My Magic Age

The Summer Festival celebration is one of the two grandest annual festivals of the Royal Academy of Magic.

On the square lawn in the early morning, before the morning fog had cleared under the sunshine, people were entering the exhibition area one after another to make the final arrangements for the booth.

I was pulled up from the bed by Noah. Shirley Newman's personal maid bought a bag of fried fish and chips from the breakfast stall at the entrance of the college. The three of us ate while walking on the road, and hurried to the fire department second class booth. Come and help.

Some boys and girls in the class arrived earlier than Noah and Shirley Newman. Several boys carried the iron trough to the side of the booth near the aisle. The iron trough had already been set up here, and the entire iron trough occupied our class. The exhibition area is close to half of the aisle, and the other half only leaves a gap as wide as one person, and the rest is filled with long square tables.

There are more than twenty magic scrolls piled on the silver tray on the long square table. It seems that they are worried about any mistakes in the magic scrolls, so they have prepared so many fire magic scrolls.

In addition, there are two huge magic-sealing boxes placed on the square table. The girls in the class took out the thighs of chocobos from the magic-sealing boxes and put them into a large wooden basin. Start making preliminary preparations for these chocobo thighs.

But from my point of view, these girls in the class are all young ladies from aristocratic families who have been pampered since childhood. They have no experience in food and cooking. They even reached out to pick up the bloody chocobo from the magic box. Thigh and thigh, all grinning, threw those expensive ingredients into the tub, splashing blood.

The girls were worried that the bloody water would stain their gorgeous dresses, so they all screamed and screamed. Every time they threw Chocobo thighs into the tub, they wanted to hide away from the tub.

"Ha! Good morning, classmates!" Noah walked up to say hello to the classmates, and pulled me to help everyone place the iron troughs on the shelves. Noah and I came up to help without hesitation, which immediately attracted the attention of the classmates in the class. Good impression.

I heard one of the brown-haired boys walk out of the crowd and greeted Noah cordially: "Noah, why are you here? Help me hang the class banner on it later. This classmate Jijia , are you bringing new helpers?"

"Yes, Joe, Jijia is my new helper. He is very good at cooking." Noah did not wait for the reaction of other students in the class, and directly pulled out a magic sealing box from the magic pocket. , placed it inside the booth with a 'bang' sound, and opened the magic-sealing box, revealing the new ones neatly stacked inside. Fresh Magic Antelope Legs, he said to the classmates with a smile: "We also brought this to everyone. After we sell out the roasted chocobo leg meat, let the whole class taste 'yangrouchuan' together. It's very delicious." Delicious stuff, Jijia says it’s the flavor of the Pai Plateau.”

"Hi, Jijia! Welcome to join us." Joe extended his hand to me in a friendly way and said.

I reached out and patted him gently, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed. The boys gathered around and everyone started chatting. They still seemed indifferent to me who never participated in class activities. A little strange, they all said: "I just found out during the final magic test a few days ago that you are actually the student with the highest magic level and the fastest cultivation speed among our freshmen. I originally thought you didn't like to participate in class activities. You are so proud of it." For those who practice alone.”

I rubbed my nose and said a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, I always missed some good opportunities due to various trivial matters. Don't you think I joined too late?"

"We were worried just now that we were a little short of manpower."

"Of course not!"

"It's never too late, we're very welcome to come!"

The boys all agreed.

At this time, several girls who were processing chocobo leg meat came over and saw the newly added magic antelope leg meat from the magic box on the ground. They had a painful expression on their faces and complained to Noah: "Noah , Don’t you think our place is messy enough? We brought so much magic antelope leg meat, but we don’t know how to cook these fresh lamb legs!”

"Everyone, please don't worry. Jijia is a northerner who once lived on the grassland. You might as well let him be the chef today to prepare these basic Warcraft ingredients."

The girls in the class looked at me curiously, as if they didn't want to believe it. I followed Noah's words, rolled up my sleeves high, and said to the students in the class: "I am from I come from a civilian family in El City, Sloit Province. When I was a child, I traveled with a caravan on the Pai Plateau. I am good at making plateau-style barbecue. If you believe me, you can give me a try!"

The girls in the class gathered together and whispered. After a while, one girl blinked her big eyes with curiosity on her face, and said to me with a smile: "For the time being, we can't There is no better place to pay attention than here. You can try it, but before that, in order to avoid completely ruining the celebration, we want to try your craft first. "

After the big-eyed girl finished speaking, her face turned slightly red, then she waved her hand and added to me: "Please forgive us for being so straightforward. It's not that we don't trust you, it's just that we don't know you very well yet, and we feel that a People who are obsessed with learning magic may not have much time to learn cooking.”

"I will cherish the trust you have given me even more." I said with a smile.

The sweet-looking girl with big eyes stretched out her fair little hand, smiled at me, and said, "Hello, Jijia, I have heard of you for a long time, but you may not know my name yet, my name is Irene."

I stretched out my hand and gently shook it in her soft little hand.

Irene smiled and leaned beside me, and other girls also gathered around curiously. Shirley Newman was also among the girls at this time, and said to me with a smile: "We girls can assist you from the side, you can ask us to do some simple things at will, but to be honest, we are not good at cooking. The idea of ​​providing delicious roasted Chocobo legs for the graduating seniors was thought up by Noah and Joe. We were forced to step up and take charge of these. Fortunately, you came to help."

I assigned some girls to wash the plates and knives, and some people to prepare vegetables for the dishes, such as carrot shreds, broccoli, green bean puree, etc. It is also necessary to squeeze some vegetable and fruit juices. I also need to assign people to be responsible for providing food to the guests and collecting vouchers, etc., but these things completely deployed the girls.

Apparently, the girls in the class had never thought that just a simple roasted Chocobo leg would require so much preparation.

The girls began to trust me a little bit, and they washed the dishes and cooked vegetables while chatting and laughing. They looked quite relaxed doing these things.

At this time, Noah took out the red copper rune plate of "Fire Gathering" that he had made last night, which caused the boys in the class to exclaim. Joe said to Noah in surprise: "Noah, where did you get these two rune plates? Didn't we agree that we would not rely on the help of our family?"

"Of course, I always keep this promise in mind." Noah said as he handed the red copper rune plate to Joe, "This rune plate is not taken out of my home. This rune plate was made by Jijia himself last night. He is in the Magic Research Institute and is the assistant of the Yekis scholar. He studied inscription making."

"Wow..., Jijia, you can do this?" Joe screamed and said unexpectedly.

"The problem that has troubled us for a week has been solved just like that?" The boy behind me said in confusion.

Joe adjusted his mentality, looked at the rune board in his hand, and complained to Noah: "It looks... right! Noah, you are Jijia's best friend. Since you know he has this skill, why didn't you take it out earlier? Let us run around for so long?"

Noah shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands and said: "Sorry, some time ago, Jijia could only lie pitifully in the hospital bed. After he recovered, he fell into endless final exams. I couldn't find a suitable opportunity to tell him about this, but it seems that it's not too late now, right?"

Joe put the rune board into the bottom of the oven and said: "Well, you are right. These two rune boards are really great. They have raised our magic oven to a higher level. I felt that using those magic scrolls was a bit perfunctory before, and it can't be regarded as our unique creativity at all."

The boys talked around the oven, watching Noah put two pieces of magic crystal fragments into the gem base of the rune board, looking at each other. The red flames slowly burned from the rune board, causing everyone to cheer happily.

Noah said excitedly: "If two rune plates are not enough, we can ask Jijia to make two more later. This magic barbecue grill is finally in good shape."

Joe rubbed his hands and said to everyone: "Come on, let's decorate it as beautifully as possible. I hope that when we are grilling later, some magic merchants will like our creativity."

And I took out a few jars from my magic waist bag. These are the barbecue sauces I prepared long ago. I usually put them in the magic waist bag and only take them out when I am grilling during training trips. Classmates came one after another and saw me pouring barbecue sauce into an empty wooden basin. They came over curiously to watch.

When they learned that I was the chef of this barbecue event, they all came up to me and asked, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

I added some water to the thick sauce and kept stirring it. I looked up at the boy in the gorgeous magic robe and asked him, "Okay, do you have a skinning knife with you?"

The boy was slightly startled and immediately said, "I have it."

I asked him again, "Can you cut meat?"

He took out his silver-handled, gold-threaded, sharp skinning knife and replied, "Of course."

I pointed to the bloody leg of the magic antelope in the magic box next to me and ordered, "Then cut these leg meat into thumb-sized cubes. It doesn't matter if you find a few more people!"

The noble family came out The boy who was standing by seemed a little hesitant and said hesitantly: "Fresh demon antelope meat, I thought it was cooked meat,... maybe I didn't cut it so neatly."

I smiled and said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, it's for us to eat anyway!"

The boy blushed slightly and asked in a low voice: "It's just... is there anything simpler?"

I glanced at the onions, apples and lemons on the food rack in the corner, wiped my chin with my hand, and said to him in a thoughtful tone: "Well, let me think about it... You can help me cut a few onions, of course, you can cut them casually, just chop them into pieces. It would be best if you can find a few apples."

The boy waved his hands excitedly and cheered: "Okay, free play, it's what I am best at."

After he left, I realized that I seemed to have forgotten to ask his name, but they obviously knew me.

At this time, someone came over and said, "Chef Ji Jia, please arrange something for us! We don't want to just stand by and watch."

This sentence really satisfied my vanity. Being a chef was my biggest dream in my previous life, but it was a pity that I never realized it until my death. At this time, someone actually called me like this, which made me feel comfortable in all my joints.

I looked up at them seriously and said, "Oh, can you help me find some willow branches? There are several big willow trees by the lake in the back garden of the college. I need some slender red willow branches."

The boys said, "I am willing to serve you!" Then they rushed out of the booth like a wild horse and rushed to the lake in the back garden of the college.

"Let me cut the lamb legs. How big do I need to cut?" There was some cowardice in his voice.

I looked up and found that it was Shanpan. His eyes were full of confidence.

I thought of this black boy from a commoner family in Qiyan City, holding a copper-handled knife in his hand, which was sharpened to a cold shine. I thought he was used to doing housework at home, so he should not be too unfamiliar with cutting meat.

Hearing him say this, I nodded, circled my index finger and thumb, and then said to him: "About... this size will do."

He nodded slightly to me, turned around silently and squatted beside the magic box filled with lamb legs, holding the lamb leg in one hand and holding the knife in the other. His meat-cutting technique was smooth and extremely skillful.

I silently soaked the chocobo legs that were cut into a wooden basin filled with sauce to marinate them slightly. Because there was not enough time to marinate the meat, I could only cut a few deep cuts in the chocobo legs so that the flavor of the sauce could fully penetrate the meat.

Suddenly, I found that I had integrated into the class like this, and this feeling was actually not bad.

…

Each class in the Royal Academy has its own booth, and the magic students have spent some time preparing some small gifts for the seniors who are about to graduate and leave the academy.

The exhibitors also need to prepare some gifts, just like the Yekis scholars who have obtained a larger exhibition area in this academy with the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute.

Yekis scholars will display two unique magic pattern sets designed by themselves, and also prepared some small gifts for this summer festival, which are armor pieces with magic pattern arrays. The number is small but full of sincerity.

However, what makes me quite dissatisfied is that the armor pieces prepared by Yekis scholars are clearly cut out from the scraps of the spider commander's insect armor and carefully polished. The magic pattern array on it was also engraved by me, and it is my unique universal earth magic 'petrified skin' magic pattern array.

And so on, magic potion exhibitors will also prepare some unconventional potions, etc.

In short, to get these small gifts, you don't need to spend gold coins or magic crystals, but a kind of voucher issued by the magic academy. These vouchers are only valid at the summer festival. No one will recognize these waste papers if you take them out.

Every senior who is about to graduate will receive some small vouchers issued by the academy. These seniors can buy some favorite things at the exhibition area of ​​each class or from those exhibitors. This is also a gift from the Royal Magic Academy to the seniors who are about to graduate.

And for those of us who have not graduated, there is only one way to get those vouchers, that is, to prepare something that can attract the attention of the seniors and make them willingly take out the vouchers in their pockets. Last night, I learned from Noah that our class's blessings to the seniors who are about to graduate are quite sincere.

The students in the class actually prepared barbecued chocobo legs of the primary monster, and Noah also personally sponsored a box of antelope legs. Although it was fresh meat of the primary monster, these ingredients were also worth a lot of money.

The students in the class hoped to get enough vouchers from the seniors. This was not only an honor, but also meant that the careful preparation of the summer festival was recognized by others. This was also a success, and we could also use those vouchers to exchange for small gifts in other exhibition areas.

When I put the chocobo legs soaked in sauce on the hot iron net, the rich aroma drifted around with the summer breeze, and the whole aisle was filled with a unique, rich and sweet smell of barbecue.