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Chapter 148: One Silver Coin a Cup
“Of course,” Liu Feng said, smiling and nodding his head. However, before North Wind City’s City Lord could get too excited, Liu Feng continued. “However, the secret recipe is currently still in development. There will be some time before I can start selling them.”
There was no “secret recipe”. The problem was raw materials- mainly eggs. Domesticating and raising animals wasn’t a thing yet, so the only chicken available were wild chicken- meaning that chicken eggs were actually quite scarce in this world.
There was also the problem with sugar. Liu Feng had just recently planted the sugarcane, so he couldn’t harvest them for sugar until next year.
“Uh…” North Wind City’s City Lord’s jaw dropped. Who speaks in multiple phrases like that? He blankly looked at the cookies on the plate and decided to save them and eat them slowly.
“Please wait patiently,” Liu Feng said, taking a sip of his coffee. He had no plans to just sell raw materials- he planned to make money by manufacturing items and selling the finished products.
“I am looking forward to it,” North Wind City’s City Lord said. He sighed and picked up the coffee in front of him. The slightly milky fragrance intoxicated him a bit, and he took a sip of it.
“Hiss… hot!” North Wind City’s City Lord opened his mouth and fanned it with his hand in an attempt to cool down the coffee in his mouth. Even though it was burning his tongue, he was unwilling to spit it out.
“Phew…” North Wind City’s City Lord finally managed to swallow the coffee after a long time. He felt as if he was sweating, but he didn’t care about that. He felt like he had opened a door to a new world as he stared at the coffee in his hand.
North Wind City’s City Lord usually drank bitter leaf tea, even though he didn’t like it. It was so bitter that his face would twist just by drinking it. One might ask why he kept drinking it if he hated it so much. Well, it was a tradition passed down by many, many generations of nobles, and he was just honoring the tradition and following it. As for other reasons and benefits of drinking bitter leaf tea, he left them up to the scholars to find.
After drinking coffee, which, to him, tasted a thousand times better than bitter leaf tea, he did not want to go back and suffer the punishment of drinking bitter leaf tea again. His hand was trembling as he excitedly asked, “Y- your Excellency Liu Feng, this- what is this called?”
“This is called cof- this is milk tea,” Liu Feng said, changing his answer. He had no way of making coffee currently aside from Earth. He wasn’t going to buy coffee from Earth to sell them- he was only bringing them from Earth to enjoy it himself.
“Is this milk tea for sale? I can offer 20 silver coins per kilogram,” North Wind City’s City Lord said, staring at Liu Feng in anticipation. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝔀𝓮𝘣𝘯𝘰𝘷𝑒𝓵.𝒸𝑜𝘮
Liu Feng smiled slightly. Since this world only has 2 drinks- wheat wine and bitter leaf tea- the appearance of a better drink was bound to drive people crazy.
“Of course. This is currently slowly being produced, but the production is super low, so the price…” Liu Feng said, lying without skipping a beat.
Mina’s hands shook. She knew that the drink was called milk coffee and only the inner vault had it, so she was confused as to why Liu Feng said that it was milk tea and that it was in production.
“I’ve had enough of bitter leaf tea!” North Wind City’s City Lord said with an extravagant aura, waving his hand. “Money isn’t a problem. I just want this milk tea.” For people with a sweet tooth, making them drink bitter leaf tea was akin to murdering them. However, the witch doctors said that they would get sick if they only ate pastries and didn’t drink bitter leaf tea at all, and since this knowledge and tradition have been passed down for many generations, North Wind City’s City Lord had no choice to follow it.
“Your Excellency, did you see the paper packet that contained the milk tea?” Liu Feng asked.
“Yes,” North Wind City’s City Lord nodded his head.
“That small packet costs one silver coin, meaning that the cup of milk tea in your hand is worth one 1 silver coin,” Liu Feng said. The paper packet Liu Feng was talking about was only 25 grams. One could only imagine just how much money he would be making from this.
“What?” North Wind City’s City Lord’s hand shook, almost spilling the milk tea in his hand. “Your Excellency, you not joking, are you?”
“No no, I’m not joking. I originally didn’t have any intentions of selling them and was only planning to drink them myself,” Liu Feng said, shaking his head. Although he had no plans to sell coffee, he already thought of substitute products that he could sell. He would be able to make them with the stuff in this world, but the production was going to be very low.
“This…” North Wind City’s City Lord lost his extravagant aura almost completely. He dumbfoundedly stared at the milk tea in his hand, surprised at Liu Feng’s extravagance at drinking one silver coin away every day.
“I buy a gold coin worth of milk tea for now,” North Wind City’s City Lord said, gritting his teeth. I’ll just split the packets to use 3 or 4 times. That’ll save me money.
“Sure, I will have it sent along with the canned fish in 10 days,” Liu Feng said, nodding.
“Okay,” North Wind City’s City Lord said, slowly sitting down. He felt that his back was full of sweat as he had spent quite a lot of money just for some food.
After the exchange, the place got pretty quiet. North Wind City’s City Lord quietly drank his coffee, occasionally taking a cookie and stuffing it into his mouth. The noblewomen around him continuously swallowed their saliva as they watched him enjoy his meal.
Liu Feng looked at them in amusement, and then he gave his cup of coffee and cookies to Mina under the jealous gazes of the noblewomen.
“Your Excellency, I want to buy wheat from you this time as well,” Liu Feng said.
“Oh? Sure?” North Wind City’s City Lord froze for a bit and then immediately nodded his head. “I’ll sell it to you at market price with a 10% discount.”
“Thank you, Your Excellency,” Liu Feng said, smiling lightly. A 10% discount would save him quite a bit of silver coins.
“No, thank you, Your Excellency. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have known about such delicious things in the world,” North Wind City’s City Lord said sincerely.
“I’m a foodie, and I’m also very picky, so I experiment and try to make things that fit my taste,” Liu Feng said, smiling lightly.
“That’s a good habit. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to taste such delicious food either,” North Wind City’s City Lord said, nodding his head. He could already tell how picky Liu Feng was- he had noticed that Liu Feng had brought his own tableware to use.
“We’ve disturbed you for a long time today, and it’s about time we take our leave,” Liu Feng said, slowly standing up.
Hearing that, Mina quickly finished the coffee and shoved the rest of her cookies into her mouth. She then smiled smugly at the noblewomen who were staring at her, then picked up the backpack and stood behind Liu Feng.
“Let me see you off,” North Wind City’s City Lord said, standing up with difficulty.
“No need,” Liu Feng said, waving his hand. He smiled, nodded, and walked away. Seeing North Wind City’s City Lord’s hand on the cookies, he could tell that North Wind City’s City Lord wasn’t seeing him off sincerely but was instead trying to protect his food.