Stellar Train: I Open a Small Shop on the Train-Chapter 141

Barbara nodded.

"Okay!"

Soon, it was Barbara's turn to take the stage.

Barbara walked onto the stage and looked at the large audience below, feeling panicked all of a sudden.

At that moment, a voice came.

"Don't worry, Barbara, I'm here to help you."

Barbara looked to her side and saw Venti standing next to her with a lyre in hand, smiling at her.

"Lord Barbatos!"

Venti nodded slightly.

"Let's start singing. We mustn't keep the audience waiting."

With Venti by her side, Barbara's confidence greatly increased.

"Hello everyone, I'm Barbara, and I'll now perform a song called Wind of Freedom for you all."

Inside the private room.

Ye Yun looked at Venti on the stage and teased:

"Tsk tsk, Venti actually doing something serious for once?"

Zhongli followed up:

"Although Barbatos usually seems unserious, he is quite dedicated when it comes to important matters. Otherwise, the people of Mondstadt wouldn't hold such sincere faith in him."

Hearing this, Diluc was touched.

Indeed.

Though their drunken wind god acted frivolously most of the time, he truly cared about serious things.

With Venti's help, Barbara successfully completed her performance.

As soon as she stepped off the stage, she ran straight to Jean and hugged her tightly, trembling.

She had been extremely nervous earlier. If not for Lord Barbatos being there, she might have been too anxious to sing.

Jean gently stroked Barbara's hair.

"It's okay now, Barbara. The performance is over, no need to be nervous anymore.

And you did a wonderful job."

Venti chimed in beside them.

"That's right, Barbara. You sang beautifully. Keep it up!"

Barbara gave Venti a grateful look.

"Thank you, Lord Barbatos. If you hadn't helped me back there, I probably..."

Venti shook his head.

"Have faith in yourself, Barbara. You have a beautiful voice.

You're just not used to such big stages yet. I believe next time you'll be much more composed and natural."

Barbara smiled and nodded.

At this moment, Klee came running over.

"Captain Jean~ Klee wants to go play with Big Brother Ye Yun~"

Jean nodded and agreed.

"Alright, I'll take you there."

Jean led the six little ones, along with Furina, Focalors, and Venti, to cheer on Robin, then headed toward the private lounge where Ye Yun and the others were.

Before long.

They arrived at the private room. As soon as they opened the door and entered, they heard Stelle's teasing voice.

"Well well well! Isn't that our superstar Furina and six little stars? Come on, give me an autograph."

As she spoke, Stelle pulled out a small notebook and handed it to Furina.

"I don't need much, just one book for now. I'll sell it later for some credit points, heh heh~"

Furina was speechless—sign a whole book? That's exhausting!

March 7th suddenly pulled out another notebook and pushed Stelle aside with a plop.

"Furina, I'm not as greedy. Just sign half a book for me." freewebnσvel.cѳm

Hearing this, Furina froze. She had thought March 7 just wanted a few signatures.

You're not much better! Half a book!?

But Furina was in a good mood today. She took out a pen and signed one book each for March 7th and Stelle.

After signing, both of her hands were numb.

In the following time, everyone chatted while enjoying Robin's performance on stage.

During the climax, Stelle, March 7th, Lumine, and others even got up to dance.

Stelle even put on sunglasses, looking very cool.

Over an hour later.

The concert ended.

Ye Yun, Zhongli, Jing Yuan, Stelle, Himeko, Neuvillette, Robin, and the rest gathered at the port.

In front of them stood the Lazurite.

After receiving the Lazurite as a gift, Stelle had docked it here at the port.

She took out a key and opened the entrance to the ship's cabin.

"Let's go, everyone!"

Tonight, they were going to celebrate here and throw a party.

Stelle went to the cockpit and pressed the main power button, causing the Lazurite to light up four times.

She set a route for it to hover above the Golden Hour.

The Lazurite slowly ascended into the air, and everyone began having fun onboard.

Under Robin's guidance, Furina registered a WeMicroBlog account.

On WeMicroBlog, Furina could interact with her fans.

After registering, Robin used her own account to post a message and tagged Furina.

Robin: "Thank you @Furina for being my guest vocalist today. My dear friend, thank you. (Attachment: Furina and Robin backstage photo.jpg)"

After Robin tagged her, Furina's account started gaining followers rapidly.

Within just ten minutes, her followers surpassed one million.

Below her posts, tens of thousands of comments appeared.

Topaz came over to take a look. Most comments were asking Furina to release an audio track so they could download the song she just sang.

"Furina, your fans are all asking you to release a song."

Furina looked puzzled.

"Huh? Release a song? Like, hold a concert?"

Topaz explained:

"No, just record it and upload it online. Want me to help? I can get you into a recording studio."

Robin chimed in with advice:

"Furina, I think you should accept Director Topaz's help. The company's technology is top-notch—they can help you produce flawless music."

Robin had originally wanted Furina to record at her place.

But on second thought, it was better for Furina to work with Topaz.

There were too many people from her family involved at her place.

To be honest, Robin was essentially a PR tool for her family's harmony.

She didn't want Furina to get dragged into family affairs.

With Topaz's help, the promotion wouldn't be any less effective than with Robin.

The company's reach across the universe was far greater than the family's.

Furina accepted Robin's suggestion and reached a deal with Topaz.

Topaz pulled out a contract and both of them signed it.

"All set. From now on, we're business partners, Furina.

I'll form a professional team to support you.

In return, I'll take 5% of your entertainment revenue as my commission."

Furina agreed right away.

"Great! It's a deal!"

Topaz nodded and shared her plan:

"Furina, you're starting on a different level than other celebrities. Your debut was already on Robin's stage.

Your fan count has surpassed one million, so you can skip the early stage of releasing free songs to build a base.

However, you're still a newcomer, so your first song shouldn't be too expensive.

How about this—for good luck, let's set it at 666 credits per download?"

***

Furina was surprised.

"666 credits?"

Topaz saw Furina's confused expression and explained:

"Let me put it this way, for a regular employee in our company, their monthly salary is only around 100,000 credits."

Hearing this, Furina nodded.

"Oh~ I see. Alright then, let's go with that."

Afterward, Topaz helped Furina post the announcement on her microblog.

Furina: Thanks to @Robin's invitation, darlings~ my new song will be released soon! I'm going to record it tomorrow!

Venti saw this and thought for a moment.

"Topaz, do me a favor, can you sign that same kind of contract with Barbara too? I want her to develop her career here."

Topaz agreed without hesitation.

"Sure, just have her come and sign it."

Venti was overjoyed and immediately called Barbara over.

Barbara signed the contract with Topaz as well.

After signing, she returned to Jean and Kaeya.

"Lord Barbatos, why did I just sign that contract?"

Venti explained:

"By signing that, Topaz will help you assemble a team and start releasing songs to earn credits.

We'll be moving Mondstadt here soon, and we'll need a lot of credits to build New Mondstadt.

The songs you release will bring in lots of credits for us. Do your best, Barbara!"

When Barbara heard she could help her sister and contribute to Mondstadt's development, she was full of determination.

"I'll do my best! I'll go talk to Miss Topaz right now!"

Lisa stopped her.

"Don't be in such a rush, Barbara. Let's talk tomorrow. Tonight is our celebration party—everyone's enjoying themselves."

Barbara looked around.

Everyone was already having fun.

The six little ones, along with Little Fire Monkey, Mika, Bubu Flower, and Numby were playing a game of "Eagle Catches Chicks."

Numby used its round body to shield Little Fire Monkey from catching Klee and the others behind it.

Meanwhile, Stelle, March 7th, Lumine, Firefly, Hutao, and Amber gathered around a long table to play "Three Kingdoms Kill."

It was a game introduced to them by Ye Yun.

Sparkle and Aha also came over and joined the game.

The group decided the first three to lose would be punished by having sticky notes placed on their faces.

Currently, Aha, Stelle, and Amber each had a sticky note on their faces.

Neuvillette and Zhongli were chatting by the window.

"Mr. Zhongli, is the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles really in your Liyue?"

Zhongli nodded slightly.

"Yes, she's at our Wangsheng Funeral Parlor internet café."

Neuvillette asked with a hint of concern:

"Aren't you afraid she might destroy Liyue like she destroyed Khaenri'ah?"

Zhongli shook his head.

"I'm not worried. You don't know the truth of what happened back then.

That time, Lady Calestia didn't lead us to destroy Khaenri'ah — she led us there to clean up the mess.

Back then..."

Zhongli recounted the truth behind the Khaenri'ah War, and Neuvillette began to understand.

So that's how it was. If that's true, then Calestia wasn't a killer — she was Teyvat's savior.

But the Calestia Zhongli described was completely different from the one in his own memory. He wasn't sure which version to believe.

Zhongli saw Neuvillette's hesitation and said:

"Seeing is believing. You can go to Liyue Harbor yourself and meet Lady Calestia.

But if you fight her, it can't be inside Liyue Harbor — otherwise, I'll intervene."

Neuvillette nodded slightly.

"Understood."

He planned to visit Calestia after returning.

Ye Yun and Himeko were sitting by a bar, drinking.

Ye Yun asked:

"Himeko, where are we heading next? Have you decided?"

Himeko shook her head.

"Not yet. The train will stay in Penacony for another week.

I plan to talk to Stelle and March tomorrow to discuss it.

Why? Can't wait to go to the next world?"

She smiled.

Ye Yun nodded.

"Yeah, the more worlds I visit, the more friends I can make. And the more friends I have, the livelier my little shop becomes."

Himeko replied:

"I'll let you know as soon as we decide tomorrow."

Ye Yun nodded.

"Thanks. You enjoy your drink — I'll check in the kitchen and see if they need help."

He went to the kitchen.

The Star Rail's kitchen was huge, with 20 stovetops just for stir-frying.

Xiangling, Guoba, Mei, and Jashin-chan were all busy cooking dinner.

Jashin-chan was rapidly chopping vegetables with a knife.

Xiangling shouted:

"Jammy! Is the chicken chopped? I need it now!"

Jashin-chan quickly responded:

"Coming! I'll bring it over right away!"

Then Mei called out:

"Jammy, is the pork washed? I'm about to cook it."

Jammy glanced at the large basket of washed pork beside her.

"Mei! Come get it yourself — I'm chopping chicken!"

The group was incredibly busy in the kitchen.

Ye Yun rolled up his sleeves and brought the pork to Mei.

Mei said:

"Ye Yun, you're here! Great, help us out — we're swamped!"

Ye Yun smiled and nodded, fired up a stovetop, and started cooking.

With Ye Yun joining in, the pressure eased significantly.

Dish after dish was quickly prepared and carried out by Guoba for everyone to enjoy.

Furina brought Robin to the food counter and handed her a tray.

"Come on, Robin, let's get some food!"

Robin looked at the metal tray in her hands — she remembered these were usually only seen in school cafeterias.

This was her first time using one to eat.

Stelle filled her tray with a generous serving of braised beef, then returned to her seat to continue playing Three Kingdoms Kill while eating.

Robin found the experience quite novel.

On the long table, large bowls of various dishes were laid out.

You could scoop out whatever you wanted, though the ladle was a bit large.

Furina and Robin finished getting food and sat down.

Furina picked up some spicy shredded potatoes with her chopsticks.

"Mmm~ I can tell Xiangling made this."

Robin took a bite too — it was tangy, spicy, and delicious, with crispy texture.

"Oh? How can you tell?"

Furina shrugged.

"That's something Paimon told me.

Xiangling's food is usually spicy, Ye Yun's is sweet, and Mei's is on the lighter side. You can distinguish by that."