Chapter 5 Why Do You Cry?
"What more do you want to buy?"
"Beef."
Beef was the last thing Robben bought before he left. He would make some canned beef, and when he got to the forest to light a fire, he would be able to eat it, and he would be hungry and full.
Although it is a market specializing in adventure goods, there is also a butcher's shop. Robben bought twenty pounds of beef leg and 20 pounds of beef brisket in the store, as well as potatoes, shallots, and carrots.
After waiting home, Robben got busy. He first cut the beef into thumb-sized cubes and soaked them in a large vat.
"When are we leaving for the Emerald Forest?" Emma moved the stool to the kitchen door and watched Robben work in the kitchen. She wanted to help, but she didn't know where to start with no cooking experience. The cooking magic that the teacher taught her didn't seem to be that useful, and she even helped when she was washing the dishes before, so she could only chat with Robben without a match.
"Tomorrow morning, today I'm going to prepare our food in the forest." Robben sprinkled a large handful of salt into the bucket, poured another pot of pepper water, and a pot of green onion and ginger water into it.
"I remember you bought nutritional pills, why can't you eat them to satisfy your hunger?" Emma remembered that among the items Robben purchased yesterday, there was an item called a nutrition pill, although she didn't know what it was, but judging by the name, it was obviously used to supplement nutrition.
Robben's movements stopped, and the kind of nutritional pills he bought were more similar to vitamin tablets, which were used to supplement the trace elements and electrolytes needed by the human body, and could not be used to satisfy hunger.
After telling Emma about this, she shook her head with a little regret, she still thought that the nutrition pill was the kind of magic potion that only needed to eat one pill to keep you hungry for a day.
"Then how can it only sell five bronze stars, if you really want to achieve that effect, there are only two ways, one is to add special materials to the pill to make the user forget tiredness and hunger, and the other is to use very precious monster materials, one bite can supplement a person's energy consumption for a day." Robben explained to Emma as he stirred the pieces of meat in the bucket to mix as much of the water as they had just added.
After mixing, Robben began to clean up the potatoes, shallots, and carrots again. He first cleaned the surface of the vegetables, and then prepared to remove their skins.
Watching Robben expertly cut off the head and tail of the carrot and peel off the old skin on the outside of it, Emma felt that she could definitely do such a simple thing with ease, so she volunteered to take on some of the cleaning of the vegetables.
It's a pity that this fledgling little girl who doesn't touch the spring water with her fingers is the onion.
She followed Robben's example by washing the dirt off the surface of the shallots, cutting off the shallots and rhizomes with a knife, and then when she peeled them, she encountered the thorny problem: the taste of the shallots.
Some people say why didn't plants evolve self-protection mechanisms to give the animals that come to eat them a little plant shock?
Onion indicates: Hehe.
It is arguably the most tear-jerking plant, and even hard-hearted people can't help but shed tears when faced with a cut onion.
Emma is a witch, but she is no exception. At first, she didn't feel anything unusual, but when she peeled the second shallot, she suddenly felt that her eyes were a little sour.
What's the case, did you accidentally get into the sand? She put down the shallots and subconsciously wiped her eyes with her hands. This wipe was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and her eyes, which were originally just a little sore, instantly seemed to be smoked, and under the stimulation of the sourness, a large number of tears poured out, making her vision hazy.
Robben was peeling a potato when he glanced up and saw Emma's eyes red, and large tears filled the edge of her eye sockets, about to overflow.
"Eh, what's going on?" He hurriedly put down his work and walked over to the girl, and then he saw the culprit: the peeled shallot.
I see, Robben suddenly understood the reason for the matter. A girl like Emma must have never handled shallots with her own hands before, and naturally she did not know the power of this ordinary vegetable.
He took a white handkerchief from his bosom and wiped away the welling tears for her.
"You can't touch your eyes directly with your hands after cutting shallots." Robben wiped her eyes and told her the tricks of handling onions.
As the tears flowed, the soreness in Emma's eyes quickly subsided, and she also noticed Robben's movements.
In order to wipe away her tears, Robben had to stand very close to Emma, so close that she could almost feel his warm breath and the warmth of his palm.
The handkerchief swept lightly over the tip of her nose, and a good fragrance seized the opportunity to penetrate her nostrils, which seemed to be the floral fragrance of bellflower flowers, but mixed with the smell of roses, Emma couldn't tell which rose it was, but she thought it smelled good, like ......
The roots of her ears turned silently red: it was the first time anyone cared so much about her.
[What a pure and simple friendship, you will definitely become "friends of Guan Bao" in the future, your dripping grace, little Emma will definitely spring up to repay]
In this case, how can there be less complaints from demons? Robben was accustomed to it, and seeing that the girl's amber eyes were no longer tearful, he shoved the handkerchief into the girl's hand.
"I'll take care of the shallots."
"yes, okay." Emma lowered her head and couldn't see her expression clearly, but the handkerchief Robbensey gave her was tightly clutched in the palm of her hand by the little white hand.
For shallots, Robben has his own way of dealing with them. He soaked them in water and then cut them open, and the irritating substances that the shallots volatilized were absorbed by the water, and his eyes would not be red and swollen and stinging. The only thing to be careful about doing this is that the kitchen knife accidentally cuts your fingers, but Luo himself is a level 31 adventurer, so naturally he will not overturn in such a trivial matter, and when the knife falls, those shallots are smoothly cut into even thin strips by him.
Emma, who had put the handkerchief in her arms, also "cheered up" again, she didn't want Robben to sit by and watch while Robben handled so many ingredients alone. After learning that potatoes and carrots are different from shallots, she decisively decides to dispose of those potatoes and carrots while Robben is cutting shallots.
After washing five or six potatoes and a dozen carrots, Emma frowned, and a good idea came to her mind.
She took out her wand and magically controlled the pile of potatoes, dropping them into the bucket. Then with a swing of her wand, the potatoes spun rapidly in the bucket on their own, and the dirt from their bodies was quickly washed away. Even better, the thin layer of skin on the surface of the potatoes was also worn off as they collided with each other.
She did the same with carrots and quickly cleared them out.
That wasn't all, she used her wand to manipulate the kitchen knives, cutting them into similarly sized cubes.
"That's amazing!" For the first time, Robben genuinely endorsed Emma's spell. What used to take him an hour to complete has been reduced to just ten minutes by her hands.
"It's nothing~" Listening to Robben's praise, Emma was embarrassed on the surface, but she was happy in her heart, and she was happy to have successfully helped.
With the help of Emma's magic, Robben was able to complete the pre-processing of the vegetables with incredible speed.
When he had done this, he lifted the bucket and poured out the water inside.
"What is this doing? How do you get the water out? Emma thought that the bucket of water was used to cook meat, after all, salt, green onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings were added to it, and even pepper water was used. The price of peppercorns in the Moxilan Kingdom, although not as exaggerated as the price of pepper in Robben's previous life, is also a valuable spice, and an ounce of peppercorns, which is one-sixteenth of a pound, dares to sell for a golden dragon, which is equivalent to 160 times the price of beef.
So in Emma's eyes, Robben's behavior was almost equivalent to taking 6,000 yuan a pound of tea to make a pot of tea, and then pouring out the tea with his backhand, which she naturally felt strange.
"The purpose of soaking in water is to remove the residual blood in the meat, so that the stewed meat is not fishy." Robben scooped out the cleaned pieces of meat and stuffed them into the jar he had prepared in advance. He puts the fat on the bottom so that after a while, the fat will melt as soon as it is fired, acting as a lubricant to prevent the meat from being roasted.
After laying a layer of fat on the bottom of the jar, Robben began to fill it with his cut vegetables and various seasonings, and finally filled the jar with beef leg until it was nine points full, and after closing the lid, the can of beef was ready to be cooked.
After a pound of raw beef is cooked, you can only get six taels of cooked meat, and the juice oozing out at high temperature will blend with the seasoning added before to form a sauce with excellent flavor. Soaking in such a sauce, the meat in the jar will be fully marinated, and finally it will be completely flavored, and the meat will be fragrant and soft and delicious after being fished out, and after a day of trekking in the wild, such a can of beef is the best comfort for the body.
Robben spread a towel on the bottom of the cauldron, poured some water into the pot, and placed the sealed jars one by one inside. If the water is heated, the temperature of the jar will not exceed 100 degrees, which avoids the possibility of burnt beef.
At this point, all the preparations are ready, just put the pot on the fire and simmer patiently for six hours.
Robben was not idle as the raw beef in the jar slowly turned into a soft, fragrant beef stew, as he packed the bags he needed to enter the forest and put them in his slightly miniature storage bag.
As the minutes ticked and the sky outside darkened, Robben made a not-so-sumptuous but still delicious dinner with Emma using the leftover ingredients from the house.
After the last bit of food was swallowed, Robben soaked the bowl in the basin of water, and then urged: "Rest early, tomorrow we will leave early." ”
Emma nodded first, then hesitated for another two seconds, and finally raised her head to look at Robben, and said with a little embarrassment, "May I take a shower?" Once you're in the forest, you don't have a chance......"