Chapter 290.
Chapter 290 – Bargaining
The shopkeeper put down the wine cup, “Although this spirit wine is good, but if you want to cooperate with our wine shop, I’m afraid that these portions are not enough.”
“Don’t worry, since I’ve approached the wine shop, naturally I won’t only brew this batch. However, for the second batch of spirit wine, we still need to wait for more than a month. Exactly how long the demand will be depends on the wine workshop.”
Xu Chuniang smiled faintly and asked without panicking, “I only wonder what the value of this kind of spirit wine is?”
The shopkeeper pondered briefly, “Spirit wine number one is extremely strong, and male cultivators love to drink it. Spirit wine number ten is sweet and refreshing, and is suitable for young and old alike. The difference in the spiritual energy contained in the two is very small, so it will be counted as twenty spirit stones per catty, how?”
Xu Chuniang didn’t rush to reply, mentally calculating the cost of brewing the wine.
A catty of pearl rice could only yield two taels of wine, and the purchase price of pearl rice was at least two spirit stones a catty.
In this way, a catty of spirit wine would require at least ten spirit stones for the cost of the spirit rice alone.
Adding the “Spirit Spring Water” that she had condensed with her spiritual qi, and the time it took to make the wine, selling it for twenty spirit stones seemed not bad at all.
However, other people don’t have her ability to conjure up spiritual spring water out of thin air, and purchasing spiritual spring water is a notable expense if you want to brew spiritual wine. ……
Seeing Xu Chuniang long silent, the shopkeeper knew that his price was a bit low, and took the initiative to raise the price, but at the same time also put forward a condition.
“If you can provide more than five hundred pounds at a time, you may purchase it for twenty-two spirit stones.”
Xu Chuniang was stunned at these words, swallowing the words she was about to agree to.
Since the shopkeeper was willing to take the initiative to raise the price, it meant that the spirit wine she brewed wasn’t too bad.
She decided to fight a little more, maybe she could get a higher price?
“Spirit wine number one is spicy in the mouth, but has a strong flavor and a long aftertaste. Spirit wine number ten has a light taste without losing its sweetness, and even a cultivator like me who doesn’t dabble in alcohol is able to accept it.
Although I don’t know about wine, but the spirit wine sold in the restaurants outside can easily be sold for thirty, forty, or even sixty or seventy spirit stones a pot. Moreover, the materials I use for brewing are not bad in terms of aura, I think this is something that the shopkeeper can tell from the spirit wine.”
Control pondered slightly, “Senior Sister Xu’s craftsmanship isn’t bad, but they’re ultimately new wine, and why don’t you and I each take a step back, and make the price twenty-five spirit stones?”
After reaching this price, no matter how Xu Chuniang grinded her lips, Control always bit the bullet and refused to let go of this price.
She then knew that this was already the limit of what she could fight for.
When the price was finally settled, the shopkeeper let out a slight sigh of relief, “I wonder if these two types of spirit wine have names? If they don’t have names, please ask Senior Sister Xu to help name them.”
Xu Chuniang pondered for a moment, “Let’s call them Pearl Drunk and Manna Fragrance.”
The shopkeeper nodded slightly, and after writing down two deeds with his pen, he handed one of them over to her.
“According to the contract, Senior Sister Xu will provide five hundred pounds each of Pearl Drunkenness and Manna Fragrance to the brewery within two months. As for the suitability of subsequent cooperation, it will depend on the specific sales of the first batch of spirit wine.”
Xu Chuniang received the contract and the deposit of five thousand spirit stones, confirmed that there were no mistakes and left the wine workshop, heading towards her cave.
Nearly two months had passed since the attack on the marketplace, and after the sect had deployed additional manpower to each marketplace, there were no more attacks by evil cultivators.
During this period of time, the sect was quite calm.
It was only on the side of Delusional Mountain that there was still no news coming back.
The sect sent some disciples to investigate, but found that the entire Delusional Mountain seems to be in some kind of boundary, unable to enter.
So there are jindan elders guess, crusade against the evil cultivators of the five sects of the cultivators, eighty percent is some kind of formation to be trapped.
This thought flashed through Xu Chuniang’s mind, and then she suppressed it.
Not long ago, her Divine Sense had made a breakthrough, reaching the Jindan level, but her cultivation was still at the solid third level of Foundation Establishment.
These big events, it is not her turn to manage, or first go back to brewing spirit wine.
After returning to the small world, Xu Chuniang directly used the Spiritual Spring Technique to start condensing the Spiritual Spring. With her previous experience, she was undoubtedly more skillful at brewing spirit wine for the second time, and in just ten days’ work, she had soaked and steamed all the spirit rice, and put it into the altar for fermentation.
It took a month for the rice to ferment, during which time she upgraded the quality of the six spirit fields to second-tier lower-grade, and planted a patch of apricot blossoms along the way.
Right after she planted the Apricot Ru Flower, the aroma of wine gradually wafted up in the small world.
Over the next few days, the fragrance of the wine grew stronger, meaning that the fermentation of this batch of spirit wine was nearing its end.
On this day, Xu Chuniang entered the small world and was surrounded by the fragrance of wine just as she stepped into it.
She was about to go and open the altar to check the quality, when suddenly her gaze gave a slight lurch and landed on one of the opened wine altars.
The altar was originally full of spirit wine, but now only a glossy layer of bottom remained.
And next to the wine altar, lay Little Orange and Little White, who were quite drunk.
After noticing that what they were drinking was Pearl Drunk, Xu Chuniang’s face changed slightly.
This altar of Pearl Drunk was a hundred pounds, did they drink it all?
She hurriedly walked forward, the closer she got, the more she could smell the rich aroma of wine emanating from them, simply marinating in flavor.
Due to drinking too much spirit wine at once, Little Orange and Little White were in a state of stupor, I’m afraid that they would have to sleep for a long time before they could wake up from this state.
Xu Chuniang cried and laughed a little after checking their state.
Previously, after successfully brewing the spirit wine for the first time, Little White and Little Tangerine had shown great interest in the spirit wine, drinking all of the remaining Pearl Drunkenness and Manna Fragrance.
After drinking it all, the two drunken little fellows even kept pestering her, quite a bit addicted.
This time, Xu Chuniang specially brewed a few more jars of wine for them to quench their cravings, but she didn’t expect these two guys to directly finish off a whole jar.
Thanks to the fact that they were spirit beasts, they drank a whole altar of spirit wine, and only then did they not have any problems.
Xu Chuniang pressed the corner of her forehead, and after checking the quality of the spirit wine, she put all the altars away.
It wasn’t that she was heartbroken about the spirit wine, it was just that indulging in drinking wasn’t a good habit.
In order to prevent them from stealing another drink when she wasn’t around, it was better to put all the spirit wines away.
Xu Chuniang exited the small world and went to the last wine shop.
The one who received her was the wine shop’s shopkeeper, who smiled faintly upon seeing Xu Chuniang.
“Did Senior Sister Xu bring the spirit wine?”
“Five jars of Pearl Drunkenness and five jars of Manna Fragrance, please ask Senior Boss Brother to take a look.”
With that, she took out ten large altars.
The shopkeeper’s eyes lit up, and after getting up to inspect the goods one by one, he revealed a look of satisfaction, and after placing two bags filled with spirit stones on the table, he touched out a transmitting note and placed it on top.
“This is the final payment of 20,000 spirit stones, please accept it. As for future cooperation, it’s not too late to talk about it after some time.”
Xu Chuniang’s divine sense swept a glance, then she put away the spirit stones and the transmission note.
She naturally heard the shopkeeper’s implication that if these two types of spirit wines sold well, there would naturally be opportunities for cooperation.
But if they didn’t sell well, I’m afraid that would be the end of it.
(End of chapter)