Otherworldly Pastry Chef

The autumn harvest lasted a month and a half, while the winter hunting took longer.It's just that as the food in urban granaries increases, the number of people who go out to collect and hunt food begins to gradually decrease.

The jerky, bacon and bacon they make have been placed in three large rooms.What's more, untreated prey will be sent into the cold cave, so it has nothing to do with them.

Because Hei Xiao catches the most and the best prey when hunting, he is the first group of males who don't need to continue hunting with the hunting team.So he and the fruit's trip to harvest can be completed.

Under Qing Chenzi's entanglement, Qing Xiao directly and generously gave Guozi and Hei Xiao fifty sound transmission talismans, and taught his son and son-in-law the drawing method and mental formula of one sound transmission talisman.Although it would be impossible to draw it with the current ability of two people, but slowly, it will always be possible.

Now that the family is taken care of by their parents, Guo Zi and Hei Xiao are very relieved.Even if they are not very reliable parents.

Thunder Sable set off with the two of them, this time Hei Xiao had already chosen his destination.When he was out hunting these days, he paid special attention to where the wild rice and wheat were the most, so when he left the city gate, he carried fruit and thunder mink on his back and ran all the way south.

The mountains and forests are the most numerous in the Beast World, and most of the mountains and forests have no names, especially those far away from the Beast City.The destination they are going this time is also a mountain. There are many fruit trees growing on the southern slope of this mountain, and there is a large flat land at the foot of the mountain. There are many herbivores living in this area, because it is far away from the beast city, and it is not in the ordinary Hunting range, so there are also some small carnivorous primary or secondary animals coming to hunt.Even if you don't go too far here, there will be a lot of prey to catch.The most important thing is that there is a lot of wheat that can be harvested in this flat, and there are many rice growing in the water.

Hei Xiao said that rice grows in the water, Guozi told him with a smile: "All I have seen before are rice in water, which is called paddy rice. What we eat now is called upland rice. There are also differences between barley and wheat. Barley It can be used to make wine, and it can also be fried for barley tea. The wheat noodles we eat are made from wheat. In short, there are many types of every grain.”

"I don't know if Master has any books related to plants. I think it's good to know more." At least I can know what's useful and what's not when I'm hunting.

It was the angle of going down the mountain. Although Hei Xiao was slowing down at this time, Guozi was still instinctively worried, so she hugged Hei Xiao's neck tightly and lay on the big leopard's back.But this will make you feel a little dizzy.

"I also think it's very useful. The things I know are the common ones. Although Lieshen Mountain is rich in products, it really doesn't have everything. Hei Xiao, please stop for a moment, I seem to see orange trees!"

Hei Xiao stopped in his tracks: "There are. There are many fruit trees near here. But they are not very big. There are many oranges in Heiyun City, which are more than twice as big as here. If you like it, I will take you there. pick."

Guozi said he wanted to go down: "It's still a long way to go, let's pick this one first. It doesn't have to be big, as long as it tastes good. You let me come down, I want to go and have a look."

The orange trees that Guozi saw were only four, and the oranges were about the size of his fist. For the orange trees on Lieshen Mountain, such a big one was not small.Unexpectedly, Hei Xiao would not like such a big orange.

Guozi is very happy when he sees the fruit he likes.Standing on tiptoe enough to pick one off, he took out a small dagger and cut it open.The skin is very thin, and the orange flesh inside reflects the light brightly. It looks crystal clear, and the orange color is very appetizing, at least the appetite that oranges should have.Peel off a piece of the fruit, take a bite, and suddenly the sweet and sour orange juice spreads in the mouth. The oranges from this tree taste sweet, and they taste very refreshing.

"It's delicious! Hei Xiao, come and eat too!" Said this and handed over the one in his hand.

Hei Xiao took another bite from the place where the fruit had been bitten, and it really tasted good.It's a bit different from my previous impression that it's either too sour or too sweet.This one is significantly tastier.

"It's small, but it tastes great."

Guozi now thinks of making desserts with oranges.What kind of cakes, biscuits, bread, including kneading dough with orange juice to make various small pancakes, or directly making orange jelly, orange milkshake, orange ice cream, in short, with so many oranges, you can eat them for a while.And orange peel is also a good thing. It can be pickled with sugar, or used to stew meat and stew. He also used orange peel as a container to make steamed meat. The taste is very fragrant and not greasy.Seeing these oranges, he already thought about what to do tonight.

"Hei Xiao, I'll make you steamed pork with orange peel tonight!"

Hei Xiao never thought that orange peel could be eaten, which surprised him.

"Is this skin still edible?"

Guozi nodded: "Of course. Don't look at the bitterness of the skin, but after removing the white part, it will be very fragrant if it is dipped in sugar. You can eat it directly, or use it to soak water as fruit tea. And make it Vegetables are also available. When steaming meat, the aroma of the peel will enter the meat, and the meat will have a fruity aroma, and it will not change the seasoning of the meat. Also, the orange peel can be ground and kneaded to make small snacks , I will make orange peel glutinous rice balls for you at night, the kind of pearl balls without fillings. It is also good to cook them in broth. Of course, it would be better if you put them in sweet soup, but you don’t like to eat so much sweet ones. .”

Just listening to it made Hei Xiao feel a little hungry.After looking at the sky, there was still some time before noon, and it was said that I was greedy.

"Then pick them all back now. These four trees, can you?"

Guozi looked at the four fruit-laden trees, then thought about the four members of their family and one mink, and then sighed: "It may be the same if I eat at home, but if I open a shop to sell it, it will definitely not be enough. But it is sold in winter." Are these things good? They can’t be hunted or gathered, just a few things…”

Hei Xiao replied: "This is the first year for us, so it's not very good. Although we have a cellar, it is easy for people to find that we have too many things. After all, every time we open a shop, we sell a lot of things. How about just Sell ​​some braised soup sauces and the like. There is no need to open a shop, whoever comes, sell it if you have it, and talk about it next time if you don’t. When our house is finished next year, we will dig a cellar on the other side to store more things , and then open a shop. If you want to do it, you can make the monster meat and mana fruits and vegetables that my master and I hunted back before, and let the city owner sell it."

"That's true. Then I'll listen to you. In this case, four oranges from the tree are enough. Anyway, it's quite troublesome to deal with. Let's start picking now. It's estimated that it won't be far before noon."

At noon, the two of them walked down the mountain spring and found a small cave.

The cave is not big, but it is similar to their bedroom, but it does not extend in, it is just an ordinary cave.

Although the noon sun in autumn is not blocked, it does not feel like drying people.Especially in the mountains and forests, the fruit feels a bit cold when entering the cave.But there are no weeds growing inside, and there is no need to pull out a circle of grass to start a fire like outside.

Only the two of them were there, and Hei Xiao directly took out the clay stove from the magic weapon.Guo Guo also took a bunch of things from Liangyihuan, the first thing he took out was a large piece of oilcloth, and he had to put all those things on.

Hei Xiao went to fetch water from a wooden bucket.Fruit picks oranges in the box.He has to choose ones that are the same size as the head, so that even if only the skin is needed, the meat inside can be matured at the same time.Calculating the food intake of himself and Hei Xiao, Guo Guo picked [-] oranges, after all he couldn’t get enough by this, he felt that Hei Xiao could eat more than a dozen oranges, and he would just share the rest equally with Xiao Diao.

When the pork is marinated, the fruit is added with orange juice.The sweet and sour orange juice also has the effect of softening the meat. The key is that it can also remove fishy and greasy, increase the aroma and taste.

The orange peels of these trees are relatively thin, so it is not so easy to remove the pulp and keep the peel intact.Hei Xiao couldn't do this kind of delicate work, so he was in charge of making orange juice on the side.

"Guozi, I think this place is very good. It's very close to the plains where the wheat grows. Otherwise, you can rest here at night. It's also convenient to have water nearby. Just run a little longer. There is no way for people to hunt out there. It's hard to clear a place to sleep."

Guozi has no objection to this, in fact, he can accept even letting him rest in the open air.He was a little rabbit after all.

"Okay. Then tomorrow morning, I will cook more food every day, lend out the lunch meal, and then I don't have to cook anything at noon, just take it out and eat it."

"Actually, it doesn't need to be too troublesome. We are here to harvest wheat. Your main task is to rest and relax. Tonight I will stew a big pot of meat, steam a few pots of steamed buns, and by the way, roast two beef legs. I Look, let's not move the place today. Make all the food for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and then tomorrow will be easy." Hei Xiao thought about his arrangement and thought it was pretty good.

But Guozi is not very willing: "Why are you doing it? No way. I will cook the stew. I will make more orange peel glutinous rice balls. I have to make orange juice into jelly, otherwise so much orange juice, if I drink it all I can't take it either."

Hei Xiao smiled and said: "Okay, I won't compete with you for work. My little fruit is good. Alas, I want to do all the housework like other males to make my partner happy, but my partner is unhappy. "

Guo Guo's face was a little red: "I... I don't like it. But, I don't want you to be too tired. And... it seems more boring to do nothing."

Hei Xiao picked up a piece of orange meat and brought it to Guo Zi's mouth: "Then I'll read you the story inside?"

Guozi opened his mouth to take the orange meat: "Okay. I'll get sleepy just looking at it myself."

Hei Xiao withdrew his hand and licked the finger that the fruit had just touched.

"It's so sweet."

Guozi's face turned even redder.He obviously kissed him at least a few times every day, why did he feel even more ashamed to see Hei Xiao like this!

When the steamed pork with orange peel comes out of the pot, the orange peel glutinous rice balls made of fruit are also cooked.There are small orange-yellow glutinous rice balls in the bowl, the fruit bowl is poured with honey, Hei Xiao was poured with spicy broth that night, two different toppings make the same food have two different flavors.

The glutinous rice dumplings are very chewy, and Hei Xiao has always liked these small glutinous rice snacks.I especially love the texture of the glutinous rice balls after they are baked.But today, the cooked orange peel gnocchi is also very good. This is a new marinated soup made from spicy watercress and beef bone soup. It was originally planned to be sold when the store opened, but since the hunting and picking started, there was no time to open the store.There is still a jar at home, so he brought some with him when he came out this time.The thick spicy broth and the aroma of orange peel are very suitable, and Hei Xiao fell in love with it after taking a bite.Originally, he thought that the orange peel would be bitter, but he didn't expect that the fruit would only have the fragrance of oranges without bitterness.

"This taste is just right, do you want to try it?" Hei Xiao scooped up a gnocchi that had been soaked in red soup.

Guozi nodded: "Okay. You can also try my honey-dipped one, it's sweet and delicious."

Both fed each other their favorite flavors.But Hei Xiao still doesn't have much interest in sweet glutinous rice balls.On the contrary, the fruit feels that the taste of orange peel and meat is particularly suitable.However, his taste is light, and his favor for steamed pork with orange peel should avoid marinated gnocchi.But these two things reminded him of delicacies such as orange peel duck. In fact, orange peel is used to make it, especially if fresh orange peel is used, it must have a unique flavor.

The whole afternoon, both of them spent making food.Guozi kneaded a lot of small glutinous rice balls, and by the way stewed curry beef in a large clay pot, in which he cut two ground dragons and ten potatoes.The soup was gurgling, almost to the point.

Curry beef is stewed in the pot, and Hei Xiao is making his roasted beef leg.Thunder Sable ran out to play now, and the young couple were in the cave.

The fruit smelled two attractive aromas. Although I was full at noon, I still had a desire to taste it.

"The owner of the city seems to want to use at least half of our rock city to plant soybeans starting next year. But I think, in terms of production, sweet potatoes and ground dragons will have more harvests. We will get married next year, can we also do that? Is it allotted to farmland?"

Hei Xiao nodded.

"Yeah. If you get married, you can get a share. The city lord also encourages everyone to plant soybeans. He will definitely accept soybeans. Everyone is willing to plant them. You don't want to plant them?"

Guozi shook his head: "I don't want to. Dilong produces a lot of starch, and the leftover dregs can be eaten, and it tastes good after drying. So I want to grow Dilong. Then I can make vermicelli. Let me tell you. Vermicelli is also possible. For dim sum. After frying, it is very crispy and fluffy, which is completely different from eating other things. When I go back this time, I will make vermicelli. But I need to go to the blacksmith to order a few iron tools. Like Like a sieve or a colander, it is like a small bucket with a handle that can be pressed and a lid that can be pressed down. In this way, the starch ball is pressed down and boiled in a boiling water pot, and it is vermicelli. Take out the transparent vermicelli Take it out and put it directly in ice water, then hang it on a bamboo support to dry, and it can be stored for a long time. It can be boiled when it is eaten."

"Actually, if you want to make vermicelli, there is no need to grow it yourself. You can just collect it in the wild. Or, you can simply sell the vermicelli to the city lord, and he will naturally find a way to grow earth dragons."

Guozi opened her eyes wide: "Ah? Sell it to him again?"

Hei Xiao nodded: "Yes. Of course, he can also recommend selling to other beast cities. But I don't think he will do that. After all, you said vermicelli can be stored for a long time, but it can be used as food for winter, and the earth dragon scum You can also make pancakes, and he will definitely not let go. Money is not a problem, I mainly don’t want you to work too hard. Think about it, if you want to eat vermicelli in the future, you can go to the workshop to buy it. Look at our family of four, Those earth dragons have been busy for more than half a day, if you do a lot, why don't you have to do nothing?"

"That's right. In fact, I'm not obsessed with making it myself. It's so tiring. Let's wait until I go back and make it this time. When I make braised vermicelli for the city owner, he will be willing to buy it."

"It's a pity that selling it to him can't be so expensive. Fortunately, we are not short of money." Hei Xiao was quite regretful.It was the most comfortable when I bought the production method of the monitor lizard family.

Guozi smiled: "In fact, it is also possible to give it directly, but it seems that there is no need to give it to him directly."

Hei Xiao leaned over and kissed Qin Guozi's forehead: "That's right. He has plenty of money, think about the [-]. He said at least [-] to [-] are left."

Thinking of the bags of gold coins, Guo Zi began to feel distressed again.

"Okay! You can't give it away for free! You must collect money!"

Guo Guo is the first time to see what a real wheat wave looks like.On the mountainside, I saw the wheat growing on the flat land below the mountain. Although it is not as dense as it is, and there are other plants mixed in it, but from a distance, it is still golden wheat ears. It's beautiful to look at, and it's really spectacular.

Lieshen Mountain does not have such a big place for Guozi to appreciate.The most magnificent view is to climb to the top of the mountain to see the mountains and mountains in the distance.Guozi's face flushed with excitement.

"It's so beautiful! Hei Xiao, this place is so beautiful!"

When your partner is happy, you are happy.Although Hei Xiao was used to seeing these things, he was still infected by Guozi's excitement.

"Yes. It's beautiful. We're going to harvest the wheat here, and it may take many days to harvest."

Guozi asked, "Then why don't people from the city come here to harvest? These are all grains."

Hei Xiao replied: "Because this is not within the scope of the beast city, females can't get through. The males come out to hunt, and they are not good at harvesting these things, and they don't care. It's still good now, and the males will also eat a lot of grains and Vegetables and fruits. In the past, meat was the staple food of orcs, and males did not even eat these grains. When I was young, I read the records in books and heard an old orc talk about it. About thousands of years ago, there was a beast In the catastrophe of the world, many prey died inexplicably. Gradually, the orcs lost so many prey and began to eat some other things. These grains were discovered at that time. In fact, before you came, we had limited ways to eat rice noodles .”

"In fact, even on Lieshen Mountain, there are monsters who don't eat vegetables, fruits and grains. Because they are meat-eating monsters. I am different. I eat everything, so it is easy to feed. You are too." The fruit was on Hei Xiao's neck rubbed on.

Mink, who has been neglected all the time, also wants to express himself: "Sable is too, it's easy to feed!" '

Guo Guo hugged Thunder Sable in his arms, holding the little mink's little paw.

"At that time, I will help you to see if there are any snakes and poisonous insects around."

Recently, I have been picking with Qing Chenzi and the others. The little mink likes these jobs very much, especially after catching snakes, everyone will cook or roast the snake meat for it to eat, and many females will come to touch themselves head of.Although they are not as comfortable as the owner's touch, but with delicious snake meat, I don't care about it generously. 'Okay!Mink work! '

Guozi's small scythe and Heixiao's sharp claws are equally useful. With Thunder Sable's "pathfinder", they don't worry about dangerous animals appearing in the dense wheat fields.So harvesting was very fast along the way, and by the time it was almost noon, they had already cut down a large area.But at this time, Guozi's body shook a little after she straightened her waist.

Hei Xiao hurried over to hold the fruit.

"Aren't you too tired? Sit down and rest for a while."

Guo Guo didn't persist, and he really couldn't persist anymore.

"I didn't expect harvesting the wheat to be so hard, and I have to bend over all the time. My body is still too bad, and I can't even compare with ordinary females here. I think everyone is doing well after harvesting every day. My waist is sore now." With that said, the fruit wilted.As a demon, after cutting wheat for a long time, he would feel sore and tired.It's super embarrassing to say it!

Hei Xiao withdrew his sharp claws and turned his hands back to massage Guo Zi's waist.

"You're just not used to it, and you haven't done this kind of work before. Besides, you haven't been idle recently. The bacon is also very tired. So I said I let you out to rest and relax. You have to work hard work. You can rest here in the afternoon. You won’t be in danger if the mink is watching you.”

Guozi sighed: "I really can't do it anymore. You are right, I can't always think about being brave. Then I can practice here, and I can relieve my fatigue,"

"Okay. We'll have lunch later, and then I'll lay out your furs and sprinkle the insect repellent powder on you. I'll be cutting the wheat on the side anyway, so I won't go too far."

Time always passed quickly when practicing, and when Guo Zi came back from meditation, the sky was already getting dark.At this time, Hei Xiao had already bundled the wheat they had cut before, and was collecting bundles into Qiankun bags.

Seeing Guozi standing up, Hei Xiao stopped what he was doing.

"Do you feel better now?"

Guozi nodded: "Yeah. It's much more comfortable. I think maybe I haven't practiced recently, and my spiritual power is a bit lacking? Hey, let's not talk about that. I'm also here to harvest wheat, I... eh? Why is there such a big snake here? !!" As he got closer, Guozi saw behind the bundles of wheat next to Heixiao, there was a big snake as thick as his own arm.

Hei Xiao took Guo Zi's hand and patted the back of his hand to appease him: "This is a green snake, a second-level ordinary monster. It crawled over when you were practicing, and the little mink knocked it out immediately. I came over and killed it, and put it aside. It didn't bleed anyway, and it wouldn't attract other beasts. It's a good thing. The green snake is a magical beast with healing magic power, and it is not poisonous. I guess it It was attracted by your aura during cultivation."

Could there be prey here too?The fruit is really sweating.

"Then I'd better not practice in the wild in the future. This time it's a second-level ordinary monster. If it's higher than you and Xiao Diao, it's too dangerous."

Hei Xiao smiled: "It's impossible for me to take you to such a dangerous place."