Princess Alice's Diary

Chapter 6 Alice’s Worries

"Your walnut cake, and this is a gift, please take it~" Doris sent away a guest with a smile on her face.

Doris is very happy now, not only because she is now working in her dream pastry shop, but because of Alice's selfless help to her.

Doris felt that Alice was an angel sent to her by the God of Light. She not only had an angel-like appearance, but also had an angel-like heart.

Thinking of Alice, a smile appeared on Doris's lips that she was not aware of.

"Hey! Don't you like common people's food? This is wrong, spoiled young lady!" A female voice with a reprimanding tone came over, calling Doris back to reality, who was slightly distracted.

When Doris heard the sound, she saw that a luxurious carriage pulled by two snow-white horses stopped at the door of the pastry house at some point. A girl in a red aristocratic dress stood outside the carriage, and there seemed to be something inside the carriage. There is a person.

Looking at the girl in the red dress and the luxurious carriage dressed like a princess, a word came out of Alice's mind.

"noble."

Doris frowned and pursed her lips slightly.

Doris hates, ah, no, really hates, hates aristocrats very much. As for the reason, only she and her mother know, not even Doris's best friend Alice. Why didn't Doris tell Alice? In her opinion, not telling Alice was protecting her...

Doris looked behind her. Since business was very good today, the supply of pastries was a little tight. Her mother and Uncle James were rushing to make pastries in the back, but Doris was the only one in the front hall.

"Hey..." Doris sighed. Although she hated the nobleman very much, she had to go out to greet the nobleman.

Doris greets guests? Oh no, Doris is just a salesperson in the pastry shop, but at this time, a nobleman arrives in the pastry shop, and she must go out to greet him. Doris is afraid that if she does not go out to greet him, she will be considered rude by the nobles outside the shop. She is worried that the nobles outside the shop will The nobleman did something bad to the bakery.

"Dear noble lady, is there anything I can do for you?" Doris made a curtsey to the girl standing outside the carriage, and tried her best to make it standard, although she didn't know what it looked like. That's called standards.

"Huh? Are you... the clerk of this store?"

"Yes, noble lady." Doris glanced at the girl, but then immediately lowered her head.

"Wait a minute, I'll call my sister over." After saying that, the girl turned and walked towards the carriage.

"Alice, get out of the car quickly, huh? What's wrong? Come here?"

When Doris saw the girl turn around, she raised her head slightly and looked strangely at the girl who leaned half of her body into the carriage, and then looked inside the carriage strangely.

blond hair?

Although the people in the carriage shrank back towards the interior of the carriage, part of Doris' dazzling blond hair was still visible.

"It's the same color as Diana's hair." Doris thought to herself.

"Oh, I'm sorry, my sister said she was feeling a little unwell and didn't want to get out of the car. Um...can you recommend your store's specialty pastries?"

The girl who turned around at some point startled Doris and she quickly lowered her head.

"There are... there are apple pies, macaroons, donuts, etc..." Doris stuttered in her answer.

"Oh~ they seem to be some common pastries, but with so many people coming here, the taste must be different. Please help me get some."

"OK……"

Soon, Doris packaged the pastries and sent them out.

"A total of eighty copper coins..." Doris whispered and handed over the cake in her hand.

"Here~ No need to look for it~" The girl put a gold coin into Doris's hand.

"This...this..." Doris was shocked by this gold coin. You must know that one hundred copper coins are equal to one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins are equal to one gold coin.

"Take it. I hope the pastries in your shop are delicious, so that I can spend my gold coin well."

"That...but..."

"Stop it, accept it. You seem a little reserved. Is it because I am a noble? Nobles are also human beings. My uncle often told me that although nobles are superior to others, they should not use their high status to bully civilians. Nobles should make full use of it. Use your own social status to work for the benefit of the public. Okay, I have said too much, goodbye."

Looking at the girl who turned to leave, Doris fell into deep thought.

"Her uncle seems to be a different kind of noble... Hmm? Her eyes seem to be purple like Diana."

"Huh~"

The carriage finally left Doris Pastry House, and Alice leaned on the backrest exhausted. Listening to Doris's reserved tone that was completely different from usual, Alice felt very uncomfortable.

"Is this the distance between nobles and commoners in this world?" Alice said in a voice that she could not hear clearly.

"Huh? Alice, what are you talking about?" Letitia asked while eating pastries. "This apple pie tastes really good~ Alice, do you want to try one?"

Looking at her favorite apple pie, Alice shook her head. She couldn't eat it...

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A few days later, Letitia and her mother ended their visit to Duke Eberron's house and set off back to the imperial capital.

Alice looked at the carriage that had left and was stunned.

"Alice, you seem a little unhappy recently. Can you tell me what happened?" Duke Eberron touched Alice's head and said with a smile.

"..." Alice raised her head, glanced at her loving father, and then at her worried mother.

"If you don't want to say it now, my dear, I can wait until you want to say it. Dad can wait for you anytime, anywhere." Eberron took Donna's hand behind him, squeezed it gently, and then said to her He gave Donna a reassuring look.

"Dad...I..." Alice closed her eyes and took a deep breath. After a moment of silence, she continued, "I hid something very important from my best friend."

"What's your status as a noble?" Eberron seemed to know a lot about what Alice did outside, including dressing up as a commoner and playing with commoner children.

"Hmm..." Alice nodded slightly. She knew that the guard who followed her every time she went out told her father about her situation. She also knew that this was a kind of surveillance protection, but she was not very disgusted.

Eberron was silent for a moment. He didn't know how to solve his daughter's problem. After all, civilians and nobles were from two different worlds. As far as he knew, civilians and nobles rarely got along well with each other, but some exception. Thinking of this, Eberron looked at his wife.

"Alice, I know you may care about your friend, and you are afraid that if you tell her about your noble status, this friendship will be alienated or even broken. But you can't hide it forever. Sooner or later, you have to face reality. Between friends Be honest with each other. The civilian status you are currently dating Doris is considered a scam by everyone. Do you know? It is wrong to lie to friends, especially your best friends. I hope you will confess to your friends as soon as possible. , don’t worry, I think you will also think that your friendship with Doris will not be broken because of a noble status." Eberron encouraged.

"Alice, be brave. Look at your father. He is very brave." Donna knelt down and hugged Alice.

Alice knew what her mother's words meant. Alice's mother was once a commoner, and her father, a duke, married her back despite the strange eyes of the world and the persuasion of relatives and friends.

"Let me think about it again, okay?" Alice whispered.

Eberron looked at his troubled daughter and comforted: "Everything will be fine."

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Alice has not come to see Doris for a week because of Letitia's arrival. And today, with Letitia's departure, Alice can finally go to Doris.

"Doris, why do you want to change the tables?" Alice walked into the pastry shop and asked, pointing to the brand new tables outside the shop.

Doris looked at Alice who suddenly appeared, folded her hands on her chest, and said nothing.

"What...what's wrong?" Alice looked nervously at Doris who didn't say anything.

"Did Doris recognize me in the carriage that day? It's impossible. I sat as close to the carriage as possible and turned my face to the other side." Alice was thinking nervously.

"Dear Miss Diana..."

"Hmm... um...? What's the matter?" Alice looked at Doris, whose tone was a little cold, and took a step back.

"You left the pastry shop to me and left me to work alone, but you used the excuse of 'there are guests at home' to go lazy!" Although Doris' tone was vicious, she approached Alice gently and said, Pick her up.

"Um...is...is it?" Hearing Doris say this, Alice secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past, Alice did not come to see Doris every day, but this was the first time that she had not seen her for a week. Even the gentle Doris complained a little about Alice who did not come to visit her for a long time.

Alice greedily sniffed Doris' fresh orchid-like scent, hugging her and forgetting to let go.

"Okay, I'll forgive you this time..." Doris let go of Alice, and then pinched Alice's nose.

Alice twisted her head and shook off Doris' hand.

"By the way, you haven't answered why I bought a new table. Is the original table broken?"

"The original table... was smashed by several nobles..." Doris said in a calm tone.

"Click!"

Alice's heart skipped a beat when she heard this.