The living resources in this world are very rich, as long as the people who are willing to work are very well-fed, but the food is not so particular, especially in such a caravan, usually we eat two kinds of food, one is black bread that is ground into flour from black wheat, mixed with a little salt, it tastes very rough, but if you chew it carefully, you will find that the wheat grains are very sweet, and each black bread will be made into a basin-sized size.Such bread can be stored for several months after it is made.The other is a hard flatbread made of barley ground and spread on a hot stone slab, which must be crushed with a hammer and placed in a large bowl, and a large spoonful of thick beef jerky and wild vegetable soup is poured on top.Can make me eat very full.The caravan usually brought bread, wheat cakes, and some pickled air-dried beef, and occasionally we would be late for the meat of the fresh beasts that the caravan had brought back, but that was rare, and such a large caravan of more than six hundred people, one or two goats or white deer were not enough for a dozen people.Kuzi also swam back at this time, and helped me catch the leather saddle that Fred had removed from the Thunder Rhinoceros, and said happily: "Jijia, this is very close to my hometown in the Pai Grassland, there should be a lot of delicious food in the big meadows over there, and the early spring season should be the most delicious guinea pigs, they have been in the burrow for the winter, eating only grass seeds and roots, the intestines are clean, and the meat is the most delicious, and we will catch a few and come back to stew yams." ”Young orcs are usually very wary of humans, and almost all orcs will think that humans are a group of cunning and despicable guys, so even in such a peaceful era, it is not easy to gain the trust of an orc.A big reason why I was able to become friends with Kuru was the relationship between the elder Kuru, who was the grandson of the elder Kuru, and the elder Kuru was very close to me.The second reason is that because I am a child, I am not at any risk to Kuz, who is only 12 years old, and he can approach me without scruples.Ask me all kinds of questions to satisfy his curiosity.Old Kuru taught me orc language to make it easier to communicate, and when Kuz and I were the only ones around, we talked in orc language.The third is that I also make some delicious soups.It's a bit far to talk about.Old Kuru is a very experienced pharmacist, and is also an old friend of Leipas, this trade trip to the Kingdom of Stan, Leipas spent a lot of favor to invite Kuru as a caravan pharmacist, and did not hire other Terran pharmacists, because this trip has to pass through the Pai Plateau and the New Siacis Mountains, many of the herbs and vegetation here are unfamiliar to human pharmacists, only the old Kuru, an experienced orc pharmacist, is familiar with the habits of these herbs, so there is a slightly mysterious orc pharmacist in this caravan.For Old Kuru, the caravan owner gave him enough respect, which was an important factor in why I was rescued and taken in by the caravan.One day after I recovered from my injury, Old Kuru once found that when I was boiling medicine for him, I could clearly remember the whole process, what kind of herbs to put in each process, how much to put it, and what kind of heat to pour out the medicinal juice.I have to say that this is not difficult for me as a chef, isn't this cooking?
At that time, although I was physically a child under 5 years old, I was mentally mature.At that time, I had to often help Lao Kuru boil medicine, and the people in the caravan would often get sick because of the water and soil, and every time Lao Kuru would pick some local herbs to make medicinal juice, and I was a small helper.Gradually, the old Kuru found that my comprehension and learning ability was much better than that of others, and because when I boiled medicine, I had to at least understand the properties of these herbs.For the next 10 months, under the supervision of Old Kuru, I studied orc language while immersing myself in the pile of herbs he picked back, and the orcs have many different understandings of herbs from humans, and when defining the names of these herbs, it is difficult for Old Kuru to accurately transliterate them into Imperial Chinese, and it is in this situation that I learned orc language.At that time, I could recite the names of hundreds of herbs fluently in orc language, but I couldn't even say a greeting like "hello" in orc language.The best way to learn a language is to communicate in that language.This gradually began to get acquainted with Kuz.Kutz is a werewolf child of a more human-like bloodline, who is almost indistinguishable from humans except for a pair of hairy pointed ears and a strong chest full of thick hair.But when he is angry, he still bars his teeth and shows his anger by showing his canine teeth, and I always think of the white husky raised by the boss on the upper floor of the dormitory.Kuz likes sports, and this kid always has endless strength to run all over the mountains just to chase a pheasant.In the Neosiacis Mountains, a white-on-grey pheasant is most common, and this pheasant, usually not much larger than a pigeon, glides only short distances in the valley, but is very clever and will fly away if it sees danger.However, the quality of this pheasant meat is very tender and delicious.Once, when Kuz caught a few Achis pheasants, he went so far as to find an iron hammer to string them together and burn them on the fire.The campfire quickly burned the feathers, and then the whole chicken turned black, and the camp was full of the smell of roasted bird feathers, which to be honest was terrible.After the chicken is cooked, the black scab formed by the bird feathers is removed and the skin is removed, and the pheasant is not very big, and the pheasant is smaller, and there is a smell of roasted bird feathers, which is a little bitter.The simplicity and kindness of the orcs are innate, and after the pheasant is cooked, even if even Kuz himself is not enough to eat, he will give the roasted pheasant to Old Kuru first, and then he even gave me one.To be honest, I don't really like this thing when I smell that mushy smell.However, the convoy only serves dried beef broth once every five days, and the rest of the time it is dried vegetable and wild vegetable soup with wheat cakes or brown bread.At this time, it is also rare to have chicken that has been roasted all the time.I reconfirm that this is for me?
Kuzhan smiled and nodded, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth, and biting the remaining pheasant on the iron drill fiercely, burning him to the point of grinning.At that moment, I felt like an innocent child, and in such a strange world, it was a rare happiness to be able to obtain such a pure white paper-like friendship, and even the pain of the fire poison on my body was not so painful.I sat down next to Kutz, leaning my shoulders against his, holding the hot roast chicken in my hand and said, "Next time you catch this chicken, I'll cook it for you, and I find something better." ”"Yes!"
Kuzi vaguely agreed, still concentrating on the two roast chickens.Unexpectedly, at noon the next day, our caravan was resting in the mountain col, and I was lying on the back of the thunderous rhinoceros carrying Kulu herbs and other daily necessities to take a nap, and I was woken up in a daze, and I saw Kuzi proudly raising the iron hammer in his hand, with 7.8 pheasants strung on it, and then said in clumsy imperial Chinese: "Let's eat together!"
”For me, it was the first meal I had ever cooked in this world, and it meant a lot.Actually, I couldn't have a better way to cook these chickens, there were no more spices and ingredients here, and I learned that even Steward Leppas had never eaten fried chicken wings, because in this magical world, cooking is very simple, one is to cook soup, or to fry it.People here like to stew animal fat into a thick soup, if the soup is too fat, they will put as much wheat cake as possible, it tastes greasy and warm, but rarely puts seasonings and spices into the food, at best some salt.Originally, I thought that there were no spices such as pepper, pepper, star anise, and chili pepper in this new world, but after studying herbology with Lao Kuru for a year, I found that these things exist, and these seasonings are also common herbs, which is not unusual.Maybe old Kuru would not have thought that I was able to study herbology so diligently because I had the heart of a chef, and originally let me study herbology so that I could help him decoction medicine, and gradually I could follow him with a small medicine box on my back, and go to some safe places around the camp to collect medicine, and my first role in studying herbology was to study the commonality between these plants and the plants of my world, to try to discover the taste of those memories."
Okay, I'll take care of these chickens, and you can find some chestnuts.Kuz, you're such a good hand!
”I took the pheasant and praised Kuz.There are also chestnuts in this magical world, and "chestnut" in orc language is called "tree rice".Chestnuts have always been eaten as food, the entire southern slope of the New Siachis Mountain, the mountains are full of this kind of trees, there are also many apple trees and autumn pear trees, dwarves and orcs do not like to eat apples, apples have always been taken out by dwarves to make wine, orcs like to wait until the first heavy snow to close the mountain, to pick up the frozen autumn pears on the mountain, old Kuru and Kuz are very fond of hard autumn pears with ice slag, old Kuru said to me in the winter only eat wheat cakes and broth will slowly get sick, Only eating these frozen fruits will you be blessed by the Beast God King, who protects the Pai Plateau.For more than a year, lying on the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros and following the caravan through the Neosiachis Mountains, his body has gradually become stronger.Although I have to be scorched by the fire poison in my body every day, I can't help but die.But this symptom is slowly subsiding, and I find myself jumping up and down on the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros at a height of more than four meters, although I am often ridiculed by Kutz for my clumsiness, but I know that children in my original world at the same age can only drink yogurt and play in the yard in a stroller.At the age of 6, I had been asked by the steward of Leipas to boil herbs for old Kuru every day, and to send them to the sick in the caravan, and to tell me how to take them.Although I am thin and small, it is not difficult to deal with these pheasants, but I will immediately take them out after throwing them into a clay pot filled with hot water, and if they are soaked for too long after the feathers are soaked in hot water, the feathers will be scalded and fall off along with the skin and flesh, so this time should be accurate.Carrying the chicken paws, the chicken feathers were quickly removed, and the fat chickens with butter and butter were placed on the wooden table.Looking at my skillful movements, even the old Kuru who decocted the medicine not far away didn't look at it a few times, and didn't understand why I was scalding the chicken and plucking it, wouldn't it be better to burn it directly?
Use a small knife to cut open the pheasant, remove the entrails and throw them into a wooden bucket.For the orcs, these offals are even more delicious and should never be discarded.Toss the chopped chicken into the soup pot, sprinkle a handful of the prepared seasoning and salt, and wait for Kuz to retrieve the chestnuts.Kuzi carried half a bag of chestnuts on his back, bent down to open the leather curtain, and came in, and said, "Jijia, this soup is so fragrant." ”"When you have something to eat, now peel chestnuts with me."
In the tent, next to the smoke-billowing clay pot, a half-large orc child and a human child were chatting and laughing while peeling chestnuts.There is no word for stew in orc and Chinese languages, and they all call the food cooked in this crockpot soup.The rich aroma of the chestnut stew was so fragrant that Kuz, despite his greedy saliva and swallowing his throat, waited for me to announce that it was ready to eat, and we offered the first bowl of meat to old Kuru.After old Kuru tasted it, his dry and dull eyes looked at me for a long time, and then he said to me lightly, "I know that you are a different child, and this soup is delicious."
With this delicious soup, you can live well in a human city in the future.Still, I hope that your friendship with Kutz will continue and that we will help each other in the future. ”"I will, Grandpa!""
I will, Teacher!"
Kutz and I said respectfully.Yes, that's the third point to be able to be friends with Kuz, because I make some delicious soups.Eight fat pheasants and half a bag of chestnuts were stewed in a large clay pot, and Kuz held a piece of black bread larger than his head in one hand, and a large soup spoon in the other.People who can cook delicious food must be the ones who know the most about eating, at least that's what I think.Many chefs are fat because they are natural foodies, they are people who want to make delicious food and have a strong interest in it, they never get tired of eating, and the more delicious they are, the more they have to be meticulous.I felt that I was persistent enough in this area, and the first thing I did in this life was not to think about other mysterious things in this world, but to eat first.For this reason, when old Kuru taught me herbology, I gladly accepted it, just so that I knew what I could and could not eat.In order to understand the jerky words in the scroll written on the basis of herbs, and even spend a lot of time learning orc language, I guess if old Kuru knew that the original purpose of studying herbology so hard was just to avoid starvation when he wandered, I don't know what he would think, would he be too frustrated?
I don't know when I started, but I gradually realized how important herbology was to me.And old Kuru, my orc enlightenment teacher, began to teach a new subject, and that was pharmacy.Kuz was very excited to hear that I was going to study pharmacy with old Kuru, and the two of us sat on the back of Thunder Rhino that night and talked, and Kuz said that he had a dream of being a human being, and if he hadn't accidentally saved me, I am afraid that he would be the one who is now following old Kuru to recite the names of those herbs.Kutz said to me: It's good to have you here!