Quantum Leap - Vol. 6 Kingdom Building Garnering Wealth

C022 Puffer FishBalls - Delicious But Deadly Eh?

"Kayu-san, thank you for your kind update as I can see you truly are a professional and trustworthy man. You put your heart and soul in your profession and managed to come up and tackled the deadline way beyond the 7 days. I really admire you and how I wish I could be like you." I brought the flattery to another level where Kayu-san head not only swelled, but his balls in his hakama swell up as well like a pufferfish. Hahahaha!

"Arch... I am just a simple man, Young Master. I will satisfy my clients just to make them happy and what do you know, I am staring on another project here on the same lot too." he said.

"I like men who are brave, brave enough to take challenges, others may say it takes balls for a man to look simple but could take on a lion with his hands, and I am sure you got balls, as BIG as a melon! Hahahaha!"

Hiko-sama praised the foreman in an adult vulgar words and the moment I heard it, food flew from my mouth as I started to laugh and imagine the foreman with balls as big as melons!

Damn you Hiko-sama, can you joke when my mouth is empty? Hahahahaha.

"Hahahaha... Yes, we must have balls but they are hidden, while women have balls that protrude out and they feel proud of their assets. Hahahaha." joked the foreman as he was fond of dirty and lewd jokes and my food came blowing out again.

"Don't mind the Young Master, he loves to blow his food out once in a while. Hahaha"

"Hmm... Hmm... I wished to highlight something to you if you won't mind. What would happen to the 10 workers after they complete their jobs?" I asked to start into a serious topic and a conversational point.

"Ah, then I would have no use for them after this. They may go back to their own life's fishing, foraging and trapping for their daily foods. They are redundant so basically, they would be used if the need arises and then laid off if there's no work for them. Furthermore, this is the first time I hired them but since there won't be any future housing developments here for a long time, I won't be using their services anymore." the foreman replied with such an air that any bird that flew through it would get stuck in mid-air.

Fucking old man! I hate your kind and I hate the way you treat other human beings like garbage. A great answer that you gave us, puffer fishballs!

"Ah... Very good... Very good. Cuts down on manpower costs. Very genius of you. Very effective Kayu-san. So really, you won't be using any of them in the future?" I asked while seething with hate for this gokiburi.

"No, I won't need their services anymore and they are redundant and replaceable so..."

"I would absorb them to work for us. They will go to the mines and toiled some land far far away from here so you would not see them anymore." I cut off this old man's bullshit while trying to put on a smile.

"How much are you paying them at the moment?"

"I paid them 1 silver coin daily, they are lucky they get to eat from a bento or else they would be digging..."

"That's right, how true of you to say that. Once they are finished with the construction of the warehouse, they would be digging as well..."

I was seething with rage that I can't be more sarcastic than these and I can't wait to see this old man get f****d in his own grave soon!

Seeing me clenching my fist till my knuckles turned white, Hiko-sama dismissed Kayu-san saying that we have something to discuss and the former took his lunch, bowed and left the table.

"Relax, breathe easy. You will meet more people like him and you'd wish you could eliminate all of them to make this world a better place. That's why I became a samurai and slain hundred of men to stop what they had started but then I don't see a point using violence to end violence. Look at me and breathe easy, kid."

I knew Hiko-sama was damn worried about me and I looked at his face and stared deeply and I saw a sense of consolation in his eyes that made me cool down and I immediately snapped near his face and gashed and growl at the same time.

"Hahahahaha... You sure can put on a good act, you really got me, kid, you really got me. Hahahaha!" Hiko-sama raised both of his hands in the air and calmly places them on the table.

"Come, finish our lunch up." and I replied by slowly shook my head as I closed the bento box and pushed it aside away from me. I knew Hiko-sama can still see from my eyes that I was still full of rage but I have to be professional. Business is business I can't mix with my personal emotions as I will get back at him and get him to commit to buying 2 Seiko Tumbler Machines, a few kilograms of Detergent powder, a few dozen bottles of hair shampoo, half dozen of soap holders and a few kilograms of the cleaning agent.

I could only take revenge and reduce his assets drastically and I would make him go broke and make him taste the life of living as pleb soon!

Gnash! Gnash! Grrr... Grr...!!

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"You hear that grovelling pig said about those men? Treating them as if they were rubbish. We are all humans and we bled red on colour when we cut ourselves. This pufferfish ball thinks he is so damn mighty like a Lord is it? Looking down on others as if they were like dog s**t at the side of the roads while he himself is much lower than the lowest he had looked upon."

"Even if we can't help everyone, but we could help some that would be better than none at all. You should know my character by now, Sensei... Why I never take action when the girls mentioned they were ill-treated by their employers. First is that I never knew who their employers were. And secondly, I do not judge others by means of hearsay."

"But if I were to hear from the mouth of the person, belittling other humans, I would take actions not now but when the right time comes. Just because he had the power to engage their services, so what? Does he think he's the Emperor? In my past life, I had mingled with people with the highest authority just like the Emperor but they were just and full of compassion with their people. Because when they take care of these people, they will stand before you and protect you, not standing behind you and pushing you towards the enemy."

"I don't know what my mission or task that I had to achieve in this series of this novel, but one thing for sure is that I had changed your life and you had changed mine too. If not, I would have joined the Imperialist in 4 years time, and goes against your principles of not gaining fame or profit or even upholding the law, by following others instructions into blindly killing, and not realising the actual reason of being the next heir of Hiko Seiko the Thirteen."

"A twist of fate that had brought together as we believe in not for working for others but working for ourselves towards our goals and dreams and making a reality and not just following others blindly. That's why you quit the samurai shogunate and wanted to just retire, drink sake all day without getting drunk, and make pottery as you have an eye in that art."

"Hey, kid. Are you done talking? Look... Even Hiko is getting sleepy and entering his own Realm of Mind himself. Look, look, his eyes dropping Liao! Shut up and continue with the series and stop confusing the readers!"

A voice offscreen sounded as it directed to a fat mass of blob sitting on the Director's folding chair that seemed to grow out of his ass. Max was beside him and was shrugging his shoulders as he can't defend me in saying anything. I hate that fat blob for starting this series by half burying me in the snow.

"Sensei, you do understand what my heart and mind and my filthy mouth were saying right? I had made a solemn swear that I would not hurt anyone, animals or plants without just cause and u uphold it till today."

"Vavavoom... Hope you are able to absorb everything just like Sponge Bob Square Pants."

"Yes, I understand every single 500+ words you said the moment you started this chapter. You knew so much about me like as if you are my clone. You are my i***t disciple, my friend as well as my adopted son even though I'm just too young to have a kid your age. It's as if I started banging chicks and got them pregnant at the age of 11 or 12 to have a kid if your size. Hahahahahaha."

"So what you gonna do next? Any plans for now till before the end of the workers working hours?" Let's buy a barrel of coconut and olive oil plus lye and make a batch of Detergent. I will show how it is done.

Let's go to our Realm of Mind and find peace there." as soon as I've said that we entered the bedroom and checked the time. We should be able to have 2 hours of fun in the Realm of Mind.

Soon we entered our meditative state and arrived at our Realm of Mind. There I showed how the process of the Detergent and my plan to cake the Scented Soap in square drying trays 1mx1m with a depth of 3mm. I explained how the process of caking it and Hiko-sama understood. The shallow tray allows the hardening process for the Scented Soap to ready within 72 hours.

I showed him the conventional oven that I had to visualise from my world and showed the end results for the baking powder that had been removed of some molecular structure when they are heated at a certain temperature and at a certain duration. I explained that this process takes 5 minutes only.

Lastly, I just explained to Hiko-sama that we would distil the lemon by squeezing them first and lay the skin that would be sliced thinly on top of the cloth. There won't need to have so much water, just a quarter would do of the glass bowl.

I told him the whole process would be to blend the thin rolled out soap that had been Scented and mix with the baking soda that had turned into washing soda and make them if possible to be fine or just coarse grain like the one that I had made yesterday.

The powders would then be evenly mixed and be brought up by using the lye's gunny sacks which were 5kg each and then a few girls would weight 250 grams while a few would seal the onion skin papers.

The modern scales here are meant to be used in the Realm of Mind and cannot be brought up to the real world. If it could, definitely it would save a lot of our time. Now we need to look for 3 scales so that 3 will work on weighing and 3 will work on packaging them.

Hiko-sama nodded and said present-day scales of the Edo period were being sold to those pharmaceutical establishments that sell opium, herbal medicines as well as gold.

The had a long handle and a dish at the end and a weight that would be adjusted accordingly to the grooves and it would be mounted on two stands on both ends of the stick.

Hiko-sama said that the scales may be maxed out at 100g at most since he was not sure and just bullshit his way around. That's fine, no one is perfect.