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Chapter 175 Pickles and the Visit of the Duke of Hell
Chapter 175 Pickles and the Visit of the Duke of Hell
After the harvest day, the enchanted cabbage became the staple food of the residents of Axel. There are many ways to cook cabbage. Broly alone has tried several methods, including cold salad, stir-fry, boiled, steamed, and grilled. Each method produces a different texture and flavor.
What impressed Broly the most was the pickled cabbage, which he hadn't tried yet.
"Broly, go get the salt. Darkness, don't slack off. Go over there and stomp on the cabbage. We need to make sure the cabbage absorbs the salt fully."
In the front yard of the villa, a large square fermentation pit was dug out. On harvest day, Broly caught too many demonized cabbages. In addition, the townspeople also caught some demonized cabbages themselves. As a result, there was no market for the excess demonized cabbages on their side.
To avoid waste, some of the demonized cabbages were put into the underground ice cellar made by Wiz, while Aqua suddenly had the idea to make pickles, so they were sliced and dumped into the fermentation pit used to ferment sauerkraut.
The pickling method is very simple: just mix salt, sugar, minced garlic and cabbage thoroughly.
At this moment, Aqua, with her head wrapped in a headscarf and barefoot, stood on a pile of cabbages, stomping on the cabbages in the fermentation pit with Darkness. It was said that only by stomping out the original moisture from the cabbages could the flavors of salt, sugar, and garlic be infused into them.
However, before the cabbage had the flavor that Aqua had described, Broly was very suspicious that Aqua and Darkness would marinate their feet first, so much so that he would take special care of their legs and feet every time they took a bath.
It's worth mentioning that Master Aqua's calves have a soft feel, and her toes are somewhat shaped like round grapes.
Darkness's calves have some fat covering the muscles, her toes are slightly longer, and compared to Master Aqua, Darkness's soles are more ticklish.
This is something Broly discovered while rubbing Darkness's feet. With just a gentle tickle on the soles of her feet, Darkness's toes would twitch, and sometimes her body would tense up, as if she were enduring something.
On the contrary, Master Aqua didn't feel much. However, her side waist was a sensitive spot. Every time she rubbed it with a towel, if she used a little less force, she would subconsciously twist her body on the wooden bed.
However, because Master Aqua's waist is rather fleshy, it looks like a plump water snake wriggling its waist.
Sometimes, instead of scrubbing vigorously, using a lighter touch to gently brush over skin that doesn't have much dirt can feel more comfortable.
Because this scrubbing technique can cause goosebumps on the skin of the person being scrubbed, which is a condition where the hair stands on end, Broly also named it the "Goosebumps Stimulation Technique".
Compared to this straightforward naming method, there is actually a more elegant name for this approach: "caress".
Unfortunately, this trick only works on Aqua and Darkness. As for Wiz, perhaps because the lich's skin is not sensitive, she is not afraid of being tickled or having her skin gently touched. On the contrary, she needs to be rubbed with a little more force to achieve the corresponding increase in happiness.
While Aqua and Darkness were busy pickling vegetables, Wiz was overseeing the once-deserted magic item shop. Ever since he handed over the sales rights for vitality potions to the succubus shop, the shop had completely returned to its old state.
"So bored~"
Wiz looked at the empty shop and couldn't help but sigh.
She had originally wanted to help with the pickling, but Aqua refused outright.
"I don't want to eat rotten-smelling pickled cabbage."
Aqua's words, as always, hurt innocent liches. Her body didn't smell of decay at all. She didn't sweat or need to excrete every day. The scent of her shampoo could last for a long time after a bath and wouldn't be masked. Even when Broly smelled various parts of her body, he said she smelled nice and there was nothing wrong with her.
However, one thing cannot be denied: the excessive death magic that occasionally overflows from Wiz's body as a lich does indeed rot the bacteria on the cabbage. That much is true.
Wiz was wiping the dust off the unsold goods in the shop with a rag, and as he was thinking about whether to make some items to restrain his overflowing death magic, there was a sudden knock on the door of the magic item shop.
"Knock knock knock~"
"The door is open, the shop is still open, please come in."
Wiz quickly said.
But strangely, the person outside kept knocking on the door.
This forced Wiz to stop what he was doing and go to open the door.
"Hey, Wiz, long time no see."
Standing at the entrance of the magic item shop was a tall young man wearing a strange black and white mask. He greeted the lich lady as soon as she opened the door.
"Hey, Mr. Barnier, what brings you here?"
Miss Lich was somewhat surprised, for the young man before her was none other than the Duke of Hell, known as the Demon with the ability to see a thousand miles.
"Hmm? I came to see you, aren't you happy to see me?"
However, despite being called a demon with clairvoyance, his ability to see far is still ineffective against the lich Wiz, whose strength is comparable to his own. Unless his true form, which resides in Hell, can descend to this world, there are still many people and things in this world that he cannot see through.
"Uh, of course not, I'm just a little surprised."
Miss Lich quickly waved her hand. Although Barnier was a demon, he actually took good care of her. When she was first transformed into a lich and invited to join the Demon King's army, this Duke of Hell provided a lot of help and care.
"Alright, I'm not kidding you anymore. I just sensed the potential for wealth in the contract, so I came over here to take a look."
Barnier walked into the store, sat down in a chair, crossed his legs, and continued, "Wiz, more than twenty years have passed. How much money have you made? Report to me now. I need to know how much money I'm still short of fulfilling my dream."
"Ah, well, actually I don't earn that much. I only have three or four hundred million Eris so far."
Wiz answered honestly.
"Three or four hundred million? Wiz, I didn't expect you to have learned to lie now. You know, for a devil like me, the smell of desire is like a beacon in the darkness. Just from the stench of money I smelled in that room, there's probably no less than two billion in wealth inside, right?"
Barnier pointed to the storage room, which had now been completely turned into a treasury, and said.
"Yes, Mr. Barnier, there is indeed a lot of money in that room, but not all of it belongs to me. Seventy-five percent of it belongs to my two current partners. We run a profitable potion business together."
Wiz quickly explained.
"I see. Then you wouldn't mind introducing your business partner to me, would you?"
Barnier nodded and asked again.
"Oh, Mr. Barnier, would you like to meet my business partner?"
"To be precise, I am after their money, but rest assured, if they are your friends, I will exchange that money for a fair deal."
(End of this chapter)