Not a god

Chapter 207 Renting a Shop

As soon as Yiyi came back, she ran to find her best friend Xueji. It seemed like she had a lot to say. The two little ones squatted at the door and muttered something to each other.

Chen Yi is currently in her speech development stage and talks a lot. She can talk about anything and everything, and it's hard to find the logic in her fragmented words. You can only roughly guess that she is talking about going out to play and how fun it was.

Most adults don't have the patience to chat idly with kids this age, but Xueji is a very good listener. She listened very attentively and occasionally asked questions, as if she really wanted to know where Chen Yi went and what she did... Maybe she really wanted to know.

……

The look in her brother's eyes turned somewhat ominous. In the end, Jiang Wanwan decided not to sell the Holy Sword to Douzi. Otherwise, the difficulty of asking her brother to buy her toys again next time would probably become hellish.

She's incredibly rich, after all, aside from the Awakening of Destiny in the Spirit Awakening House, everyone who can enter the 'game' now is through her manipulation, and she takes a cut in the process... If you really convert it into evil souls, she'd instantly become the top person on the Forbes rich list, and even the top 100 combined wouldn't have as much as her.

But evil spirits are evil spirits, and money is money. All her accounts are managed by her brother. If she were to exchange evil spirits for money, it would all go into her brother's pocket and be strictly controlled. She wouldn't even be able to restore the Han Dynasty.

She was indignant and stabbed her villainous brother with the tip of her sword, imagining herself as a female knight-errant and the one in front of her as a big bad guy. She even imagined all sorts of fancy moves for herself. Hey, ha, take this! Whoosh!
Chen Xi turned around, pretending to confiscate her sword, but she nimbly jumped away. Haha, she couldn't catch her, and...

"Boom-!!"

When she jumped away;
My knee hit the table;

巨响
The noise startled the customers in the store, who all turned to look at the front desk, but seeing that nothing was wrong, they looked away.

"..." Jiang Wanwan lowered her head, and Chen Xi looked at her. The two stood face to face without moving, and the atmosphere became somewhat heavy.

After she bumped her knee, she stood there motionless, her facial expression changing several times. Gradually, her eyes turned into a jelly-like shape, her nose became a little red, and her shoulders began to tremble, as if she was in so much pain that she was about to cry.

She stubbornly insisted, "It doesn't hurt at all... suck!"

Chen Xi sighed. She was still so childish. Had this girl really realized that she was already a mother and in her twenties?
"Come here and pull your skirt up."

"Really, it really doesn't hurt, I just heard a sound... hiss!"

"Tissue, wipe your nose."

"I didn't even cry... *sniff*!"

"I didn't say you cried."

Chen Xi squatted down and lifted a little bit of the girl's skirt.

Jiang Wanwan looks great in knee-length skirts, the swaying hem revealing a section of her fair legs, and white lace stockings adorning her ankles. She looks like the heroine on the cover of a magazine, standing on a balcony covered in ivy at midday in summer, with sunlight shining on her like a spotlight, and a wall of ivy swaying in the wind.

My knee was a little red and swollen, but nothing serious. Chen Xi used her traditional Chinese medicine skills to press on it, and the pain disappeared instantly, as did the redness and swelling. My brother's hands were warm and felt a little comfortable; I wanted to be touched a little longer...

"Alright, you're such a grown-up, yet you still act like a child."

Jiang Wanwan let out a soft snort of dissatisfaction. Actually, she didn't want to be lectured by her brother like this, as it made her feel so embarrassed, compared to the pain in her knees.

"You need to blow on it."

"What do you mean by 'blow'?"

"That's it, just blow on it and the pain will fly away... When I was little, when I bumped and bruised myself, didn't you experience that too?"

She felt her face burning as soon as she finished speaking, but she remained firm and said, "Tell me quickly." "...Blow on it, and the pain will fly away."

"Ugh, how childish!"

Chen Xi rolled her eyes at her and slapped her on the bottom. This girl was very vengeful and retaliated by slapping Chen Xi more than a dozen times before leaving.

Besides business trips and taking Jiang Wanwan and the others out for fun, there was another important reason I went to Shanghai during this time.

That means going to coffee shops in big cities to learn about their advanced personnel management models, operations, and shop decoration.

Tianfu Square now sees a huge daily flow of people, and Songzi Street is also experiencing a surge in popularity. Moreover, it's clear to everyone that although it seems to be under official control for now, Dreamland is still a Damocles' sword, and who knows if those evil corpses might suddenly emerge all at once.

Even in the game, Tianfu Square is an absolutely safe area, and its influence extends to the surrounding areas.

The housing prices here are now incredibly high, and the surrounding commercial areas have also been overvalued. In particular, the shops around Tianfu Square, which is in the very center, have basically been acquired by other large developers.

Many of them came to Chen Xi hoping he would transfer the shop, and the conditions they offered were shockingly high.

He refused them all, of course.

Not only did they reject everything, but now they're also planning to rent the hair salon on the second floor, turn it into a two-story coffee shop, and then upgrade the decor.

"First of all, we need to hire a few more employees, as we are short-staffed at the moment."

During the day, Ms. Yin, Douzi, Chen Yan, Jiang Xiaowan, and Chen Xi would come to help unless they had something to do. There was also a female college student named Feng Qinqin who had a low profile and only came to help when she didn't have classes.

Chen Xi originally planned to ask his assistant for help, but Aunt Jiang's career has recently experienced a resurgence, and he has become busy again.

However, at that moment, someone else came into the store.

These people belong to the developer. Chen Xi got this shop from them. They came over some time ago wanting to take it back and were even willing to pay a high penalty for breach of contract.

Chen Xi looked at the newcomer and greeted him, "Boss Su is here."

"Director Chen, we've been waiting for you so long, you're finally back from Shanghai."

Mr. Su wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the young man in front of him, and gave a wry smile.

A while ago, he was at home when he was suddenly summoned by Makimori. He went to Makimori in a daze and was questioned for more than two hours about why he had breached the contract and taken back the coffee shop on Matsuko Street.

Frankly speaking, even if he breaches the contract and takes back the property, paying a hefty penalty, he is still following the proper legal channels, and Maki Shouji has to be reasonable.

After some investigation, he discovered that the college student who rented the coffee shop was no ordinary person; he was actually the now-powerful director of the Youth Federation.

Generally speaking, even the director of the Youth Federation should not cause Mu Shousi to make such a fuss, but Su Wen is a big boss with a lot of influence in the whole Jiangcheng.

The bosses like them are different from what ordinary netizens see. Based on several news broadcasts and leaks from the Minjiang Chamber of Commerce, no one would think that the identity of this director of the Youth Federation is simple.

But no one expected that this person was so extraordinary that even a simple business dispute could alarm the Mu Shou Si, or even the captain of the Mu Shou Si's company, who was surnamed Guan.

Many businesses in this area belong to him, and Su Wen doesn't lack one or two shops. Previously, when his subordinates came to discuss the matter of terminating the lease with Director Chen, there were no disputes. This time, he came because he heard that Director Chen wanted to take over the hair salon on the second floor. He came to discuss it with Chen Xi and also to pay his respects to the local power.

(End of this chapter)