Chapter 12: The Land of Ice
Cheese is a dairy product made by coagulating milk, and a pound of cheese requires more than ten pounds of milk.
If you include the salt and the sugar and honey added to improve the taste, the giant cheese on the table is indeed a symbol of wealth.
Most of the nobles outside didn't have this giant cheese, and they were completely surplus in exchange for a few beautiful slave girls.
"In addition to the cheese, I've brought back some nice bacon hams, sit down and have a chat, and I can continue to introduce you to our cuisine."
Lawrence took the initiative to cut a large piece of cheese, and then used a long knife to cut it into a triangular cube, and divided the cut cheese among Sophia and Tia to taste.
Oloda also got a small piece of cheese, and Tia got it and was grateful, "It's so precious!" You are so generous! ”
Lawrence looked amused, and quickly said seriously: "It is indeed precious outside, even in many places here, it is not this specially made wheel cheese that is eaten. ”
"But my life here is much better than outside, and I will give you a small piece not because I am reluctant to give you a taste of precious cheese, but because I have other food to taste later, and if you eat too many sweets, you will have no appetite later."
Lawrence took a small bite of the cheese, like toffee and flavor, and some salty taste made the fat in the cheese taste less greasy.
When you bite into it, saliva is formed in your mouth, and this cheese is meant to be made on the go, and can be used to quench hunger and thirst, and is more useful than just sugar cubes.
After seeing Lawrence eat it, Tia also took a bite with a happy look on her face.
This expression quickly changed, and Tia, who was squinting, soon opened her beautiful and charming blue eyes.
It turned out that the maid outside was carrying giant cheese the size of a wheel, and in addition to the sweet cheese the size of a grinding plate, there were also large hind legs of pork that looked like water bladders.
The sense of smell, which was originally dull to the level of a normal person, was stimulated to a real level by the nearby delicacies, and Tia was able to discern the treasures in each box and bag just by relying on her sense of smell!!
Fried pine nuts!
Fermented fruits!
Pork ham that has been hidden for three or four years!
Nine years of wine!
Fish with a lot of lean meat!
Fresh sea vegetables!
Salt!
Dried fungus wild vegetables!
Big prawns!
Lawrence sensed Tia's warm gaze and quickly ordered fresh fried meat to be brought from the kitchen.
"Please use it, we will make some fried fish, fried meatballs, fried dough and other foods here every Chinese New Year to stockpile, so that you can eat them if you want to eat them in winter."
Lawrence also courtesies the elves, sharing food with them as host.
It is a consistent tradition in ancient and modern times and inside and outside the host to entertain guests, especially those who are harmless and considered friends by the host's family.
Hearty food wasn't everything, and Lawrence was willing to listen to Tia talk about the outside world, especially the elven world and the neighborhood.
Lawrence was about to ask about the mountains and the forest, and Tia was like an active child, and her mind didn't follow Lawrence at all.
Tia looked in the direction of the kitchen to the side, "I smell a lot of eggs, do you have a lot of chickens laying eggs here?" ”
Lawrence explains: "The chickens are not in the castle, the eggs and vegetables are brought in every day from the nearby farm, and the eggs are cooked in a large pot in the kitchen. ”
"It is common to boil more than 100 eggs at a time, and then peel the hard-boiled eggs and put them in a larger basin, waiting to be distributed to the person who wants to eat when the time comes."
"It's about two hundred eggs in a pot, and they're basically eaten by servants, and we'll make another one when we eat them."
Tia said excitedly, "Can I go to the kitchen?" ”
Lawrence was curious to know what was going on out there, and wanted to know something from the elves who had lived longer.
"Yes, but Alura and I have something to say, and you can go with Sophia."
Sophia took the initiative and said, "I'll take you to the kitchen and take whatever you want!" ”
Tia nodded excitedly, "Thank you!" I really love it here! ”
Soon Tia and Sophia went to visit the kitchen together, and when she left, she didn't forget to hold the unfinished pork cutlet.
Lawrence looked at the departing backs of the two girls and quickly looked at Oloda, "She looks young. ”
Oloda smiled, "Yes, she is still a child in the eyes of the Queen. ”
Lawrence was a king and prophet in his own right, and was not so sensitive to status such as princesses and princes.
"I want to know a few things about Mt. Agama, such as the dangerous creatures that exist in it, the climate, the minerals, the mountain people and the highest snowy mountain."
Oroda looked puzzled, "This...... I don't know much about this kind of thing. ”
Lawrence asked, "Does Nadia know?" ”
"She?" Oroda smiled helplessly and explained, "She has always been in the forest and never goes out, and our people don't like to talk about outside things, so we know very little about this land, only that the mountain has been here a long time ago. ”
Lawrence was speechless for a while, who didn't know that Mount Agama had been here a long time ago?
Lawrence asked incomprehensibly, "You live near a mountain, and you have never thought of climbing the highest part of that mountain, standing on the top of the mountain and looking around?" ”
Oroda frowned and quickly shook her head, "No. ”
Lawrence suddenly became a little angry, "The world is at your fingertips, where you can reach out and touch, is it that no one and the elves have ever stepped into this mountain for hundreds of years and brought back some news from the mountains?" ”
Oroda still shook her head, "I don't know, maybe there is, but it hasn't been handed down, or I don't know." ”
"When I get back, I can help you ask our wise man there, he should know something." Oloda sensed that Lawrence was upset and quickly remedied.
Lawrence's mood quickly subsided, and Oroda's incomprehensible performance strengthened Lawrence's desire to conquer, the mountain of Agama around him.
Lawrence didn't want to be lost in the past for the rest of his life.
It doesn't matter what is on the mountain, what matters is that Lawrence goes out, steps on it, and conquers the mysterious mountains that no one has ever known.
"Since you don't know about mountains, you should know a lot about forests." Lawrence changed the question, "On the way here and on the way back, you should have also seen the scenery of the upper half of the circle around the mountain, and the nearby plants are common to you?" ”
This was the familiar domain of the elves, and Oloda replied, "There are many oaks in this mountain, and they are very beautiful and ancient, not much worse than ours. ”
"To tell you the truth, only this mountain and our royal tribe have such beautiful oak trees, and I can't see any other oak trees on the road, only some monotonous pine, cypress, and fir trees, and there are no grass or trees in many places."
There are probably two reasons why trees cannot grow, one is the wrong climate, and the other is a lack of nutrients.
The snow-capped mountains are extremely cold due to their height, but why are there two very different climates in the Green Forest Kingdom and Oak City around the snowy mountains?
Lawrence looked thoughtful and quickly analyzed the general information.
In Lawrence's hypothesis, Oak City was low-level, flanked by distant mountains, and there was also a sloping mountain range on the Wakiri's territory that isolated the Wakiri from the sea.
Between the two mountains, there are a few plains and swamps, and it is also the area where the Bhumishu, Kur, and Siddle people are active.
There is a high mountain between the port of Ferry and the town of Bhumisius, so the water cannot flow to the sea and must be bypassed.
This mountain is not horizontal in the north, but a sloping mountain, so not only did it not block the cold wind of the glacier continent in the north, but it also concentrated most of the cold wind!
This kind of mountains and plains in the shape of a real winter is a devastating disaster, which is why many people died in the cold winter of Pig's Trotter City a few years ago.
However, Lawrence was farming in the mountains and not in the plains, so he didn't think the disaster was too serious.
The world is not a neat piece, and there is no direction or direction for rules.
Whether it is a mountain range or a country, it is basically a crooked direction and extension.
Distance, climate, region, wind direction, time......
The real world is different from the world on a map, most of the maps are flat maps on paper, and the actual landscape is a rugged surface like a scar, with some high and some low.
If this is roughly (the shape of the terrain should be rotated slightly to the left), then the Vakiri people in the outer coastal areas are indeed the hardest people in the Ice Lands, and the Ice Warriors who have undergone all the extreme cold tests.
The main reason why the Vakiri people couldn't defeat the Siddles and the Pigtrot people was the low health bar, which was not the physical fitness of the barbarians, but the land.
The land that is cultivated, the land that produces grain and is suitable for living is the blood bar of the Vakiri people, and it can't fight the people of Stahl and Pig's Trotter City, and the territory of the Siddle people is not much better than that of the Vakiri people, so it can't beat the people of Pig's Trotter City.
When the Vakiri kill the Cave Man, they don't allow the Cave Man to gain land that they don't even have.
Lawrence continued to think about the trees, and the factors that make the trees and flowers unable to survive are the light!
If there are high mountains in front and behind the big river, and the scarce sunlight cannot shine into it, and the cold factor will indeed be inadequate.
Or maybe only in the summer when the sun is shining, a little grass grows and then withers quickly in the fall.
The Emerald Kingdom is supposed to be at a lower elevation, near a basin of a rich valley where the river passes through but follows the valley downstream.
The Greenwood Kingdom, which is located in the inland regions, does not actually need the warm winds of the west, and the Agama Mountains are not all cold regions, which can be seen in the summer and autumn, but more because the cold winds of the northern continent blow away the geothermal heat.
Lawrence quickly determined that there were two sloping areas of the Agama Mountains, a warm area of the valley like the Valley of Fire, and a cold area of high mountains behind the mountains.
And Lawrence wants to conquer the highest ice region.
Lawrence needed some time to think and sort out some of the results that came out of his thinking.
Soon Lawrence arranged for Emerald to entertain the elves for dinner and bathing, while he himself returned to the house after eating and continued to plan the climb. (End of chapter)