Chapter 28: Two Stupid Idiots
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
The very next day.
The moment Lin Fan got out of his bed, he saw a WeChat text.
"Handsome, quickly set up your stall…"
He recognized the profile picture which belonged to Huo Han, the girl that had added herself using his phone. Lin Fan did not reply as he had planned to stop the scallion pancake business for good.
Lin Fan took a quick rinse and left the house to meet Fraud Tian to look for a place to start up his official fortune-telling career. In order to bee a well-respected Master Lin, it seemed rather difficult. It wasn't as easy as Lin Fan had thought. He had to continue working hard.
"Fraud," Lin Fan said as he saw Fraud Tian standing there from a distance.
"Why are you so late?" Fraud Tian asked.
"F*ck, how's this considered late? It's just 8:30 am." Lin Fan said. "How was it? Did you see any suitable options?"
"I took a look around before you came and I've found three good locations."
"Let's go have a look." Lin Fan was pretty wealthy at that point in time, with three hundred thousand dollars to spend which seemed just enough to rent a proper stall.
Lin Fan followed Fraud Tian to the first potential stall identified by Tian, which was located in the center of the blocks. It was 40 square meters in area and with the special transfer fees and whatnot, it added up to more than three hundred thousand dollars.
Don't have to look further, we'll pass on this. This location's really good but it's too expensive for Lin Fan.
The second one was decent, although it was located at the end of the block. As the saying went, quality goods needed no advertising. With the fortune-telling skills possessed by Lin Fan, he was surely going to be successful if he was willing to put in the effort.
But after a series of questions, Lin Fan decided to pass on it. The rental for the stall had to be paid monthly and a long-term contract couldn't be established as the place might be sold at any point in time.
Lin Fan had wanted to venture into fortune-telling as his career and the mission needed him to bee a well-respected Master which was not easy to achieve. If the stall closed down in a month, he wouldn't be able to handle it.
The third one, however, met all of Lin Fan's criteria. Even Fraud Tian clapped in agreement.
"This storefront originally belonged to a fortune-teller but he had withdrawn from his business due to personal reasons. If we were to take over this place, we just had to change the name of the shop and everything would already be good to go," Fraud Tian said.
Lin Fan also felt that this particular storefront was decent. Although it wasn't very big, only measuring less than twenty square meters, for a fortune-telling business, it was more than enough space.
"Alright, I'll go ahead with this."
Then, he immediately made a bid for it, along with the yearly rental fees, transfer fees, and property taxes, it added up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Lin Fan felt quite sad to spend the money he had just like that, even though the money came to him rather easily. In a blink of an eye, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was gone and he had to be thrifty with the remaining fifty thousand dollars.
He signed the contract, paid the fees and obtained the keys. From then on, that was Lin Fan's fortune-telling stall.
Finally, it came to the signboard. Initially, Lin Fan had just wanted to do a simple job, just to cover up the old one with another simple signboard. However, he decided to heed Fraud Tian's advice: the signboard is key to drawing customers to the stall. If it just had a simple design without a mysterious look to it, customers wouldn't choose to enter the stall. He spent over ten thousand dollars on the signboard to the devastation of Lin Fan.
"Worth it, totally worth it." Fraud Tian looked at the dark, wooden signboard with satisfaction.
All it had was "Master Lin
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