Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 426: The Fire Cannot Be Released (4.8k, Supplement 6.11)

"Can you at least stay and enjoy your dinner before you leave?"

Seeing that Bai Zhenzhen was about to leave, Lingling spoke urgently to keep Bai Zhen.

She knew very well that there was no way she could keep Bai Zhen.

But it would be nice if we could leave a few more hours of blank space.

The leader saw what his daughter was thinking and chimed in, "It will take some time to estimate the value of the materials. Why don't you stay and enjoy dinner? It won't be too late to leave after you've had enough."

Bai Zhen couldn't refuse the leader's invitation any further, and a few hours wouldn't delay anything.

"Then I would rather obey your orders than respect you."

The leader nodded. There was still some time before dinner, so he immediately arranged for his servants to entertain Bai Zhen and the hunters.

This large reception room was immediately transformed into a dining room.

The dining tables were turned into independent imperial dining tables, and everyone sat cross-legged on a futon to enjoy dinner.

There were some appetizers and a small pot of wine on the table.

While waiting, the chief called some dancers from the castle tower and famous singing girls from the city to perform to liven up the atmosphere.

There are not many forms of entertainment in this world. Royal families usually employ musicians and dance troupes on a long-term basis.

The Fire Nation is no exception, and naturally there are people performing shows.

Bai Zhen ate the unique pastries of the Fire Country and admired the dance of the dancers in front of him.

To be selected into the royal family's exclusive dance troupe, these dancers not only have excellent professional qualities, but also impeccable appearance and figure.

They were wearing very cool red belly-baring dance costumes and twisting their graceful bodies to the rhythm of the music.

Bai Zhen now truly understands why there are so many borderline videos on some short video apps in his previous life.

Who wouldn’t like to watch such a good show?
In the reception room, not only Bai Zhen, but even the chief and the hunters were silently admiring the dancing of these dancers.

But Lingling was in no mood to appreciate it.

Seeing Bai Zhen staring intently, she became more depressed.

"This bastard's eyes are wide open! He has never been so focused when he is with me! Am I not as pretty as these dancers?"

When the song ended, Bai Zhen clapped along with the leader.

There is really nothing to fault with the dancing of these dancers.

This is a nearly perfect show.

While waiting for the next show to start, Bai Zhen picked up the wine jug on the table and prepared to pour himself a cup.

At this time, the maid behind him on the left quickly squatted down, took the wine pot from Bai Zhen's hand and said, "Sir, let me serve you in pouring the wine."

Bai Zhen looked at the pretty maid beside him. Considering that this was her job, Bai Zhen let the maid serve him: "Thank you very much."

"Your Excellency is too polite."

The maid poured a cup of wine for Bai Zhen, and Bai Zhen picked up the cup with his right hand. As a fairly professional winemaker, Bai Zhen first observed the wine in his hand.

The wine cup is white, and the wine in the cup is light red. You can see a little bit of crystal light suspended in the wine. This kind of crystal light is very rare. In this small cup of wine, Bai Zhen looked carefully again and again but only saw five or six tiny crystal lights.

Bai Zhen took a quick sniff of the wine and guessed that it was a distilled liquor, and it seemed that some special ingredients were added to it.

It was called wine, but it was more like a medicinal wine. He smelled a faint scent of medicinal herbs.

Bai Zhen drank the wine in the glass and savored it carefully.

The alcohol content of this wine is about 40 degrees. It is distilled and has not been blended with water. This distillation process is considered first-class in the Monster Hunter world.

The taste of this wine is very strange. It feels a bit tingling when you first take a sip. When you swallow it down your throat, your throat will feel a bit uncomfortable at first.

But after a second or two, the discomfort just now turned into warmth flowing from the lower abdomen to the limbs of the whole body, and there was a sweetness in the mouth.

The taste can be said to be very unique.

The maid was kneeling beside him. Seeing that Bai Zhen's wine cup was empty, she poured Bai Zhen another cup of wine.

Bai Zhen curiously asked the maid: "What is the name of your wine?"

"Your Excellency, this is our Fire Country's specialty, 'Red Wine'."

"Red wine?" Bai Zhen drank another cup and savored it carefully.

"Is this wine made from corn and rice? Some medicinal herbs are also added. The sweet taste and the light fishy smell are wolfberry and deer antler, right? I can't taste the other ingredient. It tastes very complicated. It should be a fermented composite material. What exactly is this ingredient?"

The maid couldn't help but let out a low cry when she heard this. Her eyes were full of disbelief as she asked, "My lord, how did you know how our [Red Wine] is brewed? Could it be that you have already known about it before?"

The maid was surprised that Bai Zhen pointed out the fact that there were deer antlers in it right away.

There are slight differences between the red wine specially supplied by the royal family and the red wine sold outside. One of the added ingredients is deer antler, which is something that most residents of the Fire Nation outside are unaware of.

"This is the first time I've heard of this kind of wine, but I have my own winemaking workshop and have some experience in winemaking."

This maid had been serving in the reception room before. She had heard all the conversations between Bai Zhen and the chief. She also naturally listened in on the chief's invitation to Bai Zhen to stay in the Fire Nation and his promise to marry the princess, which was rejected by Bai Zhen.

Her impression of Bai Zhen is that he is young, handsome, strong, mysterious and very humble.

It is obvious that Bai Zhen has received a very good education and high-level etiquette training. His background should be quite good. Maybe he is a prince of a certain country.

Bai Zhen then asked the maid, "What is the other ingredient in this red wine? Can you explain it to me?"

"That's convenient, of course. In fact, the last ingredient is the paralysis bag of the red-armored beast."

"Paralyzing bag?" Bai Zhen finally understood why the wine had a tingling and numbing taste after drinking it. This was because a trace amount of "toxin" from the paralyzing bag was added into it.

Bai Zhen was no stranger to making wine from monster materials. The Baron Frank who came from the kingdom some time ago mentioned monster wine to him. He said that some places usually use some monster materials to make wine.

Although he had heard of it, this was his first time tasting monster wine.

The taste can be said to be very unique. If he can get the formula himself, then improve the distillation process and choose better materials, he can make a better monster wine.

The maid explained: "Red-armored beasts usually eat beetles with paralysis fluid, and then store the essence of the insects in their paralysis bags. This red wine is brewed using wolfberries, deer antlers and the paralysis bags of red-armored beasts. This wine also has the effect of strengthening yang, which is very good."

Before the maid finished speaking, Bai Zhen widened his eyes and asked, "What did you just say? What effect does this have?"

The maid thought she had used the wrong word, so she euphemistically said, "I mean it has the effect of warming and nourishing the kidney yang, and it is very popular among the female community."

Bai Zhen confirmed that he had not heard wrong, and he silently put down the wine cup in his hand.

He is now so angry that he can't vent it. If he adds more fuel, he might really explode.

When the maid saw that Bai Zhen suddenly stopped drinking the wine, she cleverly guessed what Bai Zhen was thinking.

She asked Bai Zhen with some curiosity: "Your Excellency just mentioned that you can make wine yourself. I wonder what kind of wine you usually make?"

"We make our own wine, vodka, and whiskey."

"Your Excellency is amazing. As far as I know, those wines are very difficult to brew at home. Whether it is fermentation, distillation, or maturation, they all have very high requirements."

Seeing that the maid seemed to know a lot, Bai Zhen asked back, "Do you know how to make wine?"

"Yes! To be honest, my father is a winemaker. If you ask who makes the best red wine, it's definitely my father."

As expected, those who can come here to work as maids have some background and status.

Speaking of wine, Bai Zhen was indeed very interested in the recipe of red wine. He wanted to know how the winemakers here dealt with the paralysis bags of the red-armored beasts.

This kind of winemaking is not as simple as throwing a paralysis bag into a high-concentration distilled liquor.

"Can you tell me how you dealt with the Red-Armored Beast's paralysis sack?"

"Of course no problem, in fact, the red-armored beast's paralysis bag..." The maid was still speaking, her eyes suddenly passed Bai Zhen and looked behind Bai Zhen.

She quickly stood up and bowed respectfully to the person behind Bai Zhen: "Your Highness."

Bai Zhen looked back and found Lingling standing behind him. Lingling said to the maid, "You can go do other things. I will take care of this."

"Your Highness, are you coming in person?" The maid was obviously stunned.

Lingling said without question: "Go and bring my imperial dining table over here."

"Yes, Your Highness." The maid bowed and immediately went to prepare to move the imperial dining table down from the stage.

Lingling then knelt down next to Bai Zhen, with anger clearly visible on her delicate little face.

Bai Zhen was confused and asked Ling Ling in a low voice: "Why are you here?"

Lingling was very unhappy.

Why did I come here? If I didn't come here, would I let you and the maid kiss and chat?
It was clearly me who asked you to stay. Not only were you engrossed in watching the dancers dance, you were also chatting cordially with the maid who poured the wine. Couldn't you have talked to me a little longer?
Lingling was feeling very upset. She picked up the wine jug on Bai Zhen's small table and poured a small cup for Bai Zhen herself.

Bai Zhen was shocked. Asking the unmarried princess to pour wine like a servant was simply putting herself on the spot.

Bai Zhen glanced at the leader on the stage, and sure enough, the leader's expression was not right.

Bai Zhen quickly moved half a body to the side to draw a clear line. He asked in surprise: "What are you doing?!"

Lingling snorted, "Have you forgotten the bet we made this afternoon? As a servant, isn't it normal for me to pour you a glass of wine?"

Bai Zhen then realized that Lingling was taking revenge on him because of the bet they made in the afternoon.

But the bet and its conditions were not proposed by her, they were all said by her own mouth.

Even if you want revenge, you can't find me.

Bai Zhen quickly gave in and said, "The bet we made this afternoon is void. Let's just pretend that nothing happened, okay?"

"I don't want to cancel it. This princess keeps her word. If I lose, I lose. I won't deny my debt. If I say I will be your servant, I will be your servant well."

pat~
As Lingling finished her words, the sound of a ceramic spoon falling on a plate was heard from the main seat.

Lingling didn't lower her voice at all when she spoke, and the leader in the main seat could hear it clearly.

The leader's face turned completely black.

Bai Zhen realized that things were heading in a direction that was beyond his control.

He didn't want to be detained in the Fire Nation by the leader, or be wanted by the leader.

Before the situation got completely worse, Bai Zhen hurriedly said, "Master Lingling, I was really wrong. I'll do anything you ask me to do. Can you cancel the bet for this afternoon?"

Lingling's eyes lit up, and she repeatedly confirmed: "Is anything really possible?"

"As long as it can be cancelled, I can do one thing for you within my ability."

"That"

Lingling subconsciously wanted to ask Bai Zhen to stay, but she knew very well that if she asked now, Bai Zhen would definitely not agree.

She changed the subject and lowered her voice a lot as she said, "Then I'll have to think about it carefully. But since it's a bet that I lost, I won't go back on my word. Let's just keep this as a little secret between the two of us."

Bai Zhen was speechless.

It’s just a little secret. It’s not really a little secret if your dad has heard it.

However, if Lingling didn't mention this matter again, he could breathe a sigh of relief.

“It’s just something I can do.”

"I know~" Lingling felt a little better. Seeing that Bai Zhen didn't move the wine cup on the table, she asked, "Don't you want to drink?"

"No." Bai Zhen refused decisively.

Lingling puffed up her face in dissatisfaction: "You drink what the maid pours, but you won't drink what this princess pours?"

"It has nothing to do with who poured it. This wine is an aphrodisiac and I am not comfortable drinking it."

When Lingling heard this, she realized that the red wine in her hand was an aphrodisiac. She had never paid much attention to this wine before.

She looked at the three master hunters opposite, who were drinking from pot after pot, with an abnormal flush on their faces. Then she looked at the beautiful maids beside the hunters.

Being smart, she soon found out the real purpose of her father's taking out this wine.

The wine was not taken by mistake; it was taken on purpose.

When she thought of this, Lingling's face turned red with shyness, and she glanced at Bai Zhen with nervous and expectant eyes.

Bai Zhen just drank a little, so it should have some effect, right?
Lingling's hands were entwined in front of her nervously. She whispered in a mosquito-like voice: "If you feel uncomfortable, I can help you."

Lingling spoke very quietly, but Bai Zhen still heard it.

Bai Zhen said helplessly and earnestly: "You, even if I am your savior, you can only say this to the person you really like, and you can't just say it to other people."

Bai Zhen thought that Lingling's behavior was just to repay him.

During the few days they spent together, he also discovered that Lingling had a very strong personality.

She will insist on doing what she wants to do no matter how hard it is, and she will do what she promised instead of pretending that nothing happened.

People with this kind of personality will definitely find ways to repay and make amends to their benefactors.

This is a big plus for Bai Zhen, as he likes people who are self-reliant and strong.

But he still hoped that Lingling could love herself a little more.

Repaying a favor does not mean you can do anything or say anything.

It's such a waste to say such things to an outsider like me.

"I"

Lingling was just about to explain that she was not someone who would say such things.

The maid brought over the imperial dining table, and Lingling forced herself to swallow her words.

She raised her hand sullenly and pinched Bai Zhen's waist hard to express her inner dissatisfaction.

After the maid had set the table, Lingling told her, "Go and get some wine other than the red wine."

"As ordered, Your Highness."

The maid took Bai Zhen's wine jug and went out to change other wine for Bai Zhen.

At this time, cheerful music sounded again in the reception room, and the dancers in the center of the reception room began their new program.

Bai Zhen watched their dance with great interest.

Lingling turned her head to look at Bai Zhen, and seeing Bai Zhen's interested look, Lingling felt a little annoyed again.

When I took risks before, the clothes I wore at night were even more embarrassing than those of these dancers, but he didn’t look at me so intently even then!
If you really want to see dancing, I have studied dance and vocal music, so it's not impossible for me to perform for him alone.
It's not impossible to watch the show, but we'll be separated tonight, so please at least pay more attention to me.
I obviously changed into my favorite clothes, but he never praised me.
At this time, Bai Zhen, who was watching the dance, subconsciously said: "Sure enough, these dancers can't compare with you."

"Eh!?" Lingling's eyes widened, thinking she was hallucinating. "What did you just say?"

"Hmm?" Bai Zhen turned around and saw Ling Ling's unbelieving eyes. Bai Zhen realized that he seemed to have just said what was in his heart, "Did I just say what was in my heart?"

Lingling was a little uncomfortable with Bai Zhen's sudden praise. She nodded shyly and asked nervously, "Do you really think I'm prettier than those dancers?"

"Isn't this obvious?" Bai Zhen replied calmly.

He loves to appreciate beautiful things. To be fair, no matter how beautiful those dancers are, they are not in the same dimension as Lingling.

Bai Zhen is never stingy when it comes to praising beautiful things and people.

Moreover, he was unwilling to lie in such a place. She was beautiful, so what? Could it be that he was calling a horse a zebra and saying that this princess who could bring disaster to the country and the people was the ugliest in the world? What was the point of lying like that?

"Is that so~" Lingling smiled happily in her heart, and the depression she had just felt was instantly swept away.

It turns out that in his heart, I am still very attractive~
(End of this chapter)