Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 83 The Village and the Chicken Soup

The four of Rhodes rode horses on the deserted fields, and the land that should have been used for farming was now covered with weeds.

If the Nord Kingdom can hold the fort south of Winterfell in this year's war, next year there will definitely be many nobles buying serfs and planting all the land with crops.

In the Kingdom of Nord, it is illegal to capture free people and nobles for sale, but it is not illegal to trade serfs, but most of the serfs in Nord are bought from the grasslands and the empire.

They continued walking, the sun was hanging high in the sky, and it was going to be summer soon, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Now their position belongs to the southernmost part of Nord, and the high sun made Rhodes, who was wearing dragon scale armor, feel very uncomfortable Uncomfortable, he felt that he would not be able to wear the dragon scale armor like this in a few days.

The field ahead is covered with neat wheat, which should have been planted by farmers living nearby.

"There should be a village near here, and the winter wheat is about to mature." Weber said, looking at the wheat field in front of him.

"The war will start again after the winter wheat is fully mature." Baron sat on the horse and sighed.

"Don't think about it too much. Let's go to the village ahead to see if we can buy some fruits and vegetables. I'm going to throw up after eating bacon every day," Hammer said.

Rhodes has been eating jerky and bread bought from White Hart Castle recently. A few days ago, he was finally thankful that the hard bread like wood was finally finished. As a result, he only ate jerky every day for the next few days, which made him feel even worse. uncomfortable.

In fact, Rhodes couldn't take it anymore, but he didn't say it because he was afraid that they would think he was hypocritical.

Going straight along the field ridge, a village appeared in front of Rhodes and the others.

There were only a dozen houses in the entire village. The farmers who were resting near their homes at noon saw the four of Rhodes approaching them on horseback. They all ran to the side, picked up their hoes and dung forks, and ran to the entrance of the village to look at them with vigilance. .

"Who are you?" asked one of the strongest farmers.

Rhodes looked at them. These farmers are not very old, the oldest should not be more than 40 years old, and there are many children.

Baron glanced at Rhodes, and Rhodes would take it easy and say, "We are just adventurers passing by, without any malice, and want to take a rest with you and buy some food."

Among the four, Rhodes is the most friendly. When Rhodes and Baron took risks before, Rhodes would come forward to communicate with vulnerable people, but if it was an extremely vicious adventurer or mercenary It was Baron himself.

"We won't do anything to hurt you." Hammer interjected beside him. Although the peasants on the opposite side were also tall and burly, they still had blue battle patterns on their faces compared to the fierce Baron. Hamer, they look like a bunch of honest farmers.

After hearing this, the farmers hesitated, put down their "weapons" and said, "Please come in."

Rhodes and the others led the horses into the village.

The farmers seem to be doing well, raising chickens and dogs, and there are two cows in the village.

"Have you eaten now?" Baron asked, rubbing his stomach.

"We have already eaten," replied the leading farmer.

Their questions and answers made Rhodes seem to return to the country before crossing.

"What food do you have to sell to us?" Rhodes asked.

"We have some flour, sausages, and smoked meat for you to sell," said a woman next to the leading farmer, who must have been his wife.

"Can you sell us a few of these chickens?" Rhodes said, pointing his finger at the chickens that were walking on the ground swaggeringly.

The farmer hesitated for a while and said, "That depends on how much you are prepared to pay."

"One gold coin, give me three chickens, some vegetables, some bread, and a bag of salt." Rhodes said, he took out a gold coin and handed it to the man.

The man was taken aback, and nodded quickly. He didn't expect Rhodes to pay so much, so he planned to give Rhodes some more vegetable bread and the like.

Hammer, who is used to spending money lavishly, didn't have any objections. Baron felt a little distressed, but he didn't show it. Weber's attention was not here, he was concentrating on watching the two cows.

Rhodes was afraid that the people here would have an inexplicable worship of chickens like in a certain game, so the bid was much higher.

After the man took out a large bag of vegetables from the house and gave it to Rhodes, he caught the swaggering chickens on the ground.

"Since you give so much money, I will help you choose the three fattest ones," he said.

"Can I borrow your kitchen?" Rhodes asked.

The man hesitated and said, "Yes."

"Over there." The man pointed to Rhodes.

Rhodes walked into the kitchen with a large bag of vegetables in his arms. He opened the bag and saw that there were cabbages, cucumbers, wax gourds, turnips, and eggplants inside.

Forget it, none of them are my favorites, only cucumbers are acceptable.

The taste of cucumber and chicken seems to be good, but I still don’t have soy sauce. I will go to Gaoshan Province after Chenxi Province to see how Lakal’s soy sauce is doing.

"Are you going to cook here?" Baron also walked in, picked up a cucumber and took a bite.

"Go kill the chicken and pluck the hair," Rhodes said.

"I know how to kill chickens, but I don't know how to pluck feathers." Baron scratched his head.

"Just boil the pot of water and throw the killed chicken in to pluck the feathers. I believe you can do it." Rhodes said, he had only seen others handle chickens like this before, and he had never done it himself.

"Okay, I'll go find a way." Baron walked out with the cucumber.

As soon as Baron walked out, there was the scream of a chicken.

Rhodes was a little helpless, he was still thinking about what to cook, and the ingredients were all good, mainly because he didn't have the familiar seasonings before.

It seems that you can still make beggar's chicken without any seasoning, but there is no lotus leaf.

It's the easiest way to stew these chickens in chicken soup.

Rhodes searched in the kitchen and found a plant that replaced ginger to remove the smell of meat. The rhizome looked green and smelled like ginger.

He cut off a bit and tasted it in his mouth, and it tasted similar to ginger.

Rhodes cleaned the pot. The pot in the kitchen is a clay pot hanging on a fire. It can't be fried but can only be boiled. It should be good for simmering chicken soup.

Added some water to the water tank and started heating the pot. Weber took the processed chicken into the kitchen. Rhodes asked him to cut it up and throw it into the pot. After adding the plants and salt, he covered it and started cooking.

Rhode didn't know what the taste would be like. He had eaten the onion and chicken soup in the tavern in this world, and the taste was okay, although there were not many pieces of chicken in a bowl of soup.And there are no chicken bones in the soup, all chicken breasts, if there are chicken bones, most people will not eat it.

Only the brown soup sold in the flea dens in the city will have bones.

After opening the lid for more than an hour, Baron and the others, who had been attracted by the scent before, swallowed their saliva.

"Why are there bones in it?" Baron asked in surprise, looking at the chicken soup in the pot.

"It tastes better with the bones," Rhodes explained.

"Isn't this the reason why you forgot to remove the bones? We were hungry for so long and waited for you to cook, but you gave us this?" Baron said angrily, "I wouldn't even lie down hungry. Take a bite."

"Me too." Hammer echoed beside him.

"I think it's better to try it first." Wei Bo said uncertainly.

Seeing their performance, Rhodes felt a little sad...

(End of this chapter)