The last group of people came to the vegetable market in a hurry.
The reason why I use this word is not to use something that seems more appropriate like Ying Ying Yan Yan——
The main reason is that the painting style of our group is indeed a bit different.
Viril is okay, but the remaining few are basically not that reserved, and it is probably due to their long-term career as adventurers, so outside of Grace... Well, it is quite strange, people from the vegetable market Everyone seems to be familiar with Grace's appearance.
"Why are these people so familiar with you?" I said helplessly, "And now - I obviously didn't buy any ingredients, but there are a bunch of things in the basket."
Yes, on the way here just now, Grace was very familiar with everyone doing business, so almost every time she passed by, someone would bring some food.
A green onion, a head of garlic, or a small handful of coriander, although not much, but when the number of people giving it increases, it can already cook more vegetables...
Hmm, mixed vegetable stew?
Seems pretty good too.
"I come here often!" Grace walked in front and said with a smile, "Last time I went to that town just because it was easy to make money. Who would have thought that there is such a terrible thing hidden underneath?"
"Really? I didn't expect Grace to be a native of Wales." I said, scratching my cheek in embarrassment.
I really didn’t pay much attention to this matter before.
"How is that possible? I just settled here." Grace shook her head. "Just think about it. The Sword Master obviously didn't settle in this place. How could I be a local?"
Juggernaut······
After mentioning it, I remembered that I seemed to have promised something to someone.
I asked: "By the way, Grace, why would you want to leave the Juggernaut and come to Wells?"
"Ah, to put it simply, I want to be his weakness, and I also don't want to grow up in his shadow." Grace gently flipped her hair unconsciously and said, "If you stay in the same place with him, , obviously someone will pass on unnecessary pressure to me, and unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to deal with pressure, so I can only escape from that place like a prodigal dog, and finally walk to the beach. , and stopped.”
"Unexpectedly open-minded..." I had prepared tissues and listened to the history of blood and tears, but I didn't expect that the reason Grace said seemed to be much simpler than I imagined.
"The most important thing is to think openly. It's okay to admit your failure occasionally. After failure, stand up and that's it." Grace shrugged and said, "It's you, do you have any dark history?"
My past is actually a mystery!
But after what Grace said, I finally remembered that I should compile a more reliable past.
In order to cover up the fact that he was once a "brave".
"I don't have a bad history, but I became an adventurer because I was in debt. I was the owner of a hotel that wasn't very clean before." I lowered my voice slightly and pretended that I didn't want others to hear me. .
"Unclean... Well, looking at you like this, it's really hard to imagine what kind of unclean hotel it is. You've almost been regarded as a messenger of justice these few times." Grace looked at me with a curious expression and said, " Speaking of which, why did you owe so much debt? It couldn't be because of gambling, right?"
"It's impossible for me to do that kind of illegal thing." My cheeks twitched slightly, and finally I sighed and said, "Actually, it's not for any special reason. The main reason is that I accidentally damaged other people's very expensive treasures, so I'm like this. Yes, plus I also want to come and go out for a walk occasionally, so that’s it.”
"It seems that I can pay off a lot of my debts now. He is a very tolerant creditor." Grace chuckled, "Ah, there is a butcher shop in front of me."
Since I have been here several times to buy barbecue, I can be considered familiar with it now.
"Oh, I didn't expect them to be with you, Miss Grace. If I had known, I would have given you more discounts last time." As usual, the owner of the butcher shop is also a strong man with big shoulders and a round waist, wearing a sweater. An apron whose original color can no longer be seen.
"It's impossible to give discounts now." Grace sighed with a smile, "The price of meat has gone up a lot recently."
"There is no way. The plague in the south has been too severe, so it has become difficult to eat meat." The butcher shop owner looked a little helpless, "Now all the new batch of pigs have not been slaughtered yet, the merchants And I don’t dare to buy pork, so now the price of meat is not only rising, but sometimes there may be problems with supply. It’s better here in Wales, but I heard that the price of pork in the west has reached ridiculous levels.”
Didn't you expect it to be so serious?
But I haven’t asked much about the plague.
"Isn't the plague over yet?" So after agreeing on the amount of pork to be purchased, I chatted about it casually.
"This plague came quite strangely. There were no obvious signs in the summer, but it suddenly broke out like locusts in the autumn, leaving the local nobles at a loss. In the end, it took the Holy See to take action. Things have stabilized, but now I heard that people are still dying in that place every day, and the Duke and the others have also sent heavy troops to guard it." The butcher shop looked a little helpless, "I heard that there was a necromancer behind it, so now we want to It’s hard to understand.”
Necromancer?——
Although it is not something forbidden by humans, in this social environment, playing with corpses is still not accepted by the mainstream. In particular, many of the necromancers' magics require humans as casting materials, so basically To achieve high status is to be like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats it.
"Okay, this is the meat you want!"
While I was thinking about it, the owner of the butcher shop had already cut everything and handed it to me.
After weighing it a bit...
"The portion seems a bit much."
"I'm a famous butcher in this street. I'm nicknamed Zhang Yidao. There will definitely be nothing wrong with my knife, so don't worry!" The butcher shop owner laughed.
Sure enough, it was still too much.
I smiled and handed over the money.
Likewise - the money I gave was also a lot.
Although I don't want to reject other people's kindness, but in this period, it is better not to be greedy for such small advantages.
He turned around and stopped Kyle Russ, Nolan Russ and others who were wandering around, and then came to the spice shop.
At present, there are still relatively few spices discovered by humans, and most of them have a very pungent taste before they are used. Therefore, when I was a brave man, I collected quite a lot of spices that I could recognize and use along the way.
But you don’t need that many things to make bacon, it’s just that I tend to make it more flavorful.
In short, after some shopping, the vegetable basket was filled with a lot of things that I didn't plan to buy.
Not only did it include vegetables that others gave to Grace, but there were also some that Nolan Lesi had not eaten before and was going to take them back to try fresh ingredients - mostly seafood.
Compared with other land-based products, the ocean is probably the most different from the earth. Although I have no doubt about Darwin’s theory of evolution, in this strange world where magic exists, it is obvious that the ocean is the origin of all things. It's a bit more terrifying, especially the deep sea. On the earth, those guys can't be seen anyway, so they grow casually. I thought about it and pulled out an indescribable one from another world, which seems to be about the same...
Dragging a lot of things, he refused Kellas's suggestion to continue shopping, and finally reluctantly walked back to his temporary residence.
"Poof!" He threw everything into the kitchen and finally let out a cry of victory.
"I didn't think there were many things at first, but now it seems that I have brought a lot of things with me when I went out." Nolan Lusi tilted her head and said, "So, Lin Zhihe, when do you plan to start?"
"Take a short rest..."
The most important pickling spices are mine.
It doesn’t matter no matter who you leave it to, and I think that when Kellas is helping, we need to be especially careful not to add anything weird.
"So, I call this seasoning recipe Lin Zhihe Shisanxiang!"
Nolan Lesi curled her lips, dipped her fingers into the seasoning I had just made, put it in her mouth and said, "What a strange name is that? Do you use thirteen seasonings? If I remember correctly, it seems like There are only seven kinds, right?”
"Well - it's so salty!" Nolan Lusi's expression suddenly changed quite strangely, and then she spat two mouthfuls in the direction of the trash can, "Is this kind of thing really edible?!"
"It's definitely not allowed to be eaten directly. It's just used for pickling."
The next step is for everyone to get started.
Simply put, it means kneading all the spices into the surface of the meat, allowing the flavor to penetrate better.
By the way, although Kyle Russ thought that we could just steam it in a pot and eat it at night, I finally rejected her idea. The main reason was that I was going to deal with the inventory in the freezer.
Finally, after all the marinated bacon is hung on the rack on the pot, all the processes are basically over.
All that's left is to wait for time to develop the flavor on the meat.
In the evening, I cooked as usual. Most of the ingredients I got from Grace during the day were fresh and made a stew-like dinner. Although the quality was not great, the taste was still quite good.
After spending a few days doing nothing like this, the reward from the Inspectorate was finally delivered early one morning.
——Of course it cannot be a box of gold coins, but credit currency. This is also a new policy being implemented by the emperor of the empire. As an official agency under the empire, the Supervision Department must of course carry out His Majesty's orders.
To me, such banknotes are more familiar, but Nolan Lusi looked a little unhappy, talking all day about why a piece of tattered paper can be exchanged for so much money.
Well, this kind of thing is still the development trend of the times.
In particular, the rise in pork prices has made many people aware of the problem of carrying precious metal currencies, and the originally blocked monetary policy has unfolded in unexpected ways.
"Well, it's a bit more than expected." Grace groped her chin and looked at the pile of money in front of her, saying, "In this case-"
The money sent was three hundred thousand.
It's a lot higher than initially expected.
"Huh! This time, there was basically no sense of participation! The whole process passed by just like watching a movie. I don't want to get more at all!!" Grace immediately fell on the table and shouted.
"Isn't this kind of thing just something you say in your heart..." My cheeks twitched slightly, and I looked at the annoyed Grace. I really didn't know what to answer.
"No, on the contrary, because I want to make you feel guilty and say, 'I'll give you more,' that's why I act like I'm worried!"
"Didn't you say what's in your heart again?"
"That's why I'm so upset." Grace put her face on the table again.
"It's not easy to be a gold-level adventurer. I just want to buy new armor." She sighed and said, "No, to put it simply, I didn't expect that there would be so few gold-level missions recently."
"New armor?" I looked at her strangely and said.
In this way, Grace did not wear her previous armor in all these missions. I originally thought that it was not necessary, so I didn't wear it. Now it seems that it is not just like that.
"You haven't made new armor yet?"
"It's too late." Grace looked a little depressed, "I originally thought there was no need to be so anxious, but I just heard the news before that the legendary blacksmith is coming to Wales soon, so the original budget was slightly - —Now that I’m a little taller, I’m still someone who wants powerful items from time to time!”
In other words, I originally wanted to buy the mid-range model, but found out that the high-range model was on sale, so I wanted to spend more money?
"Legendary blacksmith?" Nolan Lusi was also attracted by our topic and came over curiously, "Are blacksmiths also legendary?"
"Because his deeds are quite legendary."
Speaking of this, Grace's expression became a little more serious. She sat up and continued: "There are already more than nine legendary weapons forged in his hands, and one is even recognized as a symbol of the Duke's inheritance. ”
"Oh my god, is he so strong!" Kyle Russ said with a big mouth, "Hey, dear, with so many legendary weapons, is he human?!"
"Pure human beings, the kind whose ancestors have not had dwarf blood for eight hundred generations."
