Volume 1: Yellow Sand Hundred Battles Chapter 39 Spices
As soon as he stepped out of the space, Wang Liang appeared on the busy square.
Looking at the players coming and going in the big square, Wang Liang somehow felt like he was home.
He was thinking about whether he should find a place to settle down first and then think about how to live in the future.
At this moment he suddenly smelled a fragrance, which seemed to be the feeling of spices being roasted over fire, as if someone was processing special spices.
Wang Liang naturally couldn't smell the combination of the spices. He just thought it smelled really good.
Thinking of this, Wang Liang slapped his head. What was going on? He was an official who had passed the imperial examinations. Although he had not reached Li Bai 's level, he could not be so uneducated as to just say "it smells really good."
Could it be that the fragrance irritated him?
Wang Liang curiously followed the direction of the fragrance and saw a different stall at one end of the square.
Other stalls simply laid a piece of cloth on the ground, but this stall owner set up a big pot and poured a lot of spices into the pot and stir-fried them. A blonde woman who looked to be in her twenties was sitting in front of the pot reading a book.
The blonde woman had a pair of lavender eyes and her long blonde hair was casually draped. Judging from the three-dimensionality and color of her facial features, she should be an Oriental. She looked completely different from Marco and the others that Wang Liang had met in the game before, but her hair looked a little weird.
Fortunately, Wang Liang learned a lot of things from Zhao Gongming along the way. When players enter the game, they actually have the opportunity to change their hair, skin, and eye color. Some players often change their hair to strange colors in order to show their personality.
For example, green, green and green.
What was his reaction to this situation? Oh, I think he said, "How can anyone with a brain change the color of their hair?"
Now seeing the hair and eye color of this blonde woman, Wang Liang couldn't help but say, "So beautiful!"
At this time, the blonde woman seemed to have discovered something. She looked up at the red-haired man who was stirring the spices in the pot and said, "The fire is a little overheated. Stir it faster and add some fennel in five minutes."
Then the blonde looked at Wang Liang and asked, "Excuse me, are you here to buy spices?"
"Oh, no, I want to buy some formula."
"Recipe? Please come this way."
The blonde woman held out her hand and invited Wang Liang to the side. "Let me introduce myself first. I am God's Tongue, the head chef of the academy, the head cook, and the head of logistics. What's your name?"
Wang Liang is now used to giving a girl such weird names. Divine Tongue and the like are better than Crying Girl and Devil-headed Girl.
"The versatile Wang Jilong."
"Very good. As soon as I heard your name, I knew you were a person who liked cooking. I have three spice recipes here, all of which need to be carefully prepared. One is an ancient Egyptian recipe, one is a new thirteen-spice recipe that I fine-tuned, and the other one is a secret recipe of the elves that you may not believe."
Wang Liang watched the performance of God's Tongue calmly without giving any comment.
God's Tongue never thought that Wang Liang knew nothing about Egypt, Thirteen Spices, or Elves. She thought Wang Liang looked down on these things.
Then the tongue of God slapped her slender and snow-white thigh, "Okay, I knew you were a connoisseur. I have a legendary formula here. Believe me, this is the formula of the ancient gods, and the quality is absolutely the best."
Ancient gods? What kind of formula is that?
Wang Liang was somewhat curious, but his expression did not change, as if his instinctive reaction was so slow.
Just as Wang Liang was about to ask what the prices were for the four recipes, the red-haired guy who was stirring the spices suddenly called out, "Miss, the guests are coming."
When God's Tongue heard this, he quickly said to Wang Liang, "I'm sorry, I just happened to have a guest. Please wait a moment."
After saying that, she put away the book in her hand and hurried towards the big pot.
Wang Liang looked in the direction where the Divine Tongue left and found a man who looked nearly two meters tall standing next to the big pot.
The man was wearing a black cloak and a rather exaggerated-looking straw helmet on his head. Wang Liang, who had experienced the game once, knew very well that for players, whether the clothes looked good or not was secondary. What mattered was whether the attributes were suitable for them.
This helmet that looks like a bird's nest can be worn on this man's head, which means that the properties of this helmet must be very suitable for him.
Behind this man, there were two creatures that did not look like players. They were probably dead people. Their bodies had dried up and shrunk, and they were wrapped in layers of yellow bandages. It could be seen that they had no internal organs in their stomachs. However, Wang Liang noticed that there were five small bottles hanging around their waists.
What made Wang Liang speechless the most was that they actually exuded a faint smell of spices.
At this time, the man reached out and picked up some spices from the cauldron, put it to his nose and smelled it, then nodded with satisfaction.
"Yes, this is what I want."
Watching the man directing the two strange men behind him to pack the spices into sacks, and finally carrying away a large pot of spices as if they were carrying grains, Wang Liang always felt that something was not right here.
After seeing off the guests, the red-haired man began to wash the pot and prepare to make new spices. The Divine Tongue ran to Wang Liang and said proudly, "Well, did you see that? They take away these spices in large bags."
Although it felt strange, Wang Liang still decided to buy the recipe. He had already realized that spices actually had a large market in this world.
After bargaining, Wang Liang bought four copies of the spice formula from God's Tongue for one hundred yuan.
[Learn the recipe: Egyptian spices (spices for bacon, made from 27 different ingredients, effect: quickly dehydrates meat and keeps it fresh and active for a long time)]
[Learn the recipe: Fine-tune Thirteen Spices (spices for seasoning meat dishes, made from thirteen different ingredients, effect: improve the taste of food by 50%)]
[Learn the recipe: Elf Secret Fragrance (spices for seasoning meat dishes, made from three special ingredients and nineteen spices. Effect: completely removes fishy smells, increases food nutritional effects by 10%, and makes meat dishes full of the flavor of vegetables)]
[Learn the recipe: Ancient Sacrificial Meat Fragrance (spices for seasoning sacrificial meat, made from nine kinds of ancient spices. Effect: Food special effects increased by 30%, with a chance to induce the blessing of the gods)]
Along with the four recipes, there is also a yet-to-be-published book written by God's Tongue himself, "A Brief History of Spices".
This was the book that God's Tongue had been reading there before.
Wang Liang had a favorable impression of people who could publish books, so he read the book carefully and found that it recorded more than 80% of the spices that could be found in this game, including general patterns, taste evaluations, and detailed instructions on how to mix spices.
Although most of the time we can get some answers from the system through identification and other means, it is not difficult to see the editor's dedication to cooking.
This book reminded Wang Liang that he still had a pile of books and gems that had not been sorted out, so he quickly left the stall holding the "A Brief History of Spices".
