Chapter 86 Zeref's Purpose
Building the three-story stone house (small Western-style building) went very smoothly, as Taylor and Summer found limestone on the mountain.

After several days of hoarding stones, the total number reached one thousand. Samo then began to lead the older males in building stone houses.

Ophelia only needs to cook for Summer and Zeref every day, and she is free at other times.

As soon as Ophelia has some free time, she plans to put the breeding of prey on the agenda.

The first thing to do is to build a pigsty.

Taylor was very good at doing things with his hands and quickly built a simple pigpen using the scraps from building the stone house.

"Taylor, your cooking skills are pretty good." Ophelia looked at the pigpen and nodded with satisfaction.

The pigpen is surrounded tightly with stones, up to a person's waist height, to prevent the piglets from jumping out. Taylor also thoughtfully left a wooden door on the pigpen for easy entry and exit.

The pigpen is not big, only about 30 square meters, which is more than enough to raise a few piglets.

She studied the farm space and found that it takes five months for piglets to be raised outside before they can be slaughtered, meaning they can be eaten.

This is a far cry from the 5 days at Farm Space.

However, she is doing this for outsiders to see. As long as she can make her reputation for breeding prey known, no matter how many prey she takes out in the future, it will not arouse suspicion.

The next day, Ophelia followed Taylor up the mountain under the pretext of finding some fresh ingredients. When it was time to cook at noon, they brought back two pink and tender piglets.

Of course, Ophelia bought them in the mall, and she specifically bought one male and one female.

As soon as the little piglet entered the pigpen, it sniffed around curiously and began to hum uneasily.

The noise quickly attracted the attention of the Fu tribe members, and the young females and males gathered around.

Maya and Zeref also walked to the pigpen. Maya looked at the two chubby little piglets in the pigpen with some curiosity.

"This is?"

Ophelia took the peeled leftover leaves and fed them to the piglets. "This is a little piglet."

Maya touched his chin and asked in confusion, "Where did you get this little piglet? I've never seen a piglet of this color before."

"Taylor and I just caught them in the mountains. It took us a lot of effort to catch them. The color is quite strange, but tigers all have white or yellow fur, so this color is normal."

The little piglet snorted: Don't put the blame on us.

"But there's not much meat in such small piglets. Why bother catching them? You might as well ask Taylor to catch a wild boar for you."

Zeref glanced at the pink piglets in the pigpen and said indifferently, "If you want to eat, I'll bring it to you tomorrow."

Ophelia waved her hands repeatedly, "No, I don't catch them to eat, I catch them to raise."

"I've always wanted to try raising game animals, so the males don't have to go up the mountain to hunt every day. Adult game animals are wild and difficult to tame, so I thought small piglets might be easier to raise."

Before the Beast World, there were people who tried to raise prey, but those prey either hurt people or died within two days.

No one has tried it since then. If you have the free time, you might as well hunt a few more prey in the mountains.

Zeref, "Good idea."

Maya glanced sideways at her young master, not sure if he was really praising the young female or if he was being shady.

"Yeah." Ophelia smiled.

"You guys go have some pear tea first, lunch will be ready soon." After saying that, Ophelia started to check on the stew.

Maya took a sip of the pear tea. "It's so cold and delicious, so sweet."

"Where on earth did she get so much sugar?" It's been three days, and Ophelia is still putting sugar in her pear tea. She's really generous.

Zeref looked at the large pot of pear tea with a gloomy look.

He walked slowly to the stone pot, frowned at the sweat on Ophelia's forehead, and couldn't help taking out a white animal skin handkerchief from his arms to wipe her sweat.

"Uh..." Ophelia was confused by his sudden action and subconsciously stepped back.

"Wipe it off, don't let your sweat drip into the pot."

Ophelia is indeed a young master and has some mysophobia.

"Thank you." "I have something to ask you."

Ophelia looked up and almost hit Zeref's chin. She staggered back, but there was a stone pot next to her and she would be burned if she was not careful.

"Be careful." Zeref grabbed the man with his big hand and pulled him into his arms.

Ophelia breathed a sigh of relief, then took two steps back to put some distance between them.

"what's up?"

Zeref looked away awkwardly and cleared his throat.

"Your partner said that you made the sugar in the pear tea yourself. Is that true?"

"Yeah, I did it. What's wrong?"

Even after hearing Ophelia say this firmly, Zeref still found it hard to believe.

Sugar was forbidden to leave the holy city, so the people in the tribes below had no idea of ​​its existence.

The reason why he came to Wanshou City was because someone was "smuggling" sugar from the Holy City, and that person was from his family.

He had been tracking down the person behind the scenes, but he only found out that the person had transferred the sugar to Wanshou City.

His grey eyes darkened as he looked at Ophelia's slender white neck, which he could strangle if he raised his hand slightly, but he didn't want to do that.

"This candy is only available in the Holy City. How did you make it?"

Ophelia gathered her long golden hair back and smiled. "It's not that difficult, actually. All you need to do is find sugarcane with a very high sugar content."

"Do you mind showing me?"

"Sugarcane doesn't grow in the mountains this season, so we can't do it." She always felt that Zerev was a little mysterious and subconsciously wanted to hide secrets from him.

"Do you have any candy left? I can exchange it with you for crystals." Zeref saw Ophelia's dodge, but he didn't give her a chance to retreat and pressed on.

"this···"

"One yellow crystal for a bag of sugar." A bag is about one kilogram.

When Ali left, she gave her a lot of sugar, and now there are still ten kilograms of sugar in the warehouse.

One yellow crystal can be exchanged for 40000 (4) points, and she was tempted.

"Okay, but I don't have much candy left. I'll bring some tomorrow."

Seeing Ophelia hesitate and then agree calmly, Zeref's expression somehow softened visibly.

"it is good."

The next day, Maya and Zeref came early, and it was easy to guess why.

Ophelia didn't hesitate and handed him the animal skin bag containing brown sugar.

Zeref took the bag and immediately opened it to examine it.

The brown sugar in the animal skin bag, as fine as sand, made him frown slightly.

"What's wrong, young master?" Maya also leaned over to look.

Zeref's slender fingers picked up a small handful of brown sugar, examined it carefully, and then put it in his mouth to taste it.

Brown sugar melts directly in the mouth when heated, which is completely different from the hard granular white sugar in Shengdu.

"Master, this isn't Holy City candy!"

"Hmm." It seems they all guessed wrong.

Zeref glanced at Maya, who quickly took out a yellow crystal and handed it to Ophelia.

"Your candy is good."

(End of this chapter)

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