31. Sue's World
Warm sunlight streams in obliquely through the attic's glass windows, shining on the beige linen sheets, reflecting the four sloping squares. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The fluffy quilt smelled of sunlight and rose dew, and there was a self-portrait of me hanging on the head of the bed, in which I sat next to the lilac bush and stared intently at the lilac flower. The white gauze curtains were blown by the breeze, and the simple and beautiful pleated lace kept swinging, and I stood on the base plate made of indigo wood, staring blankly at the row of brand-new bookshelves next to the wall, which looked like they had just been made, and I could even clearly ask about the smell of paint on them.
The attic I live in is different from Tracy's cozy room, the furnishings in my room are very simple, usually only a table, a chair and a bed, the wooden window is attached to the bed in the attic, and the wooden table is facing the window, when I sit on the chair and read a book, as long as I look up slightly, I can see the backyard of the two-story building of Sister Guoguo's house, and the girl in a wheelchair always likes to read quietly under the lemon tree in her backyard.
The attic was spotlessly cleaned by Fanny, and even all the items were left untouched, even the book on the desk of "Roland Continent Miscellaneous" was still turned to page thirteen, and there was a paragraph on that page that recorded the mutated golden apple tree in the cursed land, the book said that after the golden apple tree was infected by the demon's blood, the fruit that grew was like a red lantern, and the entire golden apple contained a strong fire element magic power, and the dark red flame attached to the surface of the golden apple burned, very similar to the burnout fruit.
"Why are you just standing in the doorway stupidly?" Fanny smiled and pressed my shoulders from behind, probing around the room, and asking me when she saw that there was nothing wrong.
I shook my head slightly, took Fanny's hand and walked into the attic, only after four or five years of my attention. Fanny's eyes had been added two crow's feet, and she slowly sat down on the fluffy single bed, and I sat on the floor directly at her feet, with my head back on the bed, and closed my eyes, only then could I fully relax.
Fanny reached out and slowly rubbed my temples and asked me, "Are you tired?" Would you like to get some sleep and have dinner?"
"I'm fine, Fanny. I feel good now!" I said, holding her hand, and a swift flew out the window, and the crisp birdsong sounded very pleasant, and it flew back here every spring to nest.
"What's the takeaway from this trip?" Fanny asked me curiously.
I withdrew my thoughts from the swift outside the window, smiled faintly, and said bitterly, "This trip has taught me one thing, Fanny, am I stupid." It took five years to figure this out!"
"Oh, I'd love to hear what's going on?" asked Fanny, gently stroking my head with one hand.
"She's really gone, she's at the Hundred Waterfalls Cliff at the source of the Running Horse River, and she has fallen into the Running Horse River with the enemy. At this time of year, I can't help but think about her, and I realize that I haven't had time to tell her how much I love her. I'll never get a chance to talk to her in my life. But I haven't had time to open a belt buckle shop with her, and we haven't had a visit to the Orionna Magic Golem shop yet. She hadn't even been able to attend my entrance ceremony, and I hadn't even had time to let her see my girlfriend, Fanny, I miss her so much!" I closed my eyes, and this moment let out the long-squeezed emotions in my heart, and that emotion poured out like a flood. I couldn't even control my emotions.
Fanny hugged my head tightly, her hands digging deep into my black hair, and gently embraced me into her arms, and I silently savored the long-lost warmth, like the warm sea wrapping around my whole body. A burst of warmth hit.
"She has given you all her love, and I think she must be doing what I want at this time, to make you happy. Children, everyone must always keep looking forward and learn to cherish the current life, which is the best reward for the person who once loved you so much. Oh my God! I don't seem to have heard you talk about the past, it seems that you are about to come out of the shadow of the past, at least now you can have the courage to face it bravely, I really want to know what kind of great woman she is, able to imprint her glorious image so deeply in your heart. Son, you have to learn to be strong yourself!"
"I will, Fanny, and I love you too. I said.
Fanny was very happy to hear me say this: "I'm glad you can say that. Jia, now that school is about to start, do you have any plans of your own?"
"Of course, you have to participate in the Magic Awakening Ceremony, and if you can't, you can apply for the Junior Warrior Academy at the (El City) War Academy. I swear.
"Oh, you didn't even think about going to Stans Academy? The six-year primary education there will make it easy for you to get that certificate of warrior qualification in school, only children who get this certificate can start as a lieutenant when they serve in the military, although the War College is a first-class college, but it only has four years to ......" Fanny is obviously very familiar with the education system of the Grimm Empire, and she hopes that I can listen to her words, so she said it carefully.
"Fanny, I'd like to give it a try!" I said stubbornly.
"Oh, well, you're always very opinionated, I know I can't convince you!" Fanny looked at the miscellaneous book on my desk, and said with some concern, "Maybe you really like those weird gossip stories, maybe you like to study the strange things in nature, and there's nothing wrong with that." But I think now you need to focus more on learning those technical and tactical knowledge, these Ryan are very good, he will show you how to protect yourself on the battlefield, and when you have completed your military service, come back and do what you want to do, and I and Ryan will fully support you! ā
"I know!"
In order to comfort Fanny, I casually put the parchment book in the empty shelf, the first book on my shelf. In the familiar backyard outside the window, there appeared the quiet girl, who always liked to sit quietly under the lemon tree with a book in the fine afternoon weather.
I looked out the window, and my heart drifted out of the window.
"Looks like our Jia has grown up!"
"Forehead ......"
...... Beautiful Dividing Line......
She would always have two teacups on a round table under the lemon tree. She once explained to me, "When you come to a guest, you don't have to go so far to get the teacups, you see, I'm ready, how nice it is!"
She would always mow the lawn in her backyard so neatly that there wasn't a single weed. She always comforted herself like this: "Sue, you can only rely on this kind of exercise to keep your figure." Girls who don't exercise will get very fat!"
She always liked to hold a sacred prayer from the temple and read it silently. She always told people, "This is the only thing I can do, and I want to pray for every friend around me." ā
It took me three whole years, little by little, to patiently build up all kinds of chance to meet her, and I took care of all the farm work in Ryant's back garden, and she finally began to slowly get used to my presence, and I became one of her neighbors. One of the few people who can talk to her.
She is a slightly thin girl, she is not very beautiful, but very innocent, her eyes do not contain any impurities, she always likes to purse her lips and smile, her eyes are not particularly big, but very bright. But her skin is very white, like a beautiful porcelain doll. She has a pair of slender and slender ****. But I never saw these legs stand up straight, she was Sister Guoguo's own sister. Her name was: "Sue." ā
The lemon trees were already covered with green fruits, each one almost the size of a thumb nail, and the tree exuded the unique aroma of lemons, and I gently pushed open the familiar iron gate of the yard, perhaps the hinge of the iron door had not been maintained for a long time, and had not been lubricated with grease. When I pushed open the wrought iron door, it creaked unpleasantly.
Standing on the soft lawn, I walked in with a bag of pine nuts in a neat linen suit.
"You look good today! Do you want to go outside, it's been a long time since you've seen that hibiscus at the corner of the street. Do you want to see how I prune it?" I smiled and walked in to greet her, she didn't seem surprised by my presence in the slightest, she didn't even think of looking up at me, she was still reading seriously, but the smile in her eyes had betrayed her, and her eyes showed a very rare joy.
"Your trip is over, and I find out that you always have to go out for a walk on a regular basis, and you like to be adventurous?" her cheeks looked a little thin, and she didn't eat well these days, she was a picky eater, even if it suited her taste, she didn't eat more than three bites, and there was a teacup with a slice of lemon in front of her table.
Su leaned forward slightly, put a slice of lemon in the prepared teacup, and then quietly waited for the small charcoal stove next to him to boil a small pot of water.
I sat on the stone bench opposite her, put the packet of cream pine nuts I was carrying on the table, and carefully tore open the paper package little by little, the sweet smell came out, she couldn't help but look up and ask curiously, "What else I haven't eaten?"
"Fried pine nuts, I bought them when I passed through the town of Maas, and they tasted very good, very sweet. I said.
Su Xin picked one up and was about to throw it into her mouth, but I hurriedly stopped it, and under her suspicious gaze, I took out a delicate small hammer and smashed a few scattered pine nuts in front of me one by one. The pine nuts were delicious, and she had a lot of expression in her mouth, and the two of us sat quietly and comfortably under the lemon tree and ate the pine nuts this afternoon.
The two of them were already familiar with each other, and there was nothing to talk about, just sitting quietly face to face.
Sue is a quiet girl, she hates chatting, I can't even tell what I've seen and heard along the way, she just needs someone to be with her, just sit quietly. She is special and sensitive. It was also a long time before I gradually figured out her temper. If she doesn't take the initiative to speak, I will quietly pull out a book and read it slowly.
The sun shone on her body, and she didn't deliberately avoid it, her white skin like ivory was so dazzling in the sun.
She said her legs and knees were crushed by the iron wheels of a magic caravan in a car accident when she was a child. She told the story very lightly, very simply. On the contrary, I heard it in detail from Sister Guoguo, it is said that even the priests in the temple could not save those legs, which is a thing that Sister Guoguo regretted for a long time, if it wasn't for Sister Guoguo to buy a prosthetic leg from the Orianna Magic Puppet Shop for Sue, there would not have been that trip with the group.
After a long time, she spoke, "I decided to go to the temple and give it a try!"
"You're going to give up the Magic Awakening Ritual?" I asked, surprised, not expecting her to have such an idea.
"Yes, I want to learn magic!" she said to me firmly, and then asked me, "This year is also your year of school, do you want to try the magic awakening ceremony?"
"It's just a matter of luck, in fact, I have already thought about it, if I don't get the favor of Lady Luck, then I will go to the War Academy Junior Warrior School to learn swordsmanship...... But then again, the chances of becoming a priest in the temple are much smaller than being a magician, right?" I asked her.
She didn't answer my words, just stretched out a hand blankly, waved it slightly in front of her, and I noticed a cool feeling rushing into my body, which turned out to be very faint magic...... Oh no! that's the magic "healing" that Sue has.
I looked at her dumbfounded, and she said with some smugness, "Very good, that's what I learned from this book of prayers." ā
She was like an innocent child who showed off how beautiful her toys were, full of triumphant joy.
"But you're not a priest yet!" I said, surprised, and I was more worried that the temple clubs would treat her as a heretic, and that would be very troublesome.
"Hee-hee, that's not the case, this year's prayer day is two weeks earlier than the Magic Awakening Ritual, I just just came back from the temple, look, you should call me Priest Su in the future. You're going to have to refuel, maybe it's good for you to be a warrior in the future, maybe there's a chance we can form an expedition team, but before that, I'll have to figure out how to make them walk. Sue looked at her legs with some distress.
I hesitated, then said, "Maybe the Oriana Magic Store has something you're looking for......"
"Smack!" The teacup in Sue's hand fell to the ground suddenly, hot water was sprinkled on the lawn, her face was a little frighteningly pale, she pushed the wooden handle of her wheelchair in a panic, and without even saying hello, she turned around and moved directly to the house. Her movements were stiff, but she seemed a little excited, and my words seemed to touch her scales.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" I asked, chasing after her.
She hurriedly pushed her wheelchair and fled back to her house, without answering my questions, I originally thought that with the passage of time, she would be able to figure out some things and not force herself into a dead end, but now it seems that most of her daily prayers are also for Sister Guoguo!
I stood in the backyard of her house for a moment before leaving silently. (To be continued.) )