However, Corvinus still became nervous because Agif seemed to fit his criteria for a wife, so her father might just be his future father-in-law. Meeting the father-in-law for the first time, Corvinus couldn't avoid feeling anxious.
"I told my father, and he said he wanted to meet you," Agif said.
"If you impress my father, you can take me home as your wife," Agif cooed with a smile.
"This is too fast. We've only known each other for five or six days," Corvinus thought to himself. Deep down, his personality from the previous life still influenced him. The idea of discussing marriage after just four or five days felt a bit too quick for him to accept.
"What do you mean too fast? I've taken a liking to you, and you to me, haven't you?" Agif stared into Corvinus's eyes and asked.
Although this man seemed to be annoyed with her, she intuitively sensed that he was gradually starting to care for her.
Feeling Agif's gaze on him, waiting for an answer, Corvinus felt embarrassed and quickly turned his face away, focusing on the pot.
"So, you haven't taken a liking to me. Then I won't come here tomorrow!" Agif immediately started walking towards the kitchen door.
"I have taken a liking to you, but there's no need to meet your father so quickly, is there?" Corvinus was a bit hesitant. He wasn't sure whether Agif was joking or serious. After all, she was very straightforward. If she really didn't show up tomorrow, his heart, which had just been stirred, would definitely not be able to bear it.
"Hehe... Hehe... What did you say? I didn't hear you," Agif instantly came to Corvinus, pinching his fluffy ear and asked.
"I have taken a liking to you!" Corvinus said helplessly. He realized that he had truly been manipulated by this woman.
Agif's face instantly bloomed like a peach blossom, and she puckered her cherry-red lips and planted a kiss on Corvinus's face.
"Go away, you're drooling all over the place!" Corvinus scolded with a look of disgust.
"Hehe..."
Tyton and the other three buried their faces on the side. From this moment on, they knew that Agif was the future chieftainess.
"Seriously, it's too early to meet your father now!" Corvinus said very seriously.
He wasn't ready on one hand, and on the other hand, these next few days would be very busy. If he found a market for the maltose, he planned to produce it in large quantities.
Plus, there was the brewing. The fermentation would take seven days, which meant he could start distilling the day after tomorrow.
So, he would be extremely busy during this period. Moreover, in another ten days, he would have to return to the tribe to send some of the gold back, to avoid a shortage of food.
"It's just meeting you once. It's not like I'm going to eat you. What are you afraid of?"
"Moreover, my father is only staying for a few days this time. If you don't meet him now, you might not see him for the rest of the year," Agif said with a smile.
It was funny to think that Corvinus, who was a chieftain in charge of a tribe of nearly four thousand people and known for his authority and dominance, seemed to be afraid of meeting her father. While she found it amusing, she also thought Corvinus was very cute.
Hearing Agif's words, it seemed she really wanted him to meet her father, and her father appeared to be away for long periods.
Why not just meet once?
"Alright then, I'll meet your father tomorrow!"
"Yay, then I'll go back!" Agif immediately jumped up excitedly.
"Aren't you going to taste this sugar?" Corvinus shook his head and asked, seeing Agif's excited expression.
"I want to eat!!"
Time flew by quickly. The sugar water in the pot had become very thick.
At this moment, Corvinus found a few chopsticks and scraped a piece of sugar. It was easy to scrape up a piece.
"Here, taste it. Be careful, it's still a bit hot!" He handed the piece of sugar to Agif.
Then, he also picked three pieces for Cadia and the other two orcs.
"So sweet!"
"So sticky!" Agif looked at Corvinus in surprise. There was actually such a kind of sugar.
"This is called maltose. It's from ancient times," Corvinus also tasted a piece.
To be honest, he hadn't tasted this kind of freshly made sugar for a long time. When he was a child, his mother made it while he ate beside her. From drinking the sugar water to the formation of maltose, he didn't stop eating. That's why he had bad teeth when he was young. But eating the sugar at that time was truly blissful.
Tyton and the other three looked surprised. It was their first time tasting sugar. So this is what sugar is, and it's so delicious.
After the four of them tasted the delicious sugar, they kept picking and eating it from the pot. Corvinus didn't stop them. Instead, he shoveled the maltose onto a wooden plate he had specially made, pressed it flat with a wooden stick, and after it cooled down, cut it into small pieces with a knife.
To let everyone under his command taste it, he had Cadia and the others take a wooden plate of maltose to share.
...
The next day, Corvinus got up very early.
He came to the kitchen early in the morning, cut the cooled maltose into small pieces, and then wrapped several pieces in burlap.
Because he had heard from Agif that her father had two wives, and she had six brothers and three sisters. Apart from two brothers who followed her father back, the others were outside, and as for her sisters, they were all still underage.
That meant he needed to prepare eight gifts.
He originally wanted to buy something else, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't know what to buy. So, he decided to just give eight packs of sugar.
...
"Is this Agif's home?"
Corvinus rode his war wolf, Fenrir, to the Greymane Grain Shop according to the map Agif had given him.
Greymane Grain Shop!
Corvinus looked at the sign of the grain shop. The shop was really large, and the business was booming. There were quite a few people coming in and out.
This was Agif's home?
Since Corvinus was riding a war wolf, the pedestrians around him kept their distance.
"Excuse me, sir, are you here to buy grain?" Soon, an old werewolf from the grain shop politely asked Corvinus.
"If not, please do not stand in front of our shop."
"Actually, do you... do you know Agif?" Corvinus asked.
If this was Agif's family shop, they should know Agif.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, the old werewolf was somewhat surprised and said, "You're looking for Miss Agif?"
"Yes, I am!"
"Why did you come? I was just about to go pick you up," Corvinus had just replied when he saw Agif, her face like a peach blossom, running out.
"It's better to come early if you're meeting your father. It shows sincerity," Corvinus said with a smile.
"Uncle K, this is my husband. Could you take his war wolf to the animal pen and feed it for me?" Agif said to the old werewolf, then pulled Corvinus into the grain shop.
The grain shop was large, but after walking through it and passing through a door, the inside was a completely different world.
"You wait here for a moment, I'll go find my father!" Agif said and ran out.
Corvinus looked around the hall, which clearly belonged to a wealthy family, and realized that the scale of this house was truly large. It seemed to be a complex of buildings.
"You must be Corvinus?" Just as Corvinus was examining the architecture, a very deep voice came to his ear.
He quickly turned his head and saw a dignified middle-aged werewolf looking at him. The aura from the other party pressed down on him, making him somewhat uncomfortable.
Name: Leral Greymane
Age: 51
Race: Werewolf
Strength: Tenth-tier warrior (almost legendary)
...
Holy crap!
Corvinus stubbornly resisted the pressure while activating the system to investigate.
What he saw was astonishing.
A tenth-tier warrior, and one who was just a step away from being legendary.
Were all the people in this woman's family this monstrous?