Chapter 157 How incredibly lucky! Eliminating the odor of the down cloak...
“I’m your brother! You’re my sister! Look at our eyes and hair, aren’t we exactly the same?” Papak said eagerly.
Papame remained skeptical.
She did indeed share the same emerald green eyes and long golden-red hair as the servants of this Flower Castle. The Flower Fairy also used kinship magic to confirm that the two of them were indeed related by blood. She also felt that the other party was very kind and familiar. However, Papame still felt that something was not quite right. This flower fairy was blinking his eyes very frequently. The more she looked at him, the more she felt that he had done something wrong.
After staring at the tall flower fairy in front of her for a long time, Papamei suddenly asked, "When did you become a brother?"
Popak blurted out, "Sister, didn't you say you didn't remember?!"
After he finished speaking, Papak realized something was wrong. Under the dual gazes of the Flower Fairy and his sister, he lowered his head sheepishly.
It turns out that Papame and Papak are twin siblings. However, their family was separated during a typhoon that struck their hometown many years ago. Papak and his parents went back to find her, but Papame never appeared. They thought Papame was gone. Papak never expected to see her again.
After one storm comes another, but life goes on. The father died in yet another storm. To better raise the children, the mother found a new partner and had another child. As the eldest son, Papak volunteered to participate in the selection of servants.
Inheriting his father's talent for light magic, Papak passed the selection process smoothly and became a servant responsible for providing lighting for the Flower Castle. However, his good fortune was short-lived. He hadn't served the nobles of the Flower Castle for long when one of them, enraged that a patrolman was trying to take her child, attacked him. His masters were all taken to the Land of Sin, and as a servant, he was sent to this barren land along with them.
Even after attacking the patrolmen, the noblewoman couldn't save her child. She quickly fell ill with a fever and died after arriving in the Land of Sin. Many of the flower fairy servants who had been forced to come to the Land of Sin with the noblewoman also fell ill with a fever. In the end, only Papak survived from this group of servants.
Popak felt incredibly lucky. Not only did he survive, but he also met the Flower Fairy. Under the Flower Fairy's rule, the Land of Sin underwent a complete transformation!
His stepfather possessed a talent for refining magic, and naturally, some of the children born to his mother and stepfather also inherited this talent. Therefore, his family members were among the first flower fairy commoners to arrive in the Land of Sin. Later, he brought his mother, who had stayed in their hometown, and his other brothers and sisters to the Land of Sin as well. They gradually built their own houses and now they all live in treehouses. He himself even has the same physique as the Flower Fairy. Right now, he has even met his own sister. He is incredibly lucky!
Papak was helping with the work when he inadvertently turned around and saw his sister talking to the Flower Fairy. After noticing his gaze, his sister also glanced at him. Then Papak realized that his sister's eyes were completely unfamiliar. He immediately realized that his sister might have injured her head in the storm, which was why she had forgotten her family and was unable to find her way back home.
In past storms, many flower fairies have had similar experiences. If they are lucky, they will be rescued by flower fairies from other villages and towns, thus saving their lives. But if they are not so lucky, they will probably die silently in the wild.
It seems my sister is very lucky too!
Papak was both excited and thrilled. He quickly finished his work and inquired with the servants. He then learned that the thickest and sturdiest down cloak that the Flower Fairy had praised was actually woven by his sister—his sister's weaving skills were indeed excellent.
My sister already has a husband and children. Her family moved from Lantata City to the Land of Sin. It seems that the kind flower fairy who saved my sister is from Lantata City. Knowing that my sister is now working in the weaving workshop with a group of flower fairies, Papak is very proud. She is indeed my sister!
Seeing that his older sister and the Flower Fairy had finished their conversation and were about to leave, Papak hurriedly chased after her. On the way there, he suddenly thought that since his older sister didn't remember, it would be great for her to be his younger sister. He had always been a good older brother, and his older sister had always taken care of him when they were little. Now it would be his turn to take care of his older sister!
Who would have thought that he'd been exposed before he'd even exchanged two words...
The scene of family reunion is always touching. Although Papak's whimsical idea added a touch of humor to what should have been a heartwarming scene, Shu Xin was still in a good mood when she left the dungeon.
The servants, including the cook Memeline, appeared in the dungeon because they were trying to steam the down cloak.
After the flower fairies skillfully wove the down feather cloak, Shu Xin shrunk her size to try it on. While confirming that the down feather cloak was quite warm and windproof, Shu Xin also discovered its biggest drawback: it had a very strong smell!
Perhaps because the down feathers were too light and small, and the river elf's self-cleaning ability was really strong, Shu Xin didn't notice any smell from the down feathers when she was in the shape of a flower fairy. But when she shrunk into the shape of a flower fairy slave, the smell emanating from the down feather cloak was so strong that it hit her head—greasy and fishy!
Shu Xin endured wearing it for a while, but couldn't take it anymore. She ripped off the downy cloak and immediately started gagging.
The scent was quite profound and lingering... Even after Shu Xin returned to her fairy form, she could still smell the scent on her body. She cast cleansing spells on herself several times and it took her a long time to recover before she felt a little better.
The gray birds do not have the ability to clean themselves, which means that the gray birds in the Land of Sin have not taken a bath even once in all this time!
Realizing this, Shu Xin immediately rushed to inquire with the Tree of Life and learned that the Grey Birds were indeed not much different from the quails in her original world. After taking a sand bath, she went to the breeding area where the Grey Birds were located that same day and manually created a large sand pit—the Land of Sin has nothing but sand!
Thanks to the flower fairies' diligent cleaning, there was no strange smell in the berry forest where the gray birds were kept. Even if you held a gray bird in your hand and sniffed it closely, you could only smell a faint "bird smell" on the bird. The smell was not smelly or unpleasant, but Shu Xin thought about it and felt that it might be because she and the flower fairy commoners were relatively large, so they could smell the smell. If it were a flower fairy slave, it would probably still be very pungent.
Normally, the flower fairies don't have such close contact with the gray birds, so it doesn't matter whether the gray birds have body odor or not. However, if they are to use the gray birds' down feathers to make cloaks for the flower fairy slaves to wear close to their skin, it would be better to try to eliminate the smell as much as possible.
Shu Xin also tried using cleaning magic on the gray bird and the down feather cloak. However, after the magic glow dissipated, the gray bird still smelled like a bird. It seems that the smell was not considered dirty by the gray bird itself. The smell emanating from the down feather cloak was reduced a bit, but it was still very obvious.
After the large sandpit was built, the round, grayish-brown birds flapped their wings and jumped into the sandpit to take a bath. Shu Xin saw them peck at the sand until it was loose, then dig shallow pits, half-bury themselves in them, and then spread their wings and began to flutter.
Shu Xin also smelled the gray bird that had just had a sand bath; well, it still smelled like a bird…
She had no choice but to turn her attention to the downy cloak. After consulting the Tree of Life and confirming that steaming could remove the smell, Shu Xin instructed her servants to try it out first. If any steps could be simplified, they should be simplified as much as possible before assigning them to the commoners.
When Papa Mei came to deliver the down feather cloak, Shu Xin was just about to go to the underground city. So, she took Papa Mei with her along when she brought the cloaks over to ask Mei Mei Lin for the recipe. She never expected to witness a reunion between siblings.
After steaming with salt and magic powder, the smell on the down cloak was reduced to a level that even the flower fairy slaves could hardly detect. Next, Shu Xin planned to expand the weaving workshop and move the steaming process directly into the workshop. She planned to study the specific steaming process to see what magic could replace human labor.
During breaks from her research, Shu Xin would always think of Xi—it was hard not to think about her, as the harvest month was just around the corner!
By this time, Shu Xin already knew that Xi hadn't gone to the Wind Market. If it were just one or two caravans that hadn't seen Xi, it could be due to bad luck. But if none of the caravans had seen Xi at the Wind Market, then it was clear that the demons had skipped it.
Shu Xin also asked the Tree of Life whether Xi and the demons he brought out were in any danger. The Tree of Life, which can transcend time and space to search for knowledge and information directly from other people's minds, could naturally see Xi's current situation. After receiving the answer that there was no danger to his life, Shu Xin stopped paying attention to the matter.
Shu Xin is busy expanding the weaving workshop. Before winter arrives completely, the Land of Sin needs to provide all the flower fairy slaves with an odorless down cloak. Shu Xin is also busy training the flower fairies and demons to fight together. Before the harvest month truly begins, she needs to prepare for the worst-case scenario where Xi and the others fail to return in time.
Xi was already leading the demons back to the Land of Sin.
Even when facing all the mages in an entire city, it wasn't difficult for Xi and her group to pick out the human mages with abnormal souls. The real challenge was what to do with them after they were picked out.
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