Chapter 117, An Unexpected Visitor

Just as Bilbo was startled, there was another knock on the outer door.

"It's time to open the door." Ye Han lowered his head and looked at Bilbo and pointed to the door and smiled.

Bilbo looked at Ye Han and looked back, turned around and left a little helplessly.

Hobbits are hospitable and love to give gifts to each other for banquets. Although Bilbo Baggins is a little more unusual than other hobbits, it doesn't stop him from being hospitable and playful. The cave where Bill lived had a living room that looked like a tunnel in the shape of a round tube: a cozy living room without smoke, with elaborate walls, carpets and tiles on the floor, and polished chairs everywhere.

Since the hobbits love of visiting, Bilbo has prepared a lot of coat racks. The hobbit doesn't climb stairs: the bedroom, the bathroom, the wine cellar, the pantry, the dressing room (he has an entire room for clothes), the kitchen, the dining room, all on the same floor, all in the same hallway. The best rooms are on the left-hand side (and the same goes further in), because only the rooms in this direction have windows overlooking his beautiful garden and the verdant meadows that stretch all the way to the river.

"You are?" Bilbo opened the door. The other was a very old-looking dwarf, with a white beard and a red hat; In the same way, as soon as the door opened, he jumped in, as if he had received an invitation 800 years earlier.

"Everybody's starting to report in!" He said this when he saw Dwalin's coat and hat hanging from the shelf. He also hung his red hat next to him: "Bahrain is at your disposal!" He said with his hands on his chest.

"Thank you!" Bilbo was taken aback, he shouldn't have said that, according to the courtesy, but the phrase "everyone is starting to report" made him confused. He likes visitors, but he prefers arranged guests, and prefers to invite them personally.

After taking a deep breath, he finally reluctantly said, "Come in, let's have tea first!" "Looking back, the mercenary was already sitting with a dwarf, enjoying the tea he had just made.

"Kind sir, if you don't bother, it would be better to have some beer!" The white-bearded Barin said, "If you have some seed cakes, sir, I don't mind." ”

"Of course, of course, I have a lot of them!" Bilbo was surprised to find himself answering like that, and his feet were so busy with themselves. He went to the cellar to fill a large jug of beer, and then went to the dining room to get two fragrant round seed cakes that he had freshly baked in the afternoon to serve as a snack after dinner.

When he returned, Barin and Devalin were already talking like old friends (in fact, they were brothers). Bilbo had just put the beer and cake on the table, and the doorbell rang loudly again, and twice in a row!

Two more dwarves came, both wearing blue hoods, silver belts, yellow beards, and carrying a bag of tools and a shovel. As soon as the door opened, they rushed in honestly and unceremoniously, but this time it didn't frighten Bilbo.

Before I could get back to the living room, the doorbell rang again. Pull open the door, and you're two dwarves at the door.

"Chili," one of them said. "Fili," the other added. Both of them quickly took off their hats and bowed deeply: "At your service." ”。

Filip said, "You must be Mr. Baggins. With that, he walked with Chili towards the door.

"No—it's in the wrong place." Bilbo didn't wait for them to finish.

Chili pushed the door: "What? Coming to the wrong place? Cancelled? ”

Fili added: "No one told us? ”

"What was canceled?" Bilbo wondered.

Chili smiled happily, "I see. Walking in, "I saw the three people sitting in the living room: "It turns out that Dewalin and Balin have already arrived first." Hey, who's this Terran? ”

"A mercenary, the same person called him!" Bahrain held up his glass and shouted, "Help, everyone, push a few tables into the hole, or you won't be able to sit down." ”

"Everyone? How many of you are left? Bilbo asked in surprise when he closed the round green door.

Qi Li, Fili looked at each other and smiled heartily as he moved a few tables to the corner.

Ye Han quietly stepped aside with a teacup. The four dwarves had done everything, and sat at the table heroically, talking and laughing loudly about the mines, the gold, the troubles of the orcs, the ravages of the dragons, and many other things he did not know and did not want to hear.

Ding-dong-bell, Bilbo's doorbell rang again, as if some naughty child was trying to rip the doorbell off with all his might. Bilbo looked back at Ye Han and the four dwarves with puffed faces. Some are reluctant but unable to refuse this powerless act.

Bilbo said he hoped to get some good news from his family's five people: "Someone is here again! ”。

"From that sound, I guess there were four men," said Fili, "and, before we came, I saw them following me." ”

Ye Han looked at the poor hobbit sitting in the living room with his head in his hands. The doorbell was loud again,

Bilbo complained loudly, "Enough! Annoying the others, looking in the wrong place, there's no one here, there are already too many dwarves in my living room...... If...... If this is some idiot's joke, haha, all I can say is, very- tasteless! Bilbo rushed down the hallway in a rage, his head in a mess and he couldn't figure out anything, it was the most chaotic Wednesday of his life.

He slammed the door, and all the people outside fell in, one by one to the floor. More dwarves, six more.

Gandalf stood right behind, leaning on his cane and laughing. He knocked on the door and rubbed off the secret mark he had made yesterday.

"Be careful! Be careful! He said. I said Bilbo, it's not like your style to let your friends wait at the door and open it suddenly! Allow me to introduce Pomber, Dori, Norly, Oli, O'Audio, and Oyin and Groyin. ”

The twelve dwarves gathered together were not just for Leyile, some for ale, some for stout, and one for coffee, but everyone had to eat cake. Therefore, Bilbo was distressed and helpless, so he was busy for a long time. A large pot of coffee was boiling on the stove, the seed cakes were all killed, and the dwarves were attacking the oiled wheat cakes, when there was a loud knock at the door.

"Everyone's here!" Gandalf smiled and nodded at Ye Han, then counted the heads and said, "One less person?" I hope that those who are late still have something to eat and drink! What's that? Tea! No, thanks! I want to drink some red wine. ”

"He's going north to our family meeting, he'll come." Pomber explained, holding up his glass.

"How can this guy know so much about my pantry!" Bilbo felt a mess in his mind and began to wonder if this was the most worrying adventure that had come to his door. By the time he had put all the cups, pans, forks, forks, bottles and saucers on large trays, he was already sweating and red, and he felt quite unhappy.

"These dwarves are so rude!" He exclaimed, "Why didn't they come to help?" "Oh my God, aren't Bahrain and Dwarin standing right in the doorway? Behind him stood Fili and Chili, and before he could say the second word, they moved out the tray and a few small tables, and rearranged the outside.

Gandalf was surrounded by thirteen dwarves, and Bilbo sat on a small stool by the fireplace, nibbling on a small cookie (his appetite had temporarily disappeared), trying to force his composure, showing that everything was normal and that it was not a risk to him.

"Try it, it's tobacco from my hometown." Ye Han walked up to Bilbo with a teacup and handed him a white-shell trial cigarette.

"It's a gift for me." Bilbo took the rectangular white carton strip. He didn't know why the tobacco was the color this way, but it was the best gift he had ever received, and the mercenary was more elegant and polite than the savage and rude dwarves.

"That's it, right to ignite, no, no need for a pipe, it has a filter." Ye Han smiled and took out a box of cigarettes and handed it to Bilbo to demonstrate how to smoke cigarettes.

The dwarves ate and ate and talked and talked, and the time kept and on, and the table full of food was wiped out, leaving a table of empty plates and cutlery, and the floor was full of dirt and food scraps.

Finally, they pushed the chair.

After giving Ye Han some treasured food, Bilbo's subordinate Ye Han's kindness, and at the same time, constantly complained to Gandalf that the dwarves were barbaric and rude, not only eating up his food, but also destroying some facilities in the room. And Gandalf didn't care about Bilbo's relief.

"Sorry to interrupt, what should we do with the plates."

"Here, Oli, give it to me." Chili took the plate from Ori's hand and threw it down the aisle, and Filip caught the plate and threw it to the kitchen......

"That's my mother's Western Regions ceramics, three hundred years old!" Bilbo screamed, trying to stop the dwarves from acting exaggeratedly, but he didn't dare to stop it, for fear of damaging the dishes in the process.

Juggling-like movements, several dwarves sitting at the table with knives and forks beat rhythmically.

"Can you, can you do otherwise? It's going to grind dull! ”

"Do you hear that?"

In the midst of laughter, the cutlery collided, the knives and forks staggered, and the hard leather shoes hit the ground: "We will sharpen the knives, he said." ”

Chili took the plate and sang the first line:

"Sharpen the knives, bend the forks.

Break the cup, break the plate!

Sharpen blunt knives and bend forks!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates the most

Break the bottle and burn the stopper!

Shred the tablecloth and throw oil!

And poured the milk on the floor! ”

Chili and Filip immediately ran to their backpacks and retrieved two violins, while Dori, Norri, and Ori pulled the flutes out of their clothes, Pomber conjured a drum from the living room, and Beaver and Beaufer went out and retrieved a couple of recorders from where their canes had been placed. Accompanied by cheerful music, the singing voice is more brisk.

"Bones left on the carpet in the bedroom!

Pour red wine on every door panel!

All of these were thrown into the cauldron of boiling soup;

Beat the air violently with a stick,

If there is still a complete container after getting it,

Just roll them out into the living room!

Bilbo Baggins hates that!

We have to be careful! Take these plates carefully! ”

The singing came to an abrupt end, and a handsome dwarf appeared outside the door.

Gandalf spat out smoke rings: "Here he comes." ”