Chapter Forty-Eight: Hearing the Willows in This Nocturne (1)
Liu Ci is the cook of the Silver Wolf King.
After a long career, she has learned a little, and now she is training her own backup chef: Captain Lydia, the blonde woman.
Pity this Lydia's famous female swordsman, she can figure it out by herself when she learns swords, she has always thought that she is quite smart, but the complicated cooking training between knives and dishes has hit the blonde female captain hard.
Although no one in the adventure team is a nobleman, and Lydia doesn't enjoy the life of the nobles, she dares to bet on her brother George's magical career: in terms of food, Liu Ci's high requirements can definitely kill all the difficult characters in the three empires who are known for being picky!
Take pasta as an example, the bread eaten by the nobles of the Magic Continent is soft and delicate with milk and honey, accompanied by butter and cheese, and if you touch the caviar, it is the top treat for the taste buds. Civilians eat more white or brown bread, accompanied by jam and peas. The Spur Empire came to a food called macaroni, which also used flour as a raw material.
There is also the "pizza" that has just spread in recent years, the surface of the cake is smeared with tomato sauce, and then grilled with meat and various vegetables, and onions are especially missing from the side dishes.
Including all kinds of small pastries at the tea party, Lydia has seen them all.
But she hadn't seen dumplings.
Unlike pizza, dumplings are wrapped in a dough and boiled, steamed, or fried instead of baking.
Similar to dumplings, there is a filling inside and a dough outside, and it needs to be fermented before it can be steamed in the basket is "steamed buns", buns of various flavors, "steamed buns" without fillings, fluffy and soft like bread, but not baked.
Lydia could still accept these foods, and Liu Ci ate a kaleidoscopic variety of dishes every day, which was enough to make Lydia's hand tremble with a sword.
Flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, there is nothing that cannot be eaten. animals, and all kinds of vegetables, and even she heard in Liu Ci's mouth that the world's delicacies can be divided into "upper, middle and lower eight treasures", the upper eight treasures are: bear's paw, bird's nest, monkey's head, deer tendon, hump, raccoon lip, skirt, preded, yellow lip glue. The eight treasures are: white fungus, shark fin, wide belly, civet, fish lip, skirt, anchovy, and hash ant. The next eight treasures are: sea cucumber, dragon beard, mushroom, red phosphorus fish, dried scallops, bamboo shoots, oyster yellow, mullet eggs.
These unfamiliar terms made Lydia at a loss, and she couldn't understand the words she could understand.
For example, how to eat the "bird's nest" in the eight treasures?
Liu Ci looked at her with a regretful expression, and seemed to be very sympathetic to Lydia for not having a chance to taste the delicious food.
At noon on the same day, Liu Ci took out the white fungus he had collected before, instructed Lydia to peel lotus seeds, and taught her to make "white fungus lotus seed soup".
The lotus seeds are harvested in the lotus pond behind the stone house, don't look at the ice and snow now, the pond is pestled with broken stems and dead stems, after Lydia was allowed to enter the stone house, she once saw a painting, depicting the lotus pond in July, the wind to the leaf roll scene. Layers of smudged pink lotus, rippling blue waves, there are no ink paintings on the magic continent, and adventurers who are rushing for life are not in the mood to appreciate any artworks. But when Lydia looked at the lotus flower, she thought it must be beautiful.
"Lotus seeds" are grown in the stamens of the lotus flower after the lotus flower has withered. One by one is wrapped under the black skin, peel off the black skin to reveal the white flesh, through the lotus seed in the center of the stalk and can not be wanted, must be picked out one by one, otherwise the soup must taste very bitter.
Of course, there are lotus flowers in the Magic Continent, but they are not very respected, no one eats lotus seeds, and no one eats delicious lotus roots.
Lydia followed Liu Ci's instructions, put the white fungus into a stone pot and simmered it with lotus seeds, and when it was cooked, Liu Ci asked her to put in honey, and lamented that there was no "red date", and it could not be perfect.
In fact, the smooth and sweet taste makes Lydia like it very much, whether it is a noble lady or a royal sister swordsman, the lady's resistance to sweets is very low, and she sipped her stewed "white fungus lotus seed soup", and Lydia's dissatisfaction with being asked to learn cooking disappeared for the first time. Liu Ci's requirements were too high, so he only tasted it, said "it smells mushy" in a disgusted tone, and put down the bowl.
Liu Ci's pickiness about ingredients is outrageous, according to Lydia's understanding, most of the things that the other party eats every day are grown and raised by her own hands, like the fresh fish that Uncle Sam caught from under the glacier, Liu Ci hardly touches it. If you want to eat fish, you either have dried it in the past, or you can catch it yourself in the pond behind the house.
The ingredients that Liu Ci eats will never be allocated to them.
In addition to these strange habits of the Great Sword Master, Lydia touched her conscience and said that Liu Ci was still good to them. Maybe it's because everyone is a woman, especially for Lydia. It was freezing cold, Liu Ci gave her a fur cloak, and when Lydia wore it back, the young magician stopped talking.
The remnants of magical elements on it prove that this rare variety of fur cloak was taken from Warcraft...... However, the mantle maker is too rough, and the magic element is disappearing little by little, and if you give the fur to the alchemist, this may be a "mage robe" that magicians love.
On days when there was no snow, Liu Ci commanded Arnold to "dig indiscriminately" under the bamboo forest.
It's also strange to say, obviously there are no bamboo shoots on the surface, but the place where Arnold dug is a pit and a bamboo shoot is very appropriate.
"Bamboo shoots" are the offspring of bamboo, and a new food that Lydia didn't know about. Belonging to the "Lower Eight Treasures", Liu Ci said that bamboo shoots may grow in bamboo forests all year round, and the most delicious of them is the winter bamboo shoots that Arnold is digging and the tips of the bamboo shoots do not emerge from the surface. Spring bamboo shoots grow quickly, and they may be smoked into bamboo in a few days, and the taste of summer bamboo shoots is after spring bamboo shoots again.
After digging the winter bamboo shoots, Liu Ci personally made a "magnolia winter bamboo shoots", first cut the winter bamboo shoots into the shape of magnolia flowers connected to the top of the head and the bottom, cut the chicken into foam, add egg white, salt, ginger juice and stir, pour it into the magnolia flowers, put ham foam on the top to decorate, steam it in the pot, put the "magnolia flowers" on the plate between the branches that serve as vegetable leaves, and finally pour the firing juice.
When the dish is cooked, the magnolia blossoms bloom, and Lydia feels that the slightest movement destroys the beauty.
Of course, Liu Ci wouldn't let her move.
When the dish is cooked, Lydia is in love. After a while, the silver wolf entered the house through the window and enjoyed the food that Liu Ci had prepared for it.
After living for a few years, the silver wolf has eaten a lot of dishes here in Liu Ci, and the wolf god still hasn't changed its habit of not having meat and not liking, and still loves "baked products", but if they are all like "magnolia winter bamboo shoots" that are obviously more careful and labor-intensive, the silver wolf can accept occasional vegetarianism.
Without it, taste is one thing, and on the other hand, eating is Liu Ci's intentions.
There is a tacit understanding between one person and one wolf, Liu Ci talks about his experience in practice, and the wolf god will give her an analysis of the distribution of demonic beasts in the Moloch Mountains.
For example, the entrance of Lydia's team into the mountain should be an "important town" on the border between the Xiyi Empire and the Moroch Mountains. The terrain has taken advantage of the scarcity, and the sparse and unwielding gravel land has formed a trading town, through which a large number of adventurers and mercenary groups enter and exit the mountains, bringing a lot of popularity and huge profits to the town.
There were many merchants and shops who bought the materials and potions and ores on the monsters, and the large population meant that those who entered the mountains needed supplies. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, potions, weapon shops, magic scrolls, mage items, all kinds of things, make the town's resident population no less than that of a prosperous town.
The silver wolf hadn't been out of the Moroch Mountains for many years, and it had gotten the news from the cooing birds.
"You now have a certain strength to ensure your own safety, and when you get out of the Moroch Mountains, whether it is the Magic Association or the Mercenary Guild, if you don't provoke first, no one will come to embarrass you. The only thing to be dike is the Holy See. ”
"Holy See?"
Liu Ci was a little unfamiliar with this word, after all, the Earth Federation unified the Great Faith thousands of years ago, and they were basically all believers in the "Dust Heart Fairy". Even the immortals and Buddhas of China have been pushed aside, not to mention other religions that have been on the earth for a long time.
The silver wolf nodded, and his tone was unusually solemn:
"On this continent, the most terrifying force is neither the magical beasts nor the powerful imperial kings, the establishment of the Magic Association and the Mercenary Guild is the establishment of the magicians and mercenaries in order to unite, and in addition to these, there is only one continent of the ubiquitous Holy See." The wolf god didn't have a good impression of the Holy See during the conversation, so Liu Ci directly asked the reason.
The wolf god is also straightforward and unabashed, "The most feared thing about the Holy See is that it seems to be peaceful and fair, and it does not forcibly interfere in the rise and fall of mainland forces, but in fact, its power is everywhere. The monarch who controls the military power, the magicians and swordsmen who hold the group, look very beautiful, and the Holy See is everywhere, and the penetrating power like water starts from controlling the minds of men. There were monasteries everywhere, and everyone believed in the god of light, regardless of the commoner aristocracy, magicians and swordsmen. ”
Liu Ci frowned: "What will happen if you don't believe in the God of Light?" ”
The silver wolf laughed, "That's heresy, to be burned on the fire." ”
There are hundreds of schools of thought in academia, not to mention faith. As the daughter of the Liu family, Liu Ci can understand it better than ordinary people. The Earth Federation people believe in the "Dust Heart Fairy" is all voluntary, as a family of faith that worships the Dust Fairy, the Liu family takes it as their responsibility to maintain the Dust Fairy's Taoism - but it has never happened, whoever does not worship will be killed.
Seeing her frowning, the silver wolf said again, "Have you ever found a human corpse near the tree hole?" ”
Hearing this, Liu Ci pulled out the silver medal he had taken from the girl from the house.
A few years have passed in the blink of an eye, but the silver medal is as new as ever. After learning the Xiyi language, she can already recognize the "ghost drawing talisman" on the silver medal, Vivian, which should be the name of the little black-haired girl who was killed by a blow to the heart?
The silver wolf swallowed the ice cream that Liu Ci had prepared for it before he spoke again, "A few years ago, before you appeared, there was a human great swordsman who escorted a black-haired little girl to the crystal mine, and a group of people wearing black robes killed the great swordsman, and even the little human girl did not let go, watching the two die, before leaving the crystal mine." Although they hide their heads and faces, and at first glance they look like evil necromancers, but they are actually priests sent by the Holy See. ”
Liu Ci stroked the silver medal, and her hand on a teenage girl was too poisonous, compared to the Holy See, she could simply win the Good Man Award.
"After they killed the little girl, they left with a sentence that the magic star had fallen, and the king saw a golden meteor falling from the sky with his own eyes...... Liu Ci, you have to be careful. ”
The words of the silver wolf seemed to be upside down, but they made Liu Ci's heart turbulent!