Chapter 28: El Haisen, Your New House

Chapter 28: El Haisen, Your New House

But we have to pay compensation.

He can now deny his debt and then be permanently blacklisted by the Palace of Wisdom, and rely entirely on the void to acquire knowledge in the future. This sounds like a good idea, compared to paying three or four million in compensation.

But Harold knew that after Xumi welcomed the little grass god back to his position, he would close the void, and then he would lose his way to access information.

Ask senior Kavi to help him borrow books?

No, although he is thick-skinned, he is not that thick-skinned. He cannot do such a shameless thing.

Or... encourage Brother Hai to become a master librarian after graduation?

That won't work. If Elhaisen really becomes the chief librarian, he might be the first one to be arrested after he finishes organizing the borrowing files.

Or, just "borrow" this book permanently?

I calculated that if I don't pay it back for one month, I will have to pay two thousand Mora. I am fifteen years old and I will borrow for eighty years...

The total overdue fee for borrowing books is 1.92 million Mora, which is cheaper than the compensation of 3 to 4 million.

Very good, it’s decided. I won’t return this book. I’ll lend it to him for eighty years.

If I am still alive eighty years later, I will borrow it for another ten years.

After making up his mind, Haroldt carried "The Complete Collection of Xumi Ancient Characters" on his back.

It was just like being "unlucky" in the game, but now he didn't have to carry the thick book in his arms. As long as he thought about it, "The Complete Collection of Xumi Ancient Characters" would stick to his back like a magnetic levitation cloak.

Is it convenient? It was exchanged for 1.92 million Mora.

Harold came to the agreed tavern carrying the book. It was not the Lambad Tavern that appeared repeatedly in the story of Kavi and Elhaisen in the game, but another tavern called Doha Mondrian on the main road of Xumi City. This tavern was close to the highest point of Xumi City. Sitting at the open-air tables outside the tavern, one could overlook the mountains in the distance.

When Harold entered the Mondrian Tavern in Doha, he couldn't help but be impressed by the unique exotic decoration. In his previous life, he had been to many five-star hotels and international hotels, and had also seen retro Gothic and Byzantine styles.

Although this Xumi hotel looks like a typical Islamic building from the outside, its interior decoration is very Bohemian, a style characterized by romance and freedom.

Carpets, curtains, sofas, sofa cushions... basically all the fabrics that can be seen are decorated with complex and colorful geometric patterns, with red, blue and green beads underneath the fabrics. In contrast are simple wooden tables and chairs and a string of ceiling lights covered with rattan lampshades. The part near the window is decorated with green plants unique to the Sumeru Rainforest.

Harold looked around. This high-end tavern didn't have many customers on weekdays. Harold saw Kavi, who was wearing the uniform of the House of the Order. He was already sitting at the table, with the rest area behind him.

The ceiling of that area is deliberately designed to be italic, as if to suck people into another space. So the design of that area also changes suddenly, from Bohemia to tropical rainforest. Green potted plants of different heights are placed around the walls. A white hammock is pulled in the artificial "jungle". Next to the hammock is a sofa as big as a double bed. The sofa is covered with a simple red plaid blanket and two ouds are placed on it.

Harold saw Kavi, and Kavi naturally saw Harold as well. He excitedly waved at Harold, motioning for Harold to sit over there.

Harold walked quickly to Kavi and sat down. The "Sumeru Ancient Characters" behind him followed his inner thoughts and floated from his back to the table in front of him.

"what is this?"

This scene made Kavi stunned for a moment, but he soon reacted and said in surprise: "It's the Eye of God?! Harold, when did you become the owner of the Eye of God?"

"Just yesterday," Harold said with a smile, "but I just started to get used to using elemental power today. Look, senior, this is what I did this afternoon."

Harold took out the small stool he had rubbed and placed it on the table. If the Bohemian-style tablecloth on the table is regarded as a carpet, the Ming-style court chair placed on it has a kind of eclectic atmosphere that combines Chinese and Western styles.

"Is this a Liyue-style chair? It uses a mortise and tenon structure? Can the Rock God's Eye actually achieve this level?"

With Harold's tacit consent, Kavi took the small chair in his hands and turned it over and over. Being good at mechanical engineering, he naturally saw the difference of this small chair: multiple irregularly shaped rocks fit together tightly, and even if there was a slight size deviation in one of them, it might fall apart.

"Great job! If I can get the Eye of God, I hope it will also be of the rock type, so that I can make a lot of furniture models to simulate interior furnishings, and I can also use stones to build house models when I want."

Kavi is very much looking forward to such a future. For architectural designers, the Rock God's Eye can really provide a lot of convenience.

Harold listened silently and thought to himself, but the senior has obtained the Grass-type God's Eye, whose skill is to recover health by hitting the grass, and he also let the dog planner poison him. The skill CD is longer than my life.

"Hey, let's talk about the future later. Let's order the food first, junior."

Kavi reluctantly put the exquisite little chair back on the table and handed the menu to Harold. The waiter waiting on the side saw this and hurried forward with a pen in one hand and a notebook in the other, ready to take notes at any time.

Harold flipped through a few pages of the menu. His food requirements were simple. He just wanted it to take no time to eat and be easy to swallow, so he preferred thick soups and desserts as staple foods.

But the owner's dish style, spicy beast of burden meat jerky, charcoal grilled mushroom pork leg, eight-layer milk puff balls, ice cream chocolate tart... the main point is that it's hard for me to make, and I want it to be hard for you to eat too.

And the price tags on the back of these dishes, a long string of "0"s made him feel dizzy just looking at them.

He loves money, even if it's not his money.

"Senior Kavi, what does Senior Elhaisen like to eat?" Harold asked, placing a thick menu on the table.

"Don't worry about him, just order what you like first - well, actually, I have already ordered his favorite dishes in advance. What a joke that guy is. He takes so long even when I invite him to dinner," Kavi's voice became noticeably smaller.

So Harold ordered four desserts and two soups. Kavi grumbled in dissatisfaction, "No need to save me money like this!", and added five main courses after Harold finished ordering.

They were all dishes with a lot of "0" at the end, which made Harold gasp in surprise.

After ordering the food, Elhaisen had not arrived yet, so Haroldt suggested playing a "jigsaw puzzle game" together, but the pieces he used were the three-dimensional "jigsaw puzzles" he made using the Eye of the Rock Elemental God.

Kavi readily agreed, and after observing the pile of parts one by one, he immediately had the answer in his mind. He picked up the parts and assembled them, without any hesitation every time. Soon, he assembled a Chinese pavilion.

That's right, Harold built the various parts of a mortise and tenon structure pavilion according to the drawings, and invited Kavi to try it out as a jigsaw puzzle.

"Too fast!" Harold clapped his hands.

Kavi was good at mechanical engineering and architectural design. He had thought that Kavi would be able to assemble the model much faster than him, but he never expected that even without the blueprints, Kavi could assemble the pavilion more than ten times faster than he could assemble the stools.

"Senior, do you want to make another one?" Harold asked, seeing that Kavi seemed unsatisfied.

"Is it okay?" Kavi's eyes lit up.

Harold nodded and made another pile of parts. This time, he maliciously mixed together the parts of three bookcases of different sizes, a long table with three stools, and a small attic.

"so much?!"

Kavi opened his mouth in surprise, but he immediately pursed his lips and seriously pulled the parts to his side and looked at them one by one. After reading them once, he looked at Harold and said, "Okay, you are deliberately trying to make things difficult for me, right?"

"Isn't this just adding some difficulty to the senior? Otherwise, how can such a simple 'puzzle' reflect the senior's level?" Haroldt said confidently.

"That's right. It's just a little bit difficult. Give me a minute to put it together," said Kawi, looking at the pile of parts again and then picking some parts out of the pile.

After a while, he divided the parts in front of him into eight small piles.

"One minute is up, Senior Kawi," Harold said with a smile.

"You are actually timing it?!" Kavi couldn't believe it.

"Well, I lost," said Kavi very unwillingly.

Then he pointed to the three piles of parts and said, "But I can already see that these are three bookcases."

"This is a table, these are chairs, and this is a loft."

"All correct!" said Harold.

"See, I'm still pretty good," Kavi said happily as he started to put the parts together.

With an idea in mind, he worked quickly, and in less than three minutes, a bunch of finished models appeared on the table.

"Liyue's furniture style is really good. If these bookcases are really made, they can hold a lot of books. Elhaisen should like them," Kawi said, looking at his "work". "His bookcases are full, but he just put some books horizontally on top of other books, and some are piled up on the desk. He also said that he has read all the books and there is no need to care too much about them."

"Senior Kavi would like to give Senior Elhaisen a bookcase like this?" Harold asked.

"I just can't stand him leaving books everywhere. But the layout of his house can't be saved by simply changing a bookcase," Kavi snorted heavily.

"It makes me angry just thinking about how he would put such ugly ornaments on such a beautiful bookcase. And next to the bookcase, he actually put that ugly iron bench?! Does he think that place is a study or a rest area outside the public toilet?" Kavi said dissatisfiedly.

Kavi: "To match this kind of Liyue-style bookcase, of course you have to use Liyue-style wooden chairs. Put a black bamboo screen between the two bookcases, and you can put vases on the table. And the door can't be used. I've been unhappy with that door for a long time. According to the aesthetics of the Liyue people, it can be separated by a carved screen..."

"Is it this one?" Harold listened to Kavi's description and made all the furniture parts he mentioned.

Kavi can tell what the furniture will look like just by looking at the parts.

"Yes, yes, that's it!"

Kavi happily took the parts and said as he assembled them.

"And in his living room, the table is a little shorter, it can be this low, and the stools are round bentwood stools..."

...

The two of them quickly built a three-bedroom, one-living room house for Elhaisen and furnished it with corresponding furniture. From time to time, Kavi adjusted the positions of other furniture according to the new furniture made by Harold, trying to make them look more designed.

"...The paintings in his house are so ugly. They don't match the furniture at all, and the location is not good either," Kavi pointed with his finger, indicating that was the place where Elhaisen hung the painting.

"Senior, I can't hang a picture," said Harold.

"Well... using rocks to make hanging paintings, what was I thinking? I'm making it too difficult for you," Kavi said apologetically.

"But we can just draw. I have a notebook with me," Haroldt took out a notebook and tore off a blank page.

"By painting? But I have never tried to paint ancient Liyue paintings, so I don't know if I can do it well," Kavi used the void to find a few references, then took out a pen. He always had the habit of carrying drawing tools with him.

However, due to the limitation of tools, he could only imitate meticulous painting in the form of line drawing.

"It can only be this way."

Kavi was not very satisfied with what he drew, but since he designed the "El Haisen House", he had to design every corner of it well.

"It's already a very good painting," Harold said. At least for someone like him who has never painted Chinese paintings, Kavi's paintings are really good. However, due to cultural and tool limitations, Kavi's paintings have brushes but no ink, and there is nothing he can do about it.

The two carefully pasted several "hanging paintings" in appropriate positions.

"Well... the rooms have been designed for him, so why not change his house as well," Kawi said. "By the way, before that, we need to take some photos of our interior design. If El Haisen wants to buy another house in the future, he can refer to these pictures. With ready-made pictures provided to him, he won't mess up his own house again, right?"

"Miss, is there a camera here?" Harold asked the waiter beside him.

"Yes, our store has always provided free photography services, but if you two want to have the photos developed, the cost is one thousand Moraes per photo," said the waitress in a Bohemian dress.

"No problem, but can we take the photos ourselves?", Kavi asked.

"Okay, sir, I'll get you the camera right away," the waiter said and left in a hurry.

“A Liyue-style mansion also needs a large garden,” Kavi said.

"It's called 'Private Garden' in Liyue, Senior," Harold said.

"Harold, you are really knowledgeable about Liyue culture. Are you a Liyue person?" Kavi asked in surprise.

Harold did not deny the term "Liyue people", although he himself did not know which country he was from. Only his mentor Zechariah knew where he was picked up from.

Kavi did not dwell on this question. Instead, he looked at the fence and wooden door that Harold had just made and said, "Should we call it a private garden? Should we hang a plaque at the entrance of the garden? And should we write the name of the garden on it? Then should we write 'Elhaisen's Garden' on it?"

"It can't be called 'The Garden of Elhaisen', Senior Kavi," Haroldt, who was rubbing the plaque, couldn't help laughing, and he rubbed the plaque crooked.

To be honest, what Kavi said sounded very funny to the flower-growing family.

"Isn't it possible? The text on the Liyue people's plaque doesn't seem to be that long - why are you still laughing?" Kavi pinched Harold's cheek in dissatisfaction.

"Uh-huh, I won't laugh anymore, hahaha," Haroldt tried hard to hold back his laughter.

Sorry, I just couldn't help it.

"Then what good suggestions does our 'Liyue Expert' Harold have?" Kavi asked.

"Hmm...advice for teaching and frank advice?", Mihuyou gave a ready-made answer, it would be a shame not to copy it.

"Huh?" Kavi didn't understand.

Harold then wrote down the four words in Liyue language and explained the meaning of the four words.

"It's indeed suitable," Kavey commented after listening.

Then the two began to arrange the landscape around these four words.

Kawi marked out a part of the area with his hand: "This part reflects 'Huitao'."

Harold: "The secluded path in the bamboo forest, the distant mountains, and the moon peeking through the window are very relevant."

"This part is a criticism...hiss, no, it doesn't taste right," Kavi thought, resting his chin on his hand. "I shouldn't simply divide these two parts. The various parts of Liyue's gardens should be connected to each other."

"Harold, do you think I should move this rockery here? And move the pine tree here over there?..." Kavi swapped the positions of several parts.

"It seems so, but after this adjustment, the position of the pavilion must also be moved so that the rockery can be seen through the flower window."

"Yes!"

The two designers, who had never designed a Chinese garden before, could only move the tiny landscapes around based on their intuition, but they had a lot of fun.

They all forgot that they were originally just playing the jigsaw puzzle to pass the time.