Chapter 780 - hot pot negotiation (4000 words)
Frost Axe returned to Hearthstone Tavern late at night.
He had been in this tavern for almost two years.
Now, Hearthstone Tavern had opened many branches in Nolan, and he had basically patronized all of them, but this was still the one he was most familiar with.
He was so familiar with it that frost axe went straight to the kitchen of the tavern as soon as he entered the door.
“Do you still have air-dried meat tonight? Hurry up and give it to me… Jose?”
Frost Axe pushed open the kitchen door and found that there were a little more people in the kitchen.
“We’ve already demolished the house with long ears. It took us some time to deal with the waste.”
Frost axe rubbed the dust on his nose from the wine trough. He walked all the way to Jose’s side and looked up at the food on the table.
“What are you making? Bread with meat?”
“To be precise, it’s a fried chicken burger. In fact, it’s no different from bread with meat.”
Joshua and the chef of the Hearthstone Tavern spent less than half an hour to make this thing.
The chef that Lady Marina hired was very professional. At least, he was proficient in the cooking of many countries. He even had a deep understanding of the cooking of the Great Xia country.
“How much is this thing?”
Frost axe seemed to be starving. Otherwise, he would have started a new journey on the stairway in the tavern hall.
“It’s free for the time being. Frost Axe, you can try it.”
Joshua wanted to taste the first fried chicken burger in the world.
The old dwarf had just returned from the construction site in the forgotten land. Joshua did not mind giving him this achievement that could not be considered an honor.
Frost Axe did not refuse and directly picked up the hamburger on the table and took a bite. First, it was the first bite… when Frost Axe took the second bite, the thing in his mouth had not even been swallowed.
This horrifying eating style had clearly told Joshua that he did not have time to evaluate the taste of this thing.
Frost axe spent less than ten seconds to finish the world’s first fried chicken hamburger.
When he swallowed everything in his mouth, Frost axe immediately asked again, “Is there any more?”
“Of course there is, but I can’t let you eat it for free all the time… if it’s a burger.”
At this point, Jose looked at Mrs. Marina.
She should be able to give a suitable price for the dishes.
Mrs. Marina immediately made a six gesture to Jose.
“One serving costs six silver coins.”
Mrs. Marina looked panicked when Jose named the price.
When she opened her mouth to correct Jose’s mistake, Frost Axe had already taken out a pile of gold coins and lined them up on the table.
“Give me ten servings first,”frost axe said.
“Just do it. Don’t worry about us.”
Joshua told the chef in the kitchen that he had received the order to immediately start processing the remaining chicken ingredients on the table like before.
After the chef knew the method, he also made it very quickly. Frost Axe finished the first three servings at an amazing speed. When he reached the fourth serving, he began to belch.
“Put the rest on the plate. It’s a long night.”
Nolan’s Dwarves’biological clock was completely different from that of humans. They could not sleep for four days and use another day to recover all the sleep they lost.
In the end, Jose could only watch frost axe carry three servings of hamburgers out of the kitchen on a tray.
“Mr. Jose… you set the price too high.”Seeing Frost Axe leave, Mrs. Marina immediately ran to Jose and said, “The ingredients you used all cost less than three silver coins.”
“What do you think the appropriate price is? Then tell Frost Axe to refund the money.”
Jose glanced at the fire-breathing chicken on the table. The size of this chicken was equivalent to a smaller ostrich. One chicken could make hundreds of hamburgers without any problem.
Lady Marina calculated in her mind. When she was about to take the money to find Frost Axe, the door of the tavern was pushed open again.
“Lady Marina, the dwarves outside said that they want to add another fifty servings… the kind of bread with meat in it, and they also said that it must be the same as the Frost Axe Chief,”the attendant said with some panic.
This time, it was Lady Marina’s turn to look at Jose with a surprised look. She almost forgot how many times she had been shocked by what this Chaos Fiend had done.
“The Dwarves of the Blackrock clan said that they need more.”Another servant ran into the kitchen. He directly put a bag of gold coins on the table.
“Do it. We can’t let the guests wait there.”
Joshua’s words immediately made the remaining chef in the kitchen start to move.
“These gold coins can buy nearly five hundred portions, Mr. Joshua… the white turkeys in the ingredients warehouse are simply not enough.”
Lady Marina picked up the money bag with the Black Rock clan’s imprint, roughly estimated the gold coins in it and made this judgment.
“Then we’ll exchange it for other meat ingredients. You also have to coordinate with the dwarves outside regarding the price. Also, there’s only one chef in the kitchen who can’t handle it. What about the others?”
Jose glanced at the chef. No matter how experienced he was, he became flustered in the face of this sudden surge of orders.
“I’ll contact the other chefs who have already gone home. It’s just that… maybe they’re a little short on manpower. Mr. Josh, your dinner tonight…”
Mrs. Marina remembered that Josh had originally come to the kitchen to cook dinner himself.
“Give me a pot and seasoning. Also, find some meat and cut it into thin slices. Also, bring the vegetables upstairs directly.”
Jose thought for a while and gave up the idea of fighting with the dwarves for food.
“Jose, I’m a little full…”
Hiri was still chewing on a vegetable that looked like broccoli. Hiri had been eating raw vegetables in the kitchen for the whole night.
“It shouldn’t be a problem to eat more.”
While Jose was talking with Hiri, the kitchen had already started to get busy.
Lady Marina let more servants into the kitchen to work.
Jose did not trouble these chefs. He directly chose a big pot in the kitchen and left the kitchen.
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The Prophet was thinking about what he had done all day.
During the day, she took her apprentice to participate in the assessment of the Nolan spell caster. At the same time, she handed over the 27 kinds of potions that she refined to the Alchemist Guild for testing.
In the afternoon and afternoon, she followed Joshua to make strange drinks. Because the drinks had high commercial value, the prophet did not think that she was wasting her time.
Now it was night… Joshua made a brand-new product.
The prophet stood at the staircase and looked at the dwarves on the first floor who were holding a hamburger and chewing on it. She was basically sure that this thing could sell well in the future.
“Your Highness, I think we can separate your food and sell it separately.”
The Prophet walked upstairs again. In the corridor outside the second floor, Joshua had already set up a hanging pot.
Under the hanging pot, the burning stone was emitting a boiling heat. The soup in the pot was constantly boiling. Joshua was biting his chopsticks and sitting on the side, not listening to the prophet at all.
“Let’s put aside the business matters first. Let’s eat tonight’s dinner first. Prophet, aren’t you hungry?”Joshua threw a wooden bowl to the prophet.
The prophet steadily caught the wooden bowl. She originally wanted to reply that Joshua was ‘not hungry’.
However, the fragrance emitted by the soup in the pot finally made her have a desire called ‘appetite’. The saliva from her mouth made the prophet obediently carry a small stool and sit by the side.
“Does this pot of soup really need to put so many chilies?”
Tyreen, who had just finished sharing the evening story, also joined the dinner party in the corridor.
At this time, the white cat also jumped onto the small wooden table where Josh put the seasoning. When it was about to touch the chilies in the seasoning with its small claws, Tyreen immediately carried it down from it.
“Slightly spicy is my last compromise. Tyreen, if you really can’t do it, I can cook another pot of clear soup for you.”
Jose poured a bunch of strange condiments into it again.
“Clear soup… mild spiciness? There are so many differences in the taste of this pot of soup?”
Tyreen glanced at the prophet on the table opposite her. The Prophet had already picked up a spoon and was preparing to make a bowl to satisfy his hunger.
“This can’t be considered soup, it can only be considered chili water?”
Hiri looked at the boiling red liquid in the country and gave it a more accurate evaluation.
Pepper water was pepper water… but the unique aroma from it still made hiri swallow his saliva.
“This thing is called a hotpot, er… it should be called a hotpot.”
There was no special table in the Hearthstone Tavern, so Jose could only use this hanging pot method, and then attached a circle of fire-proof inscriptions next to it.
“Choose the seasoning according to your preference, and then put the sliced meat into it and boil it a little. The same goes for vegetables.”
To demonstrate, Jose picked up a slice of sliced meat with his chopsticks and put it into the red soup for a few seconds.
The hot soup instantly cooked the meat.
Healy did not hesitate to follow Jose’s instructions and poured a whole plate of meat into it.
Tyreen was much quieter. She just put some vegetables in it and fed it to the white cat sitting on her lap.
The Prophet, on the other hand, seemed to be struggling. She rarely used chopsticks to eat. This time, her movements were very awkward.
“Two sticks… it’s hard to balance.”
The prophet watched as Hiri quickly collected the meat pieces floating on the soup. He seemed to be a little impatient.
“This still needs some time to get used to, but don’t rush… There’s still a lot of meat. It’s enough for the four of us to eat.”
Joshua handed the prophet a spoon, which allowed her to barely regain an advantage in the fight with Hiri.
“What are you eating?”
A pitch-black crow flew into the window of the corridor and transformed into a dark elf. The Dark Elf was holding a stack of documents in her hand.
But when she saw that Joshua was holding a wooden bowl, she directly threw the documents on Joshua’s desk.
“Hot Pot?”
“What new food is it? I heard that you made a strange drink today.”
The Dark Elf took a spare set of chopsticks and a small stool and sat next to the pot, joining the fight for the meat.
“Thousand-face, your spies are all… I heard that this word is not appropriate.”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
The Dark Elf came here to look for Joshua for business, but after she tasted the first piece of meat, she completely forgot about business.
When the Dark Elf joined the battle, the situation of the prophet became even more passive. Fortunately, Tyreen was a vegetarian, so she was not very interested in the meat floating on the surface of the soup.
“Mr. Joshua, three ladies who claim to be your acquaintances want to see you.”
At this time, Lady Marina walked up to the second floor and said to Joshua.
“Three of my acquaintances? I have quite a lot of acquaintances… who are they?”
“Of course it’s me!”
The SAINTESS Helolia from the country of the holy church poked her head out from behind Lady Marina. When Joshua saw Helolia, he only had one sentence.
“Lady Marina, please see the guest out.”Joshua made a prompt judgment.
“Don’t you want to know more about the whereabouts of the judges? Joshua Arnold.”
After being rejected by Joshua, Gloria put away the character of the energetic girl from before.
“No.”
Joshua once again gave a simple and straightforward answer to Gloria.
“I have a clue that might save this world,”Gloria said with another condition.
“Lady Marina, please send this girl and her friends home. They are lost.”
Joshua also saw Myrcella who was following behind Gloria.
“Well… Mr. Joshua, there is an important guest downstairs. I really can’t drive him away.”Lady Marina sounded a little nervous.
“Important guest?”
Joshua glanced at the Dark Elf and nodded. She was sure that this was the reason why he was here.
Myrcella stepped aside and the person who had been standing behind her pulled open the hood on his head. It was the king of the Frost Kingdom, Shier.
“Joshua, the judge is more troublesome than I thought.”
Shier walked past Lady Marina and came in front of Joshua.
“Anyway, find a chair and sit down first. Let me finish my dinner first.”
Joshua did not expect that Helolia would actually try to rope in shier.
However, when he thought about it carefully, shier regarded the inquisitor as his biggest enemy. Helolia had proven to her that she was also the enemy of the Inquisitor. There was still room for negotiation between the two countries.
“Have you… eaten?”
Joshua looked at Shere sitting next to the hanging pot with a serious look on his face, while Gloria tried her best to act reserved.
As a guardian knight, Messiah could only stand next to Gloria. After all, this was the base camp of the demons.
“No.”Shere shook his head and said.
“Then…”
Joshua hesitated for a moment, but still handed a bowl and chopsticks to Shere and Gloria.
“Don’t force yourself, Miss Myrcella.”
Joshua handed a new wooden bowl and chopsticks to Myrcella and said.
“I’ve already eaten tonight…”
“Myrcella.”
When Myrcella wanted to refute Joshua in a righteous manner, Helolia’s words could only make her sit down obediently. She pulled the chopsticks and the bowl to face the pot of soup that looked so spicy that it could take a person’s life.