Chapter 15 Friendship
Leaving the girl who even remembered her name after looking at the attribute panel, Ling Qi strolled to the Honey Wine Workshop, which had only been built in the last month, and the workers inside were all hobbits, introduced by Bilbo. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Hobbits would work for humans? This was almost unimaginable before! Of course, unless they were really big nobles, it was possible to gain the allegiance of some hobbits, but certainly not landlords like Ling Qi and so-called princes of unknown origin.
This only shows that his reputation in the local area is too good, except for the extravagance of life, there are no shortcomings in the eyes of the natives. This makes him more than just Bilbo among the hobbits!
"How does it feel to play with people's hearts?"
Hearing an absolutely surprising voice, Ling Qi looked sideways, but he didn't expect Alex, who had always been elusive, to stand quietly like a piece of wood and say such a thing.
"Can I consider this a provocation?"
Ling Qi said with a smile, but there was not much smile in his eyes.
Alex is not Charles, and he won't joke with him. He knew that some of his actions really caused him resentment, although it was completely unreasonable, and he would not care.
Alex, who had been standing in front of the stone mill, bowed his head and left, as if he was using his actions to show his submission to someone, but did not apologize or justify his words.
A creature who is not even human, but has the disposition to cherish free will more than humans.
He can go on a killing spree, but he doesn't treat other people like pawns or playthings.
Ling Qi watched his teammates leave, with a charming smile on his face:
"Playing with people's hearts? So what! What is not the case with the superior person? Besides, I could have done better and more thoroughly!"
"Now, no matter how harsh people are, they can't say that I'm on the side of the evil camp, right?"
"Uncle Lynch, who does a good deed every day, and Uncle Lynch, who is kind and generous?"
Ling Qi narrowed his eyes, his eyebrows curved into a crescent moon, and his long eyelashes made the most beautiful girl can't help but be jealous.
"I'm a good person, and the gods don't spread happiness as thoroughly as I do!"
"I wonder if it's a person who worships and loves me, what will be special about my soul after death?"
"He who believes in me may not live forever, but I will give you the most perfect pleasure, both in life and after death!"
"Well, that's a good one, and it could be written into my canon. ”
Ling Qi amused himself and turned to leave, his figure gradually disappearing in front of the wine-scented workshop.
The joy of summer is always short-lived, because the scorching sun will turn the enthusiasm into a tired and sleepy afterglow after it quickly burns out.
Under the scorching sun, even the hobbits who love life and work rarely go to the fields, except to harvest ripe fruits and vegetables at dusk.
The hobbits have four major festivals throughout the year, and Ling Qi missed the Spring Ploughing Festival and was invited to the Autumn Harvest Festival in advance, but he didn't expect to receive invitations from other hobbits on the eve of the Summer Curtain Festival.
Gandalf had been keeping an eye on him, pleased with his good deeds, but his vigilance was even heavier.
He had already sent a summons that he would go to the Shire on the day of the Summer Veil to meet all the members of the adventure.
As a result, he missed the appointment again, and Ling Qi only waited for the dwarf Thorin to come that day.
Ling Qi, who had returned from the Summer Curtain Festival, received a warm hug as soon as he entered the bee stinging honey wine.
Pity compared to the softness of his hugging night and night, the huge strength and the short and strong piece of flesh really made him a little uncomfortable!
"Haha! Thorin! I didn't expect you to come! You're going to have to stay a little longer this time! What about Gandalf? What about the other dwarven friends? Why didn't Balin come? The story he told me last time was very interesting, but unfortunately he left in a hurry. And Little Fili and Little Chili, are they still so stunned?"
Ling Qi patted Thorin on the back enthusiastically while saying something that only an acquaintance would say. Gandalf would have been surprised to see this, and it was hard to imagine when Ling Qi and Thorin had become acquainted.
The thrush is not a camera, and Ridagast has long been angry with Gandalf's request.
Of course, the relationship between them is far from being as familiar as the two sides appear.
Ling Qi's contact with this group of dwarves was mainly in terms of trade, after all, Thorin had a whole clan of people to feed behind him. And Ling Qi won the favor of the hobbit in a very short period of time, and almost became the only agent of Shire.
The Shire are famous for their delicious food, and even more coveted than the delicious food is the annual harvest of the local area, which is the granary of Middle-earth in the west.
Such a place is really not coveted by no one. However, the little hobbits have a most ordinary and extraordinary friend - Gandalf!
Gandalf's contribution to the charr is much better than the hobbits, and it is not at all comparable to a guy like Ling Qi who can only do superficial work.
However, Ling Qi, who can only do superficial work, is not always hypocritical, for example, his false enthusiasm at the moment, but also a little bit of sincerity, some dwarves do have something worth learning from him.
At over 170 years old, Bahrain is definitely very knowledgeable, and even in terms of the average life expectancy of a dwarf of 250 years, he is a real elder.
Although he didn't have the talent of Thorin to maintain his youthful vitality even when he was older, he was definitely more intelligent than Thorin who was older than him, probably because he didn't have to be distracted by the pressure of the scheming, and the bystanders were always clear.
As for Thorin's age, Ling Qi still couldn't believe that he was over a hundred and ninety years old with his black and thick hair. It can only be said that the pure royal blood of the major races is still very special, and ordinary dwarves who are close to two hundred years old will definitely not have such vitality as Thorin. Judging by the physical fitness he demonstrated, he could even live to be four hundred years old, which was unprecedented in the history of dwarves.
After seeing Ling Qi, Thorin didn't be too polite, and took the initiative to walk in the direction of the living room.
Ling Qi's words certainly warmed his heart, but the name of a certain person made him faintly unhappy, but he already knew how to hide his true emotions.
"Bahrain has its own business to do, so it didn't come with me this time. As for Chili and Fili, they are still young and do not stay well outside all day. Especially with you, I'm really afraid they won't be happy. ”
Thorin made a rare joke, but didn't mention Gandalf, which seemed to mean something.
His gaze swept around from time to time, and he didn't stop at those young and beautiful maids, but he was shocked to see the mighty warriors.
These people all looked solemn, each doing their own thing, in an orderly manner, completely like an elite, where it seems to have just been trained. Thorin immediately decided that these warriors were the guards of the Indo royal family, not the newly recruited and trained manor guards as rumored to be.
What manor needs such a strong guard?Or can anyone train a peasant who has never wielded a sword into such an elite warrior in half a year?, Thorin chuckled to himself.
After walking for five or six minutes, I still didn't reach my destination. However, the dingdong sound of many warblers, swallows and armor colliding along the way makes people suspect that this place is actually a king's palace, not a wealthy merchant's mansion!
Thorin was not surprised by this, and only valued Ling Qi a little more in his heart.
The bee sting honey wine occupies a very wide area, and after the expansion, it has reached the scale of dozens of hectares, a radius of several miles, enough to accommodate hundreds of people to live in it, without worrying about food and clothing, and the backyard has simply been converted into an empty training ground.
Ling Qi secretly observed the change in Saurin's expression beside him, and couldn't help but show a playful smile.
In this world, only a big fist is the last word, and if the fist is big enough, even a stubborn dwarf will look at you squarely.
In Middle-earth, humans are not a noble race, they are not smart enough, strong enough, brave enough, and have a short lifespan.
Seventy or eighty-year-old Filicori was still a young man and a young man among the dwarves, and he was already dying of old age in the human world. As for the elves who can almost live forever, don't mention it.
"Alas, it's a pity that you're the only one who came here this time! Although Bahrain is younger than me, he does have a lot to learn from him. As for Chili Fili, to be honest, young people still have to hone more, and it is not a good thing to blindly return to it. When I was their age, I had already sailed out to sea alone with my relatives. ”
Ling Qi talked casually and talked nonsense.
He falsely declared his age so that he would not be looked down upon by stubborn dwarves. This can't be helped, it's not reliable to do things without hair. Especially in the dwarf world where knowledge is measured by age, when you say that you are a teenager, people's first reaction is not that you are young and promising, but that you are unreliable.
Fortunately, he had already explained to Thorin about this, including why he had no name for the past hundred years, because he had spent most of his time at sea.
Middle-earth is both large and small because of the extremely limited geography of knowledge. Middle-earth, and Valinor overseas, is all that people know. In addition to this, they are all barren land, and there are creatures who are also barbarians.
As a world that has only been formed for only three epochs, it is not surprising that this situation has arisen.
In fact, the level of science and technology in this world is really low, even in the so-called most glorious giant light era, the transportation on the mainland is also outrageous.
The so-called Miracle Boulevard is nothing more than a relatively easy road that runs from north to south, which can even be built by hand in the Elder Scrolls plane. And in Middle-earth, since the departure of a large number of Noldor elves, it has been nearly abandoned by time.
There have been many people who have tried to cross the sea, trying to reach Valinor, which is said to be impossible to approach without a guide, and trying to find other new continents where they can live and have a better environment.
Among these guys who eat by the sea, the shipbuilder Serdan is the most famous. Of course, he is currently the leader of Mislond, or Grey Harbor, and is the only ferryman in Valinor, not a pure overseas adventurer.
Compared with the elf Serdan, who has an important mission, more landless nobles will embark on the road of no return to sail to the sea, which is really desperate.
Ling Qi had tried to disguise himself as such a person, who had been that kind of person in the past.
In fact, his reputation is not a big deal, it's just a small problem. After all, Middle-earth is not small, even the famous Charles, to the seaside Gondor and Rohan, probably only those well-informed nobles have heard of it. Ordinary people may not know that there is a race as strange as the hobbit, let alone a declining royal family like him.
Due to transportation difficulties, the hobbit's products have been kept dumped nearby, and the name further away has recently been helped by Ling Qi.
His huge fleet of semi-mechanized vehicles, relying on the tricks that this world had never specially developed, with the help of the most primitive animal power, had allowed him to transport goods nearly twice as far as the original with the same amount of time and transportation costs. That's why Thorin had only recently hit the mind on Charles.
In my heart, it was not a pleasant thing to do business with Thorin, and the former king of the mountain was rich and jealous, sitting on mountains of gold and silver.
Today's Thorin is poor only with trousers. In order to feed the old and weak women and children in the clan, when he was at his most depressed, he even worked as an adventurer and worked for people!
At present, of course, his tribe has passed the most difficult period, and basically everyone has food and clothing, but that's all, this king of the mountain has no money to spare.
In fact, the place they occupy at the moment does not have any precious specialties at all, otherwise it would not be their turn to settle.
These dwarves are too poor, and the poor have never forgotten the treasure hidden in the lonely mountain, but it no longer belongs to them, but Thorin still retains the stubborn pride of the dwarves of Turin, who wants to do business with such a stinky and hard guy who has no oil and water?