Chapter 200: Trip to the Lotus City
The sun is shining brightly, and the rooster sings three times.
Charles woke up, and Elizabeth was busy dressing up.
Elizabeth was almost finished breakfast in the dining room when she saw Charles, who was in a trance, walk in, so she asked curiously, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"
"It's fine. Charles shook his head, then sat down at the table.
Ever since he had an accident recovering his nose, he would occasionally hear strange noises in his dreams when he slept, even in the dream platform, but when he woke up, he couldn't remember what that sound was.
It's just that Victoria and Elizabeth didn't find any problems after checking him at that time, so he could only wait for Reimu to come back from a long trip.
Elizabeth quickly finished her breakfast, and before she left, she said to Charles, "You can play in the city after you finish your homework today, and come back before dark." ”
Charles nodded obediently.
Three days had passed since that night's battle, and the elves had received shocking news from their captives that the two camps were commanded by the prince and marshal of the kingdom of Osme.
The two high-level leaders of the enemy country actually played deep behind the enemy in person, and there was no rumor on the elf's side, so the high-level of the elf royal court was fried.
Behind the news of the killing of the Marshal of the Kingdom of Osmus, Victoria was furious, Elizabeth slapped the table at the meeting every day, and the military and political leaders at all levels who were called to the meeting were scolded by Elizabeth for being careless.
But it had nothing to do with Charles, it was his day off, and after breakfast he went back to his room, sat down at his desk and began to write Elizabeth's assignments on mathematics, physics, chemistry, language, biology, geography, magic, and biology.
Elizabeth was very busy at this time and could only keep Charles free for a while.
Mathematics and physics are difficult for Charles, elven language and geography are of limited difficulty, but magic and alchemy in chemical skins and biology are still difficult. Fortunately, Charles's direction of development is magic, chemistry and biology just need to know a little common sense.
Charles, who didn't want to waste his rare vacation time on his homework, sat at his desk and concentrated on his work, and finally finished his homework before lunch.
With a sigh of relief, he put his homework in Elizabeth's study and left where they lived.
The city's groundwater level is quite high, and the city is dotted with large and small ponds and small lakes, which are connected by ditches. Lotus flowers grow in these ponds, hence the name of the city.
It's the end of February, March is coming, the temperature is gradually warming, and palm-sized lotus leaves have emerged on the water surface of the lotus pond. In the water, you can see fish more than a foot long, constantly swimming in the clear water.
Many elves either brought their children or sat with friends on the stone benches under the durian trees by the water, sprinkling feed to the fish, and chatting about national affairs and parents.
In a few months, layers of lotus leaves will cover the entire surface of the water, and then lotus flowers will emerge from the lotus leaves.
At that time of year, it is the season of lotus leaf rice, lotus leaf steamed pork ribs, lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken and lotus leaf tea, etc.
In the season when the lotus flowers are in full bloom, you can often see three or five old friends together, scoop up a fat fish from the pond, stuff it into fresh lotus petals after disemboweling it, sprinkle it with a little salt, wrap it with freshly picked lotus leaves, hold it in your hand and bake it with magic and put it on the stone table by the water, and then talk about the world with sweet wine made of glutinous rice and blowing the evening breeze.
It's a pity that there are fish in the water now, but there are no lotus leaves.
Charles sat on a stone bench by the water's edge, holding a box of popcorn in his hand, sometimes throwing a few into the water to get the fish to scramble, sometimes stuffing two into his mouth.
The last bit of popcorn was sprinkled into the water, and the fish immediately rushed to a ball.
Charles stretched, he had just eaten lunch, and he sat here for a while before he recovered.
It was a bowl bigger than his head, and in the bowl were thin shredded chicken noodles, thinly sliced fish fillets, emerald green onions, shredded golden mushrooms, some unknown vegetable leaf, and an egg beaten in the middle. A spoonful of piping hot soup is poured into the bowl, the lid is closed, and the rice noodles and ingredients in the bowl are already cooked when it is brought from the kitchen to the guests.
A big bowl of elf-sized cross-bridge rice noodles was eaten, and Charles ate it.
Before Charles could decide whether to continue walking around the city or pick out some gifts for everyone in the business district, his heart suddenly felt that danger was coming to him.
"Get out of the way!
Familiar words, I saw an elf girl riding a bicycle towards Charles.
Charles ducked to the side, and the elf girl and the bicycle rushed past Charles's side and flew towards the pond.
The elf girl in the air suddenly felt that her waist was stopped by a pair of big hands, avoiding the bad luck of falling into the water.
Charles controlled the mage's hand and lifted the girl and the bicycle to the shore, and the frightened girl took two breaths and patted her chest, and then thanked Charles vigorously.
"Can I see your car?" Charles asked, pointing to the bike.
"No problem. The girl lifted the bike up and kicked the tripod to lift the bike.
Charles looked curiously and carefully at the bicycle in this otherworld, and soon he was full of guilt.
Without him, it was too similar to the 28-inch permanent bike he rode in middle school, especially the tripod made of steel pipes.
However, the car was painted with the green paint that the elves liked, and from a distance it looked like the old postman's car.
Of course, in terms of details, this car is still very different from the car that Charles rode in his previous life.
For example, the spokes of the front and rear wheels are not thin iron rods one by one, but several thicker support rods.
Pneumatic tires are naturally not, and the outer tires are solid tires made of slime glue, and you can also see the skeleton used to increase the strength of the tire through the slime glue.
The car is not driven by a chain, but by gears and shafts.
Brake Rubber ...... It was a piece of slime glue, and the car's brake glue was worn off.
Anyway, the bike is pretty good, especially its bearings and flywheels, which are not low.
Charles patted the bottom of wood, the surface is animal skin, and the middle is also a cushion of slime glue, and asked, "Where did you buy this car?"
The elf girl said proudly, "This is what I did!"
"Really?" Charles said in surprise, looking at the elf girl with an unbelievable gaze.
As a result, the elf girl quickly scratched the back of her head embarrassedly, "Actually, my sister did it with me." ”
Soon she regained her pride, and she said to Charles, "Do you like this car? Would you like to buy one?"
Charles pouted, then pointed to the brakes and said, "I don't plan to buy it until the brake problem is solved." ”
In his previous life, Charles almost died from the failure of the bicycle brakes, and it is very likely that he will not see the body.
The elf girl took out a few brake glues from her pants pocket and said, "It's good to change this often, I forgot it before I went out." ”
Charles was speechless as he looked at the brake glue.
"Oh well. "I'll buy a few, but I'm going to make a little change." ”
"No problem. The elf girl immediately agreed, "Come to my house." ”
After changing the brake glue, she lifted Charles onto the front bar of the bicycle and sat down, and then got on the car and drove Charles out of town.
Along the way, the elf girl demonstrated the braking performance of the car to Charles, and the braking performance of the car after changing the new brake rubber is still good.
Charles, who was sitting on the front bar, was inevitably affected by inertia and swayed back and forth, but fortunately, the elf girl's anti-collision system was quite good.