Chapter 148 Eastern Region 11 Several people split into two groups and went their separate ways...
The group split into twos and went in different directions, using the tea shop as a base, to search for other inns in the surrounding area. In about an hour, everyone gathered again in front of the tea shop.
Xin Xiuying was the one who stayed behind. Under the shop owner's oppressive gaze, she sipped the large bowl of tea in front of her slowly, and she didn't finish it even after her companions left and returned.
As long as she doesn't finish it, she doesn't need to buy a new one! Even if the shop owner glares at her with murderous intent, it won't matter; today, she's a nail in the coffin!
Xin Xiuying showed the shop owner the large bowl of tea that she hadn't finished drinking, and then invited everyone to sit down at her table again.
"How is it?" she asked with concern, "Have all the inns raised their prices?"
Xie Jiaoyue frowned: "Although the Buzhou Inns that Mo Yu and I went to did not raise their prices, they were all fully booked."
One of the waiters even told them that if they wanted to stay, they would have to share a shed with the horses and beasts.
Everyone else who visited the official inn of the Heaven and Earth Bureau gave the exact same answer. It seems that the Buzhou Inn does indeed require reservations. It seems that Director Baili did indeed make a reservation in advance, but just didn't pay.
Jin Wan didn't go to the Buzhou Inn chain stores, but instead went to some privately owned inns. She even had a sudden inspiration and randomly asked some locals on the street if they had any places to stay.
He actually found out that many natives of the Buzhou Immortal Realm had taken the opportunity to start inn businesses, afraid of missing out on this windfall of wealth.
Of course, the Heaven and Earth Bureau can only manage its own territory, not these other places. It is unknown what is so attractive about this All-Region Competition. There are far more people coming to Buzhou Immortal Realm than before, and all places are overcrowded. These unofficial inns have also raised their prices, making them unaffordable for most people.
After much deliberation, they couldn't find a reasonable alternative to the eleventh branch of Buzhou Inn.
Unless they want to live under a bridge.
Xie Jiaoyue looked around at her small group. These people all lived in the remote Jinling City in the Southwest Region. They had little contact with the Eastern Region and did not know anyone in the core Buzhou Immortal Domain, especially in the Heaven and Earth Division.
Among them, Feng Qianqian may receive preferential treatment from the Heaven and Earth Bureau due to the racial advantages of the Phoenix Clan, and Gong Shi Moyu may also receive preferential treatment from the Heaven and Earth Bureau because he carries the Heaven and Earth Bureau's waist token.
Xie Jiaoyue grabbed one of them with each hand: "You two should try complaining to the Heaven and Earth Bureau. Their behavior is borderline. If no one complains, they might not care, but if you complain, someone will definitely listen."
Feng Qianqian was in high spirits. She had been well protected by her family and rarely took on any responsibility on her own. This matter gave her a sense of pride in having a great mission.
Gong Shi Moyu was slightly dissatisfied. If he had a choice, he would like to go with Jiaoyue.
Well, since Jiaoyue cares deeply for this Phoenix Clan woman, and he takes care of her friend on her behalf, it shows that Jiaoyue trusts him.
Then she pulled Pianxian and Xie Lingliu, the two most sociable people, and said: "You two go back to the inn and keep the waiter calm. I suspect that he was just trying to fool us when he said he could give us a day or two to prepare. If no one is watching over us, I'm afraid he will just throw away all our luggage."
After four people left, Jin Wan, Xin Xiuying, Xie Xinghui, and Xie Jiaoyue were left, making a total of four people.
Hey, it's them again, especially Xin Xiuying and Xie Xinghui. They helped each other at the clan school before, and then they went to the secret realm together to watch over and help each other. They have great tacit understanding.
Xin Xiuying felt she knew Xie Jiaoyue best, and tentatively asked, "What about the four of us? Jiaoyue, you wouldn't be thinking of leading us to earn spirit stones, would you?"
Xie Jiaoyue hugged Xin Xiuying tightly: "Xiuying really understands me. I'm doing this for Jin Wan and Xinghui's sake. They don't have the qualifications for the All-Region Competition. They've come all this way, so they should bring something back with them, right?"
For example, spiritual stones, or fame.
And incidentally, it will also help solve their immediate crisis.
She split her forces into three groups: one to report the incident, one to appease the shopkeeper, and one to earn spirit stones. As long as one of them succeeded, the crisis would be resolved immediately.
Xie Jiaoyue and the other three also separated. Xie Xinghui went out to wander around the Buzhou Immortal Realm, looking for a suitable place to sell her goods, while she and Xin Xiuying used Xin Xiuying's pocket money to buy ingredients and help Jin Wan. Jin Wan was responsible for showing off her great cooking skills.
They didn't have many spirit stones or much time, so they quickly decided what to sell that day.
Mung bean soup!
Yes, it was the mung bean soup that Jin Wan made for everyone when they first arrived in Buzhou Immortal Realm.
There are no mung beans in the cultivation world. Xie Jiaoyue discovered them by chance in the wild. After soaking them in water and sprouting them, she boiled them in water and confirmed that they were the same mung beans she had seen in her previous life. Only then did she give them to Jin Wan to try making soup.
This plant is easy to grow and thrives, and one seedling can produce several rounds of flowers and yield several rounds of mung beans. After Xie Jiaoyue discovered this plant, they soon had a large pile of mung beans.
Jin Wan has recently become obsessed with this item and has brought a bunch of them into his storage ring. All they need to do is prepare white sugar and spring water, and their small mung bean soup shop can open for business.
After preparing several pots of mung bean soup and bowls and chopsticks, Xie Jiaoyue took out the Spirit Compass.
"Hey, Xie Xinghui, have you figured it out yet?"
Xie Xinghui sent the address directly, which was quick and efficient.
When Xie Jiaoyue and her group arrived at the address, they realized, "Hey, isn't this the same city gate we came from before?"
Xie Jiaoyue found Xie Xinghui outside the city gate.
"Why did you bring us here? What's so good about this place?"
She has lived two lives, but she has never set up a stall to sell things herself. When she goes out shopping, she always goes to shopping malls, so she has no experience in finding a place to set up a stall.
Xie Xinghui pointed to the long queue at the entrance, his tone extremely smug, as he rarely had anyone who could outdo Xie Jiaoyue in any way: "You just don't understand, do you? We sell mung bean soup, which only sells well when people are tired and sweating from the heat. Guess where in the entire Buzhou Immortal Realm these people are most concentrated? Isn't it the people queuing at the entrance who are the most tired?"
Even if cultivators can use the Five Elements techniques to cool themselves down, it only provides some degree of protection against the heat; they will still feel irritable due to the scorching sun.
Moreover, not everyone is a magic cultivator, and everyone's use of the five elements magic is purely virtuous. I've even heard of a sword cultivator who almost burned down his house while heating water for his own bath.
If Xie Jiaoyue hadn't believed that Gongshi Moyu would never speak out of turn, she would have thought the rumor was about her.
It's terrifying that there are other sword cultivators like her. I've heard that there are families in the Northwest Region who specialize in sword cultivation. I wonder if their houses are still standing.
After finding a place to sell their wares, Xin Xiuying and the others started setting up their stalls. Xie Jiaoyue didn't join in the work; instead, she took a pot of mung bean soup and quietly left for about fifteen minutes before returning to work with the others.
Xin Xiuying took out a rosewood table and presented the bowls and chopsticks: "Where did you secretly go?"
They also took a pot of mung bean soup, which was full of spirit stones!
Xie Jiaoyue waved her hand: "It's nothing, just going to get some insurance."
Xie Jiaoyue seemed to suddenly remember something and took something out of her storage ring: "Oh right, I also picked some leaves. Everyone has to line up, and it's inconvenient for us to use ceramic bowls, so we'll use these."
"Alright," Xin Xiuying nudged Xie Jiaoyue with her elbow, "Come on, help out. Don't slack off."
After the group had finished packing up, they welcomed their first guest.
"Mother, Mother, look what this is!"
Xie Jiaoyue looked at the bouncy little girl, who looked no more than seven or eight years old: "Little girl, this is mung bean soup, it's good for cooling down in the summer, would you like to try some?"
The little girl kept running around, her face covered in sweat: "Mung bean soup? I've never heard of it. Can I try some, sister?"
They haven't opened yet; something completely unfamiliar won't be accepted so quickly.
Xie Jiaoyue simply weighed out a small bowl for the little girl and asked Xin Xiuying to use her magic to cool down the mung bean soup. Considering the little girl's age, the temperature was not particularly low, about ten degrees Celsius, cool but not icy.
"Hey! You're not allowed to drink random things when you're out and about!"
The little girl's mother hurriedly ran over, but before she even arrived, the little girl had already taken the mung bean soup and drunk it all in one gulp.
The refreshing and slightly cool mung bean soup is sweet, and the occasional soft mung bean in it is easy to taste. As soon as it enters your mouth, it goes down your throat and your whole body is enveloped in coolness, which directly covers the restlessness caused by the scorching sun and makes you feel comfortable.
The little girl didn't finish all the soup; she left half. Just as her mother was about to pull her ear, she quickly fed the rest of the mung bean soup into her mother's mouth.
"Mommy, is it delicious?"
It tastes good.
This is not just an ordinary sweet soup; I don't know what those little beans inside are, but they can relieve the summer heat and make you feel comfortable instantly.
The mother, who had been appeased by her daughter, could no longer get angry. She glanced at the sun, then at the long queue and the sweat on her daughter's forehead, and then weighed her own level of Five Elements magic.
Fine, let my daughter suffer less, I'll just buy her a bowl.
"How many spirit stones per bowl?"
They haven't set a price yet.
Xie Jiaoyue pondered for a moment. One low-grade spirit stone was roughly equivalent to one hundred copper coins (one hundred coins in her previous life). According to the pricing of tea shops in her previous life, a bowl of mung bean soup was priced at ten copper coins.
If you want mung bean smoothie, it'll cost fifteen copper coins, since the labor cost is higher.
Isn't it too high? After all, the cost isn't high, and it doesn't even contain milk.
She tentatively stated her price.
The little girl blurted out, "Wow, it's so cheap! It tastes better and is cheaper than the big bowl of tea we just had! Mommy, Mommy, can we buy a few more? I want Daddy to try some too."
The owner of another large-bowl tea shop not far away: ? ? ?
Isn't this attack and comparison coming a bit too suddenly?
What did they do to deserve this?!
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