Chapter 23: Muli Mucheng Market
How did towns evolve naturally?
It is because the people of all the villages within a radius of 100 miles are concentrated in a place where the distance, transportation, and environment are suitable for trading and exchange, and over time, a market is naturally formed, and then it becomes a town. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 When people gather, politics arises, and when they become political, they become city-states. With the evolution of centralized government in history, towns are the military and political centers of a region. There is no natural town to be artificially set up, and this artificial setting is often military.
Multiple towns form a county and a state, and generally there are from one to thirty depending on the traffic situation. And multiple counties will form a sovereign kingdom. This is what Yu Youzi learned from a common sense book, the Karelian Kingdom is composed of three counties and two hundred and seventy towns.
Muli Wood City is the main traffic point of this area, leaning on the Carelli Crystal Mountains, next to several famous forests, whether it is a passing traveler, adventurers or villagers, how to walk through Muli Wood City. In other words, it is a natural town.
It's a pity that Halkin didn't provide books on the history of the kingdom, and Panxi gave most of the magic books with great learning and research value, and the most regrettable thing was that he only got two of the magic books in the pile, and he memorized them all after reading them.
In short, Yu Youzi feels that the development model here is still very different from that on the earth, and it looks like a gorgeous and elegant charm in the Victorian period, but there is a roughness of feudal divisions of princes, swords, bows and horses in his bones.
Along the way, looking east and west, looking up at the sun from time to time, Yu Youzi was very happy to observe the local aborigines, natural geography, astronomical environment, and the well-dressed passers-by around were also very happy to observe a dirt bun looking up and down in a ragged straw sandal.
Out of the municipal street, across three blocks, the stone road slightly downhill, it seems that in the mountainous area, the flat land found in Muli Mucheng is also a little undulating.
The surrounding Duluo buildings are no longer the atmospheric rules of the government office building, the appearance is square, some buildings have arcs, some are different in height, piecing together a three-dimensional pattern, and some make oblique angles to form a diamond shape......
It seems that no matter what the world is, it is all about individuality, and of course, these individual buildings are obviously private residences. These blocks are supposed to be the regal districts, but the Scarlet Orchid Mansion that Lee Fulton told himself is not here, it is still ahead.
As I walked, the buildings on the side of the road changed, and they were no longer all Dulo style buildings, they were all like single-family buildings, like the Dulo houses that had been cut down on three sides and only left the front floor, one after another, with stone roads and iron street lamps, giving people the feeling of throwing a chivalrous magician to London in the eighteenth century.
Yu Youzi curiously touched the lamp pole, which looked like it was made of black metal, but it was actually painted hardwood.
The house gradually became low, and after another intersection, there appeared a wooden shed in front of me, several main beams supporting the wooden roof, no walls, no doors, no railings, and a road in the middle of the shed that was large enough for two people to walk side by side, and on both sides were small stalls selling all kinds of things, which were crowded and densely packed with no end in sight.
Yu Youzi was instantly attracted to attention, this should be the folk market in Muli Mu City, how can you not go shopping when traveling from another world? So he randomly chose one of the five roads and walked in with the flow of people.
Now the time is just over the early morning, the crowd that poured in is mostly vendors, only to see the outermost stall is selling cooked food, similar to the roadside premature stalls on the earth, Yu Youzi walked slowly, saw a lot of cooked food stall owners, three or two people found a good position, and unloaded the masonry from the trailer to build a half-person high stone stove, some stoves are capped, and some are not sealed, there are large pots, there are flat plates, all kinds, after a while, baking, frying, frying, pan frying, the aroma of cooking floats up.
Except for the dry soup and soup, Yu Youzi only recognized the kind of pasta wrapped in vegetables that the guards gave him for dinner, and stopped in front of a stall to watch them cook. It turns out that the main ingredient of these three foods is a long, narrow grain, which is either ground into flour or placed in this way.
"Dry" is to use potatoes and sweet potatoes like plant tubers to roll in a small pot with batter, take it out and put it on a plate to dry for a while, and then put it in the top stove to bake.
"Soup" is to pour grain grains into a kind of instrument, some are made of stone and some are iron, and the grain is long and narrow, poured from the small hole at the top of the instrument, and then the handle at the top of the instrument is shaken by man, and there is a fine grain that has been ground from below, a bit like grinding flour, but not grinding into powder. There are also stall owners who come with the already minced grain, and they pour the broken grain directly into a large pot, and then add various side dishes and condiments to start boiling the porridge.
Yu Youzi thought to himself, it seems that this kind of grain should be the staple food of the Karelian Kingdom, this kind of large-grain millet is much larger than the rice and wheat on the earth, and even longer than corn, no wonder it is not directly boiled porridge, but also crushed and processed.
As for the kind of pasta wrapped in vegetables, it is made of dough, which is generally wrapped in vegetable leaves, and can be baked with diced meat according to customer requirements, and it is a high-end food with meat.
The stall owner saw Yu Youzi standing in his stall and looking around, and hurriedly greeted him, boasting about his craftsmanship and wanting to sell a copy.
Yu Youzi didn't buy him with a smile, but continued to move on, he wanted to try some other new and strange food.
After two more steps, I saw a stall owner uncle wrapping the side vegetables in the dough and going into the pot, the technique was very fast and skillful, it seemed that he had been doing this line for a long time, only to see him pick up the dough from the big dough with one hand and roll it over and roll the fresh vegetables wrapped in the other hand, and the vegetable dough rolled back and forth between the two hands and suddenly became a small piece of noodles, and then the hand slipped into the hot water pot on the side.
And next to the kettle there is an iron plate stove, is barbecuing animal meat slices, the uncle next a few pieces of noodles, just turn the meat slices from time to time brush the oil, sprinkle some spices, the oil is fragrant and fragrant A few pieces of meat will be roasted after a while, the color is fresh and tender, and the uncle is pulled aside with a spatula.
The pieces of dough rolled up with the boiling water, and the uncle saw that the heat was almost over, so he scooped it up, sifted enough and poured it into a large wooden bowl, turned five pieces of meat to cover the noodles with a spatula, picked up a few fresh vegetable leaves and covered them on the other side, and handed them to a sister-in-law on the side, and she shouted: "Come on! Come on! Authentic Three Ways Forest Covering Meat Method! Come on!"
While shouting loudly, he put the large bowl in his hand in front of a diner and touched the coins that the diner had thrown on the table. The young diner, who had been wearing a sweat stain that had dried up repeatedly for an unknown number of times, looked at the big bowl in front of him with bright eyes, rubbed his hands, picked up a small jar from the wooden plate where various items were placed in the center of the table, and sprinkled it into the bowl.
After sprinkling the salt, the sweat-stained young man picked out two of the special tableware forks and spoons and knives and spoons from the wooden plate, and ate his own food with a happy face.
Yu Youzi saw that he was eating very well, smacked his lips, touched the money bag he snatched from the rebels, and decided to eat this "meat covering method" for breakfast.
Walking into this stall with three tables and eight small stools, Yu Youzi sat down next to the sweat-stained young man, because the other tables were full, and there was a place here.
"Gaigai, Fafa?" When the sister-in-law saw that a guest was sitting down, she immediately yelled happily at Yu Youzi.
Yu Youzi didn't know why, he didn't know how to answer, but he just learned to sweat and the young man took out three iron coins from his money bag and put them on the table.
The sister-in-law glanced at it, then turned her head and yelled at the stall owner's uncle: "Cover a bowl!"
The people in the market are noisy, and the stall owner's uncle is in front of the boiling pot and frying board, and it is true that only by roaring can the other party be heard.
While waiting for the meal, Yu Youzi played with the coins on the table, scratched on the wooden tabletop, feeling greasy and greasy, it seems that it has been a dining table for many years, and the young man who learned to sweat picked out the tableware from the wooden plate, which was also oily and slippery, and the wood was dyed oily black due to long-term use.
The ground of the market, which is used as a delicatessen area, is also black, and it is infected by the mixing of fuels such as firewood and charcoal with vegetable soup and oil, and over time, the stone floor here will become this dirty and greasy appearance forever.
Not to mention the cooking methods and the clean ingredients, the environmental conditions here alone have to be banned by the health authorities on the planet. For example, at this meat stall, the bags of jet-black coal-fired blocks are next to the wooden barrels of dough. On the other side, the bucket of the dishwashing spoon was bubbling with a strange dirty color, and the sister-in-law soaked the bowls and spoons that the diners had eaten into the bucket, and then rubbed them with a bamboo and wooden skewer bowl, even if they were washed, they were put aside and stacked for later use......
It's an absolute disaster for cleanliness addicts.
Fortunately, Yu Youzi is proficient in psychology, and he just hinted to himself that this place was actually as clean as heaven, and he did the same when he was in the cell of the security center.
"You eat so deliciously. Yu Youzi couldn't help but say to the sweat-stained young man who was eating: "I just came in because you ate well." ”
The sweat-stained young man who swallowed two pieces of noodles in a row, and carefully pulled the meat slices aside as if he was about to save them for the last to enjoy, heard the words of the black-haired and ragged young man opposite, raised his head and smiled, and said, "This boss's method of covering meat is not said! I have to save up some bits and pieces to eat here once a month!"
"Oh! I'd like to try it even more when you say that!"
"Little brother, you seem to be a local when you hear your accent, but why haven't I seen you in more than ten years in town?"
"I'm actually here for the first time. ”
"The first time you eat covered meat?"
Yu Youzi nodded.
The sweat-stained young man became excited, and enthusiastically introduced his favorite food: "Let me tell you, you are absolutely worth spending three carleys! Don't be greedy for that little cheapness, only spend one carley light point method." ”
Then he leaned over with a mysterious face and said, "Actually, the most fragrant way to eat the meat is like this."
As he spoke, he moved flexibly in the bowl with a spoonful in one hand, and wrapped three pieces of noodles and one fresh vegetable with a slice of meat: "Look!"
The food is sent into the mouth, and the bottom half of the bite is bite, and the mouth is full of oil and happiness.
Yu Youzi swallowed his saliva, but unfortunately he couldn't taste it. Although he had anticipated this situation in his xk plan, and left a trail to slowly adapt to the world's ecosystem food chain after arriving at the target world, it also takes time to adapt, and he only stayed for a day, and he began to flee for his life after a while after containing the seeds of Aisha's tea...... I really want to taste the taste of this world, this is one of the meanings of being human, a perceptual experience that other dimensional forms cannot understand.
"Come on! Cover the meat method! Come on!"
With the shouting, Yu Youzi let go of the coins in his hand, and the sister-in-law took them away, and at the same time put the same large sea wooden bowl as the sweat-stained young man in front of Yu Youzi.
Yu Youzi first secretly put his hands under the table, used a water-making technique to wash his hands and wash the dishes, and then began to enjoy the steaming food that was completely delicious just by looking at the appearance, but found that he was not as skilled as the sweat-stained young man in using a spoon, not to mention the difficult technique of wrapping meat slices and rolls, it was very difficult to even fork and sandwich meat slices and noodles, and it was completely two difficulty levels to scoop soup and cut dry in Bark Village.
With a clap of his hands, Yu Youzi turned the spoon upside down and used the handle of the spoon as chopsticks! Although the handle is very short, flat and wide, it can barely be used. Sure enough, China's 5,000-year-old chopstick culture is broad and profound, and the two poles make it the same as the fingers, more than a spoon.
The sweat-stained young man was very amazed by this magical spoon-making technique, and he couldn't help but try to make the spoon upside down, but he couldn't use it well, so he had to give up.
After chatting for a while while eating, the sweat-stained young man ate first, asked for a glass of water to drink, and left to work.
It's a pity that Yu Youzi still can't taste the taste of this otherworldly species for the time being, but the chewiness he experiences with his teeth really makes him very happy.
After a while, the stall was full, Yu Youzi's table was already full, and the other two tables had already changed a wave of guests, and the sister-in-law's "Come on!" shouted non-stop. There are so many diners that they sit on the stall owner's cart.
Seeing that this kind of business was booming, Yu Youzi didn't deliberately eat slowly, adapted to the species and tasted something, and after eating, he got up and left and continued to visit the market.