"Zhuwen?" Ivas whispered, as if he hadn't heard of the city.

There are too many large and small cities in the 13 million square kilometers of the Dragon Country, and for many Dragon Country people, they only know a few representative cities, such as the city where their hometown is located, the industrial town of Alfred, the dust of the sea, the ancient city of Ipson, and the royal capital Insonia. Even the great experts who study the culture of the Dragon Kingdom can hardly know the names of tens of thousands of large and small cities in the Dragon Kingdom, let alone students who have only studied at Lilos Academy for five years.

The waiter was very embarrassed to see Evas's confused expression, and he smiled embarrassedly, "Sir, this is just a small city, you don't know it's normal." The young waiter had a stiff expression on his face.

Ivas was a little embarrassed, he could relate to it, and the strangeness on people's faces when he mentioned his hometown of Aiva to others made him feel uncomfortable. He comforted, "Actually, there are many people who don't know my hometown, after all, the Dragon Kingdom is such a big city, which is a very normal thing. "Ivas tried to change the subject.

The young waiter's gray-black eyebrows gradually stretched, and the embarrassed look on his face was a little less, "Sir, what is your hometown?"

"Ava Island. ”

"Ava Island?" the waiter said, shaking his head.

Ivas smiled, not as frustrated as the young man had before, "Look, haven't you heard of it?"

"Yes, indeed, sir. The waiter smiled and apologized. Seeing the waiter's smile, a warm current flowed through Ivas's heart.

After a short pleasantries, they had no more topics to talk about. The waiter then mentioned the matter, sir, your room fee for this period has been processed the day before yesterday, and the fee paid last month has been settled, which means that you can leave now. We have breakfast ready, so please come to the dining hall to eat, but you still have to pay attention to the time. The carriage you called will arrive in about half an hour......" the waiter said in detail, and it took about five minutes for the waiter to finish everything...... At that time, the car will stop at the gate, and the coachman will only wait for ten minutes. ”

Ivas nodded, "I see, thanks, I'll clean up and go down." So saying, he walked back into the room and leaned against the openwork doorframe by the door.

The waiter still had a lot to do, but he could only say goodbye in a hurry, "If there is nothing to do, I will leave first." As he spoke, he was about to close the door for Ivas and then turned to leave.

As if he remembered something, Evas hurriedly put his right hand against the door that the waiter was about to close, leaned over and asked, "Are you on the morning shift?"

"Yes. Is there any question about you?" the waiter turned and replied patiently.

Ivas looked the waiter up and down, and didn't feel anything abnormal, could it be that he was too worried?

Ivas began to doubt himself. Lately he feels like he's always dreaming of no dreams, dreaming of something, but when he wakes up, his mind goes blank.

"Did anyone come to my room last night?"

The waiter looked at Ivas and shook his head, "No, sir. You've always been alone. Is there something wrong? Are you missing any valuables?"

"Nothing. ”

Iwaston paused, wanting to say something, but finally swallowed the words back, "Thank you anyway, and have a great day." ”

The waiter shook his head strangely, with a forced smile on his face, "Thank you, you too." ”

With that, the waiter turned and left the door of Evas's room, leaving the footprints he had just walked on the brown-red carpet.

Ivas closed the door and watched through the crack in the door as the waiter disappeared into the staircase of the hallway. Then he gently closed the door.

Ivas lay down on the soft bed again, desperately clutching the bed to his head, the morning chill preventing him from getting out of the bed. He lamented that this young man's life was not easy, and he still got up to work on such a cold day. I wanted to ask him why he came to the morning shift, but the words were swallowed back when they came to his lips.

Generally speaking, people who work the morning shift usually work part-time, and after 10 o'clock, they will go to work elsewhere. Morning work is minimal, the requirements for personnel are minimal, and wages are correspondingly low. Maybe that's fate. In Ducheng, there are only a few streets away, and some people are desperately trying to make a living, leaving early and returning late, exchanging their lives for the few dollars they have, because they may not have enough to eat tomorrow, they will not have money to buy decent medicine when they are sick, and they will not even have an ordinary bed to sleep; some people will have big parties all day and all night, squander money, and eat food that an army cannot eat. God is unfair, but people still believe in that sentence: there is only beauty that comes out of hard work, and there is no success that waits for it. Many people take this as their motto, but at the same time, it becomes a shackle that locks them in a cycle from which they can't get out.

Ivas woke up and tried to remember what he had dreamed last night.

He tried to remember, but couldn't remember anything.

But vaguely, he seemed to dream of patches of hyacinths, with deep blue-purple colors, and his mother, his sister, and that delicious meal. Dreams, like flowing water, flow gently and flow away gently. What's left? It's as if Evas's dream had been washed away and free of impurities. It seems to have happened, but it never seemed to stay.

It's really a dream, Ivas comforted himself, but it was hard to contain his excitement at the thought that he would soon see his mother and sister, who had been separated for five years, and taste the food he had missed for five years.

Everything was ready, and after washing, Ivas checked all his belongings again. A large backpack with traces of his mother's stitches, which can still be seen five years later, every time he sees his mother's stitches, Ivas will recall his mother in his hometown; These two are all he has in his family.

Ivas said to himself: "It shouldn't be a big problem. There should be nothing forgotten. ”

He has been a very meticulous person since he was a child, which may be a reference to his mother's merits, whether it is observing people or doing things, he is step-by-step and steady.

He closed the door gently, held the key to the room in his hand, and left without looking back. It's his home, but it's not his home.

His home was in the easternmost part of the province of Childe, surrounded by a blue sea, a beautiful little house beside the hyacinth on a hill, where the flaming pines and seabirds flew under the swings, and the cobbled paths were full of green grass and wildflowers. As soon as the sea breeze passed, the wind chimes in front of the eaves rattled, and the waves hit the shore with a loud sound.

Evas walks through the reddish-brown carpeted corridors to say goodbye to Laplace's moving verses and fantasizes about himself as a unicorn and disappearing into the sky as a phantom bird.

The unicorn is gone

The empty footprints are blurred illusions

The phantom bird has also flown away

The leisurely posture is a grand scene to remember

The tide of thousands of flowers blooms like the sea

The glitter of the flower demon appeared in the sea of flowers

The dark night of the endless sea carries ordinary dreams

......

Returning the key, Evas went to the dining hall, only to see that the dining hall was empty, not at all like when he usually eats at night: there will be a phenomenon that the people will be full, and the queue will sometimes line up to the door.

Grandma Eaton had already cleaned up the table and sat quietly in a row of leather chairs by the window, waiting for the morning breakfast. In the window of the ordering shop, the handsome Uncle Penodin was happily staring at the ceiling in a daze. Both are old friends of Evas.

The mother-in-law looks to be over half a hundred years old, and a little silver thread can already be seen under her black hair, like a dark night full of stars. But the soft hair and thick hair are also the envy of young girls, presumably in the past, it must be long hair fluttering, not to mention the appearance of the country and the city, it must be a beautiful girl, but the cruel time has left traces on her. The mother-in-law is not short, reaching the brow of Evas. In terms of figure, there is no trace of time, and the slender waist is also rare for women of their age, so they must usually pay more attention to this aspect of maintenance.

The mother-in-law sat at the table in a daze, her big eyes looking straight out of the window, and the shallow bags under her eyes enveloped a few wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, like a few ripples spreading around. The light brown pupils shimmered in the faint morning light outside the window, like the glitter of fish scales.

The people of the Dragon Kingdom value youth very much, and they advocate youth. This is why the members of the Sword of Kings will automatically retire after the age of thirty, and the king will consider abdication as soon as wrinkles appear in the corners of his eyes. Youth is a symbol of strength, which is a traditional culture of the Dragon Kingdom. Unlike Ning Guo, who values people's experience and age, the people of Long Guo emphasize that time is capital.

This mother-in-law's age will not be called a mother-in-law in Ningguo, but in Longguo, fifty years old has no chance of youth.

The uncle looked about the same age as his mother-in-law, about fifty years old.

Because men age relatively slowly compared to women in the Dragon Kingdom, the uncle is not called old man. The uncle is tall, with powerful arms, a beard that shows a more informal temperament, a pair of thick brown eyebrows, short brown-black hair that reaches up to the ears, a pair of large eyes with black pupils, a typical hooked nose, a large mouth, and a smile that seems to swallow the whole table.

It is said that he was a retired soldier of the Holy Alliance, and after retiring from the army, he came to Ducheng and found this job as a chef. Some people say that after he retired, he traveled to many places, saying that he was looking for someone.

Gossip people are curious about this. Given that the uncle does not have a wife and family, many people guess that this person must be his lover. Of course, there are also people who speculate: this is just an excuse, maybe something has been committed in the coalition army, expelled from the coalition army, and found a job to make ends meet.

But whatever the conjecture is, it's just conjecture. Uncle rarely reveals his privacy, and of course even less about the person he is looking for.

The uncle has a kind face, always has a smile on his face, and his humorous speech often makes everyone present laugh, and the children around him like to pester the uncle to tell the story he experienced in the coalition army: the people of Ning Guo, who can do magic, built a building more than ten stories high in just an instant, and the black scepter in the hands of the black-robed mage, The wonder of the Sacred Spring of Karagon, the graceful and beautiful people of the Tree Country, how the strange temple of wisdom guards the entire Tree Country, of course, the legend of the mysterious elves who disappeared in the Asakusa Forest, when it comes to flowers, the uncle will talk about the beautiful flower demons and the tide of flowers in other people's mouths, and sometimes he will put on the dark but kind Fog Country and the Sand People who can control the sand......

The children who listened to the story and those who had never been to the outside world talked about what he said, while those who had been outside did not take it seriously. There are also some people who think that this is just his nonsense, used to attract people's attention, because they don't believe that the people of Ning Guo can use magic to build a high-rise building of more than ten stories in an instant.

Uncle Penodin has a strong ability to deal with things. When people have a verbal argument, the uncle will always find a step for both parties, so that both sides of the dispute will not feel embarrassed or lose face.

Some people often joke with their uncle with cold drinks, "Big brother, you should go into business! ”

But whenever he mentioned this, the uncle just shook his head, "I'm not a business material, it's still okay to swing the Longmen Array (in the Dragon Kingdom, 'Longmen Array' refers to bragging and chatting). If I were really in business, I wouldn't be here today. ”

"Besides, I don't want to make myself so tired, and you know that people in business grow old quickly. ”

Uncle is happy every day, and there is no sorrow, which makes those who desperately pursue success feel jealous.

As for this mother-in-law, she and her uncle are old colleagues and have been working together for twelve years. Someone often jokes behind their backs, saying that the two of them are like an old couple.

When the mother-in-law and uncle heard such a joke, they would be very angry, and the two of them united and reasoned with the joker together, but the result always made the two of them red-faced.

For five years, day after day, year after year, my mother-in-law and uncle were like Evas's relatives, chatting and chatting with each other on weekdays, eating together during the holidays, and helping when needed.

One summer vacation, Ivas fell ill, and his uncle and mother-in-law took care of Ivas for four or five days, and finally Ivas got better before leaving. On some weekends, after Ivas finished his studies, he would get up early and go to the hotel cafeteria to help his uncle and mother-in-law do what they could, such as wiping the table, washing the dishes, or taking care of it.

Three people, have always had a good relationship.

As early as a few days ago, my mother-in-law and uncle knew that Ivas was going back to Ava Island today, and they didn't say anything, but they were reluctant to give up in their hearts. Seeing Ivas come to the dining place, the uncle who was looking at the ceiling in a daze immediately cheered up, as if the horn of the army was blowing.

"Good morning, kid, how are you sleeping?" He stroked his beard with his hand, smiled heartily, and looked like a proud rooster with his chest held high.

"Slept very well. Ivas touched the back of his head and placed his luggage in the luggage storage next to him.

"Glad to hear you say that. ”

"Uncle Penodin, how are you sleeping?"

"Very good! another night without dreams. Penodin lowered his head and whispered.

"yes!" Ivas sighed, "another night without dreams. ”

"Very well, what would you like to have on the last morning?"

"As always, a bowl of oatmeal yam paste. Ivas said calmly as he stood in front of the window with sleepy eyes.