16: Spring Arrival Restaurant
Although Lianchen was just a small town in the Lingfeng Kingdom, because both water and land routes connected it to the capital city where the emperor resided, many traveling merchants passed through, leading to the construction of entertainment facilities in town.
Clothing, food, housing, and transportation—these four words clearly demonstrated people’s pursuit of a good life.
Therefore, Gu Yu decided to inquire about prices at the town’s restaurants. Even if they didn’t buy his goods, it wouldn’t matter, as he would still have other opportunities to sell them.
However, if the restaurants would buy them, Gu Yu would have a stable sales channel, saving him the trouble of selling them himself.
It wasn’t that Gu Yu underestimated himself, but his frail body simply couldn’t handle it. Even just carrying an empty basket made him pant continuously.
Fortunately, Gu Yu didn’t simply faint. Perhaps because he had eaten meat at noon, or because of his desire for silver, though his body was tired, his heart was exceptionally happy. He couldn’t wait to exchange all the prey in his space for silver.
Randomly finding a well-decorated restaurant, Gu Yu went around to the side door, placed his basket on the ground, loaded it with three wild pheasants and seven wild rabbits, then raised his hand to knock.
Before long, someone opened the door from inside.
“Who are you? Why are you knocking at this door? Be careful or I’ll beat you out of here.”
“Brother, my father left me here while he went to take care of some business! I wanted to ask your head chef if he buys wild prey.”
“Wild prey? How much do you have?”
Although the man who opened the door wasn’t particularly polite, Gu Yu didn’t mind much. He was actively coming to sell things, and with the mindset that the customer is king, he couldn’t argue with this man.
Moreover, seeing this man wearing coarse linen clothes, he was clearly just a kitchen hand.
However, after Gu Yu mentioned he was there to sell wild prey, the man’s attitude noticeably improved. Especially when Gu Yu showed him the wild prey loaded in his basket, a flash of delight appeared in the man’s eyes.
Although brief, Gu Yu successfully caught it.
It seemed these items could be sold.
“Looks good. Wait a moment, I’ll go get Chef Wang to take a look.”
“Alright.”
Indeed, afterward the man didn’t drive Gu Yu away from the side door. Instead, after welcoming him inside, he turned and walked toward the interior, leaving Gu Yu to wait where he was.
Originally, Gu Yu thought it would take considerable time to sell the wild prey, but unexpectedly his luck was good, and he was about to successfully sell the wild prey after asking just one restaurant.
It wasn’t really Gu Yu’s luck; the main reason was that although there was plenty of wild prey in the mountains, there were also many traveling merchants in town.
When divided among the various restaurants in town, the amount of wild prey wasn’t actually much.
Not to mention, some were only supplied in limited quantities to certain restaurants.
There were a few one-time deals, but this was a matter of luck and didn’t count as a stable supply, so restaurant owners didn’t take them seriously.
The Spring Arrival Restaurant where Gu Yu was now had a good reputation in town, but even a skilled cook can’t make rice without raw grain—without suitable ingredients, cooking skills were useless.
Additionally, the newly opened Blessed Abundance Restaurant across the street had everything you could want, even deer meat, which attracted many wealthy diners.
This had caused the owner of Spring Arrival Restaurant to sigh frequently to his chef lately, wishing he could secretly demolish the restaurant across the street at night to avoid dying of depression.
All these factors combined—the right time, the right place, plus Gu Yu’s space cheat—made earning silver not so difficult.
“Who’s selling wild prey? Let me see quickly, we have a banquet tonight!”
Before seeing the person, the voice had already carried over. Hearing the urgency in the other’s voice, Gu Yu couldn’t help but smile.
His eyes looked at the fat chef appearing before him as if he were seeing walking gold ingots.