Neighbors in forbidden land

After that, we go on with our lives as if nothing happened.

However, I don't know if it was because of the influence of that night, when Yimi bumped into me by accident, she always ran away in a panic.

Sometimes it would suddenly hug me actively without saying anything, and then let me go after a while.

Maybe something has changed because so have I.

Although I couldn't see my own face, I always felt that my reaction might be similar to Yimi's.But I have tried to have physical contact with Xiao Gu and Lan Xue, but I will not have the strange feeling when I am in contact with Yimi.

Although the result of this experiment is that Lan Xue will suddenly avoid my movements, and then stare at my face with disgust.

As for Xiao Gu... Now she has learned to kiss us whenever she has something to do, even though Yimi told me that if it is Xiao Gu, then kiss until the face, lips——

"Xiao Hei, you have to remember... your lips are... my, my property, don't just kiss others casually?"

I followed Yimi's advice, and every time I was kissed by Xiaogu, the mucus from her body was all over my face, and Yimi's situation was similar.

It's just that Lan Xue, who doesn't know much about all this, is worse, there seems to be no place on her face including her lips that has not been kissed by Xiao Gu.

Every time, Lan Xue would blushed and get angry at Xiao Gu like Yimi did in the past, and over time, she formed a situation of using force to block Xiao Gu.

Maybe I got tired of playing after that... Little Gu also rarely kissed us, so our life has become calmer, and we have returned to the life of growing potatoes.

It seems that this kind of life is the most suitable for us. Obviously this kind of life has not been started for a long time, but I have a feeling as if I have always lived like this.

On the day when the potatoes were harvested, I seemed to see Yimi moved to tears...the tears couldn't stop streaming down.

According to Yimi, human beings will shed tears whether they are too happy or too sad, and she is just too happy.

"Finally...how many days have passed..." Yimi asked with a smile while wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with her fingers.

There was a lush green vegetable field in front of me, and the little fairy's light hit the green leaves, making these potato plants look full of shiny colors.

"So these things grow like this? They don't look bad." Although Lan Xue still put on a playful expression, her tone still revealed a sense of relief similar to that of Yimi.

"Yeah! Yeh! It's finally done!" Xiao Gu was so excited that he jumped up and down, and almost bumped his head against the stone wall of the cave.

"So... is it time to harvest now?" I tried to ask.

"Of course, why don't you take it out after planting it?" Yimi wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and told us happily, "But be careful when harvesting, I know that your actions are very big."

Next, we carefully dug up the land around the plants, and pulled out the potatoes that were connected by roots in strings from the black soil.

Although my main job is loosening the soil, after all I can't touch the potatoes with my hands.

It's just that these potatoes don't seem to be as big as the potatoes we planted... But fortunately, there are a lot of them. Basically, after the soil is dug out, the potatoes below are all clustered in clusters.

It's just that I always thought potatoes were hanging on the leaves of the plant like those wild fruits...

"Finally..." Yimi gently picked up a potato and played with it in her hands. The smile on her face was like a flower blooming in the breeze, and her laughter was like a swaying fragrance. Never had the chance to feel what it's like to see a flower bloom, but now I have the chance.

"Xiao Hei, try it." Yimi said as she pressed the potato in her hand to my cheek and gently stroked it, "This is the potato we planted together."

I can feel the rough brown skin of the potato gently rubbing against my side face. It turned out that he was just an insignificant life.But now, he was endowed with new meaning by Yimi.

Thinking of the torrential rain, the potato fields that were once like a vast ocean, and the past that failed to grow, are like glimpses in the floating light.

The same is true for me. Originally, I was just a monster, spending every day in this barren land with almost nothing, but the arrival of Yimi gave me not only a name, but also a color. My life is different from the past, allowing me to see the colors that have been lost for a long time in this land.

"That's right...these are the potatoes we grew together."

After the success of this batch of potatoes, Yimi decided to expand the planting volume, but this mountain has already been dug out of many caves. To be safe, we found a new mountain nearby and dug a bigger cave. , to plant a new batch of potatoes.

Although according to Yimi, there are still too few potatoes... but there is only one goblin, and no matter how big the cave is, it is meaningless if the light cannot shine.

On the other side, the saplings by the lake are climbing up at a speed we didn't expect. Although they still don't look too high, they are still a little higher than last time, although they are still as bare as before. His appearance still gave me a feeling of "whether he can survive", but he has proved time and time again that he can indeed survive on this land.

At the same time, Wu Shao also brought us some new news.

First of all, it’s time to replace the materials again. This time, there are not a few people who choose to leave by material transport ship. After all, after we made trouble that time, the goal of "bringing back to Yimi" seems impossible to achieve, so Many people also lost the meaning of staying here.

Of course, to a large extent, he was scared by Yimi, but to be precise, it should be regarded as being scared by Xiao Gu and Lan Xue.

However, that "camp" seems to be here to stay, because Li Le sent my diary interpretation back and got the support of the palace...so why on earth would there be such an effect?Why are humans interested in my diary?But because of this, Yimi asked the people on the material transport ship to bring some new plant varieties here by dancing the spoon.

"As I said, I want to make this place even better than the other side." Yimi who said this was full of confidence, but speaking of it, what else can we grow?

Yimi should consider these words, right?After all, it was because of her from the beginning that this place became what it is now step by step.

however……

"What do you mean you can't bring it?" Yimi asked Wu Shao with a wry smile on his face, "I don't think my request is too much, right?"

"No...it's actually a bit too much..." He grinned lightly and said this sentence in a low voice.

"why?"

"Why...Your Highness Yimi, have you forgotten the most basic things about buying and selling..." Then Wu Shao sighed softly as if remembering something, "No...I should have reacted a long time ago, Yimi Your Highness, you should never have to think about the trivial matters of bargaining for a small amount of money in the market..."

"You mean... the difficulty is not 'sending'?" Yimi seemed to understand the meaning of Wushao very quickly, showing an expression of enlightenment.

"That's right...the point is to 'buy', we can help His Royal Highness Yimi bring things over there, but the question is... how do we get those things?"

Yimi suddenly fell silent, while me, Xiao Gu and Lan Xue fell silent because they still couldn't understand the current situation.

"Those things require money... Who will pay the money..." Wu Shao continued with a wry smile and continued, "Do you want us to send the bill to the palace? Or is it that Your Highness Yimi has money? "

Later, we finally basically understood the reason. Simply put, human beings need something called money to exchange for what they need.

The problem now is that we have no money, so we can't get what Yimi wants from humans.

Although Yimi has the title of "Eldest Princess", she is now in an awkward position because she is here, and another more important factor is that Yimi does not want to rely on the palace to help her pay for her needs. cost of.

"I don't need to rely on that... Besides, how should I open my mouth? Ask the teacher to lend me some money? Or ask my sister to lend me some money?" Yimi seemed a little unhappy, and encouraged her slightly She raised her cheeks, "I don't even know what to call her now, okay? Call her Lily of the Valley? Or call her dear sister? Or Her Majesty the Queen?"

Yimi looked very troubled, but the four of us looked at each other in blank dismay. I don't know what happened to Wu Shao. At least the three of us didn't know what Yimi was worried about.

"That's right." Yimi clapped her hands as if remembering something, and pointed at the potatoes piled aside, "Can you sell these for money?"

Wu Shao glanced slightly at the harvested potatoes, and responded with a wry smile: "Your Highness Yimi, I have a truth to tell whether I should tell it or not..."

"Say……"

"Although you, Your Highness Yimi, have worked very hard, but...the quality of these potatoes is not very good...so even if they are sold...the money you can get is not very much..." Wu Shao spread his hands and squeezed There was a helpless smile, "You must know that the high-quality potatoes cultivated with alchemy potions, mass-produced fertilizers, and greenhouses have already entered thousands of households at a price acceptable to ordinary people..."

"Hmm..." Yimi was so choked that she couldn't speak, but her whole body was trembling.

"Yimi, are you... all right?" Looking at Yimi's current state, I was a little worried.

"I'm fine...alchemy potion...by the way, alchemy potion..." Yimi suddenly turned her head to Wu Shao, "Alchemy potion can also be sold, right?"

"Yes, yes..." Wu Shao seemed startled by Yimi's sudden action, "Your Highness Yimi, you know alchemy..."

"I learned from the teacher..." Yimi's voice suddenly became very soft, as if she was muttering something constantly.

After we watched Yimi turn back and forth a few times, she clapped her palms, as if she had made up her mind:

"It's time to apply what you've learned."

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Yimi's conclusion is to use the alchemy she said to refine something and sell it. For this, we need some preparations.

The first is the container. We found a relatively huge pot from the cabin, carried it to the beach, added water from the river ditch into it, and lit it with firewood, as if to heat the water.

The conditions are tough, but Yimi said that he can't care less.

So we went to look for materials, but...

"What is the material?"

"The material is... In short, just find any weird things and come back!"

"I always feel that this is not the same as the alchemy I imagined..." Amid Wu Shao's restless voice, the three of us looked at each other and flew in different directions.

When we get back.

"Little Gu, what are you holding?"

"kelp!"

"Let's keep it for now, but this one isn't fancy enough at all... Xiao Hei, what did you bring?"

"Chopped Behemoth Claw."

"This seems to be okay, let's put it in and try it?"

"Is this okay..." Wu Shao's ashen face was full of uneasiness.

"Lan Xue, what did you bring back?"

"The scale that was picked from my brother." Lan Xue held a golden scale that was smaller than the pot in her hand.

"Can this work, put it in and try it?"

"Hey, hey, His Highness Yimi, isn't it a matter of putting it in and trying it out? Miss Lan Xue, is it really nice of you to treat your brother like this?"

"No... He heard that I was looking for strange things, so he gave me the scales he replaced."

"Great brother..." I always felt that Wu Shao was about to cry.

"Little Gu, what did you find again?"

"Shiny stuff!"

"Isn't this a pearl..."

"Okay, I decided to put this in!"

"Hello, Your Highness Yimi!"

Wu Shao seemed to want to say something, but Yimi had already thrown the pearl with milky white luster into the pot. "The next step is to stir with high heat!" Yimi said while using a pole fished out from the boat to start stirring the pot continuously, and at the same time called to Xiao Gu who was standing aside, "Little Gu, add fire!"

As a result, the flames from Xiaogu's mouth almost burned the bottom of the pot red, and the water in the whole cauldron began to stir. Bubbles bubbled up from the originally calm surface, and white smoke evaporated from the mouth of the pot and drifted toward the sky. .

"Does it seem to be working?"

"No... I think it's just boiling water..."

"Isn't the basics of alchemy just throwing ingredients into a pot and then boiling them?" Yimi looked puzzled.

"I don't know anything about alchemy... It's just that I don't think the things that you threw in, Your Highness Yimi, would not be boiled so easily... There is another sentence that I don't know if I should say it... "

"speak?"

"I think..." Wu Shao took a deep breath, "The things you threw in, Your Highness Yimi... are far more valuable than the things you might refine..."

"Probably not? Yimi chuckled lightly. If Bechymos said that Xiao Hei could kill one if he wanted to, right Xiao Hei?"

"Hmm." This is still certain.

"The scales brought by Lan Xue...are they very valuable?" Yimi asked Lan Xue again.

"My idiot brother still has a lot on him... Even if such a piece is not brought here, it will be replaced naturally. In my words, it is not time to change it. Besides..." Lan Xue stuck out her tongue lightly, " I'm not going to give mine to you."

"As for the pearls..." Yimi freed up a hand and touched Xiao Gu's head with a smile, "Although I'm a little sorry for Xiao Gu, but there are many such things in my room, are they worth it?"

"..."

Wu Shao just covered his face with his hands, and sighed:

"Throw me into the sea and calm down..."