Chapter 38 Opening
The prices of the restaurant are not expensive, because most of the diners are neighbors or ordinary low-level casual cultivators who are not rich. If the prices are not too high, everyone can at least afford it, and try to make small profits but quick turnover.
The restaurant's signature is still beef. For beef, it is two spirit stones per plate. It is not cheap for casual cultivators, but compared with spiritual meat or other restaurants that sell beef, it is already extremely cost-effective.
Beef noodles are cheaper. Plain noodles only cost three points of broken spirit stones, and adding beef requires six points of broken spirit stones.
For ordinary Qi-refining casual cultivators, the daily income is probably only one spirit stone and a few points more. A plate of beef needs two days of hard work to afford it. It's okay to try it occasionally, but it's impossible to eat it every day.
But you can eat meat with two spirit stones, and there is only one in Quantong Xiancheng. Even if you just want to satisfy your craving, you only need six points of broken spirit stones to eat a bowl of beef noodles.
A few days after opening, there were more customers.
Although the casual cultivators nearby cannot eat meat every day, there are always some who want to have a good meal every day.
Some are casual cultivators with relatively good family conditions who can eat meat every now and then; some are Taoist friends who meet each other and do not want to be too lavish or too simple, so they order a plate of beef, add some side dishes, and drink while chatting.
Others are children who have made progress in their cultivation, and parents take their children to eat spicy beef noodles to satisfy their cravings in order to reward them.
Occasionally, there are some peddlers passing by from other places. They are tired from running around. When they hear that the restaurant has meat, they want to satisfy their cravings, but they are short of money, so they hesitate and want to order but dare not.
Until they heard that a full plate of beef only costs two spirit stones, they all widened their eyes.
There are still concerns in their hearts, thinking that it will be very unpalatable if it is sold so cheaply.
Then they thought that the restaurant business is so good, the taste should not be too bad, so they tried to order a plate.
As soon as they tasted it, they couldn't stop.
After that, merchants who often passed by would stop at the restaurant every time, order a dish of meat, and drink a few glasses of wine. Those who passed by but did not stop before would now stop at the restaurant to eat meat and chat.
Some merchants who did not pass by before would even change their route to the restaurant specifically to eat a few bites of meat, just to taste the taste of the beef and relieve the fatigue of the long journey.
After all, this is the only place in a radius of 100 miles where you can eat such delicious meat at such a cheap price.
As the number of diners gradually increased, the store became busy. Da Hu and the other two came to the restaurant to help. After a day of work, they ate a big bowl of beef noodles in the evening, and then took some beef and went home satisfied.
However, Tongxianmen will start school soon, and everyone will enter the practice, so there will still be not enough manpower.
Mo Hua did not want his mother to be too overworked, so he suggested hiring someone to help. Mo Shan also took into account that his wife's body had not recovered yet and could not use her spiritual power, so he agreed with Mo Hua's idea.
After discussing with his wife, Mo Shan invited a family member from the monster hunting team to help out in the restaurant, with 30 spirit stones per month.
The next day, a young, shy woman came to the door, carrying a basket with some fresh wild vegetables, still covered with dew, which seemed to have been picked up from the mountain that morning.
Mo Hua heard her parents chatting and knew that the woman's surname was Jiang, and her given name was Yun.
Her husband's surname was Chu. When he was hunting monsters before, his chest was torn open by the claws of a wolf monster. All the family savings were used to treat the injury. Although he barely saved his life, he was seriously injured and could not continue hunting monsters, so the family had no income.
Jiang Yun's spiritual roots were not good. She only practiced to the fourth level of Qi Refining before leaving the sect. After a few years, she got married and had children. After her husband was seriously injured, she wanted to find a job to supplement the family income, but her cultivation level of the fourth level of Qi Refining was too low, and she could not earn any spiritual stones at all. She did some odd jobs, and the spiritual stones were meager and very unstable. In addition, she had a child who was a few years old to take care of, so it was very difficult to make a living.
Now she can have a stable job in a restaurant, and thirty spiritual stones a month is already very rare.
Jiang Yun was very grateful, but she was introverted and not good at speaking. She wanted to say something but couldn't say anything to thank her, and her face turned red because of the embarrassment.
Liu Ruhua hurriedly comforted her, telling her not to think too much and just do her work peacefully.
Jiang Yun was relieved and listened to Liu Ruhua's instructions. She was diligent and careful. Although she was not fast at learning things, she was very serious. Liu Ruhua liked her very much.
After closing in the evening, Liu Ruhua packed a few bowls of noodles in a food box, added a few more slices of meat, and asked her to take it back.
Jiang Yun hurriedly refused, blushing and saying she didn't want anything: "Sister Liu, you've been so good to me, I can't take this."
Liu Ruhua asked her to take it, but she still refused.
Liu Ruhua said: "Take it back and feed it to the child."
Jiang Yun didn't have the strength to refuse. Her child hadn't eaten enough for several days, let alone meat. She took the food box and thought about thanking him, but she was tongue-tied and kept repeating the same few words of thanks.
Liu Ruhua just comforted her, "Don't think so much, it's getting late, go back and see the child early."
Jiang Yun carefully carried the food box and walked on the way home. When she passed the corner, she stood still. From the back, she was sobbing. After a while, she silently wiped her tears with her sleeves and continued to walk home.
Mo Hua stood in the distance and looked at her figure, with mixed feelings.
His family was not rich to begin with, and their life was stretched to the limit, but in Tongxian City, there were many families of casual cultivators who were more difficult and more difficult than his family.
It would be great if all the monks in this world didn't have to suffer the pain of making a living.
Mo Hua thought silently.
Liuji Restaurant opened smoothly. Liu Ruhua was busy with the restaurant all day. She looked thinner, but her face was ruddy and her complexion was better.
Opening a restaurant can study various meals and save spiritual stones for her son, which is convenient for future practice and marriage. Liu Ruhua felt very satisfied and smiled more.
Seeing his wife's current appearance, Mo Shan felt relieved.
And Mo Hua was happy to eat more delicious food.
With the opening of the restaurant, the family's spiritual stone income increased, and they no longer had to be as embarrassed as before. Before the opening of Tongxianmen, the restaurant had made a total profit of more than 200 spiritual stones.
Liu Ruhua gave all the more than 200 spiritual stones she earned to Mo Hua, asking him to go to the sect to choose a suitable practice, and told him not to delay his practice.
Mo Hua nodded in agreement.
The next day, the summer vacation ended, and Tongxianmen opened the mountain gate to welcome disciples to school.
Mo Hua also waved at the foot of the mountain, said goodbye to Liu Ruhua who saw him off, and then walked into Tongxian Gate.
As the disciples entered the school one after another, the originally quiet Tongling Peak gradually became lively.
However, after a full two months of summer vacation, many disciples had lost their minds and neglected their cultivation. At this time, they were a little nervous.
In order to gather everyone's attention, Yan Jiaoshi directly announced a temporary array test.
The remaining heat of the summer was completely extinguished by this cold water poured over their heads, and many disciples showed expressions of grief.
This was an on-site test, and they could not take it back to do it, and they could not do any small tricks.
Mo Hua was not afraid at all.
He could already draw five array patterns, and he was already an experienced apprentice. These basic array test of the sect could not stump him at all.
Moreover, in the more than one month after the summer vacation, he practiced arrays day and night, and each time he consumed his spiritual consciousness to the critical line, and constantly strengthened his spiritual consciousness while constantly squeezing it.
Mo Hua was full of confidence in such a small matter as the assessment, and felt that he could easily handle it.
But when the test papers for the formation assessment were handed out, Mo Hua was a little dumbfounded.
He confirmed it several times and finally confirmed that the assessment was not a single formation pattern, but a complete formation, and it was a formation that included six formation patterns!