This time, Lorist and Reddy didn't walk, but rode on two mottled Northland horses and were mixed in the middle of the team. Perhaps it was the house they built in the stockade some time ago that shocked the mountain barbarians, so they treated them kindly. The jerky they gave Lorist and Reddy to satisfy their hunger during the rest was the same as the others. .
It is true that Wang Shan runs to death. The volcano in the shape of Mount Fuji looked very close, but the team still ran for a long time before reaching the foot of the volcano. After passing through a large black pine forest and turning around two small hills, Lorist saw the team's destination. There was a very big city on the mountainside, and there was even a chaotic circle around the city. A city wall made of stone.
Seeing the Snow White Mountain Lord's team coming from a distance, three long horns and two short horns sounded on the city wall. He told Ashu who was beside Lorist that this was a sign of welcome, and this is the settlement of the Habibaba tribe. As soon as Jambassen of the Habibaba tribe came back with his army, he couldn't wait to send someone to inform Lord Baixueshan to meet him.
After reaching the city gate, Lorist discovered that the city gate only had a row of log railings as the city gate. After entering the city, Lorist found that the layout of the city wall was very similar to the layout of human cities in Galintia, like a street. The houses on both sides still have stone walls, but what makes people strange is that the roof is in the shape of a shack, which looks nondescript.
Ah Shu has a big mouth, and he quickly let Lorist understand the origin of the city. It is said that several decades ago, Habibaba had a young warrior who wanted to see the outside world. He wanted to know how the people on the plains lived. So he left the tribe and embarked on a journey to explore the world.
It’s just that the outside world is very cruel. This young warrior was arrested after arriving in the world of the flatlanders and became a slave. He has been building houses and cities for the flatlanders for more than 40 years. After becoming weak and sick, they were abandoned in the wild. But he survived, begging all the way and finally returned to the Habi Baba tribe where he was born.
The former mountain barbarian warrior regretted his absurd thoughts when he was young, and also regretted that he had not contributed to the tribe that gave birth to him and raised him. So he decided to build a great city for the Habibaba tribe with the architectural experience he had learned over forty years as a slave. But it is a pity that when he finished building the palace and the half-built city, he finally returned to the surrounding of the mountain god due to aging. Without the guidance of this outstanding mountain barbarian architect, the mountain barbarians who built the stone wall played on their own and built roofs of various styles, which became what Lorist saw now.
Ah Shu proudly said that this city was named after the outstanding mountain barbarian architect, and it was called Barry Buck City.
Lorist had no love for what the name of this fortress was. What he was curious about was what the palace that Ah Shu mentioned looked like. Unexpectedly, this mountain barbarian tribe could build a royal palace.
After more than half an hour, the royal palace appeared before Lorist's eyes.
"Puchi..." Lorist couldn't hold back his laughter. Is this the royal palace? This is clearly a public canteen and labor dormitory built on the construction site. The only difference is that the wooden house in the middle is twice the size of those public canteens.
It was a pointed wooden house built of logs. The huge logs cut from the Black Forest were driven deep into the ground to form a large square, and the logs were used to make a herringbone-shaped roof. The two sides of this big house It is a long row of wooden sheds and log houses, like a canteen on a construction site, with wooden sheds for laborers sleeping on both sides. The only difference is that the houses here are all made of logs, and the construction site is reluctant to use such good logs for laborers.
Ah Shu frowned beside him and said, "Why are you laughing, the palace is here, be serious..."
Lorist directly gave himself a mouthful, and only then stopped the smile on his face. It's so fun, this is the palace of the Shanman tribe, this time it's a good experience.
The Lord Bai Xueshan in front got off his horse, turned around and ordered a few followers, and finally pointed to Lorist and Reddy, and said a few words to Ah Shu, to the effect that he and another follower would follow behind her. Leading Lorist and the two of them to go in together.
Sure enough, it was the layout of the cafeteria. Before entering the door, I heard a burst of excitement and noise coming from inside. When I went in, I saw that it was indeed a large cafeteria. The house was very large. Except for a two-meter-wide aisle, there were four rows of long wooden tables on each side. There were more than 20 people sitting on each side of each table. After eating barbecue fruits and kudzu root, there are estimated to be more than 200 people in the whole room eating and drinking wildly, and some of them are crazy about drinking, either pestering the mountain barbarian woman who brought wine and food, or standing on the long log table Sing loudly and dance barefoot. Lorist even saw a few rough mountain men holding down a few mountain women wriggling in the corner...
The aisle is very long, and at the end is a high platform with three steps. On the high platform is a large table, which is also full of food. Sitting behind the table was a man as majestic as a lion, with a lion's nose and a wide mouth. At this time, he was watching the farce below with a lazy expression, smiling from time to time and pouring wine into his mouth with a silver cup.
Seeing Lord Bai Xueshan passing by, this big man showed a rare kind and doting smile on his face, he burst out laughing hahaha, the laughter reverberated in this cafeteria, oh, it was the rumbling echo in the palace, and it actually made those who yelled loudly laugh. The shouting voice was also suppressed: "Oh, my baby, the most beautiful flower of Huoling Mountain, the pearl of Baixue Mountain is finally here, hahaha, come quickly, let your father see my lark How are you doing…”
Lord Bai Xueshan said coquettishly: "Father, why are you so loud again, it's frightening to death."
As he said that, he walked over and threw himself into the arms of the big man: "Why has Dad been away for so long this time, I haven't seen you for almost a year..."
The big man patted Lord Bai Xueshan on the shoulder lovingly: "My little princess, it's not that your father doesn't want to come back early, but that old mountain lion of Bi Lulu refused to admit defeat. If it wasn't for the snow, your father would definitely Dig out that old mountain lion's den. This is to spare that old guy's life first. If you are not honest, your dad will beat him again next summer. Haha... By the way, your dad will give him this time You have found a good husband, my lark has grown up and it's time to get married. Alec, come here."
The big man shouted at the long table on the left, and a tall and majestic mountain barbarian stood up, strode up to the big man and Snow White Lord, bowed to the Snow White Mountain Lord with his arms crossed, and said, "I have long admired Snow White Mountain!" The name of the Lord, Alec admires it very much, may Kupawisen protect you, the most beautiful moon in my heart... "
Snow White looked at Alec curiously, then lowered his head shyly under Alec's eyes full of admiration.
The big man laughed loudly: "My lark, Alec is very famous. He was already the leader of the Embry tribe at a young age, and he is also a Ule with ten rings of mountain spirits. If he hadn't led the three Hundreds of Wule broke through the siege of the old mountain lion, and your father might fall into the trap of the old mountain lion and never come back. So I brought him back to meet you. We should show him our mountains and forests, our cattle and sheep, understand?"
Snow White blushed, and the big man said that asking her to take Alec to see the mountains and forests and the cattle and sheep meant to show off how much her dowry was. If nothing unexpected happened, her marriage with Alec would be settled.
"Eh? Who are those two?" The big man saw Lorist and Reddy surrounded by four followers of Snow White.
"Abba, they are the slaves of the flatlanders that I captured. Look, this is his badge." Snow White handed over Lorist's Dawn Academy badge and gold teaching badge, while sneaking a peek at that Alec obviously felt that it was a shameful thing for him to catch the two of Lorist.
The big man laughed: "My darling, the flatlanders are very cunning, don't be fooled, bring them here and I'll ask."
Lord Bai Xueshan said: "Abba, this flat-earth man has some skills. He said that he is a professor of architecture and can build houses, but the houses he built are not as big as our palace, and they look strange, like peaked mountains. "
Lorist and Reddy were brought forward, and while playing with the two badges, the big man stared at Lorist like a beast about to prey on him: "Tell me about your origins... um..."
Lorist stepped forward, bowed first, and then repeated the lie he had made up that he was an instructor of the architecture major of Dawn Academy. I have become a fool and a dumb squire and so on...
The big man interrupted him: "What is the teaching of architecture?"
"Uh, respected Jambassen, the teaching of architecture is not something, no. What is it, it is not right, this is so awkward. It should be said that I am the one who teaches others how to build houses..." Lorist didn't know what to say. How to answer the big man's question, I finally gave an explanation.
The big man laughed contemptuously: "You teach others to build houses, are you worthy? Who would believe you teach others to build houses at such a young age? Also, how do you prove that you can teach others to build houses?"
The mountain barbarians are not good at this, they like seeing is believing.
Lorist looked at the big man's table, there was a large pot of steamed kudzu root, so he reached out and brought it over, poured the kudzu root on the table, turned the clay pot upside down and put it on the table, picked up the pot beside it Insert a dagger on the barbecue, then pick up a few fruits and cut them into cubes and place them on the bottom of the clay pot, then pick up the steamed kudzu root and peel off the skin, gently pinch it into a puree, and then paste it On those few fruit cubes, a small white castle was formed soon.
The big man, the snow-white mountain lord, and Alec, the barbarian young man, were all dumbfounded. They watched Lorist whittle and carve the dagger for a long time, and a small white castle appeared on the clay basin. on the chassis.
Lorist put down the dagger, took a few steps back, and bowed again: "Dear Jambassen, this is how I teach people to build houses..."
The big man touched his head, looked at the castle model made of kudzu root mud on the table, and then at Lorist, not knowing what to say for a while. Just now he said how could Lorist teach people to build a house at such a young age, but unexpectedly this kid quickly built a beautiful little castle, this fact seemed to slap him in the face. It was Master Bai Xueshan who relieved his father's embarrassment: "Yes, this castle is very beautiful, can we build a castle like this?"
Lorist nodded: "My respected mountain owner, if you want to build it, of course you can build it, but it will take a long time and a lot of manpower and material resources, and you need some materials that people on the flat land have..."
"How long will it take?" Snow White asked.
"Based on the conditions here, I estimate that it will take three to four years and more than 10,000 labor." Lorist deliberately exaggerated.
Lord Bai Xueshan frowned: "It will take so long, then forget it. Let me ask you, how much time and manpower will it take to build a palace like my father's?"
Lorist replied: "This is very fast, three months, 1,000 manpower. But honorable owner of the mountain, now is not the time to build a house, we have to wait until summer to start construction, snow and rain are not acceptable."
The big man patted his thigh next to him: "It took more than a year for Barry Buck to build this palace for my father when I was a child. Since your words are similar to his, you should be considered a little bit capable. That's it, next summer You also built such a palace for my lark, which happens to be used as her and Alec's new house, so it's decided."
Lord Bai Xueshan pulled the big man to act coquettishly, the big man laughed and waved his hands, Lorist and Reddy were taken down.
For the next five or six days, Lorist and Reddy were locked in a dilapidated small stone house, and Ah Shu came to visit them several times. According to Ah Shu, the Snow White Mountain Lord has been accompanying that mountain barbarian Alec to see some forests and cattle and sheep for the past few days. In a few days, Alec will set off to return to his tribe, and next year he will bring his tribe here to merge with the Snow White tribe to form a new tribe, and then Snow White will marry him.
When Lorist heard what Ah Shu said, he felt a slight sense of loss. It is obvious that the playmate who grew up together is going to get married, but the groom is not him. Envy, jealousy and hatred are inevitable, but compared with that Alec, he, the Wule of the Four Rings of the Mountain Spirit, is really inconspicuous. It is a realistic story of the poor and the rich and handsome.
Two days later, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and the cold winter finally came. Lorist and Reddy were brought out of the small stone house by Ah Shu, who told them that they were going back to the Snow White tribe today. Ah Shu and a few attendants led Lorist to a highland outside the city, where hundreds of people gathered. A Shu said that these people were all sent by the Baixue tribe to fight with Jambassen, and they will go back to the tribe today. Now Snow White Mountain Lord is saying goodbye to Alec, and they will return to the tribe immediately after sending Alec away.
Lorist soon saw the two figures cuddling and embracing each other. At this moment, Snow White and Alec were hugging each other tightly, as if they were parting from each other. After waiting for a long time, that Alec finally got on his horse and led his entourage away. The Snow White Mountain Lord still stood on the high ground and kept waving until he could no longer see Alek and others...
On the way back, Lord Bai Xueshan suddenly called Lorist to his horse, and kept asking him about the construction of the palace next year, until Lorist repeatedly promised to build her a house that was bigger and better than her father's. The canteen, oh no, it's the Queen's Palace, so Lord Bai Xueshan let Lorist go with satisfaction.
Lorist complained in his heart: It seems that this girl can't wait to marry herself off. I can't wait to start building a canteen as a new house in winter, how anxious it is...
When he returned to the village, Lorist found that the hunchbacked mountain barbarian had actually occupied the wooden house he and Reddy worked so hard to build. Ah Shu saw it and reported it to Lord Bai Xueshan, so the hunchbacked mountain barbarian old man was pulled out and whipped. Ashu told Lorist that in the tribe, it is an unforgivable crime to embezzle the fruits of other people's labor without the consent of the leader, but it is a pity that Lorist is a slave, otherwise the hunchbacked mountain barbarian old man could be reduced to a slave for Loris special envoy...
It finally subsided, Lorist closed the door of the log cabin, and the next three months of winter, he wanted to heal his wounds and heal Reddy's amnesia during this undisturbed time, Then go back to the family territory...
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