Chapter 490 Opening a chess and card room
After deciding to build a chess and card room, Li Yu'e and her colleagues first went to the office to inquire whether the residential house could be converted into a chess and card room. After getting a positive answer, Li Yu'e and her colleagues began to prepare.
The first thing to do is to prepare the tables, chairs and benches needed for the chess and card room, and the second is the chess and cards. Li Yu'e and others plan to make some chess, go, military flags, playing cards and mahjong dice cups.
Tables, chairs, benches, and chess and cards all need to be custom-made at a high price, but because there are so many people participating, the points required to invest per person are not too high.
After the basic equipment is ready, it is time to decorate the house. While Li Yu'e and her friends were decorating the house, Xia Xiaoman was learning how to fly a plane from Jiang Yue.
Under Jiang Yue's guidance, after flying two rounds, Xia Xiaoman parked the helicopter at the designated parking spot.
Jiang Yue jumped off the plane and said, "Great, you can graduate now. I'll talk to Lu Lanshan later. I think you'll be able to fly the plane to deliver goods in two days."
Xia Xiaoman nodded and said, "Thank you for your help these days."
"Normative work, no trouble. By the way, I heard that your fleet is planning to open a chess and card room?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded again, "Well, I'll help promote it when I have time."
Jiang Yue readily agreed, "No problem, but you have to reserve a VIP seat for me, and I'll go play a few rounds when I'm free."
"Sure, say hello to Li Yu'e before you go play."
Jiang Yue's help in publicity was more effective than Xia Xiaoman and the others handing out flyers door to door. She directly edited a paragraph and sent the opening time and address of the chess and card room to every survivor in the underground city, even Yu Jie and Lu Lanshan's phones received the text message.
While Li Yu'e and others were busy with the opening of the chess and card room, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan on a helicopter.
The plane had small space and could only accommodate her and Maodan, so Nini was temporarily sent to the Science and Technology Museum and asked Director Hou to help look after her.
Maodan was a little nervous as it was his first time to fly. He stood up straight and didn't dare to move. Xia Xiaoman started the helicopter and flew slowly in the designated direction.
It was the first time for Xia Xiaoman to fly a plane alone on a mission. The journey was unexpectedly smooth. After driving for more than two hours, he arrived at the designated city to complete the cargo transaction and returned to Fucheng that afternoon.
The next day, they were going to Yuancheng to exchange goods. When they arrived in Yuancheng, Xia Xiaoman found a group of people walking towards them from a distance on the snow. When they came closer, she found that they all had spots on their faces.
Xia Xiaoman asked around and learned that the group of people were worried that if they continued to live in Yuancheng, the spots on their bodies would become more and more serious and endanger their lives, so they wanted to flee Yuancheng and survive in other cities.
But other cities saw the spots on their bodies and were worried that they had infectious diseases, so they didn't allow them to stay. So they had to turn around and return to Yuancheng.
After completing the goods transaction, when Xia Xiaoman left Yuancheng, he saw that the group of people's eyes were full of resentment. He didn't know if he could exchange goods next time he came to Yuancheng.
When she came back from Yuancheng, the chess and card room had already opened. On the first day of opening, the chess and card room's turnover reached 130,000 points. When the families of the dignitaries living on the eighth floor learned that the chess and card room had opened, they all ran over to watch the fun. Some families with money saw that the VIP room was nice, so they topped up a lot of points to apply for membership.
On the second day, the turnover dropped significantly. Three days later, the average daily turnover of the chess and card room was around 60,000 to 80,000 points.
However, the chess and card room had only been open for less than half a month when someone imitated them and opened several chess and card rooms in other areas, taking away some of their customers.
Li Yu'e did not try to retain those customers who left. Most of them were residents of the fourth or fifth floors. She could not make much money from them. The real big earners were customers from the eighth floor, who were the main source of customers.
Xia Xiaoman did not participate in any operation of the chess and card room except providing points when needed. When the money was distributed at the end of the month, she saw the extra 20,000 points in the account and realized how profitable the chess and card room was.
After making some money, Li Yu'e got everyone's consent to close the museum for half a day and invited everyone to have a meal at the official restaurant.
After drinking for thirty minutes, Li Yu'e supported her chin and asked Xia Xiaoman whether he had encountered any dangerous or exciting things while transporting goods outside during this period.
Xia Xiaoman thought for a moment and said, "I haven't encountered anything dangerous or exciting. The weather is cold now, and there is even less oxygen outside. Apart from humans, there are basically no other creatures to see, so it's relatively safe."
"But there is something that might interest you. Remember those spots you saw in Yuancheng a few months ago?"
Sun Qing was curious and asked, "What happened to those spots? Have they gotten worse?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded. "A lot of hair grew on those spots, just like moles, which was very ugly. Yuancheng officials saw that the spots were getting worse and worse, and they could no longer hide the fact that the fabric was problematic, so they had to make it public and told the survivors of Yuancheng not to wear clothes made of seaweed fiber anymore."
"As soon as the news was announced, the survivors of Yuancheng rebelled and all ran to the official headquarters to demand an explanation. The official headquarters avoided them, so they went on strike. When I went to exchange the goods, Yuancheng hadn't gathered enough goods."
"What happened next? How did the Yuancheng authorities resolve it?" Sun Qing asked.
Xia Xiaoman said, "Things have come to this point, and the Yuancheng officials can no longer solve it. The capital received the news and sent people to replace the Yuancheng officials. They also promised to help the survivors treat the spots as much as possible, so those people in Yuancheng stopped making trouble."
Li Yu'e frowned, "Can those spots be cured?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "It's doubtful. If it can be cured, it should be cured before the hair grows."
Sun Qing felt relieved when she heard this, "Fortunately, we have left Yuancheng, otherwise we would have been in trouble."
"Oh, by the way. One time when I went to Yuancheng to exchange goods, I met your brother." Xia Xiaoman looked at Ye Xiaojie, "Your brother asked about your situation. It seems that he wants to come and seek refuge with you."
People from Yuancheng have now been blacklisted by all major cities, and no one wants to let a person with unknown spots on his body in. Ye Xiaojie's brother knew that it was hopeless to go to other cities, so he wanted Xia Xiaoman to help inquire about Ye Xiaojie's situation and wanted to settle in Fucheng.
Ye Xiaojie said calmly: "I don't have a brother. My brother died a long time ago." She no longer had a brother since her brother no longer cared about his parents' life or death.
Xia Xiaoman guessed that Ye Xiaojie would have this reaction, so she didn't tell her brother about her situation at first.
If Ye Xiaojie's brother knew that she was living so well now, he would definitely pack up his things and come to Fucheng immediately.
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