Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Qingyun, the new poster girl of Yanhuo Village, is commissioned by Puxian to find the specialties of Yanhuo Village in order to create some iconic specialties for the entire Yanhuo Village.

Puxian's goal is to attract tourists or immigrants from all over the world.

Bai Zhen asked Huoya and Qingyun: "In your opinion, what is the specialty of our Yanhuo Village?"

Huoya counted on her fingers, "The bellows iron smelting is quite eye-catching. There is also the beautiful scenery. As for food, there are rice, fish, rabbit dumplings, and sugar... and... sake, which are all considered the specialties of Yanhuo Village."

Bai Zhen praised: "I think the bellows wrought iron in our Yanhuo Village is also very good. Why don't we vigorously develop bellows wrought iron? I can help you develop some metal plants so that everyone in the village can cultivate them."

Qingyun knew that the wrought iron in Yanhuo Village was very good, but she still wanted something more impactful: "This sounds pretty good, but it's not enough. Are there any other specialties that can make people's eyes shine more?"

"A special product that will catch people's eyes? How about asking Ai Cao to develop more new rabbit dumplings?"

Qingyun was still a little dissatisfied. In fact, she was also arranged by Puxian to find a special product that had not been valued before.

This will create new income for the entire village.

This task gave her a headache.

Qingyun told his predicament.

Bai Zhen thought for a moment and asked, "Have you heard of amber candy?"

"Amber candy?" Huoya and Qingyun asked in unison. It was obvious that neither of them had ever heard of this thing.

"Yes, this is a candy with very bright colors and a shape that looks like a cube."

The two shook their heads and said they had never heard of or seen it.

Bai Zhen said confidently: "From the appearance of amber candy, it definitely meets your requirements of being eye-catching. I will make one for you personally. Please take a look at it."

Bai Zhen finished the food in his lunch box in just a few bites.

He temporarily finished his work for the day and brought Qingyun to the big kitchen of Monster Hunter World to prepare to make the so-called amber candy.

Qingyun watched curiously from the side.

After Bai Zhen prepared the materials, he officially started making amber candy.

He first poured the soaked [pure agar] into the water and cooked it over high heat until it was completely melted.

Then pour in the white sugar and cook it over low heat until it melts completely. It is done when it reaches the point where you can pull it into strings with chopsticks.

Then filter it again.

Then pour it into a ceramic mold, add some pure natural pigments and mix well.

Finally, put it in the refrigerator to freeze and set.

After the qualitative process is completed, pour the amber sugar out of the mold and cut it into cubes, coat it with a thin layer of icing sugar, and leave it to dry at room temperature.

The entire drying process takes several days, but this time, in order to let Qingyun experience the amber candy as soon as possible, Bai Zhen used some methods to speed up the drying process of the amber candy.

When it was completely finished, Huoya and Qingyun felt that the amber candies, which were as crystal clear as gems, were extremely beautiful.

Qingyun couldn't help but applaud and praised: "This is so beautiful! Is this really edible candy?"

Bai Zhen pushed the plate of colorful gem-shaped amber candies in front of the two of them and said.

"Try it."

Qingyun couldn't wait to pick up a piece of amber candy. After saying thank you, she took a bite.

The amber candy has a crispy outer layer and is moist inside, and tastes very good.

Huoya tasted it and found that it tasted like jelly pudding.

I don’t know if it’s because the candy itself is good, or because Bai Zhen’s recipe is amazing, but the candy tastes very sweet.

Huoya couldn't help but praise: "This candy not only looks good, but also tastes delicious."

"This is just the basic version. These are the upgraded amber candies."

Bai Zhen took out the advanced version of amber candy he had made earlier.

Qingyun picked up an amber candy with her fingers, held it up to the kitchen light, and saw what was inside, her face full of surprise.

There's actually a Flame Village logo inside! ?

“How did you do that??”

Bai Zhen said: "This is very simple, you just need to paint while adding natural pigments. If you want to learn, I can teach you."

"Really?" Qingyun was extremely excited. She didn't expect that Bai Zhen would be willing to teach her how to make this amber candy.

"Of course you can, but it's very difficult. If you want to learn it, you have to practice."

"I will try my best!" Qingyun was not afraid at all and couldn't wait to try it himself.

She tasted the amber candy with the Yanhuo Village mark.

The taste is different. After eating it, there is a fragrance of cherry blossoms, but this fragrance gives people a very unique feeling of warmth. The taste is very strange, but she likes it very much.

"This taste is so strange. It's obviously a very contradictory taste, but why does it feel so harmonious?"

"I improved it a little bit and added the Flame Water from Flame Village to cook the agar. The logo was made by mixing the sake from our Flame Village with some natural ingredients. You can hardly taste the flavor of the wine, but it can make people feel warm."

To be honest, Qingyun no longer had any idea what Bai Zhen was saying.

She had heard before that Bai Zhen's cooking skills were the best in the world, and she had heard Sui Fengren praise Bai Zhen's cooking skills many times. However, because she had never actually seen Bai Zhen's cooking skills, she felt that Sui Fengren was exaggerating.

Now it seems that the so-called best in the world is definitely not just talk, but he really has such strength.

"A man who can be favored by Senior Huoya is really amazing."

Qingyun sighed secretly.

After she ate the amber candy in her hand, she asked Bai Zhen with some confusion.

"Senior Bai Zhen, this amber candy is very good. As a specialty, it is also very amazing. But what does it have to do with our Yanhuo Village? Is it because some ingredients from our Yanhuo Village are used in it?"

"This is not just the use of some materials, but all the materials are taken from our Yanhuo Village, and they are all very common materials."

"All of them are common materials in Yanhuo Village? How is this possible?"

Qingyun still found it a little hard to believe. They had lived on this land for so many years. If all of them were collected from Yanhuo Village, how could they not have made similar candies in the past?

Bai Zhen didn't explain much. He searched in the kitchen and took out something purple-red that looked like coral and showed it to Qingyun.

"This is the main ingredient of amber candy."

Qingyun widened his eyes, took the thing from Bai Zhen's hand and looked at it carefully, making sure that he was not mistaken.

"This agaragar is the main ingredient? How is that possible?"

Gelidium grows on rocks in the mid-tidal zone or low-tidal zone. Gelidium likes light and heat, is not cold-resistant, and prefers to grow in sea areas with clean water, smooth tides, and high salinity. They will choose to grow in sea areas with high soil salinity.

Yanhuo Village is close to the sea, and this material can be found everywhere in the sea.

Although this plant can be made into a dish, few people eat it. Even if fishermen catch this agaragar, they will throw it back into the sea.

Agar is sweet, salty, very cold, slippery, non-toxic, and can remove superficial heat from the upper part of the body and relieve coldness in the lower part of the body. Agar has the effects of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, nourishing yin and reducing fire, and can treat lung heat, coughing with phlegm, dry intestines, constipation and other symptoms.

Only the clinic in Yanhuo Village receives some agar-agar flowers every month.

But now Bai Zhen said that this delicious amber candy was actually made of agar-agar, which she had never expected.

"Of course, you can't make this kind of amber candy directly from agar. But if you process agar into agar, you can use it well."

When Qingyun heard the word "agar", he still looked confused.

Bai Zhen simply explained the science to Qingyun.

“Agar is a polysaccharide extracted from seaweed, and in my world, it is one of the most widely used alginics.

It is widely used in food industry, pharmaceutical industry, daily chemical industry, bioengineering and many other fields. Agar can significantly change the quality of food and improve the grade of food when used in food.

It is characterized by physical and chemical properties such as coagulation and stability. It can form complexes with some substances and can be used as a thickener, coagulant, suspending agent, emulsifier, preservative and stabilizer, etc.

It is widely used in making various fruit drinks, jellies, ice cream, cakes, soft candies, soups, cold foods, etc. In addition, it can also be used as a clarifier for beer. It is used as a moisturizer and thickener in cosmetics.

Agar can also shine in the chemical industry and medical research. It can also be used as a culture medium, ointment base and other purposes. Agar can also be used as a lubricant for metal drawing. It has a wide range of uses. "

Qingyun could understand a little bit at the beginning.

But when she heard the words thickener and coagulant, she started to feel dizzy.

Even though Huoya had been exposed to knowledge about the Pokémon world, she still found it difficult to understand what she heard, let alone Qingyun, a local villager.

Huoya spoke for Qingyun and said, "This knowledge is really too complicated, let's explain it in a simple way."

Bai Zhen also knew that he had explained it a little too complicatedly.

He simply said: "In short, agar extracted from agar can be used in many fields, whether in food or industry."

Teaching how to make amber candy is a trivial matter for the entire Yanhuo Village.

But just like researching rockets and satellites can drive the development of other science and technologies.

This little piece of amber candy also contains some amazing science and technology.

If Yanhuo Village could learn how to extract and make agar, it would be like igniting a new branch of technology, and they could use agar to create more food and develop other industries.

Although Qingyun didn't understand, he still felt it was impressive.

She asked Bai Zhen: "To put it simply, as long as we learn how to make agar, we can use it in many fields, right?"

Bai Zhen nodded affirmatively: "If we develop the agar-agar technology well, agar-agar will definitely become the second largest pillar industry of Yanhuo Village in the future. I think if you tell this to the village chief, he will be very happy."

There are a lot of agar flowers near Yanhuo Village, and they are the raw materials for making agar.

It would be a real pity if it is not developed.

Qingyun was very excited. She didn't expect that when she came to Huoya to ask about the famous products, she would find out about the new industry of Yanhuo Village directly from Bai Zhen.

As the new poster girl of Yanhuo Village, she knew very well what this meant.

This means that a large number of jobs will appear in Yanhuo Village, and many fishermen can earn extra income by catching agar.

Qingyun looked at Bai Zhen with eyes full of admiration.

"Senior Bai Zhen, you are really amazing!"

As expected, Senior Bai Zhen is the most ideal male partner in the entire Yanhuo Village.

Not only is he powerful, he is also very knowledgeable.

Huoya was originally very calm and only treated Qingyun as a child.

But when she sensed that the admiration and worship in Qingyun's eyes gradually changed.

She walked forward, took Bai Zhen's arm, and said with a proud smile: "Really? He is really amazing~"

Qingyun looked at Huoya's smile and the intimacy between Huoya and Bai Zhen.

She calmed down as if she had seen an insurmountable peak.

As expected, the only person worthy of Senior Bai Zhen is an almost perfect woman like Senior Huo Ya.

Huoya paid attention to the emotional changes in Qingyun's eyes. When she saw Qingyun calm down, she felt relieved.

"This man is really popular with girls. In just a short while, he almost captured another one."

Bai Zhen had no idea what Huoya and Qingyun were thinking.

He is now more concerned about the future development of Yanhuo Village.

Bai Zhen said to Qing Yun: "It's still a while before evening. If you're not busy, I can teach you how to refine agar."

There are only about ten steps to extract agar from agar.

Soaking in alkali → washing → bleaching → boiling rubber → filtering → pushing out → freezing → dehydration → drying → finished product.

During the whole process, the step of boiling glue can be combined with the steelmaking in Yanhuo Village to save most of the costs.

Bai Zhen taught Qingyun carefully from dusk until midnight, and Qingyun finally learned how to extract agar.

The whole process is not that complicated.

After learning the entire process, Qingyun took notes and went back to report with full confidence.

Watching Qingyun leave, Bai Zhen nodded with great satisfaction.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Instead of having the Chamber of Commerce continuously paying taxes to Yanhuo Village, it would be better to teach the people of Yanhuo Village how to make more money.

Once agar can be truly produced in the form of an assembly line and the method of using agar to make food becomes popular, agar in Yanhuo Village will definitely become the second largest industry.

Later, based on agar, many industries in Yanhuo Village can also bring about a small wave of progress.

For example, the cosmetics and brewing industries, etc., the impact is also huge.

After seeing Qingyun off, Bai Zhen simply washed up and went back to his room to rest.

Tomorrow is the time when the whiskey will be taken out of the barrel. Tomorrow night Bai Zhen will also use the materials of monsters such as the Tianhui Dragon to prepare dishes. And if everything goes well, he will officially use the blood of the ancient dragon tomorrow night.