Chapter 19

"Jiang Li!"

Jiang Li looked up when he heard the voice. Who else could it be if not Augustus standing at the entrance of the supermarket?

He recommended rice to Chris and wrote a recipe for stewed rice with bacon. As expected, it was very popular. The next day, all the dried goods such as bacon and mushrooms on the shelf were snapped up, and even a lot of rice was cleared out.

The young lord of Duole City would never miss any popular new products in the supermarket.

Sure enough, Augustus stopped at the door for a moment, and after entering, he immediately said: "I heard that preserved vegetable pork has appeared in the supermarket? There is also another food called rice?"

"Oh, right." He then pointed to the succulent tree at the door: "Is this some kind of magical plant? Why have I never seen it before?"

Jiang Li was silent for a moment, avoiding answering the latter question, and took out the stewed rice set meal and the pre-prepared dishes that had just been prepared from under the counter.

"You knew I was coming. Did you leave this for me?" Augustus' eyes lit up and he said with emotion, "I'm so happy."

"You're welcome," Jiang Li said, "A total of ten gold coins."

Augustus happily took out his purse, counted the gold coins and asked, "Only ten gold coins? Is it so cheap?"

"Yes," Jiang Li said, "Actually, I have another thing I want to ask you for help with."

Augustus was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, "What trouble have you encountered? Even a powerful magician like you can't solve it? If there is anything I can help with, you can just ask, even if it is outside the city of Dore."

Jiang Li said sincerely, "I want to find a magic teacher."

In fact, looking for Augustus was also a helpless act.

He desperately needed a magic teacher, but he couldn't find one in Dore City, and he couldn't leave Dore City. In Dore City, the most powerful and well-connected people he knew were undoubtedly Dean and his son. If he wanted to find a suitable teacher outside Dore City, he could only ask Augustus for help.

But...

Augustus paused after hearing this. He slowly counted out ten gold coins and put them on the counter. During this time, his eyes as blue as the sky stared at Jiang Li without blinking, observing the expression on his face.

After a long while, he exhaled, patted Jiang Li's shoulder gently, and said cheerfully: "Haha, Jiang Li, you have learned to joke too! To be honest, this joke really scared me."

Jiang Li: "..." He knew it.

"…Forget it." He decided to continue to study on his own.

When he looked through the theoretical books and found a way to control magic power, he would not make the same mistake as the succulent tree again after he became proficient.

"But, I also want your help with something." Augustus said.

Jiang Li: "How can I help?"

"My sister Ophelia's birthday is coming soon. She was born in the first snow of winter, and winter is coming to Dore City soon." Augustus said with a distressed look on his face: "Since summer, I have been looking for a gift to celebrate Ophelia's birthday. Originally, I went to hunt the most ferocious monster in the forest outside the city. Near the lair of that monster, there is a rare magic plant that can emit a charming fragrance. Although its fragrance will confuse people's minds and make people immersed in illusions, it can be removed by ordinary antidotes. If you keep it by your side, Ophelia will be happy to smell that fragrance every moment." Jiang

Li: "..."

Confuse, confuse people's minds? !

You humans from another world should not give too outrageous gifts!

Augustus sighed: "I had already prepared a gift, and was just waiting for the first snow to fall before giving it to Ophelia. During this time, I have been carefully nurturing it. However, last month, my father bought white wine from the supermarket, and after getting drunk, he thought he was attacked. Although I tried my best to stop him, the gift I prepared for Ophelia was still burned to ashes."

Jiang Li didn't show it on his face, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He felt that Miss Ophelia, whom he had never met, would not like such a strange gift.

Augustus continued, "I wanted to find another flower, but the magic plant didn't grow back after I picked it last time. After that, I kept searching, but I couldn't find a better gift than before." He was deeply

worried about this: "Winter is coming to Dore City soon. If I don't find Ophelia's birthday gift before the first snow falls, how sad will she be?"

"What if I prepare a beautiful set of jewelry or beautiful clothes for Miss Ophelia?" Jiang Li suggested.

He didn't know what to give a girl as a gift, but his roommates used to give gifts to their girlfriends, except for transferring red envelopes, jewelry bags or cosmetics.

Augustus shook his head: "Ophelia is an excellent magician, and she is most interested in things related to magic. Besides, ordinary jewelry and clothes can't express my feelings at all."

Jiang Li: "Then, give her magic props?"

"Magic props in the capital are more popular than those in Dolei City."

Jiang Li couldn't think of anything.

But Augustus looked at him expectantly: "Jiang Li, you are a powerful magician, and the things sold in your supermarket are as magical as you. I think, in your supermarket, there may be a special, incredible gift that can surprise Ophelia?"

Jiang Li: "..."

This is too difficult for him!

He looked around. As a small convenience supermarket, his supermarket sells rice, flour, grain, oil, snacks and general merchandise that neighbors often need. Of course, he doesn't sell luxury goods that can be used as gifts, or cosmetics... Hmm? Wait?

It seems that there are some things he hasn't sold yet.

Augustus blinked and saw him walk out from behind the cash register and walk to the shelf that few customers touched. After a while, he came back with an armful of things.

"These are..."

Jiang Li put down the things in his arms and introduced them to him one by one. He picked up a bottle: "This is shampoo."

"Shampoo?"

"It's for washing hair."

Augustus opened his eyes wide in curiosity. He took the product called shampoo. It was in a transparent cylindrical bottle with floral patterns printed on the packaging. Through the transparent bottle, there was also a transparent semi-liquid unknown substance inside. His nose moved and he smelled a light and elegant fragrance.

Augustus moved closer to the strange-shaped bottle mouth. The closer he was, the more obvious the fragrance was. The light and elegant fragrance actually came from this shampoo.

"It's actually a floral scent." Augustus said in surprise: "This floral scent smells even more fragrant than the magic plant I found for Ophelia."

Jiang Li picked up another bottle: "This is shower gel, for bathing."

Augustus took the shower gel again. It looked similar to shampoo, but its bottle was white and could be distinguished by its appearance.

He leaned in close to the bottle and sniffed it. As expected, he smelled the floral scent, which was different from the floral scent of shampoo. It was another intoxicating fragrance.

It was not that there were no toiletries in the other world, but according to Jiang Li's understanding, their only toiletries were soaps, and they were luxury goods that only the nobles could enjoy. Daily chemical products that had been improved by modern industry generation after generation were definitely rare in the other world.

Jiang Li picked up several other bottles and jars: "These are skin care products."

Augustus: "Skin care products?" "

As the name suggests, they are products for skin care." Jiang Li introduced them one by one: "This is a face cream, this is an eye cream... and there are also facial masks, hand creams, and body lotions."

Although the skin care products sold in the supermarket are not as comprehensive as those in specialty counters, there are also many basic and affordable products.

He introduced them and explained to Augustus how to use them. Fortunately, the usage of each of these things is very simple, and the purpose is different. Augustus quickly memorized them.

"Do you think there are any that can be used?"

Augustus took out his wallet very happily: "Give me two of each."

He tried it first, and if it works well, he would give it to Ophelia.

Although he said so, Augustus believed from the bottom of his heart that everything in the supermarket was good and there was no possibility that it would be bad. He believed that based on his understanding of his sister, Ophelia would definitely like these things.

...

The autumn in Dore City was getting colder day by day. Before the first snow of winter came, Jiang Li didn't know whether Earl Dean's little daughter would like her brother's gift.

But the residents of Dore City obviously liked it very much.

Not long after Augustus took away the toiletries set, several young nobles visited the supermarket.

"I heard that Augustus bought the shampoo and shower gel from here?!"

The nobles slapped their wallets on the counter and said enthusiastically, "I want an identical one!"

Jiang Li silently accepted the gold coins and took out an identical set of toiletries from the shelf.

Looking at the nobles leaving with their toiletries, he sighed in his heart: The star of the sales in Dolei City is still the young city lord.

However, this is only a small-scale trend among the nobles in Dolei City.

Among the ordinary residents of Dolei City, the most popular are pre-prepared dishes and rice.

After Jiang Li gave Chris the recipe for braised rice with rotten intestines, rice soon became popular in Dolei City. In addition to rotten intestines, the smart and wise residents of Dolei City soon developed various monster meat braised rice, vegetable stewed rice, and the simplest white rice.

They also found that the pre-prepared dishes sold in supermarkets are a perfect match with rice!

Especially the pork with preserved vegetables. When the pork with preserved vegetables soaks into the rice, the pearl-like rice absorbs the soup and turns light brown. The sweet and sticky rice and the salty and slightly sweet pork with preserved vegetables can be perfectly blended together to become an absolute delicacy that surpasses pork with preserved vegetables and rice!

In addition to pork with preserved vegetables, other dishes paired with rice also have their own flavors. The most magical and equally popular combination is the hot pot base sold in the supermarket.

Yes, it's hot pot!

And it has to be tomato hot pot.

Use the tomato hot pot base to cook a pot of tomato-flavored soup, and soak the rice in the tomato soup. It is also a perfect match. The slightly sour taste is particularly appetizing. Even the picky children can eat two bowls in one breath.

During this period, the sales of pre-prepared dishes and rice in Jiang Li's supermarket increased day by day. He had to replenish the pre-prepared dishes every day to meet the needs of the residents of Dolei City.

It's not that Jiang Li is unwilling to replenish a lot of goods at one time, but his freezer is limited and can't hold too much.

Apart from the fact that they couldn't buy food if they came late, the only ones who had complaints were probably the restaurants in Dore City.

Levi was one of them.

However, compared to other people who were simply dissatisfied because the food sold in the supermarket was too delicious and took away the restaurant's business, Levi's mood was more complicated.

Although the restaurant run by Levi was not the largest restaurant in Dore City, it had been passed down from generation to generation since his great-grandfather. Today, it has become the most delicious restaurant recognized by Dore City.

As a chef, he was determined to inherit and improve the craftsmanship of his ancestors since he was a child, and he has been doing a good job so far. Every noon, his restaurant was full of customers.

——Until the supermarket appeared in Dore City.

When instant noodles and hot pot base began to become popular in Dore City, Levi certainly did not miss it.

As an excellent chef, he had to admit that the food sold in the supermarket was very delicious. But at the same time, as an excellent chef, he did not believe that hot pot could surpass his own skills.

In his opinion, although he has not yet studied the recipe of hot pot base, and has not found the two ingredients of tomatoes and peppers, this kind of food is really too unskilled. A pot of water, a bag of base, no test of skills at all, even the dumbest person can get started, relying on all the magical spices in the base bag. Although it tastes good, it does not cause a sense of crisis for an excellent chef.

The emergence of hot pot has caused his restaurant to lose some customers, but it has not affected too much.

Customers with discerning tastes will never be satisfied with just hot pot. Although hot pot is delicious, all the food tastes the same. For a diner, each ingredient should have its own unique taste, which is something that hot pot base cannot do. Similarly, the ancestral craftsmanship is also Levi's confidence.

- Until the emergence of pre-prepared dishes.

Damn it! How can there be a store called a supermarket in the world!

Although he doesn't run a restaurant, every dish he serves is novel and delicious. Any dish can become a restaurant's signature dish. Even Levi's restaurant, which has been passed down for generations, is powerless in front of him!

The moment he tasted the pre-made dishes, Levi knew that he had lost.

The complex texture, the novel taste, and the delicious dishes that he couldn't replicate even with the same ingredients made Levi lose completely. The

only thing he could make was a simple and convenient dish like braised rice with rotten intestines. His many years of experience as a chef allowed him to perfectly replicate the braised rice with rotten intestines, without the burnt pot crust underneath.

The recipe was provided by the supermarket owner, and the ingredients were bought from the supermarket.

After trying the braised rice with sauerkraut intestines, Levi sat in front of the portrait of his ancestors for a whole night. The next morning, he closed the restaurant and came to the supermarket entrance.

"Welcome."

Jiang Li looked up and saw the strange guest, and said skillfully: "The pre-prepared dishes are in the freezer, the rice is on the left, and the hot pot base is on the second shelf on the left."

Levi frowned and nodded calmly, but he did not go to any of the shelves introduced by Jiang Li.

Instead, he came to a row of shelves that few people set foot on.

Levi looked at the goods in front of him. If he didn't know what was in these bottles before, after buying the ingredients for the braised rice with sauerkraut intestines and mixing the sauce to pour on the rice by himself, he already knew that these rows were all seasonings.

For a chef, this is undoubtedly a paradise.

Countless condiments, whether well-known or little-known in Lalan Continent, are all concentrated on this shelf, and this treasure has been here for a long time, but no one has discovered it.

Levi took all of this in deeply, then turned around abruptly and strode back to the door.

Jiang Li looked at the guest in front of him with tears in his eyes. He looked young, with short light brown hair tied into a low ponytail, and the broken hair on his temples was tucked behind his ears without a trace. At this moment, he looked at himself solemnly, his expression changed several times, as if he was making some important decision.

Jiang Li asked: "Didn't you find what you wanted? Is there anything I can help with?"

"Bang!"

The man in front of him suddenly bowed 90 degrees, and his forehead hit the cash register heavily. The hair on the back of his head swayed under the heavy weight.

Jiang Li's mind went blank in an instant.

What's this? !

He has been running a store in the other world for so long, and finally encountered someone who came to cause trouble? !

"Mr. Jiang Li!"

Levi said sincerely and loudly: "Please accept me as your apprentice!"

Jiang Li: "…………"