Devil on the tip of the tongue

Leaving Maicheng all the way to the north, the temperature began to drop rapidly as they went north. By the morning of the third day, they could only see some bryophytes on the ground, and it was difficult to catch even prey.

Fortunately, along the way, we can find some small cities for supplies along the way.

Lou Jinyu's mother clan was the overlord who once ruled the north. As an ancient demon clan inherited from ancient times, Lou Jinyu's mother queen has a background and surname that make her proud. When she got married, she even married a large number of high-level monsters. (Otherwise, the couple wouldn't fight over Xiaosan and Xiaosi.) In other words, as soon as Lou Jinyu and the others set foot in the north, it was equivalent to entering his grandfather's territory.

Although these territories were divided by some new feudal lords in the generation of the old devil king's parents, most of them are still in the hands of the former queen and mother clan.

It has to be said that although she was dazzled by love when she was young, after losing love, Lou Jinyu's mother used her last remaining rationality to freeze herself not far from her hometown. Maybe it's because it didn't frighten the old devil king and let him throw a mouse trick: Do you dare to try to touch my mother's family?My old lady is still buried here~

So far, the old devil king has never set foot in the north again.

Regardless of whether he found out with conscience, anyway, the purpose of the former queen to protect her natal family has been achieved.

"Your Majesty, this crispy fruit is really delicious. Let's bring some more when we go home. Jiu Jiu, Xiao Hei, and Ming Xiao haven't eaten it yet." Chewing the fruit, Queen Ji still remembered that she was far away in Jinjiang City. Brother and friend.

"If you like to eat, just ask them to send some to the palace later." Lou Jinyu smiled, and peeled another brittle fruit for the queen.

This brittle fruit is a special product in the north. It is said to be a "fruit", but it is actually the rhizome of a certain plant that grows underground like yacon. It has a thick dark brown skin on the outside. After peeling off, the inside The flesh is snow-white, with a burst of sweet water vapor, a dish after a meal in cold weather, refreshing and relieves greasy.

But this thing has a bad point, that is, if you leave the place with ice and snow, the pulp inside will rot and deteriorate when it encounters high temperature, and the devil world does not have a truck for transporting refrigerator food, so this kind of crispy fruit is not included in the scope of tribute .

But who made the queen love it?

Presumably there should be this kind of fruit among the tributes sent to the new magic capital in the future, right?

Regardless of whether it is the demon world or the human world, everyone has the same idea when it comes to tributes. It is best not to use things that are not easy to store and transport as tributes. Just in case the nobles above really like it, it will happen from time to time. I just want to try it. What if there is no output in the wrong season?Secondly, it is difficult to transport fragile items. In case they are damaged and deteriorated along the way, or if the emperor eats a bad fruit, you can be regarded as an official... Therefore, unless the above specified requirements to attack certain fresh products, such as Hairy crabs or something, otherwise no one below would dare to provoke this issue.

Ji Heng really didn't know that there was such an unspoken rule in the officialdom, so after hearing Lou Jinyu casually saying that this kind of fruit could be paid as a tribute, he put down his plan to buy it on the return trip. In fact, after being with Lou Jinyu, He has not spent money for a long time. The food in the palace is the best selected from the tributes from the lords from all over the world. The inferior ones will not be sent to him at all, let alone let him spend the money himself. I went shopping.

Therefore, those who worry about the royal family’s pocket money are not enough, probably really don’t know the royal family very well, especially in the devil world, everything about the royal family is as big as the house and as small as the underwear, and even the wife is issued by the state (provided You are not in free love), and they don’t need to spend money on their own in daily life, and their pocket money is really just “pocket money”.

There are not many large prey in the north, but with the increase of rivers, there are more aquatic monsters in various rivers. One day, Akabane took his monsters and went to the river to catch a monster that looked like The hippopotamus is like a crocodile with a thick carapace. The meat inside is white and tender. It is a must to eat in a hot pot!

The thinly sliced ​​snow-white Warcraft meat is about the size of a commemorative palm. Pick it up with chopsticks, put it in the soup bottom of the hot pot and shake it a few times quickly, take it out, dip it in sauce, and eat it. The meat is as sweet and fresh as if it was just fished out and sliced The prawns were average.

"It's a pity that there is no mustard, otherwise raw food is also very good." Lou Jinyu sighed, he really likes mustard as a condiment, but it is a pity that the devil world has not yet found an ingredient that can replace mustard.

As a baby who was only four years old in his previous life, Ji Heng had never eaten wasabi, let alone Yusheng. Hearing what the devil said, he couldn't feel his nostalgia and regret for mustard at all.

Anyway, he is already very satisfied if he can eat hot pot.

In the blink of an eye, they had been walking for five days. During these five days, the bryophytes on the ground gradually disappeared, until finally, there was only a vast expanse of whiteness left between the sky and the earth. Not far away, a towering snow-capped mountain jumped into the sky.

"We're here!" Lou Jinyu took Ji Heng's hand.

The ground began to tremble, and the group of monsters ran on the ice field, causing a large amount of snow foam. It seemed that there was another snowfall between the sky and the earth, reflecting a light-colored rainbow under the cold white weak sunlight.

"Welcome to the king! Welcome to the queen!" Accompanied by the group of monsters, there were bursts of cheers resounding from heaven and earth.

The monster at the head is wearing a pure white monster fur cloak, its long hair is neatly combed behind its head, tied into braids with ice blue ribbons, and a crown decorated with various gemstones is on its head. His face was like snow, but there was a warm surprise in his blue eyes.

"Uncle!" Lou Jinyu showed a rare warm smile, stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around the shoulders of the visitor, and the two monsters hugged each other tightly.

uncle?

Is he the mother's younger brother?

"This must be Her Royal Highness, she is really cute! Let's go home quickly, we have prepared a hot pot at home, go back and have dinner quickly, your grandma is still waiting at home, the weather is too cold, I dare not let her old man come out. "

"It's supposed to be like this. We are juniors when we come here. It's not right to be an uncle of labor. How dare we let grandma and her elders personally welcome me." Lou Jinyu took Ji Heng to sit in his uncle's magic beast car in an affectionate tone.

The Warcraft vehicles in the north are all specially made. The wheels are different from other places. They are wide and thick, like a large sled. It is much more comfortable to sit on than their own Warcraft vehicles. Lou Jinyu feels sorry for Ji Heng, and has a more comfortable Warcraft vehicle. He can take a ride, so naturally he will not be allowed to take the original car again.

Lou Jinyu's little uncle, Lan Weiyan, the young master of Tianfang City, laughed and welcomed his nephew and husband into his spacious monster car. Because of an unreliable father, Lou Jinyu has been with his little uncle since childhood. The relationship is very good, it can be said that they are like father and son. Lan Weiyan is more than 1000 years younger than Lou Jinyu's mother and queen. Because the age gap between the siblings is large and there is no competitive relationship, the relationship between the siblings is better than that of children of ordinary monster families.

However, since returning from studying in the human world, when Lou Jinyu faced his uncle, he was intimate with a touch of embarrassment ready to laugh at any time. Appendicitis (Lan Weiyan) is amazing, cough cough!

"Your Royal Highness, please use hot tea!" There are two little monsters serving in the Warcraft cart, one prepared hot tea, and the other quickly roasted the Warcraft meat on the small stove. The already marinated Warcraft meat came with seasoning It is the first time Ji Heng has seen the special aroma of grilled meat paired with hot tea.

"Eat some, don't look at the snow everywhere here, but the air is very dry, this tea and monster meat are good things, you won't feel hot if you eat them." Lou Jinyu took a piece of roasted monster meat, Cut it into strips with a small knife and let Ji Heng eat it with his hands.

The monsters in the Northland have a tough style and rarely use chopsticks. The main reason is that it is inconvenient to use chopsticks if they wear too much. Generally, they eat barbecue meat directly with their paws. After eating, they rub their hands in the snow without washing their hands.

Ji Heng picked up a piece of Warcraft meat and stuffed it into his mouth. As expected, the meat was very tender. After chewing carefully, he seemed to feel a special atmosphere belonging to the world of ice and snow. After eating, he drank two cups of hot tea. I felt that the somewhat suffocating devilish energy eased a lot.

"This is the case here. When unfamiliar monsters come to the Northland for the first time, they usually don't starve to death, but die from frenzy. A few days ago, I ordered someone to make you a tea soup with these magic herbs in it. .” Lou Jinyu patiently explained.

"No wonder it tastes so familiar to me when I drink it."

"It's the first time you drink this kind of potion soup, naturally you can't drink it with too high concentration as soon as it comes up, you have to slowly dilute it to get used to it, and it's the same with bringing souvenirs in the future." For those close to him, the devil is unconscious The ground has become a chatterbox.

Lan Weiyan's little uncle was stunned watching, and couldn't help but pay more attention to the legendary new queen.

In the entire demon world, there are not many monsters who look like Ji Heng and can make Lou Jinyu, who "cherishes words like gold", talk so much. No, maybe this is the only monster at present.

"I know, I will be obedient!" Ji Heng's tone unconsciously carried a hint of coquettishness.

A strong smell of golden dog food immediately filled the spacious monster car.

Uncle Lan: "..." I really want to kick over this bowl of hot dog food!

Tianfang City is the largest city in the northern ice field. It belonged to the Lan family thousands of years ago. At that time, there was no surname "Lan". Speaking of fiefdoms, until many years later, the first demon king unified the entire demon world and divided the fiefdoms by meritorious service. Simply put, those who supported the demon king, or those who surrendered after being defeated, all got a large or small piece of fiefdom. Those who cooperated were all killed by the devil, and then their birthplaces were used as spoils of war, and they were entrusted to other meritorious monsters as fiefdoms.

Firstly, the Lan family has meritorious service, and secondly, it is also an ancient monster with noble blood, so it has obtained such a large fiefdom in the northern ice field, and has been entrenched here for generations.

It's a pity that the younger generation didn't live up to it. A large and complete fief was gradually chopped into pieces in the long years that followed. Now only Tianfang City and the surrounding cities belong to the Lan family.

There is also Xueyue City, where no one belongs, it is a fief granted by the old devil king to the first queen.

As for Fenghua City, another queen's fief in the south?It is still in the "enemy-occupied area"... However, the new demon king vowed that sooner or later he would take back the mother's fief and change the name!

During those years when the new demon king studied in the human world, he probably also acquired some obsession with the feudal superstition of the human race. He is a little superstitious about the eight characters implied in the name. It's a hot-headed work, you know it's not auspicious just by hearing the name, so change it!It must be changed!

As for why not change the name of Xueyue City first?

Don't forget that the first queen is still frozen in Xueyue City, my dears!Can the names of various cities in the devil world be changed with just a few swipes?If you move around casually, the frozen queen might be disturbed by then, ahem, the coffin boards will not be able to cover it...

But then again...

"Uncle, when does the queen mother plan to come out?"

"She doesn't have to attend the wedding between me and Ah Heng out of anger, but maybe in a few years we will have little monsters. Will she not even see her grandson?"

"What? Little monster?!" Uncle Lan jumped up, looking at Ji Heng's stomach in horror.

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