In the middle of the originally empty hall appeared a potion table more than three meters long, in a semicircle, with four magic furnaces in the middle, and on the left were thousands of small test tubes and crystal bottles, which contained various potions, which seemed to be very few, but judging from the amount of potions that Sauron poured into the cauldron, these test tubes and bottles were also magic items with spatial expansion spells; On the right, there are half-palm-sized drawers with all kinds of materials.

Sauron boiled four potions at the same time, but his movements were not chaotic, the heat and timing of the ingredients were just right, and the skill was extremely skillful. Minna watched him with some fascination, thinking of his clumsiness and panic when he was making potions, and then thinking of Grandpa Sennet's constant walking away to do something else when he was boiling potions, and then occasionally missing the time to put the ingredients or forgetting what he was cooking...... Well, she admits that the grumpy potions master in front of her was better than the other in some way.

The potion was quickly ready, this time it was a little different from what she was used to drinking, it was quite a beautiful dark purple. Without saying a word, Sauron asked Minna to drink it, and she did, only to fall asleep ten seconds later.

When she woke up, it was already night, and Sauron hadn't left, or rather, he had returned, Xiao Tianjian had brought white bread and boiled water for dinner, and after she had eaten it, she fell asleep under the effect of a potion that tasted even more terrible.

When I woke up again, it was still night, but it was already a day. Minna had completely understood at this time that the Sauron Potions Master had actually deliberately let herself fall asleep, and she complained to her grandfather angrily, Xiao Tianjian frowned after hearing this: "There is such a thing?" That's too much, I'm going to talk to him. "He often goes back to his house to take care of affairs these days, sometimes he is not with his granddaughter, he only knows that she often falls asleep, and he originally thought that it was the normal effect of the potion, but he didn't expect that Sauron did it on purpose.

Minna watched her grandfather leave the room, glanced at the gray-black potion on the bedside table with some smugness, and thought: she shouldn't have to drink such a disgusting thing anymore, right?

However, it backfired, and when Xiao Tianjian returned to the room, he completely changed his attitude: "Xiao Mingna, for the sake of your body, put up with it for a few days for the time being, anyway, it's just sleeping." ”

Minna was deflated: "Why?!" Grandpa, I don't want to sleep in bed all the time! I'm not going to run around. ”

"But if your body stays still, the potion will work best. Okay, okay, good medicine is bitter, you just be obedient. Xiao Tianjian picked up the bottle of potion and handed it to Minna, she had to drink it with a bitter face. Xiao Tianjian smiled with satisfaction when he saw this: "Our Minna is so amazing!" I'll tell you, the house has been cleaned up, you have your own room, and when you're well, we'll go back to live, where the view is great, and we have our own little pier. ”

Minna was also very happy to hear this, but before she could say anything, she fell headlong on the pillow and fell asleep.

The days of waking up like this, eating, drinking, and falling asleep again lasted for seven days, and when Sauron announced that Minna was completely healed, she jumped on the bed a few times in excitement, jumped off the ground, and scurried around the room. She has been sleeping for the past few days, her bones are sore, and she can finally move freely: "I'm going to play, I'm going to go on an adventure, and I'm going to eat a lot of meat!" ”

"You can play whatever you like, and it's okay to eat whatever you want, but in two days, you have to come back here obediently and drink medicine for me." Sauron's cold words came, Minna suddenly stopped her feet and turned her head stiffly: "Why? Am I not better? ”

"Ask your old man." Sauron put away his wand and crystal vial, and nonchalantly dusted off his clothes from the dust that wasn't necessarily there, the slightly raised curvature of his mouth suggesting that he was in a rather happy mood right now.

Minna turned to her grandfather, and the epic hero coughed lightly twice, putting on a gentle smile: "Little Minna, you see, you are still young, and you have not undergone any systematic training, so your body is not strong enough, and your ability to withstand diseases, poisons and the like is very poor, grandpa has thought about it, and you should find a way to improve your physique." Master Sauron is very enthusiastic and willing to help, it only takes a month, you will no longer get sick at every turn, those ordinary poisons will no longer be able to hurt you, and your body will be stronger, and it will be easier to learn swordsmanship, which is actually very beneficial, right? ”

It sounded like that, but Minna wanted to back off at the thought of those terrible-tasting potions, "Grandpa, I don't want to drink something so bad......"

"But after this month, you won't have to drink it anymore, besides, this potion won't be very difficult to drink, I've already asked Master Sauron."

Minna thought for a moment, secretly glanced at the potions master with a cold face, and whispered to her grandfather, "Does it have to be that person?" Is it good to find someone else? And it's a long month......"

Xiao Tianjian glanced at Sauron, and also lowered his voice: "I don't want to either, but this kind of potion is very complicated to prepare, and it has to be adjusted according to the physical condition every day, and only a first-class potion master can prepare it." The potions master I know, Lao Sen is not in the magic capital, and even if he is, he may not have the patience, and the others are either working in the palace or busy with their own research, and this is the only one who has the time and ability. This potion can only be used once in a person's life, and it is very precious, and it took a lot of money for Grandpa to convince Sauron to agree. ”

Minna's eyes widened: "Grandpa, are you spending money again?" ”

"That's not a waste of money." Xiao Tianjian lightly scratched his little granddaughter's nose, "And it's not just money, there are a lot of precious herbs and magic materials, all of which I have collected in the past few years...... The box of things brought out of the Elven Forest was also half-evenly given to him. ”

"That's mine! It's mine! Minna shook her grandfather's arm in distress. Xiao Tianjian hurriedly comforted her and said, "The wool is out of the sheep, and this is also for you." Good boy, I've already given him those things, and I can't get them back, so don't waste grandpa's heart. ”

Minna looked at Sauron with a frowning face and nodded aggrievedly.

In order to appease her, Xiao Tianjian specially told her a good news: "I have already told Han Lin to help you make a space ring, but he said that he can't make it so small, so he only promised to make you a bracelet, and the storage space will be smaller." The materials have been handed over to him, and it will take a month to work, and the time is just right, so let's treat it as a birthday gift. ”

Minna turned her sorrow into joy, and immediately pulled him to Hanlin to ask him what kind of bracelet he would make, if it wasn't for Grandpa's reminder, she almost forgot to say goodbye to Sauron, the potions master snorted coldly and turned his head haughtily.

Han Lin was doing experiments in the basement, and he didn't come out to answer the door for a long time, when Xiao Tianjian was thinking about whether to break in, the door panel opened first, and Han Lin walked out with a vegetable-looking face, but his face was full of joy: "It's successful!" I did it! ”

"Uh...... What did you do this time? Xiao Tianjian asked.

Minna caught a glimpse of the magic furnace she had seen that day on the lab table behind Hanlin, and asked, "Is that the stove?" ”

"That's right, it's the stove!" Han Lin picked up a round black sheet from the stove and showed it to them, only to see that it was faintly engraved with a pattern similar to a magic array, "This is a magic array for making broth, as long as you put it on the stove, you can make the ingredients into broth, I also have several magic arrays of different dishes." Try the soup I just made. He picked up a crucible next to him and opened the lid. Minna then realized that the steaming thing in the pot turned out to be broth, but why did it smell like no ordinary broth?

The grandparents and grandchildren each took a sip of soup and were stunned. Han Lin asked excitedly, "How is it?" Isn't it delicious? ”

Minna: "...... No taste......"

Xiao Tianjian: "Didn't you put oil and salt?" ”

Hanlin: "Oil and salt? Do you want to put that? I don't have ...... here."

Xiao Tianjian was speechless, Minna was entangled, it turned out that there were people who couldn't cook even more than her, obviously an adult......

So, under the guidance of Xiao Tianjian, Han Lin found another crucible (Minna: "Hurry up and buy a pot for cooking!") Add water and raw meat pieces, add oil, salt, green onions, and several other spices (courtesy of Xiao Tianjian), and put them on the magic stove. After the stove vibrated with the pot for three minutes, the fragrance finally wafted out of the pot.

This time the experiment was truly successful, and Minna gave Hanlin a thumbs up as she drank the delicious soup. Han Lin laughed dryly twice, and approached Xiao Tianjian in a low voice: "Get me a copy of your recipe, and indicate the type of ingredients." Xiao Tianjian reluctantly agreed.

Then they experimented with the magic arrays of roasting meat, boiling rice, and frying fish, and everything went smoothly except for the rice, which was a little raw due to the lack of heat.

Sauron, who came in at some point, was very interested in this new alchemy product and asked, "What is the principle of the magic array?" Can you make other dishes? It seems that the magic array is carved with a black stone slab, does it have to be made of this material? With this, it seems that you can do without a stove, right? Is energy a hedron or magic? Is it a big energy consumption? Is it expensive to make? Are there any restrictions on the material of the pot? There should be room for improvement......"

Han Lin listened to his words and fell into deep thought, but Xiao Tianjian was a little speechless: "You don't need to do this, right?" I think it's rare for him to be able to do this. "It's similar to a microwave oven, and it has no radiation, which saves time and effort and is environmentally friendly.

"You're wrong." Sauron retorted, "If you want to do it, of course you have to do it perfectly. If his stove really works, I'll be the first to buy it. "His butler's cooking skills are mediocre, and he has endured it for a long time.

The potions master and the alchemist were very interested in the discussion, and the former was eager to suggest that the latter make a recipe for a magic furnace according to the precise principles of potion preparation, and determine the amount of ingredients and ingredients needed for each dish, so that everyone would be able to cook it deliciously.

Xiao Tianjian looked at the posture of the two of them, and knew that it was impossible to discuss the storage bracelet today, so he had to pull his granddaughter away. Minna had been nibbling on fragrant barbecue and fried fish just now, until her grandfather urged her, she reluctantly dropped the unfinished food and left Hanlin's house with him.

On the day she arrived at the Magic Capital, because it was night and she was sleepy, Minna didn't see her surroundings clearly, and now she saw what the nearby streets looked like. Hanlin's small building is located on an inner street, the environment is quite quiet, surrounded by flowers and plants, and there are people wearing uniform dark green robes who are responsible for taking care of it. Walking along the road to the main road, the number of pedestrians increased.

Minna looked with interest at the big dog running down the road biting a basket of food, and the large stack of books floating behind the woman in the khaki magic hat, and the unguarded baby in the yard by the roadside, and a few vines wrapped around his feet as he crawled a little farther down the lawn, gently pulling him back to his original position. She began to think that it would be nice to live in such an interesting place for a month.

Xiao Tianjian raised his hand and called out "magic car", and Minna found a strange-looking "car" on the road on the right, which looked a bit like the boat they had been on before, but there were two more rows of six wheels at the bottom, and the part of the "cabin" was a simple shed, with a wooden shelf supported by cloth of unknown material, which reflected the light slightly in the sun. At the front of the car sat a man on a rocking oar, dressed as an ordinary Shaonanite, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and holding a small short cylinder in his mouth, and when someone else stood in the way in front of the car, he would blow the thing and let out a scream. There were several people sitting in the car, both men and women.

Minna was wondering why her grandfather had called the car over, but the latter had already pulled her into the car, threw two copper plates into the box next to the coachman, and found a seat and sat down. There were two people in the car who seemed to know Xiao Tianjian, and they nodded to him one after another, and one of them was a round-faced middle-aged woman in a magician's robe who smiled and asked, "Count Xiao hasn't been back for a long time, is this time going to stay for a long time?" Is this your granddaughter? ”

"Little granddaughter, she will stay here with me for a while." Xiao Tianjian replied with a smile, and asked his granddaughter to say hello to the other party. Minna obediently did so, and the other party smiled happily: "It's so cute, I also have a little daughter as old as you, I have time to play, my home is on Willow Street in the West District." ”

While he was talking, Willow Street arrived, the woman said goodbye and got out of the car, Minna sat with her grandfather for a while, and the car came to the foot of the mountain along the winding mountain avenue, and the grandfather and grandson got out of the car.

This is the civilian area on the other side of the Magic Capital, and compared to the one Minna had seen before, the streets here are more spacious and the houses are more "normal", with many shops, and people come and go, all dressed in beautiful clothes, mostly tulle, but also silk, and some have embroidery at the corners of their clothes.

The more Minna looked, the more familiar she felt here, as if she had been here before, but she had obviously never been abroad before. Just as they were confused, they turned into another street, and Minna caught a glimpse of a roast chicken restaurant and the aunt who sold sugar balls opposite, and immediately remembered: "I've seen this street!" The crooked room of Grandpa Sennet's house, there is a door that goes here! She looked excitedly to look for the door to the space, but next to the aunt's stall was a tailor's shop, could it be somewhere else?

"You don't have to look for it, you can't find it." Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly and persuaded his little granddaughter, "Lao Sen's family does have a door leading here, but the place where the door is opened every time is not fixed, it is easy for him to come, but if the people here want to pass, they have to try their luck, and this kind of luck is really not many people except himself." So, die. ”

Minna was a little discouraged, if she could bring Grandpa Sennet here, maybe she would be able to suppress the arrogance of the Sauron potions master a little, she had suffered a loss, and maybe she would have to eat another one, and she was upset.

Xiao Tianjian's house is located on the side of the road near the water, the main entrance faces the street, it is a two-story small building, the place is not big, and there is no space spell, the first floor is the living room, dining room and kitchen, plus a small utility room, the second floor is a large and a small two bedrooms and a study, a bathroom, there is a small backyard behind the house, the courtyard wall is crawling with green vines, with small purple flowers, open the back door, there is a stone step, below is a small dock, a sampan docked on the side, floating up and down with the water.

Minna liked it almost immediately, and although the house was smaller than her home in Zaiton, the whole house was clean, neat, and had a warm smell. The small room on the second floor belongs to her, she has not had her own room for nearly a year, and looking at the beds, tables, tables and chairs in the room that are a little smaller than the normal size, she knows that this is specially prepared for children. Minna happily threw herself on the soft bed, rolled around with a big pillow, found a snack box from the bedside cabinet, picked out a candy and held it, and she rushed downstairs: "Grandpa, do I take care of all the things in my room?" Can I put it however I want? ”

Xiao Tianjian was sitting in the living room, frowning at a letter, as if he was thinking about something. Minna walked over curiously and glanced at the envelope, "Huh? Is it a letter from Ito? What does the letter say? How are my mom and dad? How are Grandpa Marshall and Winnie? ”

Xiao Tianjian tugged at the corners of his mouth: "They are all healthy, Marshall is no longer there, your mother went back and took him back to Matt, and later went to Ito." But your parents had another fight at the beginning of the year, and now your mother lives in her mother's house, and Marshall stays with your father in Ito. ”

"Huh? Quarrel again? Minna reached for the letter, "Show me, what's going on?" ”

Xiao Tianjian pretended to open his granddaughter unintentionally, put the letter away, and stuffed the envelope into his pocket: "The letter was not written by your father, but by your eldest uncle, so I only mentioned these few words." Your eldest uncle just wanted to tell me that Bewen had just passed the probationary knight exam and was about to enter the knight academy, and he specially reported the good news to me. ”

"Apprentice Knight?!" Minna exclaimed, "But Brother Bevin is only six years older than me!" He ...... this year It's only thirteen years old, can you be a knight at such a young age? ”

Xiao Tianjian smiled: "It's just a trainee knight, just like an apprentice, but it's really a little young, Bei Wen is the youngest trainee knight in East's history." ”

Minna sighed: "It's amazing...... she thought of the body-strengthening potion she was about to drink, and secretly decided in her heart: Since Brother Lobby, who has learned swordsmanship with her grandfather for six years, is so powerful, then she can't be too far behind, and when her physique improves, she must learn swordsmanship well, and she must be a master when she grows up.

Xiao Tianjian didn't know what his little granddaughter was thinking, he just got up and walked out: "Hungry, right?" I'm going to buy some food and come back, you wait for me at home, don't run around. ”

Minna answered loudly, watching her grandfather disappear outside the door, and was about to go upstairs to her room, but suddenly remembered that the money on the envelope she had just seen was obviously from the headquarters of the Ito Xiao family firm, why did grandpa say that it was written by the eldest uncle? Also, she remembered that there was bread and meat in the kitchen, so why did Grandpa go out to buy food?

Thinking of her grandfather's frowning brow just now, she suddenly felt a little uneasy.

(I'm going to prepare for the New Year's jump, and it is estimated that it will jump to two or three years later...... ）