After Maxing out all Classes

Chapter 73: I want to eat sweets

Honey was a hard currency in these ages because westerners lacked sugar-making technology.
Their only way to get a taste of sweetness was honey.

It is common for several nobles to wage war for a little honey.
The Cathedrals had a song titled “Where the Milk and Honey Flow,” which vividly shows the nobility of honey.

Xuelu put the beehive in her hand in front of Robb, “Here you go.
Although it's worth nothing compared to what you gave us, you seem to pay great attention to your diet.
With this, you can make sweet bread.”

Robb really likes it.
After coming to this world for over a month, Robb has hardly eaten anything “sweet” in his mouth.
This world lacks sugar-making technology, so there is no sugar and caramel.

Holding the beehive, Robb smiled and said, “Thank you so much.
Lillian, keep this and make sweet bread tonight.”
  The traveling merchant swallowed hard and whispered, “Mr.
Rob, are you willing to sell this hive? I… I can offer a very high price.”

“Of course, it's not for sale.
Money is not as important as eating,” Robb said.

The traveling merchant had a regretful expression on his face.

Even Pobo, who specializes in high-end goods, showed a strong interest in the honey and said with a smile, “this time I came back, I heard that Mr.
Robb has made a lot of interesting things, including tap water, Coca-Cola, and grew pepper overnight.
These strange stockings as well.
There may be a way for Mr.
Robb to produce honey in large quantities.”

The traveling merchant was instantly refreshed and hurriedly sat up straight, “that's right! Mr.
Robb, do you have any honey miracles?”
  “Nonsense!” Robb smiled and said, “What miracle? I don't even know how to keep bees.”

The traveling merchant said with great regret, “Oh! I wish I could have it.”

This conversation made Robb think seriously about this problem.
It has been more than a month since he came to this world, and it’s the first time he’s seen something sweet.
He usually ate light and tasteless bread, which was hard.
It can’t go on like this.

Robb seriously said, “No, I need to fix the sweet problem.
I want to eat sweets.”

“Yes, yes!” Two merchants and three adventurers nodded together, “Living without sweets is terrible.”

  Robb thought carefully about how to get sugar in the western world.
There's no sugar cane here in the West.
He can't make marshmallows anyways because glutinous rice is needed to make marshmallows, and glutinous rice is not produced in the West.

Then, the only way to get sugar – Beetroot!

Robb knows a skill to make sugar from beetroot.

Robb carefully recalled the picture of the “beetroot” item in the game, picked up a branch, and drew it on the ground, “Take a look.
Do you know this crop?”

Pobo regretfully spread his hand, “Sorry, I don't know much about crops.”

The traveling merchant also looked confused, as if he had never seen it before.

The three adventurers aren’t even worth mentioning.
They don't know anything about crops.

Instead, Lillian jumped from the side and said with a smile, “Master, I know this plant.
It’s called beetroot.
People in our village called it a red carrot.
And some people call it beetroot.” (TL: Three terms of beetroot were used here: The first, 菾菜, the second, 红菜头, and the third, 甜菜)

Robb was overjoyed, “My Lillian is the smartest and most useful person alive.
Where can I get this?”

Lillian said, “in my hometown, Stone Canyon, someone planted this thing in small quantities.
You can cook a sweet soup if you boil it in a cauldron.
“

“Very good!” Robb said, “Lillian, go and get some white cloth.
I'm going to issue a new mission.
I will pay five gold coins if anyone can go to the Stone Canyon and bring me a bag of beetroot seeds.”

“Five gold coins?” Even Pobo, a high-end merchant, could not help sweating, “Mr.
Robb, you offered a price equal to slaves for a bag of seeds?”

“Is there a problem?” Robb spread his hand and said, “the mission is to pay more so that everyone can be happy.
I hate those missions that pay very little yet are very troublesome to do.
They are simply anti-human.
They have to give cost-effect missions.
Otherwise, I’ll feel very uncomfortable looking at an exclamation point on NPC's head.”

The more he spoke, the more he became saddened and angry.
He spread his palms to the sky, straightened his fingers, and complained, “Don't release a mission with little pay.
It is disgusting.
I want to hack those game developers to death.”

The group of people next to him could not understand what he was saying, but they only knew that the priest seemed to have been cheated by someone and looked very angry.

Gorda smiled and stopped Lillian from taking the white cloth to write the mission, “Mr.
Robb, don't bother anyone else for this task.
There happen to be three experienced adventurers here.
We’ll go to Stone Canyon and get the beetroot seeds back as quickly as possible.”

“Oh, you guys would go? That would be for the best.
“

As soon as it was agreed, the three adventurers packed their bags, said goodbye to Robb, and set off toward the Stone Canyon to the northwest.
Westwind Town is not far from the Stone Canyon.
It takes a few days to walk along the official road.
Although there are occasional monsters on the official road, they are not powerful.
With the ability of the three of them, it should be no problem to bring back some beet seeds.

Pobo also said goodbye to Robb, “I will go around several villages nearby, buy you some slaves, and then go to the Bright Road and the Capital of Saints to sell the equipment you gave me this time.”

Lastly, the traveling merchant smiled and said, “thanks to Mr.
Robb, I made a lot of money on pepper last time.
It is much more convenient to transport pepper from you to big cities than to transport from the far East.
This Coca-Cola should also bring me a lot of money.”

Robb smiled and said goodbye to them one by one, especially the two merchants, “Work hard to earn money, okay?”

As soon as they went their ways, the square-faced mayor came again, and as soon as he saw Robb, he smiled and said, “Father, the poor people in our village who cannot build water towers have recently joined together to put forward a plan.
It is said that each family will give a little money, gather everyone's strength, and build a huge water tower in the middle of the village to supply water to all the town's residents.
I've come to ask for your advice.
Would you like to join us?”