Chapter 129: Escape
After about half an hour, the door was gently removed again, and the eagletail appeared silently in the doorway. Although his face was still expressionless, it was obvious that he had eased up a lot. She bowed at the door, waved her right hand, and two men behind her walked in carrying a huge wooden platform.
Zhu Zhitong was curious about what this was, and Eagle Tail had already followed the two of them in, and said lightly:
"Tsukushi-sama can't come in person because of something to do, so I told the servant girl to have dinner, and please allow the slave maid to borrow this place to cook for the girl."
Is it so strange that people in this country speak? This is your ship, how can I borrow it? And...... You're not bringing in the food, you're going to cook it here?
Zhu Zhitong became more and more unbelievable, but she clearly saw that there were various ingredients piled up on the wooden platform, and several fresh fish were lying on the green bamboo leaves, and the fish mouths were still open and closed. On the other side of the wooden table, there are also some pots and pans, of different sizes.
"You want to cook here for me?"
Washio nodded, "Exactly, in our country, fresh ingredients are freshly cut in front of guests, called kappo, and this taste is the freshest. Of course, the girl can also see with her own eyes how each dish is made. ”
The implication is that you can keep an eye on it yourself, and we won't be doing anything in the dish.
"It's just that it takes a little longer to cut, so I hope the girl can be patient."
Zhu Zhitong was even more curious when she said this. She already likes novelty things, and she really thinks it's very interesting to be able to watch cooking with a wooden table, and she hurriedly smiled: "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll see you do it." "The playfulness arose, and he forgot for a moment that he wanted to run away in the middle of the night.
Washio nodded to the two men, and the two men understood, and the left and right divisions began to clean up. They first lifted the tables and chairs in the room to the side, and then pushed and folded them very tacitly, and the tables and chairs were immediately folded and flattened like a wooden plank. The two of them then put away the blanket on the bed, folded the whole bed several times, and immediately turned it into a wooden platform, the height was about the same as the chair, and selected two pieces of wood made of the chair and inserted them on both sides of the high platform, which happened to be two armrests, and then turned the soft blanket of Fang Cai over and covered it on the armrests and the wooden platform, and in a blink of an eye, it became a very spacious and comfortable Taishi chair like a trick.
Zhu Zhitong was already stunned.
This room is not big, it is not easy to put down these furniture, but I didn't expect that after such a while of hard work by these two people, all the furniture has changed, and the whole room is only left with the Taishi chair and the big wooden platform that has just been brought in, and it actually feels very spacious!
This craft, I'm afraid it's the most prestigious carpentry skillful hand in the Bihai Kingdom, and Lu Qiusheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is also going to sigh to himself, right?
Zhu Zhitong was stunned, and the two men saluted and silently withdrew, leaving Eagle Tail alone. Only then did Zhu Zhitong realize that the eagle tail in front of her had changed her outfit.
The complicated bun had been put down, and it was tied back in a small hill like a stream, and a white ribbon was wrapped around his forehead, probably for fear of sweat dripping. The body was changed into a short aqua blue tight robe, the shoulders and waist were also tied with white ribbons, the cuffs were pierced behind the elbows, and the whole person looked crisp and neat from head to toe.
Eagletail picked up a sharp knife, selected a fresh fish with a wide mouth and pointed gills, and gently flicked his wrist, and swam the tip of the knife into the belly of the fish. Zhu Zhitong saw that she hadn't cut off a piece for a long time, and it was a little strange, this side of the eagle tail had put down the sharp knife, held down the fish head with her left hand, and pulled the fish tail with her right hand and gently dragged it, and the skeleton of a whole fish bone was dragged out, and there was not a single fish bone missing on the skeleton, nor was it broken a little, so Zhu Zhitong couldn't help but cheer.
"It turns out that your craftsmanship is so exquisite, you can really compete with my sister."
Washio didn't expect her to mention her sister, and sighed, "I didn't expect the famous Governor Liu to be a master of cooking." ”
Zhu Zhitong's face turned red, she forgot for a while, she was talking about the second sister Zhu Zhijie, but she was misunderstood as Liu Mingyan, and it was difficult to defend it at the moment.
Eagletail puts the dismantled fish on a plate and puts the fish plate into the pot. Only then did Zhu Zhitong see that there was a very small stove under the wooden table, and a pot was simmering on the table, and a small flame was boiling a small pot of water.
The things of this Liuxia people are really exquisite, and all kinds of objects are so complete in such a wooden platform.
"Do you all use these small stoves to cook stews on weekdays?"
"Yes, we people in Liuxia don't eat much on weekdays, so we make less."
"No wonder you are all so thin......" Zhu Zhitong remembered that Qiu Yue's figure was also tall and thin, as if she was weak.
Washio didn't answer, washed the sharp knife in his hand in clean water, replaced it with a shorter sharp knife, and began to chop vegetables.
Zhu Zhitong saw that what she had cut in her hand was something like bamboo shoots, but it was only as long as a finger, with purple skin and white roots, which was very tender and watery.
"...... this?"
"This is Minghe, a specialty of my hometown."
"Is it a specialty of Tsukushi?"
Washio shook his head: "No, Tsukushi-sama's fiefdom is there, but I'm not from there, and my hometown is in Kami." ”
"Xiangmei...... The name of your hometown is very nice. ”
A smile finally appeared on Washio's cold face, but the sharp knife in her hand did not stagnate, and for a while, it had already sliced the tea lotus vertically countless times, leaving only the roots connected, and then placed it on the knife case, and with a light wipe of the shallot-like fingers, a tea lotus was immediately displayed layer by layer. The eagle tail took two perilla leaves and cut them a few times and put them under the lotus, purple and green, looking like a lotus flower blooming in the past, which is pitiful.
"Are you passing through here to go back to the country of Liuxia?" Zhu Zhitong asked casually.
Washio didn't say a word.
Zhu Zhitong knew that she had a strange temper, and when she didn't want to say it, she didn't care, so she quietly watched her cook.
The amount of each dish is not large, you can eat it in one or two bites, you can eat one on the eagle tail, and you will eat one on the last Zhu Zhitong, which has been eaten for more than an hour, and I really ate a lot. During the banquet, the two of them each thought about their own thoughts, and never said anything else.
Eagle Tail watched Zhu Zhitong eat slowly while cooking, and stopped when she was eight minutes full.
"I'm going to sail early tomorrow morning, so I'll ask Miss Liu to rest well, if you need anything, you can shake the bell by the door, and someone will come, and the slave will retreat first."
Zhu Zhitong was stunned when she changed her words to call herself a slave. In fact, when she was cooking just now, she was not only watching Eagletail cooking, but also looking at her face, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that Eagletail was just a little more fierce, and she should be a person with a true temperament, and she was meticulous in her work, so she had a good impression and forgot that Eagletail had scolded her.
Eagletail asked the two men to clean up the wooden platform behind him and restore the room to its original state, while he gently stepped onto the deck, where Akizuki still stood looking at the sporadic lights of Nanhua Island in the distance.
Washio was about to speak, but only to hear a few splashes, Aoi jumped out of the sea and onto the boat.
Ah Kui saw Qiuyue and Eagletail, and gasped for breath without caring about the wetness on his face: "Lord Zhuzi, the slave maid went to the island and lay in wait in Liu Mingyan's camp for a while, and heard those sergeants say that they had obtained a secret order, saying that the Kuntou ship docked to find a little girl, but they didn't say their names, they only drew portraits and distributed them to each camp, and the slave and maid quietly came back. ”
As he spoke, he took out a small cylinder from his bosom to avoid water, and pulled out a portrait from the cylinder. Qiu Yue took it and unfolded it, and sure enough, it was Zhu Zhitong's appearance, which was not bad at all.
"It turns out that it's really Liu Mingyan's sister......"
"Since it's her sister, why don't you tell the soldiers her name, but paint a portrait?" Eagletail was puzzled.
Qiu Yue also felt a little strange, and pondered for a while: "Visiting my sister is a private matter, and using the Kuntou Ship and Baisha Camp is a business trip, which is probably because I don't want people to know that she is pretending to be a public business." Anyway, since Liu Mingyan is here, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time. Now that the wind and waves are getting stronger and stronger, to avoid tonight, tomorrow morning, while the morning fog on the sea has not dissipated, we will find a way to bypass Nanhua Island and go west. ”
"Then this Willow girl......"
"Be sure to guard her, if we are discovered by Liu Mingyan halfway, we can also use this sister of hers as a hostage to resist for a while. If she escapes, put her somewhere along the coast of the Blue Sea Country and let her go back by herself. In short, don't hurt her life. ”
"Yes." Eagletail replied in a low voice. She could feel that her Tsukushi-sama was very kind to this Liu girl, and although the reasons Tsukushi-sama said were very strong, she still felt a little unwilling. This unwilling feeling may have arisen from the time when Zhu Zhitong called Qiuyue.
In the dead of night, Zhu Zhitong quietly slipped off the couch. She turned the inside of her clothes over and put them on the outside, and the white clothes immediately turned into inky black night clothes.
This dress was specially made for her by Yinhua at that time, and she specially wore it out of the palace this time. Not only is this nightwalk light and hidden, but it also doesn't get wet, and it is one of the few proud treasures in her hand.
Then she took out two more sets of soft cloth covers from her pocket and stuck them on her shoes. Immediately, there was no footsteps like a cat walking.
There are quite a few gods and ghosts on the ship of this Liuxia country, even if they have no malicious intentions, they should not stay for a long time.
Zhu Zhitong gently opened the door and looked left and right carefully. The passage of the cabin was empty, except that there were many strangely shaped "boxes" in the passage.
At this time, no matter how curious Zhu Zhitong was, she didn't bother to look at what was in the box, but just walked out slowly against the wall of the passage, for fear of making a little noise.
Walking through a long passage, a narrow staircase appeared, only large enough for one person to go up and down, and from above there was a faint sea breeze blowing down, with a hint of the fishy smell of the tide.