They walked into the house together, the hall where the people of Grizzly Fort received them during the day.

However, it is a hall, but in fact, the space is not large, it is the cross-section of the tower, and there are no other columns and walls to block it. The limestone fort is built on a raised hill, and the construction conditions itself are not good, and it is impossible to build a building with a span of too much, so it is basically the space of three bedrooms together. It is estimated that this will be a temporary conference room during the war.

Entering the hall, the charcoal in the brazier was still burning, providing warmth for the whole room, but Grizzly Bear was located in the south-central part of Kislev, and it was not the harsh winter season, so with Rod and Caroline's constitution, it was not really needed so much.

The overhead windows are closed, made of honeycomb-shaped pieces of glass, and a simple kerosene lamp is placed in each of the four corners of the hall. Since the interior is much brighter than the outside, you can hardly see the outside world when you look out of the glass window, only the figures inside the house.

Caroline took off her woollen cloak as soon as she entered the door, the Frost Witches were not very afraid of the cold, not because they were strong enough to protect them from the cold, but because their bodies were cold and could not feel the cold. The body temperature of a low-level witch like Caroline is probably two to three degrees lower than that of ordinary people, while some high-level witches can have a body temperature of more than ten degrees lower than that of ordinary people. Touching their skin is like touching ice, and of course, ordinary people don't have a chance to touch their skin......

Rhodes walked over to the simple table, poured the coffee powder in his hand into the cup, and then poured the hot water into it, the water was not warm enough to boil, first left it on the table to cool for a while, and then began to bubble. Normally, 85-92°C is the optimal water temperature, but there is no such thing as a thermometer, so you can only feel it.

"You seem to be very particular about that. ”

Caroline sat on a chair in the middle of the hall and asked curiously.

"Oh, what?"

Rhodes brewed his coffee and put the spoon in it and stirred it slowly.

"Coffee, drinks, life aspects. ”

Caroline returns. Her voice was crisp and relaxed, after all, it was a rare time without war and danger. The castle was guarded, who, as messengers, had little to no worries about personal safety. After all, if the Grizzly Fort Lord didn't want to receive the Queen's people, then the city gates would have been closed to them a long time ago.

"Oh, that is. In fact, you can see that I am dusty every day, and I am very casual about food and daily life, because I have no choice in such an environment, and I don't have to choose. If there are good conditions, I also want to live a delicate life, and the pursuit of a better life is everyone's common yearning, isn't it?"

Rhodes said.

"You're being honest. ”

Caroline laughed.

"There's nothing wrong with being honest, many people say they don't care on the surface and act dismissive, but in fact they desire a lot more on the inside. Let's admit it, in fact, we are all laymen, we don't have such high ideals and ambitions, and we are just busy to survive. ”

Rod sighed.

The coffee gradually brewed, and the aroma was faintly permeating the room.

"What brand of coffee is this?"

Caroline asked. She looked at the black liquid in the glass and couldn't help but wonder again.

"I don't know if it's good to have coffee in Blackhammer Castle, where would you care about its brand. These coffees were imported from the Empire, and I don't know how many times they have changed hands when they have been shipped here, and it is already very good that they will not deteriorate. ”

Rod replied, took the cup to his lips and took a sip, this taste is similar to a certain coffee brand he drank in his previous life, except that there is no added sugar, it is very bitter, but it is also very mellow. All right

"It would be nice to add some milk and sugar. Rod muttered to himself.

"Indeed......," Caroline agreed, taking a sip. The firelight reflected the girl's delicate skin, and there was still a trace of black coffee stains on her light red lips.

"It doesn't taste very good," Rhodes said, frowning, "but unfortunately, the best coffee beans are hard to come by." ”

"What's the best coffee? ”

Caroline was interested, and tonight, she seemed to have a new understanding of the man in front of her. He's not as rough and funny as he seems, and he's just hanging out with hooligan ruffians, but on the contrary, he has an unknown side.

"The best coffee is a Quava mink coffee. Rod said, a wicked smile on his lips. "I don't know if you've heard of it. ”

"It doesn't seem like there's a ......"

Caroline replied with a pout.

"Well, I hope what I'm going to say doesn't affect your appetite. ”

"You say, my resistance is very good. ”

The Frost Witch said, she clamped the cup with her fingers and blew lightly on the cold air to cool the coffee inside, it was too hot to swallow.

"Okay, then I said it. In the far-flung region of Arabi, near the equator, there are unknown islands where a small ferret called the quava marten lives. The animal's favorite food is fresh coffee beans, but they can't digest this food, so after eating it and walking around the body, it will be excreted intact to form mink coffee. This is the prototype of the Kwava mink coffee. ”

After Rod finished speaking, Caroline almost spat out the coffee in her mouth, the expression on her face distorted and exaggerated. Even though Rhodes gave her a vaccination in advance, the source of this food still made her unacceptable, and she looked like she was about to vomit.

"I told you to be prepared...... Rod said with a wicked smile, "but don't worry, we're not drinking that kind of coffee." Coffee from a Kwava mink is not something you can drink if you want to, firstly, this animal is very few and is only distributed in a few specific areas, and secondly, not every Quava mink has a chance to eat coffee beans, and secondly, you have to find the feces that he excretes after eating. And the artificially bred Kwava mink forced them to eat coffee beans, and the mink coffee produced did not have that taste. ”

"Unthinkable ......"

Caroline made a vomiting and nauseous look.

"Rest assured, it will be processed, washed, and removed from the mink feces and various impurities on it. The principle is that the coffee beans are fermented without digestion in the Kwava mink, which gives the coffee beans a unique aroma. ”

Rod smiled again and explained.

"How do you know that?"

Caroline asked.

"Study, read, just like you learn magic, I'm not a mage, but I can still read other books. ”

Rod returned with a smile.