Chapter 364 I Will Marry Her

Although Tang En wanted to be considerate to Barrod, he really couldn't accept it when he saw him eating a mouthful of **** and looking like he was enjoying it.

"Feel sorry……"

Tang En showed a very forced smile: "Mr. Barrod, I'm afraid the food you provided is not to our liking."

"Really? I think it's pretty good."

Barrod chewed a few times and swallowed the beetle in his mouth, grinned, and showed a mouth full of vomit——

Tang En subconsciously covered his mouth.

Barrod curled his lips and said: "You surface creatures are really troublesome. These foods are obviously difficult to collect, especially this **** beetle. Because of its small range of activities and its quick movements, it is difficult to find and collect. After removing the tail and cooking it briefly, you put it in your mouth and bite it lightly, and then the slurry explodes in your mouth. The wonderful feeling is simply indescribable."

If it weren't for the fact that he was eating beetles, Twain would have thought he was describing Beluga caviar.

pity……

"Please stop talking!"

Seeing that Fiona and the others were showing signs of nausea, Tang En raised his hands with a pale face: "I'm sorry, although we respect your customs here, I'm afraid we can't accept this kind of food."

"Hey, I told you earlier, it was a waste."

Barrod curled his lips, and then said to the servant next to him: "Take these things away and send them to the harem for the queen and the others to enjoy."

"they?"

Fiona was surprised. Although polygamy is not a strange thing, but...

"There is usually only one queen, right?"

Barrod said disdainfully: "Who made the rules? I am the king here, and what I say is the law. I am willing to let them all become my queens, then they will be the queens here."

After speaking, Barrod looked at Tang En without saying a word.

"Uh, what are you looking at me for?"

Barrod said matter-of-factly: "Since you don't accept the food I prepared, of course you have food prepared by yourself, so I also want to try the food from the surface world."

He is really quite calm.

"Brother, hurry up and let this fool see our wonderful food. Let him never forget it after eating it!"

Brian laughed proudly and said: "Then when he eats the disgusting food just now, it will be difficult to swallow. Think about how we can eat delicious food at will, but you can only eat bugs here. It feels like It’s so exciting!”

Brian really didn't miss any opportunity to mock Balod. They were both dwarves. Could it be that mountain dwarves and underground dwarves were born with incompatible personalities?

Barrod stared at Brian with a gloomy look on his face. He wanted to block this guy's mouth.

Tang En took out portions of steaming food from his portable space. Before setting off, Marlene and the maids had prepared these in the kitchen. Tang En put them into his portable space while they were still hot. , it will still be warm when you take it out.

Of course, these foods are considered one of Tang En's privileges. The accompanying guard members can only eat various dry bacon and canned food - even so, the food of the guards is better than that of the adventurers. Too much.

What Tang En brought out were some very common foods in the surface world, including bacon made from various livestock meats, tender and juicy barbecue steaks, cheese. In addition to these, there were also herbal smoked eggs (magic eggs) developed by Tang En. Tea eggs), sizzling honey-glazed pork steak, chili scrambled eggs, etc...

Finally, he took out a can of chili that he cooked by himself and paired it with cold beer. It was perfect!

Sniff sniff... sniff sniff...

Seeing Barrod twitching his nose and greedily tasting the strong fragrance in the air, Brian showed a smile that was successful in his scheming.

He proudly unscrewed the hinge of the wine barrel, took a glass of cold beer, took a big sip, and burped: "It's great! It's so hot in this damn place, it's hotter than a big forge! A mouthful of ice. After drinking the beer, I feel great!"

Then Brian showed off: "Looking at you living in such a remote area, you probably haven't even drank beer, right? Is a dwarf who doesn't drink beer still a dwarf?"

After saying that, he grabbed a piece of fat and tender bone-in leg meat and took a hard bite. The fat and tender juice splashed out, and a richer fragrance floated around and penetrated into Barrod's nostrils. Rhodes' throat trembled and he swallowed involuntarily.

He couldn't bear it anymore.

"Screw that damn grace and etiquette!"

Barrod cursed rudely, rushed over to take a glass of beer, then grabbed a bone-in leg meat and took a hard bite.

The tender pieces of meat were torn apart by the teeth and rolled on the tongue. The thick meat juice suddenly exploded and rushed straight to the forehead with a strange aroma.

Barrod was stunned for a moment, and then started chewing even more quickly!

Perhaps he ate too quickly and choked, then he thought about the beer in the cup.

"Gudu Gudu——"

After gulping down the cold beer, Barrod shivered. They had been living in the hot underground world for a long time. They had long been accustomed to this temperature. This glass of cold beer was too exciting for him. It actually made his vision go dark and his forehead hurt.

but……

"Is this the legendary beer?"

Barrod covered his head and savored the remaining taste in his mouth. It had been so long since the underground dwarves entered the underground world. It had been so long that they had completely forgotten their previous life in the above-ground world. At that time, beer even It hasn't been invented yet.

In the underground world, due to environmental and raw material problems, it is impossible to brew beer, so they have not developed a corresponding culture at all.

But as Brian said, is a dwarf who has never drank beer still a dwarf?

This culture was not formed because dwarves like beer, but because beer just suited the dwarves' appetite, so it became one of the main cultures of the dwarves.

Barrod had never drank beer, but after just one drink, he immediately fell in love with the stuff.

It is so compatible with beer, perhaps it has been hidden deep in the dwarves' genes.

Seeing Barrod and Brian competing tit-for-tat over wine, Tang En smiled and took out some iced juice for the ladies.

It is indeed hot here in the Red Grotto, very hot. Think about it, a cave is located next to a lava river, and the entire cave is basically equivalent to a sealed pressure cooker. You can imagine the temperature here.

Tang En estimated that the average temperature here is at least more than 40 degrees Celsius, and normal people will become dehydrated in a short time here.

Those who come here are not ordinary people. The power of the Apocalypse gives them the confidence to fight against the harsh environment, so they can persist here.

I'm afraid Tina is the only ordinary person here, but she is protected by Nora's blessing, so she is safe and sound.

But even so, Fiona and the others still felt stuffy and hot after staying in this environment.

At this time, the iced juice Tang En took out was like a magical tool. One sip made him feel refreshed from head to toe.

The quarrel between Balod and Brian seemed to have come to an end. Although he was strong enough, Brian's title of "King of Strong Mouth" was not given for nothing, so in the end Balod was defeated.

He didn't want to talk nonsense to that idiot anymore, and asked Tang En: "Human, are these the foods you compensate me for? If that's the case, yes, I'm very satisfied."

"No, not these."

Tang En put down his cup, pointed to the cans on the table and said, "This is food like this."

Seeing Tang En put down the cup, Nora sneaked up, got directly into the cup and took a bath in the tea, and then quickly jumped out, still thinking happily in her heart: Huh, let you lie to me, just let me You drink my bath water!

"What's this?"

Barrod grabbed the can and looked over it several times: "It's obviously an iron box."

"This is a can, the food is sealed inside."

Tang En explained patiently: "This is our Ellington's special process. If you use this method to store food, it can be stored for a very long time."

"how long?"

"A year or two."

Because the environment here in Red Grotto is considered harsh, Tang En didn't dare to talk too much.

Unexpectedly, when he heard that it could be stored for one or two years, Barrod jumped up excitedly: "How long!? One or two years!?"

"Yes, this is a conservative estimate."

With a smile on his face, Tang En gracefully picked up the cup and took a sip of tea. "Pfft", Nora covered her mouth and laughed. Tang En glanced at her strangely, and then said lightly: "In fact, if the storage environment Even better, it can be stored longer.”

Barrod's expression was very serious: "Human! Are you sure you didn't lie to me!?"

Tang En understood very well how important a method of storing food for several years without deterioration was to the underground dwarves.

Even for those countries in the surface world, it has huge strategic significance, not to mention the underground dwarves who are short of food during the season change.

Although the underground world still uses twelve months to record the year, they no longer distinguish between spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are simply divided into wet periods and dry periods. If food can be stored in the wet periods when food is relatively abundant, , wait until the dry season when food is scarce and then eat it. I don’t know how many lives can be saved!

Barrod said to Tang En very seriously: "I need this kind of technology!"

Tang En smiled slightly, and sure enough he took the bait.

He put down the tea cup in a leisurely manner and said slowly: "In that case, after I hand over the can to you later, let's talk about trade cooperation."

Once Barrod is taken care of, won't those rare minerals continue to flow into Ellington in the future?

Tang En laughed silently.

"Yes, as the king of the underground dwarves," Barod pointed at Tina and said, "I will marry her. This is my greatest sincerity for our cooperation."

Everyone froze.