"You were the ones who started the race. Come on, hurry up and go upstairs."
"Okay!" the two answered together, dragging their suitcases across the store and disappearing from Masha's sight.
As soon as the two left, Shelley arrived.
After entering the room, she glanced at Masha and said, "I'm sorry, I can't take on the task of teaching Guigui fashion design. I won't work overtime."
"Oh, I see." Masha nodded. "By the way, starting today, you will help in the kitchen. I need a helper."
"Eh?" Shelley was stunned, and then she was obviously a little panicked, "The kitchen... I, I, I have never cooked before."
"Just learn it. You've never been a maid, have you?"
Masha put on a serious expression and said, "You are not willing to work overtime, so you cannot be considered my good brother and you should be fired. However, because the person who recommended you is very important, I cannot fire you. There is no job in our store that specializes in boiling water and hot wine, so I have to ask you to come to the kitchen to help me."
Shelley gritted her teeth and said, "Alright! I'll make it clear in advance that I'm clumsy! I won't care if I make things worse!"
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Well, let's get started.
Chapter 313: As long as there is Han Solo, I can blow it up (Part )
After a while, Shelley came into the kitchen wearing the maid's outfit she designed for herself.
"So, what should I do?" she asked, standing at the door, looking ready to escape from the kitchen at any time.
"It's just normal food preparation, very simple. Wash the cabbage over there first. Oh, here's an apron, put it on, don't dirty that pretty maid outfit."
"Thank you for the compliment, but of course my design will look good. Praising something that is taken for granted will not increase my favorability!"
"What's wrong with you? You have so much inner drama," Masha frowned and looked at Shelley. "In China, this is called self-conceit."
Shelley opened his mouth to retort, but nothing came out.
Masha grabbed the apron in front of her and handed it over: "Come here, take the apron."
Shelley took a step forward, took the apron that Masha handed to her, and then quickly stepped back and put it on herself, until she was within reach of the apron.
"Are you a little afraid of me?" Masha asked doubtfully.
"How could I be afraid of you!" Shelley's voice suddenly rose two octaves, and her English accent could no longer be suppressed.
"Why are you standing so far away from me? Come here and prepare the food, you useless maid! How can you prepare the food standing so far away? Do you want me to stand at the food pick-up area before you come in to work?" Masha put on the posture of a chef scolding a new apprentice, "Come here and work!"
Shelley gritted her teeth, stood next to Masha and started washing vegetables.
"Put on gloves! I don't want your delicate skin to be hurt by anything weird."
"I'm not that delicate!"
"Hmph, who knows? You look like a young lady who is ignorant of the ways of the world. So, do you have a title? How many titles do you have?"
"No! What's the claim?"
Masha looked at the girl's profile in shock and said, "You are an Englishman, but you don't know how to claim territory? Then how did your ancestors expand their territory? Ah, I see. You must not be a Welsh noble, so you don't know Welsh proverbs, Glamorgan, and the Duke of Connaught."
"I'm not a noble!" Shelley whispered.
Masha paused, put the washed vegetables aside, picked up another basket, and said as she washed them, "What a surprise. You have always exuded the aura of an elegant noble lady."
"That may be because the master who raised me was a true British aristocrat."
"Oh? I feel like there's a very profound story here."
"No, I was born in a slum. My family was not very well off when I was young, so my family sent me to a public welfare training class run by a painter. It was a public welfare training class that aimed to help children from poor families develop aesthetic tastes. I learned to paint there and one of my works was sent to an exhibition. My master saw the painting and started paying attention to me. But later, he saw that I hadn't produced any new works for a long time, so he became curious and came to learn about my situation."
"Let me interrupt your sudden recollection. Was your master a little green dwarf with long ears?"
"My master would never wave a fluorescent tube around! Don't confuse us with the fast-food culture of the colonies!"
"Apologize to all Star Wars fans around the world! Including me! Although I am a pure Han Solo fan, that is also a branch of Star Wars fans! I also bought a box of Lego Millennium Falcon for more than 8000 world coins!"
Shelley frowned and looked at Masha: "I can't believe you would yell at a girl for something like this."
"What's wrong? In China, women also hold up half the sky. As the left half of the sky, what's wrong with me shouting at the right half of the sky? We are all the sky, and no one should be treated specially. This is what we call true women's rights."
Shelley opened his mouth but didn't say anything to refute for a long time. Perhaps his IQ was suppressed again.
Mashapi said: "True feminism, understand? The pause after the word 'true' is very important. Having a pause and not having a pause are two different things."
Shelley looked at Masha and suddenly said, "I always thought that you should be a master at picking up girls, but now I'm wondering, how do you pick up these girls?"
"I don't know either." Masha said, and this was the truth, he really didn't know.
He had tried to pick up girls deliberately before, and the final results were Hongye and Huagu Shuang, but... anyway, he was not very satisfied with the result, so he would not take this kind of deliberate and proactive approach in the future.
"When I think about it, in my 18 years of life, except for the girls who threw themselves at me, the results when I took the initiative to pursue girls weren't very good," Masha said.
Shelley looked at Masha with complicated eyes.
Masha noticed this look, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, so he used perfect acting skills to show a state of inadvertently revealing his inner thoughts: "I now wonder if girls sticking to me is a side effect of my superpowers."
Shelley's movements suddenly froze, as if she had been hit by a freezing spell.
Masha pretended not to notice and continued washing the vegetables.
Then he asked calmly, "Continuing with the previous topic, your master came to see you, and then what?"
"If you wanted to continue listening, you shouldn't have interrupted me!" Shelley's voice rose two octaves again.
Masha tilted his head, as if his body was shaken by the lion's roar, and then responded: "Why are you roaring so loudly!"
"Besides, you used the word master, so of course I would guess that you originally meant master, so that's why I asked! A Chinese master will either chant a spell or teach you martial arts. Corresponding to the symbols in the Western culture group, what's wrong with me thinking of Jedi Master first?"
Shelley was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the sky: "Ah, it seems that my word choice is not quite right, should I use mentor here?"
"Yes, use mentor. You see, it's still your fault!" Masha decisively put the blame on others.
"Wait, you're calling the shots, I know!"
As soon as Shelley opened her mouth, she heard someone laughing from the direction of the bar. She looked over and found that Xiao Shi had opened the door between the kitchen and the bar a little and was looking inside.
The moment her eyes met his, she blushed and slammed the door shut.
Masha also looked up at the door and asked in confusion, "Who?"
At this time, Xiao Shi opened the door and came in, her face flushed, and she bowed as soon as she came in: "Sorry! I wanted to come in and say hello, but your conversation was so interesting that I couldn't help but eavesdrop!"
"We both have talent as comedians, right?" said Masha.
Shelley: "Why include me?"
"Ah, this is a great time to complain!" Xiao Shi said, "As someone from Kansai, I say this, so it's really a great time!"
Kikuri Komachi, with the comedic spirit of the people of Kansai, asserted this.
Chapter 314 My targets and my enemies are almost all cunning and clever people (Part )
As soon as Xiao Shi finished speaking, Bai Quan came out from behind her and said, "Good morning!"
She speaks Chinese.
"Oh, that's great. You can already say hello in Chinese." Masha was like an overly doting old father. He wanted to exaggerate every little progress of Baiquan as a feat like mankind's landing on the moon.
"Hehehe, I'm hungry, I want to become an immortal!"
"It's about eating." Xiao Shi corrected in a low voice, then looked up at Masha, "Let me help. I'm good at cooking!"
Masha was shocked: "You Japanese devil, stop making trouble! If you come to help, won't you be able to confine the British to the kitchen?"
——Wait, is this the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
——Wow, history repeats itself in my maid shop!
Shelley looked very happy: "Okay, Masha, Xiao Shi will definitely be much more efficient than me if she replaces me. By the way, I can take this opportunity to give your Gui Gui a fashion lesson."
After looking at the situation, Masha thought about it and seemed that he had no choice but to agree. Fortunately, the Nine Cauldrons were still staying underground and playing their role, and it was not certain that anyone in Yuezhou would awaken in the near future.
Masha was about to agree when Xiao Shi said, "It's obvious that Miss Shelley is not very good at cooking."
"Yes, I'm not good at cooking." Shelley nodded. "After all, I'm a young lady. I live in a castle and have a lot of servants to serve me. I don't have to do anything."
"Wait, didn't you just say that you were born in the slums and were picked up by Master Yoda to learn the Force?"
"I never said that!"
"Ahahaha." Xiao Shi laughed happily, and even though she laughed heartily, she did not repeat the mistake of Hanazawa Kana. This shows that a truly beautiful girl is as beautiful as a painting even when she laughs with her teeth showing!
Shelley looked at Xiao Shi and said, "Are you laughing too much?"
"She's from Kansai," said Masha. This answer was inexplicably convincing, as if people from Kansai were supposed to have a low sense of humor.
It seems that the little boy Baiquan understood the word "Kansai people" and immediately shouted: "SEYANA~"
She then began to hum the famous Kansai dialect song as if no one was around, using the voice of Shirakami Fubuki.
The child seems to have been consciously implementing the strategy of "I don't understand but I can use Blind Jill to forcibly insert myself into the conversation to highlight my presence. Anyway, as long as I am cute, that's enough." Masha feels that she is probably as sinister as the virtual anchor played by her mother.
Xiao Shi stopped laughing and said to Shelley, "Miss Shelley is British after all. She probably only knows how to fry fish and boil potatoes."
"Yeah, yeah, we British people only know how to... No wonder! We can cook French food, too!"
——You also know that the food in your country is hopeless, right?
Xiao Shi blinked her eyes and said, "Really? But Miss Shelley, you won't do it, will you? Miss Shelley looks like the kind of person who would starve to death without a servant to take care of her."
"I can take care of myself! I'm different from you, I'm a real agent! Captain Bear Grylls taught me how to survive in the wild!"
Xiao Shi was shocked: "Really? Is that the Grylls-san who could tear wild animals apart with his bare hands and eat them raw? You learned wilderness survival from him, how come you can't even wash vegetables now?"
"Who said I can't do it well? I'll wash it for you to see! I'm just following your words and saying I'm a young lady, but in fact, I was born in the slums..."
"...Millionaire?" Xiao Shi retorted at the perfect moment - he is indeed from Kansai, even if he is a bit of an idiot, he can still support the main role instinctively!
Shelley was angrily scolded, "I am a millionaire, but that's not what I meant. I was born in the slums, and then..."
"...Master Yoda picked it up, I know." This time it was Masha's turn to intercept, "May the force be with you."
Shelley glared at Masha.
Masha spread her hands and said, "I just don't want Xiaoshi to speak English. It would be too difficult for her."
Xiao Shi: "Uh... Ali-ga↗do↘?"
Shelley gave up: "I can just wash the vegetables, right? Leave all the preparation work to me!"
"Then I'll be responsible for cooking."
"No, we Chinese don't eat white rice in the morning. You can help wash the preserved eggs and cook the porridge. When the food delivery operator comes, please help confirm the ingredients."
"Hi...uh, yes."
——When she said "Hi" just now, I felt like a Titanium King for a moment.
When little Baiquan saw the three people starting to get busy, he said "from horse milk" and ran away.
After all, this kid is a real kid, unlike the one in the car world who is actually old enough to go to junior high school but has a low IQ.
Real kids are naughty.
——If she gets naughty enough to offend the League Secretary, she will probably experience what it means to have her legs broken by the skin.
——I really want to see the scene where the League Secretary and the old lady discipline the little boy Baiquan.
While thinking about this, Masha said to Shelley calmly, "You really came from the slums?"
"I've said it twice. Yes, I was found by Master Yoda in the slums. My real name is Shelley Skywalker."
Shelley's self-destructive remarks made Xiao Shi suppress her laughter and made a sound like a balloon leaking air.
Masha: "Xiao Shi, you are deflated. Look, your butt has become flat."
"Eh? Leaking?" Xiao Shi turned her head to look behind her with a puzzled look on her face. She even touched her butt with her hand, as if wondering why it was leaking. Then she realized, "Ah, that's the joke! I'm not an inflatable doll!"
"I declare that you are no longer qualified as a Kansai person from now on!" said Masha.
Then Masha ignored Xiao Shi who made a long "eh" sound and turned to Shelley again: "Your mentor found you and suddenly asked you to become an agent? Didn't he like your painting talent?"
"At first, he was attracted by my painting talent, but later he found that I was more talented in fashion design and being a secret agent. So he decisively stopped funding my painting studies and began to train me to be a secret agent and fashion designer."
“Why a fashion designer?”
"Maybe it's because I can fly around the world with a clear conscience? After all, the fashion industry is very busy. In addition to fashion shows and the like, there are often cocktail parties here and there, which require flying all the way."
