Maze Fan: I opened a buffet in the maze

Chapter 340 Searching for Ingredients

"Well, not here."

Exquisite shelves made of cedar wood, decorated with sparkling lights.

Fan Wei stood in front of the counter where icy mist was flying, looking at the bright and beautiful fresh ingredients placed on the white porcelain plates, pinching his chin and shaking his head.

In order to make dishes for General Quilcle that would help him break through, Fan Wei proposed to go out and look for ingredients.

This was of course no problem for De Rhine. He immediately suggested going to the aristocratic food store near the 'Crown District', where there were special ingredients specifically for the nobles in the imperial capital.

From the tropics to the extreme cold, no matter what flies in the sky, runs on the ground, or swims in the water, high-quality food from all over the world gathers here.

It is delivered directly to the cargo table through magical preservation and even space teleportation, which is extremely luxurious!

But Fan Wei walked around here for a few times but couldn't find the right ingredients.

"No? There's nothing here, so where else could there be?" The eldest prince was confused. As a noble who had never done any housework, he really didn't know how to choose ingredients.

"And Misir, you're not good at monster cooking? Why are you looking for normal ingredients?"

“That brings us to the question of cooking.”

Fan Wei spread his hands, looked back and explained: "People enjoy food for three purposes: to maintain life, to nourish the body, and to get the necessary taste."

"I cook according to the needs of different people. Monster ingredients have great tonic properties."

"But what General Quilcle lacks is not tonic. He must have already taken a lot of various potions and magical products. So what the general lacks is actually the 'necessary taste'."

"What flavor do you need?" Delain asked in a daze, "Misel, can you make it?"

"Of course you can, but for ingredients, the meaning is different." Fan Wei smiled profoundly, "Ingredients are the soul of the dish, and cooking is just the icing on the cake."

To the eldest prince, these words sounded like the chef's modesty, because he believed the information he heard.

But General Quilcle frowned. He felt that Fan Wei was delaying time. From the very beginning, he was full of doubts about the fact that eating just a few bites of food could help him break through!

Could it be that the eldest prince was fooled by some big liar from somewhere?

Looking at the unrestrained and mysterious look of Misl Fan, Quilcle hesitated to speak. Due to his status and the face of a prince, he could not speak directly.

But the look of disbelief in his eyes grew more and more intense.

What if this last "great chef" tried to get away with it by using excuses like he couldn't find the right ingredients or the cooking was not going well?

He will not let him off easily!

Sensing the hostility in the burly general's eyes, Fan Wei continued to stroll leisurely. To him, this was just like his daily shopping for groceries, and he happened to see the scenery of the imperial capital.

"Let's go to a more ordinary market."

Fan Wei suggested. The eldest prince looked a little hesitant, but after looking at the general following him, he nodded in agreement.

As a member of the royal family, there are definitely a lot of open and secret struggles in life.

There are countless people who have bad relations with De Rhine or even hostile to him.

The eldest prince was a little worried about encountering an accident. In the empire, if the timing is right, many people will fight back if they encounter someone. If they can't kill you, they will beat you up and make you lose face.

But he was obviously overthinking it.

Unless they were being followed, few nobles would deliberately go to where the commoners stayed. The place Fan Wei went to was suddenly a civilian area in the distance.

Although they live in the same city, class has artificially created two worlds.

The upper and the lower can really have nothing to do with each other.

When he got off the carriage, De Rhein even felt the novelty of arriving in a strange place, with low houses, streets full of debris, and dirty white snow piled up on the roadside.

In the lemon-yellow afternoon sunlight, this old and run-down place doesn't look like an imperial capital at all.

"According to the map, this is the nearest food market."

It might be more direct to say that it was a vegetable market. Fan Wei put his hands in his pockets and walked forward leisurely. When he saw the potatoes covered in mud pulled by an old wooden cart, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"This is it!" He came to the vegetable stall, picked with his nimble fingers, and soon filled a bag.

"3 Rocco." The boss looked at the prince and the general, who were dressed in luxurious clothes, strong and armed, with the eyes of looking at people from another world, and quoted the price.

Delain originally wanted to pay, but he only took out a handful of gold coins, which made the vegetable stall owner stare wide-eyed.

"How much is 3 Rocco?"

"About two-thirds of a copper coin." Fan Wei took out a copper coin. He knew the exchange rate better than the local prince. He asked casually when he came.

Looking at Misler who was paying, Delain suddenly felt a strange sense of absurdity.

How could food be so cheap? Then why do we hear so many people starve to death every year? For a moment, he even suspected that the statistics officials were falsifying the data.

The bewildered Crown Prince and General Quilcle, who had a puzzled look in his eyes, continued to visit the market with Fan Wei.

"Is this... a sheep?" Coming to a new stall, Delain thought for a while before he connected the skinny, bleating, horned creature in front of him with the delicious lamb chops he ate every day.

"Yeah, it seems to be a kind of local goat?" Fan Wei was not very sure, he could only tell which one tasted better.

"Redengi goat, a specialty of Kirihara."

General Quilcle, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, looking very clear. He looked at Fan Wei with an even stranger look, and said in a somewhat vicissitudes of life voice.

"The Clay in my name is slang for 'goat' in my hometown."

"Yes, this one is delicious!" The hurried words flashed by.

A goat butted Fan Wei without knowing the danger, but he quickly grabbed the goat's horns and lifted it up, flapping its limbs and bleating.

Because of its leanness, the meat of the Redenci goat is not of very good quality and is not on the menu of the nobles at all.

But in civilian areas, this kind of goat, which is easy to raise and has high productivity, is a luxury food during the New Year and other festivals. Fan Wei spent 54 copper coins to pay the full price for it.

Attracting many envious glances.

In addition to vendors, there were also customers and children living nearby in the vegetable market. There were lively children surrounding the three people, looking at them curiously.

The new and interesting things around him made Delain excited.

He took out the gold coins that he couldn't spend and was about to give them to the smiling children nearby, but was quickly stopped by Fan Wei.

"If you don't want to see them being robbed and beaten to death, Your Highness, you should change your mind."

Fan Wei found a stall selling sweet cakes nearby and asked His Royal Highness the Prince to buy all of them. He then called the children around and invited them to have some snacks.

Soon a group of young boys and girls surrounded the three of them.

"Well, I put dried goldenrod, fermented malt and white sugar in it."

With a faint smile, Fan Wei took the sweet cake, tasted a bite and discerned the simple ingredients.

In the afternoon sunshine, the three of them sat on simple stools next to the stalls in the open-air market, watching the children happily sharing their food.

"It's strange that they didn't rob."

Delain was surprised. In order to establish his image, he once went to the slums to distribute cookies and candies. The scene before him was very different from what he had seen in the past few times.

General Quilcle, who was assigned to lead the sheep, moved his lips and spoke silently.

"It's because there are enough snacks. We bought out the sales of the entire store for a few days. Besides, the children here have families and are not too hungry. They won't fight over the snacks."

"I thought resources needed to be fought over." The eldest prince sighed, wondering what he was thinking about.

Even if he was born into a royal family, he still needs to fight wits and courage to get all kinds of resources. This is a world where the strong prey on the weak, and even the princes are no exception.

But when he saw the children having so much fun and even sharing with each other, he felt touched and even a little envious!

This kind of scene can't be seen among his brothers and sisters.

"Misle, how many ingredients do we need to find?" After sitting for a while, Delain asked Fan Wei leisurely.

"There are only one or two things missing." Fan Wei raised his eyebrows, "But before that, we may need to face some minor troubles."

He pointed his finger and saw a group of menacing and ill-intentioned guys appear in front of the market.

Greedy hyenas, attracted by the smell of gold.