What to do with a full-scale life

Chapter 208 This is Knowing How to Eat
After all, brother Zhang didn't try the taste of orangutan, even if it was recommended by those people desperately.

Of course, it's not that Xiao Zhang is worried about safety. If he thinks, it must be safe, but this thing is really not attractive at all.However, apart from the orangutans, they said that there are other interesting places in this place. For example, the smuggling ships that come and go will bring some slaves to sell from time to time. If you want, you can buy a few for a small amount Slaves, and then exchanging these slaves with the monsters on the island for some good things, or simply torturing them to death is actually very stress-free.

Of course, it is impossible for Xiao Zhang to accept such a proposal, but he didn't say anything, because it is not the guardians who want to change this world but the revolutionaries. Generally speaking, the backwardness of this place is really impressive. It's amazing, but speaking of it, they were able to achieve an inexplicable balance in such a bad situation, which is quite a remarkable thing.

But in the end Brother Zhang still didn’t stay here. After resting here for one night, he came to the largest town near the Bay of Bengal. , here is also the largest slave trading city and the largest smuggling port in the entire subcontinent.

Standing on the bustling harbor and looking out, the sails are densely packed, the ships entering and leaving the port are constantly coming and going, and the pier is lit up all night.The prosperity of the import and export has created the unique style of this city. Ships from Persia, Egypt and even Europe all gather here, and people of all kinds come and go. Any novel place, because there are also many dark-skinned and black-haired smugglers wandering the streets.

And because of the unique terrain and unique world civilization, this port city should theoretically be the most prosperous city and the city with the highest technological content in the world. The buildings and streets built layer by layer along the mountain show It has a taste of early steampunk. Walking in this city is like entering the world of monster hunters. Although there is no magical flying carpet, you can see that the flying boats in the city have become wealthy people. means of transportation, similar to taxis.

Brother Xiao Zhang just arrived here, but he saw everything new. He even paid for a ride on a flying boat, but he didn't have a destination, just flew around the city a few times.Flying boats are not cheap and can even be said to be expensive. They have a unique way of metering taxis by street corners. A street corner costs one silver coin, and one silver coin is half a day's salary for a hard worker on the dock.

Most of the pilots of the flying boat are practitioners with certain abilities. Although they are different from the oriental schools, they are not much different in essence. Most of these people are very talkative. of high rollers.

"Ananda Shesha, it is said that it lives under the bay and protects the bay with its own strength. It is lazy and never likes to move. It only needs to eat once in hundreds of years, but no one has really seen it. It looks like it is said to be very large."

The pilot of the flying boat flew the flying boat over the city, and then introduced the customs and customs of the city to Brother Zhang like a tour guide. Because Brother Zhang can communicate spiritually, no matter how obscure he said, Brother Zhang would not understand. can understand.

And because Xiao Zhang gave the airship driver a large piece of gold, if there is no accident tonight, this airship belongs to Xiao Zhang, and the driver above will concentrate on serving this high-ranking customer.

"The following is our most famous food store. Do you need something to eat? I'll go and buy it for you."

The height of the flying boat has been lowered, and below it is a food store full of the style of the third brother, which looks quite high-end, but Brother Zhang became curious: "I will go with you, I will treat you to eat, but you have to be responsible Pick out what tastes best."

What surprised Xiao Zhang was that this restaurant actually had a special place for flying boats to dock, which looked like a parking lot.After entering, the resplendent feeling really made his eyes shine.

However, the prices on the menu are even more eye-catching. The starting price of the dishes here is five silver coins, and the expensive dishes are calculated in gold coins.What surprised Xiao Zhang the most was that there was Anandalong's dragon skin soup here. In order to study the taste of this thing, he directly ordered a portion for ten gold coins.

The visiting service staff told Brother Zhang that it takes about two hours for Anandalong's dragon skin soup to come out of the pot, and you need to wait patiently. Brother Zhang didn't say anything about it. After all, he is also a cook. I deeply know that a good dish takes time to cook.

They ordered a table of dishes, and the sum was only a little more than five gold coins, and a dragon skin soup of Ananda dragon was more expensive than this table. The driver of the flying boat repeatedly praised Xiao Zhang for his generous spending, After all, this meal is almost equivalent to the entire income that this flyer can save without eating or drinking for half a year, or even more.

You know, Feizhouke is already considered a middle-to-high-income group in this city.

But although the price is expensive, these things did not give Xiao Zhang a particularly amazing feeling, because most of them are made of expensive spices, such as pepper, chili, cinnamon, star anise, etc... These people in this world It seems that the awe-inspiring spice is really not worth mentioning on Xiao Zhang's side.

But when the pot of Ananda dragon's dragon skin soup came up two hours later, it really surprised Xiao Zhang. The pot that came up was probably the kind of pot that usually eats boiled meat slices, and the dragon soup inside appeared. It is a brown paste, without any of those messy spices.

Xiao Zhang took a spoonful into the bowl, and felt that its texture was a bit like... very thin ice powder, but it was indeed hot, thick and textured.Take a sip lightly, the first feeling in the mouth is that the mouth is sticky, a large amount of gelatin has been fully stewed in the soup, and then an unprecedented sweetness fills the mouth, and there is also a seafood-specific A faint fishy smell, but this fishy smell is not unpalatable, and it is even because of this little fishy smell that it makes this pot of soup more wild.

There are no spices in the dragon soup, just a little salt, and even the salty taste may be the taste of the skin, because you can taste the taste of the sea, which is very likely to put everything, just simple It is made from the dragon skin of Ananda dragon.

Brother Zhang continued to take a few mouthfuls, he could clearly feel the gluey feeling slowly entering his stomach, and then it was quickly digested, and then permeated to every part of his body at a very fast speed, although this thing had no effect on him , but it can really be felt.

Afterwards, he savored every detail of the dish carefully like a gourmet, and at the bottom of the pot, he found some finely chopped things that looked like bastard skirts, and he sucked one into his mouth, No need to use much effort, the tongue melted completely with a slight sip, and then the umami taste ten times stronger than the soup exploded in the mouth, and the salty taste told Brother Zhang that his intuition was really right , The salty taste in this soup really comes from the taste of the skin itself.

After swallowing the food in the mouth, the sweet taste immediately began to reverse, the sweetness with fresh fishy smell, like drinking a bowl of Buddha Jumping Wall boiled enough, but this taste is far stronger than Buddha Jumping Wall More feet.

He picked up one again and observed it carefully. Although it had been boiled very badly, judging from the appearance of the outside, it looked like the skin of an eel, but it was different because it was thick enough.

Brother Zhang asked the driver of the flying boat to call the manager here. He said he wanted to see what the real dragon skin of the Ananda dragon looked like. Could the manager not let him?This is a big guy who is willing to spend fifteen gold coins for a meal, and he doesn't even need Xiao Zhang to go in person, he quickly ordered the waiter to bring the ingredients.

There are two kinds on the tray, one is a dried black hard shell, and the other is a dragon skin that has been soaked in water. The black one is nothing special, just like the shell of a big turtle, about ten centimeters in length. Thick, hard and smelly.But the swollen hair next to it shows a completely different posture. It is a large brown translucent piece with a jelly texture. It is about [-] centimeters thick in the bucket, although it looks like jelly , but it is extremely strong, and it is impossible to poke it in with hands, and even a needle cannot be easily pierced in.

Brother Xiao Zhang curiously asked a few questions, and the manager answered them all one by one. He said that the dragon skin of Ananda dragon cannot be cooked directly after buying, because there will be a special smell, which is difficult to remove. pharynx.It is necessary to use a knife to scrape off the black slime on the outside of the dragon skin bit by bit, and then put the processed dragon skin in the oven to dry up. After the dragon skin is taken out, it can be hung in a cool and ventilated place for storage. When necessary, it can be sawed off with a saw for hair soaking.

It takes about seven days to soak the hair, and the water needs to be changed every morning and evening, and the water must be the purest fresh water, without any impurities, let alone the smell of salt and alkali. The pure fresh water needed to soak a piece of dragon skin is enough It costs a gold coin to have it shipped from afar.

After the dragon skin is soaked, it will have a special texture. At this time, metal cannot be used for cutting, because if it is contaminated with the fishy smell of metal, picky gourmets will overturn the table.At this time, they will use the sharp beak of the eagle or the fangs of the crocodile to divide the dragon skin.

The divided dragon skin will appear in a silky shape, because if it is not in this posture, it cannot be cooked at all.Then these dragon skins will be put into a soup boiled with hard grass from the East. This soup can effectively neutralize the fishy smell of the dragon skin and make it sweet.

And this is not the last process. The last process is to put the dragon skin that has been cleaned and soaked in hard grass juice into a pot made of expensive ceramics and stew. Although the dragon skin is already very soft at this time, it is still It takes two to three hours of cooking to be served on the table.

Brother Xiao Zhang was amazed, he never thought that it would take so much energy to make a copy of this thing, no wonder it is a top-level cuisine, and the money seems to be nothing too expensive.

Because the cost of the first few things here is there, the first is pure water, there is no purity of one dollar a bottle here, pure water needs to be produced bit by bit by those alchemists, this cost is invisible It's expensive.Another one is that there is no bamboo here, or they don't have Xiangfei bamboo here, which completely needs to be smuggled and imported, and there is no way to lower the cost.The last one is that they do not have exquisite porcelain firing technology. Although clay pots can also be cooked, they cannot withstand such a long time of high-temperature stewing, so they have to use ceramics. Where does ceramics come from?Still have to smuggle imports.Xiao Zhang saw that at the market outside, a white porcelain plate smuggled from the East cost a gold coin each, and a stew pot that could withstand high temperatures might not be cheap either.

But these things are on Xiao Zhang's side... Isn't it possible that PDD can find hundreds of pages of things in a search?

"Can you sell some of this to me?" Little Brother Zhang meant to buy some Anandalong's dragon skin directly.

However, this request was declined by others, because this is their signature dish. Although no one will be against the money, it will be the king's birthday in a few days. If these finished products are sold to others now, there will be no It takes time to make new ones. Compared with money and life, life is obviously more important.

After listening to Xiao Zhang, I can understand it. After all, since people can introduce the production method, they are not afraid of imitation. After all, this thing has no technical content, but the time cost is there. Plenty of patience.

"Then where can I buy it now?"

The manager looked distressed and apologized with an embarrassing expression: "All that can be bought this season are in stock, and the next time the Ananda dragon molts its skin will be nine months later, and now we all get it from the Vaishamiya in the city. Then buy it, his temper is very strange, if you don't give him a gift that you are satisfied with, he will not sell it."

"Then what gift does he like?"

"I like... pigs, live pigs."

Live pig... Brother Zhang frowned. He already had some premonitions in his heart. This so-called Vaisyami Yayin was probably the Ananda dragon, because a normal person would never ask for live pigs when he bought something. Something like a pig.

Homegrown?Still quite good at doing business.Brother Zhang decided to pay a visit to this Vaisyami Ayin.

After the meal, Brother Zhang ate up a large portion of the soup for the first time, because the taste is really good, and he also discovered a problem, that is, a large part of the alchemy of these people has been fused with the food. One body, although the effect is worse than pure pills, but it is not so difficult to swallow.

"Take me to find that Vaisamia Yin." Brother Zhang said to the driver of the flying boat, "I want to buy some Ananda dragon skin."

(End of this chapter)