my magic industry

Chapter 18 Slave Market
Encouraged by the incredible profits of the cake shop, Hurley and her mother exploded with amazing enthusiasm and desperately learned the various points of making cakes.

When making cakes, the part of the cake body that is baked in the hearth is the most difficult to master. If you are not careful, the soft cake body will burn and affect the flavor of the cake. Even Xia Lin failed several times in the first experiment, wasting A lot of material.

However, they overcame this difficulty by relying on repeated practice and making, so that the family basically didn't eat much in the past two days, and they ate cakes that failed to bake every day.

During this time, those who had tasted delicious cakes and puddings that morning also referred to the Karl Cake Shop on Silverfish Avenue near the North District Wharf, which made a new type of dessert that "even the emperor ate it full of praise" word of mouth.

As for how His Majesty the Emperor got the cake while he was sick in bed, it was selectively ignored by those who didn't know the palace news.

In order to achieve the effect of marketing, Xia Lin disregarded the opposition of her mother and Hurley on the first day, and took out a whole ten-inch cherry cake for new customers to try. Now the rewards for her bold efforts are gradually favoring Carl's Bakery.

The entrance of Carl's Cake Shop is crowded with people almost every day, and occasionally there are a few servants sent to buy cakes because of the master's curiosity.

The servants of these nobles or merchants wore bright clothes and sat in the carriage anxiously waiting with the number plates Xia Lin gave them, for fear that they would miss the last cake and be scolded by the master when they went back.

After all, there are only three people running Carl's Cake Shop, and they can't bake cakes all day long. In order not to affect the refining of sugar and ensure the supply contracted with Greg Chamber of Commerce, they can only produce eight cakes a day.

Thanks to the consumption power contributed by these nobles and merchants, the cakes baked by Karl's Bakery are sold out every day.

The narrow storefront can hardly accommodate so many customers, and Carl's Cake Shop has no packaging boxes for packing. Customers who are tempted by the magic of cakes and puddings bring their own wooden plates and boxes to carry and taste them. It can be seen that the cakes and puddings How powerful is the charm of pudding.

And this is only two or three days since the opening of Carl's Cake Shop.

Seeing that Carl's Cake Shop was on the right track, Xia Lin decided to let his mother and younger sister run the cake shop. For the past few days, he would spend a little time every night teaching Hurley to learn Arabic numerals and four arithmetic operations so that she could remember them by herself. account.

Hurley's memory is very good. After learning these few days, she has learned simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations, and she has quickly learned how to keep accounts. Although she still can't make Xia Lin completely at ease, it is always Xia Lin's help.

Xia Lin also thought of her sister-in-law, Bessie. Compared to Hurley, who is less daring to solicit customers in front of the crowd, Bessie, who is lively and cheerful by nature, is more suitable for the post of Kanban lady.

However, before Xia Lin took action, their sister-in-law Bessie and Anthony came to the store.

It turned out that Anthony, who looked simple and honest, but actually had a lot of fun, took a few pieces of cake in the morning to please his sister-in-law and his future father-in-law.

After tasting the delicacy of the cake, Bessie didn't even care about the business of the blacksmith shop at home, and took Anthony to Carl's Cake Shop.

Relying on the sister-in-law's privilege, she tasted the brown sugar pudding and the other two flavors of cake satisfactorily. When she heard that Xia Lin wanted her to be the kanban lady, she hit it off and stayed, and Anthony was driven back by her. Help your father continue to forge.

Although Hurley has let go a lot now, and she is no longer so awkward when receiving customers, but compared to Bessie, who is naturally lively and cheerful, she is completely blown out in her ability to deal with people.

Soon the atmosphere in Karl's Cake Shop was fully controlled by Bessie. Seeing that she handled every customer's request properly and everyone felt at home, Xia Lin couldn't help but sigh that some people's emotional intelligence is born with high.

As for Xia Lin, his assets had swelled to 25 gold lunds and 73 silver mars in the past three days, excluding copper bis.

Among them, Ellen earned [-] jinlents from the cake making method, and [-] jinlents from the white sugar business in three days. Xia Lin had one jinlent left in savings of dozens of silver mals, and the rest It's all the cake shop's income for the past three days.

And this money is already enough to buy two strong slaves to replace father and Harper who are tired and out of breath like old cows pulling mills every day.

One of them is his father, and the other is a promising first-ring mage. How can they do such unskilled manual work every day.

After buying two strong slaves, Xia Lin was going to let his father take care of the small sugar workshop, and it was time for him and Harper to start magic research.

By the way, Xia Lin is also planning to buy a young slave with a foundation in writing and arithmetic to train him as an assistant in his business.

Such a role is similar to that of a steward in a noble family chamber of commerce. Generally speaking, this kind of person is a confidant who was cultivated by nobles or businessmen from an early age as an elite manservant. If they are hired, loyalty cannot be guaranteed, and Xia Lin is naturally prepared. Learn what they do.

Talked to Harper about the plan to buy slaves, and by the way, also to consult about this news.

However, Harper didn't know much about the slave trade. He only knew that there was a slave market called "Foske" by the people of the imperial capital in the wharf area of ​​the South District.

In Sassen, Fusk means everything, which shows the scale of this slave market.

Putting on the long-lost mage robe to avoid unnecessary troubles, Xia Lin called a carriage on the side of the street and set off for the southern district without hesitation, and soon came to the Fusk slave market.

Compared with other markets, the atmosphere of the slave market is quite different.

Outside the fairly large market, the entire market was surrounded by tall wooden fences. There were heavily armed guards standing on both sides of the passing gate. They looked fierce, obviously not simple.

On both sides of the road inside, you can see the log cages placed at the entrances of various slave trade associations, in which ragged or even naked slaves are locked.

From time to time, aristocratic carriages carved with family crests and luxurious merchant carriages parked in the open space at the entrance, and people in different clothes descended from them. It seems that this slave market has a rule that prohibits carriages from entering.

Xia Lin was wearing a mage robe. Although he was not treated differently, no one stopped him. As soon as he entered the market, a man with a mustache and a cunning face greeted him:
"Master Master, do you need to buy servants? We have slaves from all over the empire and surrounding kingdoms, the natives in the south, the Thanes in the east, the believers in the north, the Priusians in the west, and even We have a new batch of half-elves and demi-humans further west!"

"So many types of slaves? Can you introduce them to me carefully?"

Hearing that there are still legendary half-elfs and demi-humans here, Xia Lin was a little surprised, and then asked.

(End of this chapter)