Chapter 1628: Chapter 1627: The Charm of Spicy Strips
The Royal Shadow Puppet Theater has launched a new snack: Spicy Strips.
Spicy Strips are made from the legendary chili peppers and jade bamboo, with additional aromatic seasonings. The combination of so many spices creates a rich, stimulating, yet utterly enticing flavor.
Taking the first bite of chili pepper feels like fireworks exploding in your mouth, as if your whole being is about to ignite along with it.
It’s so delicious!
Never before had anyone tasted such a complex yet savory flavor!
In the entirety of Daqi, only a handful of people had ever experienced the taste of chili peppers. Now that chilies had finally been served and sold openly, many rushed to buy Spicy Strips, which were priced ten tis more expensive than monkey brains during the competition.
Spicy Strips, such an outrageously tacky na—it’s so tacky it practically buries itself into the earth—but that didn’t affect their taste one bit.
With their vibrant red appearance and enticing aroma, Spicy Strips are made from jade bamboo, a delicious but extrely scarce ingredient, combined with nurous seasonings. Just for their value alone, the fifty taels price tag is absolutely justified.
When people tasted the flavor, many couldn’t help but cry from the spiciness. Prior to this, there had been no chili peppers here; the primary sources of spiciness were cornelian cherry, ginger, and garlic. These spices were hot too, but their heat lacked the pure intensity of chili peppers.
Moreover, chilies aren’t just plain hot—they are fragrant and spicy. This taste was so alluring that, even as tears and snot stread down their faces, people couldn’t stop stuffing more into their mouths.
This flavor wasn’t just worth fifty taels—it was worth a hundred taels!
Such an amazing product, and Qiao Xiaomai was actually selling it for only fifty taels. Clearly, her brain must have been kicked by a donkey. Buy! They had to buy more! Every extra bite they ate ant Qiao Xiaomai lost more. And as long as Qiao Xiaomai suffered a loss, they were delighted!
These people feared that Qiao Xiaomai’s donkey-kicked brain might recover soon, so they were doing their best to buy as much as possible, hoping to make her lose even more money.
But unlike sweet potato dumplings or monkey brains, which were in infinite supply, Spicy Strips were limited to just 200 jin per day—100 jin at each Shadow Puppet Theater—with a limit of five plates, or one jin, per person. No exceptions.
First co, first served. If you arrived late, you’d have to wait until the next day. No reservations allowed—if you wanted so, you had to line up in front of the theater to wait.
Two hundred jin was truly nothing in a Capital City ho to over a million people. It was like a single drop of water falling into the sea—completely incapable of causing even the slightest ripple.
Too little, truly too little. Five small plates add up to just one jin.
What can you do with one jin?
It’s barely enough to get a single taste!
Those who managed to buy so said it was only enough to get a taste; those who couldn’t even get that were left to simply sll the aroma wafting out from others’ private rooms.
The scene was all too familiar, exactly like last year when waterlons first hit the market—except this ti, they were twice as expensive.
Many people, while swallowing their drool, couldn’t help thinking back to last year. Last year, waterlons sold for sky-high prices and beca legendary. So people even traveled all the way to the manors just to get a taste. Yu Zizhou went so far as to sche against Tong Xingda, causing him to lose all of the nation’s casinos in the process.
Then, later, there was the matter of the Wu Family teaming up with the Tianlong Gang to kidnap the Zhang Family. That incident ended up causing the Yuhu Duan Family, an aristocratic house with hundreds of years of history, to lose everything.
Just look at this series of upheavals—all triggered by those tiny waterlons!
And now this year, Qiao Xiaomai has co up with Spicy Strips. Five plates weigh one jin, each plate costs fifty taels, and a jin totals 250 taels. The price is 1.5 tis higher than last year’s waterlons. If soone were to buy a jin, it would cost exactly 250.
If they ate it every day, they’d pay 250 every single day.
Was Qiao Xiaomai doing this deliberately?
The waterlons last year caused such a commotion, and now Spicy Strips have co. What chaos will unfold this ti…
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