CH 15

Chapter 15: The mystery in the tonic soup

The expensive silver jars with carved flowers were filled with a great tonic soup stewed with all kinds of precious and delicious ingredients.

Whether it was the beef and eggs commonly eaten by nobles or expensive honey, red dates, cinnamon and rare pepper spices, as well as ingredients that were not recognizable but probably equally valuable.

Each one of them was excellent and if eaten one by one, they would taste very delicious and they are so precious……. but why, after the pot of soup was made by mixing all those precious ingredients, it became something that even the devil dared not eat?

Lucifer’s hand holding the soon trembled slightly. That pot of black soup was not just soup, it was obviously a more terrifying existence than the black lava lake in hell!

“What’s wrong, Your Holiness?”Pei Xia did not understand what Lucifer, who had just said he wanted to taste it, was doing. “Are you afraid that the soup will be too hot? It’s better to drink this soup while it’s hot.”

No, it’s not that he’s afraid of being scalded, he’s afraid that his body will die after drinking it!

Lucifer’s smile was slightly pale, he sluggishly scooped up a piece of unknown substance with a spoon, “Pei Xia, I am very interested in your mysterious recipe, can you tell me, what is this?”

Pei Xia nodded in a daze, so Lucius Phil has such a research spirit!

“This is donkey skin! You don’t need to eat it, just drink the soup!”

Lucifer, “…”

He slowly put the donkey skin on the table and re-scooped another unidentified piece: “This, what is it?”

“This is pig liver, which is very nourishing for qi and blood!”

Lucifer, who never eats animal offals, “……”

“And this?” He finally scooped up a cylindrical and very elastic unidentified object.

Pei Xia’s face was slightly red, gave a not too good cough, “This is …… donkey whip, works as an aphrodisiac and qi tonic.”

“Donkey whip?” Lucifer asked rhetorically in bewilderment.

The profound Chinese culture allowed an item to have a variety of colourful names, but there was no such thing as “x whip” here.

This donkey whip was asked by Pei Xia when he saw the servants kill the donkey. None of those servants dared to deal with it. Pei Xia had no choice but to put it on himself. When he cut a few sections of the donkey whip with a kitchen knife, the male and female servants in the kitchen silently clamped their legs at the same time.

He had never made soup with donkey whip before, but washing it and boiling it probably should work, right?

X whip, a popular aphrodisiac, can definitely make Lucifer full of energy, maybe he will become stronger and more manly!

Pei Xia whispered and explained, “It’s that part of the donkey.”

Lucifer, “??”

Pei Xia silently glanced at a certain part under his waist.

All of a sudden, Lucifer’s face turned white, he unconsciously clamped his legs, the corners of his lips were almost unable to maintain a smile, the spoon in his hand dropped with a jangling sound, the aphrodisiac tonic donkey whip also fell to the ground and was covered with dust.

Pei Xia knew that Westerners generally do not easily accept this type of stuff, he hurriedly said, “Your Holiness, you can just drink the soup!”

“Pei Xia, you are really ……” Lucifer swallowed his words several times before finally saying, “You have very rich talent in sorcery”

Wizards usually play with various materials such as herbs, some of them are proficient in dark magic, some are proficient in natural magic, and are the spokesmen of mystery and eccentricity.

However, they are equally revered because of their scarcity and the magical effects of the various tonics they make.

“You have over-complimented me, Your Holiness.” Pei Xia scratched his head in embarrassment, “As long as you can become healthier, I’ll be satisfied!”

“Sorry Pei Xia, I accidentally dropped my spoon.” Lucifera looked at the spoon on the ground and allowed himself to show a slightly regretful look, “Perhaps ……”

“It’s okay, Your Holiness, I’ll go get you a new one!”

After saying that, Pei Xia then pulled his legs and ran to the kitchen.

Lucifer slightly converged his smile, silently looking at Pei Xia’s back, then a burst of fusion light scattered, blocking the outsiders’ coveted sight.

Everyone thought it was Lucifer who was praying, thinking he was the source of light that scattered, unaware that inside the beautiful and sacred light, it was nothing like what they thought.

Lucifer gently hooked his fingers, from the shadow at his feet to grab a huge and fierce shadow of the devil, the devil in his hands was shivering, was as obedient as a puppy.

Lucifer expressionlessly broke open the mouth of the demon, took the silver pot, poured all the soup in it.

Shadow devil,  “……”

After the five-flavoured tonic soup was poured, the demon’s shadow wilted into something like running water and slowly and weakly shrank back to the master’s feet.

It’s terrible, is this the criminal law newly developed by the master?!!

But what did I do wrong?

The Devil’s Shadow thought so.

……

When Pei Xia ran back to Lucifer with a brand new clean spoon, he was surprised to find that the entire silver can of tonic soup had been drunk up!

Lucifer wiped his mouth with a napkin and smiled at Pei Xia embarrassedly, “I was really looking forward to your soup, and thinking about what you said about drinking it while it’s hot, I couldn’t hold back.”

Pei Xia also smiled along and put down the spoon, “It’s great that you like it, in that case, I will continue to make a great tonic soup for you tomorrow as well!”

Clatter–

It was Lucifer who suddenly stood up and hit the tables and chairs. He stood still and seemed to be shaking unsteadily.

“What’s the matter with you, Your Holiness?” Pei Xia looked at him in confusion, worried, he ran over to support Lucifer.

“It’s okay Pei Xia.” Lucifer smiled implicitly as he said, “I feel very …… good and healthy after drinking your soup, and I think there is no need for you to work extra hard for me anymore.”

“It’s not hard, it’s not hard…”

“No!” Lucifer cut to the chase, “It’s hard work.”

Pei Xia: “…… eh.” In addition to handling the donkey whip that was a little hard, the rest was fine. He can only say that Lucifer is too considerate to his subordinates!

Pei Xia was very touched.

Lucifer regained his calm and graceful pace, he was like a normal person, not a bit from the after-effects of rolling down the stairs and excessive weakness was seen.

“You see, I’m already fine.”

Is the effect of the great tonic soup he made so good? Pei Xia secretly made up his mind to continue making great tonic soup for Lucifer in the future.

“That’s really great, Lord Saint Son!”

So the holy son who thought he had escaped and the knight who was moved to the point where he wanted to keep trying, looked at each other and smiled affectionately.

……

Others have taken over the affairs of the Earl of Hobson, and after a good rest, Lucifer had to continue on his way with his paladins.

When parting, Alice waved her handkerchief fondly.

The poor peach blossom girl, for some reason, was unable to have an ambiguous relationship with the male protagonist at all.

After that, Lucifer went to the local church to inspect the work, everything went smoothly, the weather was clear and sunny and everyone continued to set off to the next destination.

Pei Xia sat on his horse, quietly opened his small notebook and used a charcoal pencil to put a cross on the name Hobson.

Ever since he knew he transmigrated into this book, he tried his best to briefly record some of the plots he remembered, using Chinese characters that no one here knew. It’s just that this novel is really not good, the plot was so sloppy, Pei Xia just forgot it after reading it once.

So much so that the useful information he had on this book was pathetically small.

The plot of Hobson here is over, the next plot point is …… about a branch of the church that is bright on the surface but is very dark inside.

The location is the city of Abrulla, which was just ahead, and they will be there by tomorrow. What was the starting point of the plot to …… Oh right, it seems that the male protagonist and his party picked up a poor orc slave, and then found out that there was a problem with the branch church.

This plot was about to arrive at this place, so why the orc slave had not yet appeared?

Pei Xia scratched his head and put his notebook away.

By noon, everyone stopped in place in the field and began to eat and rest, Pei Xia saw a clear river not far away.

He thought that because of the inconvenience of the road, Lucifer has not bathed all day, and now the weather was gradually warming up, at noon the weather will inevitably become hot.

So he asked the knights to boil water, he moved the bath bucket and placed it in the second carriage, and then pulled a curtain, ready to create a comfortable bath for Lucifer.

He was a man who loved cleanliness, but he didn’t have the habit of asking the knights to take care of him.

Pei Xia felt that he had to take good care of him, then, surely he could not ignore this!

“Captain, the Lord Saint Son’s essential oil seems to have been left at Earl Hobson’s and forgotten to bring it.” Mallory scratched his head and said, “The dried rose petals have also been used up.”

“I see.” Pei Xia rubbed his chin, “It’s okay, go boil the water first, I’ll solve this problem!”

“Good!”

Pei Xia rolled up his sleeves, carried a cloth bag and began to walk to the distance, he walked around and soon found a large blooming bush. This flower looked a bit like a chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemums improve eyesight and beauty. Since they are suitable for making tea, they must also be suitable for bathing!

Buzz ……

Pei Xia nodded in satisfaction looking at the bush and then began to bend down to pick the flowers. There were not many flowers here. Considering the quality issue, Pei Xia quickly went to grab the best blooming little yellow flowers…

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