Chapter 204 Case File 3: The Mysterious Dinner Party at Rose Villa (8)
Jiang You finally understood why Andre and the others couldn't get an answer from Leila. This little maid was only responsible for washing dishes, laundry and taking care of young children. Her impression of her little master only remained at the infant stage. Even if her adult little master was standing in front of her now, this stubborn puppet maid probably wouldn't recognize her master at all.
"...Now that you have no master, whose orders do you obey?" Jiang You asked curiously.
"Butler," the maid said seriously, "Mr. Luke, the puppet butler, is responsible for managing and coordinating all the puppets in the mansion. He also has a token. If Butler Luke is not here, we need to treat the person holding the token as Butler Luke."
Jiangyou's pupils flickered again. She guessed that Butler Richard was holding such a token.
She mixed the puff pastry dough, rolled it into a sheet, wrapped it with square pieces of butter, covered it with dough, and slowly used a rolling pin to roll the butter and dough into a long, flat cake.
When it is rolled out to three times its original length, fold the dough into three folds like a quilt, wrap it with wax paper, and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
This action needs to be repeated two or three times to make the French puff pastry. While waiting, Jiangyou prepared the ingredients for the soup, such as pig's feet, lotus roots and lotus seeds.
"Then do you still remember where your former master and the young master went later?" Leila couldn't tell the story in the middle, but she should know the ending, right?
"Princess Deresi secretly sent the young master away." Leila lowered her head. "She asked me to carry the young master to the underground cave. I followed her through the ice cellar, the wine cellar, the fish pond, and finally to the deepest part of the cave... There is a cave entrance leading to the sea. Only when the tide goes out does the sea retreat from the cave, revealing a small bay.
"There was a man waiting there. He was quite old, with a kind smile and warm hands... He took the little master from my arms and promised the princess that he would take good care of him."
"'I will treat this child as my own,' he said to the princess. The princess smiled rarely, with a sadness and relief in her eyes that I didn't understand." Leila described the scene vividly. "The princess said: 'He shouldn't be imprisoned in this cage. He should go to the farthest frontier and see the stars and mountains; he should go to the most prosperous city, surrounded by friends and family; he should find someone he loves and spend his life with him hand in hand...'"
Pig's trotter soup was stewing in the earthenware pot, and a separate bowl of five-fingered ginseng lotus root and lotus seed soup was also put into the steamer. Jiangyou checked the time, took out the puff pastry from the refrigerator, rolled it out again, folded it into thirds, wrapped it again, and put it in the refrigerator.
"Do you recognize that man?" Jiang You asked casually.
Leila shook her head. "I don't recognize him, but I heard the princess call him... Count."
"The Earl..." Jiang You repeated subconsciously, but there were so many earls in the Duchy of Huntington that Jiang You knew several of them. There were also two earls and a countess among the guests. And from Leila's description, even the widowed countess's dead husband might be a suspect.
"How complicated..." Jiang You muttered. She checked the menu again and decided to make the iced blood tea jelly first. Hmm, I should go ask the housekeeper if I can pluck a few roses!
First, prepare the marinated ingredients, which take time to marinate and infuse flavor. Then, slaughter the lamprey and grill them using the kabayaki method. Next, prepare the grilled beef ribs and cream of chicken soup. Don't rush the remaining cold dishes or stir-fries. Prepare the side dishes in advance and serve them on time to ensure they are fresh, tasty, and presented.
Takumi asked Leila to pause her story and ran into the storage room to get the ingredients.
"A bag of this, and this too..." The skeleton let out a 'Hey Yo', and his non-existent abdominal muscles were useless. He relied entirely on magic to lift the pile of ingredients. The stacked bags of ingredients swayed dangerously from side to side, but he managed to maintain his balance.
"Phew, it's okay. I just need to get to the other side." Jiang You was completely unable to see the road because of the things in her hands, but she still took a deep breath with confidence and took a big step forward. However, before she could walk out of the door, she heard a voice: "Hey, Skeleton Chef~ I'm hungry, what's there to eat... Ouch!"
Jiang You suddenly stopped in her tracks, but the thing in her hand fell down with a bang due to inertia. It was not known whether it hit the spice rack at the door when it fell, but two bottles of white pepper powder suddenly fell down, one bottle splashed all over Jiang You and the visitor's head and face, and the other bottle fell to the ground and shattered.
"A-choo! A-choo!" Jiang You was caught off guard. The spiritual wood on her neck shook a few times, and she actually smelled the almost pungent smell of white pepper. She sneezed several times in a row, and a big snot bubble hung in the hole of her nasal bone, choking her so much that tears were about to flow out of her eyes.
——God knows how a skeleton like her can still shed tears and snot!
"Ouch! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The man apologized as he frantically helped her up, accidentally pulling her arm off. He then frantically handed the bone to her, "It's all my fault, I was so impatient."
Jiang You was choking and coughing as he was helped into the kitchen. After finally groping his way to the sink, he took off his head and rinsed it under the faucet for a long time. He then poured out the water from the skull: "Huh, this pepper smell is really too pungent! Achoo!"
——Luckily, the space in her skull can only be opened when the skull is opened. Even if water gets into her eyes and nose, it won’t wet the contents of her head.
But washing her head could not completely solve the problem. There was still too much white pepper on her body and the blond man next to her. Seeing this, the man took a few steps back. Only when he was about to retreat to the kitchen door did Jiangyou's sneeze gradually stop.
"I'm so sorry." The other person was still apologizing sincerely: "I just happened to be passing by and was a little hungry."
"It's okay, it's okay." Jiang You habitually covered her nostrils, stifling the next sneeze. She had already recognized the troublemaker as Count Valentine, and now she just wanted to get him out. "Why don't you go take a shower and change your clothes first? When you're ready, ring the call bell to order food. I'll make whatever you want and bring it to you."
"Hey, no need to bother. Do you have anything ready-made here? I'm just a little greedy." Count Valentine was still looking around: "Small cookies, peanuts... anything will do!"
Jiangyou had no choice but to let Leila serve him a small plate of witch finger cookies that didn't look very good - in order to prevent the cookies from breaking and looking ugly, Jiangyou specially made some extra ones, and it was still possible to use the defective products to get rid of the greedy diners.
Count Valentine, who had gotten the food, walked away happily with the small plate in his hand.
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