Chapter 173 Relieving Employment Pressure with Ice Grass Cake
Xi Zheng put the last piece of grass cake into his mouth, then looked down and exclaimed, "Huh? You finished it just like that?"
Shu Xin could tell that Xi hadn't done it on purpose, and she became a little curious: "Is it really that delicious?"
Xi blinked: "Eating it plain doesn't have much flavor, so I broke up some nut candy and sprinkled it on top. It's delicious!"
"I think it would be great to drizzle honey on top," Shu Xin said with a smile, inspired. "Adding chopped fresh fruit and sprinkling it with powdered sugar at the end would definitely make it even tastier!"
This is just fruit jelly!
Xi Ting's eyes lit up: "I want to eat!"
Shu Xin smiled and said, "If you mine well, I'll have Mei Meilin cook for you."
Xi: "...I understand."
The flower fairy workers who were building shops in the commercial district got to eat the otherworldly version of fruit jelly even before the demons.
As the harvest month approaches, the temperature is rising rapidly. Even with more clouds in the sky, the sunlight is getting hotter every day. Shu Xin hasn't been to the terrace much lately. If she stands on the terrace for even a short while at midday, just ten minutes or so, the intense sunlight will make her hair feel hot.
Shu Xin was originally studying how to process the snow dragon fruit branches provided by the Snow Clan into the lining of a cloak, but she couldn't care less about that now. She started running around the agricultural area with the flower fairies who had water magic talents, watering the fields. Watering should be done either in the early morning or in the evening, as the large temperature difference caused by watering in high temperatures would damage the crop roots.
Now, when the flower fairies go out, they always pull up the hood of their cloaks and use their magic cloaks to completely cover themselves up in the blazing sunlight.
The flower fairies working in the commercial district look like this at first glance; they appear to be wearing colorful magic cloaks that flutter around in the air.
With the number of flower fairies in the Land of Sin increasing, Shu Xin felt it was necessary to build a commercial district.
The currency circulating within the Kingdom of Garnar is the Leaf Coin, formed from the pure magic power of the Tree of Life. However, the wages received by the flower fairies in the Land of Sin consist of food, shelter, and a reduced share of magic tax.
Shu Xin wasn't very trusting of Leaf Coins, which were magically materialized. She had actually considered reminting them using physical metal in the Land of Sin, but that was something for later. Currently, the Land of Sin's internal economic system was practically nonexistent. The reason for preparing the site first was that it could provide a large number of jobs.
As the harvest month draws closer and temperatures rise, the returns from cultivating land and planting now will be low. In addition, the Land of Sin itself has some overproduction, so even the cloak workshop, paper workshop and MSG workshop that Shu Xin built later are of no use. As a result, the newly arrived flower fairies are starting to have trouble finding jobs.
Now Shu Xin actually regrets using large-scale magic to quickly change the layout of the Land of Sin. If she had handed over all the reconstruction projects in each area to the flower fairies, she could have absorbed even more than a thousand civilians!
Shu Xin could only console herself that planning ahead was beneficial for future development—she couldn't just tear everything down and rebuild, could she?!
After sending all the unemployed flower fairies to the commercial district and, under Blue Corner's direction, slowly and meticulously began building houses, Shu Xin carefully considered the matter. She then went to the Tree of Life and greatly expanded the island in the lake in the cultural and educational district, causing several more treehouses to grow on it. Afterward, she went to Nonoli and instructed him to arrange for all the underage flower fairies in the Land of Sin to come to the school to study.
If adults need to learn, children certainly shouldn't fall behind!
Shu Xin had already planned that once the current batch of children attending school had fully mastered the Elven script, she would arrange for them to stay at the school as teachers, and then release them to work when they reached adulthood.
After that, any new flower fairies who arrive will be sent to the classroom to learn elven script once they have built their own houses. They can start working once they have all learned it.
Expanding school enrollment is indeed a good way to alleviate employment pressure... Sitting in the restaurant, Shu Xin scooped up a spoonful of grass cake and put it in her mouth, thinking this with mixed feelings.
Place the prepared grass cake in an underground cold storage to chill it slightly, then cut it into small pieces, add dried golden cherries that are also cut into small pieces, drizzle with honey, and sprinkle with powdered sugar. A refreshing and cooling otherworldly version of fruit jelly is ready.
However, what Shuxin ate could only be described as grass cake mixed with dried fruit. She deliberately didn't ask Meimeilin to add honey and powdered sugar because when they made grass cake later, Meimeilin and the others added a lot of powdered sugar, making the grass cake itself sweet. The dried golden cherries were also quite sweet, and when honey was poured on top and powdered sugar was sprinkled on, Shuxin felt so sweet that her throat tightened after just one bite. When she forced herself to take a second bite, it was so sweet that she almost rolled her eyes. In the end, Shuxin decided to let herself off the hook and left this bowl of grass cake, which was so sweet that it made her feel a little uneasy, for Xi when she came home from get off work.
Xi ate with great enjoyment, and even after finishing, he was still not satisfied. When he leaned over to kiss Shuxin, the blond boy exuded a sweet scent. However, Shuxin coldly grabbed his chin and turned his face to the side: "It's too sweet. I'm worried your lips will stick to my face."
Xi: "...Listen to what you're saying, Shushuxin!"
Although this dessert, which the flower fairies called Ice Grass Cake, wasn't to Shu Xin's liking, the flower fairies and demons of the Land of Sin all loved it, and everyone had learned on their own to break up the nut candy pieces and sprinkle them on before eating.
Because honey is precious, most flower fairies and demons only receive ice grass cakes drizzled with honey water. Only those with the best work performance that week can receive an extra ice grass cake topped with a thick layer of honey and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Sasa, a flower fairy whose hometown is Ovivia City by the sea, received this ice grass cake. She has a rare teleportation magic talent, and it is precisely because of this talent that she was able to bring her parents and children to the land of sin from afar.
However, precisely because Sasa Mimi's innate magic is so rare, after the house was built, her relatives quickly found jobs, but Sasa Mimi and her two daughters, who also have teleportation-type innate magic, could only stay at home.
Without a job, she couldn't receive food or the reduction in her magic tax share. Even though the food her parents and three sons brought back was enough for the family of eight, Sasa was still very anxious, especially after her two daughters developed fevers due to depression and the unpleasant weather. Sasa began to doubt whether she had made the wrong decision to leave her hometown.
Because she had run out of magic potions on the way to the Land of Sin, Sasa Mi thought she should ask her neighbors where she could buy them. However, as soon as she started talking, she learned that two underage children had fallen ill and a kind neighbor had called the patrol team. Sasa Mi was almost dizzy when the patrol team's flower fairies took her and the two children into the medical room.
It's clearly not harvest season, so why are there organized patrols? And the patrol members are even carrying high-level magic wands and wearing high-level magic cloaks! Are these really patrol members, or nobles?!
Wait, when did patrol teams start taking civilians to the doctor? Wait, wait, wait, this magic workshop called the medical room is actually provided to civilians for free?!
Feeling refreshed, Sasami flew out of the medical room and realized she too had a fever. However, because the symptoms were mild and she wasn't used to the extremely dry climate of the Land of Sin, she hadn't noticed it. She took her two much more lively daughters home, and the next day Sasami received another piece of good news—
The Flower Fairy wants to build a commercial park and needs a lot of manpower. There are no requirements for magical talent. She and her two daughters can all sign up!
Sasa passed the screening, but her two daughters were too young to come to work. Before Sasa could figure out how to comfort her two children, she soon received a new notice: the benevolent flower fairy wanted her people to gain wisdom and knowledge, so not only should underage flower fairies go to the school in the cultural and educational district to learn to read, but adult flower fairies should also go to school to study.
Children who are minors need to study all day, while adults who have work to do work half a day and then study half a day. So, Sasa and her family started a regular and new life.
There are two main tasks involved in building a commercial park:
One task is to level the ground. Since the flower fairy slaves can receive production-type magic wands, this part of the work is assigned to the slaves. They need to use crushing magic to crush all the large and small stones and coarse and fine gravel on the ground evenly.
Another method involves laying aerial floors. This task is left to the common people. First, transparent floor tiles engraved with levitation runes are laid flat and aligned in the air. Then, a special magic potion is brushed onto the neatly arranged floor tiles. After drying, these floor tiles will be firmly stuck together.
Because of her teleportation magic talent, Sasa Honey has a great sense of space. She can quickly and neatly lay the transparent floor tiles flat. However, she is not very skilled at applying magic potions, so her speed is slow. It wasn't until now that she had found the right feel for it. Therefore, this is the first time she has received this ice grass cake as a reward.
With just a thin layer of honey water drizzled on top, the ice grass cake tasted incredibly sweet. Looking at the ice grass cake in front of her, Sha Sha Mi saw golden honey flowing thickly over the green grass cake and yellow dried fruit, while glistening sugar powder, like stars in the night sky, adorned the surface. The rising chill mingled with the rich sweet aroma, and Sha Sha Mi couldn't help but swallow, already imagining the overjoyed smiles on her family's faces.
The demons in the dungeon had also finished their work. This week, the one who received the ice grass cake drizzled with honey was still the quiet-looking Blackfoot. However, he was quite normal, and the demons were convinced of his abilities. He wouldn't slack off or stop to eat halfway through, focusing solely on digging stones. It was just that he had received it many times, but the demons had never seen him eat the ice grass cake even once, which was very strange.
Along with the ice grass cake, dinner was also delivered. However, Blackfoot looked around while holding the ice grass cake, but still didn't see that familiar figure in the dungeon. He carefully put away the ice grass cake and asked the little one flying in the air with some nervousness, "Anna, will you come to cook again?"
-----------------------
Author's note: ...I was writing a lot today, and my tenosynovitis flared up... I put on a medicated plaster, it's not a big problem.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com