my age of magic

Chapter 2 2. Here I am. Nice
This world is rich in living resources, as long as anyone willing to work is well fed, it's just that food is not so particular.

Especially in such caravans, there are usually two kinds of food we eat, one is black bread that is ground into powder and baked from black wheat, mixed with a little salt, it tastes very rough, but if you chew carefully, you will find that the wheat The grains are very sweet, and each black bread will be made as big as a washbasin.

Such bread can be stored for several months after it is made without spoiling.The other is to use barley to grind it into flour, spread it on a hot slate and bake it into a large cake, which is very hard. Such a cake must be smashed with a hammer, put it in a large bowl, and pour a large spoonful of thick rice on it. The thick beef jerky and wild vegetable soup can make me very full.

Merchant groups usually bring these breads, wheat cakes, and some marinated air-dried beef. Occasionally, we will be late for the fresh beast meat that the adventure group hunted back, but that is rare. Such a large caravan of more than 600 people, hunting One or two goats or white deer are not enough for a dozen people.

Kuz also swam back at this moment, and helped me catch the leather saddle that Fred took off from Thunder Rhino, while happily saying: "Ji Jia, this is very close to my hometown in the Pai Grassland, and the one over there There should be a lot of delicious food in the big grassland. Guinea pigs should be the most delicious in early spring. They stay in the burrow for a whole winter, eating only grass seeds and tree roots. The intestines are clean and the meat tastes the most delicious. Catch a few and come back to stew yams."

Young orcs are usually very wary of humans. Almost all orcs think that humans are a bunch of cunning and despicable guys, so even in such a peaceful age, it is not easy to gain the trust of an orc.

The reason why I can become friends with Kuru is largely due to the relationship between the old Kuru. Kuru is the grandson of the old Kuru, and the old Kuru is very close to me.

The second is because I am a child. For Kurz, who is only 12 years old, I am not in any danger. He can approach me without any scruples and ask me various questions to satisfy his curiosity.

For the convenience of communication, the old Kuru taught me the orc language. When Kurz and I were alone, we all talked in the orc language.

The third is that I also make some delicious soups.This matter is actually a bit far away.

Old Kuru was a very experienced pharmacist and an old friend of Leipas.

During the trade trip of the Kingdom of Stan, Leipas spent a lot of money to invite Kuru to be the pharmacist of the caravan instead of hiring other human pharmacists, because this trip will pass through the Pai Plateau and the new Siakis Mountains.

Many of the herbs and vegetation here are unfamiliar to human pharmacists. Only the experienced beast pharmacist, Old Kuru, is familiar with the habits of these herbs, so there is a slightly mysterious beast pharmacist in this caravan.

For Old Kuru, the owners of the caravan gave him enough respect, which is also an important factor why I was rescued and taken in by the caravan.

One day after I recovered from my injury, the old Kuru once found that when he was boiling the medicine, he could actually remember the whole process clearly, what kind of herbal medicine to put in each process, how much to put, and what kind of heat to cook until The concoction is poured out.

I have to say that this is not difficult for me as a chef, isn't this just cooking?

At that time, although my body was a child under the age of 5, my mental age was very mature.At that time, I would often help the old Kuru to make medicine, and the people in the caravan would often get sick because of the acclimatization. Every time, the old Kuru would pick some local herbs to make medicine juice, and I helper.

Gradually, the old Kuru found that my comprehension and learning ability is much better than others, and because when brewing medicine, at least one must understand the characteristics of these herbs.

In the next 10 months, under the urging of the old Kuru, I learned the orc language while studying herbal medicine in the pile of herbs he picked. Orcs have a lot of understanding of herbs that is different from humans. Define these When it came to the names of herbs, it was difficult for the old Kuru to accurately transliterate them into Imperial language, and it was 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 coherently.

The best way to learn a language is to communicate in that language more often.In this way, I gradually began to get acquainted with Kurtz.

Kurtz is a werewolf child whose blood is closer to humans. Except for a pair of furry pointed ears and thick hair on his strong chest, he is almost the same as a human.But when he is angry, he still barks his teeth, showing his canine teeth to show his anger. I always think of the white husky dog ​​raised by the boss upstairs in the dormitory building.

Kurtz likes sports. This kid always has inexhaustible strength, and he can run non-stop all over the mountains and plains, just to chase a pheasant.

In the New Siakis Mountains, there is a kind of pheasant with white background and gray spots is the most common. This kind of pheasant is usually not much bigger than a pigeon. It can only glide short distances in the valley, but it is very clever. Once it finds danger, it will go far away. fly away.But the quality of this pheasant is very tender and delicious.

Once Kurz caught a few Yakis pheasants, he even found an iron skewer to string them together and put them on the fire.

The bonfire quickly burned the chicken feathers, and then the whole chicken turned into a pitch black color. The smell of burning bird feathers was everywhere in the camp. To be honest, the smell was terrible.

After the chicken is roasted, the black scab and skin formed by the bird feathers must be removed. If it is not a big pheasant, it will be smaller. It also tastes like burning bird feathers, which is a bit bitter.

The simplicity and kindness of the orcs are innate. After the pheasant is cooked, even if Kurtz himself is not enough to eat, he will give the roast pheasant to the old Kuru first, and then he also gave me one.

To be honest, I don't like this stuff very much when I smell the sticky smell.But the team will provide a broth made of dried beef for almost 5 days, and the rest of the time is dried vegetables and wild vegetable soup with wheat cakes or black bread.

At this time, it is also rare to have a chicken that has been burnt all the time.I reconfirm this is for me?

Kurz nodded with a smile, showing a mouthful of neat white teeth, biting the remaining pheasant on the iron rod fiercely, causing him to grin his teeth and blow.

At that moment, I felt like a naive child. In such a strange world, it was a rare happiness to have such a pure and white friendship. It doesn't hurt that much anymore.

I sat next to Kurtz, leaned on his shoulder, held the hot roast chicken in my hand and said to him: "Next time you catch this kind of chicken, I will cook it for you. There's a better way."

"En!" Kurtz vaguely agreed, still concentrating on paying the two roast chickens.

Unexpectedly, at noon the next day, our caravan was resting in the mountain col. I was taking a nap on the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros carrying Kuru herbs and other daily necessities, and I was woken up in a daze. Zi proudly held up the iron stick in his hand, with 7.8 pheasants strung on it, and said in clumsy imperial language: "Let's eat together!"

For me, this is the first meal I cook in this world, which is very meaningful.

In fact, I have no better way to cook these chickens. I didn’t have any more seasonings and ingredients here. I learned that even the housekeeper Leipas has never eaten fried chicken wings, because the cooking methods in this magic world are very complicated. Simple, one is soup, or it is fried.

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 they rarely put seasonings and spices into the food. Some salt.

At first, I thought that there were no spices such as pepper, pepper, star anise, and chili in this new world. After studying herbal medicine with the old Kuru for a year, I discovered that these things exist, and these spices are also common. Herbs are not unusual.

Perhaps the old Kuru would not have thought that I was able to study herbal medicine so diligently because I have the heart of a chef. I was originally asked to study herbal medicine so that I could help him decoct medicine. Gradually, I could also carry a small medicine chest Follow him behind him, go to some safe places around the camp to collect herbs, and the first role of my study of herbal medicine is to study the commonality between these plants and the plants in my world, and try to discover those memories in the taste.

"Okay, leave these chickens to me, and you can find some chestnuts. Kurtz, you are such a good hunter!" I took the pheasant and praised Kurtz.

There are also chestnuts in this magical world, and "chestnut" is called "tree rice" in the orc language.Chestnuts have always been eaten as food. There are many trees of this kind on the southern slopes of the New Siakis Mountain, and there are also many apple trees and pear trees.

Dwarves and orcs don't like to eat apples. Apples have always been taken out by dwarves to make wine. Orcs like to wait until the first heavy snow seals the mountain to pick up the hard-frozen autumn pears on the mountain. Old Kuru He and Kuz like hard autumn pears with ice slag very much. The old Kuru told me that in winter, if you only eat wheat cakes and broth, you will slowly get sick. Only by eating these frozen fruits can you get the beast god king. Blessings, he protects the Pai Plateau.

For more than a year, he has been lying on the back of Thunder Rhino and followed the caravan through the New Siakis Mountains, but his body has gradually become stronger.

Although I have to be roasted by the fire poison in my body every day, I am in pain.But this symptom is gradually reducing. I found that I can easily jump up and down on the back of the four-meter-high Thunder Rhinoceros. Although the clumsy movements are often ridiculed by Kurtz, I know that children of the same age in my original world are at this time. I can only drink yogurt and play in the yard on a buggy.

But at the age of 7, I have been asked by the housekeeper Leipas to help old Kuru boil herbal medicine every day, send it to the sick in the caravan, and tell me how to take it and other chores.

Although I am thin and thin, it is not difficult to handle these pheasants. After throwing the pheasants into a clay pot filled with hot water and rinsing them for a few times, I will take them out immediately. If the feathers are soaked in hot water for too long, The feathers will be scalded and fall off together with the flesh, so the timing must be accurate.

He took the chicken paws and quickly removed the chicken feathers, and the oily and yellow fat chickens were placed on the wooden table.

Looking at my skillful movements, even the old Kuru, who was decocting medicine not far away, looked over and didn't understand why I had to scald the chicken and pluck the hair, wouldn't it be better to burn it directly?The pheasant is cut open with a small knife, and the internal organs are removed and thrown into a wooden barrel.

For orcs, these internal organs are more delicious and must not be discarded.Throw the chopped chicken into the soup pot, sprinkle the prepared seasoning and salt, and wait for Kurtz to retrieve the chestnuts.

With half a bag of chestnuts on his back, Kurtz bent over and opened the leather curtain to get in and said, "Jijia, this soup is delicious."

"There will be something for you to eat later, peel chestnuts with me now."

In the tent, next to the crock pot filled with smoke, a half-big orc child and a human child chatted and laughed while peeling chestnuts.

There is no word for stew in Orc language and Imperial language, they all call the food cooked in this crock pot soup.

The stewed chicken with chestnuts exudes a strong aroma when it is cooked. Although Kurz is salivating and swallowing, he is still waiting for me to announce that it is edible before he is willing to do it. And we dedicated the first bowl of meat to the old man. Kuru.

After the old Kuru tasted it, his dry and dull eyes stared at me for a long time, and then he said to me lightly: "I know you are a different child, this soup is very delicious. With this delicious soup, you You can also live well in a human city. But I still hope that the friendship between you and Kurtz can continue and help each other on the road in the future."

"I will, Grandpa!"

"I will, teacher!" Kurz and I said respectfully.

Yep, that's the third point of being able to be friends with Kurtz, because I make some delicious soups.

Eight plump pheasants and half a bag of chestnuts were stewed in a large earthen pot. In one hand, Kurtz held a piece of black bread bigger than his head, and in the other hand he held a large spoon. It is easy to eat, not afraid of being hot, even the bones are swallowed into the stomach.

Those who can cook delicious food must be the ones who know how to eat, at least that's what I think.

Many chefs are fat because they are born foodies. They are people who want to make delicious food and have a strong interest in it.

I feel that I am persistent enough in this aspect. The first thing I did in this life was not thinking of understanding other mysterious things in this world, but the first thing I thought of was eating.

For this reason, when the old Kuru taught me herbalism, I would gladly accept it, just to let myself know what to eat and what not to eat.In order to be able to understand the jerky words in the scroll that writes the basics of herbal medicine, he even spent a lot of time learning the orc language. It is estimated that if the old Kuru knew that the original purpose of my studying herbal medicine so hard was to avoid starvation to death when I was wandering, no Knowing what he would think, wouldn't it be too frustrating?

Slowly I don't know when it started, I gradually discovered how important herbal medicine is to me.

And old Kuru, my first orc teacher, began to teach a new subject, that is, pharmacy.

When Kuru heard that I was going to learn pharmacy from old Kuru, he seemed very excited. We sat on the back of Lei Tingxi and chatted that night. Kuz said that he had a dream of being a hunter. , I am afraid that he is the one who is following the old Kuru to recite the names of those herbs.

Kuz said to me: It's great to have you here!
(End of this chapter)