Chapter three hundred and forty first family history
Chapter 341 Family History
After sending the two of them away, Feng Xiaoxiao played with the "Heavy Rain" knife in his hand and murmured: "This is a good thing. Who said I had no use for holding it? Only an idiot would give it back to you! Automatic reply, so cool!"
Feng Xiaoxiao was mumbling to himself when he suddenly heard a movement behind him, as if a large number of people were coming. He understood in his heart that there was still an ambush in Feilong Villa. Hearing this movement, he was probably going to be flooded with a sea of people. Let's talk to him first.
They were just having fun, and they just closed the door when the time came.
Feng Xiaoxiao pretended to be cool and turned around, but was stunned. There were indeed a lot of people crowded at the door, but they didn't seem to be from Feilong Villa. There were some familiar faces among them... It seemed that they were regular customers of his teahouse.
While hesitating, everyone swarmed in. Feng Xiaoxiao was surrounded by them. Feng Xiaoxiao couldn't help but feel a little scared. Could this be Feilong Villa's conspiracy? Was Feilong Villa specially bribed to deal with him?
And someone in the crowd was already shouting: "Boss Xiao!"
Feng Xiaoxiao looked around blankly, not knowing who was calling, so he could only nod his head and said, "It's me, what do you want?"
Several people close to Feng Xiaoxiao started shouting excitedly: "I heard that you showed off your power again in the gang battle yesterday!"
"I heard that you snatched Jingfeng's flying knife, is it true?"
"I heard that you trampled someone under your feet yesterday. Who was it?"
Feng Xiaoxiao was surprised that he only showed up insignificantly in the gang war, how could he attract so many people's attention. He ignored that this was his home court, and of course people here should pay more attention to him. In Xiangyang Yixiao Teahouse
Talking about Boss Xiao's glorious deeds here has become a unique scene. However, the news about Xiao Xiao that used to pop up from time to time seems to have become much quieter in recent days, and many people who have this habit have suppressed it for a long time.
In the noise, everyone asked Feng Xiaoxiao to express their thoughts. Unexpectedly, these people were not only his regular customers, but also his fans. Feng Xiaoxiao couldn't help but feel excited.
At the unanimous request of everyone, Feng Xiaoxiao talked about yesterday's experience. But his eloquence is really not as good as Feiyun, and he is only good at making a few glib words at most, which makes the story seem a bit bland. Moreover, he often
I never forgot to remind myself to be humble and not to speak too ostentatiously. Fortunately, the enthusiasm of the crowd was extremely high, and they all listened with gusto and refused to miss a word.
There was a sudden pause in the middle of the story, and everyone said anxiously: "What's next? Keep talking, Boss Xiao!"
"Yes! What happened to you after you flew out?"
Feng Xiaoxiao said quickly: "Yeah! Well! Let me organize it!" Feng Xiaoxiao was talking about the part where he was shot in the butt and poisoned by a dart. Feng Xiaoxiao thought about it again and again, and finally made some artistic processing of this part.
.This processing is not complicated. At that time, Feng Xiaoxiao was in a hurry to escape from the battlefield and did not notice that there was someone behind him who was attacking him. And the target of the attack was not him, so he mistakenly thought that Feng Xiaoxiao was trying to save him.
And hit the escort. At this time, Feng Xiaoxiao just described this "misconception" as if it were true.
Sacrificing oneself for others. This was originally the most unspeakable bridge break for Feng Xiaoxiao, but now it has suddenly become the place where he shines most in the entire gang war. Everyone raised their thumbs and said: "Boss Xiao is so loyal!"
The next part about stepping on the poisonous Yangzi was originally what Feng Xiaoxiao planned to explain. At this time, he was shocked by the righteousness he boasted. He hesitated again and again, and finally explained it casually in a few words. It was better not to make everyone feel that he was stupid.
The reward must be good.
Feng Xiaoxiao finished describing yesterday's glorious achievements and won everyone's praise. Someone else asked: "Boss Xiao, what did Feiyun and Jingfeng come here for just now?"
Someone immediately answered on behalf of Feng Xiaoxiao: "Of course, he must be here to cause trouble. Didn't Boss Xiao tell you everything? He took Jingfeng's flying knife away!"
Someone immediately responded: "Hey! They are not idiots who came to ask Boss Xiao to get the throwing knives back!"
Feng Xiaoxiao snickered and thought to himself: You two, you can't blame me for this. You have indeed done such a stupid thing! If someone asks, I will not hide it for you.
No one asked him directly if he didn't want to, but some people directly regarded this as a fact and responded: "No, I absolutely can't pay him back. How can there be such a thing!"
"Yes! Yes!" The players reacted extremely enthusiastically, and they all spoke out to denounce Feilong Villa.
Stealing other people's things and not returning them is regarded as a matter of course. And the person who was robbed wants to get back what originally belonged to him, but he is regarded as a fool, an idiot, shameless and many other things that should not appear on the victim.
adjective of.
Even if Feng Xiaoxiao felt a little guilty deep in his heart, he had been blinded by the sight and hearing at this time. He thought that what he had done was a feat of eliminating harm for the people and doing justice for heaven. The only thing worth regretting is: such a heated scene
, why don’t any fans ask me to sign my autograph?
Feng Xiaoxiao recalled that the ignorant boy who was in front of this building used soy sauce to sign his autograph. Remember, that boy seemed to be from Feilong Villa. Has he followed Feilong Villa to become a successful person?
After listening to Feng Xiaoxiao's story, everyone dispersed and found their seats to continue the discussion. From time to time, someone would shout to Feng Xiaoxiao: "Isn't that right! Boss Xiao!"
Feng Xiaoxiao was overwhelmed. Suddenly, the system began to prompt that there was news coming. When he opened it, he saw it was a cornucopia: "Would you like to come over to my place?"
Feng Xiaoxiao asked him: "What are you doing here?"
Cornucopia replied: "Do you want to know who made that big bet?"
Feng Xiaoxiao said in surprise: "Already know?"
Cornucopia said: "Come and say, Jinling! Go directly from the inn, call me when you get there!" So Feng Xiaoxiao said goodbye to everyone in the teahouse.
Whichever gate you go to at the inn, your destination will be the corresponding city gate in the other city. So after Feng Xiaoxiao told him about the teahouse gate, he notified Cornucopia to pick him up at the inn at the North City Gate.
When the cornucopia was surprised that it was "so fast", Feng Xiaoxiao began to hurry up and hurry up. After a while, he took back the news about the cornucopia and asked him "where is it". From this, Feng Xiaoxiao deduced that the shop where the cornucopia was located happened to be far away from Beicheng.
The gate is very close, maybe right next to the city gate.
Replying to the cornucopia of "coming soon" means receiving criticism and education from him.
Jinling seems to be a big city based on its popularity. Feng Xiaoxiao was following Cornucopia on the streets of Jinling. After accepting Cornucopia’s criticism that he shouldn’t pick people up before they arrived, Feng Xiaoxiao inquired: “This is
Which gang’s territory?”
As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. There is usually only one large-scale gang around a city. This is not a system requirement, but a tacit understanding between players. Of course, this does not include some small gangs, small factions, and small groups. For them,
Generally speaking, it is very common for several gangs to be separated by a few streets or directly separated by a wall. However, this kind of small gang is like a poorly run grocery store.
It cannot determine the division of power in the city. Therefore, the location of the leader of a large gang basically determines whose home field this city is, just like the Iron Banner Alliance dominates Luoyang and Feilong Villa dominates Yangzhou.
Cornucopia's answer was beyond Feng Xiaoxiao's expectation: "There is no big gang settled here yet!"
Of course Feng Xiaoxiao had to ask: "Why!"
Cornucopia replied without politeness: "How do I know!"
As expected, Cornucopia's shop was very close to the city gate. Feng Xiaoxiao looked up at the three characters "Juhuozhuang" on the grocery store, cursed it for being tacky, and then followed Cornucopia into it.
The stores in Cornucopia are more luxurious than those of ordinary players. This is mainly reflected in the floor space, quantity of goods, types of goods, and service staff. At this time, the store can be described as crowded, and there is an endless stream of players coming in and out.
Feng Xiaoxiao has also been to other players' stores, and most of them are deserted and miserable. Could it be that Cornucopia is really talented? Feng Xiaoxiao really doesn't want to believe it.
Cornucopia now had a sense of accomplishment on his face and wanted to talk to Feng Xiaoxiao about the history of his fortune.
Feng Xiaoxiao shook his head and said: "What nonsense, isn't it just the 'Basic Martial Arts' that made you a fortune!"
Cornucopia shook his head repeatedly: "That can only be regarded as speculation. My current achievements cannot be summarized by that thing!"
As the richest man in the world with low martial arts skills, although he is despised by thousands of people, from a business perspective, Cornucopia's reputation is absolutely good. Most people are willing to come to him to buy things, and they are also willing to come to him to sell things. Buying things is still a good idea.
It's convenient, you just come to the store to pick it up yourself; selling things is more cumbersome, you have to find someone to do the transaction in person.
There are no public chat channels such as "world" and "guild" in general online games, so if you want to sell your items, you have only three options: either throw them directly to the system recycle bin, set up a street stall in person, or
Open your own shop.
The first method is only used to deal with garbage. Although the second method is more flexible, it requires players to do it themselves and wastes a lot of time. The third method, although players can be a shopkeeper, but it requires more time to open a shop.
If you rely on collecting money from killing monsters and selling garbage, you will have to save it until the Year of the Monkey. Therefore, if you want to open your own shop, it is necessary to set up a shop on the ground to accumulate initial funds.
Early players, in order not to have to sacrifice a lot of time to deal with the good equipment on hand, had to live in wind and rain, setting up a stall from 5 to 9 to save money. A small store has almost become a must-have for players.
.If you want to become a master, you cannot spend too much time on business. If you don’t want to spend too much time on business, you must have a small shop of your own.
More and more shops of all kinds are opening, so players gradually discover the fourth option. They can leave things to the players who open the shop for consignment! But you have to find friends you trust, and most people find their own real friends.
Friends. But Feng Xiaoxiao, Boss and Xiaoyao relied on the cornucopia to make their way all the way.
But shops are everywhere, and a very cruel problem arises. Most players' shops are self-sufficient, and they sell the equipment and items they obtain in the shop. Unless they are rare items, and ordinary items you can
If he can get it, he can get it, and everyone can get it. Therefore, all stores have a common feature: the items are incomplete and too similar.
And there are shops all over the place, which often results in a decent thing that I finally found, but it can't be sold for ten and a half days or even longer. What's more serious is that I thought that opening a small shop can be done once and for all.
, but found that if you don’t keep an eye on the market, you can’t even figure out the prices of things. Visiting other stores to learn from it? What a joke, everyone is blind. So the final price is 80% based on your own.
The price at the time of purchase is the basis.
And just when these players' business was in chaos due to these various problems, full-time businessmen like Cornucopia and others, or some players who often put their energy into this aspect, gradually began to grasp the overall situation.
In the early days, he became the richest man in the world because of the "Basic Skills Incident" and had extremely sufficient funds. At that time, he opened stores all over the country regardless of the cost. Then he discovered that although the store existed, the supply of goods in the store became a problem. Players are all
Self-sufficient, Cornucopia didn't level up very much at that time. Where could it be sold? It couldn't even afford a small shop, let alone so many.
But after all, with money on hand, these problems are not difficult to solve. Cornucopia visited street stalls and shops in major cities to investigate the price index. Although they are nominally different locations, they are actually the same in the game, so the prices
Basically, they are all the same. At this time, he discovered a common phenomenon: street stall products are often cheaper than the same items in stores.
This is also because the players who set up stalls are spending their own time, so they hope that the items will be sold out quickly. Therefore, Cornucopia regards the street stalls as its own wholesale market, and goes all the way to travel around, relying on the money to burn hands, and insists on
Fill your shop to the brim.
In the early days, Cornucopia was still a novelty, and stores were divided into drug stores, blacksmith shops, tailor shops, etc. At this time, the brain opened up, so the stores were all integrated into one, and they were all grocery stores. And one of the major characteristics of Cornucopia's grocery store is that it has a full range of things. As long as
After entering the door, you will find everything you need, from medicines to equipment to other needs. When you leave the cornucopia's grocery store, there is almost no need to go to other stores.
Of course, there are some things that are more troublesome, such as medicines, which were in greatest demand at the time. It was impossible to supply them by players fighting monsters or making them, so the cornucopia was simply taken directly from the system drug store.
If you sell it at the original price, your store will never be empty.
Although Cornucopia's principle is simple, unfortunately, he was the only one with the financial resources to do it at the time.
As the reputation gradually grew, the store gradually gained more repeat customers. This phenomenon is absolutely impossible in ordinary players' small stores.
But these people bought and bought, and their needs were indeed met, but Cornucopia did not necessarily make much money. After all, the things were collected from other people's stalls, or even system stores. There was almost no profit. Cornucopia
What is needed at this time is a fixed source of supply.
So Cornucopia began to visit street stalls in various places to look for candidates.
To say that you are looking for something is actually a bit exaggerated. The cornucopia is just to see who looks more pleasing to the eye, and more importantly, the level is higher. After all, the higher the level, the better the things for sale.
For these street stall players, it is undoubtedly an extremely attractive condition that the items they buy can be exchanged for cash immediately. Although the price given by the other party will be relatively low, it saves them time, produces equipment and then sells it. This account
It is still extremely cost-effective. In addition, by saving time, you can make a faster leap in level martial arts. After all, this is the ultimate goal of most people who come to the game. The tangible assets and the intangible assets are really profitable.
Of course no player with a bit of brains can refuse it without any harm.
Both the customer base and the supplier base are constantly expanding, and the business of Cornucopia is certainly getting more and more popular.
For medicines or other items that are mainly sold through the system, Cornucopia gets them directly from the system, and putting them in their store is just for show. What they really use to make money is what they collect from those players.
Things. Players often come to Cornucopia’s grocery store to buy medicine, accidentally discover a piece of equipment that they urgently need, and are overjoyed to buy it immediately. The repeated occurrence of this situation makes Cornucopia very proud of its marketing strategy.
While the scale continues to grow, Cornucopia has also made its operations more standardized. At first, I wanted to open as many stores as possible, but later I gradually found that I couldn't take care of it by myself. The NPCs in the system could only stand in front of them.
The store charges money to pick up the goods, but you have to do things like purchasing and distributing the goods yourself.
So Cornucopia finally chose to open its doors in some of the more popular cities, and most of them chose locations near the city gates. This was also a move that was convenient for players - it was the closest place to the leveling point!
Compared with Cornucopia's grocery stores, ordinary players' small stores are really not competitive at all. Many of Cornucopia's original partners opened their own stores after they had money on hand and stopped supplying to Cornucopia.
I found that my price can indeed be higher this way, but I can only set the price myself and play with it. I don’t put it in the store and someone will buy it immediately. It is far less enjoyable than when I cooperated with Cornucopia.
As a result, many players were tempted to turn back, and this time they were determined to cooperate with the cornucopia and could not drive them away.
Of course, Cornucopia is not without competition at all. First of all, there are players like him. Of course, such players cannot be the only one in the world, but because he made a fortune due to "basic martial arts" at that time, he suddenly jumped to the top.
, but he is the only one. His strong capital allows him to start earlier than everyone else. And these players are chasing behind him at this time. On the surface, it seems that everyone is in danger of grabbing the supply of goods, but in fact, the supply of goods
The quantity is completely disproportionate to those of them, and there is no possibility of disputes over the shortage of supplies.
The second type of competition is a store opened jointly by several players. This type of store is self-sufficient for several players, and the goods are relatively complete, but after all, they open the store to save themselves time and have someone to handle things.
They are not as concerned as the Cornucopia. Basically, they just throw the equipment in and let it fend for themselves. They will not do things like the Cornucopia where they also buy systematic things to support their appearance, so
There is also a gap between this kind of store and the Cornucopia.
The third type is a new one recently, and it is not only targeted at the cornucopia, but almost all players' shops will be challenged by it, and its strength cannot be underestimated. This category is the shops opened by gangs. By gangs
Of course, for a shop opened in the name of a gang, members of their own gang can take things for consignment. How to coordinate the future is their internal matter and unknown to outsiders. But in short, this kind of shop is supported by all gang members.
Needless to say, the source of goods, as for the source of customers, first of all, people from one's own gang will naturally source materials nearby. And with the support of gangs, there may be some tricks they can come up with.
Cornucopia has always been talked about with great joy, but until here, it gradually turned into a sad look.
Feng Xiaoxiao said: "No wonder I've been a little depressed during this period, and I've thought about giving up doing business. Is it because I'm afraid that I won't be able to compete with others?"
Cornucopia said: "Think about it! If it's just one family or two gangs doing this, it's okay, but there is always a pattern in the world. Once this family does it, the next family will immediately follow suit. I guess it won't be long before everyone
Every gang will have its own shop, and this will become a scene. At that time...hey...you also know that in this world, people like you who don’t have gangs, and players like me who are full-time businessmen, will be
They are very rare. Take the people I am currently suppliers to, none of them are gang-free. When their respective gangs open shops, even if their gangs do not require it, the purchase price here has always been relatively low.
, the sales of shops like gangs are definitely much better than those of ordinary players’ small shops, they don’t have to worry about not being able to sell things, will they still choose to deal with me at a low price?”
Feng Xiaoxiao nodded and said: "That's right! It seems like it will only be a matter of time before your shops close down!"
Cornucopia spat on the ground several times, calling Feng Xiaoxiao bad luck. Then he said: "These gangs are really good. If you have nothing to do, just go and help fight. Why are you getting involved in our business and not letting people live?"
Got it!"
But Feng Xiaoxiao touched his chin and muttered: "It turns out that the saying 'there are many people, there is strength' is true wherever you put it! I thought it was only useful when fighting and working!"
Cornucopia rolled her eyes and said, "Get out of here!"
Feng Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "No wonder you suddenly want to form a gang!"
Cornucopia said helplessly: "That depends on the situation!"
At the end, he suddenly said: "Hey, it seems I asked you to come here. Why did I ask you to come here?"
Feng Xiaoxiao also suddenly realized that he had been listening to his nonsense for half an hour, and he had forgotten what he was here to do! He quickly said: "Yes! You asked me to tell you who is the biggest bettor!"
Cornucopia patted her forehead and said, "Yes, yes, yes!"
Feng Xiaoxiao asked anxiously: "Who is it?"
Cornucopia smiled and said: "I don't know yet, but I have a plan!"
