A sunset was already setting on the ridge, and dusk was approaching.

The villagers who had been busy all day rushed back to the village one after another, and the kobold slaves on the other side of the river bend tidal flats also returned to the shack at the entrance of the village, and the five large steaming drawers in front of the village entrance steam steamed, and opened the top steaming drawer, which was mixed with a large amount of cassava, a small amount of wheat bran and miscellaneous grains, and a bowl of vegetable soup with a salty taste, which made these kobolds digging in the riverbed almost bite their tongues.

Apparently, kobold slaves had not eaten such delicious food for a long time.

The food on the reservoir site was noticeably much better than that of the kobold slaves, scones and multigrain porridge with some pickled dried vegetables, the best food available to most villagers outside the pass in the spring, when there was a grain shortage everywhere. The bricklayers who made a fortune in Vol Village last year waited for the permafrost to melt and rushed out of the villages and forcibly advanced the second phase of the reservoir project by half a month.

The villagers of Wall Village gather in the village square, and every time there is a bonfire dinner, the whole village gathers here to wait for a bowl of fragrant mutton soup.

Two large iron pots were erected in the square in the center of the village, and the five yellow sheep that had been skinned and washed were placed on wooden mounds and cut into pieces, and the cooks poured pots of mutton into the boiling iron pot, adding almost nothing but a little herb and shallots, and the smell of the broth could drift far away.

In the past, this kind of bonfire dinner would only kill one sheep at a time, but since the village monopolized the Beigou pasture and the sulfur mines in the rocky area of Pubao Mountain, the village became richer, and the old village chief Bright asked the butcher who slaughtered the sheep to kill two more at each dinner, and this time there were five, one was for Surdak to catch the wind, and the other was specially prepared for the ogre Gulitem.

Selena has the best skills in cooking mutton soup in the village, Selena is responsible for cooking mutton soup at every bonfire dinner, she wears an apron and stands by the big iron pot, still looks graceful, her daughter Xigna squats obediently next to the big iron pot as usual, waiting for the fat yellow mutton in the soup pot, but Xigna is no longer the skinny little girl last year, after a winter of nourishment, her little face has become red, compared with other children in the village, Xigena is much quieter.

She doesn't like to play with children her age very much, and often habitually hides in Selena's skirt.

Signa turned her head to look at Surdak at the stove not far away, and her big eyes blinked.

She didn't understand what a knight could cook......

With Rita's help, Surdak put on an apron and stood next to an iron pot, and the iron pot was crowded with villagers, even Rita and Natasha were crowded in the crowd of onlookers and looked at Surdak curiously, and the village women were talking to each other, their eyes were full of doubts, and they didn't understand what kind of food could be made from this white juice extracted from cassava.

The boiling water in the pot is constantly churning......

Surdak poured the water starch into the boiling water, and then used a large wooden spoon to stir the iron pot until the water starch in the iron pot was stirred into a viscous and translucent paste, and then with Andrew's help, the large iron pot was removed from the stove.

Surdak believes that the most indispensable thing for food to be a good food is to have a good story.

He put the large iron pot into a stone trough filled with water, and said to the surrounding villagers: "When I was serving in the military in Warsaw, I once went to a small seaside town, and the people there were not only good at cooking seafood, but also knew how to extract this white starch from plant roots and make all kinds of delicious food...... So far, it should have been successful, and the next step is to cool it down and wait until you can taste this delicious food. ”

"Do you want to put it in cold water and let it cool?" Rita, who was standing in the crowd, asked Surdak.

She probably asked for the village women around her, who didn't dare to ask a random question to a knight lord now.

"Hmm......" Surdak replied with a nod to Rita.

When the stew in the iron pot has cooled a little, Surdak uses the peeling team to cut the stew into small cubes of one inch square, and the cooked blank needs to be fried again to be delicious. Surdak rubbed some mutton fat on the pan, cut the stews side by side on the pan, and after browning all six sides, sprinkled with some vanilla crumbles and sauce, and the aroma spread at once.

Of course, the boil in the Surdak iron pot could not be enough for the whole village to eat, so he chose the children in the village to eat first, he put the stewed seeds full of sauce into a small wooden bowl, looking at the pair of eyes full of expectation, Surdak felt that he was touched to the softest place in his heart at once, among this group of children, there are little Peter, there are also Signa, looking at the sauce on the corners of their mouths, their eyes are full of amazement at the food, Surdak feels that his heart is completely melted.

Selena looked at Surdak's intently side face as she bent over and distributed food to the children with a spatula, and suddenly felt that her heart was full.

……

It turns out that in this way, the toxins in cassava can be completely removed, and the starch in cassava can be refined......

The topic of conversation at dinner suddenly changed to the topic of cassava.

Subsequently, the old village chief Bright issued a gag order on the 'refining and extraction method of cassava':

Whoever dares to let this method of refining and extracting it out of the village of Wall will be convicted of embezzling the private property of the Surdak knights, and will be the enemy of the whole village. Standing on a big stone in the middle of the village, the village chief Bright admonished a group of Wall villagers who were holding large wooden bowls and drinking sheep soup and nibbling wheat cakes:

"Tomorrow it would be a waste of ......food to let the coachmen in the carriage shop come back with more wheat bran and give cassava to this group of kobold slaves to eat," said the old village chief, Bright, to Charley, who was beside him.

“……”

Charlie was speechless at his father's double-faced words.

The village chief of Bright decided that night, starting tomorrow, the village will refine and extract tapioca starch in large quantities, whether these tapioca starch will become one of the main foods in the village in the future, or sell it to the city, as long as this method of refining and extracting tapioca starch is not leaked, there will be a huge profit in it.

……

After dinner, Surdak returned home early with ogres, half-elves, indigenous warriors, and succubi.

Everyone in the village is a little afraid of the ogre Gulitham, and when they see him, they will unconsciously avoid him, which is for the ogre Gulitem, who likes to be reasonable, I don't know if the villagers' xenophobic emotions will hit him, and he may be a little lost.

Some of the young people in the village were eager to see Samira's face hidden under his hood, so they always approached Samira, consciously or unconsciously, and Surdak was very worried that Samira would get impatient and shoot an arrow, which would not end well.

As for Aphrodite, Surdak knew that her mana had not been lost, and he was really a little worried that this demon descendant would not be able to help but secretly charm a few villagers, and it would be very troublesome to make their families discord at that time.

Compared to others, Andrew blends in well with the villagers, and little Peter likes to chat with Andrew and begs Andrew to teach him fighting skills.

Little Peter's request Andrew was certainly not good at refusing.

So the indigenous warrior Andrew stood in the courtyard, holding a large axe, and taught little Peter some simple fighting skills.

For this indigenous warrior with the 'soul of a berserker', there is no doubt that offense is the best defense, which is obviously the complete opposite of Surdak's theory about the fighting skills of shield warriors, but I believe that little Peter probably doesn't understand these things at this level, and what he needs most now is to lay a good foundation.

Sheila Sr. sat in the doorway and watched Andrew teach little Peter, with an eager look in her eyes.

Samira took an apple and soaked it in the big wooden barrel of the bathroom with Aphrodite, the climate in the city of Warzhmara is not so dry, and it has been nearly half a month since she went out, and she has erected a knight's boundary monument in Pupu Mountain, and she has no chance to take a bath at all, which is simply unbearable for Samira, who loves cleanliness. The succubus Aphrodite and Samira huddled together, when she lived in the hell realm, it was rare to take a bath once in a few years, and now that she has the opportunity to enjoy it, she can't wait to sleep in the bathtub......

Gulit ate a whole yellow sheep tonight, drank a big pot of mutton soup, had a round belly, and slept better than anyone else in the cowshed by the wall, and the cows of the old Sheila's house were squeezed out of the cowshed, lying aside and chewing silently, staring silently at the ogre in the cowshed, with a trace of saliva hanging on the corner of his mouth.

Surdak took the opportunity to get rid of everyone and sneaked out of the yard.

Tomorrow he was going back to the city of Highlandza, and tonight he wanted to say goodbye to Selena, and this time back to the village of Wall, the two of them had not yet spoken properly.

……

Selena folded her apron, handed over the finishing work such as cleaning the iron pot to a few village women, and pulled Signa out of the village square.

Becoming the assistant and clerk of the village chief of Bright, Selena's status in the village of Wall has been significantly improved, and now no one in the village dares to talk about her behind her back, she knows that all this is because there is Surdak standing behind her, it is this man who suddenly walked up to her in her most difficult days, stretched out a strong and powerful hand to her, and pulled her out of nightmares and fears.

Selena lowered her head, thinking about the past in her mind as she walked, and when she reached the gate of the courtyard, she saw Surdak sitting under the chestnut tree.

"Why are you here!" Selena ran up to Surdak with a look of surprise on her face.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Selena led Surdakla into the courtyard.

The two of them didn't care about the feelings of little Signa standing on the side, and hugged each other tightly until Selena felt a little suffocated, and the two separated.

At this time, Surdak held Selena's white face and whispered: "I will return to Hylanza City tomorrow, and I will rush to the guard camp to report, I can't delay too long in the village, I want to see you before leaving." ”

Selena's face turned red, her blue eyes were full of sweetness, and there was a faint smile on her lips.

Just as Selena was looking at Surdak affectionately, she heard a timid voice next to her whisper, "Surdak, can you lend me this album to see?" ”

Surdak glanced down, only to realize that little Signa was holding the Dark Mage Cyrus in her hand. Hickok's magical notes.

He didn't know when he would have put this magic notebook, which should have been in his magic pocket.

For the sensible and well-behaved and timid Signa, he can't bear to refuse.

Reached out and touched Xigna's head, and told her: "This is not an ordinary picture book, this is a very powerful magician's notes, the illustrations in it are some magic patterns, if you feel dizzy when you look at these patterns, you must stop, otherwise the magic backlash will bring some damage to your spiritual world, you still have the opportunity to awaken the magic pool when you are twelve years old, before that, you can't be too careful......"

"Got it." Little Signa smiled sweetly at Surdak.

Surdak and Selena didn't have to meet this time and couldn't wait to roll into bed.

Signa sat at the small wooden table in the room, flipping through her magic notes.

The page turned to the last page, and Celia. Cooper secretly rolled her eyes at Signa and squeezed out a blunt smile at the girl, she wanted to tell Surdak what the little devil in front of her was doing to her, but when she thought of the oath she was forced to make, she quickly and subconsciously closed her mouth.

Surdak and Selena chatted about some of the stories that happened in the winter of Highlanda, and some of the experiences in the city of Vozhmara, and Selena listened to them with relish.

When she heard that Marquis Luthor had written a letter of recommendation for Surdak, Selena covered her mouth in surprise and said:

"So, you still have the possibility of being promoted to nobility?"

Surdak took Selena's soft hand and said:

"There are probably some chances, saying that it is because I can perceive the magical elements of the divine attributes."

Selena pursed her lips and smiled, rubbed her hand against his face, and said:

"That lord recommended you to become a nobleman, I am afraid that I will regard you as a cronie in the future, and in order to further stabilize your relationship, it is inevitable that you will be stuffed with a noble lady in the future."

Surdak was slightly stunned:

"I already have a wife, right?"

Selena smiled and didn't speak.

Surdak half-lay on Selena's round and elastic thighs, looked up at her delicate face, and asked her, "Do you want to go with me to the city of Highlandza?" ”

Selena didn't expect Surdak to send such an invitation, she was slightly stunned, and then laughed and said, "Me? Forget it, maybe I will definitely go to see it when I have the opportunity in the future, but not now, I'm afraid it will bring unnecessary trouble, and besides, I'm really good here, why should I risk going to Hylanza City? ”

Seeing Selena's refusal, Surdak didn't say anything more.

The two chatted like this for a while before reluctantly leaving Selena's residence.

Walking on the gravel-covered road in the village, the cool night breeze blowing on his face, Surdak actually had many feelings......

When he first woke up from the battlefield, Surdak often thought about the meaning of his life in this strange world.

Later, when his first change of mind was when he went to battle with the second squad, he felt that fighting with his companions was the meaning of life.

Later, I felt that living in a small village in the countryside and living an ordinary life might be the meaning of life, and when Surdak stepped into the village of Wall, he saw Sheila Sr., Rita, Natasha and Little Peter, and it became the meaning of life to give his family a better life, and now Surdak feels that the value of his existence is to bring a rich life to the whole Wallvillage......

Looking up at the starry night sky, his handsome young face seemed to be smiling and waving at him in the night sky.

Then it turned into countless stars and dissipated into the night sky......