This woman's smile and voice were so gentle, so gentle that Nene looked at her, and she felt a kind of peace in her heart... Nene didn't even realize that she had relaxed her usual vigilance.
You must know... This woman came to Nei Nei silently, but within a distance of more than ten steps, but Nei Nei's strength was actually unaware, which in itself was worthy of her vigilance.
But at this moment, looking at this woman, Nei felt a sense of closeness in her heart for no reason.
"You..." Nei opened her mouth, hesitated a little, and smiled bitterly in a low voice: "Thank you for your reminder."
This woman seemed to raise her hand and gently twist her long black hair. She held her hair so beautifully that Nene was almost in a daze when she heard the woman smile and say warmly, "Dear little girl, what are you doing? Things are so sad? You know, when a woman decides to cut her long hair, it's usually because of something sad."
I don't know why, but Nene, who is usually grumpy and amiable, can't feel the slightest bit of irritability or impatience in the face of this gentle and amiable woman - if it was someone else who asked her this kind of question, she would have jumped up a long time ago.
At this moment, facing this woman, Nei sighed softly: "What else can I do... there is a man... "
The woman smiled, and before Nene continued to speak, she had already said with a leisurely smile: "Yes, 'there is a man', hehe, there is always 'there is a man', we as women, in this world, What makes us sad is, for the most part, the phrase... 'there's a man'."
Saying that, she has stepped gently to Nei's side, raised her hand, and put it on Nei's hair - this gesture is already very close, but Nei seems to have no resistance in her heart. Letting this woman's palm gently caress her hair, she suddenly felt a sense of fragility in her heart, and whispered, "Man... ah, that guy, I'm afraid he has never liked me..."
"That's his loss." The woman's voice was as soft as a spring breeze, and she whispered in Nei Nei's ear: "A beautiful girl like you, with an alluring appearance, if you put it in ancient times, I'm afraid it will all have The king is willing to destroy the family and the country because of you... A beautiful girl like you, but that man can't see your goodness, it's just that he is stupid."
Nene was stunned. She was stunned for a while before blurting out, "I... beautiful? You mean I'm beautiful?"
"Of course, poor child." The woman sighed softly, and then suddenly tapped Nene's forehead—just the finger touched it, and Nene suddenly felt the warmth between her forehead and her brows gradually dissipating. Open, as if immersed in warm water.
Immediately, the woman's voice sounded behind her, her voice soft and seemed to have some kind of strange charm.
"Of course you are a rare beauty, but you can't see it yourself, poor child, if you don't believe it, you might as well look at the reflection in the water."
There was a tremor in my heart, and suddenly I didn't know where the impulse came from, and I actually put my head out on the water, opened my eyes wide, and looked towards the water...
It was just this slight glance, and an exclamation of "Ah!!" was immediately exclaimed!
The girl's eyes were already round, and she stared at the reflection in the water in surprise...
This, this, me
This is... what a beauty this is...
Above the water, a pretty figure stood quietly, with a slender neck as graceful and graceful as a swan, where did that face still look rough and ugly before? Instead, it is already a beautiful face that is enough to drive the world crazy!
The ivory-colored skin is delicate and soft, and it is broken by blowing bombs. The gentle curve of the face shows the gentleness of women, while the slightly pointed chin is more small and lovely, the bridge of the nose is straight, like the top art master carves it with the blade, and the lips are rosy and full. , like a tempting strawberry...
Those eyes are even brighter, as if the Creator was particularly partial to her. When he created her, he actually took two stars from the sky and set them on this face!
Those shoulders are no longer the burly appearance they used to be, but they are slender and moving, with a full chest and a slender waist like a grip.
Such a woman is clearly the beauty of the world! !
…
Nene was stunned.
She lost her mind for a long time, and finally came back to her senses and screamed again... God, even this exclamation, the voice is so delicate and mellow, crisp and sweet, I'm afraid the best lark in the world Can't compare!
Nei's hands immediately held her face, and the shadow on the water also covered her face with her hands - this kind of action made Nei really believe it.
This is really me!
This is really his true appearance! !
The gentle voice of the mysterious woman behind her came.
"Poor child... You've been imprisoned for too long. Go, go win your love back, show your true face, and make that man regret for you!"
Nene suddenly turned around, but there was nothing behind him. Where is the figure of that mysterious black-haired woman
That woman appeared like a ghost, and when she disappeared, it was silent...
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Char is in the former Logistics Office's house in Denzel City.
He was here to meet the elves.
It has been almost a year since those elves came to their territory - you know, these elves came here in the name of giving gifts to their weddings. But their marriage was delayed again and again, and these elves seemed to have made up their minds to eat and drink here for nothing.
Originally, Xi Ya didn't care about raising these elves—although these elves were really too big, but in fact, their food and drinking costs were very small: they didn't even use the water source in Denzel City, but Go and gather dew on the flowers every morning.
The house that originally belonged to the General Administration of Logistics was the den of the smugglers in Cato. After being occupied by these elves, the house became fragrant. Even in winter, the flowers and plants in the yard remained vigorous and withered at all. —This is probably the natural magic unique to the elves.
Besides, these elves also brought themselves a precious gift: a battle robe.
It is said that it was dyed with the tail hair of the colorful feather flamingo, plus the Lingzhu silk and some nine-color iris flower juice, to get the battle robe.
Anyway, I heard that this thing is extremely precious, extremely powerful, and extremely powerful.
Dora even said that this shirt has a very strong magic immunity, especially fire magic. In the future, as long as you don't encounter any strong-level mages who use forbidden magic to burn yourself, in addition, other The fire magic of , can basically be regarded as the majesty that blows on the body... Anyway, what the female dragon said, although Xia thought it was a bit exaggerated, but Dora rarely lied about this kind of thing.
Anyway, Char Ya can be said to be drooling over that shirt of the elves.
It's a pity, although this extremely arrogant robe is nominally a "wedding gift" for himself, but after this year, let alone the whole robe, Xia Ya didn't even see a hair!
Those elves, headed by that guy named Vivian, basically just sit by Merlin's side every day, and they have no intention of weaving shirts for themselves!
Speaking of which, the elves are indeed cunning, and the brothers of the dwarves are loyal and reliable.
A military camp outside the city that was originally reserved for the dwarves has almost been expanded into a dwarf weapon-making workshop!
The messenger leader of the dwarf clan called "Rock" is indeed a trustworthy guy. After reaching those deals with Xi Ya, he soon sent someone back to the dwarf tribe in Yehuoyuan to meet their legendary man. The dwarf "King Greybeard" in .
Soon, a group of dwarf craftsmen and a hundred ground beasts were sent to Denzel City.
The price of Xia Ya's comeback is the large amount of grain harvested this autumn!
The dwarves gathered in the workshops outside the city, and soon they built hundreds of furnaces, with rows of chimneys erected. Every day, the clanging sound of hot iron can be heard inside, and that row of chimneys were erected. Smoke rose from the chimney.
The brothers of the dwarves are really kind. Although living here costs a lot for food and drink (the dwarves eat a lot and drink outrageously), the weapons and armors they create are indeed high-quality goods!
It's just that Xiaya's dragon scale armor has not been completed, but Xiaya is not in a hurry. In the past, the dragon scales were just ordinary things on Dora's body. Now a golden dragon is by his side. Using the scales of the golden dragon, the natural effect is better.
From this point of view, it is no wonder that those wealthy nobles in the imperial capital have sharpened heads and want to have a relationship with him, the nobles in the north.
The foreign trade of the Byzantine Empire, especially the trade with many tribes, dwarf tribes, and Zaku tribes on the Wildfire Plain, relied on the trade route from Moer County to Wildfire Town, leading to Wildfire Plain.
And now this site is surnamed "Xia Ya", whoever's caravan will go out to the border to do business in Wildfire Plains, they have to ask Uncle Xia Ya to agree or not! At this time, everyone in the various chambers of commerce organizations on the continent would have to look at Xia Ya's face, but who didn't know that the backstage of those big chambers of commerce were the big aristocrats of the empire.
Anyway, now the weapons of the dwarves are basically monopolized by Char. He occupies an absolute geographical advantage - he is the closest to Wildfire, and his own jurisdiction is a large grain-producing area. What the dwarves lack most is food!
The Zaku native tribe, because of Char's great kindness, basically responded to Char's requests.
Now Denzel City is no longer the small border town it used to be. Many chambers of commerce on the mainland have expanded their bases here, and there is an endless stream of caravans coming and going.
I just want to get a pass for outbound trade issued by the Northern Garrison.
Otherwise, if you don't have this pass, you will be stopped by the cavalry of the Northern Army when you walk to the border!
Xia Ya's northern army, just relying on the sale of the pass, has already made a fortune.
And he monopolized most of the supplies of the dwarves, as well as the good things of the Zaku tribe, and simply did business with those chambers of commerce.
The logistics chief, Cato, was in charge. He simply sat on the ground and acted as a dealer: anyway, the good things of the dwarf tribe and the Zaku tribe on the wildfire were open and supplied by the northern army, and the other chambers of commerce could only eat it. To a little leftovers, or, can only be purchased from the hands of the Union Army.
In particular, the top-quality tobacco leaves produced by the Zaku natives have been out of stock for nearly a year in southern mainland China. One kilogram of top-quality tobacco leaves can already be exchanged for the same weight of gold!
And even those big chambers of commerce would no longer be able to buy the best tobacco leaves from the Zaku natives—because the top-of-the-line goods had already been packaged by Xia Ya.
These financial paths support the finances of the Northern Army, and also ensure that this group of Xiaya will develop.
But today, Xiaya came to the house where the elves lived early in the morning, but not to see those beautiful female elves.
Xia Ya came here to find his fiancee.
Those elves are probably also a little embarrassed because they have been eating and drinking for free here for a year - the promised shirt has not been taken out yet.
Finally, when Charya decided to get married again, these elves took the initiative to ask to make the most beautiful wedding dress for Charya's wife!
That Vivienne said that the elves she brought were the best Weaver Maidens in the tribe, and the dresses made by her were incomparable even to the lord's family in the holy city of Babylon.
As for Vivian's statement, Xi Ya began to have some doubts: Why do you want to compare the house of the city owner in the holy city of Babylon? This sentence can be said as "even the Byzantine royal family does not have such a good dress".
But after Vivian listened to Xia Ya's doubts, this beautiful and proud female elf rolled her eyes at Xia Ya with a look of extreme disdain.
Later, Char learned that, for these elves, the only human beings that the elves looked at was the city lord's house in Babylon.
Because according to legend, the city owner's house in Babylon is the descendant of a human empire in ancient times - it was a huge empire of the real human race, which was once brilliant and had a splendid history and culture. Only the Lord of the Empire can be regarded as the real "Human Sovereign".
As for the Byzantine Empire, whether it is Odin, or Lantis, in the eyes of these elves who pay attention to tradition and history, they are just some "upstarts".
Originally, Char was not very happy that his fiancee was too close to these proud female elves.
However, it is a pity that this time, the poor worm went against Xia Ya's wishes.
In fact, Xi Ya did not lose to those female elves, but to the inherent weakness of women: when the poor worm saw the prototype of the first dress woven by the elves, that gorgeous and amazing dress , immediately let the poor worm scream, and then this woman with a pair of bright eyes, refused to leave the weaving house of the elves again.
It could be seen that those elves welcomed the poor worm very much and were willing to stay with the poor worm—but they did not welcome Char’s visit.
The reason is very simple, because Dora told Char that elves are a race that naturally likes beautiful things, and the elves' preferences are actually very simple and simple: they like beautiful things.
These elves are willing to stay with the poor man, because the poor man is a wonderful beauty.
As for Char... You can know the answer from the manner in which the elves frowned and rolled their eyes when they saw Char.
Xiaya was a little puzzled for a while: "Am I not warm enough to entertain them? I am not considerate enough to entertain them? Or haven't I given them the best house?"
"The hospitality is very thoughtful and warm... But, I hate you, there is only one reason... You are not beautiful enough!"
… All right!
This reason made Xia suffocated, but she had nothing to do with these elves.
Anyway, the poor worm now spends almost the daytime with these elves besides eating and sleeping.
Xia Ya wanted to see her future little wife, so she came here to see the white eyes of these elves.
However, the poor worm and these elves together, it is not that there is no gain at all.
At least, she inquired about a piece of news that Xi Ya was very concerned about: whether the shirt was ready.
According to the poor worm, after hearing the news, Xia Ya was really speechless.
It turns out that these elves can't really be blamed for their sluggishness. They are really the culprits. They are evil stars that even Xiaya can't afford to offend!
The shirt has not been completed so far, the reason is: some of the materials were embezzled by someone.
This corrupt person is the adoptive mother of Uncle Xia Ya, Lord Merlin.
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The materials brought by the elves to make the shirts consisted of three items: the tail feathers of the colorful flamingos, the spider silk, and one thing called "flower juice of nine-color irises".
The preciousness of the other two things will not be mentioned, but the preciousness of the nine-color iris flower needs to be specially mentioned: it is said that this kind of word is the holy flower of the elves. It blooms only once in a hundred years, and it can be collected every time it is enlightened. The flower juice, in total, is just a small bottle.
This flower juice is extremely precious and has a very precious magical effect, especially one benefit: it is suitable for all kinds of magic! And it has a very strong magic fusion and adhesion effect.
This effect is very rare!
Everyone knows that metal utensils have a strong repulsion effect on magic, so it is difficult to add magic to metal objects, unless some special and precious materials, such as mithril, can be used to make magic work. on metal.
However, Mithril's magic fusion power and attachment effect must be discounted. That is to say, Mithril can only reduce the repulsion of metal to magic in a limited way, and cannot make it disappear completely.
Even so, Mithril is already among the top three in the list of the most expensive and difficult to obtain magic materials recognized by magicians on the mainland.
The effect of the juice of this nine-color iris is basically similar to that of Mithril, but... it is stronger, much stronger! !
Even if it is the metal with the strongest repellency to magic, as long as it is smeared with this flower juice, this repellency can be completely eliminated! Not only that, but the metal and magic can be perfectly blended together, and even any material smeared with this flower juice will have the effect of increasing the original magic after the blessing of magic!
Moreover, this flower juice has an effect on all magic of the entire system! Whether it's wind, fire, earth, cats or dogs...
Mithril, on the other hand, cannot reach this level. Magicians in the mainland have recognized that although Mithril is easy to use, it is relatively poor in the fusion and attachment of some parts of magic.
Such a precious magic material was brought here by these elves. Before it fell into the hands of Xia Ya, let Merlin, the great master of magic and a fan of magic, know about it... Then...
But unfortunately, Merlin did embezzle half the bottle of flower juice that these elves brought.
But this time, our noble and great master of magic, Mr. Merlin, embezzled these flower juices is not because we need these materials to do magic experiments, or to make some advanced and powerful magic equipment.
Saying the answer, Xia Adam almost wanted to be killed there! !
Merlin... take the juice, she, she, she she she she...
She drank it herself! ! !
Because, in addition to being a valuable magic material, the juice of this nine-color iris flower also has another small additional function.
It can make the person who drinks it stay young and beautiful forever!
Of course, this does not mean that the person who drinks it can live forever... This kind of flower juice does not have the function of prolonging life, but it allows the person who drinks it to keep the appearance of the moment when they drink it!
For example, if a woman can live to be eighty years old, if she drinks this kind of thing when she is eighteen years old, then from the time she is eighteen years old until she dies at eighty years old, her appearance can be maintained at eighteen years old. time look! !
It is conceivable that if women in the world know the existence of this kind of thing, how crazy they will be! ! ! ! !
So, it's no wonder that our Lord Merlin gave up the precious magic experiment and drank this precious magic material as a beauty drink!
And yet, Xiaya was helpless to this guy—he definitely didn't have the guts to go find Merlin's fault.
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When Xi Ya ran to the weaving houses of the elves, she saw her little fiancée, standing there holding a piece of cloth that was as gorgeous as a flower, her eyes were shining and she looked stupid.
Xia Ya was about to go up and make a joke, but when he turned his head, he found another scene that made him speechless.
His subordinate, the most wise, calm, and intelligent chief of staff, Mr. Sophie, was also stunned at the moment. He opened his mouth wide and looked at the skirt like a little girl, and his eyes were full of envy and admiration. look like...
"It seems that women in the world, whether they are smart or not, are actually the same..."
Xia Ya muttered in a low voice.