Chapter 1
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"Hey... why are we suddenly heaving?" Jiang Qi interrupted the formation.
"I'm just bored." Jiang Wanwan was casually scrolling through her phone and looked at the heavy rain outside. "How long will this rain last? It's been raining for three days. All my clothes are drying on the balcony, but none of them are dry."
The sky outside was overcast, the light was poor, the air was very humid, and the air pressure was low. It was raining heavily outside, but there was still a hint of stuffiness, which obviously meant that the rain had not completely penetrated.
The crackling sound of rain in this environment not only does not make people feel leisurely and happy, but makes people very irritated.
"People say it rains a lot during the Qingming Festival. Doesn't it usually rain here around the Qingming Festival and before and after the sports meet? Why is it raining so heavily before the Ghost Festival too?" Jiang Wanwan complained.
"Who knows?" Liu Lan said, "I saw the weather forecast saying it will rain in the next few days. You live on the 4th floor so it's fine, but do you know how damp it is here on the 2nd floor? The wall on top of my porch has been falling off these past two days. When I was going out today, I was changing my shoes at the entrance door, and I lowered my head, and a large piece of wall fell on my head."
As he spoke, Liu Lan lowered his head and stretched it out to show Jiang Wanwan and Qin Can: "Look, there is probably still some wall dust on the back of my head."
"Actually, I think everything else is fine. It's mainly because it has rained heavily for several days in a row and it's really humid. Don't you feel that the clothes you wear now feel a little wet? If it wasn't August now, I would have wanted to warm myself by the fire." Qin Can complained.
After Qin Can said this, several people sitting at the bar and chatting couldn't help but shake their clothes. They didn't feel uncomfortable at first, but after she said this, they felt that their clothes were really wet and sticky.
"Okay, I didn't say anything about the lack of business on a rainy day, so why are you three sighing here?" Jiang Qi packed up the four cups of milk tea he had just made, "Who's going to deliver the takeout order for the chess and card room?"
The three of them looked at the heavy rain outside and were a little hesitant.
"I'll go." Qin Can finally stood up, "I brought my raincoat and rain boots anyway."
Then Qin Can went to deliver the takeaway fully armed.
"Oh, it's so boring. I really want to make milk tea and start a business." Jiang Wanwan was like a salted fish that had lost its dreams. Her hands drooped, with only her head propped up on the bar, making sounds of her desire for work.
The fact that the lazy king Jiang Wanwan can actively want to work shows how much impact the rainy weather has on people.
It rained for three days in a row, and many drainage systems in Xun City were poor, and low-lying areas were flooded. The bad weather made everyone unwilling to risk getting soaked and having water in their shoes to come all the way to play, and many customers who had originally made appointments postponed their time.
No customers are willing to come to play in such heavy rain, and naturally no customers are willing to come to the alley to eat and have a midnight snack. These days, the dine-in business of the shops selling knowledge in the alley is not very good, but the takeaway business is good, but the Xinghe Script Agency has not opened a milk tea online platform takeaway service, so both the main business and the side business are not good.
In fact, after so long, the effect of Fang Jing's company's team-building video promotion has become very weak, and the customers of "MasterChef Contest" are close to saturation. The store now rarely holds two "MasterChef Contest" shows a day, and basically only holds afternoon shows.
But there are still many books for the morning session, and students like to schedule the morning session. In order to double the commission, Liu Lan gets up early every day to go to work, and his work and rest schedule is very regular.
Liu Lan's mother even made a special trip to the store to thank Jiang Qi and brought Jiang Qi a piece of homemade cured pork ribs, thanking him for extending Liu Lan's working hours and helping Liu Lan develop the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early.
By the way, the cured pork ribs were a bit salty. Huang Fugui put two pieces of it in the soup every day to season it and enhance the flavor, but he hasn’t finished stewing it yet.
"Lanlan, do you have any books these days? Is there one I can open?" Jiang Wanwan looked at Liu Lan eagerly.
Liu Lan looked at the appointment list and shook his head: "No, the guests who had made appointments before said they would make another appointment after the rain stops, and no specific time has been confirmed. Although there are some scattered guests who have made appointments today, they haven't gathered yet."
"But there will be a carload of 'Horror Doll House' the day after tomorrow night. Wanwan, do you want to take it? If you want to take it, I'll give it to you. You can use the next two days to memorize Granny Gu's lyrics."
Jiang Wanwan shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, isn't it the Ghost Festival the day after tomorrow? Oh my god, playing "Horror Doll House" on the night of the Ghost Festival, are you really not afraid of bad luck..."
Jiang Wanwan didn't finish saying the word "unlucky" in the end.
Combining the scary mode and storyline of "Horror Doll House", playing it on the night of the Ghost Festival is definitely the most effective day of the year.
"Do you think it's a car full of familiar faces?" Jiang Qi asked curiously.
"No." Liu Lan shook his head. "It was three pairs of individual guests. The first two people I made an appointment with asked me out last week. The guy who originally wanted to meet me specifically wanted to play on the night of the Ghost Festival. It took me four or five days to get the group together."
"You're quite brave." Jiang Qi exclaimed.
Liu Lan and Jiang Wanwan nodded in agreement.
After finishing the milk tea order, Jiang Qi had nothing to do downstairs, so he pretended to receive a message and looked at his phone, saying, "Uncle Huang asked me to go upstairs to help Erya with her homework. I'll go up first."
After saying that, Jiang Qi quickly went upstairs, leaving Jiang Wanwan and Liu Lan downstairs.
Liu Lan looked upstairs with some surprise: "Uncle Huang, Teacher John, and Erya have all been staying in the horror room upstairs these days. Is the internet in that room particularly good?"
"Maybe." Jiang Wanwan nodded, "I haven't connected to our store's network. Our store's network is really too bad. I even connected to the noodle shop next door."
"Me too."
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The reason why Huang Fugui, Old John and Wang Erya stayed in the horror room was, of course, because this room was the only room in the store with a constant temperature and humidity under Lili's control.
All moisture and low pressure will be blocked outside the door.
Under Lili's control, wet, non-existent.
It can be as dry as you want, and any temperature you want.
When Jiang Qi went in, the three of them were doing their own things.
Old John is writing a lesson plan.
Maybe because he had finished the 400-page PPT he wrote before, Old John had to start writing new lesson plans. He basically spent all his time doing this these two days as the store had no business.
Huang Fugui is playing Go with netizens on his mobile phone. Huang Fugui uses practical actions to prove to Jiang Qi that ancient people's Go skills are not necessarily superb, especially in fantasy ancient times.
Huang Fugui’s winning rate in chess is even lower than his winning rate in games, but he is a person who becomes more courageous as he fights harder. He plays chess with netizens online every day, but he is defeated every time, which makes Lili shake her head.
Wang Erya and Lili were in a more harmonious mood, watching educational cartoons. Behind Lili were five weaving threads, and Wang Erya was also busy sewing shoe soles.
Wang Erya learned some skills in the underground, some of which she learned well, and some of which she learned badly. For example, handicrafts such as branding, weaving various small accessories, making clothes, and making shoes were good.
But the cooking skills are hard to describe.
Maybe it’s because learning to cook requires real ingredients to practice, and the fake ingredients created by the ghost messenger’s magic are less effective. The snacks that Wang Erya learned to make from her sisters underground looked very delicate, but they could poison people to death if eaten.
Of course, if the owner of that wealthy family has a peculiar taste and likes to eat bitter snacks, Jiang Qi would have said nothing.
Wang Erya tried several kinds at home. No matter whether it was the green grass cake that looked like Qingming fruit, or the white snacks shaped like little rabbits, or the delicate lotus cakes and mung bean cakes that were no different from those sold in shops outside, they were all failures.
Without exception, they tasted terrible.
It was so unpalatable that only Wang Erya could force herself to eat what she made in the spirit of not wasting food and eating whatever she made.
Even Old John, who came from a food desert and had very low material desires, couldn't bring himself to eat it.
"Banban, sit down." Lili diligently brought a chair to Jiang Qi.
"Boss, can we let Lili go home with us in the future?" Wang Erya asked.
"go home?"
"Lili has finished her online classes. She thinks it's too boring to stay alone in the doll house at night without anyone to play with her, so she wants to go back with us in the evening."
"Banban, Lili, be good." Lili pulled Jiang Qidao's sleeve and acted coquettishly.
Lili has indeed been very well behaved during this period.
Thanks to the consistent supply of small meals from the neighbors, Lili did not feel hungry during this period and asked Jiang Qi to help her find food.
Under Wang Erya's guidance, she herself changed from a naughty child to a less naughty child.
Lili attends classes seriously during the day, and when playing with her brothers and sisters, she also considers their gaming experience and customizes them according to Jiang Qi's questionnaire. At night, she works diligently to weave colorful ropes. Now the store has more than 200 colorful ropes in stock, all of which are the result of Lili's hard work at night.
Really 7×24 hours work.
With Wang Erya watching over her, Lili shouldn't do anything out of line.
"Okay." Jiang Qi nodded. "If Lili wants to go back with us, Erya will take you back."
"But when you go back, Lili, you have to listen to Sister Erya."
"Lili, be obedient. Lili, be good!" Lili promised loudly and happily jumped onto Jiang Qi's shoulder, "Banban, stick with me!"
Jiang Qi started playing with his mobile phone, and suddenly remembered something.
"By the way, Lili, I've actually been wanting to ask you these past few days. It's been more than ten days, what was the last random blessing you gave me?" Jiang Qi asked curiously.
Nothing that could be called an unexpected lucky thing had happened to him in the past ten days.
Everything was fine. No accidents happened. I didn't pick up any money. The business in the store didn't increase dramatically. I didn't meet any romantic partners. I didn't even win the chance to order another bottle.
During this period, Jiang Qi specially bought a lot of drinks with the "get one more bottle" promotion, but he didn't win a single one.
It doesn't seem like a blessing, but rather a curse.
However, Jiang Wanwan realized her life dream and won 100 yuan in a scratch-off lottery.
Although she spent 200 yuan to scratch out the 100 yuan after getting her salary, it was still considered a winning of 100 yuan.
Jiang Wanwan, who won the hundred-dollar prize, felt that she had reached the peak of her life. She quit the scratch-off lottery industry and never played this crappy thing again.
Lili thought for a moment, lowered her head and whispered, "Lili, forget it."
Jiang Qi: ...
"You can't remember anything at all?"
Lili thought hard and shook her head.
"I just remember wanting the best for my boss."
As for which method was better, Lili couldn't remember.
Jiang Qi: ...
He didn't feel that there was anything good about himself.
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