Albert is still missing, and I don’t know where he went.
The mother had finished eating and carried the yawning little chubby boy upstairs first. It was said that little Booker had a lot of fun playing with the girl next door in the afternoon and refused to take a nap. Now he is starting to feel sleepy.
My sister Angelina has also finished eating. She moves very quickly and is cleaning the dishes and other utensils used for dinner in the kitchen. This is why Claude likes his sister very much. She is so sensible and well-behaved. You must know that she is
At the age of twelve, I already knew how to help the family with housework.
My father was leaning back in his chair very comfortably, smoking his after-dinner pipe, as if he was thinking about some major national issue and his philosophy of life.
Claude put down the silver knife and fork in his hand, picked up the off-white linen tablecloth folded into small squares on the table and wiped his mouth. He finally finished eating. Well, in the evening, my mother stewed a pot of beef bones, which should be from
I got it cheaply from the butcher, but this is also Claude's favorite dish, but it takes time to chew the bones, so I finished it last.
After clearing away all the dishes on the table and sending them to the kitchen for his sister to clean, Claude returned to the restaurant and prepared to talk to his cheap father about business.
"Father, we have a holiday tomorrow on Friday afternoon. Ike, Boa, Vero and I plan to go fishing in Lake Beringa. We have rented old Sonny's small single-sail fishing boat. We will camp on the lake in the evening.
Bian, I hope there will be a good harvest. So I won’t go home for the next two days."
There is no way, even if you have decided to take a vacation to Bailuzhou, you still have to find an excuse to hide it from your family. Going fishing in Lake Beringa is a very good reason. After all, you grew up by the lake and it is not far from the sea. Here
All the young men have extraordinary aptitudes.
Of course, it's another matter like the former owner of this body, Little Claude, who fell into an ice cave at the end of last year and became seriously ill and had his body taken away by a time traveler. It's not that the water quality is not good, but that the weather is too cold and the clothes are too worn.
There were too many, and his body was not ready. He fell into the ice cave and suffered cramps. If Vero and the others hadn't quickly grabbed the clothes in three movements, the traveler would probably have no suitable partner to travel through.
In addition, fishing can be regarded as an alternative way to earn money. The teenagers in Bailu Town find a fishing boat to do chores for a few days to earn a little money. This is a very common thing, nothing to make a fuss about. Like Claude
It is also very common to rent a small fishing boat to fish like this, but it still requires some luck. Because without the guidance of experienced captains and fishermen, it is impossible for novices to find fish nests and fish news on the lake. After all, Beringa
The lake is too big.
Mr. Morsand put down the black mulberry ivory pipe in his hand and looked at his second son: "Are you short of money? Do you want to learn how to work as a fisherman?"
Claude nodded: "Yes, I bought something, and now I owe Boa, Ike, and Vero some money. So I hope to use these two days of vacation to catch some fish. If I'm lucky, I should
I can pay it back right away.”
"How much do you owe?"
"Not much, just one silver taler and three riaso."
"What did you buy? Where did you buy it? What does it cost so much money?" Mr. Morsan wanted to know if his second son had been deceived. He was only sixteen years old and spent a civilian's strength on it.
To buy something with a month's income, if he is really cheated, then as the administrative director of Bailu Town, he must come forward and teach those people what the rules are. This is a challenge to his authority.
Claude shook his head: "Father, you don't have to be nervous. I haven't been fooled and I haven't been deceived. I bought it at the old Munch Grocery Store, oh, it's now called Fishing Gear and Boat Supplies Specialty Store. The old store owner
There is a cookbook that Pichak collected when he was still alive. It is made of animal skin and has a history of more than a hundred years. I think it was passed down from a certain noble family.
This should be regarded as an antique cookbook. It is very beautiful and thick in appearance, and contains a total of seventeen delicious dishes. I remembered that my mother’s birthday is next month, so I planned to buy it as a birthday gift for my mother. But the shopkeeper was worried.
Curry offered two silver thalers, and later Boa and Ike helped me negotiate the price down to one silver thaler and three riyals before the deal was completed. They also paid the money..."
Mr. Morsan remained calm: "Go and bring me the recipe to see if it is an antique and is worth the price. I think my father should know better than you..."
Claude then went upstairs to get the magic recipe book.
Now that the diary hidden inside has been copied and deciphered, this magic recipe has no meaning to him. In addition, the content recorded on the last page of the diary and the weird coincidence made Claude
I can't help but have some taboos in my heart. It seems that this magic recipe book is weird. It happened to fall into my hands so coincidentally, and I discovered the secret in it so coincidentally...
Claude now has the idea of getting rid of this magic recipe book as soon as possible. It is useless and troublesome to keep it in his hands. If someone can see the diary hidden in this magic recipe book in the future, knowing this
If you have collected this recipe, you may immediately think that if you can also see the words in this recipe, it means that you have magical talent...
Claude's scalp went numb when he thought of these. When he bought this cookbook, he said that he would use it as a birthday gift for his mother. In addition to the three friends and the owner Vakuri, who knows if they will
Tell others about this. It's okay to keep it for a short time, but if you don't take it out on your mother's birthday, it will make people suspicious.
Why do you treasure this cookbook so much? You don’t cook, so why do you collect this cookbook? Is there any secret hidden in this cookbook?
To a certain extent, the time traveler suffers from mild persecution fantasy. After all, this is a time travel to a completely unfamiliar world, and he suddenly changes from a thirty-year-old to a sixteen-year-old like a child again.
Young junior high school students. Therefore, time travelers are particularly concerned about whether their behavior is abnormal with others, and whether their words and deeds are incompatible. The more entangled they are, the more they think about it, and they often think about bad things.
Fortunately, the time traveler has not reached the level where there are always unscrupulous people trying to harm me. As long as the worries he is entangled with are removed, he will immediately return to normal physical and mental health.
Handing the recipe to his father: "This is it."
Mr. Morsan took the recipe, first put it under his nose and smelled it carefully, then opened the glasses case on the table, put on the pair of glasses that could be used as magnifying glasses, and began to carefully examine the cover of the recipe and the animal skin paper...
…
After a long time, Mr. Morsan finally took off his glasses and nodded slightly with satisfaction: "Vakuri still has the integrity of a businessman. He doesn't like to fool people like those hawkers. This cookbook is indeed an antique, a
Silver thalers and riyals are not expensive..."
"I think so too." Claude agreed: "The main reason is that this recipe book is made of animal skin paper and looks very luxurious and rich. So I guess this may be a ruined territory when the former king restored the kingdom.
The cookbook used for banquets in noble families was scattered outside, bought by merchants and sold to old Munch's grocery store.
It was because of this and the recipes for seventeen delicious dishes recorded in it that I wanted to buy it as a birthday gift for my mother. I thought my mother would be very happy when she saw this recipe book that day.
"
Claude made a move to grab the recipe book placed in front of his father. As he expected, his father reached out and held down the recipe book.
"Cough, cough..." Mr. Morsant coughed twice first, and then shook his head at Claude: "Claude, as a parent, we are very pleased that you have such filial piety. It's just that you are still young, and you don't have
As an adult, you have no financial resources, so we won’t ask you to buy expensive gifts for your birthday. As long as you have that kind of intention, it is enough.
This cookbook is indeed a good birthday gift for your mother, but it is an antique. It would be too wasteful to keep it in the kitchen for your mother to learn to cook, and it will easily damage the cover and cover of the cookbook.
Animal skin paper. So I decided to store it in the study for safekeeping. Of course, if your mother wants to learn cooking, you can copy it again. For your mother, the recipe you copied by yourself is a more meaningful birthday gift.
.”
"But father, I still owe them money for this cookbook..." Claude looked very unwilling.
Mr. Morsan took out his black deerskin money bag with gold rims from his arms, reached out and took out two silver thalers, thought for a moment, put back one, and then put the remaining ones back.
The silver taler is placed on the table.
"Let's see, your recipe book cost one silver taler and three riyals. I'll help you get one silver taler, and the other three riyals will be used as the money you spent to buy a gift for your mother. Then you can use it to buy a gift for your mother."
If you copy this recipe book again, wouldn’t it be a birthday present for your mother?”
"That's okay..." Claude fainted. At this moment, he had a profound personal experience of his father's stinginess.
"But I also need to buy a better notebook and cover paper to copy the recipes! I don't have any money..." Claude looked at his father aggrievedly.
"Didn't I give you two riaso for buying books two days ago?"
"I bought a sterling silver hairpin for Anna and four pirate doll toys for Little Booker. They have been spent long ago."
"Look at you..." Mr. Morsang sighed deeply and reproached him earnestly: "For such a big man, he spends money randomly without any plan. He just thinks about it and comes up with it.
Buy whatever you want. Anna is still young, why would you buy her such expensive hairpins? A few Sunar copper hairpins will do. And little Booker, his toys will either get tired of them or break after a few days. There is no need.
Always buy him new ones.
I know you always love and care for your younger brothers and sisters, but don’t spoil them like this. The money I gave you is for you to buy books, not for you to buy gifts for them. Think about it carefully, it is fun to spend money, buy
Your younger brother and sister are also very happy to receive the gift, but where are the books you promised me to buy? You must do what you say, and you can't go back on what you promised. This is the most basic quality of a man..."
Claude finally understood that his father had already known where he spent his money, and this was just an opportunity to teach him a lesson.
"Forget it, just one silver thaler." Claude muttered: "At worst, I will go fishing in the next two days. If I am lucky, I can sell it for a big price, and then I will have enough money to buy books.
Just do what you say, I’m not saying I won’t buy books.”
"Oh, you are just stubborn." Mr. Morsan took out another riaso from his wallet and said, "It's not that I don't want to give you another silver thaler, but with your current temperament, after you have money, you will most likely
Just buy whatever you want, without any concept of whether you should spend money or not. When you have no money, you will know to ask your parents for it. If this continues, not only will you fail to develop the habit of frugality, but you will become accustomed to spending money.
Become a loser.
My salary of three silver thalers a month only earns one riyaso a day. It is not easy for parents to make money, so you are willing to spend it on your children. But I still hope you will know how to cherish money. There is no need to spend it decisively.
Flowers, you have to plan your shopping...take this Riaso, just think that I have worked all day in vain..."
Claude curled his lips, reached for the silver and copper coins on the table, and said to himself: "Don't think that I don't know that you have other ways to make money. Our family would have starved to death just relying on your civil servant's monthly salary."