Chapter 96 My name is Alice. The new world turns out to be the old world...
She seemed to have entered another world, but that was not right. The place before her was obviously the royal capital of Calmet. Ye Wan saw the towering stone walls, showing a mottled gray and black color. The golden rose flag was flying high on the wall, which was the symbol of the royal family.
Did she return to the capital?
But that’s not right. The guards at the huge city gate always wear brown uniforms all year round. How come they suddenly turned blue?
Ye Wan walked through the central square, where a fountain carved with fairies was still gurgling, and the air was filled with the complex smells of baking bread, spices, and leather horses.
A public carriage passed by Ye Wan. The driver, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, sat on the high front seat. One hand tightly grasped the reins, and the other raised the whip high. "Go to Area C. Wait only two minutes. Leave when it's full!"
"We're at the central square, hurry up if you're getting off the bus!"
Many passengers staggered down from the rickshaw, cursing and swearing. It was obvious they were not satisfied with the ride, but the driver didn't care. He shouted, "Anyone else want to get on? It's only two coppers."
This is very wrong.
Because the public carriages Ye Wan had seen were not like this. They were a bit like the buses in Ye Wan's world. Each public carriage had a fixed route, and people could get on and off at the station as soon as they arrived. There was no need for the driver to shout to solicit customers.
But since this public carriage was going to Area C, Ye Wan got on and handed the driver two copper coins.
"Put your little mouse in the bag, little girl." The driver took the money and waved his whip. The two warm-blooded horses snorted loudly and ran away quickly.
Ye Wan chose a place on the hardwood bench where there were few people and sat down. The wheels of the car rattled on the stone road, making Ye Wan's stomach churn.
After finally getting off the bus, Ye Wan returned to Honey Lane with the pancake. The cast railway sign at the entrance was still there, cheerfully saying, "Left is Honey Lane, right is nothing!"
"If there's nothing, then there's no need to say anything." Ye Wan waved his hand.
A rich aroma of bread and butter came from Honey Lane. Leo must be baking bread again, Ye Wan thought.
The owner of the bakery was bringing out a plate full of chicken, artichoke and cheese croissants, but it wasn't Leo, it was the former owner Ryan, and a Ryan who looked ten years younger. The wrinkles on his forehead looked much lighter.
Ye Wan was shocked.
"Good day, Ryan, give me a raspberry cheese rice bagel." The speaker was Dorothy who was walking from a distance. She was wearing a pink full-skirt dress with a lace headband of the same color. She looked energetic and seemed to be ten years younger.
Ye Wan didn't dare to delay any longer, she quickly ran to her tavern. The tavern was as dilapidated as when she first saw it. The reddish-brown walls were covered with all kinds of ivy, and there were only dead green ivy in the flower box at the door.
Barbara was drinking coffee in the frame. She looked up at Ye Wan and said, "You really look like the owner of the tavern, but you're a head shorter than her." She finished her coffee gracefully and asked, "Would you like a cup too?"
"Listen to me, Barbara. I don't know what went wrong but I entered a candy house in the forest and came out like this. This may be a parallel world, but anyway, you have to put me in first." Ye Wan said anxiously.
"How do you know my name is Barbara, and who else should I let in?"
"Anyway, let me into the tavern first."
"Sorry, I'm afraid not." Barbara shrugged regretfully. "Before she left for the other world, the owner of this place put a ban on this place to prevent thieves from entering. She has to come and remove the ban magic herself, but she's currently taking her daughter to see the Mona Lisa and won't be back anytime soon."
Ye Wan had indeed followed Ye Yu to see the Mona Lisa, but she didn't have a very deep impression of it. She only remembered that there were delicious desserts all over Paris.
She followed Ye Yu to eat a piece of colorful coconut roll with milk jelly, and then Ye Yu's wallet was stolen by a thief.
Then Ye Yu calmly took Ye Wan's hand and followed the thief to a dark alley. The thief's green eyes were fierce, and revealed his disdain for the weak mother and daughter in front of him.
Then Ye Yu raised one hand, and the thief immediately flew into the sky, then fell rapidly, flew into the sky again, and fell again, with his wallet sliding down. Ye Yu picked up his wallet, took Ye Wan's hand and left: "This guy wants to play here for another five minutes. Let's go, don't tell your dad."
Then Ye Yu took Ye Wan's hand and walked away. Ye Wan looked back and saw that the thief was still flying in the air. He seemed to be begging for mercy, but Ye Wan didn't understand French.
That was when Ye Wan was 8 years old.
She tentatively asked Barbara, "What year is this?"
Barbara quickly replied, "Jupiter is in Gemini."
The Kingdom of Oceana follows the astrological century system, which uses the cycle of Jupiter as the year. But if Ye Wan remembered correctly, this year is the year of Cancer. Combined with the young Ryan and Dorothy, this means that she may have traveled back to 13 years ago.
I can't go home.
Muffin was still sleeping soundly in her sweatshirt hood. Ye Wan squatted at the door. She felt a bit like a wandering gypsy girl, but not as pretty and charming as those girls.
A transporter passed by pushing a huge wooden cart loaded with many oak barrels, and the rich aroma of wine filled Ye Wan's nose.
She remembered the Knight Tavern she had visited the day before. It had a unique feature: malt beer gushing out of the tap. The tavern was very busy, and there was a job advertisement for long-term employment posted on the pillar at the door. The most important thing was that they would provide a car and accommodation.
Ye Wan didn't have much money left in her wallet and couldn't even afford to stay in a hotel, so she decided to try her luck there.
On the public carriage to the tavern, Ye Wan told Pancake what happened. It was petrified on the spot and even touched Ye Wan's forehead with its pink little paw to detect whether she had a fever and was talking nonsense.
The carriage was still speeding along the King's Road. In the distance, the spire of the Holy Rose Palace pierced the sky, and the stained glass windows glowed with rainbow light in the sunlight.
A trace of worry flashed across Ye Wan's face, but he quickly became resolute:
"Yuan must be waiting for me there."
Fortunately, this knight tavern has been doing as well as ever for the past decade, and a huge sign is still posted on the stone pillar at the door.
The gray wolf waiter from before was not there. Instead, a goat-headed man wearing a gray apron came to greet Ye Wan: "Applying for a job? Can you make wine?"
Ye Wan looked at him for a while and thought that this was the goat she met when she bought wine.
"I can make some simple homemade wines, such as green plum wine, osmanthus wine and so on..." Ye Wan said honestly.
"Can you cook?"
"Yes, and I'm quite skilled at it." Ye Wan looked very confident.
Goatee pointed to a shelf of ingredients in the corner of the kitchen and said, "Then use the ingredients here to make a dish. If it's delicious, we'll hire you. We'll provide food and accommodation for 30 silver coins a month."
Ye Wan just wanted to find a temporary place to stay and then look for an opportunity to enter the palace, so she didn't have too high requirements for salary. She walked around the kitchen and saw chicken, pork, sausages drying on the eaves, and a lot of vegetables in the corner.
The weather was already quite cold, and she wanted to try making a three-fresh hotpot.
Ye Wan took some chicken bones to make soup. She put them into a pot with cold water, added onions and ginger, and simmered them over medium heat. Then she beat a lot of egg liquid and made egg dumplings herself.
Ye Wan greased the iron spoon with oil and expertly spread the egg liquid into the pan to make the egg skin. He then stuffed the minced meat in. The goatee stroked his beard and nodded, "I've never seen this before. It looks like dumplings. Very interesting."
“Not only is it fun, but it’s delicious too.”
Ye Wan opened the lid of the soup pot and skimmed off the foam with a spoon. The golden soup inside was bubbling and the aroma of chicken soup filled the air.
Ye Wan put the wrapped egg dumplings, chopped vegetables, mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms and quail eggs in the pot, then covered the lid and cooked for a while.
The foam stuck to the edge of the pot lid. Seeing that the time was almost up, Ye Wan lifted the lid, turned off the fire, and carefully brought the three-fresh hotpot to Goat Beard.
The bottom of the pot is still warm, so the three-fresh hotpot is still bubbling. The clear soup is filled with tender chicken thighs, fresh vegetables and mushrooms. It looks delicious.
"Oh, this looks really good. This is the first time I've seen such interesting food." It nodded at the pot in front of it and picked up the spoon.
The first thing I ate was the chicken thigh, which was stewed until crispy and spicy with a hint of ginger and garlic. Next was the mushroom, which had absorbed the soup and was very chewy. When I bit it, the fresh soup flowed out along my teeth, which was so delicious that it touched my heart.
"Very good, very good, you're accepted." Goatee stroked his beard with satisfaction and said, "Let Xiaohui show you the dormitory."
He shouted into the distance: "Little Gray! Little Gray!"
A cute little wolf cub came running from a distance. He was obviously not used to walking on his two powerful hind legs. He ran on all fours and then stood up, patting the dust off his paws.
"How many times have I told you not to run on all fours?" said the man with the goatee sternly.
"Yes, Mr. Goat, I will change." Xiao Hui looked at Ye Wan curiously: "Who are you?"
Ye Wan was still wearing the red cloak given by the gray rabbit. She was about to speak when the goatee interrupted her, saying, "This Little Red Riding Hood is our newly hired employee. Take her to the dormitory."
Xiao Hui nodded and led her to the back: "My name is Xiao Hui. I'm a wolf cub, not a werewolf. Don't be afraid."
"I know, I'm not afraid." Ye Wan said quickly.
Ye Wan felt that this cute little gray boy with bright eyes was the big, strong, and muscular wolf. It seemed that time was really a butcher's knife.
Little Gray looked kind and enthusiastic. "That's the wine cellar. There's a lot of fine wine in there. If the goat master is in a good mood, he'll use the wine dispenser to get a large glass and share it with the staff. Nick, the fox in the kitchen, is responsible for cooking noodles. He's very cunning and might make a bet with you to cheat you out of your wages. Don't trust him."
He muttered for a while and suddenly remembered something, so he turned to Ye Wan and asked, "By the way, Little Red Riding Hood, I still don't know your name."
"My name is Ye..."
Before she could finish her words, a bounty hunter sitting there eating a large piece of fried chicken shouted, "It is said that it is a little girl named Ye. The Great Witch said that she must be found."
"Who is the Great Witch? Which Ye are you looking for?" Ye Wan was shocked.
The Kingdom of Oceana is very similar to Western Europe. Their family names are mostly Blanchett, Aston, etc. Ye Wan only knows an oriental businessman named Li who sells soy sauce, and a Japanese artist named Kamishiraishi.
She felt that this little girl named Ye might be herself.
Little Gray waited for a long time but got no answer: "Hey, Little Red Riding Hood, can you hear me?"
Ye Wan's mind didn't react in time. The first thing that came to her mind was the name that had been bothering her for the past few days:
"Me? My name is Alice."
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