Jiang Ye did not hesitate and spent five thousand yuan to buy one. He had to inspect the goods first.
The trading pod flashed with light, and a black notebook appeared.
Jiang Ye picked it up and looked at it. It really looked like an ordinary leather notebook, except for a solar panel on the back.
Opening it, he saw two screens inside.
Jiang Ye pressed the power button, and it turned on.
An interface similar to the online novel apps from his previous life was displayed.
At the top were various novel categories: mystery, romance, fantasy, sci-fi, social, history, and adult.
Jiang Ye's eyes widened.
Hesitantly, he tapped on a category.
"Holy crap? It's real!" he muttered in surprise.
A moment later, his old face flushed red, and he exited that category.
Returning to the main interface, he searched for Journey to the West.
The search yielded quite a few results: "Journey to the West (Jinling Tang Family Shide Hall Edition, Wanli 20th Year of Ming Dynasty)," "Journey to the West (Shulin Yang Min Zhai Edition, Wanli 31st Year)," "Journey to the West (Chongzhen Edition, Ming Dynasty)," and over a dozen other versions.
Then he searched for Agatha.
[Item: Small Paper Manufacturing Machine]
[Item Description: Requires only a small amount of wood, water, and soil to manufacture paper. Can produce anything from thin toilet paper to thick cardstock. Fast production speed and high-quality paper. Additives such as gloss agents and fluorescent whitening agents can also be added.]
[Price: 300,000 yuan]
Upon seeing toilet paper, Jiang Ye immediately placed an order.
He had been on this planet for a long time, and he had never had toilet paper.
When going to the toilet, he used a bidet to clean himself, so toilet paper wasn't essential.
However, in various aspects of life, the absence of toilet paper was troublesome. For instance, if soup spilled on the table, it could be easily absorbed with toilet paper. When he had a cold and a runny nose, toilet paper was also a necessity. In short, its uses were numerous!
If its uses weren't so great, Westerners wouldn't rush to supermarkets to hoard toilet paper whenever something happened.
As soon as he placed the order, a private message arrived.
Isabelle: Hello Mr. Jiang, you have just ordered a small paper manufacturing machine. Is it to be sent to your base?
Jiang Ye: That's right. No rush, finish delivering the rotorcraft first, then come deliver the paper manufacturing machine to me.
Isabelle: I apologize, sir, but I will not be delivering the paper manufacturing machine to you. This is a small item and will be directly transmitted to your trading pod.
Jiang Ye: Then why are you messaging me?
He turned to look at the trading pod. It wasn't lit up, nor was there anything in it, so he typed again.
Jiang Ye: It hasn't been transmitted yet?
Isabelle: Yes, sir. A design defect has recently been discovered in the paper manufacturing machine, so supply has been temporarily suspended. You can choose to get a refund now, or you can wait for the new generation of paper manufacturing machines to be listed and then have them sent directly to your trading pod.
Jiang Ye: Something like that? I'll wait. You go ahead and do your work.
He shrugged, slightly dejected. He had thought he could make his own toilet paper, but it turned out the product had a defect.
However, it shouldn't take too long. For a grand galactic empire, improving a paper manufacturing machine shouldn't take years; it would likely arrive in a few days at most.
The last item was also quite practical:
[Item: Sichuan Pepper Bullfrog Flavor Instant Noodles]
[Item Description: Popular Sichuan Pepper Bullfrog flavor, spicy and fragrant. In addition to an increased portion of noodles, there is a whole dried bullfrog leg, allowing you to enjoy the pleasure of gnawing on a bullfrog leg while eating noodles! Add boiling water, wait three minutes, open the lid, and eat. You can add various snacks yourself.]
[Price: 30 yuan]
This last item left Jiang Ye with so many things to say that he didn't know where to start.
"Sichuan Pepper Bullfrog flavor," what the heck!
Who would develop such a flavor for instant noodles!
Isn't it really strange to gnaw on a bullfrog leg with this?
Isabelle probably liked it very much; she had gnawed on bullfrog legs with great gusto before. But Jiang Ye really couldn't accept it.
The price was quite high, thirty yuan for instant noodles, almost the price at a tourist spot.
He wondered if it would sell.
Jiang Ye opened the chat channel and, after some deliberation, sent a private message to Cao County Citizen.
Jiang Ye: New stock has arrived. Electronic novel readers, 8,000 yuan each, which are readers that can be used to read novels online. Military white wine, 1,500 yuan a bottle, 38% alcohol, 800ml cans. Sichuan Pepper Bullfrog flavor instant noodles, 50 yuan a bucket, with a complimentary bullfrog leg.
Cao County Citizen: Wow! This batch of goods is great! It will definitely sell well! Especially the wine and instant noodles!
Jiang Ye: There should be quite a few people who like to drink. It's a shame the instant noodles have a strange flavor.
Cao County Citizen: What's strange about it? Sichuan Pepper Bullfrog, it sounds delicious! And there's a bullfrog leg, my mouth is watering.
Jiang Ye was dumbfounded. Judging by his words, Cao County Citizen was also a seasoned bullfrog connoisseur.
What the hell, am I the only one in the world who doesn't eat bullfrog?
Are those little frogs really that delicious?
Cao County Citizen: I'll take 5,000 buckets of instant noodles, 1,000 bottles of white wine, and 500 electronic novel readers. The total is 5.75 million, I've transferred it to you!
Jiang Ye: Wow, you're really flush with cash now, buying so much at once?
Cao County Citizen: Absolutely! I'm the cash king of the colony now! Do you know how much capital I have? A full ten million!
Jiang Ye: Cash king? I don't say anything even with sixty million, and you're crowning yourself emperor in a mountain沟.
Cao County Citizen: You have sixty million? You're bragging, aren't you? You spend so much on each upgrade, how much money do you have left?
Jiang Ye shrugged. Believe it or not, it didn't matter to him.
He opened the Galactic Mall and started shipping the goods.
Cao County Citizen's order was so large that it took nearly an hour to complete the shipping.
He made a profit of 2.1 million from the sales, and his personal account balance increased to 60,854,300 yuan.
It was still early, so Jiang Ye decided to plant some trees.
He spent six million yuan on a tree harvesting machine, so he had to at least earn that money back by planting trees.