Chapter 78 Pearl Farming (First Update)
Russell mentioned that he wanted to develop new pastries.
Mrs. Brown immediately understood: "Master, do you want me to try some new flavors and recipes like Mrs. Moore?"
Now everyone in the manor villa knows that Mrs. Moore has started to develop new dishes under Russell's authorization.
Not only at the castle banquet, one or two strange dishes will appear from time to time.
When the servants' dining room is open for dinner, there will be an inexplicable dish almost every meal. Then Mrs. Moore will wipe her hands with an apron while looking forward to the servants' comments after eating this dish.
Most of the time, the comments are negative.
But occasionally there will be positive comments, so Mrs. Moore happily presents this well-received new dish to Russell.
Of course, there are not many new dishes that can really get Russell's approval.
Only one fish soup with ginger and scallion has been highly praised by Russell. It is a must-have dish for every banquet and has become Mrs. Moore's specialty. It was named "Secret Ginger and Scallion Fresh Fish Soup" by Russell, and he believes that it is comparable to the blind dragon soup.
Charles, Eric and others also thought that the secret ginger and scallion fish soup was a delicious dish suitable for a side dish.
"Not only a new recipe, but also a new style." Russell quickly told the idea of steamed buns.
However, he vaguely knew that the flour needed for steamed buns and the flour needed for bread seemed to be different.
It seems that high-gluten flour is used to make bread, and medium-gluten flour is used to steamed buns.
Of course.
In his previous life, Russell did not know how to steam steamed buns, but only knew how to stir-fry a few side dishes. Therefore, he could only tell Mrs. Brown a rough idea of how to make steamed buns, and Mrs. Brown needed to explore the rest.
"Don't be afraid of waste, try different flours, make the closest result to steamed buns, and then slowly improve it."
"Don't worry, sir, I will study steamed buns seriously." Mrs. Brown responded.
"Okay, I look forward to your research results."
The food revolution needs to be done step by step. Now Mrs. Moore is developing stir-fried dishes in Chinese food, and pasta is handed over to Mrs. Brown.
One day, Russell believes that he can eat a table of hometown dishes.
Mrs. Brown happily went back to steam buns. Russell picked up the book he had put down before. It was a heroic epic called "Song of the Volcano". It tells a legendary story of a dragon knight in the form of a narrative short poem.
About three thousand years ago, there was a heroic knight named Seagroft.
Seagroft was three meters tall. He was abandoned by his parents on the snowfield when he was a child. He was raised by wolves in the snowfield.
He was born with a strong fighting spirit and could fight snow ghosts at a young age.
It is said that he ate countless ice hail beads since he was a child, so he was not afraid of the cold, snow ghosts, and even dared to provoke snow demons. Until he became an adult, he was discovered by a knight group of a kingdom, brought back to the kingdom, and fell in love with the princess.
Russell has read here so far.
But he guessed that the next plot must be that Seagroft is gifted, so he can enter the volcano, save the dying dragon of the kingdom, and then become a dragon knight and live with the princess.
"It's not interesting, just like Old White's book, bland and tasteless." Russell did not lose interest in reading for a moment.
He stood up and left the manor.
The squire knights were all busy. After all, today was the first day for the officials to take office, and there were too many tasks to be connected.
"Woof!" Fortunately, Kevin was guarding by his side, and Russell's safety was guaranteed.
Although Kevin was Eric's contracted beast, it knew very well that it was Russell who saved it, so it was quite close to Russell. In addition, with its improved wisdom, it could clearly accept all kinds of instructions from Russell.
"Let's go, Kevin, let's go to the magic potion village and see how the magic potion is growing." Russell got on the horse and left with Kevin.
Soon they arrived at the magic potion village.
There were many serfs busy in the farmland. After seeing Russell, they bowed and saluted, and then continued to work hard in the fields.
"Not bad, the dill has sprouted."
There were already green sprouts unearthed in the farmland. This kind of magic potion did not need to be carefully cared for. In fact, dill itself was a widely planted spice. Especially when cooking beef and mutton, sprinkle with ground dill to enhance the flavor.
However, magic potion dill cannot be used as a spice, which is too luxurious. It is worth making magic potions.
Knight training requires a huge demand for magic potions.
For example, Russell would take a magic potion that can boil Dou Qi every morning and evening class, and occasionally take a magic potion that can strengthen Dou Qi when meditating - the nobles can use Dou Qi to stabilize their rule, and magic potions have played an indispensable role.
After walking through the dill potion field, the next is the rain flower potion field.
The rain flower has also sprouted.
Then we entered the birch forest, and each birch tree produced a subtle magic breath and was transforming into magic materials.
You can see that many birch tree branches have been cut off.
Then they were taken by serfs for cuttings to expand the area of the birch forest.
In addition, small green fluorescent mushrooms have emerged on the trunks of many birch trees, clusters like ghost lights.
"The symbiosis is pretty good." Russell was pleased.
After making sure that the potions and magic materials were growing healthily, he stopped paying attention and walked to the bank of the Glowing River, looking at the rolling river water.
With the arrival of the warm season, the temperature rose day by day, and the snow in the Glowing River Valley melted, causing the water level of the Glowing River to surge.
"After this period of flooding, the water level and flow rate of the river will stabilize, and we can send people to the river to catch clams." Russell thought silently.
He also planned to artificially cultivate clams to grow pearls.
If pearls can be artificially bred, it is equivalent to contracting a two-legged dragon, which can continuously produce magical pearls.
"It's a huge profit! I just don't know if pearls can be grown, and the output of pearls is difficult to guarantee, but no matter what, I have to try it." Russell rode slowly along the river bank, carefully looking for a suitable location for digging a pond.
Finally, at the junction of Magic Potion Village and Wheat Village, where the Youguang River turns, a depression suitable for digging a pond was found.
"Wait until the slack season to arrange people to dig... No, there is no rush for this. First, dig a small pond in front of the manor villa to experiment how to cultivate pearls." Russell thought about it and felt that he should not be too eager for quick success and start digging without verifying the technology.
If artificial pearl cultivation fails, wouldn't the pond be dug in vain?
"Go back first."
When Charles, Eric, Old Hans and others came to report today's work and have dinner at night.
Russell asked Old Hans: "Who is the best at catching river clams in the manor?"
"If you want to say who is the best at catching fish and shrimp, it has to be Jimmy Pork Ribs. Every year, the Baron sends people to ask for river fish, and I arrange Jimmy Pork Ribs to take people to the river to catch river fish."
"Send someone to call Jimmy Pork Ribs over. I have a task to give him."
"Yes, sir."
A quarter of an hour later, Jimmy Pork Ribs was brought over by Old Hans. He was a thin young man with dark skin.
"Greetings to the sir." Jimmy Pork Ribs had a flattering smile on his face.
"With such a fast river, do you dare to go down to the river to catch river clams?" Russell pointed to the dim light river outside the window.
Jimmy Pork Ribs answered without hesitation: "I will go to catch a few river clams for the sir now!"
After that, he turned around and ran out of the manor villa.
Then he dived into the Youguang River and swam back to the shore in a few breaths, holding two fat river clams in his hands.