"Nicole, do you need help?" Song Rui felt that he had to say something, but after the words came out, he felt that no matter how he heard this, he felt like a stunned young man looking for a girl to talk, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

Nicole glanced at Song Rui, and saw Song Rui squatting under the eaves, the brim of his hat was slightly wet from the rain, and she was a little pitiful, and she couldn't laugh or cry, "That'...... Can you help me hold this shelf? ”

Song Rui's expression immediately brightened, "En! ”

"This shelf?" Song Rui walked next to Nicole and looked at the flower trellis, this flower trellis is wooden, and the rows of flower pots made directly of wide wooden boards are arranged in a stepped downward pattern, and there are different kinds of plants planted in them, with clear layers, "What kind of flowers are on this?" I haven't seen it. ”

"The top is the wine fruit, the growing environment is not demanding, that is, it needs to be turned over frequently, and the water demand is relatively large." Nicole took a small shovel and carefully turned over the wine fruit plants in the trellis lattice, gently and skillfully, "The effect of turning the soil is best when it rains." ”

"Wine in the fruit?" Song Rui looked at the small pale yellow buds on the tender green plant, imagined the situation when the fruit was full of wine, and inexplicably looked forward to it.

"It's just that it tastes like wine, and it's not okay to drink it, but you can put one when cooking to remove the smell and increase the flavor, so that the ingredients taste better." Nicole explained.

"When you say that, it feels a bit like cooking wine." Song Rui muttered, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the fruit of the plants in the small stone pool next to him, "Why does that look like a clam?" How do you look at it, are they all plants? Growing directly in the water? ”

The bottom plants do grow in water, with brown roots waving and stretching in the clear water, and the plants are partially immersed in the water. The plant is green, like aquatic plants, with small light purple buds. Song Rui didn't care about it at first, but he accidentally found that the purple bud was oval and the two pieces were tightly bitten, and there were circles of lines on it, except for the color, it looked exactly the same as a clam.

"That's a drunken clam, it's not water underneath, it's sake, and the growing environment of drunken clams must be well-lit and have a high alcohol concentration." Ni could see that Song Rui was very interested, so she pointed out the plants in the courtyard to Song Rui one by one.

"It's all sake brewing!" Song Rui said.

"Well, winemaking is a skill passed down from my master, and when I was very young, I began to learn how to handle all kinds of wine-related ingredients from my master, and after my master's death, I took over his work." Nicole's voice has always been unhurried, gentle but with a hint of imperceptible coldness.

"Work?"

"Well, there is only one winemaker on the island, and it has been passed down from generation to generation." "The job of a winemaker is very busy, and although everyone likes wine, they don't seem to like being a winemaker. In particular, the winemakers exist mainly for the sake of Lord Elizabeth. ”

"Little fish?"

"Well, it's Lord Elizabeth, I heard Carly say that you came from the other side of the mountain, and you must have been brought by that lord, right? Winemakers are required to provide adults with one bottle of wine per year. ”

"Sacrifice?"

"Repay the favor." Nicole corrected, "A long time ago, before Lord Elizabeth, there was a great disaster on this island, the sky shattered, the sea poured back, and it was a catastrophe for the people of this island. The merfolk of that generation took great risks to snatch a heart of the ocean from the deep sea of the gastronomic world, mixing their own blood to make the dome stable again, and the people of the island were saved. ”

"Heart of the Ocean...... Song Rui was a little distracted, he raised his head and looked at the dome. So, this dome is held up by the blood of the merfolk and the heart of the ocean? That's why the little fish can get in and out of the dome without hindrance, right?

"In the beginning, the relationship between the people and the merfolk was not as strange as it is now, but they got along very harmoniously, and the adult loved to drink, so the people on the island specially selected a winemaker to make the best bottle of wine for the adult every year. Later, as the people involved in that incident gradually passed away, although the descendants continued this tradition, their feelings for mermaids were different, there may be respect, there may be fear, or there may be gratitude...... As a result, a relationship similar to that of sacrificing to the gods was formed. ”

Nicole's voice was light and light, accompanied by the sound of the rain, as if passing through a bluestone alley, ringing in Song Rui's ears, allowing him to capture a trace of undetectable loneliness, mermaid's, and Nicole's.

"So, I probably can't agree to what you're going to say, Carly is the next generation of winemakers right now, but she's still too young and hasn't fully learned her skills." Nicole's voice came again, "If you want to become a teacher, it will take at least three years. ”

Song Rui was silent, it was unlikely that they would wait for Nicole for that long.

"Do you want to get out?" Song Rui felt that he had to confirm this, "I heard Carly say, you don't have a very good relationship with the people on the island?" ”

"Huh? No, but in the eyes of others, the title of 'mermaid's exclusive brewer' itself carries a sense of distance, and I am not very cheerful, but it is not a bad relationship. Nicole replied, "The outside world...... What does it look like? ”

"Outside there is day and night, there is abundance and barrenness, but there is much more vast, there are more possibilities, there are countless ingredients, and of course there are many dangers." Song Rui introduced it, and suddenly found that he had only been in this world for a few months, "There is also a Dionysian Island, and the ingredients on it are all related to wine, such as old wine apes, wine thief snails, wine shells, Dionysian sharks, and Dionysian dragons, and Ranran's father likes to vacation on that island very much." ”

Nicole's eyes are shining, she is actually full of yearning for the outside world, probably influenced by her father, she yearns for the kind of place that is infinitely vast and full of infinite possibilities.

"If only one day, I could go out too."

"Then come with us!" The blue light in Song Rui's eye sockets lit up, "Xiaoyu won't mind if there is any wine, she buried everything she didn't drink, and gave us a bottle." ”

"You've been gifted by adults?!" Nicole's eyes widened slightly, and then she shook her head, "However, even if adults don't care, this is what we have to do!" ”

Song Rui has a headache, this girl is a very serious type at first glance, although she doesn't care about anything lightly, but her stubborn temper comes up, and she definitely can't pull it even if she is a nine-headed cow.

Neither of them noticed that there was a small figure in the place where the plants near the eaves were sheltered, and it was Carly. She looked at Nicole, her eyes lit up.