Chapter 14: Two or Three Things About Bread

I can finally do without dry food!

In the past few days, the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village have not been waiting to see Ziggy, the new village chief sent by the Empire, and Ziggy and his party eat dry bread during their travels and sleep on hard floors. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

But it doesn't matter, with the support of Daddy Chuck, basically this village chief will be the head of the village, at least in the morning, you can eat hot and fragrant bread.

In the eagerness of Ziggy and his guards, Daddy Chuck and a few villagers brought a plate of toasted bread, which was cut into slices and stacked one by one, most of these slices of bread were brown or black, and two of them were white, and at a glance they were cut by ordinary white bread.

This large plate of bread is so tempting to look at!

Look at those black breads, they must be chocolate-flavored breads, right?

Although two slices of ordinary white bread were mixed in, it can be seen how simple the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village are, they must have given themselves all the good chocolate-flavored bread, and they were afraid that Zigg's group would not be able to eat enough, so they added two more slices of ordinary white bread!

Ziggy looked at Daddy Chuck, and Daddy Chuck also seemed to be a little apologetic, smiled at Ziggy and said: "Village Chief, originally, you saved my daughter and my grandson, we should treat you, you are a noble lord, you must not be used to eating our ordinary bread, but there are so many good breads, we have taken them out, I hope not to dislike it!"

"That's all there is to it...... Ziggy thinks Daddy Chuck is too polite, quietly! Daddy Chuck is still sorry for the chocolate-flavored bread mixed with two slices of white bread!

The good bread is these black! That's all for yourself! It's obvious that people did their best to give all the good bread to Ziggy, and then they were afraid that Ziggy wouldn't have enough to eat, so they added two slices of white bread to it!

It must be so, Daddy Chuck is so simple!

How can this work? Ziggy is not a picky eater, and it is not the time to say that picky eaters are not picky eaters, and after eating dry food all the way, now they can eat hot and freshly baked bread, or chocolate-flavored bread, it is time to be content!

What is two slices of plain white bread in it?

This can't be compared with Daddy Chuck! This family is already entertaining themselves, but they are really poor, and they have no choice but to add two slices of white bread!

"It's okay, Daddy Chuck, we're not unreasonable, you've already given us the best chocolate bread, what else can we say?" Ziggy waved his hand, trying to show his generosity in a bigger direction, and he would be the village chief in the future!

Seeing Zigge's nonchalant expression, Daddy Chuck was relieved, and it was obvious that Daddy Chuck was secretly relieved, but Daddy Chuck immediately remembered something that confused him, looked at Zig a little uncertainly, and asked, "Uh...... What is chocolate-flavored bread?"

By this time, Ziggy had already picked up a slice of black bread and was putting it in his mouth.

Ziggy thought to himself, how good it would be to be able to eat chocolate-flavored bread in the other world!

At the moment when the chocolate-flavored bread entered his mouth, Ziggy heard Daddy Chuck ask what chocolate was, and a bad premonition flashed through his mind, but he ate it first!

It's been a long time since I've eaten chocolate-flavored bread!

But the next moment, after just two bites, Ziggy's face changed! This piece of black bread, which Ziggy thought was "chocolate-flavored bread", was hard and unpalatable, and although it had the aroma of freshly baked bread, it didn't taste like that, and it didn't have the soft feeling that bread should have, and it was a little astringent!

"This ...... This...... This is...... What?" Ziggy quickly spit out the "chocolate-flavored bread" in his mouth, and stammered to Daddy Chuck, the slice of bread in his hand and a large arc-shaped tooth mark from Zigger!

"This is black bread, and I have long known that the village chief will not be used to eating it, so I will bring you all the white bread from our house. It is estimated that Daddy Chuck was also not very happy with Ziggy's behavior, but he was embarrassed to show it on his face, so he emphasized that he took out all the white bread at home and gave it to Ziggy.

"Daddy Chuck, it's not that I dislike your black bread, it's just this ......" Ziggy didn't know how to explain, seeing that Daddy Chuck was a little frustrated, and wanted to say that he didn't dislike these black breads, but it was really hard to swallow.

At first, Ziggy thought that the brown bread was chocolate-flavored, and that the black bread was the best bread, and the white bread was the worst.

In fact, it is the other way around, white bread is the best bread, and the good bread that Daddy Chuck says refers to is white bread, and ordinary bread is this unpalatable black bread!

"Daddy Chuck, you usually eat bread like this?" Ziggy quickly changed the subject, otherwise how embarrassing it would be.

"Yes!" Daddy Chuck replied curtly.

Through Daddy Chuck's narration, Ziggy learned that the villagers of Grizzly Village actually didn't have much food to make bread on, and those two slices of white bread were originally prepared for Daddy Chuck's newly produced daughter, that is, Belinda, the wife of Blacksmith Finn!

So how did so much brown bread come about?

Black bread also has flour ingredients, but unlike white bread, which is 100% baked flour, a lot of bark, wood chips, and straw are added to the flour, so that the baked bread will appear black or brown.

This kind of bread is more popular in the cold and snowy areas of the north, which can not only deceive the stomach, make yourself feel full, but also save food.

So is this kind of brown bread that the villagers usually eat?

The answer is: no!

This kind of black bread can only be made when there is something good at home, and the villagers of Grizzly Village usually eat mostly potatoes, and sometimes pick wild fruits and berries in the nearby mountains and forests.

"Then I saw so many farmlands in the village, aren't they all grown with grain?" Hearing this, Ziggy also asked the question in his heart, because in the past two days, Qige has been wandering around, and he has long seen that there are many fields in the village, and most of them are planted with grain except for potatoes.

It's just that the grain has already been harvested, and if you want to eat it again, you will have to wait until next year, Ziggy doesn't believe that the villagers can't eat so much food? But Ziggy doesn't believe in Chuck's father, but wants to know where all the grain goes.

"The tithes of the church, the taxes on the farmlands to the tax collectors of the towns, the imperial taxes of the empire, the taxes of the nobles, and ...... The temporary war tax ...... of the previous noble knight village chiefs, "Daddy Chuck closed his eyes and didn't want to speak, but there were many of them, one tax and one tax, as if he was complaining, as if he was settling accounts, and as if he was recalling some painful experience, and finally answered Zigger's question."

So why weren't potatoes taxed?