Chapter 29 Resumption of business (two chapters in one)
"Good morning."
Rubbing his aching head, Duan Mu slowly walked out of the bedroom.
Utsuki, who was sitting behind the bar and drinking strawberry milk, raised his head and suddenly said in an annoyed tone: "Ah, I really should stop drinking!"
The corner of Duan Mu's mouth twitched, and he swallowed back the words that originally came to his lips.
"I have to complain every morning, why don't you go and beat you up for drinking last night?" Maoyue slapped the account book in her hand on the bar, and said with a black face: "I just made two hundred thousand, you
This bastard spent nearly 30,000 rings on wine and snacks yesterday!!"
"What? Are you going to spend it all within a week? Are you not going to pay me the salary you owe me for two months?"
When Duan Mu heard this, a flattering smile suddenly appeared on his face: "How is it possible? Even if I quit drinking, I will not default on Master Uoyue's salary. You can take as much money as you need."
After finally finding a shop girl, Duan Mu didn't want her to run away, and Duan Mu was also worried about finding someone else to look after the shop for him.
"By the way, did you get any work yesterday?"
Seeing Duan Mu suddenly change the subject, Uoyue rolled her eyes at him, but still took out her work record book: "You have been away for more than a month, and you have really piled up a lot of commissions. As soon as I heard that you were back, there were a lot of people there yesterday
Door-to-door commissions, but except for three urgent orders, the others are not urgent, and most of them are for house repairs before winter."
Maoyue paused for a moment: "Having said that, shouldn't you raise the price? Every year before winter, a large number of people come to you to repair their houses, and the commission fees you earn are not as expensive as the material fees."
"There is no material fee."
Duan Mu shook his head: "You can cut down the trees on Lifu Mountain at will, and it doesn't cost any money."
"..." Mao Yue.
Transportation, processing...are all of these free of charge?
And normally, when repairing a house, ordinary people would only buy materials nearby instead of going to the mountains to cut them, right??
But if you think about it carefully, with Duan Mu's strength, it seems that this really doesn't take much effort for him.
Thinking of this, Uzuki said helplessly: "If you stay like this for decades, the unemployment rate in Rukongai will definitely soar."
Duan Mu laughed and said nothing.
He doesn't care at all whether the unemployment rate will soar. Anyway, he doesn't accept Rukongai's commission solely to make money. He mainly wants to get to know more female customers through this channel, and then obtain them with low-price and high-quality services.
Their favor.
I really want to talk about a commission to make money...
It must be a big customer like Daao, or it must be a search for those students from the Zhenyang Spiritual Arts Academy.
It's a pity that big customers like Da'ao don't come every day. The students of Zhenyang Spiritual Arts Academy only have one long vacation every school year, and the rest are short holidays of one or two days.
Sure enough, he should develop some big customers. If the Gotei 13 could come to his shop to entrust work, then he really wouldn't have to worry about money anymore.
Of course, Duan Mu was just thinking about it. Even if the Gotei Thirteen Team really came to his shop to make a commission, Duan Mu would have to carefully consider whether he could complete the commission and whether there was any conspiracy in it... Gotei
Putting aside Team 13 for now, Duan Mu has always been very wary of the 'Central Room 46'.
Bang!!
Suddenly, the door of the shop was slammed open, and a figure rolled directly to Duan Mu's feet.
"...Why is the way you appear so special??"
Duan Mu glanced outside the shop and saw that the door had been completely destroyed by the impact just now. He had to repair his door before starting work.
Outside the door, the wild boar named "Polly" met Duan Mu's gaze and raised his head and snorted proudly, which made Duan Mu have the urge to study wild boar cooking methods.
The person who came was none other than Zhiba Ganjiu.
"Haha~~"
Amidst a burst of wild laughter, Zhibo Yanjiu stood up from the ground, pushed Duan Mu to the side, and said to Uoyue: "Uoyue, I haven't seen you for a month, have you missed me, Duan Mu?
Did he bully you?"
"Dear customer, please compensate our store for the repair costs first." A formulaic smile appeared on Uoyue's face: "No need to pay more, just a hundred thousand rings will be enough."
"Your store manager is my best brother. What money is worth between us? It hurts our feelings."
Duan Mu moved the chair aside and said with empty eyes: "Your brother was already pushed aside after you entered the door."
"Brother Duan!"
Several more figures walked in from outside the store. As soon as they entered the store, they all bowed to Duan Muyi uniformly. They were none other than the four younger brothers of Shiba Iwajiu.
Hearing the names the four people called him, Duan Mu felt a toothache: "...you should call me Xiao Duan or Duan Mu."
"How is that possible? If you hadn't risked your life to save us, we might have died in the West 79th District." The leader Hawke said, and the other three people also nodded in agreement: "And Brother Yanjiu also said this name.
It’s the title that suits you best.”
"That's right."
Zhiba Yanjiu turned his head, patted Duan Mu on the shoulder, and said solemnly: "You deserve this title!!"
Duan Mu sighed. He was really too lazy to argue with a few people about whether the title sounded good or not. Instead, he asked with some curiosity: "Why did Sister Konghe suddenly let you out?"
"What does letting go!!"
Shiba Iwajiu raised his head proudly: "I turned all ten arenas into sand."
"So fast?"
Duan Mu was stunned. You must know that when he was released, Yanjiu was still competing with the fifth arena. Unexpectedly, he destroyed the remaining five arenas in just two days.
"Uzuki, during the past few days when I was away, did Duan Mu bully you?" Shiba Iwajiu lifted up his sleeves, showed off his muscles and said, "If he bullies you, just tell me, this month
I have been practicing hard and I can definitely kill him with one punch!!"
"..."
Duan Mu looked at Yanjiu's vigilant look that glanced at him from time to time with his peripheral vision, and he vaguely understood why this guy suddenly exploded after he left...
"Give me those urgent orders."
Duan Mu shook his head and said to Uo Yue behind the bar: "Try to get rid of these urgent orders today, and then start repairing the house tomorrow, and try to get it done before winter... Wait, it's still the day after tomorrow.
Let’s get started, I’ll go to areas 43, 58, and 64 tomorrow.”
Since winter is coming soon, let's repair the houses where orphans gather, just to earn a wave of favorability from those children.
Uoyue nodded and handed several copies of the urgent order form to Duan Mu.
Duan Mu took it and looked at it. One was searching for lost pets, one was harvesting rice fields, and one was delivering goods to West District 1. None of them were complicated tasks.
Holding the list in his arms, Duan Mu said to the people in the store: "You guys just stay, I'm going to work."
"Go! Go!"
Yanjiu waved his hand as if waving a fly, and those who didn't know thought it was his shop.
"Brother Duan, do you need our help?"
The four Hawkes came forward with fawning looks on their faces, which made Duan Mu feel uncomfortable for a while, and said: "You can just be the same as before, there is no need to be so polite to me..."
Before Duan Mu finished speaking, several more people walked in outside the store.
Seeing someone coming to the door, the four Hawks who were blocking the door subconsciously stepped aside. However, when they saw the appearance of the person, their faces instantly turned pale. Hawke asked in a panic: "You...you guys are here...
do what!?"
When Shiba Iwajiu heard the sound, his face changed when he saw the visitor, but it was not fear, but anger: "I didn't bother you, but you still dare to come to my door!!"
Snap!
With a crisp sound, Uoyue at the bar slapped Yanjiu directly on the back of the head and shouted: "What are you shouting to scare our customers away? Are you going to pay me?"
Zhiba Ganjiu thought that Uoyue didn't know a few of them, so he hurriedly said: "Uoyue, listen to me, they are..."
"It's a customer!"
"No……"
"It's a customer!!"
Yanjiu blinked his eyes, vaguely reacted, and asked tentatively: "Did they come here in the past two days when I was away?"
Uoyue nodded.
Yanjiu was stunned for a moment, but before he could ask any more questions, the few people he heard bowed to Duan Mu neatly and irregularly: "Boss Duan Mu!!"
"..."
Rock Eagle and Hawke looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces.
What happened in the past few days when they didn't come?
Why are these dangerous guys suddenly so respectful to Duan Mu?
The people who came were Daao and others. After greeting Duan Mu, they turned around and bowed to Iwajiu: "Boss Iwajiu, we offended you a few days ago because of that bastard Daimaru, but seeing that Daimaru is dead,
For our sake, I hope you can forgive us."
After Daou said this, he stood there with some uneasiness. If he had known that this little ancestor of the Shiba family was here, he would not have come...
If this person is still resentful of himself and others, then with Boss Duan Mu’s character, he would definitely not mind letting them stay here.
"Ah?" Yanjiu looked at Duan Mu with confused eyes.
Duan Mu ignored him, but looked at Da Ao and nodded.
Look, this is called being able to speak.
The four of them should really learn from Hawke what they call Brother Duan, that's the right way to call them.
Seeing that Duan Mu ignored him, Yanjiu looked at Mao Yue at the bar. However, Mao Yue did not answer him, but only looked at Duan Mu with questioning eyes.
Although Duan Mu did not say it explicitly, any entrustment that is not recorded is inconvenient to be disclosed to others, even to acquaintances.
"There's nothing to hide."
Duan Mu replied, then ignored the two of them and asked Da'ao, "Why are you here? Did Yu Erzhong bring someone here again?"
"No, no..."
Da'ao said with a flattering smile: "I was just thinking that you have helped us so much, Boss Duan Mu, and I wanted to ask you if there is anything you need help with..."
Duan Mu didn't speak, just put away the smile on his face.
Seeing this, Da'ao's heart suddenly rose and he said hurriedly: "We are afraid!!"
He couldn't help but not be afraid. Before fighting the villains in the West 80th District, they still had the courage to stay in the West 79th District and fight with those people. However, after realizing the gap between themselves and those guys in the West 80th District, they decided last night
I couldn't even sleep peacefully, for fear that people from West 80 District would come and kill me in the middle of the night.
After all, Boss Duan Mu did not kill Yu Erzhong, but he did not dare to tell Duan Mu that the commission was not completed...
Finally, everyone got together to discuss and decided to break it up into pieces and hide them in various districts in the west. After a while, they were sure that no one would come from the West 80 District before going back.
It's okay for others to break them into pieces. As long as they don't cause trouble and find an area to hide, no one will know where they come from. After all, Yu Erzhong can't recognize all the residents of District 79.
But as the leader, Da'ao is different. Yu Erzhong directly targeted him yesterday.
So after some ideological struggle, Da Ao came here with a few people. Although Duan Mu was also scary in his eyes, Duan Mu was obviously easier to communicate with than the people in District 80.
Duan Mu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then he reflected and said with a bit of laughter: "Didn't you say that you wanted to die in Area 79?"
Da'ao chuckled: "Possibly dying and definitely dying are two different things."
"I don't need your help here... huh?" Duan Mugang was about to drive away a few people, but then he seemed to think of something and turned to Mao Yue at the bar and said: "Mao Yue, give me those bills for repairing the house."
Utsuki, who was explaining to Iwajiu, subconsciously pulled out the commissioned copy: "Are we going to start work today?"
"Just some preparations ahead of time."
Duan Mu took the list, read it carefully, took a pen and wrote the numbers on it, and then handed it to Da'ao: "Since you want to help, then go to Lifu Mountain to chop down trees. I've written down the approximate amount needed on it.
After cutting it... well, just put it at the foot of the mountain."
His original idea was to have a few people cut down the tree and transport it directly to the customer's home, but after taking a look at the people Da'ao brought, he decisively gave up the idea.
Each one of these people has a face full of flesh, and the exposed skin is covered with various scars. It almost looks like the word "evil" is engraved on their faces.
Let them go to the customer's home, and the customer will most likely be scared to the point of leaving home.
You know...
Most of these orders are female customers.
"ah?"
Da'ao stared blankly at the list in his hand, cutting down the tree?
Although he really wanted to shout to Duan Mu, "I can only chop down people, not trees," but thinking about the consequences of shouting like this, Da Ao could only pat his chest and said: "Boss Duan Mu, don't worry, I can't chop down trees."
This is what we do best!”
As long as they can get Duan Mu's protection, they are willing to do it no matter whether he is chopping down people or trees. Anyway, they all use the same knife!
On the other side, Yanjiu also learned what happened from Uoyue, and when he looked at several people, his hostility became less and more curious.
because……
The way these people looked at Duan Mu was not the kind of gratitude after receiving help, but a mixture of fear and respect.
What did Duan Mu do yesterday, how could he help, and frighten these people into looking like this?
Regarding this, the four Hawkes on the side felt that it was normal, because a month ago they were also frightened by "one of their own" and had nightmares for several days.
