Chapter 13: A Fairy Tale of the Night

Tisilan Mountains at night, Rabbit Ear School.

Bright candlelight shines through the classroom windows, and some of them are figures walking around, the candles flickering and dimming, like stars in the mountains at night.

The students, who were supposed to be returning home from school, did not leave today, but stayed at school to participate in the evening activities after informing their families.

Several 12-13-year-olds kneaded around the table with fist-sized dough, and Mira and Arya walked past them from time to time to tell them how to knead the dough.

In fact, they had just learned, and they had been taught to them by Lorain Hill, and the silver-haired girl at this time had already tied her hair up, her sleeves were pulled up, her white wrists pressed the round dough, and occasionally sprinkled a little ash on the table to prevent it from sticking.

Lorain Hill is teaching these rabbits to make dumplings today, and the first step is naturally to knead the dough.

The first is to scrub the table and prepare the basin and other tools, then pour the flour into a clean basin, then pour in the flour, add the appropriate amount of salt, then prepare cold water, add the water slowly, stir the flour with your hands while adding water, and let it rain and dew evenly.

When almost the flour has become a small flake, stop adding water, press these snowflake-like pieces of flour by hand to let it roughly form a dough, then pick up the dough and place it on the table to continue kneading. If the dough is too soft, keep sprinkling some flour on the table, mix it in, and when it feels about the same hardness, don't spill it.

Knead until there is no raw dough in the dough and the texture is soft and even, then you can stop, then knead the dough into rings and continue to knead it into long strips.

After rolling it into a white strip, Lorain Hill stood at the table, next to a group of onlookers, smiled, and pulled out a knife.

The white strips kneaded with flour are cut with a knife into small cylindrical pieces, each of which is about the same size in length and width, and looks like a cube from a distance.

"Then turn each little piece over, yes, like this thick round cake, and then flatten it with a thick stick."

As he spoke, Lorain Hill used a small rolling pin to roll out a small dough into a round dumpling wrapper, and then picked up the rolled round wrapper for everyone to see.

"It's amazing~"

"Your Highness is so powerful~"

"I'd like to try it too."

A group of children stared wide-eyed at the round dough in their hands.

Like humans, the rabbit-eared people used to eat flour mostly by simply baking it into bread, and rarely made various tricks like the silver-haired girl showed, and many children wanted to try to make it by themselves.

"You can try it yourself." Lorain Hill also spoke up in encouragement, and then a group of children gathered around the cane that Mila and Arya were about to roll out.

But no one thought of this kind of thing in advance, and the two rabbit-eared girls didn't know what to do, seeing this, Lorain Hill simply took out his 'witch staff' which was the wooden staff he took off in the morning.

A few red flashes of light flashed, and the slender wooden staff was cut into several pieces, and several students shared one, and the problem was finally solved.

The rabbits present were all the same, some kneading dough, some rubbing strips, some cutting pieces, and some rolling dough. Each division of labor, some are tired of doing it, and several people also exchange jobs with each other and experience each link.

Although the dough rolled out by the bunnies is large and small, it can still be used in general, even if it has a strange shape, it doesn't matter, you can knead it together and rework it.

While the group of children were excited to try, Lorain Hill also instructed Mira and Arya to prepare the dumpling filling, and then she walked back and forth in front of several tables to see the progress of each group's work, and if there was something where the little rabbit couldn't, she would teach them by hand.

When the students present had almost rolled out the skin, the two rabbit-eared girls also brought the prepared dumpling fillings. One of the pots is filled with corn and radish, the other is filled with shiitake mushrooms and meat cubes, and of course, there is the evil leeks and egg filling.

At this point, the children gathered around Lorain Hill again to see what she was doing.

"First spread the skin in the palm of your hand, then scoop out a spoonful of filling and put it in the center of the skin, don't be greedy, get too much filling, it will break."

Lorain Hill demonstrated, putting a spoonful of corn and radish granules into it, then poking his fingertips into the bowl next to him, dipping a trace of water, rubbing it on the edge of the dumpling wrapper half a circle, then folding it in half like a round and a half moon, and placing it on the table.

"This is the easiest way to wrap up~" Lorain Hill said happily, she also learned from this at the beginning.

"But I hope that people don't get bound by tradition, just wrap the stuffing in the skin."

After finishing speaking, Lorain Hill quickly wrapped the dumplings, and soon 7-8 kinds of dumplings of different shapes appeared on the table.

Some are triangular diamond-shaped, some are boxy, the middle is a cross-like seal, some look like starfish, five sides and five edges, some are like buns, the middle is pinched into a crater, some ingots are the same, the two corners are folded in half and overlapped and pinched, and some of the seals are layered like willow leaves, which is very cute.

Whenever Loren Hill made a new shape, the children would cry out for joy and look at her with great interest, hoping to see new tricks.

"Okay, okay, don't look at me, that's all I have to offer, you can try it yourself."

After pinching more than 20 kinds of shapes, looking at the dumplings with various shapes and interesting and cute shapes, Lorain Hill was a little out of inspiration, so he had to smile helplessly and let the children try it themselves.

The children present cheered, and then began to study on their own, all of them had their brains open, and some of them felt that one skin was not enough, so they used two skins together. Some can't even be called dumplings, but it's more appropriate to call them cakes.

But the silver-haired girl doesn't stop it, can't you eat it anyway, why restrain everyone's thoughts.

Finally, they brought a large cauldron, added water, and slowly boiled it, and put it into the pot in batches.

While waiting, to pass the time of boredom, Lorain Hill sat down with the children and began to tell fairy tales.

“...... In this way, the ice elf princess named Snow escaped from the Crystal Castle and encountered 7 orcs. ”

"Are there rabbit-eared people in there?" One of the children asked with concern.

"There are some of them, one of them is the rabbit-eared tribe, and the fox-eared tribe, the sheephorn tribe, and the leopard-headed tribe.... Minotaurs. Loren Hilby gestured.

“...... Although the orcs saved Snow White again and again, in the end, Snow White had to be placed in a crystal coffin because she ate a poisoned apple. ”

“....... Just then, a human prince comes over, and his kiss awakens the princess, and she marries her. ”

“..... The angry queen came to the wedding, but was punished by the prince by putting on burning dancing shoes and dancing until she died. ”

"In the end, the prince and the princess were married, the prince became the king, the princess became the new queen, and they established a nation where humans and elves coexist."

"Okay, that's the end of the story, do you have anything to say?" Loren Hill asked.

"I want to have a magic mirror, and I usually ask it if I don't know how to write my homework." Said a rabbit who loves to learn.

"I want that crystal coffin, no matter how seriously injured, lie in it and wait for others to rescue."

"I want those dancing shoes, and if I don't like it, I'll let her dance to death~" A little rabbit said badly.

"What a magical story~"

"Looks like I've heard a similar legend somewhere."

"Don't think about it, this is the story of the witch." An erudite bunny triumphantly announced.

"Okay, now I'll tell you the next story, which is the story of the little girl who sells candles." Loren Hill clapped his hands and announced.

"Good~" The children cheered in unison.