Before the sun had risen, Charles got up.

Last night, the two returned to Corn City in the glow of fireflies on the grassland. Originally, Charles wanted to go back to the hotel to stay, but the front desk said that the caravan had not prepared a room for him.

Without waking up Momiji, who was pretending to be asleep, he went downstairs with his backpack after getting dressed with his own hands and feet.

Aunt Coriander had already gotten up and finished her daily morning divination. When Charles put on a mask and pushed open the door and walked out of the house, Aunt Coriander was writing on the blackboard by the door about the weather in the northern part of the prairie every day.

Aunt Coriander didn't say much to Charles, just shoved a croissant-scented bag into his hand and told him to come home early next year.

Under the watchful eye of coriander and the autumn leaves behind the second-floor window, Charles left Lavender Street.

The road on the steppe is flat and straight. Well-fed, well-fed, well-recuperated, the horses pulled the wagons at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour.

This speed is based on a combination of road conditions, horsepower and distance, so that the runner will not be harmed and will not be able to reach the next stop.

If it had been quicker, Aubrey, who had a careful budget for the use of horses, would not have agreed, nor would Charles, who had run behind the convoy.

From the day she left Corn City, Elizabeth, who was busy with the caravan, began to educate Charles.

No matter what career Charles pursues in the future, a strong physique is a must.

Not to mention, even if he is a magician, if he is tired and out of breath after walking in the field for half a day, all that awaits him is the fate of being abandoned.

The most important thing is that the body is not strong enough, and when you run away, you will be one step slower, then you will directly receive the bento. There is no resurrection magic in this world, and if you die, you are really dead.

So, every morning, Charles has to run behind the convoy for half an hour to move his body.

When Elizabeth, who was following behind, felt that Charles had enough movement, she stepped forward and lifted his belt to lift him on horseback, and then caught up with the convoy.

Charles' morning class after the exercise was to learn Elven language, because Elizabeth had all the knowledge of the elven race, and it was extremely difficult to learn Elven language if she didn't know it.

However, this teaching task was contracted by Halkala.

On that day, the two of them had reached an agreement on the distribution of the two magic crystals that "bought" Halkala, and the two of them were all cut in half, and then everyone was half a fire type and half a water type magic crystal.

Once Charles has mastered the Elvish language, Elizabeth will help Harkala inscribe a high-level magic circle on her magic crystal.

Charles had to sigh that those guys with gold fingers were really rich, and they could take out two magic crystals worth thousands of gold coins by gritting their teeth, while he only picked up a magic core worth one or two gold coins.

After hearing that the guy had all his property confiscated, the administrator of Corn City almost dislocated his jaw with laughter.

Then Charles remembered his own enemy again, this product was more generous, and the storage ring could be given away, and the idea of killing him a little more before killing him was not clear.

Fortunately, there is a mask in the way, otherwise Halkala would definitely have a brain crash if he found out that Charles was distracted.

Halkala, who is usually a little confused, is still quite stern after getting serious.

Now Charles is learning the number words of the Elvish. Although the travelers brought Arabic numerals, in official documents and bills, the numerical words played a role similar to the "capitalized amount" in the previous life.

Fortunately, the numbers in Elvish were similar to English rather than French, and Charles thought he would be proficient in two days.

In the afternoon, Charles began to learn to ride horses.

When Elizabeth was in Corn City, she bought him a little mare that was just ready to ride, and equipped it with harness.

Every day after the noon break, Charles rode the pony he named Ziyue.

While on the way, Elizabeth would test the content of his morning lecture in Halkala.

“1096”

“894”

“7355608”

“9876547210.33”

Every time Elizabeth reported a number, Charles immediately said it in Elven language.

Just over an hour before sunset, the convoy leaves the road and sets up camp on the grassland.

After the coachman had formed a circle of twenty wagons, he gathered all the horses in the center of the formation, and the horses of the convoy were tied to the outside of the horses. If necessary, the convoy will take the initiative to launch a counter-charge.

Unless some powerful monster is coming, the average wolf pack on the grassland will not hold out longer than the slime in front of the cavalry led by the elves.

If there is no stream or river nearby, the convoy will find a place outside the car formation where the grass is thick and blow a well out. Then they would blow up two more craters further downwind of the convoy and then set up a curtain to use as a toilet.

The water element is a magical element that exhibits the properties of water, not water molecules. In the short term, it can be used as boiling water, such as putting out a fire, brushing a pot, or drowning an animal, but it cannot be used for drinking.

The water element generally coexists with water – whether liquid or vapour – so the mage rubs water only by gathering water elements to collect water vapor in the air. They don't produce water, they're just porters of water.

Whenever the convoy was settled, Charles began to help Donio prepare the daily food.

The coachmen take turns helping Donio prepare dinner each day.

"A day's worth of oats, a day's worth of salt, a day's worth of salt. Charles shouted the ingredients for tonight's dinner as he scribbled them on parchment.

For the sake of calculation, all kinds of ingredients are packed in one day's amount when they are loaded.

Charles pretended to use his father's wisdom to make a table with the types of ingredients on the table and the dates as the columns, and counted the number of servings consumed every day, and drew one ❌ if it was not consumed, and then added up at the end of the month.

When he took the form and asked Aubrey for instructions, Aubrey said I don't care what you write, just match the totals at the end of the month.

Charles gave a thumbs up to Aubrey in his heart, which he did in his previous life as a project manager. Then in the first month, a leader relative in charge of material procurement who was in charge of material procurement with financial chaos and bookkeeping confusion was successfully kicked out of the project department.

Just as everyone was about to move the ingredients to the pot, a female elf in the escort came over with two ox legs.

There are four elves in the convoy, Horatio, George, Galatea, and Penelope. Horatio and George are cousins, and Galatia and Penelope are twin sisters. All four of them had come to Elizabeth's aid.

It was Penelope who came with the corbel, and she said to Donio: "I have divided all the extra food I got today, just give me more meat later." ”

If the convoy can catch the prey while patrolling around, it means that everyone can have extra food in the evening. It is clear that Penelope had hunted a bison today, and because it was inconvenient to carry, he could use other parts of the bison's body.

Although the prey caught by the guards belongs to themselves, they can eat it by themselves, and they can throw it away if they can't finish eating, but everyone divides the prey they catch after they keep a little bit of it.

Donio looked at the two legs and said, "No problem." You can also drink beef bone broth tomorrow morning. It's a good idea to get some wild vegetables back tomorrow when you're on patrol. ”

The staple of the caravan for dinner each day was brown bread or oatmeal porridge, or multigrain porridge such as corn, depending on what was on board the cart.

When eating brown bread, a large pot of soup is cooked, and the soup is mainly a variety of seasonal wild vegetables or wild fruits. Vegetables are difficult to preserve for a long time, so caravans basically pick and eat them on the same day in the wild. Generally speaking, soup is made only when there are enough wild vegetables.

Porridge and soup are usually filled with pieces of salted meat. Every day, Donio cuts a certain amount of salted meat into pieces of meat of the same size, and he also has the trick of scooping the same amount of meat into everyone's bowl. This is what Aubrey asked him to be in charge of the diet, which minimizes the conflicts caused by the diet in the team.

The drivers who helped on their shifts had already set up two stoves and were now pouring water into the pots.

One cooktop is for cooking, and one cooktop is for boiling water.

It is forbidden to drink raw water and eat raw meat in the wild, which is the basic common sense of survival in the wild. Each person in the caravan had one or several kettles on the cart, and every evening there was a leftover of fresh, cold boiled water. In the whole caravan, only the horses drank the raw water.

The pot for cooking and boiling water wasn't as big as the pot for making potions that day, and Charles would have to curl up if he wanted to go in.

These pots are usually kept in Aubrey's storage ring, and they are taken out when needed.

In this world, magic is easy to learn but difficult to master, and basically an adult can throw a small fireball or two, a water ball, or make a gust of wind.

Some of the drivers threw fireballs into the firewood to make a fire, and some threw fireballs into the pot to make the water heat up faster.

After the boiling water boils for a few minutes, someone throws a puck into it to cool it down. After the crowd filled a kettle, they continued to boil another pot.

The two kitchen knives in Tonyo's hand flew up and down, and the meat on the salted meat strips and beef shank was quickly cut into even small pieces by him.

By the time the others set up their tents, the sun had already set, and the smell of oatmeal wafted over the convoy camp.

The fragrance drifted into the distance with the wind on the grassland. After a while, several wolf howls came from afar.

Galatea, who was sitting across from Charles, put down the bowl in her hand with a blank face, and then picked up the longbow that was placed beside her.

She looked up at the direction and speed of the smoke rising from the stove where the water was boiling, and then shot several arrows into the sky.

In a moment, the wolf howl in the distance came to an abrupt end.

Charles looked at Galatea with bright eyes, this hand was too handsome to hear the sound and look at the strike.

Noticing Charles' gaze, Galatea asked him, "Do you want to learn?"

Charles immediately said, "Yes!"

Galatea said, "Then you'll have to learn math, physics, and wind magic." ”