Chapter 72: The Princess’s Meal (3)
The preparation of the nutritious full-course meal for Asella went more smoothly than expected.
“I told them to dig up whatever they could find, but I can’t exactly expect ginseng to be growing on the imperial back mountain. If we got even half of what I asked for, I’d call that a success.”
“Doctor, we found it!”
“They really did?”
The capable knights of Moonlight Palace, once they heard it was for Asella, scoured the mountains through the night and brought back every single ingredient I requested.
Not just ginseng, but also deodeok, bracken, wild sesame leaves—an entire collection of mountain greens.
“Shoop, the Supre Merchant Guild’s delivery just arrived. They even sent fresh salmon caught at dawn in the port city...”
“They had that too?”
Supre practically monopolized the Empire’s canal network, and their delivery capability was something else.
Some high-end ingredients could only be sourced through the Imperial Kitchen. The exclusive royal transport ships supposedly used mana stones like motors to fly at ultra-high speeds.
No exaggeration—it was practically bullet delivery. The Empire’s infrastructure was more advanced than I’d thought.
“All that’s left is to make it taste good.”