Chapter 82
The magic car made by Brian was not sold in the end.
Ten thousand gold coins was too expensive, and that was only the cost of the materials. The first magic car made by Brian, the master of alchemy, was unique in the entire continent, and the price would at least double. Even Jiang Li, who was rich, would hesitate at that price, let alone others.
Moreover, the first magic car was still a non-sale product.
The magic car has not been mass-produced yet. Ordinary magic prop makers cannot make it, and even cannot understand the complex magic array composition for a while. The second magic car can only wait for Brian to spend more time and energy to make it.
After the display in the central square, many nobles were attracted by the magic car, but the high price made many people back out. In the end, only the dragon Serego placed an order.
He pulled Brian and told him: "When the second magic car is made, you must sell it to me first!"
Brian readily agreed and promised that he would make the second magic car the same flaming red as the dragon's appearance. Then he closed the door again and started to study how to improve the magic car. Even Pastor John in the church rarely saw him.
In contrast, the dwarf received a large order that day.
In the following days, Jiang Li sat at the door of his supermarket and would occasionally see a man riding a bicycle passing by the shopping street.
The bicycles made by the dwarves are about 70% similar to the bicycles on Earth in appearance, but the advantages of modern industrial materials cannot be replicated in the other world for the time being. Even if a substitute can be found, it cannot be exactly the same. The most obvious difference is that the bicycles in the other world are heavy and not as light as modern bicycles.
But this is enough. Compared with the primitive way of walking, people's travel has become much more convenient after having a bicycle.
Although the price of twenty gold coins is high, the nobles and rich people in Dolei City can afford it. Outside Dolei City, the dwarfs have also received many orders, which seem to be his old customers.
However, in addition to making bicycles, the dwarf Eugene is still fully studying the modern technology given by Jiang Li. From time to time, there are explosions coming out of the dwarf workshop.
As the lives of the residents of the other world began to change, Jiang Li bought a new machine for his supermarket.
A sausage grill!
It was placed at the cash register at the door, not taking up much space. After being connected to the power supply, neatly arranged sausages would roll inside. After a while, after being baked at high temperatures, the overflowing gravy and oil would make the surface of the sausages appear attractive, and the fragrant meat aroma would also escape.
When the first customer stepped into the supermarket, his eyes were immediately attracted by the new product.
"Boss Jiang Li, what is this?" The customer looked up and took a deep breath in the supermarket: "What a fragrant smell, what kind of monster meat is it?"
"It's pork." Jiang Li replied.
Customer: "Monster pig? What kind of monster pig?"
The farmed pigs in the other world have not been castrated, and they taste strong and smelly. Jiang Li encountered this problem when he first gave the recipe. Later, Levi also replaced the pork originally used in the Chinese recipe with other monster meat.
Jiang Li did not explain it again, but just asked: "Do you want it?"
The customer decisively said: "Yes!"
Jiang Li picked up a well-roasted sausage with a clip, inserted it with a bamboo stick, and handed it to the customer.
The sausage is not big. When you bite into the crispy and elastic sausage casing, the minced meat inside bursts out without the restraint of the casing. When you bite it, the gravy overflows. The chewy sausage is like massaging your taste buds. The customer swallows the hot sausage into his stomach with a gulp. The palm-sized sausage is quickly eaten up.
No extra seasoning is needed. The grilled sausage is already delicious enough.
Licking the corner of his mouth, which still had the rich and salty taste of the grilled sausages, the customer said unsatisfied: "One more."
Jiang Li: "Okay, no problem."
The other customers in the back also noticed this side, and smelling the aroma of the grilled sausages in the air, they also raised their hands hesitantly: "Boss Jiang Li, I want one too."
"I want two!"
"I want them all!"
The person who said the last sentence received angry glares from the other customers and had to change his words: "I want five, there are too many people in my family!"
Jiang Li quickly distributed grilled sausages to everyone. The first batch of grilled sausages that came out of the sausage grill was quickly divided up by the group of customers, and a new batch of grilled sausages slowly turned on the sausage grill.
After everyone had tasted the delicious grilled sausages, Jiang Li started to settle the bill for the long queue.
Jiang Li: "Ten copper coins per piece."
"Ten, ten copper coins?!"
Jiang Li nodded: "That's right."
The guests looked at each other blankly, thinking that they had heard it wrong. The first guest in line repeated it again: "Boss Jiang Li, are you sure it's ten copper coins, not ten silver coins?"
Jiang Li nodded heavily: "Yes, it's ten copper coins."
This is really... really too cheap!
The guests immediately took out coins from their wallets and settled the bill for the goods and grilled sausages they bought, fearing that if they were a step slower, Jiang Li would regret it.
Ten copper coins!
It's really too cheap!
Not to mention the supermarket, even in other stores on the shopping street, ten copper coins can only buy the cheapest black bread, and you can't buy a grilled sausage with such juicy and delicious meat filling.
Even the cheapest dried squirrel costs fifty copper coins a pack.
"Mr. Jiang Li, is today a special day?" the customer asked puzzled.
Jiang Li said happily: "Today is the first anniversary of the supermarket's opening!"
It is also the first anniversary of his crossing into another world!
A year ago, when Jiang Li decided to inherit this supermarket, he was still worried about whether he could run this supermarket for a long time. Unknowingly, the supermarket has not only been in operation for a year, but the business is also booming, and he has also had incredible and wonderful experiences.
Who would have thought that the person grilling sausages here is a great magician?
And how could the customers queuing here to buy grilled sausages think that what they are eating is food from another world?
Jiang Li announced loudly: "One-year anniversary big reward, ten copper coins for one sausage, only today, limited quantity, first come first served!"
The customer asked nervously: "Only today? Will I never be able to eat this kind of sausage again?"
"No, it will return to the original price tomorrow."
"Original price?"
Jiang Li thought for a while: "Twenty copper coins?"
Customers: "..."
It's still super cheap!
Whether it is the new products of the supermarket or the very low prices, they have greatly attracted customers to come. Soon, the news of the supermarket's one-year anniversary big reward spread, and a queue of people waiting to buy sausages formed at the entrance of the supermarket.
One sausage grilling machine can't grill them all, so Jiang Li had to start limiting the purchase, one sausage per person, and use magic to assist in grilling sausages when necessary.
When Messenner rode his bicycle back from the farmland outside the city, he found a long line at the supermarket door, and a meaty smell that the elves disliked came from the supermarket.
He squeezed through the crowded crowd without changing his expression, and saw his students holding a bunch of skewers of sausages, roasting them with magic flames.
Messenner: "..."
Noticing the arrival of the silver-haired elf, Jiang Li felt a sense of loss, and the flame in his hand disappeared as he wished.
Just then, the sausage in his hand was already roasted, exuding an alluring meaty aroma. The customer in front of him quickly took his own sausage and left, leaving behind ten copper coins.
"Teacher, why are you here?" Jiang Li asked, "Are you here to buy something?"
Messenner nodded, "I want to eat canned food."
"I put a can in the refrigerator for you," Jiang Li said.
Messenner skillfully went to the corner of the refrigerator and found the canned iced fruit. He put the money in the can into the drawer of the cash register. He did not leave in a hurry, but sat down at the seat next to him. The stainless steel spoon reached into the glass bottle, occasionally making a clanging sound.
Jiang Li obediently turned the sausage in the sausage machine over, not daring to use magic under the teacher's nose.
After a while, someone suddenly said, "The fire can be bigger."
Jiang Li: "What?"
"If the flame is bigger, the sausages can be cooked faster." Messenner said seriously, "If you use one-fifth more magic power just now, it will be the perfect fire, which can cook quickly and won't burn."
Jiang Li: "..."
Jiang Li couldn't help but look back at the silver-haired elf.
But after saying this, Messenner lowered his head to scoop the fruit pulp from the glass bottle again. In his robe pocket was half-used grilling seasoning, which was left over from grilling corn in the wild.
So, when the sausage grill was spinning, Jiang Li's hand was full of flames again.
After inputting one-fifth more magic power, he was surprised to find that the efficiency of grilling sausages had indeed increased. Jiang Li also used flying magic on the object to make the grilled sausages rotate in the air, so that the area exposed to the fire was more evenly distributed and the grilled sausages were more fragrant.
When Augustus heard the news and rushed over, the entrance of the supermarket was already blocked by people who had heard the news.
"Mr. Jiang Li, is it really gone?" "
Sell some more, Mr. Jiang Li!"
"I haven't eaten it yet!"
Jiang Li had to use magic to amplify his voice to cover these regretful sighs, "It's really gone! All the grilled sausages have been sold out!"
There were regretful sighs from the crowd.
Augustus squeezed through the crowd and saw the dragon still lingering in the supermarket: "Can I buy all the sausages tomorrow? I have money."
Jiang Li: "Sorry, no."
Serego was unwilling to give up: "I can increase the price."
Jiang Li: "Tomorrow, the purchase is limited to one sausage per person, and the same applies to Dragon. Besides, didn't you just buy several sausages from others at a higher price? In principle, such reselling should be prohibited."
Serego argued cunningly: "They gave it to me willingly."
One gold coin for one sausage, anyone would be willing to do it. Jiang Li thought. He said, "But aren't you still saving money for the magic car? The magic car made by Mr. Bryan needs at least 20,000 gold coins."
Serego: "..."
Thinking of the letter he sent but never got a reply, Serego became even more sad.
He sighed and left behind the dispersing crowd.
"Am I late?" Augustus looked at the empty sausage roaster with regret: "I heard that the supermarket has a new product, and it only costs ten copper coins. I wonder what it tastes like."
Jiang Li said: "There will be more tomorrow, come early tomorrow."
"I could have come earlier, but I went back to pick up something..." Augustus handed over the order form in his hand: "Here, Jiang Li, this is the shipment volume for next month."
Nowadays, the goods sold by supermarkets to other cities are still mainly daily beauty products with a long shelf life, as well as some small industrial products, to avoid food safety problems such as food spoilage. Jiang Li took it and scanned it, and couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Why has it increased again?"
"We have expanded our sales scope." Augustus said: "Not long ago, the queen used the cosmetics sold in the supermarket when she went on diplomatic missions to other countries, and it was well received in other countries. Therefore, the supermarket in the royal capital has also received many orders from other countries. Now, the supermarket's goods are in short supply, and many foreign businessmen want to cooperate."
Jiang Li nodded: "I see."
"Not only that." Augustus happily reported to him: "The pickles produced in Dore City are also very popular. When our products are shipped out, many people know that the food is from Dore City. They rush to buy it before they have even tasted it."
Unknowingly, in the eyes of residents in other cities, the food in Dore City has become associated with deliciousness. Of course, they are delicious.
Unknowingly, Dore City has gone from being a small, unknown city to being known by countless people.
"Our workshop has also expanded." Augustus invited: "Do you want to come and have a look?"
He also owns a part of Dore City's industrial park. As a shareholder, of course he has to inspect his own industry occasionally. If there are any deficiencies, he can correct them in time.
Jiang Li nodded happily: "That's right, I also want to buy some things."
Asking Messenal to watch the store and collect the cash, Jiang Li put on his magic backpack and went to the magic material store first.
He bought a lot of magic materials and several books there. From the names of the books, Augustus recognized: "...Magic circle? Are you learning this recently?"
"Yes." Jiang Li also bought materials for making magic circles.
After Brian took out the magic car, Jiang Li developed a great curiosity about magic circles and is currently learning magic circles by himself.
One of the most powerful magic circle masters on the continent is in Dore City. If there is something he doesn't understand, he can shamelessly go to his house to ask for advice.
The magic system of the other world is huge and profound. For Jiang Li, there is still a lot to learn.
After putting the purchased materials and books into his backpack, Jiang Li started his electric car and drove towards the industrial park.
Since the last time he came here, the industrial park in Duolei City has expanded a lot. As the scale of business has expanded, each workshop has expanded its site, and even the farmland outside the city has reclaimed new land. Therefore, more and more people come here to work.
When Jiang Li arrived, it was working time, and the people inside were busy.
Wait...wait!
Jiang Li looked at the statue standing at the entrance of Duolei City Industrial Park in horror.
A human-shaped statue, the proportions are larger than those of a normal person. The stone statue looks solemnly at the distance, holding a few plants in his arms, and the fruits of peppers and wheat ears can be identified among them.
The only question is...
"This... what is this!" Jiang Li said in disbelief, "Why is there a statue of me here?!"
Augustus looked in the direction he was looking and said with sudden realization, "Oh, you mean this."
Jiang Li looked at him in shock, "You know?"
"Hahaha, of course, I was the one who suggested this to my father." Augustus said as a matter of course.
Jiang Li: "..."
"Isn't there a statue of you outside Mr. Eugene's workshop? All these workshops are because of you. The entrance is empty, and there is no better place than to put your statue, so we asked Mr. Eugene to make a statue of you." Augustus pointed to the statue and said proudly: "How is it, is it very similar? This posture was my suggestion."
Jiang Li: "..."
Augustus also said: "I plan to put one over there in the farmland. Recently, there are always monster birds coming to steal the crops in the field. If it is a statue of a powerful magician like you, it must be very shocking."
Jiang Li: "..."
Jiang Li did not say anything, but silently took out his staff.
He whispered the spell silently, and the light of magic bloomed at the top of the staff.
Augustus was horrified and rushed over to hold down his staff: "Wait! Don't be impulsive! Jiang Li, calm down! ah ah ah!!!"