Chapter 47
"Ding dong - Congratulations to Mr. Shen for completing the side task! Please claim the reward."
The reward for the side task of recruiting employees is less than the previous two side tasks of selling ice drinks and barbecue, which is 1000 experience points and 550 points.
Shen Zening looked at the progress bar of the teahouse upgrade.
The current progress is from level 8 to level 9, which is 3910/4000. You can upgrade just by doing any tasks.
He opened the task list and found that several daily tasks had been completed throughout the morning.
After receiving the rewards from several daily tasks, I was immediately promoted to level nine. In addition to the side task of recruiting employees just completed, the current progress bar is 1430/4500.
There is one more person in the teahouse, and corresponding facilities must be built.
The electricity in Shen Yi and Shen Er's dormitory is turned on, but a separate bathroom has not yet been built. There is only a screen in the room to put the bathtub, basin and other items. The washing conditions are similar to those in ordinary ancient times.
Shen Zening had wanted to renovate their bathroom for a long time, but he looked at the construction system and said that the subsequent renovation of modern infrastructure would not be allowed until level ten.
There is a difference of about 3,000 experience points. If we look at the current progress of daily tasks, it should take about eight or nine days.
However, the daily tasks are different every day, and the experience points given vary. The average value fluctuates between one hundred and two hundred. If you are lucky, you can reach level ten in a week.
...Forget it, you can’t just rely on daily tasks. Let’s find time to walk around in Shuowang City and see if you can trigger new branch lines or map check-in tasks.
Shen Zening went around the lobby. Since adding new summer desserts such as ice cream and jelly puffs, business has been getting better and better. After he took Bai Yang out with the chicken in the morning, Shen Yi and Shen Er opened the door. There has been no break since the business opened.
This won't work, even a puppet needs time to breathe.
He couldn't help with the cooking. The skill [Dragon's Blessing] would be automatically triggered as soon as it was handled, so he could only help with the dishes first.
So the monks who were dining in the lobby were surprised to find that Boss Shen actually came out to serve the dishes today. They were all a little flattered. Shen Zening could only serve the dishes with a business smile and hurried back to the back. kitchen.
...When can Xue Yun start working! Can you do it this afternoon?
After adding the spiritual grass option, fewer people ordered ordinary dishes, and most of them came for the spiritual dishes and desserts.
The first-grade spiritual grass has a short maturity period, and it has grown into a batch over the past few days, and as much as there is is used. If the spiritual field is not expanded, the daily share of dishes with spiritual grass cannot continue to increase.
Shen Zening glanced at the planting interface. There were level restrictions to expand the spiritual field. You had to wait until level ten. You could only wait a few more days.
The lobby cannot be left unattended. After Shen Zening returned from delivering the dishes, Shen Yi, who had just cooked a dish, returned to the lobby.
Since everyone was already in the kitchen, Shen Zening thought he might as well make today's orders.
Shen Er took time out of his busy schedule to prepare the ingredients for the order. Shen Zening took the order and took a look. The number of ice cream reservations was still ranked first. Half of the ten orders were ice cream of various flavors. , the remaining items were only two portions of eclairs, one portion of jelly panna cotta and two portions of cold seafood.
The ice cream and jelly panna cotta were quickly prepared. He already had a lot of them frozen in the refrigerator and took the time to make them. He just took them out and put them on the plate. Shen Er had already processed the batter needed for the eclairs, and he took over the next steps without spending much time.
The abalone, shrimp, and octopus needed for the cold seafood have also been processed. Shen Zening blanched and cooked them and then mixed them into the sauce. It was also very fast.
Today's ten orders were relatively simple and took less than an hour to make.
After Shen Zening finished processing the order, he looked at the time and saw that it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon. He was so busy that he didn't feel hungry at all, but Bai Yang was probably already hungry, maybe still waiting for him to cook.
He talked to Shen Er and went back to the house to find Bai Yang. On the way, he met Xue Yun who had just packed up his temporary residence.
Xue Yun just greeted Shen Zening and called the boss unaccustomedly, and heard Shen Zening say: "Is it ready? Are you hungry? Let's go to the kitchen to find Shen Er. The staff meal seems to be ready." Xue Yun followed. Looking in the direction of his finger, he
saw Shen Er's busy figure in the kitchen door that was not closed. When he wanted to ask more questions, when he turned around, even Shen Zening's shadow was gone, so he had to swallow the questions back in his stomach. .
Inside the cabin.
When Shen Zening came back, he saw Bai Yang asleep on the sofa.
The half-read comic fell to the ground, and there was half an uneaten piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the coffee table next to me.
The loose housecoat was rolled up due to her posture, exposing the thin white skin on her waist.
Shen Zening walked over lightly and helped Bai Yang pull down his clothes. Seeing that he was sleeping soundly, he carefully turned the sleeping little fox over, held up his back with one hand, and hugged him across his knees with the other. got up.
The air conditioner in the house was not set on a regular schedule, and it had been blowing for so long. After sleeping on the sofa, Bai Yang's exposed skin was a little cold. Shen Zening was worried that he would catch a cold, and was about to take him back to bed when he left. After two steps, he was hugged by the neck of the little fox looking for a source of heat.
"...Are you awake?" Shen Zening couldn't help but kiss the top of Bai Yang's hair.
But as soon as the kiss was over, he began to despise himself again.
...We haven’t officially confessed that we are together yet. Isn’t it a little inappropriate to do this? It feels like bullying.
Bai Yang didn't know the tangle in his heart. He opened his eyes in a daze and subconsciously crawled into Shen Zening's arms. "I'm sleepy... I want to sleep a little longer..."
Shen Zening sat down holding him. On the bed, I straightened his hair, which was a little messy after sleeping, and asked softly: "Why don't you go to bed after lunch?" "
What...for lunch...what...for lunch?" Bai Yang was really sleepy. He couldn't speak a word smoothly, so he asked intermittently.
Seeing Bai Yang like this, Shen Zening felt that he couldn't wake up, so he didn't say anything to disturb his sleep. He put him on the bed and covered him with a quilt, and was about to go out to eat and take care of unfinished business in the teahouse. The slimy little fox hugged.
"Where...are you going again?" Bai Yang closed his eyes and yawned a little, "Let's... sleep with me for a while."
Since getting close to Shen Zening... due to some unexpected circumstances in the morning, Although Bai Yang lost that memory, once he tasted dragon blood and dragon energy, he wanted to stay with Shen Zening more and more.
Bai Yang felt...as soon as he came into contact with Shen Zening, his whole body became comfortable, and his spiritual power seemed to be replenished, and even the speed of repairing his spiritual veins became faster.
It would be great if they could stick to each other all the time...
Bai Yang thought a little dull due to sleepiness, and held Shen Zening's hand tighter, wishing that his whole body could cling to him.
Looking at the little fox who was even more clingy than before, Shen Zening couldn't say no at all.
Anyway, he's not too hungry now... Well, his stomach isn't too hungry, so... let's take a nap.
It was Bai Yang himself who asked to take a nap with him. It shouldn't be considered taking advantage of others' danger... right?
After Shen Zening brainwashed herself, she changed her clothes and went to bed with peace of mind, catching Bai Yang who rolled into her arms.
But... one minute passed quickly, five minutes passed, and ten minutes passed, and Shen Zening still couldn't fall asleep.
Bai Yang didn't sleep well at all. He was already being held in his arms and was rubbing himself hard against him. Shen Zening couldn't help but wonder if he was sleepy or not and whether he should sleep or not.
But after observing for a while, it turned out that Bai Yang was too sleepy to get up, and he also fell asleep. This was just...an unconscious reaction.
Shen Zening: ...I came here to sleep and rest or to overcome the tribulation.
If he continued like this, he would be able to recite the Pure Heart Mantra to death...
Unable to sleep, Shen Zening opened the system interface again and looked at the progress of the construction of new houses.
There were still more than forty hours left, and it was early. He felt that there was no need to spend money to speed up, so he turned off the interface and waited for the NPCs to finish building the house.
He then took a look at the skill interface. [Dragon's Blessing] was still about one-third short of level 4. Taking into account the bonus from summer activities, it should be able to be upgraded in less than a month.
The other column was the bloodline unlocking interface. Shen Zening clicked on it and looked thoughtfully at the 10% progress displayed above.
I was so aroused by Bai Yang just now that I couldn't think. Now I have calmed down a little and carefully recalled Bai Yang's reaction to the dragon's blood in the morning and his clingy attitude just now. How does it feel... like he is addicted to the dragon's blood?
Hmm...if you don't consider other things, it feels like it's pretty good?
Stop it, let's deal with the current situation first.
Shen Zening recited the Heart-Cleaning Mantra twice more before tapping the system and asking about the Dragon Clan.
The system was not very clear either. It just happened to have a dragon bone and he used it. Apart from knowing that dragon blood has some indescribable effects with its strange fragrance, it didn't know much about it, so it had to look up the information on the spot.
After searching for a long time, it found the specific information in the database and told Shen Zening.
"So, besides...well, that, dragon's blood is also very beneficial?"
Shen Zening was confused.
Then wouldn’t he become a mobile blood pack?
"It's not that exaggerated." The system wiped his sweat. "It's useless to monks. It's mainly liked by demons, but ordinary demons can't beat dragons as gods because of their bloodline suppression, so you don't have to worry. What kind of trouble will it bring?"
"Actually, I'm not worried about trouble..." Shen Zening pinched Bai Yang's fox ears that couldn't change back, causing the person to frown and flick his ears quickly, and then said with a smile. , "I was just wondering, if dragon blood is useful to the demon clan, can it make Bai Yang recover faster?"
He thought of the weird poison on Bai Yang's body, and asked: "Can dragon blood remove poison? ?"
System: "...Of course not. What you have in mind is pretty good. You can solve everything directly, right?" "
...Okay."
Shen Zening sighed regretfully, and then listened to the system say, "You don't know how. Do you want to feed Bai Yang blood directly?"
"What's the problem?" Shen Zening asked, "With the blood bonus, my recovery ability should be good now, and I'll be fine if I feed him some every day."
System: "But you're not afraid. , will it be over patched...?"
Shen Zening was about to ask what would happen if he over patched it, when Bai Yang in his arms closed his eyes, half asleep, and came up to him stickyly, kissing him on the corner of the lips. .
Chapter 48
Shen Zening's first reaction was to immediately block the system.
After the kiss, Bai Yang smacked his lips and muttered something under his breath. Just when he was about to turn over and go back to sleep, Shen Zening grabbed his waist and pulled him back.
Shen Zening, who was thrown away after being kissed, couldn't bear it and leaned over, staring at the pale pink lips of the person under him for a long time before restraining himself and kissing his forehead lightly, letting go and lying back down again.
After Bai Yang slept alone for a while, he threw himself into Shen Zening's arms again like a little marshmallow. His furry tail was caught in a corner of the thin quilt, and he moved uncomfortably.
Shen Zening took out the thin quilt from under his tail, covered him again, put him in his arms and patted his back, and then started to catch up on his sleep with the soft little fox in his arms.
They slept until dinner time. If Shen Yi didn't knock on the door, they might have stayed asleep.
She took a long nap, not to mention Bai Yang, and even Shen Zening felt a little dizzy. He went to the bathroom to wash his face and wake up a little before opening the door.
When Shen Yi saw that Shen Zening hadn't come out for a long time, he didn't know whether he was resting or had something else to do, so he and Shen Er made dinner first and took a look at it later, while telling him about Xue Yun.
Xue Yun adapted to the teahouse fairly quickly. She started helping out in the kitchen after lunch. She worked very neatly, allowing Shen Yi and Shen Er to take a good breather.
Now in the teahouse, Shen Yi is basically serving food in the lobby and greeting guests, and Shen Er is cooking in the kitchen. The two puppets occasionally switch positions. However, because Shen Er is not good at speaking, Shen Yi basically spends more time in the lobby.
If there is an extra Xue Yun, she can be arranged to receive money at the counter, which will improve efficiency.
Shen Zening thought for a while and asked Shen Yi: "Does Xue Yun know how to read?"
Shen Yi replied uncertainly: "It seems that we know her a little bit, but I haven't asked carefully how much we know her."
"It's okay. I'll ask her later."
Shen Zening said, suddenly closing the half-open door a little, and said to the room, "Have you changed your clothes?"
As soon as Shen knew that his boss was talking to Bai Yang, he He wisely left first.
While chatting with Shen Yi for a few words, a mosquito took the opportunity to fly in through the crack of the door. Bai Yang was annoyed by the buzzing and hid in the bathroom. Shen Zening quickly closed the door and lit the mosquito coil.
Living on the first floor is still a bit inconvenient. Shen Zening thought that it would be nice if more floors could be built, but he didn't know when the cabins provided by this system would be upgraded.
He searched for the mosquito for a long time, and finally found its evil figure in the corner. He directly used his spiritual power to get rid of it with a piece of paper towel.
After Shen Zening unlocked his bloodline, he actually didn't use his spiritual power much. After all, the teahouse had an AI system that monitored red and orange names 24 hours a day. The monks did not dare to look for trouble in the teahouse. Secondly, there were many slaves in the teahouse. The modern technological products bought in the mall make life much more convenient than ordinary ancient people, and there is no place where spiritual power can be used.
——Except for swatting mosquitoes this time.
At that time, a lot of functions were unlocked when the teahouse reached level five. There will definitely be more that can be unlocked when it reaches level ten in a few days. Currently, he can only see in the construction interface that level ten can unlock some simple decorations. I just don’t know if I can add a second floor by then.
In the teahouse property interface, you can preview what the next level will look like on the experience side.
It can be seen that the teahouse icon at level 10 is larger than the current one, and it also looks more refined in outline. Of course, it's not comparable to high-end restaurants and inns, but it just looks better among other teahouses of the same level.
The icons of the next level are gray and black, as if they have been painted with many layers of shadows. Even if Shen Zening enlarges the entire attribute interface, he cannot see more details.
He refused to give up and zoomed in for a while, then gave up when he saw that he couldn't find anything.
I'm just still curious about what upgrade rewards and new features there will be at level 10. It seems like I'd better spend some time in the past few days to level up.
Shen Zening thought about what he had to do in the next few days. He felt a little overwhelmed for a moment and took out a pen and paper to plan.
In addition to decoration, adding toilets and other facilities, and expanding the scope of the spiritual field, the currently known new functions at level 10, he remembered pulling them out from the unlocking level of the products in the mall. Level 10 may also open the breeding function.
Although he is already ahead of the management system and has raised chickens at level eight...
Let's preset the open breeding system at level ten. Raising chickens and ducks should become more convenient, but I don't know if the breeding system will give away chickens. The chicken house still delivers feed or issues tasks, but at least until it reaches level ten, there is no need to add new items to the chicken house.
In terms of decoration, Shen Yi and Shen Er's dormitories must have separate bathrooms, and Xue Yun's dormitory also needs one.
The puppets' dormitory has electricity, but only water. The new dormitory under construction still needs water and electricity, and the teahouse has its own hut. It is best to upgrade it to improve guest satisfaction.
Shen Zening didn't know whether the cultivation world was particular about public restrooms, but when he went to a restaurant to eat in modern times, he would pay special attention to the restrooms in restaurants or the restrooms in shopping malls.
After all, you must drink water, tea, drinks or alcohol during meals. If the bathroom is not clean... the impression of the restaurant will be greatly reduced.
It costs a total of 1,000 points to connect water and electricity to three houses, and almost one-third of the existing points will be used up at once.
Shen Zening glanced at the balance of points with some pain: ... I will get up and complete the tasks tomorrow!
It would be fine if he only needed to use about a thousand, but the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and he plans to install air conditioning in the restaurant, which is also a big expense.
The spiritual field also needs to be expanded. I don’t know if it will cost points. It would be best if it only requires spiritual stones like building a new house.
But...including the income from the teahouse, he only has about two million spiritual stones in hand.
One million of them were top-quality spiritual stones. He did not use them to redeem them, but kept them for Bai Yang. The remaining one million were used for decoration and purchase, and they would be used quickly.
Damn it, I feel a little poor.
Shen Yi showed him the account books of the teahouse in the past few days. He had made a lot of money, but it would not reach the level of sudden wealth in the short term. Recently, the secret realm near Shuowang City was gradually closed, and the passenger flow in the next few days would decrease. reduce.
Shen Zening was wondering whether to give out some souvenirs before all the monks were gone?
For example, the packaging of cookie gift boxes and chocolates is specially designed to combine modern gift packaging methods with the style of the cultivation world, making it easy to give away.
There are also glutinous rice, mochi and the like that can also be made into small gift boxes.
Speaking of which, Shen Zening still doesn't know if the storage bags of the local monks in the cultivation world are like his system space. Things are put in and taken out the same way. If they also have the function of keeping fresh, then the range of souvenirs You can set it wider.
Let's find a chance to chat with Xiaoqiu during dinner.
After Shen Zening finished swatting the mosquitoes, he started planning the teahouse. He forgot to ask Bai Yang to come out. The little fox in pajamas was so bored by the non-air-conditioned bathroom that he opened the door a crack and poked his ears out. The head asked: "Shen Zening, have the mosquitoes been driven away?"
"It's gone, it's already in the trash can." Then Shen Zening remembered that he forgot to tell Bai Yang, and took him out with some annoyance. , took a tissue and wiped the sweat from his forehead for him.
Bai Yang obediently raised his head and let Shen Zening wipe his sweat and straighten his hair, then took the improved ancient summer clothes the man chose for him and ran behind the screen to get dressed.
The home clothes he wore when he was in the room were specially made by Shen Zening from the cloth store. They were a large T-shirt and the same loose shorts. Of course, a trousers version was also made.
After all, the world of cultivation is still ancient, and the look in the shopkeeper's eyes at that time...forget it, I won't recall it.
After Bai Yang returned to his human form, Shen Zening went to the city and bought a wooden screen. He set it up next to the wardrobe so that the two of them could change clothes. She also ordered a custom-made soft stool.
After Bai Yang changed his clothes and came out, Shen Zening hung a mosquito repellent sachet on his waist, and then put a mosquito repellent bracelet produced by the system mall on his hand to make sure everything was safe before leading him out of the room. .
In the restaurant, except Mingxuan who was still tinkering with medicinal ingredients, everyone else was here.
The once-a-month secret realm period in Shuowang City is almost over. Ji Tingqiu has visited all the secret realms he can go to. Today he happened to come out of the last secret realm and immediately ran to the teahouse to have a meal.
Xu Xiaoyan has been living in seclusion recently. If Mingxuan hadn't walked in and out of his house occasionally, Shen Zening would have almost forgotten that he still lived in a teahouse.
Shen Yi and Shen Er were busy as usual and had no time to come over for dinner, so the only employee at the dinner was Xue Yun, who had just arrived at the teahouse.
Seeing that there was another girl in the teahouse who looked slightly older than him, Ji Tingqiu glanced at Xue Yun curiously, but only glanced at it. After all, it was not polite to stare at a girl.
At this table, in addition to the boss who rescued her and the little fox demon beside him, there was also a young man who looked rich and a handsome but expressionless man in white sitting opposite her. Xue Yun always felt that she What we came to was not a teahouse, but the mysterious stronghold of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Although Xue Yun had few opportunities to go to the city and had not been to many teahouses, she just felt that this place was really different from other teahouses.
More than different, they are exactly the same.
Seeing that no one moved their chopsticks, Xue Yun didn't dare to move either. There was an empty seat at the dinner table, but the dishes and chopsticks were placed. Are you waiting for someone?
Worried that Bai Yang was hungry, Shen Zening wanted to let him eat first, but he still asked: "Is Doctor Ming processing new medicinal materials?" Xu Xiaoyan raised his eyes and glanced
at Shen Zening and Bai Yang. He said calmly: "No, I'm just preparing for a medicinal bath."
When Bai Yang heard this, he didn't like the medicinal bath and subconsciously shrank behind Shen Zening.
Shen Zening heard Xu Xiaoyan's intention: If you two hadn't slept for too long, the medicinal materials for the medicinal bath would not have been fried over and over again.
Shen Zening coughed dryly and didn't know how to answer the question.
Obviously he and Bai Yang haven't done anything yet, so why do others... feel like something happened.
The atmosphere in the restaurant became strangely silent. Ji Tingqiu felt a little weird, a little embarrassed and wanted to run away, so he said, "How about I go find Dr. Ming." He said and was about to get
up, but just now As soon as I left my seat, I heard a "bang", and the door of the restaurant was opened from the outside.
The visitor was not Mingxuan, who was waiting for dinner, but Lin Weidu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
"Brother, I found the medicinal materials you want!"