Chapter 899: Shopping
Hearing the words of Tan Bingyu, the seller of the mutated sea monster that looks like an octopus was suddenly delighted that someone was planning to buy their product. Items from the blood sea are not easy to sell as they all look grotesque and no one knows if it can be eaten. As cultivators who live near the blood sea, they knew that even though these sea creatures look ugly, it is not only something edible but it is also full of energy that is no different from spirit and mutated animals which was used for cooking spirit food.
The seller of this kraken like sea beasts is a group of three people. All three of them were dark skinned due to their daily exposure under the sun. They all look like men that work in the sea. Moreover, their cultivation is also not bad, they are mostly in the Godking realm with one of them being quasi-emperor realm cultivators. It can be said that compared to the other sellers in this area, they are among those with powerful strength. The slight young man holding the fort of the small stall happily grilled an octopus tentacle for Tan Bingyu’s group of four. While grilling, the four of them noticed that the man cooking had only used salt on the item and nothing else.
Xue Renxue commented, "Bro, if you want your product to sell, you cannot just use salt. Add flavoring. Add some marinade on it and paint some butter. It would be more delicious that way!"
Upon hearing the suggestion of Xue Renxue, the three men selling the item were dumbfounded. The one at the grill looked confused as he looked at Xue Renxue who was advising him just now.
The man asked, "Marinade? What marinade?"
"Kid, you don’t even know how to do that? How can you sell food without flavoring? Forget it! I will show you how it was made. Move to the side a bit!" Tan Shengyu said.
Then the three men crowded at the table working on the marinade and grill while the two girls were asking the other two which part of the kraken they wanted to buy. Xue Shuyi checked the tentacles and avoided buying the parts that no longer looked fresh. Though it was still edible, it was no longer fresh and cannot be served to individuals with high position and cultivations like the Goddess of the Moon and the Immortal Sun Emperor. Of course, they still bought a lot.
Tan Bingyu asked, "Is this the only product you’ve got from the sea? If there are others let us see and maybe we would also be interested in it!"
The other two men were startled at first and excited next. The leader-looking man among the three people suddenly hit the back of his men’s head and said, "Go bring those over! Maybe they can be sold as well!"
"Yes, right away, Boss!" The younger man responded and ran to the back of the octopus pulling a few other two carts from the back of the giant octopus.
Though the two new items were a lot smaller compared to the kraken, these two items are twice as large as one of the kraken’s tentacles. One is a huge white fish that looks like a salmon yet with wings and the other is a crystal red lobster. When Tan Bingyu and Xue Shuyi saw the two carts, their faces showed that they were indeed interested in it.
"This on the right is a winged, fighting salmon and the one on the left is a ruby gemstone lobster! Its level cannot be compared to the octopus and the concentration of energy in it was nothing compared to the kraken as well." These three brothers planned to eat these two things if they could not be sold. But as beings who live near the sea which seafood they aren’t sick of eating. "Are you two interested in this as well?"
Tan Bingyu didn’t hesitate for a moment and nodded her head, "How much is the overall price?"
The leader-like figure among the three brothers answers, "100 medium grade spirit stones for the tentacles, 50 for the winged fish and 45 for the ruby lobster."
"Medium grade spirit stones?" Tan Bingyu spoke and then looked at her pouch bag which only possessed high grade spirit stones.
"Is it too expensive? We can still lower the prince a little bit. But too much would mean we are making a loss," one of the three men said.
The three brothers felt that they had priced their products too high and felt that these buyers would suddenly back away. They were about to lower their price when suddenly, Tan Bingyu placed one high-grade spirit stone on the leader’s palm which stunned the three men from the sea.
Tan Bingyu said, "That’s not what I mean. I do not have medium grade stones and I think you also do not have lower grade spirit stones for change. Forget it! Just take this as a deposit. Three days later you three can come back and sell a few more products from your side. It would be better if it’s something similar to these products of yours."
One high-grade spirit stone is equivalent to a thousand medium grade stones while their total amount of ingredients from the blood sea totals only less than two hundred medium grade stones. The three brothers stare at the high-grade stone in their brother’s hand. Though it looks small and is shaped into hexagonal, high-grade spirit stones possess a stronger source of qi which is important to the training of cultivators. That’s why they use spirit stones as common currency in this world.
Xue Shuyi had spoken, "Next time bring ones with shells!"
"Are you sure you are giving us this high-grade stone?" The leader of their small group of three asked.
Tan Bingyu didn’t hesitate to nod her head and said, "Your products are all unique from the blood see which is rare. Especially these things, once it was properly cooked it would be extremely delicious."
"Alright. Three days from now, we will come back to sell some items from the blood sea to you," said the burly man within the group of three.
All of the sudden, the area was covered in a lingering scent of grilled octopus coated with citrus honey and the other with soy sauce and butter. The scent was so attractive that the customers who were ignoring these items as they looked angry had suddenly realized what it felt like to be assaulted through their noses. Xue Renxue, and Tan Shengyu had just finished grilling when this fragrance spread all over the place. A sudden commotion within the crowd was heard.
"What the hell is his scent?"
"So delicious~ I wonder if it’s truly as good as how it smells."
Xue Renxue brought over four skewered octopus each of two different flavors for the two ladies. As for himself, he wanted to feed his wife first before him.
"Mom, here from Dad!"
"Bing’er try this one! This one is a bit spicy. I’ve added some chill powder in it!" Xue Renxue said.
Tan Bingyu was used to such things and just opened her mouth to bite as. Her lover was hand feeding her food. Just one bite was enough to change the cold expression on Tan Bingyu’s face and is finally showing some emotions on her face.
Xue Renxue asked "How is it? Have I seasoned it right? Is it delicious?"
"Not bad. Add a bit more spicy powder, " commented Tan Bingyu while once again taking a bite to the grilled octopus her dao companion is holding.
The stronger the scent lingers in the area the more people start staring at their side of the market area. To make it worse, the marinade was instantly used up and made the scent even more tantalizing. It attracted more and more people. Thankfully, Tan Shengyu and Xue Renxue had bought half of it on the spot and left after getting their part and resumed looking around again.
Tan Bingyu said, "Then as promised we will be back again in three days!"
"Yes. Please leave it to us!" Promised the three brothers while seeing the group of Tan Bingyu.
What they didn’t know is that the rest of the octopus was sold through this cooking with the permission of Tan Shengyu after showing how to cook a delicious grilled octopus. It can be said that this is the first time that these three brothers had sold out all their products faster than the others in the marketplace. Well, one couldn’t deny that the taste of that marinated grilled octopus was indeed too delicious and people had bought a lot after one try. Their group after buying a few more fresh meat had finally moved to the area that sells vegetables and fruits. The four of them had bought a lot that some thieves had started to target and their small group caught some unwanted attention.