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Chapter 27 Etiquette, Dance and Whalebone Dress(1/2)

After a simple rest, the training started again under the guidance of Ms. Peng Peidu.

"We continue to walk," Ms. Peng Peidu walked up to me and signaled me to stand up. Oh my God, my legs are still as soft as plasticine!

But she kept looking at me gently and firmly. I looked at Erin and Sefili who were accompanying me, gritted their teeth, supported the floor with both hands, and brought myself up from the ground.

"Your willpower is as hard as steel," Ms. Peng Peidu exclaimed, "A person like you will succeed no matter what you do, I believe."

"Thank you for your praise, ma'am."

"Now, the training continues," Ms. Peng Peidu smiled on her face, but her hands were ruthless in her movements. Her slender hands that looked just like other noble ladies contained shocking power. Every time she grabbed my wrist, I felt like I was firmly clamped by a steel pliers.

"Now, let's take a look," After a brief posture adjustment, Ms. Peng Peidu stepped aside and gave me the most terrifying order with her gentle voice.

I walked several steps in a row with still awkward steps - fortunately, the pain from my muscles this time was not as strong as the last time, and I had a vague sense of enlightenment in my heart, and it seemed that I had begun to get used to this posture.

"Very good," Ms. Pengpeidu finally spoke again after I walked out for dozens of steps. She clapped and walked to me slowly. "Your walking training in normal state is already very good. Mr. Saren, as long as you don't look at your face, no one can tell that you are a male."

"Ordinary state?" I noticed the strange part of Peng Peidu's words with keenness, "What else is there in addition to this?"

"Oh, it seems you really know nothing about women's fashion and everyday wear, dear Mr. Saren," Ms. Ponpedu looked at me with understanding. "For noble women, we wear elegant and gorgeous whale bone dresses on most occasions, rather than the usual clothes you see."

"Whale bone long skirt?" I turned my head and looked at Erin and Sefili. They nodded to confirm the matter. The sympathy in my eyes gave me a bad premonition.

"I've also made a complete set of whale bone skirts for you, my dear Savos," Erin came over and held my hand, "you'll see them soon."

"They?" I swallowed. What kind of clothes are they so complicated that they are!?

"Yes," Erin patted the back of my hand comfortably, "Now, please don't think about this, let's continue training."

After saying this, she let go of my hand and returned to Sefili's side. Ms. Peng Peidu took over my entire vision again.

"Next, Mr. Saren," she reached out and pressed her hand on my Adam's apple, "we will teach you how to speak in falsetto and teach you some common words for noble women."

"That couldn't be better."

"But first, your Adam's apple has to be covered," Peng Peidu continued, "Luckily, we are very experienced in this kind of thing."

She clapped her hands, and a girl waiting beside her immediately handed over a box containing a piece of skin that looked similar to her skin color... I guess it was something like fake skin.

"Just just need to stick this to you," Ms. Peng Peidu carefully pasted the thing that looked the same as her skin on my Adam's apple. "Ah, I can't see the Adam's apple anymore. Just put on jewelry and scarves to perfectly cover your Adam's apple. There are some color differences, but makeup can solve this problem."

"Next, we will teach you the trick of voice change. This is not an easy task. You have passed the voice change period and your voice has extremely obvious masculine characteristics, so this will be an extremely difficult thing."

After a brief reminder, Ms. Peng Peidu began to introduce the principles and various techniques of pronunciation to me in detail. These things are something you will never learn in the academy, because it is not just a simple craftsmanship, but a unique discipline that combines craftsmanship and science.

This can also be seen from the time Ms. Peng Peidu spent - just introducing the principles and training methods to me, it took me a full forty minutes. During this period, Ms. Peng Peidu drank three glasses of water.

I kept widening my eyes and carefully recorded every sentence and detail she said. It was not until she smiled and announced "it was only so much" that I finally dared to breathe loudly, and took the water cup with her and started drinking.

"You try it, Mr. Saren." Peng Peidu didn't drink much. After sipping a few sips of water, she handed the cup to the maid beside her and said to me with a smile.

"Of course," I also put down the water cup and began to recall all the knowledge she had given me just now, and tried to adjust the airflow in my body as she said.

This is indeed a very interesting experience. For the first time in my life, I have a practical understanding of a part of my body and understand how to use it to get the results I want.

Although I have killed many people and seen terrifying scenes of blood flying everywhere and internal organs all over the ground, it is completely different from today's understanding.

"Ah--" I tried to make a simple syllable, and soon I felt something strange. As Peng Peidu said, my throat was constantly shaking, and the airflow kept rising from my chest. After rapid friction and transformation, it turned into a sound from my mouth.

"That's it," Ms. Peng Peidu looked at me with a smile, with encouragement in her eyes. I also narrowed my eyes and smiled, and began to make the next adjustments as she taught me.

Of course, the adjustments in this part are too complicated and there are too many professional parts. To this day, I have not fully understood the secret. It would be too long to list all of these things.

In short, after a full hour of training, my voice had completely changed, and I sounded like a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

But it was not without cost - I had drunk more than twenty cups of water in the past hour, and now my stomach is rising high, and I guess at least half of it is filled with the water I drink.

Even so, my throat hurts so much and my voice becomes extremely hoarse.

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Saren," Ms. Pengpeidu suddenly bowed seriously to me, which caught me off guard, so I had to put down the water cup and replied in a hurry.

"I don't know what Ms. Rose needs you to do, and this is not what I should ask," she looked at me. "But I need to remind you that please do not practice this anymore today, otherwise it is likely to cause irreversible losses to your throat."

"I get it," my voice sounded like the dead branches of winter, hoarse and lifeless, "Thank you very much for your advice, Ms. Pengpeidu."

"The next part is the etiquette and regular language," Ms. Peng Peidu glanced at me. "Thinking of your voice, you don't need to read it with me, but please remember all the languages. This is something that cannot be wrong at all."

She stopped at this point, looked me with admiration, and then continued to smile and said, "Of course, we believe that Mr. Saren will not make such low-level mistakes. To be honest, you are the one with the best attitude and the fastest progress of all the trainers I have ever met."

She looked at me, and a look of fanaticism appeared in her eyes, "It's a pity that you are a man after all, not a noble lady."

I laughed dryly and quickly spoke, and turned the topic away from this dangerous direction: "Let's go ahead without further ado."

"Of course," Ms. Peng Peidu clasped her hands together with some expectations, "First of all, what we want to speak is daily words."

"This part is easier, you don't need to be nervous," she smiled and comforted me, pulling a blackboard from the side, and then taking a box of chalk handed to her by someone else.

"Compared with the etiquette terms used in major occasions at banquets, daily terms do not have so many complex and strict rules. There are only a few specific words, and the others are the same as the daily terms of Strans."

“These words are mostly from humility,” she explained to me seriously, ‘As a professional and rigorously trained nobleman, humility is a very important quality.’

She said, and began to write down words on the blackboard with chalk.

"When you talk to someone who is higher than you - men and women -, remember not to call yourself 'me', it is a sign of extreme rudeness."

"You should first call yourself 'Your humble Salina', then call the other party a wife or your Excellency. Only after the first round of introductions of both parties can you use 'I' to call yourself."

Her words made me dizzy, but I nodded and tried my best to remember all these things.

"It seems you don't understand very much," Ms. Peng Peidu smiled understandingly. She must have noticed my unnatural expression. "It's okay, I will demonstrate it to you in person."

She said this and turned around and bowed to Ms. Rose, "Dear Ms. Rose, please simply cooperate with me."

"This is my honor." Erin smiled and walked to the opposite side of Pengpeidu.

"Please look carefully, Mr. Saren," said Ponpedu, who turned to me again, "I will show you the way of communicating between nobles."

She took the elegant steps I had just learned, walked slowly to Erin, then twisted her skirt, took two steps forward, crossed her legs and bent her left and right, and her upper body also bent slightly.

Speaking of which, you may find it complicated, but all of this actually happened in less than a second. In the blink of an eye, Peng Peidu gave an extremely standard aristocratic ceremony.

"Ri'an, dear Ms. Rose," she said in a warm and polite voice, "It's a pleasure to see you here. What can your humble Ponpedu do for you?"

"Ri'an, Ms. Peng Peidu," Erin just stood there, smiling and looking at Peng Peidu. It was not until she completed the whole set of etiquette that she twisted up the non-existent skirt and imitated Peng Peidu's appearance to give a gift. "It is also my honor to see you here. Are you willing to accompany me?"

"Of course," Peng Peidu laughed brilliantly. She put down her hands twisting the hem of the skirt and folded them across her waist. "It's my honor."

The simple demonstration ended here. Erin handed me an encouraging look, then returned to Sefili's side, and Ms. Peng Peidu walked quickly to me.

"This is what I want to teach you, Mr. Saren," she said to me, still maintaining her graceful demeanor, "You have noticed that after Ms. Erin finished speaking, I began to call myself "I."

"That's true," I nodded. Their demonstration was very intuitive. I now understand what I should do. "I think I know what to do. Thank you very much, Ms. Peng Peidu."

"Just knowing is not enough, Mr. Saren," Ms. Ponpedu suddenly reached out and pulled me out of her seat. "Only practice can you truly master some kind of knowledge."

"Come on, Mr. Saren," she pulled me back among the crowd, "It's time for you to experience it yourself. It's not just a test of language. Remember that I taught you the standing posture and walking posture. Of course, there's no need for voice."

I nodded to show that I knew it. Peng Peidu smiled and did not say much, but stood directly opposite me. "Come on," she said to me, "Now I am a nobleman with a higher title than you. Pretend we are... How do you say hello to me at a dinner party?"

I took several deep breaths in a row, suppressed the excitement in my heart, and began to seriously recall all the skills that Peng Peidu taught me. To be honest, over the years, I have been accustomed to solving all problems with magic and long swords, and I have never experienced such training before.

This is also the main reason why I am excited and eager to try. Rune art cannot help me solve all difficulties, but such noble knowledge and disguise skills can be, even if it teaches me how to disguise myself as a woman.

"Please start, Mr. Saren." Ms. Peng Peidu's voice came over again. I calmed down and my muscles tensed in an instant.

The unique walking steps of aristocratic women are still firmly remembered by my muscles, so it is not difficult to reproduce them. As soon as I stepped out of my legs, the muscles in my body had subconsciously adjusted my posture.

"Very good, Mr. Saren, that's it. Come to me and pretend you have a glass of wine in your hand." Ms. Pengpeidu encouraged me loudly while not forgetting to continue to increase the difficulty for me.

I walked up to her with a smile, put the non-existent wine glass on the table, and twisted the non-existent skirt - Garcia was on it, to be honest, this is really strange, I have never acted in such a drama in my life.

Thinking of this, I looked at Peng Peidu again. She still looked smiling. To be honest, I admire her quite a bit. At least in her eyes, I am now a lady wearing a skirt.

And this is a picture that I can't imagine anyway.

Thinking of this, my legs slightly stepped out, then crossed and folded. Then I twisted the hem of my skirt, bent my legs slightly to the left and right, and leaned forward slightly at the same time.

After a series of movements, I felt a little uneasy. To be honest, this is an action I have not learned yet. Although I have seen many ladies treat this way in many places before, I am not sure whether the etiquette I reproduced in haste is qualified.

Thinking of this, I glanced at Ms. Peng Peidu. She still had that expression and said nothing. I guess she must be waiting for me to continue the next move.

"Good evening, respected Mrs. Ponpedu, I'm honored to see you here," I said like she was before, "What can you do to help you with your humble Salina?"

"Good evening, Ms. Salina," Peng Peidu saluted first, and finally spoke. She picked up a glass of wine that did not exist from the side, and smiled at me, "This is a great dinner. It's a surprise to see you here. Would you like to sit with me?"

"Of course, this is my honor, respected Mrs. Ponpedu."

The practice ended here, and Peng Peidu walked up to me, "It's great, Mr. Saren, you are an excellent student."

"I was impressed by your curtshop," she smiled at me. "Although some of the movements are not very standard, they are excellent enough."

"The daily language ends here," she walked back to the blackboard and directed the maid to wipe the blackboard clean. "You have a good grasp of it, let's see if you can master banquets and etiquette with the same speed and efficiency."

"The first thing you need to teach you is the name," said Ms. Peng Peidu, who suddenly changed into another person, became extremely serious and also picked up a coaching stick in her hand. "For people of different identities, different classes and genders, the names you need to make are also different, please remember this."

"Also, don't use age as a basis for deciding to name it," she continued sternly, "It is extremely risky and reckless to call me Madame Ponpedu just now."

"We Stran is not like the Einhofen Empire across the sea, with aristocratic etiquette that drowns people enough, but this does not mean that we do not value these etiquette issues."

"On the contrary, we deleted a lot of unnecessary etiquette, so we value the remaining, real etiquette, do you understand?"

I felt a stern in my heart and nodded subconsciously, "I understand."

"It's good, first of all, for the nobles who serve in the parliament and in various government departments, both men and women, you must call him Your Excellency, and remember to add his name before You."
To be continued...
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