Chapter 52

The thin white soup is boiling in the hot pot. It smells delicious and makes the index finger move. The red pine round table is full of fresh vegetables, all kinds of animal meat, fish fillets and shrimps.

"Victor, is this the hot pot you invented?" Edwin asked Victor, looking brightly at the chic copper hot pot.

This copper hot pot has a big belly and two layers inside and outside. The inner layer burns charcoal, the outer layer boils soup, and there is a small chimney for smoke exhaust in the middle. It is the common charcoal copper hot pot on the earth.

"Yes, this is the hot pot I invented recently. In cold weather, this hot pot tastes the most warm." Said Victor with a smile.

As soon as Edwin and Bruce returned to Victor's Hill camp, they went back to their temporary wooden houses. After a good bath, they fell asleep. They were tired from fighting for several days.

When they woke up, it was dark and hungry. They received Victor's dinner invitation, so Edwin, Bruce and Nicole came to Victor's office villa, where they saw the gourmet hot pot prepared by Victor for them.

Victor originally invited Bruce's four squires and knights, but they need to guard the body of the alienated mouse. They can't even come because they eat and live in the same room.

For the prudence of the York family, Victor understood that the important resources related to the core interests of the family should not be neglected.

"Victor, is this soy sauce? Why is it so fragrant?" Edwin picked up a silver lamp in front of him and sniffed it hard. He felt the fragrance attractive and his throat couldn't help moving.

"Because there are wild wattle, black pepper and green Artemisia in the soybean paste." Replied Victor with a smile.

"Wild Acanthus? Although this plant has attractive fragrance, it tastes bitter and astringent. How do you get rid of its taste?" After tasting the sauce, Edwin felt that it was delicious and had no expected strange smell.

"Wild thorn grass is not directly added to the sauce, but after frying with acorn, these acorn oil has the smell of wild thorn, so acorn oil is the key to this sauce." Said Victor proudly.

In other words, Victor pioneered the use of iron oak for oil refining. Human beings in this world have no habit of extracting oil from plants, and all dishes are roasted without stewing, which makes Victor, who is used to all kinds of delicious food, how can he tolerate it. Fortunately, his territory is rich in animal and plant resources, and with busso, an expert to help identify toxicity, Victor can calmly test all kinds of spices.

"Victor, your understanding of food is beyond my imagination. It really opened my eyes on the way. Compared with the life of kings and nobles, we are really a group of rural nobles." Bruce laughed at himself.

The local nobles in Gambis thought that the court nobles in the royal capital were flashy guys, and the court nobles also laughed at the local nobles as vulgar Hicks.

"Lord Bruce, these unique spices were not discovered by Lord Victor, but collected by some new free people. Their survival ability is amazing. They help the camp find several new crops, such as this sweet potato, which can be used as food." Nelson explained to Bruce that he thought the alchemy auxiliary was a new liberal.

"Some free people live in the wild for a long time. Some of their survival skills are very valuable knowledge. It's a pity that most people in Baita ignore this." Edwin regretted that he was one of the few white tower scholars who realized that the division of classes had led to the failure to collect and sort out many useful knowledge.

"Master, come and try this instant boiled mutton. This is the hind leg of a little yellow lamb. Cut it into thin slices and roll it in the boiling soup. You can eat it with sauce." Seeing that Edwin was a little sad, Victor quickly and politely sandwiched a piece of boiled mutton into the sauce dish of the old scholar.

Victor designed this hotpot dinner carefully in order to further close the relationship with Edwin and Bruce, because he soon asked for them.

As the saying goes, eating is not tired of essence and stewing is not tired of fineness. From the fineness of diet, we can reflect the civilization of an ethnic group. The human nobles in this world are high above the world, but in Victor's view, they are ridiculous. They blindly pursue etiquette without improving their quality of life.

From the perspective of diet, the monotonous cooking methods and monotonous tastes make there no great difference between nobles and civilians. Therefore, nobles can only work hard on tableware and etiquette in order to show their nobility.

It's no wonder that a cook who cooks for the Lord usually has to deal with chores in addition to cooking, help in the fields during busy farming, and fight in armor during war, which makes him want to study his cooking and bring forth the new.

There is no distinct social division of labor. In the final analysis, it is still because of low productivity. In addition to the fact that mankind is still competing with other races, Victor believes that the more important reason is the serious separation between the noble class and the civilian class! Victor had a feeling that this gap was deliberately created!

However, Victor is not interested in studying this problem. He just wants to have a relationship now.

Edwin and his party got alienated creatures. This treasure will make them quickly return to their sphere of influence, perhaps tomorrow. Victor needs Edwin to help him promote sucrose, spices and coffee, and Bruce to help him take care of a group of people in Heibao town so that his purple cane wine can earn the first pot of gold.

So Victor's way is to eat and drink well. This is completely in line with the behavior and habits of Chinese people on earth and is very effective.

"Victor, what tableware are you using?"

Nicole saw Victor holding two slender wooden sticks and skillfully sandwiching the food into the plate. This novel tableware made her eyes shine.

"Well? I call it chopsticks." Victor smiled at his sister. Only he and Nelson used chopsticks, and he prepared knives and forks, tweezers and leakers for Nicole.

"Give me a try!" Nicole said angrily to Victor that she didn't let her use the same tableware, which annoyed her sister.

"OK, but chopsticks are not easy to use. It took Nelson two meals to master them. I think you can use them first... I mean, you can use chopsticks."

A pair of chopsticks was handed to Nicole's white fiber hand. Just when Victor was talking, Nicole had been flexible to taste delicious with chopsticks.

"Good use!" Nicole also glanced sideways at Victor, which was cunning and charming.

"I'll try it, too." Edwin said with great interest.

But when the seemingly simple chopsticks came into Edwin's hands, he found that they were difficult to use. No matter how many grip methods he changed, he couldn't deal with even one vegetable leaf. By this time, Bruce was already flying chopsticks and had fun washing all kinds of ingredients.

"This chopstick seems simple, but it is a great test of people's coordination ability. Only a creature with a high unity of spirit and body, knight, can master the usage so quickly. Ordinary people like me can't help it." Edwin put down his hateful chopsticks with a sad face.

"It doesn't matter. The greatest function of chopsticks is to share food." Victor said with a smile and thoughtfully rinsed a piece of fresh and tender lizard meat for Edwin.

"Victor, this is not in line with aristocratic etiquette." Bruce joked after Victor picked up a shrimp for him.

Novel hot pot, novel chopsticks and novel dining methods make knights who pay attention to etiquette feel particularly relaxed, which is an unprecedented experience.

"Just like it." Victor also responded with a smile. He rinsed a fish fillet for Nicole, which made her heart sweet.

Unknowingly, a warm and harmonious atmosphere has spread on the dinner table, making everyone's faces hang a knowing smile.

This is the effect Victor wants. The round table regardless of primary and secondary, delicious hot pot, mutual care and mutual distance are pulled into each other. This is the charm of Chinese traditional food culture.

Victor has brought this custom into his neighbors and achieved very good results, making them closer and more united.

"Nelson, I didn't expect you to be the bear of the north. The battle between you and the Knights of the Tartus family has become a classic textbook for trainee knights. I also taught my squire Knights about this battle." Bruce raised his glass to Nelson and said with a smile that they already knew what had happened recently.

"Oh? What's going on?" Victor asked curiously. He only knew that Nelson had killed a knight directly, but he didn't ask for specific details.

"Nelson killed the Sasan knight with one blow, which has been spread in the knight circle." Nicole covered her mouth and smiled.

The female knight had just drunk some purple cane wine and her face was crimson. At this time, her dimple was like a flower and her eyes were flowing. It was really beautiful. Victor was very excited to see it.

Fortunately, the four bastards can't come to the party, otherwise they will see Nicole's beautiful appearance and want to pry my corner. Victor thought happily.

"I didn't expect that the Sasan knight, after bumping into us, jumped directly into the air and chopped at me. Only then did I seize the opportunity and kill him. If he attacked me on the ground, I'm not sure if I could beat him." Nelson said stiffly that he didn't think it was a thing to boast about since he knew he had been fooled.

"Leaping and chopping with the body in the air are extremely powerful and risky. They have no practical value except to frighten ordinary people. The Sasan Knight died of arrogance and frivolity and became a negative teaching material for all retinue knights." Bruce shook his head.

Victor suddenly realized that the Sasan Knight thought Nelson was an ordinary mercenary. He directly enlarged his move. As a result, he was in the air and had nowhere to borrow. He was hacked to death by Nelson with 20 points of physique on the spot.

Therefore, the joky Knight actually died of waves and shamefully became a negative teaching material. No wonder the Tartus family would be furious.

"Victor, you have dealt with the free people very correctly this time. This is the means that a qualified development Lord should use." Edwin said to victor.

"To tell you the truth, I can't bear to kill so many people at once, but they will threaten the safety of the people, and I have to do so." Victor smiled bitterly.

"Victor, this is the consciousness of exploiting the Lord. You should know that your so-called legal ownership is only common in the aristocratic world. For those free people who hold a group, they don't care about your legal identity. Only power can determine the ownership of the territory. If you have a castle and a knight, they will fear your power and submit to you, but if you don't have these, you will die You must show your strength with iron and blood means, or they will use iron and blood means against you. Remember, you can only talk about kindness to those who submit to you! " Nicole said solemnly to victor.

Nicole's words pointed directly at the essence, which made Victor tremble and moved. She was kind to the people who were obedient and Iron-blooded to the people who were evil. Isn't this inner saint and outer king.

"Thank you, Nicole. I will remember your warning." Victor said sincerely to Nicole.

"In fact, this is what Mrs. Sylvia said." Victor's gratitude embarrassed Nicole.

Victor has always had an inexplicable sense of superiority to the nobles in the world. He believes that most of these nobles are stupid and ignorant. This cognition stems from his vision beyond this era. Sylvia's wisdom and insight made him realize that the Lords and nobles of the world should not be underestimated.

"Victor, I want to remind you that it is enough for you to wipe out the bandits in the territory this time. You must not continue to use this means, otherwise the glorious church will find you in trouble. Compared with purifying wizards, the church pays more attention to protecting the free people and leading people. All lords who challenge the bottom line of the church have paid a heavy price. Even the fifth emperor of the RAND Empire died in the hands of the church , because he caused the death of 7000 free people. " Edwin also warned victor.

"Can you be more specific? I'm surprised that the church is so powerful and attaches importance to the lives of free people and leading people. Why are so many free people displaced in the human world? Can't they change the living environment of civilians?" Victor asked seriously. It was a matter of life and death. He had to be careful.

Edwin and Bruce looked at each other and continued, "this problem is very complex. I can discuss it with you in detail tomorrow, but before that, you must join a camp!"

"What camp?" Victor frowned and asked that although he had left the prince party, he was unwilling to join the grand duke party.

"White tower camp!"

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Dinner was over. Victor lay in bed, unable to sleep for a long time. He was still thinking about Edwin's words.

The so-called white tower camp actually means that all secular lords unite to resist the threat of the church. Even hostile families should put down their contradictions and unite in the face of the threat of the church.

Needless to consider, victor of course joined the camp. He was worried that there were two messages in it.

First, the church is very strong, and the power of the Lord must be united to fight.

Second, the church is very strong. Anyone who challenges its bottom line will be crushed by it.

The question now is what Victor, as the Lord, should do to get enough development space under the shadow of the church. This is the question he needs to find out. He doesn't want to accidentally offend this giant and finally be crushed.

Just as victor was tossing and turning, he heard a slight sound outside the door. He felt the door open. What came into his mind was Nicole's graceful figure. Victor was hot in his heart. When he was about to get up to open the door, he saw that the latch shook and was opened. The beautiful female Knight flashed into the house and inserted the door again.

Just as victor was ready to speak, Nicole's hot body rushed into his arms, and a fragrant and soft lip print was on his mouth. There was no need to say anything

The moonlight is gentle, and the groan in the house is as thin as a hairspring, which makes the moonlight as beautiful as water. It's really a beautiful night.