Chapter Four The Flower Shop Opens
() The early morning sun shines on the towering buildings, and the faint golden light reflects the bustling appearance of the city. The continuous blocks, endless as far as the eye can see, are divided into complex small pieces by large and small roads like a chessboard. Highways
On the street, it was already busy with traffic and pedestrians early in the morning, giving it a lively appearance.
This is Haicheng, one of the most economically and culturally developed cities in China. Walking on the streets, many young people from all over the world are full of vigor, with perseverance in their expressions, and with the dream of creating a world here.
Working hard.
In the early morning at Haicheng Central Railway Station, trains were arriving one after another, and passengers from all over the country continued to pour out of the station.
In the crowd, an unremarkable young man carrying a black backpack stopped at the entrance of the station and looked up at the majestic city in front of him. Feeling the aura of vigorous development in this city, the man smiled and understood.
He straightened his straps and strode forward.
After a long journey of sixteen hours, Ye Feng arrived at Haicheng.
Following the signs, Ye Feng came to the subway entrance next to the train station. Haicheng City built a subway a few years ago, which provides great convenience for citizens to travel. The factory where Ye Feng's parents work is located in Longmen District, and it only takes 20 minutes by subway.
can be reached.
This was not the first time Ye Feng came to Haicheng. His parents had been working in Haicheng for so many years, and he had been here many times, so he was already familiar with it. He took the subway to the town where his parents lived, and then took the bus to where his parents lived.
's neighborhood.
Ye Feng's parents rented a low-rent house here, with an area of 60 square meters, two bedrooms and one living room, and a monthly rent of 500. In Haicheng, such rent is relatively cheap. Ye Feng's parents have lived here for more than ten years
years.
Ye Feng walked to the gate of the community, and his mother Su Li was already there to greet him. His father Ye Ming had to go to work and was temporarily unavailable, so he didn't come.
"Xiao Feng, you didn't even tell me in advance when you came to Haicheng. I was exhausted from the car ride, so I made porridge and ate." Mother nagged.
"Okay." Ye Feng said with a smile and followed his mother into the "home".
Ye Feng's hometown is in a county called Lingshan in the south of Guiling City. Ye Feng's father has two brothers, and he himself ranks second. The uncle lives in a rural town, and his grandfather Nainai lives in the county with his third uncle. The third uncle works in the county police brigade.
I have a good job and a pretty good income, and I do a good job of supporting the elderly.
Ye Feng was raised by his grandfather Nainai, a typical left-behind child. He lived in Guiling for four years until college. His parents have lived in Haicheng for twenty years. In fact, for them, Haicheng has long become their second hometown.
Second home. To be precise, this is Ye Feng’s real home.
When he came to the living room and saw several plates of fragrant pickles and white rice porridge on the dining table, Ye Feng had already moved his index finger. Then he drank several large bowls of porridge. The refreshing porridge water combined with the delicious pickles was simply delicious.
The match was so wonderful that Ye Feng felt that all the fatigue from traveling and traveling was gone in that moment.
Pickled vegetables and white rice porridge, the taste of hometown, Ye Feng grew up eating this kind of food. When he was tired, eating such a meal nourished his body and mind.
In the evening, his father Ye Ming came back from get off work, carrying several boxes of cooked vegetables. His mother also cooked braised pork for Ye Feng, which he and his father both liked, and made her signature winter melon soup. The family happily ate together. Like this I haven’t experienced this for a long time. In order to make money, my parents worked outside the home shortly after Ye Feng was born. The two parties did not see each other several times a year. In the past twenty years,
The total time of eating and living together may not be enough for a year. Even so, Ye Feng has never blamed his parents. They did this just to earn money for their own living and education. How could they not feel sad when they were separated from their children?
It's okay to be ignorant when you were a child, but when you grow up, you shouldn't blame your parents. Ye Feng thinks that is too inhumane.
Anyway, you have grown up healthily, right?
Ye Feng always comforts himself like this when thinking about this problem. Although, the long period of separation has indeed had a certain impact on the relationship between him and his parents, making him feel that his parents are not as close as his grandfather Nainai, and there is an inexplicable feeling.
A sense of unfamiliarity. It is a tacit understanding that can only be formed by living together for many years. Despite this, Ye Feng and his parents are working hard
To make up for this shortcoming, we want the other person to feel our love twice as much. When Ye Feng was in trouble, his parents were even more desperate, risking their jobs, and rushed from Haicheng City to Guiling City overnight to take care of him. Ye Feng came this time
, I specially brought a lot of gifts that my parents liked... Both parties can feel that this kind of family ties connected by blood will not be changed by time or distance.
After resting for a day, Ye Feng went out early the next morning.
With a map, paper and pen in hand, Ye Feng started to tour Haicheng City by subway and bus. After walking around the most prosperous neighborhoods and famous attractions in Haicheng City, he got an intuitive impression of Haicheng City's city conditions.
During this period, Ye Feng recorded the characteristics of each commercial district, and recorded useful information such as the store sublet advertisements he saw during the tour. Ye Feng did not have much start-up capital. In a place like Haicheng, where land is at a premium, he must plan carefully and choose
The most suitable location to open a store.
Haicheng City has six jurisdictions, the most prosperous of which is Nanjiang District, which is the central urban area. Longmen District, where Ye Feng's family is located, is also a relatively good jurisdiction. If you open a store in Longmen, traveling will be much more convenient.
However, Ye Feng's ideal place to open a store is Dongmen Commercial Street, located in the center of Nanjiang District. It is one of the most prosperous places in Haicheng, with tens of thousands of merchants gathered, and a daily flow of hundreds of thousands of people. For a
For a newly opened flower shop, the most important thing is the source of customers, customers with sufficient spending power. The consumption in Dongmen District is generally relatively high-end, and there are a large number of tourists from all over the country and even foreign countries, which is extremely beneficial to establishing the brand of the flower shop.
Ye Feng is not worried about the competitiveness of his flower shop at all. He plans to take the premium route and only sell high-end flowers. With the help of the "Plant Controller", he doesn't have to worry about competitiveness at all. No matter how ordinary flowers are, he can handle them
Transforming decay into magic, becoming fine works, even rare treasures, each one is enough to dominate the flower consumer market. What Ye Feng lacks is only time, time for consumers to know his flower shop.
Although the rent of the Dongmen Commercial Street store is expensive, Ye Feng can still afford it. The key is that his products basically cost nothing, and all the money can be invested in the construction of the store. Although it is only 700,000, it is still enough to support him for a year and a half.
business needs.
The key to limiting the development of the store is actually Ye Feng's limited ability to create super flowers. Ye Feng's current plant energy level can only produce one pot of top-quality orchid-level flowers every day. If replaced with ordinary enhanced flowers, there will only be two or three hundred at most.
appearance.
For example, the most basic enhancement of a rose will cost at least 1 plant energy point. Although the minimal enhancement cannot significantly improve the appearance of the flower, it can significantly extend the shelf life of the flower and keep the flower bright for a long time.
The blooming state and long-lasting fragrance. In other words, on average, Ye Feng can produce about two hundred "fine-quality" roses every day. The limited output determines that Ye Feng can only take the high-end fine product route.
Maybe in the future, as the maximum energy limit of Ye Maple plants increases, the output will continue to increase. But Ye Maple is now very excited and can't wait to start his own business, and doesn't want to think about it so much.
A person who has lived in embarrassment for too long and suddenly gains powerful power may be as eager as Ye Feng to change the status quo.
In the next few days, Ye Feng searched for information online, contacted the owner and the decoration company, and finally found a store in a better location on Dongmen Pedestrian Street. The area was 60 square meters, and the monthly rent was 4,000. Ye Feng paid it off in one lump sum.
Years of rent. Later, I spent more than 30,000 yuan to hire someone to renovate the store. Including the purchase of shelves, accessories, flower pots and other miscellaneous items, a total of more than 200,000 yuan was spent to complete the project.
Ye Feng had to find another place to store flowers and conduct private cultivation work. It was inconvenient to use his powers in a small flower shop, and the risk of exposure was also great. So Ye Feng found another rental house and used it as his
Temporary dormitory and flower warehouse. Considering that placing flowers takes up a lot of space, Ye Feng’s rental house is almost 150 square meters, and the monthly rent is almost 2,000 yuan. Ye Feng bought a tricycle as a means of transportation (Haicheng City prohibits electric vehicles
Cars and motorcycles), used to transport flowers between housing and flower spots.
The preparation work of the flower shop took Ye Feng nearly half a month, and Ye Feng was very busy. He paid attention to the decoration progress, purchased shelves, flower accessories, electronic cashiers and other items, and also used his spare time to cultivate flowers. The plants in Ye Feng's body can,
There is never a full moment, and I often spend my time running errands silently
The energy was restored from the ground and consumed immediately after returning to the residence. For the first batch of flowers, Ye Feng did not take any chances and purchased them through a local flower wholesaler. The varieties sold were also some hot-selling flowers, such as roses, lilies, daisies, orchids, etc.
It filled a room. In total, there were nearly a hundred species and two thousand plants.
In fact, Ye Feng has a way to obtain flowers at zero cost, which is to use the [Growth Acceleration] ability. When Ye Feng was testing the efficacy of plant energy before, he tried all kinds of strange ideas. He once learned in biology class that plants have
An ability called cell totipotency, that is, a small number of plant cells can divide and grow into a new plant after being cultured, which is the so-called [plant tissue culture]
Technology]. When Ye Feng was a child, he saw a plant called ground rooting. When the leaves fell to the ground, they would take root and sprout and grow many seedlings. Ye Feng thought it was amazing at the time. Later he learned that this was an example of plant cell totipotency. I thought of this.
Regarding plant tissue culture technology, Ye Feng suddenly had a whim: "Can we use growth acceleration on plant tissue fragments to grow into a new plant?"
At that time, Ye Feng pinched a piece of Ophiopogon japonicus leaves in the lawn, placed it on the ground, and used [Growth Acceleration] on the remaining leaves. A magical phenomenon occurred. The remaining leaves of Ophiopogon japonicus expanded as if alive and turned into a
The green tissue then grew green bud tips and a large number of roots, growing wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally grew into a new Ophiopogon japonicus.
After experiments, Ye Feng discovered that any plant tissue with living cells can grow into new plants under the catalysis of growth acceleration ability. No matter whether it is a petal, root, leaf or bark, it can give birth to a new plant. However,
The size of the plant material cannot be too small, at least it must be visible and touchable by Maple Leaf, and tissues with a high degree of aging such as fallen leaves must first undergo [Plant Strengthening] before they can withstand the force of accelerated growth.
In this way, the cost of cultivating new plants using this method is not small. For herbaceous plants, one plant requires ten points of plant energy on average. For Ye Feng, this cost is too high, so it is better to evolve from the florist and use the plant energy to
Save the money to strengthen a few more flowers.
However, Ye Feng feels that the purpose of accelerating growth is still very useful. If you encounter any rare plants that have no seeds or are difficult to propagate, wouldn't it be wonderful to find a way to get some leaves so that you can get that rare plant yourself?
For example, rare orchid species, black roses, precious Chinese herbal medicines, precious trees, etc. When the time comes, go to the botanical gardens and expositions, pick up some fallen flowers and fallen leaves, and you will have everything.
"Well, not bad, not bad." Ye Feng was also very satisfied with this ability.
Chapter completed!