Chapter 3371 The Trial Of The Fool (One Hundred and Seventy-Four)
Chapter 3371 The Trial of the Great Fool (One Hundred and Seventy-Four)
The dinner was very delicious.
Although it was just lobster meat that was collected while cleaning up the mess on the battlefield, because the meat was fresh and the lobster meat had been carefully prepared by Bailey and others, both seasoning and cooking were just right, and the taste was quite delicious. Queeg seemed to be still
A large number of sea fish were caught from that "water circulation system", even eels. The aroma of grilled eels echoed in Elaine's mouth for a long time, until he got a little tired of the taste and washed it away with black tea.
In short, after a hearty and delicious dinner, Elaine sat in front of the campfire to rest. The sun was very close to the sea level and was almost setting. The whole world was dyed crimson by the sunset, even across Atlantis.
The glass exterior wall can also be clearly seen.
This may be the first time in his life (at least the first time in this life) that Zuoli has seen the sunset. From the sky to the sun to the setting sun, he is making a fuss and sighing. Others did not laugh at Zuoli because he has never seen the world.
He was just smiling silently.
"Hey hey hey~" After finishing his dinner, Bailey took out a few chocolate bricks and ate several more, and then started playing the mouth organ.
[Where did you get the mouth organ?] Elaine wrote on his mobile phone. He was becoming increasingly impatient with the practice of having to write to express his opinions. He just wanted to recover from the throat injury as soon as possible so that he could
He spoke again. In fact, the burning sensation in his throat gradually disappeared, and the anti-inflammatory drugs applied and taken orally were taking effect. After a while, he should be able to speak.
"Hey, is this one?" Bailey blew a few times and then stopped, "Brother Daniel gave it to me. It was stuffed to me along with the chocolate. It seems to be a small gift that comes with buying chocolate."
Which chocolate seller would give a mouth organ as a gift? Elaine thought so. That guy Daniel can't even lie. Moreover, the workmanship of the mouth organ is very sophisticated. You can tell that it is a delicate and expensive instrument at a glance. Its value is estimated
Already more than chocolate.
Why did Daniel secretly give the mouth organ to Bailey? Elaine remembered the last time he cried when he heard the music of the mouth organ in the hospital. Could it be related to the last time?
Only Daniel and Elaine should know about that. If Bailey knew that Elaine cried while listening to a mouth organ song, wouldn't he be ashamed to death...
Bailey paused for a moment, and then continued to play. However, it seemed that he had never learned how to play the harmonica. He also played the music according to the notes that came with the harmonica, and the sound was intermittently very unfamiliar. Although he was not into tune, Bailey still played.
It was a great pleasure. It happened to be the time for everyone to rest around the campfire after dinner. Everyone was doing what they were doing while listening to Bailey playing music.
"What kind of music is it? It sounds strange." Zuoli thought that the music was originally like that: "And the instrument is also very strange. Can you make a sound by blowing it with your mouth?"
"Want to try?" Bailey originally planned to hand the mouth organ to Xury, but suddenly thought of something, he laughed mischievously: "Oh, I'm sorry. Your beak is too hard and you can't play the mouth organ."
"I don't particularly care anyway." Hayato stuck out his tongue.
"And the original tune is not like this. It's also my first time to play the mouth organ, so it's normal for me to be unfamiliar." Bailey defended.
"So, if you are skilled, you can play a nice tune?"
"It should be possible." The little fox looked at the note and said, "Looking at the melody, this should be a nice piece of music. Unfortunately, it's a bit difficult to reproduce it according to the score. Maybe you can give me a week."
"Is this also text?"
"No, it's music score. It's used to describe changes in tone. It's different from ordinary words." Bailey pointed to the small holes on the mouth organ: "Each symbol corresponds to a hole on it. Find the right position and blow air into it."
, can produce the corresponding tone."
"Oh, it's so awesome -" Zuo Li was studying the mouth organ carefully.
[Don’t stalkers have musical instruments?] Elaine asked curiously, typing of course, and then asked Bailey to translate it to Xuri. He remembered that the stalkers danced very fiercely during the festival, as if
They even hummed and made some singing-like sounds, but I had never seen anyone play an instrument at the festival.
"Instruments made from the backbones of large fish are also made with holes in them, and then they are blown to make sounds." Zuoli said, "However, the instruments are easily damaged, and they are usually collected by the elders with great care.
It is only taken out and played at very large festivals. And it must be played by trained players to prevent people who do not know how to use it from damaging the precious instrument."
Elaine nodded and probably understood. Although the stalkers have a way to catch sea fish (*in the large pond in the water circulation system), large sea fish are hard to find, and musical instruments made of bones are particularly easy to damage.
, the musical instruments they can use must be quite rare.
"Are there any percussion instruments?" Bailey asked again: "The kind that use sticks to make sounds."
"Is that considered a musical instrument? It seems to be just to assist in beating the rhythm during dancing, right? That kind of thing does exist." Xuli replied again: "Yate people have a strong sense of rhythm when dancing, and they often don't need that kind of percussion stick.
It can also perform the corresponding dance steps accurately. The rhythmic stick is actually an auxiliary tool for children to learn to dance."
"Obviously as long as it makes a nice sound..." Bailey complained in a low voice.
"Is that so? That banging stick sounds like just noise, does it count as music? It's a strange culture."
Elaine thought to herself, the culture of the stalkers is really weird.
"By the way, big brother, do you want to try playing the mouth organ?" Bailey seemed a little tired of playing, and handed the harmonium to Elaine: "Big brother, can you play the harmonica? Give us a show~"
Elaine shook her head: [I can’t blow it at all.]
"Hehe, there is a small piece of paper here, do you want to follow it?" Bailey pushed the small piece of paper with the music score printed on it to Elaine.
Elaine was even more puzzled: [Why do you want me to play this?]
"Because the eldest brother looks like the kind of beautiful boy who can play musical instruments. The kind of, um, beautiful boy who lies on the grass and plays the harmonica under the sunset."
Suddenly there was a picture.
[The word beautiful is redundant.] Elaine complained.
But he still took the mouth organ from Bailey.
"Big brother is so powerful with that lion's roar, so his lung capacity must be very strong, right? If not, this can be a good exercise for lung capacity." Bailey encouraged again.
How much does this child want to see Elaine play the mouth organ...
The white lion man picked up the mouth organ and blew it, making a low note.
Well, then - he looked at the music score, tried to move the blowing position, and blew on another air hole to produce another note.
It feels like the tone is almost the same as before...it's obviously missing several air holes. Is the sound produced by this harmonica the same? Or does it have to be played hard to produce different timbres?
"I blew it wrong, I blew it wrong! Hahahaha, is the eldest brother a tone-deaf person?" Bailey hugged his belly and laughed.
Did this kid do it on purpose? A drop of sweat broke out on Elaine's forehead.
He wanted to stuff the mouth organ back to Bailey, but the little fox shied away: "Put it here, big brother can use it to practice when he wants to practice. Or others can use it to practice when they want to practice."
Remember to wash it after use and don't let the saliva clog the mouth organ."
[Who would do that? It’s so disgusting!] Elaine picked up her phone and typed to complain.
"Hahahaha!" the little fox laughed, and then ran to help Queeg clean up the mess of the dinner.
At this time, Elaine also noticed that Edmund's eyes were falling on the mouth organ.
[Can you blow?] He then asked Edmund.
"Me? Why does Your Highness the Prince think so? I can't possibly play a musical instrument." Edmund replied.
[I intuitively feel that you are the kind of person who is good at playing musical instruments.] Elaine wrote.
"Your Highness the Prince has won the prize, but it's a pity that your intuition didn't guess right." The Blood Lion smiled lightly and said: "Well, my whole body is sticky with sweat. I want to take a bath. Your Highness the Prince, do you want to come with me?"
[That lotus pond?]
"That's right there. It's better to use the running water there than to consume the fresh water we have in stock. And I just finished steaming the sauna from the place full of lava, and I don't want to soak in hot water." Edmund said with a bitter smile.
[Then let's go together. Call Bailey and the others.] Elaine typed, while quickly glancing at Xury, and continued typing: [Don't tell Xury this next thing: extinguish all the bonfires and lights in the camp before leaving.
.Turn off the lights early tonight and go to bed so that no one notices the lights at the campground.]
"Okay, I understand, Your Highness." It was great that Edmund could easily guess Elaine's intention.
Ten minutes later, everyone was already soaking in the lotus pond. Because Queeg and Zuoli joined in, the pool was a little crowded. At this time, most of the sun had sunk below the sea level, and everyone was watching the sunset while taking a bath.
, quite elegant.
[Why did you come to take a bath?] Elaine asked Queeg as she typed on her mobile phone wrapped in a waterproof bag.
"Because it's dark, I can't see." Queeg hummed, "Besides, I'm also hot."
He said that because the darkness cannot be seen, naturally he cannot see the lower body of everyone. Elaine asked Queeg before, and Queeg's answer made Elaine involuntarily beat the leopard. Queeg may be afraid of being beaten by Elaine again, so this
No more awkwardness.
[Idiot.] Elaine simply wrote.
Queeg stuck out his tongue.
"Is this a natural word for cold water? It's great." Xuli seemed to enjoy the lotus pond: "Why is there such a green thing here? What is this?"
This is probably the first time that Zuoli has seen green plants in his life. Although the leaves of the lotus are dark brown in the sunset, the original white lotus is also a vaguely transparent khaki color in the eyes of the young Hayato.
, this plant growing in the water must be extremely wonderful.
"It's a lotus, an aquatic plant." Bailey replied: "This species should be water lily. In ancient countries such as Egypt, water lily is considered sacred. It means immortality, perseverance and unyielding
, also means purity. This flower is often used to worship gods, especially goddesses."
"Oh." Xuli listened with interest and nodded.
While they were chatting, a breeze blew by, and the faint fragrance of water lilies floated in the air, which made Elaine even more relaxed and happy. The sun also set completely, and the sky quickly dimmed.
In order to prevent the surrounding area from being too dark, Elaine smeared a very small amount of flame rosin on the small dagger to make it glow faintly. He then gave the rosin to Bailey and Queeg, and Bailey also did the same to his dagger.
, Queeg also took out a Luna steel dagger and smeared it with rosin. Everyone placed luminous objects on the edge of the pond, and the lotus pond gradually became bright again.
[Do stalkers also worship any gods?] Elaine asked Xury.
"Huh? It seems not. The witch-sama is actually the object of their worship. If that can be considered a god, is she a goddess?" Xuri replied: "There are also some ancient gods, including Atlantis that the witch-sama mentioned.
The gods of Si. However, the younger generation gradually no longer believes in those ancient gods. They are too far away from the lives of the people of Ate."
Therefore, stalkers don’t even have a god they can believe in. A civilization without belief is twisted and fragile. Without gods, when people feel confused and painful in disasters, who should they talk to and seek comfort from?
Elaine became more and more convinced that the stalkers were dangerous. If possible, she should avoid contact with those half-murlocs.
"It would be nice if I brought wine." Edmund said subconsciously.
"Yes." Queeg took out a bottle of wine from his storage pocket. And judging from the packaging on the bottle, it seemed to be quite expensive red wine.
[Where did it come from?] Elaine asked Leopard with a straight face.
"On the boat." Leopard replied.
Elaine remembered that Queeg had stolen, no, borrowed a lot of things from the galley of the pirate ship that attacked them. The various spices they used in their meals now were all in stock at that time.
Queeg even took out three very elegant silver cups and planned to pour wine into them.
[Don’t give me wine. Are you crazy?] Elaine stopped him: [Forgot how bad my wine is?]
"I want to see you make a fool of yourself." The cloud-patterned leopard showed a slightly sinister smile: "Definitely, it's super interesting."
[Can I beat you?] The White Lion boy was full of anger. Bailey and the others were snickering.
"No." The leopard stuck out its tongue as a joke, and then took out another bottle with lemon black tea in it. Elaine would be better off drinking this.
"I want to drink too," Bailey said.
"Can I...can I have a drink?" Xuli asked curiously.
"Okay, okay~" Queeg poured a glass for each of the two children and the older child.
Bailey picked up the cup and took a sip gracefully. Zuo Li followed suit and took a sip. Everyone took a sip of the drink, whether it was wine or tea. Then they all sighed "Ah~" together, showing their satisfaction.
expression.
Elaine was the only one who hadn't drank yet. He looked at this group of idiots with extremely high synchronization rates and showed a puzzled and puzzled expression: [Are you colluding?]
"That's right." "Hey hey hey." "Interesting." "I learned to do it. Isn't this part of the etiquette?" The group of cats (as well as foxes and birds) said in unison.
Elaine shook her head, made an angry expression, and raised her glass to drink.
Bailey hurriedly reminded: "Brother, drink slowly. Your throat is injured. If you accidentally choke -"
"Ugh——" Then Elaine choked: "Cough, cough, cough, cough!"
"Brother! Are you okay?" Bailey asked, patting Elaine's back.
"Also,...ahem...it's okay...it's just a small choking..." Elaine replied while coughing. He originally planned to keep restraint and not speak, but he forgot about it for a moment because he choked.
"Big, big brother...?" Bailey showed a surprised expression.
"How, how is it possible...! But it is...this...!" Edmund showed an even more surprised expression, even mixed with sadness and fear.
"...Huh?" Elaine didn't understand everyone's reaction for a while.
"What, what's wrong?" Then he simply asked.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he understood what was going on.
The problem was his voice. His voice was completely different than before the injury. It had completely become the voice of another person.
This voice is a bit sharper than Elaine's original voice, more like the voice of a teenager. And it sounds a bit familiar?