Chapter 24: A Little Food Shock
At noon, the dragon hunting mercenary group stopped with Lu Xi and rested on the spot.
The route chosen by Luxi is northwest of Kuwa village, and from the map, it is first a vast plain, then a lake.
Clyde questioned the route Lu Xi had chosen, but there was nothing he could do, the direction of the novice mission was here, Lu Xi insisted repeatedly, and Clyde could only frown and approve of it.
As mentioned earlier, the direction displayed in the novice task guide will follow Lu Xi's moving position and adjust itself, but the direction of each guide is not directly located on the farm.
It's just that on the way to the farm, there will be many marker points, and when you reach one of them, you will unlock the next point.
Anyone who has played the game knows that when the system automatically finds its way, it takes a variety of remote and distant routes, and it can go around twice, not just once.
Unfortunately, Lu Xi's golden finger is the same.
It's not that Lu Xi can only follow the point prompted, in case Lu Xi has to take the route in the opposite direction, and it is getting farther and farther away from the point planned by the original game system, then re-plan the route to the nearest point.
And there is no need for Lu Xi to go to a specific location, just to reach the general range.
There are some unintelligent in intelligence, and some are quite intelligent in unintelligence.
Walking with the dragon hunting mercenary group, Lu Xi felt how convenient it was.
First Clyde gave the signal, and then Helen found a flat place to rest and brought the whole team over.
Then Xiulan used the earth element spell to remove all the weeds and stones on the ground to create a clean clearing, and Dina used the wood element spell to set up a defensive guard around it.
Others took turns patrolling and defending the perimeter.
And Lu Xi didn't need to do anything, she just watched the people of the Dragon Hunter Mercenary Group go about their work, and then sat in the seats prepared for her, and waited for the others to finish the work.
This made Lu Xi very unaccustomed to it, she didn't expect that it would be so easy to rush.
Clyde started the fire, he is an elemental warrior of the fire elemental attribute, although he is not like an elemental mage, he can easily make a fireball out, but it is still no problem to make a fire.
Dina took out some cooking tools from the contract package, skillfully set up a shelf on the fire, and put the metal pot on the shelf.
The pot is not big, and it can probably cook food for two people, which is obviously not enough for the whole team to eat, Lu Xi has not yet asked, and Xiu Lan next to him also took out his contract package, and took out a set of obviously larger, more expensive and more complete cooking tools from it.
However, he didn't do it himself, but Kagli put down Lu Xi's pile of luggage, took the cooking tools in Xiulan's hand, set up the pot, and skillfully fiddled with the pile of ingredients.
And then there's White, who also sets up the pot.
Lu Xi was puzzled, and Dina explained to Lu Xi that their dragon hunting mercenary group would often be divided into several squads and do things separately, so things like cooking tools or something were also divided into several parts, each with them.
You can't all take it all with one person, and then separate, and everyone else won't be able to eat.
"Miguel and I can only afford a contract package, and we usually leave things with me." Dina spoke, she and Miguel were a more inspirational little couple.
After becoming mercenaries, the two worked hard to make money together, first bought a feather horse king to travel for Dina, so that it was convenient to receive the bounty and hurry, and then bought a contract package to reduce the burden of luggage.
Even though Dina prefers the silver wolf, when choosing a magic pet, Dina still chooses the king of the feathered horses.
The reason is not only that the king of the feathers is more suitable for transportation, but also because it is cheaper.
The cost of the mercenary to apply for the magic pet certificate is different according to the type of magic pet, such as the feather horse king, a docile low-level monster whose relatives have no attack power, only need to spend a very cheap price to apply for the magic pet certificate.
But if you change to other low-level monsters with attack power, you will be charged according to the strength of your attack power, and the more powerful the magic pet, the more expensive it will be.
Like White's rainbow feather crane, the price of the magic pet proves to be cheaper than that of the feather horse king, but it is useless except for being beautiful.
And the silver wolf, although it is a low-level monster that is very close to each other, but their attack power is also one of the best among low-level monsters, and the price of applying for a magic pet certificate is very expensive.
"Actually, the boss and Sister Hailin's contract package also have these things, but they don't know how to cook for themselves, so they basically haven't taken them out and used them." Dina whispered to Lu Xi.
The dragon hunting mercenary group except for Miguel and Cagli has its own contract package, but Miguel shares one with Dina, and Kagli is purely too lazy to spend money to buy it, and he didn't see that the leather armor on his body has been damaged and has not been replaced.
If you have your own contract package, you will basically bring these commonly used living tools with you, just in case.
Needless to say, Dina can cook, Miguel can too, and White can do a little, mainly to coax girls to learn to cook, and the other is Cagli, who looks very rough and unsophisticated.
Lu Xi learned from Dina that Kagli turned out to be the best cook in the Dragon Hunter Mercenary Group, which was really unseemly.
Seeing that these people had already started to get busy cooking, Lu Xi couldn't sit still, it wasn't that she didn't like the feeling of opening her mouth with this kind of meal, but the food she had promised Xiaoyuan before was not done.
Now that he has time and opportunity, Lu Xi wants to complete the things he promised Xiaoyuan, and he can't be untrustworthy.
When leaving Kuwa Village, Lu Xi took new dishes and chopsticks from the carpenter, but he didn't take the cooking tools, because there were no metal pots in the village, like the metal pots taken out by the dragon hunting mercenary group, which were very scarce and expensive for civilians, and it was impossible to have extra stocks, and Lu Xi couldn't take people's pots off the stove and take them away.
So at this time, what Lu Xi wants to do, he can only borrow a set of kitchenware from the dragon hunting mercenary group, and according to Dina, Clyde and Helen have a set of kitchenware available.
Lu Xi looked around a few times, Ms. Hailin couldn't cook, but she couldn't eat in vain, she was hunting monsters around, Lu Xi couldn't see her figure, only Clyde who was guarding the rest camp on the side.
"Captain Clyde." Lu Xi said hello, there was a lot of movement when she walked over, and Clyde had already turned her face to look at her, waiting for her to speak.
Xiao Yuan and the young dragon followed Lu Xi left and right, like two protectors.
Xiao Yuan walked as light as a cat, and the bonus of the wind element made it almost silent when it fell to the ground.
It's a pity that the young dragon is not like this, it should be a creature that is used to flying, after seeing Lu Xi walking on two feet, I don't know why, I also walked with it, and no longer flew on its wings.
But the young dragon was huge and heavy, and it was not good at walking, and its two fat short legs were trembling when they stepped on the ground. It's hard not to be noticed, and even a deaf person can feel the tremors of the ground.
"Dina told me that you have a spare pot here, can you lend me some of it?" Lu Xi didn't grind, and directly explained his intention.
"You're going to cook?" Clyde looked at Lu Xi in surprise, a noble lady was actually preparing to cook for herself...... Well, she seems to have lived in the forest by herself for more than a month, so it doesn't seem too strange.
"Hmm." Lu Xi nodded, looking at Clyde's eyes that were still full of incomprehension, before he explained, "Xiaoyuan likes to eat the food I make. ”
Clyde didn't understand even more, why did a noble lady do chores, but he didn't say anything, anyway, what Lu Xi wanted to do, as long as it didn't affect them, Lu Xi would do it casually.
"Yes, but the pot I bought here a few years ago may be a little worn." Clyde nodded, agreed, and patched it by the way, so that Lu Xi was mentally prepared.
Clyde took out his contract package, which was obviously different from the one in Dina's hand, and the quality looked much better, but it was still not as good as the contract package that Xiulan took out.
After a while, a new set of unused kitchen utensils appeared in Clyde's hand.
Lu Xi and Clyde were stunned at the same time.
Bought it a few years ago? Shabby? Lu Xi's face was strange.
Clyde frowned slightly, trying to remember, didn't he use it once?
But no one picked out about it, Lu Xi coughed dryly, took the kitchen utensils from Clyde's hand, thanked him, and returned to Dina with Xiao Yuan and Youlong.
"Miss Lucy, do you know how to cook?" Dina asked curiously.
Although Hailin was still out hunting monsters and didn't come back, they were not short of food, and everyone would store some ingredients in their contract packages.
Moreover, the inside of the contract package has the same effect as a refrigerator, and it will not deteriorate and rot due to the passage of time.
The disadvantage is that the contract package can't contain living creatures and elemental magic weapons, and even those small contract packages that are not of good quality can't even hold the flesh and blood materials of low-level monsters.
If we dig deeper into the principle, we can only say that the world is made of elements, and the power of the elements affects the unstable elemental contract—the contract wrap is a kind of deformed elemental contract.
"I guess I can do it." Lu Xi thought about it, but she didn't say it too exactly, after she arrived in another world, she did things that didn't have any skills.
Even when she was on earth, she actually didn't cook, she was always a takeout, and her cooking skills were average, so she was embarrassed to say that she could cook.
"Oh, Miss Lucy, are you going to use these?" Dina didn't ask, but took the pile of things she had.
Most of this place is contributed by Xiulan, although he looks like a young master and can't do any chores, but he has an advantage that he is rich.
So he has the most complete tools here, even with all kinds of spices, anyway, his contract package is big enough to fit anything.
Lu Xi looked at it and didn't refuse Dina's kindness, there was a very complete spice box with more than a dozen spices in it.
Dina and Cagli only used a few of them, and many of the ingredients were left there, almost untouched, while White used a little more variety, but it was also fixed and only a few.
Meeting Lu Xi's gaze, Dina explained with a smile, "We don't know these seasonings, I've tried them a few times before, and they taste weird, so I didn't use them after that." ”
"Xiulan, he doesn't know what to use at all, and he knows a little bit more about White, but he only knows a few dishes, and he doesn't understand anything else."
After listening to Dina's explanation, Lu Xi was not surprised at all, Xiu Lan should have been from a certain aristocratic family, and he only chose the most expensive and complete things to buy, as for the usefulness or something, he didn't need to know anything at all.
White learned to cook in order to chat with girls, so he didn't study hard to cook, but just learned a few dishes that could be used at critical moments.
Lu Xi opened the spice box and looked at it with interest, many things were very similar to the seasonings on the earth, some were similar in appearance, and some were similar in taste, such as star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, and peppercorns, which had not been used much.
Commonly used are sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, salty salt, chili noodles, etc., and you can taste the taste change almost immediately after putting it down, so it is the easiest to use.
In addition to this, there are ingredients such as ginger and garlic, which White occasionally uses, and Dina and Kagli do not use it often.
Lu Xi also noticed that there was a jar of pure white meat oil next to it, but most of it was used.
"Miss Lucy, do you want to use oily milk?" Dina noticed Lu Xi's gaze and reported a can of meat oil, "Although the oil milk is very fragrant, it is too greasy, and it is easy to have stomach trouble if you eat too much." ”
Lu Xi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, "Huh? How do you eat? ”
"That's how it eats." Dina dug a small piece and put it directly in her mouth.
Lu Xi was silent.
Seeing Lu Xi's reaction, White and Kagli both turned their heads, Kagli frowned and looked at Lu Xi, while White thought of the bowl of fragrant mushroom soup last night, this Miss Lucy may really have some unusual insight and craftsmanship.
Dina cautiously asked, "Isn't that how you eat?" ”
Xiu Lan also looked at it and frowned, "That's how I eat at home." ”
Translation: That's how the aristocracy eats.
"Hmm......" Lu Xi decided to give these people from another world a little shock.
The pot borrowed from Clyde is shaped like a water scoop, cylindrical straight up and straight down, not as easy to fry as a wok, but the diameter of the bottom of the pot is quite large, and it can barely be used.
After brushing the pot, Lu Xi put the pot on the fire, and after the water was dry, he dug up a large piece of meat oil and put it in, and the milky white solid quickly turned into a transparent pale yellow liquid at high temperature, sizzling on the bottom of the pot.
Dina, White, and Kagli were instructed by Lu Xi to shred the ginger and garlic, wash the mushrooms and shred them, and take a piece of monster meat and cut it into shreds.
Lu Xi first put down the ginger and garlic and stir-fried, and soon the fragrance came out, and before there were other ingredients, several people smelled the taste, and their faces changed instantly.
Remove the fried ginger and garlic, Lu Xi went into the shredded meat and stir-fried, within two minutes, the shredded meat had all changed color, and then shredded mushrooms.
After the mushrooms were fried softly, Lu Xi began to add salt and monosodium glutamate, as well as a small amount of soy sauce to tone and season, that is, at this time, a taste that everyone in the dragon hunting mercenary group had never been exposed to slowly overflowed.
"Gollum." I don't know who swallowed their saliva, and everyone's eyes fell on a plate of fried meat with mushrooms that Lu Xi had just served.