In the end, Mag completed the procurement task at a price of 889.
Well, it smells good.
"I want this paring knife." Mag gave the dwarf blacksmith a silver coin, took the shining silver paring knife, and hummed a tune before leaving the blacksmith shop in a good mood.
"I thought he was a big customer." The blacksmith muttered, put the silver coins in his pocket, took out the book again and leaned against the stove to read.
Mag had no intention of customizing it at the blacksmith from the beginning. The craftsmanship was a bit rough and not as good as Mo Bai and Lu Lu, let alone compared with the system.
The packages provided by the system are completely enough for a professional chef, let alone just for teaching.
As for teaching aids such as tables, chairs and benches, they are also purchased through the system.
Now we just have to wait for the teaching building to be completed, put all these things in, and then wait for the arrival of the students.
In a good mood, Mag returned to the restaurant, looked at the small blackboard hanging at the door of the restaurant, went in with the board, and came out with the board again after a while. It read: Today's new product: spicy snails!
The cold weather meant fewer beer-drinking customers, so rum became a good substitute.
However, restaurants rarely have special dishes to go with wine, so this spicy snail dish is introduced for this purpose, a professional dish to go with wine.
Mag returned to the restaurant and looked at Annie who was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window painting. She walked forward with a smile and looked at the drawing board in front of her from the side and behind.
The painting is very simple, with blue sky, white clouds, and a corner of Aden Square. There are not many techniques mixed in, making it feel relaxed and freehand. There is not even a clear subject, just the things that sit here and can be seen.
But Mag felt that the painting looked very comfortable, as if the scenery had been incorporated into the painting.
Anne added the last stroke, put down the pen, and then turned back to look at Mag, with a smile on her face.
"The painting is really beautiful." Mag praised with a smile.
Annie picked up a picture book from the table nearby, handed it to Mag, and said in sign language: "New picture book."
Mag took the picture book, and there was an orange whooper swan on the picture.
The name of the picture book is: "The Ugly Duckling"
Mag: "..."
Mag opened the picture book with a somewhat complicated mood. After a while, Mag looked at the grill on the fire on the last page and the golden and oily roast goose. His throat rolled, but he still couldn't hold back his smile. .
This should be the magically modified version of "The Ugly Duckling" dictated by Amy. It's so miserable...
But this story actually has a moral. Do you think life has deceived you? Actually no, life has already been destined to end. No matter how hard the ugly duckling tries, it can only turn into a roasted goose.
Oh, right.
The ending of the story actually did not turn into a roast goose.
The ugly duckling escaped, and the duck that bullied him since childhood turned into a roast duck and became an orange swan.
Mag glanced at the ugly duckling who was napping on the counter, wondering how it would feel after reading this story.
"It's... pretty good." Mag nodded. If you put aside your preconceived ideas, in fact, the story of this version of The Ugly Duckling has become more twists and turns and fantasy, which is not very interesting.
After all, he couldn't figure out at first how the four-legged beast that hatched from the egg finally turned into an orange swan that flew into the sky.
The two little guys added magical thinking to make the story more childlike and interesting. The story of a little orange cat working hard to grow up, defeating bad ducks, and pursuing its dream of flying is even more inspiring.
"Can't it be printed?" Annie looked at Mag, her expression seemed a little disappointed.
Mag smiled and said: "No, let's try printing 5,000 copies later, after the mermaid picture book is sold out."
Annie's eyes lit up and she nodded with a smile.
Mag sat down across from her and took the picture book he had just roughly flipped through and read it again.
Annie's painting skills are still improving. Although it is not as obvious as in the Miss Black Cat book, the details are more vivid and natural.
The protagonists of this story are the ugly duckling and various small animals. It is much simpler than the complicated characters and costumes of Miss Black Cat, but the outstanding details make the picture book more readable. It is easy to be attracted by the small animals. Various cute touches.
In particular, the ugly duckling is a little fool, and its various naive and cute appearances are perfectly presented in the picture book. It can be seen that Anne usually observes it very carefully.
"I think we can just print 10,000 copies." Mag changed his mind. This is a picture book for young children. After it is put into the market, it may have some incredible effects.
In the past two days, there have been more and more customers looking to buy the Little Mermaid picture book, and there are still many people queuing up just for the picture book.
And Annie has become the idol in the hearts of many little ones. Mag often heard conversations about Annie, scenes of children looking for Annie everywhere.
The little guy has become a real painter and is loved by many people.
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"Miss, all the one thousand picture books today are sold out! There are customers who want to increase the price and buy all the remaining picture books from us for three thousand copper coins." Mara ran into the tavern and looked at E Fei said in surprise and joy.
"Sold out?" Effie was stunned when she heard this. That was a thousand picture books! And it is still sold at the price of two thousand copper coins per volume.
She just received the picture book entrusted by Mag last night. This morning, according to Mag's arrangement, it was sold at the Titan Tavern.
Unexpectedly, in just half a day, the picture book that this person was limited to purchasing two volumes had already been sold out.
That's a huge sum of two million copper coins!
"Yes, not many people bought it at first, but then after a customer bought it, it seemed that he went to promote it somewhere, and a group of people came to buy it. After a while, a thousand copies were sold out." Mara Nodding, her hands were still a little soft from counting money.
"That's it." Effie thought thoughtfully. It seems that the value of this picture book should be higher than the selling price, otherwise there would be no increase in price of 1,000 to buy it, and they still plan to buy it all as a monopoly.
Mara looked at Effie and urged: "Miss, the guest is still waiting outside. Why don't we sell all the remaining picture books to him? We can also earn an extra 900,000 copper coins for the master."
Although she is not very good at arithmetic, she can still calculate this account clearly.
Selling the remaining picture books to that customer will not only make more money, but also save you the trouble of selling them yourself.
"Tell him, we don't sell picture books in packages, and we won't increase prices. Starting from tomorrow, each person will be limited to one copy, and priority will be given to customers who come into the store for consumption." Effie shook her head.
Mag had predicted in her letter that this kind of thing would happen, and specifically asked her not to package it and sell it to anyone. The more customers she could sell to, the better.
Because this is not only an excellent picture book, but also an advertisement for the Black Cat Opera Company.
