The road to immortality for a hundred generations

Chapter 181

But it was a pity that only these seven or eight guests came in the morning, and it was not until noon that a dozen more guests came one after another.

Among them, most of them are drawn for free by buying the lottery tickets given by the store next door.

"Brother Zhang, Shitou, I'm here to bring you food."

Just when Zhang Shan and Shitou were idle, Chunlan walked in carrying a basket.

She was not called by this name originally, but after entering the palace a month ago, Wang Feng changed their names.

Four were chosen according to Chunlan, Qiuju, Xialian and Winterplum.

The remaining two plus the two maids bought on the road to take care of Yun Niang and Qiu He when they moved, just happened to have the four names of Bao Qin, Si Qi, Shi Shu and Ru Hua.

"Thank you for your hard work, Sister Chunlan. You came to deliver food to us at noon."

Shitou quickly reached out and took the basket.

"What's so hard about this? I'm just a warrior now. It's just a few miles away, it's nothing."

Chunlan raised her chin slightly proudly, "By the way, take it slowly, there are other people's things in here."

Except for the two more senior maids, Baoqin and Si Qi, and the six maids who entered the palace with her, she is the one who has made the fastest progress in cultivation.

Of course, in addition to talent, this is also related to her hard work.

"Sister Chunlan, you are this,"

Shitou gave a thumbs up and said enviously, "My current cultivation progress is not as fast as yours."

"Being faster than you is nothing,"

Chunlan waved her hands, and then said slightly mysteriously, "Let me tell you, the guys who came in the same group as us are the few boys who were sent as guards by the master. Their cultivation speed is really fast. It is said that All the meridians in their body have been opened!"

"All the meridians throughout the body have been opened?"

Shi Shi opened his mouth, his eyes widened, looked at Chunlan in disbelief, and asked eagerly, "Is it true or not, Sister Chunlan? I practice until late at night every day, but I am still drawing and gathering Qi. , they haven’t even started trying to open the third meridian, why are they?! Some of them are several years younger than me.”

"Hey, you little boy, can't you even understand this?"

Chunlan looked around and saw no one in the store before explaining, "Do you really think that just because it says in the book that some people are born with normal meridians, you think that so many of us also have Ren and Du meridians?" Are you born with knowledge?"

"Huh? Isn't it?"

Shitou blinked and scratched his head in confusion, "I haven't eaten any natural treasures, and no one has opened up my meridians. I'm not born with it, so what else could it be?"

"stupid!"

At this time, even Zhang Shan who was standing aside understood it, so he slapped Shitou on the head, "Of course it was the master who got through it for us!"

"Master, did you get through it for us? I still don't quite understand."

Shitou was about to ask again, when suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and cried out, "You mean, the master got through to us while he was checking our bodies?"

"Otherwise? Do you really think that your two meridians, Ren and Du, are connected by birth?"

Chunlan rolled her eyes angrily.

"Oh~ I understand, I understand what you mean, Sister Chunlan,"

Shitou thought for a moment and suddenly realized, "Are you trying to say that the reason why it took a long time for the master to examine the body of those guards was because they had more meridians opened?"

"I didn't say that,"

Chunlan waved her hands repeatedly, "This is all your own guess."

"Oh oh oh."

Shitou nodded blankly, not quite understanding why the other party reacted this way.

"Anyway, as far as I know, there is a guard at the house next door to us who is quite friendly with Xu Tian, ​​and they even had a discussion yesterday."

Chunlan said minding her own business.

"So who won?"

Shitou asked curiously, "I feel like Xu Tian lost, right?"

"Wrong, Xu Tian narrowly won."

Chunlan replied with a hint of pride.

Although she didn't win, in his opinion, Xu Tian represented the palace, and she was from the palace, so if Xu Tian won, she would naturally share the glory with him.

"Ah? Xu Tian won?"

This time it was Zhang Shan's turn to be surprised.

As a young man in his early 20s, he has a relatively complete world view and naturally knows what it means for Xu Tian to win.

It is almost impossible for a 15-year-old boy who has just practiced martial arts for a month to defeat an experienced guard.

Could it be that the guard was not even second-rate, but only third-rate?
It shouldn't be, this is the inner city, and the location of their palace is still a relatively good residential area. The mansion next to them, no matter how bad the nursing home is, it must be second-rate, right?
Moreover, the warriors in Xiantian City are generally stronger than the warriors outside. Xu Tian, ​​who has never had any actual combat experience, can actually win against an experienced second-rate realm guard?
If you calculate it this way, doesn't Xu Tian have to have a strength close to the peak of the second-rate?
The cultivation progress of innate warriors mainly depends on opening up the meridians, and Xu Tian's own meridians are open, which means that he only needs to practice for a few more months before his strength can be completely stabilized at the second-rate peak?

Zhang Shan felt a little confused.

Obviously a month ago, everyone was still the same, but a month later, others had already left him so far behind, and the other person was still a boy fifty or sixty years younger than him.

"Anyway, I think this is a good thing. Although the master must be very strong, at least he has the strength of the mid-term innate, or even the late-stage innate, but he is also busy sometimes. In case the master is not in the house, he usually handles some things and protects The only comfort for the madam, grandpa and grandma is those few young boys."

Chunlan said to herself, "Although this is unfair to us, how can there be any fairness in this world? Compared with those who are still waiting for redemption in Yaxing, and even compared with the low-level people in other mansions. People, we are luckier than them now, we are so happy."

"That's true."

Zhang Shan nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. The food will be cold later, and I won't even be able to eat something warm."

Chunlan took a few steps forward, picked up the basket from the counter, and walked out of the store in a few steps, heading towards another lottery shop owned by Wangfu.

"Wow! Brother Zhang! Today's lunch meal is not only medicinal food, but also a bowl of soup!"

After opening the lid of the lunch box, Shi Shi was immediately surprised and said, "This soup is so fragrant, it seems to be meat soup!"

The rectangular wooden lunch box in front of me has a small partition in the middle. The right side is full of medicinal food, and the left side is also full of soup with a rich aroma.

"Look at you, you're ignorant. Do you know how much meat you can buy for the medicated food you usually eat? It's just a bowl of broth, and you're so surprised that you're like this?"

Feeling the faint aroma coming from beside him, Zhang Shan shook his head and opened his lunch box.

After sniffing it gently, it was indeed as Shi Shi said, the aroma was fragrant.

Zhang Shan couldn't help it any longer, and immediately tilted the lunch box, leaned over and took a sip.

In an instant, a wave of heat went straight to his lower abdomen, and soon spread throughout his body, feeling warm.At this moment, a strong sense of happiness radiated from the bottom of his heart, making him extremely satisfied.

"This broth should not be a simple broth,"

Zhang Shan suddenly said, "I can feel that there must be medicinal materials added to it. I only drank a small piece, and I felt that the internal force in my body was running much faster."

"Really? After dinner, let's take advantage of the medicine to practice for a while. There's no one around now anyway."

Shitou said quickly.

"also,"

Zhang Shan pondered for a while and then replied, "After dinner, you can go to the cubicle to practice. I can practice outside."

Although practicing cross-legged is more effective, the store is still open after all, so we can't both go to the cubicle to practice, right?

We haven't closed the store yet, so we should be more optimistic about the store.

Anyway, he can practice while sitting, but the effect is slightly worse. For him, this difference has little impact.

"Okay, then I will trouble Brother Zhang."

Shitou nodded, and then began to hurriedly grab the medicinal food, trying to finish it quickly and practice for a while.

As a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, his competitive spirit has not yet passed. He just wants to step up his practice. It doesn't matter if he can't compare with the children who are younger than him in the nursing home. But for the rest, Among these people, at least they have to be at the forefront, right?
It is said that after mastering internal skills skillfully and reaching the second-rate level, one can fly over walls and walls.

He wanted to reach that level quickly, and then show off in front of the twenty or so other people of the same age.

In the period that followed after lunch, it was exactly as Shitou said, there were no traces of either person.

Shitou also got his wish and practiced for two and a half hours.

However, this situation ended when it was almost time to finish work.

The store began to be filled with people sparsely, and in the following period, it reached its peak.

Among them, there are several familiar faces. It should be that the passers-by watching the excitement in the morning promoted them for free, and then they attracted a few workers.

Zhang Shan is very satisfied with this.

This means that the attraction of their own lottery shop is sufficient, but it is a pity that Liu Renyi, a big employer who bought one or two pieces of silver at one time, and the previous third prize winner did not come.

Maybe because enough people came, another third prize was awarded in the afternoon, and the rest were small prizes.

When it was time to close the store, Zhang Shan looked at the ledger and saw that a total of [-] people came today.

66 of them were drawn using free raffle tickets.

This is naturally what the master said. He said hello in advance and asked the nearby shop with a relatively prosperous business to help promote it.

For the shop next door, someone gave money to help advertise, and also gave the customer a free lottery ticket, so it did not annoy the customer.

Of course this is earned.

For guests, they can draw a prize for free, which is certainly a profit.

For them, they can still make money by signing up stores through lottery and spending some money to attract customer traffic.

All three parties make money, so this is a win-win situation, and no one loses.

It is worth mentioning that 66 of those 25 people spent extra money to smoke once or several times.

It can be regarded as contributing some real sales to the store.

Apart from these people, the remaining 41 people were either attracted by the opening firecrackers, were curious about a newly opened store, or were brought here after being promoted by the customers who came in the morning.

These customers are different from those who spend money on advertising. They are the customers of the store itself.

Except for the nineteen guests who only smoked once, the remaining 22 guests smoked twice to one hundred and two times.

These are calculated under the premise of excluding lucky draws.

Today, their lottery shop sold a total of 270 three times, earning 730 taels of silver and [-] copper plates.

Although the lucky draw is drawn again, if it is sold once, it is still possible to count the winning ten coins.

In this case, their store would have sold 310 yuan once and received 110 yuan.

If we follow what the master said, and calculate that the profit will stabilize at about 550% in the future, we can earn [-] copper coins today.

If the other twenty shops were like his shop, the total would be about 27 taels of silver, which would be more than 1 taels of silver a year.

This is still a conservative estimate, considering there are so few guests today.

Zhang Shan estimates that if the store is opened in the future, it will not be a problem to quadruple the business. At that time, more stores will be opened throughout Xiantian City.

At that time, he could not earn more than 10 taels of silver a year, or even more?

By that time, he will become a veteran of the palace, and the master is so generous. When the time comes, he will be rewarded with a house and two beautiful maids, and he will live a small life.
As he was calculating, Zhang Shan felt a little drifting unconsciously.

But when he saw today's actual losses out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but sigh.

It's a pity that the master has increased the probability of winning the small prize a lot. If you buy it by the bucket, you will lose a hundred and eighty cents at most, and those with better luck can even make a lot.

And there are those who came to the lottery with free raffle tickets, and some of them won.

One of them was more lucky and won the third prize by relying on the free lottery ticket.

That’s a full tael of silver!

It was just given away for nothing.

Zhang Shan felt a little distressed just thinking about it.

On the contrary, he didn't feel so distressed about the person who spent ten coppers to win the third prize in the morning.

As for today's total loss, it depends on how you calculate it.

If you directly calculate the revenue and lottery winnings of his store, the loss is a bit too much, no, it should be said to be a lot.

After all, a second prize of three taels and two third prizes of one tael are five taels.

When counting them, the total winning amount is 870 copper coins. Excluding the 110 copper coins recorded, the total loss is 760 coins, which is nearly five taels of silver!

But the master also said that the cost of the grand prize and the first, second, and third prizes will be flat to all stores. When calculating the accounts, you should not only count one store.

Therefore, the correct algorithm should be to divide the second prize and third prize with a total reward amount of [-] taels by [-].

If you think about it this way, the situation is different.

(End of this chapter)