jdhmnovel Chapter 157 Selling the White Bone Demon
Chapter 157 Selling the White Bone Demon
The popularity of the White Bone Demon has been fading in recent days, and the number of visitors to the exhibition hall has decreased.
From the daily income of 300,000, 100,000, 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, the daily income is now only around 1,000 yuan.
Even so, it is still several times better than renting it to a circus or performing a big show.
In the past, the daily rental cost of a theater was only a little over a hundred dollars, and a large theater would cost a little over a thousand dollars a month. Compared with casinos and nightclubs that easily made 10,000 to 20,000 or 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a month, theaters that occupied several times the area did not make much profit.
There is no way around it, the theatre is operating normally so the risk is low.
To open a theater, you only need to pay a small amount of peace tax and protection fee.
Another thing is that a theater is a one-time investment. All you have to do is buy the land, build the building, and then hire a small number of staff to start business.
You can make a lot of money running a casino or a nightclub, but it also requires a lot of management.
For example, Huang Hai owns a large casino with a monthly profit of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, but in reality he does not even make 10,000 yuan.
And in the end, he even lost his life because of the casino.
Most gangster bosses who own casinos, nightclubs, and opium dens do not have a good end.
The owners of theaters, hotels, and businesses do their business honestly and steadily throughout their lives, and can also pass on their industries to future generations.
There are century-old stores in the world, but there are no century-old shady businesses.
Lao Jin was originally a gangster human trafficker who specialized in selling women to brothels. Later, he thought it would be better to open his own brothel instead of selling people.
Eventually, the business grew so big that he opened the Seventh Heaven Nightclub.
Therefore, the Seventh Heaven Nightclub has a strong style of a brothel in the old society. All the dancers have indentures and are charged by the hour. These are the business styles of brothels.
The style of Seventh Heaven is very different from that of the new nightclubs such as Grand Shanghai, Paramount and Regent.
Lao Jin made more and more money through the Seventh Heaven, and his business gradually became clean.
In fact, Lao Jin’s pattern and ideas are not bad, from black to gray, and from gray to white.
He transformed from a gangster boss into a real Shanghai tycoon, completely erasing his underworld identity.
But he met Ding Li before he could clear his name.
As a result, his wife lost all his property and even his life.
Now all these are good for Wencai.
Seeing that the popularity of the White Bone Demon had faded and people were no longer paying attention to it, Wencai decided to just leave the project there and ignore it.
But today, Boss Feng suddenly came to visit Wencai.
"Mr. Xu, I've heard a lot about you. Thank you for saving my daughter at the train station."
Feng Jingyao and Wencai had been in constant conflict since the train station, but this was the first time they met formally.
"Fate, is Miss Cheng Cheng okay?"
After Wencai came to Shanghai, there were so many women around him that he didn't pay much attention to Feng Chengcheng.
Neither Jin Zhaoli nor Wang Jiazhi is worse than Feng Chengcheng, so there is no need to pay too much attention to a young lady.
"It's OK. It's pretty good. Thanks to Boss Xu, I even joined the drama club recently."
"I don't know, what is the purpose of Boss Feng's visit this time?"
"Let's be frank. To be honest, I want to buy the White Bone Demon."
Wencai was a little surprised that Feng Jingyao wanted to buy the White Bone Demon.
He also thought that Feng Jingyao was here to persuade him to become a traitor.
Why did this old traitor buy the White Bone Demon? Did he also want to follow the trend and hold an exhibition?
"Why did Boss Feng buy this monster?"
"Alas, it's hard to explain. I have a blood feud with the devils. Cheng Cheng's mother was killed by the devils. In recent years, the Shanghai devils have killed many of my Qing Gang disciples. Whenever I think of this, I wish I could drink the devil's blood and eat his flesh. Unfortunately, I am a weak businessman and cannot fight the devils myself. So I want to buy the White Bone Demon transformed by Fujita Tsuyoshi and kill it myself to avenge my wife."
As Feng Jingyao spoke, he took off his glasses and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief.
This old traitor is quite good at acting.
This is not surprising, as most of the world's heroes are talented in acting.
Liu Bang, Cao Cao and Liu Bei all love drama.
"To be honest with you, Boss Feng, I am also a money-loving person. My family of more than a dozen concubines are all supported by the White Bone Spirit."
When Feng Jingyao wanted to buy the White Bone Demon, Wencai pretended to be embarrassed.
"I understand. I understand. We are all businessmen. If Mr. Xu can give up, I am willing to pay this amount."
Feng Jingyao raised a finger.
"One million, Boss Feng, this is too little, Boss Feng, please go back!"
Wencai blurted out one million.
Boss Feng was stunned.
His psychological price is one hundred thousand.
He has already asked someone to investigate, and now the White Bone Demon only makes seven or eight hundred a day.
Moreover, the daily income is still decreasing. In a week at most, there won’t be even a hundred yuan a day.
After all, the White Bone Demon is a rare thing that has been hyped up for everyone to watch and have fun, spending a few cents to enjoy the pleasure of smashing the Japanese colonel.
It can’t be eaten as food, nor can it be drunk as wine. Once you smash it, it won’t come back a second time.
Paying 100,000 to buy a former White Bone Demon is definitely a good deal for Wencai.
I didn't expect that this shameless villain would dare to ask for one million.
No, one million is not enough for him.
If General Yamamoto had not instructed him, Feng Jingyao really wanted to shoot him.
There was nothing he could do. He had promised General Yamamoto that he would do everything he could to buy the White Bone Demon back.
According to General Yamamoto, a Japanese spy has already received the news.
Boss Dai plans to transport the White Bone Demon back to Jinling, and then ask the great magician Grindelwald to check and certify the report that the Yamato people are non-human.
Grindelwald is very popular in Western countries and has supreme authority.
If he publishes a paper proving that the Yamato people are not human, then Japan will be finished.
No country on the blue planet allows the existence of non-human countries.
If the Yamato people were a foreign race, Japan might become the public enemy of mankind and be punished by all nations.
So we must capture the White Bone Demon and destroy it no matter what.
"One hundred and ten."
"One hundred and five."
"One hundred and twenty, make friends."
"Okay, for Miss Cheng Cheng's sake, deal!"
The two bosses happily negotiated a price. Feng Jingyao only brought 200,000 in cash, and the remaining 1 million was issued in the form of a promissory note from a French bank.
They are all well-known people, so Wencai is not afraid that Feng Jingyao will cheat.
The money was exchanged for the goods, and the truck and coffin were already prepared when Feng Jingyao arrived.
More than a dozen Green Gang disciples rushed over, tied up the mutant skeleton with steel wire ropes, put it into a coffin, and carried it onto the car.
"Farewell."
As soon as Feng Jingyao achieved his goal, he drove away without saying anything else.
When the theater manager saw Wencai selling out the White Bone Demon, he spat a mouthful of thick phlegm behind Wencai.
"Bah, what a patriotic master, what a mean person. Nothing good will come of selling the White Bone Demon to a traitor."
Just as Feng Jingyao left, a luxury car stopped at the entrance of the theater.
The wealthy Qiao family from Xishan Province came to visit, and Boss Qiao was stopped at the door when he entered the theater.
"I want to go in and see the White Bone Demon."
"Sold. The boss sold the White Bone Demon."
A staff member shouted.
"Sold to whom?"
"Boss Feng from Shanghai."
"How could you sell it to a traitor? Master Xu is so stupid!"
Boss Qiao was so angry that he squatted down on the spot.
He was also a well-informed patriotic businessman. He heard that Nanjing was planning to buy the White Bone Demon and have it appraised by foreigners, and was now raising money.
After learning the news, he came over immediately, intending to buy the White Bone Demon and present it to the country.
Hearing someone crying and shouting, Wencai came out and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Boss Qiao told the story and kept saying that he was confused.
"Are you interested in buying the White Bone Demon?"
"Correct."
"One million each, that's not cheap!"
"Do you look down on my Qiao family?"
Boss Qiao said angrily.
The Qiao family was the richest family in the country during the Xianfeng period, and they were also the tycoons that the Empress Dowager had to borrow money from when she didn't have enough money to pay the indemnity.
Compared with the Qiao family, Feng Jingyao is just a small ant, a nouveau riche in the underworld.
In Longguo, the only family richer than the Qiao family is the Song family, the most aristocratic family in the Republic of China.
"How dare I? The White Bone Demon I sold to Feng Jingyao was a fake one. The real one is still in my hands."