Volume 1 The Tiger's Mouth Escapes a Danger Chapter 4 The Volcanic Vegetable Garden
Vis Volcano.
One of the few active volcanoes on the mainland of Berning. The whole body is a black-brown cone-shaped mountain, and the crater on the mountain still emits black smoke from time to time, emitting a pungent sulfur smell. This is already a forbidden area for other life, no creature wants to give its life to the hands of this volcano that erupts at some unknown point, and there are no resources near the volcano, from the top of the mountain down is the re-condensed black-brown basalt, the rocks have no grass, only speckled moss, until halfway up the mountain there are some bushes, halfway down the mountain there are some not very tall trees and forests. Of course, there are intermittent fountains and hot springs scattered all over the place, and on the black sand around the springs, you can often see bubbles rising from below, like soap bubbles, briefly refracting colorful light, and then bursting, leaving holes and small circles on the wet sand.
But this is not a forbidden area for all life, for the dwarves who believe in the god of fire and claim to enjoy the protection of the god of fire, this is their paradise. The abundant earth fire and hot springs here are the best places for them to make weapons and quench. And there is no other life to scratch, which makes the simple dwarves even more happy. So halfway up the hill, a round fortress-like enclosure was piled up of rocks, and clusters of papayas hung from the bushes. Everything seems to be no different from other dwarven settlements, but, but, if you look closely, there is a completely different scenery somewhere in the middle of the mountain.
A large piece of flat land was enclosed by an iron fence, and the black iron fence was covered with spear blades that lit with a silvery white cold light, except that there was an iron gate in the middle of the left side, which was also closed with a bolt. How can this enclosed flat land look like a vegetable garden on earth at first glance? The gray and black earth was combed into neat squares, and it was not papaya that was planted, but the short and narrow cones that grew upwards on the branches of the dwarf shrubs, red red, green green, how did they look like peppers to the sky! The round oval fruit hanging from the tender green branches of the puffy-shaped pinnate leaf plant, green green, yellow yellow, a few already red, how do they look so like tomatoes! The palm-leaved plants that climbed up the shelves were verdant green, and the vines hung with strips of fruit, which were covered with white acne...... Cucumber! If you look closely, there are also cabbage, corn, and watermelon...... There are more than a dozen kinds of vegetables, melons and fruits......
In the middle of the garden there is a row of five tall wooden houses (compared to the dwellings of the dwarfs), and in front of the wooden houses there is a huge open lawn, made of smooth basalt stones, and the small gaps between the stones are actually filled with white mortar, which seems to ensure the flatness and integrity of the open lawn. In the middle of the wooden house, there is a common table of eight immortals on the earth, with four benches, a hardwood sofa in the left corner, a wooden shelf with toiletries on the right corner, and a huge water tank next to it, and a wooden lid specially added. On the left side of the table is a rough wooden hard bed, the mattress is placed with thick hay, and on the hay is a huge white animal fur, which should be not low, and the smooth leather is spread upwards, and on the fur lies a monk who is only wearing light linen clothes, is it not our great monk Puyi? On the right is a small iron frame bed, and the dwarf who is sleeping on the bed is actually the dwarf, Duna!
Where do you start? When the vegetable monk Puyi used a gross ticket from the Minotaur patriarch Glenna he knew in exchange for hoes and other farm tools, he was interested in cultivating his own vegetable garden, when he saw that the species he was familiar with appeared in front ......of his eyes again, Puyi couldn't help but burst into tears, everything is strange, only the things he planted are extraordinarily familiar, only extraordinarily cordial, that mood is full of flavors.
The happiness of the dwarfs in the lowlands of Gespan came too suddenly, and the vegetable monk Puyi sprinkled some dried chili powder on his barbecue in order to season, and the brown barbecue was sprinkled with red chili peppers, which not only increased the aroma, added color, and enhanced the taste, but also particularly relieved of greasy, Puyi and Duna ate too happily, sweating profusely and sighing. Then the dwarves of the Gaspan lowlands ate so happily that everyone sweated like rain and sighed, and then they ate a great thing!
As a dwarf clan, the small clan got the treasure - chili powder, whether it is to show off or pay tribute, it will naturally send some to the big clan, the elder of the big clan, a senior intermediate magician who has practiced fire magic for many years, has been stuck in a bottleneck for many years, and after taking in some more chili peppers, he actually broke through the bottleneck in one fell swoop and entered the high-level fire magician.
Of course, it is said that this Elder Snellin is a foodie, as soon as he heard about the magic and delicacy of ground chili peppers, he took a big wooden spoon and ate it as papaya powder, and a spoonful went down at least two taels on the earth, and then Elder Snellin couldn't sit still, feeling that his stomach was burning, he wanted to stick out his tongue, wanted to drink water, and wanted to run around like crazy, but Elder Snellin was worthy of being an intermediate mage who had practiced fire magic for many years.
Then the dwarf clan has one more high-level magician of the fire system, and then what happens can be imagined, a distinguished guest of unknown origin of the human race, carrying with him the precious renewable peerless elixir "Gift of the God of Fire" (chili powder), then you have to be well entertained, you can't stay in the small clan to snub the distinguished guest, then you have to invite to the big clan. Distinguished guests like to grow exotic flowers and herbs, so build a house on the holy land of the great family, Veis Volcano, and make sure that your guests feel at home.
Yes, it's best to be at home, it's better to settle down, so there is a vegetable garden on this volcano, as for why the vegetable garden is fenced with an iron fence, it is naturally to prevent irrelevant beasts and personnel from colliding with distinguished guests, safety first. Du Na is so blue-eyed by the distinguished guest, and after testing several times that the noble guest has no special intention of several famous "beautiful short" in the clan, then let her follow the noble guest as a maid, but I really don't know who is waiting for whom with such a big little fart.
And Puyi only realized in his daily communication and exchanges that the minotaur he thought had his own name "dwarf race", and there were no judges and Hades here, as for whether there were any other races, those close dwarf friends were concerned about him. Puyi, who is knowledgeable and interested, naturally doesn't ask, it's easy to live comfortably, there's no need to ask for trouble, right?
"Short man is short, a belly crutch", this commonly used saying on the earth I don't know if it is also expressed in the other world with "condensed is the essence", but the well-known simple dwarf does not seem to be so simple, if there is no accident, the unknown origin of the human race distinguished guest may be captive in this inaccessible dwarf holy land on the Vis Volcano to work for a living, and the strange flowers and herbs he planted have long been regarded as the strategic reserve items of the big clan, guarded by special personnel, and not a single grass or leaf is allowed to flow out. And chili powder, this miraculous medicine named "The Gift of the Fire God", is even more centrally guarded, except for the part of the guests for their own use, listed as the top secret of the dwarf race, only the fire mage who is about to break through, can be rationed to the designated place to receive and take on the spot. The dwarves of the Gaspan Lowlands are happier, and they have concentrated on migrating to the core area of the dwarves, settling under the holy land of Vees, and basically cutting off contact with the outside world.
Puyi, who entered the temple at the age of fourteen to practice planting vegetables, naturally didn't know this, only knew that he had been moved, the living environment was better, he had his own "mansion" in the middle of the mountain, and there were special people to help him in farming, and Xiao Duna also ran with him all day long, no longer need to eat those papaya paste, what good things are there, the kind and hospitable dwarves will give it to themselves first, although it is not brocade clothes and jade food, but these dwarf creatures seem to be using the power of the whole clan to support themselves. This naturally moved the simple Puyi, but in addition to being moved, why are there always some other tastes in the heart?