Chapter 8 Gossip, Food Culture, and Entrepreneurial Partners

The gossip fire in Jiang You's eyes suddenly ignited: "Is that so?!"

The German Kingdom's royal family members died one after another, and the hostile royal family and parliament were deadlocked. They had no choice but to compromise and choose the foreign Duke Maybury Huntington as the new king. From then on, the German Kingdom and the Duke of Huntington's original duchy merged into one...

However, which country name to use has become a controversial topic.

If they continued to use the German Kingdom, the German royal family and parliament would be satisfied, but King Huntington would firmly oppose it; if they continued to use the Huntington Kingdom, the German royal family and parliament would not agree... In the end, the two sides compromised, and this country became a weird thing that had the system and scale of a kingdom but had to be named a duchy.

The three parties involved, the German royal family, the Kingdom Parliament and King Huntington, were all very dissatisfied with the result, but sometimes the opponent's dissatisfaction is the greatest comfort to oneself, so this proposal, which seemed the most outrageous and dissatisfied with everyone, was passed unanimously.

"It's a little bit outrageous." Jiang You commented.

"Who says it isn't?" Aunt Wolf echoed softly, "Political matters are always so confusing... Ever since Grand Duke Huntington transformed himself into King Huntington, all kinds of rumors have been circulating!

"Some even suspect that King Huntington and his brother, a master of magic, teamed up to poison all the heirs of the Delman Kingdom, thus obtaining the throne!"

Jiang You's soul fire burned even more fiercely. She was a devoted fan of detective novels, TV series, and anime. "It's not unreasonable. After all, the great magician Mebucha knew the great potion master Mi Funa and owed her a favor... and Mi Funa was murdered in the capital. This really feels like silencing someone!"

"Right! Right!" Aunt Wolf nodded vigorously, "I think so too! Mi You moved here from the magic school three or four months ago. Before that, it was said that she had been studying at the Royal Magic Academy and did not live with her mother.

"Just by looking at their appearance, anyone can tell that Mi You is Mi Funa's daughter! They look incredibly similar! However, their magical talents are worlds apart!

"Tell me, how on earth did a girl like this, who has no talent, messes up everything, and can't even brew a proper potion, catch the eye of Mebucha and become the last disciple of the kingdom's royal magician? It's outrageous!"

——It’s indeed a bit strange.

"Speaking of which," Aunt Wolf sized up Jiang You, "what are you going to do next? You were summoned here for no apparent reason, you're unfamiliar with the place, and you've been turned into a skeleton. How are you going to get through this?!"

"Oh! I have a plan!" said Jiang You. "Although I can't brew potions, I can make sauces and drinks! I wonder if the competition in the food industry here is fierce?"

Aunt Talia Wolf hesitated for a while, and an indescribable constipated expression appeared on her face.

Jiang You: “?”

In fact, let alone the food industry, the country's food culture is extremely poor, almost like the legendary British Empire. The only two sauces that exist are ketchup and orange marmalade, and the most popular dishes are mashed potatoes and stewed kidneys...

"...Orange marmalade sounds good?" Takumi asked tentatively.

Aunt Wolf sighed, went back to the house and brought out a large glass bottle. The bottle was half filled with a dark brown stew that looked like orange peel. It didn't look very delicious.

"That's it." Aunt Wolf placed the big-bellied bottle and a spoon in front of Jiang You with a bitter look on her face, and then suddenly realized: "Oh, you can't taste it? Then try this."

She picked up the spoon, scooped a spoonful and put it into her mouth, then shuddered, her hair stood on end and her face wrinkled.

"Come, try my emotions." Aunt Wolf called out to Jiang You. Jiang You hesitated for a moment, then, with Aunt Wolf's encouraging eyes, took out a ball of dark brown soul fire from her body.

She licked it carefully, and was instantly attacked by the sour feeling that filled her soul, and she couldn't help but shudder.

"So, so bitter, so sour!" She bared her teeth with a ferocious expression. "Is this... the bitter first love that I longed for but could not obtain?"

"Yeah, every time I eat this, it reminds me of my bitter first love that ended in vain." Aunt Talia Wolf was clearly a person with many stories to tell. Her ability to recreate the taste of food with the flavor of her emotions was a remarkable skill. "I dare say my emotions are pretty much the same as the actual taste of this thing.

"How is it? This thing tastes terrible, right?"

"It's nothing like the orange marmalade I imagined." Jiang You smacked his lips again, sniffing the soul fire. "It smells like oranges, but tastes like bad dried tangerine peel pickled in a strange way. The bitter, astringent, and sour tastes instantly hit my head, and there's also a strange, fishy smell like a dirty rag...

"And, most importantly, it doesn't taste sweet at all!"

"Sugar is expensive," Aunt Talia said. "This marmalade is made every year when the orchards outside the city are harvested. People use whole, unsold, rotting oranges to make it in a hurry. How can it possibly be delicious?"

As a foodie, Jiangyou imagined the taste and fell into silence.

The ingredients were about to go bad, and the raw material was not processed in a rough way due to time constraints. The long stewing destroyed all the vitamins and flavors, and the long time of sealing in the jar and fermenting consumed the last bit of sugar. This is the result of this strange jam...

"Does anyone really think this thing tastes good?" Jiang You asked with difficulty.

Aunt Wolf shook her head. "Of course not, but it's cheap! Just spread a little on brown bread and you can eat as much bread as you want!"

Takumi looked at her, speechless. "Is it so bad that you have to use black bread to get rid of the taste in your mouth?"

Aunt Wolf nodded vigorously.

"This is too tragic." Jiang You smacked his lips. "But, if you look at it from another angle, isn't this place full of opportunities?"

As long as she can come up with some sauces, drinks and food, she can completely overthrow the world's poor food culture. In addition to soy sauce, bean paste and fermented tofu, she can also try mayonnaise, cheese, yogurt, milk beer, beer, rice vinegar and red wine vinegar...!

However, as a skeleton, she had completely lost her sense of taste. If she wanted to create a product with a normal taste, she would need a taster to help her...

Her eyes fell on Aunt Wolf. "Aunt Talia, are you interested in starting a business with me?"