"Hmm!" The young man followed Rose's prompt and quickly stirred the pottery bowl a few times. Then he couldn't wait to scoop up a spoonful of crushed ice with a wooden spoon and put it into his mouth.
When the milk-flavored crushed ice mixed with colorful dried fruits and honey entered his mouth, the young man's eyes suddenly lit up.
The ice was cold and mixed with sweetness, and the crunchy dried fruit bits left a lingering fragrance between the teeth. The young man actually let out a moan unconsciously.
"This... this is so delicious. It's the most delicious food I've ever eaten since I was a child!" After swallowing the shaved ice in his mouth, the young man was instantly filled with happiness, and his face was filled with emotion.
After he finished speaking, he didn't pause, and immediately started to destroy the shaved ice in the pottery bowl, without caring about his image in front of the public.
However, although this young man looked very rude, the people around him were not paying attention to this.
Some of them looked at the shaved ice in the hands of the young man and swallowed their saliva. There was a hint of coldness in the shaved ice. On top of the shaved ice were colorful dried fruits and a spoonful of golden honey. Even if they didn't taste it directly, they could imagine that it was delicious. .
"I want a bowl too!" At this time, the onlookers couldn't sit still and immediately stepped forward and started paying for it.
Forty copper coins is an expense for a commoner to have a family for several days, but for aristocrats, it is nothing.
Especially in Aldin's shop, adding honey or ice cubes requires a silver coin, and nobles are still queuing up to buy them.
"Take your time, gentlemen and ladies, don't be anxious, there is plenty of ice!" The next moment, the square was surrounded by stalls, just like Thomas and others selling perfume a few times before.
Catherine and Vivian finally came in handy. Catherine was responsible for shaving ice, Vivian and Shirley were responsible for adding dried fruits and honey, and Rose stood to collect money and greet guests.
"Wow! It's so delicious, and it's cheaper than ice cubes in Alding! I'll buy it tomorrow!"
"I didn't expect that Tulip City would be so delicious. I'm going to inform the other coins to come and taste it together!"
After a long time, the nobles walking in the square were all talking about how delicious shaved ice was, and everyone had a look of happiness and satisfaction on their faces.
"What shaved ice?" At this time, several pedestrians who had finished eating shaved ice happened to pass by the door of Alding's shop.
There are still many people queuing up in front of Alding's store. They don't know that more delicious food has appeared on the other side of the square.
Suddenly, I heard a passerby say that it was shaved ice, and that it was cheaper than Alding, so I immediately asked out of curiosity.
"You are still queuing up here! Let me tell you, ice cubes are also sold over there in the square, and there are milk ice cubes for only 40 copper coins. And because today is the first day of opening, they also add honey and dried fruits for free. Oh! The taste is beyond description in words, in two words, delicious!" He was not stingy when asked if he was a passerby, because he recognized the shaved ice, so he immediately explained in a low voice to a few people waiting in line.
"So cheap and very delicious? Your Excellency, is this true or not?" The crowd in the queue couldn't believe it. After so many years, Alding is the only one with ice cubes in the Tulip City.
"It's absolutely true, right in the square, I just came over after eating!"
Wow!
It was clear to see how many people were queuing up. This person's expression was beaming, as if he was very proud, and his heart immediately became excited.
"Come on, let's go take a look too! Anyway, we've only reached the street corner now, and I don't know how long it will take to get to the store!" Several people in the queue looked at each other, and whether it was true or not, they would know if they took a look.
If it's really such a great deal and delicious, then they're still lining up here, while the ones over there are half the price.
In this way, as more and more people learned about shaved ice in the square, Alding's ice shop, which was originally a bustling business, gradually became colder.
"Next one!" In the store, the store manager who was responsible for collecting money was already a little sleepy due to overwork. He shouted without raising his head, and then waited for the money to be collected.
It was summer like this. No matter when and where they were, they could never stop for a moment, not even at night. The only time they had a chance to breathe was after the daily quota of ice cubes was sold out.
"Next one!" However, after the steward who collected the money put his hand on the counter, he waited for a moment but didn't notice the feeling of receiving the copper coins, and suddenly felt a little strange.
When he shouted this second sentence impatiently, he also raised his head and looked towards the front of the store.
"Where's this...person?" The steward's expression was stunned. The business was originally booming because there was not a single customer left in the lobby or outside the door of the shop. He clearly remembered that the queue was already at the door a few minutes ago.
"Steward Bernie, we just had the last customer!" At this moment, the waiter heard the voice at the door of the store and replied with an embarrassed expression.
"How could this happen?" When the steward heard the attendant's words, he immediately asked in disbelief.
"I don't know. Many of the customers who were queuing outside just left. They seemed to have said that the delicious thing in the square is shaved ice, so they all left..." The attendant shrank his head and answered.
"Idiot, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Bernie, the steward, was furious.
"Manager Bernie, you promised me not to disturb you when you were working!"
"You idiot!" Bernie suddenly became furious. He walked out of the counter and kicked the door to see if it was the waiter, and then hurried towards the square.
Aldin had entrusted him with this store, and he also had a lucrative job. If he messed up, he would be dead. Faced with this unprecedented situation, he must go to check it out immediately, and then report it to My own lord.
Not long after, Bernie came to the square, and before he even got close, he saw a shocking scene.
I saw that the square was crowded with people, and everyone was queuing up to wait in front of a long wooden table.
The queue was bigger than Bernie had ever seen.
He remembered that when his ice shop opened three years ago, it had its most glorious moment. At that time, the number of people at the door of the shop was less than one-third of the number here.
In addition to these people queuing up, there were also many nobles squatting in the shade of the surrounding trees, eating crushed ice with a small pottery bowl and a wooden spoon of the lowest grade.
That’s right, there is crushed ice!
Only the crushed ice actually had a lot of colorful and beautiful dried fruits on it.
"Don't worry, everyone, I'll definitely take care of the shaved ice. The price today is 40 copper coins a bowl!"
"This..." Bernie's face turned pale immediately, and he finally understood what was going on.
Tulip Collar has a competitor in the ice business, and its price is only half of what it is here.
"No, I have to go back and report to the adults quickly!" Bernie didn't dare to neglect anymore and immediately headed towards Alding Manor.
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"Sir, Chef Rose asked me to report that the shaved ice business is so hot, maybe we don't have enough ingredients to sell it until afternoon!"
Because he 'attacked' Stella last night, and there was nothing to deal with at the moment, Nalant simply hid in the small building to practice his fighting spirit.
Unexpectedly, before noon, a guard hurried to the small building to report.
"What, it's not enough? Didn't I prepare five hundred bowls this morning? Is that the quantity?" Nalant was surprised when he heard this. Five hundred bowls is equivalent to being sold to five hundred nobles.
Such a quantity, even if the honorary nobles of Tulip are included, they can account for most of them.
He also thought that this quantity would be enough to sell for two days.
