Chapter 163: The Old Priest's Decision
The autumn morning sun is indescribably comfortable, and the streets of Andrarui are full of different ethnic groups.
Along the way, Gloria always looked around curiously, and Eric kept introducing Andrari's mavericks to Miss Ranger and the old priest.
A unique scent wafted from the front successfully attracted the attention of several people, and when they walked in, they found that it was a snack shop with the words "Bean-scented City" written in sleek flower-style elf characters on the signboard.
"Tofu shop? I remember I didn't have it before I left, why don't you go check it out first?" Eric asked for the advice of his two companions, because of the accident that happened in the course of his duty, it had only been three months since Eric had left Andrari.
The people who live here have long been accustomed to the rapid development of Andrari.
"Yes, yes!" said Golia, happily agreeing, the unique fragrance that had completely whetted her appetite.
It was a large iron box large enough for two or three people, with six heavy wheels underneath, and eight huge clay pots, which were stuffed with irregular blocks of ice. The peculiar aroma comes from the fact that the food is being heated on the stove when scooped out of the jar, and it looks like soy yellow tofu.
Recalling the unique flavor of Andrari's signature sauce, Eric couldn't help but start to craze it.
"Excuse me...... this one"
"Our restaurant's special braised tofu flavor, chicken juice flavor, pork rib flavor, spicy flavor, spicy flavor, three ambi flavors, and two ambi flavors of tofu with corresponding flavors, what do you want?" the enthusiastic clerk skillfully introduced to Eric.
"Two ambi servings, isn't this cheaper than the previous uncooked tofu!?" Tofu is already a rare traditional cooking food with a long history among elves, and although this one can at most make the elves who don't eat much more half full, Eric still deduces by visual inspection that this shop sells cheaper than Andrare's white tofu two months earlier.
"It's cheap because the smooth river transportation brings with it the high-quality raw materials grown by other villages and northern hobbits!" explained happily to the young elf clerk, as if there was no better compliment for the goods she sold than "good quality and low price", "Since we have this 'freezer' made of Van Jia magic iron and deep sea cold orbs, we are not afraid of ten kilograms of braised tofu at a time! Would you like to try the pork rib-flavored tofu? This is recognized as the most popular taste among our compatriots." ”
"Please serve the same pork ribs and spicy flavor!" replied Golia, whose eyes were straight.
"And what about you, Mr. Enriel?" said Eric, asking for the white-haired elder's opinion.
"Please bring me a chicken-flavored tofu. "Along the way from Bluestone Village to Andrarui, the pair of rangers had great respect for the old priest who had been kind to them, and Enriel, who seemed to be accustomed to it, did not mean to correct their respectful attitude.
"Although the tofu is not as fragrant as our signature dried tofu, the texture will be correspondingly softer!" the clerk said, scooping the food from the "freezer" into a small pottery bowl with an iron spoon, and then putting it in a steamer to start heating.
Enriel seems to be more interested in the process of making it than the food itself. Tofu has been in the Whispering Forest for thousands of years, but why has he never seen it made and sold before?
"If you don't have this freezer, can't you marinate the tofu in large quantities?" the old priest asked thoughtfully, taking advantage of the little time he was waiting.
"The tofu that has just been marinated is very hot! If a lot of it is piled up together, it will be difficult to get cold? If it is piled up together for too long, it will easily become sour!"
Although Enriel is also very aware of the process of making tofu, a food that every elf family makes, he has never marinated ten kilograms at a time: "What does this sour have to do with this freezer?"
"Your Highness says that sourness is a fermentation process, just like winemaking. Piling hot tofu together will speed up the process, and while it is possible to stop it from fermenting except for the freezer, wouldn't that be a waste of manpower and material resources?
"Little girl, do you mean the son of the abyss who is the lord of this place?" Enriel was very keen to find out what he wanted to know.
"Of course, sir, even our store's signature braised bean curd is a marinade prepared by His Royal Highness himself!"
The old priest looked at the hot tofu with a mellow fragrance handed to him by the little girl, but there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, for a young elf in a foreign land, the so-called "His Highness" refers to a son of the abyss of the demon race, is it a matter of course?
However, the ranger's partner, who was eagerly discussing the food in the bowl, did not notice the delicate mood of the old man at this time.
"Captain, your spicy flavor is a bit weird, but it's also very good!
"Still don't want it......" Although the relationship between the two has become unusually close because of the hardships of life and death, Eric still has some difficulty accepting the "shameless" behavior of showing affection in public.
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After a long day of traveling, Enriel, who had finally carefully observed the mental outlook of the Andrari Guards, finally made an important decision. He asked Eric to introduce him to the Grand Druid Judeon Longwind, the Elven representative in Andrari.
"Your Excellency Enriel!?Why didn't you inform me in advance when you came to Andrarui from Bluestone Village!?"
From Yudeen's reaction alone, Eric could tell that he knew a certain amount about Mr. Enriel, who had settled in Bluestone Village.
"When people get old, their minds can't keep up with you young people. The old priest, who clearly knew Yudion, said something inscrutable.
Although Judeon can assert that he is no longer young, in front of the high priest Enriel Fir who was in the sky at the time, the great druid, who was called a young man, humbly agreed.
"If it weren't for the coincidence that I met these two children, I wouldn't have known that there was such a proud figure among those savage and bloodthirsty demons five hundred years ago. The gray-haired elder shook his head as if self-deprecating.
"Your Excellency, ...... do you mean?" Hearing the words of this old man with a pivotal position in the Earth Temple, Yudeon was not sure what he meant.
"I heard that His Highness has hidden knowledge in his heart that is not inferior to that of the entire forest. As one of the people most familiar with the Child of the Abyss, Judion, I would like to hear your objective assessment of him. The solemn expression on the old priest's wrinkled face made Eric and Gloria feel that they shouldn't have been involved at all.
The Great Druid frowned and was silent for a long time, until Eric and Golia were about to say their goodbyes, and then they said their thoughts very seriously: "His Royal Highness Andrei's understanding of human nature seems to me to be far better than those cunning and ruthless Demon Lords back then. However, not only does he rarely show this side of him, but he never shy away from discussing the beauty and ugliness of human nature in front of everyone. The few hundred demons under his command have sworn to draw a line with their compatriots living in the demon realm, calling themselves 'demons', a new demon race that takes evil thoughts as a warning when dealing with friends. At the same time, His Highness taught all people, including elves and dwarves, how to guard against suspicious foreigners, and how to restrain and correct those who had just joined and visited Andrarui through the law. From that point of view alone, there is no one else I know of who is better than anyone of any other race!"
"And what do you think of him personally?" the white-haired elder clearly meant something deeper.
"I think it's like what His Highness himself said. At the mention of Andre's own words, Yudeon subconsciously showed a relaxed smile, "He has enough wisdom and ability to create a better and richer life, and there is no need to use despicable means to plunder others like his kindred." ”
The Great Druid paused, and then his expression suddenly became serious again: "Andrarui will be the richest and most desirable place in the world. We will always have to guard against someone else!"
After listening to Yudeon's words, the old priest stared at the Great Druid for a while with a calm face, and then suddenly encouraged in a reassuring tone: "Very good! Young man of the Changfeng family, you are as good as your brother Marcellian in this life, I believe in what I have seen and heard throughout the day, and I also trust your judgment. Do you think that if he wanted His Highness to open a special academy and teach everything he knew in his life to these young people in the forest, would he agree?"
"Your Excellency, in fact, Andrarui has already offered several courses under the instructions of His Highness, and I don't think he will refuse your proposal, but how to deal with this matter may need to be considered in the long run. ”
Hearing Yudion's affirmative answer, Enriel finally let go of the doubts in his heart and smiled from the bottom of his heart.
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It wasn't until the old priest decided to wander the streets of Andrari before dinner that Eric had a chance to ask his own question.
"It is not surprising that a young man like you does not have the identity of your Excellency in mind...... He was the one who had been most likely to inherit the position of the chief priest of the temple, and was also the cousin of the current chief priest, Her Excellency Ietta Fir. This elder once prayed for the miracle of the goddess on the battlefield, but he personally led an army of 10,000 people to charge the army of the demon kings!" Recalling the past, Yudien, who was just an ignorant teenager back then, couldn't help but sigh again.
Gloria froze in place, looking at her captain stupidly—it turned out that it could have been such a powerful legend who had saved her life...... It doesn't seem strange to think about it, but the ability to use the power of life to repair the bodies of "dead people" is something that is usually only found in mythological stories is clearly not something that ordinary people can do.
Some words are not spit out and unhappy.
In the book famine, I was subjected to the ruthless spiritual impact from all kinds of small white texts, and I originally felt that even as a newcomer who had just entered the industry, I was still slightly better than some people who would write in a way that was not much different from the running account. However, today, when I flipped through a certain fantasy book with gorgeous rhetoric, very high style, and novel settings, I realized that I was actually only 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter.
For novels, I think the writing is like the style of comics, and the style of painting is touching, similar to that of giants and one-hit men, which has undoubtedly turned many readers away. Even the OP that I don't think anyone can beat at the moment (it's a manga!, not those animations that can tell anything for a few minutes while participating in a lot of messy original plots!) have been resisted by many anime novices because of their art style that has a certain gap with the mainstream. Compared with it, although the style of the demon tail is more gorgeous, it makes people feel tasteless.,After all, the content at the beginning is too mediocre and patterned.。
As far as I'm concerned, I don't think it's much of a writing story, at best it's smooth and some details that aren't outstanding. What will appeal to you is the alternative setting and the narrative structure that describes the stories of each character. I also know the many "fatal" shortcomings of this book. Not to mention the rest, the light stall is too open, and most readers are used to everything closely around the protagonist, not to mention, there are all kinds of descriptions of daily life that are not doing business. Although I have my own "grand plan" in mind, I don't have to say whether I have the ability to realize it, before it really shows its full picture in front of readers, I can only use some suspense, pits and other means to hang your appetite. It's really that I'm too easy to get into the nitty-gritty of some details, and I can't get it back once I release it......
There are also many episodes that will be inexplicable to the reader, and it may not suddenly pop up again until many chapters later when everyone is almost forgetting them - oh, it turns out that this hole has been dug a long time ago.
In short, I understand that the biggest fatal thing about this book is that I wrote too much about the pattern and Andrei's influence on others in the early stage, so that there are already dozens of characters before I officially "upgrade" the supporting characters┑( ̄Д ̄)┍
This is also the reason why I am influenced by some other works of various carriers, Andre is undoubtedly the "true son" in this book, but I think all those supporting characters should also be flesh and blood, just like Xing Ye insisted. However, I didn't portray those "flesh-and-blood" supporting characters as impressive.
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It's not enough pen power.,Second, this book is a rigorous text set by low magic (because it's very important, so you have to repeat it!) It's impossible to add those slot-full characteristics to all the supporting characters.。 The neuropathy in the spoof article is a normal person, but most of the people in the rigorous article except for a few maverick guys can't be so face-painted.
First of all, what I want to review is the nature of not being able to get it back when I put it out, and I'm sorry that I haven't had a combat profession that I can handle in more than 500,000 words!ORZ (You might as well guess how long this book can be!?)
Then, when I couldn't overturn the previous and didn't want to give up the worldview and plot that I had built for so long, I felt that strengthening my writing was the only effective way to weaken the impact of the fatal flaw.
Some women comics have dozens and hundreds of words just to describe some high-level plots such as fate and reincarnation, and the main content is lackluster, but as long as it relies on its gorgeous painting style and delicate details, it at least looks pleasing to the eye. Even though that realm was too far away from me, I still felt that I should always work hard in that direction.
If you want to exercise your writing and improve your style, I think reading prose is undoubtedly a very effective means, but since I was a child, I don't like those sad and sad diseases**, and my favorite is still a story with enough appeal. Therefore, this road against the sky just looks like it has a long way to go......
Above, thank you for your patience and patience...... I'm sure you can see from the article that, like most dead houses, I'm the kind of guy who has nothing to say in the face of strangers, but as soon as I open the conversation folder, Rory can't stop. O(∩_∩)O~