Chapter 11 (2/2)
“Oh, okay.” Behring happily keeps the silver coins and lightly pats the pocket with coins with a look of satisfaction. With these money, at least for 5 months, her family should have enough to eat.
The three climbs up the hill and enters the forest. Shortly, they see a few grey forest rabbits. Kyle points to these lively little things and says: “These rabbits are very alert and smart. The best hunters in our village may not be able to hunt a rabbit in 2 or 3 days. Laying traps will only work for the first few times and they will know how to avoid traps after that. We are always laying traps differently each time but as time pa.s.ses, they are beginning to spot traps. During my grandfather’s generation, we rarely hunt these rabbits anymore.”
“They can spot traps but not necessarily withstand magic.”
Liang Li Dong snaps his finger and Cloud Dragon bloodline magic ‘Driving Fog’ is activated. With him as the center, a radius of 100m is quickly covered in a layer of thick fog. Kyle and Behring are nervous at first because the thick fog took away their vision and they cannot even see their own fingers with everything being white in front of them. However, they quickly relax as their vision starts to clear up and they can feel their bodies being much lighter.
Kyle slightly opens his mouth. In his view, he can see many red dots everywhere and these red dots are annotated with tiny Holevin words like ‘Scorpion’, ‘Frog’, ‘Rabbit’ etc. His eyes turn enthusiastic very quickly: “So this is magic? It is really magical.”
Contrary to Kyle’s excitement, Behring is illiterate so she cannot understand the red dot she is seeing and what the words on it mean…… She is scared of this situation initially but upon seeing Kyle’s happy expression, she instead calms down and turns somewhat silent. Her young sensitive heart understands that if she continues like this, she will become further and further away from Kyle and will not be able to reach him in the end.
“Go catch 2 rabbits and come back” Liang Li Dong says to Kyle.
Young boy nods and charges forward with excitement. He sees a red dot showing an indicator ‘Rabbit’ and he discovers that he is running faster than before and with less effort. With no few steps, he reaches a bush and a rabbit springs out of the bush at this time. However, this rabbit is a bit slow and with a grab, he catches the rabbit by the ears into his hands.
This is too easy, the rabbit is running so slow, is this also the effect of magic? Kyle returns to Liang Li Dong’s side and asks: “Lord Beta, what is this magic, can I learn it?”
“This is ‘Driving Fog’, G.o.ddess Waukeen’s Blessing Magic, ordinary people cannot learn it, unless approved by the G.o.ddess.” Normal people cannot learn bloodline magic.
As Liang Li Dong is saying, he is feeling the rabbit’s tummy…… Not pregnant, can slaughter. Liang Li Dong retract the skill ‘Driving Fog’. Although the consumption of this skill is not big, if permanently activated, it will put a burden on him. Furthermore, Divine n.o.ble cla.s.sifies as ‘Warlock’, there is no way to regain mind power through meditation, it can only recover naturally. Therefore he is used to reduce unnecessary spirit wastage.
After catching the wild rabbit, the trio gather some wild vegetables on the hill…… Actually, Liang Li Dong is the only one gathering, the 2 kids do not know this thing is edible. Behring is hugging a bunch of green plants and asks: “Lord Priest, this thing can be cooked? I have taken a bite before and it was really bitter.”
“Yes, wait a while and I will let you have a taste of my skills.”
The trio return to the village. Behring jogs back home to pa.s.s the 10 silver coins to her shocked father and runs back to Village Head’s house to help knead dough. Liang Li Dong boils some water and then flushes some well water to cool down. He then soaks the gathered vegetables in warm water. This helps to remove the bitter taste in the wild vegetables. Afterwards, he kills the rabbit, bloodletting, skin and opens the chest to remove the intestines very proficiently.
This rabbit is quite stout. Liang Li Dong removes the rabbit head, sprinkles some salt in the rabbit’s stomach and then chops the wild vegetables into pieces and stuffs it into the rabbit’s stomach. Lastly, he puts the rabbit into the pot to stew slowly with small fire. When the sun sets, the rabbit is finally stewed and Behring is done with the noodle soup at the same time.
Opening the pot lid, the meat aroma drifts out. The Village Head is still fine but Kyle and Behring both stares intently at the pot with saliva flowing.
As a Chinese, cooking is originally a talent hidden in his blood and coupled with Craft Cooking, the taste value of this dish is quite high. In Liang Li Dong’s vision, this system notification appears:
Stewed Rabbit with Black Nightshade
Category: Cooking
Taste Value: 8
In the game, the highest taste value is 10. With the lack of ingredients, this dish having a taste value of 8 is already not bad. This is due to the +3 to taste value of ‘Craft Cooking’. Liang Li Dong suddenly feels that ‘Glutton n.o.ble’ is not that useless of a skill.
The old Village Head looks at Liang Li Dong with a weird expression. This Lord Beta looks like a n.o.ble but his cooking skill is unexpectedly good. This is a skill only servants will learn. Is it suitable for a n.o.ble to learn it so well?
No matter what, the four have a great time at dinner. Kyle touches his bulging stomach and says with exclamation: “So a real n.o.ble eats this kind of food every day, so fortunate, no wonder everyone wants to be a n.o.ble.”
Liang Li Dong smiles silently.
However, old Village Head understands that ordinary n.o.ble also cannot have food as delicious as this. It is not because they cannot afford it but cannot find chefs with this level of skill. He is not clear about other places but in Winter Wind City, the favorite food of n.o.bles are ‘Mashed Potatoes with Sturgeon’ and ‘Looking Up At The Starry Sky’.
Old Village Head has eaten both dishes before and is worse than s.h.i.+t when compared to this rabbit meat dis.h.!.+
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