Chapter 63: Dinner in the Mountains
Charles wanted to cry and say to himself that fairy tales are all lies.
In the first chapter of the famous novel "The Elf Princess, the Evil Dragon and the Great Sage", the princess is captured by the evil dragon, and then the hero bravely defeats the dragon and rescues the princess, and wins the princess's heart.
However, Charles learned from the real story told by the person involved that there was no place for the story other than the location of the crime.
Once upon a time, a group of three adventurers ventured into the Icecrown Mountains, only to encounter a once-in-a-century blizzard.
The three people trapped in the cave decided to go out in search of food when they were about to run out of food. They let their teammates, who grew up in the south and were afraid of the cold, stay, while the other two went out foraging.
Half a day later, the two who had gone out foraging for food dragged back a newly-grown blue dragon the size of a calf that had been knocked unconscious.
In the end, it was the princess who saved the dragon from the future Great Sage and the future Demon Emperor.
"Did you know that during the time we were in the cave, your ancestors and the two of them always called me 'Reserve Grain', and only the eldest sister called me by my name. "If I hadn't helped them find a hibernating snow bear, I would have been eaten by the two of them." ”
Hundreds of years have passed, and Ms. Leif naturally won't trouble Charles anymore, and the grudge has been settled back then. She is not the protagonist of the eighteenth generation of your family if you glare at me in the novel, she can't do such a tasteless thing.
After some conversation, she began to admire this crippled little guy who did not wait and was determined to be self-reliant and revenge.
At this time, Madame Lev invited Charles and Elizabeth to dinner in a box filled with the rich scent.
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"Here, eat another piece of meat from the skirt of the pincer-billed turtle. Ms. Leif took a piece of steaming meat from the hot pot and put it in Charles's bowl.
Although eating with knives and forks is the mainstream in this world, many people have also accepted the chopsticks brought by the brave people who crossed over. In addition to the local tyrants who use chopsticks when eating local Japanese food, adventurers who venture out will also break two branches to use as chopsticks when needed.
At the same time, hot pot also spread to this world.
There are three types of hot pot, the first is the ready-to-eat side stove, the second is to put all the ingredients into the pot and cook together, and the charcoal fire plays a role in keeping warm, similar to a large pot dish, and the third is in between, where the meat is cooked in a pot first, and then the vegetables are blanched after eating the meat dishes.
Most of the second kind of hot pot brought and passed down by the traversers is the second kind of hot pot, after all, the parasites and bacteria in this world are a bit powerful, and it is easy to get sick if it is not cooked enough.
And on the cold hilltop, it's best to have a hot pot at night.
No wonder Elizabeth hadn't eaten much all day today, and used her magic to drive the ship to increase her consumption, so she was waiting for tonight's meal.
Charles put the skirt of the pincer-billed turtle in his mouth, and a soft, juicy, melt-in-your-mouth sensation exploded in his mouth.
This is the first time he has eaten seafood since he came to this world, and the seafood he has eaten before far from the sea is only dried vegetables such as kelp, not even shrimp skin and salted fish.
Now in front of him sat a large pot of steaming seafood hot pot on the fire.
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In the middle of the hot pot are the heads of some kind of marine fish, surrounded by the claws of red and dark red sea crabs, and then outward are a circle of shells with meat and a circle of shrimp, and on the outermost side are two circles of various slices of sliced meat. Underneath the meat is a variety of fresh vegetables from the forest, and the soup is made from some kind of seaweed and the bones of large fish, without too many sauces and spices.
Charles had just finished eating the skirt of the pincer-billed turtle when a crab claw appeared in his bowl.
The crab claw was broken in half, and Charles only needed to fork out the snow-white crab meat inside with a fork to eat.
"The claws of the grumpy crab are a little hard, I opened them for you. Lady Leif said to Charles, "In the future, if you encounter a live grumpy crab, you'd better stay away, as they will actively attack creatures that enter their territory, unless you can break their shells with a single blow." ”
After eating the delicious and delicate crab meat, Charles tapped the crab shell with the fork in his hand, and the fork made a crisp and loud sound when it collided with the crab shell.
"The shells of the crabs and turtles in the sea are very hard, and they are often used by some adventurers as temporary armor. "Now we're only eating juvenile grumpy crabs, and adult grumpy crabs are the size of a table. ”
Charles looked at the two-meter-diameter dining table in front of him, and marked this delicious animal with a dangerous mark in his heart.
"Aunt Lef," Charles asked, eating an oyster-like shell, "how did you get this seafood here?
Lady Leif put a piece of fish in Charles' bowl and said, "Even if Auntie had money, she wouldn't have that much money to transport seafood from all over the world by teleporting magic. For example, the meat of this vegetable animal came from a farm in the permafrost sea in the north of the mainland, and just coming from there to the mountains was enough to exhaust the miser. And mastering teleportation magic depends on talent, and as far as I know, the person who can use teleportation magic to run long distances is the miser. I can't afford to hire that guy. ”
"Who's that person?" Charles asked curiously, as it seemed that Aunt Leif knew a master of the subject.
"He is the current Demon King Nicholas II, and his son may be able to do the same. "Not to mention the guy who slammed the door." Come, try the head of this deep-sea electric eel again, the meat in the area where its head is discharged is delicious. ”
Charles found this to be a bit informative, and it seems that the relationship between dragons and demons is not ordinary.
Ms. Leif first put the head of an electric eel in her bowl, then scooped a piece of meat from the top of her head and put it in Charles's bowl.
She continued: "We have a special logistics company under the consortium, and the young men in it are very suitable for long journeys, but the fees are very high. ”
At this time, Charles's mind conjured up the image of a dragon with huge wings carrying a large basket of seafood in the air.
Charles doesn't have much appetite right now, and every seafood in the hot pot is full after eating it once. After eating, he held a bowl of soup and watched Elizabeth and Leff, who had been patronizing and eating without speaking, enter the battle mode, and the chopsticks that they both stretched out to the hot pot appeared afterimage.