Chapter 9 The First Step in Starting a Business
Jiang You lived for twenty-four years. Although she spent most of that time bedridden, undergoing endless tests and surgeries, she always lived with clarity. She read countless time-travel novels, as well as tutorials on farming, planting, building houses with bare hands, and mixing cement. She rehearsed in her mind a thousand times what she would do after traveling through time...
Who would have thought that not only did she actually travel through it, but she also traveled to a Western fantasy magical world and turned into a lively skeleton?
The good news is that she has learned a lot of skills from time travel; the bad news is that this is a Western fantasy magical world, and everything from the environment to the plants to the animals to the humanities are different from her original world. She doesn't know how much of those knowledge and skills can be used.
——It is likely that you will have to start learning again.
Of course, starting from scratch is not a big problem. Jiangyou herself is a studious person. Now as a lich, she has the special talent of [Magic Affinity] and almost unlimited time. For her, learning magic and potions is a blessing rather than a punishment.
I remember that Jiang You was also a magic fan who kept saying, "Why didn't my owl send me the admission letter?"
She has talent and knowledge and experience from another world. As long as she works hard and plays the cards in her hand well, she will definitely make a name for herself.
The biggest problem lies in taste.
The lich of the [finished product] can have a sense of taste, while the lich of the [failed product] can only taste the taste of soul energy. Even though emotions also have sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty tastes, it is still extremely difficult to equate the two.
Aunt Wolf, who can use emotions to recreate the taste of the food she eats, is simply a genius!
"It's not that great," Aunt Wolf Talia said with an embarrassed smile. "It's just that I've lived a long time and experienced all kinds of flavors in life. Whenever I taste something particularly unforgettable, it always brings back similar emotions."
"No, this is truly amazing!" said Jiang You. "You're exactly the helper I need! I'll be in charge of research and development, and you'll be in charge of tasting! It would be even better if we had a scholar who knows how to identify herbs and various potion ingredients!"
Jiangyou is good at "brewing". Whether it is yogurt, soy sauce, wine, vinegar... or even fermented rice, bread, cheese or sauerkraut, she can make it.
However, brewing is the art of fermentation, and if you want fermentation, you have to get various starters.
Winemaking requires yeast, and yogurt requires lactic acid bacteria... She can make some primers herself, but some primers require specific plants. If these plants do not exist in this world, then she may need to find substitutes for this world's version.
Not to mention, different types of rice can be used to make wines of different qualities, and different qualities of beans can be used to make soy sauces of various flavors... If we can find a scholar who is familiar with all kinds of plants in this world to work together, it will be much easier to prepare ingredients!
"Don't mention it... I actually know someone like that." Aunt Wolf hesitated for a moment, then said with some hesitation, "His name is Holly. He's a good kid, but he's been involved in some trouble recently... Sigh..."
She sighed heavily. "Let's not talk about that for now. What do you want to make? What materials do you need? I'll get some for you first... Let's see if we can make something first, then we can talk about other things."
"Ahem..." Jiang You scratched her head. She could smell the suspicious smell on Aunt Wolf. It was a bit fishy, like fish sauce.
Thinking about it carefully, it does seem a bit ridiculous to convince my next-door neighbor to trust me and start a business with me for no reason. Not to mention that the previous owner was extremely bad at magic and potions, and was often in trouble. I guess he also caused a lot of trouble for the neighbor lady...
If you want Aunt Wolf to join you, you have to come up with some solid products first.
Jiangyou mentally reviewed her specialties and the ingredients she had on hand. She had glutinous rice and soybeans. If she could use these resources to make something that would be least likely to fail and most easily accepted by the people of this world...
"Rose wine." She said, "I want to make rose wine."
From what Aunt Wolf said just now, Jiangyou knew that sugar was a precious condiment. Since it was expensive, it must be in short supply. There must be many people here who like sweet food.
Jiuniang is a naturally sweet fermented food. With the addition of rose, the taste becomes even sweeter and more delicious. Whether it is used directly as a beverage, or added to rice balls or meatballs to make a sweet soup, or used as a condiment to mix with yogurt, it will capture the hearts of those who love sweet things!
Rose wine requires few ingredients, only glutinous rice, koji, roses and water. As for the ingredients for making plant koji, she had just seen pepper and verbena in her own yard!
As for roses, Aunt Wolf had planted quite a few of them... ahem, she had no intention of taking the materials directly from Aunt Wolf, she just wanted to confirm that there were indeed plants like roses in this world.
"I grow these roses to make perfume," Aunt Wolf said. "They're edible. I often use the petals to make tea. I just gathered a basket full, so you can use them. When you make that rose wine, give me some to try. It'll be an equal exchange."
"If I fail, it doesn't matter. They are just worthless petals. Flowers bloom and then wither, and not all petals can be used."
Aunt Talia looked at the flowers with a hint of melancholy in her eyes. Jiang You smelled the faint, slightly sour and sweet floral fragrance, but she didn't know the specific meaning behind this smell... As a new lich, she still had too many things she didn't understand and needed to learn.
"If you succeed, the rose wine you make..."
"It's fermented rice." Jiangyou corrected in a low voice.
"...Rose wine," Aunt Wolf quickly corrected her mistake, "...If it suits my taste, we can discuss cooperation later."
She winked at Takumi and said, "Don't waste my roses~"
Jiang You returned to the house in a daze with a basket of fresh roses... The front door had not been repaired yet, so she still went back through the small door in the backyard.
"I have a feeling... Auntie Wolf is a person with a lot of stories. These petals seem very important to her." She muttered, putting the roses and glutinous rice into the kitchen. "Anyway, her kindness can't be wasted! I must make this rose wine successfully!"
I wonder what kind of story that person named Holly has, or what kind of trouble he is involved in...
"Listening to gossip is really fun, and eating all sorts of emotions is fun too... I wonder if using rose wine can yield delicious soul energy?"
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