After sitting on the ground and recovering for a long time, the young man silently stood up, his eyes filled with determination.
As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them. Since he accidentally became a minor villain, he would turn over a new leaf and wash himself clean! Anyway, his shop had few customers and was destined to be a supporting role.
In that case, why not give this land to Hoshino Sora!
This way, he could also get to know the big shot. If the other party became famous in the future, he would have something to brag about when he graduated and looked for a job, saying that he once helped a certain big shot and was his sworn friend.
Good, good, he really is a clever little devil! He even thought of such a brilliant way to clear his name!
Thinking of this, the smile on the young man's face could no longer be concealed. So he pushed open the door of his shop and walked out quickly, soon arriving at Hoshino Sora's territory.
"Big shot, are you there? I have something I want to discuss with you."
"What is it?"
Hearing the commotion outside, Hoshino Sora, who was wrapping Zongzi, stopped what he was doing. Although he was puzzled, he still got up and went out. He was the person in charge of this shop, and if the other party had something, they could only deal with him.
"I want to rent the land in front of my shop to you, big shot. From today until tomorrow, it will only cost a thousand vouchers. With extra space, you'll also have more room to maneuver, right?"
Seeing Hoshino Sora walking out, the man chuckled happily, then pointed to the adjacent area. It was empty at the moment, with only a shop that had no customers.
"You're asking for a thousand vouchers right off the bat?
To be honest, I don't particularly need that land, but having it would indeed make things easier. How about this, if you're serious about selling it, I'll take it for five hundred vouchers."
Looking at the land the man pointed to, Hoshino Sora thought for a moment and said. Having double the land could indeed allow for more things to be done, but what determined whether he could win first place now was customer flow, not land. He needed it, but not desperately.
"Add a little more. Five hundred vouchers will probably only barely get you into the top hundred...
Forget it, consider it me making a friend. We're all in the same boat, assigned here by those snobbish staff. Five hundred it is! Let those guys know that even in a remote area, you can achieve good results!"
Seeing Hoshino Sora's brows furrow slightly, the young man chuckled awkwardly, wisely not continuing to speak, then changed the subject and showed a relatively friendly smile.
"Okay, then you come over tomorrow afternoon to collect all the vouchers. I'll pay you two hundred in advance today."
Hoshino Sora said, walking over with a scale. Because all these vouchers were produced on the same assembly line, each weighed about ten grams, and when weighed with precision instruments, the error was no more than one gram.
After all, you can't expect the Statisticians to count them one by one, can you?
"Alright, the rest will be handed over tomorrow afternoon. See if there's anything else that hasn't been cleared out over there. We'll start setting up the site tonight."
Looking at the empty land in front of him, although he didn't think there would be anything extra inside, he still asked to be on the safe side, otherwise, it would be troublesome if the other party said something was lost.
"Big shot is truly diligent, no wonder you can come up with such a great plan and make such best-selling Zongzi! Then I'll go back and rest. If nothing unexpected happens, you won't see me until tomorrow afternoon."
Looking at the two hundred vouchers he had just received, still warm, this single transaction was more than he earned in a whole day!
The man chuckled and bid farewell to Hoshino Sora. From the moment his stall was assigned here, he had completely lost the idea of competing with others and decided to just lie flat.
Because the Zongzi he prepared were not outstanding, if it weren't for these vouchers that could be exchanged for resources at the Oriental Academy, he might not even want to participate in this competition.
"Then take care."
Looking at the departing man, Hoshino Sora didn't say much. After watching him leave, he returned to the kitchen. At this time, the customers outside the shop had not decreased, and were even slowly increasing.
Because there were so few places with such a picturesque feel, if they had the chance, they still wanted to stay here as long as possible, eating Zongzi, enjoying the lanterns, chatting and boasting with friends – a great pleasure in life.
"Get ready, next we'll extend this venue over there and create a super large joint venue, so that when customers come tomorrow, they'll have more places to sit."
Clapping his hands, Hoshino Sora called over the girls who were wrapping Zongzi.
The advantage of being in a remote location was the extremely large space provided, but such a large area without customers was a waste; it could only be said that the disadvantages outweighed the benefits. No normal person would choose to operate here.
Hoshino Sora had no choice; the other party did not give him the right to choose and forcibly arranged him to this area.
But now it was good. After the two plots of land were connected, the area became super large. With a little arrangement, it could be transformed into a large-scale Dragon Boat Festival event venue.
A little hype, and wouldn't the prestige immediately rise?!
"Received. I'll go set it up after I finish wrapping this zongzi."
"Me too!"
"Alright, I'll go prepare the materials first. There are still customers outside, so let's pretend they were brought out from inside the house."
Hoshino Sora said, conjuring a pile of materials out of thin air, then carried them outdoors. Because he didn't know how big the venue would be, he prepared a lot of materials.
Anyway, none of this would be wasted, because in the near future, he would build an open-air restaurant in the Gourmet Manor, using these for decoration, located outside the Dimensional Restaurant.
Since everyone in the Gourmet Manor was his own people, and all the land belonged to him, he had no burden in handling it. Other places simply couldn't afford this kind of business model.
As such, a lot of space in the Dimensional Restaurant would be freed up. It was well known that every time the Dimensional Restaurant opened, a large number of Gourmet Manor residents who had previously obtained food vouchers would come to taste it.
This also caused the capacity of the Dimensional Restaurant to exceed its limit. Even with the hall and private rooms on the second floor activated, it was still tight. The best way to handle this situation was to open a second restaurant.
Anyway, the foundation of the Dimensional Restaurant was in the Gourmet Manor, and the waitstaff inside were all talents selected from the Gourmet Manor, who could freely shuttle between the two places.
"Then let's start from here and extend all the way to there. That shop was also rented to us as an extra, and can be used normally. Tomorrow, send three people there, and three people stay here."
Hoshino Sora planned while setting up the venue. The only drawback of this place was that it was quite dark now. Although there were lanterns for illumination, they were not enough for them to see the surrounding scenery clearly.
"Hey, are you going to set up over here?"
Working by the dim light, a shout suddenly came from a distance. Hoshino Sora looked up and was surprised to find that it was Soma Yukihira and his group, and the one shouting was Takumi.
They hadn't left yet and were still operating. Although they didn't face many customers, most of them were drawn away by Hoshino Sora. The environments of the two places were vastly different.
"Yes, the owner here rented the venue to us. Since we need to open tomorrow morning, we're taking advantage of the time now to set everything up here."
Hoshino Sora answered truthfully, then began to set up in the direction illuminated by Erina Nakiri's flashlight. Because of his great strength, he worked very efficiently, equivalent to two people.
So the progress was very fast.
Suddenly, Hoshino Sora's eyes lit up. He looked up and saw that it was Soma Yukihira and the other three. At this moment, they were standing at the entrance of the shop, holding powerful flashlights to help them illuminate.
At the same time, the lighting direction of the lamp on the upper right side of the shop also changed to their location.
"Thank you."
Looking at Soma Yukihira who was illuminating for him, Hoshino Sora waved at him with a smile, then continued to busy himself. With the help of them, a large area of land around was lit up, and the efficiency of the group's actions significantly increased.
"Your promotion today also brought us a lot of customer traffic. It's beneficial for us if you can make it work, so this is mutually beneficial."
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