He had planned on chewing it once and swallow it and send Lin Yu'an packing but as the pork went into his mouth and he chewed for the first time shopkeeper Quing was stunned. The juice from the dish melted in his mouth making him chew over and over again reluctant to swallow, the onlookers who's eyes were on him the whole time swallowed their salivas as they watched him. Shopkeeper Quing was stunned again as he tasted the fried noodles and then the Scallion pancakes, after tasting he began to chomp down the dishes quickly throwing away his noble look until he was called by the waiter " boss! boss! how was it " shopkeeper looked embarrassed as he came back to his senses looking at the swallowing hard waiter before glancing at Lin Yu'an who had an aloof face the whole time watching " let's go to the back and talk " Lin Yu'an noded and followed the shopkeeper to the backyard of the restaurant,
" how much does little brother Yu'an intends to sell the recipe for the three dishes " shopkeeper Quing asked as soon as they both sat down not intending to talk any nonsense, Lin Yu'an sneered in heart hearing how the shopkeeper Quing was now addressing him. " shopkeeper Quing has tasted the dishes i prepared and knows it's value more than me since shopkeeper is a business man, you see those recipes were what my dead mother left me. To be honest I never intended to sell the only thing my mother left me but i recently got into a debt and urgently in need of money that's why I came to sell " Lin Yu'an sighed emotionally as he told the lie he came up with,
Shopkeeper Quing quietly listened to him obviously not believing it but he made no attempt to cut Lin Yu'an off " shopkeeper Quing i won't make things hard for you, how about 150 taels of silver for a recipe.... " " why don't you just rob! " shopkeeper Quing shouted hearing the price Lin Yu'an was giving, in this era a tael of gold was equivalent to 10 taels of silver ( 2,000 yuan ), a tael of silver was equivalent to 1,000 weni ( 200 yuan ) and one weni was equivalent to 0.2 yuan. So 150 taels for a recipe was really expensive in this era but Lin Yu'an still thought it was worth it. Because the dishes were novelty and he was so sure shopkeeper Quing will make more than the price mentioned for the recipe because with shopkeeper Quing's shrewdness there was no way he'd price the dishes cheap. " shopkeeper Quing what are you saying... hear me out first. I will sign a contract with you saying that I'll sell the recipe to only you and it won't be sold in any other restaurants apart from yours and if i go back on the contract I'll compensate you a 1,000 taels but if the recipes were to fall into other people's hands due to you not being vigilant then i won't be compensating you for anything.
And anyway shopkeeper Quing is a business man and should know that these dishes will sell more than what I priced you.... " shopkeeper Quing listened to him silently as if thinking hard about it, Lin Yu'an sneered inwardly seeing that he intends to use his shrewdness on him " if brother Quing still thinks the price isn't worth the recipes then..... I'll take them to try at another restaurant " Lin Yu'an abruptly stood and started to walk slowly while sneaking a peek at brother Quing who was also following him with his eyes, when brother Quing saw that Lin Yu'an had no intention of stoping he quickly called out to him " ah little brother Yu'an come back we have a deal! " Lin Yu'an silently jubiliated in heart and went back to take his seat again " little brother Yu'an's shrewdness exceeds far more than mine.... little brother Yu'an will be a great businessman if he gets into business " brother Quing couldn't help but say making Lin Yu'an laugh sheepishly. " brother Quing will have another competitor if i get into business " they both laughed out loud at Lin Yu'an's joke but brother Quing took it to heart seeing how good Lin Yu'an was at talking business with him, well the price of the recipes were really expensive but as Lin Yu'an said brother Quing wouldn't suffer a loss at all.
If all the restaurants under the Quing family sold these dishes where would they suffer the loss and by no means would the price of the dishes be cheap. Brother Quing had one of the servants brought rice papers, brush and ink stone. He wrote down a detailed contract and Lin Yu'an carefully read before signing. Lin Yu'an also wrote down the three recipes in detail for him even writing suggestions for him to follow, brother Quing glanced at Lin Yu'an after he checked the recipes and even admired Lin Yu'an's calligraphy " i didn't know that little brother Yu'an could read and his calligraphy is a top notch " " well " Lin Yu'an let out a low laugh not intending to explain and brother Quing also made no intention of intruding on.
Being able to read and write using the brush was all thanks to him learning Chinese medicine, he was so thankful that what he learnt as a hobby could be useful to him now. " brother Quing i have two recipes of dim sums are you interested? 200 hundred taels for both "
Lin Yu'an said making brother Quing arched his brows and watched him " ..... yes, write them down " Lin Yu'an smiled happily and wrote them down, after settling thier business deal brother Quing had someone being Lin Yu'an a pouch containing 650 taels of silver, Lin Yu'an was so excited receiving the heavy pouch of silvers.
[ Ding! Task First Pot Of Gold completed! Host can receive his rewards now, 500 points received for completing task.]
Lin Yu'an heard the notification sound as he was busy celebrating his first earnings in heart, he was surprised to hear that since that wasn't the task given to him. " System what does that mean.... when did i get another task? " Lin Yu'an asked the system in his head. " Some tasks which are yet not given to host can be completed by host without knowing, so naturally host will receive the rewards and points for those tasks " after hearing the system's explanation Lin Yu'an no longer cared about it, as long as he complete the tasks then it didn't matter to him.
Lin Yu'an was so immersed in his thoughts that he didn't hear brother Quing talk to him until he was shoved lightly on the shoulder " what was little brother Yu'an thinking about that he didn't hear what i was saying " brother Quing asked. " ah sorry, something came across my mind but it's nothing now. So what did brother Quing say? " Lin Yu'an asked " i said little brother Yu'an should sell to me when you obtain good things like today " " naturally " Lin Yu'an agreed to sell to him.... it was good to do business with an insider rather than an outsider, he considers brother Quing an insider since he could tell his character from the memories of the previous owner and talking to brother Quing now too, so why would he give himself another work of finding a new buyer. Lin Yu'an walk out of the restaurant after everything was settled, " is he really Lin Yu'an? he seems like a different person today, well that's good I hope he's changed for the best! " the shopkeeper said to the little waiter who nodded to his words, because they were all shocked with Lin Yu'an's behavior.
Lin Yu'an who was being missed didn't know as he found a place with no body intending to exchange silver with points. " system mall " the holographic system store appeared to him as he thought loud, he first checked his points which uses to be 0 now turn to 500 points, he was belated. He saw the notification sign showing 1 seemingly there was an unread message which he click on it
[ Receive reward for completing task : First Pot Of Gold. Host can chose to exchange rewards for points. ]
The reward giving to him by the system was a box of playing card, seeing what the reward was Lin Yu'an decided to accept it calmly thinking that was another pot of gold in this era! He decided to trying exchanging silver for points starting by a tael of silver, his points which were 500 changed to 501. It was shocking turn of events to him, ' this system is robbing! ' Lin Yu'an thought
System ".... "
he earned a sneer from the system which chose silence instead of defending and explaining itself, how could good things be cheap! the system expressed. Lin Yu'an bit down the bullets and exchange 500 taels of silvers into points making his points 1,000. Lin Yu'an's heart bled seeing the remaining of the silvers left but for him to be prosperous he needed the things in the system mall. " there's no free lunch in the world! " Lin Yu'an murmured comforting himself.
[ Ding! Tasks First Exchange With System Completed! Receive your reward, 300 points received ]
[ Ding! 10,000/ 8,700 points left to upgrading system to level 2 ]
Ling Yu'an read the new notifications making him happy and twitching at the same time, he was happy for unknowingly completing another task but the points to upgrade to level two was too much of a headache now to him. Looking at his points which was now 1,300 and the remaining points to upgrade he couldn't help but twitch. He needed to start making money fast and start setting up a foothold, he decided not to receive the reward for completing the task yet.... Lin Yu'an closed the system mall before making his way to his next business target.
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