Chapter 17 The Botany of Night Song
It is completely different from Lin Taiping's imagination. The New Year in the Contans World is not in January every year, but in early March every year when spring arrives. According to the Contans, only when the steps of the goddess of spring are approaching will it represent that the new year officially begin.
So, in this spring March, Lin Taiping spent his first New Year since he arrived in Contans, and received a lot of messy New Year gifts, such as the bear cookies made by Christine himself, the braised pork that Tulu and Leah learned, the plan to conquer the world formulated by Pig Instein, and the night song...
Well, okay, Ye Ge didn't give anything. She just took a fragrant petal bath and dressed up carefully for three hours. Then she let the dark elves roll themselves up with a quilt and threw them onto the bed with a bang: "Dear, this is my New Year's gift, please taste it slowly."
"Thank you, the quilt is left and the person takes it away." Lin Taiping expressed his gratitude for this, and took out the hourglass in his arms and looked at it. "By the way, my dear Ye Ge, I think you'd better take the time to put on your evening dress, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with Speaker Federer's grand banquet."
This is true. Speaker Federer, who has never been very humane, did not know if he wanted to continue running for the Speaker this year, but suddenly sent an invitation letter to most noble businessmen, inviting them to go to the nearby resort of Baiwan Island to attend the grand banquet he spent a lot of money, and Lin Taiping was also among the invitation.
Because of this, although Ye Ge didn't want to miss this great opportunity to have a baby, he could only get up reluctantly, go to make up honestly and change clothes, and also put on some suggestions for Christine's makeup... By the way, when Lin Taiping saw their beautiful appearance after carefully dressing up, he really regretted it.
Well, maybe just now, our family should have eaten the beautiful dark elf Royal Sister, just as a New Year gift?
Two hours later, the group boarded the cruise ship provided by Speaker Federer. Mr. Cohen, who had just taken over the evening newspaper and the publishing house, stayed. He waved goodbye at the dock with his three daughters: "Lin, don't worry, go play, I will manage the business. Also, I checked the calendar. Ten days later will be a good day for marriage. Do you think you have done the marriage?"
I didn't hear anything! Lin Taiping leaned lazily on the side of the boat and was smoking a cigar. Ye Ge held the corner of the red evening dress and licked his cherry lips with a smile: "Damn fat man, don't dream. Before I successfully push Lin down, I will never let your daughter marry him... Christine, we must work together and watch out for Lin's bedroom!"
"Do I need help too?" Christine blinked her eyes silly, nodded firmly, and then asked in confusion. "Business, I still don't understand why you want to hand over all your business to Mr. Cohen, why don't I know we are going to travel far?"
"That's just a long-term plan, which is related to our future." Lin Taiping looked at them with a smile, but did not continue to talk, but changed the topic, "But at present, our primary goal is to kill Mr. Clown who has been pursuing us hard... Speaking of this, what are the pirates doing recently?"
Speaking of clowns and pirates, Christine suddenly turned serious: "Boss, the recent attacks of clowns have become increasingly unscrupulous. Last month, they robbed two caravans and killed hundreds of sailors. Even several big businessmen who came to talk about magazine and book business were unfortunately killed. If this situation continues, our business will probably be greatly affected."
This is true. Thinking that his barbecue was indirectly taken away by the pirates, Tulu couldn't help but get angry: "Moo! Those damn bastards, I really hope our armed fleet will take shape soon, so that we won't have to be beaten passively."
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid we will have to wait for a while." Christine sighed helplessly, "Although the recent profit is very good, if we want to form an armed fleet of large size, we have to wait at least the first half of the year. And even if we have enough funds to place an order, we may not be able to get the large warship immediately, which will take time."
As she said this, she paused, took out another account book and said, "Also, the alchemy magic items we brought back from Red Clay Island have basically been processed. According to your boss's request, we sold most of the magic items, and then bought five thousand magic crystals and various alchemy materials needed by Zhu Instein... To be honest, this is more expensive than buying a large warship!"
Well, Christine felt so distressed when she thought of this huge expense. In fact, she never quite understood why the boss always had to buy a large amount of magic crystals, so that the magic crystals on Ivory Island began to be in short supply, and the prices have been several percent higher recently.
"There is no way, our practice of the dark food stall in Longhu Mountain requires a lot of magic crystals." Lin Taiping said seriously, and then before everyone asked again, he turned to look at Ye Ge with a smile, "Well, my dear Ye Ge, I heard that you have gained a lot from the alchemy magic items brought back from the Red Clay Island?"
"Ahem, little bit, little bit." Ye Ge spread his hands calmly, although the words "heartbroken" had already been written on her face. "I really didn't expect that Zhu Instein's ancestors actually collected some dark plants. Unfortunately, that guy didn't know how to use them at all, and just threw them aside as an ornamental plant."
Dark plant? Lin Taiping was slightly stunned. Tulu next to him was very tactful and immediately jumped out and explained, "Lin, Dark Elf, like those white elves, know how to cultivate and drive plants to fight, but Dark Elf belongs to the dark camp, so they can only control the dark plants."
"Yes, it's a pity that the dark plants are hard to find." Ye Ge smiled even more happily, "But this time, I was lucky. I found... this plant when I was helping Christine identify those magical items!"
As her fingers gently slid past, a babbling sound suddenly sounded. In the dark light, a little thing that looked strange carefully emerged from her sleeve and jumped gently to the table.
"Is this?" Lin Taiping opened his eyes wide in surprise, the people of the bull head stretched their necks neatly, and even Christine put down the account book for the first time. She turned her head with a strange face-
The pure black flowers are wild flowers that can be seen everywhere on the roadside. They look petite and weak, but they are like life. They drag the roots covered with soil and slowly twist on the table rhythmically, with petals opening and closing. They make strange sounds, as if they are singing and dancing...
Very very powerful, Lin Taiping was stunned. After a few minutes of being stunned, he finally turned his head seriously and looked at Ye Ge, asking very seriously: "Ye Ge, I suddenly want to know. Did your previous botany teach you? "
Yes, everyone has the same question. If we look at the appearance just from the perspective, this little black flower does look like a plant, but the question is, who has ever seen a plant that can sing and dance while still babbling?
"Of course, this is a plant!" Ye Ge raised his chest like a treasure, but his face was gentle and kind. He clapped his hands at the little black flower that was still babbling, "Be good. Come to mom, don't be afraid of these bad uncles."
"I am my brother!" Lin Taiping corrected it seriously, and did not forget to complain, "Yege, it seems you don't have to give birth to me anymore, because I think you already have children now, and you're almost overwhelmed with maternal love."
"That's right." Tulu nodded desperately with a sense of empathy, but couldn't help but stretch out his hooves and touched the little black flower curiously. "However, I still don't understand, such a little thing that can only pretend to be cute, can there be..."
Crack! In a second, the unlucky Tulu disappeared. To be more precise, his bull head completely disappeared!
In this moment, the black flower that looked extremely weak suddenly had a large petal like a beast. The flower that was originally only a few inches tall had soared to a diameter of half a meter, like a ferocious bloody mouth, falling down fiercely.
So, the poor Tulu was swallowed in without even reacting, leaving only four hooves exposed outside, and waved desperately in anger: "Help, help, what the hell is this? Pull me out quickly."
They were stunned, and everyone was stunned. They almost subconsciously took a few steps back and left the vicious black flower far away: "My God, have we read it wrong? This thing can actually eat a cow?"
"Yes, do you still doubt its strength now?" Ye Ge closed his palms with pride, like a happy mother watching the child learn to walk. "Thorns eat like flowers, the most sinister one among dark plants. It looks confusing on the outside and is fierce and cruel on the inside... Yes, um, um, isn't it cute?"
Get out! Where is it cute?
Everyone couldn't help rolling their eyes together, neatly questioning Ye Ge's aesthetic view. Only Christine, the violent maniac, nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, it looks so cute when it eats people. I really want to buy one to raise."
"Yes, Christine, do you think so too?" Ye Ge gently stretched out his hand and stroked the petals of the Elephant Flower. "Well, do you want to touch it too, it's very smooth and soft."
"Really? Is it really OK? Will it scare it?"
"No, don't worry, it will only be a little shy at most. Just be gentle."
"Wow, I'm really shy. What a cute little guy. Can I give me one extra?"
Very very powerful. The two maternal beauties were flooding with maternal love. I didn’t know what they were discussing. Fortunately, Lin Taiping finally couldn’t stand it and couldn’t help but cough a few times and said, “That’s what, I don’t want to interrupt your experience in raising pets, but I want to remind you that Tulu seems to be about to be eaten…”
Thanks to his reminder, Ye Ge finally remembered the serious business, and gently stretched out his fingers and gently stroked the petals of the Earing Flower. Under her gentle comfort, although Thorny Earing Flower wanted a good meal, he finally opened his mouth reluctantly and sprayed the unlucky Tulu.
"I almost got digested when I saw the dead." Tulu sat on the floor in a daze. His neck was covered with black mucus. Under the corrosion of this black mucus, the flesh and blood on his neck were vaguely melted, and even the white bones could be seen.
From this we can see how terrible the damage of this thorny food like flowers is, just as Ye Ge said with pride: "Do you know? As long as I am bitten by my cute little guy, no matter how powerful the prey is, it will not be able to escape. Moreover, after swallowing enough flesh and blood, the little guy can reproduce quickly and become a whole jungle of food like flowers... Well, do you want to try it again?"
Not thinking at all, except for Christine nodding excitedly, everyone shook their heads desperately, but Lin Taiping touched his chin thoughtfully and suddenly showed that kind of kind smile: "Stolen? Swallow? And can it reproduce quickly?"
There is no need to say anything. As long as you see this familiar smile, you will know that someone will definitely be in trouble. Tulu couldn't help but shiver and suddenly felt that he would rather be closer to Eat Elephant Flower than to stay away from Lin: "Moo, I dare to use my four stomachs to swear that Lin is the real Elephant Flower, the kind that eats people without spitting bones!"
"Nonsense, am I that kind of person?" Lin Taiping protested with confidence, then turned around casually and looked out the window, "Okay, we will discuss things like fleets and eating elephant flowers in the future, and what we need to do now is..."
Before we knew it, the cruise ship had gradually slowed down. Everyone looked out of the window in surprise, and then they realized that in the dim sunset fog, the beautiful silver-white Baiwan Island was getting closer and closer.
Wearing a festive outfit, Speaker Federer was standing at the dock with dozens of attendants to greet the slowly docked cruise ship. Looking at the noble merchants walking out of the cabin, he bowed politely and showed a rare smile—
"Everyone, welcome to the dinner... I think you will have a great time!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!