Chapter 127: Fighting Over a Glass Pen

Yan Ze said, "This trading partner seems a bit different from the others; he is particularly fond of eating."

Others usually trade Peace Jade Talismans or various kinds of Seeds, but he said he had nothing else, and aside from buying a couple of Tablets to download some movies, he couldn't manage to get anything else.

Yan Ning asked, "Dad, then what did you trade for? Just this book?"

The book's cover was blue and slightly curled at the edges, looking rather worn, but there were a few characters written on the cover: Martial Arts Secret Manual.

Yan Ning paused, then asked, "Dad, is this person from an Urban High Martial Arts Plane? How do they have a Martial Arts Secret Manual?"

Yan Ze explained, "Perhaps he is just a bit chuunibyou, but it contains good things inside."

Yan Ning opened it and saw that there was actually a table of contents at the front.

These characters were handwritten and very neat.

【One hundred ways to cook fish.】

【One thousand types of local specialty dishes.】

【Three hundred methods for making pastries.】

【...】

There were all kinds of dishes inside, a thick stack of them.

This notebook was also magical; tapping on the recipe index would jump to the corresponding method. This book recorded over ten thousand gourmet recipes, yet the notebook looked like the thickness of a normal book.

It was hard to tell where such a magical item had been traded from.

Yan Ze said, "He wanted our Spirit Fruit Seeds, plus half a Spirit Soil Brick, and he gave me this cookbook, saying he could help go out and buy some vegetables, milk, and seasonings."

Yan Ning suggested, "I want yogurt, I haven't had it in a long time, and cola too. Should we give him some more Spirit Beast Meat so he can help us buy a bit more? Does he have enough money? If not, let's give him some gold so he can help us buy it."

Yan Ze was a bit unsure if his money was enough, so he placed two Gold Ingots into the trade, and immediately requested the items Yan Ning wanted.

Yan Ning hadn't eaten dinner yet, so she started flipping through the cookbook; she could eat Tomato Beef Brisket, Golden Soup Beef, or Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs.

These were all home-style dishes, and the cooks in the Imperial Kitchen already made them quite well; she wondered if following the process in this cookbook would make them taste even better.

Yan Ning copied the recipes for these few dishes directly and had a palace maid deliver them to the Imperial Kitchen.

Just at that moment, Yan Ze saw Yan Ning watching anime and hurriedly called out, "Ningning, come quickly, the grid in the trade window is running out of space."

Yan Ning immediately put down the Tablet and went over.

Yan Ze pulled out dozens of boxes of milk, yogurt, and various flavors of sweet milk.

Yan Ning hurriedly put them into the Sterile Cold Storage; these things would be enough for their family to use for a long time.

Yan Ze gave gold and Spirit Beast Meat, and the person on the other side was also an honest man, having bought hundreds of fully charged Power Banks, ten of which were solar-powered, as well as dozens of boxes of snacks that children like.

Yan Ning thought the trade was about to end, but the other side stuffed over dozens of boxes of various medicines commonly kept at home.

Yan Ze continued to pull things out; good heavens, it was dozens more boxes of seasonings.

Afterward, he also pulled out dozens of cases of cola, some seasoning Seeds, a mountain of toilet paper, and some skincare products that looked very expensive.

Yan Ning put them all into the Cold Fresh Warehouse.

It took quite a while to receive all the items.

Because the money on the other side was insufficient, the trade was closed first. Seeing that he had given so many things, Yan Ze stuffed a few more Gold Ingots over before the connection closed.

Yan Ze saw Yan Ning holding the book and reading, so he asked, "What do you want to eat? I'll have the kitchen make it."

Yan Ning shook her head, "It's not that I want to eat, it's that I've seen a business opportunity."

Her fingertip tapped lightly on 【Two hundred ways to make mooncakes】, and it jumped to the mooncake recipes.

Inside were all kinds of mooncakes, Cantonese-style Mooncakes, Suzhou-style Mooncakes...

And there were also snow-skin mooncakes.

Yan Ning didn't think snow-skin mooncakes tasted very good, but she felt they should sell very well.

Those wealthy people just love these flashy things.

Opening a pastry workshop, selling some pastries normally, and then starting to make mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival and zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The next day, it happened to be a day off.

Yan Ning planned to take this time to see if there was any place suitable for opening a pastry shop.

This time, the pastry shop, like the Liuli Fang, would only earn money from the wealthy, and the prices would be on the higher side. Once things were set up here, she would consider whether to open branches.

Yan Ning strolled around and wandered to the Liuli Shop she had opened.

The Glaze Pavilion was packed with people at this time, so crowded that one couldn't even squeeze in. Several Xiao Shi were shouting there with difficulty, "Don't crowd, don't crowd..."

But inside, it was a complete mess.

At this moment, two people were arguing:

"I saw this Glass Pen first!"

"I also say I got this Glass Pen first; there are so many Glass Pens, why must you fight with me?"

"I'm fighting with you? It's clearly you who is doing this on purpose."

"Don't think that just because your father is the Minister of Personnel, I'm afraid of you!"

"Pah, you reek of copper, yet you still dare to snatch a Glass Pen from this young master? Do you even know how to write?"

The two of them went back and forth arguing like this.

The Manager hurriedly said, "This style of Bamboo Joint Glass Pen will be available again later, why not wait two days?"

The son of the Minister of Personnel immediately said, "I won't wait, I want this one right now."

The other person wanted to argue further but was held back by his servant.

In the end, the son of the Minister of Personnel bought the Glass Pen, and the young man on the side looked very displeased.

It was clearly him who had picked it up first.

After these two left the Liuli Shop, they took a bunch of servants with them, and the space inside became much more spacious.

Yan Ning then went inside.

The Manager recognized her at a glance and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, what brings you here today?"

Yan Ning said, "I came to see if there were any suitable shops nearby, and while passing by, I heard people arguing."

The Manager sighed, "There are people fighting over them every day; even though I've said that more of these styles will be produced later, it's no use."

Yan Ning smiled and said, "Then business must be quite good, right?"

The Manager flipped through the accounts and nodded, "It is indeed very good."

He hesitated for a moment, then gathered his courage to ask, "Your Highness, why not send more people to make Glazed Glass? The demand truly exceeds the supply."

Yan Ning shook her head, "Let it be as it is."

This way, she could also employ hunger marketing; those who originally didn't want to buy would want to once they started fighting over it with others.

Yan Ning searched for a long time but didn't find a suitable shop.

She had already walked to the entrance of the Drunken Immortal Tower, and after thinking it over repeatedly, she felt she could go in and have some fun.

As it turned out, the next day, the Minister of Personnel began impeaching her again.

The Minister of Personnel said, "Your Highness constantly going to the Drunken Immortal Tower is truly inappropriate."

Yan Ning took a look and saw that it was actually the Minister of Personnel speaking.

She asked, "In what way is it inappropriate?"

Going to the Drunken Immortal Tower is equivalent to going to a concert, so is it really necessary to harp on about it every single day?

Wait a moment, did one of those two people fighting over the Glazed Glass yesterday shout something about the Minister of Personnel's son?

She cleared her throat and said loudly, "I wish to impeach the Minister of Personnel; I saw your son using his power to bully others yesterday."