Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Princess Meets the Dead
After Natsuko's mother Emi got the news of her father's distant United States, she began to accept many "elegant activities" arrangements that she had never dabbled in, and all the expenses were still borne by Natsuko's second uncle, Minister Ikeda Mian, and he spared no effort to cultivate Natsuko, shaping the preference of the upper class to worship the surname Xi, and he was sincere for the mother and daughter to reunite with their younger brother Ikeda Masaharu, and directly stepped into high society.
Not long after being able to ride a horse, Xia Zi, who was not skilled in equestrianism, was naturally placed on an extremely smooth snow-white peony horse, and Dida and Nina, two tall and tall, well-toned and energetic blonde and blue-eyed maids, each rode on a jujube red flame horse, and rode barebacked, sandwiching the white peony horse in the center, and a fragrant wind swayed, from outside the gate of the villa, all the way to the slope covered with mountain flowers and green grass in the distance.
When approaching the village, someone had already recognized two beautiful women riding naked horses, and from time to time their envious greetings came.
"Morning, beauty!"
"As soon as you look at the Flaming Pony, you know you're coming!"
"How can Mr. Duke be willing to let you out?"
"What, you brought a little girl? It's so cute, it's so fragrant, she's ......."
"Beer~yell!" A clear whip whistle sounded, and the last voice to speak stopped abruptly, and the coquettish voices of Dida and Nina shouted at the same time:
"Bold!"
"Rude!"
"It's not polite to see the princess!"
"Apologize!"
Natsuko was a little apprehensive, although she had acquiesced to the identity of the princess, but she didn't know the origin of this identity at all, watching the beautiful Dida and Nina open the way for her, she couldn't help but rely more on the two maids, she felt very uneasy, as if once someone stood in front of her, pointing at her and scolding her for her unknown origin, she would definitely be embarrassed.
"Ahh~~! It's really a little princess, but how do you seem to have seen it, and it's very familiar? A stunned voice fluttered through from a distance.
"Where are you from? How have I never seen it! You're not going to come out of the sea, are you? Dida didn't hesitate to raise her voice.
"Haha, I'...... Emerging from the sea? Someone finally knows where I'm coming from! Come on, what do you call you, beautiful ......" The voice continued to drift in the distance, but finally stopped abruptly, obviously this was not the role of Dida and Nina's horsewhip.
From far and near, a person with the appearance of a black and yellow housekeeper came closer: "It turned out to be two Brus girls!" Forgive your sins, forgive your sins, come over to see me in the lower Sikong Yan, just now the current owner of my wooden castle, just came over for a vacation, and I haven't had time to get used to the tone of the here......"
"I want to meet him!" Natsuko suddenly spoke.
"This ......" Sikong Yan froze, he didn't want Li Gongzi, who had just relieved his spirits, to get into some trouble when he came out, so he couldn't help but groan.
"Princess, let's go, this is not yet a fun place, don't be delayed by some people who don't know what to do!" With that, Dida turned the horse's head around, and with Nina in her white horse, she was about to move on.
Xia Zi felt very strange, the voice just now, she was also a little difficult to judge, just now I wanted to meet the one who spoke, as for who it would be, that short sentence, it is really hard to be sure. But why did I suddenly feel the urge to meet him?
Nina leaned over and pulled the reins of the white horse, and Natsuko, who was fixed in the saddle, was involuntarily led forward by the horse and the two flaming horses.
"Princess, the people here are not all local residents, many of them are from the other side of the distant ocean, for many years, it is said that some of them are pirates, and some are important criminals with heinous bloody crimes, and they have been hidden here for several generations, and they can't be guarded against, which is one of the reasons why the villa can't easily contact the outside world." Nina said as she turned back to investigate, as if someone was still behind her.
"Ah~~!? What's going on? What country did you go to? House architecture is not our style, round, pointed, is not to Arabia? Xia Zi asked, looking at the scene that was gradually revealing under the morning fog in front of him.
Dida laughed suddenly: "Haha, the princess is so funny!" Arabia is far away from here, not to mention that it is separated by thousands of rivers and mountains, and the boundless ocean alone is extremely difficult to cross, not to mention...... How could the Duke absorb people from there......
"What are you talking about, Dida!" Nina interrupted Dida's words and said, "The Duke has broken many rules by allowing us to travel with the princess, and the place he wants us to go is not where we are yet!" Why don't you hurry up and walk around there? If you keep grinding, you may not be able to get to that place today! ”
There are many places in the village that make Xia Zi puzzled, it seems to be a colony where all nations gather, men and women of all colors and costumes, old and young, and they all have a natural look of peace and peace on their faces, and when they see Xia Zi and the three of them, they all stand down, slightly perform greetings of different ceremonies, and then continue their leisure activities.
"They don't seem to have to work, right? Still is...... What's special today? Natsuko was puzzled.
"Their job is the grassland, and although it is barren for more than half of the year, this mild and beautiful time is enough for them for a year......" Nina explained, but it still didn't make Natsuko understand.
Dida stopped her horse and motioned for Nina to help Natsuko off the horse with her, tethered the three horses to a few stakes on the side, and then walked with Natsuko on foot.
"We just walked around the streets of the village a little, so that the princess had an impression in her heart, and if it was possible in the future, we would look at the princess's preferences, there were some special rarities, all of which were family heirlooms of the different inhabitants of their village, made by craftsmanship, and some of which were recently made by the duke's funding, but those who don't know it well will never get it, and don't even think about it...... Later, we will explain it to you in the same way. ”
After Nina said this, he and Dida stopped talking about the village, and lifted their spirits, guiding Natsuko all the way into the endless fields of flowers and trees.
After about a cup of tea, we came to the outer edge of a dense reed.
"You're about to know the secret!" Dida smiled with relief and said mysteriously to Natsuko.
"Don't panic, don't be nervous!" At the sound of Nina's command, the three girls' feet trembled, and a crack opened in a whole layer of rock covered in moss, and little by little the flat crescent-shaped hole opened.
Dida led the way alone, and Nina followed Natsuko and walked down the long staircase with the half-open entrance to the cave.
Xia Zi couldn't close his mouth in surprise, there was a large-scale modern urban underground building below, the lights were bright, the combined steel columns, and the huge space framed, the left side was a storage warehouse, and the right end was a row of processing workshop-like bays, and different processing equipment was continuously transporting batches of packaged finished products from the collection chain above the space and transported to the opposite warehouse.
"How can there be a factory here? Where does electricity come from? Raw materials? Natsuko asked in a series of questions.
"I don't know, it's all arranged by the duke, he has a big estate here, and there are many villages outside that he specially invited to join this industrial organization in other places......" Dida glanced at Nina and explained cautiously in her words.
"Why do you want to...... Show me these? Natsuko became worried.
"Because you're a princess, and besides, there should be your sisters coming, and of course, they should be princesses too!" Nina patted her ass and laughed.
"Good Rat, I should only be able to see here today, time is running out...... The Duke just wants you to know that this place has everything, and all that's missing may just be the right person......" Dida led them to an auto-sensing door in the building's space.
Looking at the way she was about to pass, Natsuko stared nervously, thinking that she didn't see her with a key or something, how to open it this time?
Dida leaned her face in front of a red-glowing device flush with her eyes, and with a "click" sound, the door opened.
When the three of them walked in, the door closed automatically behind them, and Natsuko immediately found another moon door, the same as the kind of entrance they saw behind them after they came down the staircase passage from the edge of the reeds.
This is another place, the entrance to the ascending staircase outside, which opened after Nina did one of the actions that Dida had just done.
The three men climbed the stairs and walked out.
Just as Natsuko turned around to look at the crescent-shaped hole formed by the same moss-covered rock layer as when she had just entered, she heard a fluttering voice coming from her.
“…… Those Nizi just now are so beautiful that they are bubbling...... than the maids you arranged...... It's ...... how many times more beautiful it is."
"That's not going to work...... Li Gongzi, they ...... The people in the fort ......" another voice also drifted intermittently.
“…… Who asked you to arrange it...... The arrangement is also good, do you see ...... this son enjoys? ”
Natsuko's heart tightened, and she suddenly realized something: "Pineapple! It's definitely him! ”
Xia Zi listened accurately this time, there was no other sound around, and there was no noise from anyone else, Xia Zi was sure!
No wonder my heart was beating so tightly just now, it turned out to be really ...... He!?
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