Chapter 409: Making Dumplings
The afternoon had already passed after a brief discussion on the rewards for the heroes who won the victory over the Deep Sea Eagle, whether the celebration banquet should be held on both National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival and how to hold it, what might happen if the garrison defeated the Deep Sea Eagle, and what the garrison should do next.
Even so, there were still many things that had not been discussed, or many details that had not been made clear. Su Xia wanted to talk it over in one go and resolve the matter in one go, but even he could see that Victory's mental state was not very good.
As a considerate admiral, he must take care of the status of the ship girl, unless the sky is falling, there is something that cannot be delayed. There is still some time before the end of work - the working hours of the garrison are late, and the end of work time is also quite late - Su Xia announced that they would leave, and we will talk about this for today.
If the admiral doesn't leave, the ship girl will definitely feel embarrassed to leave first. Just like if the leader doesn't leave, many employees will feel embarrassed to leave. Of course, lazy people like L20 are exceptions. She is a little better now than before, and she hasn't been late or left early for a long time, but she can't be called diligent anyway. Su Xia was the first to leave the office.
There was still some time before dinner time. It was almost October and autumn had already arrived. The afternoon sun was no longer hot. Su Xia, standing in the sun, suddenly didn't know where to go.
After thinking about it, Su Xia decided to go to the cafeteria to discuss the celebration banquet with Yixian. National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are on the same day, so mooncakes must be prepared for Mid-Autumn Festival. Five-nut mooncakes are heresy, and lotus seed paste mooncakes are the best in the world.
When Su Xia arrived at the cafeteria kitchen, she did not rush to find Yixian, but walked to Colorado first.
Su Xia liked Colorado, whether it was her beautiful short hair or her figure that was like the Grand Canyon, but he didn't go there for those.
Colorado ranked quite high in the cooking competition, so if she wanted, she would definitely get a job in the cafeteria.
Yixian, Ninghai Pinghai, Xianghe, Fuso and other people are more traditional and prefer to cut vegetables by themselves when cooking. If it is just a small restaurant, it is definitely more than enough. However, there are hundreds of people dining in the cafeteria every day, and a wide variety of dishes must be prepared for them. If they still cut the vegetables by themselves, then time is a bit tight.
As an American ship, Colorado does not like tradition. She prefers machines and industrial food production. She uses machines to cut vegetables and meat, and never does anything that can be done by machines.
Her cooking skills are not as good as everyone else's, even the former British ship Aurora and the current fishery ship Chongqing, but no one is better at using machines than her. She is mainly responsible for the use of various machines in the cafeteria, preparing ingredients and providing them for everyone to cook.
Su Xia ran to Colorado because Colorado was using a machine to shred potatoes, and of course, peeling potatoes was also done using a cleaning and peeling machine. No matter how many times, he liked to watch those machines work.
Put a potato into the machine, and in a few seconds it will become a pile of potato shreds, and the knife skills are quite good. Using a machine can really reduce the workload significantly. What ordinary people need several minutes to complete, the machine can do in just a few seconds.
Colorado was very focused, mainly because of the loud noise from the machines, so he didn't hear his footsteps or notice his presence at all.
Su Xia did not speak until Colorado was busy using the machine to shred potatoes, carrots, radishes, and eggplants. He stopped temporarily to collect the ingredients and finally spoke, saying, "This machine is 10,000 times faster than manual labor."
Colorado turned around upon hearing the voice, only to see Su Xia standing behind her. She asked in surprise, "Admiral? When did you come?"
Su Xia replied: "From the time you used the machine to cut potatoes."
Colorado thought about it. It had been a few minutes since she started using the machine to shred potatoes. No more than ten minutes, which didn't stop her from saying, "You came so early, why haven't you said anything?"
"You were working at that time... I didn't want to disturb you." Su Xia said, "Now that you are done, you can talk."
"Oh." Colorado didn't think much about it. Someone just preferred to watch the machine cut vegetables and talk about other things later. "Why are you in the cafeteria? There is no work in the office?"
Su Xia said, "I came to see Yixian for something."
"What's the matter?" Colorado asked curiously.
Su Xia did not hide anything and told everyone the purpose of his trip.
Colorado listened and said, "You want to hold the celebration banquet on both National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"That would save a lot of trouble, right?... It's not for the sake of saving trouble, but mainly because we only have a few days, so we might as well get together." Su Xia asked, "Does Colorado have any opinions?"
"I have no objection," Colorado said. "Whatever your office thinks is fine. We will obey orders resolutely."
"It's not certain yet that they will be held together. But there is a high probability." Su Xia thought for a while and said, it's almost time to watch it for so long, and there are still things to do, "I'll go find Yixian first."
"Wait." Colorado shouted.
Su Xia stopped and asked, "What else is going on in Colorado?"
Colorado took a deep breath and said, "Whose room did the admiral stay in last night?"
"Uh..." Su Xia hesitated, "Sixteenth place."
"The day before yesterday, or the day before yesterday, was the day we attacked and defeated the Deep Sea Eagle. Admiral, you promised me that you would help me clean up my computer in a few days." Colorado said, "I won't talk about what happened yesterday. Can you help me clean up my computer tonight?"
Su Xia recalled what happened that night. He had promised Colorado that it was not perfunctory, but he didn't take it seriously. He didn't expect Colorado to care so much. He hesitated and was silent for a long time before saying, "I guess it won't work tonight. I promised to accompany Hancock to read tonight."
Colorado is a considerate girl. She doesn't care about the admiral's breaking his promise. She said, "Okay...it doesn't matter if it's not possible today, maybe tomorrow. It doesn't matter if it's not possible tomorrow, the admiral must have a lot of appointments, so the day after tomorrow will be fine. Anyway, the admiral just needs to tell me a specific time."
"Well... I don't have any appointments. Tomorrow is fine."
Su Xia almost fled in panic.
When we found Yixian, she was making dumplings.
"Making dumplings." Su Xia stood aside.
Yixian spotted Su Xia and replied, "Yes."
"Making dumplings manually... isn't that too much trouble?"
"How else can we make dumplings?" Yixian asked.
"I remember there was an automatic dumpling-making machine."
“I didn’t buy that kind of machine.”
“Why not?”
"No need." Yixian said, "It's also quick to just use your handbag."
Su Xia watched Yixian making dumplings. He put the dumpling wrapper in his palm, poured a spoonful of dumpling filling on the dumpling wrapper, pressed it, folded it in half, and then finished it with a squeeze. It was really fast. Su Xia said, "It's fast even if you do it with your hands... it's still easier to use a machine."
"We already use machines to knead dough, make dumpling wrappers, and make meat fillings... There's no need to buy a machine specifically for making dumplings." Yixian paused, "Besides, I always feel that food made by machines is not as delicious as food made by hand."
"Of course." Su Xia said, "The main purpose of the machine is to save trouble... The food made by the machine is definitely not as delicious as the food made by a person himself."
Su Xia added: "Things made by machines have no soul."
Yixian agrees with this. A very apt explanation.
Su Xia was not in a hurry to talk about it, it was still early. He looked around and saw that Yixian was not making dumplings alone. In addition to the two sisters Ninghai and Pinghai, there was another person making dumplings with her.
Not Chongqing. The man was exceptionally tall, much taller than Yixian, with brilliant blond hair tied into a bun that was common in Republican movies, and wearing a cheongsam with a huge slit, revealing long, beautiful legs.
Of course Su Xia recognized that person.
Scharnhorst. The first ship of the Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser.
The Scharnhorst class was a product of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
The Treaty of Versailles had been lifted to some extent when it was built. The original design was a larger version of the Deutschland class, but the German naval commander believed that the design was not enough to counter the latest French Richelieu-class battleships, so the design was revised.
Even so, the strength was pretty pathetic, a stepping stone to the Bismarck class design.
Although the Germans called them battleships, people generally call these high-speed battleships with smaller main guns than those built at the same time battleships battlecruisers. During World War II, the British classified the Scharnhorst-class ships as battlecruisers for comprehensive considerations such as armament and protection.
Since there is no clear classification standard for battleships and battlecruisers, both names now exist.
Historically, as one of the main large surface combat ships of the German Army in the early days of World War II, its main task was to attack British surface ships. Before the sinking of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, a large number of British Royal Navy forces were tied up in the North Atlantic and could not be freed for other combat missions.
There is no transformation in the game, so the strength is not very good, but the portrait is definitely good. Anyway, he can't control his hands. How can he not give a ring to such a beautiful person?
Scharnhorst noticed that Su Xia looked at her from time to time. She raised her hand to touch her face, but suddenly remembered that her hands were covered with flour. She said, "Admiral, is there flour on my face? Why don't you look at me from time to time?"
The reason why Su Xia frequently looked at Scharnhorst was mainly because she looked like a foreigner, but was dressed like a woman from the Republic of China, which was a bit strange. However, she was still extremely beautiful.
Su Xia wanted to express his thoughts, but somehow he didn't. That was his wedding ship, right? He reached out and touched Scharnhorst's face, wiping it off like flour, and said, "A little bit."
"Sister Scharnhorst clearly has no flour on her face... The Admiral is being a hooligan." Ping Hai stood opposite Scharnhorst and could see clearly that there was nothing on Scharnhorst's face. If there was, they would have warned her long ago.
Su Xia smiled awkwardly.
Scharnhorst was a little stunned, and didn't react for a moment. Was the admiral taking the opportunity to touch her?
Ning Hai knew a little more than Ping Hai and said, "Ping Hai, are you stupid?"
Ping Hai asked in confusion: "Is there any problem?"
In order to ease the embarrassment, Su Xia said, "Although it's not much, there is still a little flour."
Yixian smiled.
Ning Hai nodded repeatedly and said, "Indeed there is a little, not much, just a little... Ping Hai, you are not allowed to speak."
"If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me." Pinghai muttered.
"Just a little bit." Su Xia said, forcibly changing the subject, "Scharnhorst, are you here alone? Where is your sister Gneisenau?"
"Admiral, don't you know?" Scharnhorst said, "She doesn't work in the cafeteria. She's not a very good cook. She can even burn the sausages."
"Is that so..." Su Xia nodded, and changed the subject anyway, "Aren't you sisters...Why is the elder sister's cooking so good, but the younger sister's cooking is not so good."
Su Xia continued, "You are such a good cook. Is it because you like Chinese culture and often go to Chinese restaurants that you learned it?"
Scharnhorst didn't think too much and said, "My cooking skills are indeed because I like Chinese culture, and I learned it in a Chinese restaurant...Yi Xian is my master."
Su Xia smiled and said, "Yixian is your master, so I am your master's grandfather."
Yixian was making dumplings silently, but his heartbeat quickened a little.
Ping Hai really didn't understand anything, and said, "The admiral is being a hooligan again."
"How can I be considered a hooligan?" Su Xia was dissatisfied. "Yixian is my wedding ship, right? My wife... Isn't the master's husband the master's father?"
Scharnhorst said, "I am also the admiral's wedding ship."
"Both, both." Su Xia waved her hands and said.
Su Xia thought of the Royal Ark and said, "Scharnhorst, do you know the Royal Ark?"
“Yes.”
"Not the old Ark Royal, but the new Ark Royal."
"have no idea."
"You two can get to know each other." Su Xia said, "She also likes Chinese culture. You can communicate with each other from time to time."
"Well," Scharnhorst asked, "Ark Royal is a British ship, right?"
Su Xia then remembered that the German and British factions hated each other, but she still said, "Do you care so much about factions?"
Scharnhorst thought for a moment and replied, "I don't know."
Su Xia did not force Scharnhorst to have a good relationship with the Royal Ark, and asked: "It seems that Xingzhi also likes Chinese culture... I'm a little curious, did she learn cooking skills from you?"
Ning Hai said: "Zodiac signs only know how to eat."
Su Xia laughed out loud.
"Imagine."
