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    Ella walked around the work area and found that, as Tetis said, there were not many jobs she could choose from.

    The ones that require physical strength and long hours of work are excluded first, and then the jobs that require professional skills can also be excluded. She is not capable of competing with those craftsmen for jobs.

    Of course, Ella did not choose the spinning and weaving suggested by Tetis. The loom at this time is very primitive.After fixing, use a wooden stick to separate these threads from top to bottom, then use a threaded shuttle to pass through them horizontally, and finally use a wooden stick to separate the vertical threads to press the crossed horizontal threads tightly together.

    This weaving method can be said to be very close to the ancestor of the loom - the loom, but there are still some differences here. As the earliest loom, the width of the loom is not large, and the cloth woven is relatively narrow.In order to weave a large enough cloth, the length of the loom’s pole will be extended according to the demand. The longest even exceeds two meters, requiring two people to cooperate to weave, which is not only labor-intensive but also inefficient.

    Let Ella use this loom, but she refuses.

    So in the end Ella chose embroidery.

    Sathya's clothing is simple in style, and the color is limited by the printing and dyeing technology, so the clothes of the common people are basically linen or white.They would embroider some patterns on the neckline of their clothes, but more embroidery patterns appeared on the belts—although most nobles prefer to use pure gold belts or various waist chains to show their status.

    All Ella had to do was embroider the belt.

    "Are you sure you want to choose this? If you choose this, you have to hand in at least two embroidered belts every month."

    The old maid who was in charge of the embroiderers asked her repeatedly to make sure she was not joking.

    Embroidery is a delicate job, which not only requires patience but also exquisite craftsmanship, especially since they are still embroiderers serving the royal palace and harem, embroidery craftsmanship is even more demanding, and the old maid does not think Ella can have this skill.There should be no maids.

    If so, the two little maids and Debbie should be embroidery workers by now.

    Tetis also hoped that Ella would think again: "If you choose embroidery, we may not be able to help you."

    "It's okay, I can do it myself."

    In fact, Ella would rather choose to deal with herbal medicine and other work, but medical treatment is the work of temple priests, and she, an outsider, does not even have the qualifications to enter the temple, let alone compete with priests for jobs.

    Although Ella only embroidered cross stitch for a period of time following the trend in her previous life, she has learned embroidery seriously in this life. Fairy Tale World has its own embroidery skills. She also learned from the embroidery master found by her godmother and was influenced by blessings., she is really ingenious.

    And she has seen Sathya's embroidery technique, which is much simpler than the embroidery techniques she has learned. This may be because the embroidery here has not been developed for less than a hundred years and has not really developed.

    And the two belts, according to Ella's calculations, she can embroider one in five days if she doesn't make too complicated patterns, and it's not impossible to finish it in three days, so this job can be said to be very easy.

    The workload that the old maid told her was indeed relaxed. After all, this was originally the workload set for the royal palaces in the harem, but no one has been selected so far, and Ella can be said to be the first.

    In fact, if the maids in charge of this kind of work were to do it, they could embroider five or six or more belts a month.

    After confirming that Ella was going to do this, the old maid led her to choose the embroidery materials she needed.

    When I saw Ella go, she was still saying, "If you don't want to embroider, you can always send things back."

    This is to worry about her wasting things.

    Ella was a little helpless, so she could only nod her head in agreement.

    Leaving the embroidery room, Tetis handed over the things to the two little maids and asked Ella, "Your Highness, are you going back?"

    Ella looked at the sky - after staying in the fairy tale world for sixteen years, she had already mastered how to look at the sky and estimate the approximate time, but when she got here, she had to master this skill again.

    "Let's go to the kitchen again."

    Because there is almost no rain here all year round, the Sathiya people basically set up their kitchen not in the house, but in a corner of their own courtyard wall, and then build a simple thatched shed to block the sunlight.

    Part of the kitchen in the palace is indoors, but the larger area is also open-air, so the kitchen is at the edge of the first floor of the working area, and a small room is used as a warehouse for storing items in the kitchen, a stove, etc.Things that use open flames are built in the open space outside.

    The kitchen was preparing dinner when Ella arrived.

    There is not only one king who needs to eat in the entire palace. The king’s food will be carefully cooked without any mistakes. The chef with the best cooking skills in the entire kitchen is always in charge.The meals were distributed to other cooks, and the court servants could basically only eat the skills of kitchen apprentices, while the slaves only had black bread and boiled beans.

    But since yesterday, the chef is responsible for cooking another portion of food. Everyone knows that the new beautiful princess has won the favor of His Majesty.Compared with the treatment of the princess, in the young Wang's place, this is the only favor.

    Now that the princess came suddenly, the whole kitchen was filled with fear and trepidation. Among them, Chef Najido was the most excited. Ella even felt that his excitement contained... gratitude?

    Najido is indeed grateful to Ella, after all, without her, the chef would have gone to see God yesterday.

    The king's moodiness is well known, and the most obvious point is that His Majesty inherited the throne at the age of fourteen, almost ten years ago, and the chefs serving him have changed seven or eight times, basically one a year, taking over the role of chef.Najidor, who has been in the position for more than a year, fears for his life every day.

    And the waiter who delivered the tray yesterday told him that he was almost going to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors.

    Although the attendants did not dare to say the specifics, they all said that it was because of the silver-haired princess Najido that she escaped, so in his heart at this moment, Ella was the benefactor who saved his life.

    So Najido, who used to hate irrelevant people entering the kitchen, not only showed a great welcome this time, but also personally introduced the situation of the kitchen to Ella, with a warm and thoughtful smile all the way.

    He even said: "Your Highness, you can tell me what you want to eat. If you miss the food in your hometown, you can also tell me how to make it. I will try my best to make it."

    This seems unbelievable to other people in the kitchen. They all know that most of Najdor is very proud of Sathya’s food. They always think that Sathya’s food is more delicious than other countries’ food. They want him to cook a dish from other countries.Good food, unless the king himself orders it.

    Ella was very moved by what he said, but looking at the situation in the kitchen, she temporarily gave up her plan to order food.

    The pots that the Sathyas use to cook are not even clay pots but clay pots. Limited by hardware, the food Ella wants to eat cannot be made in a short time.

    During the visit, Ella also saw some slaves grinding flour, and the grinding process made Ella "amazing".

    The slaves did not grind the flour with stones. They used stones to roll and grind on a stone slab. In order to make the flour finer, they even added some small stones to the flour for grinding. After the grinding was completed, these large stonesThe crumbs are sifted out, but the fine powder is left in the flour and mixed with it.

    In fact, the stones and slates they use will also drop some debris into the flour after a long period of grinding, increasing the impurities in the flour.

    Ella's face was stiff, no wonder she always felt that the bread she ate these days was very hard, and from time to time, the small stones mixed in it would get stuck on her teeth. At first, she thought that the bread that the people of Kata gave her was not fine enough,Now it seems that even the king of a country is treated the same.

    Originally, Ella wanted to come to the kitchen to make some food by herself, but judging from the current situation, she felt that if she wanted to eat to her heart's content, she had to solve the problem of raw materials and kitchen utensils first.

    It can be seen that the people in the kitchen are very busy, but because she is here, everyone has become cautious, which actually delays work.

    Before leaving, Ella told Najdo that she would not need to prepare so many dishes for her meals in the future.

    Ella only found out when she was eating in her room last night and at noon today that although her meals were not as much as King Sathya's, there were more than twenty dishes, even if the portions of each dish were very small, it would not be too much.It's not something she can finish, and besides the main meal, the kitchen will also prepare fruits and desserts for her.

    She told Najiduo that the dishes can be directly reduced to five dishes, and two meat and three vegetarian dishes are enough.

    In fact, Ella felt that even if there were only five dishes left, she still had plenty to spare, but she just found out that there were extra additives in the flour. For the sake of her dental health, she decided not to eat flour products for the time being.

    It was the first time that Naguido saw someone take the initiative to cut down on food and treatment, but he would not disobey Ella's request. After respectfully complying, he even asked Ella what she would like to eat tonight.

    Ella recalled the palace dishes she had eaten in the past two days, and chose a few dishes that were okay for her to eat.

    After leaving the kitchen, Ella went back to the room, took out the papyrus and pen and ink Kaba gave her, opened the papyrus and began to draw on it.

    For Ella, who is used to modern paper and parchment, the writing quality of papyrus is not very good, because it is made of two layers of papyrus sheets arranged and pressed. It shows obvious lines and textures, and it feels uncomfortableIt is as rough as bark, and the pen used is to use one end of a moderately long reed rod to cut into a nib like a pen, and then dip it in ink to write. When the reed pen writes on the papyrus, if it stays for too long,The ink will smudge and turn the written content into a ball of ink, so be careful when writing.

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