Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 256 - 255: What’s So Special About Selling Eggs?

Besides the recruitment of Beast Soldiers and Generals, the Female Saint Conference was the only grand event in Guangshou City that involved nearly the entire populace. Female Saints from surrounding cities would also travel great distances with their Beast Husbands to attend. Whether it was to find a Beast Husband with outstanding combat power or get a chance to stay in Guangshou City, it was an event they all looked forward to!

Suddenly, lodging, food, local specialties, and entertainment became a very important source of Crystal Stones for the city’s Beastmen, one of their main sources of income for the year.

The Iron-eating Beast Clan had numerous houses, so everyone squeezed together, freeing up as many residences as possible to rent out.

Just as Si Shuo and her group had properly settled back into their residence and finished dinner, Wei Jin arrived at their door.

Si Shuo started to get up, but Wei Jin stopped her, chuckling. "Shuo, don’t get up. Stay seated."

He glanced around the room. Zhi Le was serving a fruit platter while Xu Chi poured some water. Ji Liang was reading a book on dark psychology, which was wrapped in a book cover and annotated with Pinyin. Meanwhile, Gong You was playfully teasing the two little ones, spraying jets of water from his fingertips.

Yin Jiang had just returned from collecting eggs in the backyard, and Wei Ce was sitting beside him.

"Is your Blue Fox not here?"

’Of course he’s here. He’s in the cave looking after your pair of grandsons,’ Wei Ce thought to himself. But he smiled and said, "He went to discuss something with his clan members. Father, what brings you here?"

"Well, I’m the only real elder our family has in the city. It’s my job to give you all a few pointers, isn’t it?

You’ve started a small business and are farming your own land, and the Crystal Stones you’re earning are more than enough to get you through the rainy season and the coldest season. Still, no one ever complains about having too many Crystal Stones.

As for my residence, I kept only one room and rented out the rest. You all should figure out how many rooms to keep for yourselves and how many to rent out...

In the past, we Iron-eating Beast Clan Members barely had enough to eat, let alone anything to sell. But now, the chickens, ducks, and geese on Bamboo Forest Mountain are doing great and have started laying eggs quite prolifically. Everyone is preparing to set up stalls to sell them.

If you’re too busy, I can sell the eggs for you!"

The whole scene sounded exciting to Si Shuo. She turned to look at Ji Liang, and before she could even speak, he understood. He smiled and said, "Father Wei Jin, we have Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan Members living in our backyard and we’re farming the front yard, so for now, we don’t plan on renting any rooms out.

The poultry on Bamboo Forest Mountain certainly produce a lot of eggs every day, so we’ll need you to help sell some. But actually, there’s an art to selling eggs."

Wei Jin knew Ji Liang was resourceful, so his interest was piqued. "Ji Liang, what’s this art to selling eggs?" he asked.

"On the market, an egg goes for about three to five Level 4 Crystal Stones, right?"

"That’s right. Cheaper places sell them for three, and the more expensive ones for four," Wei Jin nodded, his curiosity growing.

"We can sell the eggs through a game. Since eggs are fragile and difficult to handle, we can use wooden balls as substitutes for now. We’ll brand the balls with five different patterns, mix them all up, and then have people draw them.

One Level 6 Crystal Stone will let you draw twelve wooden balls. We’re basing our price on double the market rate of five Level 4 Crystal Stones. For every two balls with a matching pattern, you get one extra ball. If you collect all five patterns, you also get an extra ball. This continues until none of your balls have matching patterns. However many balls you end up with, that’s how many eggs you get!"

Ji Liang was adapting the bird egg lucky-draw game he had seen before in Lin City.

Wei Jin still didn’t understand. So, Si Shuo grabbed a bowl of five-color beans and demonstrated for him how you win a prize for making a match, and also for collecting all five colors.

"We’ll guarantee a minimum of twenty eggs for one Level 6 Crystal Stone, so there’s no way anyone can lose money on this.

After all, our poultry is free-range and they eat insects and Crystal Stones. The eggs they produce are nutritious and delicious, so pricing them at five Level 4 Crystal Stones each is perfectly reasonable.

Besides, some Beastmen might get lucky and walk away with a ton of eggs! Once everyone figures that out, we’ll never have a shortage of customers at our stall..." Ji Liang added with a sly chuckle.

Now Wei Jin was starting to see the appeal. He even tried playing with the beans himself. "I have to admit, this is surprisingly fun. It’s very easy to get hooked."

"The Iron-eating Beast Clan Members have plenty of eggs anyway, so this is a perfect way to encourage people to buy," Si Shuo said with a smile. "And once we draw a crowd, we shouldn’t just have a stall for this one game. We should set up things to eat, drink, and play all at once!"

Wei Jin narrowed his eyes, thinking for a moment before saying, "We Iron-eating Beast Clan Members aren’t the type to overthink things; we don’t have a head for business. You young people, on the other hand, have sharp minds.

How about this: you come up with the ideas, and after we deduct the costs from the Crystal Stones we earn, we’ll split the profits. You take sixty percent, we’ll take forty. No, wait—a seventy-thirty or even eighty-twenty split would also be fine!"

Si Shuo glanced at her Beast Husbands. They all smiled and nodded, giving her free rein to have fun with it.

She cleared her throat. "In that case, I won’t be modest?"

"No need to be modest! We have more than enough eggs to eat our fill now. They’re nutritious and provide plenty of energy, so we don’t have to carefully ration our food every day. Everyone’s whole demeanor has changed. They walk with a spring in their step, and they’re willing to put their all into any work they do.

You could even open the stalls and just hire us to work them! For us, it’s just a matter of spending a little time and effort. Any money we earn is pure profit. We’ve never had an opportunity this good in previous years," Wei Jin said with a relaxed smile, nodding.

Now that she had a share of the Crystal Stone profits, Si Shuo immediately took out a pen and paper. First, she sketched a map of the Iron-eating Beast Clan Land, then used a red pen to circle the surrounding shops and residences that she knew belonged to the Iron-eating Beast Clan.

"These two intersecting streets are quite spacious, so we’ll set up our stalls here. The rainy season and the coldest season are approaching, aren’t they? That means we definitely can’t sell any storable grains. Poultry and livestock raised within the city for Crystal Stones are always in high demand and difficult to purchase, so we can’t rely on a large supply of those either. And if we try to transport goods from the outside, Flying Beasts can’t carry very much food at once..."

As he listened to Si Shuo eliminate one option after another, Wei Jin’s heart began to race. ’What in the world is left to sell?’

"From what I know, the areas around many nearby Beast Cities and tribes are rich in natural products; at the very least, there’s an abundance of various fruits. They stock up on enough food to get through the rainy season and the coldest season, but seventy or eighty percent of the fruit is just left to rot on the branches.

We can go and collect all of it—as long as it’s edible, anything goes! We can make juice, shaved ice, fruit teas... I remember our moat is teeming with shrimp, but the current is swift and the shrimp are scattered, making them difficult to catch. They’re also a pain to eat and have a fishy taste. But we have a magical catching tool... Plus all the different dishes we can make with eggs... We can even rent out some snack stalls at a premium to make the food selection even richer..."

Wei Jin understood. His clan members wouldn’t have to go somewhere else to set up stalls. They could do it right on their own doorstep, inviting others to set up stalls and attract customers for them.

"As for games, we can have a ring toss, the egg-matching game, a beanbag toss, a long jump... As long as we control the cost of the prizes and calculate the probability of success, we’ll basically be hauling in Crystal Stones by the sackful!"

Si Shuo said with a light laugh. After all, they had run a ring toss stall in Nanye City and earned basketfuls of Crystal Stones every day.