Chapter 69 Advertising Leaflets and Songmaking Types
With money finally in her pocket—or rather, in her skull—Jiaoyou felt more confident. With this start-up capital, she could take the equipment from the witches, buy some spices, and prepare for the soft opening tomorrow night!
This is a great promotional opportunity! Her brewing workshop is about to debut... Oh wait, speaking of promotion, is there something missing?
She looked up at Andrei and asked, "Do you know where I can print flyers?"
Andre: “?”
In fact, the deputy leader of the Knights, who had already thoroughly understood the West City of Eston, actually knew where to print flyers.
He rode his horse, carrying the skeleton, and rushed to the northwest of the city. There were many schools and businesses here, and naturally there were also stores that specialized in taking printing orders.
Diego, the dark horse, stopped in front of the Pinks Printing House. The shop's doors were wide open, and inside, more than a dozen brass printing presses were humming and clanging. Jiangyou jumped off his horse and bounded into the shop.
She curiously peeked beside the machine and saw workers picking out earthworm text blocks from a metal box, arranging them in wooden frames, fixing them, applying ink, and placing the type plates into a brass printing press.
The huge bolt rotates, and the platform at the bottom of the bolt presses down, and then rises again after a moment. The workers take the printed paper pages from the bottom of the platform, re-ink them, and print them repeatedly.
"Interesting!" Jiang You picked up a printed page. It was very similar to the flyers stuffed into the crack of her door. There was only black ink on the yellowed paper, but the text was clearly visible.
"Hey...Skeleton," a shrill voice said, "what can I do for you?"
Following the sound, Jiang You looked down and saw a dwarf standing next to his leg bone. This was Jiang You's first time seeing a real dwarf. He was even shorter than the Haff, only about 70-80 centimeters tall. He had a shrill voice, hair as yellow as dry straw, and a thick beard that resembled the same yellow straw. His eyes were a bright golden brown, and he looked very shrewd.
"I want to print a flyer," Jiang You said. "I'm opening a new store. All I need to do is write the store name, address, and the products they sell... Well, besides the text, can you add a picture?"
"Sure." The dwarf nodded, walked behind the counter, and pulled a chair to stand on it. "As for the pictures, we carve them on the woodblock. The more complex the pattern, the more expensive it is. What kind of picture do you want?"
"Draw a little skeleton." Jiangyou dug out the skull, took out a charcoal pencil from it, asked the dwarf shop owner for a piece of paper, and quickly drew a cute Q-version skeleton frame, and then wrote the slogan that needed to be printed on the flyer next to it.
New store opening! Jiangyou Brewing Workshop
Address: No. 666, Yaofang Street, Southeast District, West City, Estun
Business hours: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Authorized to sell Witch Forest Fruit Beer!
Selling a variety of refreshments, snacks, drinks, sauces, soy sauces, and special meals! Waiting for your patronage!
"That's all?" The dwarf shopkeeper nodded. "It's not difficult, and the price is not expensive. The minimum print run is 3,000, and I'll charge you three silver coins."
"One," Jiang You bargained. "Three silver coins is ridiculous! The shop I asked before offered a lower price than you!"
This was of course Jiangyou's way of bluffing and bargaining, but the dwarf was obviously shaken.
"Two!" said the dwarf innkeeper.
"One," Jiang You insisted, "but if you come to my shop later for a drink, I'll give you a 20% discount."
The dwarf shopkeeper glanced down at the flyer that said 'Witch Forest Fruit Beer for Sale', thought for a moment, and then extended his hand to Takumiu: "Jinx Pinks, at your service."
That's a done deal.
Jiangyou signed the order form and paid a deposit of three copper coins first. He would pay the remaining balance when the dwarf shop owner delivered the printed flyers to the Witch Forest tomorrow. It just so happened that the dwarf shop owner was also planning to attend the beer festival... no, the Midsummer Carnival, so he could deliver the goods at the same time.
"It must be delivered before the festival begins. Otherwise, I won't pay!" After Jiang You instructed the owner, the dwarf happily gave her a thumbs up: "Don't worry! We dwarves have never been late for the beer festival!"
——This is surprisingly convincing.
It was already noon when Jiangyou walked out of the shop. Andre was waiting outside with his horse, half a loaf of hard bread in his mouth, obviously having already taken his lunch. When he saw Jiangyou coming out, he casually wrapped the hard bread in oil paper and put it in the bag next to the saddle: "Is it done?"
"Okay, let's go back to the store now," said Jiang You. "Oh, I also need a cart. There are a lot of things to transport to the Witch Forest."
Andre thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
The two of them galloped back to Jiangyou's workshop. The skeleton rushed straight to the back door, and the knight turned his horse around and said, "I'm going to rent a car. I'll be back soon."
The two of them split up. Jiang You went straight to the backyard, and she went through the back door into the storage room next to the restaurant to check the songs she had made in advance.
Since there were no koji seeds for sale in this world, obtaining them was a matter of luck. On the first day he discovered the raw materials, Takuyou thoroughly mixed steamed soybeans with wheat flour, spread them on the bamboo winnowing basket that Miyou and her friends used to dry herbs, covered them with another winnowing basket, and left them in the storage room to ferment naturally.
She had made several batches before, using up all the bamboo winnowing baskets she could find. She had also cast a spell on the temperature and humidity control in the storage room, turning it into a fermentation room.
——Of course, Jiangyou moved all the glutinous rice and soybean bags in the storage room to the restaurant in advance, and only round winnowing baskets were left in the entire storage room.
Now, when she opened the round winnowing baskets, she was pleased to see that in several of them, the mixture of steamed soybeans and wheat flour had been decomposed and fermented by microorganisms, turning into a yellow-green color, and white mycelium could be seen in some parts.
Jiangyou used her newly learned [Spirit Appraisal Spell] and [Poison Appraisal Technique], and after several attempts, she finally confirmed that Aspergillus oryzae was thriving in the winnowing baskets... This was her new koji. She placed it in a pre-prepared clay pot, cast the [Spirit Nurturing Spell], and sealed the pot with clean gauze. Simply by mixing this koji with more soybeans and wheat flour, she could brew soy sauce!
Of course, two winnowing baskets were contaminated by bacteria and had grown a bunch of black stuff. Jiang You cast a purification spell on them, completely sterilizing the spoiled beans inside, and buried them in the farmland in the backyard, allowing them to become nature's fertilizer.
She went back and forth several times, moving the clay pots filled with koji seeds, soybeans and wheat flour to the yard, and then ran upstairs to get her business diary. In the end, the only difficulty was the big crucible.
Jiangyou was in a dilemma. It had taken her a lot of effort just to get this thing out of the basement. When she bent down to cast the levitation spell on the big crucible again, she suddenly saw some familiar magic circle engraved on the surface of the crucible.
She leaned forward, her eyes gleaming as she examined it carefully. "...This is...a magic circle for shrinking and reducing weight... Hmm? Let me see what it says here... [Portable Version]?"
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