Chapter 352: Chapter 352: Ferocious Chapter 352: Chapter 352: Ferocious Wild boar meat wasn’t always available, depending on luck, local hunters had to catch them and bring them to town for sale. Now, the old masters and madams of wealthy families were incredibly picky eaters. They wanted only the finest ingredients, and as long as they were satisfied, silver was no issue.
So Shopkeeper Fan was thrilled when he heard about the wild boar meat. His Xiaohe Restaurant had just managed to outdo the Great Harmony Restaurant and ranked first in Jingshan Town, all thanks to rare ingredients.
These were ingredients you couldn’t find in other inns, and only their restaurant had them, which left guests no choice but to return to their establishment for meals.
“As long as you’re willing to sell it, that’s great.” Xuexue was also quite happy. On the way here, she had worried that Shopkeeper Fan might not buy all of the wild boars, but now, she finally let go of the heavy stone in her heart and felt much lighter.
The group chatted and laughed and quickly arrived at the kitchen.
“Hello, Shopkeeper!”
The kitchen staff, busy working, greeted Shopkeeper Fan as he arrived in person!
“Mm!”
Shopkeeper Fan responded, waving his hand to signal the kitchen staff to keep working and then proceeded inside with Xuexue and the others. His gaze swept casually across the kitchen. Seeing the pile of wild boars on the floor, like a mountain, he was so amazed that his eyes widened. Looking down at the wild boars on the floor and then up at Big Bull and Xuexue, he could hardly believe what he was seeing and his tongue seemed to tie itself in knots, “This… this… did you… did you catch these yourselves?”
The junior staff member who had run to report earlier had said that Xuexue and her group had brought many wild boars. Shopkeeper Fan had thought that Big Bull, being so capable, might have caught two or three wild boars.
After all, wild boars were not like domestic pigs; they were fiercely wild. In recent years, there had been a significant number of hunters in all around the neighborhood killed by wild boars.
So, hunting wild boars in the mountains meant taking a risk with one’s life, which naturally caused the price of wild boar meat to skyrocket.
Shopkeeper Fan was shocked that they were so capable, having caught not just one but six wild boars. If he had known that Big Bull and Xuexue had actually caught eight wild boars at once, who knows how shocked he would have been.
Xuexue brushed her hair back from her forehead with a smile, “Yes, we went hunting in the mountains yesterday. They’re fresh, and we brought them here first thing in the morning.”
Shopkeeper Fan was stunned for a moment but then realized that Big Bull had incredible strength and extraordinary skills, enough to toss Chef Ding onto a high rooftop, not something any average martial arts practitioner could do. It was reasonable for them to catch so many fierce wild boars in one go. At ease, he looked at Xuexue with a smile, “Then, let’s go by the market price, twenty copper coins per pound. What do you think?”
Friends were friends, but the numbers still had to be clear. This was what Xuexue liked most about Shopkeeper Fan’s approach.
“Fine.”
Being able to buy so many wild boars at once, Xiaohe Restaurant was the only place in the entire town capable of doing so, saving her the trouble of hawking the meat on the streets, so Xuexue readily agreed.
Shopkeeper Fan called a kitchen hand to bring over a large scale, to weigh each wild boar and see how much it weighed—important for calculating the silver owed.
“Here it comes, here it comes.” The kitchen hand brought over a large scale and set it down in front of Shopkeeper Fan.
Two kitchen hands, drenched in sweat, finally managed to hoist a wild boar onto the scale…
“One hundred and thirty-eight pounds.” Shopkeeper Fan glanced down and announced loudly, while jotting it down in a small notebook, to make tallying up the bill easier later on.
Seeing the two kitchen hands struggling to move the boars, gasping for breath, Big Bull stepped forward and said, “Let me help.”