Across Tokyo as Hokage

Chapter 17 Remuneration and Return

"Then thank Uesugi-kun for your help!"

Hearing Uesugi's agreement, Xiao Linhui finally let go of what he had been holding on to.

He firmly believes that no one can be immune to this kind of taste. With this special ingredient, it is definitely not a problem for Chiyo Dessert House to reproduce the grand occasion of the past.

In the island nation, the pursuit of food is extremely frenzied.

This can be seen from the ubiquity of various food-related stores, gourmet websites, food critics, competitions, events and the like.

As soon as you hear that there is a famous food somewhere, there will be a large number of gourmets coming, and all kinds of food critics and program groups will follow. It is not easy to become famous.

But the premise of being famous is to have delicious food that exceeds the standard. If it is only touted, these people can also criticize the food as inferior to pig food.

Especially the food critics among them, the weight of these people is even more important.

Although it is difficult to get started in this profession, it is either because of the amazing talent, the ability to taste like "God's Tongue", which can only be found in comics, and you can tell what it is if you let him eat it even if you are blindfolded. Reputation, or industry leaders put down kitchen knives to switch careers, the comments of these people are absolutely convincing.

The influence of food critics is very powerful. It is a basic operation to make a restaurant popular. Of course, it is also very simple to discredit it. A reasonable review (sincerely looking for trouble and you can’t find it) can also destroy a restaurant.

Islanders believe in authority very much. Once there are negative comments from gourmets, it is very difficult to turn over, unless the hard power is against the sky, and the only way to turn over is to beat the face with delicious food.

Otherwise, even if the taste is good, customers will feel ashamed to come to this kind of restaurant to eat.

Of course, when the taste is so good that the guests don't care about their face, they can also ignore all the sunspots.

Xiao Linhui will naturally take this route next, and spend money to invite food critics in the field of desserts to taste.

Inviting someone doesn't come for free!

Although these people will accept money, they will not praise them against their will, because they know that their foundation is their reputation. Naturally, it is impossible to gamble their careers to release false information. , but will never turn 50 points into 60 points, no matter how much money you have.

But if there are real materials, it is worth spending money to hire these people. It will definitely increase your reputation quickly. This is almost a standard procedure. The premise is that you are willing to spend money and have contacts.

"I'll deliver the things, but I hope that store manager Kobayashi can help me keep this matter a secret. I don't want Mama Meiyu to worry!"

He doesn't want Miu Uesugi to know about this deal, otherwise she will pay special attention to those tomatoes. He doesn't want to lie to the other party. There will naturally be more lies to make up for a lie. At this time, he really wants to have a secret base of his own.

"Of course there is no problem, Uesugi-kun, wait a minute!"

Xiao Linhui agreed immediately, then walked out of the back kitchen quickly as if thinking of something, and came back soon.

"This is the reward for ten days!" Xiao Linhui handed over an envelope with both hands.

"I will guarantee the supply of Konoha tomatoes!"

Uesugi took the envelope with both hands and made a promise at the same time. Although the other party said that he was relieved to give the reward in advance because he knew his mother well, the way he did it really warmed people's hearts.

The name of the tomato is preceded by the word 木叶, which is naturally to distinguish it from ordinary tomatoes.

The next step is naturally to say goodbye and leave.

After leaving the back kitchen, Chiyo Kobayashi learned that Uesugi Miu had left early. After all, it was not early and she had to go to a second part-time job.

Escaping from these enthusiastic big sisters, Uesugi patted his chest with lingering fear, probably because he is young and handsome, so he is naturally very popular.

"It's really scary!"

Uesugi said something in a low voice with the corner of his mouth slightly raised, but one can see from his expression that he likes this kind of scene very much.

Sorry, he is such a vulgar person, not only likes to make money and beautiful girls, but also stingy and vengeful, the standard villain personality, thrown into novels and anime is completely the kind of passer-by villain who is slapped in the face by the protagonist every minute.

With such a huge sum of money, Uesugi didn't dare to stay in Akihabara. If he couldn't help but spend it all, it would be over. After all, he is actually a foodie + otaku by nature, so he still wants to use this money to do things.

One hundred thousand yen is actually a lot!
The monthly salary of ordinary white-collar workers is only a few hundred thousand.

He only needs to provide five tomatoes a day, and his monthly income can already be on par with ordinary white-collar workers.

This income is even more than that of her mother Miu Uesugi. She works two part-time jobs and only gets 10,000+ yen a month, most of which need to be spent on tuition and rent, so the mother and son will live a miserable life of.

It's just that this amount of money is enough for Shang Shanshu to prepare a 'secret base' for himself.

Of course, it refers to the preparation in Adachi District. If it is placed in other districts, this amount of money is not enough to rent a house. It is impossible to rent a suitable house in other districts without hundreds of thousands of yen.

It takes hundreds of thousands of yen to rent a house, which is not an exaggeration at all.

Because there are other additional costs when you first rent a house, such as rent, deposit, key money... plus fire insurance, key replacement fees and other necessary expenses, these add up to enough to make a house with a monthly price of [-] yen soar to hundreds of thousands.

From this, we can understand that a large number of Tokyo residents complain that they cannot afford to rent a house, and the reason why small apartments are popular. Fortunately, the rent will return to normal in the second month of renting, otherwise no one would be able to afford it.

Uesugi Miwa rented a five-square-meter apartment in Adachi Ward, which required a monthly rent of [-] yen, and it would even soar to more than [-] yen in other districts.

Renting an apartment for [-] yen in other districts may not even be enough for more than a dozen square meters, because the deposit and key money are not enough, but Uesugi naturally prepared early and had a way to get a "secret base" he wanted.

When taking the train back to Adachi District, he went to Koto District and Akihabara in Taito District successively. It was almost dusk at this time, but when he was walking on the road, he felt something was wrong.

Yes, something is wrong, as if there is something wrong today compared with the past.

Finally, while walking down a street, Uesugi discovered why.

No stray animals were seen!

You must know that in this kind of downtown area, there are a large number of stray animals driven from the heavy goods area, but today they strangely did not appear.

But Uesugi didn't take it too seriously, after all, it had nothing to do with him, he walked quickly in another direction.

Real estate agency!

A company started by Yakuza, sounds scary right?
(End of this chapter)