4 The Seventh Shop
◎ "I... I want another bowl!"◎
Lu Yao handed the revised drawings to Harold, and the two began to build a breeding shed.
The breeding shed was next to the wall, and was temporarily built in a row according to the size of the piglets.
The red pig was slightly larger than the little man, with a round body and a skin that was a slightly darker red than pink. It lay on the ground, looking over with pitiful eyes, which was quite cute.
Lu Yao cast a one-way soundproof magic circle to ensure that the noise from building the house would not affect the guests' rest.
Assuming that there would be no new guests in the evening, Lu Yao began to clean the kitchen and the cooking table, put away the unused ingredients and tableware, washed the used kitchen utensils, and then listed the ingredients to be used tomorrow. Lu Yao
had just finished cleaning the kitchen and was about to turn off the lights.
Gan Li came out of the room and stood in the corridor for a long time. Seeing that she seemed to have finished her work, she stammered: "That...that..."
Lu Yao turned and looked over: "My name is Lu Yao, you can also call me the owner. What's the matter?"
Gan Li held the hem of her fur coat tightly with both hands and took a deep breath: "My...my name is Gan Li."
Lu Yao smiled and nodded, waiting for the next words.
Gan Li: "That...the rice...the rice is delicious, I...I want another bowl!"
Gan Li's face was a little hot, but she couldn't help it. She wanted to taste the rich and indescribable taste again, and even overcame her huge psychological fear.
She was born in the Xiaguang tribe and was proficient in the craftsmanship of making smoked meat jerky and candy.
After becoming an adult, she traveled around, trying to find more fresh and practical ingredients and spices, but unfortunately she gained little.
Gan Li was originally preparing to return, but she didn't expect to get lost in Stranglethorn Vale. She was lured/tempted by a pot of soup and met the legendary adult human.
This strange shop and the adult human owner have already given her too much shock, and when she ate the food in the inn, Gan Li couldn't help thinking that the biggest gain of this trip was here.
Adult humans are tall and clumsy. It must not be easy to make meals that conform to the habits and tastes of the dwarfs, but the food presented to her is delicious beyond words.
Gan Li looked at Lu Yao eagerly, hoping to hear a positive answer.
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When Lu Yao planned to open an inn, he listed the work of the kitchen as an important matter.
In her ideal hotel, food should be as important as the resting environment, providing guests with both physical and mental satisfaction.
When she arrived at the Nittian continent and learned that the guests might only be dwarfs, she immediately adjusted the kitchen arrangements.
The dwarfs are small in stature, and a normal human mouthful of rice can break them.
When Lu Yao customized furniture and tableware for the dwarfs in the Dawu Dynasty, she also customized mini kitchenware, including a round stove with a brick structure, a five-layer bamboo basket for steaming bowls, a kettle, an iron pot for cooking, and a clay pot for making porridge.
These kitchenware are scaled down from normal pots and bowls, exquisite and cute, and are temporarily stored in a corner of the stove.
Lu Yao planned to move this set of kitchenware to the restaurant on the first floor of the guest room area after she recruited a dwarf staff. Before
the hotel was back in business, Lu Yao would be in charge of the guests' meals.
She had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she browsed videos about food and play on the Internet, and also consulted some ideas for making complementary foods to customize the evening menu.
Lu Yao still followed the habit of the snack bar. The standard set meal included a serving of rice (dwarf portion), one meat, one vegetable, a side dish, and a bowl of soup.
She thought the portion should be enough, but she didn't expect the guest to be not full.
Lu Yao was a little surprised, and she responded and went to serve the rice. Thinking that she had to adjust the portion, she pressed the rice down and added three or four more grains of rice.
In less than two minutes, the steaming hot set meal for the Dwarfs was ready.
Gan Li didn't expect it to be so fast. It was obvious with the naked eye that this meal was larger than before. Her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she just picked up the tray and quickly returned to the room. After eating
two sets of meals in a row, Gan Li was still not satisfied, but her round belly reminded her that she couldn't continue.
She stacked the empty bowls and plates together and put them on the rack at the door.
The consequence of greed is that her stomach is too full to sleep, so she can only walk around in circles in the room to digest the food.
While circling the room, Gan Li found that there was a small room behind the wall opposite the bed. There were some useless furnishings and a strange wall inside.
Standing in front of that wall, she could see her appearance clearly.
Gan Li was one of the few literate Niteans, and she had traveled abroad for many years, so she was well-informed, but she still couldn't understand the purpose of this room.
After struggling for a long time, she still mustered up the courage to find Lu Yao.
Lu Yao had already expected this situation, and when the guests came, he patiently guided them to use the bathroom.
The guest rooms in this building are all in Chinese style, and the bathroom is the same.
The dark copper washbasin is equipped with a mirror, and the shelves are filled with wooden basins, towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes and other disposable items.
The bathtub is a custom-made wooden barrel (slightly larger and deeper than a soap box) from a carpenter's shop in the Dawu Dynasty. It is placed under the faucet in the bathing area, and hot water will come out when you twist it.
There is a wooden plug at the bottom of the wooden barrel, and you can drain the water by pulling out the plug.
Gan Li sent Lu Yao away, returned to the room, turned on the faucet, and hot water came out.
She filled a bucket with water, sat in it, and the hot water just reached her neck. She took a comfortable hot bath, took out clean clothes from the cabinet behind the door and changed into them.
The clothes were a little big, but very comfortable to wear. After
a full meal and a long bath, Gan Li thought that it would not be so comfortable to go home, so she climbed onto the bed contentedly in her slippers.
The bed was soft, the pillows were fluffy, the quilt was thick, and there was a very faint reassuring smell in the air.
Gan Li thought she would not sleep well, but she lost consciousness as soon as she touched the pillow.
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The sunlight shone through the curtains, casting a shadow on the floor in front of the bed.
Gan Li wrapped herself in a blanket, staring at the unfamiliar ceiling, the clean room, the soft and warm bed, the delicious meals, and the giant humans in the legend.
She thought she had a very strange dream, but when she woke up, she found that everything was real.
And... she was still alive, and the adults really didn't seem to have any ill intentions towards her.
The weather was so good, the stunning sunlight came in through the window curtains. Gan Li lingered on the bed for a while, rolled over, lifted the quilt, and ran behind the curtain to look out.
She didn't notice the window at all last night. It was so strange outside. It was not the endless snow, but a row of tall and huge houses.
Gan Li pulled open the bed curtains and lay on the lattice window.
This is definitely not a tribe of dwarfs. There was
surprise in her eyes. She suddenly lowered her head and saw a row of green plants swaying in the wind under the window. Her eyes trembled.
What beautiful flowers.
The fear of the unknown was properly soothed by this scene. Gan Li turned around, changed her clothes, opened the door and walked out.
The other two adults were gone, only the adult who received her last night was busy.
Lu Yao turned around after hearing the noise and smiled at Gan Li: "Did you sleep well?"
Gan Li nodded hesitantly and pointed to the door and said: "I saw a huge house and...beautiful flowers outside."
Lu Yao: "Oh, don't be afraid, that's where we live, just like your tribe."
Gan Li: "So, you adults have been living here all the time?" Lu Yao:
"My family originally lived in a very remote place deep in the mountains, and we just moved here recently. We wanted to find some people of the same tribe, but we didn't find any trace of them. Instead, we met some little people from the Red Pig Tribe."
Gan Li's eyes widened, thinking that these adults had stayed in the mountains for too long and didn't even know that their fellow tribesmen had disappeared.
She remembered the stories about adults she had heard in the tribe, and felt that the adults in front of her were a little different.
Gan Li just had this feeling, but she had no way to compare.
She turned around and went downstairs, lying on the first-floor window and looking out: "How strange, why didn't I see these houses last night?"
Even if such a huge house was covered by the night, she would not be completely unable to find it.
Lu Yao added without any pressure: "This is the innate skill of our tribe - we can cover the boundaries of the territory as we wish, and only people of the same tribe can enter and exit at will. However, these houses have not disappeared, so the dwarfs can also see them through special walls."
The Nitian dwarfs are scattered all over the Nitian continent, and each tribe has a secret skill passed down from generation to generation.
But the dwarfs also have a common innate skill - knotting, which is their last means of survival when they encounter a crisis. The fact that
adults and dwarfs have the same unique skills to protect themselves just proves that they are also blessed by the gods of this continent.
The question in her mind was answered. Gan Li looked at Lu Yao again, and her fear disappeared, leaving only friendliness.
It turns out that real adults are not scary at all. They are clever and easy to talk to.
"Gurgle gurgle--"
Gan Li covered her stomach awkwardly. Lu Yao
nodded: "Breakfast is ready, or do you want to go back to the room to eat?"
Gan Li shook her head: "I want to eat downstairs today."
The weather was good, she had a good rest, and she was in a good mood.
After traveling so far alone, she suddenly didn't want to hide in the room alone.
The nail salon had a customer who made an appointment to pick up the goods today. Harold went to the store after breakfast, not just the furry shop next door. Lu Yao
cooked rice porridge in the morning, and made soup dumplings, roasted wheat and steamed dumplings.
The breakfast provided to the guests was the same as theirs, but all of them were super mini versions.
Gan Li sat in a window seat in the restaurant on the first floor, watching the owner open the window and carefully pass the plate to her with a telescopic rod with a clip. She didn't know how to react for a moment.
Lu Yao: "I scared you. When business picks up in the future, I plan to hire some dwarfs to help, so I won't be so exaggerated."
Gan Li's eyes were wide open, but she said: "The rice... smells good, this tool is good, and you... are also very good."
This is a Nitian dwarf who understands the ways of the world.
Gan Li looked down at the plate in front of her. It was different from the one last night, and it smelled completely different.
She picked up a soup bag unskillfully, tore a small hole with her teeth, and the boiling soup suddenly squeezed out of the small hole and bit her tongue.
Her tongue was stinging from the heat, but Gan Li was reluctant to open her mouth, exhaling to make the small mouth bigger.
It was so hot!
But also so delicious!
In addition to a basket of steamed food, a bowl of porridge, and a small dish of dipping sauce for breakfast.
Gan Li picked up another steamed dumpling that was bigger than her fist, took a bite of the edge, but couldn't taste it, so she poked the dumpling with the tip of her chopsticks to dip it in the dipping sauce.
After the heat dissipated, she took another bite. A hint of sourness mixed with the loose and oily meat aroma was so delicious.
Gan Li shook her legs and finished a three-piece steamed food in a flash, and couldn't help but order another one.
She ate until her stomach was full and almost choked on the spot. She reluctantly put down her chopsticks and exhaled to calm down.
After a night's rest and eating such delicious food, Gan Li felt that this trip was worthwhile. Even though he had a lot of thoughts in his mind, he decided to go home immediately.
One night's accommodation, two meals, plus the piglet's food and lodging, cost exactly two nites.
The red pig slept in the newly built shed last night, so it didn't freeze at all. It also ate fresh grass and was particularly energetic in the morning.
At the door of the hotel, Gan Li spent some time to calm the overly excited piglet, and turned around to say goodbye to Lu Yao.
Lu Yao half squatted down: "I want to ask you for a favor."
Gan Li seemed a little embarrassed and did not agree immediately, but only asked: "What is it?"
Lu Yao carefully pinched a stack of flyers between two fingers: "Please give these flyers to the little people you meet along the way."
On the front of the flyer was an extremely vivid picture, showing a huge hotel in the center of Thorn Valley. Little people riding red pigs or holding weapons walked into the hotel one after another and slept inside; on the back of the flyer was the text of the Nitian continent, and the meaning was the same as the picture on the front.
Lu Yao handed over a square little bundle: "I saw that you seemed to like these steamed food very much, so I picked up a few baskets as a reward, please don't mind."
Gan Li recalled the experience in the hotel that night and couldn't say anything to refuse.
If other dwarfs found this place, they would definitely feel like she had discovered a new world.
Gan Li took the steamed food package and tied it carefully around the piglet, stuffed the flyer directly into the saddlebag in front of him, and rode away on the little red pig.
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[Author's words]
Gan Li: I admit that my voice was a little loud at first...
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