Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 35 Market Research

Besides the two points mentioned above, the biggest gain for Huo Yuhao was getting to know Bei Bei and Tang Ya. Although their relationship was just a casual acquaintance at the time, they were still the first two people Huo Yuhao met after arriving at Shrek Academy.

In this unfamiliar place, being completely clueless is a very troublesome situation. Therefore, after getting to know Bei Bei and Tang Ya, Huo Yuhao can use these two people as a breakthrough to gradually get to know the people in their social circles, thereby developing his social network at Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao didn't rush to start his stall business. Instead, he took Huo Yun'er from the west gate of Shrek City and randomly selected food from the food street to try. The two strolled around, eating and drinking, looking like new students who had just arrived in Shrek City and were strolling around Shrek Academy with their parents.

Although the main purpose of bringing her mother along was to eat and drink, Huo Yun'er still had a mission to complete.

Before long, Huo Yuhao was carrying a bag full of various takeaway snacks, while Huo Yun'er was eating a candied hawthorn skewer that was already half-eaten, chatting with the stall owners as she ate.

The two strolled around from noon until the sun was about to set. At this time, Huo Yuhao had a lot of food and a lot of new clothes, most of which were for him to wear.

Although Huo Yuhao tried his best to say that he was getting taller every day at his age and didn't need to buy new clothes, Huo Yun'er always insisted that the prices had been negotiated down and it would be inappropriate not to buy them, so she picked out a lot of new clothes for Huo Yuhao.

However, Huo Yuhao eventually found a way to overcome this irresistible maternal love.

Every time Huo Yun'er excitedly picked out an outfit for Huo Yuhao that wasn't too expensive and looked decent, Huo Yuhao would always find a few new clothes on the hanger that suited Huo Yun'er better. He wouldn't haggle and would just buy them without thinking, which finally curbed Huo Yun'er's enthusiasm for getting new clothes for Huo Yuhao.

Back at the inn where he was staying, Huo Yuhao took out paper and pen and began to sketch out the general layout of the eastern district of Shrek City, based on his day's leisurely stroll through the city.

Especially regarding the various buildings of Shrek Academy, thanks to Huo Yuhao's successful visit at noon, most of the buildings were revealed in Huo Yuhao's writing, except for the inner courtyard on Seagod Island, which Huo Yuhao knew nothing about.

Immediately afterwards, Huo Yuhao looked up and pondered the layout of the shops and stalls outside Shrek Academy.

Outside Shrek Academy, the West Gate has the most shops and the highest foot traffic because it leads directly into Shrek City. The South and North Gates are slightly less bustling, but they still have a considerable number of shops.

The East Gate faces the Starry Forest, so there is no space for shops. However, this is precisely why it is the busiest area in front of the four school gates.

Eighty percent of the stalls here are food stalls, offering all kinds of food, while the remaining twenty percent are stalls selling items needed for hunting souls, ranging from soul tools to high-age soul beast excrement powder, all quite complete.

According to the information Huo Yun'er gathered from the stall owners while eating, the rental costs for shops around Shrek Academy are very high, at least several thousand gold soul coins a month. For shops that are slightly larger and in better locations, the rent can soar to tens of thousands of gold soul coins.

For this reason, Huo Yuhao temporarily abandoned his initial idea of ​​renting a shop to sell grilled fish and other barbecue items, and decided to start by setting up a stall to sell grilled fish at the east gate of Shrek Academy.

Huo Yun'er's main task in the afternoon was to inquire about the various complicated issues related to setting up stalls and shops at Shrek Academy, while Huo Yuhao naturally had his own tasks to take care of.

According to his observation, although the shops near Shrek Academy are mainly food and drink shops, they only account for about 60% of all shops. Of the remaining 40% of shops, about half are beverage shops selling things like plum juice, herbal tea, and yogurt.

The remaining 20% ​​of shops are of all types, including entertainment venues for students, direct sales stores for high-quality soul tools, and repair shops for second-hand soul tools, and so on.

Huo Yuhao naturally didn't have much of an idea to enter these industries, but he was very interested in the second-hand soul tool repair shop at the West Gate. Being able to open a shop in a place like Shrek City where every inch of land is precious, besides having excellent skills, one must also have good connections.

Currently, Huo Yuhao cannot go to Shrek Academy to learn soul guidance technology. However, if he could become an apprentice at this second-hand soul guidance repair shop after selling grilled fish every day, even if he worked for free for two years, Huo Yuhao felt that it was not entirely impossible.

The next morning, Huo Yuhao went to the nearby blacksmith shop early. To be honest, although the appearance of soul tools had brought a great impact to the Tang Sect, the impact on the traditional blacksmith industry was not as great as imagined.

After all, at this stage, soul tools have not yet developed into strange and unusual soul tools such as soul tool self-heating iron pots and soul tool self-cultivating hoes.

Yesterday, while shopping with Huo Yun'er, Huo Yuhao ordered a grill from this blacksmith shop, along with some iron skewers for skewering meat and an iron frame.

The cost of forging these iron tools was not high, but this was Shrek City, and the labor cost of hiring someone to forge tools was several times higher than in Star Luo City, which made Huo Yuhao's heart ache.

Even so, Huo Yuhao still managed to suppress his miserly nature and obediently paid the deposit to have it made.

After all, while making such a set of equipment wasn't difficult, it was quite time-consuming, taking at least an hour to complete. For just a few silver coins, he could save himself an hour or even two of his cultivation time, so Huo Yuhao felt that this deal was quite worthwhile.

Of course, rational thinking helped Huo Yuhao make the right choice, but watching his savings shrink day by day still made Huo Yuhao feel the pain. When he left, he was still muttering things like he should have had another set made at the blacksmith shop in Xingluo City.

Huo Yuhao did have a barbecue grill, but the one he made at that time was clearly only suitable for small gatherings of a few people, and definitely not enough for business.

As Huo Yuhao walked through the East Gate, he was somewhat surprised. Although he had gone to the blacksmith shop to pick up the barbecue equipment he had ordered, the streets were already quite lively, with all sorts of things for sale.

Clearly, they shared the same goal as Huo Yuhao: to do business with the students of Shrek Academy.

(End of this chapter)