While Salian was watching the materials, the girls also returned to the hotel one after another. After dinner, Salian gathered them together.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have agreed with Her Majesty that we will sail on next week's boat. You can also stay in Alcalá for a few more days, just go to the outer harbor a day earlier. ”

"Brother, that's just the time, I'll take you to eat something good while I'm free, I heard that it came from the New World, it's called 'potato'. Rumor has it that it tastes good. ”

Salian wasn't very interested, but he couldn't resist Yulia, so he followed. It turns out that Alcalá already has a number of merchants with the gimmick of New World things, and this hotel is one of them.

The so-called potato-made dishes are nothing more than cooked tubers and eaten with other spices, and there is nothing unusual about them other than the novelty of the ingredients, and Salian does not care. However, the hotel environment is good, and it is a good place for a date.

"Well, isn't this His Excellency St. Valentine!, how did you end up here?" said a stout man with a large wine glass to the table between the two.

"Haha, it turned out to be Juan's old friend, we really haven't seen each other for a long time. ”

"Your Excellency, did our Majesty summon you here? No, there doesn't seem to be any very difficult problem lately!"

The former Castilean sword fighter and now the head of the Murassen Praetorian Guard sat down his glass as he spoke.

"Oh, it's a pity, my friend, you're wrong, it's actually me myself who has something to ask the queen for. ”

"Yes, what can make your Excellency embarrassed? Could it be that you can't use troops to suppress the civil strife in your country? I heard that it seems quite serious. ”

Salian changed color slightly, and said in his heart: "Such an ugly thing has actually made the world know." ”

However, on the surface, the Duke of New Mark still said with a pleasant face: "Hehe, although there are a few bandits and poor robbers, we don't need the help of foreign troops, we will deal with it properly." I actually wanted to go overseas this time. ”

Juan laughed secretly when he heard this, and he endured it for a while before saying to Salian, "Haha, the New World is indeed very mysterious. There are many novelties in this shop, such as potatoes, which were accidentally discovered by our seafarers. ”

Salian thought he should hear everything he had to say about the New World, so he smiled and asked, "Hehe, what interesting facts about potatoes can I tell you?" ”

"Your Excellency, then please listen to me slowly. It is native to the southern coastline of the New World, but it is not well known whether it exists inland, and it will take time to investigate, so it will not be mentioned for the time being. It is only said that one day, an expedition ship of our country sailed south along the coast of the New World, and when it reached a cliff, the crew saw that there were strange flowers on it, which were extremely enchanting and beautiful. It's a pity that they all grow on the cliff and can't be imagined. They continued southward, and at last they came across a winding fjord, where they dropped anchor and climbed the cliff to get the flower. ”

Juan took a sip of wine and continued.

"The crew thought that this flower would not be able to be kept for a long time, but it was just to put it on the ship and watch it relieve boredom. Ordinary flowers cannot last long even if they are placed in a bottle and watered with water. They found the flower to be extremely large, and they thought it was a little different, so they kept it in the hold of the ship and left it to fend for itself. When they returned to Mullarsen three months later, they were surprised to find that the flowers had withered, but new shoots had sprouted from their rhizomes. The crew immediately buried it in the earth, and soon the flowers were back in bloom. Later, some idlers tried the tubers and felt that they were soft and sweet, and they could be used in the dish. ”

"Haha, the origin of this thing is really extraordinary,"

"Yes, it is not surprising that it grows in the bitter cold of the cliffs, and the rhizome is well developed. ”

Hearing this, Salian suddenly remembered something, and he immediately asked again.

"Brother Juan, you just said that the native environment of potatoes is very bad?"

"Yes, the land on the top of the mountain is barren and the altitude is high, isn't it a bitter cold place?"

"Haha, thank you for telling me so much, this thing might help me a lot. What else do you want to eat, I'm in for a treat!"

"I have enough wine, and all I drink is to wish Her Majesty a long life. Juan raised his glass in the direction of the palace, and drank it all.

"Okay, then I'll pay for as much as you want to drink. But you must know the boss here, right!?"

"Haha, I have one of the shareholders here. The more Juan spoke, the happier he became.

"That's good, I want to buy some fresh potatoes, the more the better. ”

"Oh, you like it so much that you want to bring it back to your own territory?"

"Yes, I do love it. ”

"No problem, come with me!"

After returning to the inn with Yulia, Salian looked at the bag of tubers that could be used as seeds in his room and thought carefully, and finally decided to let Yulia go back and not participate in the dragon hunt.

"Brother, is this really so important?"

"It may not be important, it may also be important, send it to my most barren land for trial planting! If it can be done, the strength of my new Duke Mark will change dramatically. You are the person I trust the most right now, and this task can only be entrusted to you. ”

Yulia naturally didn't want to give up such a fun thing and go back alone, so she asked again: "Heixingen doesn't mention it for the time being, so many places in the border region have to be planted?"

"Hehe, this is extremely important, needless to say, you've worked hard for a trip. Salian held out his hand and continued, "And give me the Temporal Ring." I know, this thing is naturally yours, I'm just borrowing it, and I'll pay you back when I come back, and there's another reward. ”

Yulia knew that it was useless to argue, so she had to leave in a huff.

As a result, although he lost one of his troops before he could set out, Salian was very happy, because the benefits of the New World had already been felt.

After three days of pleasure, Salian rode with the rest of his crew to the outer harbor of Alcalá, from where they boarded the Trinity, a new galleon bound for the New World, a ship with a displacement of 1,500 tons, built to celebrate the Pope's conferment of the title of Virgin by the Pope, and took a year and 50,000 florins.

"A new ship, a first voyage, a new continent route, there's always something strange?" Salian muttered as he looked at the behemoth.

"Your Excellency, do you have a bad feeling too?" asked Miss Fernanda beside him, who had never seen the sea, let alone crossed the ocean.

"Brother, don't worry, even if the ship sinks, it doesn't matter, when the time comes, let you see my sister and I in the sea. The half-blood demon's younger sister, Tiates, finally agreed to call him her brother after Salian's repeated pleas, and stopped talking about her brother-in-law. Salian also paid a lot of money for this.

Duke New Mark smiled and said, "Oh, I seem to understand a little, can you use that power to survive in the sea." ”

"You're smart, so don't worry. My fake brother. ”

Because of Queen Lydia's care, the captain personally received Sallian and arranged them in two rooms above deck in the bow, which were relatively independent and the environment was not bad, which was the so-called sea view room. Salian lived in the larger room with his skin-to-skin relatives, Herkiamus, Aphroa, and Kovanne (Vigri), while Tiates and Fernanda, the two little girls, lived in the smaller room. The young little devil and the little nun would become good friends, so Salian didn't expect it.

"Isn't it nice that my sister lacks playmates of the same age. "Since my sister said so, it can't be wrong.

Salian was so happy to be able to sleep with the three beauties, during which he even told Hekiamus the secret of Vigri, the vine of hell.

It's just that the food that can be provided on the ship is too poor, and in addition to pickled vegetables and bread, the best food is a simple food made of sun-dried potato flour, mixed with water, and sprinkled with some salt.

Salian, who doesn't care about appetites, thinks it's delicious, and the demon sisters who have fought since childhood, Aphroa, who came from a poor peasant family, and Vigri, the necromantic plant, don't care, but for the pampered Miss Fernanda, there are no delicious pastries, and the vertigo when she first gets on the ship makes her suffer from a nightmare.

Fortunately, the Ring of Time and Space that Aphroa brought and the ring left by Yulia still had some delicious food, and Salian's meticulous care finally allowed her to get through the most difficult period.

It is said that there is no shortage of wine on board, because it is not easy to spoil and is suitable for long-term storage at sea, and the captain is a master wine taster, and there are many fine wines in his private collection. The veteran sailor, Julio, who had been traveling the world for decades, had had several drinks with the Queen's celebrity, Salian, and had known each other for a long time.

"Your Excellency, how about my fifty-year-old bottle of Brandi and my thirty-year-old Riesling. It is also extremely rare. ”

"Well, it's all really good wine. You are indeed a connoisseur. My territory also produces Riesling, so I'll have a chance to bring you a few bottles. And you're so polite, there's a secret to be revealed to you. ”

"Something to do with wine?"

"That's natural, you've seen the young nun who came with me, she's not a small one, and you have a chance to get her right. Because her father is the lord of the city of Porundi Charo, and she's an only child, you understand?"

"Ah, it turns out that this young lady is the heiress of the best winery in the whole continent. Congratulations, Your Excellency, I can see her attachment to you, and in a few years, those wineries will be in your pocket. ”

After they drank several glasses in a row, Salian asked.

"Monsieur Julio, since I went out to sea, I have always wondered why we did not sail directly to the west, but to the south? ”

"Haha, Your Excellency is very observant, we are indeed heading south, and we will continue to do so for the next two weeks. ”

"Is there any special reason for this? ”

"This is the great secret of our plane, the lesson of our accustomed seafarers. Please come with me, Your Excellency. ”

The two men came to the large table in the captain's chamber with their glasses, and Salian saw that a large chart was spread out on the table, many more lines than the one the queen had given him.

Julio noticed the confusion in Salian's eyes and explained with a smile: "Hehe, this is our special boat, which marks the direction of the ocean current. You see, if we start from the port and go west, we will go upstream, very slowly, and we will go south and then west, and we will follow the direction of the current, and let it carry us much faster than if we were sailing in a straight line. ”

"Hehe, sure enough, this is your domain! No one in my country knows about it. ”