The early morning sun shines on the resting camp, as if it has been covered with a hazy veil, and everything exudes a shallow light.
Lu Xi opened the tent curtain, stretched out and walked out. Behind him were two little tails, one on the left and one on the right. They followed suit and stretched as well.
It was not yet half past five, and it had only been six hours since Lu Xi fell asleep last night, far less than the normal eight hours of sleep, but Lu Xi was already feeling particularly refreshed when he woke up.
It seems that since time traveling, she has spent less than eight hours sleeping. A simple four or five hours of sleep can keep her full of energy for the whole day.
The fire was still burning, but as the night passed, the flames looked a little "decadent", far from the vigorous burning posture last night.
Hailin sat bored in front of the fire, occasionally throwing two pieces of wood in to keep the fire going. When she heard the sound, she turned around and saw Lu Xi's figure. She was a little surprised. She didn't expect Lu Xi to get up so early.
Lu Xi waved as a greeting, walked to the stream to get water, brushed his teeth and washed his face. Finally, he dipped his hands in water and combed his hair neatly. Looking at the sparkling water, he turned sideways and braided his waist-length hair into a long hair. Long braids.
It's not the common simple braid, but a fancy braid that is braided from one side, with a hair-tying scarf in the middle, and braided on top of the head like lace.
After all, Lu Xi's hair was too long. It was braided vertically and hanging down her back, as if she had a whip with her, swinging it around, making it inconvenient to do anything.
Lu Xi also thought about cutting her hair short. Such long hair was really in the way, but she didn't know if it was because of her golden finger. She regarded her hair as a part of her body. Every time she cut it short, she would wait until four in the morning. After clicking refresh, the hair will return to its original length.
If Lu Xi was locked up on a high tower like Rapunzel, maybe Lu Xi could cut off his hair every day, then lengthen it bit by bit, and finally use his hair as a rope to climb down.
Xiao Yuan followed suit and squatted next to Lu Xi, lowering his head and licking his fur obediently. The silver-gray fur was licked smoother.
The young dragon looked around with a confused look on his face. It didn't have beautiful long black hair like Lu Xi, nor did it have smooth and soft hair on its body. It had scales as hard as iron, which made it hurt to lick it.
When Clyde walked out of the tent, the first thing he saw was such an interesting scene. Helene greeted Clyde, "Boss, good morning."
Lu Xi just finished combing his hair when he heard voices behind him. He looked back and saw Clyde walking out of the tent. He smiled and nodded at Clyde as a greeting.
Maybe the light was too coincidental, or maybe the sun was just right, but the smile Lu Xi turned around seemed to be emitting light, which made Clyde slightly stunned when he saw this scene.
"She is so beautiful, Miss Lucy."
Clyde turned to look at White who was sighing next to him. The properties of the wind element made White move more lightly and silently. Without defense, even Clyde could not easily sense White.
Clyde said nothing and turned away. White followed closely and refused to let go of Clyde, "Why, boss, don't you think Miss Lucy is beautiful? Aren't you very moved?"
"Although it is impossible to marry a noble lady, it is also very good to be the lover of a noble lady. That is a noble lady with her own farm. Boss, don't you really want to try?" White winked. .
For nobles, love is really a very useless thing. Rather than being with the person they like for the rest of their lives, they care more about how the person who inherited the family name formed a relationship with the person who inherited another name. family.
As for the person you like... no one forces you to separate from him. It's just that you have lost the appropriate "status". You can still live a "happy life" together for the rest of your life, although usually you may not be able to. Just stick to it until the end.
Therefore, some young, strong and energetic young mercenaries will have some "love stories" with some noble ladies, and then after the noble lady becomes a noble lady, they will become their "lover", possibly the only one, or maybe is one.
But in short, the treatment is good. Even if the relationship only lasts for a few years, it is enough to earn enough money to provide food and clothing for a lifetime. Most mercenaries will not refuse such an "errand" and can perfectly maintain a "lover" "The moral character you should have.
Except for those who are truly moved.
White likes to coax all kinds of girls, but he will never touch those aristocratic ladies or ladies. From the former, he can get the simplest and most sincere responses from those girls, while from the latter, he can probably only be regarded as a coaxer. A "plaything" that makes people happy.
Of course Clyde would not be tempted, or in other words, of course he would not be tempted so easily.
But when you see something beautiful, it’s natural to stop and appreciate it.
"What, you want to go to 'Convenience' with me?" Clyde turned to look at White. This guy kept talking all the way, which was more annoying than a buzzing insect.
"No..." White finally came to his senses as he looked further and further away from the camp. He paused for a moment. Just as he was about to stop, Clyde hugged his neck unceremoniously.
"You're welcome, let's come together." Clyde smiled grimly.
"Wait a minute, boss! No! Wait a minute! Boss!" The voice faded away.
Lu Xi was far away and didn't know what the two figures were talking about. He only saw the two people getting closer and closer, and finally left arm in arm. He didn't pay too much attention and went back to the tent to pack his things. , start preparing breakfast.
Miguel came out first, while Dina was still sleeping in the tent. Without Lu Xi opening her mouth, she came over to help with various ingredients.
Mainly the two buckets of small fish caught by Xiao Yuan and Xiao Long last night. Lu Xi did not expect that the two of them actually caught two buckets of small fish.
There is no need to remove the scales from the small fish, but the internal organs must be dug out. Although Lu Xi plans to deep-fry the small fish into fried dried fish, even if the whole small fish is deep-fried, there will be no problem.
But there is a big difference between fish with and without viscera, especially the gall in the viscera of small fish, which greatly affects the taste.
It would take a long time for Lu Xi to deal with it, but for Miguel, this job is not very strenuous. With the bonus of the wind element, when he moves his hands, he is much lighter and more agile than Caglico. Lu Xi can do it in a blink of an eye. I thought I saw an assembly line machine working.
Hailin did not sit aside and watch, but started to help. Her weapon was a short sword, and she was more accustomed to using short weapons. Moreover, her level was higher than Miguel's and her speed was faster than Miguel's.
Lu Xi just watched the two of them competing, and within a short time he had finished handling more than two buckets of small fish.
Lu Xi's lavish use of the meat oil brought by Xiulan left only a little bit of it. It was enough for cooking, but not enough for frying two large buckets of small fish.
However, extracting oil is not that difficult. There happened to be a few monsters caught next to the creek yesterday. They looked like some kind of enlarged version of very fat field mice. Their flesh was plump and very oily at first glance.
Let Miguel skin and remove the bones of this monster called a sand rat, cut it into pieces of suitable size, add a little water to the pot, and cook it over low heat.
Lu Xi then lowered his head to handle the small fish, took out cooking wine and other ingredients, and marinated all the small fish.
After all these things were done, Dina, who was bedridden, and Xiulan, who was the last to get up, also got up and freshened up.
Dina opened the pot and looked at a piece of pure white fat and a layer of oil inside. She looked at Lu Xi with a confused look on her face, "Miss Lucy, is this today's breakfast?"
"Breakfast will have to wait a while. There is no more grease. I'll get some out." Lu Xi gently pressed the meat with a shovel. As she expected, this kind of monster called a sand hamster has a lot of grease on its body. The oil yield is also very high.
In fact, it is a more authentic way to press oil without adding water, but after adding water, the color will be whiter and more beautiful after the oil solidifies.
"Is this how you make oil emulsion? Is it that simple?" Xiulan came over curiously after hearing this, with a thoughtful look on her face.
"But I heard from the servants at home that refining oil emulsion seems to be extremely troublesome."
"It seems like you have to keep roasting it over the fire, and then catch the oil when it drips, so that the fire doesn't burn the meat." Xiu Lan recalled the scene he saw at that time, which was the same as Lu Xi's current simple method. The comparison is as big as the difference between a beggar and a noble.
However, this cannot be surprising to the people of the world, because in other worlds, hunting monsters is relatively more difficult than on earth, so the meat of prey is more precious and rare.
No one would be willing to slowly roast a large piece of edible meat into jerky and squeeze out all the fat. It is also very important to have good quality and suitable kitchenware. Most civilians do not have this in their homes. condition.
But don't think that owning a metal pot is such a simple thing, especially in another world.
Secondly, if the fire is too high, the meat will burn. If you want to get oil, you can only use a small fire to slowly burn it. But for ordinary civilians, firewood is also a very important resource and cannot be wasted like this.
I don’t know how the nobles discovered that meat oil is edible and tastes good, but they definitely don’t think about how to better refine meat oil. Anyway, they have servants to do it for them, so they don’t have to expend any effort.
Therefore, the common people who refined the oil emulsion could only follow the arrangements of the nobles, holding pieces of meat to roast in front of the fire, and catching the oil as soon as it dripped... It was extremely common to get scalded or burned.
And because it is roasted directly in the fire, a lot of fat evaporates. It would be good if the meat oil that can be refined can be one-tenth. It is not surprising that Xiu Lan said that meat oil is a very expensive food.
Lu Xi didn't express any opinions. He just scooped out the grease residue one by one on the plate and sprinkled some salt on it. Although this stuff was dry, it tasted particularly fragrant.
For the first time, Xiulan didn't pay attention to the food on the plate. Instead, she stared at a whole pot of fat and was stunned. "Are these fats? So much?"
Lu Xi nodded, and then explained, "Actually, when refining oil emulsion, the choice of monsters is also very important. Some monsters are very suitable for extracting oil, while some monsters have no oil themselves and cannot be squeezed out."
No, Xiulan's lips moved slightly, but she didn't say anything out loud. This was not a problem with the monster at all.
"Oh, try it quickly, don't think about it, this thing is delicious!" Dina grabbed a piece of oil residue and quickly stuffed it into Xiulan's mouth.
Xiulan subconsciously took a bite. Unexpectedly, although the oil residue was dry, it was not hard. It melted quickly in her mouth.
That's right, it melts, just like the texture of solidified white oil emulsion melting in the mouth, but it's not that greasy, and the purest meaty aroma explodes in the mouth.
Xiulan suddenly stopped thinking about the messy things, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab... a plate of oil residue from the plate, but it didn't even last a few minutes before it became an empty plate.
Lu Xi put more than half of the meat oil in the pot and waited for it to solidify. With the remaining half of the meat oil in the pot, he started frying the dried fish directly. The marinated dried fish has its own flavor, and there is no need to add any more. No other seasoning.
After frying more than two buckets of dried fish, Lu Xi was a little tired. He was too lazy to make anything fresh to eat, so he made the vegetable soup he made yesterday again, but this time he added more soup and added vegetables. There are relatively few.
After frying the dried fish, there was still a lot of oil left, so Lu Xi cut the white bread into slices, fried some bread slices at the same time, and changed the way of eating the staple food.
Everyone in the Dragon Hunting Mercenary Group looked at Lu Xi and felt deeply that this mission was no longer an "escort", but a gourmet trip.
After the meal, everyone began to pack their luggage. Dina snapped her fingers, and several vine tents on the ground disappeared instantly and turned back into their original seeds.
Lu Xi was a little curious, "If you don't take back the elemental power in them, will these vines always exist?"
Dina was stunned by the question and thought about it carefully, "Probably not."
Elemental magic with wood attributes...no, it should be said to be elemental magic with all attributes. It actually relies on the mental power of the caster to maintain it, which is equivalent to gathering together certain elements that originally existed in the air.
When the caster himself leaves or actively terminates the "maintenance" relationship of this mental power, these gathered elements will disperse again and return to their original appearance.
Therefore, after the fire element spell is cast, it seems that it ignites the plants on the ground. The fire is terrible, but when the battle is over, it will all disappear and will not cause a large-scale fire.
But there is another one, which is a fixed combination of elements. The expression is that certain elements in the air are fixed into a combination that will not dissipate and always exist in the air.
For example, a water-attributed elemental mage will use elemental magic to "transform" water when he is short of water. This kind of water actually exists and will not disappear. Otherwise, it will disappear when you drink it. Wouldn't it be a waste of water?
However, this kind of elemental spell requires an exaggerated amount of elemental power and mental power, and is not suitable for use in combat.
Just like Dina, if she wanted the seeds to grow and not disappear, the elemental power of building several vine tents would only be enough for the vines to grow dozens of centimeters in length.
If the wood attribute element spell could make so many plants grow quickly, Dina would have been planting them long ago, so why would she be a mercenary?
