Chapter 12: The Maids Left Behind
While Yishan and Maier are playing in the downtown area, a tense atmosphere is pervasive in a room in Nami Castle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Kiki and the half-swollen bird stood in the room, looking each other in the eye with a sharp gaze. Xiao Ye stood between the two with a panicked face, wanting to mediate the conflict between the two, but he didn't know what to do, so he could only stand there and stare dryly.
The source of the conflict between the two maids is a small matter.
Kiki asks Ye and Bird to clean Myer's room, and after assigning the two tasks, Kiki goes to the chief chamberlain of Nami Castle to discuss food. Since yesterday's dinner and today's breakfast were unpalatable to Mel, Kiki wanted to cook for Mel herself.
The head chamberlain considers Mai and Kiki to be guests, and it is a shame for the chefs of Nami Castle to let them into the kitchen. The two could not agree on this matter, and in the end Kiki agreed to the chief attendant's suggestion to tell her as much detail as possible about Mel's tastes, so that the cooks could cook according to them.
When she returned, she found that Leaf and Bird were lazy - to be precise, Bird was lazy, and Leaf was not in the guest room where Mel was staying, because she was cleaning the room where she and Bird were staying. There were two maids from Nami Castle in Mel's room, and Kiki had just finished cleaning the room when she returned.
The little bird sat lazily on the windowsill, leaning against the window frame and falling asleep, and at a glance she knew that she was not working. This makes Kiki very angry, and after the maids at Nami Castle leave, she knocks the table to wake the bird up.
"Hmm...... Whisper when you put things down......"
The bird didn't know that Kiki had returned, thinking that the waitress of Nami Castle had made a noise while working, so she didn't even open her eyes and continued to sleep in a different position.
Kiki didn't want to get angry, but the bird's lazy appearance made her blood surge, and her right hand slammed the table uncontrollably.
"Get up!"
"Wow!!"
The bird was awakened by the sound and fell off the windowsill in a panic, nearly breaking his butt into four pieces. As soon as she wanted to get angry, she saw Kiki standing in front of her with a black face, so she quickly covered her ass and stood up.
Kiki tilted her head and stared at the bird with a stern gaze for a few seconds, then asked, "What are you doing?" ”
"Uh...... I'm here...... Rest. ”
Seeing that Kiki's face was not good, the little bird thought that he had made another mistake, and his voice immediately lost his confidence.
"Where's Xiaoye?"
"Xiao Ye went to clean our room...... If you don't believe me, you can take a look. ”
"No need, you go get her back."
After a few days of contact, Kiki already has a certain understanding of the two. Xiao Ye is honest and hardworking, if it were her, she might indeed be cleaning the guest room she lives in by now - by the way, in order to be able to take care of Myer's daily life at all times, Kiki lives in Myer's guest room and sleeps on a chair in the guest room at night.
The room where Leaf and Bird stayed was near the quarters of the chamberlains at Nami Castle, some distance from Meier's room. While the bird went to call Xiaoye, Kiki checked the hygiene of the guest room. The waitresses at Nami Castle are very conscientious and clean the rooms, which can be said to be spotless.
These two laymen should not be the master's maids.
Kiki frowned, and she took two deep breaths, suppressing the displeasure in her heart.
Although Xiao Ye is honest and hardworking, she is always clumsy and has poor work efficiency. The bird was smart, but she was too lazy to do anything—and above all, neither of them had the consciousness to give everything they had. In fact, when Maier took these two as servants, Kiki had a great opinion in her heart, but in her opinion, the master's decision was always correct, so she didn't say anything.
In fact, this was also a mistake on the part of Maier, who confused the concepts of servant and loyalist. But this is not to blame for Maier, because Kiki volunteered to be Maier's servant when she pledged her allegiance to him, so Maier mistakenly thought that the loyalist should be his servant.
Although Maier learned a lot from Gray, knowledge was only a vague concept until it was put into practice. For example, if you know what an apple tastes like, but you haven't eaten it, your tongue will never taste the apple. If someone asks you to describe the taste of apples, you can tell them what you heard from others, but you still don't know what apples taste like.
Hopefully, after the master buys a second carriage, they will be able to do something.
Kiki reassured herself that she would not do anything bad by being prejudiced against the maidens - she knew that doing so would upset Myer.
When Kiki was almost calm, Bird returned to Myer's room with Leaf. The two of them obediently stood in front of Kiki, waiting for the Taerong goblin, who was much shorter than them, to speak.
Kiki folded her arms, took a deep breath, exhaled slowly through her nostrils, and asked.
"Xiao Ye, repeat the task I gave you before I left."
"Hmm...... You asked me and the bird to clean the master's room. ”
Qiqi stared at Xiao Ye for a few seconds, and saw that she looked confused, and the expression on her face seemed to say, "Why did she ask me like this?" ”
She sighed helplessly, turned her gaze to the bird, and asked again.
"Bird, repeat the task I gave you before I left."
"You asked Xiao Ye and I to clean up the master's room."
Bird looked at the spotless room, wondering why Kiki was asking herself such a question.
"We've done it."
"Huh?"
Kiki's eyes widened as the bird's words widened her eyes, and the anger that had just disappeared filled her ribcage once more.
"What did you say?"
"Uh...... I said, we've done our job. The bird spread out her hands as if to show Kiki the fruits of her labor, "The room has been cleaned by us." ”
"Shut up! Shameless stuff! ”
Kiki couldn't hold back the anger in her heart, and stepped forward and slapped the bird. Although she had often lectured them verbally before, it was the first time she had beaten someone. Because of the excessive force, Kiki felt a hot pain in the palm of her hand, and half of the bird's face became red and swollen after being beaten.
"Did you clean this room?! Do you think I'm blind?! When I came back, I saw the castle maid at work, and you were sleeping on the windowsill! Even the hands are clean! And you say you've done your job?! If you don't work, forget it, you still lie and deceive people! The master's face has been lost by you! ”
Kiki was right, Bird and Leaf did not complete their task. Although she was not there, she could guess what was happening—it was nothing more than that when the two of them were about to start cleaning the room, the maid of Nami Castle suddenly opened the door and came in, saying that the cleaning of the room could be entrusted to them.
The little bird wanted to be lazy, and when he saw that someone was willing to work for him, he gladly started to be the shopkeeper. As for Xiao Ye, she probably saw that she couldn't help here, so she went back to clean the guest room where she and Xiao Bird lived.
As a result, Mel's room was indeed cleaned, but that doesn't mean the birds can be forgiven for being lazy. Even if the bird wants to be lazy, he can clean the room with the maids of Nami Castle and be lazy while working. But instead of doing so, she sat alone on the windowsill and slept.
The waiters here are very dutiful, so the birds who do not do their duty are easily highlighted and despised by the people here. As the saying goes, good things don't go out, but bad things spread far and wide, and Kiki knows her peers well, and they like to ramble around when they have nothing to do - in fact, she is the same herself. So there is no doubt that the news will soon spread in Nami Castle.
When they talk about it, they don't say "how lazy the bird is", but "the owner of so-and-so room has a lazy maid", discrediting Mel in the face. That's why Kiki was so angry, and the bird lied to herself, which made her not control her emotions and hit the bird.
But the bird doesn't think so. She felt that no matter who cleaned the room, as long as the room was cleaned, it would be considered a complete task. Now that she's done her job, Kiki shouldn't hit her - even though she's lying, Kiki can't beat herself up for such a small lie.
In fact, she had long been unhappy with Qiqi. She has always felt that Kiki relied on herself to come first, and looked down on her and Xiao Ye, because since she and Xiao Ye were accepted by Maier as maids, Kiki's attitude towards them has always been very cold.
The little bird is not used to being submissive like Xiaoye, and these grievances weigh on her heart like a powder keg, and Kiki's slap happens to be the spark that ignites the dynamite keg.
"You've gone too far!"
The little bird that developed a habit when she was an evil witch didn't dare to commit offences, so yelling at Kiki like this is already the limit of her courage. But even this level of resistance made her legs tremble, her hands and feet cold, and her heart felt like it was about to jump out of her throat.
Kiki regrets the bird's violent reaction, and she knows that even if the bird makes a mistake, she shouldn't have crossed over to Mel and punished her for nothing. But she didn't want to give in to her juniors, because it would probably make the bird even more disobedient. So she puffed up her full chest and looked into the bird's eyes with sharper eyes.
The little bird was afraid that Kiki would see through her inner fear, so she could only bite the bullet and confront Mai Mang. The two looked at each other like this, neither of them spoke, making the air in the room tense even more and more tense.
Xiaoye, who was ignored on the side, fell into a state of brain crash after the bird was slapped in the face, and it took a long time to recover. After that, she stood between the two of them at a loss, looking at the bird for a while, looking at Kiki for a while, trying to speak again and again, but not making a sound each time.
What to do, what to do, what to do?
The bird seems to have yelled at Miss Kiki just now, Miss Kiki won't do anything to her, will she?
When Xiaoye is worried about the bird, the bird is also worried about his safety.
It's over, it's over, it's over!
This guy won't kill me while his master is away, will he?
When Xiaoye and Xiaoniao had their own thoughts, Kiki's heart was also entangled.
Oops, oops, oops, oops!
If you hit someone without permission, the owner will definitely be angry when he comes back!
As time went on, the atmosphere in the room became more and more eerie. Kiki and Xiaobird, who finally calmed down, stopped the confrontation and began to stare at the other two like Xiaoye, not knowing how to end.
At the same time, Maier, who is far away in the downtown area, is tasting the special snacks of Twenty-Nine Village with Yishan.
"This stuffing is made of potatoes, right?"
Maier asked the stall owner after taking a bite of the food called the "mango burrito".
"You know how to do it! This stuffing is made with our Mangshui Village's unique white potatoes mixed with a secret sauce! ”
"This sweet potato is roasted?"
"Uh...... Precisely. ”
"This pancake seems to be mixed with cornmeal, and this doesn't seem to be ordinary corn......"
"Uh...... This one...... Please also be merciful to the guests, if you continue to talk about it, we will not be able to do this business. ”
As he spoke, the stall owner had a bitter face and hurriedly sent two sets of mango burritos to Maier, for fear that the recipe for his signature snack would be heard by competitors. Maier took the burrito with a blank expression, and this blank look amused Yishan, and she laughed wildly.