Although Charles had gained a high reputation in the city of Messina, not many people had seen him, and most of the people who saw him on the docks those days were people begging for a living on the water.

The next day, when he changed into ordinary linen clothes, put on a straw hat that was neither old nor new, and drove the carriage to the market to buy goods and prepare to go to the next stop, the owner who sold mosquito repellent cigarettes did not recognize him at all.

Charles put a lot of mosquito repellent smoke in that shop, this kind of mosquito repellent smoke is the size of a matchbox, and when lit in a corner, it can burn violently, generating a large puff of white smoke, which can drive mosquitoes out of the room.

Moreover, this smoke does not choke on the nose, is harmless to people and animals, and can also be used in the stable.

Charles decided to make a little money on this at the end of the summer, because there were still a lot of mosquitoes in the village nestled between the mountains and forests, and he kept some for himself.

He took in some of the daily necessities of the iron pot, sickle, and needle and thread, and at the suggestion of his boss, some traps and daggers, and some dry food and horse feed, and then left the city of Messina.

Half a day after leaving the city of Messina, Charles had seen the rugged mountain roads of the Bischberg Kingdom.

From the top of the mountain, you can see one mountain after another.

As the saying goes, he walked for a day, and felt that he was not far from the city of Messina.

Just as he was looking for a place to spend the night in the evening, he saw a motorcade parked in a roadside clearing at the foot of a mountain.

The convoy was full of four-wheeled carriages, and the carriages were all covered with slime tarp sheds, and those tarps were quite new, and Charles looked familiar.

There were no goods in the carriages, only two carriages with some luggage.

Charles parked his carriage at the other end of the clearing, then nodded to those who had seen it.

An old man in the convoy who looked like a steward shouted to Charles, "There's a well here, come here if you want water!"

Charles waved at him, then took an unlucky rabbit from the side of the carriage and walked over with the rabbit in one hand and a barrel and iron pot in the other.

Charles handed the rabbit to the old man and said, "Thank you so much, I caught it casually on the side of the road, and it looks quite fat." ”

The old man looked at Charles and frowned, and asked, "Just by yourself?"

Charles nodded and said, "yes." ”

As a result, the old man glared at Charles and said, "Nonsense, you can run alone in the mountains?"

"If we hadn't killed that blade-toothed tiger on the road earlier, you'd be by now!"

"Don't run around thinking you have some skills, you think you're the Earl of Maccaden?!"

Charles shrunk his neck and said, "The old gentleman is right. ”

The old man pointed to the side and said, "Fetch water, you will follow us tomorrow morning, and if you oversleep we will not wait for you." ”

Charles thanked the old man, then took the rabbit to the convoy cook and put it down, fetched water from the well, and then returned to his carriage.

There was more than one rabbit that hit Charles's hand today.

A while ago, he seized a good bow in a water pirate camp, and the second leader of a group of water thieves left to watch the house made the bow.

After slashing the thief to death, he kept her bow for his own use, and left plenty of arrows along the way.

So today, two rabbits have become targets for Charles's sword practice.

Charles chopped a rabbit next to the carriage and scalded it with freshly boiled water, and poured the water into the bucket of the horse's drinking water so that it was not wasted.

Then he poured a little bad wine into the pressure cooker, and put another piece of ginger and a few dried mushrooms bought in the market of Messina, a small piece of fatty bacon and a little salt to stew with the rabbit.

This rabbit in the wild has a low fat content, there is no oil and water, and a little oil must be added to it, otherwise the taste will not be good.

Rabbit meat needs to be stewed for a long time before it tastes, and although the dried mushrooms don't taste good, it's better than no taste.

Taking advantage of the time to stew the rabbit, Charles took the bow from the carriage and sat by the fire to inspect the bowstring.

The bowstring of this bow is made of silk spit by specially cultivated silkworms, and the leaves fed by the silkworms are also exquisite, and the weaving method also has a doorway, which belongs to the fist product exported by the Elven Tree Sea.

Bowstrings are consumables and require constant maintenance.

Charles bought a lot of special wax in Messina this time to maintain the bowstring, this wax is based on beeswax, add a little vegetable oil, heat and mix well to cool, but the smell is not very good.

He checked it and found that the bowstring was fine, and it would take a while for him to wax it.

This time, Charles came out of the Elven Tree Sea with only a bow, which Elizabeth had given him when he was apprenticed.

It's just that Elizabeth has also given up on Charles's archery, as long as he can reach the passing line, so he rarely uses that bow.

Charles can't do anything about it, he has practiced hard in the last year, but his grades have not improved much.

He only spent half a month learning the legendary "bow fighting technique" used by elven archers in complex environments, but he eventually replaced the bow with a flying knife, and then used a firearm.

When he exterminated the water thieves before, he used everything he knew, from "Ru's Treasure" to throwing throwing knives.

After more than an hour, the people in the horse convoy next to him had eaten and drunk enough and began to brag and chat, and Charles began today's dinner.

He put tonight's black bread in a bowl, poured two spoonfuls of hot soup and soaked it for a while before eating, and then settled the rabbit meat first.

The noise and insects in the distance, and the tender rabbit meat stewed in the bowl brought Charles a moment of peace.

While he was feasting, a woman in double braids came to the side of the wagon, this woman looked like she was in her early twenties, and her chestnut hair was a little dry from years of sleeping in the open.

She walked over to the fire and carefully examined the pot where the rabbit had been stewed.

Charles thought she was looking at the pot of stewed rabbit, so he said, "If you want to eat it, sit down and eat it together." ”

The woman looked at Charles, then nodded.

Charles brought a bowl and spoon from the carriage and gave her a bowl of soup and a few pieces of rabbit meat.

"Thank you. The woman took the bowl and said, "My name is Kuloai, what do you call me?"

"Charles. Ru replied with a southern accent.

Kuloai ate a piece of rabbit meat, his eyes lit up as he chewed, but he didn't say anything.

After she silently finished eating the rabbit meat and drinking the soup, she said when she returned the bowl and spoon to Charles: "Thank you, the pot you cooked the rabbit in just now is quite chic, where did you buy it?"

As Charles continued to eat the brown bread soaked in rabbit soup, he said, "This is what my uncle gave me." ”

"So, where can I buy it?"

Charles shook his head and said, "I can't buy it now, this is what my uncle spent a lot of effort to find someone, and this is the only one in this world." ”

He didn't lie, as one of the main products of the Jiuyang Chamber of Commerce in the future, ordinary pressure cookers can still be made with the current technology, so Uncle Nikolai said, and the Chuntian Arsenal immediately organized elite soldiers to make one by hand.

Seeing that the strange pot was not sold, Kuroai left without saying anything.

Charles slept in the carriage and the next morning followed the wagon about ten meters down the mountain road to the north.