Chapter 368: Departure
It is said that Sandler caught his own house snake with good intentions, but it really scared the dwarf Lori a lot-
When I was sleeping in a daze, I suddenly felt that I was entangled in something cold, and no one could help but be surprised. Especially when he saw a big colorful snake hissing and sticking out his tongue in front of him, he immediately screamed in fright, jumped up, and threw out the house snake on his body.
The snake fell to the ground with a 'snap', as if stunned, and it took a while to come back to its senses, and immediately there were hazy tears in its eyes, and it slipped out of the door without looking back......
After listening to Sandler's explanation, the dwarf Lori realized that she had done something wrong, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed and ashamed, and she wanted to find a crack in the ground to drill into.
When everyone woke up, it was already time for the sun to set and the sky was full of red glow. Yesterday, in order to welcome the arrival of the adventure team, a bonfire dinner was even held on the threshing floor outside, but the bonfire party or something was also a heavy burden for the local residents, and it was obviously impossible to hold it for two consecutive days, so Qin Fen and the others didn't catch up with the mouth, so they could only solve the problem of dining casually at Sandler's house.
At this time, you can see the goodwill of the Sandler family, in addition to the sticky corn paste, there are also oatmeal baked golden flatbread, the main dish except for two plates of fried seasonal fresh vegetables, the rest are bacon, sausage and other meat food, for the Sandler family, it is obviously the highest standard of hospitality etiquette.
However, his mother-in-law's face did not show any distress or gloomy taste, because before eating, Miss Yinzi gave her a bag of thirty catties of snow-white fine salt again. The weight of this gift is obviously not comparable to this table of meat dishes.
Perhaps in the eyes of adventurers, this salt is no more than a dozen survival points, and it is not worth mentioning at all, but in Mosar, far from the sea, salt is a very rare thing.
You can eat without oil and water, but you can't have less salt, otherwise it is easy to get goiter and other diseases. Salt is generally produced in the sea or in brackish lakes, and in Mosar, far from the sea, it is obviously not possible to supply its own salt.
You must know that in the mountains, in addition to being used for eating, salt is also an indispensable daily material - salt is needed to pickle prey, salt is also needed to raise large livestock, and even after injury, it is used to wash wounds, and it is also necessary to use salt water, so salt is extremely sought-after. And the salt-making methods of this era were relatively rough, and then transported by black-hearted merchants, so that the salt they usually ate was yellow and black coarse salt, where is such snow-white fine salt?
Moreover, Qin Fen and the others sent more than 50 catties of fine salt before and after, if so much salt is saved, it will be enough for the family to eat for at least two years!
The people in the town are simple, but they are not stupid, and when they see a friendly guest like Qin Fen, they naturally return the favor and treat them sincerely.
So in such a harmonious atmosphere, a group of people are naturally happy as guests and hosts.
The food here is mainly hot and sour, and there are plenty of sauerkraut and chili peppers in each dish. Sour can be appetizing, spicy can be dehumidified, and it tastes particularly sour. There is also the Sanhe soup in the pot, which is boiled out of the broth with pig's feet, put in glutinous rice, local unique beans, sour horns, tofu, salt, chili peppers, etc., which is very fragrant, sour and refreshing, drink a bowl of belly, it can be said that it is hot sweat trickling down, it seems that the fatigue and fatigue during the journey are swept away.
In addition, the liquor here is also very distinctive, especially the banana pumpkin wine, which is to cut the unripe plantain fruit into small pieces, cook and dry, put it into the wine cake and mix it thoroughly, put it in the jar and seal it for a month, and ferment it into an aromatic liquor. Then, after the pumpkin is processed, a small hole is made in the pumpkin stem, and the plantain sake is put into the melon, and the hole is sealed for a month, and after the fermentation of koji, the pumpkin is filled with juice.
At the beginning, Qin Fen was a little surprised when he saw the two little babies directly holding a pumpkin for himself, but when he saw Nina grinning and inserting a hollow wheat straw gangue into it, he sucked and drank it, only then did he know that there was a mystery in the pumpkin, and this plantain pumpkin wine had both the sweetness of the plantain and the heavy fragrance of the pumpkin, and the drink was naturally praised by everyone. After a while, the dwarf Lori, whose face was flushed, finally let go while the wine was strong.
After eating and drinking, the hostess brought a few cups of a fish tea that is a specialty of Mosar, where spring returns to the earth around the third day of the third lunar month, the frozen ice and snow on the lonely mountain melt, and the frozen stream begins to flow happily again. At this time, a fish that had not eaten in winter also woke up one after another, shaking their heads and tails to become lively again. Fishermen took the opportunity to use a special triangular net to catch a local scaleless and transparent whitebait from a deep stream.
Immediately while it is fresh, it is put into a special boiling water, which is made by adding salt, sugar, cinnamon, tea leaves, and other condiments and spices. When the fish is fully cooked, it is immediately taken out, put it in a basket to dry and get wet, and then dried with charcoal to make a blue-black dried fish, which is the 'tea leaves' of fish tea.
This kind of dried fish tea is placed in a special tin can, which can be stored for a long time, and is not easy to deform and taste, which is also precious, and is one of the sought-after goods of foreign trade in the town of Mosart. It is worth mentioning that the fish tea has no fishy smell, this is because the spice soup used to make the tea has washed away the fishy smell of the fish, and there are still these fish have not eaten in a winter, but only swim in the meltwater of the mountain ice and snow, which is very clean.
When the fish tea is brewed, soon the dried fish will be "resurrected" like the head up and tail down neatly arranged, as if playing in the water, quite ornamental.
Therefore, tasting fish tea is both a tea blessing and a feast for the eyes, if you drink it, when making tea, you also add good cattle fresh cowhide, alpine rice, ginger, drink it in one gulp, immediately the sour fragrance remains full of mouthful, it is hard to forget, even if it is a well-informed adventurer to see it, it is also amazing, it can only be said that it is an eye-opener and worth the trip.
There was nothing to say all night, and nothing happened to them, even the Tiger Team, who had a grudge against Qin Fen and them, was not stupid enough to come to trouble at this time.
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Qin Fen and the others got up early, had a simple breakfast, said goodbye to the family, and quickly found the leader of this dragon slaying trip, the gray-robed wizard Gandalf.
After all, the adventurer is not a child, and naturally he will not procrastinate and scatter, and in only ten minutes, the group will all gather and march towards the majestic Lonely Mountain Range not far away.
During this period, Qin Fen also saw Dante wearing a mask and the rest of the Knights of the Rose, but this chick was still extremely arrogant, her eyes just swept coldly from Qin Fen's body, and she didn't stop for half a minute, as if Qin Fen didn't exist at all.