TWWMABMTBH Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Salted Duck Eggs, Two and a Half Yuan Each

Unlike Rong Ziyan, the System could directly see the attributes of items, so it was even more shocked. For a moment, the System even doubted if the Heavenly Path had drunk fake wine.

Rong Ziyan heard that its tone was off and wanted to check the details, but a dozen identical items popped out one after another, pushing the storage grid to the front, making it a little too late for him to operate.

However, soon, the fifty consecutive draws were over. Rong Ziyan looked at the gray storage box and understood that he had crashed again.

However, unlike before when it was always salted duck eggs, although this time he still drew N-level items, at least the N-level items he drew weren’t just salted duck eggs. There was also the unknown strip-like object from earlier.

Rong Ziyan finally found a chance to click on the item details. A magnified, bluish-white salted fish was boldly displayed in front of Rong Ziyan.

Salted Fish: The meat is tender and resilient, fresh and salty, and even more delicious when fried and paired with millet porridge. A unique recipe from a sea woman, this is a salted fish with dreams. When you are stared at by its dead fish eyes, it feels like being observed by the abyss.

The System had given up on Rong Ziyan’s terrible luck.

“Hahahaha, Host, hurry up and take one out and look at it. Maybe it will give you confidence in the future.”

Rong Ziyan was also curious about what it meant to be observed by the abyss. So he took out a salted fish and planned to take a closer look.

A pair of dead fish eyes, rolling their white eyeballs, stared at Rong Ziyan.

Salted Fish: …

Rong Ziyan: …

Rong Ziyan didn’t really feel any motivation, and he was more concerned about another aspect of this salted fish, like, for example, the taste of the salted fish.

So, he quickly tore off a small piece of fish meat from the back of the salted fish and put it in his mouth to taste.

Salty! This was Rong Ziyan’s first reaction. At the moment of entry, the salty, almost bitter taste gave him a jolt.

Rong Ziyan quickly grabbed the water cup next to him and took a gulp. However, what was wonderful was that after the salty taste was diluted, the unique freshness of the sea fish also burst out.

In the past, when there were no refrigerators, people chose to pickle food with salt and dry it in the sun to extend its lifespan. It seemed to make the tender fish meat dry up, but it also increased another kind of firm and chewy texture.

Salty but delicious, soak in water to remove excess salt, cut into sections and deep-fry. It’s soft and crispy, salty and fragrant, indeed a great dish to pair with porridge.

More importantly, salted fish was more valuable than salted duck eggs! So this fifty consecutive draw was still a win for him.

So, Rong Ziyan happily took another vegetable basket, placed the other fifteen salted fish inside, and then changed his clothes, planning to wash up and go to bed.

Of course, before going to sleep, he did not forget to send the extra money he earned today to the loan shark.

According to the regulations of the animal husbandry station, each castration of a boar was five yuan. As the chief surgeon, Rong Ziyan could get three and a half yuan, which was really a considerable sum!

Five minutes later, Rong Ziyan successfully harvested six thousand rage points gifted by the loan shark and went to sleep satisfied.

It was another number that could do six lottery draws. According to the output speed of the loan shark and the Rich Second Generation, Rong Ziyan felt that he would soon become the richest man and go to the world.

He slept soundly all night.

Early the next morning, Rong Ziyan went out before 5:30 am, bringing forty salted duck eggs and fifteen salted fish to find the couple who ran the snack stall.

Rong Ziyan remembered that this couple left their village for the town at six o’clock every day. Arriving at this time should not delay their business.

Sure enough, when Rong Ziyan arrived, the couple had just gotten on the tractor and were preparing to set off. The back of the tractor was full of things they were going to sell for breakfast that morning.

“Little Doctor Rong is here!” The husband jumped off the tractor first and greeted Rong Ziyan.

“Yes, I’m bringing you salted duck eggs. Also…” Rong Ziyan took out another basket with salted fish and handed it to them, “This basket is filled with salted fish. You need to soak them in water first, and then cut them into sections and deep-fry them. Take them and try selling them. If they don’t sell, you can just bring them back to me.”

“Salted fish… It seems that not many people around here eat this?” The husband was a little hesitant, but on second thought, Rong Ziyan’s craftsmanship was good, maybe the salted fish would taste pretty good too!

Besides, Rong Ziyan himself said it was for a trial sale, so he didn’t need to worry about profit or loss at all. As for deep-frying, they needed oil to fry youtiao (fried dough sticks) in the morning anyway. They could just use a separate small pot to fry the fish.

With this in mind, the husband agreed readily and even gave Rong Ziyan a whopping 1,000 excitement points.

Rong Ziyan understood that he was happy because his business might improve today, so he stopped talking, quickly handed the baskets to the husband, and said, “I won’t hold you up any longer, go ahead!”

“Okay!” The husband quickly got on the tractor. Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something else, “Oh, right, Little Doctor Rong, how much should we sell these salted fish for?”

He remembered that the price of salted duck eggs had been set, but the price of the salted fish had not been decided yet!

Rong Ziyan thought for a moment, “Twenty-five yuan per plate after cutting them into sections!”

“And the name?”

Rong Ziyan took the pen handed over by the wife and quickly wrote a few words on their breakfast menu board, then returned the pen to the couple, and planned to pack up and go to work himself.

There was nothing to do today, so Rong Ziyan planned to take advantage of his clear mind in the morning to thoroughly study the paper he had seen yesterday.

It was a coincidence that the paper mainly analyzed the prevention and control of poultry diseases in summer. Rong Ziyan was currently doing this work. With the practical verification, his understanding of the theory became more precise.

Rong Ziyan was always focused when studying, and time passed quickly. However, the System suddenly received a notification: [100 Collapse Points from Zhang Dagou, a resident of the town]

“What’s the situation?” Rong Ziyan didn’t understand.

But immediately afterward, he received more collapse points from other town residents. What was even more subtle was that half an hour later, among these collapse points, Rong Ziyan actually received an unusual one?

[300 “So Fragrant” Points from Zhang Dagou, a resident of the town]

So, what exactly happened in the town? Rong Ziyan and the System were both puzzled and unable to understand the cause of the matter.

They did not know that the reason why the residents of the town were so enthusiastically providing Rong Ziyan with emotional value was entirely due to the fifteen salted fish that Rong Ziyan had brought to the couple at the snack stall that morning.

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Town, Breakfast Street.

This was the only commercial street in the town and also the only road that the people of the entire town had to take to get to work. So, generally, if someone was selling breakfast, they would be on this road.

Because Rong Ziyan had suddenly come to deliver salted duck eggs and salted fish, the couple was late leaving the house today. When they arrived, they couldn’t get a good spot, and could only set up their stall in a relatively remote corner of the wall.

Because the location was not good, even some old customers didn’t notice them, which meant they missed the first peak of breakfast rush.

“It’s okay, let’s come out earlier tomorrow!” The husband comforted his wife, patting her on the shoulder.

The wife also smiled, “Alright, stop dawdling. We can also sell it in the village if we don’t sell it here, am I someone who can’t let things go?”

“No, no, my wife is the most easygoing!” Seeing that his wife was not depressed because business was bad, the husband continued to smile, even after being rebuked.

Since business was going to be like this today, the couple simply wasn’t in a hurry. They slowly started the pot and added oil. The wife fried youtiao, while the husband began soaking a few salted fish.

When the first batch of youtiao was fried, the salted fish was also soaked a little.

The husband cut the salted fish into sections and set up another pot to add oil, wanting to deep-fry the salted fish.

Little did he know that this frying would lead to disaster.

No one knew how Rong Ziyan made this salted fish. Before, when it was in the basket, it was just an ordinary salted fish smell, but the smell changed when it was deep-fried.

The strong fishy smell instantly spread out in the air and quickly spread with the terrifying intensity of a biochemical weapon.

“Damn, isn’t this smell a bit too strong?” The husband stood there stunned, holding his chopsticks.

The wife was even more stunned by the smell.

“Hey, what are you guys making?” The lady selling pancakes next door was upset. She was thinking, are these two sick? Are they making a stink just because their business is bad and trying to drag everyone else down with them?

Clearly, there were many others who had similar ideas. Soon, almost every passerby on the street couldn’t help but cover their nose.

“Is this poisonous? What is it?”

“I feel like the buns I’m holding smell like stinky fish.”

“Who’s selling this? Are they crazy?”

The stench is not afraid of the alley being too deep. Soon someone followed the smell to the source.

It wasn’t someone else but Zhang Dagou, who was the first to give Rong Ziyan “so fragrant” points.

He was also unlucky. Today was his first day at work, and he also had a love date with his new girlfriend at night. So, the first thing he did was to get up early to dress up, shave, and take out his treasured three-piece suit. He looked at himself in the mirror three times before going out, confirming that he looked handsome and dashing.

He originally planned to have breakfast at the breakfast street before going to his unit to report in his best form.

But he never expected that as soon as he stepped onto the breakfast street, he was almost tripped by the overwhelming stench of fish.

When he lowered his head and smelled his suit, it had also been contaminated with the smell. Zhang Dagou was instantly enraged and wanted to find out which stall was selling this and argue with the owner.

So, he stood in front of the couple almost immediately.

“You…” They must be crazy! Zhang Dagou opened his mouth intending to swear, but before he could say anything, he suddenly felt that something around him was secretly watching him.

The gaze was cold, indescribably strange.

It must be, it must be an illusion! Zhang Dagou took a step back and cautiously looked around.

But he was staring directly at the basket with Rong Ziyan’s salted fish. A dozen salted fish heads were raised high, lying on the bottom of the basket, glaring at him with their white eyeballs, with a gaze that was extremely mocking from any angle.

It seemed to be written with the four big words “trash wage slave.”

Zhang Dagou’s knees were hit with an arrow, and he couldn’t speak for a long time. Then, he saw the two rows of bold characters that Rong Ziyan had written on the menu next to him.

Refreshing Summer Big Duck Eggs 2.5 Yuan Each

Dream Salted Fish 25 Yuan a Plate

Buy Salted Fish, Get Salted Duck Eggs and a Bowl of Millet Porridge.