Chapter 393: Cooperative Store Selling Seasonings
The store jointly opened by Yao Tao and Yang Lianhai went online soon.
Yao Tao decided to open a spice shop.
In the end times, apart from food, the most luxurious thing is seasoning.
Basic seasonings like salt are easy to get because it is close to the sea and you can buy it as long as you are willing to spend money, but other seasonings are difficult.
Even vegetable oil is a luxury item.
Survivors usually use the fat of mutant animals to make oil for cooking.
Vegetable oils are derived from plants, such as soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds...
After the end of the world, plants mutated and it was no longer possible to extract oil from them.
But this is not a problem for Yao Tao.
Her space can be purified.
As long as you grow mutant soybeans, mutant peanuts, mutant sesame seeds... you can extract oil, and the output will be higher than before the end of the world.
Other spices, such as peppercorns and star anise, can be collected from mutant pepper trees and mutant star anise trees.
Soybeans are needed to brew soy sauce. Similarly, as long as you have mutated soybeans, you can purify them and then brew them.
Pepper is also obtained through cultivation.
Yao Tao made a small notebook and wrote down the ways to obtain all the seasonings. She found that she was a bit like playing a collecting game.
To collect these seeds or saplings, you need to look outside the Ark or post a collection mission.
She planted a batch of vegetables in the spring, and the coriander is now ready for picking.
Yang Lianhai was very surprised when he heard that she was planning to sell condiments.
Because there was no source of seasonings, he couldn't figure out where Yao Tao would get them from.
But then I thought again, she has many secrets. Even when she was at resettlement site 001, she never lacked supplies.
If she dares to sell seasonings, she must have a way to get the goods.
"Okay, then sell seasonings." Yang Lianhai called in a young man from outside and introduced him, "His name is Liu Xingtang, he just turned 19 this year, and he will work with you in the seasoning store from now on."
Yao Tao looked at Liu Xingtang.
Liu Xingtang is not tall, has a round face, and has a very honest smile. He looks harmless.
"Hello, Sister Yao Tao." Liu Xingtang greeted her familiarly.
Yao Tao asked Liu Xingtang several questions, and Liu Xingtang answered them all. He was quick to respond and was smart.
Yao Tao was very satisfied.
After Liu Xingtang left, Yang Lianhai spoke up, "Liu Xingtang is an orphan. Before the apocalypse, I paid for his education. After graduation, he wanted to join the army, but the apocalypse came. So, I kept him by my side and asked him to help run errands."
Yang Lianhai said this to inform her so that she wouldn't have to worry about Liu Xingtang betraying him.
"Have you decided who to look after the store?" Yang Lianhai asked.
“I haven’t decided on it yet.”
"For now, Liu Xingtang can handle the store alone. You can add more people when you have made up your mind."
The two chatted for a while and Yao Tao prepared to go back.
Before leaving, Yao Tao remembered something, "I want to go see Wen Xiaoquan, is that convenient?"
Yang Lianhai lowered his head to work, not even looking up. "Just go to the prison and give your name."
"Thank you." Yao Tao left.
She went to the prison, and before she could say her name, she saw the gatekeepers smiling at her.
"Miss Yao Tao, don't you recognize us?"
"You are..."
"We used to be in resettlement site 001."
Yao Tao suddenly realized.
It seems that Yang Lianhai has also placed his people here.
"You're here to see that little girl, right? She's locked up in a cell, and no one's bullying her."
Someone brought Yao Tao to the cell door where Wen Xiaoquan was imprisoned. "You two can chat first. I have something else to do, so I won't accompany you."
The man withdrew, leaving Yao Tao alone.
Inside the cell, Wen Xiaoquan huddled in the corner with his knees hugged. When he heard someone talking outside, he looked up.
Seeing that they were not her parents, she lowered her head again.
"Wen Xiaoquan." Yao Tao called her name.
Wen Xiaoquan looked up again, his eyes blank.
"Don't you recognize me?" Yao Tao asked.
Wen Xiaoquan then recognized Yao Tao, but she neither cried nor begged her to let her go in an emotional manner.
She moved to the cell door. "Are you here to see me? Thank you."
Yao Tao raised an eyebrow.
It seems that this child has a personality very similar to Wen Jiming.
I don't have any bad intentions and I don't think badly of others.
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