27: Chapter 27 Salt, the skill of a full-time housewife.

"Granted! But you must hurry. Those thieves are not dead yet; they will launch a counterattack tomorrow."

Anyway, there seems to be quite a lot of ore in this Goblin nest. It would be good if we could craft some copper armor.

However, copper armor is relatively heavy and not very flexible to wear; it can only be given to some front-line or shock troops to wear.

Relatively speaking, in this era, leather armor is still more cost-effective.

Meanwhile, Xu Xuan was still lurking in the Japanese Lords' chat channel, from which he could learn their current movements.

Having subdued this island girl, almost all the enemy lords' actions were being discussed right under Xu Xuan's nose.

They were even discussing how to conquer the Floating Island, how to divide the usage rights of the Floating Island, and were even arguing about who would personally cut off Xu Xuan's head.

That group of Japanese Lords seemed to have already won the war, starting to vie for credit in the chat channel and discussing how to handle Xu Xuan's legacy.

Little did they know, Xu Xuan's side had already started racing against time to forge weapons, and the tribal population had expanded to over 2700 people.

Xu Xuan just kept staring at the Japanese Lords' chat channel, while Mio, who was beside him, was clearly very sensible.

"Mother, the Lord is probably hungry too. Go prepare lunch for the Lord."

In her original world, Mio's mother was completely a spineless full-time housewife. Despite being in her thirties, she was well-preserved, clearly a housewife who had stayed at home for years and never experienced wind or sun.

Hearing her daughter say this, Tokugawa Yoshiko bowed slightly: "Very well, I will go prepare lunch for the Lord right away."

As she spoke, this beautiful Japanese woman had a savage subordinate build a fire for her. Then she was seen taking soil by the stream, wrapping a few wild eggs in mud, and then putting them into the fire to roast.

She also skewered a large piece of meat and roasted it over the fire. Then, this beautiful woman took a sharpened stone as a knife and cut the roasted meat into strips.

Xu Xuan glanced curiously at the full-time housewife while watching the Japanese Lords' chat channel.

Even in this wilderness, this beautiful Japanese woman still made her food so exquisite?

Watching her cut the roasted meat, Xu Xuan originally thought that was about it.

Who knew she would use a branch to fish out the mud-wrapped eggs from the fire, remove the dried mud layer on the surface of the wild eggs, and slowly peel off the shells inside.

During this process, the boiling hot eggs made the beautiful woman knit her eyebrows tightly, repeatedly pulling back her hand to pinch her earlobes to avoid the high temperature scalding her delicate fingers.

After enduring the heat to peel the eggshells, the beautiful woman rolled the meat strips and eggs together and sprinkled a pinch of salt on them.

In such an era of scarce resources, this full-time housewife could combine meat and eggs to make something fancy; one could only marvel that this lady knew how to live.

She knew nothing about war and was a bit at a loss after being captured; she did whatever her daughter told her to do, without a single thought of her own.

When the meat-wrapped egg was brought before him, Xu Xuan was stunned for a moment.

Upon seeing the salt grains sprinkled on top, Xu Xuan's eyes widened even further.

"Salt? Where did it come from?"

Seeing that there was actually salt here, Xu Xuan still felt a bit incredulous.

After all, there was no sea nearby. When looking around from the Floating Island, one could only see endless high mountains and plains.

Salt! This thing was even rarer than gold. At least for now, there was a severe shortage of salt!

Facing Xu Xuan's questioning, Mio replied respectfully and truthfully: "Reporting to the Lord, there is a salt mine nearby, which we discovered by accident yesterday."

Hearing this answer, Xu Xuan was not surprised; it must be a salt mine, otherwise where would the salt come from?

And salt, even in modern times, is a very important daily necessity.

In ancient times, it was an even more important strategic material.

In an era without refrigerators, this salt is a natural preservative! It can increase the storage time of food.

First of all, if a person does not consume salt every day, they will soon feel muscle weakness and mental lethargy. This thing is almost something that all living things rely on to survive; without salt, one simply cannot live.

However, if one uses meat as a staple food, one can still obtain salt from animal meat.

But if one uses grains as a staple food, grains, fruits, and vegetables lack salt.

Those who often do physical labor know clearly that just eating rice and vegetables simply won't work, especially after sweating from exercise in the summer, when the body lacks even more salt. Without replenishing salt, one will soon feel weak all over.

Unexpectedly, another strategic resource was discovered here. It seems even more important not to let that bunch of Japanese Lords get off easy.

Xu Xuan picked up a meat-wrapped egg and took a bite directly.

The meat juices mixed with salt grains burst in his mouth, and after biting through the egg skin, the rich fragrance of the egg yolk overflowed.

This mouthful was both egg and meat; it was truly satisfying!

Eating roasted meat all day yesterday, Xu Xuan was a bit tired of it. Today, having experienced the cooking skills of a Japanese full-time housewife, he had to say it felt really good.

The enemy's wife was cooking for him; who knows what Tokugawa Ieyasu would think if he knew about this?

Of course, the mother and daughter could not reveal their identities for the time being; they could not let them know that the mother and daughter were still alive.

Only in this way could Xu Xuan spy on the enemy's chat channel through them. With these two hidden insiders, wouldn't it be wonderful?

After bringing the meat-wrapped eggs to Xu Xuan in a wooden bowl, the housewife took out berries, put them into a stone mortar, and crushed the berries with a smooth pebble.

Then, she poured the squeezed juice into a wooden bowl and handed it to Xu Xuan.

"Lord, please."

Amazing!

At this moment, Xu Xuan had to sigh; this full-time housewife really only knew how to cook and didn't care about anything else at all.

Her husband ran away and abandoned them, yet she still put on an expression that as long as she could survive, everything else didn't matter.

But on the other hand, Xu Xuan also had to admire her cooking skills; in such a harsh environment, she could still whip up so many refined things.

Taking a sip of the squeezed fruit juice and then stuffing a bite of the meat-wrapped egg, he had to say it was very appetizing and greatly increased one's appetite.

Mio knelt on the grass to the side and asked in a low voice: "Lord, are you satisfied?"

"Hmm, I am satisfied, it's just that I'm missing someone to help me massage my shoulders."

He was eating and drinking, and even putting on the airs of a big boss.

That was only natural; after all, he was the conqueror, why would he need to be humble?

This is the Lord Continent, and future wars will only become more and more cruel.

While Chi You and the others were reorganizing and preparing for war, what was wrong with enjoying himself a little?

Mio was also very sensible; she immediately went behind Xu Xuan and helped him massage his shoulders.

Tokugawa Yoshiko was also very sensible, personally feeding the wrapped meat and egg roll into Xu Xuan's mouth.

Having two subordinate lords serving him, that was truly comfortable!