Chapter 62: Snacks on the Road
On the afternoon of November 30, 3124, a few kilometers south of the Saint-Maurice Mountains, a horse-drawn carriage was driving down a country road. By this time, the snow had almost melted, and the road paved with gravel and cinders was very smooth, and there was no bump in the carriage on the road.
Thanks to the good road conditions, Harold was in the driver's seat of the carriage and could be distracted from other things.
Harold pored over the map of the St. Remos Mountains in the carriage, and Edith sat next to him, fiddling with the Magic Crystal to message Lilina.
Early this morning, Mr. Harold Vasa, who was about to set off in a carriage, met Edith as soon as he went out, and insisted on going with him, but Harold had no choice but to take her with him.
"Why didn't Lilina come? If there was something new, she would run faster than anyone else! ”
Edith smiled, "Lily, she's been very busy lately, preparing for the winter banquet in two weeks' time. We just told her about going to St. Maurice's Snow Mountain. What, you're really addicted to taking advantage of Lily? ”
"How is that possible? Just ask. Harold said.
After a while, perhaps because the work of studying the map was too boring, he looked at the map and chatted with Edith in the seat next to him.
Harold carefully recounted the scenery and history of the Saint-Maurice Snow-capped Mountain, which took its name from the famous monastery that practiced in ancient times, and later the monastery called "Saint-Maurice Abbey" gradually disappeared into the long river of time, but the name remained, and became the name of this snow-capped mountain.
"The area of this snow-capped mountain is not small, the peak is as high as more than 5,000 meters above sea level, and there are hidden caves in the snow-capped mountains that lead to underground lava. And if you climb more than 4,000 meters and look to the west, you can overlook the ocean in the west. It is rumored that both sunrise and sunset are famous for the grand scenery of the mainland. ”
Maybe he couldn't find anything to talk about, so he started talking non-stop around the snow-capped mountain scenery.
At first, Edith could discuss with him, but then it became Harold talking non-stop, and Edith nodded or responded, "Hmm." "That's right." "You're right." Something like that.
"Maybe that's the difference between a 'cat' at home and in the wild?" Through the observation of these two short expeditions, Edith mentally made a little summary of Harold's different behaviors in different environments.
"In a crowded city, he behaves very lazily, his face is often cold, and his mouth often says hopeless words. In the wild, he became lively, but a little talkative. That's pretty good.... It's cute!! I haven't noticed that this guy still has such a side. ”
Thinking so, Edith pulled out an oval-shaped, translucent snack from the insulated food box on her thigh, which was very cute and white.
She stuffed the dim sum into her mouth, and bit it gently, and in an instant, the glutinous rice skin of this dim sum was wrapped around the lychee that had been removed from the kernel, and the sweetness of the lychee and the soft glutinous rice skin of the dim sum filled the mouth, and the sweetness of the dim sum seemed to reach the heart.
"However, climbing the St. Maurice Snow Mountain to see the beautiful scenery is a risk, and there are countless magical beasts hidden in the snowy mountains that are not found on the plains, such as the 'Alpine Purple Haired Tiger', which is even more dangerous. It is said that mountaineers often see their predecessors gnawed to pieces by purple-haired tigers on the road, and leftover human offal that has been preserved by the cold climate of the mountains....."
"Hey, what's the name of this snack?" Edith was a little disgusted, and she quickly elbowed Harold and interrupted him.
".........," Harold stunned. Didn't you listen to me at all? ”
"Oh, don't say anything about alpine tigers eating people! I want to ask you, what is the name of this kind of dim sum? ”
Harold pursed his lips and said, "Crystal steamed buns." Last night, when I was preparing rations for the journey, I found that there were still some lychees in the cold storage that I hadn't finished eating, so I used them as fillings. ”
"Hmph, your hands are really more clever than girls, why didn't you notice it before. Tell me honestly, did you deliberately hide it in front of us? ”
"Blame me? When we met before, you wanted to tear me alive. Blame me for deliberately hiding my skills and not telling you. Harold rolled his eyes.
Edith blushed, and she said angrily, "What a grudge! Stingy ghost man, stupid cat man. ”
"Hey, what the hell is a stupid cat?" Harold has a black line.
"Cats hold grudges! The dumber the cat, the more vindictive, that's what Lily told me. Edith is very reasonable, and it seems that there is a wealth of theoretical support behind it.
Harold knew very well that "rich theoretical support" was actually nonsense, and he responded to this nonsense in the simplest way, and ignored her with a cold face.
"Uh, angry?"
"Nope!"
"It's clear that I'm angry."
Harold was silent, silent.
Edith rolled her eyes, she took out another piece of snack from the insulated food box, shook it in her hand, and said, "What is this called?" ”
“.......”
"Let's talk about it."
"Crystal osmanthus cake."
"Good name! You're pretty good at naming it! ”
Harold smiled slightly, but did not explain, after all, these pastries already had names, and he did not plan to come up with a new name for himself.
Edith saw the corners of Harold's mouth tilt up slightly, and she calmed down.
Although Harold always called Edith a silly girl, she was actually quite smart as an honor student in the academy. She had already seen that the styles of the dim sum in this food box were very different, and it was unlikely that all of these dim sum were thought up by Harold alone, and it was estimated that many of them were food cultures learned from regions that she did not know. Men also need to be coaxed, girls will pretend to be innocent at certain times and on certain occasions and at certain times, and change their ways to make him happy.
"What about this?" Edith took out another square snack with four different colors of fillings, she stuffed it into her mouth and took a bite, and found that the fillings were shiitake mushrooms, ham, egg whites and egg yolks, and the four fillings were mixed in her mouth.
"Four happy dumplings."
Edith swallowed the snack and pulled out a long strip of white snack from the food box.
"Well, this one is called Cloud Cake."
"It's as beautiful as a cloud, and it's very appropriate." Edith's pink lips latched on the gauzy snack and ate it little by little.
"Well, these are on the sweet side, and you'll get tired of eating too much, try this." Harold said, grabbing a box from the luggage pile at the back of the carriage and stuffing it into Edith.
"What is this? It doesn't look very tasty. ”
Edith opened the box, and she had some doubts.
"Eh, try it yourself and you'll know." Harold smiled mysteriously.
Edith pulled out a black rod from the box, and she bit it lightly with doubts, and the doubts in her heart were instantly swept away.
"As for this, it's called Spicy Strips. I made it with beef, how does it taste? This time, before Edith could ask, Harold said his name.
"Delicious!" Edith gave a brief comment, and she immediately finished the spicy strips in her hand, and then took out a few and chewed them in one go.
"Why are you short of money, if you make these snacks to sell, you won't be short of money." Edith asked, chewing, a little slurred.
Harold smiled and shook his head, he replied quite seriously: "The land and rent in the academy town are so expensive, and the merchants don't know how to make this kind of thing, they have more time and experience than me, and they have enough experience to do this. Do you think it's as easy as telling some business stories in the storybook, and you can continue to make money by taking something new? ”
"Let's see that's not the main thing."
"Huh?" Harold frowned.
"The main thing is that you are lazy!"
"Humph! The sheep of the grassland eat grass diligently every day, and the lions on the grassland sleep when they are full of meat. If I want to make money with this stuff, I have to find an agent who has the time to work, the experience, and the motivation. ”
"You have so many reasons! What if you can't touch it? ”
"If you can't touch it, don't do it! That's a lot, eat yours. ”
"You're qualified to talk a lot, aren't you?"
Harold said seriously: "For example, looking for a partner is like going on a blind date, and you can't be in a hurry. Maybe they saw the right eye that time, hit it off, and the adulterous love became hot. Is that something I can decide? It's a two-way street! ”
"Hahaha." Edith was stunned for a moment, and immediately burst out laughing.
The two of them talked and laughed all the way, and the carriage kept moving, and now they could see the town at the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and they could also see the sheep grazing leisurely on the meadow.