Evetrona's old stories

"Hey, girl!" Someone waved in this direction.Eve stopped what she was doing, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.She looked at the caller, but saw him smiling, and said to her: "Don't stop, play boldly, let's sing a song!"

After being affirmed, Eve also relaxed.She raised one leg, changed to a more comfortable position, and played the piece again, this time at a normal tempo.

This song was indeed a bit too cheerful, which attracted many people to look towards it. Eve felt guilty when they saw it, but she could only bite the bullet and continue playing.The time for the prelude seemed a bit long in the torment, but when the several knights in front of them sang together, the atmosphere finally eased down.

Kriging cannot do without music.They have catchy folk songs, as well as grand operas that can be elegant.They recorded different emotions in the melody and rhythm, and then sang their songs from generation to generation until the distant future.Descendants of subjugated people, wandering tribesmen, down-and-out aristocrats, warrior barbarians... The once fragmented west coast finally merged together and became the present-day Kriging Republic.People licked each other's wounds, recalled the sufferings they had experienced in the past, and lived solemnly but joyfully.

"Mion Minor Crossing the Lake" tells such a story: Mion Minor is a well-known joke teller in the mythology of the west coast. Once, he crossed the lake with all the people on the boat, but they couldn't hold back their invitation, so they told jokes on the boat.Because his joke was so funny, everyone was teased and turned back and forth. The boatman bent over laughing, and the boat spun around on the lake; the wild geese flying in the sky couldn't help opening their mouths when they heard his joke, and fell into the lake screaming; The words frothed gurglingly.The surface of the water gradually boiled, swallowing the boat that Miomino was on, and dragging the laughing crowd into the dark bottom of the lake.

Tandorf also sang along with the crowd and drank some wine.At the end, he couldn't help sighing: "Look at these stupid fools on the boat, how much like the Krigings!"

This sentence was echoed loudly by many people present - they may all be drunk.

In the end, Eve threw the violin into the fire under Tandorf's instruction. Seeing the old stringed violin turned into a pile of silent ashes, she still felt a little bit reluctant in her heart.

"Ertanshin said that if he dies, he must burn this broken violin and return it to him, but we can leave that harmonica to us." Tandorf's tone was a bit sad, "But who would want something that drools on an old man?" He threw a small object in his pocket into the fire, splashing a large amount of sparks, "Take them all away!" He waved his hand smartly, his dark pupils dancing with the firelight.

The self-described atheist who "takes life seriously" finally lost control of his emotions.

As the sky gradually darkened, the fire died out, leaving a grayish white mass.With a pickaxe, someone cracked and flaked the large bones that could not be burned away, put them into dark urns, and wrote their names.The Kriging people believed that the souls of the war dead would rise with the smoke and turn into gray clouds, and when their bones were buried, the first rain would bring the souls of the dead back to the tomb.At that time, they will take the gifts from the living, bid farewell to the chaotic world, and go to the land of the underworld full of birdsong and flowers.

On the morning of the second day, Eve left here with the supervisor team and a group of students, and the destination was the teleportation point when she came.They parted ways with Laningov's team—the knights would go to Xi Zekun City, hand over the prisoners under escort to the local court, and then the court would convict them and decide their fate.

When parting, the crowds on both sides were waving to each other and calling the names of those who had just met.

"Goodbye, little white rabbit!" Marco rode on the horse and waved his arms at Eve.He frowned tightly, looking quite reluctant, which made Eve feel very uncomfortable.It's a pity that Ma Ke is not a handsome man or a beautiful woman. Out of face, Eve just smiled and waved at him without saying anything.

The moment of parting is not sloppy.Eve and his group left the place on foot with their bags on their backs.On the snow at the fork in the road, only two rows of deep and shallow footprints were left in the end.They met because of this bandit suppression mission, and after parting from each other, they don't know when, where, and who will meet next time.

After passing through the teleportation array, Eve and his party finally returned to the icy lake in the north of Schulenburg. The clean lake looked dazzling and beautiful under the sun.It's just that the sound of vomiting one after another around me is really a bit of a sight-since Olugin and Poncef are not in the team, the young men of the supervising team are a little inexperienced when debugging the teleportation array, and it seems that they have used too much force.

Schulenburg was still the same—naturally, after all, they had only been away for two or three days.

Without the laughter of the knights, Schulenburg became much quieter, but in fact, this was what Schulenburg was like.

As soon as Eve entered the hall, she saw Ainmo come out of a room and was buttoning the collar of his shirt.Eve almost instinctively got under the table near the wall, and was very resistant to meeting him—it's just that this kind of behavior is really rude, and I don't know how Nanfen will feel when she sees it.

Ai Enmo glanced at the table and walked out the door without saying a word.

Eve breathed a sigh of relief and crawled out from under the table.She rubbed her sore thighs and walked towards her room.

Ai Enmo just came out of the maid Lu Meixi's room, and Eve's room is next door.Awanna was sitting on a chair by the window at this moment, with her head lowered, a blush appeared on her originally wheat-colored cheeks.

Eve took off her dirty coat and hung it on the coat rack by the door.

"Is the neighbor noisy just now?" Eve asked her casually.

The girl seemed to wake up from a dream, she raised her head suddenly, and a surprised smile appeared on her face.

"They seemed to be..." Avanna gestured frantically, she didn't know how to explain what happened next door in Kriging.

"I know, don't worry about them, we're leaving here tomorrow." Eve lay on the bed with her head up, and when she talked about this, she felt relieved.

While rushing in the morning, the students got together to discuss the plan for the return trip, and Eve also got involved in the topic.She planned to take company with some of them so that she could return to Boyun Manor as soon as possible—and she was very angry at the thought of her few remaining vacations.

General Hutton was wearing a gray cotton gown, leaning against the porch pillar and sitting on the wooden steps on the east side of the house, rubbing the lighted bone pipe with his rough palm, and a dirty long-haired old dog was crawling at his feet.The setting sun at noon shone on him, and his face was immersed in the gray-blue shadow under the eaves.

Eve passed by the yard, and when she saw the old man, her steps froze.Hutton beckoned to her, and the girl trotted to him.The sun fell on her fair face, bright and penetrating.

In fact, Eve also really wanted to see Hutton, not just to thank him for saving his life - after careful consideration, she still wanted to return the ring.

"What's the matter, don't you like it?" Hutton looked at the ring lying on her palm and asked suspiciously, frowning.

"I just think this thing is too precious..."

"Because it is precious, it is worth giving away."

"But... I'm afraid I'll disappoint you."

"How to say?"

There was concern in Hutton's eyes, and his tone was very gentle, which made Eve feel a little guilty.

"I may not be suitable to be a knight." Eve still said what was in her heart, "You gave me this ring because you had high hopes for me, but I..."

Hutton laughed suddenly, and he waved his hands not to let Eve continue.The old man didn't seem to be angry, on the contrary he seemed a little happy.

"Then do what you like." Hutton spoke slowly, without a trace of blame. "I have been complained by Lord before, and now I don't want to be blamed by his daughter anymore. Do you know what Lord told me when he was young? He said that making leather shoes is much more interesting than leading soldiers to fight—heh!"

Hutton shook his head and laughed, and Eve also laughed with him.The old dog lying on the ground slowly raised his head, glanced at the two of them, then leaned back to the ground with his ear as a pillow.

"I came here from this road—it's really not interesting." Hutton comforted the junior in front of him, "Our older generation endures hardships and stands hard work, and we just want the younger generation to live in peace and stability. There is no regret in giving up Yes. Which parent would want their child to fight on the battlefield? So don't worry about it, it's just an ordinary gift - look at me, I'm an old man, there's nothing I can give you , that’s the only thing you can get.”

But no matter how Hutton persuaded, Eve finally returned the ring to him.

With such a thing in her arms, she always felt uneasy, as if she owed a huge debt.

Looking at the back of the girl leaving, Hutton felt a little complicated.Leaning against the wall behind him, looking at the hazy snow peak in the distance, he fell into the unique half-dream and half-awake state of the elderly again.

A week later, the Knights successfully arrived in Xi Zekun City.

The door was opened.Lennosa raised her head and looked at the man dressed as an officer sitting on the chair in front of her.At this time, she was wearing a pair of shackles and sitting against the wall in this narrow confinement room.

"Hello?" Seeing that the other party had been staring at her without speaking, Lennosha took the initiative to greet the other party.

"Your grandfather's name is Smirro?" The man's voice echoed in the small room.

"Probably not. I've never said that name." The girl shook her head, looking a little dazed.

"Well, he didn't mention his real name to you."

"I have no idea." Lenoresa shook her head.

Holly took off his hat and put it on the small table beside him.This man had been a soldier all his life, and he behaved without anger or prestige. Somewhat unable to bear his sharp gaze, Lennosha lowered her head and rubbed her hands uneasily.The iron chains on the shackles collided, making a soft sound.

"I am Hollyn Rügemunk, a deputy head of the Knights." He said, "You have two choices now—one, serve your sentence in the special prison in Deep Bay; two, repent and follow me in the future."

"I would like to follow you." Lennosa replied immediately.

Huo Lien looked at her expressionlessly, neither saying yes nor no.

"If I had a choice, I wouldn't want to stay in that kind of place." Lennosa raised her two shackled arms and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeves. "My father and grandfather are villains. Willing to make amends..."

"You know that the two of them are dead?" Huo Lien raised his eyebrows.

"When I was still on the road, many people were talking about it, and I heard it." Lennosha put her hands back on her lap, her eyes were a little red.

"I was thinking just now, how should I tell you about this." Huo Lien sighed, "Son, don't you hate us?"

Lennosha lowered her eyes, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice, "I don't hate." There was a tremor in her tone.

"What's your name?" Holly asked.

"Lennosha." The girl paused, and then added, "There is another name, which was given by others later, and it is called Mulanne."

"Mulane." Huo Lien nodded, with a subtle expression on his face, "The Wind of Winter lives up to its name. Don't use the name Lennosha anymore, and you will be called Mulanne from now on."

"Can I really follow you out of here?"

"Of course, but there is a price. No matter what the reason for your mistake, the crime cannot be wiped out."

"I'm willing to make amends." Mulannie said hastily.

"In the knight order, four people died because of you." After Huo Lien finished speaking, there was a long silence.Mulanie lowered her head and said nothing, a tear fell on the back of her hand.

"After spring, you have to go to the hometown of the four dead with the knights and hand over the ashes to their relatives. Your identity can be concealed, but you must remember that the pain of these people is caused by you .”

"I will definitely cooperate with them and handle this matter well." Mu Lanye said, wiping away tears.

"Besides, your ability also needs to be controlled."

Huo Lien knocked on the table, the door was opened from the outside, and three more people entered the small room.Two of them were wearing knight uniforms, the other was wearing casual clothes, with the "Double Moon and Sailboat" emblem of the Alchemy Association on his chest, and he was holding a small box in his hand.

Huo Lien put on his hat, turned sideways to make way for these people, and went to the door by himself.

"In the future, I will monitor your words and deeds. When you can remove these things depends on your own performance." After Huo Lien finished speaking, he strode away.

The two knights undid the shackles on Mulanne's wrists, and pulled her white hair roughly, causing her to tilt her head, exposing one ear.

A cold thing touched her ear, and before she could realize what it was, a very strong tingling sensation came from the pinna.Mu Lannie arched back in pain, and fell to the ground as soon as he straightened up.Her hands were firmly held by the knight behind her, and she couldn't break free no matter what.Immediately afterwards, the second and third silver nails were nailed to the cartilage of her ear again. A layer of cold sweat broke out on the girl's forehead, but she gritted her teeth and dared not yell.She gasped for breath, and even the sound of crying became intermittent.The man in casual clothes nailed a total of eight silver nails on her ears and auricles, and then opened her upper eyelids and nailed another nail on the outer corner of her eyelids.

"Will this thing leave scars? Will it leave scars?" Mu Lanye looked at the man in front of her weakly, and she was trembling all over.Her eyes were so full of tears and blood that she could barely see anything.

No one answered her question, so the casually dressed man cast a spell to stop her wound from bleeding.

Her snow-white hair was stained with blood.The head was groggy, and the clear perception brought about by elemental sensitivity could never be regained.

The corners of the eyes were sore and red and swollen, and the pain on the face was unbearable.She closed her eyes, with reddish tears oozing from the corners of her eyes.

Mulanne's voice trembled, and she kept repeating the name "Alben"-she didn't know where her cat was sent.

The door of the confinement room was locked again, and everything returned to calm.

[108] Miriam, Home Paradise (Part [-])

When Eve returned to Boyun Manor, it was already late January.All the way back from the north, the weather is getting warmer, which makes people have the illusion that spring is coming.

On the outskirts of Mengcheng, a large field was covered with mottled snow, Gua Ennai also walked briskly when he saw the familiar scenery in front of him.Eve drove Awanna on horseback, greeted the residents she met along the way, and returned to the manor without stopping.

After entering the villa compound, both of them got off their horses, and Gua Ennai was taken to the stable by the servant who heard the news.While leading the way, Eve introduced the situation here to Avanna, and told her who was in the family.

Under the porch of the main entrance, a girl stood there bent over.Eve saw her and waved at this person, but saw him take two steps back and ran into the main hall door in a panic.

"Who was that just now?" Avanna asked her.

"I don't know, I don't think I've seen this person before." Eve frowned and thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out who this person was.

In order to clear up her doubts, Eve quickened her pace, and Awanna followed closely behind her.Eve stepped up the steps in two steps, opened the door and walked into the house.

She misses Nam Fen and Min Hee a lot now.

The main hall on the first floor was very warm. As soon as Eve entered, she was hugged.

"Hey, she's so cold!" Minxi hugged her waist, turned to her mother and said.

Nan Fen stood behind the two of them, covered her mouth and smiled lightly.

"Milian said that she saw someone coming in outside, and I was thinking, could it be our female general who has returned?" Nan Fen was wearing a light gray velvet long coat, with fluffy golden curly hair on her head.She looks fine today.

Eve stared at Nan Fen blankly, a little too excited to speak.Seeing her helpless look, Nanfen smiled and went up to her, hugging her two daughters into her arms.

Eve wanted to say that she was too dirty, but she didn't say it after all—that would spoil the atmosphere too much.

"Aren't you hurt?" Nan Fen asked softly in her ear.

"No, there is no injury at all." Eve replied.

The mother and daughter were immersed in the short but lasting warmth at this moment, until Nanfen looked up and saw Awanna.

Avanna was wearing a dark brown riding outfit that Eve had bought for her on the road.Riding suits are one of the few non-skirt formal attire for women of this era, and Avanna fits them well—and there are no questions about her gender anymore.

"You brought friends back?" Nanfen smiled at Awanna, "I was really sorry just now... Welcome to our place to play."

Awanna seemed to be overwhelmed by Nanfen's temperament, she quickly waved her hand with a panicked expression, "No, I'm not a friend, I was just bought by her..."

For a moment, Nanfen's smile froze on her face.Both she and Minxi turned their heads and looked at Eve with strange expressions.

Eve was a little angry, she glared at Avanna, and the girl lowered her head in shame.

On the way back, Eve had already agreed with her to let her pretend to be her classmate and live in the manor for a period of time—as long as school starts and Eve takes her to see Baililin, she can keep secret and expose the matter.In her view, human trafficking is illegal in Kriging, although no transaction certificate was left at the time; on the other hand, she herself does not want to treat Avanna as a commodity, and she should give the other party the minimum respect.So Eve believes that the fewer people who know about this matter, the better.

"Her name is Awanna." Eve bravely introduced to the two, "That day, when I passed by the tribe where she lived, her brother saw that I was wearing a knight outfit, and kept begging me to entrust her to me. ..."

"Okay, let's talk about this later." Nanfen only heard half of what she said, and then smiled and pushed Eve and Awanna to the sofa by the window.Afterwards, Nanfen sat by the window, Minxi sat across from Nanfen with her arm around Eve, and Awanna sat on the left hand side of the two sisters.

"Milian, come and sit down too!" Nanfen yelled towards the stairs.As soon as her voice fell, footsteps sounded upstairs.A thin girl came down from the landing leading to the second floor.She was wearing a dim yellow round neck dress with a bun on her head, revealing a slender neck like a swan. This person was the girl Eve met in the yard just now.

Miriam came in front of them, wrapped her hands around the skirt behind her, and sat silently in the last vacancy of the square sofa.Her hands were a little wrinkled, and they were clenched tightly in front of her at this moment, and she looked more embarrassed than Awanna on the opposite side.

Nanfen coughed slightly in embarrassment, and said to Eve, "This is Luge's fiancée, Miriam Donaquel."

Eve greeted Miriam, and Miriam nodded to her, with a blush appearing on her face.

"Milian is very shy, but I really like her character." Nanfen leaned towards Miriam, and put her slender but somewhat rough hand in her own.

"Luge..." For a moment, Eve didn't know where to ask.The personalities of Ruger and Miriam—could they really make a couple?

"It's a long story, we'll talk about this matter later." Nan Fen obviously didn't want to mention this matter in front of Miriam herself. In contrast, she wanted to know what Eve had done in the past month or so.

"Did you encounter any danger?"

This question is what Nanfen wants to know most now.

"No." Eve and Nanfen looked at each other and replied in a calm tone.

Seeing her expression turn from joy to worry, Eve knew that he couldn't hide it from her.