Chapter 20: Keep fooling
"My wizard's tower is on the mountain, so I won't take you there."
Following Jiang Feng's footsteps into this humble village, Captain Calve's first reaction was surprise.
He had heard of wizards who summoned monsters to serve him, but this was the first time he had heard of wizards who built houses for their monsters.
As if seeing through the confusion in his eyes, Jiang Feng smiled faintly and continued.
"Observing the habits of demons and studying the development of their civilization is one of the research topics of our school. They built the houses themselves, as well as the farmland not far away......"
"You cut ...... Those half-elf trees? Captain Calf looked at Jiang Feng dumbfounded.
"Any questions?" Jiang Feng asked rhetorically with a look of course.
Captain Calf said no more.
Even the half-elves who were favored by the forest had to tolerate his presence, and it seemed that the strength of this wizard was even more terrifying than he imagined.
Walking into the wooden house in the middle of the village, Jiang Feng invited Calf and Miss Delia to sit down at the wooden table, and then ordered the steel hammer to take three wooden cups from the warehouse next door, and a wooden box containing strange black beans.
Delia moved her little nose and stared curiously at the wooden box.
From the open wooden box, she smelled a very strange fragrance.
"What is this?" Calf also noticed this unique fragrance and cast a puzzled look at Jiang Feng.
"Coffee, a refreshing drink, has been a great help to my research, and I have a cup before I start my experiments. Of course, even as a simple hobby, there is a considerable market for this drink. As he spoke, Jiang Feng motioned to Yinshu, ground the coffee beans in the wooden box into powder, then took out a small spoon, took two spoonfuls of coffee powder from the wooden box and threw them into the wooden cup.
At this moment, Steelhammer walked in from the outside with a smoking kettle.
Jiang Feng motioned for him to pour boiling water into the wooden cup, and after a while, the mellow aroma of coffee filled the entire wooden house.
"You can try." Looking at Delia, who was about to move, Jiang Feng smiled slightly, and made a gesture of invitation to the wooden cup,
"I'll do it anyway......"
Calf was just about to say this, when Delia, who was sitting next to him, excitedly said thank you and held the cup in her hand.
"Wait a minute......"
"It's bitter!" Sticking out her tongue, Delia quickly moved the cup from under her nose and said unwillingly, "It smells good...... How can it be so bitter to drink. ”
"Because you didn't taste it in the right way," smiling, Jiang Feng instructed Yinsu to pour himself a cup of coffee, leaned close to his lips and took a sip, "This thing is like tea leaves, you need to taste it carefully to taste the sweetness hidden in the bitterness." ”
Tea is still available in the Aditya Continent, although it is obviously not the same thing as the tea of the Federation.
After hearing Jiang Feng say this, Delia nodded as if she didn't understand, looked at the cup of "bitter water" hesitantly, and finally made up her mind to try it. Bringing the wooden cup close to her lips, Delia took a sip of her mouth, and her eyes suddenly bloomed with a touch of surprise.
"Do you feel it?" Jiang Feng said with a smile
"No," Delia shook her head honestly, putting down the wooden cup in her hand and giving a pertinent assessment, "but not so unpleasant." ”
"It's normal to feel bitter when you drink it straight, and not everyone can feel the charm of this drink. In addition to drinking it directly, I recommend adding creamer...... I mean milk, or sugar cubes and things like that. ”
"Can I add salt?" Delia asked with interest.
"It's heresy." Jiang Feng said with a smile on his face.
After confirming that this thing called coffee did not turn Governor Frege's second daughter into a frog, Captain Calf was relieved. It's said that wizards are weird guys, but at least this wizard isn't that difficult to get along with.
Delia opened the conversation as if she had endless questions, and few people in Port Sevit could stand her kind of character. However, this kind of personality did not seem to arouse the disgust of the wizard, which surprised him quite a bit.
“…… This is what I mean by sugar cubes, which are extracted from a plant called sugar cane, which can be used not only in coffee, but also in many other places, and even eat it directly, but eating too much may make you fat. ”
From the wooden box that Silver Whisker had brought over, Jiang Feng took out two pieces of sugar cubes as white as quartz and placed them in the palms of Delia and Captain Calf respectively.
Delia, who had obtained the candy cube, held it up to her eyes and looked at it for a long time by the light passing through the eaves. In the end, unable to suppress her curiosity, she tentatively brought the candy cube close to her lips, and quietly licked it while no one was paying attention to her.
"It's so sweet!" Tongue. The moment the tip touched the candy cube, Delia's eyes suddenly widened, she looked at Jiang Feng in surprise, and praised, "It's even sweeter than honey, it's really ...... It's incredible! ”
In the kingdom of Rick, most of the desserts eaten by nobles and ladies were made of honey and powdered sugar obtained from fermented starch. Bake a fluffy cake with cream and strawberries and a variety of nuts to garnish and make for a delicate afternoon tea pastry.
Instead of being like Delia, Calf threw the sugar cube into the coffee, waited for the white crystals to melt, picked up the wooden cup, and tasted the outrageously bitter "black water".
His eyes widened slightly, and he cast a surprised gaze at the "bitter water" in the wooden cup.
The coffee with sugar cubes was not very tasty, but it made Calf have the idea of taking another sip in his heart. If it weren't for the fact that his brain was clear and he still remembered his name, he would have even begun to wonder if he had fallen under the spell of a wizard.
Although the old captain's expression was not as rich as that of Delia, the expression on his face had clearly told Jiang Feng that the black coffee with sugar cubes had an unexpected chemical effect on the taste buds of this native.
Seeing the changes in the two of them, Jiang Feng smiled faintly.
The two things he wanted to confirm had already been answered.
First, these natives are not allergic to caffeine.
Second, coffee beans and sugar cubes are not unacceptable to the natives of the Aditya continent.
Putting down the wooden cup in his hand, Jiang Feng's ten fingers crossed on the table, and he looked at the two people sitting opposite him with a smile.
"Tea time is over, so let's talk about some business."