and the rich aroma drifted over with the wind.
"Hey, have you tried this radish? It's super flavorful, so delicious, oh my god."
"No, but this fish ball is really delicious, so chewy and sticky, I can't bear to swallow it."
"It's a pity that each person can only buy six skewers, which is not enough. I think I can show off a whole pot by myself."
Hou Qingping felt that this group of people were just like the store owner's shills, who were deliberately reading food reviews to him.
All the teammates who came with him to cause trouble had bitter looks on their faces, their eyes kept drifting towards the team, and it was obvious that they wanted to rebel.
Hou Qingping was furious, "Do you have any ambition? Have you forgotten how Chen Hui stole our monster?"
Before he could finish his words, his stomach growled loudly.
Hou Qingping: “…”
Teammates: “…”
The teammates watched with their eyes and noses, trying to pretend they didn't hear anything, but they were so greedy that one of them finally couldn't help but speak up to persuade him.
"Captain, why do you have to make things difficult for food?"
"Yeah, the market will close in a few hours. If we don't line up now, there won't be any left..."
"That's oden... Holy crap! There's even candied haws in it!"
Finally, when the man was halfway through his words, a flash of red suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he immediately shouted excitedly.
After he finished shouting, Hou Qingping glared at him fiercely. He: "..."
The team member's shoulders slumped instantly and his brows and eyes drooped.
Hou Qingping was secretly satisfied, knowing that he still had considerable influence in the team and that his word was final.
If I let these team members go west, they will definitely not dare to go east!
He immediately said with a stern face, "No one is allowed to go! The owner is obviously in cahoots with Chen Hui and his gang. Anyone who buys their oden is giving money to their opponent! If I find out, hmph..."
He sneered menacingly.
Hou Qingping didn't know that his idea was completely overestimating Chen Hui.
Besides, whether he goes or not has no impact on Shu Mo's business at all.
For more than three hours, she was so busy that she had long forgotten about the noisy bald man.
Pot after pot of oden was cooked and sold out quickly, and without exception, every customer took a string of candied haws with them when they left.
Candied haws are sour and sweet, and are loved not only by children but also by adults.
Some of them ate it on the spot, while others said they would take it home for their children or savor it slowly themselves.
Those people carefully put the candied haws into their backpacks, their eyes filled with unstoppable joy.
When the first batch of more than 70 strings of candied haws were sold out, Shu Mo restocked the stock, but he didn't expect a reminder to pop up in front of him.
[The purchase quantity cannot exceed the daily limit]
[Reminder: The daily purchase limit of the product "Tanghulu" (78/100)]
Shu Mo was stunned. This game actually has a purchase limit for items?
That’s right. Fresh meat buns and candied haws don’t require any cooking time. It would be incredible if we could just buy them.
She had no choice but to lower the quantity and bought another twenty-two strings at the upper limit.
It sold out quickly again.
Shu Mo said helplessly to the people in line behind him: "Sorry, we're out of candied haws."
There were shouts of disappointment from the crowd.
Shu Mo glanced at the time and gave another piece of bad news, "The market is about to close. This is the last pot of oden. We will close the stall once it's sold out. I'm really sorry, please come earlier next time."
The crowd was in an uproar, with wails rising like waves.
"ah……"
"Boss, are you coming tomorrow?"
"How can I live tonight without eating oden?"
"Damn! My friend is so wicked. He only called me after he finished eating..."
"Boss, please be kind and cook another pot!"
Shu Mo was unmoved, and just apologized, "It's too late to cook anymore. The market will open at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. I should come here to sell for another two hours, and then I have to rush back to the store."
"Eight o'clock? Then I will definitely come early to line up."
"I won't go back tonight..." Someone even took out the tent he usually used for outdoor battles, clenched his fist with determination, and his eyes were full of fighting spirit. "I must grab the fish balls and radishes this time!"
With his start, several young people immediately called their friends and discussed happily about staying here tonight.
"The boss has opened a store?" Someone else keenly grasped the key point, "Where is the store?"
Most of the onlookers who had gathered earlier had already bought their food and left. Those who were still queuing now were the ones who came later and did not hear the argument between Zhao Yu and the others and Hou Qingping.
Shu Mo's expression relaxed. Finally someone noticed the advertisement she had secretly posted.
A smile flashed in her eyes as she reported a string of coordinates.
"So far? It's not very convenient to go there," the man muttered.
"It's good enough to have something to eat, but you're still asking for more. If you don't want to go, then don't go. There's just one less person to snatch from me." His companion gloated.
"Hey, who said I won't go..."
Shu Mo coughed, attracting everyone's attention, and then dropped a heavy bomb.
"We are actually a hot spring hotel, and hot springs are our main business."
She calculated that the money she had should be enough to buy a bedroom, so she boldly added the word "hotel".
Everyone's expressions were stunned for a moment, and they all began to doubt their ears.
"What did the boss just say?"
"Is that what I thought..."
“No way…”
They stuttered and swallowed wildly.
Shu Mo smiled and continued to advertise, "In addition to oden and candied haws, the store also offers fresh meat buns, candied white fungus and snow pear soup, coffee milk... But again, the accommodation rooms are limited, first come first served."
"I can testify! The hot springs there are super comfortable!" Zhao Yu raised his hand high and enthusiastically promoted it. "And the boss's fresh meat buns are also super delicious... No, everything is super delicious! Soak your body in a warm bath, and then drink a bowl of white fungus and snow pear. It tastes amazing."
Everyone: “!!!”
When they heard that there really was a hot spring, they were completely stunned.
Before I could recover from the shock, I heard about fresh meat buns, rock sugar and snow pear soup, coffee and milk...
Is that heaven?
Shu Mo cleared his throat and said, "But we have to renovate tomorrow night, so we won't be accepting customers. We will officially open the day after tomorrow."
*
As it got dark around nine o'clock, other vendors in the market began to pack up their stalls one after another.
Shu Mo and the people in the queue repeatedly assured each other that they would come as soon as the market opened at 8 a.m. the next morning, and only then did they disperse the reluctant guests.
Then, she did not leave in a hurry, but kept her promise and cooked another pot of oden.
Customers kept coming in, and she was so busy that she almost forgot that she hadn't eaten yet. Now that she relaxed, she suddenly felt tired.
His empty stomach protested and Shu Mo rubbed it.
While waiting for the oden to be cooked, she opened the panel to check her account balance.
——3916 points.
Shu Mo took a deep breath and pretended to be calm before turning off the screen, with unstoppable joy in his eyes.
The decision to take a gamble and spend four days' maintenance costs to buy a mobile stall and take the risk to set up a stall in town turned out to be the right one.
Compared to the pitiful 30 points left in the morning, she became rich overnight.
With these points, enough to buy several rooms, her hotel can finally get on track.
Shu Mo already had a plan in mind. Just as the oden was ready, she took out paper bowls and wooden chopsticks and distributed them to Chen Hui and the others, "Everyone, eat while it's hot."
Earlier, she had promised to treat Song Wei and others to dinner, and naturally she would not go back on her word.
In fact, Shu Mo was not well prepared. He underestimated the flow of people in Guangming Town before coming here. He did not expect so many people to gather in an instant.
The hot food is enough to make people in this world lose their minds.
Although Mo Bai has extraordinary fighting ability, it is difficult for him to stop the crazy crowd alone. Song Wei, Zhao Yu, Chen Hui and others did help a lot in this.
With them maintaining order, she could prepare snacks and receive guests with peace of mind. Being busy so late, Shu Mo thought it was only natural to treat them to dinner.
But from the perspective of Chen Hui and others, this pot of oden is even more precious than gold. How could they just treat it as a reward?
This is too... too wealthy.
Several people couldn't believe it.
Especially Zhang Li. Unlike Chen Hui and the others, she had never eaten the hot food sold by Shu Mo, and had no resistance to this pot of oden.
She pulled the confused Qingqing, and when she smelled the delicious aroma, she couldn't even speak. She just kept swallowing and stammering, "This, this is not good..."
I just did a favor, but I received such a big gift in return?
"And I've always wanted to say this, Boss, are your prices too low?" Song Wei suddenly said, frowning.
When she said at the hot spring, "I'm willing to take a bath no matter how much it costs," she meant it from the bottom of her heart.
Song Wei didn't understand.
Doesn't Shu Mo know how precious boiling water and warm food are in this world?
Fifty points for an unlimited-time hot spring bath, five points for a skewer of oden, and fifteen points for a bowl of rock sugar and snow pear soup that can break the state of silence... Anyone who hears such pricing will think that the boss is simply doing charity.
In Song Wei's opinion, even if Shu Mo's price increased tenfold, there would still be people scrambling to buy it.
As a consumer, she would take the initiative to propose a price increase because she was really considering Shu Mo.
Shu Mo just shook his head, "That's enough."
That's enough.
Shu Mo just wants to be a serious business player.
She is not a greedy dragon, and she does not desire to gather all the wealth in the world under her.
In fact, Shu Mo has always been sober.
She has played many business simulation games, and her biggest feeling is that the beginning of each game is always the most enjoyable.
Which building to unlock first, which facility to upgrade later - every penny must be calculated carefully, until finally, when all buildings are unlocked, customers come in an endless stream, and money becomes a jumping number, the fun of the game will gradually begin to dissipate.
But these may be difficult to explain to Song Wei and the others.
Unlike her, they are ordinary people who are truly struggling in this world.
And she is someone who has already died once.
Shu Mo exhaled slowly, blowing away the white smoke rising from the paper bowl, his eyes clear, "Isn't it good? With this price, everyone can soak in the hot springs and eat hot food."
Song Wei was stunned. "Of course this is good."
Chen Hui was in a complicated mood, "But boss, not everyone is as good as you. Good people are often bullied..."
Shu Mo looked much younger than him. Before the game started, she had just entered society at her age. Chen Hui looked at her and couldn't help but want to remind her.
Shu Mo raised his head, glanced at a corner intentionally or unintentionally, then retracted his gaze and smiled lightly, "I understand, thank you."
She slowly curved her eyes through the curling hot air.
"Don't worry."
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