Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

After settling down in the inn, Xie Wei could only look outside through the window every day. The room that Roland prepared for them was the largest suite, with two windows, facing the main entrance of the inn.

Xie Wei likes to stay at the small tea table by the window, looking out at the yard covered with white snow, the stable, the chicken and sheep shed, the haystack...

There are many people coming and going in the post station every day, including bounty hunters who go into the snowfield to search for treasures, bards holding harps, and small vendors carrying modified backpacks that can hold a lot of goods.

Having these to look at makes the days of being locked in the room less unbearable.

Sal didn't stay in the room all the time. When he was around, he would always sit there quietly and stare at him. If he had to go out for something, he would let his subordinates guard outside the door.

Xie Wei cooked his own three meals a day these past few days. Salt specially prepared a small indoor kitchen for him in this spacious room, and also brought in a pot of magic plant that could absorb oil smoke and placed it next to the portable pot, so that there was no oil smoke in the room.

Xie Wei found it magical and convenient. The shape of this magic plant was like a large closed flower bud. There were five or six flower buds in one pot, and each flower bud was about half the size of a palm. When there was oil smoke in the room, its flower bud would open into a V shape, and would not return to the shape of a flower bud until all the oil smoke in the room was absorbed.

Thrall said that this magical plant is called Swallowing Tobacco. When the Swallowing Tobacco grows to level three, it can spit out fire. Some travelers will put it in special containers and use it to start a fire when they are in the wild.

But most of the time it is used to make rockets, which can also burn enemies on rainy days.

The time shown on the clock was almost noon, and Xie Wei was thinking about what to make for himself at noon. When Sal left in the morning, he said that he would be back before dinner, so he didn't have to make his share.

Today's ingredients include beef, onion, fish, red vine fruit, and hot pepper fruit.

The day before, Xie Wei asked for some herbs and magic plants that could be used as spices. There were only a few types of spices in this world. Xie Wei had seen some plants that were somewhat similar to those in his previous life in books before, but he had never had the chance to try them before. In the past few days, he tried all the ones he could get, and the taste was indeed similar.

For example, the hot fruit is a round red pepper, the polygonal fruit is star anise, and the thorny fruit is ginger that also grows underground but has a circle of thorns on the skin.

The onions in this world are still called onions, and they look similar, but they are many times larger than the onions in the previous life, and can be eaten for several meals after being cut.

The second time Sal started cooking, he didn't let him cut the ingredients, but asked him to tell him how to cut them, and he helped him cut them and put them in a clean container.

Xie Wei thought it would be nice to have someone to help prepare the food, and seeing that Salche did it very well, he gave the job to him.

Xie Wei didn't know that although the rooms in the inn were soundproof and airtight, due to the need for ventilation, the aroma of the food cooked in his room could be smelled by everyone in the entire inn. Some people excitedly went to ask the cook at the Loran Inn if she was researching new dishes.

I was told that the guests were cooking for themselves. I used to think the food at the Rift Valley Inn was delicious, but the food has not tasted so good in recent meals.

For several days in a row, they could only smell it but not eat it. Not only did the people in the inn feel resentful, but Roland was also in a bad mood. He could not put on a good face every time he saw Thrall. However, the Lord of the Snowfield always acted as if he didn't see him and came to him to make requests and ask about the progress of the production of magic props.

This day, they finally had a meal that the Lord of the Snowfield would not be able to eat. Roland asked Aldrich to cover for him and attracted the attention of the guard outside the door for a while, then used teleportation magic to slip into Xie Wei's room.

Xie Wei was looking at the beef stewed with red vine fruit in the pot when a person suddenly appeared beside him and gave him a fright.

"Sorry to scare you, I'm Roland, the owner of the Rift Valley Inn." Roland looked at the temptingly fragrant beef stew in the pot, his beautiful amber cat eyes full of admiration.

If the Snow Lord's partner had not been born in the imperial family, he would have become a chef that shocked the continent!

He and Aldrich had traveled almost all over the continent, but he had never seen such delicious food that made him dream.

"You...how did you get in?" It was the first time that Xie Wei saw someone with the same eye color as his. Both of their eyes were amber, the kind that was golden in color.

"Well... I just smelled... I came in following the fragrance..." Luo Lan didn't know why, but he suddenly felt a little embarrassed in front of Xie Wei.

He had just been focusing on the stew in the pot, but now being stared at by a pair of eyes that looked like his own, he felt guilty for some reason, just like when he was a kid and his mother caught him stealing candy.

Moreover, this Imperial Rose was really beautiful, as beautiful as his mother. He privately thought that his mother was the most beautiful woman on the continent, but to be honest, the Highness Shiavi in ​​front of him seemed to be slightly more beautiful than his mother.

Roland began to understand the Lord of the Snowfield. It was only right for him to keep a close eye on such a treasure, but he was a little too inconsiderate of other people's feelings.

Anyway, Loran felt that if Aldridge locked him up like this, he would definitely let Benjy beat Aldridge into a meat patty.

Even though they were partners, Aldridge could never restrict him, not even in the name of love.

Xie Wei looked at the boy in front of him, who was about the same height as himself and looked about the same age as himself. After knowing that he was the owner of this inn, the magician who asked Sal to untie his cloak, he lowered his guard against this uninvited guest.

Especially when he saw his ears were red and he lowered his head in front of him like a child who had made a mistake, and couldn't help but always peek at the stewing meat.

He was basically certain that this person really came here following the smell. As for how he bypassed the guard at the door, he thought he must have used space magic.

He had actually secretly studied space magic like teleportation, but because the magician who taught him only taught him theoretical knowledge and never removed the magic chains on him, the little magic power he had left was unable to support this type of magic.

He had only demonstrated it in his mind and had never actually practiced it.

"Would you like to try it? I made a lot today, I probably can't finish it by myself." Although Sal said he would not be back at noon, Xie Wei still made some more. After all, the ingredients were all cut by Sal, and he thought he should let the other party taste it.

But now a guest has arrived, and a lovely guest at that, so Xie Wei decided to entertain this little guest first.

"Then thank you very much." Luo Lan raised his head with sparkling eyes, and smiled with two pointed little fangs revealed.

He arrived at a perfect time; the food was almost done stewing, and Xie Wei only needed to stir-fry some green leafy vegetables before they could have lunch.

Since he couldn't help, Roland just sat aside obediently. But he didn't just sit there and wait. Instead, he told Xie Wei some interesting things about the post station.

Xie Wei hadn't communicated with anyone other than Sal for a long time. He found everything Roland told him very interesting. It was the first time he felt so happy in so many days.

The two people got along surprisingly well, and the feeling of strangeness disappeared after a while.

Xie Wei didn't think he was a very sociable person, and this young boss who seemed easy to get along with probably wasn't either.

That probably means they really hit it off.

While Xie Weisheng was serving rice, Luo Lan took the initiative to bring the stewed meat with red vine fruit and the green leafy vegetables fried with lard to the table.

This surprised both Aldridge and Benji that their young master would actually take the initiative to serve the dishes. This was even more rare than the fact that no one was injured in the Red Moon.

After both of them sat down, Xie Wei discovered that although Luo Lan, who was sitting opposite him, ate fast, his table manners were very standard.

After the Emperor and the Empress decided to send him to Sal, in addition to being forced to take medicinal baths, he also had to take many additional court etiquette classes every day.

At this moment, Xie Wei looked at Luo Lan's movements, compared them silently, and found that his movements were not as skillful and elegant as Luo Lan's.

But Xie Wei didn't think too much about it. After all, he knew very little about this world and had not met many people there.

Apart from the teacher who taught him table manners, the only people who had eaten with him were Sal and Roland in front of him.

Aldridge waited outside the door for two full hours before his little master gave him a signal. The two of them repeated the same trick and Roland teleported out of the room again.

If there wasn't someone outside the inn guarding the window of Xie Wei's room, it would have been more convenient for him to enter through the window.

After having a full meal and having a pleasant chat, Loran threw himself into Aldridge's arms, still reluctantly thinking about the next meal.

He didn't know yet that his meal had caused Xie Wei a lot of trouble.