Chapter 844: Food
Ji Ran looked at the pieces of words on the ground, as if she was pouring out the pain of the dark world, and when Ma Lulian @ Kandes was also writing this text, she couldn't help but burst into tears, as if she had endless pain in her heart.
Ji Ran didn't know what words to use to comfort her, as if no words were enough to calm Ma Lulian's inner pain.
"The age of the Holy King is gone, and we will live in a dark world." After Ma Lulian wrote the last paragraph, she was also silent.
Ji Ran didn't expect that in a landlord's manor, he would meet such a literate serf, but the sad thing is that among so many serfs, she is the only one who is literate, and most of the other serfs are illiterate, purely illiterate, and don't know a word.
Maybe this is Ma Lulian's luck, she was born in the era of the Holy King, in that beautiful era, women can also read, and they can also comment, so Ma Lulian has the ability to read and hyphenation, and in today's poor world, serfs will no longer have any rights.
"Stay in peace, maybe, this is your fate." Ma Lulian finally wrote a line of words and comforted Ji Ran.
Although Ji Ran was very reluctant, what could he do in the face of such a dilemma?
She wanted to be a bird in a cage, deprived of the sky and the white clouds.
Late at night, in the dark, damp room, there was a foul smell, which was the smell of sweat and the smell of wood and grass mixed with mold.
Some of them smelled bad, not much better than the conditions in the stable.
Fortunately, Ji Ran's body has the ability to purify itself, which is a special function that every elf person has.
As for why this function exists, no one seems to have studied it, and it has long been taken for granted.
Whether it is a human being or an elf, there is always a habitual inert thinking, that is, naively thinking that existence is reasonable, and there is no need to study what is reasonable, because it is reasonable, so there is no need to study the meaning of its existence.
And in the depths of Ji Ran's memory, it seems that there is a human called the earthlings, who will also study reasonable things, for example, why do apples fall down when they are ripe, but they don't fly into the sky?
If the water in the pot is boiled, the earthlings will even wonder what will happen to the water and water vapor in the pot if the spout is blocked.
These seemingly boring questions led to an extremely dramatic change in later generations, and the scientist who was smashed by an apple discovered the law of gravitation, which led to the invention of rockets and satellites by earthlings.
And the man who thought about the kettle of water, who later invented the steam engine, directly crossed mankind from feudal society to capitalist society, completely disintegrated the imperial system that had existed for thousands of years, and sent countless emperors to the guillotine.
Although I don't know whether these memories are true or false, Ji Ran's mind remembers them deeply, as familiar as if she still remembered Chinese characters.
Ji Ran thought about this kind of problem, the reason why the elf's body will self-purify may be due to a parasitic fungus on the elf's body, this parasitic bacterium is not harmful, but a beneficial symbiotic fungus.
In the elves' recipes, they rarely eat some big fish and meat, and most of them like to drink dew, eat some berry food, and occasionally eat some nuts.
The digestive system of the elves is not as developed as that of humans, and the saliva of the elves is pure, only playing a role in lubrication, and cannot provide any digestive enzymes, unlike human saliva, which has a rich variety of digestive enzymes, even in the mouth, it can break down starch into glucose and maltose.
Moreover, the digestive system in the gastric juice of the elves is not strong, and the types of digestive enzymes are far less than those of humans, so if the elves eat food indiscriminately like humans, they will eat bad stomachs.
There are a lot of foods that humans can eat, and once they enter the stomach of the elves, they may cause indigestion and cause stomach troubles.
So, the elves need the help of a fungus that can help with digestion.
And in the long natural evolution, there is indeed a fungus that has helped the elven race solve this problem.
These beneficial fungi can help the elves synthesize many digestive enzymes, help the elves digest food and absorb efficiently, and at the same time, this fungus is very dependent on oils, so once the elves eat the oily substances, they will be absorbed by the fungi immediately, therefore, the elves have a very low absorption rate of oils, because they are robbed of probiotics.
This also causes the elves to have very tight muscles and are usually very thin, because they don't get fat no matter how much they eat.
It is precisely because of the help of this probiotic that there will be no oil and sweating on the elven body, so the body also has the ability to purify itself.
Even if the elf doesn't take a bath for a long time, it won't smell bad.
In the early morning, before dawn, a shrill bell rang in the room, and the supervisor in charge of the nursing home had already pushed open the door with a leather whip.
Although the sun had not yet risen and the wind in the air was still cold, it was already time for the serfs to start working.
"Quick! ~Hurry up! ~You fools! ~Did Lord Hardeman raise you fools for nothing? Hurry up and get to work! ~ If anyone wants to be lazy, just ask me if the whip in my hand agrees? The overseer yelled at the serfs, and flicked the whip so hard that it made a terrifying pop in the air.
When the serfs heard the sound of the whip, they all got up and ran outside.
Regardless of whether there are men or women, even old people like Ma Lulian @ Conders, they have to go out to work with them.
Ji Ran reluctantly followed these serfs out, but when he walked to the door, he was pushed back by the overseer.
"You are not allowed to go out! ~" The overseer glared at Ji Ran angrily, although he couldn't understand his language, but from his expression, it could be seen that he didn't want Ji Ran to leave.
Ji Ran had no choice but to retreat, and a few serfs next to her glanced at her sympathetically, but they also left helplessly.
After all the serfs left, Ji Ran was locked in the room alone.
When the sun was on the third pole, the meal was delivered from outside.
Ji Ran originally thought that the meal would be very bad, maybe they would treat themselves like those serfs, and would give themselves some food similar to livestock feed, but when the food was brought in, Ji Ran was surprised to find that the food was actually not bad.
There is clean hot rice, egg and spinach soup, and secret sweet chicken thighs and fruits.
This kind of food is almost catching up with the food standard of the aristocracy, which makes Ji Ran very surprised.
"Is this for me?" Ji Ran looked at the maid who was delivering the meal and asked.
The maid seemed to be a little mute, and she didn't answer, just looked at her with her eyes, and made a few silent gestures, signaling Ji Ran to hurry up and eat.
(End of chapter)