Chapter 9: Dark Cuisine
Warrior monks are a melee profession that has been handed down from the monasteries of Van Rodani in the far east, a group of ascetics temper their bodies and minds through strict methods, and are good at hand-to-hand combat, relying on the unique ability and incredible effect of "qi", so that his hand-to-hand strikes are as powerful as white blades, and even faster.
In the East, warrior monks are an important force against the giants. They contain "qi" attacks that can penetrate the giant's hard skin and deal more damage to enemies. However, the number of warrior monks in the Northland is very scarce, and even the warrior assessment in a small place like Vinoa can only be below level 5, so it can't be rated as a warrior monk.
"Is there a qigong cultivation system in this world?" Chen Jian was surprised when he heard the statement of the mercenary union relayed by Valen.
"In fact, I have found that there is not much difference between the human race in this world and the humans on the earth, it is nothing more than in an environment with magical elements, it is easier to develop a cultivation method that uses magical power, listen to old Morgan's description, the fighting spirit of the warriors here also uses magic elements to stimulate physical energy, I estimate that those special attack effects are produced by the resonance with the magic elements, the difference is nothing more than that the warrior relies on physical strength, the mage relies on spells, the priest relies on the gods, and the warrior monk relies on 'qi'."
Jiang Jinjiu was very interested in the fact that this world also had a cultivation system that used true qi, but it was a pity that it was too difficult to meet a warrior monk in the Northland, and the ascetic warrior monk should not be attracted by the news of the treasure. I can only have the opportunity to go to the country of the East in the future.
The trip to the Mercenary Tavern can be said to be a great consummation, and both Jona and the appraiser of the Mercenary Guild may spread the news that there is a suspected elven treasure in the Misty Forest.
The next stop is the market, which is again a great place to spread the word.
The address Jona gave was a grocery store called Lawrence, a bit out of the way, in a small alley around the corner of the market. But Chen Jian has a special affinity for this kind of shop hidden in small alleys. Because Rokumifang is also a typical small shop, although it is now developing well and expanding its business. But the location is still in the alleys of the old town.
"Is Mr. Crawford there?"
The store is not large, but the ceiling is surprisingly high, and some strange cages hang from the high ceiling. Hearing the shout, a tall, thin, gray-haired middle-aged man stepped out of a door with a warehouse sign.
"Hello, I'm Crafor, what do you want to buy?"
"We were introduced by Jona, and we wanted to do something." As he spoke, Chen Blade handed the bag containing some gold and precious stones to Crafor. It was also mixed with artifacts brought from the earth, such as a beautifully carved knife.
Crafo also made a brief appraisal of the thing, and then said, "I'm willing to give 20 gold coins for this dagger, and 30 gold for other things." β
"Is there anything special about this dagger? Can be worth 20 gold. Chen Jian deliberately shifted the topic to the knife.
"I can't tell where this dagger came from, but it's very exquisitely made, and the blade is shiny, but there is not even a trace of polishing, and even a sword made by a dwarven craftsman can hardly achieve such a smooth blade."
Chen Jian smiled secretly in his heart, the surface polished with a grinder and grinder is certainly not comparable to the manual polishing of craftsmen.
"That's right, I'll keep the dagger first, and the rest will be traded for 30 gold coins."
Crafo didn't bother much, just glanced at the knife regretfully, "If there are such things in the future, you can consider selling them to me, I am very interested in this very chic item." β
"Oh? Do you have any special wines here? After having money in his pocket, Chen Jian also considered starting the buy-buy-buy mode.
"Yes, yes, I have here the dwarven golden wine, the halfling charr's wine, the elven cindara, and the brad wine from Torre."
But when you hear the price, the cheapest Bretton also costs 2 gold coins a bottle, and Sindara wine costs 60 gold coins a bottle. According to the purchase price of the gold nugget just now, Chen Jian roughly calculated that the purchasing power of a gold coin in this world is equivalent to 3,000 yuan on the earth. The 60 gold coins are 180,000 bottles of wine.
If it were on the earth, with the net worth of Chen Jian and Jiang Jinjiu, you could buy a few bottles, but this world is still in the early stage of entrepreneurship, and there are still many places where you need money.
After buying two bottles of Bretton, Chen Jian found three more large shops in the market, and bought the remaining gold and precious stones, as well as some other things brought from the earth that were more ornate in workmanship, and vaguely revealed that these things were found in the misty forest.
After selling the things, I found that the price given by Lawrence Grocery Store was the fairest, and the highest price for the knife was 15 gold coins.
After the tasks were completed, the three of them, who felt a little hungry, were about to find a restaurant to eat in the market, and Chen Jian found a strange thing after inquiring around, that is, there were no restaurants or restaurants in Vinoa Town, and he was even more surprised to learn that there was no such thing as a restaurant in the entire Orende continent.
If you want to eat out, you go to the tavern, which serves only grilled meat, grilled fish, brown bread, wild vegetable mushroom soup and stewed meat soup.
There was no way, Chen Jian could only choose a tavern that didn't look good, and ordered a grilled fish, a black bread, and a bowl of wild vegetable and mushroom soup.
When he saw the maid serving the black and slimy grilled fish, two slices of black bread, and a bowl of black soup, Chen Jian's face turned black.
Valen couldn't wait to take a big bite to eat. But Chen Jian and Jiang Jinjiu could only comfort themselves when they looked at this completely dark dish, although it looked terrible, maybe it tasted okay.
After taking a bite of the grilled fish, Chen Jian vomited it out.
"The grilled fish is not fresh live fish, so it tastes very fishy, but in order to cover up this fishy smell, the store has thrown the fish meat in the cooking wine, but this is too naΓ―ve, because they don't spend enough time marinating the fish, they only stir it in the liquor and grill it directly, and the liquor used to soak the fish is used repeatedly, so that the fishy smell of the fish accumulates more and more in the wine, and there is no effective way to remove the fishy smell. A good fish is only fishy, no fish, failure! β
"The scales haven't been shaved clean, and it's failed!"
"The fish guts were not cleaned and failed!"
"The grilled fish is too hot, the outside is scorched, and the failure is the failure!"
"The worst thing is the fish tail, which is not cleaned at all, and there is a piece of, is there a mistake?!"
Jiang Jinjiu listened to Chen Jian's complaints, hugged his stomach and laughed, "No matter how loud you say, the people here don't understand the stalk of "God of Food". There is no 'flower-like' beautiful chef who comes out to hand you a piece of paper, so that you can wipe your own. β
Chen Jian shook his head, having already given up on this dark dish, "That's why I complained in Chinese, not the continental lingua franca." The food in this world is terrible. β
"Let's go, there's a vegetable market here, let's buy some food and cook for ourselves." Chen Jian patted Valen, who had already eaten a grilled fish, and said.
"Huh?" Valen, who had already eaten only half a slice of bread in a meal, looked at Chen Jian with a bitter face, of course he knew how delicious the food Chen Jian cooked, but he was almost full of gobbling it up, so he said that he wanted to cook it himself, which made him embarrassed.