Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

No. 101, Zhenzhong Avenue, is a bar that looks like a bar, but the interior has been modified to such a degree that even the workers who built the bar couldn't see it:

All the walls except the load-bearing walls were knocked down, and all the compartments were demolished.

The rectangular store space of [-] square meters is divided by a simple and rude waist-high counter. Half of the counter is a semi-open kitchen, and the other half is a large shelf full of bottles and cans that is on the ceiling.

If the semi-open kitchen and the oversized shelves Wagner can still find references from his own life experience...the bamboo boxes, iron plates, and plastic pots on the counter are completely missing. The food that has been eaten, and the undead standing in the kitchen with an apron cooking food, are beyond Wagner's comprehension.

Wagner, who smelled the aroma as soon as he entered the door, had not had time to pay more attention to the rare items on the counter that he had never seen before. The undead in the cauldron can't get off...

"Hey, buddy, did you drink early in the morning?" An old man who was about to enter the door complained dissatisfiedly when he saw Wagner blocking the door for a long time.

"Sorry." Wagner stepped aside quickly.

The old man glared at Wagner, touched a clay pot with both hands and entered the door, walked tremblingly to the counter, and greeted the clerk who was sweating profusely packing the cooked food into strange square boxes one by one: "Morning , Little Brooke, please give me some pastry like yesterday, not the sweet kind, and a bag of salt."

The young Brooke, who was preparing a lunch box for the town hall, quickly put down what he was doing: "Good morning, Grandpa Andre, are you talking about dumplings?"

"Yes, yes, this is it. The name of this thing is so strange that I can't always remember it." The old man nodded repeatedly, put the clay pot on the counter, and took out a small stack of copper coins. I have a bag of salt, and the rest of the money to buy that kind of pastry."

Brooke took the money and counted it, and said: "There are eleven copper coins in total here, white salt costs eight copper coins a bag, dumplings cost two ten copper coins, and three copper coins will give you fifteen, right?"

"That's right, that's right." The old man nodded again and again, smiling broadly.

When Wagner heard that the two used copper coins to calculate the price of salt, he thought he heard it wrong—he was not a person without life experience. He remembered that a pot of salt sent to their family by a well-connected grocery store cost two silver coins , What can a few copper coins buy, a tablespoon of salt?

Immediately, he saw... a young man named Brook put the copper coins into the drawer inside the counter, turned around, took a small bag wrapped in translucent plastic that was slightly larger than an adult's palm from the shelf, and put it Pass it to the old man.

The old man took this seemingly heavy bag, and quickly stuffed it into the inner pocket of his jacket with the agility that didn't suit the old man...

Wagner opened his mouth wide, and immediately looked at the shelf where the boy took the items.

That row of shelves is full of such small packages of salt. Each bag is not big. Wagner visually estimates that a bag can weigh about one catty.

About one catty of salt can be bought for eight copper coins? !

Wagner put his head in his hands again.

The Kingdom of the Rhine does not rely on the sea, and all the salt is brought from the eastern coastal countries by caravans.Because the territory of Inadili is located at the hub of land trade routes, the price of salt is cheaper than other places. An ordinary person can buy a jar of salt weighing five catties from a grocery store for two silver coins.

Of course, for middle-income earners like Wagner, the price of salt is acceptable. After all, a jar of salt will last for several months at home, but it is very difficult for ordinary people... Most of them raise money with relatives and neighbors Housewives had to save as much as they could after buying jars of salt and packing them themselves. Every time they cooked soup, they only picked a little bit of salt with their little fingernails, as long as it had a salty taste.

There is no doubt that the shops run by undead are related to Rex and Yang—where do they get so much cheap salt? !Wouldn't it really be impossible to go bankrupt if you sold it to the townspeople? ?

A certain Yang: I really don't know... How cheap is Huaxia's salt? The wholesale price of refined iodized salt in a 400-gram bag is a few yuan a bag, and the manufacturer can also customize a label for you—this batch of salt handed over to the Undead Chamber of Commerce is custom-made, with a cartoon skull printed on the bag, and The general text LOGO of the Undead Chamber of Commerce...

Wagner is still full of lawsuits here, and I saw young Brooke open a strange bamboo box (actually a steamer), and use a pair of long small wooden sticks (that is, chopsticks) to skillfully remove the strange noodles in the box. Pick up the points, count them, and put them in the jar that the old man brought.

It's not an exaggeration to buy ten of these small pastries with two copper coins.

At this time, Brook accidentally broke a pastry, and a small ball of fragrant meat rolled out of it.

Brook groaned annoyedly, quickly picked up the meat ball that fell on the counter and ate it himself, and said to the old man embarrassedly: "This doesn't count, I broke it."

The old man swallowed and nodded, waiting anxiously for Brook to continue filling him with dumplings.

The sweet pastry (that is, glutinous rice balls) is good, but his little grandson hasn't eaten meat for a long time.

Wagner stunned: "...(゜ロ゜)"

Wait—is there meat in that pastry? !

Fifteen pastries with meat, three copper coins? ?

The hands that had just been put down were raised again, hugging the head...

Brook put fifteen quick-frozen dumplings just out of the cage into the old man's jar, took another small bag, poured some dark things into it, and handed it to the old man: "Ms. Zhao said that if you eat dumplings, they don't deserve vinegar. No taste, remember to bring an extra bowl next time."

The old man thanked him again and again, happily holding the jar and leaving...

Brook clapped his hands, looked at Gwana who was still standing at the door, and said politely, "Sir, is there anything I can do for you?"

Wagner collected himself, took out the copper coin Yang gave him, and walked to the counter: "Yang asked me to get breakfast for three... He said it was a standard meal, and one of them was less spicy."

"Is it Mr. Yang, the lord? Three people? Mr. Yang has a guest." Brooke's attitude became more respectful. He took the coins with both hands and put them away. He took out three lunch boxes from under the counter and quickly filled them with food...

The so-called standard meal... refers to the fast food of four plus one.

The meat dishes are all semi-finished dishes—the instant food that Chinese people eat when they order takeout, which tastes the same no matter which store delivers them, from fried chicken nuggets, fried chicken tenderloin, chicken popcorn to Dongpo pork, braised pork, twice-cooked meat and fish Fragrant shredded pork with braised eggplant, homemade tofu, potatoes, beef, shiitake mushrooms, stewed meat, Kung Pao chicken, black pepper chicken tenders, spicy chicken offal, braised pork ribs, curry potato chicken...all of them.

You can buy it on Taobao, the processing method is similar to instant noodles, and it is even easier than eating instant snail noodles...

These recipes include instant food, the picky taste buds of Chinese people can bear it, and they still enjoy it, and of course people in this world can't dislike it.

It’s just that the price is a bit more expensive than quick-frozen food. If you cook all the dishes, there may be leftovers, so I simply launched the so-called standard meal. I only prepare four kinds of dishes every day, and then use the fresh vegetables bought from the vegetable market. Adding a vegetarian dish... is four plus one.

The clerks of the city hall consume a lot of mental and physical energy every day. Like Hal and the others, they can eat the standard work package (the fee is paid by Rex). (The cost is still out of Rex).

The four dishes offered today are fish-flavored shredded pork, braised eggplant, Kung Pao chicken, and hot and sour potato shreds. Supervisor Lowell can’t eat too spicy things. Pack more, and don't add that spoonful of red oil on top of the fish-flavored pork and eggplant to increase the appearance.

Watching Wagner, who was serving Brooke's food at a close distance, a dull expression appeared on his face again...

He has eaten a lot of delicacies, but he has never heard of these foods that exude an indescribably attractive aroma.

Especially when Brooke filled the lunch box with hot rice, Wagner was completely wooden.

People in this world also eat rice, but very few people eat it.

It’s not that people in this world dislike rice, but that growing rice has much higher requirements for agricultural technology, farmland water conservancy, climate and geographical advantages than growing wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, and soybeans.

Agriculture is poor, and farmland water conservancy is not in place. Even in places where the climate is suitable for rice cultivation, only wheat fields and corn fields can be seen in the countryside; under the influence of such objective conditions, people must only see bread, corn, soybeans, and various Kind of processed potatoes.

A similar situation also exists on the earth. East Asian countries are influenced by Huaxia, a large agricultural country, and have been eating rice for hundreds of years like Huaxia, while Europe on the same continent is still eating black bread.

As far as Wagner knows, except for some nobles who will plant small pieces of rice in their manors for a change of taste, they have never heard of rice made of rice being placed in a deli on the side of the road like this, and whoever comes in can buy it. It arrived—this kind of sumptuous meal only costs fifteen copper coins a serving!

When Wagner left with three packaged standard meals, he saw several housewives walking in with glass plates with lids, buying single dishes at a small price of three copper coins, and adding meals to their families...

After Wagner ate the food in his lunch box, he was even more emptied—he originally thought that the strange stew (self-heating small hot pot) he ate last night was used by Yang to buy people's hearts , now it seems that he is thinking too much!

People only eat this kind of food with sufficient taste, but he himself has no experience!

The delicacies he had eaten before did not live up to their names!

In the canteen branch of the chamber of commerce, not long after Wagner left, Lika, an orc girl who was washing potatoes in the backyard, came in wiping her hands and said to Brook, "Is the town hall packed? It's almost time."

Brooke, who was serving small dishes and dumplings and glutinous rice balls to the guests who came to the door one after another, hurriedly said: "It's ready, it can be delivered."

The power of the orcs is far superior to that of humans and undead. They are fast and durable. They can deliver food in half an hour at most in the whole town. Lika swiftly puts dozens of lunch boxes into a special large basket and puts them on her back. Back up, he said, "I'm going to deliver food, Brooke, Sister Zhao!"

Brooke waved his hand, and Sister Zhao, who was busy in the kitchen, also responded, "Be careful!"

It has been open for two days, and the townspeople are not used to buying condiments and spices other than salt, but they are keen to buy salt as soon as they save a few dollars; if they have more spare money, they can buy some dishes or have Meat dumplings and glutinous rice balls with a lot of sweetness are added meals for the family.

In particular, you can buy a small portion of dishes for three copper coins, which are more popular than dumplings with meat—the townspeople don’t eat them directly when they buy them back, but spread these instant dishes that abuse seasonings on bread to eat instead of meat dumplings. butter……

When Lika came back from delivering the food, more customers came to the door, and Brook couldn't handle it alone, so she also tied up her apron and sleeves, and went behind the counter to help.

Many townspeople have been recruited as temporary workers at various construction sites on Zhenzhong Avenue. The townspeople have received their daily salaries and have some spare cash on hand. In addition, temporary workers do not provide working meals like contract workers from the Environmental Sanitation Bureau (ordinary contract workers only have instant noodles. To eat, a lot of vegetables grown by local vegetable farmers were added to it), in order to cope with the afternoon work more energetically, I was willing to spend a few copper coins to improve the taste.

It wasn't until almost noon that the number of customers gradually decreased. Brooke, who was drenched in sweat, could finally sit down and rest for a while, and Zhao Zhenzhen, who was covered with steam on the skeleton, could also leave the kitchen.

"Speaking of which, a very strong gentleman came to buy breakfast for Mr. Yang in the morning, is he a guest of Mr. Yang?" Brooke took the cold boiled water that Lika handed him, and asked Zhao Zhenzhen curiously.

Zhao Zhenzhen had no contact with Wagner at that time, but she used the identification technique on Wagner... She really knows the origin of this person: "It's not a guest, it was given to the players... those who were kidnapped from outside the town by my undead compatriots The chief is this man, Wagner Peet, of the Innatrix garrison."

"Oh, so it's from the City Defense Army." Brook nodded and took a sip of water.

Two seconds later, with a "poof", Brooke sprayed out the water that he hadn't had time to swallow.

"Alas, what are you doing!" Lika, with super-fast reflexes, blocked in front of the counter in time, preventing Brook from contaminating the products, but her apron was all stained with the guy's saliva, and her eyebrows were raised in annoyance.

"Cough, I'm sorry, cough cough! Innad set up the city defense army??" Brook looked shocked.

"Do you know him?" Zhao Zhenzhen, who was wiping her skeleton with a towel, looked over sharply.

"How could we know each other? We didn't even have time to escape when we knew that the people from the City Defense Army were coming." Brook sighed. We can only take on odd tasks that the mercenary regiment doesn’t care about to make ends meet, and when the city defense army patrols the city, the first target they attack is us.”

"Because you guys will do bad things?" Lika asked curiously.

"No! It's because we don't pay taxes on our income." Brooke said helplessly, "The tasks we can receive are not paid much, so how can we live if we have to pay taxes?"

"Oh——then what would happen if you were caught?" Lika became even more curious. She grew up on a farm since she was a child, and was sold directly to Westham after leaving the farm. City.

"It will be classified as an illegal practice, and you will be subject to at least three months of compulsory control." Brook said more helplessly, "It's not that you will be locked up for three months for nothing, but sent to work in a workshop, and your salary will be forcibly collected." Go, the salary will be yours after three months. Those workshops are not a good place, tossing people to death is not the same as factories... I heard that few people who enter the workshop can survive Five years."

After a pause, Brooke shrugged, his immature face revealed vicissitudes that did not match his age: "I was caught once, and I was almost sent to the workshop. Fortunately, my companions gathered ten The silver coins bought me out, and in order to repay the money, we gave the gangs in the East Warehouse District free work for more than half a month."

"I see... no wonder you always want to find your companions, they are really nice people." Lika nodded.

After the undead captured Westem, the companions who had been trying to save Brook lost contact with Brook.

This is actually not difficult to understand... If you have not been in contact with the undead for a period of time, who would have thought that these dark creatures would have such a shocking inner life under their terrifying appearance-not only can they get along well with the living, but also pursue public order, The night before yesterday, an undead actually caught a thief, and the certificate of commendation was posted at the gate of the town hall!

Although in people's eyes, there is almost no difference between the photo of the undead on the certificate and the photo of the mayor of the undead...

Brooke sighed: "I just hope they can come back to me after they hear about the undead living in peace with people in Westem."

"It will definitely." Zhao Zhenzhen patted the young man's thin shoulder, "At that time, you and Lika will take on more important tasks, and you have to learn how to do business with Brooke's companions. The goods of the Undead Chamber of Commerce are sold outside, so that people know that we, the undead from Tarantan, are willing to help them use cheap and affordable good spices, and let people see the signboard of our Undead Chamber of Commerce to know that we are friendly and fair. The goodwill of the deal comes."

"We undead go and tell the people outside that we want to eliminate misunderstanding and hostility. People outside will not accept it. Once prejudices are formed, it is difficult to change." Zhao Zhenzhen said softly, "So, I And my undead compatriots, as well as your respected lord Rex, can only hope that reliable young people like you can help us take this difficult first step, only you can do this, we do unreachable."

For a boy of Brooke's age and a girl like Lika, if you force them to do something, they will only feel rebellious; if you change the way, tell them "we all trust you", " We need your help, this very important thing can only be done by you", then if they really can do anything for you, they have to do it for you...

What Zhao Zhenzhen said without even spitting, the orc girl Lika and the young Brooke were so moved that they almost swore on the spot that they would give their lives to Tarantan and that they would never disappoint Zhao Zhenzhen and Rex Sir, you have failed Lord Yang's trust and expectation...

In the morning, Zhao Zhenzhen presided over the work at the cafeteria branch of the chamber of commerce, and by the way prepared the dishes that were going to be sold throughout the day. In the afternoon, she had to go to the town hall to help.

Ji Tang took Rex to the countryside to investigate. During his absence, Zhao Zhenzhen had to keep an eye on it—for example, if there was any emergency at the construction site, or a clerk encountered a problem, and so on.

The 26 clerks employed by the Town Hall are in charge of all aspects of work in Westham Township. They have gradually adapted to the change in status, but not all the residents of the town have adapted to it, at least they have not adapted to being called by them before. People who look down on point fingers.

Especially the female clerks, many of the temporary workers hired by the townspeople will often intentionally create embarrassment for them when they are accused of laziness or corrected for doing something wrong—or the kind of embarrassment that makes them miserable .

It is so easy to make things difficult and humiliate a young woman with a disgraceful past, no physical conflict is required, just a few suggestive words, or contempt with eyes and expressions, can stab the scars of these girls tired heart.

Zhao Zhenzhen had just looked through Ji Tang's handwritten work diary in Ji Tang's office for a while, when Ms. Shirley came over worried.

Ms. Shirley closed the door and said awkwardly: "Ma'am, I...I don't know what to say..."

Zhao Zhenzhen knew that something was wrong when she saw her like this, immediately asked Ms. Xueli to sit down, poured her a glass of water, talked with her about some small things in recent life with concern, and patiently waited for her to relax before asking questions .

"I, I dare not tell Mr. Rex, I am afraid that he will be disappointed..." Ms. Shirley took a deep breath, and said with difficulty, "Hilary...she is very sad, she wants to give up her job as a clerk."

Zhao Zhenzhen said softly: "Relax, Shirley, this is not your fault, nor is it Hilary's fault, we are just in trouble, what we need to do is to solve the trouble, not to blame anyone, you are right wrong?"

"... yes, ma'am."

"Can you tell me what Hilary is suffering from?"

"She... the construction site she was in charge of, there was a man who once... bought her." Shirley lowered her head in embarrassment, "That man was blackmailed by Hillary's boss and sold the carriage to get away. He and his Her family hates Hilary Lee."

"I understand." Zhao Zhenzhen said solemnly, "Thank you, Shirley, thank you for caring about Hilary, for being sad for her pain, and for running to help her."

Shirley froze for a moment.

She did not expect that Zhao Zhenzhen would actually stand in the position of Xila Ruili and thank her for Xila Ruili - this proves that Zhao Zhenzhen did not despise Xila Ruili, this undead lady respected Xila Ruili and them.

The pain and grievance that Xue Li had been suppressing in her heart broke out in an instant, and she cried bitterly.

Zhao Zhenzhen brought her a handkerchief, and after she vented her emotions for a while, she said softly, "Let's go and see Hilary, she needs us."

Seeing the young girl crying secretly on the balcony, Zhao Zhenzhen stretched out her arms and said, "Seeing you are so sad, I really want to hug you like a friend, but I'm worried that you won't be hugged by an undead like me .”

Xila Ruili threw herself into Zhao Zhenzhen's arms...

Zhao Zhenzhen stroked Xila Ruili's back, and said softly: "Thank you, Xila Ruili, thanks to you and others visiting every house, we can know how many families live in the town, and the approximate population of these families; When we arrange the reconstruction of the main road in the town, we can estimate the number of townspeople we can hire, and the town can work in an orderly manner like now, all because of your hard work."

"I have seen the construction site you are in charge of, and you have done a good job, Hilary, so many townspeople work in an orderly manner under your auspices, earn a stable daily salary, and ease the financial pressure on the family. To your credit..."

"We are obviously working so hard to improve the living conditions of the townspeople, but the townspeople don't understand, they misunderstand our intentions, and don't understand our approach... But we know what we are sweating for, right? , we want to make this town better, so that people living here can see hope..."

"The construction site you are in charge of is going to be transformed into a sugar factory workshop... After the sugar factory is completed, we will move machines in and buy corn from farmers to solve the difficulty of farmers selling corn at a good price after a bumper harvest; to hire workers, Solve the problem of young people in some towns who are struggling to find jobs..."

Zhao Zhenzhen didn't say a word to make Hilary forget the past, forget the pain, etc. She just counted the meaning of Hilary's work and the contribution to Westm like a gentle big sister—Hilary After Li cried, she didn't say a word about giving up her job as a clerk, and went to work with Ms. Shirley with red and swollen eyes.