"I really hope to taste the fish soup you made myself," Mona said with anticipation.

Before, Mona hid around the village and secretly observed the situation in the village. When she saw the villagers eating fish happily, she felt very strange. In her opinion, the fish tasted not very delicious. She prefers to eat sweet and sour fruits. However, when the smell of the fish drifted to her, Mona was immediately attracted by the fragrance and couldn't help swallowing a lot of saliva. She also wanted to join the ranks of the villagers and taste the fish well, but she also knew that she could not do this, otherwise it might arouse the suspicion of the villagers.

So Mona squatted on a big tree and looked at the villagers in the village happily eating fish from afar. She could only watch with her eyes, physically and mentally tortured. Finally, until the dinner was over and night fell, Mona quietly sneaked into the village to find Xiao Chen, hoping to get the cooking method of making this delicious fish soup from Xiao Chen's mouth.

Now she finally got what she wanted. She thanked Xiao Chen excitedly, then ran outside the village and stood next to the river where Xiao Chen had fried fish before.

"Xiao Chen is the jumping fish I caught in this river." Mona looked around and decided that in order to ensure that the fish she made was exactly the same as what Xiao Chen made, all the raw materials must be the same as Xiao Chen's. The jumping fish is a very common fish in the Death Forest. It is basically available in places where there is river water, but in order to ensure the authenticity, Mona only catches fish in this river.

She stood by the river, silently chanting a mantra in her mouth, and then pointed with her hand to the water surface. The water magic followed the trend, and the river suddenly broke, as if something transparent was separated. If Xiao Chen stood here and saw this scene, he would definitely exclaim, "Isn't this the scene in the Bible when Moses led the Jews to escape from Egypt?"

Mona put down her hands and ran happily to the center of the river. Because the river water was blocked by Mona, there was only a river bed left in this area without a drop of water. Many jumping fish fell directly on the river bed because they didn't have time to escape. They looked around in a confused look, unable to believe that the river water was missing.

Mona walked to the riverbed, looked carefully, and found the largest jumping fish. She pointed to the fish happily and said, "It's you, I want to stew you into delicious fish soup!"

The jumping fish happened to see Mona. It bounced up from the ground, then opened its big mouth and rushed towards Mona, as if it wanted to eat Mona as its food!

Mona snorted lowly, then cast the wind-type spell. A whirlwind rose out of thin air, and directly a fish jumping in Jiangnan rolled into the air. Then, he fell heavily to the ground, making the fish dizzy.

Mona pulled out her little dagger and carefully dissected the jumping fish completely, removing the internal organs, leaving only the delicious fish meat. Then, she took out a copper pot from the storage bag, set up a fire next to it, filled the copper pot with water, and according to the method Xiao Chen taught her before, she threw things like fish cigarette scars and vanilla into the bucket, then covered the pot and squatted beside her and looked forward to it.

"When will it be better? I'm so hungry. I want to eat fish." Mona leaned on her chin and looked at the copper pot with a little anxious. Suddenly, she patted her head and said, "I'm so stupid. Why don't you use fire magic to make the flame burn more vigorously, so that the fish will get better faster."

Thinking of this, Mona immediately chanted a spell. The originally small flame became extremely fierce in an instant. Not long after, the water in the pot was boiled by the flames. Then, Mona continued to increase the power of magic to make the fire more vigorously. After a while, Mona smelled a slight scent. She immediately stopped magic in panic, and carefully opened the lid of the pot and was stunned!

"Oh, it's actually burnt," Mona looked at the fish that was covered in the pot, and she was crying. What was the reason? Why did the food not cooked quickly but was broken?

After thinking for a while, Mona then realized the reason. It turned out that the fish meat should be stewed slowly. In order to eat the fish quickly, she used fire magic crazily, which made the flames burn very high. The temperature in the pot suddenly became very high. The water before it evaporated dry in a short while. The fish meat had not been stewed, but there was no water. The fish meat could only be dried in the pot. After a long time, it naturally became muddy.

"Oh, I'm so stupid," Mona stomped her feet in annoyance. She was too anxious, but she messed up the matter. Now she needs to clean the copper pot, then catch a jump fish again, and after cleaning it, she will do it again. This way, she wasted more time. Mona was so angry that she only called herself a big fool.

After finally getting everything ready, Mona started over, packed the fish, poured water, put the seasonings, and then cooked the pot.

This time she learned her lesson and no longer dared to increase the heat. Instead, she slowly stewed the fish bush on low heat, and opened the lid of the pot to see what was going on inside. Although she was getting hungry, Mona insisted on gritting her teeth. She just hoped to eat the delicious fish that the villagers had eaten before.

After waiting for half an hour, the fish soup finally started to boil and the fish meat was cooked. Mona took out her tableware, drooled, picked up a piece of fish meat from it, served it out, and prepared to taste it. When she put the fish meat in her mouth and chewed it carefully, a disappointed expression appeared on her face.

"It seems that the taste is a bit wrong. Why is the fishy smell so strong? It's so unpalatable?" Mona spit out the fish meat in her mouth, and then looked at the pot of fish meat and fell into trouble.

"Why is this happening? I should have followed the method Xiao Chen told me, doing it step by step. I didn't cut corners or forget the steps. I also put all the things I should put. Why? The fish is not fragrant at all?"

As a veteran foodie, she was still impatient. Mona couldn't wait any longer. She immediately returned to the village and came to Xiao Chen's cabin again. She knocked on it a few times. Mona thought to herself, could this guy have already gone to bed? What time is it? Why did she sleep so early?

But she didn't know that it was almost two o'clock in the morning now, and normal people had to sleep at this time, and Xiao Chen was no exception.

But Mona didn't care about this. She cast a spell at the wooden door, a wooden spell - the magic of opening the door. Suddenly, the wooden door opened to the side. Mona strode to the room and saw that Xiao Chen was already sleeping soundly in the bed. She walked over and whispered from Xiao Chen, "Xiao Chen, get up quickly, why is the fish I stewed not as delicious as you? I sent you all the steps. Why is this? Hurry up and help me take a look."

Xiao Chen was sleeping soundly, and Mona was pulled out of the quilt by cold. Xiao Chen was trembling with cold. He asked depressedly, "What are you doing here again? Haven't I told you all the methods? Get out of here quickly, I'm going to sleep!"

Mona curled her lips and said, "You can't sleep, get up quickly, the fish I stewed is not delicious, come and help me see, otherwise I won't let you sleep!"

Xiao Chen was almost crazy. Why is this female elf like this? She was not at all conscious? She asked for her own affairs, used this attitude, and disturbed her rest. It was simply unreasonable.

However, he didn't want to quarrel with Mona. First of all, Mona is a woman. He knows deeply the reason why a good man doesn't fight with a woman. In addition, Xiao Chen now represents the human race, while Mona represents the elves. If the two of them quarrel over some small things, it may affect the negotiations between the two races in the future.

In desperation, Xiao Chen decided to follow Mona to see why her fish tasted wrong.

The two walked out of the cabin. The sky outside was still dark. Xiao Chen was helpless and encountered such an unreasonable female elf. He really had no place to make any decision.

Following Mona to the river, Xiao Chen checked Mona's pot, water, fish, and then tasted the fish and fish soup in the pot, then turned to ask Mona, and said, "Mona, have you put wine in the fish soup?" Mona scratched her head strangely and said, "Why do you want to put wine? I don't like drinking, and I don't have wine on my body, so I didn't put it," Xiao Chen said speechlessly, "The earthy smell on the Tiaoju fish is particularly strong. If you don't put some wine to remove the fishy smell, this pot of meat is really hard to eat and can't be eaten at all."

Mona genius suddenly realized. She thought for a while and said, "Wait for me, I'll come back to find wine." After that, she rode on her own strange bird and disappeared into the vast night.

Xiao Chen was speechless for a moment. The female elf left and left her here, which was simply too unreasonable. He wanted to leave here and go back to his cottage to sleep, but when he thought that Mona came back, he would definitely come to find him. Today he basically didn't have to sleep, so he sat next to him and continued to come back with Mona.

Fortunately, Mona had a very short time to go back and forth. Soon she returned to Xiao Chen. She saw a pot of white wine in a sheepskin bag in her hand, and then shook her hand proudly at Xiao Chen and said, "Look, I have already brought the wine back," Xiao Chen looked at Mona with surprise and asked, "Where did you get the wine?"

Mona said proudly, "There is a dwarf tribe nearby. I went there to exchange for the leaves on my body and a drunkard dwarf," Mona said proudly.

Xiao Chen was very surprised. He said, "Is there a dwarf tribe nearby? Where? I want to go and see it too." After coming to this world, Xiao Chen had only seen elves and orcs, as well as some strange beasts. He had never seen other races, legendary dwarves, goblins, dragon clans, etc., so he was very curious and wanted to see it.

Mona shook her head and said, "The dwarf tribe is very far away from here, and those dwarfs are actually very unreasonable. They look down on you humans. It is just because we elves have partners with them, so they are more polite to me. If you pass by alone, you may be driven out of their tribe by the dwarfs."

Xiao Chen was very surprised. In his impression, the dwarfs should be a very hospitable race, so how could they be so savage? He didn't even welcome his visit and would drive him out, which sounded a bit surprising.

Mona said: "This is normal. The dwarves in the Death Forest are all very savage. They are distant relatives of the dwarves, and the dwarves with truly noble character live in the castle."

Xiao Chen was even more interested and asked, "You seem to know a lot about this world after listening to you. Can you tell me? I'm very curious."

Mona smiled and said, "Okay, I can tell you whatever you want to know. Don't look at me as young as I've lived for more than 300 years, but I've been to many places and seen many people and things. I believe I can bring you a lot of interesting news."

Xiao Chen nodded excitedly and said, "That's so thank you."

"However, you must help me stew this pot of fish soup first, otherwise I won't tell you," Mona said with a naughty look and said, sticking out her tongue.

"Of course," Xiao Chen took the wine bag from Mona's hand, pulled out the plug and smelled it. A strong smell of alcohol rushed into his nose, choking her a little coughing. Xiao Chen had never drunk white wine, but he also knew that ordinary wine could not be so pungent. This kind of smell must be a very high-grade strong wine, which is probably not much different from alcohol. The legendary dwarves love to drink strong wine, which does make some sense.

Xiao Chen slowly poured the liquor into the fish pot, then re-fired and boiled. After about 10 minutes, Xiao Chen tasted the taste again and sprinkled some salt. It felt almost done, so he asked Mona to taste it. Mona looked around and couldn't help but spit it. When he heard that the fish soup was finally ready, he hurriedly picked it up and tasted it carefully.

"Wow, it's really delicious," Mona's first sip of soup, her little eyes bent into crescent moons. She smiled excitedly, "Xiao Chen, you are so awesome, why can you make such delicious food? Can you make anything else? Tell me quickly, I want to learn cooking skills from you, and wait until I get back to the house and make it for my mother."

Xiao Chen nodded and smiled, "Actually, I don't know much, but I can tell you if you want to learn."

Mona picked up the tableware and ate the fish meat and fish soup in the copper pot like a wind. Then she looked at the jumping fish in the river with some eyes and said, "I haven't eaten enough, I really want to make another one."
Chapter completed!