Chapter 95
Xie Juanhan suddenly turned his head. "Caught you looking at me again. What are you looking at?"
Telingewei: "You always laugh every time the Demon Bird over the paddy field."
Xie Juanhan smiled and said, "Because this scene always reminds me of my hometown."
Xie Juanhan talked to Telingewei about topics such as "poetry, planting, and labor".
He told Telingewei, "My hometown has changed quite a bit; it probably doesn't have magical elements anymore, so I took a different path."
Telingewei stood up straight, thought for a moment, and still couldn't quite picture it. "Everyone was involved?"
Xie Juanhan nodded. "Yes, an industrialization that swept everyone. Hundreds of years ago, I tried farming, but then it all disappeared. Farmland turned into cities, and I went to try other professions."
Telingewei: "You always seem to enjoy farming."
"Because our population is so small, we are actually learning from humans in terms of cultural aesthetics."
Xie Juanhan said with a distant look in his eyes, "In our country, farming has always been regarded as a kind of sentiment, a kind of culture."
Telingewei thought for a moment, then said, "Nothing has changed here. When I hatched, the world was roughly like this, and it's still roughly like this now."
The two dragons chatted as the Demon Bird flew far overhead again.
Xie Juanhan caught a glimpse of a yellowish-brown shadow on the Demon Bird out of the corner of his eye.
They were too far apart, and the Demon Bird flew too fast.
It flashed by so quickly that he didn't get a clear look at what was on the Demon Bird's back.
"Are those Sally Bird flying in the sky?" Xie Juanhan looked at the large, Demon Bird in the blue sky. "They're not entirely white."
Telingewei looked up and said, "Maybe it's carrying something? Sally Bird are sometimes used as messenger birds."
Xie Juanhan pondered, "A carrier bird? I always feel like they're carrying some kind of creature on their backs."
Telingewei: "Should we go after them and see?"
"Never mind," Xie Juanhan thought for a moment and ultimately refused.
"Recently, many creatures have migrated to the Magic Forest and the surrounding area," Telingewei said. "They may be messenger birds from the new neighbors, or they may have been carrying the migrants themselves."
Xie Juanhan: "I guess it's the latter."
Telingewei: "I'll ask in a couple of days."
However, less than two days later, their new neighbors visited them in a peculiar way.
==========Author's Note:=========
I'm late! There's a giveaway of 88 small red envelopes in the comments section of this chapter! Also, there's another chapter coming at around 11:50 PM!
Thanks to Nanzhi for the grenade; thanks to the Ancient Spirit little girl (*2), Fuli, Mango King, Wulalana, and Tesoro for the landmines!
Chapter 95 [VIP]
Early in the morning, Xie Juanhan finished washing up, but was still feeling sleepy.
He clung to Telingewei, his chin resting on Telingewei's shoulder, squinting as he took a nap.
Telingewei held his arms with one hand and used the other to protect his waist from behind.
They moved outwards little by little, their legs moving in sync, in a close, pressed-to-toe position.
"Chirp?"
Just as Xie Juanhan moved to the doorway, he heard Harper's voice.
He opened his eyes.
A group of furry creatures turned their heads in unison, peering through the yard fence and looking directly at them.
Xie Juanhan remained motionless, still clinging to Telingewei, and asked, "What are you doing outside?"
Harper: "Chirp."
Xie Juanhan: "Someone sent a gift?"
This is rather strange; it's neither a festival nor a holiday, so which ethnic group would send gifts?
Instead of having a carrier bird deliver it, they just leave it at the door?
Xie Juanhan regained some of his senses. "Don't move, let's take a look."
The furry creatures. "Aww."
Xie Juanhan and Telingewei walked over, and the furry creatures that were forming a circle moved aside to make room for them.
Xie Juanhan immediately noticed three neatly wrapped packages on the stone gate outside the courtyard.
These three packages were very neat, shaped like cuboids.
The leaves used for packaging were also stacked very neatly, and the veins of the leaves in each package were almost identical.
At first glance, it looks like a work of art.
Xie Juanhan: "It seems like we don't have any neighbors around us with this kind of gift-giving style?"
Among them, the most exquisitely wrapped gifts belonged to the Weaving Fairies.
The Weaving Fairies decorate gifts with fabrics of various colors and patterns, and often add flowers on them.
The vibrant, unrestrained, and dazzling packaging style perfectly matches the Weaving Fairies themselves.
The races they usually associate with, such as Water Demon, Dwarf, and Demon Wolf, each have their own unique style of packaging.
Their packaging style reveals a lot about their personality.
Like these packages, the style was simple, square, restrained, and even a bit cold—a style Xie Juanhan had never seen before.
They seem to be mostly new neighbors.
Xie Juanhan turned to look at Telingewei.
Telingewei shook his head slightly, clearly not guessing which race his new neighbor belonged to.
Then we'll have to take it apart to check.
Xie Juanhan examined the gift box and casually asked the furry creatures, "Did you notice anything unusual when you were looking at it?"
The other furry creatures shook their heads, but Moli only whimpered, "Awoo?"
Xie Juanhan looked down and asked, "The gift box has a strange smell?"
Moli placed its paw on the remaining two gift boxes and then put it down, indicating that these were the two gift boxes. "Aww."
Xie Juanhan: "What strange smell? Fishy, foul?"
Moli tilted her head, thinking for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, "Huh?"
Xie Juanhan had already opened the gift box in his hand.
Inside was a large box of seeds of various shapes.
Each seed has been treated, and looks smooth and shiny, indicating strong vitality.
Xie Juanhan was stunned for a moment. "It's actually a seed?"
That suits their tastes perfectly; the race that gave the gift must have specifically inquired about it.
Telingewei looked at the seeds clearly. "Exactly three of each kind."
Xie Juanhan's slender fingers ruffled the seeds inside the box. "It really is. Three seeds for one plant, no more, no less, basically enough to keep it alive."
Such thoughtful gift-giving.
Xie Juanhan was almost certain that the neighbor who left the gift meant no harm.
Xie Juanhan put down the box he was holding and squatted down to look at the two boxes under Moli's claws. "There's a strange smell? Let me take a look."
Telingewei pulled the box from his hand. "I'll open it."
As he spoke, Telingewei opened the box.
As soon as the contents of the box were revealed, Xie Juanhan almost immediately guessed what it was. "Fertilizer?"
The remaining two boxes contained dark, loose, muddy-looking substances.
Judging from the seeds next to it, it is most likely fertilizer.
Xie Juanhan also smelled the distinctive odor of fertilizer, a unique smell that was probably a mixture of earthy, plant-like, mushroom-like, and fermented aromas.
Xie Juanhan has extensive planting experience.
During his long career in planting, he discovered that fertilizers with similar ingredients tend to have similar tastes.
The two boxes of objects smelled similar to the fertilizer he had used.
"It's seeds and fertilizer!" Xie Juanhan said. "That's so thoughtful."
"I know which race it is," Telingewei said, staring intently at the box.
Xie Juanhan looked up at him. "Which ethnicity?"
Telingewei: "Goblin."
"They're actually Goblin?" Xie Juanhan was taken aback for a moment, then quickly realized, "Didn't the Weaving Fairies say that the Goblin packed their bags and ran away overnight?"
Not only Xie Juanhan looked over, but the furry creatures also stared intently at Telingewei, waiting for his answer.
Especially Moli.
It stood its ears up high and its body stood up as well.
"Not the old Goblin race, but a new Goblin race."
"The previous Goblin migrated away, so a new Goblin tribe must have heard the news and migrated here."
"The yellow objects we saw on the Demon Bird earlier must have been the Goblin."
Xie Juanhan immediately recalled the Sally Bird he had seen in the farmland a few days ago.
"They're Goblin? How are they so well-informed?" Xie Juanhan found it unbelievable.
As soon as the Goblin race fled, a new Goblin race immediately migrated over on Demon Bird?
"And why is the Magic Forest so attractive to them?"
"Chirp!" Harper interrupted.
Xie Juanhan looked at Harper: "Do the creatures outside like the Magic Forest?"
The Companion Beast puffed out their furry chests and proudly chirped, "Chirp!"
Telingewei: "The Magic Forest is relatively peaceful, with no Demonic Beast hunters or adventurers, which certainly makes it attractive to magical creatures."
Xie Juanhan had been in this world for quite some time, and he had indeed seen or read in books that adventurers would capture intelligent races.
With the exception of a few races such as Dwarf and giants, which have relatively powerful racial forces, all other races are on the adventurers' hunting list.
This applies to Greater Elf, Pixie, and goblins.
The Greater Elf, or Elf, are incredibly powerful, but there are still adventurers who kidnap and sell Elf, because selling an Elf can bring huge profits.
Xie Juanhan sighed silently as he thought of this.
The Magic Forest has always been the territory of dragons, Telingewei has been very protective of Magic Forest.
He himself rarely hunts in the Magic Forest, preferring instead the more distant ocean.
Here, Demonic Beast hunt and devour each other, but there are no hunters or adventurers who overhunt, and Telingewei never lays a hand on intelligent races.
It's not surprising that the Goblin chose to relocate here.
Telingewei looked at the gift box and added, "Goblin are skilled at brewing fertilizer with Magic Power, and this fertilizer looks very much like their product. I think it is."