Chapter 80
Ji Mingqing pretended to count the money with Xiaowan, and then calculated today's expenses with him. Most of today's expenses were the raw materials and labor costs for the restaurant, as well as the money for a few salutes. The total amount was not much, only fifty fairy stones.
It can be said that today's business was a great success.
After completing the recording, Ji Mingqing put away the jade slip and collected all the immortal stones.
Because it was the first day of opening, Ji Mingqing felt exhausted after the excitement, so he did not continue to practice today. He just lay on his bed, turned off the lights, and patted the place next to his pillow.
"Xiao Wan, come here quickly." Ji Mingqing urged, "I can't sleep if you don't come."
Bai Cangze hesitated and struggled internally, but ultimately he couldn't resist the temptation and gently lay down beside Ji Mingqing.
Ji Mingqing closed his eyes and felt Xiaowan's presence. He reached out and pulled Xiaowan into his arms.
"Goodnight, Komaru."
"Good night." Bai Cangze opened his mouth and said silently.
Not long after, Ji Mingqing fell asleep. Bai Cangze listened to Ji Mingqing's shallow breathing and struggled internally.
"Father God, Mother God, what should I do now? Should I confront him directly about my identity, or wait and find a suitable opportunity?"
But when is the right time? A year from now, or maybe ten years from now.
Bai Cangze fell into deep entanglement.
Bai Cangze tilted his head and looked at Ji Mingqing's peaceful sleeping face for the whole night. Even in the dark room, every detail of Ji Mingqing's face was clearly engraved in his eyes.
Every place brought him endless joy.
Even though Bai Cangze was a divine beast born and raised by nature, and had been a human for tens of thousands of years, at this moment, the animal factor that he thought had disappeared without a trace, unexpectedly emerged again from the corner that he had suppressed in this calm and ordinary night.
However, he knew in his heart that he could only appear in front of Ji Mingqing in the form of a cub. If he turned into a human form, the intimacy of the past would no longer exist, and the two of them might even drift apart.
Bai Cangze couldn't stand such an unexpected occurrence.
He kept his eyes open until dawn. When the sunlight outside shone on Ji Mingqing's face through the gap in the window and Bai Cangze was still counting the fine hairs on his cheeks, Ji Mingqing opened his eyes.
Ji Mingqing, who had just woken up, still had a hint of confusion in his eyes. His eyes, which had been closed all night, were now secreting a thin layer of mist due to the invasion of sunlight. He opened his eyes, but his mind was still not clear. He saw a furry white ball lying next to the pillow, and he subconsciously moved closer.
"Good morning, Xiaowan." Ji Mingqing hugged the furry creature beside him and took a deep breath on Xiaowan's neck.
"Okay, I'm fully charged!" Ji Mingqing blinked hard, then turned over and sat up in bed.
After he sat up, he still felt a little sleepy. He stared at the wall in front of him for a while, then lowered his head, rubbed his eyes, and stretched with the strength he had just accumulated.
"Well~get up!" Ji Mingqing got out of bed. He first went to the yard to scoop a basin of cold water. After washing his face with the cool well water, he was completely awake.
"Getting out of bed is such a difficult thing to do." After washing his face, Ji Mingqing went back to his room to put on his clothes. He turned his back to Xiaowan and took off his clothes one by one.
"Why...why are you taking off your clothes!" Bai Cangze was already feeling guilty facing Ji Mingqing, and seeing him changing clothes in front of him as if no one was around, he was even more at a loss.
"I'm in my room, why can't I take off my clothes?" Ji Mingqing ignored him, "I don't just want to take off one piece, I want to take off all of them!"
After Ji Mingqing finished speaking, he changed his clothes. He didn't know why Xiaowan had such a big reaction when he changed into pajamas.
When I changed clothes before... Xiaowan was not there when I changed clothes before.
"You're not a little she-cat, why are you so nervous?" Ji Mingqing said playfully, "You just saw me without clothes, shouldn't we be fair? Why don't you turn into a human form and let me see you without clothes?"
"What!" Bai Cangze looked at Ji Mingqing in disbelief. How could this man become so presumptuous? He actually dared to make such a request.
"I didn't. I didn't see you without clothes." Bai Cangze turned his head away, not daring to look Ji Mingqing in the eye.
As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped off the bed and out of the window like lightning, without giving Ji Mingqing a chance to react.
Ji Mingqing was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
So cute! So cute! Old Antique Xiaowan is so cute! The way he ran away was also cute, and Ji Mingqing's heart melted into a ball.
After changing his clothes, Ji Mingqing walked out the door. As expected, Xiao Wan was waiting at the door. When he saw Ji Mingqing, he pretended nothing had happened and said seriously, "You should go to the planting area to practice today."
"I know, but you have to wait until I finish breakfast..." Just as Ji Mingqing was trying to find an excuse, a table full of food appeared on the stone table next to Xiaowan.
"Everything you like to eat in the morning is here. If you need anything, I can get it for you." Bai Cangze had already cut off Ji Mingqing's excuses. "After you finish eating, get out quickly."
Ji Mingqing had no choice but to find a stool next to the stone table and sit down on it.
"You've prepared too much..." Ji Mingqing complained as he picked up the spoon and drank the porridge in front of him, "Do I have any privacy left here with you?"
Bai Cangze looked at Ji Mingqing without saying a word.
The two of them repeated this routine every morning, deciding on the day's training content, and counting their income while training their spiritual consciousness at night. After about a week, Ji Mingqing received a message from Xu Yihe.
"So fast!" Ji Mingqing stood up from his work in surprise. "It's only been a few days, and the dormitory is already built?"
"Yes, Boss. Everyone doesn't want to live in tents anymore, so they are very enthusiastic about building dormitories."
"Very good, very good." Ji Mingqing didn't know that Xu Yihe was frightened now. The Lord had given them three days, and now it had been four days overdue.
"Why don't we go take a look now? If there's anything the boss isn't satisfied with, we can make some changes before we move in."
Ji Mingqing nodded, "Then you lead the way."
The new dormitory was not far from Ji Mingqing's residence, just over a low hill. Standing at the highest point of the hillside, he was stunned when he looked down.
"You said this is a dormitory?" Ji Mingqing exclaimed without even getting close.
Ji Mingqing remembered that he asked them to build only four buildings. Building four buildings meant four small three-story houses, ordinary small buildings that could accommodate fifty or sixty people. In addition, it would be enough to provide them with a place to eat.
And right in front of him, although there were also four buildings, but...
These four buildings cannot be summarized by a simple Chinese character like "Lou", but should be summarized by a four-character idiom that looks more classical, such as "Tingtailouge".
Ji Mingqing looked at the four red-walled and gray-tiled buildings below. A row of lively fairy beasts were carved on the ridge of the roof. Even from such a distance, he could feel the superb level of the carving.
Looking down along the eaves, the four "pavilions" were connected by a long corridor. From his perspective, Ji Mingqing saw the silhouettes of several columns.
At first he thought he had seen it wrong, so he rubbed his eyes and ran down a distance. Only then did he realize that what he had just seen was correct.
"You have carved patterns on every pillar?" Ji Mingqing was surprised. Not to mention that it was just a temporary dormitory, even the small courtyard where he wanted to live for a long time, he didn't expect it to be decorated so meticulously.
"There are indeed some patterns carved on it, otherwise we would have built it faster." Every time Xu Yihe spoke, he looked at Bai Cangze with a guilty conscience.
At the beginning, they really wanted to just build a building casually. Anyway, as long as they could live in Fengxiyuan, their goal would be achieved. What's more, they had to live with Cui Ding's men, which was enough to make them unhappy.
But for some reason, Cui Ding got wind of their plans to build a dormitory here and insisted on getting involved. After arriving, he not only refused to let them mess around, but also formally ordered his men to keep a close eye on them, striving to meticulously craft every corner.
Because Ji Mingqing's cultivation level was not high, they were worried that a conflict would wake up Boss Ji who was resting at night. They didn't want to pay that price, so the two sides had been living in peace on the surface.
Cui Dingmei said that he lived near the master, and if the house was built more beautifully, Boss Ji might come to visit often.
In Fengxi Garden, it is an indisputable fact that Boss Ji is equal to the Lord.
Xu Yihe had no choice but to compromise. After all, he felt that what Cui Ding said did make some sense.
"We can go in and take a look." Xu Yihe took Ji Mingqing and Bai Cangze towards the dormitory area. When they entered the dormitory area, Ji Mingqing was even more surprised.
The four buildings formed a square with a large garden in the middle. In the center of the garden was a living narcissus pond that was diverted from the back mountain. The pond was surrounded by flowers and plants transplanted from the mountain.
The long corridor was decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and the pavilions were decorated with red and red colors. Ji Mingqing even had the idea that he wanted to live here and did not want to go back to his simple courtyard.
"How many people can live here? Can I..." Ji Mingqing asked after thinking about it, but was interrupted by Xiaowan.
“How many people are going to move in now?”
Xu Yihe quickly replied, "There are about forty-three people, which is not enough to fill even two buildings."
Bai Cangze nodded, "That's good. If there are new employees in the future, we can provide them with accommodation."
"Not only that, we have also reserved some space outside. If the four buildings are not enough to accommodate us, we can expand and build a few more."
"I want to live here too..." Ji Mingqing looked at Xiaowan expectantly, "Can the two of us live here?"
Bai Cangze sternly refused, "No, there are too many people here and it will be detrimental to your cultivation. They don't need to practice so hard anymore, so they can live in a large bunk bed like this."
"This isn't really a big bunk bed..." Ji Mingqing murmured, but he felt that what Xiaowan said made sense, so he gave up the idea.
"Come on, let's go inside and take a look."
Ji Mingqing and Xiaowan followed Xu Yihe into the house and found that everyone had a separate room, which was empty. However, Xu Yihe said that after everyone had arranged their rooms, he would arrange the decoration of the house himself.
Ji Mingqing walked around the room several times with envy. The view here was so good. Some rooms had windows that showed mountains, while some rooms had windows that showed views of the courtyard.
"That's great." Ji Mingqing sighed, "Living in an environment like this, I don't have to worry about you guys quitting your jobs."
"We wouldn't resign anyway, Boss Ji, please don't let your imagination run wild." Xu Yihe took this opportunity to express his sincerity. "If there weren't any special circumstances, I definitely wouldn't leave Fengxiyuan."
"I'm not imagining things." Ji Mingqing said with a smile, "But I just happen to have something I want to assign you to do."
"Boss, you say."
"Look, I want to build an inn near the restaurant, and it would be best if it were a bit bigger."
"I haven't decided what the inn should look like yet, but after seeing your finished product, I think this is the style the inn should be in."
Ji Mingqing had previously thought that if he were to build an inn, he would definitely follow the style of the immortal world and go for a simple and rustic design. However, he was not good at design. In the costume dramas he watched in TV dramas, the inns were only four or five stories high at most, and they were all the size of film studios.
But he didn't want to see only a four or five-story inn, and this was the fairyland, so it was not impossible to build it higher.
"I want a 22-story house, no, 23-story house," Ji Mingqing stated his requirements. "It should also have a landscape like this in the back, and preferably a large garden in front and behind the door. We have a lot of space anyway."
"By the way, can you decorate the interior of the house?"
"Of course, Boss Ji, you can rest assured."
Ji Mingqing was naturally relieved. He just asked casually. From the intricate carvings on his pillar, Ji Mingqing could even feel the emotions of the mythical beasts carved on the pillar.
Look at that dense hair, that noble posture, that unyielding fighting spirit, that...
Isn't that Xiaowan!
How did these people carve the small pills on the pillars?
Ji Mingqing walked quickly to the pillar. He stroked the pattern on the pillar and compared it with Xiaowan's adult form in his memory.
"Xiaowan, do you think this is you?"
When Bai Cangze walked into the yard, he knew that whether it was the pillars, the roof or the carvings on the beams, they were all himself.
He even secretly prayed to the Father and Mother Goddesses, asking Ji Mingqing not to find out, and at the same time cursed his subordinates in his heart for doing something unnecessary.
"This shouldn't be me, it's just another fairy beast with a similar form to mine."
"This is too similar." Ji Mingqing explored it carefully with his fingers. "Look at these wings and claws. The pattern on your forehead is exactly the same as yours, isn't it?"
"It's not me." Bai Cangze was depressed, and the next moment he turned his head towards Xu Yihe, which made Xu Yihe shudder.
"My Lord, I really didn't ask them to do this. They said that their own residences were also engraved with your majestic posture. If there were no paintings on the pillars, you would feel empty inside."
"From today on, his position becomes vacant, how about that?"
Xu Yihe and Bai Cangze communicated frantically through voice transmission to explain, but the more he explained, the more unhappy Bai Cangze felt.
He still didn't know how he should confess to Ji Mingqing, and even secretly promised Ji Mingqing in his heart that he would never lie to him again.
As a result, he just lied to Ji Mingqing again.
Ji Mingqing was just about to transform Xiaowan into an adult version of the beast to compare with the carvings on the pillar when he felt that something was wrong with Xiaowan's mood.
"Xiaowan, what's wrong with you?" Ji Mingqing immediately put aside the questions in his hand and hugged Xiaowan in his arms.
"Honey, why are you unhappy?"
Kiss?
When Bai Cangze heard this name, he felt like his whole body was on fire.
Why does this person always surprise me unexpectedly...? They are both in front of my subordinates now, which is not good...
Before he could think about it, Ji Mingqing lowered his head and kissed Xiaowan unexpectedly.
"Why are you so unhappy all of a sudden? If you don't like being out here, let's go home now."
Ji Mingqing vaguely remembered that cats liked to stay in their own territory, and they would feel insecure if they were allowed to go out.
I don’t know if this is the reason why Xiaowan was depressed just now.
No matter what happens, let’s go home first.
Ji Mingqing put Xiaowan back on his shoulder and turned to look at Xu Yihe who was stunned.
"Xiaowan and I will go back now. After everyone is settled, you can help me pick a few good builders and study how to build an inn in my house."
Xu Yihe nodded blankly and forgot to see the two people out.
He knew that the Lord and Boss Ji had a close relationship, but he didn't expect that the two of them had become so close.
Kunze Palace is not going to welcome another master!
Little did he know that just by kissing the kitten, he could stir up such a storm in the hearts of the two people in front of him.
On the way back, Ji Mingqing was still talking to Xiaowan about his plans in an attempt to reduce Xiaowan's negative emotions.
"We'll reserve a room for ourselves on the top floor. I've read in novels before that those overbearing CEOs...that is, those extremely rich and handsome guys, they all reserve the most prestigious room on the top floor of a luxury hotel for themselves."
"I've never stayed in a luxury hotel. I've only stayed in a budget hotel once, and that was when I was in college and played mahjong all night in the mahjong room of a budget hotel."
Ji Mingqing patted Xiaowan's head and said, "Next time someone comes to my hometown, ask them to bring me some novels. There's really nothing to kill time with in the fairy world."
"Practice is the best way to kill time."
"Okay, okay, let's practice." Ji Mingqing said his plan expectantly.
"Let's build it higher so we can see the night view outside. I heard that you can see the night view of the entire city from the top floor of a luxury hotel. Then we will..."
Having said this, Ji Mingqing's voice suddenly stopped.
"It seems there isn't much night view to see in the fairyland!"
Ji Mingqing was a little flustered when he suddenly realized this problem, but he calmed down after a moment.
If the fairy world really had everything, wouldn't there be no room for him to display his talents?
"Our schedule may become longer again." Ji Mingqing sighed.
He didn't want to replicate the environment in which he lived back then. He just felt that the fairyland had such good conditions, but no one would take advantage of them.
Moreover, after everyone becomes a god, their biggest goal is to go to the small world to play and enjoy the fruits of the small world. No one wants to build the fairyland. What a waste.
"What do you think?" Bai Cangze suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and asked in a deep voice, "Do you have any new ideas?"
Ji Mingqing nodded, "Yes, I have a new idea, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet."
"But the first step is to get them to build the inn first, and then find a way to keep the guests in the inn."
"This shouldn't be difficult. Su Jinglin's master has a high level of attainment in the art of construction."
"You know Su Jinglin's master? You have a wide network of contacts!" Ji Mingqing said casually, which made Bai Cangze break out in a cold sweat.
I almost let it slip.
"Well, when he built a restaurant in Yuantaopo before, I went to take a look. He mentioned his master and that's how I found out." Bai Cangze immediately thought of an excuse to get over the matter.
Ji Ming did not delve into it further. He trusted Xiaowan 100%, and it was this trust that made Bai Cangze even more uneasy.
"Xu Yihe might call Su Jinglin's master over tomorrow, but that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that I'm planning to organize an event in the International Park."
Ji Mingqing thought to himself, "Do you know where I can buy fireworks?"
He suddenly remembered that his hometown had attracted many tourists because of a particularly shocking fireworks display. He heard that the number of tourists that year reached a new high in recent years.
Moreover, when large-scale international events were held in the past, the fireworks displays at the opening ceremonies were always magnificent and spectacular. Even when he sat in front of the TV, he would feel his heart surge with excitement because of the spark that bloomed for only one second.
"Fireworks? This thing hasn't appeared in the fairy world for a long time." Bai Cangze said in a deep voice, "Someone did bring this thing to the fairy world before, but not many people liked it. And the effect of fireworks can be achieved by formations, so why use such a primitive method?"
"Can it be done with formations?" Yes, this is the fairyland, there is nothing impossible with formations.
"If it's so convenient, where can I buy fireworks made using formations?"
"There's nowhere to buy them. No one in the fairy world likes fireworks."
"How is that possible?" Ji Mingqing was incredulous. "I remember that immortals didn't shed their emotions. Back home, during the New Year, we couldn't set off fireworks because of the 'ban'. How come no one in the immortal world likes these things?"
"Maybe some people like it, but those who like it will focus all their energy on cultivation and go to the small world." Bai Cangze's voice was calm, and he didn't seem to care that the fairy world was such a stagnant pool.
"Oh, can't you practice and relax at the same time? My relative doesn't even know the term 'work and rest'."
"some."
Ji Mingqing found Xiaowan so adorable when she answered his questions so seriously that he couldn't help but give her a kiss.
"Just wait, in a few days I will show you the charm of dizziness!"
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