Volume 4 The Rising Star of the Imperial Capital 11 The Way of Alchemy
There are more varieties of snacks now, and with the emergence of conical hollow egg rolls at Xu Zheng's request, people no longer just sit in the store to eat ice cream or take gift bags home, they also have one more choice, that is, to take the egg roll ice cream while eating and walking, which is a unique flavor. A small improvement leads to even more insane sales. Now, as long as you are not far from the fireflies on the streets, you can often see people holding egg cones and ice cream while eating and enjoying life, which is not a strange thing in the imperial capital.
In addition to those snacks in the past, Xu Zheng pieced together to find materials and substitutes, and finally got together the marinade after some efforts, so that the series of preparation methods of marinated vegetables came out of the Aris continent. In the imperial capital of Zion, marinated food appeared for the first time, and braised chicken and braised pig series such as braised chicken feet, braised ribs, braised pig's feet and so on began to enter the lives of the people of the imperial capital. The emergence of lo-mei has made the food of the people of the imperial capital more abundant, and at the same time, it has also made the business of the flint shop more prosperous, making the clerks more tired. Now, the lo-mei department has made Maika in charge, this child is often so tired that his feet do not touch the ground, he used to worry about not having to play, and he can't make money, but now he is so tired that he only wants to have a few fewer guests, and it doesn't matter if he earns less.
Xu Zheng even let Farofa show his strengths, and together with Xu Zheng, he created a combination of Arris's style and Xu Zheng's previous life style. Farul first mixed flour, essential oil, and salt to make a hollow cake with a thickness of about half a finger in the salt and pepper flavor, fried until it was seven ripe, and then filled with braised pork pieces, with one-third of the fat, lean, and chewy parts, and then put it in the oven to bake, and then made this meat pie with a special flavor called Sanxi cake. The salt and pepper made by farul is salty, sweet and crispy, shiny and shiny with a deep golden yellow, so crispy that you can cinch it with your hands. After the internal braised meat patty is baked, the fat of the fatty meat is fully integrated with the lean meat and the chewy two parts of the organic fusion. When you bite into it, your mouth is full of fragrant fragrance. The more you chew, the more it tastes. Especially when eaten hot, it is crispy and fragrant, full of chew, and more flavorful.
Sanxi Cake has been a great success since the first test market, but it is only due to the cost problem. The sale price is not very cheap. The commoners of Downtown only enjoyed it once in a while. But in Uptown, there was a rush of people ordering the Three Happiness Cakes, and even Bruce did not resist the temptation to send a carriage from Samuel Castle to the Fireflies to order the Three Happiness Cakes. This move caused Rex to complain for a while, and the things made by his grandson actually had to spend money to buy them...... This kid is really unkind! Obviously, he is better for the Bandari family than for the Samuel family. When you have good things, you always think of honoring them first. The Samus family is at the end, and sometimes they can't even think of it at all, so they must catch it and educate it when they have time.
It's not good to eat something greasy like Sanxi cakes in the morning, so Xu Zheng took two croissants from Uncle Xiusi. After pretending to pay, he walked leisurely to Ogma Academy.
Armin caught up from behind, carefully biting the three-happiness cake in his mouth. I was reluctant to swallow it after chewing it in my mouth for a long time, and said with satisfaction: "It's really delicious! It's just too expensive." You can never get enough of it. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and the two brothers seemed to come to Xu Zheng's shoulder.
Xu Zheng was startled and shouted, "Don't touch me, I'm a disabled person now!"
Almin was stunned, "Where do you hurt?"
"It hurts everywhere! I was hung upside down on a tree and beaten violently, and I don't have a good piece of meat on my body now! Don't you see my face beaten like a pig's head?"
"It's all bandaged. Where can you see it? But...... It's pathetic. Armin sighed, "I was only chased for a while before I figured it out." Why bother, and then I chose a fighter who didn't seem to have that much strength, and took the initiative to put my head under his fist, and after being knocked unconscious by him, it was white. It's like you, you obviously can't earn it and still have to fight, and you are beaten like a pig's head. ”
Xu Zheng was angry for a while, who said that he must resist to the end for the sake of his ideals? He believed it, but he was beaten into a pig's head, and this man who vowed to be a beast trainer lay down on the ground. Furious!
After rolling his eyes, and then gasping in pain from this overly intense facial expression, Xu Zheng asked, "In the end, where did you go?"
"Alchemist Ministry. Armin finished nibbling on the Three Happiness Cake and was licking his fingers with a hungry expression on his face.
Xu Zheng couldn't stand it and said, "Follow me." ”
"Do what?" Almin asked, puzzled.
"Just come along!"
Xu Zheng led Armin to Uncle Xiusi, and while there was no one on the left and right, he said to Xiusi: "Uncle Xiusi, two more Sanxi cakes." ”
"Aren't you greasy and say it's not good to eat this in the morning?" said Hughes smiled and handed over two. Xu Zheng stuffed it into Almin's hand and said, "Eat you! Please eat, and you should celebrate becoming a classmate of the same department." ”
Alming took the Sanxi cake, his eyes wandered back and forth between Xiusi and Xu Zheng, and hesitated: "Why doesn't he take you money......?" Do you know each other?"
"Nonsense!" Xu Zheng said: "I designed this sales truck, I participated in half of the invention of the Sanxi cake, and the snacks in this car all came out of the fireflies, can I know Uncle Xius? Uncle Xius, this is Almin, Armin Sost." By the way, don't tell anyone about my knowledge of Uncle Hughes. ”
"Hi. I'm Hugh Tanwell. Xius nodded, poured out a cup of hot juice and handed it to Armin, "Xu Zheng's classmates." I asked you for this cup. ”
After taking the juice, Arming exclaimed in surprise as if he had just woken up from a big dream, "I should have thought of it." You're the inventor of snacks. No wonder you know this snack seller. Damn, the whole school wanted to know him, but luckily I got the first place. Uncle Hughes, hello, hello! I'm Xu Zheng's subordinate, please take care of me!"
The very flattering and dog-legged cheap smile made Xu Zheng uncomfortable for a while, and asked, "Why do you want to know Uncle Xiusi?"
Arming raised the juice and the three happiness cakes in his hand and said, "That's the benefit." As the inventor of the snack, of course you don't care. But we don't have to know them. Teach you to be a good person, if you want to get benefits, you have to have a good relationship with them first. For example, the aunt in the cafeteria of Ogma Academy, when she is in a bad mood, anyone can despise Principal Audrey, but no one dares to despise this aunt. She's in a good and bad mood. Directly decide on the portion size and quality of the food that will be deducted to your plate. Got it? It's the same thing with Uncle Hughes. If I have a good relationship with him, even if he doesn't give me food. You can also pick up the big ones when I buy them. ”
It's so profound...... Xu Zheng was confused, and only had time to grasp Armin's central idea, that is, Principal Audrey is a paper tiger, and he can't bird her. The most powerful and fierce of the Ogma school. The person who can't be offended the most and must have a good relationship is the canteen aunt. Understand!
However, why is a dignified principal inferior to the old lady in the cafeteria? I don't understand it, and I can't understand the mystery at all.
After Armin's great project to curry favor with Xius was completed, he dragged Xu Zheng to the alchemist department. Xu Zheng screamed in pain: "Don't touch me!
Arming laughed viciously, grabbed Xu Zheng and rubbed it for a while, until he saw Xu Zheng grinning in pain and twitching in pain. Only then did he let go of Xu Zheng with satisfaction, laughed and ran away.
Xu Zheng was furious and chased after him, and the two ran into the alchemist department one after the other.
Enter the Alchemist's Department. The situation was just as Xu Zheng thought, the entire alchemist department was really sparsely staffed, and it was as far as the eye could see. Just thirty people. There are nearly two thousand new students, and only thirty or so have come to the Alchemist Department, and there are only six girls in total, and there are obviously more leaves and fewer flowers, and they look pitiful.
Xu Zheng was observing everyone, and everyone was also observing him. The great man who was fully embraced by the new and old students of the whole school was standing in front of him. And the bandages on the whole body are really novel and interesting, except for the eyes, ears, mouth and nose exposed, and the two black eyeballs dripping and turning, the face of this great man looks swollen several times under the bandage, which is really interesting, and the living reality version of the swollen face is fat. All the new students of the Alchemy Department, except for Armin, all looked up to Xu Zheng, and they were really full of endless admiration for this second prince who could still walk to school after being surrounded by all the students.
After a while, Forrest Gan walked in, put down the handouts in his hand, didn't say a word of nonsense, and went straight to the introductory course of alchemy.
Xu Zheng was still wandering in the world at the beginning, focusing on opening a toy store, and slowly listened, his interest became stronger and stronger, and his whole spirit had sunk into it.
In the ancient centuries of Xu Zheng's previous life, there was a talk of alchemy, but the alchemy of his previous life completely turned his back on the scientific line and tried to create impossible things from scratch. This is a complete fallacy, an impossible task, and alchemy, which was the prototype of science, has been abandoned as science has grown and grown. If the only merit of alchemy in the previous life is that the alchemists observed the world, the ideas and ideas of bold assumptions are worth learning.
And in this Aris space-time, everything has changed, the composition of the world is too different from the world of the previous life, and many things have fundamentally overturned what Xu Zheng originally believed, and he is no longer so sure of his own predetermined ideas in the past. Magic, for example, is an example. The existence of Maris, the god of war, is another example. In the previous life, myths and legends were always just myths and legends, but in the Aris time and space of this life, myths and legends have changed facts, just like when Maris's grace descended, Xu Zheng really felt the incredible power existing.
Materialism and idealism clashed fiercely in Xu Zheng's ideology. The only way to resolve this conflict is to study systematically and seek the point of peaceful coexistence.
Mr. Forrester's alchemical academic system is undoubtedly idealistic. The concept of the center is to improve one's own cultivation and use one's own ability to change matter. This would not have been possible in previous lives, but in the continent of Arris, the inexplicable power of this plane has made it possible. Therefore, while Xu Zheng accepts this idea, he tends to explain these problems from a scientific point of view, believing that he uses his own power to change the microscopic structure of matter, thus fundamentally changing it.
The most profound application of the whole set of alchemical doctrines is to change matter. There are a lot of things involved in the whole, which are divided into seven parts: analysis and research materials, pharmaceuticals, preparations, magic arrays, magic scrolls, material composition and transformation, and primeval magic.
At this point, the benefits of an extra lifetime of experience are manifested. Xu Zheng, who has a kind of rich knowledge, always involuntarily uses the scientific system and materialism of his previous life to argue whenever he reads something new. And no matter what the final result is, in the process of confirming the past and present lives, Xu Zheng can always find a different way to memorize and learn these theories in a remote way. The final result made Xu Zheng's process of learning alchemy surpass that of other alchemy students.
A few days later, Xu Zheng had given up listening to Mr. Forrester's introductory course, and he had studied it with all his might, and had studied nearly two-thirds of the entire theoretical system.
Forrester also noticed this abnormal situation, and quietly transferred Xu Zheng to the last position in the classroom, letting him learn slowly by himself, and giving Xu Zheng a laissez-faire attitude. Only made two requirements for Xu Zheng, one is not to drill the horns of the bull when encountering problems, and the other is to never touch any instance that needs to be done. No matter which of the seven major parts is the same, you can imagine it in your mind based on theory, that is, you must not have opponents.
Realizing that there may be dangers inside, for example, unknown technology is like a Pandora's box, and no one can predict the result of opening, so Xu Zheng suppressed his curiosity and accepted Forrester's advice, skipping the content of practice, just looking at the theory, studying its feasibility, and not dying when encountering problems, but coming to Forrest Gan for help.
Half a month later, when the other students in the alchemist class were still learning how to use the knowledge of alchemy to analyze and study various materials, Xu Zheng had already mastered the basic theories of alchemy, and was waiting to start verifying the practice.
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