Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 849 Do you want to visit?
In the end, Shino declined the special gift and asked the giant bear named Kles to take the queen bee's honeycomb back to eat, and told him to apologize next time and not to do such things again. If she wanted to eat honey, she could buy it at the nearby market. Kles was a little dejected after the gift was rejected. After hesitating for a few times, he turned and left, leaving everyone with a lonely back, looking like a big dog abandoned by its owner - provided that you ignore its more than ten-meter-tall body.

"It looks very sad. Why don't you just accept the gift?" As a kind-hearted, righteous person who loves small animals, Alice couldn't stand this kind of scene, so she tried to persuade the little bird. But soon, her next sentence revealed her true thoughts: "If you don't like it, you can give it to me. I love honey the most!"

Shameless guy, you said the same thing the last time you ate almond cake.

Everyone looked at her sideways, and a certain Princess Berman, whose almond cake had been snatched away, silently closed her eyes, unwilling to look anymore.

Shino was also shocked by this shameless statement. He reacted a little late and shook his head gently, saying, "Forget it. If I accept this gift, not only Klaus, but also other aliens in the forest will think that I like to eat honey. I can't let the queen bees suffer because of me."

Everyone recalled the attitude of the aliens they had seen along the way towards Xino, and they all felt that this was very likely to happen.

Xino glanced at Alice's disappointed expression and chuckled again: "However, if Miss Alice likes honey, I heard that the most authentic Northensvig Crown Honey is being sold in Mason Department Store. If I have free time to go to the city later, I will buy some for you as a gift to you all. How about it?"

Northenweg, the "City of Beekeepers", is a very small city in the province of Saint-Denis, probably similar in size to Avion, the City of Winds in the Saizeriya Plain. But just as Avion is famous for its primroses, Northenweg's honey also enjoys a high reputation internationally. Among them, the best quality crown honey can even be described as a luxury. It is said that in the Kingdom Era, this kind of honey was listed as a tribute by King Gersonlik II and was exclusively enjoyed by the royal family and a few great nobles.

In Ilinger's opinion, it was a bit of a waste to give such good honey to Alice.

The golden-haired maid disagreed. She felt that she was worthy of such good honey, so she nodded repeatedly, looking excited and expectant. If she had a tail, she would definitely start wagging it: "Okay, okay, don't forget it!"

"Don't worry, Miss Alice." Xinuo seemed to be amused by Alice's reaction, with curved eyebrows. Of course, she loved to laugh to begin with, and now she just laughed even more happily: "If you have ten points of energy, then you must show twelve points of enthusiasm when entertaining guests. This is one of the ancestral precepts passed down from generation to generation in our Gustaf family."

"Then when are you free to go into town?" Alice pressed on.

"Well." Xino thought for a moment and replied, "Generally speaking, I go to the city once every two weeks to meet with friends. In addition, if there is something I need that cannot be bought in the town, I have to go to the city to purchase it, such as materials for repairing roads."

As she spoke, she half-knelt down and tapped the stone slabs on the street with her fingers, making a crisp sound. She said helplessly, "I have told Shangguier a long time ago to restrain his people and not to run at full speed on the street, but they still often forget. Such good stone slabs were damaged after just a few months. Then I will have to go to the city to find a stonemason to order a new batch."

Metien also squatted down like her, looked at the stone slab with curiosity, and asked, "Who is Shangquel?"

"He is the chieftain of the mountain centaurs." Xino replied, "They are more accustomed to living on the unobstructed mountains and plateaus. It is inconvenient for them to live in the forest, which affects their daily life and hunting and gathering. Therefore, these roads are very important to them." Metien tilted his head, and Shemi also tilted his head, and then Leticia beside him also tilted his head. The three little girls stared at Xino like three owls: "If it is so important, shouldn't we cherish it? But they have trampled the road into this state."

Lingge took a look and found that the bumpy indentations on the stone slab really looked like marks left by horse hooves.

Most people might not be able to stand the gazes from the little girls, but Xino seemed to be at ease, explaining with a smile: "There is nothing we can do about it. The mountain centaurs are naturally heavy, and they have an instinct to run and sprint. Even if they move slowly at the beginning, they will eventually turn into a thunderous gallop. It is said that in ancient times, the cavalry formed by the mountain centaurs was known as an army that would never return and would either win or die, because of their nature. This cannot be changed, and I can only remind Shangguier and his people to pay more attention."

Metien let out a long "Oh" and learned another little piece of knowledge about aliens. Then she couldn't help but wonder in her heart, is this a kind of ADHD unique to the mountain centaurs?

This is a really profound academic question.

but.

"Since they damaged the road, they should be the ones to repair it themselves, right?" Alice couldn't help but ask. She wasn't being stingy about the money, she was just standing up for Xino from a pure passerby's perspective: "Why do we need you to buy slabs to repair the road?"

"Miss Alice misunderstood." Xino smiled and said, "They do repair the roads, which is also the responsibility of the mountain centaurs. It's just that they lack the materials and tools needed to repair the roads, so they need to obtain them through me. After that, they will exchange with me the food they grow or collect, the fur of wild animals and iron tools. Not only the mountain centaurs, but also other alien species in the forest, such as the gray-feathered harpy people will use fruits, wood and rare feathers to exchange with me for the ropes, medicines and weapons they need; the Biborg will use mushrooms, herbs and insects to exchange with me for seeds, fertilizers and farming tools. Not to mention other scattered small settlements, so it is not entirely a one-sided contribution of the Godafu family."

That being said, the value of the two is not the same, and Xino is still suffering a loss.

Everyone understood this principle, but the girl herself didn't seem to care. As outsiders, they naturally didn't want to say more.

"All right."

The girl suddenly stood up, her snow-white ponytail swaying in the wind. She turned around and smiled at Ling Ge, still holding her big broom in her hand, sweeping up a lot of fallen leaves along the way: "The road is almost cleaned. Next, I wonder if you guys mind if I go to the Yunjingkong Island you mentioned and stay for a while?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)