Chapter 18: Nausicaa
On the outskirts of Windy City, the clouds are light and the wind is light.
The natural environment of this world is so good that once again Lin Ke finds it unbelievable.
More than ten kilometers after leaving the Windy City, the land has been covered with more and more flourishing flowers and plants, and all kinds of exotic plants have an intoxicating fragrance mixed with the smell of fresh earth.
Every angle is a great landscape painting.
Lin Ke couldn't help but sigh, being in it was like being in a dream, it seemed to be real and illusory, the beauty was a little unreal, and the comfort was indescribable.
"By the way, what did you do the other day, you didn't even dangle in front of me," Lin Ke couldn't stand Daisy's surprised eyes with *naked contempt, and began to change the subject, isn't it just that you can't ride a horse, it's strange?
"You don't know how to ride a horse!"
“......”
"Actually, it's my mother, she took me back to my grandmother's house for two days, I miss my grandmother too, she is very good, she also gives me a lot of candy to eat, it hurts me very much!"
Lin Ke's head was full of black lines, "Brother has also bought you a lot of things, and I have never heard you praise me, but the sixth aunt must be very lonely when she always stays alone in the family, you usually don't always mess around, it's good to spend more time with her." ”
"I also want to accompany her, but since my father died, she doesn't seem to like me anymore, and sometimes she doesn't want to take me when she goes out, hmph, my brother is the best, and he brings Daisy to hunt," Daisy sadness came and went faster.
"Okay," Lin Ke's eyes were full of warmth, "It's not easy for the sixth aunt, just communicate more in the future, how could she not like Daisy, Daisy is so cute, by the way, we must catch a few wind foxes back this time when we go to Lanshan, and we can make a few scarves to give to your mother and your aunt, they must be very happy." ”
"Yes, yes," Daisy cheered, "but you don't know how to ride a horse, brother!"
"......" Lin Ke was speechless, "Can you not always talk about this matter, soon, I can leave after a short rest!"
Daisy, who was yelled, flattened her mouth aggrievedly, and then saw the black boy standing behind Lin Ke, and suddenly became interested, "Hey, aren't you that nasty guy? Brother, why did you bring this nasty black boy! Hmph, I'll call Grandpa Seven to beat you!"
Lin Ke suddenly felt a big head, and hurriedly called Xue'er over, and finally coaxed Daisy away, a tall and strong middle-aged man on the other side walked over with a strange smile.
"How's it going, little Cohen," it was Captain Brooke, the captain of the guard, "can you still stand it? ”
"It's not funny at all, Uncle Brooke," Linko was helpless, but there was nothing he could do, "but I came out this time with the determination that I wanted to learn how to ride a horse, even though I was a spellcaster. ”
"'Knowing' riding a horse is not a simple thing, fortunately, spellcasters like you don't need to control their mounts as skillfully as those knights, although the hunting period is a little shorter, but it can also allow you to master some skills, not as sad as now, I am still somewhat sure of this, I can teach you some basic skills," Brooke is a retired old man in the army, Cohen once heard Rhine say that Brooke was a powerful knight, probably because the Warcraft mount that had been with him for many years died in battle, so he was disheartened and chose to follow Rhine to Windy City, "Let's not talk about this, I'm afraid this trip will delay some time, we will spend the night in Fort Aitt in the evening, and we will speed up a little earlier the next day, and we will probably be able to reach Arashiyama in the afternoon to complete the first hunt, I don't know how your archery skills are?" I know your father Jason is an amazing shooter!"
"Don't look forward to it, my archery skills are really not good," Lin Ke suddenly felt a little excited, his hunting game would be a little boring if it was attached to so many expectations, "But the Aitburg you are talking about is the Aitburg in the small town of Nausica, the fiefdom of the Mutes family?"
"Where else can there be a second Aitburg?" Brooke chuckled in a low voice, and glanced at Lin Ke with some teasing, "Young Master Lin Ke focuses on cultivation, and the rest doesn't care about anything, it's rare that you still know that the Mutes family's fief is in Nausicaa Town, tsk, that's a good place, and Aitburg, which has a history of hundreds of years, and many children in the family go there to play every year, of course, except for you, hahaha!"
If there is anyone in the family who has the most poisonous tongue, except for Brooke, Lin Ke sighed in his heart, he probably suffered along the way, and muttered, "It turns out that the fiefdom is here, but it is a loss of mind to always nest in the family behind closed doors." ”
Who knew that Brooke's ear power was surprisingly good, he glanced at Linke curiously and said, "There is someone in the family who can say this to your heart, who is it?" He looked at the two beautiful girls who were playing with Daisy in the distance, "Cher? no, then it's the little girl named Lilith? No, no? It shouldn't be ......" Brooke glanced at the black boy Neil behind Linko without a trace......
"Oops, I suddenly feel like I'm all right, I think we need to go right now!I'm going to take the carriage, I'm looking forward to the scenery of the small town of Nausica!" Rinko got up and ran away.
Leaving Brooke alone laughs.
"It's a lot of slippery heads, but I like it, haha!"
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The endless meadows are dotted with wildflowers.
The sun is shining, the wind is blowing and the grass is low.
On a wide road in the middle of the meadow, a medium-sized convoy of moving vehicles looks like a small fish in the green sea.
Lin Ke's carriage is relatively wide, with excellent interior space, soft and thick brown animal skin as the bottom, relatively thin light beige animal skin edging, and a small magic lamp at the top that exudes a soft daylight color, the whole carriage looks unusually warm and quiet.
Lin Ke lay on his stomach in the padded quilted carriage, looking at the scenery outside from the curtains of the car that were occasionally blown by the wind, and he was physically and mentally drunk.
In this world, I am afraid that no one can experience the indescribable closeness of people who have experienced the reinforced concrete world of their previous lives, and who have not seen a little green for a few years, when they see the waves of flowers in the sea of grass.
So Linko's happiness is lonely.
Fortunately, two beautiful girls on the left and one on the right in the carriage were accompanied, which made him feel strangely happy in his heart who didn't have much love experience in his previous life, and of course there was a little Daisy who was tireless in twittering, and he was with them all day long, and he didn't have to be busy with mundane things and disguise himself like in his previous life, Lin Ke felt that his heart had become a lot younger.
"Tell me about Nausicaa, Sister Cher," said Linko softly, and in his opinion, even speaking loudly would ruin this beauty, "and Aitburg, after all, it is necessary to go and see it, and it would be rude to say that you don't know anything about the situation." ”
"Well, if you go down this road northwest of Windy City, you will go out of the plains and into the mountainous area, where the mountains are low and gentle but endless, and because of the storm ocean in the east, the sea breeze blows into the valley more quickly and fiercely, and the environment there is much worse than the windy city in all seasons," Cher has been running west with Serena since she was a child, and she knows a lot about the property situation of the Mutes family." Nausicaa is actually relatively close to the periphery of the Arashiyama Mountain Range, and the population of the jurisdiction is not too much, about 200 households, scattered near Aitburg, due to the special hurricane environment, people have been living very hard for thousands of years, until this became our family's territory, under the auspices of the head of the family, a lot of wealth was spent to gradually build stone houses near the castle for all families, which greatly improved their situation, so the Mutes family is very popular in Nausicaa. ”
Lin Ke nodded secretly, even Cohen, who was dedicated to cultivation and didn't want to pay too much attention to external objects, knew that Nausicaa was, in a sense, the foundation for the family to be able to pass on for a long time, even if the environment here was so bad.
The Rhine clearly had a more long-term vision than most of today's imperial aristocracy, the product of the unique experience and courage of the founder of a new family, and a good start for a family to have its own positive cultural heritage.
"Nausicaa's lack of special resources and products, and most of the people rely on hunting for a living, which has prevented Nausicaa's population from growing significantly, but it is also because of this that the people here are naturally strong and fearless, except for the stewards and professionals who stayed behind, most of the guards in Aitburg are from Nausicaa itself," Cher paused and tucked her hair behind her ears from the occasional breeze blowing into the carriage," In addition, Fort Aite is also one of the best supply points for mercenaries and adventurers who enter Arashiyama to hunt, which brings some additional wealth, and this is generally the case. ”
"Sister Cher knows a lot," Daisy was rare for so long, and there was a lot of envy in the eyes of Cher when she looked at the latter after she finished speaking.
"Daisy will understand a lot when she grows up," Cher smiled slightly, brightening the whole carriage.
Lin Ke looked at the scenery outside the carriage and silently digested what Cher said, and gradually formed a framework of Nausicaa in his mind.
"It's so beautiful," I couldn't help but whisper in admiration after looking at the scenery for a long time.
But Daisy, who was very close, heard it, and a pair of eyes turned quickly to understand that Lin Ke was admiring the scenery outside the window, and couldn't help but pout, "Brother Cohen is a guy who can only hold back in the family to cultivate, and this kind of scenery can be considered beautiful?"
Lin Ke smiled and didn't answer, but just took advantage of Daisy's look at Cher to knead her white and tender face a few times, which made Daisy angry and slapped Lin Ke's ass.
"Ahh
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Twilight hour.
Without Linko, the convoy finally arrived at Nausicaa just before sunset.
Instead of staying in the carriage, Linko got back on the big black horse, and although it hurt his ass a bit, after a day of studying, he finally found some riding sensations, which made him a little excited.
The road began to get narrow, and it was difficult for the wide carriages they rode on such roads as Linko to parallel, so they had to travel in a line so as not to affect their speed.
On both sides of the road are not very steep slopes, the mountains are continuous, a group of people always walk in the valley, the oncoming wind blows in the face of people and horses are a little unable to open their eyes, fortunately the environment here is very good, and there is no dust in the sky, Lin Ke feels acceptable.
After walking a long and narrow valley road, the wind became significantly smaller, and the eyes suddenly opened up.
A wide basin-like canyon appeared in front of Linko's eyes, in the center of the canyon was a large raised mound, and in the distance a strange shuttle-shaped castle could be seen towering in the center, surrounded by a group of stone houses, like stars and moons, but even so, the complex still occupied only a small piece of land in the center of the large mound, and the rest of the open space was planted with crops.
At one end of the shuttle castle facing Taniguchi, where the hurricane is blowing, a large and amazing windmill stands at the tip of the shuttle castle, and it rotates slowly.
The mound is surrounded by a small river that flows down from the hill, and a wide stone bridge is erected over the creek that connects the road to the central mound, and the end of the stone bridge near the mound is equipped with two arrow towers and a checkpoint that serves as Nausicaa's first line of defense.
Perhaps the rainy season has not yet arrived, large swaths of the riverbed have dried up, and the small rivers are still shallow.
"What a paradise," Lin Ke sighed as he paused.