Chapter 148 Pizza and Magic Learning
At noon, the first batch of special pizzas came out of the oven amid the eager desire of diners, and the wonderful aroma immediately filled the entire bakery.
The sweet and sour aroma of tomatoes is paired with half-melted, half-baked cheese that has a golden crust, and the bright red bakery's signature homemade applewood smoked spicy sausage.
In the sausages, which were originally fat and lean, red and white, the white fat part has been melted by the high temperature of the oven. The fat has seeped into the lean meat and combined perfectly with it, making people's fingers move and their mouths water.
The pizzas are nine-inch pizzas, evenly sliced into six small, fan-shaped slices. They're sold in these slices, each costing ten copper coins, with a limit of one slice per person. Only three ovens are open at noon, each with 20 slices, while supplies last.
Normally, this quantity and this price should make people feel a little painful, but once there are purchase restrictions and long queues, something becomes a rare item that cannot be bought even if you have money!
When people see the people who bought the pizza eagerly holding it and tucking into it with a happy look on their faces, they can't help but want to spend money: It's just ten copper coins, right? Small money! Spend it!
At the end of the line, a waiter counted the number of people and put down a sign that read: [Sold out, the next batch of special pizza will be available on time at 6:00 PM]
Old customers, used to the Lich boss not doing business at night, turned their heads and saw the business hours on the sign [10:00-20:00] and were immediately delighted: "Hey! This store is open at night!"
"Of course. Now that Viscount Andre is governing Eston West, public security has improved a lot. At night, the streets are brightly lit, and there are knights patrolling the streets. Many shops are willing to stay open until late at night."
"What about Lich Boss's brewing workshop? Has the business hours been extended as well?"
"No, the Lich boss said that it's their family dinner time in the evening. They don't serve dine-in, only takeout at best, and even that is sometimes open and sometimes not."
——There's no other way. Whether or not to open for nighttime takeout, and how long it's open, depends on how much food is left in the shop. Business is so brisk during the day, there's no need to open at night.
Besides, it wasn't just their own employees who came to eat at Jiangyou's restaurant at night. Andre's four lieutenants would sometimes linger under the pretext of reporting on work, and naturally stayed to eat. The same thing went for the magicians who taught Jiangyou.
With the opening of the public magic school in the western part of Eston, Jiang You also began to learn magic formally. The professors taught ordinary people who passed the test and entered the school during the day, and went to the brewing workshop to teach Jiang You from 7 to 9 in the evening.
——There is no way. Even if the professors can make time, Jiangyou is too busy running a shop and a factory to spare any time. The best time to attend classes is at night.
As a result, the professors had the audacity to arrive at the brewing workshop early to wait for class and naturally get a free dinner.
According to Andrei's arrangement, one senior professor would have been more than enough to teach Jiang You. However, the other senior professors were dissatisfied: "We are all of similar level, why should only one person get a job?"
Of course, everyone else was eating takeout from the Brewing Workshop, but how could takeout be as delicious as dining in? And how could the dishes cooked for takeout customers be as delicious as the meals that the Lich boss cooked for his family and employees?!
Therefore, when teaching Jiangyou, five highly respected old professors and magicians always appeared together. They were all eager to use their best skills, and each of them poured out their precious knowledge, fearing that their teaching would not be as good as their companions and be disliked by the Lich Master.
Jiang You and Andre were also very satisfied with this situation.
Ever since he found out that someone had tampered with Mi You's magic book, Takumi You has had a psychological trauma about learning magic on his own.
——This is like a poor student using AI to search for research materials. Although they know that AI may randomly make up some academic theories and evidence, people without professional knowledge cannot see where the problem lies.
With five professional veteran magicians keeping each other in check, Jiangyou didn't have to worry about anyone playing tricks. If someone made repeated mistakes, the other magicians would jump in and correct them, and they would immediately see that something was amiss.
Over the past week, Jiang You's magic has progressed by leaps and bounds. With a lich's natural affinity for magic, coupled with a wealth of both orthodox and fantastical knowledge from otherworldly realms, she's rapidly mastered elementary magical knowledge—roughly the level of an elementary school student, by comparison.
The magicians didn't see anything wrong with this learning speed, or the fact that Jiang You, a lich with a [Dark Magic Charter], had to learn magic from scratch. They thought the lich master was testing them on behalf of the lord, to see if they had enough to teach the people of Wilshire County.
The magicians simply felt that Viscount Andre was deeply concerned about his subjects, and even the lich close to him was entrusted with important tasks. However, a new lord always has this problem: people are always particularly interested in new things. Even the most unreliable lord will work diligently in the first few months of his tenure.
As for how long this diligence can last, it's hard to say. A journey of a thousand miles tests a horse's strength, and time reveals a person's character. Waiting for them to come back and observe Wilshire's development in a few years might give them a glimpse of the truth.
However, the improvement in public security in Wilshire County is obvious to all.
As a large number of refugees laid down their weapons and returned to their hometowns to become naturalized citizens, petty theft and fighting gradually disappeared in Wilshire County, and people all hoped to learn magic and move towards a better future.
As a large number of students entered the school, the Kingdom Knights also took strong action to arrest all the criminals who committed bloody and serious crimes.
Every convicted criminal, a murderer, was thrown into prison. A highly respected old judge, wearing thick glasses, examined and sentenced each of their crimes, hanging those who deserved it, beheading those who deserved it. Those sentenced to more than thirty years in prison were sent to hard labor in the quarries for the rest of their lives.
——Andre is not confident that these people can cook, but he can still let them do the work!
Wilshire County needed infrastructure everywhere, which naturally required countless stones, sand, and mud. These hardened criminals, who had lived on the edge of a knife and were covered in muscle and had endless strength, were perfectly placed to vent their excessive energy and keep them from causing trouble.
As for those criminals with sentences of more than three years and less than ten years, they were sent to fish sauce factories after physical examinations and confirmation of their health, and began their long journey of atonement.
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