The girls did not return to Maned Wolf City on Friday, but stayed directly at the Chamber of Commerce accommodation in Dragon Tooth City.
For dinner, Lant specially ordered a dozen live sea fish and two kilograms of sea shrimp, and asked the seafood store to deliver them directly to the Chamber of Commerce.
Large seafood stores have special buckets for delivering fresh fish. There are several runes in the bucket to slow down the life of the live fish as much as possible.
"It's so salty. Why is it the same as the salt water in the salt mine?" Yinghuo comes from a family in the city. He is very familiar with fresh fish and slaughtering, and is most interested in these live fish.
"None of you have ever seen the sea?" Lant regretted it when he asked, because "Lant Galloping Horse" had never seen it either. He had only been to the seaside in his previous life.
"No, sir, have you seen it?" The girls looked at each other. The sea was too far away for them.
"No." Lant was a little embarrassed. "I saw some murals from the Southeast Kingdom in the Blue Dragon Library, with seascapes painted on them."
"Then how do you know that shrimps should be salt-roasted?" Wendy looked at 7 or 8 forearm-sized red prawns neatly spread on the coarse salt on the baking sheet, and the moisture from the roasting was completely absorbed by the salt layer. Absorbed, the meaty texture of the prawns is well preserved.
"Is there a new seafood restaurant over at Blue Dragon School?" Wendy had eaten in all the restaurants around the college back then, and even went to several famous restaurants in the Imperial Capital. She had neither heard of nor seen this method. I have seen people pick out the shrimp threads directly with a needle.
"This..." Lant thought quickly, "That's why I ask you to read more. Several travel books have this approach."
"Sir, if any noble lady taught you this, just tell me," Jonny said with a smile.
"Hahaha!" Several girls laughed wildly when they saw Lant making up lies. They were particularly busy at night in this royal capital.
Lant first went to a relatively large seafood restaurant on Saturday morning. This restaurant was a business of the Blue Dragon family introduced by Dugan. Naturally, he could buy the freshest water monsters. He picked 5 electric eels and skipped them. The store recommends delivery in the afternoon, but pick it up in the morning.
It was not uncommon for aristocrats to bring food home like this. In the afternoon, the restaurant's chef would go to the Chamber of Commerce to cook.
Electric ball eels only exist in the deep sea and are a relatively rare deep-sea seafood in coastal areas. However, electric ball eels have very high requirements for survival water temperature and water pressure. Basically, they can only be caught by water magicians. After being caught, they are sent away by specific magic devices. In major cities, the price of each item is more than 20 gold coins, and the supply is basically in short supply.
For these five items of Rand, Antlage should take special care of them.
The restaurant knew that the person who bought it was a partner of the Blue Dragon family, and specially sent chef Kuro Milt to the chamber of commerce to prepare for on-site butchering and production.
Kuro Milt himself is a magician apprentice and has a certain foundation of fighting spirit. He can barely be regarded as a junior knight. Only a demon possessor like him can easily kill the low-level Warcraft Ball Electric Eel.
When Kuro arrived at the Lant Chamber of Commerce, he saw five huge transparent glass water tanks as soon as he entered the door. There were no magic patterns on the surface of the water tanks facing the outside of the door. You could clearly see the electric eels swimming happily inside the tanks. , and there is a luminous magic circle on the top of the box, so that the situation inside the box can be clearly seen. There are also three magic patterns on the bottom of the box: cooling, life and purification.
"This? What's going on?" Kuro knew very well that these ball electric eels were delivered in the morning. It stands to reason that the commonly used preservation methods on the market can ensure that these low-level monsters can survive until the afternoon at most. It is impossible to still be like this now. of vitality.
This is the result of the work done by the girls. The live fish that Lant bought were to adjust the proportion of salt concentration in seawater, and he also specifically looked for cold-water fish to adjust the power of the temperature array.
After a night of tinkering, the glass water tank made by Wendy and other girls became a qualified seawater tank. At least the more expensive live fish can be put in and it can be stored for 4 or 5 days.
"Chef Culuo, thank you for coming. Please pick the freshest one for me." Lant looked at the chef's surprised look and felt that the job was half successful. "There is an oven and a production table in front of the fish tank. Please come now." It’s grilled immediately. I’m a very demanding person when it comes to food, so I hope I can watch it being cooked.”
"Okay... Okay, sir." The chef was still sighing at the vitality of the electric eels, and he started slaughtering them.
"You should eat more while it's fresh. The last time I went to that seafood shop, the fish was not fresh enough. Now I can only ask the instructor to specially make this tank. The freshest is the freshest." While Kuro was grilling the eel, Lan While Te, Wendy and other girls were eating, they were still talking about advertising slogans, which kept stimulating the chef's business nerves.
Sure enough, the chef left as soon as Lant and the others finished their meal, but soon he brought the restaurant owner, a member of the Blue Dragon family, over, hoping to buy a glass sea tank.
"My water tank was designed by my mentor himself. For this reason, I also found a great goblin mentor through my connections." Lant showed a very reluctant look and pointed to the side wall of the water tank. "Look here. There are several magic formations here as well."
In order to arrange this marketing, Lant specially arranged for Wendy and others to go to the backyard, just to prevent them from losing their composure and exposing their secrets.
"Yes, there are at least 8 magic circles drawn in this fish tank. The person who draws 8 magic circles on one object like this is at least a magister." The restaurant owner said that there was no problem, "Can you please see what Ant has done?" In the face of Mr. Lei Qi, sell it to us? We are willing to pay 100 gold coins."
For restaurants, fresh World of Warcraft fish in transparent fish tanks is the best proof of the quality of the restaurant, because the same live fish can command a higher premium in these fish tanks.
"Our mentor has only done a few," Lant showed a very embarrassed expression, "But I have to give Antreqi some face, otherwise you can take this tank away."
"No, can you sell these tanks to me together?" The boss knows that a fish tank can only store one kind of monster fish at most, so he bought all the fish tanks in front of him, and he can't hold all the fish on their menu. kind.
"You want it all? What should I do? I still have to eat fish!" Lant pretended to be unhappy, but he was happy in his heart.
"Sir, you can ask your instructor to draw a few more, and we are willing to pay." Now the restaurant owner really took the bait.
"Just give me 100 gold coins, which will only buy my mentor's skills. We also have to find a fish tank and ink." Lant began to negotiate the starting price with the boss.
"No problem, let's prepare the magic ink and crystal fish tank. We must not let the instructor prepare these low-level materials."
"Then I will discuss it with my mentor and find someone to inform you if it is confirmed. I think it should be about the same. You wait for the news. If there is no problem, I will send the fish tank and ink over tomorrow morning."
"Okay, okay, thank you" the manager left happily.
After the people in the restaurant left, Wendy and the centaur girl came in from other rooms. They had just heard Lant's negotiation process.
"Sir, how can you make money by painting this fish tank?"
"Yes, but I think we sell it cheaply. For restaurants, with this fish tank, they can increase the price of food several times, and we only earn a hard-earned penny." In fact, for the Rand crystal fish tank, it was originally The money-making plan conceived two weeks ago, Lant's previous plan was to package Wendy's drawn runes into Magister's products.
But now, Rand's plan has changed. He has a city to build. Wendy's processing fee cannot cover the cost of building the city. At most, it can only earn some material fees.
Rather than letting Wendy produce products alone, it would be better to let her draw a magic circle for the entire territory to benefit her own people.
