The epic story of green monsters

Chapter 257 Practicing a stall is a technical job

Although he had the support of Kaiya and Alba, Allen still felt that it was necessary to put it into practice to truly verify whether his idea was feasible.

As he said, Allen got to work the next day, dragging Redel, the temple priest, with him to go to Wenxiang Street to see where Old Tom flatbeds were made and where anthracite was sold. After a lot of hard work, Allen quickly gathered together the items needed to open a small stall. The money spent was only more than 1 gold coin, which was not as expensive as Allen imagined.

At noon that day, Kaiya also found Allen and ran with him to find materials. It was obvious that he was tempted by Allen's delicious food yesterday.

On the third day, Allen's Pasta Shop was in trouble, and he asked this guy Redel to help him write the words "Ellen Pasta Shop" on a piece of gray linen according to a scene in the dream, and found a A wooden pole was hung on the handle of the flatbed truck, and it could be seen from a distance.

The next step is to consider what kind of food is suitable. The first thing that is ruled out is barbecue.

Although barbecue has a very good taste, the spiciness of chili peppers is not something that one can fully adapt to in a short time. Kaiya and Alba can adapt quickly because they are adventurers and warriors with their own thrill-seeking personalities. They could easily tolerate the spiciness that stimulated their taste buds, but the goblin cooks in the Oak Temple were extremely spicy.

You can try all three types of noodles: steamed buns, ramen and dumplings. The advantage of steamed buns is that they can be made and steamed in advance, and then placed on the steamer to keep warm. Ramen noodles can be made very quickly, and you can have a bowl of noodles in just a few minutes. , the toppings can also be prepared in advance; needless to say, the dumplings can be made in your free time and wait for customers to order, or they can be made on the spot, so it won’t take long.

Another advantage of selling ramen and dumplings is that you can make spicy toppings and dip them in water. People who cultivated Mansa City began to accept chili as an ingredient.

The more he thought about Allen, the more he felt that his idea was not bad. Then he started working on it that morning, stuffing meat, toppings, kneading and making dough. Allen was so excited that he even thought that Kaiya was A waiter was assigned to watch the fire for him, and the price was to let Kaiya have a big meal after the food was ready, and learn the craftsmanship along the way.

As for Redel, the dwarf, after helping Allen collect a wave of materials, he found an excuse and slipped away, with no intention of sharing the joys and sorrows with Allen.

In the afternoon, Allen set up a stall at an intersection of alleys near Temple Avenue, hung up the sign, and quietly began his journey of practicing stalls.

Mansha City does not stop people from setting up stalls to sell goods, as long as they do not occupy the main road for business. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of wilderness natives and other foreign races living in the city. They also need to support themselves, and any tribe can We don’t have the ability to support such a large group of people, nor do we have the obligation.

The indigenous people who are looking for a way out may choose to become adventurers or mercenaries if they are capable. Those who are not capable must either find a job, sell themselves as slaves and become servants of others, or be like Old Tom and others. In this way, find a small business to support your family.

In order not to give anyone a chance to spy in secret, Allen had no intention of leaving the temple's sphere of influence, even though the place where the stalls were set up was not actually a prosperous place. However, Allen believed in his craftsmanship. With the approval of Kaiya, Alba and several goblin cooks, Allen felt that this matter should not be too flawed.

Sure enough, when Allen started to set up the stall, the steaming drawer rising up on the steam rack made everyone passing by take a sideways look, very curious about this novel gadget. As for the boiling water in a small pot on the side, and a chopping board filled with toppings, meat fillings, and dough, everyone was not so curious.

"Boss, what are you selling?"

A young kobold smelled the fragrant smell, gathered over, pointed at the furnishings on Allen's cart and asked.

"Oh, these are the specialty delicacies of our Green Field Tribe, dumplings, meat buns, and fried noodles with soy sauce. Brother, do you want to try them?"

Allen is still a little cautious. He really has no experience in dealing with strangers, especially in greeting guests. At this time, he had a calm face, thinking that his performance was very ordinary, but Kaiya, who was helping Allen at the side, almost laughed out loud when he saw it.

Beside the steam-filled trolley, Allen's cheeks were stained with some flour from kneading the dough. They were already a bit green, and with his gloomy face, he looked like a man who had just crawled out of the coffin board. Like the zombies that came out.

The kobold was frightened by Allen's expression. He still wanted to try something new, but at this time he also backed down.

"Hey, this dog-headed brother, don't leave. Try this meat bun, really!!"

Allen persuaded awkwardly, but the more he did this, the more worried the kobold became. He turned around and left, leaving Allen behind, and shouted for a long time without looking back.

"..."

Allen couldn't understand this person at all. Why did he just leave like this since he had already asked about it? It was hard for him to eat him.

"You can't do this, Allen."

Kaiya suppressed her smile and began to instruct Allen from the side. However, while she was instructing, one of her jade hands had already reached into the hot steamer, quickly took out a bun, and then began to taste it.

"You have to be enthusiastic when greeting and greeting guests. You have to have a smile on your face and a sweet mouth. Only in this way can you attract customers."

Allen was a little embarrassed. He thought it was okay to have a smile on his face, but he wasn't very sure what it meant to be sweet and enthusiastic. In front of acquaintances and strong people, Allen knows how to go with the flow and show his respect and friendliness. However, when facing these ordinary strangers, Allen can be polite but cannot be respectful, because he feels that these people are not worthy of him. respect, and have no qualifications.

"Hey, you better watch me and learn how I do it."

Kaiya is a soft-spoken person, but Allen's skills are really good. He has eaten several buns at this moment, but he still feels that he has not eaten enough. Since he wanted to be shy and eat and drink with Allen again, Kaiya couldn't look at him like this. Seeing that Allen's mentality had not been adjusted yet, Kaiya decided to go into battle in person, using her flowery beauty to attract customers and help him. Allen fired the first shot.

"Hey, this handsome guy, come and try our new meat buns, they are absolutely delicious in the world!!!"

Kaiya, a human beauty with a sweet smile, greeted a passerby warmly and soon attracted the guests.

"How do you sell this bread?"

A jackal walked over carelessly and asked, pointing at the bun that looked somewhat similar to bread, but with a weird appearance.

"This meat bun costs 20 copper coins each!!"

Seeing that the Jackal was interested in buying it, Kaiya quickly told the price, took a wooden clamp, took out a bun and deliberately dangled it between the Jackal's nose.

"So expensive? A loaf of bread larger than yours only costs 10 copper coins."

The jackal was a little tempted, but the price made him hesitate.

"Brother, are these buns stuffed with meat? They are much better than your black bread."

The oatmeal flour doesn't look very good, and the buns produced are gray-brown, only a little whiter than brown bread, but the taste is indeed hundreds of times stronger than brown bread. Kaiya, who has tasted the taste, naturally feels like it. I think so, but how can a jackal who has never tasted it know?

"Then... let me try one first."

The jackal hesitated for a moment, but his nose was really sensitive and he had already smelled the meaty aroma oozing out of the buns. Finally, he gritted his teeth and prepared to buy a bun to try.

"Okay, I know you are a good person, brother! I guarantee you will never regret buying it." Kaiya's smile never disappeared from her face, and Allen who was watching from the side shook his head repeatedly. It turned out that this was what she said Enthusiasm, it’s really a difficult thing.

It is very hard to run a food stall. Only after you have done this business will you understand. Although Allen only did it for less than a day, when he closed the stall at night, he who had exceeded the limit of humanoid physique could not help but feel My arms are sore and my body is tired.

Once someone got a taste of it and started buying meat buns, the business of Allen's stall became better and better, and even in the evening, afternoon customers came back to patronize it. The more than 200 meat buns and vegetable buns he prepared were sold by more than a dozen customers in less than a magic hour after the market opened in the afternoon. The rest of the business was supported entirely by ramen and dumplings. Allen was busy making more than 10 times of dough, and he used up nearly 100 pounds of oat flour. Then he closed the stall and returned to his residence in the temple under the regretful and regretful eyes of a group of customers.

Even Kaiya, who was helping Allen, was frightened by the lively scene. Logically speaking, no matter how good the business of a newly opened stall was, it would not be able to sustain it. The alley was deep and it was not well-known. How could strangers do this? Maybe they specifically visit your stall?
  But don't forget, most of the natives living in Mansha City have a strong sense of smell. The customers who packed a dozen buns at a time and ate them while walking were free advertisements for Allen's stall. Coupled with the smell of the diners stirring the pasta, the aroma of the hot pot of pasta gradually dissipating, and the expressions of enjoyment on the faces of the diners who could only squat in the corner next to the box and eat like gluttons because of the simplicity of Allen's stall, How can we not attract the guests coming and going on Oak Avenue to try it!

After returning to her residence, Kaiya did not leave. She just looked at Allen's simple luggage and then sat down at the table in the simple house. Next, Allen has one more thing that he needs Kaiya to help with, which is to help count the coins in the cash box.

The money box is made of wood, with a lid and a bell added to the outside to prevent thieves from getting close to them during busy times and steal the money in the box silently. This is not a villain, but a real reality. A level 3-4 thief can already use shadow energy to hide his body, but he is not strong enough to go outside, so they can only do something To support oneself by stealing things, this is also the origin of the name of the basic profession of thieves.

"Crash!!"

A large pile of coins fell on the table, and the sound of the clanging coins was so pleasant. But if you saw the bronze coins inside, or occasionally a few rays of silver-white light coming out of the lines, you wouldn't feel how wonderful it is. .

Copper coins are the lowest-level coins in the world. Even long-distance trade caravans will not carry these things because their value is really not high, so Allen and his tribe rarely see them during plunder. The figure of the copper coin. But in Mansha City, the existence of copper coins plays an extremely important role, because the average person's daily expenses are estimated to be 1-3 copper coins.

"1.2.3.4..."

Kaiya and Allen carefully counted the coins on the table, which were like a mountain, and stacked each coin for easy counting. It's just this seemingly simple thing, but it took Allen and the others more than 1 magic hour to complete the complete inventory.

"There are a total of 36 silver coins and 6389 copper coins here, which means there are still 11 copper coins left. Your income today is only one gold coin."

"Excluding the 7 silver coins you spent on purchasing one hundred pounds of oatmeal, 20 silver coins on 21 pounds of beef, and various other expenses, congratulations, you have earned up to 50 silver coins in a busy day today. income!!"

Kaiya helped Allen make some calculations, and finally announced to Allen loudly with a touch of ridicule.

"..."

Allen was a little surprised. This income was really beyond his expectation. After working so hard but only having such a little income, it seemed like something was wrong.

"If that's the case, then the profit from this transaction seems to be nothing!!"

Allen frowned and thought hard to see if there was anything that needed improvement.

"Do you know why you feel something is wrong?"

Kaiya had actually discovered Allen's problem with this matter a long time ago, but because it was not her own business, and seeing Allen's attitude when he made the decision, Kaiya didn't spend more money and only waited until this time to analyze it with the other party. .

"..."

Allen raised his head, looked at the other party solemnly, shook his head and said nothing, but his eyes were already asking Kaiya.

"Your pricing is too low. There is one thing you must be clear about when doing business, and that is that you must be ruthless!!"

Kaiya put on an old Jianghu attitude and started teaching Allen: "The profit of doing business is not only calculated on the cost of your ingredients and raw materials, but also the cost of your labor, the cost of your food itself Value, these all need to be taken into account.”

"How does your food taste?"

"Of course it's delicious, otherwise we wouldn't have consumed all the ingredients I prepared in just one afternoon."

Allen is confident about this issue.

"If you don't do this business, but do adventure missions, how much money can you make in a day?"

"...This question is difficult to answer. Don't worry about your jokes. The previous mission of the City Guards Mansion was my second mission!"

The first time was naturally when he was hired by the Flash Silver Caravan to go to Thorn Castle.

"But I think there must be a profit of one gold coin a day."

"Look, you know the value of yourself and your food, so you should include these in the cost!!"

Kaiya looked like a coward and told Alan the real problem with his transaction: "You just priced your food too low!!"

"Look at Old Tom. His fried chicken only costs about ten pieces of chicken, yet he dares to offer a jacket for 1 silver coin. The buns and dumplings you make are not inferior to Old Tom's fried chicken in taste, but the ingredients are relatively cheaper. , but this doesn’t mean you can only sell at a low price!!”

"You mean I should raise the price?"

Allen was a little hesitant. People who have never done business will only leave a little profit margin for themselves at the beginning, for fear of being said to be evil-minded or unscrupulous. Allen himself is actually not exempt from this. Because he lacked confidence in doing business for the first time, he was asked to leave 40-50% of the gross profit margin when setting prices, which already made him feel flustered. At this time, he heard that Naturally, he still found it difficult to accept the meaning of Kaiya's words.

"That's right, the steamed buns you made were only about 200 steamed in one morning, and they were only sold for 10 copper coins each. Isn't this a waste of money? According to me, each of these buns costs at least 25 copper coins. Counting 4 meat buns, it is absolutely It’s more than a portion of Old Tom’s fried chicken, and it’s not considered price gouging!! As for the dumplings and ramen, they are all doubled from today’s prices, so this should be a reasonable price.”

Kaiya spoke out her suggestion with confidence, and whether Allen accepted it or not was up to him.

"You made me think about it!"

Allen pondered.

　A little cheat here has accelerated Allen's career as a stall practitioner, but I personally feel that the probability of success in this matter is very high. In a world where food culture has not been developed, there are things like steamed buns and steamed buns. It should be easy to succeed with foods like fried noodles and dumplings. It's just that Allen can't stay in Mansha City for long. Doing business and managing customers is a long-term thing, so I can only use a little cheat to make Allen succeed faster.

　　The reason for the late update was mainly because I went to watch a League of Legends game. I was so anxious watching it that I almost couldn't help but curse! !

　　
  　
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