When Melinda woke up, she saw the sunlight shining through the vineman curtains, and she felt that it would be a good day today.

This made her mood better, and she got up happily and changed into a beautiful lotus leaf robe under the service of the maid Lena.

But when she walked out of the room and saw her half-brother Lombana, she was in a bad mood.

"What are you doing again, Lombana, you must have gone to smoke ambergris again!" Melinda stopped her brother in her way, and she smelled wine and a strange smell from him.

"What sucks ambergris ointment, we call it smelling incense. There was a flash of panic in Lombana's eyes, but he quickly calmed down.

Melinda ignored his quibbles, no matter what he smelled or incense, it was all a good name for smoking ambergris cream, and it couldn't change the facts.

"Lombana, I warn you, don't let me find out again that you're smoking ambergris again, or you'll ......"

Lombana couldn't help but take a step back, but then puffed up his chest and said, "Otherwise, many people are playing this now, and it's not just me, why do you care about me, we are not the same mother." ”

"What did you say?!" Melinda said angrily.

Lombana didn't dare to repeat the last sentence, but he still shouted, "You have the ability to let our father ban it in Peiji City, and even he occasionally incense." ”

Melinda was stunned, her raised hand stopped in mid-air, and Lombana saw that she was bluffed, and she didn't dare to provoke any more, so she hurriedly took the opportunity to slip away.

Melinda's hand slowly fell, but her mood was extremely depressed.

Lombana's words pierced her heart deeply, yes. She can be powerful in front of Lombana. Swing my sister's shelf. But even their father, Edgar, the lord of Pei Ji City, was also infected with ambergris, so what could she do?

Melinda's location, Pei Ji, is a port city on the west coast of the Emerald Continent, and her father, Edgar, is the lord of Pei Ji City, a hereditary count recognized by the Elven Court.

In the territory of the High Elves, if it is a hereditary territory, there will be a city lord family that has been passed down from generation to generation, and if it is a direct territory of the Elven Royal Court. The consuls will be appointed by the royal court.

The ambergris cream that she disputed with her brother had only become popular on the Emerald Continent in the past few years, and was originally introduced to the Emerald Continent by a friendly family with the noble bloodline descendants of the Moon Elves on another continent that had been lost by the Elves.

There are different ways to smoke this thing, the most common being incense and what Lombana calls smelling.

Smelling incense refers to heating and roasting it evenly in a special utensil, such as a small incense burner, and it can also be accompanied by some additional drugs to help the fun, and then inhaling this aroma, but this way of smoking is a simple way, and the real enjoyment is incense, which is much more cumbersome, and the conditions must be complete.

To incense, the first thing is to have a dedicated quiet room. It is called the incense room, and it is of the closed type. Place a stove with adjustable temperature inside, and then hang a small pot above the stove, and pour ambergris paste into the small pot, in order to achieve the effect, you can put several more stoves in the room and smoke at the same time.

Since the room is closed, the aroma of ambergris paste will linger in the room for a long time, fully surrounding the incense practitioner and achieving great enjoyment.

Incense is especially popular with those who have status among the High Elves, as well as those poets who pretend to be elegant, because ambergris ointment proves to be refreshing, and poets claim that their inspiration is boosted by incense, so they like to share several people in an incense room, incense is refreshing, and then make wonderful sonnets.

There is also a group of people like Lombana who also like to smoke with many people, but they smoke for fun, not for some noble purpose.

To put it bluntly, multiple people are banging together, which is one of the reasons why Melinda is firmly against ambergris, a terrible thing that has endangered her loved ones. It is tempting them, it is making them fall.

In the high elves' view of love and **, it is not forbidden to do things between men and women, nor is it forbidden to snap before marriage, and even after marriage is not necessarily condemned, but once you get married, you should break up as soon as possible and marry your new love object.

Because in the morality of the High Elves, people can love different people in their lives, but they should not love two people at the same time, if they fall in love with someone else after marriage, they should break up as soon as possible and be with the person they really love, only those who step on two boats at the same time are shameful.

Therefore, their sun god Sindorem abandoned his wife and fell in love with Diana, the god of the moon, which was not seen as a betrayal, and most of the High Elves believed that Sindorem and Diana did not love Ivy when they were together, as evidenced by the fact that they had separated at the time.

Later, Ivy saw Sindorem's behavior as a betrayal and couldn't think of murdering Diana, and finally forced Sindorem to side with the new love, and finally the War of the Three Gods broke out, Ivy was declared evil, and it also caused a civil war among the High Elves.

But Lombana's actions were more contrary to the morals of the High Elves than those of the Sun God, because they were purely for carnal desires.

How this behavior came about, it is said that the young male elves were too comfortable after smelling the fragrance and needed to vent.

And Melinda also knows that because it is not easy to find female elves who agree with their behavior, they will lure some other races to incense and around.

The most common are Terrans like Lianna, who brought back a small number of Terrans and Orcs when the High Elves returned to the Emerald Continent.

After so many years, the reproduction ability of these two races is above that of the High Elves, the number of Terrans has accounted for about one-tenth of the entire continent, and the Centaurs are even more exaggerated, accounting for more than thirty percent of the entire continent, approaching the number of High Elves, but you must know that this continent has been the birthplace of the High Elves for generations, starting from the primeval era.

However, on this continent, the status of the High Elves is the master, and the Centaurs of these two races have become vassals because of their certain combat effectiveness, while the Terrans, most commonly, are like Lena and their family, which is similar to when they were ruled by the High Elves before, and most of them are slaves.

Lombana: When they are messing around, they will lure the Terran maids of their own family to participate. Sometimes it's even semi-forced.

Melinda is aware of it. It's because Lombana once hit her maid Liana with the idea.

Melinda's dislike of ambergris turned from a secret dislike to an open opposition. In fact, the ambergris ointment is not completely unopposed, the druids are said to dislike it, and there are people in the upper echelons of the High Elves who oppose it, but the forces that allow this thing are also very strong, so it still can't be banned.

As Lombana said, in the city of Pezi, even Melinda and her father Edgar sometimes took amberg, albeit with great addiction. More often than not, it was to meet some visiting guests, and this distinguished guest happened to have the habit of incense, and the kind lord of Edgar also learned incense in order to cater to it, and specially prepared a closed ashram.

Melinda doesn't think her father really likes it, but he doesn't forbid or oppose it.

There are two reasons for this, the first is that the ambergris paste has now become a sign of elegance in the eyes of many high elves, and it is about to be integrated into interpersonal communication, and Edgar can't help but follow the crowd.

Another reason is taxation. That's a real benefit.

The way of smoking ambergris paste just mentioned, incense is the most elegant. But not the average person can afford to play, for example, you have to have a special airtight ashram first, but the merchants from the Azure Continent are really smart, and they have come up with a solution to this problem.

That is, they buy or rent a place on the land of the High Elves and build a house, here I have to say that the people of that continent have also walked out of their own way in architecture, maybe the buildings they built are not as close to nature as the tree houses of the High Elves, and there is no glory and elegance of the High Elves Palace, but they are built like matchboxes, and then there are earth and stone rooms in it, but I have to admit that they have done a good job in terms of use volume.

Melinda didn't like the dirt and stone houses that the Terran merchants had built with the help of fossil mud magic, which were too narrow and oppressive. She liked the oldest traditional treehouses of the elves, and the buildings in the current city lord's mansion, although the latter was also made of earth and stone, but compared to the buildings built by the Terrans of the other continent, one was as delicate as a work of art, and the other was like four walls made of stone.

However, that kind of volume utilization is best suited to those who do not have a separate incense room, and it is relatively easy for the High Elves to carve out a quiet room in their own homes to incense, because they are the masters of this continent, but the ambitious Terrans do not just want the High Elves to become customers, but also target all the creatures on this continent in order to make money.

Of course, the druids hated this kind of stuff and couldn't make their money, but there were also Terrans and Centaurs.

These two tribes in the Emerald Continent one is a slave tribe, the other is a free people and a half-warrior, and most of them may also have a separate ashram that can be used for incense, but it doesn't matter, the Terran merchants in the other continent invented the incense hall in order to make money.

The incense hall is to provide places and facilities for those who can't incense at home. It is convenient for people to smell incense, and it is roughly divided into two levels, there are those who provide special room for incense, which are billed by the hour, and rent incense burners and sell drugs to help recreation; if you can't afford to rent an incense room, you can only go to the lobby to rent a small bed to smell the incense, and there will be a small hanging stove next to the bed to help you roast the ambergris cream, but because there is no closed environment, the effect is not so good, especially when several people line up in a row to smell the incense, and the drugs used to assist the recreation are different, which will lead to the difference in the taste of the ambergris cream, and sometimes there will be a halo.

In just two or three years, these incense halls began to rise from the east coast of the Emerald Continent, and now there are Pei Ji City on the west coast.

To be honest, Melinda admired the merchants of the Azure Continent a little, but on the other hand, she was even more panicked, because she firmly believed that the ambergris paste was not good for the High Elves, even if the merchants of the Azure Continent insisted that this thing was beneficial and harmless, and the lawsuit reached the elven court, and even the druids who hated the ambergris cream participated in the identification, and they did not find anything harmful for the time being.

But Melinda still hates ambergris cream, at least it addicts people like her brother Lombana, and even becomes a moral corrupter. It may have had a refreshing effect, but excessive pick-me-ups caused excitement, and look at what Lombana had done, they had gone astray, and Melinda was heartbroken.

But no matter how much she hated it, she couldn't stop the spread of ambergris.

Most of the incense halls in the various elven cities have honest taxes to the local lords or consuls. And it's getting more and more taxed. Therefore, Edgar, the lord of Peiji City, would not agree to his daughter's suggestion to ban ambergris at all. He only asked his daughter's pain: "If we ban it, everyone will still go to other places to buy, so I won't even be able to collect taxes." ”

Then ban it on the entire continent, Melinda thought so at the time, but she couldn't even ban it in Pei Jicheng, and of course she understood that it would be impossible to ban it on the entire continent.

The reason for this, as the daughter of the city lord of Pei Ji City, Mei Linda still knows a little.

Aside from the ambergris ointment, there is really no obvious harm now. On the contrary, it has become an elegant thing admired by poets, and then it has gradually become a social habit, and the greater resistance comes from interests.

The first person who introduced the ambergris cream to the Emerald Continent was the beloved son of an elf king, who had been trading with a family with the blood of the moon elves in the Azure Continent, but later shrank sharply as the elves and the human race re-squatted.

It is said that the son of the Elven King went to the Azure Continent as an envoy to inform the family that the trade between the two sides would be reduced again for the next year. The High Elves don't have to trade with the Azure Continent in the first place, they are completely self-sufficient, and although the Azure Continent has been able to produce more and more strange things in recent years, the High Elves who are used to being closed and natural are not very receptive to those things. Always believe that you are the most civilized and elegant.

However, the son of the Elven King came into contact with the ambergris ointment when he was a guest, and was then fascinated by the effect of this thing. And I realized that if I sold this thing in Jade Dainan, it would be very popular.

So he trickily lured ambergris ointment, and later he was the first to allow the establishment of an incense hall in his own territory.

Many of those incense parlors had a close relationship with the upper class such as the sons of the elven kings, and some were joint ventures, and the merchants of the Azure Continent introduced a concept called a company limited by shares, in which the local elven nobles provided certain hardware facilities to purchase shares, such as land or tax incentives, and then dividends were distributed according to the shares.

Others are so black-hearted that they don't invest in anything, and sit on a certain amount of dry shares, but they have to ensure the business rights and safety of businessmen from other continents.

When there are more and more such things, the entanglement of interests makes both those who oppose and support the ambergris among the High Elves.

Therefore, Melinda knew that she could not ban the trade in ambergris cream on the entire continent, unless it was ordered by the Elven Court or jointly banned by the two major temples.

And if it can't be completely banned on the entire continent, then of course it won't help for Pei Jicheng's family to ban it alone, just like her father said, others will go to other cities to buy it, and Pei Ji can't even collect taxes.

Thinking of this, Melinda felt even more depressed.

"Lianna, get ready, I want to go out for a walk. She commanded.

"Miss, take me, I'm afraid. The poor maid said.

Melinda certainly knew what she was afraid of, she was afraid that she would be forcibly taken to the place where they smelled the smell like she had done last time.

That time Melinda broke in and rescued her, she had been stripped to nothing but ** screaming and scurrying around the house, more than a dozen hands chasing and touching her.

It's not that these elf masters can't chase her, but they are playing a game of cat and mouse, they want to see their prey exhausted under the chase and have nowhere to escape, and then take turns to vent their exuberant energy on her.

"Okay, you go with me too, it's a shame not to go out for a walk in such good weather, let's go farther and come back later, I don't want to quarrel with Aunt Renee. Melinda sighed.

Renee was her stepmother, and Edgar gave birth to Renee with his ex-wife, and then fell in love with Renee after marriage, so he reconciled with his ex-wife according to the custom of the High Elves, and remarried Renee, and gave birth to Lombana.

In all fairness, Renee's stepmother is not bad, not as bad as the stepmother in Snow White, filmed by Solomon Pictures in her early years.

When Melinda was a child, before Lombana was born, Renee also carried Melinda as if she were her own child.

Later, with the birth of Lombana, the stepmother of course spent most of her energy on her children, but she never discriminated against Melinda and still cared about her often, but Melinda naturally could not be as close as she was when she was a child.

Therefore, Melinda does not have any ulterior motives for the half-brother Lombana, on the contrary, if she really hates her stepmother and hopes that Lombana will not inherit her father's legacy in the future, then what she should do in the ambergris incident is to support this younger brother to smoke.

But because she also really regarded them as relatives, she couldn't do it, and instead the relationship with Lombana was strained because of the block.

Renee already had a lot of complaints about this, and the last time she talked to Melinda, she asked her not to interfere too much with her brother's behavior, because she didn't think the ambergris was a big deal.

Melinda didn't want to tell her stepmother about the shameful thing that Lombana had done with the crowd to smell the incense, because that might make Renee no longer misunderstand, but it would definitely make Lombana regard her sister as an enemy from now on.

Her biggest headache now is how to find an appropriate solution in the middle.

Perhaps, go out for an outing, in a fresh and natural environment, your mind can be cleared up and come up with a good way.

Not only do you have to solve your own predicament, but it is best to save the entire High Elves, the entire Emerald Continent. (To be continued.) )