As soon as the cultivators saw the notice posted by the Bookstore, they surged across the street into the Wantong Trading Market, eager to buy exclusive numbers that would let them enter the Bookstore.
The street, which had been so packed that not even water could pass through, quickly cleared, and the Bookstore finally returned to peace and quiet, no longer as rowdy as before.
Ma Feifei rarely stepped out of the Bookstore. Looking at the newly built Wantong Trading Market across the street, he couldn't help exclaiming, "Gongsun Qiong really is a business genius!"
From buying the land deeds around the Bookstore to building this trading market, every step had shown Gongsun Qiong's keen and precise eye.
Even the idea of exclusive numbers had come from Gongsun Qiong, who had approached Ma Feifei herself to discuss it.
The numbered-ticket system Gongsun Qiong proposed not only restored the Bookstore's former tranquility, sparing it from being surrounded every day by cultivators treating it like a giant panda, but also solved Dubian Town's traffic congestion and brought foot traffic to the Wantong Trading Market. It was a three-for-one deal.
As for the membership system, that had been Ma Feifei's idea. Merchants had played this sort of bundling trick to death in his previous life; it was nothing special.
But in this world, it was novel, and for the first time, Ma Feifei had earned a look of admiration from Gongsun Qiong.
Through his partnership with the Wantong Trading Market, Ma Feifei had gained not only convenience but also considerable profits.
First, aside from the fixed daily income of one Spirit Crystal per person, the remaining two Spirit Crystals were split evenly between the Mysterious Bookstore and the Wantong Trading Market. And since Ma Feifei had come up with the membership system, while