Chapter 108 Happy House
Chapter 109 Happy House
"Bricks and stones were used as walls, iron rods were used as frames, and a building several dozen feet high was built."
“No need for flying eaves, no jade tiles, and no courtyard gardens. All you need to do is divide the high-rise building into layers, each with its own independent house of the same shape.”
"Yes, that's right! They are stone coffins lined up in a row. Your description is very accurate. This is exactly the feeling we want!"
Li Quanqing stood on his own land and explained to a group of civil engineering monks until his mouth was dry.
Next to him, Li Quanfu kept holding up a building model that he had made overnight. It could be opened from the inside to show the structure inside to everyone.
Li Quanqing discovered that it was really convenient to build this kind of single apartment for low-level Qi-refining cultivators.
They don't need to eat, and rely entirely on fasting pills and breathing in spiritual energy. Occasionally they indulge in a meal of spiritual rice, but there is no such thing as the cycle of the five grains.
Therefore, the kitchen and bathroom are all available.
There are dust-repelling spells for bathing and cleansing talismans for washing clothes. They are all small and insignificant talismans that are cheap, convenient and fast in large quantities.
All you need is a room and a cushion for meditation and sleeping, you don’t even need a bed or bedding.
However, Li Quanqing was still very considerate and decided to equip each room with a set of tables and chairs to make it convenient for them to chant scriptures and draw talismans.
The only thing to consider is the issue of drinking water.
After much thought and discussion, it was decided to place large water barrels on the top of the building, then lay pipes on the outside, and finally set up several drinking water rooms on each floor.
After all, it was difficult for this group of civil engineering monks to understand how to open some winding pipes in the stone walls. The requirements were too high.
Moreover, people in this world currently do not have the habit of drinking boiled water, so you just need to throw two water purification spells into the water.
As for the elevator?
The monks breathe in spiritual energy day and night to strengthen their bodies, and they also perform various body-lightening and energy-raising spells.
You find it tiring to even climb dozens of floors, and you still expect to escape from the vicious robbers?
It’s better to return to the mortal world as soon as possible to retire and spend the rest of your life in peace.
Li Quanqing felt that these monk residents might even thank him for giving them a chance to climb the stairs and exercise in the morning and evening.
"Jiji!"
Next to him, the little Fujimuyuan was very observant. Seeing that his master was thirsty, he hurriedly poured out a bowl of amber plum herbal tea from the gourd and served it to him.
The newly raised spirit beasts cannot be kept in the spirit beast bags for a long time, so Li Quanqing released them all in this 300-acre wasteland.
Snow leopards and golden flame tigers can burn grass to open up wasteland, while five-colored chickens catch insects in the fields.
The five Fujinogi monkeys tried to plant various ornamental plants on the reclaimed land, which was considered as a greening project in advance.
"Boss, can we really earn spirit stones from this happy little house?"
Li Quanfu walked over with a worried look on his face.
He had never seen such a strange cave. What was the difference between this and living in a coffin?
Li Quanqing was drinking green plum herbal tea, and he was full of confidence: "Let me ask you, how many spirit stones does it cost to rent a cave in Whale King Square in a year?"
"It will take at least thirty or forty spirit stones."
Li Quanfu scratched his head and said a number.
Every market town has this rule that monks must move into caves officially certified by the market town after dark.
One is to facilitate management, and the other is to earn spirit stones.
This is the experience summed up by the upper-level monks over thousands of years. Instead of going to great lengths to empty the storage bags of the casual monks, it is better to be simple and crude.
If you don't pay the spirit stones to rent the cave, get out now. Don't even think about staying on the street and getting some spiritual energy.
It's like earning spirit stones just by standing!
This also leads to the fact that the price of cave dwellings in every market is very high.
In order to take advantage of the spiritual veins in the market, many cultivators had to share a house with others, and there were even cases where more than a hundred people lived in the same cave.
"The cave house in Whale Emperor Square is too expensive. After all, it is located in the third-level spiritual vein. Just a breath of spiritual energy is full of the essence of heaven and earth."
"So many poor and independent cultivators can only choose to leave the market at night and live on the nearby deserted islands. They then set up stalls on the streets during the day, doing business while practicing breathing exercises."
Li Quanqing said slowly: "Our business is aimed at this group of people, giving them a happy home where they can stay in the market for one night."
Li Quanfu understood that their target customers were all poor monks at the first or second level of Qi Refining.
Those independent cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining are too rich. The Shuihua Sword Sect and major foundation-building forces are all keeping an eye on them.
On the contrary, these cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining either share a house with others or leave the market town at night and live on a deserted island.
The forces that are attracted by the spirit stones in their pockets are not very strong themselves, at most they are small Qi-refining families.
Li Quanqing has the support of Qingyu Li family, so naturally he is not afraid.
"Boss, if this happens, our profits will be reduced accordingly."
Li Quanqing held up a finger and said, "My tentative price is one piece of spiritual sand per day."
Staying for one month will cost you 30 pieces of spiritual sand and 0.3 pieces of spiritual stone.
The rent for a year only costs 3.6 spirit stones, which is ten times the price of an ordinary cave!
Even Li Quanfu couldn't help but gasp when he heard this number: "Boss, this is too low. Can we make any profit?"
Li Quanqing laughed: "According to the current plan, each Happy House has 33 floors, and each floor can accommodate 20 households. Can you calculate how much we can earn each year from these two buildings?"
He also wanted to build it higher, but the Whale King Square had regulations that if it was higher, it would reach the protection range of the island protection formation.
Moreover, although there are a large number of low-level monks, two floors are enough.
If there were more, firstly, the spirit gathering array would not be enough, and secondly, too many spirit stones would be earned, which would easily make people jealous, and the Li family would not be able to keep it.
"Those cultivators above the fourth level of Qi Refining have money in their pockets and don't look down on this kind of coffin house. Therefore, the luxurious cave dwellings operated by the foundation-building forces are not affected at all."
"When the time comes, send part of this spiritual stone to the Grand Elder, and send part to the Sword Sect Elder stationed in the Whale Emperor Square, and that'll be it."
Li Quanqing touched his chin.
Even if this business fails in the end, the worst that can happen is that the house is demolished and rebuilt, since the land is his anyway.
This group of civil engineering monks built very quickly. They first asked the monk with gold spiritual roots to manipulate various metal rods to build the skeleton of the building.
Next came the earth spirit root monks, who covered the metal frame with large hard stones to divide the floors and rooms.
Taking into account privacy, sound insulation and the destructiveness of monks, the wall is two or three feet thick, which would be a thousand-year wonder in the mortal dynasty.
Finally, Monk Mu Linggen found the gaps and filled in the cracks to create doors, windows and furniture.
For the two buildings to look good, and also for the mental health of the monks.
Li Quanqing deliberately left a floor-to-ceiling window made of glazed glass in each room, embedded in the stone layer.
From the outside, two nearly 100-meter-high glass buildings stand on the lakeshore, sparkling in the sun, which is spectacular.
In the ancient and conservative world of cultivating immortals, when did such unprecedented spectacular buildings appear?
Before it was completed, it had already attracted the attention of many monks in the market town, and every day someone came to ask them what they were building.
After the two main buildings were completed, the next steps were to build two supporting commercial streets.
Li Quanqing chose shops facing the street on the upper and lower floors. The upper floor can be used for living. The shops are neatly arranged in an orderly manner, creating a sense of beauty.
He originally wanted to copy the large supermarkets of his previous life and build a shopping mall belonging to the immortal cultivators.
But considering the lawless nature of the independent cultivators, this plan was finally cancelled.
Be honest and rent the shop to individual practitioners and collect the rent from them.
Thanks to the 6500 points reward from the helmsman [Guoke Chengyang], who is really my bread and butter. The author thanks you.
(End of this chapter)