Sword and Magic and Clear Flow

"What, what are you looking for him for?" The innkeeper held the gold coin and looked nervously at the group of strong soldiers. He noticed that the eyes of these people changed as soon as the two cans of hot sauce were taken out.

More than half a year ago, Grandpa Edward, who came from a remote country, settled down in Vallet with his two eldest grandsons Pierre, second grandson Persimo and a young granddaughter Lockett.Their family was very old and young, and it was said that they were unable to farm the land, so they decided to come to the town to make a living.

"Old Godfather" brand hot sauce was originally sold by two grandsons in small carts in various restaurants and hotels. A scoop costs only 1 copper coin. Eating it in bread can bring a thick and stimulating taste. It is a town that is tired of butter and honey. People think this taste is really novel.

In summer, everyone just tastes something new occasionally. The hot sauce becomes more and more popular when the weather turns cold. Put a spoonful of stew, it tastes rich, and a spoonful of barbecue meat, it is spicy and spicy. Take a bite and you will be warmed up, and then paired with a glass of ale Eating and drinking, simply endless aftertaste.

Now people in this area are used to ordering all-purpose hot sauce for everything. I really don’t know how they survived the tasteless winter before.

"Old Godfather" brand hot sauce quickly became popular in the whole town. After making money, Grandpa Edward designed a canning machine, and found the most handy dwarf mechanic in the town to build several sets. A month ago, this kind of hot sauce was packaged in a glass jar with a metal lid and a red package. It can be mass-produced, and the serving size is about 10 spoons in a can.

Of course, what their family sells to the owners of restaurants, taverns and inns in the town is still a spoonful of 1 copper coin in bulk hot sauce, which is very affordable.

The store owner and locals only need 2 silver and 7 copper to buy canned hot sauce that can be stored for a long time, and then sell it to foreign business travelers for 3 silver, with a net profit of 3 copper per can. Cans are still in short supply.

Grandpa Edward has become the cash cow and treasure of Vallett Town, and was recently awarded the title of honorary townsman by the mayor.

Not to mention that the shop owner didn't know how to make it, even if he knew it, he wouldn't tell outsiders. He was very wary of business travelers who inquired about the formula and the maker, for fear of harming the grandfather's family.

Zhan Wensong knew that the question was too eager to be misunderstood, and launched a big trick: "Actually, we are relatives who have been separated for many years. Boss, do I have similar facial features to this grandfather?"

As he spoke, he held the hot sauce jar to his face and looked at the boss sincerely.

It’s a bit... no, I can’t easily believe that human ears are originally the same, with two eyes and one mouth. The orc boss with a blind oriental face pointed to the trademark confidently and said, “It’s not like Edward said that he became bald at the age of 30 with the current hairstyle, what about you? You are also 30, and there is no sign of baldness at all, and there is no blood relationship at first sight!"

Zhan Wensong, who was choked by the simple and crude reasoning, was speechless: "..." Who is Edward? Could it be Zhen Aihua? It's really good to blend in.

"I won't tell you the secret recipe. If you want to eat it, come to our town to buy it. You can also write to the mayor's office in advance to make an order." The boss counted out 4 silver coins to give to the customer, and resolutely refused to charge extra "inquiry fees." .

Everyone in the action group: "..."

我们对“秘”方真的没兴趣，因为包装上用方块字明明白白地写着“每百克成分表：植物油10g、黄豆豆豉30g、辣椒30g、花椒10g、花生20g、其他（水、食盐、白糖、柠檬酸）”。

Zhan Wensong did not embarrass the boss any more. That night, apart from Shi Liuming’s fairy-like and overly conspicuous egret, 15 secretary birds flew out of the hotel. The members opened the system panel to receive real-time images, and found the "Edward" family in a short while.

"Grandpa!" The little granddaughter Lockett first noticed the little bird standing on the window sill outside, and cried happily: "There's a little bird outside the window, let's put it in, it's snowing outside, it will put It's frozen!"

Zhen Aihua rushed to the window when she heard the sound, and saw a small and cute bird with white eye circles, emerald green, and only a ring of red feathers at the junction of the wings and neck. At first glance, it looked like it was carrying two Red armbands.

At this time, it was knocking on the window with its curved beak, making a sound of "duk tuk tuk".As soon as I saw him, I spread my wings and knocked harder, as if to say, "Open the window! The community sends warmth!"

The scientific name of this kind of bird is the red-shouldered macaw. It is a very popular pet bird species on the earth. It is distributed wildly in the tropical regions of South America. It is a miracle that it did not freeze to death in an outdoor environment of minus 20 degrees.

He opened the window with a dazed expression, and the parrot flew in with a whizzing sound, opening his mouth in fluent Chinese: "Good evening, Mr. Zhen."

Zhen Aihua: "..."

In less than a minute, a group of birds of different species, even a mixture of predators and prey, gathered and crowded into the house, and the last one politely closed the window with its claws.

Lockett was only five years old, and he didn't feel anything was wrong at all. He jumped up and down excitedly, trying to catch one and hold it in his arms.

Pierre and Posimo saw that there were extremely fierce raptors golden eagle and peregrine falcon among the flock of birds. Their bodies were so light that they could catch a lamb, so they nervously held their sister in their arms to prevent her from running around.

The amazing thing is that these birds are not fierce at all, they are very well-behaved, and they find a place to stop on their own.

"Mr. Zhen, my name is Zhan Wensong, and I am the commander-in-chief of the secret rescue operation team sent by the Huaguo Research Institute." The macaw stretched out its right wing, saw that the other party did not intend to shake hands at all, and retracted as if nothing had happened. "We are relieved to see that you are in good health!"

"Hello..." Zhen Aihua also spoke in Chinese—so, the research institute trained a talking parrot to lead a group of strange birds to rescue him. What kind of naughty operation is this?

After talking about Smart Secret as a microphone for a long time, Zhan Wensong finally explained the ins and outs clearly.

Zhen Aihua burst into tears when he heard this, and he also bought a lot of daily chemical products brought by the caravan from the capital circle to the town for sale. He is so close.

"Grandpa?" The three children didn't understand the magical dialogue between the man and the bird, and saw that grandpa was about to go out after putting on his clothes.

Zhen Aihua told the three children: "Grandpa, go to the Violet Inn to meet fellow villagers passing by here, and come back later, you two go to bed first."

"Wait a minute, I'll see you off." The night was dark, and the ground was still covered with snow. Pierre also put on his coat, and helped his grandfather get a fur hat for him to put on. He turned to his younger brother and said, "Persimo , you take your sister to sleep first, lock the doors and windows, I have the key."

"Alright, be careful on your way," Persimo replied.

Zhen Aihua felt warm in her heart, hugged the three children and rubbed their heads one by one: "Let's go."

The other little bird secretary flew out of the house and disappeared in a flash, leaving only the macaw to lead the way.

After all, the town of Vallett is not big, and it is the destination after walking two blocks. As soon as I opened the door, I saw 16 young men sitting neatly in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel. They were dressed similarly to aboriginal mercenaries, but They are indeed the faces of China.

One couldn't hold it back, and burst into tears full of excitement. Zhen Aihua rushed forward with blurred eyes and hugged the action team.

The innkeeper and Pierre were dumbfounded. Could it be that Grandpa Edward was also a mercenary when he was young?

"Look, I said we are relatives." Zhan Wensong put his arms around the shoulders of old expert Zhen and smiled at the boss, thinking hopelessly, this is probably the feeling of being slapped in the face, right?

"Okay, okay, you look alike." The boss put on his apron and ran to the back kitchen with a dazed expression on his face. "You guys are chatting, I'll make you popcorn for supper."

Zhen Aihua was excited enough, so she pulled Pierre to her side and introduced to everyone: "His name is Pierre, he is 15 years old this year. He has a younger brother who is 12 years old and a younger sister who is 5 years old. I woke up in the field two years ago, This is the kid who brought me home."

This family was originally a happy family of four and a half. His father was a spice farmer who went south with a caravan and never came back. His mother was pregnant with Lockett at the time, and she was emaciated due to excessive worry and passed away due to dystocia.

The little sister lost her parents as soon as she was born, and was born with a weak body. Her crying sound was barely audible, as if she was going to die at any time.

And the two elder brothers are just children, they wiped away their tears tenaciously, arranged for the funeral with the help of the village chief, and took on the responsibility of raising the younger sister.

Pierre was originally studying in the town primary school, with good grades. Since his mother was sick, he dropped out of school and returned home. At this time, he became the only pillar of the family. He and Persimo took turns holding his sister and looking for lactating women in the village. Help, one bite for one family, one meal for that family.

They usually farm in the fields, but unfortunately, neither of them is as good at planting as their father. The spice harvest has been bleak and they cannot make ends meet.

In such a difficult situation, when 13-year-old Pierre saw a stranger lying in the field, he still took him back to the village to find a shaman for treatment without hesitation, and took him back to his home to take good care of him.

Zhen Aihua doesn't know the local language, so she and Lockett learned to speak and write with her eldest brother at the beginning——half a year later, Lockett, who was three and a half years old, was still stuttering, and a certain old man slipped away to speak English and was able to speak. Write a beautiful textbook style, and start turning around to teach my little sister!

During those days, I also thought, what can he do for this family?Zhen Aihua is good at programming and software development. He is one of the best game producers in the industry. He can be said to be a very advanced coder. However, this farmer is not the other farmer, and he knows nothing about farming.

It’s hard enough to do business. I still have a good idea of ​​what kind of B game company I am. In the early days of the traditional online game "Peace Continent", the performance was mediocre in the first generation. , leading to a large loss of players.

Later, when he started to develop 100% hologram, he accidentally touched the legendary dimensional wall. A person with a little ambition can at least come up with a hundred big money-making tricks, but he not only couldn't come up with any ideas, but was very cowardly. Packing it up and handing it over to the country, I am only a nominal boss, and I am so happy...

Counting on her fingers to the end, Zhen Aihua found that she was really useless in this world, except for eating and drinking—yes, eating and drinking!

The main cash crops in this area of ​​the village are spices such as mint, pepper, perilla, ginger, fennel, and hops. The main food crops are only barley, wheat, soybeans, and peanuts. The barley beer brewed by the villagers is quite famous.

Then he ran all the way on the drunkard's road, not only fried five-spice peanuts, but also made mint wine, perilla wine, fennel wine, ginger beer... and expanded a dozen new flavors of wine at once. products, and mixed wines of various flavors.

Some of them make people feel ecstatic after a sip, and some make them vomit after a sip. The whole village is in a trance and doubts life.

Generally speaking, Zhen Aihua made a lot of money. After subsidizing his family, he built a simple glass shed. There is nothing to say about the glass firing technology in Pislan Continent. The dwarves even know blast furnace metallurgy. Making glass is a pastime after dinner. Very cheap.

He transplanted red pepper, a common indoor ornamental plant in the Snowman Kingdom, into the greenhouse. Of course, Pierre had to do the farming himself.

At the same time, he also tricked the whole village to plant together, promising that he would accept as much as he planted.The villagers are also really simple, and the long speeches prepared by Zhen Aihua are useless.

A few months later, the first batch of chili was harvested, and he cooked the first pot of chili sauce with local peppercorns and peanut oil, recalling the taste of "Old Godfather".

He has a dream to make hot sauce popular in Pislan continent, and maybe he can find colleagues who travel with him through this.

Just do it, the first stop is the town of Vallett, which is a little far away from the village, but located on the only way for the north-south caravan. He brought the three little guys in his family out to start a business.

"You all know what happened after that." Although Zhen Aihua is over 70 years old, she took good care of herself when she was on earth, with few wrinkles. The past two years have also been nourishing. Although she is bald, she is still full of energy.

"At the beginning of winter, a caravan from the capital came here to sell goods. I was stunned by the huge amount of Huaguo daily chemical products. Even if you don't come, I plan to go to Beijing next year when the spring warms up... Cough, I'm used to it, I'll go to Grande."

"Actually, this place is closer to Virjila. There is our branch over there, as well as Professor Feng and Academician Liu." Zhan Wensong and the others had a mission to escort Mr. Zhen to the capital for the time being.

Moreover, Snowman's winter is really not suitable for long-distance trekking, the more north it gets, the colder it gets, so it's no problem to take it to Vigila in the south, only three days away.

"That's great!" Zhen Aihua also missed the old fellows of the research institute, but couldn't worry about the three children, and asked, "Can the children be taken with me? They are so smart and well-behaved..."

Zhan Wensong nodded: "No problem." This team also brought a little Doudin Mungostin throughout the whole process, although he is not a real child.

Pierre has no objection, they will go wherever grandpa goes.

After the decision was made, Zhen Aihua was full of anticipation.

As soon as I got home, I wrote letters to the mayor and the shop owners I made friends with, and donated the "Old Godfather" formula and canning machine drawings for free, on the condition that he continued to use his profile picture and the standardized packaging with square patterns - when he left When he was in the village, he also gave the formula of the new taste wine drink to the village chief and the respected shaman, so that everyone can make money together.

For him, there are so many fantastic ideas waiting to be realized, and the old formula earns enough.

In the future, more energy will be devoted to the production of the second-generation game cabin system. Before leaving this world and returning home, the three children must be educated. There is a long way to go.

The next day, Grandpa Edward's family of four followed the mercenary group to a broader new world. They were no longer in Vallett Town, but the legend of "Old Godfather" was still circulating in the town.