Chapter 161 – The Most Outstanding Dollmaker
Chapter 161 – The Most Outstanding Dollmaster
On the Lost Country ship, the brilliant sunlight was shining on the scrubbed upper deck, while a hovering green flame was gradually dissipating over the deck, Alice stood next to the open space, looking at the large pile of things that appeared on the deck in a daze.
“What is this …… this …… what is this?!”
Miss Doll lost her voice and exclaimed, and just as her words fell, Duncan’s voice came from a short distance away, “Stuttering as if your head had fallen off – have you never seen any pots and pans, fruits and vegetables?”
Alice turned her head a little stiff-necked, glanced at Duncan, then at the large pile of supplies that had suddenly appeared on the deck, and, after a moment’s serious searching, justified herself with a cross of her arms, “Never seen it!”
Duncan: “……?”
“Never seen it,” Alice continued with a straight face, “I’ve been in a box all these years, where am I going to see all this stuff?”
Duncan was stunned, followed by a pat on the head, “…… I forgot, well, you’re right, in some ways you’re even more illiterate than Shirley.”
Alice, who at this point was about to go up and study what all the piles of stuff that had suddenly been teleported over by Aey were for, turned her head suspiciously after hearing Duncan’s words, “Shirley? Who is it?”
“Someone I met in the city-state, maybe you’ll get a chance to meet her sometime in the future,” Duncan thought for a moment, “I feel kinda connected to her.”
“Oh.” Alice let out an oh, and quickly put the matter behind her, then she went back to the large pile of supplies on the deck, circling around and around.
“This is flour… …… This is meat? It’s really different from the jerky on the ship …… This is vegetable leaves? It feels so fragile and cold …… This round one is what …… ah, broken ……”
“You do not woe eggs!” Duncan took a look at this lack of common sense dolls and the tendency to add to the chaos, hurriedly stepped forward and slapped off the other party’s hands that were touching everywhere, “This is all I used to improve the conditions on board.”
“Hehehe ……” Alice let out her signature laugh and withdrew her hand a little awkwardly, “I’m just a little curious – so many things I’ve only heard about ever heard of hey.”
Duncan gave the mannequin a helpless look, but in his heart he kind of understood the guy.
Alice’s brain (if she really has this organ in her brain) has a lot of “innate knowledge”, she knows how to communicate with people, knows a lot of things in the world, and even accumulates her first impression of the world by “listening” to the voices outside the box. She even accumulated her first impression of the world by “listening” to the voices outside the box, but after all, she has always been in a sealed state, and technically speaking, it was only a short time ago that she really came into contact with the world, and the first time she came out of contact with it was in the Lost Country, which is definitely not suitable for a newcomer’s village, the “opening stage”.
She lacked too much knowledge of the real world.
For some time before, the only things she had access to were the things on the Lost Country, and the limited space and objects on the ship were fairly easy for her to adapt to, but now Duncan had brought a large number of new things from the human city-states to the doll.
Even a piece of greens or a bag of flour were incredible objects to Alice.
“Human city-states are such an incredible place …… ” Miss Mannequin looked at the piles of things on the deck, looked at the flowery packaging, and sighed heartily, “It must be much, much bigger than the ship, right? ”
“…… It’s big, but much smaller than the Infinite Sea.” Duncan replied casually, gazing into Alice’s eyes that held wonder and anticipation, remembering once again what he had promised the other man.
He had said he would show Alice around the city-state.
“I’ll get the trouble over at the City State sorted out as soon as I can and figure out the secret you’re carrying,” he said earnestly to the figure in front of him, “Just be patient in the meantime.”
Alice instantly revealed a bright smile, “Good.”
A heartless look as always.
But it was by looking at this heartless figure that Duncan’s accumulated agitation in the city-state of Prand calmed down a little, and he breathed a soft sigh of relief as he pointed to the things on the deck, “Come with me and move them all to the galley – this pile of miscellaneous things next to it to the captain’s cabin. ”
“Ohhhh, yes!” Alice immediately agreed, then said as she stepped forward to help, “Will we be using them for dinner tonight?”
Duncan looked back skeptically, “It’s okay …… but will you?”
“No!” Alister said matter of factly, “But I can ask Mr. Goathead for advice, he says he’s an amazing cook and has over ninety percent of the world’s cooking secrets ……” “How dare you believe him when he dares to say that!” Duncan glared at once, “You might as well stop wreaking havoc with the ingredients I’ve managed to get here, I’ll make dinner, if you really want to get serious about learning to cook something that people can eat, watch how I do it, don’t learn from that goat head – he doesn’t even have a digestive tract.”
“Oh ……,” Alice nodded, followed by a glance at Aye, who was pacing the deck beside her, and with a twinkle in her eye, “Is Aye going to be going ‘over there’ later on ‘?”
“Of course, there’s something for it to deliver later.”
“Are you still shopping?” Alice asked curiously, “What else are you buying?”
Duncan turned his head and gazed into Ms. Doll’s eyes for a moment before a faint smile appeared on his face.
“Shopping for you.”
Alice: “……?”
……
Inside the “Rosemary’s Mannequin House” in the city-state of Prand.
Duncan felt that this kindly old lady elf might have misunderstood him, but he had no intention to explain.
Mostly, he couldn’t explain – how to tell people? Saying that he really had a doll in his house that possessed a soul and joys and sorrows, and that this doll was recently suffering from a problem of thinning hair? That’s an optimistic thing to say, and the old lady will probably run to the church to report it. ……
In the eyes of the owner of “Rosebud”, Duncan has become a “soulmate” who truly loves dolls and is willing to put a lot of effort into this area – in the high society of Prand, the buyers of dolls are the most popular people in the world. In Prand’s high society, there are a lot of people who buy dolls, and a lot of people who are genuinely interested in collecting dolls, but very few people would show such heartfelt concern for dolls as this gentleman did today, which gave her a feeling as if the other party was not talking about the same “object” when he mentioned his “dolls”, but a living, breathing person! It gave her a feeling as if the other person was not talking about an “object” when he referred to his “doll”, but a living human being, or even a “friend” that the gentleman cared about very much.
Many dollmakers don’t necessarily have this attitude.
The two of them talked happily, Duncan finally heard a lot of knowledge related to dolls from a professional (although I don’t know how much of this knowledge can be used on Alice), while the owner of the dollhouse obviously hadn’t encountered such a kindred spirit for a long time, and after a chat, the old lady couldn’t help but laugh and sigh: “I’ve lived in this city for three or four hundred years, and the Consul alone has been a good friend to me. I’ve lived in this city for three to four hundred years, and I’ve seen seventeen consuls die, and I’ve met countless human beings – almost none of them could really understand the ‘dolls’……. It may not sit well with you, but in my opinion, humans are indeed a much colder species than elves.”
“I don’t know much about elven society,” Duncan heard and spoke smoothly, wanting to guide the other party to say more about things related to elves, “but I’ve heard …… that in the elven city-state of Lightwind Harbor, there is a gathering of the world’s most outstanding The most outstanding craftsmen in the world are gathered in the Elven city-state of Port Lightwind. The unique craftsmanship of the elves is world-famous ……”
“Elves are indeed good at delicate crafts, we are a race that is naturally sensitive to both math and art – that’s why most of the famous dollmakers in this world are also elves,” the old woman said frankly, with a tone of justifiable pride, however Immediately after that, her words changed, “But when it comes to the profession of puppeteer, in fact, many peers from other races have a prejudice against elves …… Often people say that elves don’t really have that much talent in craftsmanship, and the reason why so many puppet masters can come out of us is purely because of the long lifespan, a little ‘grinding’, and a little ‘grinding’. , a little ‘grinding’ out just ……”
Duncan was a bit unsure how to take this at once, “That …… well, peers are enemies, it seems to be the same everywhere, so what do you think of these comments?”
The old woman laughed, “Me? I think they’re right!”
Duncan: “……?”
“I think they’re right,” the old woman emphasized again, a pleasant smile on her face, “Anyway, every year on the Day of the Dead I go to the graves of a few of my old peers to say hello and tell them ‘You guys are right! ‘ – get up and hit me if you can!”
Duncan: “……”
Are all elves in this world like this! Why did he feel like something was wrong with this picture?
“Alas …… just kidding,” probably noticed the expression on Duncan’s face, the old woman then shook her head, “In fact, there are not so many enemies, we are all just in such a short period of time to be each other’s traveling companion. , and really want to talk about the dollmaster this line of work …… I have always felt that the world’s most outstanding dollmaster is by no means a certain ‘master’ among the elves, but should be a human.”
“A human?” Duncan asked casually.
“Yes, not many ordinary humans nowadays probably know that name anymore ……,” the old woman said slowly with slight emotion, “Her name is Lucrecia Ebnomar, and she’s that famous ‘Captain Duncan’s’ daughter, that is the most outstanding dollmaker I have ever seen ……”
Duncan: “?!”
(end of chapter)