Chapter 2: Freud's Bazaar
The afternoon sun shone on the sea, and Shinhyuk stood on the shore and looked into the distance, and every time she had something on her mind, she would come to the quiet sea, the water slapped her feet peacefully and rhythmically, and Karl's words lingered in her ears.
'I'm going to take Ah Chuan away. ’
A gust of wind blows, the fresh and vital breath of the sea wafts in, the distant sky, the fish leap out of the water, the long mast gradually becomes clearer and clearer in the field of vision, and a fishing boat slowly moves on the smooth blue sea.
Along the coastline, straight west to the Freud Market.
Fishing boats loaded on the sea level sailed into the old and chic harbor, anchors crossed graceful arcs and fell into the water, and a few dark-skinned rough men walked down the sailboats, their faces filled with happy smiles, like luscious rum gently brushing through a hot throat.
The grocer by the harbor stood on a long ladder to take the boxes of goods from the ship returning from Yaglo, which were full of muskets, ammunition, tomatoes, and thyme.
At the corner of the street, the sound of machinery 'squeaked' non-stop, and the old tailor picked up the clothes he had just made and handed them to Shinhyuk. Shinhyuk raised a smile and jumped away, like a child who had received candy.
The sun shines into the bazaar, and the streets smell of the Wittese nostalgia, the scent of the plam, and there is nothing more to rely on for those who go out to fish.
"Mother-in-law, I'll help you. ”
Shinhyuk rolled up his sleeves and lifted the hot steamer that had just come out of the pot in the room.
"Oh, Xiaohua, slow down, wait for your mother-in-law, don't stretch your thin arms and legs. ”
The mother-in-law's body was rickety, her whole body trembled as she spoke, her sallow skin was wrinkled, like the bark of an old tree in autumn, her shabby clothes were clean and tidy, and she looked about sixty years old.
Aunt Wright, as everyone called her, was a kind-hearted person who sold steamed buns at Freud's Bazaar all her life.
"Mother-in-law, who is fine, I live by myself, and I have to do everything myself, and I haven't carried it before. ”
Shinhyuk laughed, his whole eyes crooked.
'Bang!'
Aunt Wright helped on the side, helped the steamer on the counter, and Shenhe couldn't wait to lift the lid, and for a while the fragrance was overflowing, and he quickly picked up one and ate it.
"It's delicious, it's still the taste of childhood. ”
Shenhyuk was full of praise while eating.
"Thin!"
Aunt Wright approached, her calloused hands brushing the hair from Shenhyuk's face.
Looking at Aunt Leyte's loving eyes, Shenhyuk slowly stopped chewing on the food and remembered a lot of things. For her, Aunt Wright is the closest elder in the world, when she was just born, her mother left this world with the regret of not seeing her husband's last face, it was Aunt Wright who adopted her, meticulous care, careful care, so that she should have been lonely childhood, felt the love of her mother, until four years later her father returned from the war and took her back to Castle Dream, Kelridge......
"Yo ......! ”
At this time, a flirtatious voice sounded in his ears, and then he grabbed Shenhe's waist with one hand, I don't know which ruffian he thought it was, and Shenhe didn't even break free, and he didn't even have to think about it to know that it was the girl who called himself the 'flower thief' who came, as for which flower was picked? Of course, it was Shenhe's beautiful flower.
Aunt Wright glanced at the girl: "Where are you going crazy again?"
The girl was dressed in shorts and shorts, poking her head out from Shenhyuk's back feet, with medium-long hair, and her temperament was compelling and heroic.
"Look at you, how can you dress up like a girl in a day, learn from your sister. ”
Aunt Wright reprimanded the girl.
"People also want to be as beautiful as Xiaohuahua, but it's not your own!"
The girl's big eyes rolled and she said as she stroked Shenhyuk Ze's hair.
"How can this kid speak?"
The girl was clearly saying that she was not pretty, because of Aunt Wright, and Aunt Wright raised her hand and pretended to fight.
"Flowers, quick, help, stop the old lady. ”
In fact, Aunt Wright was not as old as outsiders seemed, but she was in her forties, and because of the difficult life and painful days, she tortured this former flowery girl into a weathered old woman. Shinhyuk saw that she often stood in the harbor when the market was gone, alone, looking out at the sea, the three-masted ship that had not returned for a long time, and on board were her two sons who had just become adults.
"Mother-in-law, I think it's good for Xiao San to be like this!"
Shenhyuk smiled and persuaded, time seemed to go back to the past, and the whole family was happy.
'Little San', whose real name is Na'er Xiao Telle, is a cheerful girl, because she is the third in the family, so everyone calls her San'er, Shen He'er is three days older than San'er, the two grew up eating a mouthful of breast milk, because they are of the same age, they live together, and they are like sisters.
In the Bell Empire, surnames determine status, and people with small characters in their surnames are farmers from humble backgrounds, and Sanna'er is one of them.
"Niu, guess what Uncle Ben has been doing lately?"
Sanna'er smiled slyly.
Shenhe scoffed: "What else can you do besides chasing cats and dogs, demolishing houses and chasing rats, or stealing duck eggs from black monsters?"
The black old monster is Sanna'er's neighbor, because of his appearance is black and ugly, he gave it such a nickname, the black old monster has a lot of ducks at home, and when he was a child, Shenhe and Sannaer often went to steal duck eggs.
"Oh, that's all when I was a child, flowers, look at what this is?"
Saying that, Sanna'er spread out her hand, and in the sun, a black coin-sized thing, on which a knight's sword was inserted on top of the flower basket, Shenhe, as a princess, recognized at a glance that this was a knight's badge, and only a knight could have it.
Aunt Wright was taken aback when she saw this, and snatched the badge from Sanna'er's hand.
"Really, really, why did you suddenly become a knight?"
Aunt Wright had a bad eye, and she looked at it for a long time before she dared to be sure, because her husband was once a knight.
"People have been training in the Moyu Gladiatorial Arena for almost a year, but they didn't tell you because they were afraid that you would be unhappy. ”
Sanna'er pouted.
"How could I not be happy, what a glorious thing this is. ”
Aunt Wright touched the badge with a trembling smile as she grinned.
"Then you haven't thought about it, it's dangerous to be a knight, in case something happens to me......"
Aunt Wright shook her head, stroking the badge.
Sanna'er was unwilling: "You old lady is still not your daughter?"
Aunt Wright stepped forward, smoothed Sanna'er's folded clothes with trembling hands, and hung the badge on her chest: "You are also the daughters of Mokaben. ”
Aunt Wright often said that money would dilute the feelings between people, and that she could have enjoyed a life without worrying about food and clothing, and that she could have received a sum of money every month, which was a thank you from the lord of the city. But Aunt Wright, who had the money, still made it at sunrise and rested at sunset, pushing her old wheeled cart to Freud's market, selling hot buns......