Ohanabatake no Maousama

A few days later.

While Fei Fei was organizing documents at his house, a loud scream was heard from a distance. ――What exactly is that?

Unless you make a mistake, it is the steward who is screaming his house steward. It's not just a matter of thinking he's always so upset.

It's time that Fei Fei gets up from the chair to see what he's doing.

"It's hard, Faye-sama!" "What's going on, noisy."

It was one of the butlers who came in screaming. And he has a pot for some reason. And he started making words that had no meaning at all.

"Tea ... tea doesn't turn into tea." "Are you stupid?"

When Faye Fei was afraid to dispose of it, the butler tried to explain it again, blowing bubbles out of his mouth.

"So, I brewed tea, but it doesn't turn into tea! Look!" And she presented the pot she had been taking care of to her to Faye Fei and showed her the contents.

"What's this?" What was in it was certainly not tea. The green leaves are just shimmering in the colored hot water.

"I thought about brewing tea with the tea leaves I got the other day, but in this state ..." "Kuh ... I was done!"

At that moment, Fei Fei understood intuitively, not logically. Apparently, he was fit into that man named Kudels.

"How much tea leaves did you distribute !?" "As you settled the other day, it has already been delivered to all top ranked customers."

With a blue face, the butler uttered an unacceptable fact. With a squeaking noise, the blood began to draw, and Fei Fei unintentionally fell on the floor.

"Bad ... this is bad!" "Well, husband, surely!"

I don't know what they did and how, but probably all the tea they bought from Kudels would be useless. Did you replace it with a fake before you took it home? However, there should have been no such opportunity.

Between what time? At least when Fei Fei drank it was genuine tea. That's why Faye Fei was used as a gift to nobles to counteract the bad reputation of black pepper the other day.

But that's backfired. No way, do it like this after calculating everything from the beginning? From the point of making that food court, was it all his trick?

When thinking of such a thing, another servant comes in.

"Fafei-sama! The duke is the one who uses ..."

Thus the worst case of his life has begun. Yes, this case has just begun.

at that time. In Lindelk's inn, Dolce complained to Kuders.

"Mr. Kudels, I can't make tea well."

Apparently, they tried to use the potted tea leaves in the Kudels room without permission. As soon as he saw Dolce's in the pot, Kuders guessed that and grinned.

"What is commonplace. You can't make tea from the leaves of a raw tea tree."

In the words of Kudels, Dolce involuntarily leaks a stupid voice. Then Kudels pulled out all the tea leaves in the pot and said something in a slightly proud manner.

`` It's a matter of course for anyone involved in tea, but the leaves of tea trees are rubbed, dried, steamed, and fermented, and it takes a lot of time and effort to finally make tea leaves. ''

Therefore, you can't make tea by peeling the living tea leaves in Kudels' room and then immersing them in the hot water of the pot. Even if it can be done, Seki no Mt. will only have colors with almost no taste or fragrance.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Kudels. You sold the raw tea leaves to Mr. Fei Fei, and they brewed tea right there."

At that time, Kudels must have brewed tea using raw tea leaves. Isn't that inconsistent with the word now? Then Kuders laughed with a smile at my heart.

Oh mysteriously, "Well then, did you go at that time? Delicious tea will come out ..." "Oh !?"

When he noticed, Dolce shouted loudly. Perhaps the voice was so loud that Kafana, who was sleeping in the next bed, rubs her eyes and comes out.

"Speaking of which, immediately after that, Kuders leaked that no one noticed the magic." "... What a funny story."

Apparently there was something that touched the sensibility, Kaffana asked for an explanation. Kudels then asked him to wait a bit, then set the stove on fire and placed the pot Dolce brought on it.

"What happened ...?" And he started talking to Kauffana about the other day while boiling the water. Eventually, when I finished talking to Dolce, the water in the pot just boiled.

"Hey, you did something interesting. By the way, how was the tea brewed? Raw tea leaves do not make tea, right?"

"Well, that's exactly it, Mr. Kaffana. I was a little annoyed because no one would stick in."

Despite being in trouble, Kudels uttered a biting irony with a mean smile on her masculine and well-formed lips.

"I don't think that Fei Fei, who knows more about tea than I do, doesn't even know this basic thing. Why didn't she surprise me? If you don't talk to tea, you're a lay amateur who doesn't do anything about tea, right?

With a pleasant laugh, Kudels takes out the dry tea leaves from his luggage and throws them into an empty pot.

"By the way, I did that at that time."

In response, Kudels threw in the raw tea leaves that he had just extracted. Then, while humming, add a little water to the boiling pot to lower the temperature, and pour boiling water into the pot with tea leaves.

Yes, Kudels' magic was a very simple trick, in which the dried tea leaves were put in a pot in advance.

"... Isn't it a scam?" Kudels stuck his finger at Dolce's stunned, shaking him right and left.

"It's ridiculous to be a scam. It's just an entertainment. Even if it's a scam, I guess there's no way anyone who is more familiar with tea leaves can get stuck. Now I'm drying or fermenting the tea leaves I bought. It should be ...

There, Kudels smiled. Jade light filled with evil delight spills from the gaps in the long bangs.

"I guess you shouldn't give raw tea leaves to the nobles, right? And it's impossible to bribe to erase the reputation of the recent incident in Patronne. If you really know tea leaves better than me ...

Zoku. When he noticed, Dolce noticed that his entire body of hair was upright in fear.

"Let's have a cup of tea because it is great.

To Dolcez, whose body and mind have completely cooled, Kuders offers a cup of tea with a soft smile as usual.

"... Thank you very much."

I'm grateful to have a warm drink to switch this incredible feeling. Dolce accepts the cup without hesitation.

The tea served by Kudels was, as he said, very delicious.