Chapter 506: The Hope of the Nietzschean Family

June 3rd, Lyra Holy City, early in the morning.

Aunt Nietzsche got up early this morning, and when the genius was bright, she stepped out of her dilapidated attic. I saw her holding a vegetable basket and taking vigorous steps, all the way from the eagle's nest area to the eagle's claw area.

"O waters of the Atli River, blue as the eyes of the goddess of the moonlight......"

Aunt Nietzsche hummed a song softly and seemed to be in a pretty good mood. It is said that the song "Atley River in the Moonlight" sung by Aunt Nietzsche at this moment is also a very famous love poem in the Starfog Valley, written by a famous local bard, and it is said that it has been sung for thousands of years!

At that time, Nietzsche often looked at his own reflection in the water and felt sorry for himself, and from time to time he would fantasize that there would be a young, handsome, and romantic aristocratic child who could court, and the least of all, she hoped that she could at least marry into the holy city of Tianqin—those tall, gorgeous, The attic made of stone was not comparable to the wooden houses in their village!

It was at that time that Aunt Nietzsche met her current husband, John Sr., who of course was still a young John. Although the appearance of 'young John' did not meet the standard of handsomeness that Nietzsche expected, and he was also a noble child, there is one thing, John is from the holy city of Lyra, and has his own house in the city! The most important thing is that, unlike the villager hunters in the village who only give him bloody dead rabbits or dead foxes all day long, young John will give himself fiery red and bewitching flowers, and even sing romantic love poems - that is, "Atli River in the Moonlight"!

Soon Nietzsche fell under the love offensive of 'Young John', and with a high gift of 100 gold coins, she finally got engaged to John, and soon after married into the holy city of Lyra!

However, after marrying into the Holy City of Lyra, she realized that the outside world was far bigger than she imagined! And in her impression, her husband, 'Rich John', was actually only living in the Eagle's Nest area (equivalent to the slum area of the Holy City of Lyra)! Not to mention the nobles, wealthy merchants, and powerful awakened people who lived in the Hawkeye District and the Eagle Wing District, even those who lived in the Eagle Claw District, almost all of them were richer than John's family!

However, Nietzsche is an easily satisfied person, although there was still a slight gap in her heart at that time, but she didn't feel that she was deceived by John or anything like that, she was just an ordinary rural girl, and she was able to join the Holy City of Lyra, and also received an unusually generous gift money, she was quite satisfied!

John himself, like Nietzsche, is just an ordinary person, but John's father is an awakened man! Although he is only a second-order demon slayer and has limited potential, it is not difficult to earn a commission that can satisfy the whole family to live a good life, as evidenced by the fact that John's family can come up with a gift of up to 100 gold coins!

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, in the second year of Nietzsche's marriage into John's family, John's father was bitten to death by a powerful monster in the process of performing a mercenary mission!

Soon after learning of his father's death, John became an alcoholic, and he himself did not have any work, so what little savings and compensation money that John had had were quickly lost by John!

Nietzsche often quarreled with John over alcoholism, but John still couldn't get rid of it. However, Nietzsche did not give up on this family, she has always been the kind of woman who is unkind, although John is very uncompetitive in her eyes, he has never had the idea of abandoning this family.

But it was also from that time that Nietzsche began to take on sewing jobs from his neighbors to support the family—she was a rural girl, and that's all she knew.

Although life was difficult, Nietzsche did not give up his illusions, but unlike the beautiful love she longed for before she got married, she began to expect her husband to cheer up, and she prayed day by day to the gods she knew, hoping that they could make her two children awakened! As long as there were one or two more awakened people in her family, their family's economic situation would be greatly improved, right? Nietzsche firmly believed in this!

Eighteen years have passed, and Nietzsche's piety has not been rewarded with a corresponding report - like their husband, neither of her children has been lucky enough to become awakened!

But her expectations weren't entirely disappointed - John, who had nothing to do all day, woke up one time, clutching his drunken head, and saw the window of his attic wide open, and in the snow-white moonlight, a woman was mending her clothes with her head down, and on the woman's lap there was a basket full of clothes!

And beside him, his son had a large white bone in his mouth, grinding his teeth from time to time, and from the cracks in the corners of his mouth, it was evident that he was having some kind of sweet dream, and it was most likely related to eating! John recognized the bone at a glance—it was an extra rabbit leg that his wife had given her a month earlier when she was returning the clothes she had sewn for others! That night, one of his sons and one of his daughters had eaten quite contentedly— They couldn't remember the last time their family ate meat!

Looking at his wife, who was drowsy and shaking her head from time to time, and then at the two yellow-skinned sons and daughters beside him, John slapped himself fiercely! The next day, John went to the Dark River Wharf to find a job as a coolie, although the salary was not much, but as an ordinary person, there were not many jobs that he could choose.

But fortunately, the tax rate in the Holy City of Lyra has always been very low, and now John has found a job, and the little bit of money earned by Nietzsche is enough to maintain a normal life for the family. Of course, it can only barely cross the food and clothing line, and the food is still dominated by black bread.

Nietzsche may not be smart, but she also has a shrewd side to herself—because she often takes on the task of sewing clothes from different clients, and this process inevitably leads to contact and communication with many people. In the process of these exchanges, she also shared a lot of information from others, such as which mother-in-law was spicy, and which dog was missing, and so on. Although most of it is useless lace news, there is also information that is very valuable in Nietzsche's eyes, such as which store will hire some work that ordinary people can do, which grocery store sells the cheapest fruits and vegetables, which grocery store sells larger rolls of needlework, and so on.

It is from this information that Nietzsche can always buy the cheapest vegetables and fruits, the most durable sewing needles, and the largest rolls of stitches - although these are often a few copper coins less than other houses, in Nietzsche's view, even if he can save a copper coin, he will still make money! This is also what Nietzsche is always proud of!

Now Nietzsche is going to the Elenda grocery store in the Eagle Claw district. Speaking of which, this Elenda grocery store has only been open for a year or two, and its products are all kinds of vegetables and fruits, but Aunt Nietzsche dares to pat her chest and assure that any fruit and vegetables sold in this store are the cheapest and freshest in the city!

It is said that the owner of this Elenda grocery store, or the proprietress Elenda, is actually a very unfortunate woman, who died of her husband at a young age, and is now alone with her eight-year-old daughter. However, Elenda is undoubtedly also a very strong woman, otherwise she would not have rejected a large number of men's marriage proposals after her husband's death, I heard that there were also patrol captains, nobles of the Antonia family, etc., which was definitely an unattainable big man in the eyes of Aunt Nietzsche, but a single grocery store!

I have to admit that Elenda, who is only twenty-eight now, is a rather beautiful woman, and Aunt Nietzsche even thinks that the other party is at least ten times more beautiful than when she was young! I heard that in a troubadour written by a certain troubadour in the city, "A Guide to the Holy City of Lyra" lists a large number of beauties, among the ten most dazzling beauties, in addition to noble women such as Countess Mavis and Sheriff Margaret, and even the proprietress of Ellenda's general store!

Although Aunt Nietzsche quite disliked the author of the book "Guide to the Holy City of Lyra", and felt that the other party was too frivolous and did not know how to respect women, he had to admit one thing - the other party's vision was really quite good! Among the beauties listed in the book, except for the countess Mavis and the sheriff Margaret, they did not mention the identity of the other party, and their appearance was indeed first-class! After all, after living in this holy city of Lyra for so many years, I have seen them more than once or twice!

As for those commoner beauties, like the proprietress of the Kuroshio Relic Tavern, she has never seen it, but when it comes to Elenda, Aunt Nietzsche absolutely agrees with the other party's qualifications to be selected! Even if it is only about appearance, in the eyes of Aunt Nietzsche, Ellenda's appearance and figure are not lost to that of Countess Mavis!

As a frequent visitor to Ellenda's grocery store, Aunt Nietzsche and the proprietress Elenda are also relatively familiar, and when they are shopping and there are not many people, they will occasionally chat with each other for a while, and Aunt Nietzsche remembers hearing each other complain - "I tell you, at least half of the men in this city have proposed to me, and only half of these people have never been married! But why don't they understand, my mind is all on my daughter now!"

If it were another woman, Aunt Nietzsche would think that the other party was showing off to herself in disguise, but this did not include Elenda, because Aunt Nietzsche knew that the other party was not that kind of woman! Besides, Aunt Nietzsche also admitted that the other party had the capital that was enough to make most men crazy! Not to mention, Aunt Nietzsche's own son had also proposed to each other without telling her that she and Old John had proposed to each other! As for the result, of course, it was not surprising that it was rejected, and even after the incident, Old John beat his own son severely, because Old John's son was already married!

Aunt Nietzsche did not have any dissatisfaction with Elenda because of this incident, and even she felt that her son was disturbing the other party, so she also went to the other party to say goodbye. But fortunately, Elenda herself is very open-minded and didn't take this matter to heart (maybe she has long been used to it), and even gave herself some fresh fruit that time!

However, because of the frequent harassment by men, Elenda was so annoyed that she specially nailed an iron sign in front of her shop, which read: 'No men are allowed to enter'!

The reason why Aunt Nietzsche had to rush early was because the business of Elenda's grocery store had always been quite good, and it would close earlier than other stores almost every day - naturally because the goods were sold out! It can be seen that the women in the city, but not only Aunt Nietzsche herself knew that this grocery store was affordable!

But that's not why Aunt Nietzsche was in such a hurry, what really made her look forward to it was the special cheap goods from the grocery store! These cheap goods consist of roughly two categories, which were not sold out the day before, and the remainder, of course, which is rare. The other is that Elenda deliberately selects some vegetables and fruits that are not very good in appearance from the vegetables and fruits she buys and deals with them at a low price - the latter is the one that makes Aunt Nietzsche get up early!

Of course, it is not because of this that Aunt Nietzsche is so happy, but because her son, daughter-in-law, daughter and son-in-law have all recently found a very good new job - to work as a skilled worker in the watch workshop under the Black Wind Chamber of Commerce!

With Aunt Nietzsche's poor vocabulary library, she couldn't find words to describe all the good things about the Viscount! Not to mention that the Viscount was still the legendary hero who stopped the Kuroshio! Not to mention anything else, in Aunt Nietzsche's opinion, it would have been a great honor for them ordinary people to work for the Viscount! In addition, the salary given by the Black Wind Watch Workshop is also quite generous, I heard that it is more work and more rewards, anyway, the more you work, the more you get! In Aunt Nietzsche's opinion, this salary system is the most just!

The only thing that makes Aunt Nietzsche feel sorry is probably that the address of the watch workshop is not in the Holy City of Lyra, but in a manor almost a hundred miles away by waterway, so that the son and daughter-in-law can only go home for dinner when they have an occasional break!

Therefore, Aunt Nietzsche did not feel that there was anything to complain about, and she even planned with Old John that in a year or two they would have enough money to renovate their attic! How could Aunt Nietzsche not be happy to think that she would be able to live in a spacious and bright 'new attic' in the near future? Even lately she could wake up with a smile almost every day!

Thinking like this, before I knew it, Aunt Nietzsche had entered the streets of the Eagle Talon district.

"Hey, isn't this Nietzsche? Why, hurrying to buy the bargain sold by that slut? The poor man is this virtue! And I told you a long time ago, the things sold by that slut are not clean, and you who don't listen to my advice will suffer sooner or later!"

At this time, a mean voice suddenly came into Aunt Nietzsche's ears, and the voice was so sharp that it almost stimulated Aunt Nietzsche's ears to pain, which immediately made her frown.

(End of chapter)