Maze Fan: I opened a buffet in the maze

"Whoa--hush!" With a light shout, the two horses pulling the cart slowed down and stopped.

Yunxin was the first to open the side door of the light carriage and jumped out, followed by Gonia and Clara.

Taking advantage of the good weather these days, Fan Wei took them out for a walk as promised and collected some necessary ingredients. The first destination was the north, which they had never set foot on before.

"This is the North District of Labyrinth Street. It feels like a different city."

Walking around in a circle, Yunxin looked at the distinctive stone-built streets and single-family houses around her and sighed in admiration.

Although the name contains the word "street", the Maze Street is undoubtedly a huge urban circle, spanning dozens of kilometers from east to west and north to south.

If we include the surrounding towns, rural areas and manors, it would be even larger.

The North District is where the Maze Street is located close to the mountains. It is significantly different from other areas in terms of microclimate, population composition, and cultural habits.

The first thing that caught my eye after getting off the carriage was a steep slope sloping upwards beside the riverside road.

The high slope leads straight to the sky. On both sides of the straight and long street, there are houses made of brown on top and gray on the bottom, made of wood and stone. They stand like guards on duty, interlaced on small planes between the stairs.

Many of them are relatively low, yet wide and thick, reflecting the architectural style of the dwarves.

There are also many that are half-hidden in the mountains, belonging to the Halfling culture.

Gray railway lamps were scattered everywhere, small triangular colored flags held together by thin ropes were interwoven between the houses on both sides of the street, and brightly colored flowers with broad leaves grew in the cracks between the rocks.

“Woo-du-woo~~”

A dull skull flute sound came from diagonally above, followed by a high-pitched long flute sound. The two flute sounds, one high and one low, alternated and weaved between the hills covered with light morning mist.

"It's such a unique and novel place!" Fan Wei exclaimed as he climbed to the top of the hill with the three girls, and the view in front of them suddenly opened up.

This hill is like a staircase or gateway to the northern area. Looking back, you can see rows of houses, stretching downward from brown, crossing a silver river tributary rushing out of the northern mountains, and turning into a group of white brick and red-roofed buildings in the south.

If you continue to look north, you will first see a lively mountain gathering place, and then it truly becomes a mountain city built on the mountains.

Yunxin, who was running in the front, put her hands together and looked out. Under the blue sky with floating clouds, gray and green were intertwined among the mountains, and countless densely packed artificial buildings combined the beauty and mystery of nature with the strong breath of life.

It gives people a peaceful and relaxing feeling.

"It's so beautiful~ Boss, are we going to tour the whole city today?" Yunxin asked casually with her arms open.

"That's true, but the main goal is to find ingredients with special flavors! Let's buy a few drinks first and then walk over!"

"Today, please let everyone taste the special flavors of the mountain people and dwarves."

Laughing, they walked towards the surrounding shops.

As if anticipating that people climbing up the slope would be thirsty, there are several beverage shops on the top of the slope, selling the dwarves' favorite malt beer, as well as red and green tea, fruit soup, vanilla ginger juice and other drinks.

"Miss, would you like to buy one of our crystal glasses? Beer tastes better when it's poured into a crystal glass!"

"These are all the finest materials that my brothers dug out from the mines!"

His beard was as thick as a broom, his short, stocky figure and his face flushed from alcohol made the dwarf boss look very likable.

He tried to sell Yunxin, who was buying wine, the crystal wine glasses from his own tavern, which were not very clear but quite delicate and beautiful.

"Yunxin, you are still not grown up, drink less..."

Fan Wei gave the money to Clara who was walking with him, and asked her to take Gonia to buy tea and juice, and then advised the oriental girl.

"No, I'm an adult now, and I'm old enough to drink. Boss, please stop being so nagging~"

"That's right, young lady. This guy lacks manliness. Come! I'll buy you a glass of Weide fire wine. The blood of dwarves is full of alcohol and magma!"

Fan Wei was ashamed. The dwarves called Yun Xin "Miss" not because of her status, but because they thought humans were all "tall" guys.

So when addressing women, a big ".

Then why do they call him "young brother"? It is because humans who generally do not have long beards, especially those as fair-skinned as Fan Wei, are no different from women in the eyes of dwarves!

So it is considered to lack masculinity, so naturally it will not be accompanied by the word "big"...

The concepts between races are really different, but if you think about it carefully, he is just overthinking it. In this world, everyone has magic power in their bodies, and adventurers are so strong that they can tear tigers and leopards apart alive. The impact of alcohol on health is probably basically zero.

Drinking in moderation won't do any harm.

"But I'll pay for it." Fan Wei stepped forward to bear the expenses. He really couldn't stand Miss Yunxin's spending speed.

God knows she went shopping with Rona yesterday and actually spent five gold coins in one go! ! When Fan Wei received the gift, he almost slipped his hand out of shock.

He decided that he must be more careful in the future, because no matter how wealthy his family was, it couldn't withstand such a thing!

"Three thousand 'Slevi' banknotes, and some Weide fire wine for you!" The dwarf boss was very generous. He pushed over a large crystal wine glass filled with golden and mellow beer that required both hands to hold, and a small wooden cup.

'Slevi' is the national currency of Loga, which is in paper form to facilitate transactions in residents' daily lives.

In places where non-professionals gather and far away from commercial centers, ordinary people mostly use their own currency for transactions. One common copper coin is exchanged for about 17-19 Slevis.

Fan Wei, who didn't want to exchange the money, just took a silver coin.

He felt that the ratio of one silver for five hundred coppers was a bit inhumane. Who would carry so many coins? But this system was indeed suitable for professionals and ordinary people living together.

For ordinary people, a dozen copper coins a day is considered a middle income, but most professionals only have a few silver coins, and the copper coins are ignored.

It is this outrageous gap that creates an outrageous exchange ratio.

Because both parties were too lazy to give change, the dwarf boss happily gave Fan Wei two large glasses of crystal beer, which was considered a small profit for the drinks.

Fan Wei admired such steadiness. He drank the bottle of Weide liquor in one gulp as a sign of respect. Then, with a red face and thick neck, he waved goodbye to the laughing boss.

"It's really spicy! Just a small cup...it's worthy of being called fire wine!"

After catching his breath for a long time, Fan Wei and the three children holding sparkling crystal cups walked towards the flat market at the bottom of the slope under the warm sunlight.

"Stone pancake~Stone pancake~"

“Sausages, gela soup, cured red meat!”

"Potato wine, big cheese plates ~ vegetables, fresh vegetables, wild mushrooms in season!"

......

The sounds of hawking are endless, and people, mostly wearing gray or white cotton and linen robes, come and go, visiting the stalls for breakfast, buying ingredients for today's cooking, or rushing to work to earn their wages.

“Come and try it to see how the food here is different.”

Fan Wei walked towards a relatively empty restaurant, which was a semi-fixed street stall where customers were served between two stone houses.

The dwarf boss was cutting the ingredients with a big knife, the human chef was cooking, and the halfling waiter hurried over to serve the guests.

"Hey! Misle!" Not long after they found a place to sit down, a deep and familiar voice sounded behind them, accompanied by a melodious piano sound.

"Kasso, Piccolo! You are here too!"

Fan Wei turned around and shouted in surprise. The two teammates who walked into the restaurant were the two teammates who had teamed up with him to enter the chaotic maze before.

Dwarf guard Kaso Diamond, scout and bard, halfling Pikro.

"We were wondering why you were here. We've already received the invitation. Don't we need to prepare for the Autumn Star Festival in a few days?"

Piccolo, carrying his banker, sat down at the table with the dwarf, smiling and teasing Fan Wei.

Because it was the opening ceremony of a new store and the Autumn Star Festival event, plus he had previously agreed on a banquet with his companions, Fan Wei sent out a large number of invitations at once.

“I’m here to collect inspiration.”

"By the way, Kaso, Piccolo, do you both live here? Do you have any recommendations for foods with a stronger flavor?"

"Food with a strong flavor?"

The halfling scout showed a puzzled look, but immediately named the dish.

"That's too much. In the North District, there are many things that people in the South can't eat. Let's start with the most amazing four-color cheese..."