Chapter 190: Harvest, Hot Pot, Bathtub (4,000 words)

Rand spent about two weeks patrolling Crescent Territory.

The progress of development was fast and slow, but at least they all truly submitted to Rand.

Taran made a great contribution here. I didn’t expect that he would find such a treasure.

During the village war, it was a wise decision for him to conquer Taran and his village.

And there have been breakthroughs in agricultural technology recently.

The main research direction of the alchemists in the Alchemy Workshop is still the blast furnace, but they have not given up on agriculture-related areas.

Some of the simpler ones have achieved breakthroughs.

For example, the curved plow.

This is what Rand wanted to come up with from the beginning.

Later it was discovered that all that was needed was to modify the straight-beam plow. The plow body could swing during operation, making it maneuverable and convenient for deep plowing. It was also light and flexible, making it easy to turn.

This allowed the Crescent Territory and New Moon Territory, which had few livestock, to speed up farming and reclamation a lot.

However, the villagers are not very willing to reclaim wasteland.

Rand is considering how to enact preferential policies for land reclamation.

After inspecting every village in Crescent Territory, Rand led his men back to their hideout.

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It snowed early this winter. Not long after the beginning of winter, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

Last winter, Rand was not even a noble yet, but he commanded his troops to fight the enemy in the ice and snow.

This year's war is almost over, so I can stay in my hideout this winter and enjoy my absurd aristocratic life.

But first, the names of the soldiers who lost their lives in this war must be engraved on the stone pillar in the center of the hideout.

Rand then personally presided over the meeting and led the believers in the den and the surviving soldiers to pray for the dead.

After the grief comes the celebration.

The friction between the Crescent Territory and the Snow Fox Earldom lasted for a long time. Although the main military force of the Snow Fox Countess was not here, the Snow Fox Countess herself had always been there.

Everyone in the hideout was very wary of this Earl who was good at military affairs, and the war potential of the Earldom was naturally completely different from that of the small Viscountdom and Barondom.

During this period, even though the Brown Moon Deer Alliance was formed and some domestic nobles helped - for example, the previous revenge operation, although it failed, the damage to the Knights directly under the Countess of Snow Fox should have been very heavy.

The situation did not become easier until the second prince came and took over the defense.

In the end, it was Rand and Taner who personally led the army to fight and won the victory.

Now the focus of the Countess Snow Fox and the Kingdom of Lunsa should be shifted to the gold mine war. Everyone in the hideout can finally relax. This is truly a day worth celebrating.

There is no busy farming season in winter. All you have to do is feed the livestock and poultry. After a busy year, winter is a rare time of leisure.

Of course, this is limited to Rand's territory.

As for other places, if the lord is not merciful enough, they may brush shoulders with death every winter.

Last winter, several people died due to house collapse. This year, Rand ordered that all missionaries stationed in the village should take the responsibility of checking the structure of the villagers' houses.

And require villagers to clear the snow regularly.

Rand's missionaries are actually similar to the grassroots staff in Rand's country in his previous life. In short, they are grid-based.

Rand plans to slowly process the attendance and selection system next year, and outstanding people will come back to the base to study and then get promoted.

But that was something to consider later. Right now, he wanted to celebrate a major invention: the iron pot! Copper pots, clay pots, and the like were far inferior to the iron pot.

It’s not that the hideout now has the ability to forge a whole large steel plate to make plate armor.

The iron used to make this iron pot was saved by Rand.

In current blast furnace experiments, some iron with a moderate carbon content and good quality can occasionally be produced.

After forging all these irons together, Rand finally made an iron pot.

The first large iron plate produced by the den with its own technological level is an iron pot!

This is truly something worth remembering.

With its powerful thermal conductivity and trace elements beneficial to the human body, this is the greatest invention of this century, the iron pot!

In the lord's hall, the red carpet had been put away to avoid getting dirty.

Most of the time, in order to maintain a serious atmosphere in the Lord's Hall, people do not eat here, but this is an exception during celebrations.

Rand stood the iron pot upright and pinned a big red flower on it.

Ellie looked at the upright round iron object and asked, "What is this? A new type of plate armor?"

Everyone present was also a little confused and didn't understand why Rand would take out such a thing on such an occasion.

"It's a pot," Rand explained.

Everyone was even more confused, and Ellie asked with empty eyes, "So you've been getting in the way at the blacksmith shop these days just to make this thing? Um... a pot?"

This really seems like something Rand would do, just like how Lysa would spend her time in the alchemy workshop after work researching to make a cat's tail, and how Rand would go to the blacksmith shop to swing a hammer whenever he had time to make a pot. It also makes perfect sense.

But where on earth did Rand learn how to forge iron? With such a talent, there is nothing he can't do.

Of course, Rand did not make this iron pot independently. He just tried his best not to interfere with the blacksmith's work. However, it takes about three years of apprenticeship for someone who has never been exposed to forging to learn it, and Rand naturally did not have any special talent.

But now he affirms that he invented and made it himself.

After taking off the big red cloth flower on the iron pot, Rand stood up the pot, added fuel to the bottom of the pot, and then lit it.

The orange flames quickly burned up, adding a bit of warmth to the somewhat cold lord's hall.

The main body of Rand's Lord's Hall has always been a rough stone structure, and the decoration is in the style of ruins taken from the ruins.

It exudes a sense of wildness and grandeur.

The number of people participating in the celebration in the Lord's Hall this time was less than last time. Taran was in the Crescent Territory, Shasa passed through the portal again and went to the Underdark to make preliminary preparations for the exploration, and Tanr and Fenris were still on the defense line to prevent the Snow Fox Countess from suddenly turning back and attacking.

It was a winter night and there was already a thin layer of snow outside, while people were eating hot pot inside the house.

The orange flames and the lights of the ruins interweave to add a touch of warmth and comfort to the place.

Due to the development of alchemy in this world, peppers were discovered a long time ago, and Rand picked up a lot of them today.

In order to cater to the possibility that some people may not like spicy food, Rand also placed a partition in the iron pot, with spicy soup on one side and clear soup on the other.

Next comes the pre-prepared pork, lamb and chicken.

Rand picked up the kitchen knife, cut twice, and soon stopped. He found that his knife skills were not good enough to cut the meat into thin slices quickly.

"Help?" Rand looked at everyone.

Elsa took the kitchen knife. As a thief, she was quite good at using the knife. "How do I do it?"

"Cut it thinly," Rand said.

Elsa's fingers moved slightly, and the kitchen knife fluttered like a butterfly, and dozens of thin slices of meat appeared in an instant.

"Stop, stop, stop." Rand hurriedly called for a stop, and then said, "Don't make it too thin."

Rand squeezed Elsa's hand, snatched the kitchen knife from her, and cut a standard slice of meat very slowly, then said, "That's about it."

Elsa took the kitchen knife from Rand again, her face flushed slightly, and then the kitchen knife in her hand flew again.

This time the thickness was finally just right, and Rand was very satisfied.

With such knife skills in Rand's previous life, he could have worked as an assistant in a Michelin restaurant. If he learned some cooking skills, it would not be impossible for him to become a chef.

Maybe you can become an internet celebrity chef because of your outstanding looks.

In addition to her kleptomania, Elsa also seems to enjoy cooking.

After cutting a part, Rand asked Elsa to stop first.

At this time, the pot was boiling and steam was bubbling.

Rand would take out long chopsticks, pick up the meat slices, and then put them into the red oil pan. When they turned brown, he would take them out, turn them gently in the seasoning bowl, and finally put them into his mouth.

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It tastes good. Eating it this way finally makes me feel like I’ve returned to my previous life.

"Have you learned it?" Rand chewed the meat slice, swallowed it, and looked down at everyone present with the attitude of a gourmet king. Maybe he couldn't beat any of them in a real fight, but in the field of gourmet food, Rand could defeat everyone present with just one finger.

If the world of food could also crown a king, Rand would definitely be the undisputed king of food.

Everyone present had a strong learning ability, and making hotpot was not difficult. After watching it once, everyone learned it quickly.

Then just follow Rand’s process.

The boiling soup is bubbling in the pot, sending up wisps of hot steam and bringing with it a rich aroma that fills your nose, as if it can instantly awaken your dormant taste buds.

Following Rand's suggestion, they tried the clear soup pot first.

After boiling, dip it in sauce and eat.

This was a way of eating that had never been tried before, and it wasn't delicious enough to astound the upper-class people in the den.

But it doesn't stop them from thinking it's very novel and delicious.

After the thin slices of meat are boiled in the hot soup, the taste is completely different from chewing directly on a large piece of meat.

The cooking method of hot pot is extremely simple, even crude, and requires no technical skills, but it is very easy to make the food tasty.

After they got used to the clear soup, Rand signaled that they could try the spicy hot pot.

Ellie was the first to try it, and after putting the meat slices into the spicy pot, she followed the process.

"Cough cough." Ellie was uncomfortable for a moment and started coughing, and her fair face turned a little red.

Rand was prepared and handed her a glass of iced mixed juice.

Ellie took it immediately and took a big gulp.

"What is this? It feels a bit painful." Ellie commented and looked at Rand suspiciously. Could it be that Rand had some other hobbies?

"This is what it's like on my first try." Rand still had the arrogant attitude of a gourmet master. Spiciness will bring a slight pain, which is a stimulation that other flavors cannot match. After getting used to it, you will soon feel the deliciousness of it. "If you are not used to it, you can go back to the clear soup pot."

Although Ellie didn't seem to like it very much, seeing Rand's arrogant attitude as a gourmet master, the other senior executives of the hideout still believed in Rand's taste.

Then without exception, they all choked.

But I got used to it quickly.

This time, Rand added very little chili, so the spiciness is not very high, and it is more suitable for people who are trying it for the first time.

Soon, Rand's spicy hot pot recommendation was a complete success.

Seeing that everyone could adapt to the spicy hot pot, Rand proudly adjusted his non-existent bow tie, and then changed from the elegant king of gourmet food to a greedy and hungry ghost.

In addition to being delicious, hot pot has another great advantage.

That's the sense of participation.

Traditionally, food is prepared by the chef alone, and diners only need to taste it.

But hotpot is different. Its low threshold for cooking and high adaptability allow everyone to gather together and everyone can cook by themselves, thus increasing the sense of participation.

And you can also chat.

In winter, it is definitely a wonderful thing for friends and family to gather together to eat hot pot. Of course, Rand believes that every season is suitable for eating hot pot.

Then some crunchy vegetables.

In fact, Rand likes mushrooms very much, but he is a little worried that some types of mushrooms in this world may be more toxic, and he himself cannot tell which ones are non-toxic, so he did not try it this time.

By late evening, the celebration outside was almost over.

Rand carried a bathtub into the bathroom.

Lysa never bathed with them, so this time there were only Elsa, Olenna, and Ellie in the bath.

"Why are you moving a bathtub?" Elsa was a little confused. When she was outside, she would only use a bathtub when conditions did not allow it. Why was she moving a bathtub now?

"Because the tub is crowded," Rand said.

"?" Elsa was confused, "Is it good to squeeze in?"

Rand nodded: "It's good to squeeze in."

Elsa understood what Rand meant and blushed a little: "Ellie is still here."

Ellie crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow, "Don't worry, I won't get in your way. I'll take a bath alone, and you guys can squeeze into the tub."

Elsa immediately said, "I want to take a bath, too... woooo... woooo."

Rand pinched her mouth to stop her from speaking, then pulled the towel off Elsa and stuffed Elsa into the bathtub.

Then he looked at Olenna: "You go in by yourself?"

Olena found it a little funny. She stepped lightly on the small stool beside the bathtub and entered the bathtub, then folded the bath towel on the edge of the bathtub.

Then Rand also came in, squeezed together with the two of them, and then held them in his arms, one in each hand.

Elsa was very uncomfortable with this. This was really ridiculous! Rand was getting worse.

"Don't..." Elsa begged in a low voice.

Rand had an evil look on his face: "I am King Zhou, this is called a pool of wine and a forest of meat."

Elsa did not ask what King Zhou was, nor what the world of wine and women was, and tried to hide in the bathtub.

But the bathtub environment was too small and there was really no space to hide.

Ellie watched from the side, covering one eye to show that she was not peeking.

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(End of this chapter)