NOVEL ONLINE FREE 17: Got Money!
“Are you the one selling wild prey? Where are your parents?”
“My father is hunting in the mountains and instructed me to come to town to sell.”
“Oh! Your father is a hunter?”
“Yes.”
When the fat chef saw Gu Yu, his small eyes, squeezed by the fleshy folds of his face, stared intently at him, gleaming with excitement. If Gu Yu hadn’t known the context, he would have definitely thought this man was a pervert.
However, precisely because of the fat chef’s enthusiastic attitude, Gu Yu didn’t mind telling a little lie at this moment.
After all, since the restaurant was buying wild prey and he planned to supply them long-term, it was better to fabricate a hunter father to ensure their future transactions would proceed smoothly.
At the same time, it was also Gu Yu’s precaution against the restaurant being unscrupulous, seeing him as a child easy to take advantage of, taking the goods without paying.
“What wild prey are you selling this time?”
“Three wild pheasants and seven wild rabbits. I don’t know if the chef wants them.”
“Yes, yes, yes! Our restaurant will buy all the wild prey your father hunts in the future. The price will definitely be fair!”
“How much is the chef willing to pay for these wild animals?”
With a few simple exchanges, Gu Yu successfully established a verbal agreement with the restaurant.
However, that was for later discussion. Now the most important thing… was what price the restaurant would offer for these wild animals.
Currently, Gu Yu was in desperate need of silver.
“The market price for chicken meat is fifteen copper coins per jin, rabbit meat twenty copper coins per jin. Wild prey is more expensive than domesticated animals, and since our restaurant is currently short on supply, we’ll offer thirty copper coins per jin for wild pheasant and forty copper coins per jin for wild rabbit. The price will definitely satisfy you.”
“That works.”
Hearing the fat chef’s offer, Gu Yu immediately agreed.
It matched closely with what he had inquired about, with wild prey directly doubling in price—already a very good rate.
After all, it was autumn when prey is plentiful, so restaurants wouldn’t pay ridiculously high prices for wild prey.
And the wild pheasants and rabbits Gu Yu brought were exceptionally fat, with each wild pheasant weighing five or six jin, and the fat rabbits weighing even more.
The fat chef had his worker bring a steelyard scale, and after weighing each one, the wild pheasants totaled fifteen jin and the wild rabbits ninety-eight jin, altogether 4,370 copper coins.
Afterward, to encourage Gu Yu to return with more wild prey, the fat chef included payment for the rabbit skins, thirty copper coins per skin, rounding the price directly to 4,500 copper coins. He gave Gu Yu four taels of silver plus five qian of fractional silver.
As for why the restaurant wanted the rabbit skins as well, the fat chef claimed that intact wild prey produced more flavorful dishes when slaughtered and cooked! If skinned in advance, who knew if they would still be fresh.
He further instructed Gu Yu that in the future, when catching furred wild animals, he should bring them directly to the restaurant. Even if they didn’t buy the fur, they would help skin them for free.
Receiving four taels of silver at once made even Gu Yu, a transmigrator, smile with delight.
After calculating quickly in his mind, he decided to make one more deal.
“Hey, Chef! I wanted to ask, does your establishment buy roe deer?”
“Yes, yes, yes! You have roe deer at home?”
“My father just caught one. If you’ll buy it, I won’t look for other places to trade—I’ll sell it directly to you.”
“Done. Roe deer meat is ninety copper coins per jin. If it’s a whole roe deer, I’ll add an extra ten copper coins per jin.”
Indeed, it was a very profitable deal.
Gu Yu thought about the weight of the roe deer in his space and was even more delighted, exclaiming internally that he’d struck it rich today.
However, this roe deer wasn’t light. It had taken considerable effort to kill it in the first place. Gu Yu had specifically found a small slope, placed broken stones and sharp branches at the bottom, and repeatedly dropped it several times before finally killing it.
The deer’s fur had been battered and torn, so even if sold, it wouldn’t fetch much.
With his small frame, he definitely couldn’t carry it over, but fortunately, he had the space cheat device, which saved a lot of trouble.
“Alright, I’ll find time to bring it to you later.”
“Why not have your father bring it over now?”
Gu Yu agreed to sell the roe deer to the fat chef, but since he couldn’t take it out directly, he arranged to deliver it at a later time. However, the fat chef immediately suggested having Gu Yu’s father bring it over now.
Besides worrying about changes if delayed, the fat chef also wanted to talk with an adult to establish their trading relationship.
However, if the fat chef wanted to find Gu Yu’s father, he would probably need to look in the underworld.