Chapter 55: A Long Journey
The dinner that night was really a small shop that I had been to once before, this place felt a little poor, and the ingredients obtained were not very good, much worse than several surrounding cities, but it was not that there were no better restaurants or bars, and it was not that Carlil's group of people could not afford to eat, it was purely that Carlil was a little nostalgic and wanted to go to the original small shop to try it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
How so...... There was a subtle pleasure in returning here with a group of people from different positions, and this time was a drastic change from before, which made Carlil feel a little dark.
After eating, it was already dark, this place was far north, and now it was dark much earlier than in other places, although it was not too late, but people who were used to following the sunrise and sunset had already started their nightlife.
Some of the dim street lamps are lit up, not like the neatly erected on both sides of the road on the earth, but more just hung on the eaves and corners, making it difficult to figure out whether this is a public street lamp or just an ordinary person's chandelier. However, the light from the doors and windows of the shops on the street is enough for pedestrians to see the road.
Besides, the snow is white, and the road is very obvious, so you just have to be careful of slipping.
Thinking about it, it was unlikely that a group of people would go to a bar, and the four of them took a short walk on the street after eating, and it was really not fun to look at them in turn, so they bought some alchemy tools for Kahlier, and they all rubbed their hands together, and decided to go back to the hotel to blow the heater.
Angelo and Qingci room, next to each other is Honglian and Kalier, Honglian comfortably soaked in a hot bath, came out of the bedroom with a towel and rolled into the quilt, let the hotel people change the hot water, and Kaliel also went in to soak for a while.
Outside the house, the fog in the bathroom makes people feel that bathing is really a great pleasure, and the feeling of soaking the body and tail in the hot water really makes every pore relax, and I no longer want to come out of it.
Winter is a season of perseverance to get up and courage to take a bath.
It wasn't until the water was a little cold that Kahlil wiped herself out of the bathroom in a daze, and as soon as she got out of the bathroom, the room temperature in the room plummeted by two degrees, which made her feel much more awake.
"You've been soaking for a long time."
"Of course, the hot water was super comfortable, it would have been perfect if there was a hot spring"
"It's so good to think about it, it's so cold in the room, and the potion in the carriage? Take it out."
"There's another bottle, just right, I'm going to roast the tail too."
Karil changed into a cotton robe and sat down at a table that was pressed against the wall, so that Kahlil was facing the window, through which she could see the oil lamps hanging on the edge of the street opposite.
Red Lotus was lying comfortably in the quilt, wrapping her hair in a towel, and throwing an open book on the pillow, which was making Red Lotus read with great interest.
"Aren't you short-sighted when you read like this?" Karil pulled out an Erlenmeyer flask, unplugged it and poured some water into it, mixing it with the yellowish liquid inside, and placing it behind her chair, directly under her tail.
Fox fur is always difficult to dry, and if it doesn't dry out, it's easy to catch a cold, especially at this temperature, and the wind will definitely blow up.
"Myopia? What is that? Red Lotus repeated what Carlil had said, not understanding what it was, perhaps there was no such thing here.
"Hmm...... It's just that things in the distance can't be seen clearly" Kaliel saw that Honglian turned her head and looked at herself curiously, so she explained by the way, and as she spoke, she took out the bottles and jars from the space and put them on the table, and the unprocessed herbs, powders, and the like were also placed on it.
"No, huh...... Why do you ask? "There is no such thing as myopia in Honglian's memory, and her eyesight is also normal, so I don't know what is going on with the myopia that Karil is talking about.
"Well...... Forget it, a phenomenon" Kaliel thought for a moment, and didn't plan to continue, so she put an ice mirror on the table and pulled Xiao Yi out of the collar that was pinching the back of her neck.
"Have you eaten? Woo, where is this! ”
"You haven't eaten enough of what you stuffed last time! Never mind what, come and help. Kahlil put Xiao Yi on the table, sorted out the materials and props, piled up some messy plant roots, and pushed them in front of Xiao Yi.
"I want Xiao Yi to help...... Okay, for the sake of the food you gave last time, I'll help you" Xiao Yi was still wearing a small dress, and she didn't feel cold at all, maybe she didn't have any requirements for temperature.
"Chop, chop it into powder repeatedly, and put it in a bowl, or if it's convenient you can choose to put it in a bowl and then chop it." Kahlil placed a glass bowl aside and gestured to the bowl.
Xiao Yi looked at the pile of herbs that was half as high as himself, and then looked at the glass bowl that was almost as high as himself, or chose to hold the grass medicine, jumped up and threw it into the bowl, picked it up several times, threw all the herbs on the table into it, and then pinched a small bench out of thin air, stepped on it and lay on the edge of the bowl, made a small blade like a long sword of Qing Xi, and waved his arm to chop the herbs down.
"Thank you"
Kahlil gently touched Xiao Yi's head, and the response was a grimace.
There were only two oil lamps lit in the room, the light was not so bright and a little dim, the heating effect was already evident by this time, and the room was no longer as cold as before, although the effect was not obvious, but at least it could dry the tail hanging on the bottle.
In order to facilitate the use, Kahlil chose a few test tubes to fill the potion, because the capacity was much better than the Erlenmeyer flask, so she had to choose to concentrate a part of the original drug a little bit, so that the effect would not drop too much. The two small stoves on the side were boiling the potion, and the processed original medicine was skillfully thrown into the test tube, and the unprocessed herbs were placed directly on the table, and the Hidden Blade popped out to cut off the useless parts, and threw the rhizomes into Xiao Yi's bowl.
This level of potion is very simple, if in the old alchemy workshop, it would be enough to mass-produce a batch and sell it in one night, even if it is not so professional here, it is still very simple to make at least four servings.
The snowy night was particularly quiet, as if the noise of the roadside bar had been annihilated in the ice and snow, and for a while there were only various crisp collision sounds made by Karil and Xiao Yi, and the three of them did not say a word, which was surprisingly quiet.
"What's wrong? "Kaliel" Red Lotus gradually sensed that something seemed to be wrong with the atmosphere, and turned her head to look at Kaliel, the blonde girl was drooping her ears and tail, and she was grinding something with her body in her hand, and the whole person was stunned.
"Huh?" Karil came to her senses, filled up the powder that had already been crushed, and quickly took the potion that had been almost boiled dry from the stove, and blew on the tips of her fingers that had been burned by the cup.
"No, it's nothing, it's just ...... I'm a little homesick," Kahlil said as she refreshed herself and mixed the potion, her tone seemed a little understatement, but the feeling of nostalgia was felt by everyone.
"Xiao Yi is so good, you can go back whenever you want." Kahlil said and looked at Xiao Yi with some envy, the plant rhizomes in the bowl had been cut to pieces, and with Xiao Yi's movements, some of the pieces were picked up by the blade and raised in the air.
"Huh?" Xiao Yi looked at Karil with some confusion, and her little face was full of doubts.
"Alright, aren't you going back soon," Red Lotus said with a smile, and she remembered to pat Kahlil on the head and touch her ears and tail by the way, but the cold temperature made her quickly give up the idea of getting out of the bed.
"Are you going home...... "Karil muttered, her eyes falling on the oil lamp opposite the window, the pale yellow light, like the neat yellow street lamps on the side of the highway that she saw when she was a child.
"It's too hard, I want to go back," Karil whispered, but Red Lotus didn't hear it, and she couldn't really understand what Carlil was referring to.
The night always makes people sensual, and at night it becomes always cranky.
"I don't know what happened to my parents at home, how long has it been at home, has anyone taken care of the spider plant on the windowsill, and my friends on QQ have not been able to contact me...... Does anyone still remember me?"
Karil's work did not stop, and she whispered in the most familiar Chinese.
"Now, Red Lotus, where is your hometown?" Karil thought about it, and the ghost asked the god messenger.
"Hometown," Red Lotus replied as she read the book, turning the page of the book as she spoke: "I don't know, I grew up in the Assassin Guild since I was a child, and I have never met my parents and family."
Honglian didn't feel that she had said anything special at all, she was very grinning, and her tone was the same as when she usually chatted.
"Hmm...... I'm sorry about that. Karil looked back, not sure if she should comfort her or say something.
"It's okay, you've always felt like it's a miserable thing to have no family because you've had your parents since you were a child, but in fact, those old guys in the Assassins League are not bad, and for me those people are my family, that's enough," Red Lotus said, her tone becoming a little warm.
"Family......"
Kahlil thought about what kind of attitude she should have when she returned to Andris's house and saw her current parents, if she still had the opportunity to return to her own world in this life, and if she left with herself, how would she face her parents and friends now.
"Don't think too much, you know that there are still people in the world who are worried about you, and they will worry about you after you go out, there are people who can pat your chest and say that they will support me no matter what, and then find a good man to marry, you should be satisfied, girl" Honglian looks like a big sister and wants to enlighten her, but there are some things, Honglian may never know.
What Carlil has always wanted to go back to is truly her own home.