Chapter 105 New Year
Bang, bang!
In the cold wind, Lin Qi, with his arms bare, brandished a huge hatchet with double-edged blade as wide as his waist and heavily chopped a ten-meters-tall black pine that was so thick it needed several people to wrap around. The bark of this kind of black pine was extremely thick; the cold wind of the North Sea and the low temperature made their growth rate extremely slow, making the wood extremely dense and tough. An ordinary blade simply wouldn’t leave any trace.
Lin Qi brandished the special hatchet to chop the black pine with great effort. It required such strong effort that he was sweating from head to foot and heat was continuously exuded from his body, yet in the cold wind it was quickly rolled into ice fragments that was blown far away.
Long Cheng quietly left, like how he arrived at Dunerk. Geare Tang couldn’t find Long Cheng, so he dashed to Lin Qi’s ancestral home with his dragon spear to challenge him and was slapped in the face by Aunt Lily until he and his horse were sent flying. He was then strictly looked after by Tang Qiao.
Angel and Anleen, the two pampered young ladies, although they did that kind of thing with Long Cheng, their reputation didn’t receive any harm ― Long Cheng gave all the golden notes he got from Lin Qi to them, only bringing two thousand gold coins with him.
Two unmarried women, but young mistresses who were already adults, finding a mysterious lover from the east, a mysterious lover who claim to be an eastern nobility. Moreover, after this lover had sex with the two honorable young ladies, he generously gave them two million five hundred thousand gold coins!
This gift befitted the two young ladies’ status.
To be able to have an honorable, mysterious, rich and generous lover, furthermore Long Cheng was indeed very good-looking; his appearance was totally in accordance with the word, ‘pretty boy’. So Angel and Anleen’s sexual scandal turned into a ‘refined activity’ that was endlessly envied by Dunerk’s aristocratic ladies and young mistresses.
Furthermore, Angel and Anleen were born into a family of merchants, they weren’t aristocratic young ladies. The parents of the two girls who care about the benefit were also very content with this thing, this kind of fooling around with lovers before marriage happened often; this kind of erotic thing would always happen every year in Dunerk. But someone who conveniently took out two million five hundred thousand gold coins like Long Cheng, it was simply shocking!
Unless he was a first-rate nobility, no could have such a big amount of money. Angel and Anleen had found a good lover! Everyone thought this way, so the disaster Long Cheng provoked gradually turned into a romantic affair. Except for Geare Tang who kept thinking of dueling Long Cheng, there was no other bad consequences.
Not long after Long Cheng left, the new year of the West Continent soon arrived.
According to the social custom of the West Continent, a bonfire to offer sacrifices to the gods had to be lit during the new year, the more firewood were burned, the bigger the fire, proving that the family would increasingly flourished. The bonfire for sacrifice offering could burned away the previous year’s bad luck; like a lighthouse at the coastline during the night, the brighter the light, the more good luck of the coming year would be attracted to one’s family.
According to tradition, the firewood for the bonfire had to be personally cut down by the family’s heir. During the past three years when Lin Qi wasn’t home, every year Blackbeard personally brought a hatchet to Black Pine Forest to cut down firewood, but this year Lin Qi had returned, so this exhausting work was naturally handed over to him.
Brandishing a no less than 50 kilograms huge hatchet with his arms bare, Lin Qi chopped a huge gap on the root of the black pine that was harder than steel while panting. He circulated his qi and roared as his body soared three to four meters in the air before heavily stamping on the tree trunk with both legs that were enveloped with yellow halo.
The black pine that was nearly broken apart from the pressure produced an ear-piercing cracking sound as the tree trunk around the gap Lin Qi chopped open broke apart bit by bit. Slowly, the ten-meters-tall black pine collapsed heavily; like a dead Frost Titan falling on the snow-covered ground, splattering a huge amount of snow everywhere.
“Hey, young master is really formidable!” Tie Chui, Tu Dao and a group of part-time workers with sturdy bodies stood at one side and excitedly applauded. Tie Chui winked and said with a smile, “Just another ten trees, and our house’s sacrificial fire this year will certainly be the biggest one in the whole Dunerk!”
Waving his sore hands, Lin Qi unhappily glared at Tie Chui and the others before carrying the huge hatchet and walking towards another black pine nearby. The neatly-clothed Enzo stood under a big tree nearby, drinking wine while repeatedly shaking his head and sighing.
“This is the privilege of the heir of the family, boss, work hard. We’re roasting an entire bull with the sacrificial fire, I’m already dooling!” Enzo’s laughter was incomparably bright, looking at Lin Qi dripping with sweat while he himself just stood at one side contently resting with good wine to drink, it was truly the most pleasing thing in life.
Lin Qi snorted. He brandished his hatchet, hacking at the huge tree dozens of times in succession. Then he suddenly straightened his body and frowned at Enzo. “Lately I’ve been thinking, what does Long Cheng want to do at the imperial capital? His bet, doesn’t he win after crossing the North Sea and Odin Ice Origin? Why on earth does he still go to the imperial capital? He can totally return to the east right now!”
Enzo shrugged his shoulders. He unconcernedly said, “Who knows? Maybe he needs some proof?”
Lin Qi laughed. He brandished his hatchet to hack at the black pine with all his might, before saying with a cruel smile, “Proof? Right, how can he prove that he had successfully reached West Continent? Perhaps, the crown of the emperor will be a good evidence?”
A loud ‘dong’ could be heard as the huge hatchet was embedded deeply in the tree trunk.
Slowly releasing his grip on the handle of the hatchet, Lin Qi turned his head to look at Enzo in shock. Enzo’s expression was also a little unnatural. The two blankly looked at each other for a while. Enzo said with a bitter smile, “He isn’t that crazy, right? Maybe, he do something else in passing? For example, buying some local specialties in the imperial capital?”
Gale rolled snowstorm to cover heaven and earth. Not long after Lin Qi and the others sent the chopped black pines back to the ancestral home, the sky darkened.
The next day was new year. Lin Qi busily piled up a huge bonfire in the courtyard of his ancestral home; those firewood that was as thick as an ordinary adult’s leg were arranged into dozens-meters-tall pile before it was poured with pungent-smelling kerosene.
Midnight was coming, the year would soon past, the new year was arriving. As the family head, Blackbeard personally ignited the huge bonfire using a torch. The flames raged towards the sky; due to Lin Qi’s hard work during the day, the bonfire of Black Tiger Family this year was indeed the biggest one in Dunerk.
The ten-meters-tall flame rose high into the air on the top of Black Beech Hill, shining over a small part of Dunerk.
Flame raging, flagrance of meal assailing the nostril, smell of fine wine drifting to all directions.
Members of Black Tiger Family were hanging around the residence while enjoying themselves. Lin Qi was also carrying a wine jug while toasting everyone.
Suddenly, Arthur unknowingly appeared with a wine cup in his hand and stopped Lin Qi.
Chapter 105 New Year
Bang, bang!
In the cold wind, Lin Qi, with his arms bare, brandished a huge hatchet with double-edged blade as wide as his waist and heavily chopped a ten-meters-tall black pine that was so thick it needed several people to wrap around. The bark of this kind of black pine was extremely thick; the cold wind of the North Sea and the low temperature made their growth rate extremely slow, making the wood extremely dense and tough. An ordinary blade simply wouldn’t leave any trace.
Lin Qi brandished the special hatchet to chop the black pine with great effort. It required such strong effort that he was sweating from head to foot and heat was continuously exuded from his body, yet in the cold wind it was quickly rolled into ice fragments that was blown far away.
Long Cheng quietly left, like how he arrived at Dunerk. Geare Tang couldn’t find Long Cheng, so he dashed to Lin Qi’s ancestral home with his dragon spear to challenge him and was slapped in the face by Aunt Lily until he and his horse were sent flying. He was then strictly looked after by Tang Qiao.
Angel and Anleen, the two pampered young ladies, although they did that kind of thing with Long Cheng, their reputation didn’t receive any harm ― Long Cheng gave all the golden notes he got from Lin Qi to them, only bringing two thousand gold coins with him.
Two unmarried women, but young mistresses who were already adults, finding a mysterious lover from the east, a mysterious lover who claim to be an eastern nobility. Moreover, after this lover had sex with the two honorable young ladies, he generously gave them two million five hundred thousand gold coins!
This gift befitted the two young ladies’ status.
To be able to have an honorable, mysterious, rich and generous lover, furthermore Long Cheng was indeed very good-looking; his appearance was totally in accordance with the word, ‘pretty boy’. So Angel and Anleen’s sexual scandal turned into a ‘refined activity’ that was endlessly envied by Dunerk’s aristocratic ladies and young mistresses.
Furthermore, Angel and Anleen were born into a family of merchants, they weren’t aristocratic young ladies. The parents of the two girls who care about the benefit were also very content with this thing, this kind of fooling around with lovers before marriage happened often; this kind of erotic thing would always happen every year in Dunerk. But someone who conveniently took out two million five hundred thousand gold coins like Long Cheng, it was simply shocking!
Unless he was a first-rate nobility, no could have such a big amount of money. Angel and Anleen had found a good lover! Everyone thought this way, so the disaster Long Cheng provoked gradually turned into a romantic affair. Except for Geare Tang who kept thinking of dueling Long Cheng, there was no other bad consequences.
Not long after Long Cheng left, the new year of the West Continent soon arrived.
According to the social custom of the West Continent, a bonfire to offer sacrifices to the gods had to be lit during the new year, the more firewood were burned, the bigger the fire, proving that the family would increasingly flourished. The bonfire for sacrifice offering could burned away the previous year’s bad luck; like a lighthouse at the coastline during the night, the brighter the light, the more good luck of the coming year would be attracted to one’s family.
According to tradition, the firewood for the bonfire had to be personally cut down by the family’s heir. During the past three years when Lin Qi wasn’t home, every year Blackbeard personally brought a hatchet to Black Pine Forest to cut down firewood, but this year Lin Qi had returned, so this exhausting work was naturally handed over to him.
Brandishing a no less than 50 kilograms huge hatchet with his arms bare, Lin Qi chopped a huge gap on the root of the black pine that was harder than steel while panting. He circulated his qi and roared as his body soared three to four meters in the air before heavily stamping on the tree trunk with both legs that were enveloped with yellow halo.
The black pine that was nearly broken apart from the pressure produced an ear-piercing cracking sound as the tree trunk around the gap Lin Qi chopped open broke apart bit by bit. Slowly, the ten-meters-tall black pine collapsed heavily; like a dead Frost Titan falling on the snow-covered ground, splattering a huge amount of snow everywhere.
“Hey, young master is really formidable!” Tie Chui, Tu Dao and a group of part-time workers with sturdy bodies stood at one side and excitedly applauded. Tie Chui winked and said with a smile, “Just another ten trees, and our house’s sacrificial fire this year will certainly be the biggest one in the whole Dunerk!”
Waving his sore hands, Lin Qi unhappily glared at Tie Chui and the others before carrying the huge hatchet and walking towards another black pine nearby. The neatly-clothed Enzo stood under a big tree nearby, drinking wine while repeatedly shaking his head and sighing.
“This is the privilege of the heir of the family, boss, work hard. We’re roasting an entire bull with the sacrificial fire, I’m already dooling!” Enzo’s laughter was incomparably bright, looking at Lin Qi dripping with sweat while he himself just stood at one side contently resting with good wine to drink, it was truly the most pleasing thing in life.
Lin Qi snorted. He brandished his hatchet, hacking at the huge tree dozens of times in succession. Then he suddenly straightened his body and frowned at Enzo. “Lately I’ve been thinking, what does Long Cheng want to do at the imperial capital? His bet, doesn’t he win after crossing the North Sea and Odin Ice Origin? Why on earth does he still go to the imperial capital? He can totally return to the east right now!”
Enzo shrugged his shoulders. He unconcernedly said, “Who knows? Maybe he needs some proof?”
Lin Qi laughed. He brandished his hatchet to hack at the black pine with all his might, before saying with a cruel smile, “Proof? Right, how can he prove that he had successfully reached West Continent? Perhaps, the crown of the emperor will be a good evidence?”
A loud ‘dong’ could be heard as the huge hatchet was embedded deeply in the tree trunk.
Slowly releasing his grip on the handle of the hatchet, Lin Qi turned his head to look at Enzo in shock. Enzo’s expression was also a little unnatural. The two blankly looked at each other for a while. Enzo said with a bitter smile, “He isn’t that crazy, right? Maybe, he do something else in passing? For example, buying some local specialties in the imperial capital?”
Gale rolled snowstorm to cover heaven and earth. Not long after Lin Qi and the others sent the chopped black pines back to the ancestral home, the sky darkened.
The next day was new year. Lin Qi busily piled up a huge bonfire in the courtyard of his ancestral home; those firewood that was as thick as an ordinary adult’s leg were arranged into dozens-meters-tall pile before it was poured with pungent-smelling kerosene.
Midnight was coming, the year would soon past, the new year was arriving. As the family head, Blackbeard personally ignited the huge bonfire using a torch. The flames raged towards the sky; due to Lin Qi’s hard work during the day, the bonfire of Black Tiger Family this year was indeed the biggest one in Dunerk.
The ten-meters-tall flame rose high into the air on the top of Black Beech Hill, shining over a small part of Dunerk.
Flame raging, flagrance of meal assailing the nostril, smell of fine wine drifting to all directions.
Members of Black Tiger Family were hanging around the residence while enjoying themselves. Lin Qi was also carrying a wine jug while toasting everyone.
Suddenly, Arthur unknowingly appeared with a wine cup in his hand and stopped Lin Qi.
