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\u201cOhh! The carrots look delicious today too!\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, I was once again farming. This week, it was all about onions, carrots, corn and potatoes.<\/p>\n
Everyday, I harvested a certain amount and handed them over to the old man whom I\u2019d asked to transport the vegetables to Couge\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope a lot of customers get to eat all these delicious vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The problem of who was going to make the butter for Couge was solved easily.<\/p>\n
Do you remember the old man who\u2019d asked for some water for his horse? His name was Genett-san. It turned out he was a dairy farmer, and he was actually an acquaintance of Couge\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
Back when Couge\u2019s father was still healthy, he used to supply the restaurant with beef and milk. But when Couge took over and lost all of the restaurant\u2019s customers, he became unable to pay Genett-san so the business transaction between them was driven to a halt.<\/p>\n
When Couge came over to learn how to make butter, he met Genett-san once more. And Genett-san said he wanted to help.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019d known Couge since he was a kid, so he\u2019d always been worried about him.<\/p>\n
Couge, who looked like a handsome model to me, was just a kid to Genett-san. He kept rubbing Couge\u2019s head, embarrassing him. It was kinda cute.<\/p>\n
This chapter was brought to you by perpetualdaydreams.com<\/span><\/p>\n The hardest part in making butter, the churning, was also solved by an idea of Couge. He suggested putting the milk in a cask and fastening it to Brian so it would roll around the ground as he ran. With that, we were able to succeed in making a lot of butter in one go.<\/p>\n Whatever butter wasn\u2019t used in Couge\u2019s restaurant would be sold in the market. Then, butter would slowly become known to the people.<\/p>\n Soon, the use of butter in home cooking would become mainstream.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHeeey, Shinobuuu.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, Genett-san!!\u201d<\/p>\n Genett-san came over everyday at the agreed upon time. He was already a well-known face to the animals, so now the once growling Pochi welcomed him with a wagging tail.<\/p>\n \u201cHere\u2019s the vegetables for the day. Oh, and can I ask you to buy some bread for me on your way back?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI got it. The usual?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah!\u201d<\/p>\n In exchange for having Genett-san bring the vegetables over to Couge\u2019s, he\u2019d have a part of the payment for the goods as commission.<\/p>\n And I\u2019d also ask him to buy some bread, salt and other necessary items on the way back.<\/p>\n Now I didn\u2019t have to spend an hour to go to town and buy things myself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genett-san commented, \u201cIt looks like Couge\u2019s restaurant is doing well. I\u2019d had doubts at first. But you really came up with something good. I\u2019ve never heard of a restaurant with only one item on the menu before.\u201d<\/p>\n I grinned. \u201cHehe, it was a brilliant idea, right?\u201d<\/p>\n There was only \u2018Chef\u2019s Special\u2019 on the menu. It was limited to sixty servings, after which the restaurant would close.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Couge was going through a rough patch with his restaurant, so the three of us, Couge, Norn and I, had put our heads together to think up of ways to handle the problem.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re going to run the restaurant by yourself, you can\u2019t have too many things on the menu. Otherwise, the preparation would take up a lot of time,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n Norn suggested, \u201cThen, wouldn\u2019t it be alright if we took down some of the dishes on the menu?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat would make it easier, but wouldn\u2019t the diners get tired of eating the same thing every day?\u201d Couge said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d I agreed.<\/p>\n Besides, the price of the ingredients would change depending on their availability in the market. We might have days where the revenue wouldn\u2019t offset the cost of the dishes on the menu.<\/p>\n After all, I\u2019d sometimes hear news of crops having a bad harvest causing prices to jump, and the media advising everyone to be ready to tighten their belts back in my previous world.<\/p>\n If there were a lot of dishes on the menu, it\u2019d be possible for the rest of the items on the menu to offset the one dish that wasn\u2019t very profitable for that day, but what if all of the dishes weren\u2019t profitable? That was certainly a possibility.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the time, we couldn\u2019t think of any ideas, so we set it aside for the moment and decided to eat lunch first.<\/p>\n My tomato soup had become a mainstay. Usually I\u2019d put in some cabbage, but unfortunately I\u2019d just finished harvesting all of my cabbages, and I\u2019d just planted the next batch of seeds.<\/p>\n So I used onions as an alternative.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, you\u2019re not putting cabbages today?\u201d Norn asked.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I ran out,\u201d I said. \u201cBut don\u2019t worry, even if I change one ingredient, it\u2019ll still be delicious.\u201d<\/p>\n Couge opined, \u201cOnions are delicious too.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, that reminds me. Back in my world, there was this cafe that had \u2018Chef\u2019s Special Salad\u2019 on the menu. Depending on what ingredients were available, the salad would change. Sometimes there\u2019d be cabbage in it, sometimes lettuce. Sometimes there\u2019d be corn. Oh, there was also a daily special. It would change everyday, and you wouldn\u2019t have any idea what the dish was unless you went on the day itself.\u201d<\/p>\n Something like \u2018Today\u2019s Dessert\u2019. It was pretty exciting to ask, \u2018What\u2019s on the menu today?\u2019<\/p>\n Couge suddenly said, \u201cThat\u2019s a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n I blinked. \u201cHuh?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDaily specials. If we did that, then the customers won\u2019t get tired of it,\u201d Couge mumbled as he crunched on pickled cucumbers.<\/p>\n Norn replied, \u201cThen, what about if we just go ahead and have only the daily special on the menu? If we do that, there would be no food loss<\/span>