"After all, what is the Mead Carnival?" Erina was so hungry that she ate all the apple cores regardless of the sour taste and rough texture: "Is this festival held because everyone likes to drink mead?

It feels so casual.”

"The mead in Hawke City must be very delicious, that's why we have this festival." Nao said this while putting his hand into his coat with a mysterious expression: "Actually, because I was very curious about its taste, I even went out of my way to

Steal a bottle and come here!"

As the rabbit-eared girl said this, she immediately took out a bottle of wine and slapped it on the table with a smile!

The wine bottle looks gray, as if the dust and the bottle have become one.

Even so, it can still be clearly seen that the bottle contains golden liquid.

As soon as you inhale, you can smell the intoxicating aroma of honey.

"It was stolen again..." Erina looked at the bottle and complained, "It's so dirty!"

"Maybe it's because the bottle has been reused for too long, so it looks a little dirty. But the surface is actually quite clean to the touch! I've wiped it, but the dust can't be wiped off at all. It can be said to be completely integrated.

"

"Haha...that's it." Erina looked a little nervous as she watched Nao pull out the cork: "Uh, do you really want to drink? But we are not old enough to drink. We can only drink some light beer and fruit wine.

…”

"Mead is not a strong drink, right? It's okay to drink it occasionally."

While Nao said this with a smile, he got closer to the bottle and sniffed it. He took a deep breath due to its fragrance and let out an intoxicated sigh.

"Phew...! This tastes great! It just feels like a honey drink with just a little alcoholic flavor... I'll take a sip first!"

Since there was no cup, Nao took a sip directly to her mouth.

After swallowing the golden liquid, the bunny-eared girl immediately let out a happy sigh.

"Wow...this tastes delicious! It's completely different from the mead we have over there!"

Erina: "Hey? Have you ever drank mead before?"

Nao: "No. But I have heard of its taste... It's completely different from what I taste now! Hmm... take another sip..."

Seeing her drinking half the bottle one after another, Erina couldn't help but swallow her saliva and became tempted.

Then, he asked that he also wanted to try it.

She just drank the remaining half of the bottle. The wonderful sweet aroma was too much to stop.

"This... is indeed delicious!" Erina exclaimed, "I seem to understand why a carnival is held for it!"

"Right, right? Drinking in a festive atmosphere will make the taste even better!" Nao Nishida chuckled, reaching out and pinching Erina's cheek: "Oh... your face will become ugly as soon as you drink.

It’s turned red...it looks so cute!”

"Hey? Is there any... Ah, my face feels a little hot." Erina touched her cheek and became a little confused: "By the way, how much alcohol is this... Although you said it's not strong alcohol,

But the alcohol content isn’t as low as beer, right?”

"Yes. But it seems like it's only fifteen degrees...?"

"Huh? So high?" Erina was stunned for a moment, a little surprised: "I thought it was only three or four degrees at most!"

"Uh huh... Yes. So it's really easy to drink too much accidentally." Nishida Nao said this, and came to the window with a smile, and peeked at the situation outside through the gap in the wooden boards nailed to the window:

"Well...it's getting dark soon...should we think about what to eat for dinner? By the way, are there anything to drink?"

"Yes." Erina stood up, approached the beer barrel, opened the wooden lid and looked inside, frowned, took out the small bugs that fell inside, and poured them aside: "There is enough beer for tomorrow.

"

"That's good - oh, I need some soon. I feel so thirsty after drinking the mead!"

Nao Nishida picked up a cup, bent down into the bucket, scooped out half a cup of beer and drank it.

Due to the large number of people in such cities, water resources are often polluted.

Some threats are visible to the naked eye, while others are invisible to the naked eye when and where they become dirty because of the chaos of microorganisms and viruses.

Because they are not sure whether the water they drink freely in the city is clean or whether they will get dysentery if they drink it, people generally drink cheap beer with less than 1% alcohol content, without adding hops, instead of water.

Even if there is only a weak amount of alcohol in it, it is enough to achieve an ideal sterilization effect. The average person drinks more than one liter of this kind of wine instead of water every day.

As long as people are not too poor to even afford this, they will drink this kind of light beer or the more expensive light fruit wine to quench their thirst when they are thirsty. This phenomenon is more common in larger cities. It was shot in the city

Well water is often associated with disease.

But even in rural areas, there are many cases of drinking wine instead of water.

People don't know that heating water can sterilize, but making a fire is a troublesome thing. The fuel is not cheap.

Therefore, in areas where there is no tea and coffee drinking culture, once a fire is started, cooking is usually required. It is not cost-effective to boil water directly for drinking. It is better to add something to make hot soup.

In order to save fuel and time, it is more convenient and affordable to drink beer directly.

On Earth, drinking alcohol is generally not more cost-effective than drinking water.

But in many places in Jiuyuan Township, this kind of extremely low-alcohol beer is sold cheaper than water with superior quality and sweet taste.

Even occasionally when there was too much beer in stock and there was an epidemic at that time, large barrels of beer would be poured directly onto the streets to clean the ground.

This is a fairly low-cost disinfection measure.

Erina and the others saw a similar situation in other cities last month - the streets were filled with the scent of barley, which was quite refreshing.

This gave the whole city a hint of drunkenness.

There is a way to make money in this city, which is to walk every day to a river six kilometers outside the city that is recognized to be extremely sweet and clean, and then carry water back to sell it.

A large barrel can be sold for one hundred and twenty copper coins.

Some rich people will be willing to buy this kind of water to drink.

The same price is enough to buy three barrels of the same size of light beer here.

"It seems like it's troublesome for us to buy beer." Nao wiped her mouth and said seriously: "Because these are basic daily necessities... so the relevant shops will be focused on by the guards, right?"

"Then what should we do?" Erina thought for a while and suggested: "How about buying it when the guards are on duty? Or late at night..."
Chapter completed!