The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 17: New tenants (part one)
Room a51 dinner and guest meeting will be held indoors. Fortunately, the door of the stone house is wide enough and the roof is high enough. The unicorn of the Rose Knight kneels and sits in the center of the house docilely. The lord of the room has a huge body curled up in front of the window, blocking it. The sun. A petite girl sat on his shoulders, her legs dangling in the air.
"Uncle, what's the name of the new man?" The girl glanced up and down Jonah's thin arms with contempt.
"Don't, respect your lord." Toba stretched out his hand nervously to cover her mouth.
"j. Jonah, apprentice astrologer." Jonah straightened his chest, trying to maintain the noble temperament of the five major guild professionals.
"Cut, a rookie who hasn't made a job, what do you rely on? I can kill you twenty times with a fork." The girl turned the fork in her hand.
Jonah looked directly at the girl's provocative gaze without surprise, but he had no confidence in his heart.
Yes, what do you use to protect yourself? In the long study career of astrology, I was expelled from the astrology tower by my teacher as soon as I first came into contact with the fur of the stars. I recalled the knowledge I learned, except for geometry, arithmetic, horoscope, and geography. Knowledge, his ability to defend himself is close to zero.
Be sure to find your own deerskin pocket. In addition to gems and crystals, there are also a few textbooks and exercises left by the instructor. You will have to rely on yourself in the future, Jona thought.
"Sibby, be polite." Elliott gently cut a piece of food and said.
"I'm Sibi, from Bazelal. Bro, how old are you?" The girl pointed at Jona with her pointed chin.
Jonah noticed that she was also wearing a shiny silver ring around her neck, and her wheat-colored hair poured down like sunlight, tied in the silver ring, and sprinkled on her shoulders. She was wearing a pale green short coat, black shorts, healthy-skinned long legs naked in the air, deerskin short boots on her feet, her left arm around the sturdy neck of Mr. Toba, and her right hand dancing with a fork and tip. Fork a piece of dark red food, like meat.
A fellow of Toba. Jonah thought.
"I am 17 years old this year." He answered honestly.
With a whoosh, Jonah has a flower in front of him. Sibi is already standing in front of him, poking his nose with the tip of a food fork: "Really 17 years old? Looks more than just."
"The Star God testified, I don't have to lie, madam." Jonah endured the unhappiness in his heart, stepped back, hurting his leg with pain.
Who knows that Xibi walked closer, the tip of his chin almost hit his chest, and he raised his head and shouted: "Madam? You try it again?"
Jona looked around at a loss, and found that Toba had actually covered his eyes. The rose knight brought the food into his mouth and chewed it, indicating that it was inconvenient to speak.
"Madam? Open your eyes and see clearly, I am a lady? Do I look that old? You say? You say? You say?" Sibi stared at a pair of green eyes and gave a fork Poke Jona's forehead.
"Uh, wait, no, listen to me..." Jonah was forced to step back step by step, tripping under his feet and falling against the bed.
Sibby’s face grew bigger and bigger before his eyes, and the fork was still poking tirelessly, "Well? You said, you said, you say, you say, you say? You say? You say? "
"I was wrong, little sister!" Fu Zhimin, Jona yelled vaguely.
"Very well, buddy! I hope we can get along well." Wheat-colored hair drew a fan in the air, Jonah stood up on his cane, Sibi has returned to Toba's shoulder, and concentrated on the food on the fork. .
Elliott secretly raised a thumb at him.
Toba took off her small round hat and wiped her cold sweat, and said: "This...sir, she is my fellow countryman and a young girl, please don't be surprised, especially don't mention that..."
"Huh?" Sibi glanced at him.
"No, nothing, haha." The head of the room lowered his head, rubbing his hands honestly,
"Long Ji." A clear female voice said.
Jona turned his head. A woman leaned against the corner, as if she was mingling with the shadow, but when she stepped forward, she absorbed the sight of the whole house.
"Jona," said Jona. He had never seen a woman with such black eyes, like a pair of black crystals with the magic of stars.
"I see." Long Ji said. She has long, jet-black hair with a hanging back, with intricately patterned silver threads woven in her hair, like the Milky Way in the night sky.
"Nice to meet you." Jonah said. He had never seen a woman who could wear simple black bodysuits so gracefully.
"It's nice to meet you." Long Ji said. She was wearing a silver badge, which had a pattern of a Tengyun monster that Jonah had never seen before. A black-sheathed dagger hung from her belt, and the hilt was inlaid with a dazzling sapphire, which was the only bright color all over her body.
"Where are you from?" Jonah asked. He had never seen a woman, so like a woman, and 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, like a little trouble; her mouth was pursed slightly, like a little trouble; a few strands of hair beside her crystal earlobe were scattered, like a little trouble; her eyes were so deep that she didn't know whether the trouble was hidden. People can't help but want to fall deeply.
"She is the object 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, stroking the hilt of the sword.
These words slammed on Jonah's head like a 500-pound boulder, causing a bang in his head.
He shook his head, looked away from Long Ji, suppressed the thumping heartbeat, and pretended to ask Toba calmly: "Mr. Chief, where is another guest?"
"There, he doesn't like to talk, I will introduce you." The Bazelal peasant stood up, and Sibi lightly jumped off his shoulder to prevent it from touching the roof.
The director lowered his head and moved to the door strenuously, "His name is Yekong, from the southern mainland."
Jonah saw a very strange young man.
He should have been standing here since just now, and everyone tacitly didn’t look at him or talk to him; Jonah looked at him, but there was a voice in his heart saying don’t look at him, don’t talk to him .
When Toba's huge body covered half of the man's body, and Jona felt relaxed, he woke up. It turned out that this feeling was called danger.
This is a dangerous man.
The southerner named Yekong is a tall, thin man with a red and flaming head, a rust-colored fur coat, a sword of astonishing length on his back, a thin face, slender gray eyes, hollow, embroidered A scarf with some kind of text or spell is wrapped around the neck and covers the mouth.
"Hello." Jonah nodded at him.
There was no response, not even the focus of the gray eyes condensed on Jonah.
The director smiled and agreed on his behalf, "This guy says very little. Okay, this is the owner of room a51, everyone eats and eats. My lord, try Cherry Du’s specialty black gold gopher meat." He conjured a plate out of nowhere and handed it over.
Everyone stopped talking and started to enjoy the late lunch.
Jona opened the cotton bag, took out a piece of dark red jerky and put it on the dinner plate, and then took out a water bag, a bottle of salt, a bottle of pepper, a piece of hard bread, and a handful of unknown wild meat. Fruit, a pair of knives and forks.
The meat exudes a strange aroma, Jonah tried to cut a small piece, which was not as hard as he imagined; after a while, he put it in his mouth and chewed. The taste is actually quite good.
Jona, who hadn't eaten since last night, gobbled up the food quickly, and the feeling of 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 with contentment touching his belly, watching other people still chewing food slowly.
The dining action of the Rose Knight can withstand the strictest noble etiquette. Sibi is still playing with the small piece of meat at the tip of the fork. The head of the room is holding a huge piece of bread and biting, and Yakong even cuts the meat. When she looked at the void fifty yards away, Long Ji had finished eating, standing in the corner of the room, resting her cheek with one hand, looking at him with interest. Jonah felt the scorching heat in his eyes, his neck warmed, and he turned away.
"My lord, have you eaten it all?" Toba suddenly dropped the bread, stood up in shock, his head hit the roof with a loud noise, and the dust fell down, and he seemed to feel a little bit None, staring at Jonah's plate with bloodshot eyes.
"Meat? Yeah, it tastes good." Jona answered puzzled.
Sibi dropped the fork, put his hands on his waist, and laughed loudly. Elliott was also taken aback and made a helpless expression.
The room manager walked over, grabbing Jona’s shoulders and shaking and asking loudly, "Is there anything uncomfortable? My lord, my lord, are you okay? How could I forget to tell you the characteristics of black gold gopher meat? !"
"Ah? What?" Jonah was swayed like a lone boat in the wind and rain, vaguely seeing Long Ji's mouth slowly floating with a smile.
"Sibi, take the adults to Pit No.6 immediately, be careful and hurry! It is not convenient for me to go there." Toba said anxiously.
"Uncle, it's a girl." Sibi couldn't stop laughing, and took time to show a shy expression.
"Go ahead, obedient." Long Ji said.
"Okay, Long Ji sister. In case I don't have time to come back, you guys pay attention to safety." Sibi nodded when he heard the words, and jumped over like a wind, grabbing Jona's neck with one hand, "Let's go, look back. See you."
Torbal opened the door, the dazzling sunlight came in, and Sibi left a shallow footprint in the room, and Jonah was already gone in the dust.
"Punch." Long Ji couldn't bear it, and laughed.
Toba looked distressed: "What are you laughing at, adults are my hope in this life, if someone is called by the Lord, I will never have a chance to get a surname in this life!"
Elliott couldn't help but smile, and said, "Your Excellency, please don't worry, you won't die if you eat more black gold gophers. I'll go and have a look." The unicorn leaped out the door lightly.
"Why don't you laugh?" Long Ji closed the smile line and turned to ask Yekong. The red-haired man was chewing the food and muttering something inexplicably.
"Don't mess with him." Toba waved his hand, sighed, and buttoned the little round hat on his head. "Why do I want to be the head of the room, so tired."
Jonah heard the wind whistling in his ears, countless how many stone houses passed by, and finally his neck lightened and his **** fell on the ground. After holding back for a while, the cry came out: "What are you...why!"
Sibby burst into laughter again when he heard the words, and pointed to the front in time.
Jonah was shocked again. This is the edge of the cherry crossing. The circle formed by the stone house is half a mile away. In front of it is a large pit with a radius of one hundred feet and I don’t know how deep it is. This ugly big hole in a patch of green is extremely abrupt.
"Why is this used?"
Without Sibi's answer, Jonah found the answer after a while.
With the severe cramps in his abdomen, he glanced palely at the girl in green, who was holding abdomen and laughing, staggered to the edge of the pit, chose a place with a higher ground that was not easy to fall, unbuckled his belt, and squatted. Go down.
Diarrhea is the most painful. But some people think that, in some respects, there is a kind of invigoration.
In any case, Jonah has never used such an unfathomable giant toilet, so it's hard to be pleasant.
"Dude, this is the first lesson of Cherry Crossing." Sibi walked up the limelight, looking at the sacred river rushing in the distance, and said leisurely.
Jonah groaned, no time to answer. The Bazelal girl carried her hands behind her back and went on.
"You must be a child raised in a noble family and have no experience of independent living." —I am a farmer’s child, thought Jonah.
"When I was your age, I was snatching meat from wolves in the mountains."-Wait, how old are you this year? Jonah caught this detail in amazement.
"Food and water are the first elements of survival. People who can't check food and water cannot be qualified adventurers."——I am not an adventurer, I am a person who follows prophecies. There is a demon in his body. Jonah thought sadly.
"The black gold gopher is a specialty on the north bank of the Holy River, one of the favorite foods of the people of Colombo, and the main food for the cherry crossing. This kind of gopher has a very long life span. The female rat can live to about 80 years old. Eat, dormant in the hole the rest of the time, their bodies have a very powerful ability to store energy.
Colombo people can smell their hiding place, dig the ground to capture, kill and air-dry. The dried meat can be preserved for decades. Every pound of black gold gopher meat can be used for a week of energy consumption by an adult man .
If you eat too much hamster meat, the indigestible meat will swell in the stomach and become semi-solid, squeezed, squeezed, squeezed, and grumbled out of one place. "Speaking of this, Sibi really couldn't pretend to be serious, and continued to thump 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 heavens speechlessly. Thinking of the smile at the corner of Long Ji's mouth, he suddenly realized that life is better than death.
Some kind of indecent spray and Sibi’s laughter were heard by the rose knight who was watching from a distance. The elf floated to the knight’s shoulder. Elliott turned his head and smiled at the little thing. Your Excellency Jonah is an interesting person, isn't it?" The unicorn's ears flicked twice and his nose snapped contemptuously.