It was just as Yang Ge had predicted.
As the only inn in Luting County that dared to open in defiance of the prevailing winds,
the Welcome Inn saw business explode the moment it reopened its doors.
Every day, martial wanderers came in wave after wave for meals and lodging, nearly trampling the inn's threshold flat.
Serving food every day was like catering a never-ending banquet, starting in the late morning, around nine or ten, and keeping them busy until just before the nightly curfew.
Within a few days...
There were simply too many guests to seat, so Yang Ge asked Shopkeeper Liu to borrow tables, chairs, benches, pots, bowls, ladles, and basins from the neighbors, then set up right along the street to serve them.
The inn's staff were visibly struggling with the workload, too, so Yang Ge took charge and added four times the original number of workers. They cleared the clutter from the rear courtyard, built earthen stoves, and set enormous pots over them.
No sooner had they finally solved the problems of space and staffing than their supplies of ingredients fell short. Yang Ge had no choice but to send Liu Mang to the market to negotiate with the meat and vegetable vendors, telling them to find ingredients by any means they could. Any edible meat or vegetables could be delivered straight to the inn, with no haggling over prices.
The martial heroes who came to eat were equally generous.
As long as there was a seat, food to eat, and a bed to sleep in,
they paid whatever the Welcome Inn asked, without haggling either!
How profitable was a monopoly?
Put it this way: ever since the Welcome Inn reopened, a single day's takings equaled two or three months of its former earnings!
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