Chapter 22: Acting
After arranging for the plants to rest, Arley also squeezed a path out of the mushroom swarm and walked into the Earl's Palace. After tossing for a day and a night, he didn't even have time to take a shower, and it was time to rest.
Walking briskly to the table, he picked up the bell above the fireplace and shook it in his hand a few times:
"Prepare dinner!"
After the crisp and rapid sound of the bell echoed in the hall, the head of a ghost maid suddenly emerged from the fireplace, and bowed respectfully, revealing a soft and lovely face:
"Madame, Madame, please go and bathe first, and please come with me. ”
“...... Bathe and bathe. After thinking about it, Aree put down the bell and followed the ghost maid with her feet on the ground, and stepped onto the red-carpeted corridor.
The single room to the left of the lounge is where the bathroom is, and after the maid opens the door for him, it gradually disappears into the wall.
The bathroom is large in space, with a steaming bathtub in front of it, which is half the size of the room, and a staircase-shaped wooden shelf is placed on the edge of the blue water, neatly arranged with clean toiletries.
"It's huge. ”
He sighed, followed the arrangement of the water pipes and found the stone valve, above which was a bust of a lady holding a water bottle.
It's hard to imagine that this is a decades-old technology, or that Count Beverley is a scholarly mage with a sense of pre-emptive enjoyment.
Hula-la-!
Aree pressed the stone valve to the bottom, and a column of cold water erupted immediately. Soon, the clear water gradually warmed up, and the current washed over his body. Bursts of white mist floated up.
"Whew!"
Hot water flowed down the black-haired knight's muscles to his feet, washing away the sweat and stains to the half, and he let out a long sigh of relief, letting the warm water pour down from his shoulders, and the tense muscles and skin gradually relaxed in the warm wash.
He wiped his face with both hands, rubbed his face, and pulled the stone valve out.
The hot air is steaming in the bath. It emitted a light veil of mist, and I don't know what the ghost maid mixed in the pool water, and there was a strong aroma of honey locust wafting in it.
Yare enjoyed going into the bathroom. The whole body is submerged below the surface of the water, and the warm hot water envelops the mind, and a feeling of comfort and relaxation is born in the mind......
"Yare, are you in there?" the sweet voice of the green-haired girl came from outside.
Gollum!
A large cloud of bubbles suddenly erupted from the surface of the bath. He then surfaced. wiped his face and replied loudly:
"Here it is!"
Charlene wore loose green silk pajamas, wrapped her flawless body like white jade, lay on a couch-style brown hand-woven rattan chair, and said lazily:
"Albert just said a lot of things, do you need me to tell you?"
"What did you say?" Are's voice shook suddenly.
"He said that the territory we are in is a piece of the world that was shattered by an expedition in the time of Emperor Gaius. ”
"Gaius?" the black-haired knight had the impression of an incompetent faint king in his mind.
"It's His Majesty the Emperor. He also said that the place you get involved in is the gap in the world, and you will be swallowed by the consciousness of this world and become a guardian. ”
"Guardians, is that Albert?" he almost laughed.
"So it's too self-conscious. The green-haired girl giggled.
Yare soaks in the bath. While rubbing the dirt on her body, she listened to Charlene's narration of the information squeezed out of Albert's mouth, and the sound of the dripping water mixed with the girl's sweet voice gave people an inexplicable sense of peace.
"By the way, do you want me to wipe your back for you?" Charlene showed a hint of cunning between her eyebrows, as if she was planning some kind of conspiracy.
"Yes, of course!" he slammed to his feet from the pool and let out an excited howl, and the Destruction Mushroom suddenly revealed its hideous face.
"It's a pity that I'm too tired, let's do it another day. She buried her head in the wicker chair, deliberately covering her mouth, and said vaguely.
I heard a plop, and the sound of a heavy object entering the water came from the bathroom.
......
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows beside him, half of the courtyard was sunburned golden by the setting sun mixed with the glow of the evening, and the mushrooms in the courtyard were all staggered and sleepy.
After Yalei took a bath, Charlene tied her pajamas tightly with a corset, tied her hair in a bunch with a white ribbon and hung down behind her head, and sat dignified on the left side of the coffee table, with a pot of brewed strong tea on the table.
The black-haired knight changed into shorts and a shirt, walked to the coffee table with a blank face, and sat down with a gloomy face.
"Please use tea. She served tea graciously.
“......”
Picking up the teacup and taking a sip lightly, he slowly began to adjust his breathing and heartbeat, suppressing the impulsiveness and frustration that had just occurred.
"Are you hungry?" she asked, smiling.
"A little hungry. At the suggestion of the other party, Yalei finally turned his attention back to his hungry abdomen.
"You wait a minute. ”
Charlene showed a mysterious expression, got up and passed by him, bringing a strong fragrance of roses, so that someone who had just calmed down couldn't help but think crankily again.
"What's that?" the black-haired knight vaguely expected a big meal.
"Oooo
The green-haired girl took a silver-covered dinner plate from the ghost maid's hand, hummed a solemn sound, and placed it in front of Are.
"......" He faintly smelled a sweet smell, and suddenly lost his appetite.
"This is my new dish!
Charlene excitedly removed the silver cover, revealing a colorful paste inside, and a puff of white smoke mixed with the smell of apple and barbecue paste instantly filled the space.
She instantly showed an almost disgusting expression, pinched her nose quickly, and said with a sneer: "Maybe it doesn't smell good, but I promise, it actually tastes good...... Probably ......"
"Have you tasted it?" he looked at the other suspiciously.
"I'm just designing the recipes, how those ghosts do it. I don't know. A hint of embarrassment appeared on the green-haired girl's pretty face.
"It doesn't matter, everyone has things that they are good at and what they are not good at, and there is no need to waste time on things that are not good at. I'm not saying that the recipes you've designed can't work...... At least a professional person is needed to guide you. He carefully observed the other party's expression and said cautiously.
"Don't you want to taste a bite?" she said, looking frustrated.
"Of course not!"
Ya Lei looked at a pot of chowder soup with a headache, resisted the urge to gag, and tried to find a few advantages from this mess: "Actually...... This pot of chowder soup ......"
"It's rabbit soup with applesauce!" she said earnestly.
"Okay! This pot of rabbit soup with applesauce is a good soup, and it looks just right, and you see, the applesauce and rabbit meat are completely stewed into a puree. You can't tell each other ...... at all."
The black-haired knight squeezed out a smile and praised the lump of mush, scooping half a spoonful of soup with a spoon. Holding his breath, he took a suffocation.
"How's it taste?" Charlene asked expectantly, covering her mouth and nose with one hand.
“......”
Although he didn't taste the soup at all, and only passed it in his mouth for a moment, Yalei still felt that something was wrong. Why does the soup have a bitter taste?
"Do you think there's something wrong with the soup?" the corners of the green-haired girl's lips curled up in an unfathomable arc.
"What did you put in the soup?"
The black-haired knight looked incredulous. He never dreamed that Charlene, who always looked cute in front of him, would actually do such a thing as drugged.
"A little bit of a potion that changes your tastes. She sat up straight triumphantly, her two slender and straight legs folded, and her eyes showed a cunning that had succeeded in her conspiracy.
"The medicine that changes my taste?" Yalei instantly fell into the ice cellar, and his expression gradually regained his calm: "What medicine? How could you make a potion...... Damn! Sun Mark!"
"Hahaha. Charlene spread her hands and glanced to the right with an innocent expression.
"Change my tastes. What tastes have changed me?" he asked warily.
"It's nothing, it's just that you chew wax with saltiness from now on. I became more and more dependent on desserts, and to be honest, I spent a lot of time in the library trying to find this recipe. ”
The green-haired girl bit her beautifully trimmed nails, and her face peeked at his expression, but her face put on a nonchalant expression.
"How can there be such a boring potion in the world!" he yelled angrily as he pounded the coffee table.
"Actually, there are a lot of drugs that are more boring than this...... Different tastes need to be adjusted, in fact, there is still a lot of market. ”
"You've been looking for an opportunity to drug me all this time?" asked Are, looking at the lover in front of him, as if looking at another stranger, and his voice trembled.
"Yes. ”
"For all this time, you've been so gentle, to design me and let me let my guard down?"
"That's right. ”
"Just deliberately offered to help me wipe my back, also to distract my mind and lower my attention?"
"Correct. ”
"Deliberately made this extremely unpalatable soup to hide the taste of the potion and deceive me?"
"It's a pity that you're only waking up now, it's too late. Charlene decisively pleaded guilty to all the charges.
"Does that mean...... I'm going to eat steak like chewing wax in the future?" he clutched his head in despair.
The green-haired girl looked at the other party's expression, and suddenly felt a sense of remorse in her heart, quickly pressed down this incongruous feeling, and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, in order to compensate you, I will carefully develop a lot of delicious desserts to satisfy you. ”
“......”
Yalei stared at the other party coldly, her expression became extremely terrifying, and just when she couldn't bear the heavy pressure and was about to beg for mercy and confess, she suddenly laughed:
"Do you think you can fool me by concocting a potion? A potion that can change the structure of the Origin Knight's body, if there is, I really want to see it. ”
"And you're still so angry?" said Charlene.
"Isn't this to match you?" he stumbled down in the high-backed chair. (To be continued......)