Candy Wizard and Travel

what a pity.

Chapter 34: Letter

He rested in the village chief's warehouse at night. There was a bed on the floor. In the middle of the night, a giant rat wanted to take a shortcut and stepped on his face. He was immediately nailed to a tree outside by Xi Di. He must have been eaten by now. .

The quality of sleep was not good, but at least the magic power was restored. The mental drowsiness could be stimulated with ice water. Xi Di, who had nightmares all year round, was almost used to it.

It's better than sleeping outdoors.

Early in the morning, when the sun came up, the village chief began to inform the villagers that there was a magician. At this time, Hidi repaired the windmill of the mill.

The technology here is very backward, but because of magicians like Xidi who pass by from time to time, the villagers' life is still decent. This also means that if they don't wait for the magician, no one will come in winter, and they will have a big problem in sowing seeds in the next spring. No wonder the villagers So happy to grow up.

Xidi modified the structure of the mill windmill according to the design of a country named after windmills. He wanted to write down a structural diagram and leave it. It was not complicated. The carpenters and blacksmiths in the village could make replacement parts. Everyone All very happy.

Farming tools and the like are even simpler, wave the wand, one, two, three, repair it, and do it again, one, two, three, strengthen it.

carry out.

"At this level, as long as you don't mess around, you won't need to change it for at least two years."

Xidi explained like this after walking to the last house with the village chief.

The villagers paid the reward forcefully, with scattered coins, equivalent to a little over a gold coin. Those with less coins handed over various local specialties, such as mushrooms, dried meat, dried fruits, and the like.

To a certain extent, this was his first time making money through magic, and it felt a bit novel.

"Oh! I'm really troubling you, Miss Magician."

"You're welcome."

The strong man scratched his hair. This seemed to be his habitual action: "Using so much magic will consume a lot of money. Why don't you leave after lunch? I have some dried meat at home. Take some away. Please take away some." decline."

"Uh, I'm so embarrassed..."

Sorry means not rejecting his intention, but accepting his intention in a small way.

……

The size of the lunch is considered luxurious in this village.

It's been a long time since Xidi's visit. Apart from the eel rice restaurant, he has never been to a serious restaurant along the way.

The raw materials are dried meat, shelf-stable vegetables such as pumpkins and radishes, dried shiitake mushrooms, and plump hare and deer hunted in autumn. The latter two are naturally roasted.

Farm tools are important production tools, and the modified windmill can grind flour faster and more conveniently. Therefore, the villagers have no objection at all and even welcome it.

The lunch that originally only involved the village chief and his family turned into a grand banquet after each family brought something.

"It's a pity that it's not at night. It's a rare treat to sleep comfortably after drinking!"

The unknown young man drank a whole glass of milk with the arrogance of drinking, and started talking to Xi Di in a comfortable manner.

"Yeah yeah!"

The people around him also agreed with him.

Now is autumn. It is necessary to store enough food before winter. Both men, women and even children have tasks to do. If you delay for a day or two, you may go hungry for several meals in the winter.

Drinking is a waste of time, and if you want to drink it, you drink it at the harvest festival, which is held after the crops are harvested and the prey is dormant.

Xidi didn't quite understand this, so she just raised her glass politely. Of course, the glass in his glass was also hot milk.

After the meal started, everyone stopped talking so much. Everyone ate with the idea of ​​getting back their money. The villagers knew everything about it, so who were they pretending to?

The most reserved person is him, an outsider.

"You are welcome to come to our harvest celebration when the time comes. If you are not busy, you must come."

The village chief came over and wanted to slap Xi Di on the shoulder. After looking at the palms that looked like cattail leaf fans and then looking at Xi Di's shoulders that looked like bamboo poles, he calmly turned to scratching his head.

Xidi was stuffing potatoes in her mouth at the moment, facing the village chief's sincere eyes, thinking, swallowing and speaking: "Well, if everything goes well, I will stay there for a long time. If I have time, I hope you don't dislike me for being a freeloader. .”

"Hahaha! Your magician is a polite, whoever is stingy when I get!"

……

If everything goes well, Hidi will spend this winter in the Royal Celestilia. Without saving magic power, it will only take a day and a half to reach full speed.

Speaking of which, it will snow in Zhongzhong Township in winter. In a country by the sea, will there be snow?

This question bothered him all afternoon and was answered in the evening.

……

"Is the king establishing Celestilia? It is an amazing country. There are magicians flying all over the sky. Magicians can help with everything big and small. It's so convenient!"

The middle-aged woman answered Xidi's questions while cutting vegetables.

"Snowing? Yes, it will happen in the city. I heard that when it is the coldest, there will be broken ice floating in the sea."

He arrived at the village at dusk. It was close to the edge of the forest. The surrounding leaves had turned faintly yellow, indicating that the concentration of magic power had dropped. He heard that it only took one day to get out by carriage.

The village is larger than "our village", but there are not many people going out this season, and the places to live are limited. In the end, this aunt pulled her over.

——Because her son was studying magic in the Royal Celestilia. As soon as she heard that Xi Di was going there, she enthusiastically joined him. She also knew Platycodon Flowers.

Under the strong pull of the aunt, Xidi was pressed on a chair and waited to eat. She was not allowed to help and could only chat about some gossip, such as whether it was hard to learn magic, whether she would be able to find a job in the future, and whether there were many girls in the industry...

Oh, don’t ask about the last one, there are many, many, all the people going up are girls, but more than half are internal digestion, a few are celibate, and the rest are Neptunes hugging and tugging at each other.

While responding to the aunt's words, choosing some ambiguous clichés to answer, he looked at the map.

After that, there is a warm and fertile plain, scattered with many small countries, of which King Celestilia is the most famous one.

It is possible to do everything in the forest for a few days, but the peaceful small country around here is not so troubled. You may not have even replaced a brick after returning for decades. The map produced by the association is quite reliable.

Thinking of this and that, the smell of meat hit my nostrils. It smelled like very fresh beef, which was rare in this season when caravans didn't come around often.

That's right, if someone's children can go to magic academies in other countries to study magic, they must come from wealthy families.

But to be so enthusiastic about a traveler like him who met by chance, I think I have something to ask for.

Well, I don't mean to call others a philistine. Things like eating other people's food and doing a little favor are very common in this era, and usually it's not too troublesome.

Sure enough, at the dinner table, this enthusiastic middle-aged woman made a small request:

"My son has been studying magic for a year. He is at the Royal Academy of Celestilia. I would like to ask you to help write a letter. Well... I am illiterate. Please be patient, little girl. There is no need to be too fancy. , just the usual one, and then please hand it over to him, his name is Hattie."

"Hatty... I remember it, no problem." Xidi agreed immediately.

Then she pushed over another gold coin, "This is the tea fee for troublesome you, please accept it."

Oh, send a letter and a gold coin... Xidi suddenly wanted to know the association's charging standards.

"Well, you invited me to your home for a rest and provided you with such a sumptuous dinner. It's just a piece of cake to deliver a letter. It would be shameless for me to take it. Please take it back."

Xidi pressed the money with both hands and pushed it back. In order to reassure her, she stroked the platycodon flower on her chest, "I swear as a magician that I will definitely deliver it."

"It's too serious, too serious," Auntie pressed his hand, "I believe you. Hattie said that witches are all great people. I have no intention of doubting it, I just think it's too troublesome..."

"It's not too much trouble, I happen to be going to the Royal Academy of Magic."

After some pulling, the sense of distance shrank a lot.

"Look at me, hurry up, eat, eat, eat while the weather is hot. I hope my cooking will make you happy."

"It feels very good."

Hidi raised her knife and fork.

The aunt laughed and told Xidi about the embarrassing things that happened when children learned magic, such as accidentally setting the roof on fire, making the house wet, riding a broom and crashing into the ceiling...

Well, they are all things he doesn’t understand and has never experienced.

After the meal, Xidi used magic to help clean up the dishes, and the aunt said "it's so convenient". Then she listened to the mother's words under the candlelight and wrote words on the paper.

She didn't mention her husband, and Hidi didn't ask.

Chapter 35: The royal establishment of Celestilia

After finishing the letter, the aunt took it and put it under the pillow all night, saying that it might bring the atmosphere of her hometown.

Early the next morning, she stroked the letter written in Juanxiu's handwriting and sheepishly asked Xidi to read it again.

Xidi smiled and said it was okay, then cleared her throat:

"To son Hattie:

You left last summer and haven't come back to pack your winter stuff yet. You had to ask someone to send it to you. I think you've grown taller this year, so you can buy it yourself.Don't wear a pitch-black robe all day long, rely on magic to not wash it, turn around and forget about it, and finally use it as a rag after getting greasy?When boys get older, they should pay attention to their image, hold their chests up and their heads up, and don't hide under the black robe all day long, it's like being a thief——"

Hidi felt offended.

"Uncle Vincent from your caravan told me that your hair has grown a few inches and you haven't taken care of it yet. You've started to stoop when you walk. When we met several times, there was no one around you who could talk, let alone a girl. I asked You didn't even mention a word when you wrote back..."

This is a very common nagging from a mother.

"I haven't read it to many people, so it's funny." Xi Di handed the letter over again.

The creases were already very deep. I don’t know how many times this aunt had touched it over and over before dawn.

"No," Auntie woke up from her deep thoughts and waved her hands repeatedly, "Your voice is very nice, your writing is really good, and it is not awkward to read. Some poet who passed by before wrote a letter, which made my teeth ache when I heard it. I feel so long for you. think……"

She took one last look, put it in the envelope with satisfaction, and put a few golden ginkgo leaves in it.

"The child likes this kind of curious things at home, and his books are full of them."

Xidi took the thick envelope with both hands and placed it under the box where the originals were stored.

……

Getting ready to set off, Xidi saw the bag filled with souvenirs and then remembered another thing.

Hoping for a chance, he asked his aunt and got an answer he had never heard before. Then he went to the village chief's house and described the appearance of the lecherous man.

still none.

Xidi found an idle hunter, paid him, and asked him to go to "our village" to deliver a message.

After much hesitation, he did not mention anything about Beauty Village. Those women, those customs, and that strange chilling feeling, it was best for ordinary people to stay away.

However, normal people would never go so far into the forest in their lifetime.

The ten-year-old thought so, debating whether or not to speak the next time he went.

……

Half a day passed in an instant, and the yellow-green color that seemed to spread to the horizon finally came to an end.

The yellow grassland, autumn rivers and sparse hills come into view, which greatly relieves the tiredness of the eyeballs.

Xidi looked back and saw that the sea of ​​trees seemed so far away and deserted. It took three days of flying to cross it. The carriage had to go around many places to pass. He didn't know how long it would take.

It's so far.

But he came over.

Autumn always comes later at the seaside. A warm and humid wind that has never been seen in the Clock Country blows, and accompanied by the sun at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Xi Di feels slightly hot and reaches out to unbutton her robe.

"This is a trial. In order to overcome the trials of the past, people can only grow after overcoming those childish pasts."

Saying this to herself, Xi Di took off her furry shawl, carefully folded it and put it away, the corners of her robe swaying slightly in the wind.

The broom began to accelerate again, but compared with the previous even speed, it seemed faster and slower, like her master's ups and downs of heartbeat.

……

When the city appeared in the field of vision, the sky was full of sunset behind the traveler.

"That's the royal establishment of Celestilia...it's a long name, so let's call it the Kingdom."

In front of you is a country surrounded by city walls, and you can faintly hear the sound of the tide in the distance. If you ride a broom and circle around the city walls, you can probably kill a day.

First impression: It is a rich and reliable country.

Xidi shook her head and came to the city gate.

"Welcome, apprentice witch, may I have your name?"

The two joking soldiers seemed to be getting ready to change their shifts. When they saw the person coming, they hurriedly corrected their posture, feeling somewhat guilty for no reason.

"You're welcome, my name is...Xidi."

The traveler gave his real name.