Chapter 833 Extra Chapter: Fucheng Past Events Cooking Fresh Food

Chapter 833 Extra Chapter·Fucheng Past·Cooking Fresh Fish

The former Lord of Fusbyro and now the Emperor of Demacia, Her Majesty Laxana, once said that governing a big country is like cooking fresh fish.

For Zeke, who has been running a restaurant in Fusbyro for 20 years, this metaphor is a little abstract, and he still cannot understand the connotation.

But this did not prevent him from showing a knowing smile when he heard this sentence for the first time - as a former professional chef and now a professional catering manager, in Zeke's view, the three towns of Fucheng may be the big pot used by Her Majesty Laxana.

Whether it is the Freljord barbarians who trekked from the land, or the wealthy merchants who came by boat from the sea, or the local tyrants in the North, the upstarts of Fusbyro... These people are like ingredients from all over the world. Driven by various reasons, they came to Fusbyro and took the initiative to throw themselves into this hot pot.

Then, under the stir-frying of a pair of invisible big hands, they soon got the taste of Fosbyro.

Jike thought that he was still a little bit behind the "ingredients", even though his Jike food stall was already famous, but in his opinion, he, a commoner, should be regarded as the spices rolling in this big pot.

Although it looks inconspicuous, it is the source of taste.

Jike still remembers when he just became a cook.

When he first set foot on the land of Fosbyro, Fosbyro was the only city among the three towns of Fucheng, and Jike was just a poor chef who came from Miyin City with nowhere to go.

The reason why Jike, who claimed to have good skills, was desperate and down and out at that time was mainly because the master he used to serve was gone - his father, Old Jike, was once the chef of Codora Crown Guard's family. Mr. Codora was also a very respectable one among the nobles of the Crown Guard branch of Miyin City. As the chef of his family, Old Jike was also a person who had seen the world among the common people.

As a result, Kike, who often helped in the kitchen when he was a child, also saw a lot of nobles' pomp when he was still a child.

Unfortunately, Mr. Kodora was killed on the spot by Lady Laxana who returned to the Secret Silver City for patrolling because of collusion with the wizard and deliberate loss. Later, most of his branch's industries were confiscated. Although old Kike was not implicated, he also lost his stable and decent job.

Fortunately, his skills were still reliable. After losing his job in the inner city, he simply gritted his teeth and borrowed money to buy a small shop in the port area, specializing in restaurants.

Kike, who was not yet an adult, still worked as a kitchen helper in the family restaurant, but this time his work was obviously more, and the quality of his cooking was also reduced.

The nobles are the ones who never tire of fine food. The roast pork must be a suckling pig that has just turned one month old. The sauce is dazzling at first glance. The tableware must be exquisite and beautiful. However, in the restaurants in the port area, these seem to be less important than the size of the dishes and the taste.

In the port area, even if the common people are entertaining guests, they don’t have the time to sit down and enjoy the banquet like the nobles. Unlike the noble banquets that take a whole day to prepare for three or five days in advance, in the port area restaurant, Kike is only busy at mealtime every day. After the mealtime, the work in the restaurant is mostly just washing and picking vegetables.

Kike’s mother loves her child, so she usually doesn’t let him sit in front of the well every day. In these free time, Kike sometimes follows his father, Old Kike, to learn various cooking methods, and sometimes sits at the door and watches the merchants coming and going in the port area.

Miyin City is an important town in the North and an important commercial city. Zeke likes to watch different people passing by the door, not only to attract customers, but also to observe the outside world through them.

In this way, in the alleys of the port area, Zeke grew up day by day, and slowly reached the age of getting married and having children - however, before his parents completely paid off their debts and before they had time to ask someone to match the daughter of the pork shop next door, the battle of Miyin City broke out.

The flood flooded the port area.

Although Lord Laxana provided timely support and fought a brilliant battle in the end, Zeke's restaurant was completely destroyed.

Zeke's parents were also submerged in the waves, and only Zeke survived.

The money owed for the restaurant was only a few installments away from being paid off, but Zeke couldn't even take out a copper coin. Faced with the contract offered by the loan shark, which was called deferred repayment but was actually a contract of selling his body, Zeke finally did not press his handprint, but sold the shop cheaply, and then simply joined the team going to Fosbyro.

It is hard to tell why he made this decision at that time - maybe he was unwilling to accept the contract to sell his body and lose his freedom, maybe he had longed for the outside world since he was a child, maybe he wanted to escape from the sad place of Mithril City, or maybe he subconsciously believed that Lady Laxana could bring changes to his life.

In short, Jike carefully and closely carried the gold coins from the exchanged shops, followed the team of the Northland Walkers, left Mithril City, and came to Fosbyro.

On the way to Fosbyro, Jike also had regrets - he always thought of those small foreign merchants who were bullied by locals in the port area, and therefore worried that he would not be successful in Fosbyro.

Being a foreigner is not an easy thing.

However, after arriving in Fosbyro, Zeke was pleasantly surprised to find that the city was much warmer than its climate.

Because of his good cooking skills, Zeke's first job in Fosbyro was to cook for the Archons. In the public canteen, he worked for five years, eating oats one meal and oats the next.

Apart from work, Zeke met many Archons in Fosbyro. These people who used magic were very interesting in Zeke's eyes. They came from all over Demacia and came together because of Lady Laxana.

When he was free, Zeke would chat with the Archons and learn their stories from them. After getting familiar with them, some Archons would ask him for help to deal with some of the "mountain and sea delicacies" they collected from various places.

He got up early to cook a big pot of oatmeal porridge, bake the coarse bread in the public canteen, and then prepare other dairy products. After everything was done, he and his colleagues would pick up the ingredients and prepare lunch.

After the lunch stalls finished serving food, Kick would take a nap and then prepare for dinner. After dinner, he would often help the law guards and have a late-night snack.

This life lasted for six years.

In the past six years, the scale of the public canteen has expanded a lot. In addition to the law guards, there are more clerks and students who come here to eat. Kick's colleagues have also increased a lot, and even a few law guards have chosen to work in the public canteen.

In the spring speech of the eighth year of the Fosbyro calendar, Lord Laxana said that Fosbyro was ready to accept more people. Since the ninth year of the Fosbyro calendar, immigrants from the north have poured into Fosbyro at a visible speed.

Kick, who was already 25 years old, gave up his job as a window supervisor in the public canteen. He believed in Lord Laxana's promise in the speech and bought a storefront in the Xinfucheng community, which was still unoccupied, and once again put up the sign of Kick's food.

Lord Laxana really didn't lie.

Just after the beginning of spring that year, immigrants from Miyin City moved into the community. With their familiar local accent and the old craftsmanship of Miyin City Port, Jike Cuisine became the most popular restaurant in the community.

Compared to the time in the public canteen, it was undoubtedly harder for Jike to run his own store, but the profit was considerable enough - although the outsiders in Xinfu City were a little stingy, they still had to eat!

However, Jike was obviously not satisfied with this achievement, especially after he fell in love with a girl who was also from Miyin City.

Although his assets were enough to marry the other party decently, Jike thought he could save more to make the wedding more glorious.

However, before Jike made all the preparations and formally expressed his feelings, the girl who often ate in his store and always praised his good craftsmanship with a smile sent him a wedding invitation.

The moment he saw the collective wedding invitation, Jike was struck by lightning.

Even now, when many residents from the old community of Xinfugang in Miyin City talk about the collective wedding at that time, they will shake their heads and say it is a pity, because they did not get to taste Kike's craftsmanship at that wedding. Kike could get sick at any other time, but he got sick at the collective wedding.

But only Kike himself knew that he was not sick at all that day. He just closed the shop for a rare occasion, wrapped himself in a coat and headscarf, ran to Xinfugang, and got drunk facing the sea.

Even if this was just a one-sided love that ended in vain, it was also a transformation for Kike.

After coming out, Kike devoted all his energy to work, and Kike Food officially opened a branch in the next community - in five years, Kike Food opened seven branches.

Unlike chain stores, Kike Food in different communities has completely different styles, but the same thing is that they are very suitable for the tastes of residents in the neighborhood.

Of course, although Kick's food bears Kick's name, he cannot take care of seven branches by himself. These stores are mainly in name only. As a "local snake", Kick applied for special talent recruitment qualifications from the clerk and recruited skilled chefs from immigrants, so he opened many stores.

When the fourteenth year of the Fosbyro calendar arrived and the northern trade became completely hot, caravans from all over the Runeland appeared in Xinfu Port. After listening to the spring speech, Kick sold all the shares of his store, and then came to Xinfu Port with thirteen ice gold coins and bought a gold store.

After years of accumulation and precipitation, Kick's craftsmanship has already reached a certain level of success. Kick, who often chats with people from all over the world, has an eloquence that ordinary chefs do not have, so this time he took in a group of apprentices, and after operating at a loss for more than half a year while testing the operation and teaching students, he finally put up the sign of Kick's food stall.

Unlike the civilian canteen before, this Zeke Food Stall focuses on business banquets. Although there are many professional, Demacia aristocratic restaurants in Xinfugang, these restaurants are often not very suitable for the habits of outsiders, and the complicated Demacia etiquette will make merchants from all over the world feel uncomfortable.

But Zeke Food Stall is not like that.

Although they also use aristocratic silver tableware, there will be no servants frequently placing the tableware on behalf of the diners during the meal, and there will be no strict wine configuration. While retaining some of the style that is easy to accept, the main feature of the Kick's food stall is "to allow all diners to enjoy the former aristocratic food of Demacia without restraint."

It is precisely because of this feature that Kick's food stall stands out among a large number of restaurants, relying on the customer base of Xinfugang, and its business quickly became popular.

As a chef, Kick gradually developed in the direction of administration, while making a lot of money, he also gained his own love.

In the fifteenth year of the Fosbyro calendar, the 31-year-old Kick finally got married. His wife was not from Miyin City, or even Demacia, but a girl from Baru.

Although this girl has tattoos that are beautiful and noble in the eyes of the Baru people, most Demacians find it difficult to accept. Although her light brown skin is completely different from that of the Demacians, Kick and her soul are quite compatible.

They all like to know about the outside world, but Zeke likes to listen to stories, while his wife Sereya prefers to go and see for herself. However, after she finally saved enough money to go out and see, and really boarded the ship to New Port, she found that she was severely seasick. When she arrived at New Port to rest, she gritted her teeth and was picked up by Zeke.

In the winter of the second year, Zeke had his own child. Compared with ordinary Demacia children, his child's skin color was slightly darker, but his hair was the dark flax color that Demacians liked most.

Not long after his child was born, Sereya's parents also came to New Port. At this time, Zeke knew that his wife had run away from home. She even lied about her age. She was only 19, but she insisted that she was 23.

Sereya's parents were both devout believers of Nagakaboros. In order to appease the angry father-in-law and mother-in-law, Zeke donated five ice gold coins to the first Snake Mother Temple in New Port.

Perhaps the Snake Mother sensed his piety. Just when Zeke was regretting that this year's winter speech was not held in Fosbyro and he could not leave to go to Xiongdu to listen to the speech, his son had a slight magic rampage.

After hurriedly asking the Guardian to check, Zeke got a piece of news that surprised him.

His five-year-old boy has a very good magic talent!

The father-in-law and mother-in-law who received the news said that it was the blessing of the Snake Mother, but in Zeke's opinion, it should be the blessing of Her Excellency Laxana.

Zeke, who was dragged by his family to the Temple of Nagakaboros to worship, resolutely refused the request to baptize and tattoo his son. Although he was in the temple of the Snake Mother, Zeke thought of some news he had just heard not long ago.

I heard that Her Excellency Laxana was going to the north in the spring.

I wonder if the Freljord people in Frost Harbor and Glazer Port would be willing to try the fusion cuisine of Demacia and the Blue Flame Islands?

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish - hehe, Her Majesty Laxana can gather people from different places in the three towns of Fucheng. Although I am not as good as her, it should be no problem to cook different styles of food, right?

Her Majesty Laxana governs a big country, and I cook small fish!

I heard that Xiongdu once held a cooking competition... I can't fall behind!

The competition between the two sides is so exciting, today I will update a chapter of Fucheng's past!

It is quite interesting to look at the development of Fosbyro from the perspective of an early immigrant.