After a day and night of journey, this Lovka Express finally arrived at its terminal: Best City, the largest city in the Kingdom of Farais, known as the "City of Freedom".
After following Donna, I got off the bus, walked through the long platform, and walked out of the Lovecart Express station. Suddenly, I felt like I was in a big city like the Demon City or Beijing in my previous life.
There are noisy voices in my ears, and the magnificent buildings that can be seen in the distance are lined up in rows, which is very visually impactful. The outside of the buildings reflects the light of magic. People come and go on the wide streets, and there are all kinds of strange means of transportation.
Some were riding broomsticks at low altitudes, while others were riding strange-looking monsters. Of course, most of them were horse-drawn carriages. As far as the eye could see, it was extremely prosperous, full of thriving vitality and vitality.
"Hey, Rogo, did you see it? This is Best City!" Donna said in Rogo's ear, "Welcome."
"Thank you, Miss Donna." Rogo smiled at Donna.
From now on, this will be the city where he lives.
Donna hailed a carriage, pulled Rogo into the carriage, reported an address, and the coachman immediately drove the horses away from the Lovecar Express stop.
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After walking for about half an hour, the carriage entered a street and stopped in front of a two-story villa.
Under Donna's "power", Rogo reluctantly paid the fare and followed Donna into the house.
"The second floor is my bedroom. There is a guest room on the first floor that I can lend you for temporary accommodation." Donna took a sip of water and saw Rogo's appearance and said, "Don't feel wronged."
"Do you think the money from the Fortune Federation is so easy to get?"
"What they call tens of millions of Bella training funds refers to the total amount you can get under extreme conditions. That still has to wait until you break through level nine."
"Compared to this, the benefits of the guild alliance are the most practical."
Rogo pouted: "Your requirements are not low either."
Donna just smiled and said: "I will go to the alliance headquarters to hand over the tasks at hand, and then tell them about your situation."
"Just prepare well for the assessment."
With that said, Donna turned around and was about to walk out. Rogo suddenly called out to Donna: "Wait... um, I want to go out for a walk. Do you have a map?"
Donna nodded, ran to the study, looked through it, found a map and handed it to Rogo: "Don't go too far, carriages are still very expensive in the city."
Rogo: I know!
Donna shrugged nonchalantly, blew a kiss to Rogo, and left the room.
After Donna left, Rogo spread out the map.
His goal is very clear, he wants to find a place to buy ingredients.
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In this world, food is divided into monster food and ordinary food.
Monster ingredients are rich in energy and can only be cooked by those favored by gods, while ordinary ingredients are food used by civilians to fill their stomachs.
Rogo learned from Master Steck that not all monster ingredients were the kind of monsters and plants captured in the wild.
There are also artificial breeding and artificial breeding.
Because there is such a situation in reality, that is, the structure of the monsters that have been hunted so hard is too complex, making it particularly troublesome to make or eat.
And for the God's Favored, too many types of monsters are tantamount to magnifying the difficulty of cooking.
Therefore, humans took advantage of the characteristics of Warcraft to devour each other and came up with new methods.
Humans have domesticated some magical beasts with high edible value, and then used the corpses of those monsters that are difficult to handle as feed to artificially breed edible magical beasts of different levels.
For example, pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc.
In the same way, humans also use the corpses of monsters as fertilizer to cultivate edible magic plants of different levels.
For example, magic wheat, magic rice, magic fruit tree, etc.
It is precisely because of this measure that the cultivation system has been relatively stabilized, and human power has also been rapidly improved.
The ingredients for the dishes that Rogo wanted to make this time were not hard to come by, so he planned to buy some and try them out.
Soon, Rogo found the place to buy ingredients on the map, rolled up the map and put it in his pocket, and ran out the door.
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Half an hour later, Rogo came back with the ingredients he had just purchased.
500 grams of magic wheat flour, ten eggs, and four tomatoes.
They are all first-level monsters.
Then, there is a small bottle of olive oil, a small bag of salt, a small stove, a pan, a small soup pot and two wooden bowls.
Rogo carefully placed these ingredients. Looking at the ingredients, he knew that he chose tomato and egg noodles for his first Chinese dish in the world.
Let’s do the math first:
An egg costs 8 riso, 500 grams of wheat flour costs 30 riso, and four tomatoes cost 80 riso.
Liso is also a currency, lower than bela, and 1 bela can be exchanged for 1 hundred liso.
Then came the olive oil. Rogo bought a small bottle, about 100 ml, which cost 75 liso per bottle, and a small packet of salt, which came in 50g and cost 30 riso.
Together with other items, the total cost was 3 bela 85 liso.
Although the underlying logic of items is completely different from the world in his previous life, it does not prevent Rogo from doing a simple exchange rate conversion using the common ingredients here.
To put it more narrowly, the purchasing power of 1 bella is approximately equivalent to 300 yuan in the previous life.
In other words, he spent 1155 on this trip!
Even if oil, salt and cooking utensils are deducted, and if you use half a pound of flour, two eggs, and two tomatoes, the cost is still 213!
This doesn’t even count the success rate of production! One rollover doubles the cost!
Master Steck told him that if the success rate of making a dish is higher than 60%, he is already proficient in a dish.
Then how much does it cost to make this bowl of noodles?
At least you went for 400, right?
That is at least 2 bela per bowl.
Rogo didn't know anything else, but he knew that his adoptive father, Knight Rodel, as a second-level knight, had an annual income of only two to three hundred Bellas.
A second-level knight cannot guarantee that he can eat a first-level delicacy every day. Most of the time, he has to eat ordinary food without energy to fill his stomach.
No wonder Donna complained that practicing cultivation was a waste of money.
It’s so expensive!
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Putting back his somewhat distant thoughts, Rogo's eyes fell on the ingredients.
How to start: Chinese noodle soup!
Luo Ge searched through the magic book and found that soup noodles still exist in this world, but they are extremely rare. Especially the understanding of noodles is completely different from Chinese noodles.
The noodles here refer to Blue Star's pasta, which is hard and chewy, not as soft as Chinese noodles.
So the key to this dish is not the tomato and egg soup. Although the soup is also very important, the real core is the noodles.
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The first step, of course, is kneading the dough. Since it was his first time making it, there wasn’t that much fuss about it, so Rogo decided to just make a simple hand-rolled dough.
Rogo first boiled some hot water in a soup pot, put it in a cup and let it cool.
Then, from memory, first pour the flour into the basin.
There is no basin at the moment, so I use a soup pot instead.
Rogo poured half of the flour, then added a little salt to it, then beat an egg and dropped it into the flour.
But when Rogo tried to stir it evenly, the flour suddenly began to beat on its own.
"Fuck!"
With quick eyesight and quick hands, Luo Ge directly picked up the soup pot and threw it out of the room through the window.
Immediately, a muffled sound of "bang" was heard, and the soup pot was lifted two or three meters high by an explosive air wave, and then fell heavily.
Luo Ge ran out and picked up the soup pot. At this time, the soup pot had several cracks.
"This...could making noodles count as cooking?"
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Rogo sat on a chair and analyzed it carefully.
Theoretically speaking, adding salt to flour is to prevent the dough from becoming sour later, while adding eggs is to improve the taste on the one hand, and to improve the extensibility of the dough on the other.
From this perspective, it will indeed cause the internal energy of the food to be disordered, which is what happened just now.
Therefore, from the moment the noodles are kneaded, the power of the soul will begin to take control.
Rogo sighed. Sure enough, cooking in this world is not as easy as he imagined.
The noodles haven't come out yet, so I fried them in a pot first.
What a bad start!
Standing up, Rogo walked out.
If you want to continue making noodles, you have to buy a pot first! This chapter has been completed!