Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

After Puka ran away, Xie Wei looked at the branch in his hand that Black Wolf had pulled from somewhere. It was called a branch, but it was more like a thin bamboo pole two fingers wide, but with a reddish-brown skin.

"This is a plant that only grows in spring. We call it Sveta. The juice of Sveta is very sweet." Sal explained as he looked at Sveta in Little Rose's hand.

At this time, Xie Wei used the Paraso language that he had learned during this period. Sveta is the Paraso language, which means "sweet branches" when translated into common language.

After understanding the meaning of the name, and with Thrall's explanation, Shevi finally understood what Puka's previous look meant by "delicious".

Xie Wei looked carefully at Sveta in his hand. Sveta's skin was a bit hard. What Puka brought over was a whole branch, about one meter long, and there were no leaves on it.

After weighing it for a while, Xie Wei felt that this was a bit like the Lar continent version of sugarcane, and talking about sugarcane reminded him of sugar.

In the Far North, both sugar and salt are scarce commodities, and outside the Far North, salt and sugar are also luxuries for civilians.

Xie Wei's knowledge of the Lar continent came from the limited books he had read in this world and the bedtime stories that Thrall told him.

No one on the Lar continent has yet tried to extract salt from the sea. In general, only mined rock salt mines and salt deposits in salt lakes are considered salt.

There are no salt lakes or large rock salt mines in the Far North Territory. The Paraso people can find and mine very little rock salt. The rock salt mined in the early days was kept by the high priests of each tribe, and every once in a while the high priests would distribute a small amount of salt to the tribesmen in the tribe.

Later, after adventurers and bounty hunters entered the Snowfield, they spread the word about the rich resources of the Snowfield. Merchants smelled business opportunities, and caravans entered the Snowfield one after another.

The merchants used salt, sugar, and other things that were not available in the Far North Territory to exchange with the Parasau people for a large amount of magic crystals and monster materials...

Although the trade was not very equal, the Parasau people finally had enough salt for their daily needs.

Since the Parasau people were unwilling to leave the snowfields, they only pursued basic food and clothing in life, and they did not know how expensive and rare the various things they usually had for fun were outside the snowfields. In short, this unequal transaction lasted for a long time.

Today's merchants are relatively restrained in exchanging things with the Parasos compared to the early days, but Xie Wei has calculated that after deducting the merchants' various costs, they can still earn excess profits outside the territory for every item they exchange.

Unlike the Far North where there is a shortage of salt but the salt is distributed evenly, in regions and countries outside the Far North, both salt lakes and salt mines are controlled by those in power, and ordinary people can only spend money to buy the expensive but indispensable salt.

Compared with salt, although sugar is not a necessity, it is actually a luxury. Currently, only the aristocracy and businessmen can eat sugar freely, excluding some small businessmen and impoverished nobles.

Unlike salt, which has large reserves but strict control, sugar is expensive because its source is limited. Currently, most of the sugar on the Lar continent is made from the juice of beets that only grow in the eastern region.

Moreover, due to the relatively backward technology, the sugar output is very small, and in Xie Wei's opinion, the sugar that is finally boiled is much less sweet than the sugar in his previous life, so he usually eats more honey.

When Sal saw Little Rose staring at Sveta for a long time, he thought he wanted to taste it, so he broke off a piece of Sveta.

Xie Wei was brought back to his senses by Sal's actions. He looked at Sveta, who was broken, in a daze, then turned to look at the man.

Sal just pinched the branch gently, and some milky white juice came out from the broken end of the branch.

The fracture of Sveta is very neat, and you can see the white core inside from the fracture.

"Want to try it?" Sal asked.

Usually, Sal prepared enough honey and sugar for Shevi, as well as some beautiful fruits, so he didn't think of Sveta at all. He carefully put the broken end of Sveta to Little Rose's lips and thought, if Little Rose liked it, he would have someone prepare some juice for her every day.

Of course Xie Wei had to taste it. It would be great if it was really similar to sugarcane. But he didn't know how much Sveta grew in the Far North Territory in spring.

His amber eyes lit up instantly as he took a shallow lick of Sveta's juices.

Very sweet!!!

"Like it? I'll have someone prepare it for you every day, but don't drink too much. Some kids will have teeth that hurt and turn black after eating too much Sveta in the spring."

After Sal finished speaking, he didn't let Xie Wei continue tasting it. He stuffed the remaining piece into his mouth and ate it up in a few bites.

Xie Wei knew that Sal had very good teeth. The man's neat, white teeth were as hard and sharp as animal teeth. His sharp canine teeth still scared Xie Wei a little.

The bite marks on his body had long disappeared, but Xie Wei knew how easily Sal could bite through his skin. In the beginning, he occasionally had the illusion that he would be eaten by the man skin and flesh.

After Sal finished eating, he saw Shevi staring at him blankly, thinking that he was surprised at the way he ate Sveta.

He raised his hand and hugged Little Rose to his chest, then touched Little Rose's teeth through his soft lips. After touching it for a while, he retracted his finger and pointed at his own teeth and said, "I can bite off bones that are not particularly thick, so I can eat it this way, but you can't eat it this way, understand? Your teeth are as fragile as the cub's."

Xie Wei: "..."

He was originally worried when he heard Thrall say that he could bite off bones that were not particularly thick, but when he heard this, he immediately covered Thrall's mouth with his backhand to manually silence him.

If someone has bad teeth, just say that they have bad teeth. Why say that they are as fragile as a cub?

A little angry.

After having her mouth covered, Sal suddenly realized that Little Rose had reached the age where she would rebel if treated as a cub. It was not obvious before, but now that Little Rose was closer to him, Sal could easily notice it.

Little Rose couldn't bear to hear these. Like every growing teenager, she couldn't bear to hear words like "thin" and "like a cub".

So he held Little Rose's hand and kissed her. After Little Rose quickly retracted her hand, Sal wisely changed the subject.

"Sveta, you have to drink all the juice you squeeze out within two days of picking it. After two days, the juice will turn black and you can't drink it. If you drink it, you will have a stomachache, a headache, and vomiting."

Sal reached out and took Sveta from Shevi, then told Little Rose some common sense that she needed to remember.

Although he couldn't let Little Rose drink Sveta juice for more than two days, he wanted Little Rose to know more about the Far North Territory, so he would explain these things to Little Rose patiently and in detail.

After listening to Sal's words, Shevi asked, "How much does Sveta grow in spring?"

Although shelf life is an issue, the Lal Continental version of sugarcane is worth experimenting with.

"There are quite a lot of them, all in the valley, but there's no way to preserve them." Sal said this while looking in the direction of the training ground.

He briefly connected with Pukka.

Puka was showing off with other monsters the small barrel of animal food that he and Persevo had forcibly exchanged, and was looking at the flying monster standing next to the barrel of animal food and eating it voraciously.

The question that Sal had been thinking about before had an answer. The one who went to inform Pukka must be Posevo. These two guys were already a notorious criminal gang in Good City.

After the synesthesia was resolved, Sal looked at Little Rose who was trying hard to get out of his arms and run to the animal shed, and the corners of his lips straightened. He decided that starting tomorrow, he would let the two of them pick fresh Sveta for Little Rose every day.