Chapter 54: Naming the Shop

After learning the target location, Lu Yang met up with the other two and analyzed:

"Judging from Qin Yuanhao's walking posture and breathing frequency, he should be at the late Foundation Establishment stage."

"The place he lives is just an ordinary residence. It's not big, and it doesn't look like there are any servants; he lives alone."

"We'll stay nearby and observe him for a while. First, to observe his habits so we won't be completely ignorant when asked after joining the demonic sect. Second, to follow him and see if we can find the Yanjiang Helm stronghold."

The Barbarian didn't understand: "Qin Yuanhao has so many younger brothers, why don't we follow them to find the location of the Yanjiang Helm?"

Meng Jingzhou rejected this method. He knew more about the demonic sect: "Those people have no cultivation. It's true they are Qin Yuanhao's younger brothers, but they are not demonic sect members. The demonic sect is not as easy to join as you think. It's questionable whether these people even know Qin Yuanhao is a demonic sect member."

"But where are we going to hide to observe him? There are no inns nearby, only a few teahouses and taverns. We can drink tea in the teahouse during the day, but what about at night?"

The demonic sect likes to act at night the most.

Lu Yang was also a bit troubled. Suddenly, he saw a teahouse with a 'For Rent' sign out of the corner of his eye, and his eyes lit up.

"This teahouse is in the perfect location. The second floor can be used to observe Qin Yuanhao. We can rent this teahouse and observe Qin Yuanhao's movements under the guise of opening a shop!"

Meng Jingzhou nodded and then asked: "What kind of shop should we open?"

"Although opening a shop is a disguise, it has to look like a real one. I'm not good at making tea, so we definitely can't continue to run a teahouse. I have an elder in my family who is good at language-based spells, and I've learned some crosstalk from him."

Meng Jingzhou had a professional spirit: "I suggest opening a crosstalk house, and I'll perform solo crosstalk."

Lu Yang admired the multi-talented Meng Jingzhou: "However, crosstalk is lively during the day, but there's no one at night. The best way is to find a job that opens at night, an entertainment venue, something lively, drinking and having fun, so everyone is happy. That way we can observe Qin Yuanhao from the second floor, and Qin Yuanhao won't notice us."

Meng Jingzhou blushed when he heard this, hesitant, but more excited: "A job that opens at night, do you mean you want to open..."

Lu Yang nodded: "Yes, that's what I mean, a barbecue shop."

Meng Jingzhou: "...Yes, that's what I thought too."

Lu Yang thought it was a good idea. Barbecue is simple and easy to learn. Even if you're inexperienced, you should learn after burning and charring it a dozen times.

"I can handle the barbecue." Man Gu smiled very confidently. To prove his strength, he even took a piece of paper from his bosom, on which was written "Ancestral Barbecue Secret Recipe."

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were very familiar with this secret recipe. Isn't this the ancestral barbecue secret recipe that costs 100 contribution points to exchange on the exchange list!

Man Gu smiled honestly: "When I was in my hometown, I often roasted wild beasts myself, black bears, wild boars, little rabbits, etc. I saw that the Ask Dao Sect buys a lot of food, but there aren't many barbecue shops, so I put the ancestral barbecue secret recipe up."

At the time, Lu Yang wondered who would put a barbecue secret recipe on the exchange list for no reason. It turned out it was you who put it on the list!

"Did anyone buy it?" Meng Jingzhou was curious.

Man Gu said honestly: "A senior brother told me that after he bought the barbecue secret recipe, he went on a mission in the wild with a senior sister, and this senior brother used barbecue to capture the senior sister's heart."

Meng Jingzhou: "..."

I shouldn't have asked.

Man Gu showed a smile and said: "And there is another advantage to opening a barbecue shop."

"What is it?"

Man Gu summoned two ghost servants: "I don't need to do it myself. Let these two ghost servants barbecue in the back kitchen. I don't even need to pay wages. It's very convenient."

In this way, there's no need to even hire a waiter. It saves money and keeps secrets. It's truly a thoughtful consideration.

Man Gu had learned a lot from following Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou for so long.

Lu Yang firmly refused to admit that Man Gu learned it from him.

Man Gu studied the secret recipe overnight. His hometown was in the wilderness, and many materials in the original barbecue recipe were unique to the wilderness. Man Gu needed to study which things could be replaced.

"By the way, do you eat roasted insects or roasted cow eyes?" Man Gu suddenly asked.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou shook their heads in unison, persuading Man Gu to roast things that ordinary people could accept.

Man Gu gave an "Oh," thought simply for a moment, and first, he was a normal person, and second, he could accept these things, so what he could accept, normal people could accept.

Argument completed.

Man Gu kept a series of barbecue materials with regional characteristics, such as roasted insects and roasted cow eyes, on the menu, hoping the people of Yanjiang County would like them.

Early the next morning, Meng Jingzhou showed his extraordinary financial resources and bought the entire teahouse.

"Wait, didn't we agree to rent it?" Meng Jingzhou acted too fast. Lu Yang hadn't reacted yet, and the teahouse was already under the names of the three.

Lu Yang looked at Meng Jingzhou in surprise. We're only on a mission for a few months. Do you want to open it for a lifetime?

Meng Jingzhou argued with reason: "I always use my own things. If I can buy it, I will never rent it! At worst, I'll sell it after the mission is done."

The original teahouse owner saw Meng Jingzhou pay quickly, so he packed his things and left.

After the owner left, a very serious problem was placed in front of the three—what should the barbecue shop be called.

"I suggest calling it 'Meng's Second Barbecue Shop'," Meng Jingzhou said.

Lu Yang glanced at Meng Jingzhou and said disdainfully: "Your name is too vulgar. I suggest calling it 'Three Bowls Over the Ridge Barbecue Shop'. Eat skewers, drink wine, and then go up the mountain to fight tigers. It's very appropriate."

Meng Jingzhou and the Barbarian shook their heads in unison, not feeling it was appropriate at all.

Man Gu rarely put forward a different point of view: "The name 'Three Bowls Over the Ridge' is too long. It's better to use our tribe's style, call it 'Hahaha Barbecue Shop' or 'Xixixi Barbecue Shop'."

Lu Yang had heard of the naming method of the wilderness Barbarians. This naming method was quite advanced in the advanced-thinking Ask Dao Sect: "Hehehe Weapon Shop," "Houhouhou Tavern," "Aoaaoao Brothel"...

"How about calling it 'Tribulation Crossing Stage Barbecue Shop'?"

"Better 'Become Immortal Barbecue Shop'."

"I think 'Light Boat Barbecue Shop' is okay."

"Who gives a barbecue shop such an elegant name?"

The three discussed for a while, and finally had to helplessly admit a fact: none of them knew how to name things.

"Forget it, let's each write a name on a paper ball, and whoever it lands on is the one." Lu Yang proposed a solution, which was agreed to by the other two.

Considering that Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou's minds weren't very pure, it was safest to let Man Gu shake the paper balls.

Man Gu closed his hands, covered the three small paper balls, shook them up and down, opened his thumb, and two of the small paper balls flew out.

He opened one and saw it wrote "Come Again."

Man Gu opened the other one, confused, and it wrote "Thanks for Patronizing."

Man Gu: "???"

Man Gu couldn't turn his head for a moment. He should be naming the shop, not drawing a lottery... right?