Stewed Chicken with Mushrooms

  The thorn forest on the west side of Sun Lake is slightly different from the small thorn forest on the east side of the East Eagle Logging Camp.

  This side is dominated by thorn trees, mixed with various wild trees, flowers and plants. The ratio of thornwood to other trees and flowers is about 50 to 50.

  The three of them wandered in the thorn forest for an hour.

  Franno reached out his hand to touch the hard tree trunk, and with a hint of joy on his face, he said: "My lord, this woodland is spacious, with various plants and thorn trees, it is suitable as a training place for rangers!"

  Lauryn turned her head to look at a ferocious twisted spike, and nodded in agreement, "This thorn forest is much more complicated than most of the forests we have encountered in the past."

  She touched a sharp thorn, felt the rough and hard texture, and looked solemnly: "The thorns all over the place alone greatly increase the difficulty for the ranger to move through it nimbly.

   This is a test for the novice students in the training ground!

  However... the ranger who emerges from the thorns will experience more difficult tests and become stronger. "

   "That makes sense!" Lei Te nodded, looking around at the secluded forest, further strengthening his idea of ​​using this place as a ranger training ground.

   "It's a pity...it's just that we have too few knight trainees and can't select a few rangers. Such a large piece of woodland seems a bit wasteful." Franno shook his head regretfully.

  Rett glanced at Franno inexplicably, with a vague smile on his lips, patted his shoulder, and said: "The population of our territory will increase!"

"Well... that's right, Lord Lord's promotion to viscount will probably attract more people to join." Franno nodded, and said thoughtfully: "As the population base increases, there will be no shortage of talented knights. ."

  Rett smiled without saying a word.

   Xindao is not only the attraction of the viscount lord, but also the influence of eliminating the evil alchemy organization, and it also prompts more grateful refugees to join...

  Before going back, Franno and Laurine helped Reit pick a lot of mushrooms of different colours, saying that these mushrooms are non-toxic and delicious.

  The types of mushrooms in the Thorn Forest are different from those on the Blue Star. However, the shape is still similar and can be easily identified.

  Back to the castle, Rhett came to the kitchen.

   "Maru, I brought something."

  Cook Maru, who was chopping vegetables, turned her head and saw the net bag in Leiter's hand. She smiled and said, "What a fresh mushroom. Does the lord want to drink mushroom soup at noon?"

   "That's right. But I have a suggestion, you can try adding some chicken to the mushroom soup, and cook it slowly..." Leiter thought for a while and ordered.

"Add some chicken? It's a novel idea." Malu's cook looked surprised, with a pensive expression on her face, thinking about what kind of taste would the mushroom and chicken match, and she responded after a while: "This looks very good, My lord, I will seriously try!"

"Thanks for your hard work!"

  Come to the fourth floor of the castle, Rilai's room and deep in the passage—Nina's igloo, the middle area between the two, this was once an idle room, and now it is set up as an alchemy laboratory.

  Riley was wearing a blue shirt, her hair was curled up on her forehead, and she was holding tweezers in one hand, picking up leaves from the cyan liquid in the beaker.

   On his left-hand side is a small golden stove, with a fire magic crystal embedded in a groove at the bottom.

  With the mobilization of Ruilai's mental power, he activated the alchemy formation, and a flame burst out from the furnace, burning blazingly.

  On the stove, a brown metal pot with a wide belly and narrow mouth was bubbling, and a white liquid similar to milk was boiling in it.

  Leite, who was standing at the door, smelled a faint fragrance, took a sip, and said softly, "Ruilai, what are you refining? There is a milky fragrance..."

"Well, Father, you are here, please sit down!" Relais came back to his senses, pulled a chair from the back of the room, and said as he walked, "The refining is all small things. Since I practised for the first time, I Squeeze out the juice from the leaves of bellflower, the lowest magic plant in the wind system, and mix it with milk."

   After saying this, Ruilai walked to the experiment table, and poured the turbid blue juice in the beaker into the alchemy pot, and the milk in the alchemy pot immediately turned a layer of blue.

  Riley then condensed water to clean the beaker.

  Rett said with interest: "It smells pretty good, is it for Baige?"

   "That's right, Father!"

  Lei Te nodded and encouraged: "I hope to see you become an apprentice alchemist soon!"

   "Well, it may take a long time." Riley pouted helplessly.

Facing his father's surprised gaze, he explained: "I thought it was easy to become an apprentice alchemist, but later I found out that I was wrong. Although memorizing dead knowledge is not difficult, in actual operation, the micro-manipulation of mental power is very important. , It also requires a wealth of experience. Refining a potion, whether it is controlling the fire, extracting the condensate, adding the condensate, or skillfully blending, there are many details, and if there is a slight omission, it will fail."

   "Oh? Is there no other alchemist's experience in the alchemy books I brought back?" Leiter asked.

   "There are some, but if you only read the text description, the effect is limited." Reilly frowned slightly.

"For example, when I just extracted the magic plant liquid of bluebells, according to the book, the change of fire should be from small fire to high fire, and then to low fire. , but not mentioned.

  And how to change the speed of heating up, should it be heated up slowly first, or quickly? Or heat up at a constant rate? These influencing factors were not mentioned. "Ruilai pointed to the boiling alchemy pot, "Just now I extracted the condensate according to the method mentioned in the book, but it was less than one-third of the standard. There are still many missing details in the process of the certificate, which leads to deviations in the final result"

  Thinking appeared in Lei Te's eyes. It sounds like alchemy and alchemy on Blue Star have some similarities, but the two have some connections in history, and it is normal for them to have similarities.

  He could only comfort him: "Since there are many details, which are not mentioned in the book, we can only continue to trial and error, and find more economical methods again and again."

   "At present, it seems that this is the only way..." Reilly sighed.

   At this moment, Lei Te thought to himself: "It is estimated that the situation will be much better when the second-level alchemist joins and teaches him personally."

   In the next two days, Leiter still patrolled the territory.

   On July 13, Leiter came to the central square.

   After roughly scanning the whole picture of the square, there are some new changes compared with half a month ago.

   At this time, the Nightingale Tavern has opened, but the residents of the town are still busy with farming during the day. Although there is a welcome sign in front of the Nightingale Tavern, there are few drinkers.

  Rett rushed to the blacksmith shop of his iron buddies.

  As soon as he arrived at the door, a heat wave hit his face. Holding his breath, Leiter saw that Tru was holding a small hammer and lightly tapping the edge of the blade on the chopping board.

However, Willow and Brissot have no foundation, and everything has to be learned from scratch. Willow is pulling the bellows, and Brissot is standing next to Andre, watching him carry a sledgehammer and use rhythmic percussion, Constantly shaping the red-hot iron block.

  Because Andrei and Leonid were both performing sledgehammer-beating movements, their expressions were extremely focused and could not be interrupted.

  Otherwise, the wrought iron that has not yet been finalized will cool down just after it is red-hot, and if you want to change it, you need to return to the furnace and reheat it.

  Lett didn't want to cause trouble, so he watched quietly.

  Until a kitchen knife was put into the water by Andre, making a sizzling sound.

  He had noticed Leiter's arrival a long time ago, but to complete the work in hand, he didn't respond immediately.

   After receiving a towel from Brissot, Andre wiped the sweat from his forehead, hurried forward, and said, "My lord, I have kept you waiting."

   "It doesn't matter." Leiter mused and said: "I came to you today because I found a mineral vein in the territory. I need you two to go with me to investigate the situation."

   "My lord, have you discovered a mine vein?" Andre exclaimed, his joyful voice spread into the house, instantly attracting the attention of several people.

Especially Leonid, even the movement of beating the iron block was stagnant, and before the shaping was completed, he was directly put back into the water, sweating profusely, and came to Andre's side, and said with anticipation in his eyes: " My lord, is what you just said true? A mine vein has been discovered.

  For a blacksmith, the happiest thing, apart from forging good tools, is finding good ore and not needing to worry about the shortage of ore.

   "Can I ask, what type is it?"

   "Fire pattern mine."

"Huh? Fire pattern mine!" Andre's eyes flashed brightly, and he said happily: "This is an excellent fuel. If there is a fire pattern mine, there will be no need to frequently replace the wood in the furnace in the future. The firepower Stability will also be improved!"

   "Take us there quickly, my lord!" Leonid couldn't wait, "I'm already looking forward to the day when the fire pattern mine will be used as our fuel in the future."

  Rett smiled.

  Take the two of them to the south of Young Eagle Town, about 20 kilometres away.

  In the south of a gully, the three of them saw a large pit that sunk deeply. The soil piled up around it was mobilized by Leiter by using his strength as an earth magician.

   "My lord, is the fire pattern mine just below? About how many meters deep?"

   "Forty meters!" Lei Te said lightly.

   "What? Forty meters?" Andrei and Leonid said in unison, expressing their inner shock.

   "If it is 40 meters, a passageway going down will be built, and tracks and mine cars will be built underneath..." Andre frowned and said to himself. He still maintains the mindset of an ordinary person or a knight mining, and he doesn't escape in time.

   "Don't bother!" Leiter shook his head.

   Immediately afterwards, under the watchful eyes of Andrei and Leonid, they saw a scene that was particularly shocking to them!

  I saw Leiter with his eyes focused, standing on the reddish-brown ground with a wand in his hand, his mental power twitched, and the ground trembled faintly.

   Then a large piece of soil began to float upwards, and slowly moved to other positions.

  Leite can currently control the area at the same time, about 100 square meters, so to Andre and Leonid, this scene does look a bit spectacular.

   "As expected of an earth-type magician, this kind of power is too powerful!" Andre and Leonid looked at each other and sighed in unison.

  The two retreated fifty meters back, for fear of affecting the adults' spellcasting.

  Time passed, and three hours later, a 500-square-meter mound of soil with a peak of more than 20 meters had been piled up on the ground on the right-hand side of Leiter.

   "Huh." Lei Te took a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although he became a third-level magician, the workload just now was extremely heavy for him.

   And so much land, he can't finish it in one go, he has just meditated several times to recover his dry spiritual power.

   Now, he's taking another break.

   However, before meditating, he waved to the two who were running a little far away, and shouted: "You two can come here, the open-pit fire pattern mine is below."

  Andrei and Leonid have been watching from the sidelines. They are numb. They have watched countless times. The lord mobilized a large amount of soil.

   Now that the other party has accomplished this feat in person, it seems that the two of them are somewhat useless...

   Now that he finally heard the Lord's order, his whole body was filled with energy, and he rushed over with a spirit.

  But standing in front of the 40-meter-deep pit, his pupils shrank again.

   "The lord turned a mine so deep into the ground into an open-pit mine? It's amazing!" Andre admired it from the bottom of his heart.

   "There is a **** to the east, you two can go down from there, and go explore the reserves of the ore vein first." Lei Te closed his eyes and ordered.

   "No problem, my lord!" The two said in unison.

   Half an hour later, Leiter, who had recovered from meditation, began to adjust the vertical cliffs around the mineral veins again.

  After all, the 40-meter-deep pit is too troublesome for future miners to carry after mining the Huowen Mine.

  He needs to adjust the surrounding 360-degree vertical walls into a gentle slope.

   Not long after, Leonid and Andri, two apprentice knights, easily walked up the eastern slope, each holding a piece of irregularly shaped ore about one meter in diameter.

The faces of the two were filled with joy, and they came to Leiter and reported the situation below: "My lord, the two of us took a brief look just now, and there should be a small ore vein below, with reserves of about 20,000 to 50,000 tons. Although it is not very rich, it is more than enough to satisfy our small town."

  Leite thought to himself, that if a fist-sized fire pattern ore was used as fuel, it would be enough for a blacksmith's furnace to burn for three days and three nights.

   Tens of thousands of tons of ore, I simply can't use it up. By the beginning of next year, most of the ore mined can be sold to the front line.

   It can make a lot of money, and it can also be provided with front-line military supplies, the best of both worlds!

  He stretched out his hand and gently touched the ore surrounded by Andre's hands, feeling a burst of warmth.