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Grandma Fu said, "The two guys drank too much and started fighting, but nothing serious happened. Their respective companions took them to rest."
It's inevitable to encounter such situations during holidays and festivals. Running a business has its downsides: fewer customers mean less business, more customers mean more business, but there are also disadvantages to having too many customers.
As they were talking, Qiu Ying came down from upstairs carrying a lantern.
Fu Haitou: "Sister Qiu Ying, it's so late, are there still guests upstairs who haven't rested yet?"
Qiu Ying said softly, "The three girls in room number one stayed up late reading, so I put two extra lamps up there."
The inn has a unique design. It is mostly made of brick, except for the wooden stairs that go up and down the stairs, so that guests can make some noise when going downstairs.
Fu Hai looked outside. Usually, the shop would be closed by now at this time, but it was a holiday, and there might still be guests who hadn't returned. He said, "Grandpa Fu, Grandma Fu, Sister Qiu Ying, why don't you go and rest? I'll stay here and keep watch for the rest of the night."
Qiu Ying said, "It's alright, I've already rested all afternoon. Miss Yue Lan is kind-hearted and has been watching over things for me all afternoon."
Fu Hai went to see Xia Yuelan. "Is my junior sister being so well-behaved today?" Xia Yuelan crossed two fingers together, not daring to utter a sound.
Fu Haixian, with the help of Yue Lan and Xiao Ye, tidied up the main hall. Just as they were about to close the main gate, two county soldiers from the city gate across the street came over and asked for a bowl of hot tea.
Sister Qiu Ying also boiled water for them, brewed new tea, and filled a large pot.
While waiting, the two soldiers kept complaining. In previous years, even when they were guarding the city gate, they could light fires under the gate to cook wine, tea, and roast meat without anyone interfering. This year, the prefect issued an order forbidding them from doing so again.
They probably felt that if tourists saw them, it wouldn't look good, making it difficult for them to even get a hot cup of tea while on night watch. Grandma Fu chuckled and said, "Even if we're not allowed to light bonfires, you can at least use the charcoal stove, right?"
One of the soldiers immediately said angrily, "Don't say anything more. The higher-ups only forbid the use of fire, but after all those orders came down, there was a surprise inspection at dusk. They even confiscated a small stove. Not to mention a small stove, they even searched our bodies for tinder."
Xia Yuelan chuckled and asked, "How exactly did you go from forbidding the lighting of fires to forbidding the use of tinderboxes?"
Another soldier complained, "Ugh! They say 'wind' and a downpour starts. Soldiers have it tough. Even lighting a lamp requires running into town to borrow a light from a shop. Isn't that infuriating?"
After talking for a while, the two men brought out a large pot of hot tea, thanked them, and went back to the city gate.
They then set up the main gate, leaving a small side door slightly ajar. Fu Hai then led his junior sister and Xiao Ye back to the mountain to rest.
Chapter 106 So this is how you make money?
Fu Hai returned to the mountains.
Lingyue, who returned to the mountain first, not only prepared hot water for Yuelan and Xiaoye to bathe in the spring, but also prepared a large tub of hot water for him.
Fu Hai then took a comfortable hot bath in the tub.
Although he's used to showering directly with mountain water, the occasional soak in a large bathtub is quite nice. Perhaps he could go to the spring pool over there in the mountain crevice for a hot bath sometime?
Of course, that's what he thought, but when he actually arrived at Mingguan, he felt it would be simpler to just take a shower in his own courtyard. After showering, he felt completely refreshed. He went back to his room and slept soundly until dawn.
After washing up, I stretched in the yard. The white clouds were drifting lazily in the sky. It was a really nice day.
It was a festival, after all. Although the mountains weren't bustling with activity, they were still decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Many trees were adorned with red ribbons and colorful balls by the two junior sisters and Xiaoye. At this moment, Lingyue and Yuelan should have already gotten up and gone to the inn to see if they needed any help.
With nothing to worry about, Hai practiced martial arts for a while, then left the courtyard and headed towards the library.
"Brother!" Before even reaching the library, Fu Hai heard Xiao Ye calling from above. He looked up and, sure enough, saw Xiao Ye on the hilltop.
Fu Hai used the Flying Star Steps technique to step over trees and rocks and land next to Xiao Ye.
On the front peak, there are pavilions, welcoming pines that stretch outwards at an angle, tree stumps and stone benches painted with crisscrossing chess patterns... but of course, they are all mostly abandoned.
"How did you end up here?" Fu Hai asked with a smile.
Xiaoye raised her head, her eyes shining like a crescent moon: "Today is a festival, but Yuelan said that the Lantern Festival in Anjun is more lively at night, so there's not much to do in the morning."
"I don't have anything else to do, so I'll just stay here and look around."
Fu Hai looked down and saw that her dress was mainly crimson, with pipa sleeves and a front opening, complemented by an exquisite turquoise bodice, making her look as beautiful as a flower fairy.
"This was chosen for me by Yue Lan!" Xiao Ye's face was as red as the color of her glutinous rice dress.
"It looks great!" Fu Hai said with a smile. At that moment, the two of them were exchanging girls on the mountain.
Although chatting was enjoyable, seeing such a beautiful little girl like Xiaoye inevitably led to doing something even more enjoyable. Looking out from here, the entire city stretched out before us, a panoramic view.
Under the welcoming pine tree on the mountaintop, facing the vast land beyond, Xiaoye was unaware that her brother had pulled off her white jacket and trousers, and lifted her skirt. Two hands, one reaching down from under her armpits and the other up to her chest, were now groping her beautiful, jade-like legs from behind.
Suspended in mid-air, with its back to the villain, going up and down.
Holidays are a very happy thing.
Bullying Xiaoye is another fun thing to do. So Fu Hai is in a particularly good mood today.
For Xiaoye, this was the first holiday in many years that she had someone to spend with. Regardless of how her brother accompanied her, she was simply very happy.
"Brother," she said in her wicked brother's arms, "can you come with me to the Lantern Festival the night after tomorrow?" "The night after tomorrow?" Fu Hai thought for a moment.
According to the plan, he will come to the inn tonight and let Sister Qiu Ying, Ling Yue, and Yue Lan go and have fun.
Tomorrow night will definitely be even worse. Tomorrow night is actually the most lively and important night of the Lantern Festival, but he himself is just "liveliness" to be seen at the lantern festival.
There are no plans for the night after tomorrow, but Xiaoye seems to want to go to the lantern festival together. So I said, "Okay!"
At this moment, Xiaoye had long since thrown her skirt and pants aside, and was only wearing a diamond-patterned heart-shaped shirt. His hands were stroking and caressing Xiaoye's smooth thighs.
Xiaoye's eyes curved into crescents with joy after receiving her brother's reply, but her brother was still behind her and hadn't come out yet. His restless hand then touched her front again; he really was naughty.
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After bullying Xiaoye, Fu Hai went down the mountain.
Before they even reached the foot of the mountain, they saw Yue Lan emerge from the inn's backyard and run uphill. Upon seeing him, Xia Yue Lan happily held up something: "Senior Brother, look!" Fu Hai saw that she was holding something between her fingertips.
The thing was round and sparkled in the sunlight, just like the cute thing he had pinched on Xiaoye's chest earlier. And to be fair, this bright orange round bean was just as adorable as Xiaoye's pink pair.
"Golden beans?" Fu Hai asked. "Where did you get them? Yue Lan, you can't take ill-gotten gains. If someone checked out and didn't take them, you must return them to them."
“No!” Xia Yuelan said happily, “Senior brother, you’re right.”
"Huh? What do you mean I'm right?" Fu Hai was completely bewildered by the unexpected praise from his junior sister.
"Senior brother, your book really makes a lot of money," Xia Yuelan said happily. "I never expected that your book would be so popular!"
Fu Hai immediately became excited: "Could it be that someone bought all the books in the inn?" He had been worried, but he never expected his book to be such a bestseller.
In that case, the sect won't have to worry about taxes this year. They might even be able to make a fortune every day and never have to live a frugal life again.
Xia Yuelan chuckled and said, "No, you'll see when you go. Golden Beans, I haven't seen them in so long, Senior Brother, you're amazing." Fu Hai was flattered by his junior sister's praise as if he had eaten a ginseng fruit, so he flew towards the inn.
Upon arriving at the lobby, they found the tables and chairs smashed, and Sister Qiu Ying and Ling Yue were cleaning up.
"What happened?" Fu Hai asked. "How did it get like this? Who did this? Is there no justice left?"
He hadn't expected that with the city gate right across the street, and constables and county soldiers arriving at any moment, there would still be people who dared to cause trouble at such a time.
Song Lingyue looked up and said, "Third Junior Sister Li Xiangtao and Fourth Junior Sister Zhao Xiangmei from Yucheng Mountain seem to have been reading all night. Neither of them slept all night, and they were a bit irritable when they came down to eat."
"The two of them were fine at first, and they started talking about the book they were reading. As they talked, the third junior sister said it was all Setsuna's fault. If she hadn't made that mistake, the protagonist and Touma Heroine would have been able to be happily together."
"Then the fourth junior sister said that it was clearly Touma who was wrong. It was Setsuna who met the protagonist first, and it was Setsuna who fell in love with the protagonist first. It was clearly Touma who caused things to turn out that way."
"The more they argued, the more they started fighting. They knew martial arts, and they smashed several of our tables and chairs. Their senior sister rushed down, pulled them off the fight, and even gave us a gold bean as compensation."
Xia Yuelan held the golden bean in her hand, looking at Shi Ke with admiration: "Shi Ke, you're amazing! So this is how you make money?"
Chapter 107: Has the cult already caused trauma to hundreds of people?
Fu Hai hadn't expected that this golden bean would come from such a place.
Yucheng Mountain truly lives up to its reputation as a prestigious sect with vast tracts of fertile land. Smashing a few tables and chairs is a simple matter of paying a fortune in compensation. But he didn't want any of it.
His junior sister's adoring look made him want to grab her shoulders and shake her hard.
If it were someone else, he might have thought she was being sarcastic or mocking, but Yue Lan didn't have that kind of mind. At this moment, she was genuinely happy and admiring.
These are golden beans!
When the inn was doing well, I didn't think much of it.
Business has been bad these past few months, how have they been scrimping and saving?
Xia Yuelan wished they would come down and fight every day. That way, their Dragon Claw Sect would make a fortune.
Because, as the junior sister genuinely thought, he was very capable.
So Fu Hai is even angrier now... This isn't the way I want to make money.
I really wanted to grab this golden bean and stuff it into my junior sister's bosom so she could go find more beans.
Although several tables and chairs were damaged, the tables and chairs in the inn were consumables anyway, and there were several spares in the backyard.
After cleaning the lobby, we moved the spare tables and chairs from the backyard to replenish the supplies, which was like earning a free gold bean! [Ding!]
[Detected a heretical text secretly published by the host, successfully causing mental harm to one hundred people outside this sect. Reward: Low-grade random card *1, points +10]
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[The spread of cult classics continues...]
The sudden system notification made Fu Hai's lips twitch.
Although he obtained another low-grade random card, Fu Hai had no intention of using it... He figured what he'd get anyway wouldn't be anything worthwhile. He'd seen through this garbage system long ago!
Thinking of this, he looked at his junior sister with a resentful gaze, who had ruined his wonderful system of "Five Stresses, Four Beauties, and Three Loves." "Don't run around with it like that," Fu Hai said irritably. "Give it to Sister Qiu Ying and put it on her tab."
Xia Yuelan was particularly fond of these round and smooth golden beans, as she rarely saw them. Upon hearing her senior brother's words, she handed them over to Sister Qiu Ying.
Sister Qiu Ying said, "Master, you should keep it for now. Leaving it in the inn could easily attract bandits, and then I'll be in danger." Xia Yuelan said, "Yes!" and handed it to her senior brother.
In fact, people rarely used gold beans or even silver; they mostly used copper coins.
A single gold bean is enough to tempt many to commit murder and robbery. But to say that placing it in an inn would attract bandits, or that a female assassin who wiped out an entire family would be in danger... Fu Hai just chuckled at that.
Li Xianrui of the Jade City Mountain Painting Fairy Pavilion was clearly a proud and arrogant person.
Since it's already been given to them as compensation, there's no way they can ask for it back. Besides, those major sects don't need the money at all.
However, the gold beans were actually useless. Since it was unexpected wealth, Fu Hai asked Lingyue to go to the money exchange in the city to exchange them for strings of cash. Two strings were distributed to everyone for the festival, and the rest were put back on the mountain.
Xia Yuelan was surprised that her allowance could actually increase, and happily grabbed her senior brother's arm: "Senior brother, you're really amazing. You should have started writing a book sooner." Then she looked up thoughtfully: "But if you ask me, Yukina is actually better. She was the one who met the male lead first."
Sister Qiu Ying said calmly from the side, "But the male lead obviously likes Touma more. Yukina knows this, but she still insists on getting involved, which is not good."