33. Birch forest

Before dinner began, Xia Zuo and Rebecca split up to find the ingredients.

Xia Zuo didn't mind, because he didn't feel hungry until now.

Speaking of those materials, think about it and know where there is the most in the village, and it is still ready-made - the village chief's house.

So Xia Zuo was on the way to that side, according to Rebecca's recollections, the items on the list, at least half of the items on the list were found in the village chief's house, and the remaining half, and some of them were found from the medicinal materials that Rebecca collected daily, and the rest, Rebecca would go to the village and outside the village to look for it, and if she was lucky, she could find it without leaving the village.

"Even though I'm the one who posted the task, I still don't want to let Rebecca look for it." During the walk, Xia Zuo said, and opened the list, the items that have been found on it have traces of fingernail rubbing, as long as they are faintly visible, such as one of the "barnacles", which is a creature only on the seaside, Xia Zuo, who came out of Rebecca's house, found that his neighbor Jobs's house was drying fishing nets and placing a lot of fishing gear, only to know that his family occasionally went to the east coast to fish, as for the barnacles, there were only some leftover shells, which were used by Jobs as one of the collections after drying, but they could also be used, and he reluctantly gave some.

It didn't take long to go, Xia Zuo saw the chickens wandering in the village, but the chicken feathers to be collected were not on his own list, the shadow left by playing the old roll in the past had not dissipated, and the matter of plucking the feathers from the chickens was still handed over to Rebecca, and he went straight to the village chief's house.

In the middle of the road, a man and a chicken looked at each other.

Xia Zuo silently bypassed the chicken, and the chicken would also bypass the person.

In this way, it was as if there was an invisible force in the center of the road, and the two sides walked next to the fences on the left and right sides.

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Rebecca also carried her bag and went in the direction of the entrance of the village, and the things on the list seemed to be all in the village, but she couldn't remember where it was for a while, so she went to the place she could remember first.

There was a birch bark in the list, and the trees outside the village were all hard birch trees that had grown under the magic control of the village chief, and Rebecca had to bring a knife to get them.

Walking past the houses, passing through the branch gate of the village, the trees stand and meet Rebecca's eyes, and at the same time she sees two familiar figures.

"Uncle Holf... Ola? ”

"Isn't this Rebecca~" Horf stopped the axe in his hand and turned back to say hello.

Ola leaned against the tree on the side, absent-minded and unhelpful.

"Where are you? Cutting down trees? Rebecca walked over, and as soon as she left the village, she found the father and son, wielding an axe at the thickest of the trees, a tree as thick as Uncle Holf's waist, and the gap had been cut in half.

"That's right~"

It was the tree that the village chief used to protect the village, and as long as the enemy entered the woods, the village chief had his own way to deal with them, and as for how to deal with them, Rebecca had never seen it yet, because the village had been safe.

Because of this, these special birches are so hard that even if one of them was struck by lightning, it did not hurt them for a few. Rebecca marveled at the strength of Horf's axe, the last time she saw them was not long ago, but it was only a moment before they arrived, and they were almost cutting down the thickest tree.

"This is really difficult to do~" As he spoke, Holf picked up the axe again, and slammed it, the sound of smashing into the birch gap resounded in the forest, and the corner of the gap only advanced a little, and it was estimated that the houses near the entrance of the village could hear it, but fortunately, the village chief's house was far away.

"Uncle Holf... You guys, secretly cutting down the village chief's tree? Rebeccapi asked with a smile, "I remember the village chief said that these trees are very important......

"Steal?" Horf raised his eyebrows, but he didn't stop what he was doing, "Hey, can the craftsman in the village who serves the people ask for wood from the village chief?" ”

Then he said a lot of things like he worked hard for the villagers, and the village chief tinkered with magic all day long, and he didn't pay much for it.

"Count," Ola, who had been silent for a long time, retorted, "why not?" ”

"Stinky boy, who are you talking to?"

“……”

"Why don't you come and help, even if you don't want me to forge another scabbard for the guest, you have to help."

"Guest?" Rebecca thought for a moment, there was only one person who could be regarded as Holf's guest today, "Uncle Holf, are you helping Your Excellency Xia Zuo build the scabbard?" ”

"That's right."

"It turns out that the scabbard that His Excellency Xia Zuo is wearing around his waist was made by you, which is really beautiful." Rebecca folded her hands to her face in praise.

"Haha, that's of course, my skill in making scabbards is not inferior to swords, after all, only a good scabbard can be worthy of a good sword." Horf, who was originally proud, lowered his face, and turned to Ola, "Don't come and help yet!" Do you think I promised you what happened before for no reason? If you want me to go to Claire's house and lobby you, you have to satisfy me. ”

Ola snorted disgruntled and had to bend down to pick up his axe.

"That's like words~!" Horff said.

Hearing about Claire, Rebecca covered her mouth and snickered, causing Ora to turn her head in embarrassment.

"Ah, yes," Rebecca said as she took off her backpack, which was already filled with a lot of materials, "Uncle Holf, can you cut off four pieces of bark for me?" ”

"Oh? Rebecca also did something stealing? Horff grinned, returning Rebecca's previous questioning of herself.

"No, it can't be considered stealing, it can't be considered stealing," Rebecca beckoned with a wry smile, "I'm also here to save people, it's very urgent... Even though it's been so long to say it, I still think it's urgent. ”

"Well, it's good, don't talk about four pieces of bark, it's no problem to cut forty pieces for you~" Horf saw that Rebecca's mood was good, and it seemed to be different from the usual plain and polite smile, "Is something good happening?" Rebecca. ”

"Ah~ Look at me, I suddenly forgot to tell you about this matter, it's my father who ......"

"Click~" The sound of a tree branch being trampled off not far away came, and at the same time, there was a sound of walking armor jolting, gradually approaching, which couldn't help but make Rebecca stop talking, and the three of them also turned their heads to look over there vigilantly.

"That's ...... Who? Rebecca's scalp tingled and she took a half-step back, with an ominous premonition.

I saw that it seemed to be a certain "person", taller than the half-dwarf Orrah, with a strong body, and the muscular muscles were tightened under some of the armor, revealing green skin through the gap between the armor and the opening in the front of the helmet. There seems to be a weapon on the back, and the thick hilt is visible on the front, which is rusty.

"Is it an orc!?" Aura ran in front of Rebecca with a brisk stride, and stood side by side with Holf, his axe clenched in both hands.

Aura spoke, and Rebecca were both anxious, why did the orcs appear in the north of the Andu Kingdom, which has nothing to do with the orc tribe!?

"No!" Holf saw that the other party showed sharp and interlaced teeth, while the orcs had fangs that it didn't have, and the orcs had a short nose with their nostrils turned out, and it had a big pointed nose and pointed ears that protruded faintly from the gap in the helmet, orcs wouldn't look like this, "That guy's face, it's a goblin!" ”