Ruby's Otherworldly Adventure

There are large and small gardens in the aristocratic district of Norman City. Spring is the season of flowers. All kinds of flowers will decorate the aristocratic district beautifully. The petals dye the girls' snow-white skirts with the color of flower juice.

Meyer and Ruby were hanging out in the aristocratic area in the west of the city. After all, Meyer is still a noble lady, and she can't hang out in places where fish and dragons are mixed. In other words, most of them are civilian areas and commercial areas where civilians and mercenaries gather Some parts are obviously not very suitable.

The arrogant nobles are reluctant to leave the west of the city and stay with what they call the lowly commoners, and unmarried female relatives are even forbidden to set foot in these areas, so as not to affect their reputation.In order to satisfy the consumption desires of the nobles, some cunning and cunning businessmen also opened a series of shops in the aristocratic area for the exclusive use of the nobles.

The two started off in the morning, and by noon they had almost finished shopping around half of the aristocratic district, and Ruby's body was also full of big and small bags.

"Ruby, we are so lucky today, just in time for the seafood store to stock up on new products!" Meyer's eyebrows and eyes curved with a smile.

"Are you talking about seafood?" Ruby saw two strong men jump out of the truck, laboriously unload the seafood from the truck, and transport them to the back of the store in batches.

"It's not all seafood. Although the name of the store is this, most of the 'seafood' is actually caught from the nearby lake. Norman is far from the sea, and it is difficult to keep fresh. There will be real seafood every once in a while. Seafood is shipped from far away, so it’s not always available,” Meyer replied.

"So it's not easy to eat seafood in the interior." Ruby said with emotion.

Unlike the half-baked ones like Meyer, seafood lovers have long known the news of today's purchase, and people have already lined up to buy it.

The owner of this store is also very economical. While selling raw seafood, he also opened a window next to him, specializing in grilled river seafood. Ruby and Meyer lined up in front of this window, waiting to taste the freshly arrived seafood. .

The business of the seafood shop was very hot, and it took about half an hour for the two of them to turn. Although they had a simple breakfast in the morning, Ruby couldn't help swallowing when she smelled the fresh aroma of roasting.

"Give each of us a piece of roasted conch. By the way, we also need one piece of pan-fried fish." Meyer untied the tie of the embroidered bag, and handed over two silver coins to the store clerk.

"Is the roasted conch too expensive? Do you have enough fish?" Ruby couldn't help complaining just now when she saw that the roasted conch was sold individually, and it cost 50 copper coins. .

Afterwards, Ruby looked at Meyer's flat stomach calmly. It is hard to imagine the next giant pan-fried fish with such a small stomach.The ecology here is well protected, and there is no overfishing phenomenon. Even if you want to fish, the productivity is limited, so the so-called giant fish is almost one meter long and 20 centimeters wide. Meyer's hand has completely overturned Ruby's impression of her.

"How could it be that I eat it by myself? One serving of sea snails is enough for me to eat, and that fish is for you. You usually eat such a big meal. I'm worried that you won't be full at that point in the morning." Meyer blushed. Explained: "The conch is also caught from the Manto Sea in the south. It is already quite conscientious including the transportation fee and the cost of hiring an ice mage to freeze it."

The price of asking a magician to sell is indeed not cheap. It should be said that anything related to magic is very expensive.

Ruby was very touched that Mayer could worry about not having enough food. It had been a long time in her memory that no one cared about herself like this.

So Ruby looked at Mayer with teary eyes, expressing her touch, causing Mayer to wave her hands, and she felt embarrassed. She just thought that Ruby took care of herself so much, so she asked her to eat something she usually likes. I didn't expect Ruby's reaction to be so big.

"Zi-"

A sound of oil stains attracted the attention of the two of them. It turned out that the pan-fried fish had been put into the pan.The chef took the tail of the big fish, scratched the fish skin a few times, and sprinkled green onion and other accessories on it to make it more delicious later.Soon, the big fish was fried and browned on both sides. The chef poured a spoonful of batter to wrap the big fish. The skin and the fish were fried together. Finally, a spoonful of cooking wine was poured on it, and a tempting aroma came out. Ruby's stomach started to growl.

On the other side, the conch from the Manto Sea is also on the grill, which is so easy to make that it's a guy who handles it.

I saw the shop assistant wrapped the conch in a huge leaf, put it on a red-hot iron plate, and then piled a pile of red-hot charcoal on the shell for grilling. The leaf wrapped in the conch contains a special spice , can be volatilized by high temperature, so that the unique taste can be immersed in the conch.From time to time, the staff inserted the iron skewer into the conch meat, so that the spices could penetrate deeper.After a while, two servings of roasted conch are ready.

After inquiring about the taste of the two, the assistant poured a spoonful of soy sauce and vinegar into the mouth of the conch, carefully tore off the leaves, and put the burnt conch the size of a fist on a clean white plate with a few bamboo sticks for serving. Diners use.

Ruby couldn't wait to pick up the conch meat with a bamboo stick, and with almost force, the whole conch meat was completely pulled out of the shell without a trace left.There was a young lady next to her who didn’t know how to pick meat, picked out half of the conch meat and broke it, leaving a soft and greasy tail in the shell, anxiously she used a bamboo stick to buckle it bit by bit, eating it was really laborious .

Ruby bites into the conch meat, with the salty taste of soy sauce and the sour taste of vinegar, the fishy smell unique to seafood is no longer so obvious, and the firm and elastic soft meat explodes on the taste buds, which is the unique sweetness of shellfish.The tail of the conch meat has a slightly bitter taste, but it is well neutralized by the sour taste and turns into a peculiar bitter aroma, which is very suitable for drinking.It's a pity that there is no wine around, Ruby thought regretfully.

The roasted conch was very delicious, so Ruby ate it very quickly, and the whole conch disappeared in two or three bites.And Meyer took small bites to taste the deliciousness of the conch, and only ate less than half of it. She ate it very skillfully, with a bite of conch tail and a bite of conch meat. From time to time, she gently sucked the juice inside the conch shell. There are several flavors available.

At this time, the pan-fried fish was ready. The chef put a layer of shredded green onion on the fish, sprinkled a layer of pepper evenly, and handed the one-meter-long fish to Ruby with both hands.

The portion of roasted conch naturally couldn't fill Ruby's stomach, so she happily took the pan-fried fish, put it on the table aside, and started to eat with the knife and fork provided by the store.

Relying on the fact that she couldn't die from eating it, Ruby didn't even bother to pick out the fishbone, and cut the fish into several pieces with a knife and fork.After Ruby ensured that there were enough green onions on each piece of fish, she picked up the fork and almost took one bite at a time. When Mayer satiated and sucked the last juice of the sea snail, Ruby also finished her pan-fried fish. meal.

On a spring afternoon, the two of them rubbed their bellies contentedly as they walked down the colorful streets.After eating the hot seafood dinner, their bodies were warm, and their full stomachs made them feel tired, and even had the urge to take a nap under the shade of flowers.

"I've never eaten such delicious seafood. It's delicious if it's not polluted. It's okay to eat it raw. I believe it must taste good." Ruby sighed, and really planned to eat it raw next time. try.

"Although it's delicious, it's not okay to eat it raw, because it will cause stomach upset. So, it's absolutely not okay to eat it raw." Meyer taught him a lesson.

"Suddenly became so serious, well, I just don't eat." Although Ruby responded verbally, Ruby already planned to try stealing some food while Mayer wasn't paying attention that day.

"I'm so sleepy, let's go back later, it's better for girls to take a nap, I heard it has a beauty effect." Ruby suggested (actually, she was sleepy).

"That's true, but it's rare to come out once, so accompany me to buy rabbit feed." Meyer replied.

Mayer’s family raised many fluffy rabbits. These rabbits are fluffy rabbits that are loved by young girls. Every once in a while, I have to go to the pet store to buy feed in person.

"jingle--"

With the melodious sound of wind chimes, Ruby pushed the wooden store door and let Meyer go in first.

As soon as Meyer arrived at the store, she went straight to the feed area, picking carrots one by one, leaving Ruby alone to watch the dazzling array of pets.The strange shapes of creatures in the other world opened Ruby's horizons. Many pets that belong to the "fantasy species" in the real world can be seen here, which made Ruby want to buy a pet.

"噗咻~" a milky white and transparent drop-shaped ball screamed, behind it was a pair of small snow-white wings, the most surprising thing was that there was a golden halo floating on its head, I don't know what it was For some reason, Ruby thought of an angel who also had a halo.

But judging by its stupid and cute appearance, it is obviously not the ultimate degenerated version of an angel - an angel egg, so what kind of creature is it? The whistling sound was almost as soon as Ruby poked it. In the end, the owner couldn't bear to look directly at this pet abuse, and stood up on his own initiative.

"This is the mutated Polly after being carefully bred by the animal trainer. It's strange to say that all the litters with it are normal breeds, just ordinary water droplets. The siblings don't look alike, so they got bullied a lot while in the den and were a little stunted."

No wonder this little cute creature is so dazed.

"Although its growth exceeded the animal trainer's expectations, its shape is very beautiful, and we put it up for sale," the owner explained.

"How much does this thing cost?" Ruby asked as she opened the cage and picked up the white dumpling.

"It's not expensive, only 10 gold coins." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

'Brightly grabbing money, even if things are rare and expensive, don't bring such things. Ruby looked at the price of 10 silver coins above the Poli area, and was speechless.

But in the end she paid the money anyway. After all, money can be earned again, and Polly who grows up like this will never find another one.

Under the farewell sound of the shop owner coming back next time, Ruby was in a tangled mood of being cheated, with a white dumpling on her head (there was no place for the things bought by Meyer) and Meyer, who was in a happy mood with a carrot left.