Ina had been saving up achievement points from previous restaurant upgrades, unlocking branches, and completing daily tasks, all for today's chance to do a 20x draw at once.
[You have received 10 Rice Seeds☆, 7 Silver Coins, 10 Choose-Your-Own Seasonings☆, 1 Cotton Candy Machine★★, 10 Sweet Potato Seeds★, 10 Orange Jam★, 45 Copper Coins, 10 Creamy Strawberry Seeds★, 10 Soybean Seeds☆, 1 restaurant Decoration-Dynamic Light Curtain★★★]
[The Seed Shop has unlocked the purchase rights for Rice, Sweet Potato, Creamy Strawberry, and Soybean seeds!]
Some interesting prizes appeared. Ina called out the system, "Why are the ratings for the seeds like lettuce, potatoes, and rice empty stars, while sweet potatoes and strawberries are solid stars?"
The system answered in a matter-of-fact tone, "Higher-rated seeds are improved, high-quality seeds from the system."
Ina nodded with satisfaction. In that case, she wanted to taste the better roasted sweet potatoes and sweet, large strawberries as soon as possible.
She took out the cotton candy machine, which was a device with some history in her time. It was a square-shaped small cabinet, with the most eye-catching feature being the circular hole on the countertop and the protruding sugar outlet in the middle.
Ina also noticed a small stand on the side that could be used to secure bamboo sticks. Once the machine was started, the stand would rotate automatically with the bamboo circles, eliminating the need to manually wrap the sugar threads around the sticks.
Would everyone like cotton candy? Ina couldn't help but smile as she imagined those burly mercenaries holding a light and sweet cotton candy. However, she was sure that her two shop assistants would love it, so she poured sugar into the machine and quickly produced two fluffy cotton candies.
"Miss Ina, is this cotton?" Dusì asked, holding a cotton candy that was larger and lighter than her head, as if she couldn't feel its weight at all.
"Miss Ina, this must be edible!" Lusen had already taken a bite impatiently, "Mmm! So sweet!" His nose was covered in sugar threads, but that didn't stop him from smiling happily because he had a sweet treat.
"It's cotton candy, made from sugar."
Dusì didn't want to get sugar on her face like Rusen, so she stared at the round cotton candy, not knowing where to start. Finally, she reached out to pull a piece off, feeling its lightness and marveling, "It really is like cotton!"
She looked at Ina curiously, "Such a large piece of sugar must be expensive, right?"
Ina shook her head, "It just looks big, but it only needs a little sugar. What do you think is the right price for a cotton candy? Will everyone like it?"
Dusì stared at the cotton candy, deep in thought. She took Ina's casual question as a daily assessment. With its pure white color, the cotton candy must be made from the finest, most expensive sugar. But if, as Ina said, it only required a small spoonful, then the price could be somewhat lower.
"I think two silver coins for one would be suitable," she concluded seriously.
"Isn't that too expensive?" Ina was taken aback by the price, as she had only used a small spoonful of sugar! And the sugar was exchanged from the choose-your-own seasonings, a bag of which only cost 50 copper coins in the store and weighed a whole pound.
"of course not!" Lusen was even more excited, "If this unheard-of candy were sold in the imperial capital, nobles would even be willing to buy it with gold coins."
It seemed that she had indeed overestimated the sugar-making technology of this era. She hadn't expected that in an era where magic was so widespread, pure white sugar was still an expensive luxury.
"Magical knowledge can only be applied to the field of magic or the lives of nobles," Rusen said.
There seemed to be many contradictions in this statement. If Ina hadn't obtained the restaurant management system and inherited the black dragon bloodline, she might have already stirred up great turmoil on the continent. But now Ina had no interest in worrying about these matters; she only wanted to know if the mercenaries would consider eating cotton candy childish.
"Why would eating sugar make people feel embarrassed?" Dusì was very puzzled.
"Uh, maybe some people think that only children eat candy," Ina guessed.
"But ordinary children can't eat candy!" Lusen knew that Ina had a mysterious background and identity, but she wasn't very familiar with many things on the continent.
Ina was about to draw another 10 Draws, when she suddenly remembered that she hadn't carefully checked the function of the [Restaurant Decoration - Dynamic Light Curtain] from the last 10x. It actually made her quite heartbroken to have a decoration taking up a valued three-star spot, but after seeing the specific functions of the dynamic light curtain, she felt that its three-star rating was definitely underrated.
This was a 3D menu! When the guests focused their gaze on the dish names, a dynamic illustration of the dish would appear next to it. Imagine a first-time guest entering the restaurant with skepticism, browsing the completely unfamiliar menu on the wall, and wondering about the unheard-of food in this restaurant, only to have a delicate illustration of the food's preparation and tasting appear immediately beside them.
What is crab meat noodles? Golden crab powder is poured over white noodles fresh out of the pot, and the sauce seeps into the soft noodles. Stir it, and the whole bowl of noodles is stained with a beautiful golden color, with steam swirling around, waiting for someone to taste it.
What is a three delicacies dumpling? The thin dumpling skin is cooked until it is almost transparent, sinking and floating in boiling water. Bite open a full dumpling, and the tender juice flows out, revealing finely chopped mushroom, egg, and meat filling, and it seems as if the fragrance can already be smelled.
More importantly, this [Restaurant Decoration - Dynamic Light Curtain] is a full-series decoration, so as long as Ina is willing, all future stores can be equipped with one.
After seeing the functions of the dynamic light curtain, Ina was filled with the thought that "she's going to get rich! If she doesn't make money, who will!"
Taking advantage of the retirement of the small blackboard and the cool dynamic light curtain taking its place, Ina also adjusted the menu configuration of the restaurant.
If it weren't for the fact that there was only one restaurant in the Misty Town, Dragonflame restaurant, with its unpredictable menu, would have been flooded with complaints long ago.
With no other choice, as the restaurant had just opened and the ingredients were collected by Ina one by one, but now that some ingredients supply had stabilized, there should indeed be some fixed dishes in the restaurant.
Dishes:
Sandwich (40 copper coins)
Meat sauce spaghetti (70 copper coins)
Cola cake (40 copper coins)
Fried shrimp balls (70 copper coins)
Jam toast (mulberry jam/orange jam/apple jam) (50 copper coins)
Fang potatoes (50 copper coins)
Vegetable-stuffed crepes (80 copper coins)
Apple crepe (50 copper coins)
Desserts: Double-layer milk (30 copper coins) Cotton candy (20 copper coins) Candied apples (60 copper coins)
Soups: Tomato thick soup (50 copper coins) Mushroom thick soup (50 copper coins) Mixed vegetable soup (50 copper coins)
Drinks: Milk hot chocolate (40 copper coins) Carrot juice (30 copper coins) Apple juice (60 copper coins)
Ina also left a spot for daily specials at the bottom of the menu, as some ingredients were limited in quantity and couldn't be permanent dishes, so they could appear temporarily as daily specials.
At the same time, Ina also reached a cooperation with Hana from the bakery, and all the bread in the restaurant came from Hanna. Although the best-selling bread in her bakery was the specially made white bread hard enough to be used as a hammer, this did not mean that Hana's baking skills were not high. On the contrary, her ability to develop a bread formula suitable for consumption in the Midnight Swamp demonstrated her mastery of baking.
When Ina proposed the intention to cooperate, Hana indeed sent several different kinds of bread, each soft and delicate, perfect for making sandwiches and jam toast.
After organizing the new menu and calming her excited mood, Ina started her second 10x draw.
[You have received: Plant Nutrient Solution☆100, Copper Coins 2, Tea Tree Seedlings★10, Red Bean Seeds☆10, Glow Daisy★★★10, Agriculture and Aquaculture Techniques Compendium★★, Lettuce Seeds☆10, Copper Coins 98, Ordinary Class Guardian Puppet★★★1, Nutritious Chicken Feed☆10 bags]
[Seed shop unlocked the purchase rights for red bean and lettuce seeds!]
This time, she received 10 tea tree seedlings, which made Ina worried. The Misty Town lacked sunlight, and although tea trees were not fond of light, she didn't know if they could survive here.
The apple tree that was still contributing fresh apples to the restaurant during its peak fruiting season was planted outside the floor-to-ceiling window, still growing strong with the help of the light from the glowstones. However, there wasn't enough space outside the window to plant ten tea tree seedlings.
But then she saw a very familiar term - Glow Daisy. Did it have anything to do with glowstones?
She took it out of her backpack and saw that the Glow Daisy sounded like the name of a flower and indeed looked like a flower. However, it had grown on a glowstone vein, soaked in magical power, and had long since left the realm of plants, heavy as a rock. The Glow Daisy still maintained the appearance of a flower, but its golden petals emitted a light similar to that of glowstones. Ina would call it a low-end glowstone or a very low-end sun.
As it was only a plant affected by the glowstone vein, its magic reserve was far less than that of a glowstone, and each one could only maintain its brilliance for about ten days. When the magic power is depleted, its petals will gradually extinguish.
The system's introduction also came with good news - although the Glow Daisy had a short life, it could be recharged. As long as the Glow Daisy was placed with a large number of glowstones, it would gradually absorb magic power and glow again.
Coincidentally, Ina had a super large battery in her backpack, which couldn't be used because of its strong power, but it was perfect for charging.
If she had more Glow Daisies, she could cultivate more land and grow other plants. She had specifically asked Mayor Rosa if there were any rules about using the town's land. Rosa told her that the Misty Town encouraged cultivation and breeding, and any unclaimed land could be used freely.
However, there were countless prizes in the pool, and Ina didn't know when she would draw Glow Daisies again. She could only carefully plan the area that these ten Glow Daisies could cover.
She went to the backyard of the restaurant, planted two rows of tea tree seedlings, and inserted the Glow Daisies in between the tea tree seedlings. Thanks to the Agriculture and Aquaculture Techniques Compendium she got in the same draw, Ina learned that a row spacing of 25m and a spacing of 2m was suitable for tea tree seedlings. Tea trees like light but are shade-tolerant and do not tolerate strong light. She used a total of five Glow Daisies, illuminating nearly 500 square meters of land, ensuring that this intensity of light would not harm the tea trees.
However, Glow Daisies won't work like the sun and take regular breaks; the tea plantation does not need 24-hour lighting. Ina prepared to cultivate another plot of the same size and specification nearby, taking turns to receive the light from Glow Daisies. However, the temperature in the Misty Town was not high at the moment, so she had to carefully consider what crops to plant.
[You have acquired the industry [Tea Plantation]! Congratulations on completing the hidden task: The restaurant's industries cover all four fields of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries, unlocking the feed and fertilizer shop!]
Ina opened the feed and fertilizer shop and found a wide variety of items inside. There were corresponding feeds for every animal Ina could think of, some of which were even subdivided into feeds for young and adult animals.
Fish feed, chicken feed, and plant fertilizer were what she needed right now.
[High-efficiency Plant Fertilizer: Suitable for all plants, accelerates growth, and effectively reduces pests and diseases. Price: 1 silver coin/10 pounds]
[Premium Adult Chicken Feed: Adult chicken-specific feed, rich in nutrients, promotes chicken growth, and reduces the time it takes for chickens to reach market weight. Price: 1 silver coin/50 pounds]
[Nutritious Fish Feed (Carnivorous and Omnivorous Fish Specialized): Balanced nutrition, increases fish growth speed. Price: 1 silver coin/50 pounds]
Both fertilizers and feeds had the function of accelerating growth, so Ina immediately bought five bags of high-efficiency plant fertilizer, as well as ten bags each of premium adult chicken feed and nutritious fish feed. She planned to send them to Frank and the lizard in the next few days.
The Ordinary Class Guardian Puppet she had drawn was taken out by Ina to act as a security guard for the restaurant. This puppet had a strength of around level 40, which was just ten levels higher than ordinary mercenaries. Although not very powerful, it was enough for the restaurant.
When Ina was not in the restaurant, the Guardian Puppet would maintain order in the restaurant and throw any potential troublemakers out.