Angela, as the lady of the Grand Duchy of Beihai, naturally has plenty of snacks there. Dried bananas, dried apples, preserved fruits, candied fruits, everything, as well as melon seeds and peanuts, which are rare in Europe.

Don't think that these snacks are ordinary, in modern times, these may be very ordinary civilian snacks, but in Europe in this era, they are very not simple things.

First of all, dried bananas and peanuts, two things that Europe doesn't have. Only Marin got these two things through the Great Voyage, so that there was no shortage of these two snacks in the court of the North Sea Kingdom. There are also preserved fruits and candied fruits, snacks that girls in later generations love to eat, and they are also rare in this era. It's not that fruit is scarce, it's that cane sugar is scarce......

Because sugar is not produced in Europe, the price of cane sugar is extremely expensive, and it is still sold as a rarity in pharmacies. The wholesale price is 1 shilling per pound and the retail price is 1 shilling 6 pfennig per pound, which is 18 pfennig per pound, which is equivalent to 9 days' wages for a man in the prime of life. If you go to a place where inland transportation is not developed, the price of sugar is more than 20 pfennig per pound.

With such a high price, even if the fruit is not valuable, the cane sugar that can be pickled into preserved fruit is expensive. Therefore, these preserved fruit snacks, which were very common in later generations, were only eaten by aristocratic families in this era.

There is no shortage of these in the Beihai King's Palace, but Marin does not let the children eat more. After all, both preserved fruits and candied fruits are pickled in sucrose, and eating too much tooth decay is a recipe for tooth decay. Therefore, Marin asked Angela to take care of the snacks, and even if Felise wanted to eat them, she had to ask Angela for them. Of course, this is also a means for Marin to appease the back house. Felise even has to ask Angela for snacks, can she still have a palace fight with Angela? Where does the confidence come from?

Sure enough, when Jack Ma came to Angela's palace, his wife Felise was fighting with Angela and the maid supervisor while gnawing on preserved fruits and candied fruit in her mouth......

What made Xiao Ma Yun depressed was that his sister Ma Li was being served by the maid there and eating snacks, looking extremely enjoyable......

"Hello Mom, Hello Mom!" After Xiao Ma Yun saluted the two hostesses, he ran directly to Ma Li's small table and grabbed a handful of snacks on the table. While sending it to his mouth, he condemned:

"Mary, you're too much, you don't even call me for snacks!"

When Ma Li saw that the snacks were snatched, her eyes were suddenly full of tears, and she looked like she was about to cry......

When Angela saw it, she smiled and said:

"Mario (Jack Ma's German name), you're a boy, how can you snatch your sister's snacks? You won't be able to find a girlfriend in the future. ”

Felice and the maid who were playing cards together laughed when they heard this......

But Ma Yun didn't understand it yet, and said loudly:

"I don't want a girlfriend, I just want snacks!" Then he grabbed a handful of snacks from the table in front of his sister Mary and stuffed them into his pocket.

Seeing that Mary was about to cry, Angela waved her hand and ordered:

"Quick, add some more snacks to little Mary!"

No way, Mary is so favored. Who called Angela and Felise, the two sisters, had a total of 5 children, but Mary was the only girl. When there are more boys, the more girls will be popular. Just like in later generations, because there are more men and fewer women, girls are also very sought-after.

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In the office area in the front yard of the palace, Ma Lin worked for a day, and when he saw the sun set, he stretched his waist and said speechlessly:

"Hey, fighting for hegemony or something, I'm really tired! It's still comfortable to be a hands-off shopkeeper! ”

However, the authority or something, Marin did not dare to throw it away to others. If it is hollowed out, it may be overthrown. Therefore, if you choose this path, while enjoying the glory, you also have to bear the fatigue and pressure.

In early spring, it gets dark early, just after five o'clock, and it's dark. Marin didn't have the habit of picking up the lights to work overtime, so he put on his coat and left the office happily. Before leaving, he ordered the guards on duty to lock the door and extinguish the stove in the room.

Marin's office was on the east side of the front yard, near the south-eastern corner of the palace, near the palace guard of Commander Karn. The reason for this arrangement is that it is afraid that someone will raid the palace. If you get close to Karn's palace guards, you won't be afraid of an enemy raid at the main entrance. Ma Lin remembered that it was said in the history books that during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, people from the Tianli Sect attacked the Forbidden City. If it weren't for the fact that the Forbidden City was too big and there were too many gates, and the people of the Tianli Sect were dizzy, maybe Jiaqing would be finished.

Aurich's palace is not as big as the Forbidden City, with two courtyards in front and back. If someone sneaks in through the main gate and the guards don't have time to react, it's going to be doomed. Therefore, Marin placed his office next to the palace guards' quarters, so that Karn and the others could react quickly to keep him safe even if a madman came in.

Coming out of his office, Marlin went downstairs and headed north from the hallway, first past Felise's yard in the northeast corner of the backyard.

When passing by, Marin suddenly had a little black face like Jack Ma in his mind. So, he decided to go and see this mischievous son. After all, this is the child with the same name as the richest man. Just this name can ward off evil spirits by sticking it on the door.

But when he entered Jack Ma's room, Marin didn't see anyone. The hot kang in the house was still burning, and then Marin saw that the kang was full of torn cabbage leaves......

After an afternoon of roasting on a hot kang, many of the leaves of the Chinese cabbage have dried up......

Marin suddenly became angry, and it just so happened that Ma Yun was rushing back from Angela's side with a bag full of snacks at this time. As soon as he entered the door, Jack Ma's ears were twisted by Marin......

"Ouch, it hurts!" Jack Pony called.

"Say, why did you make the kang full of good cabbage? Do you know? How difficult is it for ordinary people to want to eat a bite of vegetables at this time? Even many nobles can't eat vegetables at this time! ”

Jack Ma's ears were twisted, but his eyes kept rolling. He knew that if he didn't give a reasonable explanation at this time, his ass would definitely bloom. Marin has never been polite to boys. Of the 5 children in the backyard of the entire palace, I am afraid that only Mary, the girl, was the least beaten. Well, and William, who is not old enough to be beaten...... Even the most sensible Caesar was beaten a few years ago......

"Because...... Because...... I deliberately dried the cabbage......" Ma Yun casually said nonsense in order to avoid being beaten.

"What? Deliberately dried? I'll kill ......," but Marin's slap didn't fall and stopped in mid-air......

"Deliberately dried...... Drying ......" Marin was suddenly stunned. And Ma Yun took the opportunity to let his ears leave Marin's hand, and the whole person ran out of the room directly and ran to Angela to ask for shelter. The entire backyard of the palace, as long as Angela can shelter him, what Ferris said may not necessarily work......

But Marin didn't chase the naughty little Ma Yun, but picked up the shriveled cabbage leaves that had been dried for several hours on the kang and observed......

Probably because the drying temperature is not enough or the drying time is insufficient, this shriveled cabbage leaf is still a little damp. But Marin called for a basin of water and soaked the shriveled vegetables in the water. After a while, the vegetable leaves become plump after absorbing water......