"Holy crap!"
If anyone actually fell in love with an elf, wouldn't that basically be the same as cultivating the Sunflower Manual. [T/N: I think it's like a cultivation technique practiced by eunuchs.]
Absolutely terrifying creatures. If a person stayed in a perpetual sage state for too long, what difference would there be between him and a salted fish.
'Seriously…'
'Good thing I didn't get close!'
"All right, here you go!"
The dwarf quickly finished squeezing half a bucket of milk and handed it to the elf girl, grumbling with some dissatisfaction, "Stop putting drugs in my angry cow. If it stops being angry, its milk won't taste good anymore. You're messing with my business!"
"S-Sorry!", Faced with the dwarf's anger, the elf girl apologized over and over, "I-Ijust wanted it to look less upset, I really didn't mean it."
"All right, once you've bought it, hurry up and leave. Don't stand here affecting my business," the dwarf cursed, "You standing here makes those travelers not know whether they're looking at you or at my milk, damn it."
"Yes, yes, I'll leave right away!"
The elf girl quickly carried the half bucket of milk away.
But as she left, the travelers who had gathered around also dispersed one after another. For them, without a large container, there was simply no way to hold ten liters of milk.
And if one dragon coin only bought a small jar of milk, that would be far too wasteful.
To them, that was simply a luxury.
Therefore, after the elf girl left, no one came to buy milk from the dwarf anymore.
Ethan watched the scene in front of him and finally more or less understood how people in this free market did business, and what they were lacking.
At that moment, Ethan's eyes suddenly lit up, and a great idea popped into his head.
He might have a way to make money and get all those scrolls and blueprints.
Shashasha~
Just then.
A treant selling various herbs was packing up his stall.
Seeing this, Ethan hurried over and asked, "Are you leaving? Can you let me use your stall?"
"Let you use it?"
The treant seemed not to understand what letting it meant.
It stretched out a long vine finger and scratched the few leaves on top of its head, "I rented this stall for one dragon coin. It belongs to me for the whole night. Why would I let you use it?"
Ethan rubbed his chin and immediately understood. People in this world simply had no concept of transfer.
To them, since they had spent one dragon coin to rent it, the stall should belong to them for the entire night.
Trying to explain what a transfer fee was would be far too difficult.
And Ethan didn't want to spend a dragon coin here, so after thinking for a moment, he negotiated with the treant, "How about this. I see your herbs don't seem to sell much at night anyway. If I spend one dragon coin to buy herbs from you, then can you lend me the stall? That way you won't lose out."
"You're willing to buy herbs from me?", The treant's eyes immediately lit up.
"Yeah. If I don't buy from you, wouldn't your one dragon coin tonight be wasted? But if I do buy from you, then it's like you didn't lose anything at all," Ethan switched on his smooth talk mode, "That way, we both benefit, right?"
"That does sound reasonable."
The treant scratched its head and started counting on its fingers, "At night I spent one dragon coin to rent the stall. If I'm willing to lend the stall to you, you'll give me one dragon coin to buy herbs."
"Then wouldn't that mean I get the dragon coin back, basically not wasting any money."
"Bingo!"
Ethan nodded and praised the little treant, "You're really smart! That's exactly what I mean!"
"Ah! Treants really are so smart!", The treant was also quite satisfied with this outcome, "No wonder people say treants are the wisest beings. Treants really are the number one smartest existence in the universe!"
"Yes, yes, smartest treant. So will you sell me these herbs?"
Sure enough, in this world… Perhaps only creatures like treants had no concept of cost, or time cost. Spending the night here running a stall and selling nothing was a waste of time cost.
And Ethan taking over its stall was equivalent to buying the remaining time of the stall.
But clearly, the treant didn't understand any of that.
As for the herbs it sold, they required picking, collecting, processing, and so on. Those were all product costs, but the treant clearly didn't care about them at all.
Instead, it believed that as long as Ethan paid one dragon coin to buy, it could recover the cost of renting the stall for the night and wouldn't count as losing money.
But in fact, it had already lost time and goods.
"You want these vanilla fruits?", The treant lifted a bag of round fruits that looked like passion fruit, "They taste pretty good, but this bag of vanilla fruits isn't worth one dragon coin. I'll give you some other things too."
[Vanilla Fruit: Filled with juice that carries a rich vanilla aroma. The best seasoning for gourmet food.]
The treant was very honest. In its eyes, these fruits were picked from the ground and basically cost nothing.
"Then add these cream melons too," Ethan smiled and picked up a round fruit that looked like a watermelon, "Is that okay?"
[Cream Melon: The entire melon is filled with soft cream, but the cream has no sweetness. It tastes as bad as lard and has no nutritional value at all. Therefore it has always been unpopular.]
"Of course!"
The treant was delighted. It immediately left these two items to Ethan, packed up the rest, and left.
But after Ethan got the treant's herbs, he didn't rush to start selling. That was because the gourmet food he wanted to sell was still missing two ingredients before it could be made.
And those two ingredients would cost more than ten dragon coins.
So Ethan planned to,first sell a kind of food that only existed in the human world, letting these guys from the Mist World who had never tasted real cuisine see what true gourmet food was.
Teppan takoyaki!
Just right, this treant's stall was a metal plate propped up on two stones.
And for Ethan to make teppan grilling on this stall was incredibly simple. He just needed to light a bonfire under the metal plate.
Very quickly, the bonfire was lit.
Then Ethan took out some magma octopus meat from his backpack, sliced it thin with the Dragon Slaying Blade. As for why it was sliced thin, it was so it would grill faster and also to make it easier to take out the beast core hidden inside. He skewered the slices on bamboo sticks and started grilling.
The dwarves running stalls nearby looked at the octopus meat on Ethan's stall with disdain, "What's so good about that stuff? You're not thinking of selling this to make money, are you?"
Ethan ignored him. He quickly skewered a hundred sticks of octopus meat and laid them on the metal plate to grill.
Sizzle~
As the fire roasted it, the aroma of the magma octopus meat quickly began to spread.
The dwarf boss next to him couldn't help sniffing, "Smells pretty good! So how are you planning to sell those meat skewers? Ten skewers for one dragon coin?"
Because in this world, such a small skewer would probably take dozens to fill someone up.
And in their eyes, one portion of food equaled one dragon coin.
So he naturally assumed, one dragon coin would buy ten or twenty skewers.
However, Ethan shook his head and smiled, "No. One skewer for one dragon coin."
"What!"
The dwarf boss was shocked, "Such a thin slice of meat, and you dare charge one dragon coin for it! I think you're a robber. At that price, no one will buy it! Just give up on that idea!"
"Sir, the one dragon coin for entering the inn still hasn't been paid."
And just after the dwarf boss finished mocking Ethan, a small mustached man wearing a tailcoat and bow tie suddenly appeared in front of Ethan and held out his palm, "If you are unable to pay right now, then we regret that we will have to ask you to leave the inn."
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