Chapter 786: Hot Pot Negotiation (4000 Words)
Frostaxe returns to the Hearthstone Tavern late at night.
Counting the time, he had been at this tavern for almost two years.
Now the Hearthstone Tavern has opened several branches in Nolan, and he has visited most of them, but this one is still the Hearthstone Tavern he is most familiar with.
Familiar with the frost axe, as soon as he entered the door, he went directly to the back kitchen of the tavern.
"Do you still have air-dried meat tonight, hurry up and give it to me...... Qiao Xiu? ”
Frostaxe pushed open the kitchen door and found that there were slightly more people in the kitchen.
"We've already demolished the house with long ears, and it took some time to dispose of the waste."
The frost axe rubbed the dust off his wine trough nose and came all the way to Qiao Xiu's side and looked up at the food on the table.
"What are you doing? Bread with meat? ”
"A fried chicken burger, to be exact, is actually no different from bread with meat."
Qiao Xiu and the chef of the Hearthstone Tavern studied it for less than half an hour.
The chefs hired by Mrs. Marlena are very professional, at least proficient in the cuisines of many countries, and even the cuisines of the Great Xia Kingdom have been deeply studied.
"How much does this stuff cost?"
Frostaxe looked a little hungry, otherwise he should have started his journey up the new ladder in the lobby of the tavern as soon as possible.
"It's free for the time being, you can try the frost axe."
Qiao Xiu wanted to try the world's first fried chicken burger for himself.
The old dwarf had just returned from the construction site of the Forgotten Lands, and Qiao Xiu didn't mind handing over this unremarkable achievement to him.
The frost axe didn't shirk and directly picked up the hamburger on the table and took a bite, first the first bite... When the frost axe took a second bite, the contents of the mouth had not even been swallowed.
This terrifying appearance had clearly told Qiao Xiu that he didn't have time to evaluate how this thing tasted.
It took Frostaxe less than ten seconds to solve the world's first fried chicken burger.
When he swallowed the contents of his mouth, Frostaxe spoke again......
"Anything else?" Frostaxe asked.
"Of course you have, but you can't keep eating for free... A burger for the word. ”
As he spoke, Qiao Xiu looked at Lady Marina.
In terms of the pricing of the dishes, she should be able to name a suitable price.
Lady Marlena immediately gestured to Josiu with a six.
"One will cost six silver coins."
When Qiao Xiu said this price, Lady Marina had a panicked expression on her face.
When she opened her mouth to correct Qiao Xiu's mistake, the frost axe had already taken out a pile of gold coins and lined them up on the table one by one.
"Give me ten first." Frostaxe said.
"Do it, leave us alone."
Qiao Xiu told the chef in the kitchen that he had been instructed to immediately start processing the remaining chicken ingredients on the table as before.
The chef knew how to do it very quickly, and the frost axe ate the first three servings at an astonishing speed, and by the fourth serving he was burping.
"Put the rest on the plate, it's been a long night."
Nolan's dwarves have a completely different biological clock from humans, they can go up to four days without sleep, and then use another day to replenish all the lost sleep.
In the end, Qiao Xiu could only watch Frost Axe walk out of the kitchen with three burgers on a tray.
"Mr. Qiao Xiu... You're setting your prices just too high. When Lady Marina saw the frost axe leave, she immediately ran to Qiao Xiu and said, "All the ingredients you used are less than three silver coins. ”
"What do you think is the appropriate price, then go talk to Frostaxe and return the money to him."
Qiao Xiu glanced at the fire-breathing chicken on the table, this chicken was about the size of a smaller ostrich, and it was not a problem for a chicken to make a hundred or so burgers.
Lady Marina made a small mental calculation, and was about to take the money to find the frost axe, when the door to the tavern was pushed open again.
"Lady Marina, the dwarves outside said they wanted to add fifty more... The kind of bread with meat in it also said that it must be the same as the Frostaxe Patriarch. The attendant said in a panic.
This time it was Lady Marina's turn to look at Qiao Xiu in surprise, and she almost forgot how many times she had been shocked by what this Chaos Demon had done.
"The dwarves of the Black Rock Clan, they say they need more." Another squire ran into the kitchen, and he put a whole bag of gold coins on the table even more directly.
"Come on, you can't let the guests wait there."
Qiao Xiu's words made the only remaining chef in the kitchen immediately start moving.
"These gold coins can buy close to five hundred copies, Mr. Qiao Xiu... There is simply not enough white turkey in the ingredient warehouse. ”
Lady Marina picked up the money bag marked with the mark of the Black Rock Clan, and made this judgment with a rough estimate of the gold coins inside.
"Then change to other meat ingredients, you also have to coordinate with the dwarves outside in terms of price, and there is only one chef in the kitchen who can't handle it, what about the others?"
Qiao Xiu glanced at the chef, no matter how experienced he was, he was struggling to deal with such a sudden surge in orders.
"I'll reach out to other chefs who have already gone home, just... Maybe counting them, there is a bit of a shortage of manpower, Mr. Qiao Xiu, your dinner today ......"
Lady Marina remembered that Josieu had first come to the kitchen with the intention of cooking dinner herself.
"Give me a pot and spices, and by the way, find some meat and cut it into thin slices, and bring vegetables and the like directly upstairs."
Qiao Xiu pondered for a while, but gave up his plan to grab food with those dwarves.
"Qiao Xiu, I'm already a little full......"
Heary was still nibbling on a vegetable that looked like cauliflower in his hand, and Ciri had been eating raw vegetables in the kitchen all night tonight.
"Eat a little more, it should be fine."
While Joshua was talking to Ciri, the kitchen was already busy.
Lady Marlena got more of her attendants into the kitchen.
Qiao Xiu didn't bother these chefs, he directly picked out a pot that looked quite big in the kitchen and left the kitchen.
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The Prophet was thinking about what he had done all day today.
During the day, she took her apprentice to participate in the assessment of Nolan's spellcaster, and at the same time handed over the twenty-seven potions she had refined to the Alchemist Guild for testing.
At noon and in the afternoon, he went with Qiao Xiu to make strange drinks, and the Prophet did not consider himself a waste of time due to the high commercial value of the drinks.
It's night... Qiao Xiu has made a brand new product.
The Prophet stood on the stairs and watched the dwarves on the first floor nibble on a hamburger, and she was almost certain that it might sell well in the future.
"Your Highness Qiao Xiu, I think you can separate these foods from each other and sell them separately."
The Prophet walked back upstairs, located in the corridor outside the second floor, and Qiao Xiu had already set up a hanging pot.
Under the hanging pot, the burning stone exuded a hot heat, and the domestic soup kept tumbling, and Qiao Xian bit his chopsticks and didn't listen to the words of the prophet at all.
"Let's put aside the business business and eat today's dinner, aren't you hungry, prophet?" Josius threw a wooden bowl to the Prophet.
The prophet took the wooden bowl steadily, and she wanted to answer Qiao Xiu, 'I'm not hungry'.
But the smell of the soup in the hanging pot finally gave her a desire called 'appetite', and the saliva secreted from her mouth made the prophet obediently sit next to her with a small stool.
"Do you really need to put so many chili peppers in this pot of soup?"
Tylene, who had just finished sharing her evening story, joined this time... In the hallway during the dinner party.
At this time, the white cat also jumped on the small wooden table where Qiao Xiu put the spice, and when it was about to touch the pepper inside the spice with its little paws, Terrin immediately hugged it from above.
"Slightly spicy is already my last compromise, if you really can't do it, Tylene, I can cook you another pot of clear soup."
Qiao Xiu poured a large amount of strange spices into it again.
"Clear soup... Slightly spicy? There are so many differences in the taste of this pot of soup? ”
Tyrin glanced at the Prophet at the table across from her, who had pulled up a spoon and was ready to make a bowl of drink.
"This can't be considered soup, only chili water?"
Ciri looked at the tumbling red liquid in the country and gave it a more accurate assessment.
Chilli water to chilli water... But the unique aroma that emanated from inside still made Ciri swallow.
"The exact name of this thing is hot pot, uh... It should be regarded as a hot pot. ”
There was no special table in the Hearthstone Tavern, so Qiao Xiu could only use this way of hanging the pot, and then attached a circle of fireproof inscriptions next to it.
"Choose the seasoning as you like, then put the thinly sliced meat in it and cook it a little, and the same goes for the vegetables."
In order to demonstrate, Qiao Xiu picked up a thin slice of meat with chopsticks, put it in the red-hot soup, and boiled it for a few seconds.
The hot soup cooks the slices of meat in an instant.
Ciri didn't hesitate to follow Qiao Xiu's demonstration, and directly poured a whole plate of meat slices into it.
Tylene was much quieter, she just put a little vegetable in it and fed it to the white cat sitting on her lap.
On the other hand, the Prophet was very struggling, she rarely used chopsticks to eat, and this time the use of the action was very awkward.
"Two wooden sticks... Difficulty mastering balance. ”
The Prophet watched as Ciri quickly took away the slices of meat floating on the soup, and his whole person looked a little impatient.
"It's still going to take a lot of getting used to, but don't rush... There was a lot of meat, enough for the four of us. ”
Joshua handed the Prophet a spoon, which allowed her to regain a slight advantage in the scramble with Ciri.
"What are you eating?"
A pitch-black raven flew into the hallway window and took on the form of a dark elf, who held a stack of papers in his hand.
But when he saw Qiao Xiu holding a wooden bowl, he threw the document directly on Qiao Xiu's desk.
"Fire... Wok? ”
"What's the new food? It just so happened that I heard today that you made a strange drink. ”
The Dark Elf took a spare bowl and chopsticks and a small stool and sat down next to the hanging pot, joining the battle for the meat slices.
"Thousand faces, your spies are... I don't think that's the right word. ”
"Thanks for the compliment."
The dark elves had come here to find Qiao Xiu on a serious matter, but after she tasted the first slice of meat, she completely forgot about it.
The moment the Dark Elves joined the fight, the Prophet's situation became even more passive, but Tyrene, a vegetarian, was not interested in the meat floating on the surface of the soup at all.
"Mr. Qiao Xiu, three ladies who claim to be your acquaintances want to see you."
At this moment, Lady Marlena went up to the second floor and said to Qiao Xiu.
"Three of my acquaintances? I have quite a few acquaintances... Who is it? ”
"Of course it's me!"
Herolia, a saint from the land of the Holy Religion, poked her head out from behind Lady Marina, and Joshua had only one word the moment he saw Herolia.
"Lady Marina, send off." Qiao Xiu made a judgment immediately.
"Don't you want to know more about the whereabouts of the Inquisitors? Joshew Arnorod. ”
After being rejected by Qiao Xiu, Herolia put away the previous character of the energetic girl.
"I don't want to."
Qiao Xiu answered Qiao Xiu very simply and straightforwardly again.
"I have a clue here that might save the world." Herolia threw out a condition again.
"Lady Marina, please send this girl and her friends home, they are lost."
Qiao Xiu also saw the mess that followed Herolia.
"This... Mr. Qiao Xiu, there is another distinguished guest downstairs, and I really can't get rid of him. Lady Marina's voice sounded a little apprehensive.
"Guest?"
Qiao Xiu glanced at the dark elf, and she nodded... I affirmed that this is the reason why I am here.
Messi gave up his place, and the man who had been standing behind her pulled the hood from his head, Shayle, King of the Land of Frost.
"Qiao Xiu, the Inquisitor is trickier than I thought."
Shayl walked past Lady Marlena and came to Josiu.
"Anyway, find a chair and sit down, and let me talk after dinner."
Qiao Xiu didn't expect that this guy Hloria would win over Shail.
But if you think about Shail's view of the Inquisitor as her worst enemy, and Herolia proves to her that she is also the enemy of the Inquisitor, there is still room for peace between the two countries.
"You... Have you eaten it? ”
Joshua looked at Shayl and sat down next to the hanging pot with a serious face, while Helolia tried her best to be reserved.
As a guardian knight, Messi can only stand next to Herolia, after all, this is the base camp of demons.
"Nope." Shayl shook his head and said.
"That ......"
Qiao Xiu hesitated, but still handed Shayl and Hloria a bowl and chopsticks.
"Don't hold on, Miss Messi."
Qiao Xiu handed a new wooden bowl and chopsticks to Messi and said.
"I've already eaten ...... tonight"
"Messiah."
When Messi wanted to retort to Qiao Xiu with righteous words, Herolia's words could only make her sit down obediently, pulling chopsticks and bowls to face the pot of soup that seemed to be so spicy that it would kill people.