Chapter 3 Summer in the City of Knowledge
"The world is so peaceful." Panis lay on the tallest of several oak trees in the courtyard of the Western Palace. He bent his legs and raised his head with his arms resting on his mouth, and hummed comfortably: "It's so comfortable to lie in the shade of trees on such a hot summer afternoon. If there is another glass of iced ale, it will be the happiest day in the world."
"Hahaha." A series of crisp laughter from children came from the grass under the tree.
In July 3692, midsummer has arrived as usual, but compared to the Western Restaurant at No. 6 Fox Street a few months ago, there have been considerable changes.
The Western Palace is surrounded by stone walls on three sides, and only the front is replaced by a row of metal fences. After decades of construction, the metal fences are stained with mottled rust. But now it is different. All fences have been painted again. The metal poles look like new, and the door is more focused on it. Not only are they painted with new paint, but the door shafts are also re-oiled. The doors open and close quietly, and there will never be any strange creaking sounds when opening the door.
The courtyard of the Western Palace is very large. The ground of the courtyard is covered with a layer of emerald green grass. The height is thin and soft. When you step on it, it feels like stepping on the best carpet. Even if you are barefoot, you won’t feel tingling, but you will feel itchy and comfortable. White flowers grow on the green grass, and unknown flowers grow with the grass, like a beautiful pattern on the green grass carpet. The breeze blows, and the grass sways in the wind. The fragrance of moist soil and the sweet fragrance of white flowers are mixed together, spreading silently to every corner of the courtyard with the breeze. From a distance, the whole lawn is cleaned up and beautiful. There is no feeling of being abandoned at all.
Looking up along the courtyard, you can see the white Western Palace. The exterior wall of the Western Palace is painted silver white, and the newly painted color shines in the sun. A gravel path extends forward along the metal gate, leading to the front of the Western Palace.
On one side of the courtyard, the tallest oak tree has entered its maturity stage. The two shorter ones have also entered a rapid growth stage. Only one is still in the seedling stage, but after more than ten months of cultivation, the seedlings have been forty or fifty centimeters higher than the ground, and they seem to grow very healthy and vigorously. Seven meters away from the seedlings, another oak bud stretched out under the ground. This was planted by Catherine with three other people before going to the grassland a few months ago. The meaning of the five oak trees represented by Catherine did not say it directly, but everyone knew it very well. Now the branches of the three tall oak trees have obviously been carefully pruned. The pruned oak trees grow more lushly than before, and the leaves are denser, providing a shaded place for the open space under the trees.
Everything in the courtyard was cleaner and orderly than before. Two months ago, the four adventure team members who returned home almost thought they had gone the wrong way. After asking carefully, they realized that everything was the credit of Freya and the maid sisters who often came to wander around. Freya made a decision for Catherine and then completed it by the maid sisters. Although everyone had sorted out every day before, the scope of the Western Paradise was really large, and everyone often went far away and did not come back for a long time, so it was difficult to keep the entire Western Paradise and the courtyard perfect. At most, it was the limit to maintain the often used room that was clean and tidy. As a result, when we came back this time, the girls experienced the benefits of having an exclusive maid for the first time.
Now, the heroes of this achievement, Pansy and Mimosa, the maid sisters of the Western Pavilion, are sitting under the shade of the tree, a pair of twin sisters and two little undead wearing ragdoll coats, are chasing and playing around the sisters. Previously, under Vivian's guidance, the little banshee Anne solidified the magic that can make the deer's soul fire sound on the deer's favorite ragdoll suits. Since then, the little skeleton who was taken home feels that she has arrived in the Kingdom of God.
Don't be troubled by loneliness. Even if everyone takes Anne out in the future, there will be maid sisters and sisters Michelle and Ansha who often come to play. Now that's it, six girls with not much age difference, or mental age difference gather in the shade of trees to play. This is the scene that the two little undead dreamed of in their dreams. No, there are more than two undead, including the maid sisters, and it is hard to imagine their current life in the days of the City of Innocence.
On the other side of the courtyard, Lina and Vivian were watering the lawn. The way the two girls watered deeply reflects the particularity of professionals. Just a simple watering work, they had already made a fancy trick. A large water ball with floating techniques was lifted by Lina on her head. This was not a magical creation. The water generated by magic is composed of high concentrations of water elements. Because the concentration is too high and cannot be used for irrigation and drinking, the water ball was obtained from the well in the backyard, held by Lina and fucked by Vivian with fine details.
Guanlai kept peeling the well water from the water ball and sprinkling it on the lawn. The two cooperated tacitly and turned around on the lawn, having a lot of fun. After a while, the two started a new round of disputes for some reason. They quickly pinched each other's faces and rolled on the grass while smiling. However, it was obvious that they forgot what they were doing before. The water ball, which was more than one person, lost the support of human power. They could not bear their own weight by floating technique alone, and could only slowly fall and hit the two of them. Then their bodies disintegrated and restored to the original clear water.
So the two had to go back to change their clothes. Before leaving, Lina did not forget to attack with a flying hammer, and stared at Lina's wet body blankly. Panis, who didn't even know that the straw stick in her mouth fell off the branch.
"The leisurely life is also good." Panis, who fell to the ground, was too lazy to get up, and continued to lie on the lawn in his original position, shaking his raised feet, and said leisurely: "Are you two accustomed to life outside?"
"It's very good here. There's no need to worry about having no food or any passerby who kills us for fun." Mimosa's face was filled with a happy smile: "You don't even have to try your best to protect yourself when you please your guests like you did when you were working in the evergreen hotel. If possible, we want to live here for the rest of our lives."
"It's hard to go to the nearby market every seven or eight days to purchase." Pansy also dragged her chin and smiled brightly: "Master Catherine gave strict orders, allowing us to avoid anyone on the way back and forth, no matter what the other party did to us, but as long as the other party did not cause real harm to us, we are not allowed to attack them. We know that the owner is for our own good, but every time we purchase, we are really scared. Those people's actions are too dangerous and too close to each other. We have been preparing to die several times, but they don't know why they didn't really take action. Maybe they are just kidding? But they are all ordinary people, and it's easy to be killed by making such jokes."
"Ha, hehe, hehe." Panis smiled dryly, not knowing whether to be moved by the two of them rather than die than violate Catherine's orders or to express condolences for their cognitive abilities. He could only smile dryly, "Fortunately you are obedient, otherwise there would probably be a large number of bloody tragedies nearby."
"Later we thought of a good idea." Mimosa said proudly: "Every time we go to purchase, we will first make a shopping plan, draw a marching map, and then wait in the dark alley next to the market in the middle of the night. When the stalls start to open, we will rush into the market, follow the map, buy everything quickly, and then run back all the way. This is the idea I came up with, and since then, I have not been bothered by those people again."
"I think that's why everyone is hiding from the patients." Panis sighed and said, "But you go to the dark alley in the middle of the night to hide. Didn't the night patrolmen in the city guard cause trouble for you?"
"We came out of the City of Innocence, and it is much more difficult to hide there than this city." Mimosa said: "When the difficulty is reduced now, how can we be easily discovered? But once, there was a very powerful professional, probably the leader of the Night Shooter you mentioned, and it seemed that we had discovered us. However, Master Catherine took us to meet him before leaving, and he should have recognized us, ignored us and passed by."
"You are so lucky." Panis smiled bitterly: "It seems that Catherine has long expected something to happen to you."
"But there is one thing we care about." Pansy suddenly became serious and said, "Some people occasionally peeked out from the outside without knowing what their intentions were. Those people were people living nearby, and we suspect that they were actually planning to do something about the house by operating a shop."
"Yes, and those people sometimes leave something in the door through the door," Mimosa added. "Sometimes it's freshly picked fruit, sometimes it's freshly cooked food. Are they humiliating us? How could we be fooled with such a simple trap?"
"Train?" Panis asked with a smile in his arms, "What kind of trap do you think is?"
"It is the stupidest to poison fresh food. Even those who have been hungry for three or four days will not be fooled." Mimosa replied very simply: "If you want to use this poisoned food to harm people, the target must be people tortured by hunger. We have not lacked food in the past few months, so it is impossible to be fooled. Moreover, the food they use is not right. No one will be foolish enough to believe that this new thing delivered to the door is fine. If you want to poison it, you must at least choose to let some spoiled food for a few days, and you cannot put it at the door. You have to pretend to be careless and throw it on the side of the road inadvertently. This is how credible it is."
"Well, what did you do in the end?" Panis asked, "Don't throw it out."
"If you throw it out, they will know that we are already alert." Pansy shook her head and said, "So we are all buried deep in the backyard."
Chapter completed!