I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 650 Lao Zhang and Xiao Ye

Red coffins bury people, black coffins bury ghosts!
The coffin shop in Taiping Ancient Town was once well-known far and wide and an existence that could not be ignored.

Lin Yuan called Zhang Dong today. He was clearly talking about Ye Zhen, but the topic suddenly changed to the coffin shop.

Even though Zhang Dong was over a hundred years old, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "You are very clear about it. Unfortunately, the little guy in the coffin shop died before an old man like me."

"Already gone? That shouldn't be the case." Lin Yuan frowned slightly.

He remembered He Yiner's previous suggestion to open a branch in the rebuilt Taiping Ancient Town in Dayuan City, so he thought of the ancient town next to Guihu Lake.

The real Taiping Ancient Town does indeed rely on necromancers as its core.

As long as there is a necromancer, that is where the true heritage of Taiping Ancient Town lies. It can be said that since He Yiner now spends a long time working in the fish pond of the Peace Hotel, there is nothing wrong with calling that fish pond Taiping Ancient Town.

But the ancient town of Taiping is not complete.

Without those supporting, mysterious shops, Taiping Ancient Town would never have grown to its full potential.

The matter of Ghost Lake flooding Taiping Ancient Town had nothing to do with Lin Yuan, but He Yiner was his own after all, and because of the branch, he had also thought about increasing the traffic of Taiping Ancient Town.

The reason is also very simple.

How many people are there in the domestic supernatural circle, and how many ghost riders are there who can control evil spirits? The number is definitely not low, and it is likely to be in the five or six figures.

However, the number of visitors to the Peace Hotel every day is only a few dozen.

When business is good, the number will increase to more than a hundred people, but compared with the number of ghost riders in the entire supernatural circle, it is just a drop in the ocean and not worth mentioning.

It is for this reason that Lin Yuan has not opened the entrance of the Peace Hotel to overseas.

They haven't even figured out the domestic market yet, but they are already pointing the finger at overseas. This is a manifestation of being too ambitious. It would be better for them to figure out the domestic market first.

The current situation does not require too detailed analysis.

Just look at the situation of the Dahai City branch and the Dadong City branch and you will know that their customer flow is even higher than that of the Peace Hotel.

That is the franchise store opened by Zhang Xianguang in Dajing City, which has a smaller customer flow.

In this case, Lin Yuan was too lazy to continue to work hard at his head office. After all, he didn't want to become a pure businessman and spend all his time dealing with customers every day.

According to his plan.

The headquarters where he works, located in a mysterious place, will also be built to be "high-end", similar to a private club.

Although ordinary ghost riders are not rejected and the level of consumption will not increase significantly, there are some special items for sale, as well as some special top-level services such as virtual games and time and space travel.

The ones that truly offer “large quantities, cheaper prices” are the branches in various places.

Of course, given the current number of employees at the Peace Hotel, there cannot be too many branches, so Zhang Xianguang’s franchise store is also a very good choice.

As for whether this is in line with Zhang Xianguang’s new Peach Blossom Spring project?

It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all.

Regardless of whether it is in line with it or not, the initiative of things has always been in Lin Yuan's hands. No matter how high Zhang Xianguang jumps or how much he does, as long as Lin Yuan still controls the core supernatural powers, Zhang Xianguang is like Monkey King, who can never jump out of his palm and cannot shake his decision!

The Dahai City branch and the Dadong City branch have been finalized.

The former is in charge of the local supernatural forum in Dahai City and its cooperation with the Ghost Post Office, while the latter is in-depth cooperation with the Wang family in Dadong City. It is also run by the residual soul of Zhang Youhong, one of the Seven Elders of the Republic of China, and her teammates who are dead and only have some memories left.

If these two stores want to change, they will need to spend some effort.

Lin Yuan didn't want to waste time. It happened that in the next period of time, He Yiner's Dayuan City branch, Guo Fan's Dachang City branch, and the manor owner's Daminiu City branch would be opened one after another, so he could also start a new round of attempts.

The first thing that needs attention is naturally He Yiner's side.

After all, He Yiner had absolute control over the branch she opened. Unlike Guo Fan who gave the control to an outsider like Yang Jian, nor did she set up the branch overseas like the owner of the manor, she was naturally the focus of Lin Yuan's attention.

He already had some ideas, so he was also paying close attention to the situation of the new Taiping Ancient Town in Dayuan City.

"I remember that there should be a boss running the shop, but I could only hear his face but not his voice." Lin Yuan frowned slightly.

Zhang Dong said quietly, "Think about it carefully. You should know the situation over there. Otherwise, how could the virtual game you made be so realistic?"

Virtual games?

Lin Yuan's frown deepened.

In the virtual games he made before, several scenes were set in Taiping Ancient Town, and later he solidified Taiping Ancient Town into a "Red Famous Village".

According to his setting, the "red-name village" of Taiping Ancient Town in the game is set as a very exclusive town.

There are many terrifying ghost riders inside, and they are extremely hostile to outsiders. They will only not take the initiative to attack outsiders on the fixed days of each month when they open for trade.

But in fact, such an ancient town of Taiping does not exist in real history, but is the result of Lin Yuan's fine-tuning through the white fog ghost domain covering the real ancient town of Taiping, and with the help of the three last survivors, Boss Liu, the middle-aged woman, and the faceless man, as well as the body left behind by He Liansheng after his death, he obtained enough memories.

If anyone relies on this kind of cognition to understand Taiping Ancient Town, the result obtained will definitely be very different from reality.

Now Zhang Dong suddenly said that his virtual game was real. Was it based on his experience traveling back to the Gengshen year through the virtual game, or...

"So that's how it is. They are now in... a state of suspended animation?" Lin Yuan asked tentatively.

Zhang Dong said: "No, they are really dead. But death is not the real end. You know how advanced technology is now. Taiping Ancient Town looks very old, but in fact it has made remarkable achievements in this regard. They have a good grasp of the distance between life and death. You still need to understand the specific situation yourself. After all, I am just an outsider and cannot really understand their technology."

Perhaps because he had chatted with Lin Yuan so much, he was used to this way of chatting.

It feels quite interesting to express supernatural methods through scientific means, at least that's what Zhang Dong thinks now.

Having said that, Lin Yuan would naturally go and find out more. "Has the coffin shop come to you to buy raw materials over the years?"

"No, it's been more than ten years." Zhang Dong said with a hint of emotion. More than ten years?

Lin Yuan thought about it and didn't continue the topic. "Old Zhang, you don't have many days left to live anyway, so let Xiaoye go. The coffin shop in Taiping Ancient Town doesn't come to collect raw materials, and the trees in the old forest are almost overgrown. Wouldn't it be better to let Xiaoye help you take care of them?"

Zhang Dong said: "I have my own arrangements."

After his death, hundreds of ghosts came to mourn him. The "hundred" here does not refer to one hundred, but is an description of a huge number. And it just so happened that there were quite a few ghosts in this "hundred", and they all came from this old forest.

In this way, isn't it also a kind of cleansing?

Lin Yuan sighed, "Why bother? You should know that after you die, Xiao Ye will still be able to go there without your consent. Of course, I respect your choice very much."

After a brief silence, Zhang Dong finally said, "Call him over."

"Row."

Having achieved his goal, Lin Yuan hung up the phone. "Xiao Ye, did you hear everything? You can take the bus now. Lao Zhang is waiting for you there. He only has a few days left. From now on, it's up to you to take care of him. He has experienced a lot of hardships in his life and made great contributions. I hope he can have an easier time in these last few days. After all, sometimes you also represent a kind of hope."

Ye Zhen really wanted to complain.

Lin Yuan was on the phone right in front of him just now, and his voice was not overly disguised, but he felt like he was listening to a foreign language, and he couldn't understand what Lin Yuan was saying at all.

It was obvious that Lin Yuan was deliberately guarding against him and had also told him some secrets that were not suitable for him to hear.

Although he was depressed, he became serious when he heard the heaviness in Lin Yuan's words. "Boss Lin, is the old Zhang you mentioned so important?"

Lin Yuan nodded. "Let's put it this way. He has made an indelible contribution to the peace that has been maintained in this era for so many years."

No matter how Zhang Dong tries to stop Lin Yuan, all this cannot ignore the contribution Zhang Dong has made to the world.

Just as he said to Ye Zhen, if Zhang Dong had not guarded the human world for nearly a hundred years, if it had not been for the dedication of countless people of Zhang Dong's generation, this world might have long been overrun by evil spirits and turned into a ghostland.

Ye Zhen has a bit of a middle school syndrome and is more accustomed to this kind of mission-filled behavior.

He did not ask about the specific situation. Judging from the fact that the content of the phone call was hidden, there must be a secret that he did not want to know.

Even if he asked now, Lin Yuan would not be able to tell him.

In this case, it is better to fulfill the sense of mission and go to the old house in the forest to ask Zhang Dong, but before that, "Boss Lin, I will go to Dajing City first, and then go to find Lao Zhang and take care of him for the next few days."

Lin Yuan shook his head and said without question: "Let's go now."

Ye Zhen: "..."

In the end he agreed because he knew if he didn't agree, he would not be able to leave the Peace Hotel.

But when they arrived at the bus stop, he said to Ah Wu, "You take care of the house for the next few days. If there is anything, I will deal with it after I come back."

Awu nodded.

He had accompanied him all the way just now and knew Lin Yuan's arrangements for Ye Zhen, and he also knew that this was an opportunity for Ye Zhen.

As long as Ye Zhen didn't lose contact inexplicably, given the current situation in Dahai City, there was no need for Ye Zhen to stay there all the time and waste time and energy.

If there really were any supernatural events, the "adventurers" who came out of the ghost post office and the "ghost hunting teams" that are now gradually taking shape and roaming around the country would rush over as if they had smelled something.

There will be casualties, but there is really no need to trouble Ye Zhen for everything.

"Are you going to the old house in the forest now?" Awu asked.

A sly look flashed across Ye Zhen's eyes. "Of course not. I haven't competed with Xiao Fang yet. Although I am probably not his opponent right now, I still need to know the gap between us so that I can make a plan to catch up. I promised Boss Lin in the store just now, otherwise he might force me to leave, so I used a delaying tactic, hehe!"

You are still very proud of yourself, right?
Awu's eyes twitched. He knew that this matter would not be so simple, but he did not think highly of Ye Zhen's innocent idea at all.

Do you really think the "store manager" is joking?
And it’s something you promised yourself...

Sure enough, just as Awu thought, Ye Zhen wanted to leave the Peace Hotel and return to Dajing City, but he couldn't leave at all. Even the business card in his hand seemed to have lost its effect and could no longer be used as a credential to enter and exit the White Fog Ghost Zone of the Peace Hotel.

boom!
A roar was sounded, and a supernatural bus with bright headlights rushed out of the white fog, stopped in front of Ye Zhen, opened the door, and then a huge thrust rose out of nowhere and pushed Ye Zhen in.

Then with a bang, the car door closed and Ye Zhen was taken away without any delay.

"I knew it."

Awu complained, not daring to look back, and quickly tried to leave through the medium. Without encountering any obstacles, he disappeared easily and returned to reality.

"I knew this kid was dishonest."

Lin Yuan retracted his gaze and looked at the two women beside him, "Today is a holiday, you can also go and relax, you don't have to stay in the store all the time."

Since its opening, the Peace Hotel has rarely had holidays.

There is no such thing as working five days and taking two days off, or working four days and taking three days off. There is not even a system of working six days and taking one day off. It is simply utilizing manpower to the extreme.

But no one has any complaints.

Lin Yuan didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. After all, everyone was on holiday, so could his Peace Hotel still be open?
But that was in the early days of the business.

Today, the development of Peace Hotel has entered a stable period. If it wants to develop rapidly, it will depend more on the situation of its branches and franchise stores in various places.

Thinking of this, he did not give Liu Qingqing and the others a chance to answer, and continued: "The store is doing well now, and everyone has worked hard during this period. I plan to work six days a week and rest one day. What do you think?"

"But will this affect the business of the store?" He Yuelian hesitated.

"Great, great! I can finally have a day to rest. Brother Yuan, you're so nice!" Liu Qingqing cheered.

(End of this chapter)