They stayed in a hotel for one night. Looking at the breakfast menu with nothing but dark bread and vegetable soup on it, Fang Tang decided to leave Venoa right away.
On the way back, Jiang Jinjiu haunted a low-level magical beast double-headed cockatrice. It's tail is actually a snake's head, so it has two heads. And the snake head can cast petrified rays. Thanks to the short range and long interval of its rays, Jiang Jinjiu could kill it.
Fang Tang took out the viscera of the two-headed cockatrice, cleaned it, stuffed some mushrooms in the chicken belly, poured some cooking wine and scattered some salt and squeezed a few wild fruits for their sour juice. Instead of plucking the chicken's feathers, he mixed some clay with water to make a mud paste and wrapped the chicken with it. Then he dug a pit and put some dry branches on it. When these branches were burned into charcoal, he put the mud wrapped chicken in it. What's more, he added some branches and large leaves on the top of this chicken, and covered it with mud.
When Fang Tang asked Warren to cover the clay on top of the leaves, Warren was completely lost,. In his thinking, this looked like that they did so much to just bury a chicken.
Fang Tang could tell Warren's confusion, but he didn't make any explanation, but gave him a smile. Then he cut the snake head into a few segments to make snake broth. When the broth was cooked, he told Warren to take that mud ball out. After cracking it gently, he peeled off the dried mud, and the chicken feathers were easily plucked out at the same time. With a strong aroma, the white and tender chicken was unveiled, which got people mouth watering by merely smelling it.
"I thought Beggar's Chicken was made by directly roasting the mud ball on the fire."
"You can roast it on the fire. Because the magical beast chicken is really big, by using this method of burying it in the ground, it could be more evenly and thoroughly heated."
As a low-level magical beast, the double-headed cockatrice is closer to turkeys in its size. A cockatrice is over 5kg, which is too much even for three people. So, they pack up the left parts.
On the way back, Warren would take out a piece of chicken and put it into his mouth from time to time.
"Warren, you would be a fatso very soon if you eat like this " Fang Tang joked with a smile.
While sucking his fingers, Warren said, "Don't worry, Reverend Roy. Fat men only exist among nobles. I have never seen one in poor family. You may not know that in previous years, we only had one meal a day in winter. In order to slow down the hungry feeling, we would lay in bed motionlessly. When I was a kid, I would stuff dried wild fruits in the snow, and then gulped it by imagining that I was eating a bread. When you bite into the dried wild fruit inside, the sweet and sour taste makes you feel like you are really eating some kind of food, then you won't feel hungry."
Seeing Fang Tang's sudden silence, Warren said with a smile: "The situation in our village is relatively good. In the past few years,the noble masters have stopped coming to our village to collect taxes or conscript young people. So,we have enough young labor to do farm work.That's why we could hold a celebration banquet on that day. Thanks to Reverend Roy, we bought so many things in the town, so that we can have an easier winter."
Fang Tang fell into silence because he did not expect that the reason for not having various cooking methods in this world was because the people here can't even have adequate food. In this situation, how could they think about making more tasty food?
"What about other villages?" Fang Tang asked.
Warren sighed, "Each fall, the orcs come to attack the Grey Fortress. Therefore, after the autumn harvest, the overlord of this land would start recruiting soldiers and send them to the Grey Fortress for the battle. If it were not for the mage, I might have been like my father, died on the walls of the Grey Fortress."
Along the way, Tang's mind was weighed down. Although there are also many starving African refugees on the planet, but that is too far away from his current life. Now, he is in a group of people who are under heavy living pressure, sees people living amidst hardships and misery and thinking about what to eat today. But the difference is that its not because that they have too many choices so that these people don't know what to eat, it is because they don't know what they can find. Having enough food is their only and pivotal pursuit.
Even if they worked hard to get enough food, the shadow of the war has also been haunting them. Because they might die in the war far from their hometown someday.
When they returned to the village, the villagers came out to greet them with great joy. Fang Tang brought back two carts of stuff, including salt, sugar, clothes, pots and pans, as well as other necessities. And this takes half of the money that was exchanged with gold and gems.
Old Morgan unloaded the new bedding and clothes with tears rolling down, "I guess there won't be people freeze to death this year."
"This should be a happy thing, old village chief. I believe your life will get better and better. As long as I'm here, I will promise you not to live a starving and freezing life." Fang Tang comforted the old Morgan.
"Thank you, master Roy. Thank you, Mother of Cats and Goddess of Travel. Come, I'll take you to the church being built."
The villagers of Eill Village are very simple and honest. Whoever treats them well, they must show their appreciation for that kindness. Therefore, the young people who finished the autumn harvest have set up a small church for Fang Tang in the east of the village to sacrifice gods.
The drawings were made by Jiang Jinjiu. Because he had built a bar before, he was able to draw some simple construction drawings. These drawings were done based on Fang Tang's idea, who wanted to make the chapel larger, which could hold all the villagers for assembly.
Although this church is simple, it covers a large area, with six rooms. The largest one is a chapel, besides there is a kitchen, a warehouse, two bedrooms and a bathhouse.
In two days, they only laid the foundation and leveled the ground. Even though food is inadequate in this village, building stones are easily available. Because the mage always has stones in his purchasing list, villagers would collect various stones and polish them all year round so as to meet his demand. However, in the past two years, the mage's demand for stones has become less and less. Except house repairing, these stones are just left unused. Now, they can be used to build a church for Fang Tang.
In the next few days, Fang Tang had a leisure time. He not only taught women how to cook, but also taught children how to catch crabs, crayfish, and how to identify what mushrooms and wild vegetables are edible.
Moreover, he would also check the progress of church construction from time to time. He really wanted to give a hand, but the villagers insisted to not let him work. Whereas, Jiang Jinjiu , who was drinking and working together with villagers, had already became a member of them.
Before the church construction was completed, Jona has taken several people to Eill Village preparing to go into the misty forest and look for treasure.
Fang Tang took the opportunity to sell his self-made "Food Buff" juice, which has primary heal effect.
With suspicions, Jona looked at the bottle with fuchsia liquid, "I've seen the healing water with golden color, silver color and even red color, but I have never seen the fuchsia one. You are not a heretic who believes in evil gods, are you?"
"No, I'm a 5th class priest of Mother of Cats and Goddess of Travel. 5th class, okay? And this holy water is made of my exclusive formula, which has a very good healing effect. If you still have doubts, I can give you a bottle for free."
Hearing the word "free", Jona grabbed that bottle of holy water immediately. But she still has some scruples, "Suess, have a try."
A tall warrior carrying a large sword and an axe nodded beside Jona, took the knife from Jona and gently cut his arm. Then he open the holy water and was going to spread it on his cut.
"This is for drinking, drinking!" Fang Tang shouted in a hurry to stop him.
The warrior hesitated a moment, but still drank half a bottle.After that, he was astonished.
"What's wrong? Does this holy water also have a hold effect ?" Jona kicked the warrior.
"It has a really nice taste!" The warrior looked at the bottle as if he was soaring in the fantastic world this taste brought him in.
'Nice taste? Fine, said by a lobby lubber. I have tried dozens of holy water and healing potions since I was a kid, unexceptionally, they all made me want to throw up. Are you seriously telling me it has a nice taste?"
The warrior looked at Jona and repeated it seriously: "Yes, nice."
Jona didn't believe in what he said, she grabbed the bottle and gulped down, "In name of Goddess of Fortune, this is fucking nice."
In this godly world, this bandit lady even dares to use rude words after saying the title of goddess. This also explains why would she be so poor.
"Why did you make such a nice flavored holy water? This makes me want to get hurt immediately." Jona asked Fang Tang with anger.
Whether it tasted good or bad, Suess's injuries healed right after drinking the water. So, this water did have healing effect. One gold coin per bottle is relatively low compared to the price of similar potions on the market. In fact, the main ingredient is the purple berries in the woods mixed with some orange juice brought from the earth.
The orange juice is added to increase the sweetness. Because the "Food Buff" consumes the energy of "Faith in Food", Fang Tang only makes a few bottles. Base on the principle "What's taken from the people is used for the people", he just used the energy of the "Food in Faith", which were generated by the villagers.