Chapter Seventy-Four: Prairie Night
In the middle of the camp, a half-meter-high platform was also built with the earth dug during the trench digging, and a strong light was raised in the middle of the platform, under the light, the mercenaries sat on the ground in groups of three or five and began to enjoy a sumptuous dinner.
Although the employer is a very generous person, he is in the wilderness, the supplies he can carry are very limited, and he must use them sparingly in order to deal with emergencies, so even the most generous employer cannot let the mercenaries enjoy the fine food in the city.
However, no matter how scarce the supplies are, enough meat can still be provided, and in the stove on the platform, there is a raging fire, and meat cooked by various methods is constantly baked, roasted, fried, boiled, and fried.
Thumb-thick strips of meat were worn in strings on the fire, the scorching flames licked the browned meat skewers, and the transparent grease slowly dripped from the meat skewers, constantly making a slight sizzling sound, and the aroma of the meat mixed with the aroma of cumin and chili pepper stimulated everyone's salivary glands.
On the other stove was a large iron plate, the iron plate, the two-centimeter-thick meat steak was cut into two palm-sized pieces, the muscle fibers of the meat steak had been broken up, and from the camp, it was marinated in the sauce for more than two hours, once it was put on the iron plate to fry, the heat quickly made the surface of the meat steak turn gray-brown, and the smell of the sauce was wrapped in the aroma of the meat, which was not inferior to the barbecue.
However, people's attention may not be attracted by them, because there is a large cauldron on the side, and the cauldron is just full of water, and a few sections of green onion and ginger float on the surface of the water. Large pieces of bone-in meat are thrown into the pan whole, and the fresh meat is quickly scalded and discolored by the boiling water. The bone-in meat only needs to be tumbled in the pan for an hour, and it is already cooked from the inside out. Grab the bone and hold it in your hand, and as long as you tear it gently, a large lump of flesh will be separated from the bone. After that, you only need to rub it vigorously on the coarse salt plate, you can put the whole piece into your mouth, the meat is tender and chewy, and the simple meat flavor bursts in the mouth with the coarse salt, and it is rough and full of grassland breath.
It's not that mercenaries only love meat, it's just that as capable people, after their physical fitness is strengthened by source energy, in addition to obtaining a quality far beyond ordinary people, they also need to supplement a lot of energy from food to support the consumption of the body, so they can only eat a lot of meat, and only in this way can their physical functions keep up. Over time, even mercenaries who don't like meat have become meatless, so roses, which like vegetarian food, are regarded as alien by crows.
Theoretically, it is difficult to have such a sumptuous dinner on the march in the wilderness, and most of the time, the travelers in the wilderness can only roast the jerky or catch a few rats and lizards to satisfy their hunger. But this is a grassland, one of the most abundant food resources in the wilderness, and there is never a shortage of meat here, even if it is enough for dozens of people to eat, of course, if you have the ability.
Of course, this team has this ability, Cao Jue is one of the best hunters in the Maple Leaf Continent, for him, this place is simply full of food, even with his eyes closed, he can make a mountain of meat pile up in half an hour.
Therefore, when the convoy caught up with Cao Jue, there were two antelopes, a grassland deer, and even a four-horned elk on the ground, so the sumptuous dinner became an unexpected surprise for the team today.
"Walking through the forest, stepping through the grassland, climbing the mountains, crossing the rivers, we are unrestrained, we enjoy the joy, we sing and drink, we are the four seas as our home, we are mercenaries......"
Under the lights, the singing of the mercenary song echoed in the night sky of the grassland, and on the empty field, the song floated into the distance.
No one can remember when or from whom this song came out, but unconsciously, this nameless song that depicts the pain and joy, laughter and tears of the mercenaries began to be sung among the mercenaries.
Because the lyrics sang the hearts of the mercenaries, this song was named the mercenary song by the mercenaries since when, and the spread is getting bigger and bigger, and it has gradually become a famous song that every mercenary on the Maple Leaf Continent must know.
Gulping down fresh meat, the mercenaries who didn't need to be on duty sang the mercenary's song and raised their wine glasses. During the mission, although the employers cannot forcibly prohibit the mercenaries from drinking, they will not provide the mercenaries with spirits, after all, no employer wants to hire a group of drunks, and if everyone is drunk during the battle, they will cry without tears.
However, a few glasses of light wine can be provided, a little alcohol is harmless, and it can stimulate the mood of the mercenaries, and no one will forcibly oppose it.
Of course, no one will make restrictions on high-level mercenaries, and those who can go this far are not reckless people who can't control themselves, they all know what they are doing, and they will be responsible for what they do, and they don't need to ask for anything from their employers.
So, when the female leopard poured the whole pot of liquor with almost medical alcohol concentration into her mouth, all the outsiders in the vicinity just looked at her with a hellish look, but no one said anything.
"What are you looking at, haven't you ever seen anyone drinking?" The female leopard showed a hideous expression to a few mercenaries passing by, as if she wanted to eat people, "The old lady has also drunk pure alcohol, do you want to taste it too?"
A few poor young men immediately shook their heads vigorously, for fear that they would be caught and poured pure alcohol if they were too late, and after glad to see that the female leopard had no intention of taking action, they fled back to their own eating place without looking back.
Yes, the low-level mercenaries and the high-level ones are even separated from each other, and no one thinks there is anything wrong with this, the lion never accompanies the sheep, and the strong will not have any intersection with the weak, the low-level and high-level contact is completely two worlds, and forcibly bringing the two sides together will only make everyone uncomfortable, it is better to let the two sides operate in their own circles as they are now.
Therefore, among the people present, no one could change this habit, and no one wanted to change it, Mi Xin didn't want to, and neither did the crow.
However, Ah Xi hoped, because although he looked entangled, he still walked towards the circle where the high-level mercenaries were eating.
"Hehehehehe. The crow had already seen Ah Xi's actions, and pushed his glasses to let out a string of low laughter, "Interesting, it must have come to me, is there a decision, that really surprised me, I thought it would take many days before he could give me an answer." ”
"Hehe, Mr. Raven is bullying Ah Xi again. "For more than ten days, everyone has seen that the crow always likes to this young man, and Mi Xin is certainly no exception.
"How so. Raven smiled and said, "I just want to negotiate a deal with him, a good deal." Hehehe, isn't it, Brother Axi. ”
"Let's borrow a step. Ah Xi took a deep breath and whispered with a solemn face, "There is something I want to talk about in private." ”
"Okay. Raven nodded, "Come over here." ”[.]