I looked at the kitchen, because in the past few days, Raven has eaten several flavors of food, either too salty or too salty.
He also knew that there was no dedicated cook here, which meant that any stable cleaner could just wipe his hands and chop in the kitchen to prepare delicacies for the knights.
So, he wanted to change it. Is it possible that such a territory with hundreds of people couldn't even support a dedicated cook?
"This is the kitchen?"
Raven smelled the strange smell here and looked at the flesh, blood and vegetables mixed together, as well as some green fruits inside, packed in the same container.
If there are no accidents, everything they eat is made from these, including fruits.
"Yes, this is the kitchen."
Raven was silent for a moment, "Someone is usually doing it, please call them all over."
After the butler's operation, four or five people gathered here one after another. They were uneasy and didn't know what had alerted the butler and the knight.
"Tell me how you usually cook." Raven waved his hand to soften his voice and let one of them speak first.
The man was pitch black, with a layer of dirt accumulated on his skin, and he was so cowed that he couldn't speak.
After everyone had explained a little bit, Raven waved his hand and asked them to leave.
"Let the younger civilian girl be the cook from now on. She still knows how to rinse it with water." Raven explained.
The commoner girl was not pretty, and had several broken teeth. She was skinny and had yellow hair, but she was taller among the short ones. Among all these people, she was the only one who had some potential for success.
But that's only if my thinking is not completely rigid, I can still be saved, and I can listen to what I say.
Then, it is one thing to specify that the other party is the cook, but it is another thing to know how the other party cooks.
Raven deeply felt the difference in this era. The upper class and the lower class were not in the same civilized era at all.
"By the way, I'll cancel the other things for her and give her an additional cleaning task."
If you want to manage, then manage it to the end. Raven wrote down this matter. He will come here in person in the afternoon. At least the knights can have the same taste in every meal.
The territory here has been basically abandoned by him, and the civilians outside can just let them be. There are still many problems that need to be reformed even within the Lord's Castle.
"No problem, Lord Raven."
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That afternoon, Raven personally went into the kitchen and set an example with his actual actions. He washed the iron pot and the black dirt that came out was as expected.
Then I sharpened a kitchen knife that was more like a machete, washed the fresh meat, chopped it, and boiled it in a pot. Then I chopped wheat, put it in the pot, added water, cut vegetables, and cut fruits.
In this era, people don’t like to eat raw fruits. They have to cook them in a pot, so just treat them like fruit porridge.
Not long after, a slight smell of food came from the smoke-filled kitchen, and Raven gestured to the restrained cook.
That's it, understand?
The cook shook her head, looking like she really didn't understand much. Due to the knight's terrifying oppression, she had to seriously use her barely used brain and try hard to remember Raven's steps.
Raven was not discouraged, it didn't matter, he was just a little stupid, he just needed to teach him a few more times.
That afternoon, the knights who were eating looked behind in confusion. The taste was, well, not bad.
If you ask them to say it, they probably won't be able to tell you anything, but I feel like this is better.
The Viscount took a sip and sighed slightly. Who else could use this skill besides Knight Raven?
When the butler spoke to him before, he had criticized Raven quite a lot. Didn't he agree to build a large territory? Why did he take care of food again?
Looking at it now, it is indeed time to take care of it.
In the following time, the knights seemed to have forgotten about the Rock Demon. After all, the opponent did not rush out to cause wanton destruction.
Through the investigation of the sentry, it was found that the opponent had completely settled in the dense forest, burning out a large open space in the surrounding mountains. It had eaten a lot of soil, and the ground was dented.
Raven rode a horse and ran across the wilderness with two attendants, looking at the rivers here, the mountains there, the dense forests here, and the shrubs there.
Every day when he returned, Raven would get a stack of paper from the housekeeper, scribble on it and hang it on the stone wall.
It was a map that was getting bigger and bigger, with mountains and rivers all over it. Where was the grassland and what kind of grassland it was, were clearly marked.
During the day, Raven would run outside, or supervise and teach the cooks and others in the Lord's Castle. The Viscount would take advantage of his absence to patrol the dim map full of ambition, like a king.
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In the evenings, Raven would continue drawing and highlight local features.
There is a saying that the Viscount's territory is barren enough in a sense, but it is indeed large enough.
The plane of New Philot is very large, and the area of the earth is larger than the ocean, so there is a lot of land that can be lived in, but many races have also divided a lot of land.
Although the land left for human overlords is only nearly half, it is large enough compared to other races.
The kingdoms that stand in the forest are large or small. The largest Emerald Kingdom is twice as big as the Second Kingdom. The remaining Third Kingdom is the kingdom at their feet, occupying a corner of the entire human land of New Philot.
After all, there are hundreds of kingdoms on this continent, large and small, strong and weak.
This was all established since the beginning of the War of Gods. Over the years, apart from divisions and mergers, no kingdom has ever truly perished.
Of course, this is also related to the rules set by the God of Nobles. After all, his priesthood is the foundation of the kingdom. He does not allow one kingdom to destroy another kingdom. You can attack and occupy it, but you cannot destroy all his bloodlines.
Seeds must remain.
According to legend, there once was a powerful king who wanted to kill all the blood descendants in a certain kingdom, but the Holy Spirit was sent down by the God of Nobles to stop his crazy method.
It's like the blood of the nobles is so important to the God of Nobles that he treats the nobles of every kingdom equally.
All lands and resources can be occupied, but the blood of the kingdom must be passed on.
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On the thirtieth day of Raven's trip, his last map was pasted on the wall. The dense and twisted lines represented a lot of information, including possible minerals and special productions. This information was all displayed in unobvious patterns.