Heavenly Dao Formula

Olina didn't know that she was about to become the protagonist in the little girl's novel. She poured cold well water into the pot, then spit out a flame and lit the clay stove, waiting quietly for the water to boil.

Letting her live alone won her freedom, but it also brought a lot of trouble.

Like cooking.

It is not that she has never been in the kitchen. After the family declined, even a few maids could not afford to be hired in the huge castle. At that time, she supported the family with one hand, including preparing meals for her younger brother.

But all she could do was bake bread, boil potatoes, and bake apple pie.

The method is to spray out a small fire, a big fire, and a combination of the two. It can be said that in fire control, few dragonborn can do better than her.

Qiguo's food, however, is quite different.

Those rice grains will only turn into a black and burnt mass when they burn.

She still asked Ms. Yu to master the most basic oriental cooking methods.

Boil the water and add rice.

If there is less water, the rice will be dry, and the rice will be made; if the water is too much, the rice will be wet, and the rice will be made into porridge.

In the morning, according to the past practice, it is natural to eat porridge.

Soon, a mass of yellow-white mushy food came out of the oven. Olina frowned and scooped it into the bowl, and couldn't help sighing—this thing has nothing to praise except for filling the stomach.

It's not that Daqi doesn't have delicious food, at least when she was in Gyeonggi, she has participated in several court banquets, and she is overwhelmed with delicious food. But wanting to reproduce those delicacies is obviously far beyond her ability. In the East, cooking skills are also a kind of secret, and only an heir is selected within the family to learn the secret technique, and the only thing she can do is to sprinkle some fine salt into the paste to make it less delicious. dull.

But you still have to eat.

If you don't eat, you have no strength, and if you don't have strength, you can't work.

Olina knew that she endured humiliation for the sake of her family. Even if he can't use his status as an ambassador in exchange for meritorious service, as long as his younger brother is promising and performs well in the academy, it is still possible to revive Okan's name.

"May the Sun God watch over you and me, and bathe in the glory of Hera no matter where you are."

After praying as usual, Olina took a deep breath and swallowed the breakfast in front of her.

For some reason, she remembered the bowl of pork bone soup she ate when she just woke up.

No - hold back.

She suppressed her urge to embezzle the deposit to hire a cook or housekeeper, and patted her cheek hard.

This money must be sent back to the Holy Wing Islands, and there is no shortage of one tael of silver.

Olina walked to the table, picked up today's work schedule and reconfirmed the content - it was almost time, that is, nine o'clock in the morning, and it was almost time to leave.

She locked the door, left the house, and headed north along the street. After leaving the city through the north gate, she continued to walk eastward for a while - this place was close to the mouth of the inland river, and although it was not far from the city wall, there were no signs of human activity around.

Olina started running towards the sea, her body swelled accordingly, and soon she transformed into a dragon shape, spread her wings and swept towards the sea. She kept flying at this altitude for about a quarter of an hour, until she left Jinxia City far behind, then she suddenly raised the altitude, turned around and flew towards the northwest of Shenzhou.

...

Shenzhou, White River City.

This is also the last big city in Shenzhou, which is located at the intersection of the two water veins of the Baihe River and the Qujiang River. The surrounding terrain is open and separated by water, which is not suitable for gathering large troops. In addition, it has been one of the hubs of Shenzhou since the Yong Dynasty, so its city wall and Jinxia belong to the same specification, and it can be called a strong city.

But at this moment, this strong city ushered in its challenger.

Prefect Jiang sat in the lobby of the government office, calmly comforting his "guests"—they were the prefect of Anshen City, Mr. Kui, the magistrate of Qiulu County, and the county magistrate Zheng of Puxi County.

The experiences of these people are all very similar. Basically, they were first wanted by Jinxia City, and then the captured troops broke the city in one fell swoop. But even so, they were lucky enough compared to those officials who failed to escape the hunt.

"Everyone, please rest assured, my subordinates can see very clearly that Ning Wanjun's army is only about 1,500 people, there is still a small chance of a sneak attack, and a frontal attack is absolutely impossible to shake this fortified city!" Jiang Taishou vowed "The number of people, we are five times that of the enemy; the terrain, we defend the city; as for this day... without supplementary supplies, it is impossible for them to fight in the snow for a long time! The right time, place and people are all on our side, everyone What else is there to worry about?"

This is not a lie.

The news that Princess Guangping was plotting rebellion and attacking opponents in Shenzhou has spread, and the prefect Jiang, who was warned, immediately took precautions. He not only conscripted people from the surrounding counties and towns into the city to repair the fortifications, but also spent money to recruit a large group of soldiers to step up training. In addition to the servants and guards brought by other officials who fled to Baihe City, the defense force in the city suddenly doubled several times, and there were many catapults, bed crossbows, broken ladder carts, and hot oil basins. Even if the Shenzhou garrison came to attack the city, I'm afraid it would not get any benefits.

In Jiang Taishou's view, the princess was always too arrogant. If she dealt with big cities like Baihe and Anshen first, how could they react in time?

"But the other party has a monster with a mechanism..." Lord Wei of Anshen City was still a little worried, "That thing is invulnerable to swords and guns, and hard to hurt by arrows. Once the gate of the city is broken, it will be difficult for thousands of people to stop it."

"I have already prepared for this." Jiang Taishou sneered, "I have planted a thousand catties of gunpowder under the four city gates. As long as the other party dares to enter through the gate, I will make them die without knowing why."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions could not help but recover a little.

"I really hope that the imperial court can dispatch troops as soon as possible to restore order in Shenzhou."

"That princess only dared to act recklessly while the Shenzhou garrison was away. When the snow melts, it will be her turn to suffer."

Just when everyone was comforting each other, a strange whistling sound entered everyone's ears.

"Did you... hear anything?" County magistrate Zheng was already terrified, but now that Ning Wanjun's troops were gathered in the city, any sound would make him terrified.

"Is it the eagle calling?"

"It's not like it, it feels much more dull... I guess it should be the wind."

"Aooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

This time, the voice suddenly came much closer, as if it came from the top of the head!

what happened?

Jiang Taishou was about to ask the attendants outside the door to find out, but a guard ran into the house in a panic, "Mr. Taishou, no, it's not good!"

"What's wrong? Tell me clearly!" The eunuch was startled, and he pretended to be calm.

"There are flying four-legged monsters in the sky, attacking the trebuchets and bed crossbows on our west wall!"

"A flying...monster?"

Prefect Jiang rushed out of the government office and looked up to the west - he saw a huge black lizard circling and swooping in the air, spouting clouds of flames towards the wall from time to time. The guards fled in all directions, crying for their father and mother, without any thought of resisting with their bows and crossbows. The flames not only ignited the defense equipment, but also spread to the boiling oil. When the grease dripped from the overturned copper basin, the flames burned out of control.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, half of the city wall of Baihe City has been engulfed in flames!