Studying Science in the Alternate World

  Chapter 35 Feng Shui Takes Off

   It was a surprise for Duke to get a 0-ring spirit beast golden-bellied ink carp.

  Although the price of spirit beasts, especially quasi-spirit beasts with ring 0, is not too expensive, it can still be regarded as a small fortune, which can be used to subsidize the family.

  He now has three sources of income.

  One is the fixed card repair income of Little Sam’s card repair shop. After deducting material costs, wages, and commissions for card repairers, he can make a net profit of about 50 silver dragons a month.

  One is the service fee for purchasing agents, and now the scale has expanded. Besides Levine, he also hired a big and honest Harper, who can basically earn 120 silver dragons a month.

  Another one is to find cards at the waste card station. After repairing and refurbishing, they sell them as second-hand cards. With Xiaoyi's assistance, they can earn about 80 silver dragons a month.

  Addition, subtraction, total income of two golden dragons a month.

certainly.

  After the end of the year, the business tax paid by old Sam will be due. At that time, he will have to pay the tax by himself, as well as the expenses for the relevant agencies in the town. He will have to prepare one or two gold dragons a year.

   "Let's go, go home!"

   Seeing that it was getting late, Duke rushed home with a bucket.

  Back to the familiar Second Vertical Street, acquaintances met and greeted immediately: "Oh, Boss Little Duke, are you going fishing again?"

"yes."

   "Boss Little Duke is really nice, how's the harvest?"

  Duke responded with a smile: "Don't say it, I really ran into it. I caught a wounded golden-bellied ink carp. Boss Abraham has a look."

  He hands the bucket over.

  Aside from a few small miscellaneous fish, it was the golden-bellied ink carp whose tail had been knocked off half. It was no longer bleeding, and its breathing was very stable. Obviously, its physique as a spirit beast allowed it to successfully withstand the gunshot wound.

   "Hey!" Boss Abraham exclaimed, "It's really a golden-bellied ink carp, your luck... tsk tsk!"

   After watching the fish.

  Duke said again: "By the way, Boss Abraham, I'm going to order a few more sets of summer work clothes. Come back and help our shop assistant measure the size?"

  Araham is the owner of a nearby tailor shop. Hearing this, he immediately smiled and said, "Okay, I happen to be fine. I'll go there when I go back and get a measuring tape."

"See you soon."

   "Well, you are busy first."

  Back to Little Sam's card repair shop, Aunt Abby has already prepared dinner. Except for the three card repair masters who have gone home from get off work, the other shop assistants are eating in the yard.

  Now Little Sam's card shop has nine employees, excluding the card repairer and Duke himself.

   Before Duke crossed over, the soybean oil processing factory he opened had only about this number of workers.

  However, the income of 20 golden dragons a year at Little Sam’s Shuka shop is equivalent to 200,000 yuan, which is not as good as the income of the processing plant. In the good two years, Duke relied on the soybean oil processing plant to earn three to four million a year;

   It's not that he has made money, he is also reluctant to become a senior member of the Falcon Shooting Club, and practice guns when he has nothing to do.

   "Boss, I'll serve you a meal." Aunt Abby stood up.

   "Don't worry, I'll go work for a while, just save some for me." Duke waved his hand.

   After finishing speaking, he took the bucket and went to the warehouse in the backyard to rebuild the house.

   "Chi Chi!"

  As soon as he entered the bedroom, a chubby squirrel jumped over to his face, which was a two-month-old long-haired meerkat cub, Xiaodou.

  Xiaodou is very timid, Duke doesn’t take it out, and it hides on the ceiling of the bedroom.

   Quiet, basically not making any movement.

   "Is Xiaodou hungry? There are pieces of minced fish in the bucket. Do you want to eat it?" Duke fished a piece of minced fish from the bucket and handed it to Xiaodou.

  Xiaodou took a sniff, then picked up the broken fish piece with both paws, and began to gnaw it.

   It is now ready to eat meat.

  Duke moved the fish tank he just bought—he had planned to raise some small fish when he went fishing—after filling the fish tank with water, he put the golden-bellied ink carp in the bucket into it.

   Neither eaten nor sold.

  He chose to raise the golden-bellied ink carp first, which is a kind of romance of an old man—after all, his soul is not young, and it is time to like raising fish and planting grass.

  The golden-bellied ink carp entered the fish tank, feeling a little uncomfortable, leaning against the corner and gasping for breath.

   No oxygen pump.

  Duke was a little worried about whether the golden-bellied ink carp would be able to adapt, but considering that it didn't burp in the bucket, it can be seen that as a 0-ring spirit beast, its ability to survive is very strong.

  The fish tank should be able to support it.

   "Xiaodou, watch carefully, it will be your companion in the future." Duke said, and moved a pot of grass on the desk to the side of the fish tank, "Spiritual fish paired with spiritual grass, this feng shui can't take off!"

  The grass is the ground orchid that was shoveled home before.

  After finishing these tasks, Duke left some broken fish pieces for Xiaodou before going to eat in the yard.

  Sally at the counter had already finished her meal. When she saw Duke coming, she chatted and said, "A few more mercenaries Xiuka came to the store today, and their accents are not local."

   "Are you asking where they came from and why?"

   "I asked, but they didn't say anything. They only said that they came here to explore and search for several scarce resources. But I don't think they are explorers. I heard one of them say that the house is already rented... Boss, if they come to explore, they will leave in a few days. There is no need to rent a house, just stay in a hotel."

  Duke nodded.

  The delivery man Dutlan followed up and said: "When I went to deliver the goods, I also saw a lot of unfamiliar faces wandering on the street."

   After hearing this, Aunt Abi said worriedly: "Is it true that we are going to launch a pioneering war? Oh, I don't know how many people will die now!"

   "It has nothing to do with us." Apprentice Dieter said indifferently.

   "It doesn't matter how can it be." Sally said, "It's really going to open up a war. Our little Sam's card repair shop must be very busy. How many people will come to repair cards by then."

   paused.

  Sally said again: "Boss, I'm a little worried."

"worry about what?"

   "I'm worried that the Best Card Repair Shop won't be able to close down. Although there are few people repairing cards there now, once the pioneering war is launched and there are more people repairing cards, the Best Card Repair Shop may come back to life."

   "Yeah, there is a possibility." The delivery man Steve nodded.

  Duke frowned. If the War of Exploitation started and the Best Shuka Store took the opportunity to come back to life, it would definitely be an embarrassing thing for him.

  Best’s betrayal at the beginning almost ruined Little Sam’s Shuka shop.

  The popularity of Best Card Repair Shop is extremely bleak now, but Best is a card repairer after all, and he has accumulated a family business over the years, and he can still sustain it.

  He must have heard the news of the pioneering war, and wanted to persevere.

   "You don't have to worry about this, no matter whether the pioneering war will start or not, the Best Repair Card Shop will close down sooner or later." Duke reassured everyone, "Besides, even if the Best Repair Card Shop survives the pioneering war, so what, there is no repair card shop on Second Vertical Street that can compete with our little Sam's repair card shop!"

   "This is, this is!" Dutlan nodded.

  The others also nodded, believing this.

   After everyone had finished their dinner and Aunt Abby washed the dishes, Sally closed the shop and left.

  Duke was the only one left in the big little Sam repair card shop. He didn't go back to his bedroom to practice "Universal Blood Alchemy", or read books to expand the database as usual.

  (end of this chapter)