Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1522 Dropper
"What did you say? You're not coming back tonight?" Phaethon asked in surprise, "What did you do?"

"E Yanqiu wants me to accompany her for one night."

"Huh??? Do you want to listen to what you are saying?"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood. It's actually because I need to apply medicine to Yanqiu."

"Because of her teeth?"

Now it was Shangluo's turn to be surprised: "So you knew that?"

"I also have my own social life. I'm not always around you. I knew Yanqiu's teeth hurt a week ago, and I advised her several times, but she just wouldn't go to the dentist. I could only find some Xiao Huan Dan for her, but Xiao Huan Dan didn't work."

"It turns out that I was helping her find medicine."

"So what's going on now? Just tell me."

Because there was nothing to hide, Shangluo told the actual situation.

"That's easy. Just ask her to come to our house and I'll help her. My hands are definitely steadier than yours."

“Hehe~~Hehehehe~~”

"Why are you smiling so happily? Doesn't your tooth hurt anymore?" Shangluo in the driver's seat turned around and asked.

"Nothing. I just suddenly feel at ease. Because you are reassuring, no one else follows me when I am with you."

"Wait, you don't have your own car?"

"You are really sharp. I do have my own car, but it is just written in my name. Because I have no way of deciding where the car goes. But here is your car."

"Why do you make me sound like this is a safe place that teachers and parents would feel comfortable with?"

"Because you are such a safe place. Look, you drive your car to pick me up now, this is the safe choice."

Although Shangluo usually travels around by tram, which is the most convenient way. But since he wants Yanqiu to move to his house, he still dispatched his own car. By the way, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he still sat in the driver's seat of this unmanned vehicle and pretended to be driving to avoid attracting traffic police to investigate. After all, it doesn't matter at ordinary times, but now Yanqiu is in his car, and there are too many people who know Yanqiu.

By the way, this car was also a small gift from Master Sa, and it doubles the safety.

"That makes sense. Wait, your parents know me too?"

"I know. They said it's okay to play with Xiao Shang."

"I have a bad feeling. Do they agree to let you play with me?"

"correct."

Shangluo looked ahead. He looked into Yanqiu's eyes through the rearview mirror:
"I have a question - did they misunderstand my gender: did they think I was a girl?"

"."

"Isn't that right? You didn't tell them, did you?"

"They didn't ask, they just assumed I wouldn't play with boys. Plus, Master also agreed, so they didn't think there was a problem."

"Look, look." Shang Luo pressed his forehead, "If you want to move to another place to spend the night, should you tell your father and mother?"

"Ah? You want this?"

"Of course. Your parents know you're staying at the Jinling Hotel. If they need to look for you and find you're not there, they'll be very worried."

"Okay. Just call from your home phone when the time comes, okay?"

Although she had to make a phone call to report, she was still very happy.

"By the way, are you usually busy? It seems like you don't have much free time."

"Actually, I'm not that busy. I just don't like going out. When I have nothing to do, I stay in my room. Jinling Hotel has everything, so I'm just too lazy to do it myself."

[She seems to be the type who would stay in the house like a salted fish and dry it all day. She is that type.]

"By the way, Yanqiu, since you usually have very little working time, why do you stay in Yingtian?"

"Of course I'm in college. Have you forgotten? I'm actually two years older than you."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot."

In fact, Shangluo had this impression when he first saw her. Because Yanqiu is 1.7 meters tall, just a little shorter than Shangluo, if the heels were higher, the two would be the same height. Because Yanqiu is one size bigger in height, it can be seen that she seems to be two years older than him——

But after spending some time with her, I found that her personality was as lazy as a salted fish, and it was really hard to tell where her extra two years of age were.

"Where did you go to college? Imperial College?"

"I won't tell you. I need some privacy, too. But, I actually see you every day."

"Um???"

"Hehehehe~~Canned meat stew tastes good, right?"

"???????"

"Your weakness is that as long as someone has no ill will towards you, you can't recognize them no matter how close they are."

"Wait, you mean, one of the people I met before was you?"

"Look at the road! Look at the road! Aren't you driving?"

Shang Luo took his hands off the steering wheel: "I'm just sitting here. I don't have a driver's license. It's against traffic rules if I put my hands on the steering wheel. Putting that aside, where are you monitoring me?"

"Hehehe~~Guess?"

"What do you want me to do?" Before he finished speaking, Shangluo suddenly felt a chill.

A sharp gaze came straight from the front left at 11 o'clock.

Take a closer look.
It turned out to be Ms. Agatha. She was carrying a paper bag and walking towards Shangluo's house.

Lady Agatha's eyes were already locked on him, and it was too late to pretend not to notice.

He had no choice but to stop by the roadside, open the door and get out:
"Good evening, Ms. Agatha."

"Good evening, King of Rome - so this lady in your car, is she your friend? Where are you taking her? Is there anything you want me to bring home for you?"

"You should have seen this person before."

"Huh?" Ms. Agatha tilted her head and looked inside the car: "Oh, it's Miss Yanqiu." The atmosphere was a bit awkward, and the two greeted each other through the car window.

"So?" Agatha asked, "where are you going next?"

"go home."

"You're going to take her home? Does Her Majesty Victoria know?"

"Know."

He had already told those two before he went back.

"Ah!" Ms. Agatha covered her forehead. "How could this be? Why did I teach Victoria to be like this? I thought she would be stronger and more possessive. Why is she so weak? How could she be fascinated by you like this?"

"Hey! Shangluo, you're back?" Suddenly, Victoria appeared behind him, "Great, let's go back together."

Victoria was about to open the car door when Yanqiu opened it from the inside.

"Ah~~ Miss Yanqiu, you are here too. Did you bring the stuff? The prop."

"Yes. It's in my bag."

"It's the same one I used last time, right?"

"Yeah, but the dosage is a bit small. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well tonight."

As the conversation progressed, Ms. Agatha's eyes on the other side of Shangluo were gradually turning cold: "What on earth did you do to my niece? What was the prop last time?!"

"No! Nothing! Aunt Agatha, you misunderstood! There is nothing!"

3 minute later.

“Ahahaha~~” Agatha touched Shangluo’s forehead, “You scared me, and then I knew I was right. You, kid, are a good person.”

[The look in his eyes just now didn't look like he was looking at a good person. He looked like he was going to summon the Lighthouse System to bomb us.]

"However, there is one thing I still need to remind you of." Ms. Agatha looked back at Yanqiu, "Miss Yanqiu, do your parents know that you are coming to your friend's house?"

"do not know yet."

"Then when you get to Shangluo's house, call your parents and don't let them worry."

"Hey, why are you saying the same thing as Shangluo?"

"Shangluo also said this?" Agatha looked over - Shangluo nodded vigorously.

He did say that.

"Not bad, she is indeed a good child. I will help you make the phone call later. If the parents call, Miss Yanqiu's parents should feel more at ease. Oh, by the way, Victoria and I went out to get cooking oil. I asked Constantinople to send the oil Victoria usually eats. I will cook today, and you just wait for dinner."

In front of the editor, Ms. Agatha hummed a Greek tune.

In the editor, today's dinner is slowly being compiled - the dinner she mentioned is the one she is cooking from the editor.

But it's not all about the editor.

*Editor beeps*
"Hmm~~" She opened the door, took out the freshly baked apple pie, and poured the cinnamon syrup she had just prepared on it.

This is a classic Greek dessert - lethally sweet. The melted syrup is poured over the puff pastry while it's still crispy so it soaks it up. The syrup oozes out as soon as you bite into it.

"Okay, next one, lemon syrup."

She went to get some oil today because she needed some when making syrup. Although there are many ways to make syrup, she prefers to use oil, which makes the syrup more transparent.

The apple pie we made earlier is a savory dessert, so it needs cinnamon syrup to go with it. The one we are going to make now, the nut puff pastry, should be paired with lemon syrup.

Unlike cinnamon syrup, the flavor of lemon syrup is hard to master, and it can easily become astringent between sweet and sour. Especially here, because she doesn't know what the acidity of the lemons in Aurora is, and she can't control the amount.

"Well, let's be lazy for a moment." She started to draw the syrup directly, so that she wouldn't have to get the proportions wrong when she made it herself.

After turning the knob, you still have to wait a while for it to get better.

She planned to use this time to make the call she needed to make.

When I walked out of the kitchen, Shangluo was sitting at the dining table with Yanqiu and Victoria. It wasn't because they were waiting for dinner, but because the dining table was close to the yard, where the signal was good and it was convenient to connect.

"Those of you who are just sitting around, please move aside." Ms. Agatha put the apple pie on the table first. "Eat this first. This is not that sweet. Have a snack first."

"Thank you, aunt~"

The three of them responded without even looking up, and then continued to connect online. They didn't even notice that they called out "Auntie", all their attention was focused on the small screen in front of them.

"Oh." Shaking her head helplessly, she walked to the landline and dialed the number Yanqiu said.

"Hello, hello. Is this Mr. Chen's house? Mrs. Chen? Hello, hello. Miss Yanqiu from your house needs to take medicine for some oral symptoms, so she wants to stay overnight at her friend's house tonight."

The two sides communicated over the phone using extremely polite honorifics - humble honorifics, a profound subject in Aurora. Victoria didn't know how to use them, so Lady Agatha had to learn them for her.

These humble words are grammatically the same as the original text, but when using them, you need to pay attention to the subtle changes in meaning. For example, Hui, Chui, Ci, and Fu are all used to describe the other party's actions towards you, such as Hui Zeng, Chui Wen, Ci Jiao, and Fu Yun, but the four verbs Hui, Chui, Ci, and Fu each have a special application environment. For example, the same first-person humble words include Bo, Jian, Zhuo, and San. When you make an action yourself, you have to use Bai, Gan, Feng, Gong, etc. The difference here is even more subtle. If the action expects the other party to respond, use "bai", and if you don't expect the other party to respond, use "feng".
Agatha applied all her life's learning to this phone call, demonstrating the etiquette that a parent should have.

"Ah, I am so grateful for your care for my daughter. By the way, I don't know what your surname is?"

The two talked for about 5 minutes, and Yanqiu's mother still didn't know who was on the other side.

"It's Shangluo's home."

"Ah, it's Miss Sang Luo~~"

After both parties finally confirmed their identities, Agatha and Yanqiu's mother hung up the phone together.

"Sang Luo? Why is it called Sang Luo? Is there a problem with the pronunciation? Or is there an accent over there?"

She doesn't understand.

In fact, she only knew this after coming here. The standard Aurora dialect she learned is actually not used by anyone except broadcasters, because no one's mother tongue is this "standard Aurora dialect". It is called "Jinling reading pronunciation" or "Jinling elegant language" in Daming. The word choice, sentence structure, pronunciation and breathing are different from the spoken language of Yingtian dialect. You can tell that it is a foreigner at first glance.

This was not the biggest problem. The most troublesome thing was that almost everyone she heard in her daily life had a different accent. Even in the same Mandarin, some people could not distinguish between flat and retroflex sounds, sharp and rounded sounds, and the pitch values ​​of the tones were different. For example, the 14th tone of the Yingtian dialect and the 14th tone of the Jinling reading pronunciation were almost opposite in pitch value.

This is actually nothing to me, because everyone is used to it. But for Miss Agatha, who is not a native speaker, this is simply a torment.

"So, it turns out that they always thought Shangluo was a girl. No wonder they heard her name as Sangluo. Our Miss Sangluo is really popular. She can play with so many people. Our Victoria, wow."

(End of this chapter)