Chapter 127: Extremely Strong Ambition

Chapter 127: Chapter 127: Extremely Strong Ambition

Feng Si continued her instructions, "Arrange for some Beastmen to help me harvest the wild grain. The more, the better. Wages will be paid daily in coins, calculated by the bag. For a bag of the type I brought back, pay one hundred coins. Also, find out the market price for wild grain. I want to buy a large quantity of this wild grain—as much as is available."

Hu Fei and the nearby sub-females were shocked. ’Buying this kind of wild grain that no one would ever purchase? Is this Lady Feng Si’s new way of showing off by spending coins?’

’Isn’t this just a handout for the poor sub-females in Pantian City?’

’Why are the thoughts of a Special Rank Female so unusual, so impossible to figure out? This wild grain might be cheap, but in large quantities, it will cost a lot of coins.’

This question could only be suppressed in the hearts of the sub-females in the courtyard.

The harvested grain would need a place for storage. Feng Si continued, "After the processed and dried wild grain has been packed, transport it to the warehouse of the house I was given in Pantian City."

After Feng Si finished speaking, she transferred two million coins to Hu Fei on the spot to fund the wild grain purchase, adding, "Report to me when the coins run out, and I’ll transfer more."

Hu Fei’s eyes widened. "Oh... Are you really going to buy so much of this unappetizing wild grain?"

’You think I’ll take a huge loss buying this wheat? I think you know nothing about wheat at all.’

Feng Si nodded, entrusting Hu Fei to go ahead with the purchases.

After giving Hu Fei their instructions, Feng Si looked at the sub-female servants in the courtyard. As she considered her future plans, she started thinking to herself, ’I need to hire some sub-females to help me.’

Otherwise, after leaving the Boman Gate Island Institute, she’d be all alone with no one to command.

Just as she was considering hiring people through the Star Network, her communicator rang. She glanced down and saw an unfamiliar number.

This was still her communicator from Nantong City; she hadn’t exchanged numbers with anyone here yet. After a moment’s thought, she walked over to the corridor and casually accepted the call.

"Excuse me, are you Xiao Si from Si Shi?" A coarse, yet excited and nervous voice echoed in the long corridor.

Feng Si was slightly taken aback.

She hadn’t heard that name in a long time. It was a bit strange for the caller to address her so directly as Xiao Si right from the start.

She replied impassively, "What is it?"

"Beast God!" the person on the other end exclaimed excitedly. "I finally found a way to contact you! I’m a loyal customer of Si Shi. Ever since I had your pickled cabbage, I’ve been blown away. No other meat tastes good anymore..."

Feng Si understood. "So you want to buy pickled cabbage from me?"

Recently, because she had come to Pantian City, her livestream channel had only been showing recordings.

Yang Wen was a bit timid, but he was quite capable. On the day she left Nantong City, using the raw materials that had been rush-harvested before the rainy season, the workshops for pickled cabbage and Green Potato resumed production.

The weather in Nantong City was cold, but in the fermentation room she had previously set to over twenty degrees, the pickled cabbage was ready for shipment after just three to five days. The only issue was the small quantity, so the livestream channel had a daily purchase limit of 1,000 jars.

"Yes, yes, yes! I’m out of options! I’ve been losing sleep just thinking about pan-fried meat with pickled cabbage! Please, you have to help me," the person replied quickly.

Feng Si asked again, "Who did you get my communicator number from?"

This time, the person on the other end didn’t reply instantly. On the other side of the silent communicator, Mang Changbai sat on a giant tree on the west side of the Imperial Palace. Hearing Xiao Si’s question, he answered in his mind.

’How did I find it?’

’Through my connections in the military, of course.’

’Xi Zhongsong of the Second Legion suddenly returned. When I went to see him, I casually bragged about my pickled cabbage stew.’

’And that’s how I learned from him that Xiao Si had come to Pantian City.’

’The good news was that Xiao Si was close by. The bad news was that she is a female.’

’Living on an island where male beasts are forbidden to enter!’

It instantly occurred to Mang Changbai: ’If Xiao Si came from Nantong City, and I can’t find her, can’t I just find the City Lord of Nantong City?’

So, his previous call had been to Niu Ding. With a bit of coercion, Xiao Si’s communicator number was easily obtained.

"I don’t mean anything by it, I’m just after the pickled cabbage. You can set the price." After going to all this trouble, Mang Changbai had no idea that the other owner of Si Shi was the City Lord of Nantong City.

Thus, he had bypassed the easy and free ways to get pickled cabbage, instead choosing the most difficult and roundabout path to beg for it.

Feng Si raised an eyebrow slightly.

’Even though he didn’t say, I’ve extracted some useful information from that exchange.’

’Hu Fei told me that my identity as a Special Rank Female hasn’t been publicly announced yet. But something like someone moving into one of the only two manors on S2 Mountain Peak yesterday can’t be kept secret.’

’So, this person’s source of information is very outdated. And he must have heard the rumors about me being a "low-level female"—something I used to say all the time—which is why he dared to call.’

’In that case, it definitely wasn’t anyone close to me on the island who leaked my information. Was it the group that escorted me here?’

She breathed a sigh of relief. As long as there wasn’t a problem with the people around her, it was fine.

’As for a deal... of course he should be trying to snag some on the livestream. If he can’t get it himself, he should hire a hundred people to help him. Private transactions are the most likely to cause problems.’

’Besides, I’m not familiar with him; we’ve never even met. Calling me up just to buy pickled cabbage... isn’t this basically a modern-day harassment call?’

"Sorry, you have the wrong person. Do not disturb me again, or I will exercise my rights as a female and classify this as harassment."

After her direct refusal, Feng Si coldly ended the communication.

The light screen displaying ’Call Ended’ vanished with a WHOOSH.

It was like a bolt from the blue. Mang Changbai hadn’t expected such a decisive rejection. He leaped down from the tree, squatted by the lake, and stared at his reflection in the water. His face was a mask of sheer determination.

’Xiao Si probably doesn’t understand my financial power.’

’If she won’t come to me, I’ll go to her.’

Once this idea took root, and with the King away from the Imperial Palace recently, the somewhat idle Mang Changbai decided to go and stake out the area across the river from the Boman Gate Institute—for his pickled cabbage!

Meanwhile, after hanging up, Feng Si was in an excellent mood. She hurried back to her study, took out a pen and paper, and sat at her desk. The call hadn’t been useless, after all. At the very least, it had served as a reminder.

Before she had acquired much wheat, she had a goose that was already laying golden eggs.

Feng Si planned to open a branch of Si Shi in Pantian City.

The food to sell, the employees, the shop.

Feng Si scrawled down everything needed to open the shop on the paper.

First, the shop was the easy part. She had coins, and with her status as a Special Rank Female, she had free rein in the Beastman World. She could buy a shop anytime.

Employees would also be very easy to find. She just needed to post a recruitment notice on the door after buying the shop, and she believed she could hire staff quickly.

That only left the most important thing: the food products.

As everyone knows, there are many types of pickled vegetables. There’s the *pao cai* from the Shu region, made with root vegetables. There’s the *suan cai* from the frigid northern lands, made with napa cabbage. And there’s the pickled mustard greens from the Lingnan region, which use both leaf and stem... and so on.

In short, any region could have this kind of sour flavoring; it wasn’t limited to just Nantong City.