After arranging a guest room for Katerina, Mavey closed the door.
The Potion Grocery Store was formerly a restaurant. It was demolished and rebuilt in the back. There were many empty rooms. Levin, Daniel and Edward all lived here at that time. Now that Edward has moved into the Black Castle, Levin stays up all day and night looking for Helena. , Daniel went to the workshop to conduct research with scientists
The originally lively grocery store became much deserted at night, but because it was very busy, there was no time to feel sad. Besides, Levin and the others did not come back, and occasionally they would come to the Potion Grocery Store to stay for a few days.
Fat Orange and Xiao Hei are the most diligent when returning home, and they can be seen every night.
In the kitchen, Mavey opened the cabinet and took a look and found that they were all cans. Mrs. Cecil heard that Katerina and Arthur were going to have dinner at home tonight, so she picked up the vegetable basket and was about to go out to buy groceries. Mavey arrived in time. He grabbed her and said, "I'm going to buy groceries. Just boil some hot water."
"Father, do you want to cook yourself?"
“You can’t forget that craftsmanship is not.”
After smiling, Ma Wei took Yunia to the Flower Street Market to buy the ingredients for dinner. In order not to cause a sensation, disguise is necessary. Although the status of the Pope is noble, it can sometimes become an obstacle to listening to the voices of the people. , only by living with the residents personally can we understand the real needs of the people.
The market in the evening is the busiest time of the day when people come and go. The seafood is the cheapest at this time, and the price is nearly one-third lower than in the morning. However, the seafood in the Kingdom of Windsor is already very cheap, even if it is reduced by one-third. It didn't feel like anything, except that three pennies had become two pennies.
Not finding the fish he wanted, Ma Wei gave up the idea of cooking fish. On the contrary, the beef was very fresh. It had just been slaughtered and the bright red meat legs were still beating slightly.
"Do you want to eat beef fried with onions?" Mawei asked Yunia.
"Okay! I like to eat whatever daddy makes! As long as it's not canned!"
"Boss, cut five pounds of beef, and I want rump."
"okay!"
After weighing the beef and paying for it, Mawei went to buy another hen. Eggs, potatoes, and onions were all available for long-term storage at home. It was enough to stew chicken soup and stir-fry a few side dishes. It was too grand. It's not necessary. I've long been tired of eating state banquets and just kept going over and over again with those few dishes.
After buying groceries, Mavie took Yunia back to the grocery store. The grocery store was closed today and there were no customers. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Katerina walking in front of the containers.
"Your Majesty, aren't you sleeping?"
"I rested for a while and woke up."
Mawei glanced at the clock on the wall. It had been an hour since he went out to buy groceries. It would be about the same for him to take a light sleep.
"what are you planning to do?"
Katerina came up and asked, looking at the ingredients in the basket.
"Cooking some home-cooked food. Do you have any taboos? Do you want to eat beef?"
"I have to eat beef." Katerina rolled her eyes: "I don't eat broccoli and grapes, and I like raw coriander juice the most."
Raw coriander juice. The taste is quite strong.
Ma Wei also likes to eat coriander, but he will most likely not be able to drink raw coriander juice. That thing is simply anti-human.
"Are you interested in potions?"
Seeing Katerina walking back and forth in front of the cabinet where the potions were placed, Mavey asked casually.
The potions sold in grocery stores have long been brought to all parts of the world by the Manstein Potion Company. Even the blood of mercury is open to all countries that have joined the Northern Alliance. As for the potions in the cabinet, there is nothing unusual about them. It's some ordinary stuff.
If there is anything interesting, it is most likely something that Ma Wei has tinkered with before.
For example, he ground the rhizomes of Splendens splendens and honeysuckle into powder, added the spirit soaked in the venom sacs of red-tailed scorpions and kneaded it into a ball, then added a few drops of dragon's blood to make a small pill that can make people feel refreshed. Take one pill for three times. I couldn't sleep for days, and I might sleep for three days afterwards.
Ma Wei made a lot of little things like this kind of pills. They were all discovered accidentally. The same is true for magic potion recipes. Before mixing various materials, no one knew what they would make. Some of them ate them. It may be fatal, and some may have miraculous effects.
Just gambling.
But Ma Wei, who is protected by the realm of immortality, does not have to pay the price even if he loses the bet.
Many of the magic potions developed by Ma Wei are only sold in grocery stores. They are handmade and will be gone when they are sold out. When Ma Wei replenishes them depends solely on Ma Wei's mood. If he has some free time and is in a good mood, he may make some and put them in the cabinet.
Katerina arrived by chance, as Ma Wei had just restocked the store yesterday.
"Do you know the price of such a magic potion?" Katerina said, pointing to the glass bottle containing dragon blood honey pills in the cabinet.
Ma Wei thought for a while: "It seems to be 20 gold pounds each."
"20 gold pounds was the price half a month ago, and the latest price yesterday was 25 gold pounds per pill." Katerina said: "You underestimate the potion made by the Pope himself. If the grocery store hadn't been open today, These potions have been sold out a long time ago, and people bought them not to eat, but to collect them!"
"No wonder there are queues outside every day. They are scalpers in love."
Ma Wei muttered, took out the key and threw it to Katerina: "You can see for yourself, I'm going to make dinner."
Watching Mavey enter the kitchen, Katerina glanced at the keys in her hand and walked towards the door to the cellar behind the counter. As she approached, an invisible tentacle suddenly wrapped around her body. Keep her away from the cellar.
"You are Muir, a supernatural being who can become invisible, Yggeklis. Right?"
Katerina had obviously heard Ma Wei mention Muir, the only extraordinary race that could become invisible, living in the gap between death and reality - the land of mist. Come, Ma Wei can't persuade it to stay.
Muir, who met Katerina for the first time, was confused when he heard her calling his name. Katerina was very friendly and asked Bodelinov to bring out the silver melon seeds produced by Aylan. He smiled and said, "This is a meeting gift. I want to make friends with you."
【friend.】
"Yes, friend, Father Mavey is also my friend. You should have seen his attitude towards me just now."
Indeed, Mavey's attitude towards Katerina was very friendly, and Katerina did not deceive Muir. Everyone was really on their own. Muir, who was simple-minded, stayed in the grocery store and rarely had contact with outsiders. Telina was willing to be friends with it, and even gave it a gift, showing great joy.
"I want to visit the crypt. You see, this is the key that Father Marvey gave me. He agreed."
Taking out the key and shaking it in the air, Muir believed Katerina even more. He released the tentacles wrapped around his body, rolled up the silver melon seeds in the box and hid aside to eat them. After eating, he also rolled up a football. Throwing it at Katerina's feet, he wanted to play games with her.
"Bodelinov, you play with it."
"yes!"
After taking care of Muir, Katerina took the key to the cellar door, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it gently.
Click!
There was a slight sound of unlocking, and Katerina pushed open the cellar door, picked up the kerosene lamp hanging on the wall, followed the stone stairs, and walked into the cellar alone.
The cellar is where the grocery store stores goods. Since the establishment of the Manstein Potion Company, Mavey rarely transports raw materials here, but there are still many special items stored here, such as soul ointment and living spirits. Rare materials such as statues and mermaid tears.
In today's London, it goes without saying that security is very high. Coupled with Muir's protection, no one can invade the cellar silently. What's more, the things stored in the cellar are only rare, not unique. It really depends on the degree of rarity. Guarding the cellar Isn’t Muir rarer than mermaid tears and living statues?
Who would take the extreme risk of invading a grocery store?
It’s a thankless effort!
If you have the ability to invade a grocery store, you might as well steal the treasure room of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow!
Even so, the treasures stored in the cellar are enough to make countless people jealous. For example, a drop of mermaid tears can be sold for 1,000 gold pounds. The black market price is even higher. If ordinary people get it, they can turn over overnight and live without worries. Life.
The dim light illuminated the wooden box, and the cellar was filled with sundries. Living statues, soul ointments, and even glass bottles containing mermaid tears were randomly placed on the wooden shelves. Other precious raw materials were piled on the hay-filled floor. In the box, Katerina glanced around and came to the deepest wooden frame.
Staring at the potted rose in front of her, Katerina finally showed a slight fluctuation in her dark blue eyes. Katerina put the kerosene lamp aside and carefully reached out her hand to touch the red petals of the potted plant in front of her.
With a light touch, the petals retracted, as if they were alive.
Obsessed with flowers!
The only pot of obsession flower in the world!
The Obsession Flower needs to be fed with the Obsession Potion regularly, and the formula of the Obsession Potion is in the hands of the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny. Archbishop Brandon gave it to Ma Wei when he was running for a potion dealer.
Ma Wei collected all the materials, made the Obsession Flower, and successfully won the bid to be the potion dealer of the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny.
Those who can afford it don't need it, and those who want it can't afford it. It's very useless. At the same time, Ma Wei doesn't want things like the obsession potion to have a negative impact, so there has been no publicity. The only pot he made, Also stored in the cellar of the grocery store.
Freya wanted to spend a lot of money to buy it, but was rejected by Ma Wei.
Her fingertips gently stroked the stamens, and Katerina murmured softly: "You are still an ownerless thing now."
The infatuated flower seemed to understand Katerina's words. The petals no longer retracted shyly and began to wrap around her fingers, as if they were longing for something.
"It seems that you are lonely here. Although I can't take you away, I can give you the meaning of existence."
Biting her finger, Katerina squeezed out a drop of blood and dropped it on the stamen of the Obsessed Flower. The blood droplet was absorbed instantly, and the originally bright red petals suddenly turned as dark red as blood. The petals curled up and tightly wrapped the stamens. , turned into the shape of a flower bud.
After a few minutes, the flower buds stretched again and seemed to be redder than before. The petals moved softly, like a beauty singing and dancing, with a hint of enchantment.
Taking off a petal and putting it in her arms, Katerina picked up the kerosene lamp and left the cellar without looking back.
When she came back, the aroma of fried oil was already wafting in the air. Katerina walked into the kitchen as if nothing was wrong, sat down at the dining table, looked at Ma Wei in an apron and smiled: "Father, you really look like a chef. .”
"Is this a compliment?"
"Of course, in the Romanov Kingdom, men who can cook are the most popular, not drunkards."
"If that were the case, wouldn't the chefs in the restaurant become a hot commodity?"
"Of course a man who can cook should go home and cook. Otherwise, what's the point of being able to cook? It's just work."
After smelling the aroma wafting from the pot, Katerina asked thoughtfully: "Did you make chicken soup?"
"Pure chicken soup." Ma Wei said: "Not the kind of chicken soup with gnocchi added."
There is a special delicacy in the Kingdom of Windsor. The preparation method is similar to chicken soup. The only difference is that they add gnocchi or some kind of dough-like food to the soup. Ma Wei is not used to eating it. He prefers to drink pure Chicken broth, just add a pinch of salt.
In order to adjust the taste of Katerina and others, Mavey also prepared spices such as rosemary and pepper.
"It smells delicious." Katerina nodded.
Ma Wei glanced at her in surprise: "You are a king, you must be tired of drinking chicken soup, right?"
"Your Majesty eats very little every day."
Bodelinov, who followed Katerina into the kitchen, said: “Every day for breakfast, I only have half a slice of bread, a slice of ham, a scrambled egg and a cup of coffee. For lunch, I only eat bread, bacon, ham or sausages, and borscht. When it comes to food, I can’t even eat a bite when I’m upset. Dinner is simpler. When I have a good appetite, I’ll have a sip of soup. If I have a bad appetite, I’ll eat half an apple.”
"But at noon, she clearly ordered a big plate of sausages!" Yunia was very puzzled.
Pursing his lips, Bodlinov wanted to say something but didn't say it. He knew Katerina very well. He was once a member of the Guards of Peter the Great, and it could be said that he had watched Katerina grow up.
Since Katerina ascended the throne and became the king, Bodlinov has become the leader of the secret police, often reporting information to Katerina, and knowing Katerina's routine very well.
He did not deceive Yunia, everything he said was true. Katerina's daily diet was frighteningly simple. Influenced by her father, Peter the Great, she never indulged in lust, and the food she ate was not much different from that of ordinary people. Many people think that she eats well, but this is not the case.
The palace physician often asked her to eat more nutritious food, but Katerina never listened.
Only when she is in a good mood will she eat more.
Bodelinov was shocked when Katerina ate a whole plate of sausages at noon today. This was the most Katerina had eaten in the past two months. The last time she ate so much was in the north. The day the alliance was founded
Bodelinov knew what he should and should not say, and he would not expose Katerina's 'weakness', so he did not give any explanation when faced with Yunia's doubts.
He can be wrong, Katerina can't be wrong.
(End of chapter)
