As the wooden lid was slowly pushed open, inside the wooden box, a circular object with a diameter of twenty or thirty centimeters was revealed.

This round object is white in color and dotted with cherry, strawberry, grape, orange, and pineapple flesh, making it look colorful and appetizing.

"What is this?"

Ellen asked curiously as she looked at the pastry, which looked like it was made of lime, in surprise.

"It's a fruit cake, a pastry made with flour, cloud sugar, milk, egg whites, and all kinds of fruits!"

Xia Lin looked left and right, and asked the old butler:

"Excuse me, can you bring us a knife and a couple of saucers?"

"Of course, distinguished guest!"

After a while, the maid brought what Xia Lin wanted, and Xia Lin cut the fruit cake with a knife, and the fluffy pale yellow cake was covered with a layer of cream two or three centimeters thick, which looked very delicious.

After dividing the whole cake into eight pieces, Xia Lin picked up a piece of cake with a knife and handed it to Ellen, motioning for him to taste it.

Ellen looked at the cake like a work of art, and could not have imagined that it was actually a pastry, so he took a knife and fork, cut a piece of cake stained with that lime-like thing, and brought it to his mouth, and his eyes widened.

This...... What does it smell like!?

Ellen couldn't describe the wonderful taste she tasted, and it was probably the perfect blend of mellow milk, sweet pastries, fluffy clouds, and sweet and sour fruits with the hands of the gods to create such a complex and beautiful taste.

He felt that his tongue and mouth felt the happiness of the gods at this moment, and all his troubles vanished in front of this happiness.

Compared to this god-given thing called cake, all kinds of famous and expensive pastries that I had eaten before were as insignificant as dust on the ground.

"Oh my God, this cake is so delicious!!"

After tasting it for a long time, Ellen swallowed the cake and said in amazement.

His reaction aroused the curiosity of the trained maid and butler next to him, wondering how delicious this cake was, and how moved his owner with fine clothes and food.

"My friend, do you think this cake will be popular with the nobles?"

Xia Lin took a bite of the cake, and the familiar sweetness made him enjoy it quite a bit, but he had already tasted it when he made it at home, so he didn't have such a gaffe as Ellen.

"Of course! Xia Lin, this pastry called cake will definitely be wildly sought after by the aristocracy! Even if this piece sells for ten silver coins, I don't think it's too much! ”

Eren replied affirmatively, and the expected price he gave made Xia Lin feel even a little surprised.

The cost of a cake with a diameter of about 25 centimeters is about 35 silver coins, mainly because the labor cost of sifting low-gluten flour is too high, and the price of these seasonal fruits on top is also quite exaggerated.

If it weren't for the color matching, Xia Lin could use some ordinary fruits instead, such as cherries or strawberries, which would probably reduce the cost to about twenty-five silver coins, but Ellen said that such a fruit cake could be sold for eighty silver coins!

Why don't you let your mother and sister learn how to make cakes, and why don't you sell cakes at your own store? By the way, if you sell the idea of birthday cakes, maybe these cakes will sell well?

Xia Lin thought about it for a moment and thought it seemed like a good idea, but he didn't come here to sell cakes, but to sell the sugar produced in his small workshop.

"Then Ellen, how high do you think the price of an ingredient that is essential for making this kind of cake can be set?"

Xia Lin took out a small wooden box of the same style from his sleeve pocket, opened it, put it on the stone table and pushed it to Ellen on the side.

"What is this? Salt? ”

Eren looked at the white sugar in the wooden box with some curiosity, he scooped a little with a spoon and put it in his mouth, the pure sweetness passed into his brain, and he suddenly remembered the cake he had just eaten.

"This is the sweet crystallization of Cloud Sugar, a mysterious mage who used a powerful spell to capture the clouds in the sky and condense them on the ground.

Of course, this is what I say to the outside world, in fact, the production of cloud candy is very complicated, and I will not be able to tell you clearly for a while.

I'm here to visit you today just to work with the Greg Chamber of Commerce to sell this cloud candy! ”

Seeing that Eren was full of disbelief in his bluffing statement, Xia Lin chuckled lightly and explained instead.

"Is it just a sale?"

"Just selling!"

“……”

Eren was silent for a moment, and he saw that this cloud sugar, which was countless times sweeter and purer than brown sugar, definitely had a great future.

But Xia Lin was no longer in urgent need of Jinlunte at this time, and he was not willing to sell the process of making cloud sugar to himself like a vertical spindle spinning machine.

The feeling that you can only eat one bite of the cake that is obviously beneficial in front of you is really a little itchy, but Eren looked at Xia Lin, who was smiling confidently, and still sighed:

"Alright! My friend, the Greg Chamber of Commerce will work with you to sell this wonderful commodity, but you'll have to tell me how much it is produced and how low I can get a price from you! ”

"Now I can offer you four hundred pounds of cloud sugar a day, and the price is one pound of silver and thirty copper pesas per pound. After a while, I think this number will double. ”

"A unique business?"

"It's a unique business, but I don't rule out that new people will be added later."

"I'm willing to buy out your cloud candy for one pound of silver and fifty copper billets!"

Hearing that there might be someone to act as an agent for the sugar business in the future, Eren eagerly increased the price.

"Haha! My friend, I'm afraid you're underestimating the yield of cloud sugar, and the current four hundred pounds is just the beginning.

If the raw materials are available, I will soon buy a manor on the outskirts of the city to be responsible for the production of cloud sugar, and I am afraid that hundreds or even thousands of cloud sugar will be sold every day!

Such a big business, even the Greg Chamber of Commerce can't eat it.

What's more, I have to cooperate with the Sugar Guild in the Imperial Capital, otherwise I will anger them, and my little mage and jazz will be eaten and wiped clean by them, can it be said that the Greg Chamber of Commerce can withstand their anger? ”

"Alright! Then a silver mar thirty copper bis, I will open the market as soon as possible, I hope your production can keep up! ”

When Ellen heard the name of the Sugar Guild, he also extinguished the idea of eating alone, he sighed and sat back in his place, and began to think about where to start developing the cloud sugar market.

After thinking about it, Ellen added:

"Xia Lin, for the sake of Yuntang, I think you have to teach my cook how to make cakes!"

"My friend, the method of making the cake is very valuable, you can't expect me to give it away for nothing, twenty gold lundes, I think it's a suitable price."

"Fifteen!"

"Eighteen!"

"Fifteen!"

"Well, Ellen, for the sake of your friendship with me, which is as solid as a diamond, fifteen pieces will sell you how to make the cake, please bring pen and paper, and I will go to your kitchen and teach your cook how to make the raw materials when I am done."

Xia Lin sighed as he feigned defeat, in fact, he didn't have much desire to keep the method of making the cake secret.

As a food for the aristocracy, although it can bring him a lot of profits, it is of little use to his development.

Xia Lin's goal is not to become a chef or pastry chef who delves into food, but to explore the mysteries of magic.