I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

A month later, Pei Xiang was eating lunch in a small restaurant in Rose Town.

Small restaurants are booming.The amber-colored malt sherry and the buns with Calante butter are the signatures here. The steak and sauce taste very ordinary, but each portion is large and affordable, and it is very popular among nearby residents.

"Hey, Amy, here's your vegetable soup and roast, and you have such a weird taste that you don't like my mother's sweet and creamy broth."

Betty, the eldest daughter of the restaurant owner, put the food ordered by Pei Xiang in front of her, took out a small book stained with oil from the large pocket on the apron, and skillfully flipped to the page belonging to Pei Xiang, scribbled Write down a number.

Pei Xiang smiled and nodded, and made a thank you gesture to Betty.

Betty smiled heartily, clapped the notebook in her hand casually, and said quickly and clearly:

"Amy, counting today's lunch, the bag of silver coins you put in the store before has been spent. However, in order to thank you for teaching her two new dishes and a delicious seafood sauce, she Decided to bake a big apple pie myself for your dinner, free of charge."

Pei Xiang's eyes lit up. Mrs. Anna's apple pies are famous in the town. When she was collecting all kinds of gossip, she heard frequent customers in the restaurant talk about Mrs. Anna's pie baking skills more than once.

Seeing the look of expectation on Pei Xiang's face, Betty immediately said proudly:

"You must have heard their praises, haven't you? Well, since my mother's apple pie was praised by a nobleman, she never wants to make it lightly. She will only show her skills when she has guests.

"Dear Amy, I swear, you won't be disappointed. Haha, even though you have a weird taste in food, believe me, no one can refuse my mother's cooking..."

At this time, the loud and high-pitched voice of the proprietress Anna came from the direction of the kitchen, which immediately interrupted Betty's interest in chatting.

"Betty—come and serve the food, Betty! Betty! Naughty girl, are you being lazy?"

"Oh, I'm not lazy, come here, mother, I'm introducing your specialties to Amy..."

Betty pursed her lips and explained loudly, and she did not forget to smile brightly at Pei Xiang, showing two cute little canine teeth.Then, she ran away holding the tray "da da da".

After the lively and cheerful shopkeeper's daughter left, Pei Xiang bowed his head to eat.She chewed slowly and ate a mouthful of roast meat that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and she tore off a piece of white bread to dip in hot and sour sauce as the main course, while thinking about all the information she had collected in the past month.

There are traces of magic everywhere in this magical continent, and people's acceptance of strange things is very high.Even witches with bad reviews are not completely reclusive. They prefer to live close to villages and sell their magic potions to ordinary people with all kinds of troubles.

The reason why Pei Xiang came to Rose Town was because he heard that there was a powerful witch named Maggie the Red Hair here.The other party is very good at brewing healing potions. Even the king of this country has bought purple potions for treating baldness from the red-haired Maggie.

It is said that the bottle of purple potion, which is brighter and clearer than amethyst, is wonderful. It not only made the king grow thick hair, but also cured his deafening snoring when he was sleeping, which made Her Royal Highness very happy.

For this reason, the queen specially invited the most handsome and romantic bard from the neighboring country to stay in the palace for a while, and recorded this event together with the poet in beautiful poems. After that, she ordered all the bards in the country to Tell this touching and beautiful story.

Pei Xiang: "..."

When Pei Xiang arrived in Rose Town, he visited the red-haired Maggie, but unfortunately, she didn't have the chance to meet the witch who had become famous recently.

Because, under the vigorous publicity of the bards, many people have heard of the reputation of the red-haired Maggie, and they have come to seek help from this witch. figure.

In front of these high-ranking figures, a lonely and dumb girl like Pei Xiang can't be ranked at all. Regardless of her status or financial resources, she can't get the attention of the red-haired Maggie.

"Hey, Roger, is the wound on your arm still not healed? I advise you not to delay treating it just to save a few silver coins, and go to the red-haired Maggie as soon as possible to buy some healing potions." A curly-haired man at the table next to Pei Xiang suggested to his companion.

The tall, thin man named Roger muttered vaguely as he chewed:

"Do you think I don't want to go to Maggie to buy potions? It's not like you don't know how busy she is now. The boy who helped Maggie take care of the garden said that Maggie still needs to brew twenty bottles of purple potion for baldness and Thirty bottles of magic balm for strong body odor, and then she may be free. Well, before that, she has no time for our small business of a few silver coins."

"Oh, yes, look, I forgot, our red-haired Maggie is already famous," the curly-haired man looked at Roger's wound sympathetically, "but what are you going to do? If you don't go If you work with the clerk, he will cancel your qualification as a secretary assistant."

Roger sighed sadly, feeling that the meat in his mouth was tasteless, he gulped down a large glass of malt sherry, and burped loudly and melancholy.

Seeing his friend frowning, the curly-haired man turned his eyes and landed on Pei Xiang.

"Roger, I have an idea."

"What's the idea? My old chap, get out of the way."

"You also heard from Betty just now that Anna is going to bake a big apple pie for that girl. Well, I remember that the clerk likes Anna's pies very much. Why don't we discuss with her and ask her to bake apple pies? Resell the pie to you, and you give the pie to the clerk. In this way, he will definitely not care about your recent inability to do copying work, nor will he promote your competitors."

Luo Jie thought it was a good idea, and he immediately turned to look at Pei Xiang.

The distance between the two tables is very close, of course Pei Xiang heard the conversation between Roger and the curly-haired man clearly.

Meeting Luo Jie's bright and expectant eyes, Pei Xiang could only shake her head regretfully. She wrote in the small notebook she carried with her:

"Sorry, I'm sharing a delicious meal with another friend who loves apple pie, and I'm not going to trade the pie for money."

After seeing the reason written by Pei Xiang, the curly-haired man frowned dissatisfied, and muttered with a little reproach:

"This girl is a bit selfish. Roger is injured and about to lose his job... If I were you, I would never insist on sharing with friends happily when I learned that a poor man was about to be in trouble. gourmet food."

Hearing this, Pei Xiang immediately pointed in the direction of the restaurant and gestured at the price of five gold coins.

Although she can't speak, she has a pair of bright and beautiful big eyes that seem to be able to speak, so just a few movements and expressions allow others to understand what she means.

——You can pay five gold coins for Anna to bake another apple pie.

——Although Anna is obviously unwilling to bake pies for ordinary customers, in fact, as long as the price is high enough and there is a legitimate reason, Anna will definitely not refuse.

"Oh, Roger wouldn't care about the copying job if he had five guineas," cried the curly-haired man. "Hey, dumb girl, if you'd give us the pie, we'd give you one." Gold coins! How about it? Just now Betty said that you have no money to eat, a gold coin is enough for you to live for a long time."

Pei Xiang still shook his head.

At this time, the conversation between the two tables was overheard by other people, and soon, all the diners in the restaurant knew about it-a dumb orphan girl from outside was about to get Mrs. Anna's apple pie!

What a lucky thing!You know, many people in the town haven't tasted that delicious food for a long time, and even the honorable sheriff can only taste Anna's craftsmanship during the New Year celebration.For this reason, everyone missed the days before Anna was invited to the noble mansion.

Suddenly, not only Roger and the curly-haired man wanted to buy Pei Xiang's dinner pie, but also other diners who heard about it.

But no matter how everyone persuaded him, Pei Xiang just lowered his head to eat and ignored anyone.

The grumpy blacksmith drunkenly slapped the table, yelling that Anna was eccentric, and let a dumb foreigner taste the pie dedicated to the noble earl;

The two dusty hunters sang loudly, expressing their longing for the delicious food of their hometown in the lonely wilderness;

A few children ran around on the ground while the adults were arguing, shouting with their unique screams, asking for pies, pies, delicious pies...

Pei Xiang turned a deaf ear to the noise around her, as if she was not only dumb but also deaf now.She swallowed the last bite of food slowly, and was extremely calm from the beginning to the end.

Yes, after a month of soul cleansing, she is slowly adapting to various strange situations in this magical fairy tale continent.It is not surprising that the scene of arguing over a piece of pie is not surprising. It is understandable that the nobles of the whole country are excited about a potion for hair growth and snoring. After all, it is indeed a chronic disease that bothers and embarrasses many people. .

In the end, what brought the restaurant back to a warm lunch atmosphere was a shout from the proprietress Anna in the kitchen.

Immediately afterwards, everyone quickly fell silent.Even the blacksmith, who likes to play drunk, immediately fell into a state of deep sleep, as if he was not the one who loudly accused Anna of being biased just now.And Roger and the curly-haired man who first provoked the chaos had slipped away quietly.

Pei Xiang wiped his mouth, got up and left.

She planned to find a place where there was no one to bask in the sun and practice kung fu, and skipped her plan to work as a temporary worker in a herbal medicine shop in the afternoon.

Because she was worried that the stingy and gloomy herb shop owner was also coveting her pie, and would stun her with a herb she didn't know, and then go to Mrs. Anna to receive the reward instead of her.

Don't ask her why she had such an idea, anyway... the half-month working life in the herbal medicine shop was not in vain.

For this reason, Pei Xiang touched her pretty face with pity, and sighed in her heart. She never expected that her life in another world did not cause a war like Troy because of her beauty. Instead, she almost fell into a piece of apple pie. superior.

After thinking wildly for a while, Pei Xiang entered the state of concentrating on practicing.The inner strength and the sword intent were swimming in her body at the same time, and in response to a magical power hidden in the little mermaid princess, Pei Xiang's strength was gradually improved.

At the same time, the seemingly normal dagger is also undergoing silent changes. The dark light that cannot be sensed by humans flickers, and it has been faintly resonating with the powerful existence in a certain space.And the opportunity to pull all the changes is the bright sword intent in Pei Xiang's soul.

Before the sun set, Pei Xiang, who had been hiding for an afternoon, suddenly smelled an extremely sweet smell of food. The smell slowly drifted into Pei Xiang's nose, making her feel hungry.

Pei Xiang rubbed his stomach, followed the direction of the aroma and walked to the small restaurant of Anna's house, and found that the sweet smell came from a piece of creamy yellow apple pie topped with golden honey.

"Hi, Amy, you're here. Just in time, the pie is ready." Betty greeted Pei Xiang while standing in front of the door, swallowing quietly.

Pei Xiang deliberately ignored the envious and restless eyes around him, and made a few gestures towards Betty.

"Would you like to wrap up the pie and take it away? Oh, and two more grilled fish. Well, I see, it will be ready in a moment, wait a minute."

After Betty figured out what Pei Xiang meant, she nodded. She reluctantly glanced at the pie in her hand, and stomped back to the back kitchen.

After a while, Betty came out again with a basket, and handed the packed pie and grilled fish to Pei Xiang.After paying for the grilled fish and the basket, Pei Xiang smiled at Betty and shook his hand, then turned and left.

Of course, her departure was not so smooth, because there were always people who wanted to get the pie that belonged to Pei Xiang.They didn't dare to make trouble on Mrs. Anna's territory, but once Pei Xiang walked away with the pie, some people became bolder.

"Quick, she's heading out of town, over there!"

"Who is her friend? Oh, I really envy that lucky guy. If I had known today, I would definitely be friends with this dumb Amy."

"Come on, hurry up, maybe you can get a little piece, she'll have to. Well, if I don't have pie today, I won't be able to sleep all night..."

Pei Xiang ignored the whispers behind him, walked quickly with his head in his basket.

Ten minutes after coming here, she turned around and turned into a dark alley.After a few more minutes, she came out from the other side of the alley with a smile on her face.This time, there was finally silence behind her.

Before the aroma of the pie attracted more people's attention again, Pei Xiang ran towards the willow forest outside the town with his light work.There, her new friend General d'Artagnan is waiting for her and her food.

Entering the depths of the willow forest, Pei Xiang stopped in front of an old tree stump with huge red mushrooms.

She looked around in the quiet surroundings, but did not see General d'Artagnan, and waited for a while. Pei Xiang was worried that the pie would not taste good when it was cold, so she blew a bell according to the previous agreement. A special willow whistle.

A moment later, a black cat with a top hat appeared in front of Pei Xiang, and said in a low voice:

"Good evening, little human girl. I heard from the town mice and pigeons that you got Mrs. Anna's apple pie... So, is that delicious treat in your basket? Are you going to put the stuffing Do you share the pie with your loyal friends?"

Pei Xiang squatted down and looked at General D'Artagnan the black cat, and nodded with a smile.She pointed to herself, then to the energetic black cat general, then placed the basket between the two of them and made a "please" gesture.

"Meow~ my friend, are you really going to share the delicious pie with me?"

Sniffing the faint fragrance in the basket, General d'Artagnan widened his real cat's eyes, and his silver beard curled into a spiral shape because of surprise and excitement.

"Meow!"

Pei Xiang smiled slightly. She helped d'Artagnan tidy up his pink bow tie, and then, as usual, reached out from the tree hole of the old tree stump to take out an emerald green tablecloth embroidered with small white flowers. After shaking it, she fell flat. Spread on stumps.

Then, under d'Artagnan's eager gaze, she took out the pies and grilled fish from the basket without hesitation, and placed them before her and d'Artagnan's eyes.

"Amy, you are so generous! You are the most generous and kind-hearted two-legged human being I have ever seen. Meow~ Although you are ugly, you have a pair of beautiful eyes that can talk and a gentle heart that knows how to share. I'm proud of you, my friend, Meow!"

Smelling the aroma of pies and grilled fish, D'Artagnan happily "meowed" several times, and waved his paws, the surrounding red mushrooms gave off a soft light, like lamps in the shape of umbrellas, illuminating the He and Pei Xiang's small dining table.

"Shall I call the crickets and nightingales to sing, Amy?"

"No, that's fine. I like to hear the wind in the willows."

"Me too, so it's not suitable to live near the lotus pond. Brother Frog never knew that quietness is a virtue. However, the little fish there are very cute, Amy. When I first saw you, I thought you were like He is as kind as a small fish, and it is sweet when eating with you."

General D'Artagnan sat upright. He took out a bright pink silk handkerchief from the pocket of his brown striped coat. After dipping some dew on the willow leaves, he wiped his plush hair carefully. paws.

"Then, let's start dinner."

Pei Xiang bent his eyes, watching d'Artagnan quickly tear off a large piece of delicious pie, and then rolled his tongue, the piece of pie was missing a third.

Seeing this, she quickly tore off a piece of apple pie, and ate dinner quietly and quickly.

D'Artagnan gurgled happily as he ate a hunk of pie, his beard waved and his cat's eyes were bright and round.

"Meow~ It's so delicious! Amy, how can I repay you?"

After D'Artagnan satisfied his hunger, he resumed his gentlemanly dining etiquette, and finally had time to chat with Pei Xiang.

Pei Xiang shook his head.

D'Artagnan also shook his head and insisted:

"You can't refuse my thank you gift. Amy, General Ben leads the largest battalion of squirrel infantry and pigeon scouts in the vicinity. He is the most respectable and decent cat in Willow Grove for 100 years. How can he take advantage of his friends for nothing? Listen, I must repay you."

Having said that, D'Artagnan showed a pensive expression, and the beard that had been raised just now also fell down, slowly turning into the shape of a question mark.

"Meow, this general has thought of a way 1"

d'Artagnan exclaimed joyfully:

"Amy, you have been unable to speak, but I can teach you to make all kinds of gurgling sounds with your throat. In this way, you can be considered to have mastered an ancient and elegant language."

Pei Xiang smiled gratefully, but rejected d'Artagnan's proposal.

She made some gestures and told her friend, the black cat, that the purr sounded nice, but other humans were so stupid that they couldn't figure out what those cute purrs meant.Therefore, even if she learned it, she still couldn't communicate with her kind.

Comprehending Pei Xiang's meaning, d'Artagnan sighed with his silver beard drooping:

"You're right, meow, I always forget that your kind are more or less dumb, and will never understand the difference between our cat's purring and purring once long and short, and will only scratch our necks and giggle .”

Pei Xiang nodded in agreement, showed sympathy with D'Artagnan, and touched the grilled fish to express regret.

During the meal that followed, D'Artagnan kept talking so as not to make his friend feel left out.

He first talked about the size of his newly occupied territory and several small-scale wars, then made some silly jokes about the dogs, and finally complained about the arrogance of the witch Maggie.

"Since she cured the bald king's hair loss, people have been drifting away. Meow~ When she went into the forest to collect medicine, she was kind to us old neighbors, but now she walks with her neck up. Charlie the hedgehog didn't apologize for stepping on him, and even scolded Charlie.

"Meow, Charlie is very angry. He has a good relationship with the flower elves, and we have discussed it. If the red-haired Maggie doesn't realize the mistake and apologize sincerely, from now on, Maggie's garden will never get any more flowers. Blessed by the Flower Spirit."

"What would happen without the blessing of the flower elf?" Pei Xiang blinked curiously, showing a puzzled expression.

D'Artagnan looked at Pei Xiang affectionately, thinking that this is a poor silly boy who doesn't even know such common sense.

"Without the blessing of the flower elves, there will never be flowers in full bloom in the witch's garden, and there will be no more fruits. By the way, the relationship between the flower elves and the tree elves and grass elves is very good. Where the flower elves are unwilling to bless , and the tree elves and grass elves are not willing to patronize there. So, if Maggie doesn't apologize, her garden will become bare, oh, like... some human male heads!"

Speaking of which, d'Artagnan proudly stroked the thick black cat hair on his body, and flicked his long, fluffy tail.

Pei Xiang showed a dazed look, and she pushed the rest of the pies in front of D'Artagnan, saying that she would just eat grilled fish.

D'Artagnan thanked him modestly, and quickly devoured the last two slices of apple tart.

"Meow~" D'Artagnan quietly unbuttoned his striped coat, releasing his chubby stomach, "Amy, since you don't want to learn the elegant and ancient Gulu language with me, you have to choose another way. Meow, The witch Maggie can help you solve the problem of not being able to speak. How about this, you go to her with my pink bow tie, and she will understand what to do without saying anything."

A trace of hesitation flashed across Pei Xiang's eyes.She gestured twice, indicating that she had gone to the witch Maggie before, but she was too busy to help her for a while.

D'Artagnan patted his round belly, and said proudly and confidently:

"Although Maggie has become impetuous and superficial, meow, she still doesn't dare to break her promise to the noble Lord d'Artagnan. She once promised me that she would do her best to help me with one thing, with my favorite The bow tie is proof. So don't worry, Amy, as long as you go to her with my bow tie, she will brew the potion for you in no time."

Pei Xiang smiled brightly, silently thanking d'Artaglio for his generous help.

D'Artagnan raised his beard triumphantly, and immediately returned to his solemn and serious cat face.

After handing over his beloved pink bow tie to Pei Xiang, he took off his hat and saluted her, and then left with graceful steps.