wandering planet

When the bag of taro balls was almost finished every few days, Faust finally finished three subspace transitions and returned to the exact route.

In front of Faust is a multiple-choice question: whether to continue the "homecoming journey" or return to Marseille.

This question cannot be decided by Bering alone.

She found leather rice first.

After Pimi didn't manage the ship, he lived happily every day. When Bering found him in the bar, he was telling the barman to send a flower to the girl singing on stage.

Leather rice told Bering that Faust's fuel was enough.Even if it is not enough, it can definitely support Faust to reach the "Black Sea".

Black Sea is the name of the transit station.This transfer station is actually a relatively small planet, located at the midpoint of the entire journey from Marseille to Earth, and it is also the first transfer station established by Marseille on the 18 route.According to the original voyage arrangement, Faust replenished various supplies after arriving at the Black Sea, and then continued to the earth.

"I can't make decisions for you." Pimi said, "Now you are the captain of Faust."

Bering drank the dry martini in the glass in one gulp: "Now I will replace you as the captain of Faust."

Leather Mi laughed, and reminded her cheekily: "If you don't want to do it, and dare not make a decision, isn't there a more suitable candidate for the captain?"

Bering found Linney in the crew mess.

A few days have passed since Faust left Route 118.The number of people appearing in the crew dining room gradually increased, and the panic on everyone's faces was lessened, and the atmosphere became much more relaxed.

Lin Ni's dress was much neater than before, his clothes were put on correctly, and the collar of his shirt was straightened out, but his black hair was still tied up in a mess, and he used a clothes rack to fix the hair hanging down on his forehead. Randomly fixed.

"Linney, I hope you can pay attention to your image." A man with sleek hair sat opposite him, persuading him earnestly, "Did you see that? Someone is taking pictures, and they recognize you. You With this look, how will you sell books next year?"

"Yeah, selling books." Linney said listlessly, "not selling my face."

"If it wasn't for your face, who would buy your book?" the man whispered.

Linney didn't seem to care too much, he shrugged casually, took two slices of ham with one fork and stuffed them into his mouth, and said vaguely "it's not delicious".

Hearing footsteps approaching, he subconsciously showed a very standard smile, his eyes curled up, the corners of his mouth hooked up, and he raised his head: "Do you want to sign?"

After discovering that it was Bering, the smile disappeared from his face immediately.Linney lowered his head and continued to poke the pitiful slices of ham in the basin, ignoring Bering.

The man sitting in front of him is his manager Chen Pi.Linney's participation in this "homecoming trip" is a marketing activity of the publishing house. His next book is the story of a girl from Earth and a boy from Marseilles meeting and falling in love in the starry sky. In order to create a more perfect It is a good gimmick to resolutely go to the earth to collect materials for the works.

After Bai Lingliang revealed his identity, Chen Pi left and gave up his position to the captain.

Lin Ni seemed to know her reason for coming, and said immediately after she sat down, "I won't agree."

Bering held down his hand to prevent him from continuing to poke the ham: "Lee Mi gave me the captain, which is illegal in terms of procedure. I took the order in the face of danger, but that was on the 118 route. Shide has returned to route 18, if I continue to be the captain, there is a high possibility that something will happen."

Linney put down his fork and looked directly at Bering.

"Bering, you were not such a fearful person before."

Bering sneered: "That's because your father, General Lee Swright, was not in charge of the fleet before."

Lin Ni let out a long sigh, leaned back on the chair, and distanced himself from Bering.

"He wouldn't blame his own son," said Bering, "and Linney, you know, it's a credit. You saved so many lives, and you managed to keep Faust, and that's enough credit for you to start over again." Returning to the fleet can even make your father revoke the order at that time."

Lin Ni was taken aback: "What order?"

Bering: "It's the order to remove you as a general."

Linney smiled.

"Bering, you made a mistake." He whispered, "I didn't participate in this incident to return to the fleet, I did it to save people. And I don't want to be a general anymore, now I'm walking around, I am very happy to write some lighthearted and happy little stories."

Bering stayed for a while before speaking: "You said in the cockpit that you would no longer pilot a ship. I thought it was just a joke."

"Actually, it's not impossible, it's impossible." Linney picked up the fork, but didn't know what to eat, so he simply twirled the silver fork on his finger, "If there was another person in the cockpit who could In my place, I would never touch the console."

He didn't connect it properly, and the fork fell to the table with a clatter, shaking it endlessly.

"I failed the Beagle personality test," Linney said. "The worst kind of failure."

"Why don't I need to take the Beagle personality test?" Ovid asked while licking the sweet-scented osmanthus honey on a small spoon.

Jiang Che was chatting with him, and happened to mention the Beagle personality test.

"Passengers don't need to do it." Jiang Che said, "Crew members only need it. There are five main items in the Bigger personality test, and the distribution of scores for qualified people will be a relatively uniform pentagon."

After licking a spoonful, Ovid continued to carefully scoop up a little bit and licked it with his tongue.

After finishing the taro balls, he fell in love with the taste of sweet-scented osmanthus honey crazily. Jiang Che took pity on him, so he poured a thin layer into his small bowl for him to eat and play with.

"What about the unqualified?" Ovid asked.

"Each has its own irregularities." Jiang Che thought for a while, "However, there is a very extreme situation where operating ships is absolutely not allowed."

People with the oddest scores on the Beagle personality test show a weird, almost linear shape: all four of the other items are extremely low, and the only one that is surprisingly high is self-identity.

"Isn't it good to have a high self-esteem?"

"It depends on how the test questions are set. In the Big Personality Test, a score of about [-] is good for self-identity. If the score is too low, it means you are too self-centered, and if you score too high, you are full of doubts about yourself." Jiang Che Remind him, "Eat slowly, today's share is so much."

Ovid reluctantly put down the spoon.

"To put it simply, people with particularly high scores generally have strong suicidal tendencies. If they come into contact with ships, they may not only destroy themselves, but may even harm many, many people." Jiang Che recalled his own research. According to the information I received, "But there are very, very few such people. Anyway, I have never seen it in the information I checked."

Ovid remembered a book he had read: "Have you read the book "Spirit in Fire" written by Linney? The protagonist in the story is committing suicide all the time, of course he didn't die in the end, and lived happily ever after. gone."

For some reason, Jiang Che thought of the cigarette butt that Lin Ni held in his hand again.

And what he said to Leather Mi.

—Don’t talk about me, you definitely don’t want to die, right?

Why "stop talking about me"?Jiang Che thought, didn't he think so?

He was swirling with various thoughts in his mind, but his face remained calm, and he picked out the little shrimp's sausage neatly.

Jiang Che also served the sweet-scented osmanthus taro balls that Jiang Che made to "reward" Ovid to the chefs in the kitchen.

The chef was very happy to eat, and with a wave of his hand, he finally allowed Jiang Che to take ingredients from the freezer to cook.

Faust's freezer is very large and contains a lot of things.Although Jiang Che had the key before, he didn't dare to touch the ingredients inside casually. After getting permission, he and Ovid carefully checked all the ingredients in the cabinet, and even wrote a list to list them in detail.

There are not many seafood and river fish stocks on Faust, because they are expensive and do not meet the travel expenses standard of "homecoming trip".

Jiang Che didn't dare to take too many, carefully counted ten river prawns, and asked Ovid to pick them out.

Ovid was surprised when he heard that he wanted to make Longjing shrimp: Can tea be used for cooking?

Jiang Che was actually full of regrets: "Unfortunately, these are not authentic Longjing."

The Longjing tea transplanted to Marseille, because the climate, soil and water conditions have all changed, the taste of the tea is also very different from that produced on earth.

He cleaned up the shrimp and put them into a small bowl filled with rice wine, green onion and ginger.There were few shrimps and few seasonings. Ovid handed him the tea and sniffed the contents of the bowl: "It's fishy."

Jiang Che raised his eyebrows, smiled lightly and shook his head.

Ovid found that he liked watching Jiang Che's various expressions, whether it was the previous indifference or the gradually changing vividness now.

Jiang Che didn't talk to him any more, and turned to make tea.He first poured out a cup and handed it to Ovid, and put the other cup on the table, waiting for a while to fry the shrimps.

The two of them were sitting outside the tool room.Ovid used the iron sheet found in the storage bin to build a roof, while Jiang Che brought a stove and pots and pans from the kitchen. After the electricity was connected, the two of them built a small kitchen.

There was not much sweet-scented osmanthus honey left, and Ovid was reluctant to eat it, so he stared at Jiang Che's fried shrimp to pass the time.

After the shrimp is fried for a while, serve it immediately, and then pour it into the pot again with the tea soup and tea leaves.The water and shrimp squeaked in the pan with little oil, and tiny water droplets kept bouncing high.The original blue-white shrimps were rolled twice in the high temperature, and the color immediately changed. The flesh is white, with a few red or pink lines mixed in, and the aroma is like something tangible, gushing out of the pot. .

Longjing tea soup has a delicate fragrance, and shrimps are also fragrant, but the two fragrances are not the same: the leaves of plants and aquatic organisms struggle to produce their final glory after death, but they cooperate seamlessly.

Shrimp can't be fried for too long. Seeing that they had changed color, Jiang Che quickly dripped a few drops of rice wine and a pinch of salt, and immediately removed them from the wok.

Ovid hastily spread a bamboo leaf on the white porcelain plate.There are a lot of bamboo leaves used to make bamboo leaf rice in Faust's kitchen, Jiang Che took a few back.

Shrimp was poured out of the pot, and the unboiled tea soup mixed with a few pieces of green tea rolled down on the shrimp, and bamboo leaves dripped down, and finally splashed thinly on the plate.The bamboo leaves are green, and the shrimp shells are pink and white, which looks pretty nice.

Ovid took a shrimp and grinned his teeth when it was hot, but he ate it tenaciously.

Although it is not fresh shrimp, the meat of the shrimp is smooth and firm, and the aroma of wine and tea is wrapped around the shrimp. The meat falls into the stomach, and the aftertaste remains on the tip of the tongue.

Ovid licked his fingers, stared at the nine shrimps on the plate and said, "You are amazing."

Jiang Che was washing the pot, and was caught off guard by his compliment and made a little shy: "Huh?"

Ovid stopped talking, continued to eat shrimp, looked at Jiang Che and smiled.