Fang Ning was ready to come up with another idea to solve the problem of the System going on strike.
He thought about it carefully. The taste of the dishes made by the System was indeed of the highest quality. No wonder it attracted so many people in such a short period of time.
However, there wasn't anything special about its cooking process. The ingredients weren't any exotic delicacies. Although its culinary skills were superb and its control of the heat was very precise, that wasn't the main factor. That was because some top chefs could do the same.
The main thing was that it was good at concocting various seasonings. The combination of soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, salt, cooking wine, and all kinds of spices was superb. A little more would make it salty, and a little less would make it bland. A little more would make it too much, and a little less would make it insufficient.
This was something that could not be controlled by humans. You could not expect a chef to be as precise as the System when it came to concocting seasonings. Although the System was a Wuxia, it was still a System. Being precise was a piece of cake.
If that was the case, Fang Ning's new idea popped up.
"Sir System, I can see that most of the reason why your food is delicious is because of the seasonings. Although a lot of them need to be used at critical moments, a little bit of heat control won't affect it too much. Can you make a few seasonings? We can decide on the time to use them. If that's the case, we can hire a few chefs to cook and teach them how to use them. Of course, the effect won't be as good as the original, but we don't need to compare ourselves to before. As long as we're still better than others, most of our customers will come back to eat our food. "
After Fang Ning finished speaking, the System took a long time to reply.
(Why didn't you say so earlier? The time we wasted these two weeks will be deducted from your Relief Time.)
"Fine, you're the System, you have the final say." Fang Ning thought, 'If I didn't observe your cooking these past few days, how would I know this pattern? You stupid System, you don't even know how to summarize your experience.'
Anyway, he had a computer in the Internet cafe to play on. Although he could only rely on downloading some novels and single-player games to play in advance during the Break Time, it was enough to satisfy his needs in the early stages.
'Until now, there's nothing that I need to do during my Relief Time. Although there's something that I've been thinking about ever since the System appeared, it seems that the time isn't right.
Under Fang Ning's planning, the System quickly came up with a few types of seasonings, then hired a few ordinary chefs to cook and experiment. He found that the results were not bad. Although it was definitely not as good as the original version, it was still a lot better than the other competitors.
From then on, Fang Ning was the only one who could enjoy the best dishes produced by the System. Everyone else could only eat knockoffs. Fang Ning was satisfied with this, and so was the System. Once again, the two of them had a win-win situation.
As a result, the first batch of customers who had tasted the original version were filled with resentment. Some of them were so angry that they didn't want to come anymore. They scolded Fang Ning's restaurant on the internet for going downhill too fast.
But the new customers who knew nothing about it all said it was good after they arrived …
Zhao Ying was the only exception that Fang Ning did not expect.
After the two of them split the money for the past few weeks, they were both very well off financially. It was obvious that they wouldn't have to worry about money in the future. Now, the two of them had moved out of their cramped group rentals. They each rented a well-renovated apartment near the breakfast shop, living a free life that no one would disturb.
However, when the restaurant was replaced with knockoffs, she realized that she wouldn't be able to eat the original delicacies. She gave up her rented apartment and shamelessly came to Fang Ning's house to scrounge meals on time.
If it wasn't for Fang Ning (the System)'s insistence that men and women shouldn't touch each other and not letting her move in and continue living together (Fang Ning himself was against it), the two of them could have continued to live in the same apartment.
Even so, Zhao Ying, for the sake of the delicacies and some other indescribable reasons, immediately returned to the apartment she rented before and rented another apartment opposite Fang Ning's new one.
Fang Ning was a lazy and playful person. His resistance to beauty wasn't that high either. He had a whole bunch of flaws.
However, there was one good thing about him, and that was that he was grateful. After all, Zhao Ying was someone he knew. Although she liked to hook up with rich men, she had a good character and a strong work ethic. She was also a pretty girl (this was the main point), so he couldn't bring himself to chase her away just to get some peace and quiet.
As for the possibility of his secret being leaked, Fang Ning laughed. If he couldn't even hide it from a girl by his side, how was he going to face the strong ones in the future? It was better to clean himself up and hand himself over to the country.
… …
After that, in just a month's time, Fang Ning expanded the breakfast shop into an all-day restaurant. He also quickly added eight franchise restaurants. They were all located in the busiest areas of the city. The bosses behind them all had different backgrounds, but they all took the initiative to ask for a partnership. Their proposals were all very generous.
Fang Ning didn't coldly reject them. Now, all of them had changed to "Fang's Delicious Restaurant Chain".
On the other hand, he didn't have to do anything, nor did he have to care about anyone. All he had to do was provide the System's painstakingly produced seasonings at a fixed time every day, and he would receive a share of the net profit. Of course, it was the part of the business profit after using his seasonings. The System still had to keep the business profit that it already had, so it couldn't be shared with him.
However, this was already enough. In the first month's accounts, the eight franchises had a total of 16 million … The franchisees were happy, the employees were happy, the customers were happy, the System was happy, everyone was happy …
In these few days, the value of the spoils of war that Sir System earned from its heroic deeds was only 50,000 at its best. If the time invested was taken into account, what Fang Ning said about the efficiency of making money was hundreds and thousands of times better than the System's.
Fang Ning wasn't surprised at all. History had proven that the speed of robbing money was never fast. Monopolizing the trade was much more ruthless.
Currently, Sir System was engaged in a monopoly trade in a sense. It could have made more money, but the other party was unwilling to expand production.
Before this, Fang Ning had tricked it into doing two hours of hard labor in the morning. Now, it would only do half an hour of concocting ingredients at night when it was resting. If there was one more minute, it would rather sit on its bed and meditate than work …
With the current amount of seasonings provided by Sir System, maintaining the supply of eight franchises was already the limit.
Fortunately, Fang Ning had always been a person who was content with a little bit of wealth, so this amount of money was more than enough to satisfy his needs.
Since the System wasn't willing to do more, it meant that to the System, the resources that could be exchanged with money were enough to satisfy its needs.
As for what the System did with the money, the increasing amount of materials in the System Space, such as high-grade wood, high-grade leather, high-grade steel, and all kinds of expensive Chinese herbs … all of these clearly told Fang Ning where the money was going. After all, these were all legally bought by the System, so it didn't matter if it was found out. Everyone knew that the situation was changing, so as a newly rich person, what was wrong with preparing some goods in advance?
Coupled with the arrival of the best news, Fang Ning didn't have any more requests for the System.
Since the hidden danger of his identity being exposed had been resolved, and after seeing the number of money coming in daily, the System that was seizing Fang Ning's body didn't say anything. It had already quietly used the experience points it had earned in the past few days in the System Space to enable Fang Ning to connect to the Internet.
However, the System also told him that this function consumed experience points every day, so it had to put in a lot of effort as well …
Fang Ning nodded as he surfed the Internet. He knew that Sir System was a good System that distributed rewards according to one's work. In the future, he would definitely continue to provide more ideas to help Sir System solve problems.
After tricking Sir System into leaving, Fang Ning secretly opened an online game. Looking at the familiar scene, he finally let out a long sigh of relief.
"I can finally play to my heart's content. No, no, it's more like I can help Sir System come up with better strategies. Sigh, why is it so hard to find information? I still have to go to foreign websites to look for it, and at the same time, check out the situation overseas. If that's the case, I should learn more English (so that I don't have to wait for the Chinese version every time a good foreign game comes out). "Fang Ning accidentally let the cat out of the bag, so he quickly tried to cover it up. He secretly reminded himself not to speak carelessly in the future. Although it was easy to trick the stupid System, it couldn't be blatantly tricked.
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