Lord of Rot

"Who?" Li Qi turned to look at the wheel. He could probably imagine what the other person looked like just by hearing the name, but he didn't understand that someone with such an appearance would make the Pretty Widow miss him.

The hunchbacked old man explained: "Old Huya, he is not young, and he is very strong in farming. Every year, the harvest in the village is the best. Many widows want to follow him."

Li Qi nodded. He understood what the woman meant. Rather than food and money, she needed someone to rely on.

Although this was only the third day after her man's death.

The ethics of this world were somewhat different from Li Qi's, which caused him to become less interested in the subsequent chat with the Pretty Widow.

"I'll get Pitchfork to do it."

The manservant Pitchfork fills many roles, and now he has an additional identity as a matchmaker.

After that, Li Qi visited three other families on horseback. The dead farmer was the only breadwinner of the family. After the man died, their wives all chose to remarry, and there was another wife who wanted to remarry just like Bird Shit's wife. Give an old tooth to one ear.

Judging from her expression, I am afraid that Lao Huya is not only good at farming, but also very capable in farming.

But Li Qi could only regretfully tell her that Lao Huya had been booked. As a lord, he could not break his promise. The woman did not hesitate to propose a second candidate, which made Li Qi swallow all the compensation he had said. Once you get married, it's better to remarry. The population in the territory is already small. Only by marrying more people and having more children can they develop better.

The horse walked slowly on the dirt road. The ruts left by the golden mule yesterday have not disappeared, but there are a few more footprints next to the mud.

Walking southeast from the territory is the seaside, Pig Tail Bay.

The environment here is far better than that of a village, because no one travels such a long distance to defecate anywhere. There are only weeds, waves, beach, and... crabs running sideways and shells that have rotted on the beach.

Pig Tail Bay, without a pier, is deserted.

Baron Leard planned to build a dock here, but the project was ultimately abandoned due to the high price.

Li Qi recalled the fresh oysters he had eaten once in his memory before coming to Porcupine. The sour vinegar was mixed with the oysters that had just been opened from the shell. One bite earned three bronze stars. Rich men loved this stuff the most. It is said that Makes you stronger in bed.

"Pitchfork, take a few people to pick up some seafood."

Today's lunch and dinner can be settled.

Pitchfork held the knife, rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, and under the guidance of Baron Reacher, he cut the knife into the reef and pried off the oysters that were about the same color as the rocks.

"What a big one!" He raised his hands happily.

"Well done." Li Qi nodded from a distance.

The manservant, who had been praised by his lord, was full of energy and plunged into the rocks to pry oysters.

The wheel also arranged for some teenagers to help.

The sea water in Pig Tail Bay is very deep. As a dock construction site, it can save a lot of trouble and allow ships to dock, but it is definitely not a good place to catch the sea. The water depth means danger, so there are not many places to pick up, but supplying the Baron Castle is not a problem.

The teenagers clumsily helped their lord pick up seafood, including fist-sized cat's eye snails, fist-sized oysters, fist-sized stone crabs, fist-sized..., and they collected several buckets in a short time.

This is not a good place to drive to Haiti. There were several times when the teenagers were almost swept away by the waves. Li Qi could only tell them not to get too close to the sea. The teenagers were the hope of the territory. They were more valuable private property than the old farmers.

Maybe there are more good things in the sea, but these on the shore reefs are enough.

"Ah!" The boy with a garlicky nose screamed. He accidentally pinched his finger by a crab, and tears of pain rolled in his eyes. What was worse was that the bucket fell over, and the crabs inside fled one after another. The boy ignored the pain and threw himself on it. He went up to catch the crabs running around, but as you can imagine, he didn't catch any.

The companions laughed at the garlic-nosed boy and showed off their harvest. They will be praised by the lord.

Li Qi, who was standing on the rocks, took in this scene but said nothing. Seeing that the lord did not criticize him, the teenagers laughed louder and were willing to show themselves in this way. The secret competition began.

Li Qi turned his head and looked at the endless sea.

The sea breeze blew, making my cheeks slightly wet.

"Is this world a ball?"

Porcupine Castle.

The returned Baron Leach visited the kitchen.

There are very few kitchen utensils here, just two knives, an axe, and a wooden board for chopping meat.

For cooking and making soup, a pot with three legs and a hook is used to hang it, and firewood is burned under the hanging pot.

There is a barbecue rack on the side.

Just relying on these things can make delicious meals. His chef really has incredible cooking skills. He began to think about building a stove and teaching his chef to stir-fry, not roast.

"Are you going to eat this sea spider? God bless you!" Wine Barrel looked at the stone crabs crawling around in the barrel nervously, not knowing where to put his fat, carrot-like hands.

The price of the secret competition among the teenagers was that they caught too many things this time, including four large buckets!

In Donggang and even Iron Rock City, oysters have become a must-have ingredient for gentlemen, but the poor Pig Ridge Valley does not know that these things from the sea can be eaten. Unless some of them are drafted into the army or sold as serfs, it is absolutely impossible for some of them to have them. Opportunity to leave Hogback Valley.

The transmission of information is always slow. Only nobles can use ravens to convey messages, but the ravens' feet will certainly not be tied to such insignificant matters as seafood cooking methods. The top priority is the aristocrats' filial piety.

"Tie their legs with grass." Li Qi bent down and tried to pick up a crab, and the manservant shouted "Sir, be careful!" He was also pinched when catching crabs today.

This was also the case, which made him frightened by what Li Qi said about eating this biting sea spider.

Porcupines have sheep, chickens, and sometimes wild boars. Why do they have to eat such ugly and scary things?

Li Qi was not pinched. He quickly picked up a crab and pinched the top of the crab's legs. The stone crab waved its terrifying pincers, but it was not a threat to the person in front of him. The pincers could not touch the crab on the back. The hand is clumsy and pitiful, and its mouth is foaming.

Pitchfork and Wine Barrel looked at Li Qi with admiration. The terrifying spider in the sea looked like a pitiful creature in his hands.

"Tie the legs," Li Qi said, "otherwise they will run around when steaming."

"Also, throw away any crabs that are dead before serving."

"Steaming, that is, boiling in water." Looking at the confused look on the wine barrel, Li Qi said with gestures. Of course, he was only responsible for gestures and left the practice to his subordinates.

This includes cleaning with a brush and letting the clams spit out sand. Improperly cleaned seafood will affect the taste. Li Qi doesn't want to chew rocks in his mouth while eating delicious seafood.

The clams can be left to cook the soup, and are best stir-fried, but there are no chili peppers here.

In Li Qi's impression, people here tend to eat salty or sweet food, and rarely eat spicy food. Garlic is a spicy ingredient that they rarely come into contact with. Some people also firmly believe that eating garlic can cure all diseases.

You can choose to eat oysters raw, but Li Qi chose to steam them. Even though there are fewer parasites in seawater than in land organisms, they are not absolutely free.

After everything was said and done, he just had to wait quietly.

The kitchen was already extremely busy, but the stubborn chef Jiugong refused anyone who wanted to help. He was the chef who was rewarded by the lord with a silver moon. If he asked others to help, it would mean that he was not capable enough. This silver moon It might even be taken back, but he wouldn't allow that to happen.