In the ninth year of the new calendar, February

Winter is not over, and a lot of snow can still be seen near the castle.

"The road on the hill has been cleared, and now the traffic and some shops and workshops are ready to open in two days."

Emma came from the town of Phumixiu and reported the general situation of the town of Phumexiu.

Lawrence nodded and said, "Okay, by the way, arrange for those young people to familiarize themselves with life on the mountain in advance." ”

Emma smiled, "They're all adapted, these kids have been running up and down the hill since they were kids. ”

Lawrence felt a little strange, "The children born here have not grown up yet, and it will take five or six years to be considered teenagers, who are you talking about?" ”

Emma explained, "It's not the Bhumesi, it's the former Siddles and the Vakiri, and some forest children. ”

The year when Lawrence first came was the first year of the new calendar, and it had been nine years since he came here, which was the ninth year of the new calendar.

The first mass births were supposed to be in the second or third year, such as Edie's children and some of the Durella children.

From this year onwards, more children will be born every year, and more and more.

This year, there are more newborns in the Land of Stars than in previous years combined, war and eternal night, as well as a special family model, which makes the desire to have children very strong.

"That's right." Lawrence also remembered the children who joined as children, "It's been a long time since I've been to the forest, and I'll go in the spring if it's right." ”

When Emma saw that everything was fine, she prepared to go down to work.

At this time, Sophia was also like a child waiting for adults to talk about her own affairs, and when she saw Lawrence finish talking about business, she couldn't wait to sit down with Lawrence.

"Master, I've learned the content of buoyancy, what will I teach today?"

Lawrence felt that there was nothing to teach, even electromagnetism was taught, but he couldn't show it without electronic devices, but in terms of theory, Heidi and Sophia learned very quickly and remembered quickly.

Sophia herself is not a girl who loves to learn, since she has Heidi as an opponent, she has studied for the sake of competition, and has used learning knowledge as a tool for struggle.

"The next thing is that you teach yourself, I have already told you and Heidi the principle of the steam engine, now you can cooperate, or you can do it separately, you can find Delenn and me what you need, but remember to pay attention to safety, and someone should watch you during the experiment."

Sophia nodded quickly, "Yes, master, what are you doing, master?" ”

Sophia blinked at Lawrence, and if Lawrence was going out, Sophia, who was in charge of security, would definitely have to follow.

In the past ten years, I have taught a lot of knowledge about language, mathematics, physics and chemistry, and gradually discovered the difference between the two worlds.

The knowledge in memory is somewhat useful, but in this cruel world, thinking more about how to protect oneself is more about thinking.

There is still mind control that time-travelers and dictators fear the most in this world, and the worst thing is that there are more than one or two people who understand this.

The main way to survive is to be in the barbarian areas that don't like to use their brains, and if they make a name for themselves in the outside city-states and commercial cities, they will either be used as dogs or as materials.

Lawrence, who shared his wisdom, stopped teaching complex words and formulas and began to develop in the direction of chefs.

Now that the knowledge in textbooks and crafts such as carpenters and craftsmen have been replaced, Lawrence has only been able to play combat and cooking.

The techniques of farming were all researched by Kehalan, and Lawrence's set was actually not suitable for the local environment, and it was Kehallan and Losanda who helped to improve it, and Lawrence mainly provided tools and planting concepts, using ideas to open up the minds of many farmers in this era.

The pea planting was not done well, the potatoes were made by Keharan, and the wheat was also farmed by Keharan, and later he went to sea to fight and handed over the farming to Luoshanda, and when he came back, he found that Luoshanda did better than himself.

After that, the agricultural side of the matter was left to Emma and Loshanda, and Lawrence actually had no expertise in farming, but he knew better than others that he had to pay more for the land, and he could not sow seeds and do nothing.

Fighting is for self-defense, cooking is for enjoyment.

Lawrence smiled, "I'm going to make something to eat today, spring is coming, and it's time to eat some fresh food." ”

"What's that?" Sophia was very curious.

Lawrence stood up from the couch.

"There are a lot of spring foods, and since they are fresh and delicious, then make spring rolls!!"

Sophia couldn't wait to ask, "What are spring rolls?" ”

Lawrence smiled confidently, "It's better than dumplings, it's fried dumplings with a better taste." ”

Sophia said happily: "I cook with the master!" ”

"How do you cook?" Lawrence was relaxed, "Go to study, I'll call you when I eat, it takes a little time, and I should be able to eat it when I eat at night." ”

"Yes, master!" Sophia quickly agreed.

Lawrence looked at Emma, "Go to the kitchen and see, what meat is in the kitchen now?" ”

Emma is very familiar with the kitchen and checks it every day.

"There are beef, lamb, pork, chicken, fish, venison, goose, goose, bear, and snake."

When Lawrence heard about bear meat and snake meat, he knew it had been hunted near the Agama Mountains.

Since the population grew, Lawrence encouraged adventurers from all over the world to hunt bears and behemoths in the mountains in exchange for money and wine.

Bears are the highest bounty prey, and there are many bears active in the Agama Mountains, and in recent years, a large number of hunts have made these man-eating beasts almost invisible in the vicinity.

Bear skin coats and snake gall snake skin snake venom are both good materials and are very popular with locals, and it is easy to call for helpers from further towns and production teams to kill bears as long as bears are found nearby.

Lawrence ruled out bear and snake meat and quickly noticed the goose meat hanging in the kitchen's cold storage area.

A gray-backed and white-bellied goose was tied to a rope and had been dead for at least a month.

This is certainly not suitable for eating, and Lawrence asked, "Why is this not pickled and hanging here?" ”

Emma replied, "It's the prey that was sent before, and it was still alive and hanging here, and then it may have been forgotten when it was busy." ”

"I usually eat a lot of things, there is processed beef and mutton, which no one likes to eat, so I don't make it."

Lawrence looked at this dead goose that was no longer edible, this thing remembered that it was a duck, could it be domesticated into a duck?

"Do we have this bird here in the spring and summer?"

Emma replied, "There are some downstream by the river, I didn't know before, but there have been more in recent years. ”

Lawrence quickly guessed that it was because of the better material conditions on his side, that the geese did not feed on small fish and shrimp, but on grass, green leaves, and some aquatic plants and other plants.

Nearby rivers and hillsides have suitable habitats for geese, and there is a lack of natural predators, animals such as foxes and wolves are killed and driven away, and humans who are busy fighting and working have no time to take care of these birds.

"You can taste it a little later, or you can raise some of it."

Lawrence was not expecting this, as the domestication of ducks did not happen overnight, and most wild birds do not lay eggs all the time like chickens.

And it is more secure to raise chickens than gray geese.

Emma remembered the thing, "Yes, master. ”

Lawrence quickly returned to making spring rolls, choosing the stuffed meat between the kitchen cold storage and the chicken and sheep that had just been processed today.

"Try it with mutton first, and after a few days of drying in the snow on the road, let some fish and shrimp come from Dumu Harbor, and then try the long strips of meat stuffing made of fish and shrimp."

"Spring Roll Wrapper ......"

Lawrence remembers that the spring roll wrappers seem to be made from bean skin, and although he now has soybeans, he has been busy all the time, and he has not had time to make soy milk, tofu and tofu skin.

Soy milk and tofu skin are certainly not as good as milk and beef, and Lawrence feels that the family must prefer to eat animal oil rather than soybean oil, so he has not been in a hurry about this matter all along.

"Try a thin dough, let's try it!"

Lawrence decided to wrap the meat filling with dough, like the thin dough of Chaos.

The meat filling is wrapped in layers with a thin dough and then fried or steamed.

Lawrence has eaten but not done, and his specific experience and skills are lacking a lot.

But it's precisely because of this that I'm more interested, and I don't want to do what I really know how to cook.

I don't want to go to war and invade other countries when I have nothing to do, and I don't want to go to the classroom or school to impart the knowledge reserves that have already bottomed out, let alone discuss any national affairs.

A table, a cutting board, a few chairs, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, Lawrence soon sat with a few capable young women and chatted with noodles, cooking pots, and chopping vegetables.

Soon Sariel didn't know where she knew that Lawrence was going to cook food, and walked quickly from the outside into the large kitchen that could accommodate forty people at the same time.

"Lawrence, are your spring rolls ready?"

Saliel happily walked over and looked greedy.

Lawrence smiled, "Not yet, I'm working on how to do it." ”

"Don't you know how?" Sariel was a little puzzled, and then looked at the meat filling and vegetable flour on the table, "Why don't you just make dumplings." ”

Dumplings are rarely eaten here, mainly because they are rich in material, and everyone prefers meat to dumplings, and witches have a great appetite, and dumplings are too troublesome for everyone to eat.

Lawrence said casually: "You can eat whatever you want, there are a lot of ingredients here." ”

Sariel soon sat down in an empty chair nearby and began to cook together.

The topic of what to eat was quickly put aside, and now the family is more curious about novel foods, and not as obsessed with them as children.

After a long period of screening, it was clear to Sariel and the others that the food they didn't know was not necessarily delicious, especially the foreign food that came from outside, many of which were not as delicious as Lawrence's cooking.

Even the food that Lawrence researched was not all delicious, and some were not suitable for everyone's taste.

Sariel talked about today's events, "Andersen was calling for Mom and Dad, and Delen was taking care of him, and he was now able to walk on his own. ”

Lawrence sighed, "That's fast, I remember that this time last year I was still at war with the Kingdom of Gran, when he was just born. ”

Sariel also thinks it's fast, but Lawrence's kid basically doesn't have a sense of existence.

"When spring comes, where are you going to farm? Ittito: I'll ask you about this, and Seravin is ready. ”

"Surely I wouldn't go too far, between the town of Phumixiu and Oak Hill, to grow beans in those wastelands that had been cleared before," Lawrence said. ”

Sariel added, "Do you remember that swampy fishpond we dug up a few years ago? ”

"Remember, what's wrong?" Lawrence was curious, but quickly continued to mix dough, thinking about how to make the dough thinner and thicker.

Saril bowed her head and added water to the flour in her basin, and said casually as she habitually made bread: "The fish eaten in the manor are all raised in the fish pond, and I wonder if we should dig a big fish pond too, so that there will be fish to eat in the future." ”

Lawrence smiled, "The whole mountain is ours, the land is ours, and the streams and rivers outside are our fish ponds." ”

Hearing Lawrence say this, Saliel retorted, "Then don't we still have to catch fish if we want to eat it?" There is a fish pond nearby, so it is convenient to eat fish. ”

"We can have people grab some and send them in, we don't have to dig a puddle in front of our house." Lawrence has a different perspective: "We don't need to be like squirrels now, hiding so much food at home. ”

Lawrence said seriously: "We are tigers! ”

Sariel blinked at Lawrence, "What is a tiger?" ”

Lawrence just remembered that there were only bears and wild boars in this mountain, and there were no lions or tigers.

Feeling that it was not clear to Sariel to explain, Lawrence continued to talk about cooking after having this idea.

"Sariel, do you know how you can make a thinner dough?"

Sariel thought for a second, then quickly replied, "It's okay like a pancake, right?" ”

Lawrence said, "Thinner than pancakes. ”

"How much thinner?" Sariel thought about the dough.

"About one-fifth." Lawrence felt like it was about the same.

Saliel asked directly: "It's so thin, how can you eat it?" Can't get enough to eat! You have to eat a lot to be full! ”

Lawrence nodded, what Sariel said was indeed right, such a thin thing is troublesome to make, and it is not as good as a solid steamed bun in terms of eating.

Seeing that Lawrence didn't speak, Sariel quickly asked curiously, "Is it delicious?" ”

"It's delicious." Lawrence replied in the affirmative.

Instead of thinking about whether she had enough to eat, Sariel was seriously thinking about how to make thinner dough.

"I'll try it!" Saril quickly took the initiative to take over the task, and said reasonably: "It's like making pancakes, apply a layer of batter on a pan, and as long as you put a little less oil, you can make a dough." ”

Lawrence quickly assists Salil in cooking, and calls a few cooks in the kitchen to study together.

The dough of spring rolls was quickly made into many varieties, not only white dough, but also rice dough.

Lawrence discovered that the dough could be used not only for spring rolls, but also for roast duck.

Sariel and the others are not stupid, they quickly opened their minds after making the dough, and excitedly showed off: "You can eat this dough with side dishes!" ”

"Yes, you can add two eggs." Lawrence chimed in.

The kitchen quickly researched the method of spring rolls, and also pointed out the burrito-type tech tree.

***

The snow outside soon began to melt, and although the cold winter had not yet left, the temperature remained very low.

But the Land of Stars has warmed up, and people are getting busy preparing for the new year's farming.

In the past cold winter, the population of the land of ice has increased dramatically, and a large number of children who are waiting to be fed are like birds with open mouths, constantly asking for all kinds of food, and only when they are full will they stop and fall asleep quietly.

As the eternal night ended, merchants and merchant ships from all over the world converged on this side, bringing in large quantities of food that were not needed by the nobles of the outside world in exchange for medicines and iron tools, as well as various spices and spirits.

(End of chapter)