Chapter 40 Too Many Children Born! (Commoner Residential Area)
"I really thought I was going to die!" Bebelo said, quite embarrassed.
"In that situation, anyone would think that way!"
"Yes, yes, it's a good thing you're still alive, otherwise Ya Ya Lian would be so heartbroken!"
The flower fairies chattered amongst themselves:
"I envy you so much, being able to see your mother again. My mother was really good at choosing materials for magic wands! But when I got home, I found out that my mother had passed away... However, I brought my brother's second son and youngest daughter, as well as my sister's eldest daughter, third son, and fifth son with me. They are also very good at choosing materials for magic wands! I wish the other children had related magical talents. Their relationship was so good, they had so many children!"
"I only found out my father was gone when I got home... He was an old worker in the magic workshop! It's a pity that none of the children in my mother's family have this kind of magical talent, so I brought my uncles and aunts, as well as a few nephews and nieces with me. They also have too many children at home and are planning to bring their children to participate in the servant selection."
“My parents are gone, and my younger siblings didn’t survive either, but I brought all the surviving flower fairies from our village with me! Our village specializes in making magic wands! I don’t know why, but I’m the only one with a talent for planting… Our village was recently hit by a storm, which not only killed many flower fairies, but also destroyed all the magic workshops. When I got back, they were worrying about this year’s magic tax!”
"That's so nice, you all still remember the way home, I don't remember at all..."
"I don't remember either..."
The Kingdom of Garnar truly lives up to its name as a nation of riverside elves. Shu Xin stood by the window of the Flower Castle, gazing at the colorful flower fairies gathered below, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
On the barren, sinful land, they resembled colorful streams brimming with life and vitality, flowing freely.
Shu Xin had no idea that so many flower fairies would be taken to the land of sin by the servants!
On the way from the capital to the land of sin, apart from Peng Peng'an driving the carriage, Shu Xin did not see a single flower fairy. After arriving in the land of sin, the only people she saw were the servants who worked for the Flower Castle.
Including Nonori, all the flower fairy servants only numbered fifty-three. Even if you include the two hundred and thirty-six flower fairy slaves, the total number is only two hundred and eighty-nine. In such a vast land of sin, the number of flower fairies living there is less than three hundred!
In addition, there are only eleven flower fairies who are royalty, so Shu Xin subconsciously thought that the Kingdom of Ganar was "vast and sparsely populated". Little did she know that this was a complete misunderstanding!
In this land of evil, where magic is so scarce that Xi considers it comparable to a magic-forbidden zone, the fact that nearly three hundred flower fairies, as magical beings, have still managed to survive is enough to prove just how formidable their survival abilities are.
Because of this misunderstanding, Shu Xin's hope for the servants who went out to find their families was that they would bring back as many as twenty or as few as a dozen flower fairies. After all, the number of flower fairy servants who decided to go out was only a dozen or so.
Shu Xin never expected that a dozen servants could bring back five or six hundred flower fairies!
Xi was initially convinced that among the flower fairies who were brought here and claimed to have the talent to make magic wands, there must be some who were just pretending. Therefore, after the first few batches of flower fairies entered the Land of Sin, he would sneak up on them with great interest and tirelessly test and examine them.
Shu Xin didn't know exactly how to test or examine, but judging from his listless and gloomy expression every time he returned, the flower fairies brought by the servants really did all possess the talent to make magic wands.
Later on, even as more flower fairies were led into the Land of Sin, Xi stopped going out to watch.
Shu Xin didn't even have time to laugh at him. The number of flower fairies, which far exceeded her expectations, disrupted her plans. She had originally planned to have the flower fairies brought by her servants sleep with their families in the underground warehouse of the Flower Castle first. Once she had completely renovated the straw boxes, she would then distribute them to the flower fairy servants to live in as family units.
When the first servant returned with seven or eight flower fairies, that's how Shu Xin arranged things. But when the second servant returned with more than a dozen flower fairies, Shu Xin realized that there was definitely something wrong with her understanding of the flower fairy population.
She immediately went to find Nonoli and asked about the flower fairy's family structure and number of children. She was shocked to learn that, apart from Shushuxin, the eldest daughter of the flower fairy who was taken to the capital, Shushuxin's parents had eight other children. In other words, Nonoli had a total of seven younger brothers and sisters!
According to Nonoli, it's not uncommon for flower fairy couples with a good relationship to have eight or nine children, and it's quite common for them to have more than ten. If they only have one or two children, it's definitely because the parents are separated for many years. However, even though flower fairy parents have a large number of children, not many of them survive to adulthood. Of Nonoli's younger siblings, only one sister is still alive.
Shu Xin overheard the conversation between the flower fairy servants and discovered that among the families they brought to the Land of Sin, there were indeed not many direct relatives.
As for the family structure of flower fairies, it is actually quite simple. Flower fairies are divided into male and female. As long as both the man and woman are willing, when they go to the magic tree together to make a wish, the magic tree will drop a blessing leaf, and they can get married, start a family, and have children.
Flower fairies don't have surnames, and their blood relations are only based on direct lineage. However, if one parent dies, the children born to the other parent after remarriage will also maintain a close relationship like direct relatives.
Considering the pure and kind nature of the flower fairies, Shu Xin immediately realized what this meant. She made a decisive decision to have the flower fairy slaves suspend the construction of the magic workshop and immediately begin building the houses she had already conceived. To ensure that there were enough building materials, all the seeds of the ground grass were scattered.
As the flower fairies arrived wave after wave, the underground warehouse was indeed too full to sleep in!
In fact, Shu Xin felt that these flower fairies could sleep on the corridor of the Flower Castle, but putting aside whether Nonoli and Pengpengan would agree, these flower fairies themselves probably wouldn't dare to—when they were asked to sleep in the underground warehouse, many of them fainted from fear.
...When they saw the Flower Fairy in person, many more flower fairies fainted, but not because they were afraid, but because they were excited.
Shu Xin really wanted to go down and get up close to the flower fairies, but she was also worried about a repeat of the frightening scene of a large group of people fainting before. In the end, she could only stand on the Flower Castle and look down from afar.
The reason why all the flower fairies below were gathered together was that the houses for the flower fairy civilians, built with the help of working overtime during this period, were finally completed. Shu Xin was going to fly out later to set up a high-level defensive barrier for the civilian residential area.
The flower fairies and commoners at present are unaware that the work they are required to do as soon as they enter the Land of Sin is to build houses for themselves.
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