Chapter 40: King Glen
"Zhen'er, with Ah Hu flying on the boat, we will be able to reach Qizhou soon!" Kapok laughed.
"I'll be back to being human soon!" Zhen'er shouted excitedly.
"Zhen'er must be a beautiful princess of Baguo when she turns back into a human!" Shanglin said with a serious expression.
Zhen'er was even more excited, "Hey, Shanglin, you're really right!" ”
Kapok Zi laughed and said, "Hey, Shanglin, Zhen'er, you've only known each other for a day and started flirting?"
Everyone laughed.
Wang Fan suddenly thought of something, and said to Shanglin: "Shanglin, when we see your uncle, what should we call him?" ”
Kabayashi said, "He will be happy to call Uncle Gran King!" Although there are only more than 260 people on his island now, my uncle has always believed that the island of Gran is the kingdom of Gran, and he is rightfully the king of Gran. ”
"There are only more than 200 people in one kingdom, not as many as there are in our Lion Rock!" Wang Fan sighed.
"According to my mother, twenty years ago, when my grandfather was alive, there were more people in Galen than there are now. But on the night of the Lunar Festival that year, because the weather was so good, my uncle and more than forty young people on the island had drunk too much and had the idea of taking a boat out to the open sea to have a fishing competition.
As a result, their fleet was attacked by the Kraken, and only a few people escaped, including my uncle, and my uncle's other sister, my aunt, also disappeared that night, and my uncle became very timid from then on. Since then, the people of Gran have never dared to go out to the open sea to fish. Kabayashi's tone was a little sad.
Kapok's heart suddenly rose with vengeful anger, and he turned to Ah Hu and shouted: "Ah Hu, you must find a way to help us destroy the Kraken!" The Kraken deserves death! ”
In the purple space where heaven and earth are integrated, the hot air balloon is like a small red flower suspended quietly and lonely, only the oncoming warm wind and the smoke coming from behind Ah Hu's feet remind the teenagers on the gondola that they are flying between the sea and the sky.
When the sun crept overhead, Kapok was the first to see the island, "Hey, Shanglin, there's a small island ahead!" It's certainly not Gran Island, but there seems to be a hot air balloon over the island! ”
Kabayashi stood up and looked at it and said, "That's the former island of Grand Island, and that hot air balloon was given to my uncle by my father." It must have been my cousins, who were quadruplets born to my aunt and were only two months older than me. They often fly between Gran Island and this former island to play. Yesterday my letter Yan had already sent them a letter saying that I was coming to Koh Gran today, and they might be waiting for us on the front island, but they didn't expect me to be so quick today. ”
Kabayashi's spaceship soon approached the hot air balloon above the island, and the two hot air balloons and the gondola were almost the same in appearance and size, except that the pattern on the colored cloth was a castle and an island.
Ah Hu had already returned to his seat, put on his coat and hood, because Shanglin wanted to learn Kapok to act in a play to give his cousins and cousins an unexpected surprise.
On the gondola opposite stood four cat-headed boys, two of whom were boys with short hair cut on their heads, wearing bright short-sleeved shirts and long shorts. The other two were girls with long hair, and they wore colorful short-sleeved shirts and long skirts. The exposed skin of the four of them was tanned by the sun, and the two boys were turning the two discs on the bow of the ship with their hands to drive the two runners on the top of the ship to rotate rapidly, trying to keep the ship stable in the air.
The two girls shouted in a crisp voice to the flying spaceship:
"Shanglin, why are you so fast today?"
"Shanglin, why did you change people? Who are they? ”
The spaceship fluttered in the air, and Kabayashi shouted, "Cousins, guess who they are?" ”
"I'll guess first!" A girl shouted, "That tall and fat one must be the kapok from the Wine Fairy City!" ”
Kapok grinned widely, but didn't make a sound.
"Okay, big cousin, you guessed it." Kabayashi shouted.
"That little man holding the villain sect is the prince of Black Plum City!" Another girl shouted.
"Cousin Yama, why him?" Kabayashi asked rhetorically.
"I heard that the prince of Black Plum City is short and ugly." The girl shouted.
The smile on Wang Fan's face disappeared suddenly, he didn't expect his image to be so bad in the eyes of Shanglin's cousin.
At this time, a strong wind blew, and the two spaceships, which were originally only a few dozen meters apart, were even farther away, and the performance arranged by Shanglin could only be stopped.
"We won't play with them anymore, and after we got to Gran Island and saw my uncle and aunt eat some fruit, we moved on, and we were going to the Thousand Islands Sea before sunset today." Kamibayashi said.
With Ah Hu's help, Shanglin's spaceship soon left his cousin and cousin far behind.
About twenty minutes later, the people on the spacecraft saw a large island, the island was in the shape of a long strip from east to west and short from north to south, and the eastern part was an undulating mountain covered with colorful fruit groves, in which rosewood houses were exposed.
The hot air balloon flies over a high mountain in the middle of the island, then lowers its altitude and slows down from east to west, and the gondolas stand up and watch the beautiful scenery below.
A stream soars from the dense jungle at the top of the mountain to form a waterfall that glistens like a silver ribbon in the sun, and the mountain spring forms a small lake within the island. The lake is surrounded by a large flat meadow with a dozen colorful tents scattered across the meadow, and groups of small animals grazing on the grass around the tents.
The island is about ten kilometers long from east to west, and the western shore is a large stretch of white sand with colorful shells scattered on the beach, and a few low wooden houses scattered along the shore.
"The one with a flag on the roof is my uncle's palace! We were able to land on the beach in front of the royal palace. Kabayashi said.
The flames in the hot air balloon are extinguished, Kabayashi activates the anti-gravity system, and the gondola slowly lands on the soft fine sand.
Out of the gondola, Shanglin whispered to his companions: "Let's walk quietly, I want to surprise my uncle, my uncle didn't expect me to come so early, let alone that it was you who came with me today." ”
After Xinyan flew out of the gondola, she first flew freely in the sky for a while, and then threw herself into the sea to fish.
The four of them quietly walked towards the houses on the island with a villain.
"Shanglin, should we put on a show to scare your uncle?" Kapok asked with a low smile.
"No, my uncle is timid and has a heart attack that can't scare him." Kamibayashi said.
In front of him was a tall and straight tree, with few branches and leaves at the top of the tree, but the hanging fruit was like a big red leather ball. There are several mahogany houses on the outskirts of the orchard, and the large white stone steps lead to an open gate in the middle of the wooden houses, and a white flag with an island motif is placed on the top.
"The fruit of those trees is a pear! The fruits on the island of Larn are delicious! Kapok pointed to the high treetops and whispered to Wang Fan.
Several people quietly walked into the fruit forest, only to see two people lying in the woods. One was lying on the ground, the other in a hammock, both of their faces covered with a fat brown leaf, the sun shining through the sparse treetops.
In the woods there were several large wooden tables and many rattan chairs, and a dozen lanterns with various patterns were scattered on the high branches.
Shanglin quietly walked to the hammock, he slowly took away the leaves covering the person's face and shouted softly, "Uncle! ”
The man in the hammock woke up, he opened his eyes to look at Kabayashi, and suddenly jumped from the hammock and jumped to the ground. He stood barefoot on the ground like a big gray cat without a tail. He wore a wide red short-sleeved shirt and long yellow shorts, revealing his gray haired arms, legs and feet, unkempt gray curly hair, and a neatly trimmed mustache on his black and red face. Compared to the adult men of the steppe, he was shorter and not much larger than a kapok.
He covered his chest with one hand and pointed to Shanglin with the other, and his voice trembled a little: "Are you a human or a ghost?" ”
Shanglin hurriedly said: "Uncle, don't be afraid, I'm human, you see my hot air balloon stopped on the beach!" ”
Shanglin's uncle turned his face to see the hot air balloon, and his nervous expression relaxed, "Shanglin, you used to arrive at sunset, and now it's noon!" ”
"Uncle, we're flying very fast today!" Kamibayashi said.
The man sleeping on the ground was awakened, and he jumped up from the ground with agility, and it turned out to be a skinny old cat man. He was dark-skinned, wearing gray coarse cloth shorts and trousers, and when he saw Shanglin, he immediately greeted him very respectfully: "Little prince, you are here!" ”
The old man didn't speak very well.
Kabayashi replied, "Yes, Grandpa Grandpa!" ”
Shanglin's uncle looked up at this time and saw three other uninvited guests, and covered his chest with his hand: "Shanglin, who are they?" ”
Shanglin said: "Uncle, let me introduce you to you, that tall and fat friend is the prince of Jiuxian City!" ”
"Ahh It's the prince of Jiuxian City who has arrived! This king ......" Uncle Shanglin touched his head and immediately shouted: "Boss, don't stand stupidly, go and bring this king's crown and robe!" ”
"Yes, Great King!" The chief steward limped into the hut, and it turned out that he was a cripple and could not walk.
"Prince Kapok, this king is the king of Gran, and when this king puts on his crown and wears his royal robe, he will come to officially receive you. Let the prince wait, the king is very sorry! King Glenn said solemnly.
"Hi, Uncle Gran Wang! You're welcome! Kapok laughed.
"Uncle, those two friends..."
"A villain!" King Gran suddenly interrupted Shanglin's words, and he pointed to Zhen'er standing on the ground, his face a little flustered.
Kabayashi was about to say something, only to see Zhen'er leap into the air and then spread her four paws and glide onto a branch above King Gran's head.
She may think that King Gran has so much respect for Kapok, and as a princess, King Gran only treats himself as an animal, which is too embarrassing! This is a special way for her to reveal her true identity to King Gran.
"Uncle Gran Wang, I'm not a villain, I'm Princess Zhen'er!" Jen said loudly.
King Gran looked up at Zhen'er, his hands on his chest, his body staggering and looking like he was about to fall to the ground, and Shanglin hurriedly hugged him.
"Uncle, don't be afraid, she's not really a villain!" Kamibayashi said.
"Not really?" King Gran looked confused.
"Uncle, haven't you read the book "The King of Heaven in Qizhou"? The book says that the mages of Qizhou can turn people into villains. ”
"She's human? But the book didn't say that the villain sect would fly! King Gran said weakly.
"Uncle, didn't you already know that there was a gold country in the outer world? The short friend and the princess on the tree are both from the country of gold, and the princess of the country of gold was turned into a villain by the bad mage who went to Qizhou, and they came from outside the world to follow me to Qizhou to find a transformation mage to help her turn back into a human form. ”
The horror on King Gran's face quickly turned into surprise, and he stood firm, looked up and said to Zhen'er in the tree, "Princess of the Kingdom of Gold, please wait a moment, wait for this king to put on the golden crown and put on the royal robe..."
As he spoke, King Gran saw the chief steward limping into the woods, carrying only a small golden crown the size of a palm.
"Chief, you forgot to take the king's robe!" King Gran shouted angrily.
"Report to the king, the king was eaten by fruit worms if he didn't wear a robe!" The Grand Steward stammered.
"What! Fruit worms ate the king's robe? King Gran's eyes widened.
"Report to the king, the king's robe is made of pear fruit bark, of course the fruit insects love to eat, the king has not used the king's robe for more than ten years, and it is naturally the turn of the old fruit worm!"
King Gran said helplessly, "The damned fruit worm has ruined the king's great business." Boss, put a crown on this king! ”
The Grand Steward walked up to King Gran, stood on tiptoe and fastened the little crown on the top of King Gran's head, and then pulled the straw rope strung on the golden crown and hooked King Gran's chin.
King Gran put on the crown and suddenly felt majestic, he tidied up the clothes and trousers he was wearing, first raised his hand and grabbed one of Zhen'er's front paws very carefully and shook it, and then stepped forward to shake hands with Kapok Zi and Wang Fan Ahu one by one, and each time he shook the hand of a visitor and said, "Welcome to the beautiful country of Gran!" ”