After finishing the cake and bread, Lilith wiped her mouth, a look of satisfaction spreading across her face.
There's always a bigger fish in the sea. She used to think the food she ate was the most delicious in the world, but she never expected the food here to be a hundred tis more delightful than anything she had tasted before.
"Teacher Lilith, if you were to rate my Xiang Fang, how many points would you give it?" Luo Wei asked curiously.
She wanted to know if her fragrance formula would make the grade.
"Full marks," Lilith said without hesitation. "The flavor is exquisite."
"Don't you think it's off-topic? After all, it's more suitable for cooking at."
"Xiang Fang is all about the fragrance. The aroma of this formula is beautifully harmonious. Even without the at flavor, I believe its fragrance profile could be addictive."
Hearing Lilith's evaluation, Luo Wei felt relieved.
Both of them taught potion classes, and if Lilith's evaluation was so high, surely Professor Phil's score wouldn't be low either, right?
Realizing that the two knights were not yet satiated, Luo Wei asked Bella to cut so more chicken and bring it up, then returned to the kitchen.
She divided the juice boiled from those spices into two portions, one for cooking chicken wings and feet in a clay pot, and the other for marinating at.
The portion in the clay pot was her assignnt for tomorrow.
That night, Luo Wei took a bunch of daisies to the market square and recited the dicine Buddha Heart Mantra once. If the original owner had a next life, she hoped it would be peaceful and joyful.
The next day, in the potion classroom.
Professor Phil asked the students to take out their fragrance formulas for on-the-spot evaluation and scoring.
The classroom was filled with potent spice scents, each with its own peculiar sll. Mixed together, they underwent a strange chemical reaction, producing a sowhat sour and bitter odor with a hint of stench.
Luo Wei sniffed for a while and felt it was reminiscent of so kind of Chinese dicine with an unusual formula.
Professor Phil's scoring process was swift. He basically just slled the fragrance, asked about the production process, and then gave a corresponding score.
The full score was ten points, but most students only got six or seven points, and so didn't even pass.
It wasn't until he ca to Axina's desk that Professor Phil's pace slowed down montarily.
"Your aromatherapy scent is a bit different. Did you add sothing else?"
"Yes, I added cardamom and frankincense, and also a pinch of white pepper."
Professor Phil nodded, "Not bad, ten points."
A small murmur of discussion arose in the classroom. Luo Wei heard the girl next to her say disdainfully, "It's just adding so more expensive spices. If I had them, I could add them too. What kind of fragrance formula is this?"
"Exactly, the professor didn't say we could add other spices before!"
"He's just biased towards Axina. They must be relatives."
"Quiet!" Professor Phil looked at them sternly. "I never said you couldn't add things. If you didn't think of it yourself, don't be jealous of classmates who are more creative than you!"
The students in the class were fuming but dared not speak out.
So bolder students were still complaining quietly: "That's just how it is."
"If we're just scoring based on the rarity of spices, why bother making fragrance formulas? We might as well rank by family background."
"Isn't the professor violating school rules by doing this?"
Professor Phil slamd the table with a "bang", his voice icy: "Whoever speaks again, ten points deducted!"
The threat of point deduction was effective, and the classroom suddenly fell silent.
It was only the second class, and many students hadn't even earned any credit points yet. If ten points were deducted, wouldn't they end up in the negative?
Professor Phil, with a cold face, continued to check the assignnts.
Axina put away her aromatherapy set and calmly turned her head to look around, her gaze sweeping across the entire classroom.
She had taken note of all those who had questioned her earlier.
Professor Phil soon arrived at Luo Wei's desk: "Where's your fragrance formula?"
Luo Wei opened the iron box: "It's here."
Professor Phil looked down and saw a small, semi-transparent, gelatinous object reflected in his eyes. It was square-shaped, like a cut, yellowish crystal.
"What is this?" He showed so interest.
Luo Wei brought out her prepared explanation: "This is Xiang Dong, or fragrance jelly."
"Fragrance jelly." Professor Phil savored the phrase, feeling it had a kind of beautiful imagery.
He picked up the iron box and slled it, then looked a bit disappointed: "The scent is okay, but not strong enough."
"Professor, this is just its appearance after cooling. If you want to activate its fragrance, it needs to be heated."
Luo Wei took out a pre-prepared oil lamp and a small spoon, scooped a piece from the fragrance jelly with the spoon, and held it over the fla to roast.
As the jelly lted, a rich, llow fragrance suddenly appeared, aggressively spreading its highly inclusive aroma, instantly overshadowing the original slls in the classroom.
"Gurgle—"
"Rumble—"
"How strange, why did I get hungry as soon as I slled this fragrance?"
" too, I really want to eat sothing."
"I want to go up and take a bite of that fragrance jelly!"
A chorus of rumbling stomachs echoed through the classroom, and students tightened their bellies, showing embarrassed expressions on their faces.
Professor Phil, being closest, had the fiercest stomach growl, but his face showed no panic: "Luo Wei, how did you make this fragrance formula?"
Luo Wei: "It was boiled for seven hours with spices, fish gelatin, and chicken gelatin, then filtered and naturally cooled down. It can be used as an aromatherapy product, or can be dissolved in the mouth for consumption."
"What, it's edible!" A student who caught the key point exclaid, his eyes shining like light bulbs.
"Can we really eat it? Slurp—"
"No wonder I wanted to eat it as soon as I slled it!"
"Slurp slurp—"
"Gurgle gurgle—"
"Slurp slurp slurp—"
For a mont, the classroom was as lively as a frog pond.
Driven by these sounds, even Luo Wei's own stomach growled. Hmm, it seed she was a bit hungry too.
It couldn't be helped. People at this ti didn't eat breakfast, only having one al at noon. Wealthy people would have afternoon tea.
Relying on that little food to last all night, getting up early for class the next day, of course they would be starving by now.
The aroma of the braised fragrance jelly was just a trigger.
With their appetites whetted, saliva was flowing in the mouths of both teachers and students in the classroom. Professor Phil swallowed and picked up the parchnt: "Very innovative. I'll give you ten points."
"Thank you, professor."
The gurgling sounds were still echoing in the classroom, accompanied by the intermittent sound of swallowing.
Professor Phil: "Luo Wei, you'd better blow out the oil lamp."
"Yes, professor." Luo Wei swiftly blew out the oil lamp and covered the iron box, though the already lted portion could only remain on the spoon.
Professor Phil returned to the podium with swift steps: "Alright, let's start the lesson."
Seeing a group of students below with hunger in their eyes, he said with a stiff face: "This lesson will cover how to prepare dicinal broths for enemas, as well as the thods of administering enemas."
Luo Wei: ??
Wait, what did you say you're going to teach?
Enemas?
The hungry sounds in the classroom seed to have diminished a bit.
"We'll use the materials from your fragrance formulas as a base."
Students: ...
Luo Wei: ...
What did you say? Say that again?
"Use li water, add the spice broth, stir and let it cool until lukewarm, wait for it to settle, then scoop out the upper layer of broth."
"You can have servants blow it into the body using a cow horn tube, or have doctors insert a funnel or water gun into the anus, then squeeze it into the intestines... When the urge to defecate arises, you can start releasing..."
To be continued
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