Opening

Chapter 39: Opening

A Liquor Licensing Order was essentially a permit allowing an eatery to sell alcohol. Though each city had different regulations, liquor and salt were not goods private individuals could sell at will. Spiritual wine especially required exceedingly stringent approval procedures for bulk sales. Naturally, smuggling was another matter.

Thus, any shop in the city that could sell liquor either had connections reaching the heavens or kept a brewer at home. For a little hotpot restaurant like Bian Chunchou's, applying for a Liquor Licensing Order had indeed been extremely difficult from the start, so he had not planned to apply for one.

Who would have thought Senior Sister Xia Ying would deliver the right connection to him?

Then again, he had been at Yonglu Mountain for nearly half a year now, and Senior Sister Xia Ying's background had long ceased to be a secret. She was the beloved niece of Xia Huainan, the City Lord of Langyuan City. City Lord Xia was at mid-stage Spirit Transformation. He had no Dao companion and no children. The Xia Clan had never been particularly populous, and Xia Ying was the junior he cherished and valued most.

In truth, with Xia Ying's talent and background, she could have strutted sideways through Langyuan City. Opening a little back door for Bian Chunchou and getting him a Liquor Licensing Order was as easy as lifting a hand.

But Bian Chunchou was no fool either. Senior Sister Xia's willingness to help clearly meant she was after the latter.

"Thank you, Senior Sister. I did take on a medicine delivery mission to Listening Crane Manor with some friends, but we had accepted other missions as well, so we did not stay there long. Did something happen?"

Xia Ying did not say it outright, but she clearly