Spider Crypt 3 and Beers
Chapter 26 Spider Crypt 3 and Beers
* Tap, Tap, Tap * The sound of quick footsteps heard when I approached Spider Cript, there I saw Delivery Services employees carrying the barrel filled with beer that I ordered earlier.
"Please put it all in cellar, thank you." I heard Argus' voice talking to one of the employees who carried the beer.
"Please sign here, sir, all the orders have been delivered. Eight barrels of beer." delivery man supervisor handed a document to Argus for him to sign.
After Argus signed, he saw me who had just arrived.
"Good morning boss."
"Good morning, Mr. Nine, your order has been received. Thank you for entrusting your order to us."
"Of course, thank you very much. I will still depend on you guys." I have no choice but to use your services anyway, but so far there is nothing to worry about. They have never caused suspicion when entering the city, I don't know how they did it.
After all barrels of beer were unloaded from the wagon, they went to the city gate as usual.
"Boss, did you have breakfast? I'll make food if you haven't had breakfast, I can still cook some simple dishes, even though they aren't as delicious as my wife's."
"No, I had breakfast before I came here. If your wife can make delicious dish, why not invite her to work here with you as a cook, usually people will look for food when they drink good beer. That way you don't need to find another cook that we can trust."
"That's a good idea boss, I'll talk to her later."
"If she agrees I will teach her some recipes of foods that you can sell with beers. For now, let's check beers that just arrived." We went down to the cellar and there were 8 barrels of beer neatly arranged, besides that there were also several other barrels of beer that Argus had bought before. And the taste of that beer is nasty. 'I'll leave it to him how to get rid that beer.'
All the beer that I bought already has a label on the barrel like [Pale Lager 5.0% Abv] every two barrels, with this label makes it easy for Argus to write an inventory report later.
"So, I bought 4 types of beer that will be sold here. Each type has two barrels, you can see the label written on that barrel. For the price, I leave it to you. You can taste it first to determine the price. I don't care what price you give, I just want everyone in this area to be able to buy it consistently every day." I explained to Argus the only condition for the price of beer here.
I bought 8 barrels of beer for less than $ 2000 and added a shipping fee of $ 500 per wagon for 4. A barrel of beer contains about 30.1 gallons or about 118 liters, judging from the size of the cup used here, one barrel of beer is equal to 240 to 250 cups of beer. If one cup of beer is sold for 1 silver coin, three barrels of beer already cover the cost of purchasing the eight barrels of beer I bought and the cost of delivery. If all of this can sell for more than 4 gold coins, I have already got a big profit.
After that Argus began to taste all that beer.
"Boss of all these beers is much better than the best beer I have had before, we can easily sell it at a high price."
"Remember what I said before, I just want to sell it at a price that people in this area can buy every day without affecting their economic situation. That way people will keep coming here. New beer shipments will need a week to arrive, so you need to inform me a week before to restock. "
"Previously I sold one cup of beer for 2 silver coins, if you want people here to buy it every day, we can sell it from 2 silver coins to 4 silver coins. I think it's a very cheap price with a very extraordinary taste like this, even I'm sure people from other regions will come here. " Argus explained.
"Okay, we can use that price. It's your job to determine which beers are sold at what price. For food, you can come to Le Réseau if your wife is willing to be a cook here, I will teach her to cook some food. "
"Okay boss, after this I will return home and if she is willing we will go straight to Le Réseau."
"Then I'll be back, open the bar tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Nowadays there are still many sick people, after a few days after the drug I tested showed the results, I will sell the drug to public, I might need help from Argus to sell it in this area.
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After Nine returned from Spider Cript, Argus began to price the beer to be sold there after tasting it.
"Pale Lager 5.0% Abv, I don't understand what the numbers written here mean. As for Pale Lager, I think that is the name of this beer. The color of this beer is more appealing than beer that I sold before with a clean and fresh taste with a slightly bitter taste. Selling it at 2 silver coins is very inappropriate for this beer, same with this 'Pale Ale'. But I have to follow boss's orders."
"I'll sell this 'Oatmeal Stout' for 3 silver coins considering it's soft and unique flavour, I think some people will like this 'black beer'. While this 'Apple Cider' will sell for 4 silver coins, I don't know why it's just that I feel this drink is 'harder' than the others, Do these numbers have anything to do with it? Forget it, the most important thing is that people like to drink this. If no one buys it, I will lower the price later."
"I'd better go home now."
Argus then went home and asked his wife to work at Spider Cript as a cook there.
"Honey, I just met Boss Nine. I told him that your cooking was very good, and he offered you to work there as a cook. "
"Can I work there? There are still many people out there who have much better cooking skills than me. "
"Boss Nine will only hire people we can trust, because you are my wife and your cooking skills are also very good, it's better for you to work there than to find someone else." Argus explained.
"Alright, I will work there. Boss Nine has helped our family a lot, I will help you run Spider Cript."
"Great, we better go to Le Réseau right now so Boss doesn't wait. He asked you to come there if you agreed to become a cook, he would teach you how to cook some food there. "
"Wait a minute, I'll change my clothes first."
The two of them then went to Le Réseau.