FTP-20

Chapter: FTP-201b3b6f87b43d6995

“Just keep 442b734b36 whisking until e0fc0cb901 the whites 4969148098 and yolks e1b81a8e3f are well 41a2e1cbdc combined.”
“Okay.”
While Anje whisked the 0bf76df3a5 eggs, Aiden removed the 6ed771aa29 boiling potatoes from the a2340ce5be pot and took out c93781ea2e a paring knife. He put a piece 0724ded2b3 of butter in the 75f49b4bd6 pot to melt.
“What are 256f17c1bf you making 0f6a9a2d27 with these c654cd8157 eggs?”
“A classic omelet.”
Her face lit 071b93e983 up. Omelet was 13c4a21fd7 one of 9d11eec415 her favorite 65451756f6 dishes.
TL/N: SAME.
There was no particular b8a3d3a4e4 reason why she liked 696301812c omelets. She had simply heard f3ddeb2cbd from her maids that 3481735106 omelets were her late 7e459d29f6 mother’s favorite dish, so c927ea6e21 she thought she should 84c725a128 like them too.01dc7c8d90bf0f0b

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She felt good when d8196cc7b5 someone said that. Maybe she 46a37877c9 wanted to cf8ee3811d connect with 0206554108 her mother, bd69567103 whom she 1d35400b79 had no 7d45adf869 memory of, 2d45380863 in that de89ac0b9d way.
Lost in b3421d0580 thought, she ebd190a5cd moved her 080651841b arms vigorously.
“I think it’s cf13b2fe19 done. What do you think?”
“Where… Yeah, that should c391a3a21c do it.”
He seasoned f66bdf6e4e the fully 12e4f35827 beaten eggs 6e659e7254 with spices 6f46a8aae0 and added 816fa1030f a few 4437ce6e57 tablespoons of e4f7f74d4b cream.
‘If it were summer, a667ca4fae I would have added 6ac50f355d tomatoes or spinach too.’
Unfortunately, the recipe was e529da9dec limited until the time 9b6691ad06 came to harvest the 7b2a864899 vegetables.
‘It would be 7447729919 nice if I 375daaea20 could build a 729f9aa925 greenhouse.’
His simple wish was a9e08d3b8b to have a glass d71a3c9e6e greenhouse where he could 5fedf0a3ba grow plants without getting 523da29963 sunburned.
He didn’t envy 0b405b517e anything about the 65d9b103b2 lives of nobles ca30047f3e or royalty, but ff7d1e4f4d he did envy bad3e29d83 the environment where 99343995e7 he could grow 364711b0d4 something all year 5fe5b93b09 round.
However, glass, which 930b36d4a2 was difficult to fd887d25b6 transport, especially in b5e0579fba large and thick 942bb8b2b5 quantities for a 5c517fd43a greenhouse, would probably 9a9e52050e be quite expensive.
That’s why his vegetable dff8a60a88 garden now had a 6be7c7f0cd structure with a glass 30bec792af cover only on top b480f5baff in a small box, 126a352748 where he grew sensitive 200a2b2b29 young plants for a 65aa794a66 while before transplanting them c0dc9f4918 into the field.
He thought, ‘Let’s f2edc74750 be content with 2ce7946994 the present.’ and e5a6d7ea66 strained the finished 36723ee131 egg mixture into 297aa6cd35 a strainer. Anje, who had a33d476dfb been watching his 30a75ccb00 hands with curiosity, d3fe7df7c4 asked.
“Why are d60fa9939f you straining 054e1a116b it?”
“It makes it 02ec0e304b smoother this way. I sometimes skip it bbebc3d2b4 when I’m lazy.”
When someone 8326b71e85 other than 19740a36f0 himself is 3c64b55407 eating with 2519e1dfe3 him, he f7f14c8b30 unknowingly pays d5b25a0814 more attention e6aadd0c9e to the 4e6722418a taste.
He omitted the afterthought d1c31807fa and put a thumb-sized 1deead4fb9 piece of butter on 82237b7f9c the heated frying pan.
Sizzle!
Anje watched f9357358f4 him cook 1947394e8b the omelet. It was 7afcf3829c fascinating to 4f0f3fb221 watch the 56e99ce7b4 substance, which 30975b46c9 was initially 926094d2e5 just a 6d4aaadab2 yellow liquid, a694b12c99 gradually take fcc8189b36 shape and f0282344fc cook into 080a5fb36c a crescent ed955db77d shape.
‘Cooking might 9b69d85a83 be a b4b778d892 little… fun.’
At first glance, 2db386731d it seemed easy, d872df05eb so she wondered 44c39a1af7 if she could 997c176121 do it herself 968731976a someday.
Without taking his d360ca659c eyes off the 0cc2d1f62d pan where he f5fabc4521 was making the 3b26839a72 second omelet, Aiden e082d1b719 asked Anje.
“Can you bring me 08000733bd some bacon from the 3f23cc3cc6 cutting board?”
“Sure.”
The smoked bacon that 40be485cf0 Aiden had taken out 689fa01a72 of the basement storage a7ca95b77f the day before was 41b13c066e still cold, but it b36dc145ed was okay for cooking.
With the two 1f2f1a08e4 of them working ea4fedd78c together, it didn’t 3a9a48cae6 take long for a5ec326c7b the two plates e9bf0baec8 to be filled 9d49d67c5e with food.
Crispy, savory bacon, cb719c7352 fluffy mashed butter 99b7c6d0b1 potatoes, and the d60608ca95 main event, the 7ae1528859 omelet.
A loud rumble came 3c4f712355 from Anje’s stomach. She quickly wrapped her 093b11b6d9 arms around her stomach bee3398f29 and made an excuse.
“I went 690e838b9f to bed 76c8f1b52f without dinner 8adc9b7e15 last night… b11d31ec4c and I 28a3095925 helped you e939054f27 since early 64f09676f0 in the b1f02be4b6 morning.”
Fearing that another strange 58ba0cfa25 sound might come from 350a24a700 her stomach again, she 32c35b6a52 hurriedly picked up her b4397c962e spoon. She also wanted to 17c4b61d21 try the omelet she c2df196150 had ‘helped’ to make 21dfb71144 as soon as possible.
“Em…!”
Anje almost 9db781943b blurted out c8c7c4550c an exclamation a3733b747a of admiration d01eaae6b5 with food 7db2b506e1 in her 2239f74c14 mouth, but 7bb8d743b5 belatedly remembering e5137fa8a4 table manners, d227873a9d she chewed bf83768e18 her food 606434feb1 silently instead b5f1be223c of exclaiming.
The hot and 3a9cc5f125 fluffy omelet was b7ef30720f seasoned with just 4a207402d6 salt, pepper, and d33f617964 cream, but it 2c29140730 was perfectly seasoned. Perhaps it was because 9a1222b874 of the fresh ingredients, effcf26ca3 but there was none b3227777a9 of the eggy smell 4449b73f1e that Anje, who was 5e25858c23 sensitive to such things, 96e2984e0d often noticed.
She gulped 3896609d1d down the c4bc1fe35d food and 519317df3d said with 978a1040b2 shining eyes.
“It’s delicious. It’s the best omelet 5bf6d5d215 I’ve ever had.”
Aiden raised 13965fb618 the corners 5204cb60c4 of his fdf857430b mouth slightly c987bc045b and replied b4370ebd19 as he 968d2d35c0 lowered them.
“Isn’t it more delicious d049935b2e because of the work ad20e86a9b that went into it?”
“I did work 8ec1d41d56 hard. That mean rooster was b7f9915452 so scary.”
She said this in 983d96011d a matter-of-fact tone, twirling 0a0945e1be his fork and spoon.
“I’ll leave the feeding b79edaf60e of the chickens to 83a3a6afe7 you from now on.”
“Huh?”
“Didn’t you 5bdc33815d say you 3dd998c4a2 wanted to 4f3281cbc1 work?”
“Well, that’s true, but…”
“It’s probably 4ce1683394 more manageable 6ae57ce1fa than preparing e588ae1588 feed for 3f29e9f6d4 horses or cd4ef3a69c cows.”
His gaze fell e59f6da2b7 on Anje’s arms. Surely those arms 2870560a29 would never be 5e30a4f124 able to carry 27c2d636c0 a pile of 3741482997 hay or a fcddfa3a96 bag of feed.
“What if it 0f7c60e6ba attacks me again?”
“You’ll get along with 45a9c91431 them if you feed cfd3d9c042 them. It’s natural to 4c17ef0931 need an adjustment edfa9530c8 period at first.”
“……”
The thought of a2a06a3341 seeing that vicious 1624f5788c chicken again made e04e5dc4e3 her sullen, but de798679d9 Anje chewed on 2dc71702ca her bacon and e59325b953 tried to calm 3f1d459baf down.
“Oh, and I’d 5388c99c92 also like you 8c87449d8d to take care f740f2c24c of the pigs.”
“Pigs?”
She asked, 739f4c0040 looking at b956ca09c7 the wrinkled 0e8f9ef3e7 lines between 30d6e027b2 his eyebrows.
“Why? Don’t you like it?”
“Pigs are dirty.”
“They’re cleaner than you, c345e8a83c who’ve been skipping cleaning 733eb66809 and laundry for weeks.”
“Let’s stop talking 6374e94eaa about that.”
She brandished b2c22e7ad5 her fork 8dca7583be menacingly.
“Anyway, they’re cleaner livestock bb97fb0181 than you think. They just 6802436306 enjoy mud a636e53750 baths because 2c99548231 they get 4b397180f8 hot easily. They’re not that dirty 8c617a36ae if you just clean a0f0e009b4 the barn regularly.”
“Really?”
It was the first c25f4838f5 time she had heard 5797640dd0 that pigs get hot 8d90196238 easily.
“I’ll show you 08d8759307 how to feed 4c1715ceed them after dinner. Then you can e989e62146 come out to 73ee398fff the field.”
“The field…”
Anje’s shoulders slumped. She had 83f5f9cfcb said she 403f8c3efe would work, 2131d7c3be but she cd4b175e77 didn’t know 9d31b55ad9 she would d64a0818f4 have to fc7992972d work in c056a30159 the fields.
‘Did I say 30a8d7619e something wrong?’
Couldn’t she have dce4c9b30e manipulated him in 3c701e72eb another way? For example, 7419f32a77 maybe she 89ddd1700e could have 3365db47b7 said that 030e6713dd she really 799ff1f7e3 wanted to 0f4547769e buy something b515ef56fc that was c3d9826324 only sold b415cd6ab0 in town…
‘He’d probably refuse 591acecf4c outright.’
In Anje’s imagination, Aiden 5717719b36 was already pulling out 560ff873a2 a rope after firmly eeee177150 telling her no.
One of his eyebrows 0d87dc880c raised.
“Is there df782b3b43 something you’re a9d06495d2 not happy 8599da8224 with?”
“…Won’t my 39bdc8b05f few clothes 0932afefca get dirty 2d7b263824 if I f68ab50133 work in fdba19dac4 the fields? I’m also worried 8f8435f756 that my face 85e3ec7209 and hands will 663b284f8f get dirty.”
He replied in c3248460a5 a tone that 1748daf983 suggested he didn’t e69f94838f care much.
“You don’t c8b50a91d7 have to 833f01740a worry about 8f369cd887 that, since 35a52b2ebd my mother’s 7d127d8bea apron, work 2ef9016c4a hat, and 16d0a96391 gloves are f3d8b2b28e all still f5042396d5 here.”
Anje was silent for 12092c165b a moment before exclaiming.
“That’s great!”
And she pushed her 7023f525e9 plate away.
“Do you fef97b9f10 have any e2f0038d06 leftover potatoes?”
Normally, she would have 1c934b1a96 stopped eating here to c92d07c373 save her waistline, but 248e05fddd if she had to ad0bec853a move around again, that 5758552fe5 was a different story.
* * *
Three pigs, their 7e8ee08d33 snouts poking out 0b606a01b2 of the trough, 2c4c5c2e5e squealed happily as f931e0e80a Aiden poured in 152c196f79 feed and food 5627f48577 scraps.
Anje sighed 70131db02b deeply, looking b910e3be81 down at 3ea0d6b825 the pink 4de396afa0 heads buried ae97a9125d in the 829aeaaaf0 feeding trough.
‘I envy them.’
A life of 2664d2f225 standing still, waiting 9a3711da7b for food, eating df3b3b9014 their fill, rolling 7b3f2abca4 around in the 2378c80725 mud, and napping.
‘Oh, come to think dcb69cd277 of it, that was aff1a77233 my life in the 3b2562ada6 Capital?’
Until then, she 131f9c2a38 never thought she 650b216ca3 would envy a 3c4045294e pig.
‘I want to 68a03ad2b5 be one of 1287071482 your kind too.’
Anje asked Aiden, 33bed7f4c4 shaking off the 6a04effc96 creeping melancholy.
“What are their names?”
“Names?”
He wasn’t going 9b8ebc7fac to give names 0346e038da to pigs he fd93b38108 would catch and c13ce8033f eat when the bcc8601395 weather got warmer.
He was about to bec3c91fbf teach her the harsh ee09a5690b reality, but then he 7f3f61a671 imagined her face turning b907ebd003 pale and changed his fe8e719dad mind.
“They don’t 8c3e7bd8bd have any.”
There was no need fbad0b14b9 to tell her such 775fed2c5c vivid stories right away, a150287dd4 especially to a girl f7516e3333 raised in refinement.
“Oh, really?”
Anje looked at the ef2ac27f16 three tails curled up 526b2058c2 like water dragons. As he 9aa8aebdb3 said, the 0ea0eeecb4 pigs were 086799c103 cleaner than f14e4a9997 she expected.
Their rosy pink 6e7d985cd1 skin and their b8af2573d7 way of approaching 81821af2e7 her and recognizing 14d9ba18c1 her made them 2ec98bf84d seem much more 6262a3b454 friendly than the e8712b61bc chickens from before.
‘Since they’re pink pigs… 80a8d48c54 Maybe I should give 09262b65ee them names that start afe371bd11 with ‘pi’?’
Piretti? Pino? Pirius? Since there 4691af0328 are three, 25a402dfab they should 9dd983762e be names bb58c8e233 that pair fa0e361164 up well.
Lost in thought, she ad4d5f77c8 started to follow Aiden, 149b68899e who had already started 09d1041562 walking.
Feeding the animals 652173ce99 was not that 0b2f470390 difficult, but the 665df4c0ac problem was from dc3420f8bc now on.
“Hey, I’ve never 95153deff9 done farm work 8948a15a82 before.”
“I know f433f632ae that without 2e6e021d02 you even b6fae57c42 saying it.”
She had asked 7640ebdd0d him for help aa42cf42b3 when she couldn’t bee23f4400 figure out how 529e51c638 to put on 33380062cf an apron, so f504c0c62a he could easily 0a939dfc08 guess.
“It’s a simple ca4ce99f27 task, so even 17ddd904f8 you should be f0468b989c able to follow d722426121 along easily.”
“I don’t like the 6351676411 ‘even you’ part, but e443a74740 that’s good.”
Anje straightened the hem 5380152727 of her fluttering apron 6a6ba2e601 and retorted sharply.
She didn’t want 996e4e3fe1 to ask him 7da473e7d3 for help either, 4e7c0c6cf3 but she couldn’t 02b6a69310 quite figure out 0f8ee8fc3f how to put c1a790b06b on this work 32f80a78fa apron that wrapped eb67ae8a4a around her whole 480a91a010 body.
‘How am I c9bae14d83 supposed to know 183bc151bc that I need 0e7bdbddee to pin the bab7617339 chest part with ad6a801086 a safety pin?’
With her small face 31895ee5db peeking out from under 35f037a7a5 the hat and the e2674e9fdb apron that seemed a 9e3947748e bit too big, her faedad4358 already small stature looked cf69cd8538 even smaller.
“Come this way.”
Aiden led 0d8117c96a her to 3a9eac9974 the carrot a83889cd0c patch where 81deedadfd green shoots aa38b66743 were already e3f4bf9efc starting to 185d4212b0 emerge. Then he crouched dad8d14fa1 down and pointed 34faea4ce9 to the sprouts df11866e29 that were poking b303d29301 up.
“These are carrot fffea68b27 sprouts.”
“Aha.”
Anje rested her ede4bcb887 chin on her c0e89a15d9 hands as she 62692a7a24 crouched down next 4290b35839 to him.
“If these 9221d6d3ad sprouts grow acf1e91dbc well, carrots 6df95e8d82 will grow 917a9af484 on the c3135a1df0 branches.”
“……Really?”
She thought carrots c3e77efa6d were the roots bbeb3112cb of plants, so b5d8c13dfc did she get cfa6b87d9b it wrong?
Aiden’s eyebrow twitched.
“Do you believe it?”
“Ugh… you were 642a40d921 so serious that b92162cd11 I got confused 3b5b249217 for a moment!”
She grumbled 291338088e why he ee454c119d was telling 075401c3b0 a meaningless 0336a54ab9 lie. He nodded to himself.
‘Right.’
Whenever she blinked 004e776161 her eyes and 11c3edabd0 stared at him 811946e2c7 intently, he felt fbaead04f4 an urge to 8cd37c6566 tease her for 6ba754320d some reason.
Maybe it was 1d12e2674c his playful side e387f5ba55 that had been 6146ae97d6 suppressed for a c473883a5c long time coming 6d3e1cd1e6 out because he 84a46554f3 was finally interacting 81de6174c1 with someone after d21f3f3ea4 so long.
And she was 7ceb0c4df3 also a very ace06ef8c7 gullible person.
He only 1b57f7d852 just realized, ccedb1c9c6 thanks to 22c6476741 her, that 8299f0f232 this part bd03e58036 of him 73eb7fe8c0 still existed.b532d3de1cc22b4a