"Oh, is that so? Then I simply must try some."
Hearing Xu Taiping say this, the Sixth Princess showed neither aversion nor discomfort. Instead, her face lit up with delight, as though she could hardly wait to taste it.
"Isn't it just roast leg of lamb? What else could it possibly taste like?"
Lao Qian, the cook, muttered this just then.
Hearing this, Cao Qianhu and General Chu both glared at Lao Qian, making him immediately shrink back.
Although both men had also fallen under the illusion, they had not forgotten Xu Taiping's identity.
As for Xu Taiping, although he was far away, he still heard Lao Qian's words.
Just like those platters of food, the simple, honest Lao Qian everyone else saw was, in Xu Taiping's eyes, a Goat Demon that could walk upright, its entire body giving off a foul stench.
Hmph, you dare pass judgment on my roast lamb? Once I've lured out your master, you'll be the first one I chop up.
Xu Taiping marked that down against him.
As for whether the Goat Demon would discover that he had not fallen under the illusion, he was not worried.
According to Fairy Lingyue, this Goat Demon was merely a low-level spirit creature. Everything it did followed the orders of the master behind it, and those muttered remarks had merely been its instinctive imitation of Lao Qian.
"Daoist Taiping, pardon the intrusion."
The Sixth Princess carried her little meditation cushion over herself and sat down very demurely opposite Xu Taiping's roasting rack, holding a plate in both hands, anticipation written all over her face.
"Please try some, Your Highness."
Xu Taiping immediately sliced off the tenderest piece of the leg of lamb and placed it on the plate in the Sixth Princess's hands.
Then he stared unblinkingly