Chapter 591: Secret Garden
As Halloween came to an end, the disturbance caused by Indiana ended, and the garrison returned to peace.
Ella returned to the KanColle headquarters.
The many rewards that the KanColle headquarters promised for the naval base's defeat of the deep-sea battleship HLW-001 have not yet been delivered.
U-14 also returned to her original shipgirl division. Before joining the garrison, she had to go back to the shipgirl division to pack up her things. With the combined forces, Richelieu, Surcouf, and so many friends, it was something a little girl could not refuse.
Su Xia worked as usual, but when the deep-sea ship girl did not appear, there was basically no work to do. So the most she did was to pay attention to the exercises and expeditions every day, and occasionally look through the reports submitted by everyone to see the resources and financial income and expenditure. Most of the rest of the time was used for study.
In this world, the earth will continue to rotate without anyone. The naval base will continue to operate with or without Su Xia. But if you want the port to be filled with everyone's laughter, you definitely can't do it without the admiral.
Su Xia also wants this port area to be filled with everyone's laughter and wants to help everyone solve problems.
Children are basically carefree, and adults tend to hide their problems. If you don't know who needs help, you can only pretend that no one needs help. Su Xia now takes a little time every day to get along with everyone. There are too many people in the garrison. Even after being in the garrison for so long, there are still many people who have not been properly interacted with.
It was several days before the end of Halloween. This afternoon, Su Xia did not stay in the office to study, but left the office at three o'clock. She planned to take a walk and then go to the British residential area to enjoy black tea with everyone. Even though she often went to the British residential area, there were still many British people she didn't know well. Then she ran into the flower maid Shropshire.
"Where is Shropshire pushing the cart?" Su Xia found that Shropshire was pushing a cart with bags of rice-like things on it. "What are these?"
"This is fertilizer," Shropshire replied. "It's going to be sent to the secret garden."
"Secret garden?" As the admiral of this garrison, Su Xia knew everything about the garrison. "The one next to the pond... the unicorn's secret garden?"
"Yes," said Shropshire. "Will the master come and see it?"
Su Xia thought about it and saw that she had nothing else to do. It just so happened that the unicorn hadn't been properly touched yet, so she nodded happily and said, "Okay."
Su Xia followed Shropshire to the corner of the garrison and saw that the not-so-large green space was surrounded by pavilions, corridors and flower stands with all kinds of flowers. A beautiful girl like an elf, wearing a garland and with beautiful long silver hair falling to her waist, and wearing a white gauze dress, was sitting on a stone bench in the pavilion.
"Unicorn," Shropshire shouted, waving from a distance as he pushed his cart. "I'm here with fertilizer."
"Unicorn, good afternoon." Su Xia waited until she got closer and then greeted her softly. For some reason, he didn't want to speak loudly in front of the girl, as he felt it was blasphemy.
The Unicorn is part of the Royal Navy.
Historically, it was designed as a first-class aircraft repair ship to repair aircraft on aircraft carriers. Since the repaired aircraft were required to be able to take off directly, it was designed to be an aircraft carrier structure and could be used as an aircraft carrier. Because it was positioned only as a support ship, its construction was repeatedly delayed and it was finally completed and put into service. At one point, in order to speed up the progress, it was not even equipped with maintenance equipment when it was completed.
In the early days, it was mainly used as an aircraft carrier, performing support missions in the Mediterranean. Later, it joined the Pacific battlefield as an aircraft carrier support ship and repaired a large number of aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa. It also participated in the Korean War during the Cold War and was retired shortly afterwards.
There is no such thing as an aircraft repair ship in the game, so the Unicorn is just an ordinary light aircraft carrier. The attributes are just so-so, mainly because the illustration is quite cute, so Su Xia still practiced hard for this. In the end, as long as there is an admiral who is diligent in frying fish, it is impossible for a light aircraft carrier to not be at the maximum level.
Currently it has not been modified and has no skills. After modification it may become a support ship with quite special skills.
So, KanColle comes from people's thoughts and wishes. Because of her special name, the name of a magical creature, the image of the unicorn is like a goddess, with a silver harp in one hand, the strings are the runway, and the emerald bird is the carrier-based aircraft. She releases the carrier-based aircraft by playing the silver harp. Then, it is obviously a support ship, but because everyone has no idea what kind of warship it is, it becomes a light aircraft carrier.
When the unicorn saw Su Xia, she called out softly, "Admiral, the admiral is here..." Her voice was as sweet as an oriole.
"Come and see the Unicorn's Secret Garden." Su Xia said. Since the secret garden was located in the corner of the garrison, far away from the working and living areas of the garrison, and he was really busy, he had not been there many times.
"I've always heard people say that the Unicorn's Secret Garden is beautiful." Su Xia praised, "I saw it today and it really lives up to its reputation."
The unicorn smiled, a little shy and embarrassed.
While Su Xia was talking to the unicorn, Shropshire pushed a cart to a small house with white walls and blue tiles. The small house was used to store fertilizer, hoes, sickles, fruit shears, lawn mowers and other tools. She asked, "Is the fertilizer in the tool room?"
Unicorn has always been concerned about Su Xia, who is his favorite admiral. When he heard what the flower maid said, he reacted in a flustered voice: "Yes, just leave it there."
Shropshire was a beautiful and lovely girl, and her main job was a maid. She did not shirk her job at all and immediately and skillfully moved the fertilizer to the ground.
"Let me help too." Su Xia said. Even though there wasn't much fertilizer, he couldn't bear to see the girl working alone.
"The master can just sit aside and rest." Shropshire said, how could a maid's work trouble the master.
"It's okay." Su Xia waved her hand.
"This is the master's order." Su Xia is now very experienced in dealing with maids. If the maids are disobedient, then just give them orders. Ordering the maids to wear bunny girl costumes or bellybands is another matter.
There were only a few bags of fertilizer and the two of them unloaded them all in no time.
Su Xia clapped her hands and found that the unicorn stood up from the stone bench. She looked embarrassed. She thought that she must have seen the two busy unloading fertilizer. She felt embarrassed because she had been sitting next to them. However, she wanted to help but there was nothing to do. She waved her hand and said, "Don't worry about it, unicorn."
"I want to ask where I can wash my hands?" Su Xia raised her hand and asked. There was some dust and dirt on the woven bag of fertilizer.
"I'll take the master there." Shropshire immediately led Suxia to find the faucet, as if she was the master here, but the main reason was that she was an active maid.
The secret garden tap is located next to the cottage, hidden among the flower vines.
Su Xia was definitely not led by Shropshire, he would never be able to find the faucet.
While washing her hands, Su Xia asked, "Is London still researching food every day?"
He had never dared to ask London how her cooking practice was going - not because he was looking forward to London's cooking, but because he was curious about London's imagination and what she could come up with - for fear that London would drag him to try the food, and most of the time he learned about it through her sister Shropshire.
Shropshire replied: "My sister is working on a new dish lately."
"What new dish?" Su Xia said.
"The witch's cauldron." Shropshire asked, "Master, would you like to taste it? It tastes very good."
Su Xia smiled. Flower Maid was good in every way except for her taste. After all, she was London's younger sister, and as a younger sister, she had to try her sister's cooking. If she didn't have such a good sense of taste, something would have gone wrong a long time ago. Or was it because she had such a sister that caused her taste to become problematic?
Su Xia washed her hands for a long time, glanced at Shropshire and suddenly became interested. She said to herself mischievously, "Why does it feel like I can't wash them clean no matter how hard I try?"
"Shropshire help me," said Susha.
Shropshire had no suspicion and walked over to him and helped him wash his hands.
Su Xia peeked at Shropshire and saw that the girl looked serious. He suddenly felt ashamed. When did he learn to take advantage of girls?
"Shropshire, I'm sorry," said Susha.
"Huh?" Shropshire was very confused, "Why did the master say sorry to Shropshire."
"Actually, I had washed my hands a long time ago, but I lied to Shropshire and said that my hands could not be washed clean no matter what. I wanted Shropshire to help me wash my hands and took advantage of Shropshire," said Su Xia.
"Huh?" Shropshire was a little dumbfounded.
"It's okay." Shropshire whispered, his face flushed, "Shropshire also wants to help the master wash his hands."
"Shropshire is lovely," said Suxia.
Shropshire dared not speak.
Return to the pavilion.
"Why did the Admiral and Shropshire take so long?" The Unicorn was puzzled as to why the two took so long to wash their hands.
"Just chatting." Su Xia said, looking around, thinking about how to change the subject, "Is this secret garden mainly taken care of by Unicorn or Shropshire?"
"Unicorn." It was Shropshire who answered Suxia, "I also have to take care of the large garden in our British residential area. I don't have time to help Unicorn take care of the secret garden. Sometimes I need Unicorn's help to take care of the big garden." The head maid was busy with reputation and counterattack. The newcomer Surrey was not familiar with the job.
Su Xia nodded. He knew that there was a large garden in the British residential area. Whenever he went to the British residential area, he would go for a walk in the large garden with everyone.
"Come to think of it, the secret garden isn't really a secret at all," Su Xia said. He thought that the garrison was located on an isolated island in the sea and was only that big, so there wasn't really any secret at all.
"Yeah," the unicorn whispered, "everyone knows about this place."
Just as everyone was talking, there was a rustling sound and a head popped out from the flower bed.
"Cushing?" Su Xia shouted.
"Ah, Admiral." Cushing came out from the flower bed and scratched his hair.
"Why are you here?" Su Xia asked.
"Hide and seek," Cushing replied. "Has the Admiral seen Mahan?"
"No." Su Xia helped Cushing remove the remaining leaves from his hair.
Submarines like to play tag in the ocean, while destroyers like to run around the garrison.
"No," Cushing muttered, and went back into the flowerbed. "Then I'm leaving."
"Let's go." Su Xia waved at Cushing. At this time, he found that the unicorn looked at Cushing with a heartbroken expression. He found that because Cushing came out of the flowerbed, many beautiful flowers fell. He knew the reason why the unicorn was distressed, "Cushing, come back to me."
Cushing came back and poked his head out, and asked, "Is there anything the Admiral wants me to do?"
Su Xia looked at Cushing's puzzled expression. He was sure that she didn't know what she was upset about, so he said softly, "You come out first."
Cushing emerged.
Su Xia squatted on the ground, gently embraced Cushing, and asked, "Does Cushing know where this place is?"
"The Secret Garden," Cushing replied.
"So the garden is a place for hide-and-seek?" Su Xia asked.
"Hmm..." Cushing scratched her hair, she didn't quite understand.
"Do you think this secret garden is beautiful?" Su Xia asked.
"It's beautiful." Cushing said that it was because of the beauty of this place that they often came here to play.
"Shouldn't we protect such a beautiful garden?" Su Xia reached out and picked up a petal .
Cushing looked at the petals in Su Xia's hand. She was heartless, but not stupid. She whispered, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay." Su Xia touched Cushing's head, "Just be more careful next time."
"Go ahead." Su Xia patted Cushing's head, "Tell everyone that you can come to the secret garden to enjoy the flowers, but don't play hide-and-seek in the secret garden. The beautiful secret garden needs all of us to protect it."
"Okay." Cushing nodded heavily.
After watching Cushing leave the secret garden, Su Xia said, "You can tell the unicorn. If you don't tell people, they may not know that the secret garden is not a place for hide-and-seek."
The unicorn bit her lip gently.
"The secret garden is not a place for playing hide-and-seek..." Su Xia thought for a moment and said, "Has anyone come over to pick flowers , and the unicorn is too embarrassed to refuse... I'll speak for the unicorn."
"It doesn't matter." The unicorn said, "If everyone wants flowers, it would be the happiest thing for the unicorn to be able to help everyone."
"You can play hide-and-seek, but you can't run around in the flowerbed and damage the flowers." Su Xia was firm. "You can pick flowers, but in moderation."
Su Xia nodded, thinking that if she didn't talk to everyone more, she really wouldn't know what was bothering them. I helped another person today.
"Yeah." The unicorn nodded slightly, paused and said, "What kind of music do you want to listen to, Admiral?"
"Okay." Su Xia said, "I've been looking forward to the unicorn harp."
"What song would you like to hear, Admiral?" asked the unicorn.
"I don't know what songs the harp can play either," Su Xia said. "Where the Stars Are, Castle in the Sky, Scarborough Fair, The Wind Rises... Can you play these?"
"The Castle in the Sky," said the unicorn.
Lying on the lap of the flower maid in the deep secret garden, listening to the unicorn playing the harp, Su Xia felt a little dreamy.
