Chapter 51: The City of Arnous in the Eyes of the Indigenous People (Middle)

At the same time, also outside the walls of Arnous, far away from the purification camps, in a brick-red three-story bungalow surrounded by greenery and flowers, Princess Pinna slowly woke up from her sweet sleep as the morning sun shines through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows into the bedroom.

“…… Hmm...... The sun is so dazzling...... Is it time to get up......"

With a string of soft murmurs, from the thick embroidered brocade duvet, two smooth and round slender jade arms stretched out, and then appeared Princess Pinna's dazzling red hair and sleepy eyes. Seeing this, a personal palace maid who had already gotten up early and was on standby quickly brought a fine linen petticoat and put it on Princess Pinna, who was in a daze and got out of the bed. Another female soldier of the Knights of the Rose, who made a temporary cameo as a maid, took the opportunity to start arranging the quilt on the bed. Another lady who served the princess opened the window to let the fresh morning breeze blow away the turbid air inside.

At the same time, Princess Pinna was served by the maid, slowly put on a women's riding costume, and was pushed into the small bathroom by the maid to finish washing, and finally took a golden remote control from the maid's hand, and skillfully pressed the only button in the center of the remote control.

The next moment, an LCD screen embedded in the bedroom wall instantly lit up, and a smiling face of a suit waiter appeared from the LCD screen, and greeted Princess Pinna politely: "...... Good morning, Your Royal Highness Princess, would you like a morning delivery service? ”

Although it was not the first time she had seen such a scene, Princess Pinna still couldn't help but sigh that compared to this wonderful prop of the otherworldly, those magicians who could only display a small blurred image on the crystal ball at best felt really weak.

Of course, as a member of the royal family, she was reserved, so she just nodded flatly, "...... Well, let's have the same breakfast as yesterday. ”

“…… Got it, lemon tea, crème brûlée, paella and cream cake. Anything else to add? ”

“…… Well, get my maids three more omelets and a jug of hot milk, and then a big bucket of fried chicken nuggets! Princess Pinna looked at the delicate menu on the coffee table again, "...... Just as a snack after a meal. ”

“…… Okay, add three more omelets, a jug of hot milk and a big bucket of fried chicken nuggets, and I'll be delivered to you soon, and I wish you a nice morning. ”

Seeing that the LCD screen turned black again, Princess Pinna, who was originally deliberately pretending to be cold, immediately exhaled a long breath, and then collapsed in the small sofa by the window without any image, stretching comfortably, enjoying the warmth of the sun shining on her face.

In Princess Pina's opinion, since following the Otherworldly people to the Arnous Hills, every day has been very fresh and interesting.

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Before leaving Itarica, according to the imagination of Princess Pinna and the attendants, they expected to see a continuous stream of barracks and military tents on the Arnus hills, but instead they saw a huge city comparable to the imperial capital of Ulabyanca. And the height of the city wall is more than twice the height of the imperial capital city wall. The most incredible thing is that the city was built by the Otherworlders in less than a month!

Such an exaggerated "Chinese speed" (actually Doraemon speed) made Her Royal Highness the princess stunned for a while, and then curiosity arose. Unfortunately, it is a great pity that the Otherworldly did not allow them to enter the towering walls to explore the depths, and did not intend to take them through the "gate" on the hills of Arnous to visit their homeland in another world. Instead, Princess Pinna and her entourage of more than 30 people were arranged in a manor villa outside the city wall, saying that this was their newly built "external hotel".

In general, Princess Pinna felt that her life in this hotel had been quite good recently, although the hotel did not arrange for her to be served by a maid, and she could only rely on the palace maids she brought to continue to serve, but at least there would be servants to clean her room and make her bed every day, and the service attitude was also very polite. Then, even in the small hotel, Princess Pinna saw many new things that she had never heard of.

Compared to the palace where Her Royal Highness Princess Pinna once lived in the imperial capital of Ulabianca, and even to the lord's mansion in Itarica, the hotel arranged by the Otherworlders was quite small, with only a rectangular three-story building and a small courtyard surrounded by a circle of carved iron railings painted with black lacquer. The interior of the house, however, is astonishingly delicate and magnificent: in the lobby at the entrance of the hotel, a thick carpet of coloured carpets is laid out, screens carved in marble reliefs are erected, the ceiling is not very high, but small glass chandeliers are hung, and the oak floors on the walkway floor are polished to the point that they are as smooth as porcelain. Each room has large bright glass windows, a rarity in the palace, and several of them are even decorated with stained glass mosaics. The walls of each aisle are covered with wallpaper with different patterns, and are covered with countless colorful pictures, the theme is basically mountains, rivers, flowers, birds and animals. Even the glass lamps used for lighting have at least 20 different styles, each of which is as beautiful and brilliant as a handicraft.

With the compact scale of this hotel, if you want to live in Princess Pinna's group of more than 30 people in one go, it is actually a little crowded, and some of the palace maids and female soldiers are ready to lay on the floor or sleep in the stable. However, the hotel temporarily changed the furniture, replacing the beds in the ordinary rooms with double-layered iron-framed beds, so that they could sleep again, and even free up a room for stacking luggage for the female knights.

And the only luxurious suite that provides Princess Pinna herself is extremely gorgeous. Each wall is decorated with brightly colored landscapes (wall stickers) that almost completely cover the entire wall. The ceilings are decorated with gold and silver patterns, and the furniture is quite elegant. There are such splendid and gorgeous residences with decorations in every corner, and there are not no no ones in the imperial palaces of the empire, but there are only a few in total, such as the queen's bedroom. As the daughter of the side concubine, Princess Pinna's bedroom does not have such a degree of luxury.

Moreover, even in the queen's bedroom, there is no "magic lamp" that emits light without igniting a fire, such as the Otherworldly, and the "magic mirror" on the wall that can reveal a human figure and have a conversation with just pressing the mechanism. As for the huge and bright glass mirror in the washroom, the delicate faucet that can spray hot and cold water at any time, and the tiles that cover the entire space and are covered with beautiful patterns and pictures, they have already made several palace ladies who claim to have seen a big scene speechless. But even so, tiling the walls and floors was an unimaginable luxury, and even in the washrooms of aristocratic mansions, it was often nothing more than mosaics and polychrome terracotta tiles.

Of course, for Princess Pinna, who is not very keen on luxury and opulence, and "does not like red clothes and loves arms", she is more interested in the soft but elastic Simmons mattress, because this kind of bed is so soft that it always feels as if it is going to sink, and in the first few days, Her Royal Highness always can't sleep at all, so that she has to change beds with the maid who sleeps on a hard cot...... But now she's fully adapted. Even because the feeling of sleeping in a soft bed is so comfortable, that every morning is lazy, and it takes great perseverance to get up......

Alas, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift! In recent days, I've been used to sleeping on the sponge-like soft bed here, so what if I don't get used to it when I go back? Why don't you wait until you're ready to leave, pack a few of this "Simmons" mattress and bring it?

Well, I almost forgot, and it seems that I have to pack one of the chefs here and bring it home......

In addition to the comfortable living environment, the rich and novel food is also one of the things that makes Princess Pinna feel good about this place.

On the first day she arrived at the state guesthouse, Princess Pinna found a beautifully framed menu in her room and was informed that the hotel could deliver food to her room. Then, in addition to the names of the dishes, there are realistic pictures on this menu, so that even if you can't fully understand the meaning of these names due to cultural barriers, you can roughly know what you are ordering from the pictures.

Therefore, tasting the various otherworldly delicacies listed on this menu one by one every day, in order and preference, has become one of the greatest pleasures of Princess Pinna and her valet maids. While there are some otherworldly dishes that are too special for them to swallow, there are more flavorful dishes that make them addicted to them, and they feel as if they have opened a door to a new world.

By now, they had tasted almost all the dishes on the menu, and had determined which of them suited their tastes, and by the way, the fat layer on their bodies had thickened the fat layer on their bodies, and the princess's favorite was a delicious risotto made with seafood, vegetables, and rice, which was so delicious that she felt like her tongue was about to melt after the first bite. The aroma and richness of the spices made her completely intoxicated. Paired with a cup of bitter and sweet "black tea" with lemon slices and sugar cubes, it is a wonderful treat.

In addition, the waiters at the hotel would bring a variety of fresh fruits or preserves every day, most of which were otherworldly specialties that she had never seen before.

However, the only place where the food service is provided is the luxurious suite where the princess stays. As for the female knights and squires who slept on the shelf beds, they had to go to the lobby to eat together, and there were fewer dishes to choose from. So sometimes, Princess Pinna would invite her subordinates to her room to dine together, but unfortunately it seemed that she was worried that the guests would drink too much, and the hotel did not serve alcohol, and there was always something not enough fun during the dinner.

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Moments later, with the soft clanging of the doorbell, a small dining cart was wheeled into the suite by the waiter. And Princess Pinna's personal maid immediately came up to take over the dining car, brought the food to the table in the same way, and arranged the knives and forks in order. Another maid opened a knob fixed to the cabinet, and a cheerful and relaxing music sounded: every meal was accompanied by music, and it was a pleasure that could only be enjoyed in this place.

After enjoying this rather hearty breakfast, the maid continued to use the "magic mirror" to summon the waiter to clean up the dishes, clean the room, and change the sheets and bedding. Princess Pinna, who had nothing to do, walked out of the suite slowly, walked leisurely downstairs into the courtyard, and found a stone bench to sit down. Although her life in this hotel is very good, it is also very boring, basically the first few days of eating and sleeping, and there are officials from other worlds who come to greet her with food and daily life, or invite her to eat and chat. After that, no one came to take care of it. And Princess Pinna also knows that she is currently a hostage and is under house arrest, so she can't go out at will...... Aside from the occasional practice of swordsmanship with his subordinates and the exercise of his body, the only remaining pastime is to sit in the courtyard near the cliff and look down on the living beings below.

The hotel where Princess Pinna lives is located on a terrace halfway up the mountain, next to a cliff, and below it happens to be the campsite that originally housed the flood victims of the village of Gota and several neighboring villages. Today, however, the barbed wire fence surrounding the camp has been torn down and it has become more or less an ordinary hamlet. In recent days, a number of merchants have come here from afar with horse-drawn carts, donkeys, and chocobos, wanting to do business with the people of the other world. Mayor Wang Meiling also ordered a market to be set up in this village, selling various industrial products of the modern earth to traders from other worlds, and valuing and purchasing local products from the continent of Falmat...... Although the first batch of people who came over were basically some small merchants and hawkers with little capital, and the trading volume was pitiful, but the people and cars came and went, and it seemed to be quite prosperous and lively.

Among the various modern goods that the Chinese trade, the most popular are still traditional export goods with a history of thousands of years, and the appearance is as brilliant as smoke. This kind of soft and delicate, gorgeous color fabric, as soon as it was taken out, caused a sensation, became the most enthusiastic first choice of all traders, not only good appearance, but also light weight, easy to transport and sell over long distances, and the birth of the ancient Silk Road is almost the same reason. Even the female knights of the Rose Knights in the hotel were thrilled to see the splendid silk sold in the bazaar at the foot of the mountain, and after obtaining the consent of the hotel guard, they asked the silk sellers to bring the goods to the door, and everyone bought a lot.

In addition to silk, matches, steel needles, refined salt and sugar were also sold well, as were the brightly colored modern cheap jewelry and small handicrafts. Unfortunately, another traditional Chinese export, tea, is almost unpopular here: after all, it is not so easy to sell a new beverage. Also received a cold reception in the bazaar is China's quintessential porcelain: because there is already a process of firing porcelain and even colored porcelain on the continent of Farmatt, although it is not as delicate as the porcelain of modern technology, but the problem of having and not having has been solved. Moreover, if you transport porcelain over long distances, there is a great risk that it will be broken on the way, and it is far less reliable than silk seems...... So, with silk as a better option, indigenous traders were not interested in porcelain, and it was rare to sell one or two pieces throughout the day.

Such an unexpected situation has disappointed some high-level leaders of the relevant departments, especially the local government of Hong Kong behind the "door": Hong Kong people originally thought that they could make huge profits through cross-border trade, just like the white colonizers of the West bullied the indigenous people of the American Indians in the past. So these days, I have searched all over the waste recycling station, and I have brought a lot of glass and colored porcelain wine bottles, and I am gearing up to ship them over to make a lot of money! Who knows that the other side prefers silk, and these bulky and fragile things can't be sold at all!

At the same time, with the money obtained from the indigenous traders, Chinese also acquired a number of products unique to the continent of Falmat, such as a flying pink pig with wings, a chocobo that can be ridden and pulled, seeds of potted plants, herbs, vegetables and fruits, and special minerals that are said to make magic items...... But at the same time as frequent transactions, it is also troubled by the extremely chaotic currency system and weights and measures in this place.

However, for Princess Pinna, who stayed out of the matter and watched from the sidelines, the only feeling she had about this was that it was far better to have peaceful and friendly business exchanges with these people from other worlds than to start a war rashly without taking her own strength. Although she was here, not to mention the otherworldly country behind the "gate", she didn't even know what was behind the huge city wall. As for the appearance and power of the otherworldly country, she only saw a scale and half a claw, but even so, just seeing these things in front of her was enough for her to know that she had to deal with this matter carefully.

Alas, I hope that the emperor and the senate, after receiving their letters, will not make any irrational and wrong decisions. What's more, today's empire is really troubled by external and internal troubles, and it can no longer withstand any tosses. Speaking of which, after such a long time since leaving Itarica City, I don't know what happened to the civil war on the other side of the mountain? Were the rebels of Big Brother Sochar defeated? She thought so crankily, and at the same time once again set her eyes on the towering city wall in the distance, and really wanted to see with her own eyes, what even more wonderful things were hidden behind this wall of the otherworlders! I hope that when the negotiating envoy of the Senate comes, there will be such an opportunity!

At this moment, on a road below, there were suddenly a few sharp whistles, and then, a richly decorated open-top sedan chair was carried on the shoulders of two rabbit-eared maids, and walked out of a forest in the distance, towards the village market under the cliff. In the front and back of the palanquin and around it, there are also brightly armored headhunter female warriors serving as guards, and a group of otherworldly soldiers in camouflage uniforms clearing the way and escorting ...... Such a grand pomp and circumstance that is rare here, Princess Pinna couldn't help but poke her head out and take a few more glances in that direction.

Then, in the next moment, she quickly recognized the familiar silver-haired figure on the sedan chair, and quickly recalled the anger of the whole empire at the time of the defeat of the Grand Prince of Sochar at the defeat of the headhunter rabbit grassland, and the shame of being forced to personally escort the ransom and indemnity to sign a peace agreement with the other party.

“…… This...... What the hell is this! The woman on the sedan chair turned out to be ...... The Queen of the Headhunter Rabbit Tiyure?! How is this possible?!! Isn't she supposed to be in the steppes of the northeast of the continent? When did the headhunter hook up with someone from another world? ”

Looking at the scene of the headhunter rabbit queen sitting on a sedan chair and swaggering through the city, Princess Pinna couldn't help but think messily for a while.

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ps: I recently went to a relative's house in the countryside and really realized how terrible a rat infestation is. This relative was scratched by a cat when he was a child, went to the hospital for vaccination, and had palpitations, so he didn't dare to raise a cat, and the neighbors all had cats, and as a result, the whole village of rats drilled into his house, and it was so lively that it seemed to be a market. I can be woken up by the sound of rats fighting on the roof when I sleep at night, there are rat holes under the wall, and the plastic rice bucket in the kitchen is bitten by rats. Put the mouse trap as a result of injuring their own baby, sprinkled rat poison did not poison their own mouse, but poisoned the neighbor's rabbit, originally intended to buy a mini air gun to play "rat life call", but the recent gun ban is particularly strict. In the end, there was really no way, and there was only one way to get a cat. What kind of cat is being discussed now that is both scratchy and mouse-catching...... (To be continued.) )