Boss Husband
For a moment, the cultivators gathered in front of Aya's fried chicken shop fell silent, and the cultivators at the front of the line even winked at the cultivators behind them to confirm the current situation.
What's going on?
How would I know?
Xu Ya noticed something was wrong and looked back, following the guests' fearful gazes.
Apart from Ah-Xi having breakfast, Shi-Yu-Zhen was standing on the door frame with her arms crossed, even holding the ink sword to her chest, looking quite intimidating.
Xu Ya had no choice but to turn around and whisper to Shi Yuzhen, "Senior Brother, I'm fine now~~ You can go back!!"
Don't let this affect my business! Can't you see everyone is afraid to speak up?
Shi Yuzhen's perspective: Xu Ya's eyes, which were filled with tears last night, blinked, her face pleading with her to leave.
Shi Yuzhen stared at Xu Ya's face for a long time, and inexplicably felt quite pleased.
This can be considered as agreeing to Xu Ya's request.
Instead of leaving through the front door, he turned and went into the inner room, as if he were going to leave through the back door.
Xu Ya breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting rid of this big Buddha statue.
With a standard smile honed in his training at Tartine, he greeted customers who came to buy fried chicken.
But there seemed to be an eerie silence in front of the store, along with the sound of someone's heart breaking.
The monks in front of Aya's fried chicken shop were both men and women, and it can be said that after yesterday's marketing efforts, their reputation has improved.
After all, the cultivators who bought the fried chicken would definitely see a significant improvement in their cultivation after eating it. So, word spread quickly, and today the number of cultivators in front of the shop was noticeably higher than the day before.
But the order is inexplicably better than yesterday...?
Xu Ya wondered if it was just her imagination.
The cultivators never expected that queuing up early to buy fried chicken would lead to such a sensational scoop.
They started whispering to each other using telepathy without prior arrangement.
"What's Senior Brother Shi doing here?"
"So the rumors about food therapy are true?"
"The way Shi Yuzhen looked at Xu Ya... In all my years in Yunmeng Immortal Marsh, I've never seen Shi Yuzhen look at anyone with that kind of gaze."
"Could it be that Senior Brother Shi has already taken a liking to Xu Ya???"
"...I've been dumped..."
The whispers of their thoughts almost leaked out, but Xu Ya was completely oblivious. With lightning speed, she quickly packed the fried chicken into a paper bag, handed it out, and took the money—a streamlined process.
The cultivators who arrived in line all wore subtle expressions and didn't exchange a single word with Xu Ya, but Xu Ya interpreted it as a gesture that indicated they wanted to say something.
Xu Ya was somewhat puzzled, but she didn't stop what she was doing.
Xu Ya prepared more stock today than yesterday.
Ah-Xi, a young boy, helped restock the goods time and time again.
The crowd at the shop entrance had finally thinned out considerably. The cultivators behind, who hadn't witnessed the earlier scene, were much more lively, discussing what the newly opened Immortal Fried Chicken tasted like.
But their smiles soon faded.
They saw someone who should never be there, leaning against the "Aya Fried Chicken" shop, standing in a blind spot out of the store.
Shi Yuzhen leaned against the wall, also holding a sword and resting with her eyes closed.
It's not uncommon for people from Yunmeng Xianze to go down the mountain and open shops in the immortal realm, and Xu Ya is no exception. However, as a highly talented cultivator from Yunmeng Xianze, Senior Brother Shi has never been seen visiting any of the cultivators' shops.
They actually stumbled upon something so rare.
The crowd immediately fell silent like quails, unlike the cultivators who could communicate telepathically.
This group of cultivators had barely any cultivation level, ranging from low to mid-level. Most of them didn't even have a cultivation level that was 30% higher than Shi Yuzhen's. This couldn't be transmitted through telepathy; what was the difference between this and real-name chatting?
The group silently handed over the meeting to Xu Ya.
When the last batch of fried chicken sold out, the shop had already announced that there was no need to queue anymore.
However, there were still many people, so Xu Ya had no choice but to ask the cultivators who couldn't buy fried chicken to write down their reservations on paper and pen and come to pick them up the next day, thus completing the transaction.
Xu Ya thought the cultivators might not easily accept such a proposal.
But today they didn't utter a word, instead obediently taking out paper and pen to write down the so-called appointment form, and then left blankly.
Xu Ya received a stack of pre-orders and finally realized why the monk who came to buy fried chicken today was so strange.
The moment the door closed, Shi Yuzhen walked in as if nothing was wrong, and Xu Ya finally understood!
Hey! There's a door god standing there!
Xu Yuan couldn't bring herself to tell Shi Yuzhen to leave again. She believed that as a male lead, he should have a strong sense of self-management and would leave when he was supposed to.
Xu Ya stared at the male lead for a few seconds, then began to organize the pre-orders and review today's sales.
Xu Ya noticed that there were always some hesitant cultivators in front of the shop. Judging from their clothes and expressions, Xu Ya could tell that most of them were low-level cultivators.
In the Yunmeng Immortal Marsh, the strong are respected and the weak are treated as bandits. This is also true of the posts connected to it, resulting in a huge gap in income. Xu Ya, who had been a penniless pauper for more than ten years, knew all too well that in reality, the situation of low-level cultivators in the Immortal Marsh was not much better than that of a good-for-nothing like Xu Ya.
Xu Ya thought of the cultivator who had caused a scene in front of the shop yesterday and returned home looking disheveled, and she kept the matter in mind.
Are three mid-grade spirit stones really a bit too expensive?
Xu Ya had to seriously consider the business model, even though selling whole chickens was very convenient and quick.
However, storing a whole chicken is very challenging; if you pile up a dozen or so, the counter will be completely full.
She recalled that she often bought braised food outside her rented house in modern times. Would it be more acceptable to people if it were sold by weight?
And what she thought of was: it would be a bit more complicated to sell the fried chicken in different parts. Naturally, the price of the parts with poor taste and the parts with excellent taste would be different. After adjusting the overall price, there would be relatively affordable parts, so that cultivators who wanted to buy the chicken wouldn't be disappointed because of the price.
Xu Ya's mind hadn't been working like this in a long time. She was practically ignoring Shi Yuzhen and sat alone at the table, propping her chin up in a daze. Ah Xi was with her, also propping her chin up and staring blankly.
Shi Yuzhen hadn't received this kind of treatment in a long time.
Like an ordinary person, he stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Xu Ya's eyes, and Xu Ya seemed to wake up from a dream.
"Big, Senior Brother." Xu Ya felt extremely embarrassed.
But then a thought struck him: "Senior Brother, can I ask you for a favor?"
Shi Yuzhen raised an eyebrow: "Tell me about it."
Xu Ya told Shi Yuzhen her thoughts from beginning to end. At this moment, it seemed as if the strict hierarchy of cultivators in the Immortal Marsh had disappeared, and they were just two ordinary friends having a conversation.
Shi Yuzhen also displayed a rare "divine descending to earth" demeanor, which would likely leave the cultivators speechless.
Shi Yuzhen lowered her eyes and glanced at Xu Ya's radiant face out of the corner of her eye.
The little girl's face still had some baby fat, perhaps because she started getting nutrition too late, causing growth and development patterns that shouldn't appear at Xu Ya's age to show up, making her look chubby.
Shi Yuzhen understood immediately.
He knew that Xu Ya was going to all the trouble of repricing the prices in order to take care of those low-level cultivators with meager incomes.
Shi Yuzhen had been in a high position for too long. He suddenly realized that he couldn't put himself in the shoes of the weak like Xu Ya could. He had always lived like this in Xianze and had been assimilated.
Following Xu Ya's instructions, Shi Yuzhen ate each part of the fried chicken, meditated and regulated her breathing, and then explained to Xu Ya in simple terms—because Xu Ya couldn't understand the complicated professional jargon at all.
Xu Ya had no idea that Shi Yuzhen was so obedient and well-behaved only in front of her.
While inwardly weeping and huddling with the system, she thought, "Wow, this male lead is so approachable! Your novel's description isn't quite right, is it? What 'aloof'? System, I'm requesting to join the male lead's fan club! T^T"
[Hehehe, I refuse to share this sentiment.]
The afternoon passed quickly, and Xu Ya finally settled the pricing. With the male lead's evaluation of spiritual energy, Xu Ya gradually learned some professional terms and carefully wrote down the effects on the canvas with pen and ink.
A whole chicken, after being deep-fried and excluding the offal, weighs an average of about 40 taels.
So, based on 40 taels and 3 mid-grade spirit stones, that's 0.075 mid-grade spirit stones per tael.
Rounding up, you can use low-grade spirit stones as the selling unit to sell different parts of fried chicken.
Xu Ya separated the chicken breasts, drumsticks, forewings, chicken drumsticks, chicken tips, and almost everything that could be sold. There were also quite a few whole chickens.
In this way, although it will be more troublesome for Xu Ya herself, the overall audience will be wider.
Shi Yuzhen found Xu Ya's energetic appearance quite amusing. She reached out and gently scratched the tip of Xu Ya's shiny nose, which was wet like a kitten's, covered with a thin layer of sweat.
Both of them were stunned at the same time.
It was incredibly awkward.
Shi Yuzhen quickly cleared her throat, took out the porcelain bottle from her sleeve, and handed it to Xu Ya: "Take this. Junior Sister, with your constitution, you need to take low-level medicine to adjust your constitution into a vessel that can be used for cultivation. In layman's terms, it's about maintaining the vessel. Without a good and perfect vessel to receive spiritual energy, you will eventually sink and shatter."
Xu Ya was pleasantly surprised to receive the medicine bottle from Shi Yuzhen. She had thought the male lead was just saying it casually, but she didn't expect that he would prepare several courses of medicine for her in less than a day.
555 The male lead is such a good person.
Seeing Xu Ya's excited eyes, Shi Yuzhen hesitated for a moment, then asked stiffly, "Why did you tell Danxiao Prefecture that it was to buy medicine for Zhan Zhengzhen?"
If these words hadn't come from Shi Yuzhen, Xu Ya would have been suspicious and thought her best friend was jealous that she was seeing another best friend.
Knowing that she was in danger because she had tricked Danxiao Mansion into buying medicine for Senior Brother Zhan, Xu Ya scratched her head awkwardly and forced a smile.
However, Shi Yuzhen suddenly said, "Never mind, you can take the medicine I gave you from now on."
Xu Ya accepted it with both hands, blinking her big eyes reverently: "Thank you, Senior Brother."
Xu Ya now idolizes the male lead immensely. He saved her and even offered to pay for medicine to help her recover. She's incredibly excited about his mission to make him the so-called number one person in the immortal realm!
Mission accomplished! Who dares to stand in our way?! We'll kill Buddhas and gods alike! Hehehehe.
【hehe. 】
So, Xu Ya, feeling a bit dizzy and confused, asked Shi Yuzhen, "Senior Brother, could you do me a small favor?" She then stretched out one hand, waving only her index finger in front of Shi Yuzhen's eyes.
Shi Yuzhen raised an eyebrow, signaling Xu Ya to speak if she had something to say.
Xu Ya took out the price list she had just written from the table, her big eyes blinking brightly as she asked the male lead to help her distribute some flyers.
...
Shi Yuzhen stood steadily on the ink sword, no longer displaying her usual deadpan demeanor with her hands behind her back. Now, holding a stack of flyers that she had copied with her own magic, she soared into the air and flew towards Yunmeng Immortal Marsh.
The monks caught the paper, as thin as a cicada's wing, that their senior brother had thrown down in a panic.
—The above clearly states: Aya Fried Chicken has adjusted its prices today! Prices are as follows…
The cultivators stared in disbelief at the paper, then at their senior brother Shi, who was far away.
Is this what a responsible husband is like...?
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