Demon Girl Against the Sky: Phoenix on Fire

Chapter 48
"Do you want to revive and bring back all the old customers?"

Hearing Bing Lan's words, the boss's wine was completely sober, and the eyes he looked at her were full of disbelief, why didn't he think about it, at first he thought about it day and night, but later he didn't dare to think about it.

"My lord is making fun of the little one."

"If I say, I can help you realize your wish, do you believe it or not?" Bing Lan did not miss the flash of loneliness in his eyes.

"Young master, are you serious?"

"It's absolutely true." Bing Lan nodded: "However, I have conditions."

"Sir, please tell me." He didn't know where his confidence in this young boy came from.

"How much does your inn make a year now?" Bing Lan asked.

The boss hesitated for a while and said in a low voice, "It's less than 200 taels."

Bing Lan took out two silver tickets from the ring: "Here is 500 taels, you go ahead, I will tell you my conditions."

The boss stared wide-eyed, looked at the bank note and said nothing.

Binglan had no choice but to put the bank note in the middle and press it down with a teacup.

"Give me one year, and I will bring your inn back to life. If you succeed in the end, you will give me the inn lease. Of course, the profit during the period will belong to me. In addition, in addition to the 500 taels, I will give you another 500 taels. If it fails in the end, all the money will be given to you, and I will leave without taking any money."

Seeing that the boss didn't speak, Bing Lan continued: "You are a businessman, so you naturally know that this business only makes money but not losses, why? Dare you take a gamble?"

"I'll change one more condition you asked for."

Binglan nodded and motioned for him to continue: "The 500 taels count as my shareholding, and I will pay another 300 taels. After the matter is completed, I will share a share every year. In addition, I will still stay in this inn. I don't need salary."

Bing Lan now starts to look at this boss with admiration: "It's a pleasant cooperation."

Binglan stretched out her right hand, but the boss didn't know why, so she stretched out her left hand.

Bing Lan smiled, changed her left hand, clasped both hands, and the agreement was reached.

The boss asked the waiter in the store to draw up a contract. After hearing the conversation between the two, the clerk immediately danced with enthusiasm, and followed the example of the boss and said that he wanted to buy shares. A new pair of bowls and chopsticks, go to work quickly, the inn will open, and your salary will be indispensable."

The man covered his head and left happily.

Binglan chatted with the boss all night, Binglan gradually realized that this person is a piece of gold, as long as she said something, he immediately understood.

And the boss also found out that this young master is a genius, after hearing Bing Lan's plan, he even saw that there was a constant stream of people in the inn.

It was almost dawn, and the two signed the contract, each with a share. Bing Lan got up and was about to leave when she remembered that she didn't know the other party's name.

"He Yi"

"ice blue"

"Boss He will be closed today. I will come later and send the drawings, so we can start the renovation."

"Mr. Lan has worked hard, I will see you off."

Bing Lan did not go home after leaving the inn, but returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Now I have nothing to do with the prime minister's mansion, but there is still one thing that has not been resolved. I unfolded the paper in my hand, and it was written "Announcement of Engagement Dissolution". Her reputation will not be affected, she must be fully prepared.

She came to the previous courtyard with ease, and as expected, Han Ruyan had already moved back to this courtyard. At this time, she was instructing the servants to move things in her courtyard. She wanted to move all the things in the house burn it.

Bing Lan came to Han Ruyan's previous yard, and seemed to call everyone away, and Bing Lan didn't meet anyone along the way.

Pushing open the door and entering Han Ruyan's room, she rummaged around and found a jade pendant under her pillow. It was so cherished that it was not difficult to guess who gave her the jade pendant.

Binglan didn't take the jade pendant, she didn't want to startle the snake.

Put the pillow back, but heard a slight sound from his hands.

For the convenience of putting things in the pillow, there will always be a gap. Binglan reached in and touched it, and then pulled out a piece of paper. The words on it were ambiguous and expressed love. It was like a love letter. It was written to her by the prince. Yes, the paper is slightly yellowed, it must be a few years old, looking down, the corners of Binglan's mouth curled up, this is not only a love letter, but also a statement of guilt, it clearly says: Yan'er should know You Lin's mind It was my original intention to keep Yu'er in the Huoling Bird Cave, just because I already have a sweetheart in my heart, and I can't stop marrying Yu'er. Now that Yu'er's appearance is ruined, Yan'er naturally don't have to worry, You Lin will be with you in this life Staying together, Yan'er only needs to say that she ran into the cave alone for a while, and you and I will work together to rescue her in the end...

Bing Lan pursed her lips, put away the paper, took a blank piece of paper from the desk and put it back into the pillow, checked and found nothing abnormal, but Bing Lan was about to leave when she heard someone talking outside.

After looking around, Bing Lan hid under the desk, pulled the chair towards her, and waited quietly.

"Miss is really capable of tossing people, and all good things will be burned up."

"You don't know how much the eldest miss hates the second miss. Everything she touches is burned."

"You said they were all sisters, why did you make them look like enemies."

"Hey, how can we little maids care about the Taoism inside? Move things quickly, it won't feel good to make the eldest lady angry and whip you."

"However, I heard from the guard next to the master that the eldest lady will go to the English Rhyme Academy to take the entrance examination in half a month, and she will live outside for three years. Then we don't have to suffer from this."

"Really? That's great."

The two little maids complained while moving things, and left again after a while.

Bing Lan heard the footsteps getting farther and farther away, raised her head, and was about to come out, but saw a piece of paper caught in the gap of the drawer above her head, probably because there were too many things inside and squeezed out.

If it was ordinary paper, Bing Lan wouldn't pay much attention to it, because it had the words "Brother Prince" written on it.

Pulling it out, I found that it was a painting. There was not one person in the painting, but two people. Dongfang Youlin was sitting under a tree, with one leg propped up, the other casually placed on the ground, playing with a flower with the other hand , holding a person with the other arm, and it is Han Ruyan who is snuggling in her arms. In the painting, the woman puts her hands on his waist, rests her head on his shoulder, with a happy smile on her face, behind her uncle Zhi Fan The leaves are luxuriant, the surrounding lawns are full of greenery, and the beautiful scenery and beautiful people are so peaceful.

Draw a row of beautiful characters: Yan'er's heart, I hope the prince's brother will know it soon.

There was a smile on the corner of Binglan's mouth, her fiancé was having an affair with her sister, such explosive news, she didn't know what the reaction would be if it spread out.

Satisfied, Binglan left the Prime Minister's Mansion with two pieces of paper in her pocket.

When I got home, it was daylight, and the cook was already drawing water from the well, ready to cook.

Binglan came over, and with both hands, helped the cook to lift the bucket up.

"Miss, why don't you sleep a little longer?" The cook was frightened, and hurriedly wiped the water droplets on Binglan's body with a handkerchief, she thought that Binglan got up early. "Miss, quickly take off your clothes, Niang Ye will wash them for you."

"It's not a problem, why did Aunt Ye get up so early." The cook was in her 40s, she was wearing coarse linen clothes, her face was unpainted, and there were some wrinkles around her eyes.

"I can't sleep when I'm old, not to mention that I always want to do something with so much money from Miss every month." The cook asked Binglan to call her Ye Niang, but Miss He refused to say anything, and had to call her Aunt Ye. Well, everyone in the yard called her Aunt Ye, which made her an elder for no reason. She couldn't hold back the young lady, so she followed them.

"If you feel that you have been given too much money, then it will be less." Bing Lan smiled.

Seeing the look of embarrassment on the cook's face, he stopped joking with her: "Okay, just kidding, how is your son's illness?"

The cook has a son named Ye Zhen, who just turned ten years old a few days ago, but fell ill. Binglan paid her two months' salary in advance, bought medicine and asked a doctor to drag Ye Zhen back from the gate of hell. .

"Thanks to Miss, the doctor said that after taking two doses of medicine, he can run away." Speaking of her son, the cook had a look of happiness on her face.

"If you don't have enough money, just ask Zhang Xiaotian, and just put it in the account."

"Miss Xie."

"I haven't slept all night, I'm a little sleepy, don't call me before dinner."

"Yes" She didn't know what the young lady of the family did, nor how she earned the money in her hands. She was curious, but she didn't dare to ask further questions.

(Binglan sleeps until noon, pushes open the door, feels the autumn wind outside, tightens her clothes, looks at the ruined leaves in the courtyard, it seems that she needs to fill in some autumn clothes.

He took Zhang Xiaotian and Lingsu out the door.

Dressed in ice blue men's clothes, she is not interested in buying ice blue clothes, she just stands at the door and watches Lingsu pick and choose, all of which she chooses are ice blue clothes.

Zhang Xiaotian also stood beside Bing Lan, and the two of them stood at the door like guards.

After Bing Lan felt the boss's probing eyes for the third time, she sighed and said to Zhang Xiaotian: "Choose three clothes, Ting Ge and Ning Gu are about the same size as you, choose what you can wear, and tell Ling Su by the way, Let her buy a few too."

"Yes."

After sending Zhang Xiaotian away, she guarded the gate alone.

After standing for a while, feeling really bored, I greeted the two of them and went to a nearby study.

The study only costs 30 Wen to stay here until the sun goes down. Bing Lan paid for a private room, took out a homemade pen from the ring and began to write and draw.

When the sun went down, she put down her pen, stretched her waist, put the paper back into her sleeves, and left the study. When she went downstairs, she looked at the books on both sides of the first floor. She suddenly had some thoughts, turned around and went upstairs. , and added a few strokes on the paper.

When she came out again, it was completely dark.

As soon as he went out, he saw Zhang Xiaotian standing at the door. When he saw Binglan, he immediately greeted him.

"Didn't I ask you to go back first?" The temperature difference here is quite large, and the temperature is even lower at night. Looking at Zhang Xiaotian's pale face from the cold, Bing Lan frowned.

"Don't worry about Miss, let Lingsu go back first, I'll stay here to guard." Zhang Xiaotian said with a smile.

After a moment of silence, Bing Lan said, "Let's go."

Seeing that Bing Lan turned in the wrong direction, Zhang Xiaotian quickly asked, "Aren't we going back?"

"Do something first."

Zhang Xiaotian didn't ask any more questions, and hurriedly followed.

When he arrived at the inn, he saw He Yizheng standing at the door in the distance, looking forward to something. When he saw Binglan, he froze for a moment before recognizing it, and his face immediately changed into a surprised expression.

"Master Lan, I've been waiting for you for a long time." He Yi walked over in two steps at a time.

He Yi was really obedient, there was a closed sign at the door, and there was no one there except the clerk.

Zhang Xiaotian didn't understand why, so he followed upstairs in a daze. Later, from the discussion between the two of them, he understood what the young lady of the family did yesterday.

After seeing the paper that Bing Lan had drawn all afternoon, He Yi said three "wonderful" in a row after being surprised.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lan. I'll have someone start rebuilding it tomorrow. However, there is one thing I don't quite understand."

"where?"

He clicked on a place on the map, Bing Lan glanced at it and said, "This is what I thought of on the spur of the moment this afternoon. What is the purpose of our inn?"

"Make money!" It was the inn boy who spoke.

He Yi glared at him, then smiled apologetically at Binglan.

Binglan smiled, signaled that it was okay, and then said: "That's right, and you can't just make money. There are so many inns at the foot of the entire imperial city. No matter how delicious our food is or how good our service attitude is, the guests will always be happy because of it." The reason for the division of other inns is that there are not too many people here, so what should we do?"

After a moment of silence, He Yi said, "Annex them?"

"That's the plan for the future. What we need to do now is to have the unique characteristics of our inn to attract people. The competitors can't make money, and they will close down over time. And this library is what I can think of to attract people. One way for guests is to provide free books in the private rooms on the second floor, which can attract many literati to come, drink while reading, and compose poems while eating.”

"But if they only read books and don't order food, wouldn't we have made a loss-making business?" Zhang Xiaotian couldn't help interjecting.

"We set up some agencies for these books."

"What institution?" It was He Yi who asked.

"For example, make some illustrations or descriptions of our inn's special dishes in the book, and insert a page of the inn's menu and wine list after the catalog page of the book." Reading books is the most brain-intensive, and it is easy to get hungry. At this time, seeing the pictures of delicious dishes , It's no wonder you don't want to eat it. "And this library is just a way to attract scholars. When the inn expands in the future and has enough space, we will attract other people. We will target high-ranking officials, ordinary people and wealthy businessmen."

"Mr. Lan, you are simply a genius." He Yi couldn't help clapping his hands in praise, which not only attracted people but also kept them. He had a premonition that within half a year, this inn would definitely become famous.

"Don't be in a hurry to praise me." Bing Lan said and took out a few more sheets of paper from her pocket: "This is my rough plan for promotional activities and lottery activities. I originally wanted to show it to you after the opening, but I thought it would be better sooner. Here you are, after all, you are more professional than me, and I can make some changes to these plans, so that we can benefit from the maximum profit."

He Yi studied Bing Lan's plan, and after a few minutes, he was completely immersed in it, and he didn't even know when Bing Lan left.

After telling the buddy to take good care of He Yi and not to let him forget food and sleep, he left with Zhang Xiaotian.

The way back was very long, and Zhang Xiaotian kept talking along the way, he just glanced at Bing Lan's blueprint and remembered it.

"Miss, what do you offer specially for couples... Oh, yes, the private candlelight dinner room is really great, and the singing and dancing performance every three days is also very special. How did you come up with the design of rotating the stage? so perfect."

Bing Lan was somewhat ashamed of being praised by Zhang Xiaotian, and quickly said: "It's not my own idea, many of them are hearsay, imitating others."

"Impossible. If there were other people who practiced this, everyone would have known about it."

"..." Then I can only say, what a pity, you live in such an era.

"It's a pity that I only took a look at the drawings and didn't remember them all." Zhang Xiaotian said with emotion.

"Then do you want to watch it every day?"

"Of course I do."

"From tomorrow onwards, you and Ning Gu will be in charge of supervising the workers to renovate the inn. Can you do it well?" Bing Lan originally wanted to supervise the work herself, but she really didn't have time. Since Zhang Xiaotian is interested, let him take care of it.

"can!"

"Then you will move to the inn tomorrow."

After explaining some things, the two of them arrived home.

As soon as he entered the yard, he saw Lingsu walking over in a hurry.

"What's wrong?" Bing Lan asked.

"Master Chi is here, waiting for you."

Hearing Ling Su's words, Bing Lan was slightly surprised. Since the last time they separated, she hadn't told Chi Yu where she moved.

A gentleman is like jade, warm and lustrous.

For some reason, when Bing Lan saw the man in the hall with his hands behind his back, intently looking at the back of the ancient painting on the wall, these eight words popped up in her mind.

Candle lamps were lit around the room, but the light was too weak and swaying, and it was not very real when it hit the body, but it made the whole person feel like he was walking out of the painting.

"The apprentice has been staring at it, but I don't know whether I should turn my head." Chi Yan's voice came over, and finally pulled Bing Lan out of the haze. )
(End of this chapter)