Chapter 21

For dinner, we had roast beef, warm vegetable soup, and soft white bread.

I relished the taste while remembering the setting where beef and white bread were luxuries reserved only for the wealthy.

And I left a little bit behind to pass down to Gina.

Unlike court officials hired by the palace, giving private servants leftover food or extra portions as a reward seemed to be part of their compensation.

Even if good ingredients were used for my meals, the going rate for what Gina herself could eat was apparently hard black bread, burnt scraps of meat, and vegetable peelings.