my age of magic

Chapter 856 357. Summer Festival
The Summer Festival can be regarded as one of the two biggest annual festivals of the Royal Academy of Magic.

On the lawn of the square in the early morning, when the morning fog had not cleared under the sun, people entered the exhibition area one after another to make the final arrangement of the booth.

I was pulled up from the bed by Noah, and Shirley Newman's personal maid bought a bag of fried fish and French fries from the breakfast stand in front of the college. The three of us ate while walking on the road, and hurried to the booth of the second class of the fire department. come to help.

Some boys and girls in the class came earlier than Noah and Shirley Newman. Several boys carried the iron trough to the side of the booth near the aisle. The iron frame had already been erected here, and the entire iron trough occupied our class. The exhibition area is close to half of the aisle, and the other half is only a gap wide for one person, and the rest is filled with long square tables.

There are more than 20 magic scrolls piled up on the silver tray on the long square table. It seems that they are worried about any mistakes in the magic scrolls, so they have prepared so many fire magic scrolls.

In addition, there were two huge magic sealing boxes on the square table. The girls in the class took out the thighs of chocobos from the magic sealing boxes and put them into a large wooden basin. Start the preliminary cooking of these chocobo legs.

But from my point of view, these girls in the class are all ladies from noble families who have been pampered since childhood. They have no experience in food and cooking. The thighs were all grinning and throwing those expensive ingredients into the wooden basin, splashing pieces of blood.

The girls were worried that the blood would stain their gorgeous dresses, so they all screamed, and every time they threw chocobo thighs into the wooden basin, they wanted to hide away from the wooden basin.

"Heh! Good morning, everyone!" Noah walked up to greet the students, while pulling me to help everyone put the iron troughs on the shelves. Good impression.

One of the brown-haired boys came out of the crowd and greeted Noah kindly: "Noah, why are you here? Help me hang the banner in the class on it later, this student Ji Jia , did you bring a new helper?"

"That's right, Joe, Jijia is my new helper. He is good at cooking." Noah didn't wait for the other students in the class to react, and directly pulled out a magic sealing box from the magic pocket. , placed it in the booth with a 'bang', opened the magic sealing box, revealing the neatly stacked fresh magic antelope legs inside, and said to the students in the class with a smile: "We also brought this for everyone, wait After we sold out the grilled chocobo legs, we invited the whole class to taste 'yangrouchuan', which is very delicious, and Jijia said it is the flavor of the Pai Plateau."

"Hi, Jijia! You are welcome to join us." Joe extended his hand to me friendly and said.

I stretched out my hand and patted him lightly, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed. Those boys gathered around, and everyone started chatting in a hurry. They still looked like me who never participated in class activities. A little unfamiliar, they all said: "I just found out in the final mana test a few days ago that you are actually the student with the highest magic level and the fastest cultivation speed among our freshmen. I thought you didn't like participating in class activities. A lone traveler who is good at cultivation."

I rubbed my nose and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I always missed some good opportunities because of various small things before. You don't think I joined too late, do you?"

"We were just worried that there was not enough manpower."

"of course not!"

"Where is it too late, we welcome you if you can come!"

The boys chimed in.

At this time, a few girls who were processing the chocobo leg meat also came over and saw the newly added magic box of magic antelope leg meat on the ground. With a painful expression on their faces, they complained to Noah: "Noah , don’t you think our place is not messy enough? With so many devil antelope legs, we don’t know how to cook these fresh lamb legs!”

"Everyone, please don't worry. Jijia is a northerner who once lived on the grasslands. Today, let him be the chef to cook these elementary monster ingredients."

The girls in the class looked at me curiously, with a look of disbelief. I followed Noah's words, rolled up my sleeves high, and said to the students in the class: "I was born From a commoner family in El City, Sloitt Province, I traveled with a caravan on the Pai Plateau when I was a child, and I am good at making plateau-style barbecue. If you believe me, let me try it!"

The girls in the class got together and whispered together, and after a while, a girl blinked her big watery eyes, with some curious eyes on her face, and said to me with a smile: "for the time being, we will There is no better note than here, you can try, but before that, in order to avoid completely screwing up this celebration, we want to try your craft first."

After the big-eyed girl finished speaking, she blushed slightly, then waved her hands, and added to me: "Please forgive us for being so straightforward. It's not that we don't trust you, but we don't know you well. People who are obsessed with learning magic may not have much time to learn cooking."

"I will double cherish the trust you have given me." I said with a smile.

The sweet-looking girl with big eyes stretched out her small white hands, smiled at me, and said, "Hi, Jijia, I've known you for a long time, you probably don't know my name yet, my name is Irene."

I reached out and gently shook her soft little hand.

Irene leaned close to me with a smile, and other girls surrounded me curiously. Shirley Newman was also among the girls at this time, and said to me with a smile: "We girls can help you from the side, and you can order whatever you want. We do simple things, but honestly, we're not good at cooking, and the idea of ​​serving delicious grilled chocobo legs to the seniors came from Noah and Joe, and we were forced to step up and take charge of it , Fortunately, you came to help."

I assign some girls to clean the plates and knives, and some to prepare the vegetables on the plate, such as shredded carrots, cauliflower, green peas, etc. It is also necessary to squeeze some vegetable juice and fruit juice, and I also need to assign manpower For a while, I will be responsible for providing food for the guests, collecting vouchers, etc., but these things will completely deploy the girls.

Apparently, the girls in the class hadn't thought about it at all. It was just a simple roasted chocobo leg, and there was so much preparation that hadn't been done.

The girls began to have a little trust in me, talking and laughing while cleaning the tableware and cooking vegetables. It seemed quite easy for them to do these things.

At this time, Noah took out the red copper rune plate of 'Focus Fire' that was rushed out last night, causing the boys in the class to exclaim, and Joe said to Noah in surprise: "Noah, these two pieces Where did you get the rune board? Didn't we agree that we won't use the power of our family?"

"Of course, I always keep this promise in mind." Noah said, while handing the red copper rune board to Joe, "I didn't take this rune board out of the house, this rune board is auspicious. Jia made it by himself last night, he is the assistant of the Yerkes scholar in the Institute of Magic, and he learned inscription making."

"Wow..., Jijia, you still do this?" Qiao screamed, somewhat unexpectedly.

"Is this the problem that has troubled us for a week? Is this the solution?" the boy behind said also a little blankly.

Joe adjusted his mentality, looked at the rune board in his hand, and complained to Noah: "It looks... yes! Noah, you are Jijia's best friend, since you know he has this skill, why didn't you show it earlier , let us rush around for so long?"

Noah shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry, some time ago, Jijia could only lie on the hospital bed pitifully. After he recovered, he fell into the endless final exams. I couldn't find it. It's the right time to tell him about it, but it doesn't seem too late now, does it?"

Joe put the rune plates into the bottom of the oven and said, "Well, that's right. These two rune plates are really good, and they have raised our magic oven to a new level. Using those magic scrolls is really a bit too perfunctory, and it can't be regarded as our unique idea at all."

The boys were discussing around the oven, watching Noah put two pieces of magic crystals into the base of the rune plate gem, looking at each other as the red flame slowly burned from the rune plate, causing everyone to cheer happily.

Noah said excitedly: "If two rune plates are not enough, I can ask Ji Jia to make two more later. This magic barbecue stove finally looks good."

Joe rubbed his hands and said to everyone: "Come on, let's decorate it as beautifully as possible, and hope that some magic merchants will like our idea when we barbecue later."

And I took out a few jars from the magic pocket. These are the barbecue sauces I prepared a long time ago. I usually put them in the magic pocket. I only take them out when I experience traveling barbecue. Classmates came one after another and saw me pouring barbecue sauce into an empty wooden basin, so they came over curiously to watch.

When they learned that I was the chef for this barbecue event, they gathered around and asked, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

While stirring some clear water in the thick sauce, I looked up at the boy in the gorgeous magic robe, and asked him, "Okay, do you have a skinning knife with you?"

The boy was slightly taken aback, and immediately said: "Bring it."

I asked him again: "Can you cut meat?"

He took out the sharp skinning knife with a silver handle and gold thread pattern that he carried with him, and replied: "Of course."

I casually pointed to the bloodshot demon antelope leg meat in the magic sealing box beside me, and ordered: "Then, cut these leg meat into thumb-sized cubes, and it doesn't matter if you find a few more people!"

The boy from the aristocratic family seemed a little hesitant, and said hesitantly: "Fresh devil antelope meat, I thought it was cooked meat...Maybe I didn't cut it properly."

I smiled 'hehe' and said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, anyway, it's our own food!"

The boy blushed slightly, and asked in a low voice, "It's just... is there anything simpler?"

I glanced at the onions, apples, and lemons on the ingredients rack in the corner, wiped my chin with my hand, and said to him pretending to ponder: "Well, let me think about it...you can cut a few onions for me, of course , you can cut it whatever you want, just chop it. It’s best to find a few apples.”

The boy waved his hand excitedly and cheered: "Okay, free play is what I am best at."

After he left, I realized that I seemed to have forgotten to ask his name, but obviously they knew me.

At this time, someone came over and said, "Chef Jijia, please get rid of and arrange something for us! We don't want to watch from the sidelines."

This sentence really satisfies my vanity greatly. Being a chef was the biggest dream of my last life, but unfortunately I couldn’t realize it until I died. comfortable.

I looked up at them solemnly and said, "Oh, can you find some willow branches for me? There are several big willow trees by the lake in the backyard of the college. I need some slender red willow branches."

The few boys said: "I am willing to serve you!" They rushed out of the booth like a wild horse, and rushed to the lake in the back garden of the college like a wild horse.

"Let me cut up those mutton legs, how big a piece of meat do I need to cut?" There was some timidity in the voice.

I looked up, only to find that it was Sampan, but his eyes were full of confidence.

I thought of this black boy from a commoner family in Qiyan City, holding a small knife with a copper handle in his hand. .

Hearing what he said, I nodded, made a circle with my index finger and thumb, and then said to him, "About... it's just as big as it is."

He nodded slightly to me, turned around silently and squatted beside the magic-sealing box full of lamb leg meat, holding the leg of lamb in one hand and the knife in the other, cutting the meat smoothly and skillfully.

I silently soaked the cut chocobo legs one by one in a wooden basin filled with sauce to marinate for a while, because there is not enough time to marinate the meat, so I can only cut the chocobo legs a few times Make a deep hole so that the flavor of the sauce can fully soak into the meat.

All of a sudden, I found myself integrated into the class like this, and this feeling was not bad.

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Every class in the Royal Academy has its own booth, and the magic students spent some careful thought to prepare some small gifts for the seniors who are about to graduate and leave the academy.

The exhibitors who participated in the exhibition also need to prepare some gifts, just like the Yerkes scholar won a larger exhibition area in this academy with the Imperial Magic Academy.

Scholar Yerkes will display two unique magic pattern sets designed by himself, and also prepared some small gifts for this summer festival. It is a kind of armor piece with magic pattern circle, which is not much in number but It is full of sincerity.

However, what makes me quite disgusted is that the armor pieces prepared by the Yerkes scholar were clearly cut out from the leftovers of the spider warlord's armor and carefully polished.The magic pattern circle above is also engraved by my hand, and it is my unique general-purpose earth magic 'petrified skin' magic pattern circle.

And so on, magic potion exhibitors will also prepare some off-the-wall potions and so on.

In short, to get these small gifts, you don't need to spend gold coins or magic crystals, but a voucher issued by the Magic Academy. These vouchers are only valid at the summer festival, and no one will recognize them when they are taken out. These waste papers.

Every fourth-year senior who is about to graduate will receive some small cash vouchers issued by the college. These seniors can buy some favorite things in the exhibition areas of various classes or from those exhibitors.This can also be regarded as a gift from the Royal Academy of Magic to the seniors who are about to graduate.

And those of us magic students who have not graduated, there is only one way to get those vouchers, and that is to prepare something that can attract the attention of the seniors, so that they will willingly take out the vouchers in their pockets.Last night, I learned from Noah that our class is quite sincere in sending blessings to the seniors who are about to graduate this time.

The students in the class even prepared the barbecue of the leg meat of the primary monster Chocobo, and Noah also personally sponsored a box of magic antelope leg meat. Although it is the fresh meat of the junior monster, these ingredients are also worth a lot .

All the students in the class hope to get enough vouchers from the seniors. This is not only an honor, but also represents the summer festival’s careful preparations and is recognized by others. This is also a success, and we You can also use those vouchers to exchange for small gifts in other exhibition areas.

When I put the chocobo legs soaked in sauce on the hot iron grid, the rich aroma wafted around with the summer breeze, and the whole aisle wafted a unique, rich and sweet smell of barbecue.

(End of this chapter)