Alien landlady

Chapter 124 Happy Refreshment
Bai Tongtong shrugged nonchalantly, "Just wait and see tomorrow. I must solve this matter. Bei Rui's younger brother is a fire magician, and I still need to find him. If he is useful to me, he will come and go frequently. I have to make sure no one attacks him when he comes back."

"Ha, so your focus is on her brother." The atmosphere on the table that was about to freeze evaporated into mist and dissipated, and the uncomfortable and tense shoulders of the men relaxed.

"Did Barry say where her brother lives?" asked Pollock.

"She doesn't remember. All she can remember is the money her younger brother left her when he took away her parents and family. Her husband donated it the next day without leaving a single coin. As a result, when she had no money to pay taxes, she only I can accept the arrangement of fate and sell the land to become a tenant farmer."

"In this way, there are lands belonging to the church in other villages? Are they trying to turn the town and surrounding villages into church property?"

"It's not an easy decision for a free yeoman to give up his property and become attached to others. Fortunately, the oldest count in the town was the earl, and the last countess died only a few years ago. Even if the church had this idea, it didn't have time to realize it. Don't worry about it." It will also affect the interests of the big landlords and small nobles in other villages, and the small nobles who live outside will not listen to the priest's nonsense in the town." Bai Tongtong gave a sharp meal and slapped the table angrily, "Yes! I can go Unite with that little nobleman! Why am I so stupid!"

"It's not too late to think about it now." Master Anmeng and Pollock winked and held back their smiles.

"When the meeting banquet is finished tomorrow, I will go to the little nobleman the day after tomorrow."

"Do you need me to find a few more old friends to make the scene more lively?" Master Anmeng suggested earnestly in the spirit of not missing the excitement.

"Okay, welcome! If there's any left over from that fish in three days, I'll throw it away."

"Oh, don't waste food. I'll go back to my room and write a letter to ask more people to come."

There was a murmur of joyful laughter at the dinner table.

After dinner, Pollock left. Master Anmeng went back to his room to write letters, then washed his face and prepared to go to bed. While soaking his feet, Bernard brought two bowls of hot rice soup and watched him and Barry finish drinking. Then he said good night and left with the bowl.

In the early morning of the next day, the village sent people to deliver the vegetables to be sold today, and everyone worked together to pack them and send them to various cities.When Abel took people to the town to do some shopping, he bought two invitations. Bai Tongtong was cooking breakfast in the kitchen at that time. She took some fish and let them smash it into mud. It was set aside next to it, and the fish paste was kneaded into balls, and someone else was busy frying eggs by the stove, and the villagers of Salt came to send vegetables, washed a handful of vegetables and boiled them in boiling water.

What ended up on the table was a large bowl of fishball noodles with green vegetables and a fried egg.

A servant came to the kitchen and said that an extra bowl of noodles should be served outside, and the fried eggs should be medium rare on one side, because Mr. Pollock just came to accompany the old mage to have breakfast.

Bai Tongtong despised the guy who was eating rice, and asked someone to fry it as requested. In addition, Bai Rui was given boiled poached eggs.

The group of Bai Tongtong who eat noodles are already used to using chopsticks. After a chaotic practice period, they can finally pick up the noodles and put them in their mouths. Bei Rui has a strong learning ability. But Master Anmeng and the others did not go well. Seeing the spoon in their left hand and the two wooden sticks in their right hand, they didn't know what to do. They imitated the gestures taught by Bai Tongtong and stirred up the noodle soup awkwardly all over the table.

Because Pollock had already seen it once, he was prepared and practiced secretly at home whenever he had time, so even though his posture was awkward at the moment, he was much better than Master Ammon and Barry. Looking at the delicious food, he complained It would be boring if the utensils were out of hand.

Master Anmeng told Bai Tongtong while eating noodles, don't serve dishes that need to learn how to use new tableware tonight, otherwise she will see the magic flying around the table, and the always elegant magicians will fight for a little food. Big loss of image.

Bai Tongtong laughed so hard that he choked on the noodle soup, covered his mouth with a napkin and coughed for a long time before stopping, and waved his hands to promise that he would not disturb the guests tonight.

After eating a large bowl of noodles with soup and ingredients, he couldn't hold it anymore. Pollock even hiccupped non-stop. Bai Tongtong suppressed a smile, and asked Bernard to go to the kitchen to get him a bowl of noodle water, so that the original soup could be transformed into the original food.

Harding also came in in the forest after he had eaten his belly fat, and Ah Huang followed behind him, trying to get ahead of him unconvinced, but when he found it was hopeless, he ran from under the table to Bai Tongtong's feet, stood upright, Push her knees to give her room to jump onto her lap.

Bai Tongtong had no choice but to move away from the chair, and hugged Ah Huang, who looked like a little leopard. Its pad paws were as big as her palm, and it only licked her face with the tip of its soft tongue. Its tail was wrapped around her wrist, and its head rested on the When it was on Bai Tongtong's chest, he didn't forget to bark his teeth and claws at Harding, but Harding didn't even bother to pay attention to it.

After a short rest, Pollock took his pet to leave, but not long after he left, Harding came back alone, playing and running happily on the grass around the guild. Harding, the two chased each other from the meadow to the forest and back from the pond.

Master Anmeng gave the letter he wrote at night to Bernard and sent it to different cities through the teleportation array. Bai Tongtong wrote the invitation in the office and called a servant to deliver the letter. People went to town, and she went to look after the test field.

It didn't take long to send the letter, Ah Huang came back very quickly, the mayor and the church both went, but they didn't get a reply whether they would come, anyway, regardless of whether they would come or not, tonight's dinner was going to be held.

Coming out of the experimental field, when Bai Tongtong went to the kitchen to drink water, she saw Bei Rui and a few girls sitting outside the back door doing sewing in the sunshine, she suddenly remembered something, and went out to ask her.

"Bei Rui, you think the water grass root tastes good when you eat it? Sweet?"

"Oh, yes, my lord, a little bit of sweetness, crunchy, the thicker the aquatic plants, the bigger the roots under the water, but the sweetness will only come from the smaller ones, and the thicker ones will lose it." Bai Rui folded her hands The upper cloth stood up and answered.

"Hearing you say that, I want to try it."

"The one who doesn't have enough to eat just has something in his stomach, so he won't feel uncomfortably hungry."

"I know." Bai Tongtong smiled, fled outside directly, and asked Harding to take her to the water grass field, so as not to row a boat.

Harding led Bai Tongtong and Ah Huang out along the pond. Outside was a wide wetland river, which was still some distance away from the real boundary river. There were many branches in the river, dividing the land into pieces, and there was even a small island completely surrounded by water. That naturally became a paradise for waterfowl.

This area can only be reached by boat, and usually there are few people. They picked a place with the densest aquatic plants and landed. Bai Tongtong squatted carefully by the water's edge, reaching out to pull out the aquatic plants that were rooted in the bottom of the water.

White roots, long beards, smelling only muddy smell, Bai Tongtong cut off the leaves on his hands, pinched off the part with roots, the remaining small section was like a scallion white, rinsed it in clean water for a few minutes It still smells earthy, and I can't take a bite. It's worse than old cabbage gangzi, and it doesn't smell at all.

Suspecting that he was picking tall old grass, Bai Tongtong carefully selected a few short and slender young grasses. After washing, the earthy smell was gone, and there was a delicate smell. The small white roots looked like small grasses. The scallion is white, and it is crunchy with a little bit of sweet taste when you take a bite, and the tender leaves are not sharp enough to cut your hands.

Ah Huang and Harding both tilted their heads and looked at the side. The two animals stared back and forth, talking about Bai Tongtong's strange behavior.

Bai Tongtong fiddled with the aquatic plants for a long time, picking and picking a handful of green onions that had just grown out of the water before going back.

As soon as she entered the kitchen, Bai Tongtong hurriedly opened the fire, and asked someone to light the stove. She washed a few water plants in the sink, cut the roots and leaves into sections, put them in the pan, and threw the white roots first. There is a white gas, and then there is a clear fragrance. Stir-fry a few times quickly and put it in the pot. The leaves are not as fragrant as the roots, but it is an unexpected surprise.

"Okay, we have a new spice plant, wild water onion, let the farmers have time to look at it, I want to dig a paddy field and transplant this thing."

"Yes, ma'am."

Bai Tongtong divided the newly named water onion thrown on the table into two halves, and used one half for noon and the other half for evening. It happened to be a whole fish feast today, and all kinds of deodorizing spices were needed. With this, it can be used for steaming.

Abel walked into the kitchen and asked Bai Tongtong if he could get some millet powder for everyone to cook for lunch. Bai Tongtong agreed. By the way, she was also curious about how to eat the millet flour besides steaming it into dough.

There was a small mill by the fence in the courtyard, and Bai Tongtong let them make it. She went back upstairs to rest, and came down after waiting for more than an hour. The dough was already being kneaded in the kitchen, and the ground millet flour was also pale yellow. Afterwards, the kneaded dough was very moist. Bai Tongtong asked someone to bring a bottle of jam. After washing his hands, he took a piece from the kneaded dough, made a few balls with the method of wrapping glutinous rice balls, put the pot on the stove to boil water and threw it down Boil it, order two courses of water to boil until it floats, scoop it into a bowl and taste it, um, the glutinous rice balls filled with jam are successful.

I ordered someone to grind more rice noodles, and the dessert for the dinner party was settled.

Thinking about having a big meal in the evening, and the servants wanted to eat something simple at noon, Bai Tongtong simply went to Master Anmeng to discuss whether they should also eat something casually at noon. She made a fish head soup, soaked it with noodles, and then came Order coleslaw.

Master Anmeng had no objection at all. He agreed with the suggestion to have a lighter lunch for the evening meal, and he had never eaten fish head soup soaked pancakes, so he was very happy to look forward to it.

And Bai Tongtong's craftsmanship never let him down. Half a fish head comes in a pot of soup, and there are various dry ingredients such as mushroom balls, shredded noodles, and other dry ingredients. The milky white fish soup is sprinkled with chopped green onions. I also made some wine-boiled fish roe as a side dish, and the servants ate fish roe pancakes, so it would be a pity to waste a large bowl of fresh fish roe if they couldn't finish them.

After a short lunch break, before the first guest arrived, Bai Tongtong was busy making desserts for tea in the kitchen. In addition to traditional baked desserts, there were also fried savory snacks she was good at.

When the teleportation array in the hall fluctuated, the kitchen had basically prepared small snacks for guests. Bai Tongtong hurriedly washed her hands, went upstairs to change into formal clothes and robes, and walked through the partition door on the second floor , from the grand staircase to the hall, and the guests have been led to the morning room, Master Anmeng is receiving, refreshments have just been brought in.

The guests invited by Master Anmeng were of course old people around his age, and they were new faces that Bai Tongtong had never seen before. The second wave of guests, a couple who appeared to be old and young wives walked in arm in arm with the servant.

"Oh, look, Tongtong, look at how good your life is now!" Before Bai Tongtong stood up, the couple who had just entered the door, the wife was a black-robed mage, and when they saw Bai Tongtong, they enthusiastically opened their arms and walked towards her past.

"Master Lan, long time no see, I'm so glad you can come." Bai Tongtong rushed over to greet this enthusiastic black mage grandma and hugged her tightly.

"Oh, let me see my good boy. The last time I saw you was because you took forbidden drugs by mistake. It's been a long time. I'm so happy to see that you are all well again." The eternally youthful Master Lan held Bai Tongtong's face in his hands, and pressed a kiss on her forehead.

"Thank you, I was really thanks to you."

"Don't be polite to us, child, we still need you young people to give us some fun." The old mage patted Bai Tongtong on the shoulder kindly, and returned to his friends with his arms around her.

Bai Tongtong sat with them for a while, and the number of guests increased. Master Anmeng invited nine friends, five of whom brought magic pets, including birds and beasts. Of course, Ah Huang showed his strength unconvinced, so a group of animals chased and fought outside, all kinds of magic bullets flew all over the sky, but they were very smart and sensible to avoid those vegetable fields.

Through the glass window, everyone in the morning room watched happily.

The male servant gave Bai Tongtong a wink when he came in to deliver refreshments, she immediately stepped back, changed her clothes, and went back to the kitchen to continue making refreshments.

I bought a lot of live chickens in the morning, killed and peeled the meat and marinated them for a few hours. After frying, put vegetable leaves on the pancakes, pour the sauce on it, and serve with a few refreshing green onions. One by one, they were neatly stacked on long plates and sent to the morning room by the servants.

Harding didn't go crazy with Ah Huang and the others. He had been secretly hiding in Bai Tongtong's private area. He came downstairs now, from under the table to Bai Tongtong's feet, with his nose pressed against her leg. It's the purest dog eyes that people can't refuse, looking at her pitifully.

Bai Tongtong realized that he liked this very much, sighed helplessly, and asked someone to bring food bags, packed a few bags of chicken rolls and other small foods, and put them in Harding's storage collar.

Harding looked very happy, licked her hand, went out through the back door, walked close to the courtyard wall for a while, and disappeared with the wind travel technique under the cover of the elemental fluctuations brought by the magic bullets all over the sky.

Outside the office with a loft on the easternmost side of the east annex of the Wangdu Presbyterian House, Harding cautiously appeared in the blind corner of the pointed roof. It was a fence around the roof, which was mainly used by workers when they came up to clean the windows or clean the chimney. A place for walking and ladders, protection against falls, and part of the architectural decoration.

Harding liked the enclosure, which provided good cover every time he came over.

By feeling the movement of the indoor wind, Harding knew that there was no one in the office now. He quietly manipulated the breeze, opened the attic window that was only fastened but not locked, and turned into a gust of breeze and quickly slipped in. Coincidentally, he didn't blow up a piece of paper on the table.

Harding stood upright with his front paws on the edge of the table to observe the situation on the table, took out a blank manuscript paper and spread it on the table, and then took out the food bag and put it on the paper. Harding didn't want the bag to leak oil and stain the master's table. Seeing that there is no problem, I quietly went out the same way and went home to rest.

After a while, in a small meeting room in the south wing of the Elder's House, a lengthy but important meeting was finally concluded, concerning the political, economic and diplomatic countermeasures of the Kingdom of Rebjanik, which has always had grievances with its own country. The ministers and members of the great aristocracy who have the right to vote, more or less have their own investment interests in Lei Guo, and in the spirit of self-interest to protect their own interests and let others bleed, they argued for several hours. The meeting was not adjourned at noon, and after talking for so long, it was nothing more than a full exchange of views among the participants.

With the meeting minutes under his arm, Farrell rubbed his swollen forehead and felt his hungry belly. Go to the top floor, then go to the bottom of the corridor, and the corner is the office of the chief clerk in the east annex.

As the chief clerk, he is required to take meeting minutes on the spot at important meetings. From the beginning to the end of the meeting, others can take turns to go out for activities, go to the toilet, or eat something to replenish energy, but he cannot leave. Calloused asses have to listen honestly to the chairman of the meeting saying the word adjourn or adjourn the meeting before they can stand up.

As he opened the door, he wondered in a daze that it was tea time, should he just go out and have something to eat before coming back to sort out the damn meeting minutes.

Sure enough, there was no one in the big office. His assistants and clerks were enjoying the spring and delicious food outside, sighed helplessly, knocked on the door with their heels, and went upstairs to his exclusive office in the attic space.

A paper bag on the desk caught Farrell's attention.

He quickly put down the notebook in his hand, grabbed the bags and opened them one by one, whistled happily, and praised Harding a hundred times in his heart.

The biscuits and cakes made me thirstier. The spring rolls and French fries were cold, and the chicken roll was still a little warm. Farrell decided to eat this first. He condensed water polo and washed his hands hastily, with his feet on the table. He started to gobble it up, and while eating, he thought about what good things to bring to that woman next time, and there must be a lot of delicious food at the meeting banquet tonight, but it is a pity that he would not go even if he had time, God knows which magician would unintentionally It's not fun to call out your real name and be punished.

(End of this chapter)