Linda's ugly and weird appearance, under the flickering of the dim candlelight, really looked like an evil demon coming out of the darkness, giving a fatal blow to the highly nervous Lien, which can be called a divine mending knife.

Sure enough, witches and tentacle monsters are the best partners.

The castle of dawn, like a giant beast covered in rocky skin, lies quietly on the mountainside. The old butler's room was lit with orange candles, and the frightened Lien lay on the bed with a pale face.

For Lean, the steward who has served the Sand family for nineteen years. The innocent Alice doesn't understand the dirty things he does, so she always keeps being kind. But Karrick was different, he was also a henchman of the lord, and he had long known and even disliked Lien, this seemingly kind, but in fact selfish guy. He told Leah about his embezzlement.

"Alice, let's go. He was frightened and needed to recuperate. ”

Frightened by Qin Song and Linda, Lien, who had not slept all night, was in a weak state both mentally and physically, and his face could not hide his sick face.

Coming out of Leon's room, Alice frowned, "Uncle Carrick, what do you think of what Leon said about the infestation of the devil's minions?"

Linda was the first to arrive at the scene, but she remained her usual silence and did not provide any information. Only Lion was terrified, and the gods kept repeating it, and the devil's minions were haunting him.

"He's too weak, maybe he's not very sane. Karrick didn't care too much, Lien was 'sick' in bed for more than two months, and it was a miracle that he was able to survive until now: "Anyway, I don't believe that there are devil's minions in Blackstone Castle, it could be a rat, a snake or something." Alice, Lean is too old to keep a clear head, and I'm afraid he won't last long. ”

Alice didn't speak, she was no stranger to death, but she felt a little sad in her heart, remembering her dead father.

Carrick was in full swing arranging the autumn harvest, and Alice didn't need to take care of it herself, but stayed in her room and continued to study the magic she had. The bronze lampstand became her toy, and in addition to changing shape freely, it could be easily separated and made into two or more knick-knacks. The process of solidification of bronze is a gradual process, the hardness gradually increases, and the time is basically mastered.

In the afternoon, Linda knocked on her door, nodded to her, and led Alice all the way to the workshop. The hard-working Linda cleaned the room very clean, lifted the curtain to the inner room, Linda walked to the basket full of wild fruits and vegetables, rummaged in it, took an orange-yellow mountain pear, and pointed to it.

This is a pear picked the day before yesterday, perhaps ripe, but it only took more than two days before it showed signs of rotting. Alice personally rummaged through the basket and found that many wild vegetables had turned yellow, some of the fruits had rust-colored spots of decay, and even many small flying insects had grown.

This is Alice's most distressing problem, fresh fruit often spoils in a short period of time, and it is impossible to continue eating. There is also the 'antidote' he prepared, which is now in less demand, and the two cans stored in the workshop, even with the lid closed, will soon emit an unpleasant sour smell after two or three days, and the color will gradually turn rusty.

In order to test whether the 'antidote' after spoilage still has the medicinal effect, Alice specially found two sailors to test, and the conclusion was that both of them had symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea, and their faces were green with diarrhea.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are not available all year round, and if you want to make the 'antidote' really have practical value, spoilage and spoilage are the biggest problems. It is important to know that scurvy mostly occurs during sea voyages, ranging from a month to three or four months, and an 'antidote' that can only be stored for a few days is obviously not practical.

And Qin Song has been observing her from Alice's perspective. At the level of food preservation in the Middle Ages, the fruit spoiled and spoiled, which he expected. Extending the storage time is easy to solve in later generations, you can boil sugar water, add fruit to boil, and canned it while it is hot, and it can be stored for about three months, which is the common canned fruit in sugar water. Or boil it in sugar water, soak it, and then dry it to make preserved fruit, which can also be stored for a long time.

However, neither of these simple methods was applicable in the Middle Ages. The main problem is that sugar was extremely scarce in the Middle Ages, and sugar cane, the main raw material for making cane sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar, was grown in tropical and subtropical regions, at least in medieval Europe.

In this era, honey was the main food they had for their sweets. A large part of the reason why later generations of Europeans liked sweets is that for a long time, sugar was a luxury as expensive as spices, and being able to eat sugar was a symbol of dignity, forming a sense of psychological superiority and satisfaction, and sugar could also replenish enough calories to help them resist the cold.

However, in this fictional world, something seems to be different. It's medieval, but it's geographically different from the real Europe, and in the game's description, the dreadnodonts inhabit the rainforest.

The Black Mist Forest near Blackstone Fort happens to be where the dreadtooth orcs haunt, so it can be inferred that the climate here is either tropical or subtropical, and it is very likely that the conditions for large-scale cultivation of sugarcane are possible.

This idea made Qin Song a little excited, as long as he could find the seeds of sugarcane, maybe he could plant them in the Black Stone Collar, thus starting the great cause of sugar production. And sugar, a miraculous product, can not only create high profits, but also derive too many delicacies.

Of course, this is just an assumption at this point. At present, the most important thing is to solve the long-term preservation of fruits in the absence of sugar, and Qin Song naturally thinks of the famous - pasteurization!

Pasteurization was first invented by the Frenchman Pasteur for milk preservation, and after the improvement of later generations, it can also be used in the sterilization and preservation of fruit beer, wine and juice.

The main culprits of the spoilage of milk, fruit beer, wine and fruit juice are actually a variety of microorganisms in the air, such as lactobacilli.

The solution is simple, remove the slag filter, sterilize it by pasteurization, and then vacuum seal it with a glass bottle and cork, and it can be stored for a long time.

As for pasteurization, it is heated in warm water at about 50-60 degrees for half an hour, which can kill most harmful bacteria while maintaining the original flavor and greatly extending the storage period.

Pasteurization is suitable for the preservation of milk, wine, fruit beer, and fruit juice, which is definitely a black technology ahead of its time in the Middle Ages, when knowledge was scarce!

The point is that the technology is not complicated, and it can be achieved in the rudimentary conditions of the Middle Ages, as long as the process is properly designed. Even in this era, there are no strict temperature controls, glass bottles and vacuuming technology, but as long as the oak barrels are properly sealed, even if the freshness effect is poor, the shelf life is beyond human imagination.

When the fleet was on a long voyage, buying a few barrels of juice and regularly supplementing the sailors with vitamins could easily solve the problem of scurvy.

This is the ultimate antidote to scurvy!

Of course, there are many ways to deal with scurvy, and there are simpler versions, such as boiling lemons, which can also be stored for a long time. However, because it is too simple and the threshold is too low, it is easy to be imitated by others and cannot create enough economic benefits.

Starting with fruit juice, sugarcane as a strategic goal, with refined sugar, you can smoothly make canned fruits, preserved fruits, candies, etc., which can not only create considerable profits, but also provide a variety of desserts for the lovely witches in the future.

Imagine a group of lovely and beautiful witches sitting around on a sunny and sunny afternoon, in a colorful garden filled with the smell of flowers, eating delicious desserts and drinking freshly squeezed juices, and then singing the praises of the great gods and giving them gifts from heaven.

The crowd is full of flowers, laughter, flowers, warmth and love, what a picture to look forward to!