Wolf King

When the last darkness before dawn came, the small street shops engaged in early business opened for business one after another, and when the sky was twilight and workers who got up early appeared on the street, these small shops also became lively one after another.

Moon of Revenge, who was squatting at the entrance of an alley, looked curiously at a delicatessen shop diagonally opposite.

This shop selling breakfast was the first one to open, and it was also the first one to become lively. There was a long queue of people outside the shop, and it was still increasing.

"Whose are the six fried dough sticks?" Standing behind the frying pan, the chef wearing an apron and sleeves held two long wooden sticks in his hands, nimbly taking the fried dough sticks out of the pot and putting them into the cheapest fried dough sticks. paper bag made of bark paper.

"My, mine!" Beside him, a man who had brought his own jar to hold hot soybean milk quickly reached out to grab it.

"Why isn't it my turn yet? Mine is Thirteen." The people queuing in front of the frying pan said dissatisfied.

"Immediately." The master pulled a bark paper bag from the desk next to him, and filled it with fried dough sticks, "I can't fit in one package, so divide it into two bags?"

"One pack of five sticks, and the rest in another pack." The customer hurriedly reminded.

A pot of deep-fried dough sticks is almost round for two guests, and those in the back can only wait for the next pot.

"Hurry up, master, dare to go to work."

"Isn't this busy? Hurry up, those who want soy milk go to the side first and line up." The master chef replied while he was busy, and urged his colleague who was sweating profusely to cut the kneaded dough into strips, "Hurry up, are you ready?"

"Okay, okay." The master kneader cut half of the dough strips on the chopping board, put down the kitchen knife, picked up two dough strips with both hands, twisted them into one strand, and placed them neatly on the side near the oil pan.

The master who fried the fried dough sticks quickly picked up the twisted dough strips, brushed them and slid them into the pan along the side of the oil pan, and the long wooden stick in the other hand flexibly began to flip...

The work schedule for the knights is tight and the tasks are heavy. Those who come early to buy breakfast are all workers from the third district. If you buy your own share, you must bring your fellow workers’ share. Each person must have at least five copies. The skilled human masters are too busy Tuan Tuan Zhuan still couldn’t meet the needs of customers, and there were more and more workers crowded in front of the shop. Anyway, out of curiosity, Moon of Revenge wanted to go over to see what the fritters were. He only estimated the density of the crowd and chose to give up... …

"Gourmet Hunter's Travel Notes" records a lot of cooking methods of fried food, because fried food has a strong sense of satiety and is not easy to perish, so it is quite popular among readers.For example, Moon of Revenge often asks the skeleton servant Ayi to fry his favorite scallion pancakes for him. Although thin noodles are rare and fuel-intensive, the fried pancakes can be stored for a few days if they are wrapped in parchment paper.

However, this technique of frying finger-thin noodles into fluffy, crispy golden sticks that are as long as an arm is really not recorded in "Gourmet Hunter's Travel Notes", which makes Moon of Vengeance a little slanderous that the Snow Wolf clan is hiding something... …

Uh, Xiao Yun is not Master Wang Gang who wholeheartedly teaches people to open restaurants, so of course it is impossible to cover everything in detail...

Moon of Vengeance walked away regretfully and walked to another breakfast shop with relatively few customers. From a long distance, he smelled an extremely tempting aroma.

There are not so many people around the door of this store, but the business is not bad. It is not as popular as the one next to it. It is purely because the breakfast is more expensive. This is a mid-range deli store that mainly sells meat. , the main product is pork trotters (elbows) marinated after removing fat.

Remove the fat and stew the elbow meat overnight in the marinade and cut it into pieces or slices. A small pack of ten copper plates is about three taels in weight (there is soup in the meat).You can buy pancakes in the store to eat with meat, you can take them to the noodle shop next door as a side dish, or you can take them away.

The fat that was removed was not wasted, and it was sold in a pack of three copper coins (also about three taels).

Moon of Vengeance stood by the side and observed how others ate it after buying it. He also took out ten copper coins to buy a portion of stewed elbow meat, and took out two copper coins to buy an oven in the store (earth kiln-type oven) Furnace) baked palm-sized thick noodle cakes.

The clerk helped him cut the pancakes, stuffed half of the meat in and gave a spoonful of broth, and asked Moon of Revenge: "Sir, do you want to add more spice?"

Revenge Moon immediately shook his head, he doesn't eat spicy food, even the cold rabbit only eats the not-so-spicy counterfeit version.

The clerk smiled and added some tomato juice to him: "If one cake is not enough to fill you up, take the leftover meat to the noodle shop next door and order a vegetarian noodle, and our hoof meat is also delicious. "

Moon of Vengeance was a little unaccustomed to the enthusiasm of the clerk, so he took the pancake and walked away sullenly.

After a while, he came back again and caught the clerk who was much more "leisure" than the master chef of the deep-fried dough stick shop: "How can this pork be so delicious?! Better than beef? What did you put in it?! "

Moon of Vengeance is dressed differently from ordinary workers, but this store also receives guests from Valentine City and even nobles from other places. It is not the first time that curious customers have asked questions like this. Fang Fang smiled and said: "Of course our family has a secret recipe. The stewed soup is shipped from the snow wolf clan across the Inner Sea! The pork we use is also different, it is not dirty pork from farmers' homes. Xi’s pork, but the pigs raised in the pig farm run by Knight Robbins, they are clean and delicious, even the big nobles can’t pick out the thorns.”

Moon of Revenge: "??"

Knights raise pigs? !Why does this sound so strange!

The clerk also proudly added: "The pork our knights eat is all raised by Robbins knights!"

Moon of Revenge: "..."

Uh... Of course, Isaac didn't have that time in the United States to raise pigs himself. It was just because of the development needs of the knights and the workers who engaged in heavy physical labor needed meat to supplement their consumption, so they copied the experience of the Ministry of Fire and set up a pig farm. (Limited to fresh-keeping technology, it is impossible to transport fresh meat from the grassland when the weather is hot).

There is a shortage of people everywhere on the grassland. As long as Valentine can afford three meals and pay wages, he can hire as many workers as he wants.If you are self-sufficient in building materials and pig feed, you can grow dozens of acres of alfalfa by yourself. You can also hire local people to pick up acorns at a very low price, catch freshwater crabs that no one eats (only the size of a thumb), and catch some earthworms and grasshoppers. Such things are dried and ground to feed the pigs.

To say that the biggest difficulty in running a pig farm is that Isaac had to personally catch Alex to steer the pigs...

Magicians are probably the most curious and active group in the world, and the deep house of Moon of Vengeance is no exception.He immediately turned around and went to other restaurants, one by one to try whether the pork from the knight collar here was so magical...

After a round of tasting, Moon of Revenge found that the clerk of the stewed elbow shop really didn't brag, no matter whether it is a vermicelli shop, meat pie shop, skewer shop or barbecue shop, as long as there is pork in the products sold, there is pork in the meat. It didn't have the fishy smell he knew.

Pork is the cheapest meat, with a price of around 50 copper coins per catty. The most common mutton is [-]% more expensive than it. Not to mention beef, a catty of beef can cost four or five catties of pork.

Why is pork (compared to beef and mutton) so cheap? The reason is that pork is really not delicious... It has not been eunuched, and the blood was not drained when slaughtered. The taste is simply delicious, and it is better than wild pork. Pork firewood and fishy smell).

Basically, if it weren't for the smell of the aroma from the braised elbow shop, Moon of Revenge would not have considered buying pork~!

"It's the same pork, how can there be such a big gap?"

Out of curiosity, Moon of Vengeance was not in a hurry to meet Sean, and asked passers-by for a while, then walked past the famous "Robins Pig Farm".

About half an hour later, Moon of Vengeance sneaked into the pig farm with a subspace enchantment to conceal his body and sneaked into the pig farm in a fair manner. He stood in a pig farm building the size of a warehouse, staring in a daze at the pig cages that looked like small grids of honeycombs.

Modern people on the earth pursue the original ecology of food materials, and are keen to spend a lot of money to eat free-range pigs. This kind of calm attitude of growing up in the era of surplus materials, the people of this world must not have it—whether your meat is strong enough or not , Is the feeding method green and environmentally friendly? The feed conversion rate and meat yield are the last words!

In short, stocking a fart!How can the fat get thicker when the pigs are full and have fun all over the mountain!

Therefore, whether it is a pig farm on the prairie or a pig farm led by knights, the pursuit is how to keep the pigs from moving and growing meat—every pig is locked in a small, honeycomb-like compartment, except for cleaning Never let the pigs out for activities in the pigsty and at other times, and try to let the pigs eat and sleep, but keep fat!

In a warehouse-sized, well-ventilated pig farm, fat pigs are stuffed into densely packed grids, and they all sleep soundly on the well-washed concrete floor, which is no worse than the living room floor of ordinary people. Say how spectacular...

Valentine's local pigs are domesticated from wild boars just like those on the grassland, but the wild boars were domesticated only after Xiao Yun came on the grassland, while the human kingdom has been domesticated for thousands of years, and the domestic pigs have all degenerated into fat With a big head and ears, short legs and a big belly, of course, it is still a black-haired pig, not a white pig.

Xiao Yun deliberately sent a batch of prairie pigs here to let Isaac crossbreed with local pigs. The hybrid pigs born retained the fat heads and big ears of local pigs, and their body size was also larger than that of pure local pigs. Pigs at the age of [-] are the same age as local pigs, and the thick black hair inherited from prairie pigs has become softer and sparser. Male pigs are castrated at the full moon, and sows are fed until they are sexually mature and then mate and give birth.

Moon of Vengeance walked around the pig breeding room with a look of surprise, peeking curiously at the pig farm workers releasing the pigs out in batches to clean the pig pens, and found that the workers did not discard the excrement cleaned out of the pig pens at will. Instead, it is solemnly wheeled into a covered shed for storage.

He pinched his nose and approached the "fragrant ten miles" shed, and found neat tunnels dug inside, and workers wearing masks were dealing with the pig manure—newly pushed in pig manure was mixed with chopped grass leaves Into the pit, and carefully stir it evenly with a shovel.

Moon of Revenge: "..."

If it weren't for the serious attitude of these workers, he would have wondered if there was something wrong with their brains—they are still playing shi at such a big age? !

What made Vengeance Moon even more incomprehensible was that when he regretted his exuberant curiosity and was about to exit the shed, a man in casual clothes with a sharp temperament and a man who looked nothing like an ordinary person walked in.

This man with a very "superior" temperament approached the big pit covered with thatch indifferently, squatted down, lifted the grass cover with his hands, and checked the dark, indescribable contents inside.

"Is this batch ready?" The man looked at the workers with pitchforks and shovels.

"It's ready, and it's completely rotten." One of the workers stopped "playing" and said with a pitchfork, "Two days ago, we turned it out to dry, and this time we were careful not to overheat it and burn it."

The man nodded: "The people from the No. [-] plantation will come and shovel it away later, and you should leave some people to support it."

"Ok."

The man got up and went out, not forgetting to tell: "Just give the people in the No. [-] plantation shovel away the two pits. You don't need to give more, and leave the rest to the No. [-] plantation."

Moon of Vengeance Overheard in the Subspace Enchantment: "..."

That is to say, the product of this kind of "play shi" is still a shortage of resources——? !

The worker laughed: "Don't worry, Mr. Robbins, with your words, we will never let Plantation No. [-] shovel more."

Vengeance Moon stared in horror at the man in civilian clothes... Isaac Robbins?Master of the knight collar? !

Isaac also smiled: "Remember what you said, but don't let the people from Plantation No. [-] come and say that you engage in differential treatment."

"No, no, no!" Several workers said at the same time, and a man with the appearance of a young farmer who was sweating profusely shoveling shit also said, "The people from Plantation No. [-] didn't come to shovel last time. This thing is useful for planting. Later, I saw that the No. [-] and No. [-] plantations were growing very vigorously, and I blamed us for not reminding them at that time. We are not free enough to deliver the goods to the door and persuade them to use them. This is really true. Can't blame us."

The products of "playing with shi" can make crops grow more vigorously—? ?

Moon of Revenge was stunned, and suddenly thought of the abundant vegetables, staple food and supplementary food that can be seen everywhere in the food shops of the Knights.

Valentine is a relatively new city. It has only been more than [-] years since it was expanded. There are not many towns in the radiation area (the agricultural production population is small), and most of the food needs to flow in from outside, which leads to the cost of living in Valentine. higher.Although Moon of Vengeance has never been to Valentine, he is not ignorant of the second largest port city in the Federation.

Knightland is a fiefdom under Valentine's jurisdiction, but the food sold here is not as expensive as Valentine's. If you save a little, you can have a full meal with two or three copper coins. In other words, Knightland must be able to Only by achieving partial food self-sufficiency can there be such an affordable price for the public. (Even if the staple food, sweet potato flour and wheat flour, can be purchased from the grasslands, the cost of living cannot be reduced if the vegetables, vegetables and meat cannot be self-sufficient)

Moon of Vengeance couldn't help but look deeply at the local lord.

The civilian husband spoke to the lord like this, and he had never seen a person over 200 years old in the Moon of Vengeance; what surprised him even more was that Knight Isaac Robbins didn't seem to care about this attitude at all. Smiling and waving his hands, he walked out...

Moon of Vengeance stared at Isaac's back for two seconds, and followed without hesitation.

If he was only interested in Sean who made the "special request" before, then now he is also interested in the knight Robbins.

The pig farm built downstream of the living area is composed of a dozen very rough big houses (sheds), and the open space in the middle is used to dry the feed. The smell of live pigs, feed, pig manure, and the moon of revenge cannot be identified. There is an inexplicable smell (actually the smell of disinfectant) that I only think is very weird and unpleasant. Although the workers work hard to maintain hygiene above the basic line, it still makes people feel uncomfortable.

The attitude towards life is not very particular, and it can even be said that it is relatively casual. It is difficult to accept this kind of environment that is not "decent". Isaac, who is a bit of a young man, is naturally unavoidable. When he comes out of the compost shed, he directly Go to the upwind place, stand on the stone steps above the ground and look towards the living area of ​​the knight leader.

The pig farm is only 800 meters away from the second district of the knight collar, and the streets of the second district and the battlefield bigger than the Grand Theater can be seen in sight; human voice.

After waiting for a while, two tall men in knight half armor dragged a small man with a reluctant face and "escorted" him from the direction of the stadium in the second district...

"The troupe's performance is about to start, and you actually asked me to be a pig at this time!" The dejected Alex saw Isaac, and immediately jumped up and acted like a baby.

"This batch of young boars have been full moon for a few days. Take advantage of the coolness in these two days, hurry up and castrate them to save trouble." Isaac smiled and comforted him, and his hands were not slow at all... pulling Alex away.

"Then can't you eunuch at night? Call me to eunuch in the morning, do you still have a conscience!" Alex struggled with aggrieved face all the way.

"Who is the one who can't see anyone at night these days?" Wayne, the younger brother of the knight brothers, would not be spoiled by Alex, and interjected unceremoniously.

"I have something to do..."

"What can be bigger than the pork supply of the entire knight's collar?" Edward, the elder brother of the knight brothers, pretended to be curious.

Alex turned his head and glared at the two bad brothers...

Edward, who is always very kind on the surface, seems to secretly resent Alex for delaying their brother's performance of the troupe, and added a knife with a pure face: "Speaking of these two days, I heard strange rumors, saying that someone was secretly It’s a game of gambling, betting on the outcome and number of goals between His Royal Highness Prince Maurice’s team and the Huoyanbuyu team. It is said that the bet amount is only settled by gold coins—”

"Is there such a thing?" Isaac turned around in surprise.

"There is such a thing?!" Alex changed from anger to shock in seconds.

That's right, the surprise of the former is natural, and the surprise lasts for a second at most, while the latter is shocked for several seconds, and it looks like a fake...

Edward chuckled, without revealing it, and continued, "I also said it's impossible. If we want to gamble, we have an open market. We take both copper and silver coins. It's fair and reliable. How can we not gamble in private?" That kind of credibility."

Isaac didn't think too much, and nodded as a matter of course: "Of course, most of the gambling scams are privately run. Edward, is there a team of scammers who came to our knights to take it? Have you investigated it?"

Alex: "..."

Edward glanced at Alex intentionally or unintentionally, and said with a smile, "Naturally, I investigated. It seems to be... a few folks heard about it, and I haven't found any activities of guys who openly collect gambling money for the time being."

Alex's roving eyeballs were glued to Edward's body.

"It's fine if we don't have one. We're so short of manpower now, we can do as little as possible." Isaac turned his head away without doubting him, and continued to drag Alex towards the pigpen where the little piggy lived.

Isaac withdrew his gaze, and Edward met Alichi Guoguo's eyes generously, and... made a gesture quietly, and raised three fingers.

The meaning is very clear, we will share the "illegal" bets you collected.

The guilty Alex stared round his eyes, swung his drooping arm, and showed a finger.

Edward shook his head silently, retracted a finger, and his eyes became sharp.

Alex gritted his teeth... and nodded.

Isaac babbled alone for a long time, and accidentally turned around to find Edward smiling happily, and said amusedly: "I thought you would be unhappy if you weren't allowed to join in the excitement of the performance. Why, Edward, you are not interested in the new play?"

"Of course not. It's just that I don't like to watch plays in places that are too loud. It's really nice to have illusionists create scenes on the public performance stage, but there are too many audiences. Even if one person coughs lightly, it will make people unable to hear the lines clearly. "Edward's response was steady, a little bit guilty.

As expected, Isaac had no doubts at all, and continued to pull Alex forward: "That's right, I also really like the stage performance with the illusionist joining, but it's a pity that the cost of hiring an illusionist is expensive, and I can only bear it at ordinary times. "

"It would be great if we had our own people who could become illusionists, and the performance cost would be reduced." Edward took two quick steps and stood side by side with Isaac, "I thought about it before, why don't we support a few illusionist apprentices..."

Alex was dragged away obediently by Isaac. When Isaac was listening to his opinions intently, this guy took a deep look at Edward...

Onlookers watched the whole Moon of Revenge: "..."

Moon of Vengeance silently turned its attention to the elder brother among the knight brothers. To be honest, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be hard to believe that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes is also full of black water...

After following these people into a certain pigsty for about 10 minutes, Vengeance Moon strode out with pain in his face, covering his face and walking away.

It's no wonder that the little guy refused, cutting off the balls of the little piggy, few people can stand it!

Cavalier Isaac Robbins, who raises pigs, makes his men "play shit", and cuts off the piglets' balls, has completely become the endorsement of "wonderful" in the eyes of Moon of Revenge!

If he hadn't been a black magician himself, he would have snarled—what witchcraft!

When he was about to run back to the living area of ​​the second district, the pace of Vengeance Moon slowed down.

"Is it possible that feeding pigs in a small grid and cutting off the balls are the secret to making pork delicious?"

Moon of Revenge summed up the gains from the "visit", and he could only come to this incredible conclusion: "... Keeping the pigs from moving, locking them up to grow meat can make them fatter, and keeping the pigsty clean can make them fatter." Let the pigs be healthy, this is understandable, so why cut off the eggs?!"

Although Isaac was "fooled" by his subordinates under the nose of Vengeance Moon, Vengeance Moon didn't think that the Robbins knight was not a qualified lord—in fact, compared to the majestic and let A lord whose subordinates are as silent as a cicada, and a lord with tolerance and generosity are often more successful.

The reason is also very simple, the former can only accommodate mediocre and incompetent sycophants, while the latter can attract talented people to follow.

It is self-evident which side is better to actually manage the territory in a bad environment between mediocre waste and flawed talents. (It is impossible for a domineering lord/president to have a group of top elite subordinates with full loyalty, no matter which world they are in!)

Such a lord will certainly not do meaningless things, Moon of Vengeance slowed down and carefully recalled what he saw in the pig farm.

The feed stored in the warehouse is alfalfa that has been dried and cut into sections for preservation. He has also seen the dozens of acres of alfalfa field outside the pig farm. Obviously, it is specially grown for feeding pigs.

There are still many freshwater crabs, earthworms, and acorns drying in the open space of the pig farm. There is also a stone mill in the corner, which is probably dried and ground to feed the pigs.

"The farms of the big nobles can no longer raise pigs more carefully. In other words, honing young boars to the eggs will definitely have the effect of improving the quality of pork."

Moon of Revenge's eyes shone brightly, and he also spent a lot of time describing the breeding techniques of poultry and livestock in the travel notes of "Elf Ranger", but he remembered very clearly that there was no mention of gelding in it!

Uh...Actually, Xiao Yun wrote this point about the pig, but the people from the Bard Association forcibly cut off the relevant paragraphs. The reason is that I don't want to cause too much criticism...

"However, how can the... things in that greenhouse make the crops more prosperous?"

He was very puzzled by this point of Moon of Vengeance, which was beyond his common sense. If he wasn't a black mage, he might even think that this knight leader was secretly playing some mysterious black magic...

"Perhaps, I need to visit their plantation?" Revenge Moon thought of this, and subconsciously turned his head.

Then, he heard a roar of applause like a tsunami.

Moon of Vengeance paused, and subconsciously looked towards the direction of the movement—a strange oval-shaped building at least three times larger than the Robbins Grand Theater in District [-].

The arena is uncapped and is open-air, but the auditorium is built higher and surrounded by a circle, and you can't see what's going on inside from the outside.

There is no charge for admission to watch the games and performances on the ball day. The windows of the entrance ticket office are locked and the door is open for visitors from all directions to come and go freely.

Moon of Vengeance leaned over curiously, entered the door curiously, climbed the steps and walked up to the auditorium; It was the tiger's body shaking.