Solve-Your-Worries Mailbox

Another morning arrived.

Li Yao used his food delivery application to order breakfast. Chen Xi, who had finished cleaning the place up, was wiping the wine glasses at the bar table. Li Yao asked, "Why do you keep standing there and wiping the wine glasses? There are no customers in the store."

Chen Xi said, "If a customer comes, we'd look more professional."

Fine.

It was not true that there were no customers at all.

The previous bar still had some customers. In this period of time, some of them had come one after the other. However, Li Yao had hung a signboard that said "Renovating. Business suspended", so many people left after glancing at it.

Yesterday, Chen Xi had already discussed with the human resources people. They also hung recruitment notices at the entrance.

Li Yao had also finished thinking about the layout of his bar.

There would be a mailbox right at the entrance. The customer could buy a letter from the bar table, write his worries down, and slip it into the mailbox. Afterward, Li Yao would decide if he would help him solve his problems, depending on how much the customer had spent. He would then place the solution in the milk box at the entrance.

This idea was derived from Keigo Higashino's novel "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store".

When he read this novel, he was quite touched.

He also really admired Keigo Higashino's narration skills.

Truly impressive.

Now, while the mailbox and milk box did not possess the ability to travel through time, with his current abilities, he could solve quite a few problems.

For this, he still prepared envelopes: a hundred aluminum seal envelopes, a thousand bronze seal envelopes, ten thousand silver seal envelopes, and a hundred thousand gold seal envelopes.

Expensive.

But this was still a magician's mailbox.

It was good value for money!

Fine, anyway, he did not hope to profit from this.

He would just hang it there.

After breakfast had been delivered, Chen Xi placed down the glass, took the breakfast, and tidied the place up. "Boss, time to eat."

Li Yao said, "Coming."

Li Yao moved from the sofa here to the sofa there. Chen Xi said, "We can't rush the manpower now. Let's prepare to start operations first. The beverages are here, and I learned a bit about bartending. For the dishes, we can just give some snacks. Boss, what do you think?"

Li Yao said, "No problem. Let's start business after eating."

The official start of the Lost Bar was decided so casually like this.

After eating, Chen Xi hung up the sign that said that they were open. Afterward, they sat around and waited for business to come…

After a day, only a few big and small cats came and walked around.

Li Yao was not concerned either.

For businesses, most of them only succeeded after a long time… Anyway, he did not lack money. He could afford to wait!

However, the "Solve-Your-Worries Mailbox" that was hung at the right side of the door attracted the attention of every customer. They would ask, "Can I just write my worries and slip the letter in?"

Li Yao said, "You need to buy the envelope at the bar table."

The customer said, "Wow! So expensive?"

This boss must have been thinking about money until he went mad!

The customer said, "The people in the book 'The Miracles of the Namiya General Store' solved the worries for free."

Li Yao said, "I'm not the general store in the novel. Anyway, I didn't say that I'll only give suggestions. I wrote that I would give you a solution or fulfill your dreams."

The customer laughed. "What if my worry is that I want to get rich overnight?"

Li Yao said, "…Then I'll give you a good dream?"

There's everything in a dream.

The customer laughed. This was just a gimmick.

Li Yao laughed too.

You don't know what you missed.

At the end of the day, they barely earned five hundred dollars from the day's operation.

It was a bit pathetic.

Conversely, while the bar next door did not have a lot of people, there were still people entering. The business there was much better than here.

During dinner, Li Yao and Chen Xi still called for food delivery.

Although there was a newly equipped kitchen in the shop, Li Yao was too lazy to cook. Chen Xi did not really know how to cook either, so they could only get food delivery. At the dining table, Chen Xi asked tentatively, "Boss, will you be upset if the business is bad?"

Li Yao said calmly, "No."

I'm just extremely unhappy!

What a failure!

He had been to bars like Fan Hua and Shang Shang. When he traveled to Li Jiang as a tourist, he went to bars like the Icy Inn. It was so crowded there… The customer flow there was decent, but the customer flow here at Gu Lou Road was not little either.

Li Yao did not hope for the business to be extremely good.

He just wanted customers enough to fill three to five tables so that he could experience the sense of accomplishment of a successful business.

But now…

There are not even three to five people, okay?

Li Yao was afraid that Chen Xi would overthink and continued talking. "It's fine. It's just the first day of operations. We don't have a lot of activities or hype shows. It's just a place to drink. It's normal to not have a lot of people."

Chen Xi nodded.

She was originally very quiet. Opening her mouth and asking were already expressions of concern.

After eating, Chen Xi said that she wanted to look after the shop. Li Yao could not let Chen Xi look after the shop alone, so he held his phone and sat downstairs.

On the phone was the magical knowledge that Lin Xiaowei sent over.

Although he absorbed the information through "initiating", he still had to research and ponder about a lot of things. While Li Yao interpreted the magic alchemy knowledge, he responded to the messages.

In the dormitory group chat.

Cao Rui: "Big Yao, when will your shop open?"

Li Yao: "It's open already."

Cao Rui: "Damn. You didn't even inform us. You aren't treating us like your brothers!"

Zhao Shuisheng: "…You are just right beside me. I didn't see that it's open."

Li Yao: "It just opened today."

Cao Rui: "F*ck! You are too casual. Didn't you prepare some activities or shows? Attract some popularity!"

Chen Tao: "+1."

Li Yao: "…Just follow fate."

Cao Rui: "If you are rich, you can do whatever you want. 666!"

Zhao Shuisheng: "Above +1"

Chen Tao: "+1."

Li Yao thought that Chen Tao's condition was unusual. He used to be like Cao Rui and was an active person. Why did he seem so unenergetic now?

He messaged Cao Rui. "What happened to Chen Tao recently? Why does he seem so unenergetic?"

Cao Rui paused for a while. "I haven't seen him for a while… Hahaha. He's flirting with his girlfriend passionately for the entire day. Won't he be unenergetic?"

Li Yao: "Get lost!"

He was still worried and messaged Chen Tao. But that dude did not even reply to Li Yao's message.

Li Yao frowned before seeing Cao Rui yell in the group chat, "Big Yao, wait for me. I'll visit your shop over the weekend. I'll show you my charisma!"

Li Yao was stunned.

You are just a husky trying to tear my shop down, right?

He thought about it and said in the group chat, "All of you should come…"

Li Yao wanted to say that he would treat them, but he remembered that this was not how business should be done. Hence, he changed his words and said, "Anyway, it's on Cao Rui."

Cao Rui: "…"

Alright.

I don't lack money.

After chatting around in the group chat, Li Yao also dared to send Lin Xiaoxi a message, inviting her over to visit during the weekend. Anyway, it was his own shop. He was not scared that anything would happen.

Lin Xiaoxi replied. "Okay."

"…" Li Yao was speechless.

Has this girl been doing something weird recently?

Forget it.

It's not important.

Thinking about it again, Li Yao opened his penguin number. He had been busy with a lot of things recently and had not talked to Lin Xiaowei for a long time. "Hey, brother. Long time no see. Where are you?"