Chapter 1402: The Land of Ice and Local Specialties

Bring Veronica some local specialties when coming back from the North Kingdom?

Because of his own reasons, he had to interrupt the wedding halfway, plus Veronica, who was a Queen, rarely opened her mouth to ask him for something, so Leon attached great importance to her small request.

From leaving the banquet hall in a hurry, to rushing to the boarding tower with the female cleaner, and finally sitting on the airship heading to the North, Leon was still pondering this problem.

As the human kingdom located at the northernmost side of the entire continent, and even a small part connected to the polar region, the North Kingdom Aishito was exceptionally vast, but at least 70% of it was ice sheet, so it was also called the Land of Ice.

Or to put it the other way around, because of those ice sheets that were not suitable for human gathering, the "Land of Ice Aishito" was the official name of the North Kingdom, and the "North" Kingdom was just a common name obtained because of its geographical location.

And to say that this kingdom located at the northernmost end of humanity had any iconic specialties... it seemed that there really weren't any specialties.

After recalling some natural conditions about the North Kingdom seen in William's geography book, Leon couldn't help but scratch his head in worry.

According to the records in the book, the climate and environment of the North Kingdom were extremely harsh, and more than half of the territory was covered by ice and snow all year round.

The winter there was cold and long, the summer was cold and short, nearly 30% of the territory was permanently frozen, and even in the hottest summer, the average temperature was basically below 0c, and the rainfall was also very scarce...

Or to put it more directly, the word rainfall was redundant when thrown to the North Kingdom. In the hottest seven or eight days of summer, the scattered rainfall that occasionally fell was basically not worth calculating.

In addition, besides low temperature and snowfall, due to the large area of flat ice sheets without any cover, the North Kingdom often had terrifying storms that blew from the west to the east, running through the entire national border, at least fourteen or fifteen times a year.

The average wind speed of this kind of super-large storm basically hovered around 20 or 30 meters per second, but in individual special cases, it could even roll out more than 100 meters per second. If it happened to snow again, the comprehensive snowstorm was truly destructive, basically destroying whatever it saw.

Even the giant mammoth unique to the North Kingdom, with an average weight of nearly ten tons, had to be blown to roll big somersaults on the snow when encountering this scale of snowstorm. As for the ordinary people of the North Kingdom...

The people of the North Kingdom were not stupid, how could they live on such a deadly ice sheet?

Although the territory there was exceptionally vast and the mineral resources were not few, the location suitable for human habitation was actually quite limited. Even if they risked digging ice cellars underground, it was useless.

After all, with the harsh climate of the North Kingdom, if a snowstorm blew at night, maybe when they got up the next morning, the door of the ice cellar could be piled up with three or five meters of snow. I'm afraid they would be suffocated before they could dig out.

And the North Kingdom humans with brain problems like this had long been extinct by snowstorms eight hundred years ago. As for the remaining North Kingdom humans without brain problems, like the capital Hot River City of the North Kingdom, most of them chose to live by the mountain.

Even if the risk of living by the mountain was not small, and they would encounter some disasters from time to time, it was better than the whole family ascending to heaven after waking up, with all property including people, horses, cattle, sheep, tents, and houses dancing in the wind...

In short, such a country with an overly wild climate and a hard life naturally aimed at practicality, and it was difficult to have any unique specialties that were exquisite and gorgeous.

Spirits, smoked meat, candy, sausage, biscuits... it felt like the ones with a little fame were basically all kinds of eating and drinking, and a series of foods with terrifyingly high calories. Veronica definitely didn't lack these things, and it was even less worthwhile for him to bring them back from thousands of miles away.

Although he felt that no matter what he brought back, she would happily accept it, but since she opened her mouth, he definitely had to send something more meaningful... um... spirits could be brought for the Bureau Chief, she would definitely like this.

Taking out his small notebook and charcoal pen, writing "spirits" on it, Leon, who was sitting by the airship porthole, couldn't help but turn his head to look at the female cleaner beside him.

If he really wanted to get some local specialties, finding this local pig of the North to ask for them was naturally the most convenient way. However, Veronica's side had just had a small temper with him because of her affairs. What if she really took a fancy to him and had some other thoughts?

"Why do you keep looking at me?"

After noticing Leon's gaze, the female cleaner, who was eating airship food, couldn't help but look stern, subconsciously protecting the fruit pizza on her small table.

But soon, she seemed to have remembered something, and put down her hand with some hesitation, then bit her teeth, picked up the table knife, hardened her heart, cut a small piece of pizza, and picked it to Leon's plate with a fork.

"That's all! I'm not full yet!"

"..."

Veronica, you really thought too much this time...

Looking at the giant pizza in front of her that was bigger than a pot lid and had to be stacked in three layers to be put down, and then looking at the small piece of pizza in his plate that was not much bigger than a palm, Leon couldn't help but have a dark face.

Reasonably speaking, it was impossible for her to take a fancy to him! He dared to say that in this guy's eyes, he was not as attractive as a piece of pizza... and it was actually pineapple pizza!

"You eat it yourself."

After pushing the pizza, which had at least three times the cheese added and was sticky, back to her, Leon looked at her giant lunch that was surprisingly large in diameter, and couldn't help but complain:

"Where on earth did you get this thing? My home's tablecloth is not as big as your pizza!"

"Of course I brought it myself!"

After picking up the pizza Leon sent back and filling it into her mouth, the female cleaner said happily: 【

"Although the things in your kingdom are exquisite and delicious, when it comes to filling one's stomach, the things from our North are the most suitable!"

Indeed, there was really no flaw in that statement... With this cheese spread thicker than a tabletop, I have truly never seen a second person besides you who could swallow it.

After couldn't help but mutter a few words of criticism in his heart about the Northern diet, Li Ang glanced at the three branch directors who were closing their eyes to rest on the other side of the airship aisle, then asked the female cleaner:

"Mei, do you have any local specialties in the North?"

"Of course I do, and there are many!"

Hearing this, the female cleaner nodded, then swallowed the pizza in her mouth and excitedly counted on her fingers:

"There are many types of jerky alone, but I only remember the most famous ones, such as snow mammoth jerky, ice cave rhinoceros meat, spiny-toothed elephant smoked ribs, thick-hoofed donkey paws, saber-toothed tiger whip..."

(End of chapter)