Chapter 1921: Elephant Island (Ⅱ)

"Xiangren Island" covers an area of ​​about 180 square miles, with many volcanic hot springs on the island. It is one of the famous tourist attractions in Asa Bay. It always attracts people from Midgard, Jotunheim and even the old world in winter and summer. Tourists come to the island to recuperate on vacation.
The destination of Qiao'an and his party is a volcanic lake closest to the dock. The local lake is rich in minerals. Drinking this natural mineral water is said to be good for health.
The climate on the island is hot and humid. Sinbad was originally fat, and she was carrying a big bag. Not far away, she was tired and sweated on her forehead. The bag exuded a faint sweet smell, attracting large swarms of bees and buzzing around the cook. .
Sinbad couldn't bear the harassment and kept waving his arms to drive away the bees.
When Dolly the Parrot saw this scene, instead of showing sympathy to the poor fat cook, she stood on Hailar's shoulder and laughed teasingly.
"Bear! Bear!"
Hailar glared at Dolly and asked, "Silly bird, I remember you used to love bees the most. There are so many bees here, why don't you catch them for snacks?"
Dolly stared back with contempt, waving her wings to emphasize: "Hornet! Hornet!"
"Hmm? Was the kind of wasp you used to eat? I really can't distinguish between wasps and bees, but they are all bees anyway, don't they all taste the same?"
"Fool! Fool!"
Dolly was heartbroken at the mistress's ignorance, and then she explained why she didn't eat bees.
"Beneficial insects! Beneficial insects!"
Qiao An laughed secretly when he heard Hailar and Dolly quarrel. He waved his sleeves to help the fat cook disperse the bees, and asked casually: "Mr. Sinbad, what is in your backpack? It smells of honey. No wonder it attracts so many bees."
"Oh! There are good things in this bag! You can see it by yourself!"
Just as Captain Odysseus greeted everyone to rest for a while, Sinbad sat down in the shade of the tree, unloaded his backpack, untied the tight bag, and a strong sweet fragrance immediately poured out.
Joan, Hailar, Holden, Audrey, and Dolly all came over curiously and looked into the bag. It turned out that it was filled with a fist-sized moisture-proof oil paper bag. After opening a piece of oil paper, brown crystals were exposed.
"It really is sucrose!" Hailar's lips curled up with an unexpected smile.
Audrey poked the sugar cube with her fingertips, licked her lips, and her sapphire eyes immediately bend into small crescents.
"It's so sweet! It's strange, shouldn't cane sugar be as white as snow? How come this kind of sugar is brown..."
Hailar gave her a blank look: "As expected to be a princess from the royal family, I don't know the suffering of the people! This brown raw sugar is a crystal that is simply processed and condensed after the sugarcane is squeezed. It is also called raw sugar. It is purified, filtered, bleached and so on. Through the process, refined white sugar, that is, the kind of sugar cubes used to make coffee, can be obtained."
"Refined white sugar is only affordable by the finest people, and the sucrose, which is a bulk cargo in sea trade, usually refers to barreled syrup or raw sugar."
"From Peak Bay to Asa Bay, to Maple Bay further north, the three offshore areas on the east coast of Wilnoa are home to millions of islands, including large islands settled by indigenous people. Thousands."
"The aborigines who have lived on the island for generations are usually not well-civilized, and their business model is still at the stage of bartering. You give them gold coins, silver coins, and even gems and magic crystals. They are not rare, they just treat them as beautiful decorations. The indigenous people prefer commodities with practical uses, such as ironware, cane sugar, spirits, and slaves, which are all popular hard currencies on the coastal islands."
"Sinbad did not hesitate to carry such a big bag of raw sugar, just to go to the market on the island to trade with elephants in exchange for lemon and pepper."
Audrey frowned when she heard that Hailar counted the "slave" as a kind of currency.
Hailar saw her thoughts and shrugged and smiled bitterly: "I just describe the current situation of sea trade objectively. It does not mean that I support the slave trade. My dear Miss Paladin, don't you judge me based on this!"
"From the first day I set foot on the New World, I discovered that this is a paradise for slave owners. I don't like this ethos, and nothing can be changed... Forget it, it will only appear to be hypocritical if I go on, let's talk about it. Yes." Audrey said happily.
"Then say something that makes you happy!" Hailar's face reappeared with a smile, "Most of the islands on the east coast do not exclude the slave trade. The local natives will even sell members of the rival clan captured during the war. Slave merchants were shipped to the mainland and sold, and eventually ended up in mines in the north or plantations in the south."
"However, the Elephant Man Island where we are at this moment is a rare exception! The Elephant Man tribe is mostly followers of the'Sun God' Pei Luo, and slaves are forbidden. They are also very averse to the slave trade. Slave merchants are expressly prohibited on the island. On the event."
After hearing Hailar's account, Qiao Ann added a bit of favor to the people, and Audrey's face also turned cloudy.
Everyone sat in the shade of the trees while resting and chatting. Dolly the Parrot stared at the piece of crude sugar with the oily paper and swallowed her drool, and finally couldn't help yelling.
"Eat candy! Eat candy!"
Hailar turned his head and smiled slyly at her: "This is a good thing to exchange for pepper. You can't eat it for nothing, unless you promise to help us eliminate the harassment of bees."
"Deal! Deal!"
Dolly fluttered her wings excitedly, spraying a cone of colorful light at the swarm of bees circling the sugar cubes.
The faint vitality of the bee can't hold the "colorful jet" at all, as if the fallen leaves swept by the cold wind fell one after another and fell into a coma.
Dolly took an elegant step and walked over calmly, like a chicken pecking at rice, pecking at the fallen bees, and in a flash of food.
Hailar re-wrapped the sugar cubes in greased paper, held them with both hands and squeezed them lightly, then crushed the hard sugar cubes, then opened the wrapping paper, and placed a pile of evenly grained corn-like crushed sugar in front of Dolly.
Seeing the parrot immersed in the sugar, Holden couldn't help but complain: "Dolly! You said before that you don’t eat beneficial insects like bees, but you didn’t eat them too? You can see that your principle of being a bird is very fragile. I can buy you off!"
Faced with Mr. Poet’s criticism, Dolly twisted her neck awkwardly and was speechless for a long time. She accidentally saw Qiao Ann sitting across from her. Suddenly, she had an idea and remembered the words Mr. Master often said. Can be used to refute Holden's accusations.
"Ecological balance! Ecological balance!"
"Yo! I didn't see it, Dolly! You are quite learned!" Holden smiled and gave the parrot a thumbs up.
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