As expected of the second-ranked Chamber of Commerce in the Empire, it is highly efficient.
On the second day, Apdos sent someone to tell me that the chefs were already in place, and they were not ordinary chefs. According to her, even if they were allowed to open a hotel directly, they would not necessarily be worse than the Sky Blue Hotel. I suspect that they might all be the royal chefs in the palace.
However, the biggest advantage of the Sky Blue Hotel is that it has a very complete precious food supply system.
They have special personnel who purchase the corpses of monsters in various places, obtain a large amount of meat from them, and put them in the space ring for continuous delivery.
The biggest advantage of the space ring is that the items in the ring are in a completely static state, and there will be no problems such as rotting.
Therefore, even if the current chefs are not inferior to the Sky Blue Hotel in cooking skills, it is still not an easy task to open a hotel that surpasses the Sky Blue.
But the cooking skills I have mastered can turn decay into magic,
Use the most ordinary ingredients to prepare the most delicious food.
The Laiya Academy is naturally not an ideal place to teach cooking, so Apdos found a manor near the academy and gave it to me as a prepayment.
Because the continent has always been sparsely populated, even in the prosperous imperial capital of Osdre, housing is still mainly manors.
Commoners can't afford manors, so they can only live in the civilian area in the west of the city, where there are low bungalows.
The manors around the Laiya Academy are not much cheaper even compared with the noble areas in the east of the city.
Using such a manor as a prepayment is definitely a big deal. Obviously, such a reward is absolutely unreasonable and must be the idea of King Rokara.
The next afternoon, accompanied by Apdos, I left the academy with the people in my apartment and came to this manor.
After hearing about it, Tek and his friends placed great hopes on this hotel that has not yet opened. At the same time, they were surprised that I actually had another manor out of thin air, so they had to come and see it.
"Director Edmund, this manor is specially given to you by Fengwu Chamber of Commerce to compensate for the share you refused. Now, there are 60 warrior guards and 60 slaves in the manor, including 30 men and 30 women. All expenses are paid by the Chamber of Commerce. I hope Director Edmund will be satisfied!" Apdos introduced.
After a tour in the manor, everyone couldn't help but be surprised. This manor covers a huge area. There are pavilions, flowers, trees, rockery and stone forests. There is even a winding stream flowing in the manor. The stream water is clear and you can see the bottom. Various fish shuttle back and forth in the water. Although it is not as magnificent as the general's mansion, it is beautiful and secluded, and it is another scene.
Lan Ya exclaimed: "This is too much! The hotel hasn't even opened yet, but they've already given you a manor like this. Fengwu Chamber of Commerce is indeed the second largest chamber of commerce in the empire. It's really generous."
I was silent, frowning slightly, and secretly regretting agreeing to co-operate with Apdos in the hotel.
Looking at this posture, King Rokara obviously hasn't given up on winning me over. If he really accepts me, I'm afraid that trouble will be inevitable in the future.
Philiya's attention has always been on me. Seeing me frown, he said softly: "Let's not have this manor!"
I turned around and looked around, and found that except for the simple Nick and the naive Lan Ya, the others were all confused, and Qin Si frowned and looked worried.
Alice was also very unusual, not at all happy and excited when she first arrived at the apartment last time.
With a faint smile, I said to Apdos who was leading the way: "I'm sorry, I really can't accept such a manor. I can borrow it for a while as a place to teach cooking skills. Once the chefs have mastered the essentials of cooking, I will have nothing to do with this manor."
Although the tone was not high, there was incomparable firmness in the voice.
Apdos had already felt bad after discovering that it was such a manor, but the value of this manor may not be much less than that of a large hotel, so as long as she thought about it a little, she could find the problem.
During this period, she also vaguely understood my temper from Philiya, and knew that once I really made a decision, I would never change it.
So, in addition to secretly cursing King Rokara for being too hasty, she could only smile bitterly and nodded.
Seeing those chefs, we were shocked again.
Twenty people in a row were wearing neat white chef robes, tall white hats, and neat skirts. Most importantly, these twenty people were all beauties. Although they could not be compared with Philiya and others, they were also as beautiful as flowers, plump and thin, which made people dazzled.
Looking at Apdos in doubt, she quickly explained: "I originally thought that it would be sister Philiya who would teach cooking, so I specially found so many female chefs to come, but I didn't expect..."
I smiled slightly, and I couldn't help but be satisfied with their arrangement.
I really have no interest in teaching them cooking, and if Philiya teaches, female chefs will naturally be much better than male chefs.
It's not that I think there is anything wrong with letting Philiya teach male chefs, but from the effect point of view, male chefs may find it difficult to concentrate when facing her.
However, watching so many beautiful female chefs frying, stir-frying, stewing and deep-frying together is really a pleasing thing.
For several days in a row, I took half a day every day to accompany Philiya to the manor to teach cooking skills, and even gave up the time to study magic for this.
The reason why I am so enthusiastic about this is that I don't want to eat those "unpalatable" foods every time I go out to eat.
I even hope that I can use this to promote the flourishing of food culture on this continent. It would be ideal if I can eat good food everywhere I go.
Still in the palace of the Os Empire, still in the study, King Rokara frowned and listened to Apdos's report, saying: "You said he refused this manor without hesitation?"
Apdos replied coldly: "Yes, it is because the manor is too good, so he refused."
King Rokara was silent for a long time, then sighed: "I was indeed a little too hasty. It's just that I was too eager to get his help. If those spiritual medicines were really obtained by himself, then his strength is definitely not as simple as a sword saint."
Spiritual medicines have always been guarded by holy beasts. Those who can get spiritual medicines naturally cannot be just sword saints.
Apdos' voice was still cold, saying: "It is precisely because of his strong strength that he can't take money very seriously. With his strength, it is easy for him to get money. Moreover, I have never found a trace of desire in his eyes."
Of course, I am not without desire, but with the practice of Xiaoyao Jue, power and wealth are no longer what I care about.
After all, I have only known Apdos for a short time, so it is impossible for her to really understand me.
King Rokara was silent again. How can he use someone without desire?
Apdos was also silent. Although she had seen countless people, this was the first time she had seen such an indifferent person.
With her shrewdness, she naturally saw Qinsi's feelings for me. No human man on the continent has ever been able to refuse the feelings of a female elf, but I just turned a blind eye to it.
I can give up the sky-high manor without any regrets, and even reduce the share of the hotel by half. Will such a person really work for King Rokara?
After a long time, King Rokara waved his hand and said, "Let's put Edmund's matter aside for the time being! In a short period of time, you should try to get closer to him, and let the rest take its course!"
On the way back to the academy, everyone was in high spirits, including the greedy Lan Ya and Rank, and Nick took this opportunity to eat as much as he could.
In one afternoon, I taught the chefs how to cook more than ten dishes. Although their dishes were not authentic, they were experienced chefs after all. So after several experiments, they could cook them well.
The dishes they cooked were of course sold to them first.
Tek was fascinated by my knife skills when I cut vegetables.
There are countless people on Earth who know the principle of butchering an ox, but no one here knows it.
You can easily enter the gap with nothing. Watching the knife in my hand rotating and moving, cutting the materials into various required shapes in a blink of an eye, and quickly removing the thorns and bones of various living things, he knew that he was still far behind in terms of skills.
Compared to Tek, Qinsi, who is not good at martial arts, can see my knife skills more thoroughly.
The elves' physique is too advantageous in some aspects. Good innate conditions give Qinsi a good eye far beyond that of humans.
Tek couldn't see the knife skills clearly, but Qinsi could see them almost exactly. Seeing the small kitchen knife dancing in my hand, she was surprised and admired.
Philiya is also studying cooking. Although I taught her a lot before, she had never seen many dishes because of the lack of materials.
Now, with the food prepared by Fengwu Chamber of Commerce, I taught her a few dishes she had never seen before, which can be regarded as a small abuse of power for personal gain.
Thinking back then, when I was in the mountains, the old man collected countless recipes for me to satisfy his own appetite.
If I really want to teach, it will take several years to teach. What Philiya is proficient in now is only a small part of it.