Chapter 13

Chapter 13 YOUR HOME IS YOUR CASTLE! YOUR CASTLE IS YOUR HOME! Jodi had been right. With Ash helping them, they finally made real progress on the castle. And more important, they all had fun doing it. They spent the first few days making a mineshaft. They were all nervous about it. But Ash insisted they needed more material to work with. She reminded them to be careful.

第十三章家就是城堡！城堡就是你的家！乔迪是对的。 在阿什的帮助下，他们终于在城堡上取得了真正的进展。 更重要的是，他们都乐在其中。 他们花了几天时间挖了一个矿井。 他们都很紧张。 但阿什坚持认为他们需要更多的材料来研究。 她提醒他们要小心。

So they dug. They placed torches every few squares. They set up doors in case they needed to retreat in a hurry. That way, anything scary they encountered wouldn't be able to follow them back to the surface. A few times, they heard strange sounds in the depths. Those sounds were proof of hostile mobs underground. Whenever they heard something, they would put up a wall of dirt, turn around, and dig in another direction. They all had swords now, but as Ash put it, why fight if they didn't have to? It was a good strategy. It allowed them

于是他们挖了起来。他们每隔几个广场就放上火把。 他们设置了门，以防需要匆忙撤退。 这样，他们遇到的任何可怕的东西都不能跟着他们回到地面。 有几次，他们听到海底有奇怪的声音。 这些声音证明地下有敌对的暴徒。 每当他们听到什么，他们就会竖起一堵土墙，转过身来，朝另一个方向挖。 他们现在都有了剑，但就像艾什说的，如果不是迫不得已，为什么还要打仗呢？ 这是一个很好的策略。它允许他们

to bring a lot more building materials up to the surface. And that meant fewer arguments about who got to use what. Over the following week, Harper went wild with the small amounts of redstone they found. She made a switch for the main entrance, and even a simple trapdoor in case an unwelcome mob ever made it past the moat. Po found a use for all the flowers they'd gathered. He arranged them all over the castle: around the exterior wall, within the interior courtyard, and even in little flower boxes up on the turrets. Morgan was in charge of the four main turrets. He made them all identical. But he let Jodi place different stained glass windows in each one. There was a fifth tower, too. This one was

把更多的建筑材料带到地面上来。 这意味着关于谁该用什么东西的争论减少了。 在接下来的一个星期里，哈珀对他们发现的少量红石欣喜若狂。 她为正门做了一个开关，甚至还做了一个简单的活板门，以防不受欢迎的暴徒通过护城河。 阿宝找到了他们收集到的花的用途。 他把它们布置在城堡各处：在外墙周围，在内部庭院里，甚至在塔楼上的小花盒里。 摩根负责四个主要的塔楼。 他让它们都一模一样。 但他让乔迪在每个房间里都安装了不同的彩色玻璃窗。 还有第五座塔。 这个是

obsidian and rose from the very center of the fortress. And it was all Jodi's. Whereas the castle turrets were straight, this tower was twisted like a spiral. At its top was a wide platform for stargazing. The platform was surrounded with decorative arches. It was certainly strange, but she thought it was beautiful, too. As she was putting on the finishing touches, a thought occurred to her. "DID WE EVER FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT CHEST FULL OF OBSIDIAN?" she asked. "I thought Po took it," Morgan said. "A BASE KNAVE I WOULD BE TO STRAY SO FAR FROM THE RULES OF CHIVALRY!" Po said. "WHAT?" said Jodi. "He said he didn't take it," said Harper. "THAT'S WEIRD." Jodi said. She wondered if they had finally found one of the glitches Doc had warned them about. She hoped all the obsidian wasn't glitchy. What if her obsidian tower disappeared one day? After nearly two weeks of daily progress, Jodi had just one more task to accomplish.

黑曜石，从堡垒的正中央升起。 都是乔迪的。城堡的塔楼是直的，而这座塔却像螺旋一样扭曲。 山顶有一个宽阔的观星平台。 月台四周有装饰性的拱门。 这的确很奇怪，但她也觉得很漂亮。 当她在做最后的润色时，她突然有了一个想法。 “我们找到那个装满黑曜石的箱子的下落了吗？”她问。 “我以为阿宝拿走了，”摩根说。 “我要是这么不遵守骑士的规矩，那我就是个卑鄙的无赖了！”阿宝说。 “什么？”乔迪问。“他说他没有拿。”哈珀说。 “奇怪。”乔迪说。 她想知道他们是否终于找到了医生警告过他们的一个小故障。 她希望所有的黑曜石都不会出故障。 如果有一天她的黑曜石塔消失了怎么办？ 经过近两周的每日进步，乔迪只剩下一项任务要完成了。

This was something she and Ash had been working on in secret. One day, when the others were in the mineshaft, Ash took Jodi aside and said, "It's ready." They snuck away to a hidden plot of land. It was a sunny patch of ground on the far side of a hill, set right against a lake. The others couldn't see it from the castle. That made it the perfect spot for a secret garden. Ash and Jodi had planted wheat seeds there a few days before. Jodi said, "YOU'RE RIGHT! THE WHEAT LOOKS READY TO HARVEST." But wheat wasn't the surprise they had in mind.

这是她和阿什一直在秘密研究的事情。 一天，当其他人都在矿井里时，阿什把乔迪拉到一边说：“准备好了。” 他们偷偷溜到一块隐蔽的土地上。 那是一片阳光明媚的土地，坐落在山的另一边，正对着一个湖。 其他人在城堡里看不到。 这使它成为一个完美的秘密花园。 阿什和乔迪几天前在那里种下了小麦种子。 乔迪说：“你说得对！小麦似乎可以收割了。” 但小麦并不是他们想要的惊喜。

Jodi and Ash waited at the top of a hill. They watched from a distance as Morgan and the others emerged from the mineshaft. "WHERE HAVE YOU TWO BEEN?" Morgan called. "WE FOUND SOME GREAT STUFF!" Jodi turned to Ash. "Are you ready?" Ash nodded. "YEP." They walked down the hill toward the others. They each held out a stalk of wheat.

乔迪和阿什在山顶上等着。 他们远远地看着摩根和其他人从矿井里出来。 “你们俩上哪儿去了？”摩根称。 “我们发现了一些很棒的东西！”乔迪转向阿什。 “你准备好了吗？”灰点了点头。 “是的。”他们向山下的其他人走去。 他们每人拿出一根麦秆。