Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Princess Pulverizer hid quietly on a tree branch and watched as a tailor dropped a doublet into a vat of steaming red dye in the yard behind his shop. The princess's heart pounded quickly as she watched the man stir the short padded jacket around in the giant tub. This was her first task since becoming a knight of Starats. She wanted it to go smoothly. "How's that doublet coming, Alistair?" asked another tailor, who was busy dyeing a tunic a rich royal blue next door in his own yard. "Not bad, Maddox," Alistair replied. "I'm just going to leave it here to soak while I finish

第五章粉粉公主安静地躲在一根树枝上，看着裁缝把一件紧身上衣扔进他店铺后面院子里一个热气腾腾的红染缸里。 当公主看到男人在巨大的浴缸里搅动短棉袄时，她的心怦怦直跳。 这是她成为星之骑士后的第一个任务。 她希望一切顺利。 “那件紧身衣怎么样了，阿利斯泰尔？”另一位裁缝问，他正在隔壁自家院子里忙着把一件短上衣染成宝蓝色。 “不错，马多克斯，”阿利斯泰尔回答。 “我打算把它放在这里泡一泡，等我洗完。

hemming a cloak for Lord Hucklebury. I'll be right back." "Okay." Maddox returned to stirring his bucket of blue dye. Princess Pulverizer was very impressed by the doublet Alistair was dyeing. From her perch in the tree, she could see the jacket had been made with great care. It would be a shame for it to be ruined.

给哈克伯里勋爵缝斗篷。 我马上就回来。”“好吧。” 马多克斯继续搅拌他那桶蓝色染料。 粉碎机公主对阿利斯泰尔染的紧身上衣印象深刻。 从她在树上的位置上，她可以看到这件夹克是精心制作的。 要是毁了就太可惜了。

Just then, the sun peeked out from behind a cloud. The bright light hit the opal brooch on Princess Pulverizer's chest. The pink-and-blue stone shimmered, catching the princess's eye. A dull look came over her. Maybe it wouldn't be a shame for the doublet to be ruined, after all. The princess took a flying leap into Alistair's yard. She landed silently, thanks to the ruby ring she wore. The ring had been a gift from the Queen of Shmergermeister. It gave whoever wore it the ability to move without making a sound. Quickly Princess Pulverizer dumped a package of bright yellow saffron powder into the giant tub and then hid behind a tree.

就在这时，太阳从云后露出来。 明亮的光线照在了粉碎机公主胸前的蛋白石胸针上。 粉红色和蓝色的宝石闪闪发光，吸引了公主的目光。 她一脸呆滞。 也许紧身胸衣被毁了也不是件羞耻的事。 公主飞快地跳进了阿利斯泰尔的院子。 多亏了她戴的红宝石戒指，她悄无声息地降落了。 这枚戒指是Shmergermeister女王的礼物。 戴着它的人可以无声无息地移动。 粉碎机公主迅速把一包亮黄色的藏红花粉倒进了巨大的桶里，然后躲在一棵树后面。

A moment later, Alistair returned to his yard to check on the doublet sitting in the large vat of dye. He took one look and his face turned bright red. "How could you do this?" he shouted at Maddox. "Do what?" Maddox asked. "Turn this dye from red to orange!" Alistair shouted. "I did no such thing," Maddox insisted.

过了一会儿，阿利斯泰尔回到他的院子里，查看那件放在大染缸里的紧身上衣。 他看了一眼，脸就变红了。 “你怎么能这么做？”他对马多克斯喊道。 “做什么?”马多克斯问道。“把这个染料从红色变成橙色！”Alistair喊道。 “我没有这样做，”马多克斯坚持说。

"Well, it didn't do it to itself." Alistair pulled the doublet from the dye and hung it on the line. "Look at this. It's bright orange. It's supposed to be red." "It's not my fault," Maddox replied. Angrily, Alistair dipped a clay cup into the orange dye. He stormed over to his neighbor's yard and spilled the orange liquid into Maddox's vat. Maddox's face turned purple. So did the dye in his vat. "Look what you did to this tunic!" Maddox exclaimed. Maddox pulled a gray-purple tunic from his vat and hung it on the line. "It's ruined!" he cried out. "Even if I tried to add more blue dye, it would never be the right shade." Maddox went to his workbench, grabbed a glass of green dye, and splashed it on the orange doublet Alistair had hung on his line. "Take that!" Maddox shouted.

“嗯，这不是它自己造成的。” 阿利斯泰尔把紧身上衣从染料里抽出来，挂在绳子上。 “看看这个。它是亮橙色的。 它应该是红色的。”“这不是我的错，”马多克斯回答。 阿利斯泰尔生气地把一个陶杯浸入橙色染料中。 他冲到邻居的院子里，把橙色的液体洒进了马多克斯的大桶里。 马多克斯的脸变紫了。 他缸里的染料也是。 “看看你把这件外衣弄成什么样子了！”马多克斯喊道。 马多克斯从他的大桶里抽出一件灰紫色的外衣，挂在绳子上。 “它毁了！”他喊道。 “即使我尝试添加更多的蓝色染料，颜色也永远不会正确。” 马多克斯走到他的工作台前，抓起一杯绿色染料，把它泼在阿利斯泰尔挂在钓索上的橙色紧身上衣上。 “看箭!”马多克斯喊道。

"Take this!" Alistair splashed pink dye on Maddox's purple tunic. Princess Pulverizer grinned as she watched the tailors splash color after color into each other's yards. Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Violet. What a mess. Yes! This was going exactly the way Elle had intended when she'd given Princess Pulverizer her orders. The men were angry. Their friendship was ruined. And so were the clothes they had hoped to sell. "You knew I needed to sell this doublet to fix the rain damage in my cottage. Thatched roofs don't come free," Alistair shouted angrily at Maddox. "Well, it's not like I'm rolling in silver coins," Maddox argued back. "I needed to sell this tunic to buy food." For a moment, Princess Pulverizer felt terrible about the trouble she'd caused. But then, the sun shone directly on the opal pin. The blue-and-pink stone sparkled. And for

“把这个!”阿利斯泰尔把粉红色的染料洒在马多克斯的紫色上衣上。 粉碎机公主笑着看着裁缝们把颜色泼到彼此的院子里。 红色的。橙色。黄色的。绿色的。 蓝色的。紫罗兰。真是一团糟。 是的!这正是艾丽给普莱丽公主下命令时所打算的。 男人们很生气。他们的友谊毁了。 他们希望卖出去的衣服也是如此。 “你知道我需要卖掉这件紧身衣来修理我小屋被雨水损坏的地方。 茅草屋顶可不是免费的。”阿利斯泰尔生气地对马多克斯喊道。 马多克斯反驳道：“好吧，我又不是在赚大钱。” “我需要卖掉这件外衣来买食物。” 有那么一会儿，粉碎机公主为自己造成的麻烦感到很内疚。 但是，太阳直接照在蛋白石别针上。 蓝粉相间的石头闪闪发光。 和