The dinner party and tenant meeting in Room A51 was held indoors. Fortunately, the door of the stone house was wide enough and the roof was high enough. The unicorn of the Rose Knight knelt docilely in the center of the room, and the room chief's huge body was huddled in front of the window, blocking the sunlight.
A petite girl sat on his shoulder, her legs dangling in the air.
"Uncle, what's the name of the new guy?" The girl looked up and down at Jonah's thin arm with disdain.
"No, please respect your lord." Toba nervously stretched out his hand to cover her mouth.
"J. Jonah, astrologer's apprentice." Jonah straightened his chest and tried to maintain the noble temperament of the professionals in the five major guilds.
"Tch, how can you, a newbie who hasn't graduated yet, survive? I can kill you twenty times with a fork." The girl twirled the fork in her hand.
Jonah looked directly at the girl's provocative gaze calmly, but in fact he had no confidence in his heart.
Yes, what can I do to protect myself? In my long career of studying astrology, I was expelled from the astrology tower by my teacher as soon as I came into contact with the power of stars. Looking back on the knowledge I learned, in addition to geometry, arithmetic, and star positions,
Maps, geographical calculations, and other useless knowledge, his self-defense skills are almost zero.
You must find your deerskin pocket. In addition to gemstones and crystals, there are also several textbooks and exercises left by your instructor. From now on, you will have to rely on yourself, Jonah thought.
"Sibi, be polite." Elliot gently cut off a piece of food and said.
"I am Sibi, from Bazeral. Brother with a depressed look on his face, how old are you?" the girl pointed at Jonah with her pointed chin.
Jonah noticed that she was also wearing a shining silver ring around her neck, and her wheat-colored hair was like sunlight pouring down, tied in the silver ring, and scattered on her shoulders. She was wearing a light green short coat, black
Shorts, long legs with healthy skin are exposed in the air, wearing deerskin short boots on her feet, her left hand is hugging the thick neck of the room director Toba, and her right hand is holding a dinner fork, with the tip of the fork holding a piece of dark red food, like meat.
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A fellow countryman from Toba, Jonah thought.
"I am 17 years old." He answered honestly.
There was a whoosh, and Yona's eyes were dazzled. Sibi was already standing in front of him, poking the bridge of his nose with the tip of a fork with food: "Really 17 years old? He looks more than that."
"Star God testifies, there is no need for me to lie, madam." Jonah endured the unhappiness in his heart and took a step back, feeling a pain in his injured leg.
Unexpectedly, Xibi walked closer, with the tip of her chin almost touching his chest, holding her head high and shouting: "Madam? Can you say it again?"
Jonah looked around helplessly and found that Toba had actually covered his eyes. The Rose Knight put the food into his mouth and chewed it, indicating that it was not convenient to talk.
"Madam? Open your eyes and see clearly. I am a lady? Do I look that old? You say? You say? You say?" Xibi stared at a pair of green eyes and poked Jonah with his fork.
forehead.
"Uh, wait, no, listen to me..." Jonah was forced to step back, tripped and fell against the bed.
Xibi's little face grew bigger and bigger before his eyes, and the fork kept poking at it tirelessly, "Well? You say it, you say it again, you say it again, you say it, you say it? You say it? You say it?"
"I was wrong, little sister!" Jonah yelled inarticulately, blessed to the core.
"Very good, brother! I hope we can get along well." His wheat-colored hair drew a fan in the air, Jonah stood up with his cane, and Sibi had returned to Toba's shoulder, concentrating on nibbling the food on the tip of the fork.
Elliot gave him a secret thumbs up.
Toba took off his little round hat and wiped the cold sweat, and said: "This... sir, she is a fellow countryman of mine, a young girl. Please don't take it off, especially don't mention that..."
"Huh?" Xibi glanced at him.
"No, it's nothing, haha." The head of the room lowered his head and rubbed his hands together honestly.
"Long Ji." A clear female voice said.
Jonah turned his head. A woman was leaning against the corner, as if she blended in with the shadow, but when she walked towards her, she attracted the attention of the whole room.
"Jonah." Jonah said. He had never seen a woman with such black eyes, like a pair of black crystals with the magic of stars.
"I understand." Long Ji said. She has long black hair hanging down her back, and her hair is woven with silver threads with complicated patterns, like the Milky Way in the night sky.
"Nice to meet you." Jonah said. He had never seen a woman who could look so graceful in a simple black bodysuit.
"Nice to meet you." Long Ji said. She was wearing a silver badge. The pattern of the badge was a flying cloud monster that Jonah had never seen before. A short sword with a black sheath hung on her belt. The handle is inlaid with a dazzling sapphire, which is the only bright color on her body.
"Where are you from?" Jonah asked. He had never seen a woman who looked so like a woman and yet so unlike any woman he had seen in his seventeen years of life.
"The Far East." Long Ji said. Her slender eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, as if she was a little worried; her mouth was pouted slightly, as if she was a little worried; a few hairs were scattered next to her crystal earlobes, as if she was a little worried; her eyes were So profound, I wonder if there are hidden worries. It makes people want to fall deeply.
"She is the guardian of my second silver rose. In order to find that man, we came here from the magical land in the far east." The Rose Knight looked at her, put his hand on the hilt of his sword and spoke.
These words hit Jonah on the head like a five-hundred-pound boulder, causing an explosion in his head.
He shook his head, looked away from Long Ji, suppressed his pounding heartbeat, and asked Toba calmly: "Director, is there another tenant?"
"He doesn't like to talk there, so I'll introduce him to you." Farmer Bazelar stood up, and Sibi jumped off his shoulder lightly to avoid hitting the roof.
The head of the room lowered his head and struggled to move to the door, "His name is Jekong, he is from the Southern Continent."
Jonah saw a very strange young man.
He must have been standing here since just now, and everyone made a tacit agreement not to look at him or talk to him. Jonah looked at him, but there was a voice deep in his heart saying don't look at him or talk to him.
When Toba's huge body covered half of the man's body and Yona felt relaxed, he realized that this feeling was called danger.
This is a dangerous man.
The southerner named Jekong is a tall and thin man with flaming red hair, a rust-colored fur coat, and a sword of astonishing length on his back. On his thin face, slender gray eyes are hollow, and a stripe embroidered with some kind of A scarf with words or charms is wrapped around the neck and covers the mouth.
"Hello." Jonah nodded to him.
There was no response, not even the focus of his gray eyes on Jonah.
The room director smiled and agreed on his behalf, "This guy doesn't talk much. Okay, this is everyone in room A51. Let's have a meal. Sir, please try the black gold hamster meat, a specialty of Cherry Crossing." He didn't know what to do. A plate appeared somewhere and was handed over.
Everyone stopped talking and started enjoying their late lunch.
Jonah opened the cotton bag, took out a piece of dark red dried meat, and put it on the dinner plate. Then he took out a water bag, a bottle of salt, a bottle of pepper, a piece of hard bread, a handful of unknown wild fruits, and a
Secondary knife and fork.
The meat exuded a strange aroma. Jonah tried to cut a small piece, but it was not as hard as expected. After struggling for a while, he put it in his mouth and chewed it. The taste turned out to be quite good.
Jonah, who had not eaten since last night, wolfed down the food quickly, and the feeling of gradually filling his stomach made him feel like he was reborn.
After drinking the last drop of water in the water bag, he sat on the bed and rubbed his belly contentedly, watching others still chewing food slowly.
Rosenkavalier's dining movements can withstand the strictest criticism of aristocratic etiquette. Sibi is still playing with the small piece of meat on the tip of the fork, the head of the room is holding a huge piece of bread and biting it, and Jekong's eyes are even when cutting the meat.
Looking at the void fifty yards away, Long Ji had finished eating and was standing in the corner of the room, holding her chin in one hand, looking at him with interest. Jonah felt the heat of his eyes and his neck, and turned away.
"Sir, sir, have you eaten all of it?" Toba suddenly dropped the bread and stood up in shock. His head hit the roof with a loud "dong" sound, and the dust fell. He seemed to have no feeling at all.
Staring at Jonah's plate with bloodshot eyes.
"Meat? Yes, it tastes good." Jonah replied puzzledly.
Sibi threw away his fork, put his hands on his waist, and burst into laughter. Elliot was also surprised and made a helpless expression.
The head of the room strode over, grabbed Jonah's shoulders, shook him and asked loudly: "Are you feeling uncomfortable? Sir, are you okay? How could I forget to tell you about the properties of black gold gopher meat!"
"Ah? What?" Yona was shaken like a lonely boat in the wind and rain, and he vaguely saw a smile slowly appear on the corner of Long Ji's mouth.
"Xibi, take the adults to Pit No. 6 immediately. Be careful and hurry up! It's not convenient for me to go there." Toba said anxiously.
"Uncle, I'm talking about a girl." Xibi couldn't stop laughing and took the time to show a shy expression.
"Go and be obedient." Long Ji said.
"Okay, Sister Long Ji. If I don't come back in time, please be safe." Xibi nodded after hearing the words, and rushed over like the wind, grabbing Yona's neck with one hand, "We're going, see you later."
Tobara opened the door of the house, and the dazzling sunlight poured in. Sibi left a shallow footprint in the house, and in the dust, he had gone far away with Jonah.
"Puch." Long Ji couldn't hold it back and laughed.
Toba looked troubled: "Why are you laughing? You are my hope in this life. If you are called by the Lord, I will never have the chance to get a surname in my life!"
Elliot couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Chief, please don't worry, eating more black gold gophers won't kill anyone. I'll go and have a look." The unicorn jumped out of the door lightly.
"Why don't you smile?" Long Ji put away her smile lines and turned to ask Ye Kong. The red-haired man was chewing food and mumbling something incomprehensible.
"Don't provoke him." Toba waved his hand, sighed, and put the small round hat on his head. "Why do I have to be the head of the room? It's so tiring."
Jonah heard the wind whistling in his ears, and he couldn't count how many stone houses passed by. Finally, his neck was light, his butt fell to the ground, and the cry he had been holding back for a while came out: "What...are you doing!"
Hearing this, Xibi burst out laughing again and took the time to point to the front.
The frightened Jonah was startled again. This was the edge of Cherry Crossing. The circle surrounded by stone houses was half a mile away. In front of him was a large pit with a radius of 100 feet and an unknown depth, on the fertile brown land on the river bank.
Covered with broad-leaved plants half as tall as a man, this ugly big hole looks extremely abrupt in the green.
"What is this for?"
No need for Sibi to answer, Jonah found the answer after a moment.
With a severe cramp in his abdomen, he glanced at the laughing girl in green with a pale face, staggered to the edge of the pit, chose a place with higher ground that was less likely to fall, unfastened his belt, and squatted down.
Diarrhea is the most painful thing. But some people think that in some ways, it is a kind of relief.
In any case, Jonah has never used such an unfathomably huge toilet, so the experience can hardly be described as pleasant.
"Brother, this is Cherry Crossing's first lesson." Xibi walked up to the limelight, looked at the holy river running in the distance, and said leisurely.
Jonah was silent and had no time to answer. The Bazelar girl clasped her hands behind her back and continued talking to herself.
"You must be a child who grew up in a noble family and has no experience of independent survival." - I am the child of a farmer, Jonah thought.
"When I was as old as you, I was already fighting for meat with wolves in the mountains." - Wait, how old are you now? Jonah captured this detail in surprise.
"Food and water are the first elements of survival. People who cannot check food and water cannot be qualified adventurers." - I am not an adventurer in the first place, I am a person who follows the prophecy in my body.
, and there is a devil. Jonah thought sadly and angrily.
"The black golden gopher is a specialty of the north bank of the Holy River. It is one of the favorite foods of Colombo people and the main food of Cherry Crossing. This kind of gopher has a very long life. Female mice can live to about 80 years old. They come out to forage every autumn.
Spending time hibernating in underground burrows, their bodies have a very strong ability to store energy.
The people of Colombo can smell their hiding places, dig up the ground to catch them, kill them and dry them. The dried meat can be stored for decades without deterioration. Each pound of black gold gopher meat can consume the energy of an adult man for a week.
If you eat too much gopher meat, the indigestible meat will absorb water in the stomach and expand, becoming semi-solid. It will be squeezed, squeezed, squeezed, and squeezed out from one place with a grunt." At this point,
Xibi couldn't pretend to be serious anymore and continued to beat the ground and laugh.
The endless starry sky, the nameless great prophet, all the gods in the sky - is this the first test for me? Jonah asked the sky speechlessly. Thinking of the smile on the corner of Long Ji's mouth, he suddenly felt that life was worse than death.
Some kind of indecent jet sound and Sibi's laughter were heard by the Rose Knight who was watching from a distance. The elf gently floated to the knight's shoulder. Elliot turned his head and smiled at the little thing: "This Lord Jonah
He's an interesting person, isn't he?" The unicorn flicked its ears twice and snorted contemptuously.