Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

Chapter 693: Extra Chapter·Past Events in Fucheng·Working Dinner in Xinfukang

Looking at the entire Demacia, the Forsbarrow area should be the fastest-paced place.

Looking at the entire Fosbello area, the people of Xinfukang are the most famous for their industriousness - when the morning light is still brewing, there are people who wake up early and start the day's work for their livelihood.

Among the many morning shift workers in Xin Fook Port, the ones who get up the earliest and are the most eye-catching are the porters at the dock.

When the slowly rotating gear pushed the lever and rang the bell tower in the eighth block, the sound of the bell was like the spring breeze reviving everything, waking up the workers in the block from their sleep.

After a while, the clerk on duty yawned and pressed the button, and the street lights in the neighborhood also lit up along with the bell. Under the gentle light, the dock porters walked densely together on the way to the dock. Densely packed like moving army ants.

At the exit of the block, the leaders of each transport team had already been waiting here with signs. They looked at the surging crowd with burning eyes, keenly noticing the familiar faces among them, and quickly accepted them back into the team. After counting the number of people, Yu took them to today's morning dock.

However, if you think that these morning shift workers and team leaders are the first people to wake up in Xinfukang, you are totally wrong.

When these workers arrived at the morning shift working dock in groups with today's handling tasks, rows of breakfast shops on the temporary commercial street outside the dock had already done all the preliminary work.

The stall selling thick soup is steaming with steam, and the thick soup heavy with oil and salt in the pot is rolling with sticky bubbles, exuding the smell of the sea.

The aroma from the bread stalls is fragrant. Even white bread and brown bread without any fillings have their own special flavor when they are freshly baked.

In Fosbairo, oats were once people's staple food. Now with the improvement of living standards, oats have gradually lost their status as a staple food, but they have left the people of Fosbairo with valuable skills in making mixed noodles. In fact It has been proven that an appropriate amount of oats mixed with wheat flour can provide a good taste for bread.

Although this taste is not as good as the nuts and preserved fruits in the bread of noble men elsewhere, it is also a precious source of happiness for the dock workers.

If these breads are not enough to satisfy you, you must take a look at the cheese stall next to it.

Forsbarrow is not a traditional dairy production area in Demacia, but since Her Excellency Count Laxana came here, dairy products have appeared more and more frequently on the tables of Forsbarrow people.

In the beginning, it was just part of the nutritional subsidy for students.

Later, the various practices of dairy products in the South were gradually accepted.

As the people of Fosbello become richer and richer, their consumption of dairy products has also increased significantly. Although fresh milk is not easy to drink, various cheeses and other fermented dairy products have gradually replaced boiled milk. The resulting animal fat became a delicacy for the Forsbarrow people.

In the past few years, with the promotion and cultivation of Ernuk and Jukar, Forsbarrow's dairy products are rapidly developing in the direction of self-sufficiency. At the beginning, Ernuk dairy products were not very popular due to their bad taste. The market welcomed it, but as the price of Enuk milk fell all the way, the smart Forsbarrow people absorbed the way they boiled animal fat in the past and created a new way of processing dairy products.

This dairy processing method, called cooked milk processing, successfully activated Forsbarrow's dairy industry by artificially adding fermentation catalysts and flavors.

As a result, dairy breakfast stands replaced canned and bulk fermented cheeses as the most important source of protein for porters in the morning.

Like soup, the flavor of Erniuk dairy products at the breakfast stall outside the morning dock is mainly salty, coupled with the natural slight acidity of some fermented products, it is enough to whet the appetite of the still confused workers. .

With thick soup, bread and cheese, if these are not enough to wake up the early stomach, then dried fish and dried meat may need to appear.

Xinfu Port is the port with the highest throughput in Demacia, while in contrast, the Port of Forsbarrow in the north is the port with the largest annual fishing volume in the entire Demacia.

With the support of the Port of Forsbarrow, the price of marine fish in the entire Forsbarrow area has been in a very stable state. However, due to the seasonality of fishing and the cost of transporting and preserving marine fish, most of the time, the price of marine fish in Forsbarrow is very stable. Instead of fresh fish, the Sbero people eat dried and salted fish.

Among the breakfast stalls, there are stalls that specialize in selling dried and salted fish. They are arranged in the downwind corner, because those who are not used to eating fish often cannot stand the taste at all.

But in contrast, those gourmets who like this delicious taste will immediately gather around to refresh themselves.

The stall owner, who spoke with a Freljord accent, held a sharp knife, and his sword skills were superb.

After slicing open the beeswax-like fat layer on the surface of the dried fish to reveal the dark red fish meat, they often only need to pull and wipe it easily, and a thin piece of dried fish meat is dried and cured. The prepared dried fish was sliced.

The dark red dried fish meat is like sawdust cut from fine walnut wood. At first glance, it seems to have nothing to do with fish, but if you get up close and smell it carefully, stick out your tongue and lick it carefully, then you will You will find that this ordinary sawdust can magically bloom the smell of the sea.

It is precisely thanks to the superb knife skills of these old walrus tusk fishermen that every piece of dried fish is very cheap-it is just a taste anyway.

Looking at the entire breakfast stall, the most expensive items are actually vegetables. Fresh vegetables that are so cheap that they are worthless in southern Demacia are in full demand in Forsbarrow.

With limited cultivation area, high soil salinity and extensive frozen soil, the supply of vegetables has always been a big problem in Forsbarrow.

In the past, Fosbarrow's herb collectors would also bring back some edible wild vegetables while collecting herbs, but to be honest, these wild vegetables either tasted bad or were slightly poisonous, and were not the same as those often eaten by Demacians. Compared with common vegetables, it is not even the slightest bit worse.

To make up for this shortcoming, pickles are quite popular in Forsbarrow - or rather across the North.

Just like in this row of breakfast stalls, there are many stalls selling various pickled vegetables. On the stalls, various pickled vegetables are placed in small squares, a dazzling array.

The army of army ants quickly dispersed in front of the breakfast stalls. The porters who gradually woke up under the sea breeze blinked their sleepy eyes and quickly came to their favorite stalls and took out their large dishes or dishes. A bowl of thick soup, or a big spoonful of cheese, then choose your favorite staple food, add some side dishes, no need for tables and chairs, just find an open place and start feasting.

When the morning light appears on the horizon and the dock can start working, the porters who have already been prepared have changed into work clothes and started working in groups for the day.

Eat and drink well and get back to work smoothly!

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There are morning shifts and evening shifts.

Workers on the night shift often start work at noon and finish work in the middle of the night. In the dead of night, they are prone to tossing and turning. Even after a day of heavy physical labor, they may not be able to fall asleep.

Therefore, just like the morning shift workers’ breakfast, the evening shift porters in Xinfukang also have their own working meals.

However, unlike breakfast, which is designed to replenish energy and boost spirits, the theme of the late-night snack at Sun Fook Kong Pier is sleep.

In other words, it’s not so important what you eat as a late-night snack at San Fook Kong Pier. What’s important is having cheap and large portions of wine that won’t give you a headache the next day.

However, in most cases, the wine that meets the above conditions tastes almost boring.

A bit tasteless.

And this is the meaning of the late night snack at San Fook Kong Pier.

The main focus of late-night snacks is salty and spicy, which are affordable and go well with alcohol.

Whether it’s pickled various kinds of mixed shells, or cooked fish with added flavor, or more luxurious, large skewers of fatty meat and fish, they are all the most popular late-night snacks.

Groups of porters often gather at a familiar stall after work. The boss hands them a few cups, and then they themselves scoop wine from the barrel.

While drinking, we ordered food, and then everyone gathered together to talk about what was available and what was not available.

Depending on age, the topics at each table tend to be different.

Younger porters often prefer to talk about women - and, as they talk, they often talk about the textile factory in the north of the city. There are the largest number of unmarried women in the Forsbarrow area, which is the focus of many people's hearts. of "heaven".

There are many energetic young people who will go to the north of the city before going to work at noon, and take the initiative to strike up a conversation with the female textile workers while they are eating at noon. Regardless of success or failure, this kind of strike-up is an interesting topic during the midnight snack.

Of course, it would be even more exciting if anyone could successfully bring their family members over, but considering the time difference between the late shift porters and the textile factory, this situation is rare.

For older porters with families, the topics tend to focus more on family, especially children.

Due to the promotion of compulsory education, Forsbarrow's children also have to face exams - and although exams are a nightmare for children, they are often the best talking points for their parents.

Especially those parents whose children have good academic performance, they can't wait to take out a report card to drink with them. Even if they can't even recognize all the words on it, it doesn't prevent them from drinking two liang with the report card. Pay back the chirping kind.

The history of the past ten years has proven that in Forsbarrow, good grades are very useful - the admission of clerks requires examinations, and many professional subjects require professional study before they can be employed.

Elsewhere, these positions require noble nobles or retired soldiers to hold, but in Forsbarrow, most of these positions are open to civilians!

Although the porters don't actually understand the meaning of knowledge, nor do they really understand the importance of knowledge, they can at least understand what knowledge can bring to their children.

They just want to live a better life, and be more considerate in all aspects, including food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Among these "Xiu'er warriors", the ones with the highest status are undoubtedly the fathers whose children have shown magical talents or amazing physical fitness.

Because this means that their children may have the opportunity to join the Northern Walkers or the Dharma Protectors!

In the eyes of the Forsbarrow people, it is truly bright and boundless.

What’s even more interesting is that since the porter position in Xin Fook Port is the largest job-absorbing position, even within the same porter team, members may come from different places in the north.

Although they are both called the North, there is a big difference between Mithril City and Owendale in terms of customs and language.

Unlike eating in a hurry during breakfast, people often communicate more frequently at the dinner table at night. Dialects with different accents communicate and merge here, and even a pop culture unique to late-night snacks was born.

Compared to the show at the Fossbarrow Theater, the popular culture on the wine table is naturally lower-level, and there are even some content that is not suitable for children. However, with exchanges and integration, many of them are moving from popular to classic.

More and more bards are coming to the night snack stalls in Xinfukang to listen to the news. Compared with those ancient historical books and records that look like noble family trees, these drunkards are boasting nonsense after getting drunk. and singing and dancing, which are sometimes good sources of material.

When the porters have eaten well and supported each other back to their communities, these late-night snack stalls will be collected one by one. After collecting the mess on the ground, some of them will go back to rest, and some will The others were spinning around day and night, setting out breakfast on the stall and waiting for the morning porters.

For outsiders and newcomers to Forsbarrow, Xinfu Port is the "mouth" of the entire Forsbarrow region. After it was built into a trade hub in the north, every cargo ship loading and unloading, Every shipment of goods represents an influx of large amounts of gold coins and countless enviable opportunities.

But for these porters who really live in Xinfook Port and sweat for the construction of Xinfook Port, they do not have such a grand perspective.

What they saw was the morning and evening shifts day by day, the monthly salary payment, more and more gold coins in the pockets, the wife who looked better and better and the brat who was getting stronger day by day.

Although they would also listen to the Spring Lecture and Winter Lecture if they had the chance.

But compared to the data from Count Laxana's mouth, what they really felt were the changes around them.

Perhaps in the eyes of those noble lords, Forsbyro represents the rise of northern power.

But in the eyes of those who really helped Fosbairo rise, they may be doing it for Fosbairo, but for a better version of themselves.

Of course, if you want to ask them whether they support Count Laxana, then they will definitely support it.

However, this support does not come from a wonderful speech, nor does it come from a unique political point of view. They just believe in Count Laxana, believe that she can make the right choice, and believe that she can make Fox Barrow is better, and the people living in Forsbarrow will live better.

If someone wants to cause trouble, they won't hesitate to pump their fists, and that's it.

The so-called peaches and plums are silent, and they are self-defeating.

I haven't been in a good state these past two days (maybe I got excited watching the game), so I'll write a side chapter to adjust.

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