Chapter 73 Castel Manufacturing

Qiao Xi was the first one to rush out of the factory after work today.

As a result, he was the first to see the newly built shop open.

This was incredible news. Castel was only this small, and although the islanders didn't know each other well enough, they were all familiar with the several shops on the island.

This newly built hut on the roadside has attracted people's attention since the foundation was laid. After some inquiries, they got a surprising news:

This is actually the shop opened by the lord.

Lord, shop? These two words are particularly awkward when put together. Lord should be associated with things like taxes and town halls, not shops that buy and sell things.

Castel is far away from the mainland and even caravans seldom come here. People's understanding of shops is still limited to selling small items made by themselves.

For example, Zorn’s pottery shop, Mickey’s preserved fruits, etc.

Will the Lord make something to sell?

But Josh had something different in mind.

Although he didn't like the factory very much, he still liked the olive oil and soap produced there.

Recently, the soap production line where he works gave each person a bar of soap and taught them in detail how to use it - even a little too detailed, repeating it many times.

Unlike other islanders who carefully put away the soap, Josh was not so reluctant to use it. After trying it, he was surprised to find that this soap was very good for cleaning almost everything: whether it was washing hands, taking a bath, or even washing clothes.

It's really good stuff, it would be even better if there were more.

When Josh saw the shop with the sign "Department Store", he immediately thought of the soap that had been distributed.

"Come to think of it, department store is easy to understand, but why is it called 'building'?" Looking at the wooden sign hanging above, Qiao Xi muttered as he walked into the house.

"Ken? Why are you here?"

As soon as he walked into the house, before he had time to look at the goods inside, Josh was somewhat surprised to find a familiar figure.

"There's been no work on the construction site recently, so I saw they were hiring, so I came here. I didn't expect you to be a salesperson." Ken shrugged. "Want to buy something, Josh?"

Salesperson? It was a bit of a mouthful, but Josh quickly grasped its meaning.

"So this is really a store? What is this selling? Wow."

Ken smiled, and looking at Josh's shocked expression, he knew he didn't need to explain.

He had felt the same way when he first came here.

To be honest, this shop called "Department Store" is not very large, but in the room, the rows of shelves against the wall are filled with neatly stacked goods that fill an entire wall.

There was an entire wall of merchandise, and next to it was another entire wall of merchandise, and rows of shelves were stacked here, with merchandise piled from floor to ceiling.

It was as if I had entered a cave filled with gold in the story, and things that I could not use up in a lifetime were all placed in front of me.

This had a great impact on a child from a fishing family like Ken. Seeing things so neatly stacked and of the same size gave him a sense of unreal beauty.

This reminded Ken of a word the Lord mentioned when he came to the school:

Industrial feel.

Ken didn't understand what industrial style meant, but looking at the colorful and neatly arranged goods, he seemed to understand something.

Although he put these goods there one by one.

"What is all this?"

When Ken came to his senses, Josh had already walked to the shelf.

"Soap, the soap over here is for washing clothes, one rio a piece. The soap on the wall to your right is scented, with berry, grass, and flower scents, all three rios a piece. Behind you is olive oil."

These soaps are cut into squares and wrapped in a small piece of oil paper. Even from a distance, you can smell the faint fragrance.

The oil papers were colorful and printed with different patterns. Ken turned around and took a few pieces from the shelf.

Josh reached out to take it, but halfway through he noticed that his hands were dirty, so he quickly wiped them on his pants.

"Hey, don't rub it. Just try washing it with soap." Ken pointed to a basin behind him with a smile.

There were a few unpacked bars of soap next to the basin and a large bucket of water next to it.

Josh wanted to be polite, but the floral scent was so good that by the time he noticed it, his hands were already covered in foam.

Ken picked up the ladle and scooped up clean water from the bucket and poured it down.

The foam and dirt were washed away, but the fragrance of the petals remained on your hands.

Josh put his hand under his nose, took a deep breath, and gave a silly smile.

It smells so good.

“How much is this!”

"Sanrio, there are more over there."

"I'll have one!"

Josh pulled out a handful of coins from his pocket - today was payday and he was not short of money, it was just one or two days' wages.

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In the past, he would have had to think for a while even if it was half a rio, but now most people have a few cents in their pockets, thanks to the generosity of the lord, who always pays his employees in full.

But Castel is so small that you can’t buy much with money, so even though everyone has money, their lives haven’t changed much.

Therefore, Josh decided to buy one without much thought. He had already saved up quite a few Leos - all his relatives had died in a storm when he was a child, and now if he had one person's food, the whole family would not be hungry.

"You, uh, okay." Ken took the three coins from Josh and then returned two of them.

"Isn't it Sanrio?"

"You are the Lord's hired worker. You can buy three bars of soap every month at a low price. Just register it later."

Qiao Xi nodded, but did not take it: "Then I want one too."

“.”

Ken's smile froze. He suddenly realized that the sales skills he had worked so hard to learn last night might not be useful.

At this time, more and more people were leaving work, and several heads popped in from outside.

"What is this selling for - Oh my God!"

Josh took the soap he had just bought and squeezed it out of the house.

He walked outside against the flow of people, raised the soap in his hand, and looked carefully at the print on the oil paper.

It was an island sketched with stick figures, and Josh recognized it as Castel. He recognized the towering volcano.

The difference is that the volcano is covered with flowers.

Josh took the other two.

The patterns are basically the same, except that one island has berry trees and the other has green grass, which should correspond to soaps of different scents.

It was so exquisite that Josh couldn't put it down and played with it.

After turning it over, he found something else on the back, which looked like three bars of soap.

It was a small torch pattern with a line of words next to it. Josh had learned to spell it in literacy class, and although his grades were average, he still read it out haltingly.

"Made in Castel."

Castel's name was written again separately below.

Well, it shouldn't be a name. Josh recalled the spelling rules he learned in literacy class. This should be the original meaning of the word Castel.

Fire and light in the storm.

(End of this chapter)