The Rise of the Shen Family

Zhenhai Street is located in the most prosperous area in the core of Shanghai Shangfang. It is centered on the helm of the Loyalty Cultivation Alliance and spans several prosperous markets from north to south from east to west.

The whole street is full of magnificently decorated shops, full of various wine shops, tea houses, and large and small businesses.

On this prosperous street where every inch of land is expensive, the rent of each shop is as high as tens of thousands of dollars every year, which is simply not affordable for ordinary people.

Those who can buy a shop on this street are all wealthy or powerful people, most of them are noble families in various counties in Lingnan, or big business houses with business all over Lingnan.

In the central section of Zhenhai Street, there is a majestic and magnificent attic. The whole attic is as high as six floors.

On the lintel of this attic, there is a golden plaque, and on the plaque are engraved three big characters: Zuixiaolou.

Zuixiaolou, as the premier restaurant in Shanghai, has a history of nearly a thousand years.

At this time, in the Zuixiao Building, the lobby from the first floor to the second floor was already full of guests of the three religions and nine classes, gathered in twos and threes, and enjoyed the delicious food and wine to the fullest.

Behind a hazy door curtain on the second floor, several singers in scantily clad clothes were dancing and playing.

The third to fourth floors are private rooms with a quiet environment, specially prepared for monks in the foundation-building period. There are different scenes in the private rooms.

As for the rooms on the fourth floor and up, the cheapest room costs 100 spiritual stones per night, but even the cheapest room has a third-order low-grade spiritual energy.

At this time, in a room on the sixth floor of the 'Zuixiao Tower', Shen Ruiling in a green shirt was standing in front of the window, overlooking the most central area of ​​Shanghai Shangfang.

"I didn't expect the scale of this restaurant to be so huge..."

After standing for a long time, he slowly turned to look at Shen Yongxuan behind him, and said with emotion.

At the beginning, Shen Ruiling only knew that the family had taken over a restaurant, a casino, and nine shops on Zhenhai Street from the Loose Cultivation Alliance.

He thought that the restaurant was at most the size of a three-story building, but after arriving today, the six-story luxury restaurant in front of him really surprised him.

The Shen family is not a wealthy family with profound background. More than a hundred years ago, it was just a small foundation-building family. The entire family's properties added up to that much, and the whole family was not wealthy.

As for when Shen Ruiling was born, although the family situation had begun to gradually improve, the atmosphere in his family was still poverty first.

Even after he established his foundation, he has rarely visited those luxurious and extravagant restaurants over the years, and his philosophy is still thrifty and housekeeping.

So now when he is in this luxurious restaurant, he can't help feeling very emotional.

This luxurious restaurant, whether it is located in its geographical location or the various luxurious decorations inside, can be said to be excellent. If it is converted into spirit stones, it will cost at least millions.

"This restaurant has been open for several months. How is the daily business?"

Shen Ruiling's eyes turned to Shen Yongxuan next to him again, and he said slowly.

"Reporting to Uncle Fifth, most of the restaurant's daily income now comes from dine-in on the first and second floors, and it can earn three or four hundred spirit stones every day."

"And most of the lobby is for casual cultivators during the Qi training period, and the orders are also second-order spiritual meals and spirits, so it doesn't cost much."

After hearing this,

Shen Ruiling nodded slightly, looking thoughtful.

The second-order spiritual material family needed to cook the second-order spiritual meal can be self-sufficient. Whether it is the second-order spirit wine or the second-order spirit valley and elixir, Yunbi Peak can produce it.

As for the only required ingredients for second-order monsters, it is also extremely cheap in Shanghai Square, which is close to the boundless sea, and it doesn't cost a few spirit stones at all.

In addition, the restaurant is already under the family name, so there is no need to bear the high rent, and the shopkeepers and the staff are all disciples of the family, so the three or four hundred spirit stones that come in every day are almost pure profits.

In this way, you can earn tens of thousands of spiritual stones in just over a month!

After a while, Shen Ruiling seemed to remember something, and said again:

"When I went upstairs today, I also found that the private rooms on the third and fourth floors and the accommodation rooms on the upper two floors did not seem to be doing well."

"Fifth Uncle, you don't know. The business on this can actually be described as bleak. Since its opening, only a few monks in the foundation-building period have stayed on the fifth floor for one night."

On this side, a wry smile appeared on Shen Yongxuan's face, and said faintly.

Hearing this, Shen Ruiling couldn't help wrinkling, and asked in a deep voice:

"Why is it so dismal?"

Even if the popularity of Shanghai Shangfang is not high due to the previous shipwreck, most of the scattered cultivators in the Lingnan Xiuxian world gather here, and there are many foundation-building cultivators among them.

"If you want to talk about the reason, it has something to do with the popularity in Fang City today, but the main reason is that the family's spiritual kitchen cannot make a third-order spiritual meal that satisfies the foundation-building cultivator."

Facing the inquiry, Shen Yongxuan said somewhat helplessly.

Zuixianlou was originally the property of the real person surnamed Li Jindan in the Loose Cultivation Alliance. After the former fell, it was handed over to the Shen family by the Loose Cultivation Alliance.

Although after the restaurant reopened, there were still a few spirit chefs left, but they were only second-tier spirit chefs, and they were only good at second-tier spirit meals.

For this reason, Shen Ruizhi also specially sent a clan member of the Yongzi generation who was good at cooking to take charge, but this member of the Yongzi generation was not an authentic third-order chef.

The Shen family's spiritual kitchen heritage can only reach second-order, and it can handle most second-order ingredients, so that various ingredients are integrated into each other during the cooking process, so as to achieve a more perfect combination.

And the inheritance of this spiritual kitchen was found by Shen Ruiling and others from Dongxie's real man's cave, otherwise, how could it be obtained with the shallow background of the Shen family.

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The alchemist has pill recipes, the alchemist has blueprints, and the spirit chef has their own unique recipes, which record the processing methods of various ingredients and the heat during cooking.

The cooking of authentic Lingshan is not just to simmer all the ingredients together, but to make various ingredients perfect in terms of taste and nourishing effect.

For example, the same three kinds of low-grade third-grade ingredients can be turned into magic during the cooking process of the third-grade spirit chef, and they can be perfectly combined to give full play to the effect of third-grade middle grade.

Without rich experience and Master's teaching and inheritance, ordinary people can't handle those ingredients, so they can't make those delicious and nourishing spiritual meals.

"At present, the family has already sent someone to look for a third-order spirit chef. I think the business for the monks at the foundation-building stage should be better soon!"

After a long time, Shen Ruiling, who bowed his head and pondered, looked at Shen Yongxuan again and said slowly:

"Since the third-order spiritual kitchen is not in place, let's put the business of the monks in the foundation-building stage first, and concentrate on managing the business in the lobby."

"This time the family and the Loose Cultivator Alliance jointly hold a large-scale auction, and the popularity will inevitably rise at that time. You can do more business in the loose cultivation period during the Qi training period."

"Understood, Fifth Uncle!"

Shen Yongxuan couldn't help but nodded, and then handed over to accept it.

At this moment, a communication talisman in his sleeve suddenly burst into a bright light. After he noticed it, he immediately looked at Shen Ruiling with a solemn expression and said:

"Uncle Fifth, something may have happened at the casino."

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