Chapter 38: Little Boys
Elves are mostly indifferent by nature, rarely pay attention to gossip, and the speed of news transmission is naturally very slow, which can be seen from the exposure speed of Fei Yaran's identity as a "student of the Elf King".
Even, the fact that no elves have been born for thousands of years is not known to the vast majority of elves.
Fei Yaran also noticed this from the attitude of the guards and maids in the palace at first.
Later, when he talked about this matter with Bai, Bai solved Fei Yaran's long-standing doubts.
Although the elves all live in Azeroth, the cradle of life, because they have different temperaments and hobbies, and their personalities are also very independent, in fact, the elves are essentially more solitary creatures.
Even if there is such a relationship between teachers and students, students will basically choose a site to build a house of their own when they become adults, and then bury themselves in doing what they want to do.
Elves have a long life, and they have almost no appetite, and it is normal to eat and drink, so it is not painful to occasionally close the door and thank guests for ten or eight years to engage in research, and it is not difficult to understand that the news is closed.
Despite this, Fei Yaran was still amazed by the secrecy of Bai and this group of elven elders.
Perhaps for fear of causing panic among the elves in the clan, the elven clan leaders decided to completely block the news when they found out that the tree of life had not produced an egg for decades.
When did the Tree of Life appear, and why it was able to give birth to elven eggs, even the emperor-level elves couldn't say why.
The lifespan of the lower elves is only seven or eight hundred years, and it is the largest group in the elven race, and when there are no new elves born in the tree of life for a hundred years, at the request of Bai, the elven king finally cast a magic on Azeroth that slows down the flow of time.
Since then, Azeroth's time has been different from that of the entire continent, and the millennium on the continent has only passed for Azeroth for less than three hundred years.
The elves living in Azeroth are almost unaware of this, and the time magic is cast silently, and the miraculous thing is that in the elves' minds, the speed of time in Azeroth is no different from that of the outside world.
This is a seemingly unsolvable paradox, when Fei Yaran first heard about this from Bai's mouth, his first reaction was "impossible", and then he felt that what Bai said was like telling a fairy tale, but later, when he learned that over the years, there were indeed very few elves who returned to the tree of life because of their death, Fei Yaran really believed it from the bottom of his heart.
But at the same time, he also had a deep admiration for the elf king who could even control time.
After further realizing how strong the elf king was, Fei Yaran's heart congestion caused by the other party's ultra-low favorability towards him gradually relieved.
Before coming to this world and meeting the Elf King, Fei Yaran had never known what it meant to be unconfident and even inferior.
Even in the face of the elven clan's stunning elves, who were so beautiful that they had their own merits, Fei Yaran never felt that he was inferior to them.
But only the Elf King, this perfect life that can almost be called a milestone, made Fei Yaran completely lose his temper, and even after realizing the strength of the Elf King more and more, he felt more and more that he could be accepted as a student by such a bombardment Elf King, which was simply shit luck.
So, even if the Elf King didn't like him as much as Fei Yaran liked the other party, it didn't matter.
Because from the very beginning, his liking for the elven king was mixed with the utilitarian idea of trying to hug his thighs, until in the following ten years, in every day of getting along, he liked the noble and elegant and unfathomable king more and more.
Like and admire, it's all his own business.
In the face of such an elf king, even if the other party only gave him a little response, Fei Yaran felt that it was enough, not to mention, the elf king was really dedicated to him, if he was not satisfied like this, even Fei Yaran himself felt that he was too greedy.
As for the occasional loss that still arises when he sees the opinion list, Fei Yaran simply left them behind, he has more things to do, and he doesn't have much time to grieve because of this sadness.
On the way back to the palace from the elven city, you will occasionally see elves dancing in the forest.
The concept of elf hierarchy is not strict, and the location of the residences of low, middle and high elves in the city is very arbitrary, and there are all kinds of lush buildings in the air above the trees on the ground.
When an elf passes by and sees Fei Yaran and Star Track, most of them will nod their heads to say hello from afar, and after receiving the return gift from the two, they will continue to do their own thing.
Of course, there are also elves like the one in front of him who was flushed and deliberately ran over.
"Lord Jade, Lord Star Rail, good day." The male elf, with brown hair and eyes, jumped lightly from the tree to a few steps ahead of Fei Yaran and Star Trail, and although he was slightly flustered at first, he still saluted gracefully.
"Good day, Laika." Seeing that the other party was an elf who had met several times, Fei Yaran greeted with a smile.
Star Rail glanced at Laika without a trace, Emerald didn't like to be approached by elves taller than him, which few elves would notice, because the entire elf clan, except for Star Rail and Lance's student Kane, couldn't find a third guy as tall as Emerald.
I didn't expect to be noticed by this elf named Laika.
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the tips of his red ears and sparkling eyes, those eyes, which were staring straight at the jade standing beside him.
Knowing that this was decisive, it was another jadeite brain-dead star track, and a trace of urgency flashed in the eyes of the jadeite, and then he nodded in response to the other party, "Good day." β
Star Rail is arrogant, only those who are affirmed by him will be treated differently by him, and for other guys, they will rarely give each other a straight eye, even if they are elves of the same race, although there is no malice, but the attitude has a natural coldness.
Laika didn't notice the attitude of "Lord Star Rail" in his mouth at all, but instead stretched out his palm and handed the hand-woven delicate bag in his hand to Fei Yaran like a treasure, "Lord Jade, this is the seed of the 'wheat grass' you mentioned earlier, I got a few by chance in the past few days, and it is useless, please accept it." β
After speaking, Laika couldn't help but hold her breath, her eyes fixed on the young man's delicate jade-white face, and the fingers of the other hand that fell on her side were slightly bent with nervousness.
It's not that Laika hasn't seen good-looking elves, to be exact, in fact, the appearance of the elves is famous throughout the continent.
But I don't know why, from the first time I saw the legendary king, the same hair color as the king, and at the same time the only student of the king, his eyes could no longer leave the other party.
Although Jade-sama's body shape was different from those of them who were born with an adult body, the thought that he was a student of the king, and that he had Kane and Star Trail in the same shape as Jade, Laika felt that these were completely unimportant.
He, he is inexplicable, as soon as he sees Lord Jade, he wants to come over and talk to him, and as soon as he sees Lord Jade respond to him, in the next few months, his mood will be like Kangkang fruit basking in the sun, puff and puff burst happily.
Seeing the small bag handed over by the other party, Fei Yaran was stunned, and when he heard that it was the seeds of wheat grass, his eyes lit up suddenly.
He took the small bag from the other party's hand, opened it and took out the seeds, put them under the tip of his nose and sniffed them, and when he was sure that this was indeed the seed of wheat grass, Fei Yaran almost felt full of cows.
I'm going to it, after so many years, I can finally eat rice again!!
When Fei Yaran came across a wheat straw seed in Garcia's warehouse, he thought it looked too much like rice on the earth.
Over the years, under Fei Yaran's collection, wheat seeds that can grind flour, seeds of other vegetables, fruits, spices, and seasonings have been obtained, although the names are not the same as those on earth, but the taste is almost the same, all of them were planted by him in the depths of the forest on a piece of land that he reclaimed by himself, after the opening of the gang territory, the few pieces of land in the territory that were originally planted with flowers and horse grass were not spared, and they were all used by him to grow ingredients.
Later, he got a lot of kitchen utensils such as pots and pans, ovens, and pans from Garcia, and almost turned Garcia, who had always been regarded as a top art.
Fortunately, Fei Yaran finally came up with something delicious, which appeased Garcia, who had been preventing him from going to the foundry room again.
At this point, after drinking juice, honey, mountain spring water, and gnawing countless sweet, sour, bitter and salty fruits, Fei Yaran finally regained the feeling of being a human - the Nima Elf Clan is simply the best place to destroy foodies!
It's just that as a Chinese who is used to eating rice, he hasn't seen a grain of rice for so many years, which really makes Fei Yaran's heart stopped.
That's why when he saw such a wheat straw seed, Fei Yaran was so excited.
It's a pity that Garcia's one, when Fei Yaran saw it, had already died completely, and there was no possibility of triggering, and Fia then came to ask a learned bard in the clan who had traveled to the mainland, only to know that wheat wheat grass was only found in the east of the continent, and it was scarce, mostly grown in inaccessible places, and few people had seen it.
Azeroth, on the other hand, is located in the far west of the entire continent.
Fei Yaran had already done it for a few more decades, and when he went out to wave as an adult, he would look for wheat straw again, but he didn't expect that Ryan, who had only met him a few times, would give him such a big surprise!
Who says elves are cold? Obviously, there is truth everywhere in the world!
Although fireworks have begun to be set off in his heart, after so many years, under the influence of the facial paralysis around him, Fei Yaran has already been able to pamper and not be shocked on the surface, and after properly expressing his gratitude to Ryan, and giving the other party a fist-sized intermediate earth spar as a return gift, Fei Yaran said goodbye to the other party.
Until the two of them walked far away, carefully holding the figure of the spar, they could still see a little bit of excitement.
Star Track, who had seen this scene from beginning to end, frowned slightly, and said to Fei Yaran: "It's just a few seeds, and it's a bit heavy to use an intermediate earth-based spar as a return gift." β
Fei Yaran touched the small game backpack on his waist, did not hide the joy between his eyebrows and eyes, and shook his head: "It may be just a few seeds for others, but it is very important to me. To be honest, if I could, I would prefer to give the Laika high-grade spar, but unfortunately he can't use it for the time being, so I only sent the intermediate one. β
Laika is a low-level earth spirit, and at most it can only allow the mid-level spar to exert its power, but no matter how high-level it is, it can't.
Hearing this, Star Rail finally rolled his eyes a little when he couldn't stand it anymore, and then looked at Fei Yaran's gaze, which was no different from looking at a loser, "High-grade spars are already scarce, you don't even blink an eye when you give them away, the king is really too indulgent to you." β
Fei Yaran laughed twice, and leaned over to Star Track's side flatteringly, "You must not tell others, I usually don't waste anything at all, I was so happy just now, and I was so excited that I ...... it."
Star Rail continued to whiten him, and after Fei Yaran promised to make him a few more things to eat for a while, Star Rail finally let him go and promised to help him keep it a secret.
Fei Yaran breathed a sigh of relief at this time, because the spar he gave Laika was not a spar taken from the palace's private treasury at all, but a fourth-level five-element stone.
The Five Elements Stone used to be a necessary prop for players to refine equipment and activate equipment attribute holes in the Sword Three game, which is divided into five attributes: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, one to eight levels, one to six levels can be automatically synthesized by the system, and seven to eight level stones need to be stripped from the refined equipment, and the attributes are uncertain, and the failure rate of the stripping of the eighth-level stone is extremely high, in short, the higher the level, the more money is burned.
In the game, the Five Elements Stone can be purchased from a chubby, pot-bellied merchant, and then refined to a high level by the player himself, or directly from the trading house to buy a ready-made one.
Soon after Fei Yaran successfully entered Garcia's casting room, he found a lot of elemental crystals of various colors there, and he felt familiar at that time, and when no one was around, he took out a piece of five-element stone from his bag and looked at it carefully, only to find that the five-element stone was actually the same as the elemental crystal, both contained elemental power, the higher the level of the five-element stone, the higher the purity and concentration of elemental power, this discovery made Fei Yaran half happy and half worried.
Happily, fortunately, he had hoarded a lot of sixth-level five-element stones in the warehouse, but the worry was that the sixth-level stones were too high-level, equivalent to high-grade elemental crystals with very high purity, once they were discovered by other elves, Fei Yaran himself didn't know how to explain it, so he could only temporarily seal it in the package, waiting for him to go to the mainland in the future, so that he could see the light of day again.
As for the fourth-level five-element stone he gave to Laika just now, it was synthesized by Fei Yaran from those first-level five-element stones that Li Tun held in the gang's warehouse after the gang's territory was opened.
Seriously, the storage of the system really provides great convenience for Fei Yaran.
Because Fei Yaran had read so many books introducing elemental spars, he had never seen any example of how he could synthesize low-level spars into high-level spars so easily, not even Garcia, who was a casting grandmaster.
When Fei Yaran and Star Rail returned to the elven palace, the guards and maids who had risen early had already taken up their posts one after another.
After greeting those familiar faces along the way, Fei Yaran led the star track back to the room, burrowed into the specially carved out kitchen, and began to make breakfast.
Scoop a few large bowls of wheat flour into a basin, heat boiling water and stir, knead well until it is not sticky, then put it on the cutting board to dry.
Taking advantage of the drying of the noodles, Fei Yaran mixed the fillings one by one with sugar, powder made from Jiji grass fruits, rose sauce, osmanthus sauce, salt and a little other spices.
"Need my help?" Star Trail came over.
Fei Yaran thought for a moment, took out the small bag containing wheat straw from the bag, and threw it to Star Rail, "You can help me get them all out." β
Star Rail is a wood elf, it is simply a natural plant auxin, or a strengthened type, safe, pollution-free and no side effects, it can't be used better, and many kinds of seeds that Fei Yaran got before were all prompted by Star Track.
Although as a full-line elf, Fei Yaran can also prompt it himself, but he always feels that the star rail art industry has a specialization, which is more professional than himself.
After the seed was thrown to Star Rail, Fei Yaran turned around and continued his work.
Star Rail looked at his back speechlessly, and in order to eat as much as he could, he finally resigned himself to the fact that he began to sprout wheat grass.
The noodles had already been dried, and Fei Yaran pulled a piece, kneaded it into a ball, and then pressed a depression in the middle of the ball, and filled in the various fillings prepared one by one.
After thousands of operations in the past few years, Fei Yaran has already memorized these steps, and the two slender fingers flew into the express action, and in just a while, the plate was full.
After that, some of them are fried in a pan to make cookies, and some of them are put in the oven to make cookies.
Most of the elves don't like greasy, and they even have diarrhea when they first eat it, but Fei Yaran's life used to be inseparable from oil, but fortunately, there is a kind of fruit juice that can be used directly as oil, Fei Yaran simply got a few and planted them in the gang territory, and they can be used at any time when they want to fry and cook.
When the cookies were fried, Star Rail already had an extra row of palm-high wheat grass seedlings at hand.
Seeing that the cookies were ready, the star track, which had always had no expression, rarely showed a little expectant look in his eyes, and immediately threw the seedlings to serve the cookies.
Fei Yaran ran cautiously ran over, and under the cover of the wrap around his waist, he threw the seedlings directly into the gang territory.
The cookies that had just come out of the pot were golden and crispy, and they were still very hot, but Star Rail didn't feel the same at all, and he inserted a piece of it with a silver fork and sent it to his mouth, and he was so hot that he frowned, and he didn't say anything about it, and after tasting the filling, his frowning brows finally stretched out, revealing a small smile.
Fei Yaran twitched the corner of his eyes and looked at the guy who was called "the elegant and noble Star Rail Lord" by the elves, and really wanted those elves who worshiped the Star Track to see this guy's current virtue.
When Star Rail had finished nibbling on a cookie and started on the second one, Fei Yaran took out his chopsticks, picked up an osmanthus cookie, and ate it slowly.
Star Rail glanced at the two slender little sticks in Jadeite's hand, he had long been accustomed to these strange things in Jadeite, although he had never been able to understand why he had a soft spot for those two small sticks, but this was Jade's freedom, and he would not interfere.
When he was nibbling on the cookies, Star Rail didn't forget to take out a pot of light-tasting fruit wine from the storage bag that Fei Yaran gave him and throw it to Fei Yaran.
Fei Yaran tasted it, his eyes lit up, and he booked ten barrels with the star track in one breath and planned to drink it slowly, and received several white eyes from the star track again.
When the two of them finally had their fill of food and drink, the small biscuits in the oven were baked on time.
Star Rail directly spread out a small straw bag on the dining table, watched Fei Yaran stuff each different biscuit into it, tied it, and then took out two bags from it and stuffed it into his bag, and the rest was packed by Fei Yaran.
After that, the two of them went out together and went to the government affairs hall.
When they arrived at the government hall, Bai and the other elders had already started work, and Fei Yaran secretly stuffed Bai's largest packet of biscuits, and then gave a few smaller ones to the other elders.
Ever since he had given Bai a pack of biscuits for the first time, which was eaten by the other elders, after Bai's euphemistic request, Fei Yaran did not forget to give Bai a copy when he gave Bai food again.
In this regard, Fei Yaran actually understood very well, after all, no one knew better than him how scarce the elven clan's food was dΓΉ.
Fei Yaran's original cooking skills were not good, but after coming to this world, he was really forced to have no choice, so he practiced while flipping through the recipes in his cooking skills, while recalling what food he had eaten, and then tried to restore them one by one.
Although the taste is unsatisfactory, far inferior to that of professional chefs, but some of them have eaten it, and Fei Yaran is also content.
Later, with everyone's support, Fei Yaran was naturally happy to help everyone bring out a copy every time.
As time passed, Fei Yaran subtly felt that when these elders looked at him again, their eyes were much gentler than at the beginning, and some would even point him a few words, which could be regarded as an unexpected joy.
Of course, Star Rail's teacher, Elder Winster's share, was personally sent by Star Rail every time.
Elder Winster is a very good-tempered earth-type emperor-rank elf, with long light brown hair, tied in a bunch behind his back, although the appearance is still a young man in his twenties, the actual age is already thousands of years old, every time he looks at Star Rail and Fei Yaran, his eyes show the gentle care of the elder, Fei Yaran still likes him.
After the things were delivered, Fei Yaran didn't love the stack either.
Star Rail stayed with Elder Winster to study, while Fei Yaran took Dora, the maid who followed him, to the library to find the Elven King to take lessons.