Chapter 441: High salary poaching, the victim comes
Although the Ezo Sea Area is located in the hinterland of the East China Sea, it has really changed greatly after being developed by the Zhengdao Sect!
Lin Shan came to Ezo Island and found that there was a cultivation shop market opened here!
"Ezo Sea Market".
He was a little surprised!
Sea markets are generally found in prosperous transit areas in various sea areas, or on islands with strong aura.
He remembered that there was at most a miniature spiritual vein on Ezo Island. The reason why a sea market could be opened on it now was probably because of its geographical location.
The location of Haishi happens to be centered on the cave where he originally preached. It is not big or small, but it also has nearly a thousand cultivators gathered, most of whom are casual cultivators who come here to catch shrimps.
It turns out that this is what happened:
After the Ezo sea area was developed by Autumn Maple Valley, it lacked a large number of manpower, so notices were issued to the East China Sea and the mainland, encouraging loose cultivators to come over to the sea. Many people were tempted by the huge rewards.
Form a group and go out to sea to fish for more than ten days. Once they are open and return safely, the deep-sea shrimps they catch will be enough for them to make a lot of money, which is far better than working hard. However, monks during the Qi training period are still relatively fragile in the sea.
A big wave hits, and if the boat capsizes, it will be a big mistake.
Coupled with unknown factors such as heavy storms and ocean monster attacks, the mortality rate is not low, making it a relatively dangerous industry.
However, casual cultivators are like weeds, they are cut over and over again, and they are worthless if they are dead and harvested again.
A large number of new people flocked here every year, so many merchants settled here. Over time, Qiu Maple Valley took the lead and opened a sea market as a camp for going to sea.
When Lin Shan walked in, a fishy smell from the sea market hit his nostrils. Many monks passing by had it, many of whom had just returned from the sea.
Most of the roadside stalls sell seafood, such as scallops, musk fish, red oysters, blue crabs, etc., as well as various kinds of Pipi shrimps, red shrimps, white shrimps, golden king shrimps, and Xueying shrimps. Shrimp and his ilk.
The large-scale sect Qiu Maple Valley also has a special recycling shop in Haishi, but the quality requirements are relatively high, and they need to be alive, intact, and large, so a lot of seafood is screened out.
Those that were dead or had some flaws were taken to the sea market and sold at stalls.
Many casual practitioners who come from other places to purchase goods or who want to try new products tend to buy them from small stalls for the sake of cost-effectiveness.
Lin Shan ignored the hawkers along the way and walked directly into the largest restaurant in Haishi, just in time to satisfy his appetite.
Since he broke through the golden elixir stage, except for various banquets, he has not enjoyed good food for a long time.
The various delicacies in the world of cultivation are actually worth exploring. With his current worth, it is not impossible for him to be a gourmet who travels around all day long.
Now that I'm revisiting the old place, I can't help but recall the green days and my appetite is aroused.
"Fishing Port Township".
The name of this restaurant is friendly to the people, but the prices are not so friendly. The owner behind it is Qiu Maple Valley.
He raised his feet and crossed the threshold, and was immediately greeted by a boy.
"Hey, how many guests are there?"
"One person."
"Please come inside!"
Although you can tell by looking at the decoration that it is not cheap, all floors inside are still full of people. Most of the monks are sitting at a table, and it is very lively to exchange glasses for glasses.
Lin Shan was led to the small table by the window on the third floor. The scenery here was good and the view was wide. He could see a large number of ships anchored in the port, some of which were preparing to go to sea.
Although the magic vessel in the world of cultivation can be made larger or smaller and can be stored in a storage bag, it is relatively expensive, so casual cultivators naturally use ordinary wooden sailing boats.
Ordinary ships cannot change size, and they do not have as much space to store magic weapons, so they can only park at the port and have to pay additional parking fees.
The waiter brought the menu and put it on the table for him to look at.
Lin Shan was too lazy to look further, so he just waved his hand!
"Serve me all the signature dishes of your store!"
"Okay~"
The boy turned around and went downstairs to deliver the message, which was a great pleasure. Looking at this young man's dress and temperament, it is obvious that he is either rich or noble. Don't worry about not being able to pay for the meal, just ask the chef to show off!
In the past, Lin Shan's temperament was a bit cautious, especially when he was in Yichuan. Others knew that he was a poor boy at a glance.
Now the strength is different, and with the power to establish a sect, the temperament has been gradually developed.
Watching people serve food is a must-have item in a restaurant, and the waiter naturally knows what to do.
After a while, the chef gave him priority.
Plate after plate of rare delicacies were served, and in a blink of an eye the table was filled to the brim, and someone was there to introduce them to him.
"This dish is called Dragon Palace Xianbao! It uses deep-sea lobster as the main ingredient, combined with turtle lings and crab paste, and is stewed in stock. It has a delicious taste and is a specialty of our restaurant."
Lin Shan tasted it and found that it was indeed very tender, the soup was rich, fragrant and delicious. If it were tasted by a monk in the Qi training stage, the spiritual energy contained in it would probably be overwhelming after just two bites. It is just right in the foundation building stage.
But for Jin Danqi, it is just a taste, and spiritual energy and the like are of little use to him.
“My lord, look at this dish, it’s called Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang! It’s also our signature dish!”
Lin Shan wiped his mouth and looked down. There was indeed a dragon and a phoenix on the plate in the soup.
"Dragon and Phoenix? What are they made of?"
"Jixingban, also known as dragon-billed fish, water gull, also known as white-headed phoenix!"
"Then why don't you just call Yuniao Chengxiang? It's better for Dragon and Phoenix to do this."
Lin Shan picked up his chopsticks speechlessly and took two bites. It was pretty good. He expected that this small restaurant didn't have the ability to make dragon and phoenix dishes. He really dared to name them. Bragging would scare people to death.
If they were really dragons and phoenixes, they probably wouldn't even be worth a piece of meat if they were sold.
The guy was very thick-skinned, so he didn't take it seriously and continued to introduce it to him.
"Look at this dish, it's called Golden Armor in the City! How about it? It's so grand and worthy of your temperament!"
Lin Shan looked down and saw a yellow, winding city wall, full of little men in golden armor. They were really lifelike.
"Yes, the workmanship is a bit realistic."
He looked at them one by one. Each golden figure had a different look, but they had no legs and curly tails below their waists.
There are hundreds of them on this city wall, so the chef's workload is more than a bit heavy!
"Haha, my guest has misunderstood. The little people here are from the East China Sea Seahorse Tribe. They are born the size of a finger. We catch them and smolder them with spiritual fire, and then water them with soup. They are crunchy and crispy. Try it. Taste?”
Lin Shan heard about the seahorse clan for the first time. Isn't this the little human clan in the sea? He was also served a human recipe, which was quite unusual. He picked it up and tasted it, and it was indeed very crispy.
Next, he tasted the dishes one by one. The name of this dish was fancy, but the taste was still good, and it was full of color, flavor and flavor. It was considered a seafood feast, at least he had never tasted it in Lu State.
He couldn't help but suddenly thought that if he hired the chefs here to join his own Lin's Chamber of Commerce, wouldn't he be able to enter the catering industry in Western Shandong?
There's nothing you can do about it, that's just how people are.
When you start a business, you always want to expand the scale and develop more tracks. It is best to be able to complement each other, and Linshan is no exception. As the largest seafood wholesale leader in the western part of Lu State, he is at the top of the upstream industry. If he engages in the downstream catering industry, let alone whether he can compete with the local giants, at least the price can be beaten by him!
"Okay, I'll eat slowly. You go back and call your shopkeeper over first. I have something to ask him."
The clerk agreed and went downstairs to call the shopkeeper.
Soon, heavy footsteps came from the stairs.
A big fat man wearing a military crown and a large flowered robe struggled to climb up. Especially the flesh in front of his belly was bumpy, showing his wealth.
"This young master, I am the shopkeeper of this restaurant. I heard that you are looking for me"
The shopkeeper just sat down at the table opposite him and wanted to ask this young man what he wanted. After all, he was a big customer and he seemed to have some background. It would be nice to make some friends with him.
Lin Shan didn't say anything, and directly showed off his cultivation level at the golden elixir stage!
"Plop~"
The shopkeeper was so scared that he knelt down!
He is only in the foundation building stage, so how can he have the opportunity to get up close and personal with Jin Dan Zhenren on weekdays? I was confused all of a sudden.
"Get up and sit down. I have something to ask you."
Lin Shan held his chopsticks between his hands and continued eating as if nothing had happened.
The shopkeeper began to tremble, sweating all the time on his head, and did not dare to continue sitting down. Instead, he stood aside with his hands folded in front of him, smiling and waiting for questions.
"Don't be nervous. Why are you so restrained? Just treat yourself as if you were at home. Where are you from?"
Lin Shan asked while eating, as if he was the owner here.
The shopkeeper couldn't help wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, and his heart couldn't help but tremble when facing a high-ranking person. This was the first time he had seen the young Jin Dan!
"Returning to my predecessors, my ancestral home is the Hedong Wei family of the Song Dynasty. I am now a deacon assigned to Qiu Maple Valley, and I am specifically responsible for the restaurant business in the Ezo Sea area."
The shopkeeper was very honest and revealed all the details about himself first.
The Wei family in Hedong is very large in the local area. There are three different cultivation families, all of whom are surnamed Wei. There are countless mortal families with the surname Wei.
He entered Qiu Maple Valley when he was young, and worked his way up from being a cook to becoming a deacon. Later, he was sent to Donghai, where he became a professional cook.
Lin Shan nodded, and after chatting with him for a while, he didn't say anything about his situation, and the other party didn't dare to ask.
"I'm very optimistic about you. Do you have any thoughts about going abroad?"
"What?"
The shopkeeper was dumbfounded. We were having a good conversation, why did he suddenly mention going abroad?
"Ahem, I have some business in the cultivation world of another country, and I want to hire you with a high salary. How about, think about it, money is not an issue."
Lin Shan vaguely mentioned that his business was not bad at scale, and as soon as he passed by, he would be at the supervisor level!
The fat shopkeeper simply waved his hand and refused, saying that he was not the material, had no ambitions, and was not suitable for a career. If the senior wanted to find someone else, please hire someone else.
"Huh?"
Lin Shan showed off his momentum and didn't give any face at all?
"Poof!"
The shopkeeper shivered again and knelt down. It was obvious that he was really timid and he was so scared that he almost cried.
"Senior, this junior is used to living in old age in Qiu Fenggu. I really don't want to change my family. I have never been abroad in my life. I have left my hometown and suffered the consequences of old age. Just let me go!"
Seeing that he could not be frightened, Lin Shan had no choice but to give up.
The forceful melon is not sweet, he just asked it as a test, but he didn't expect the other party's reaction to be so big.
"As for the cook in your back kitchen, ask me if there is anyone who is willing to change jobs. I will pay double, no, triple the price!"
The guests on the third floor all looked sideways. This was the first time they saw this scene. Is there anyone like you who would poach someone in front of you?
If it were anyone else, he might have turned against him, but Jin Dan was here. The shopkeeper wanted to cry but didn't dare to lose his temper at all, so he answered honestly.
"Senior, it should be. It shouldn't be."
"How do you know if you haven't asked yet?"
Lin Shan put down his chopsticks with an unhappy look on his face. Now that he has become a capitalist, he feels more and more that there is nothing in this world that cannot be solved with money, and anything that affects his career in making money is a stumbling block! You don't know how to appreciate someone, do you?
The fat shopkeeper looked sad:
"Because I am the only chef in this restaurant, and I usually cook the food myself. The dragons and phoenixes are auspicious, and the city is full of golden armor. The monks in the Qi training period can't grasp it at all, so I have to cook it myself!"< br>
Those seafood spirits have their own cultivation level. Generally, monks in the Qi training period really can't control it. If they want to cook, they also test the depth of their spiritual power and the heat. The spiritual power is used up before the meat is cooked, and the dishes are half done. Who will take over?
Have you ever seen a cook in the world of cultivation holding a spiritual stone in his hand to recover while cooking?
The key is that in this small and broken place like Ezo Island, there is no spiritual vein, no earth fire, no earth fire, so we can only have foundation-building monks to cook the food.
In some places, spiritual chefs and alchemists are equally rare professions.
Lin Shan looked surprised and confused: "There is only one cook in the restaurant. So if you talk to me now, what will happen to the other guests?"
It's a good thing he didn't say it. As soon as he said this, he realized that half of the guests on the third floor were looking at him with resentful eyes. The table was empty, waiting for the food to be served!
It's just that because he is Jin Dan Zhenren, no one dares to force Lai Lai, so he can only sit and wait, and he is almost bored.
However, Lin Shan was very skilled in cultivating qi and didn't care about this group of people at all. He just let me wait there.
He finally asked again without giving up.
"Do you sell the recipes and formulas here?"
Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper’s answer this time was straightforward.
"Sell!"
Recipes are not worth much these days. The great ones are the cooks, and there is nothing to hide.
The two secretly discussed the price and directly packaged and bought a bunch of recipes, all of which were seafood recipes and had a complete range of categories.
It can be seen that although Qiufenggu is a giant in medicinal materials, it also has in-depth research on the catering industry. Since ancient times, medicines and diets have not been separated, and some aspects are common. To regulate the body can be solved by eating.
"Okay, you go and do your work first, I can just eat here by myself."
The shopkeeper was relieved and hurriedly went downstairs to cook.
Lin Shan continued to pick up the chopsticks to eat. At the same time, he looked at the recipe in his hand and found that it seemed that it was not difficult to make it with his spiritual consciousness and cultivation level at the golden elixir stage.
Controlling fire is just a piece of cake for him.
But I have never heard of anyone in the world of cultivation who has reached the golden elixir stage and still works as a cook. That would be too derogatory.
While he was eating and studying the recipes, a strange voice kept coming from downstairs, from far to near, as if someone was asking the guests one by one from table to table.
"Do you see where my head is?"
"My head is missing"
"I'm looking for my head, and it feels like it's over here."
"Ding, Ding, Ding"
After a while, a headless man came up from the stairs on the second floor.
(End of chapter)