My fruit shop became popular in the world

Mount Putuo, Luojia Cave.

The green peak stood upright, among the green trees, revealing a moon-white Taoist robe.

The footsteps of the visitor were like the wind, and the breeze stirred up the corners of the clothes, and slid over the grass blades by the roadside, making a slight rustling sound.

"Junior Brother Xuanchu, Junior Brother Xuanchu!" An eager voice came from far to near.

Xuan Chu paused, turned around and looked over.

A pair of slightly raised eye tails, water-soaked eyes slightly bent, innocence and a bit of a natural style.

"Senior Brother Jiufeng." He said with a smile.

Jiufeng rushed to Xuanchu in a hurry, and said in an intimate tone with a bit of reproach: "Junior brother, I just heard that you are going to the human world, why didn't you say hello in advance?"

"Brother, don't blame it, it happened suddenly." Xuan Chu's smile was a bit more bitter.

"Is it because of Qingqiu?" Jiufeng raised his eyebrows.

His junior is the Second Highness of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox Clan.

Everyone in the world of comprehension knows that the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan has lived in seclusion in Qingqiu for generations and rarely communicated with the outside world. Only Xuanchu was sent to recuperate under the disciple of Cihang Taoist, one of the Twelve Golden Immortals, because of his infirmity when he was young.

Qingqiu Nine Tails has been isolated from the world for tens of thousands of years, survived the first tribulation of dragon and phoenix, the war of witches and the war of conferring gods, and other catastrophes. Now the world is peaceful, but it happens to be in crisis.

Today is different from the past. Now the glorious era of ascetics has passed, and now it is the turn of the human race to flourish.Immortals and monsters, they all have to stand aside and give way to this race fabricated by the Nuwa sage.

Qingqiu is located at the intersection of the fairy world and the human world, and the well water of the human world does not interfere with the river. However, after the prosperity of the human race, the territory of the human race has continued to expand, and even Qingqiu has been affected——

The natural environment has been severely damaged, the spiritual energy has been polluted, and the vegetation is dying. As a result, the cultivation of the nine-tailed foxes has been hindered and their hair has been seriously shedding.

Not long ago, bad news came.

Wucheng, a small human city adjacent to Qingqiu, intends to lease the barren hills near Qingqiu to an electronics factory for a long-term lease in order to promote the local economic development.

And if the factory building is built, the economic benefits will indeed increase, but the environmental pollution it will bring cannot be underestimated, and it will be a bigger blow to Qingqiu.

When Xuanchu heard about this, he was very anxious.

Although he has been away from home for many years, his relationship with his elder brother, the current Qingqiu Fox King, is not good, but after all, Qingqiu is his hometown. Now that Qingqiu is in trouble, how can he just sit idly by?

What's more, Qingqiu Nine Tails and One Fox have been isolated from the world all year round, and the only one who can help him is him who has been seeking Taoism for a long time.

The current crisis is indeed difficult to say, but it is not impossible to resolve it.

The root cause is that the local poor and remote areas, the economy is underdeveloped, and the local people have no money, but they want to develop, so they have to rely on land rental fees to subsidize the finances.

In a word, it is a matter of money.

Xuan Chu went down the mountain this time just to make money.

His goal is clear: to make a lot of money, rent out the local land at a higher price, plant trees and protect the ecology.

The reason why there is no way to solve the problem is very simple.

Due to the great prosperity of the human race, in order to prevent ascetics from destroying the order of the human world with magic, the Heavenly Court has set up a special management department and promulgated relevant regulations, stipulating that in the human world, people must follow the rules of the human world, otherwise they will be severely punished.

In other words, the tradition of relying on magic techniques such as turning stone into gold to run rampant in the human world is no longer feasible.

These days, it's not easy to be a fairy.

Jiufeng knew that Xuanchu's intention to go was already decided, so he couldn't persuade him any more, he could only send his blessings: "Brother, brother, I wish you all the best for your trip."

"Thank you, senior brother." Xuan Chu cupped his fists.

He was about to leave when he was stopped by Jiufeng with a puzzled face: "Senior brother, what else is there?"

Jiufeng looked Xuan Chu up and down, and frowned slightly: "Junior brother, do you intend to go to the human world with this appearance?"

Xuan Chu looked down, puzzled, and said, "What's wrong?"

He was wearing a taoist robe uniformly issued by the teacher. At first glance, it didn't look very eye-catching, but it was woven by Tiangong Weaver Girl with fine cloud satin, and there was a little light flowing in the sun.

As he lowered his head, the curly silver hair that shone like white snow also slid down from his shoulders, throwing a graceful arc.

Everything is perfect, and it can only be said that it is worthy of the world-famous Nine-Tailed Fox.

But the problem is-

"Cough," Jiufeng reminded him of his junior who had never traveled far, "junior brother, you may not be very clear about the fact that you haven't had much contact with the human race. Relevant departments are watching..."

Under Jiufeng's guidance, Xuanchu's long silver hair turned into crisp black short hair, his golden pupils turned into black, and his Taoist robes turned into shirts and trousers that are commonly seen in the human world.

"Well, it's settled now." Jiufeng remembered an important matter again, and confessed, "I heard from Yuan Shizu that there was a natural vision recently, fearing that something big will happen in the human world, and I don't know whether it is good or bad. Junior brother You must remember to come back quickly when things are done, and don't stay in the human world for too long, so as not to get into unnecessary trouble."

"Yes, brother."

***

The intersection of the fairy world and the human world is a field of void, with endless wind blowing all year round, the sky is as gloomy as ink, and there is no grass on the earth, no life can survive here.

But initially, that wasn't the case here.

There used to be a spiritual mountain here, called Qilin Mountain, where the ancient mythical beast Qilin lived together.

At the beginning of the prehistoric era, Qilin was a mythical beast alongside dragons and phoenixes.The dragon controls the sea, the phoenix rules the sky, and the unicorn is the king of the land, controlling all animals on the land.

However, the good times didn't last long, and the three clans had conflicts for luck.

The friction escalated from conflict to conflict, and finally evolved into that earth-shattering catastrophe, the first catastrophe of dragon and phoenix.

Just using the word "tragedy" is still not enough to describe the protracted war. After the catastrophe, none of the original races in the wilderness survived.

The dragon clan retreated to the world.

The Phoenix Clan returns to the Undead Volcano.

As for the unicorns, they are said to have fallen, because no one has seen them since.

Qilin Lingshan was soaked in too much blood and experienced countless killings, the high mountain was turned into wilderness, and the blessed land was turned into a graveyard.

After the extinction of the gods, Nuwa created humans, and the human race gradually became the most prosperous race in the world, and it was also the fate of heaven.

In order to avoid conflict with the human race and cause catastrophe, the lord of the heavenly court, Emperor Haotian, ordered the demarcation of the three realms, and the boundary between the heavenly realm and the human realm included this lifeless wilderness.

There are heavenly soldiers guarding around the dividing line all the year round to prevent practitioners from sneaking into the human world and causing chaos.

Except this wilderness.

Because the environment here is too harsh, it is difficult for most people to pass through smoothly, but instead forms a natural barrier.

Therefore, no one noticed, and a small black figure appeared on the wasteland at some unknown time.

The direction of travel is the human world.

***

Nanzhou Province, Tianhai City.

At six o'clock in the morning, the morning light is faint and misty.

This is a commercial pedestrian street next to Tianhai University. Because most of the people who come and go are students from Tianhai University and nearby universities, it has been called Student Street for a long time, but the original name of the street is rarely known.

At this point in time, most people were still soundly asleep, and the normally bustling long street seemed extraordinarily quiet at this moment.

In such an atmosphere, the sound of the luggage rollers rubbing against the ground is particularly prominent.

Zhang Chao yawned, dragged his suitcase, and walked slowly on the empty street.

He is a senior student at the Business School of Tianhai University. He took advantage of the Qingming holiday to go out for a while before returning to school exhausted and excited.

The student street is in the shape of an "L" as a whole. When Zhang Chao walked past the corner of the "L", Zhang Chao paused and became awake instantly.

Isn't this the store that has been open and closed again and again, and has not opened for several months? Why is it open? Could it be that it has opened again?

He still remembers hearing the legend of this store from his seniors when he first entered the freshman year.

It is said that the owner of this shop had an unhappiness with others competing for this shop, and held a grudge against his family, so he asked someone to do it and put a curse on it, which is why the Feng Shui of this shop is so bad.

At that time, he didn't quite believe it, thinking that the legend was just an exaggeration.

After all, based on common sense, in a commercial street like Student Street, where the average daily traffic is in units of "[-]", how could there be shops that are struggling to survive, closing down within a few months every time?

What's more, this store is located in a golden area, just at the corner of the "L", no matter where you stand, you can see it clearly.

Until he saw it with his own eyes, in just half a year, the store has been opened three times, from cat cafe to optical shop to board game shop, including decoration, the average survival time of the store is two months.

It is said that the owner of the shop has also asked a Feng Shui master to see Feng Shui, and practiced it, but unfortunately the effect is very little. Any shop that operates here has not lasted for half a year at the longest.

Because of the strange "feng shui" of this store, even if the rent of the store keeps falling, there are fewer and fewer warriors who dare to open a store here.

From the Spring Festival to the present, the store has been closed.

Zhang Chao subconsciously raised his head to look at the signboard, wanting to see what kind of store is so top-notch, and dares to challenge the feng shui of this place without learning from the tragic lessons of the "predecessors".

The first thing he saw was a wooden signboard, which looked quite thick, with smooth and delicate texture, light and uniform color without losing luster, and under the morning light, it was still faintly glowing.

The most attractive thing is the words on the signboard.

Zhang Chao didn't know calligraphy, so he couldn't tell what kind of font the store name was written in. He just felt that the handwriting was vigorous and elegant, powerful and flexible, like a dragon circling a cloud, a flying bird playing in the water, with uniform thickness and natural shades.

It seems that such words should not appear on the signboards of fruit shops, but should appear in places such as art galleries or museums.

That's right, this newly opened store is a fruit shop with the name "Wonderful".

Fantastic fruit shop.

How wonderful?Zhang Chao raised his eyebrows.

Moving his eyes down, he saw a moist red dotted with greenery, and the fragrance of the fragrance came to his face, making his index finger twitch.

In the fruit shop, bright red plump strawberries are neatly arranged, round and lovely, fruity and shiny.

Almost subconsciously, Zhang Chao licked his lips, and then remembered that he hadn't eaten all night, his mouth was dry, his stomach was empty, and his appetite was completely hooked by these strawberries.

He was thinking about buying some strawberries and going back to try it, when he turned his head and saw the price board next to him, his pupils shrank slightly.

His first thought was that he misread the decimal point.

Otherwise, how can you explain that a catty of strawberries costs [-] yuan?

He rubbed his eyes hard and looked again.

Strawberry 100.0/catties

The handwriting is consistent with the store name on the signboard.

Is the owner of the fruit shop crazy? What kind of fairy fruit does he think he is selling? 100 yuan a catty, why didn't he grab it?Will there really be people who are stupid and rich and take advantage of it?

The corners of Zhang Chao's mouth twitched, his face full of disbelief.

No matter how attractive the strawberries in front of him looked, how fragrant they smelled, and no matter how hungry he was, he didn't intend to spend this unjustified money on strawberries that were obviously at a premium.

Aren't ten yuan and three catties of strawberries fragrant?

Zhang Chao pulled up the suitcase without hesitation.

He dared to bet that the store would close within a month!

***

The fog dissipated, the sky was bright, and the student street became lively.

Pedestrians discovered one after another that the shop on the corner of the street, which had been closed for three months, had reopened, attracting a lot of attention.

After all, there are not many residents in the vicinity who do not know the "legend" of this shop.

However, after seeing the situation in the store clearly, the same thought flashed in everyone's mind.

Does this boss really want to do business?

As a fruit shop, the whole store only sells one kind of fruit, strawberries, and the price is ridiculously high.No matter how you look at it, the painting style of this shop is incompatible with the surrounding shops and even the whole street.

Just as passers-by were pointing at the fruit shop, someone came out of the shop.

This is a tall, thin and slender young man with warm eyebrows, a straight nose, and skin so white that it seems to be shining.

The onlookers couldn't help but fell silent.

In the student street, I see a lot of college students on weekdays, and there are many good-looking boys, but I have never seen such a good-looking boy who seems to have a beauty filter.

A few seconds later, the young man raised the corners of his lips, the smiles in his eyes were as bright as stars, and his laughter was as clear as jade.

However, as soon as he opened his mouth, the onlookers immediately took a few steps back.

Because what he asked was: "Would you like to buy strawberries?"

He looks so good-looking, but if he does something wrong, he actually becomes a "profiteer"!

All the people present were heartbroken.

Seeing no one answered, the boy asked again.

Someone couldn't bear it, and asked the hearts of those present: "Brother, is this strawberry really 100 yuan a catty?"

The boy opened his long and narrow fox eyes slightly, and his thick eyelashes trembled: "Yes, do you want to buy?"

Everyone: "..."

Good guy, actually admitted it!

"No, it's nothing, you continue to be busy." The person who asked the question waved his hand awkwardly, turned and slipped away.

Seeing this, the rest of the people also smiled and dispersed in all directions.

Xuan Chu blinked, a little frustrated.

He has also been in the human world for a while, and he has always kept in mind his senior brother's teachings and observed the living habits of the human race, so that it is not easy to make mistakes.

For this reason, he worked hard and learned how to use QR codes to receive and pay.

He inquired many ways, and learned that the rent of the shop here was cheap, so he rented the shop and opened this fruit shop.

Before opening the store, he also did some market research.Knowing that the fruit industry is highly profitable, and he happened to know some knowledge about fruits, he decided to start a fruit business.

It happens that Qingqiu has nothing else, but there are many fruit trees.Although the production of fruit has dropped sharply due to environmental pollution in recent years, it is barely enough to sell in addition to self-production and self-sale.

Before opening the store, he was full of confidence and felt that he would definitely make a lot of money.

But now it seems that something went wrong...

***

Zhang Chao went back to the dormitory for a good night's sleep, and woke up at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Driven by hunger, he planned to look for food on the student street.

When passing the "L"-shaped corner, Zhang Chao took a careful look, and the wonderful fruit shop was really empty.

The corner of his mouth curled up, and he thought triumphantly that his prediction was indeed correct, and this store will not last long.

Just when he was about to cross the fruit shop and rush to the pancake fruit stand ahead, a young couple passed by talking and laughing. The girl saw those bright red strawberries, and her eyes lit up instantly.

"I want to eat strawberries." The girl acted like a baby.

Zhang Chao stopped involuntarily and pricked up his ears, wondering how the boy would react.

"Okay, okay, I'll buy it for you—" The boy glanced at the price, was stunned for a few seconds, and his voice was obviously raised, "Why are these strawberries so expensive?"

Sure enough, it is impossible for normal people to accept such a price, Zhang Chao thought.

Unexpectedly, the boy looked at the disappointed girlfriend, gritted his teeth, and said, "It's expensive, which means that this strawberry must be delicious, okay, then let's buy a pound of it."

Zhang Chao: "...?"

Do contemporary college students lose their brains after falling in love?

"Great!" The girl cheered and smiled sweetly at her boyfriend, "I like you the most."

Zhang Chao, who was caught off guard and ate the dog food: "..."

Xuan Chu's ears were sharp, and he had already noticed that someone was outside the door. When he heard that they wanted to buy strawberries, he rushed out to greet them, and said with a smile, "Is it a catty of strawberries? Do you want to pick them yourself, or should I pick them for you?"

Zhang Chao never expected that the "profiteer" he thought was actually such a fair and clean young man. The other party looked younger than himself, with a warm smile on his face, making it difficult for people to feel bad.

The couple were also stunned by his looks, the boy stammered and said, "You, choose yourself."

A catty of strawberries does not sound like a small amount, but considering that the strawberries sold in the fruit shop are not small, there are only less than twenty strawberries in total.

When the boy paid, his expression was distorted. On average, a strawberry costs five or six yuan. It is a lie to say that it doesn't hurt.

Zhang Chao secretly smiled: Yes, who told you to be brave?

The girl couldn't wait to pick up a strawberry, bit it lightly, and said pleasantly, "It's so sweet!"

As she said that, she handed the half-bitten strawberry to her boyfriend: "You try it too."

The pain on the boy's face instantly turned into sweetness. He happily ate the remaining half of a strawberry, and expressed the same emotion as his girlfriend: "It's really sweet! It's sweet and watery, so delicious!"

Zhang Chao, who didn't feel so sweet and even had a hint of bitterness: "..."

"What, it's just strawberries, how sweet can it be? It's just an illusion." Zhang Chao said to himself.

"It's not a hallucination, my strawberries are really sweet." Zhang Chao was taken aback before realizing that the little boss was talking to him.

The young couple who are feeding strawberries to you and I are also looking curiously.

Zhang Chao didn't expect the other party's ears to be so sharp, he was a little embarrassed, and at the same time he was a little unconvinced, so he said bluntly:

"Compared with many fruits, the sugar content of strawberries is actually not high, but because it is rich in a variety of aromatic substances, some of which can deceive people's senses and give people the illusion of 'this thing is very sweet'. So I Saying that strawberries are sweet is just an illusion."

"Wow, it turned out to be like this." The girl was surprised, she glanced at the strawberry in her hand, her eyes were confused, "But I really think it's very sweet, is this illusion so real?"

"What you said is indeed the truth, but that's only for other strawberries. The strawberries in our store are definitely sweet enough." Xuan Chu was not annoyed, and still looked at Zhang Chao with a smile, "If customers don't believe it, give it a try." Don't you know?"

"Try it." Zhang Chao was aroused to win, and he wanted to expose this person's mask.

"Okay," Xuan Chu pointed to the QR code on the wall with a smile, "Our store also supports the purchase of single strawberries."

"..."

Xuan Chu smiled and asked, "Guest, do you need to choose by yourself, or should I help you choose?"

"No, I'll do it myself." Zhang Chao's tone was really not friendly.

He suspected that he had been tricked.But because of face, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

He opened his eyes wide and looked around in the pile of strawberries, carefully trying to find a defective product to prove that he was right.

But he failed. Looking around, every strawberry looks like a carefully selected top-quality ruby. The color is red and bright, and the grains are full and plump. , Constantly stimulate people's sense of taste.

False, all hallucinations.

Zhang Chao swallowed quietly, reminding himself constantly in his heart.

Since each strawberry was of the same quality, he had no choice but to pick a strawberry at random, pinch his nose with his hands, and close his eyes, trying to eliminate the influence of vision and smell as much as possible.

The lips and teeth touch lightly, and the juice splashes everywhere.

Like a sweet little bomb exploding in the mouth, the rich fruity aroma pervades instantly, and the sweet juice soothes the taste buds.

Sweet, really sweet, but not blindly sweet.If you taste it carefully, you will find that there is also a trace of strawberry acidity in the sweetness. The acidity is just right, which contrasts with the rich taste, sweet but not greasy, refreshing and juicy.

The moment Zhang Chao tasted the first strawberry, he knew he had lost, and he lost completely.

Damn, it turns out that there are really such delicious strawberries in the world!

"How?" Xuan Chu asked with a smile.

Zhang Chao blushed, and after a while, Ai Ai spit out: "Boss, give me half a catty... no, a catty of strawberries!"

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