Chapter 46: Like a Little Squirrel's Peaceful and Stable Days
After counting the number of Leaf Coins and Magic Wands, Shu Xin finally decided to use Leaf Coins to buy food. The cost of the Magic Wand was simply too high, and exchanging it for food would be a huge loss.
Shu Xin also asked Nuonuo Li and Peng Peng An. Now that the harvest month is approaching, it is unlikely that they can buy a large amount of grain from other territories, but they can still buy some dried fruits.
After asking carefully, Shu Xin learned that the stored dried fruits were nuts that could be stored for a long time, such as pine cones, acorns, sunflower seeds, hazelnuts, and chestnuts. In some places, the flower fairies would also store dried mushrooms as a reserve food.
Shu Xin listened with envy for the abundant resources of other territories. Why didn't the Land of Sin have so much food?
That's how it sounds; the flower fairies really do resemble diligent little squirrels in the forest, storing food as if they were.
Even though Xi was unwilling, he was still given instructions by Shu Xin and took a few flower fairy servants with him to go out shopping in a carriage. Before leaving, he said in a harsh voice, "Prepare my payment, Shu Xin! I won't work for free!"
Shu Xin responded by waving her magic wand and casting a wind-based speed-up spell on the carriage.
Watching the carriage transform into a tiny dot at the horizon and finally disappear, the flower fairy gracefully flew back to the Flower Castle.
The commoners were unaware that their food reserves were running low. After finishing their day's work, they chatted and laughed as they flew toward the triangular house.
"This is the first time I've ever lived in such a beautiful and clean house!" a flower fairy exclaimed. "It's so beautiful and clean! Back home, we could only dig holes in the mountainside to live in. I really dislike the color of the mountainside; it's gray and black. And even if we cleaned it every day, there was still dust everywhere. My hair was always covered in dust; there was no way to clean it!"
A flower fairy echoed with the same sentiment, "This is also the first time I've ever lived in such a cool and dry house! We don't live on the mountainside, but we're not much better off than you. You're mining the ore in the mountains, right? We're dredging the ore from the riverbed. To make things easier, we all live by the river, building our houses with reeds and lotus leaves. Every morning and evening, a damp mist pours into our houses, every single day!"
Flower fairies with talents related to refining magic basically make a living from it. Their daily work is mostly related to mining. After all, magic workshops can be built anywhere, but magic ores are not so easy to mine. Therefore, they usually live and work wherever magic ores are distributed.
High mountains and cliffs hold magical ores, so they have to endure the biting winds and harsh dust to survive; deep forests and underwater waters hold magical ores, so they have to work covered in decaying leaves and pushing through raging torrents.
Slaves might venture to the most dangerous places, but that doesn't mean there aren't hidden dangers elsewhere.
The strong winds can cause flying flower fairies to lose their balance. If they cannot find a foothold in time, they may be blown away by the wind and fall to their deaths.
While ordinary sand and dust can be defended against, some magical ore mining involves splashes of poisonous sand and gravel. If you are accidentally injured, you may die from poisoning.
Magical ores in the forest are generally easy to mine, but often there are magical beasts that need these ores guarding the area. If a flower fairy with no fighting ability doesn't notice in time and run away, she will lose her life.
As for the magical minerals underwater, even the shallowest undercurrents and the smallest whirlpools can easily take the life of a flower fairy!
In comparison, even though the magic in the Land of Sin was so scarce that it made them feel physically uncomfortable, the flower fairies were still quite content. By the grace of the Flower Goddess, all they had to do was build magic workshops and make magic wands! What a safe job!
Even though the harvest month was approaching, the flower fairies were still discussing their future plans with great optimism.
The older flower fairy said thoughtfully, "I'm going to sign up for the patrol team. I'm not young anymore. If I die, my younger brother can take my youngest son in. That child clearly has a great talent for planting, but unfortunately, we sold our last piece of land to pay taxes. Fortunately, the Flower Fairy said she would reward us with land, and then Lili Liang will definitely be able to grow enough wheat to pay the taxes!"
"I want to sign up too!" The young flower fairy waved her fist. "I don't think we'll die. We've made so many wonderful magic wands! There are not only two noble lords here, but also the Flower Fairy! We can definitely drive away the monsters from the outer continent! I was even thinking of using the patrol team's salary to give my fiancée a magic wand that I made myself after the harvest month is over. I've already picked one out, and I'm sure Zhizhina will love it!"
A gentle breeze carried the flower fairies' voices into the distance. They arrived at the commoners' settlement surrounded by a semi-transparent vine fence. The flower fairies landed on the ground, bid each other farewell, and walked towards their triangular huts in the evening glow.
Pushing open the door, after a whole day of being exposed to the sun, the air inside the straw hut was filled with a light and fresh scent of grass.
My family brought me a wooden bowl filled with water from the Sun Spring. The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the window onto the water's surface. Taking a sip of the water felt like drinking a mouthful of warm, golden sunshine.
I sat down on the smooth, finely woven grass mat and casually complained that the spring water here didn't taste as sweet as the water back home, but then I couldn't help but laugh.
May these peaceful and tranquil days continue forever, Goddess of Flowers prayed in their hearts.
Time moves forward at a leisurely pace.
Shu Xin held the translucent petal between her fingers to the sunlight. A small magic rune was engraved on it, slowly lighting up little by little in the sunlight. Shu Xin waited patiently, until the rune lit up completely and then went out. She applied a little force, and the magic rune on the petal glowed faintly again. But before the rune could light up completely, the pinkish-white petal shattered.
Helplessly, Shu Xin put down the broken petals. There was already a small pile of petal fragments on the wooden table on the terrace. She threw the broken petals in her hand into the pile and scratched her head in distress as she looked at the strangely shaped tiny petals.
After the ground-attachment plant bloomed, Shu Xin wanted to make robes from the petals to distribute to the flower fairy slaves. However, at that time, there weren't enough ground-attachment plant roots, so she put the matter aside for the time being. After cultivating the ground-attachment plant from blue-purple flowers to pink and white flowers, Shu Xin tried using pink and white petals, but unfortunately, she has not succeeded yet.
The pink and white petals were too thin and soft. Even if Shu Xin could apply a solidifying spell to the petals, the spell would be difficult to take effect because of the petals' ability to isolate magic.
Shu Xin had tried using blue-purple petals before, but the blue-purple flowers had a better magic barrier than the pink and white flowers, so the solid runes couldn't be written on them at all!
She didn't know what was going on, but the Earthweed in the Land of Sin finally managed to bloom, and the petals that did bloom were all incredibly fragile. She clearly remembered that the petals of the Earthweed in Maiji were very tough and sturdy!
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Author's Note: Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 19:51:55 on July 15, 2024 and 19:59:43 on July 16, 2024!
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