The Greece Antagonist

Being stared at by so many strange eyes, for the first time, Altria felt the emotion called "embarrassment," her pretty face could not help but flush red, and her mind instantly locked on a suspect who had the opportunity to commit the crime.

It must be the teacher's doing!

Altria ground her teeth, and a desire to bite arose in her heart.

"Since there are few people on the road now, hurry back and wash up."

Hearing the knight leader's reminder, Altria came to her senses, quickly lowered her head to avoid the gazes of the crowd, and rushed toward the manor.

After fetching some clean water and a strenuous scrubbing, the sketches on her face were finally cleaned off.

Altria breathed a sigh of relief and then looked around, finding a certain culprit at the kitchen door:

"Teacher, why did you prank me while I was asleep?"

"Haha, just a little joke. Who told you to be so serious usually, not looking like my student at all."

Luo En answered with a cheeky smile.

Altria couldn't help but grind her teeth again:

"Just because of that? It's too much..."

"Don't be mad, don't be mad, I came back early to prepare a gourmet meal as an apology for you."

"You can cook?"

Altria was somewhat skeptical.

Luo En seemed insulted and patted his chest, loudly guaranteeing:

"Are you kidding? This is a necessary course for surviving in the wild~! My culinary skill is superb, guaranteed to be better than any meal you've had before!"

Having stayed at the manor for several months, he has more or less tasted the Celtic cuisine of the minor nobility.

Describing it as "beyond words" is him being tactful.

The manor is close to the forest, so obtaining meat is not difficult; goose, rabbit, sucking pig, skylark, dove, and water duck can all be served.

But since spice is as precious as gold, it's already good to sprinkle some native parsley leaves and salt on it; hoping to recreate the taste of future eras is simply dreaming.

To protect Altria's identity, strangers are not allowed in and out of the manor, so cooking is generally done by Hector's knights and retainers.

The food prepared by these rough soldiers typically has the uniform characteristics of being convenient to eat and store, abundant and satisfying, edible at best.

Therefore, a few slices down may result in carbonized layers resembling crocodile skin, some half-raw and still bloody.

Even more extreme, there's black pudding-like hard dishes circulating here.

Note, this is not the sweet dessert pudding, its main ingredient is animal blood, made by mixing it with oatmeal, salt, and spice, wrapped with materials like cloth, intestine casing, and boiled in water.

Unveiling the packaging, the lingering fishy smell and pitch-black color made Luo En physiologically gag.

As for the so-called simple and convenient stews of military campaigns, the taste is not much better.

Take the wild rabbit for example, the rabbit is skinned, the meat is scraped clean from the bones, the meat is chopped and boiled with the blood, then taken out and put into cold water. Onions, parsley, and other spices can be added to the broth and boiled again. The washed meat and bones are placed in the broth and boiled once more, then served.

Though seafood is also provided, for hosting large banquets, the prepared ingredients tend not to be freshly caught fish but smoked or salted items, naturally reducing the taste.

Some even carry a unique stench from the pickling process, which is torture for Luo En's sensitive senses.

As for vegetables...

There's not much to say, there are just a few kinds like peas, cabbage, lettuce, and onions, cooked in water; all green items needed to be thoroughly boiled...

The belief at the time was that green vegetables were not good and harmful if eaten raw.

By the way, eating fruit raw was a practice of the poor, the proper way was cooking in water or making jam or wine...

For months, the only edible thing he found was freshly baked white bread with raisins, bacon, jam; the taste was barely acceptable, but limited by undeveloped grain milling technology, the bread still felt somewhat coarse when chewed.

But this was already considered decent treatment, at least he wasn't gnawing on black bread and finding stones, sand, cloth strips, wood chips, stalks, and other bits inside.

Faced with this disastrous level of cuisine, a slight effort from Luo En would result in a crushing dimensional reduction.

However, actions speak louder than words.

Estimating that it was about time, he led the highly skeptical Altria indoors, raised his hand to lift the lid, picked up the spatula, stirred the thick caramel, and a rich aroma dispersed all around.

At this moment, the juice in the pot had mostly thickened, the meat gleamed with a bright red color, and an enticing aroma wafted over.

Altria's throat twitched, her mouth crazily secreting food-desiring saliva, she couldn't help but ask:

"What is this?"

"Braised pork, the final dish."

Luo En picked up a fork, saw the meat in the pot was easily pierced, immediately extinguished the firewood, served a bowl of freshly cooked braised pork, and brought it to the dining table in the living room.

Altria instinctively followed, as soon as she entered the room, a rich aroma of dishes greeted her.

Mushroom soup, chicken soup, fish soup arranged in a lineup; stewed meat, roasted meat, steamed meat as high-calorie staples were all available; vegetables, fruits, and cheese as side dishes adorned the table... the entire dining table was filled with dishes of color, aroma, and taste, resembling a palace decorated with delicacies.