Chapter 232 - Presenting oneself in front of the king
The roof of the cabin was made from ordinary straw. The owner had probably changed those straws recently, because a nice herbal scent was still lingering on the roof.
The walls of this cabin was built with mud that was mixed with wheat bran. The scent of the wheat bran merged with the scent of mud caused it to smell natural and nice. Although it was not as appealing as the fragrance of flowers, it still was capable of making people feel peaceful when sitting in the cabin.
The floor was paved with flagstones, and in the middle of the room was a zhang in square fireplace, within which, a thumb-sized fiery magical crystal had been placed in the flame to maintain the flame. Large pieces of firewood was blazing, and a water-tank-sized clay pot was hanging above the flame. The spring water contained in it was boiling happily.
Si Xi grabbed a handful of tea from a jar in the corner of the room, threw it into two wooden mugs, then sat back beside the fire, pointing his finger at the clay pot. Followed by his move, two streams of boiling water flew up from the pot and poured into the two mugs. Soon, two steaming and nice smelling mugs of tea were done. Si Xi handed a mug to Ji Hao, smiled and said, “Kid, drink! Haha, this tea was collected by myself from the mountain, in this spring!”
The spring water was sweet and the tea had a dense and strong aroma. Although it tasted not as flavourful as other kinds of high-grade tea, it was intense and hot enough that once Ji Hao took a sip of that tea, he felt a gust of hot air gushing directly into his stomach. Soon, his forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat.
“Uncle,” Ji Hao put the mug down, saluted Si Xi politely and said.
Si Xi put his hand into the scorching hot charcoal ash in the fireplace and took out a few balls of mud from the pile of ash. He patted each mud balls for a short while, then flicked those mud balls, breaking it with his fingers and showing the well grilled, sizzling and oily white pigeons wrapped in the mud.
“Drink the tea, and here, have some meat! Oh, and, don’t call me uncle.”
Si Xi handed Ji Hao a grilled pigeon, which was grilled so well that even the bones had become crispy, then rubbed his own clean and tender chin that didn’t have even a single beard, and said to Ji Hao, “Don’t call me uncle, call me brother Si Xi, hahaha, I’m not as old as an uncle yet!”
Ji Hao held that grilled pigeon, becoming quite speechless, while staring at Si Xi, without knowing how to even respond to that.
He called Si Wen Ming ‘Uncle Wen Ming’ and this Si Xi here was Si Wen Ming’s blood-related father, how could Ji Hao call him brother?
Si Xi look at Ji Hao with a grin, while completely wolfing his grilled pigeon, including the bones, only leaving the pigeon’s head that didn’t have too much meat on it. He threw it into the flame and let it burn. He then held the mug up, looking quite satisfied, and took a gulp of his tea, then grinned and said, “Ignore that Wen Ming kid, he likes to be an uncle, let him be. I am different from him, you can just call me brother.”
He then breathed a big mouthful of hot air out, then said while smiling, “Well, Si Wen Ming has not been in the Magi Palace lately. There are some small troubles in Liang Zhu. He and his niece went over there, preventing the city from a real big trouble. You’re Ji Hao, I know, I know about you, Wen Ming has told me. He asked me to take care of a few kids for him, you’re one of them.”
Putting the mug down, Si Xi continued seriously, “Well, what kind of trouble have you encountered? I know, you wouldn’t have come to me if it hadn’t been a huge one.”
Si Wen Ming went out of the Magi Palace for an emergency task, but he didn’t forget to ask his own father to help look after Ji Hao. Ji Hao couldn’t help but silently feel touched by this.
Calming himself down, Ji Hao told Si Xi everything that had happened to his team lately, from when they had left the Magi Palace to the Rong Mountain Clan, helped them with exploring and exploiting the new territory, then the Rong Mountain Clan turning against Ji Hao and his teammates for an all-adapting magic crystal mine, after which, Prince Xu and Gong Gong Wuyou stepped into all, framing his team together. Ji Hao told Si Xi every detail.
“Elder Wulong has been called in Pu Ban City by the King of the humankind for an important meeting. I have failed to get in contact with them these days. Uncle Wen Ming had said that if I encounter any trouble that I couldn’t solve with my own power, I could come to you, bro…brother Si Xi.”
The corners of Ji Hao’s mouth twitched slightly when he said ‘brother’, it felt so strange.
Si Xi grabbed another grilled wild pigeon, wolfed it down as well, then drank up the tea in his mug. He wiped his hand with his own cloth, then grabbed the three written confessions made by Meng Ao and his two accompanies, which Ji Hao handed him over, and carefully read all three of them.
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