The Peerless Ring

In the afternoon, Jaxon spent the entire half-day preparing ingredients for the evening barbecue. To avoid the situation from last night, where everything sold out too early, he specifically prepared a large amount of ingredients, including both meat and vegetables.

However, Jaxon still underestimated his own cooking skills. When he arrived at the stall in the evening with his supplies, he found that people were already waiting for him there.

"Boss is here!"

"Boss, five skewers of pork belly, two chicken wings, two servings of chives…"

"Boss, I'll take a chicken leg, a pig's trotter, and two eggplants…"

"I want…"

Jaxon hadn't even finished setting up his things when several people had already gathered around. These people had apparently waited there just to eat his barbecue.

"Everyone, calm down. Let me finish setting up and I'll serve you one by one," Jaxon said with a smile.

At this moment, Jaxon was naturally very happy. Although he knew his cooking skills had improved and his barbecue tasted much better than before, he didn't expect that he would have such loyal customers so quickly. These people had clearly come again today because they enjoyed the barbecue he made yesterday. As a businessman, who wouldn't want repeat customers? And these customers were so eager that they waited for him in advance.

"Boss, hurry up. I can't wait any longer!"

"Me too. I was the first one here, so I should be first in line!"

"Everyone, calm down. Boss can barbecue quickly. Don't disturb him."

The customers were clearly very enthusiastic and full of anticipation for Jaxon's barbecue.

Jaxon began to barbecue. As the sky grew darker, more and more people gathered around his stall. Soon, the newly added two tables were also filled with customers.

It wasn't that Jaxon didn't want to buy more tables. The truth was, he simply didn't have enough space to store them, and it would be inconvenient to keep running back and forth.

However, Jaxon believed that even without seating, his business would still be much better than before, thanks to his current skills. After all, his barbecue tasted great.

The owners of the surrounding barbecue stalls, while attending to their few customers, looked enviously at Jaxon's side.

Since yesterday, they had noticed that their number of customers had decreased, while Jaxon's had increased significantly. Many customers had been attracted to Jaxon's stall. The stalls were not far apart, and Jaxon's sudden popularity naturally aroused the envy and jealousy of the other barbecue stall owners.

"How can a newcomer's cooking be that good? Why are there suddenly so many more customers?" someone wondered.

"Yeah, we've been in business for years, and he's only been here for a month. How can his business be better than ours now?"

"Maybe he hired shills?"

"Possibly. Nowadays, young people love to do these superficial things. Unlike us, who have always been down-to-earth and honest in business."

"Hiring shills costs money. I don't think he can keep this up for long."

"Maybe things will go back to normal tomorrow."

Due to their jealousy and distrust of Jaxon, these barbecue stall owners believed that Jaxon's so-called "good business" was just an illusion, created by people he had hired to pretend to be customers.

Jaxon was unaware of what the other stall owners were thinking. In fact, he had no time to think about it at all because he was extremely busy. Yesterday's business had already been good, but he found that today's business was even better. Since he set up his stall, he hadn't stopped for a moment. Fortunately, he had advanced cooking skills; otherwise, it would have been very difficult to maintain the quality of each barbecue under such a rush.

Because the business was even more booming than Jaxon had expected, the ingredients he had prepared, which he thought were enough, ran out again before midnight. At this time, there were still many customers waiting at his stall.

"Sorry, everyone. The barbecue is all sold out today. If you want to eat, please come again tomorrow," Jaxon said apologetically.

"Sold out again? You ran out early yesterday too. Didn't you prepare more today?"

"Boss, you don't know how to do business. You're turning away so many customers."

"Yeah, boss, think of a way to make some more."

The crowd was clearly dissatisfied with Jaxon's words, especially those who had been waiting for a long time and still hadn't gotten their food.

"I'm really sorry. I'm out of ingredients and there's nothing I can do," Jaxon said. "Why don't you try some other stalls?"

It was quite unusual for Jaxon to actively direct customers to his competitors.

"No way! I only want yours!"

"Me too. The barbecue from other places is nowhere near as good as yours."

"After tasting your barbecue, I can't even stomach the others. Boss, you should compensate me."

Jaxon smiled wryly. He didn't expect that his business was so popular that he couldn't even get rid of the customers. However, he really had no ingredients left. Even if he wanted to make more, he couldn't. In the end, he could only apologize again and promised to prepare more the next day before he was able to leave.

"It seems I still underestimated the power of advanced cooking skills," Jaxon said to himself as he packed up to go home. "Maybe I should hire someone to help?"

Although he had to personally barbecue to ensure the taste, others could still do tasks like packing, fetching ingredients, and skewering the food. With someone to help with these tasks, he would be much more relaxed.

However, this was not urgent. Jaxon's business had just started to pick up, and he hadn't saved much money yet. He could continue working alone while looking for the right person.

After returning home, it was still not midnight, so he couldn't use the transportation system yet. Jaxon went online to look up which crops or foods were more popular or more expensive. He had a large piece of empty land behind his village in the game world, and he hadn't decided what to plant yet. Moreover, he was out of gold coins. He could do some research first before making a decision.

"I'll hold off on paying the village head the 500 gold coins for now. I'll use the money to buy various seeds and plant all the empty land behind the mountain first," Jaxon thought to himself.

The village head had given him a month to pay the 500 gold coins. Previously, he thought 500 gold coins was a lot, but his last trip to the mine had earned him over a hundred gold coins. This made Jaxon feel much less pressured about the debt. Under these circumstances, he naturally wanted to plant the empty land behind the mountain as soon as possible. After all, the earlier he planted, the sooner the crops would mature.