Section 99 Courtyards

The building complex of the goblin is integrated with nature as a whole, but it is higher than nature. Goblins allow trees to fit into their buildings as they grow, in a friendly but uncluttered way. It can be said that all the buildings of the goblins are integrated into the forest, and from another point of view, this forest is their city, every tree is their building, and the goblin life is in line with the rhythm of nature to recuperate, full of harmonious atmosphere. And in Zhang Lan's opinion, they are even closer to the forest than the legendary elves, because even their skin is green, and the legendary elves can't do this.

And in such a building complex, a Chinese-style Jiangnan courtyard stands out from the crowd, which makes Zhang Lan, who came all the way from the "strange-shaped" building, feel a little dramatic.

King Zhao saw Zhang Lan's surprised look, and said with some melancholy: "After leaving our homeland for more than ten years, only these things that still carry the memory of our hometown can comfort our homesickness a little." ”

"These building materials don't seem to be ordinary bricks and tiles," Zhang Lan nodded silently, but suddenly saw that the protrusion of a female wall seemed to be made of jade-like stones.

"Yes, the soil in this valley is not sticky enough to burn the bricks and tiles used to build houses, so I had to ask the goblins to polish the bricks and tiles with the local specialty white stone, so it took a lot of effort," said Zhao Wang, touching a white wall. And the white wall that King Zhao touched was faintly glowing with blue light, and after Zhang Lan approached and took a closer look, she almost dropped her jaw, what kind of white stone is this, this warm feel and semi-transparent light, this is clearly a very rare jade on the earth, and King Zhao actually used it to build the entire courtyard.

"How long did it take you to build this courtyard" Building a house with jade, even if the jade here is relatively ordinary, but it must be particularly troublesome to process jade into bricks and tiles, thinking of this, Zhang Lan couldn't help asking.

"Oh, it didn't take long, because at that time the goblins were more interested in our construction technology and house form, at that time almost every goblin polished a few bricks for us, and we were only in charge of the command when we were building, and almost everyone rushed to help build the house, so the main body of this courtyard was basically completed in only a month, and some goblins also tried to imitate us to build this kind of house, but because they added their aesthetic elements in the construction process, the house collapsed halfway through, In the future, no one will continue" King Zhao recalled the scene when this courtyard was completed, and thousands of empty alleys in the entire valley came to visit, so he couldn't help but smile and tell Zhang Lan about the process of building this small courtyard.

"Goblins' curiosity about things can sometimes really create miracles" Walking in the jade-paved Sanjin courtyard, Zhang Lan couldn't help but sigh.

The shape of this courtyard is the same type as the Soviet-style garden that Zhang Lan visited when she traveled to Suzhou and Hangzhou, but the scale is much smaller. He followed King Zhao into the middle hall and sat down, Lu Sheng skillfully served tea, but this time the tea was only water and no tea, presumably the tea drunk in the courtyard of the goblin patriarch was as they said it was extremely difficult to cultivate, and it really couldn't be drunk as an ordinary drink.

As soon as Zhang Lan sat down, she went straight to the topic and asked King Zhao about the clues about going home, King Zhao glanced at Lu Sheng, and the latter walked into the back hall to get it. In the process of waiting for Lu Sheng, the two chatted casually, but chatting and chatting became King Zhao's 100,000 reasons for the history, humanities, and scientific and technological development after the Song Dynasty, and Zhang Lan was also patient to answer them one by one according to what he knew. And King Zhao's open-mindedness and inferences completely broke his stereotype of the ancients as "the one who cares", and he is also full of curiosity about novelties like goblins.

Speaking a little dryly, Zhang Lan picked up the teacup on the table and poured it hard. Just as he put down the teacup, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a familiar item "Red Crystal Gun" on the shelf in the corner of the room!

This discovery immediately attracted Zhang Lan's attention, according to the information revealed by the chirp, the red crystal gun in the goblin clan is definitely cherished control equipment, their existing three hundred red crystal guns themselves are particularly precious because of the scarcity of quantity, and the management of the red crystal gun, the goblins are to break their casual racial characteristics, formulate perfect rules and regulations and layers of responsible person to take care of, management, maintenance, use, storage of this line of personnel are present, in order to take out the warehouse for use, And the damaged ones will face a punishment that is rare for the goblin clan, and the lost ones will be sentenced to capital punishment and "exile", so that the scattered goblin society attaches so much importance to the red crystal gun, which shows the importance of the goblins to the heavy weapons of the town clan. And now he actually saw such a thing in a human dwelling other than a goblin, which had to make him feel amazed, and looked at the red crystal spear in amazement.

King Zhao saw Zhang Lan's strange appearance, followed his gaze, and found that he was looking at the red crystal gun on the shelf, and he was also relieved. Then he coughed lightly, bringing Zhang Lan back to his senses.

Facing Zhang Lan's puzzled eyes, King Zhao took a sip of tea and said slowly: "We have been here for more than ten years, Brother Zhang won't think that we are just building a house here!" ”