From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 204: Tiger Pig and Golden Thread Oil Pagoda Noodles
In Shifang, the Fish Noodle House has been doing good business since it opened a few days ago, and it is becoming more and more popular because it has two unique foods.

One is the Wuzhi Steamed Bun Fish, which is modeled after the immortal food. Although it cannot increase strength after eating, it is a great supplement for blood and qi, and is the best way to nourish the body.

Another one is the sour soup noodle fish, which is also modeled after the immortal food. It does not nourish the body, but it can increase spirituality, or in simple terms, increase wisdom.

In a short time, the news spread in Chaoju City, and those who did heavy physical work, such as blacksmithing and ship repairing, came to eat Wuzhi steamed bun fish.

In the end, the owner of the workshop came to place an order in person. The effect of this Wuzhi steamed bun fish is comparable to that of Ganoderma lucidum pill, but the price is half cheaper. It is worth buying it back for the chef and his employees to eat.

Business increased dramatically in a few days, and eighteen more stoves were added to the kitchen. The steamers were working day and night, and nearly half of the 30,000 kilograms of Ganoderma lucidum were consumed.

There was a long queue in the store, people coming to eat fish in sour soup noodles. Even someone as strong as Yu Mu felt her arms aching from exhaustion.

Every night when the shop closes, Yu's father has to help him pat his back and rub his shoulders, stretching the muscles in his arms and shoulders to promote blood circulation and dispel fatigue.

The couple had been discussing the matter these days. There was a reason why the store's business was booming. Firstly, the seventh-grade spiritual chef was doing the cooking himself, so his skills were naturally impeccable.

Secondly, it is also modeled after the research on immortal food. Whether it is to increase spirituality or blood, it is already a kind of elixir food, a very ordinary spiritual food.

The last one is that the Zhicao is grown by ourselves. It is a unique business in the East China Sea. No one else can provide such a large amount of Zhicao.

When I priced the Wuzhi steamed bun fish, I didn't understand the reasoning behind it, so I set it a little too low. Although I still made a profit, I always felt like I was losing money.

Every night, Yu's mother brought four waiters to the kitchen to teach them cooking skills. They were considered to have started cooking early and were all disciples of Yu's father.

Senior Brother Bighead Fish was lucky this time. He had always liked to steam buns and make pancakes over high heat, but now he stayed by the stove for twelve hours a day.

He couldn't handle it alone, and Yu Mu had to quickly train an apprentice, so she asked Lao Moji to help watch the fire. He was learning to make tea in Danhuang Cave Heaven, so he was half responsible for the stove.

Later, eighteen more stoves were added, and ten fire quail shrimp soldiers were also brought over. They were all skilled in fire magic, so they had no problem learning how to make fire and monitor the temperature.

For a while, there was no one idle in the noodle shop. Even the three apprentices, Yu Fu, Yu Shuyang, and others, were like four monsters.

Fortunately, Yu Mu slowly adjusted herself and, following Xianliang’s idea, she created another noodle dish based on the sour soup fish noodles - Golden Thread Youtiao Noodles.

This noodle is steamed. The noodles are mixed with pork, rolled into a pagoda shape, and steamed in a steamer. Because of the lard and noodles, it is named Golden Thread Oil Pagoda.

Because it is steamed, it does not need to be cooked like noodles, which makes the fish mother feel a lot easier. In addition, the golden thread oil-tart noodles are also served with sour soup, so there is not much change in taste.

The only difference is that the pasta is in the shape of fish, which has a unique benefit for fish monsters.

Fortunately, there are few fish monsters in Chaoju City, and no monster cares about this. Instead, the golden thread oil-tart noodles are more popular, because the noodles are as thin and long as golden threads, and have a unique golden aura.

Unfortunately, the Golden Thread Youtiao Noodles ran into trouble after just a few days of being sold. In the past, only lingmai flour was needed to make noodles, but the Golden Thread Youtiao Noodles had to use lard.

Chaoju City is headed by the Mu family, all of whom are wood spirits who like to eat insects and plant seeds. There are not many people doing spirit pig business among the thirty markets in the city.

This matter has its roots. Kuhai Yazhou consists of five islands and eight cities, and one city is built on each island of the upper three islands. It can be said that both the island and the city belong to the city lord's family.

There are five cities built on the lower two islands, among which Changyuan City and Chongjia City both belong to Chongyuan Island. The lord of Changyuan City is a pig demon.

Therefore, among the five islands and eight cities, all businesses related to pigs are mostly in Changyuan City. The pork shop in Chaoju City is also a business of Changyuan City.

In theory, the two islands are not far from each other, and it would take no more than a day to urgently allocate some spiritual lard, which would not delay things.

However, things are not harmonious and unexpected events happen. In the final analysis, it is the money that moves people's hearts.

The gate of the Demon City Workshop faces outwards, and apprentices are not prohibited from entering and exiting. The hundreds of skills practiced are also not prohibited from being taught. However, Yu's Noodle House is different. They do not accept either waiters or apprentices.

Moreover, Wuzhi Steamed Bun Fish has invisibly taken away the alchemy business, and there is dissatisfaction behind the scenes. In addition, restaurants and hotels are also jealous.

For a while, the little spiritual lard had blocked the noodle shop. It happened that Li Zhen had been looking for an opportunity to take revenge on Beihai Lenglong in the city these days. After knowing this, he went to Mu Lingge for help.

Even though the Mu family controls Chaoju Island, they are not local tyrants and cannot have the final say in everything, not to mention that they are also involved with the Zhu family of Changyuan City.

In the end, it was the Tiger Stick Demon Master who helped to come up with an idea. He asked Ban Zhangxian from the teahouse next door to come forward and invited a manager in charge of the pork shop in Chaoju City.

This Ban Zhangxian also had the surname Zhu, that is, Zhu Ban Zhang. He was born in the Zhu family of Changyuan City and was the eldest son of the family. Unfortunately, he had a perverse personality and he would live alone and wander around.

Speaking of which, it was related to the fact that he ate pork. There was a rule among the demon tribe that one should not eat one's own kind. Firstly, animals can harm each other's kind, and secondly, eating one's own kind is poisonous.

Zhu Banzhang eats pork, but it’s not a mental habit. It’s a matter of blood. Just like Sanhu Yibiao, he is a tiger and a pig.

According to folklore, a pig with five toes is a tiger, also known as a tiger pig. It looks and has the same bloodline as a pig, except that it has one extra toe, but its temperament is like that of a tiger.

Therefore, Zhu Banzhang, like Hei Biao, was discriminated against since birth. When he became a demon immortal, he did not open up a blessed land, but opened a teahouse in Chaoju City.

This day was the day when Zhu Banzhang and the demon master Hu Zhang were accompanying Zhu Guanshi at Yu's Noodle House. Yu Shuyang happened to come and deliver real paper and real letter to Yu's father.

Li Zhen went to stake out Beihai Lenglong again. As soon as Yu Shuyang entered the noodle shop, he was busy all the time. The three students didn't know the inside story, so naturally they wouldn't come to tell him.

Fish Father was upstairs with Zhu Banzhang and Tiger Stick Demon Master, while all the other fish demons and shrimp soldiers were busy in the kitchen.

For a while, Yu Shuyang seemed to be fine. There was no place for him to go. Of course, he was happy to have some free time.

The kitchen was also busy as ten soldiers worked on the stove on the twenty-eighth floor. They set fire to the spiritual wood while keeping an eye on the temperature.

Old Moji held up a red flag with a black dragon and fanned the flames in all the stoves. The scene was comparable to the fire in the alchemy room where people were refining pills.

Yu Mu, accompanied by Senior Brother Fathead Fish and four other servants, were making Wuzhi Steamed Fish and Golden Thread Youtiao Noodles without noticing Yu Shuyang coming in.

"Mom, where is my dad?" Yu Shuyang asked.

The mother looked up and saw her son. She came over to him and said, "Stupid boy, why are you here?"

A few days ago, Li Zhen accompanied his son back home, and Shuxian Shuihouzi asked him for help. Li Zhen told her about this when he came back.

Later, Li Li helped to deliver the Ganoderma lucidum and said that 260 acres of spiritual fields had been reclaimed on Yatou Mountain and planted with Ganoderma lucidum.

Judging from the current situation, in the future, we may not be able to supply the Wuzhi steamed bun fish ordered by the workshop alone, not to mention that the Zhu family in Changyuan City also has ideas.

"I'm here to give the old man a gift." Yu Shuyang said with a smile, but he deliberately kept it a secret.

Seeing her son like this, Yu Mu didn't ask any more questions. She just told him that there wasn't enough Ganoderma lucidum. She said the Ganoderma field would have to be expanded later. "Mom, if you say that, I'm afraid the demand for Ganoderma lucidum will be quite high in the future. Even if we reclaim all of Yatou Mountain, can we still have 50,000 mu of Ganoderma lucidum?"

"Based on 50,000 mu of spiritual fields, can the ground veins of Yatou Mountain support the growth of so many Ganoderma lucidum? The spiritual energy consumption is extremely high." Yu Shuyang couldn't help but worry.

In order for spiritual plants and precious medicines to grow, they need to absorb spiritual energy. This spiritual energy is generated by the earth's energy mixed with the light of the sun, moon, stars and sky. Therefore, the size of the veins at the root of the mountain determines the amount of spiritual energy on the mountain.

Although the light from heaven and the air from the earth are inexhaustible, the spiritual energy on the mountain has a fixed amount. If you want to plant more spiritual plants and precious medicines, you have to expand the roots of the mountain and the veins of the earth.

Unfortunately, a number of floating islands are incorporated into the island's earth veins, and the amount of earth energy that can be introduced every day is limited. It is not something that anyone can expand just because they want to, and the trouble involved is extremely numerous.

As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Mu also started to worry. After thinking for a while, she said, "How about we go to the Qingqiu Islands and buy an island?"

Yu Mu had always been thinking about buying an island. This time, Sanxian Island and Zhu Sanniang jointly bought a high-quality island without spending much money.

In less than ten days of business, the money spent on buying the restaurant was earned back. Now they were in urgent need of growing Ganoderma lucidum, so they thought of selling the island.

"The Fox Nation of Qingqiu is at war with Dragon's son Jiaotu, and all the waters of Qingqiu are sealed off. Even if we buy an island and grow the herb, we won't be able to deliver it.

"Why don't we ask our godmother what's going on at Sanxian Island? Why not go there and cultivate some Zhitian?" Yu Shuyang offered his analysis.

"The Three Immortals Islands are also fine, but that requires you to wait for your godmother to come back. She has been gone for a few days and hasn't come back yet." The fish mother said this, followed by a sigh.

The Three Immortals Islands gather pure and spiritual energy. It is said that the spiritual energy on the island is more abundant than that in the inland of Kyushu. If Zhitian is cultivated, there will be no need to worry about whether there is enough spiritual energy.

However, after all, it is a joint purchase between two families, so they cannot plan to go there in advance, and they don’t know what the rules are there.

Not to mention how Yu Shuyang and Yu Mu discussed and gossiped in the kitchen, the manager of the Zhu family in Changyuan City and the owner of the Huolongfang in Chaoju City came together.

The Fire Dragon House is the largest alchemy room in Chaoju City. The owner's surname is Jing and his name is Mu Jie. He is a snake fairy with the cultivation level of the fifth rank. His cave is located in Jiaopan Mountain.

This Jiaopan Mountain, like Wohu Ridge, is one of the four barrier mountains of Chaoju City. This shows the background of the Jing family and their relationship with the Mu family of Chaoju City.

Jing Mujie followed the pig steward up to the second floor. The tiger stick demon master stood up to greet him. Today he represented Elder Mu and mediated this matter. He had known about Jing Mujie's arrival for a long time.

The two sides sat down as host and guest. Before Hu Zhang could speak, Zhu Ban Zhang spoke first. He said that he came here today partly to give face to Elder Mu and Hu Zhang, and partly to give face to the Yu family.

Back then, he left Changyuan City. Besides his identity as a tiger pig, he also couldn't stand the fact that he was half-demon. That day, when he heard Yu Shuyang's words in the teahouse, he secretly thought of him as a close friend.

Now three out of the five monsters are all demon fairies, so Yu's father can only take the last seat here. Zhu Banzhang knows that Tiger Stick is the best at taking advantage of others, so if he is in charge of this matter, the Yu family will definitely suffer a great loss.

"Which branch of the Zhu family are you from, and which generation are you from?"

Zhu Banzhang saw the manager who came in. He looked like a human with a pig's head and was of the seventh-grade cultivation level, so he knew that he was his descendant.

The current matter, in the final analysis, is that the Yu family is looking for the Zhu family to buy lard. He doesn't care why Jing Mujie came, he just goes directly to ask the Zhu manager.

"To answer Uncle, I am from the fifth branch of the family."

Manager Zhu also had his own plans in mind. He was asked by the Jing family to control the Yu family. However, since the demon fairy from the head of the Zhu family was here, he could only respond obediently.

"I called you here today to discuss the spiritual oil. Have the rules in Changyuan City changed now? You won't do business that comes to you?" Zhu Banzhang asked with a frown.

Manager Zhu was speechless for a moment. He glanced at Tiger Stick and Jing Mujie, indicating that they should help speak.

The demon master Tiger Stick was speechless for a moment. He really didn't expect Zhu Banzhang to speak like this. When Mu Lingge asked him for help, he had already calculated the accounts.

When Li Zhen asked him to buy Yatou Mountain, he even made an account of two million talisman coins. Now the Yu family's Zhicao is worth more than that.

At this time, he felt a little regretful about inviting Zhu Banzhang, but he was trying to fish in troubled waters, so Zhu Banzhang had to step forward to invite the Pig Manager.

Otherwise, this would mean that Jing Mujie sent his monsters to talk to the Yu family about the Ganoderma lucidum. After all, the Yu family didn't have any monsters or fairies, so there was no need for him to do anything in person.

"Ban Zhang, Manager Zhu, since we are all family, this matter will be easier to handle. Master Jing Dan is here too, so let's talk about it together."

Yu Zhang hurriedly spoke to ease the situation, appearing to be very cordial. Yu's father watched coldly from the side, feeling disgusted.

The person who was invited to help did not seem to be on his side. He did not know Jing Mujie and had only vague knowledge of Zhu Banzhang.

"Young man from the Yu family, this matter has nothing to do with me, but you asked to buy spiritual oil.

It just so happened that our Fire Dragon Shop had needed to refine the Five Fat Spirit Pill in the past six months, and also needed a large amount of spiritual oil, so this matter became a matter between our two families.

You are new here, so you should follow the rules. We at Huolongfang should give you some ground and help you get established as soon as possible.

This is also why I came here today. There is only so much spiritual oil, so let's split it between our two families and cooperate with each other." Jing Mujie said in a friendly manner.

Although he is an alchemist, he is not stupid and he is knowledgeable about common affairs. He came here today to discuss the herb business.

It seems that the Yu family needs help from the Zhu family, but in fact, it is also the Jing family that needs help from the Yu family. I also inquired before coming here, and I found out that the Yu family is related to the Li family of Qianzhang Cliff.

Currently, the Li family has joined forces with the Mu family of Chaoju City, the Twelve Dragons of Water Mansion, and the Sea Spider Zhu family to open up a trade route to the inland of Kyushu.

To be honest, Jing Mujie didn't think that he could rely on Ling Zhuyou to control the Yu family, especially after hearing what Zhu Banzhang said just now, which also made him lower his posture.

"Then I wonder how much the immortals need?" Yu's father asked politely.

"It's fine, you take 40% and I take 60%, or you take 60% and I take 40%, it depends on how much your family uses.

However, if I give up the spiritual oil, I will have to negotiate another deal with you. I wonder how much your Lingzhi will sell for? "Jing Mujie said with a smile.

After hearing this, Father Yu had a clue in his mind, knowing that the roots came from the Ganoderma lucidum, and then asked, "How much do you need?
My family only has Zhicao, which is not even of the sixth rank."

The Ganoderma lucidum needed for alchemy must be of high quality. If it is not of high quality, it may not be useful.

"That's easy. There will always be a time to reach the highest level." Jing Mujie said with a smile.

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