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Did you grow taller...?

Yixi looked at Lucien seriously, gestured for Lucien's position in his arms, nodded and said, "It's grown taller."

When Lucien was nestled in his arms like this before, it was just right for his head to rest on his chest a little lower. Now, when he was sitting like this, Izzy could feel the upturned curls of Lucien's hair brushing against his. The side of the neck is basically close to his shoulder, so that Lucien can curl up his legs more comfortably.

"Really?" Lucien confirmed to Issie again, sitting on his lap and moving around restlessly, as if he wanted to use Issie as a ruler to measure how much he had grown.

Izzy couldn't do anything about being rubbed by him, so she simply held Lucien's armpit and lifted Lucien up in a standard cat-lifting posture, so that she could stand up under the weight of the duke cat and stand face to face. Visually observe the increase in Lucien's height.

"About that much." Issey drew a length, and couldn't help but be surprised at the boy's growth rate... No, he should have noticed it when Lucien tried the cloak last time. When he first met Lucien, he was as short as a boy. At that time, the child had already grown to the point where the top of his head could barely reach the height of his chest. Recently, he had obviously grown a lot taller, so that standing face to face, the tallest curly hair could reach his shoulders.

Wait... until he comes back next time, maybe Lucien will be as tall as him.

Issie stroked Lucien's little black curly hair obediently. The boy's hair had also grown a little longer, hanging softly on the side of his neck. It looked curly but not difficult to manage. It will not resist combing and tangle, and the fingertips can easily pass through the black hair.

It would be even better if I could gain some weight.

Issie couldn't help thinking that Lucien still didn't have much flesh on his cheeks, and he couldn't weigh any bones on his body. As we all know, cats always look better when they are fatter.

And fatter cats will feel better when held.

This idea flashed in Izzy's head for a moment, and he swore that it was really just that. Lucien immediately looked at him with half-closed eyes as if he had noticed that he was thinking of something impolite, and said "Huh?" sound.

Issie quickly recalled Lucien's next schedule - there is no schedule, so in order to prevent Lucien from spending his precious vacation time exploring what he just thought, Issie confessed honestly: "I just think you are too thin, You should eat more."

"What?" Lucien raised his eyebrows, "Do you think I hurt you?"

"Of course not." Izzy said while reaching out to hold Lucien's hand, "It's too cold here, if you can grow some flesh, you'll feel better."

He spoke with concern and sincerity, but Lucien sneered, and pulled his hand out of Issie's hand, "You speak like my mother." He said, with a bit of sarcasm in the corner of his eyes, "Being more conscientious than her." .”

Issie didn't speak, but held Lucien's wrist again, wrapping Lucien's cold fingertips with his palm without haste.

Lucien didn't break free this time.

Izzy thought, this should be a good thing.

……

In a blink of an eye, it's the New Year's Eve.

The New Year's Eve is a traditional festival in this world. The specific historical origin is unknown. According to the records in myths and legends, the gods jointly designated this day as the end of the year when the world first opened, so whether you are a believer in the God of Light or For the people of the Moon Goddess, all religions celebrate the New Year's Eve on the same day.

It's the new year in this world.

The custom of sending off New Year’s Day is not much different from that of Lucien’s previous life. It’s also a family reunion to visit relatives and friends, but what we eat here is not dumplings and glutinous rice balls, but broth and sweet bread with stuffing. No matter how poor people are during the festival, they will try their best to add some meat flavor to the soup, squeeze out the little money or food in their pockets, and buy a new year's bread from the baker.

Good New Year’s Bread is fluffy and soft white bread, which is usually filled with delicious jams made of honey, nuts and fresh fruits, while the worst is hard black bread, which is usually not made by bakers. The family gathered the grain and kneaded it into dough and baked it in the stove by themselves. The filling was also jam made from the wild berries and berries they picked on weekdays. The sour taste was not really good.

Even with such black bread, many people are worried that they will not be able to eat it this year. The premature winter has ruined their half-year harvest, and the remaining grain can only support them from starving to death.

——It should be so.

But after the lord took office, it was not in vain to toss about labor and craftsmen for almost two months.The craftsmen can naturally have a good New Year's Eve with their wages. They are reluctant to buy that kind of sweet bread with jam, and they can also let the family eat a meal of white bread without scum and stones, and a thin layer of honey can be brushed on it. Roasted in the oven until slightly charred, it is so delicious that people want to swallow their tongues.

Although the labor labor is all done for the lord, the family who manages food and drink on the construction site can save one person's rations. flour, make two brown breads and share them.

Being able to have a New Year's Eve where they can eat new year's bread, everyone feels a little bit of the kindness of the lord. No matter whether they have been on the construction site or in the factory, they have greeted the lord in their hearts when they were tired and dazed.

Therefore, when they went to the temple to pray on the New Year's Eve, many people sincerely looked at the compassionate face of the God of Light, praying for the lord's good health and a few more years of life.

Not only the middle- and lower-level civilians prayed for this, but also the low-level mages who were taken care of by the lord this winter. They received large orders for recovery potions and energy potions this winter, plus...cough cough, plus... The remuneration for helping to dig the ground will allow them to not worry about their livelihood for a long time, and they can concentrate more on magic research.

——The pharmacy taste improvement project funded by the lord lord They are naturally very concerned about it, and it is jointly researched by several mages who are good at making pharmacy. The mage will also answer with a look of disgust.

Moreover, Archmage Andasi later admitted that the project of improving the taste of medicines was very difficult, involving very advanced knowledge of pharmacy, and wrote to several masters of pharmacy to inquire about related issues. It is also difficult to come up with any results.

These mages are one of the very few people who did not go home for the New Year's Eve except for the officers on duty and the magistrates.They chose to stay in the magic workshop of the Mage Guild and immerse themselves in research, without any festive atmosphere, so that they were a little confused when they received the new year's bread and broth sent by the Archmage Andersi, and they waited to see the day before responding Coming here is the New Year's Eve.

Andasi was not very willing to send them holiday condolences. For mages, the research in hand is not as important as those who are not on holiday. The broth and bread he sent came from a duke who meddled The master didn't let him be quiet during the holidays, and sent him a bunch of bread, honey, spices, etc. with great fanfare, saying that it was a gift, and Andasi had to open the inventory in order to return the gift, and told the cunning The little bastard tricked him into several high-level amulets with some food.

But with so much food delivered, he, an old man, couldn't finish it anyway. The spiced honey can be put aside for a while and eaten slowly. There was a little lamb with the Velvetre crest on its ear—live!bleating!It will move!

When the servant came to ask Andasi with a look of embarrassment on how to deal with the lamb, Andasi's heart was filled with a grassland... Andasi gave himself a sedative, and swallowed the hastily that came to his mouth.

"Kill and eat." Andasi said, ignoring that what Lucien gave him was the fluffiest, whitest and cutest lamb in Rollus Manor.

That's fine.

Andasi smiled cruelly.

Lambs raised so well must have very tender meat. Andasi knows that the sheep in the Rolles manor are all raised in the Rolles flower field. The taste is sweet and sweet without any smell. It is also very good to make lamb pies.

What a gift, he doesn't have to buy extra meat for the New Year's Eve.

"Lamb chops tonight." Andasi has already thought about the menu for tonight, "I also use this to cook the broth, and I also gave spices to use together." He said and saw the crate of disgusting white meat Bread, so I remembered that there were a group of mages who were obsessed with research in the magic workshop of the union, and ordered the servants, "Send these to the workshop of the union, and give them some broth."

Anyway, it's a festival, since someone gave it to me, I'll give them the joy of the festival,

Master Andasi had no intention of celebrating the New Year's Eve with others, even if it was a reunion festival.At his age, his parents have long passed away, and he has no wife—the noble family who supported him when he was young once wanted to marry his illegitimate daughter to him, but he didn't agree, and he never had any plans to start a family. An apprentice passed on his magic research, but he has not yet put it into action.

It's good to celebrate the holidays by yourself.

For dinner, I ate lamb chops coated with honey and seasoned with spices, served with home-baked bread, boiled vegetables and mushrooms in the lamb soup, it was delicious.

Archmage Andasi was very satisfied with the craftsmanship of the cook he had hired, and Lucien was also satisfied with rewarding the cook who prepared the New Year's dinner for him.

For this backward world with no magic to play, the only thing Lucien can be satisfied with is food.

Because of the existence of magic, precisely because of the existence of magic pharmacy, this world began to conduct research on whether various animals and plants can be eaten and whether they are poisonous. Sinful’s point of view is that blocking is worse than sparseness. You should not blindly restrain and abstinence, but relax like the sun rises and sunsets. Coupled with the cross-class setting of talented people, at the beginning, focus on whether animals and plants can eat or not Research on non-medicinal use inevitably develops from whether it can be eaten to how to make it delicious.

Although it is also due to the existence of magical pharmacy, recovery potions combined with energy potions and church holy water can basically cure all diseases, but the development direction of pharmacy has shifted from healing to various weird directions.

When Lucien passed through, the development of medicine was still in the stage of bloodletting, but the types of ingredients had become very rich, and the cooking methods were also diverse and novel, which could basically satisfy Lucien's appetite for being raised in the previous world.

The cooks in the palace are skilled. Although the ones in the Rolles Manor are not as good, Lucien can freely dictate the kitchen. If he wants to eat some special dishes from the last world, the cooks will follow his instructions and try their best to restore them.

And Lucien would want to eat and have the materials to make it during this Chinese New Year...

Then there are only dumplings.