Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 41 Tang Ya's Birthday

Huo Yuhao's barbecue restaurant is indeed quite expensive. Although it can't compare to those medicinal dishes made with high-level soul beast meat, it is much more expensive than other foods on the market.

At Huo Yuhao's barbecue shop, both lamb and beef skewers are priced at one silver coin each, while grilled fish is consistently priced at five silver coins per fish and one gold coin for three fish.

If an ordinary student comes to eat, the typical cost is around seven or eight gold soul coins, fifty skewers of beef and mutton, three grilled fish, and a few pitchers of beer. That's basically the price.

Although this price is considered expensive, it's not excessive for most students who can afford to attend Shrek Academy. After all, these students receive a living allowance from their families of at least a couple hundred yuan and sometimes as much as a couple thousand yuan per month. Even if it's not much, it's not unreasonable to spend one day a week getting together with a few friends.

As a result, Huo Yuhao's daily income soared from the original 500 gold coins to nearly 2,000 gold soul coins per day. Even after deducting the labor costs of hiring people to skewer meat and serve dishes, as well as rental costs, Huo Yuhao's monthly income was as much as 50,000 gold soul coins.

It should be noted that this is an extremely high figure. Many remote counties and towns may not even have more than 500,000 gold soul coins in tax revenue per year, while Huo Yuhao's annual income is even more extravagant than that of these remote counties and towns.

This also shows how exaggerated the concentration of gold coins is in the Douluo Continent. The Soul Master group controls the vast majority of the gold soul coin reserves in the entire Douluo Continent with a very small percentage, while the top Soul Master group controls almost the vast majority of the total gold soul coins in the Soul Master circle with a very small percentage.

So much so that even though Huo Yuhao only opened a relatively high-end barbecue restaurant near the west gate of Shrek Academy, he was able to amass his first pot of gold at an incredibly fast pace.

Huo Yuhao always remembered those who had helped him. Jie Chuan's initial supply of alcohol from his own bar had been a great help to Huo Yuhao, so Huo Yuhao always chose to get his alcohol from Jie Chuan's bar, where the price was 20% higher than the wholesale price, as a way of returning the favor.

Admittedly, the drinks at Huo Yuhao's barbecue restaurant are not as expensive as those sold directly in bars, but the problem is that no matter how expensive the drinks are in bars, they still have to be able to sell.

Huo Yuhao's barbecue restaurant is open for six hours a day, with the head chef leaving work promptly at 10 p.m. and closing at midnight. The head chef is away for two hours. Even so, the number of drinks sold at Huo Yuhao's restaurant every day far exceeds the number of drinks sold by the Outstanding Mom Bar in three or four days.

"Beibei, you're not lying to me, Nannan really is in this store too!"

Outside the shop, a deep, resonant voice, tinged with excitement, rang out. The person, dressed in a purple school uniform, was a fourth-year student, appearing to be around the same age as Beibei. Tall and imposing, with thick eyebrows, piercing eyes, a straight nose, and a square jaw, he was undeniably handsome. His originally fair skin was flushed with excitement.

"Hey, why would I lie to you?" Beibei strode towards the barbecue restaurant, saying, "Today is Xiaoya's birthday, and Nannan, as Xiaoya's roommate, can't possibly not be there. Wait for me to go upstairs, and then we'll go straight to the second floor. The tables will definitely be full at this time. Just drag a chair over and join us at a table."

Beibei's face showed a helpless expression: "If it weren't for the fact that your family's Xuan Shui Dan is really useful, I wouldn't have bothered to help you this time. Remember, go upstairs and share a table. Xiaoya and I are at the table in the northeast corner upstairs. Yuhao specially reserved it for us."

Before she could even ask who Yuhao, the person Beibei was talking about, was, Beibei had already strode into the barbecue restaurant and gone straight up to the second floor, leaving the other person sitting anxiously at the door.

The senior in purple was named Xu Sanshi. According to Bei Bei's plan, he brought Xu Sanshi here today without expecting him to cause any big commotion. He simply hoped that Xu Sanshi would eat a meal quietly and take the opportunity to chat with Jiang Nannan while everyone was chatting. Xu Sanshi was the one who attacked the enemy and then slowly planned to conquer the world.

After all, you have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time, but unfortunately, Xu Sanshi clearly failed to understand Bei Bei's intention.

[I took the wrong path during the Xuanwu inheritance that year, leaving Nannan with a lifelong shadow. When I saw Nannan lying on the bed, sobbing uncontrollably, I thought to myself, if I could find a chance to make amends, I would definitely make amends for everything.]

Now that the opportunity is before me, I must consider whether this might be my only chance in this life. I believe that as long as I can show my sincerity, Nan Nan might give me a chance to mend my relationship with her. Today, I have no choice but to accept it!

Thinking of this, Xu Sanshi strode into Huo Yuhao's barbecue restaurant, stood in front of the counter, looked directly at Huo Yun'er who was taking notes, and said loudly, "Give me one of the most expensive dishes in your restaurant. I want Nan Nan to know my determination!"

For a moment, the shop was completely silent. Almost everyone on the first floor looked at Xu Sanshi. Huo Yun'er was also a little surprised. After thinking for a moment, she said softly, "Okay, a grilled fish costs five silver coins, a beef skewer costs one silver coin, a lamb skewer costs one silver coin, and a pitcher of beer costs two silver coins. Sincerely, nine silver soul coins."

Xu Sanshi froze on the spot when he heard about the beef skewer and the lamb skewer. He knew that he had probably messed up again.

As expected, Huo Yun'er looked at Xu Sanshi with some concern, her eyes revealing a hint of care for special groups, interspersed with low laughter and whispers from other students at the table.

"Then, get me some dishes that you don't have here, the best ones, money is no object."

Xu Sanshi looked embarrassed, but then he took out a bag of gold soul coins from his storage soul tool and slapped it on the counter, which made Huo Yun'er chuckle.

"Okay, but we'll have to trouble you to discuss this with the chef first, and you'll also need to bring your own ingredients. The chef just went upstairs to say hello to his friends, why don't you go up and ask?"

Huo Yun'er was naturally not worried about any trouble. Not long after Huo Yuhao's stall opened, quite a few people did have designs on Huo Yuhao's grilled fish recipe, but those were just underhanded tricks that Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun'er handled very easily.

For a while afterward, some people couldn't contain their restless thoughts and tried to forcibly seize Huo Yuhao's barbecue recipe. However, Huo Yuhao was already quite famous at that time, and he didn't use any other means. He simply grabbed the other person and loudly repeated the other person's threatening words. Then, the person was surrounded by angry students.

Just take Douluo Continent's currency system with a grain of salt; don't take it too seriously, you won't understand it anyway (laughs).

New students enroll in September, and Tang Ya's official birthday is listed as December 11th, which is very precise in terms of timing (I'm sure).

(End of this chapter)