Afternoon tea finally started, the weather got a little cold, and Werther, who was not wearing a cloak, wrapped himself tightly in his clothes.
"Witt, you don't even wear a cloak, don't you feel cold?" The queen looked at him.
"I took my cloak to dry, and now I feel a little cold. Stepmother, please allow me to ask the servant to find a cloak for me." Werther felt that his stepmother would not even agree to this matter.
However, the queen really ignored his answer and ignored him at all. Instead, she started joking with her son Ren.
I should have expected this, thought Werther. At this moment, Caitlin clapped her hands, and her personal servant appeared.
Caitlin said to the servant: "Take out a thick coat worn by noble men from the package I brought and help Cousin Werther put it on."
"Yes, Miss."
The servant pulled a huge package from nowhere. After opening it, he found that the top was a brand-new man's cloak. The high-end material and fine stitching made the dress look sparkling. After seeing it, Werther actually felt a little bit inside.
Touched, at this moment Caitlin's servant helped Werther put it on.
Werther curiously asked his cousin: "Why do you have a cloak worn by men?"
Caitlin crossed her arms across her chest, closed her eyes and said proudly: "I passed by a store in Frank City and thought this one looked good, so I bought it."
"I just think it looks good, for this reason?" Werther was a little surprised.
"Yes, I originally wanted to keep it and give it to the guards as a reward later, but now that you need it, I will give it to you as a greeting gift."
"Well, thank you, but I don't have any gifts to give you now. Why don't I owe it this time and treat you to a new variety of bread when you get to Daybreak Town."
"Okay." Caitlin blinked her big eyes, "I can't wait to be a guest at the castle in Daybreak Town."
"Okay." The queen glanced at them, her voice seemed to be dissatisfied, "Let's start the afternoon tea."
Werther glanced at the food on the table. There were no cakes or soufflés. There was only a basket of stuffed bread and a plate of large and sharp chili peppers. The drink was black tea.
He has already smelled the aroma of black tea. The smell is indeed much better than the black tea in his castle. Just smelling it makes him feel refreshed, like a magical stream flowing through his body.
Leaves fresh and comfortable.
These breads look far less delicious than the new ones from Daybreak Town, but I just don’t know what the fillings are inside.
The Queen suddenly said: "Before starting the afternoon tea, we would like to welcome the sons and daughters of the Earl of Rock City to the palace one day early. They are also members of tomorrow's banquet. Len, Werther, you two rarely meet them. Now
Goodbye, we have grown up a lot and may not be familiar with each other. Let me introduce them to you first.
The Earl of Brookstone is also the lord of Brookstone. He is Lern, Doris's second uncle, and of course Werther's second uncle. Don't look at the fact that the area of Brookstone is about the same as that of Peony City, although they are both within the four corners of Duck City.
One-half the size, but it is still relatively large in the Kingdom of Notland, and it is also an important territory in the west of the Kingdom of Notland, not the kind of small town territory that can be compared.
Your grandfather gave Xishishicheng as a territory because he valued your uncle Wang. This is how the royal family is. Members who are valued will be allocated important territories, while the members on the periphery can only go to that pitiful little town.
Be the lord of the town."
The queen looked at Werther proudly. She wanted to let Werther know that he was just a dispensable person in the royal family, and that he only had a territory as small as Dawn Town.
It was a tragic thing, she wanted to make Werther feel inferior and ashamed.
However, Werther was not affected at all, his face was calm, and he even smiled at his stepmother. This made the queen very angry.
The queen looked at the plate of chili in front of her again and smiled sinisterly. This was the special "gift" she had prepared for Werther.
Chili and curry are foods that have only recently appeared in France. They are rarely seen in other places in Notland. The queen feels that Werther must not know about these two things. They are spicy foods, sandwiched in bread.
It's a rich curry, which is already very spicy. If Werther is tricked into eating bread and eating a piece of this bright red chili, he will definitely be too spicy.
When Werther panicked due to the spicy pain in his mouth, everyone laughed at him. Then he asked Lerne to secretly pull out his chair and let him fall to the ground in embarrassment. Everyone laughed at him even more, which would make him extremely happy.
The earth suppressed his self-esteem.
The queen thought the plan very carefully, and even thought out the details of how to bring everyone together to laugh at Werther.
"Cut the bread and put it on everyone's plate," the queen said to the maid next to her.
Werther saw the bread put on his plate, smelled it again, and found that the bread was actually curry! Unexpectedly, Notland now not only has chili, but also curry, which surprised Werther.
The queen looked at him and said with a smile: "Witt, eat quickly, but it will be more delicious if you eat it with the plate of chili in front of you. The bigger you eat, the more delicious it will be."
Caitlin and her two younger brothers live in Brookstone. They have only heard of curry but not chili peppers. They swallowed their saliva and looked at Werther, waiting to hear Werther's evaluation.
The Queen and Lern, who knew the power of curry and chili peppers, tried their best to hold back their laughter and pretended to look at Werther calmly, waiting for him to gulp down the curry paste and chili peppers and then make a fool of himself.
Of course Werther, who had traveled through time, knew these two things. He quickly guessed that chili and curry were uncommon foods in Notland, and he saw his stepmother's trick at a glance. He held the bread in his left hand and picked up a piece of bread in his right hand.
Chili, with stepmother's expectant eyes, she put the chili back again.
He shook his head, deliberately showing an innocent look, and said to the queen: "Stepmother, I'm so sorry, I have to live up to your kindness. My throat has been uncomfortable recently, and I can't eat such spicy food. The spiciness of curry is just...
It's enough."
He smiled, put the bread in his mouth, took a bite and gave a thumbs up: "This curry is really delicious."
The Queen and Lern were extremely disappointed. They never expected that Werther actually knew Chili Pepper! This time they couldn't make Werther look embarrassed, and their innermost tricks were revealed. Instead, they now have the uncomfortable feeling of being known and ruined.
.
Caitlin curiously picked up the chili pepper and put it into her mouth. Just as Werther was about to stop her, she took a big bite and chewed it in her mouth, and then took another bite of bread.
Everyone looked at her in surprise. After a while, she had finished a piece of curry bread and two chili peppers. She seemed not to feel the spicy taste at all.
"Catelyn, how do you feel?" the queen asked with a trembling voice.
Caitlin smiled happily: "Your Highness, these things are so delicious. Can I take some back to Xishi City?"
"Of course you can." The queen was stunned, "But don't you feel some pain in your mouth?"
"I just feel delicious, why do I feel uncomfortable?" Caitlin looked at the queen in confusion. It seemed that she really couldn't feel the pain of spicy food.
"Ah, it's nothing. As long as you like it
." The queen smiled.
"Didn't Her Royal Highness just say that the chili peppers are delicious? Why don't you eat them~" As she said that, Caitlin enthusiastically pushed the plate with the chili peppers towards the queen, and raised her eyebrows mischievously at the queen.
"Well, my throat has been feeling uncomfortable recently, so I won't eat today." The queen looked very unnatural and covered the lower half of her face with a gold fan.
When Lern saw Caitlin eating so happily, he couldn't help but wonder. The chili pepper in his mind was obviously very spicy. Why couldn't he see any spicy feeling in Caitlin's expression? Why don't I try it too.
Lern thought, took out a chili pepper from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth, biting almost all of it. He moved his teeth a few times, and instantly a burning pain filled his lips, tongue and throat. He hurriedly swallowed the part that was not swallowed.
Spit it out.
"Oh my God!" He suddenly stood up, overturned the chair, put his finger on his tongue, and said vaguely, "My mouth is so painful. Give me black tea, I want to rinse my mouth!"
The queen was so angry with Lehn that she slammed her hands on the table: "Stupid kid, why do you eat chili peppers in this way? You don't know how spicy this variety of chili peppers is!"
For a moment, the queen and Len's servants came forward with tea cups and fed Len black tea. Finally, Len couldn't stand the pain in his mouth, so he directly picked up the teapot and poured the black tea into his mouth. Because he drank too quickly, he accidentally drank the tea.
He spit it out. He sat on the ground and dug his mouth with both hands, but because the pepper was too spicy, he would not be able to get rid of this feeling for a while.
The two cousins watched this scene with horror and whispered to each other.
The eldest cousin put his hand to his mouth and whispered: "It seems that cousin Lern is far worse than Werther. Werther looks more powerful and more calm."
The little cousin nodded: "I also think Werther is more powerful now. It's better not to call him by his name directly. It's better to call him cousin Werther like a sister."
"Yes, although Cousin Werther sounds weird, his behavior just now does look like a cousin."
"Why don't we try some chili peppers too? It would be a shame not to eat such rare things after finally coming to the palace."
"Okay, let's cut some and taste it. Get the black tea ready."
The two agreed, picked up a chili, cut each into small pieces, and put them in their mouths.
Caitlin saw her brothers tasting chili peppers and asked them curiously: "What do you think?"
The eldest cousin said: "I feel pain and delicious food blending together in my mouth. I quite like this feeling. However, if I eat too much in one bite, I may not be able to stand it."
The little cousin curled his lips, spit out the piece of chili in his mouth, grabbed the tea cup and poured a cup of black tea into his stomach. Then he looked a little exhausted and looked at Caitlin pitifully: "Sister
, I can’t eat it, not only can’t taste the deliciousness, but it’s also unbearably spicy.”
"Haha~ I didn't feel any pain at all, I only tasted delicious food." Caitlin said, picking up another chili, "Such a good thing can't be wasted, why don't I help you all eat it."
Werther watched with surprise as Caitlin excitedly ate up a plate of chili.
At this time, Werther had already eaten a piece of curry bread.
"Werther, don't you want to eat any more?" The queen glanced at Werther.
"No, stepmom, I'll just drink the black tea again."
Werther picked up the tea cup. The clear liquid inside exuded a refreshing aroma, and he drank it in one gulp.