11 The 'ghost' of the republic (the last one didn't know how)
Grande's breakfast was not postponed because of two more people, but a little earlier than usual, firstly because Danny was in a hurry, secondly, Benjamin's appetite was still light, and finally because Alice did not do her part.
"Is there really a pastry without eggs?" Alice asked the woman on the desk - Mo, that's what Kim shouted anyway.
"Really, I teach you. Mo replied, "But you have to make a pastry that you usually give to Shougong first." "Remember, when Kim was still in Grande, Louise would prepare enough food every day, just simple quilts, cakes, pies and other things in the basket, and Kim would take them at any time. "I'll see if it's really as good as he described. "The likes and dislikes of shapeshifters are all based on taste.
And so Alice began to be happy.
As a result, from the beginning of breakfast to the end of breakfast, Zach kept looking at the woman in the kitchen with an eyebrow raised, and Max tried to share his knowledge of the 'ghost' several times, either because he was deliberately flattering or because he really wanted to discuss, but Zach interrupted him.
One last time, Zach glanced at Max a little impatiently, "Ben, get this guy out." ”
Then Benjamin took Max with him, and asked in the same impatient tone as he went, "What the hell are you here for?"
"Hey, I haven't seen you for a day, I miss you! I just came to see you! But, hey, I want to see the 'ghost'! I used to just hear it from the elders...... "I was carried to the backyard, pressed to the hammock, and was ordered by Benjamin, "Oh, miss me, then shake the bed for me." ”
Danny did something before leaving, he carefully looked at the half-covered ink and asked, "Are you attached to this box?"
"This box is attached to me. Mur replied.
Danny was in a hurry and didn't ask too much. Let's go.
Old Hank and Louise had nothing to say, and each had their own work after breakfast.
Zach was left in the dining room, looking at the woman with raised eyebrows. Our vampire is waiting, waiting for a chance to be officially introduced.
This opportunity came when Alice put the gray-green stuff in the oven.
Zach hadn't moved yet, the woman had moved. First glanced at Zack, and finally let go of the hand that had been half-hidden, and the exotic costume was lightly lifted, and floated off the desk, "Shougong said, you have an office dedicated to talking about things. ”
Zack stood up and nodded, "Mo ......" Zack was stuck, frowning and thinking for a long time, "Mo Qing...... I don't know if such a title is OK. Zach looked a little weird. Because of the formal introduction. Etiquette is very important, so the title cannot be wrong,
However, even with Zack's four centuries of experience, he is not sure what etiquette is correct for this soul alien race in front of him, whom Max calls a 'ghost'.
The 'ghost' laughed, "Do you know the etiquette of titles in my lifetime?" Silver Bell like, "Thank you." I already felt welcome. But just call me Mo, and I'll call you Zack as you're customary. ”
Well, the official introduction that Zach was waiting for was useless at all, and it didn't need to be introduced at all. Zach shook his head at Kim, who was looking like James and staring at the oven with Alice. He nodded right away. Stepping forward, ready to guide the 'lady' to the office.
Speaking of guidance, Zach's hand reached for the vermilion box behind the ink.
Ink's wide cuffs brushed the box in front of the vampire's hand, and the box vanished, and the woman smiled at Zack. With his hands folded in his sleeves in front of him, he bent slightly, which should be a rite, and then walked directly in front of Zack.
Zach pursed the corners of his lips, uh, shame on me! After seeing the way Ink appeared, Zack thought that this woman couldn't move freely, just like the groundbound spirit couldn't leave the bound land. Who would have thought that this woman would be able to pick up this box herself!
"Go upstairs. Zach walked behind the woman and led the way, looking down at the skirt that was dragging across the Grande floor, which had been dusted off the back of the exotic dress.
Zach didn't know whether to pay attention to this guy who was definitely a soul alien by Max, whether it was an 'entity' with such an entity, or whether to pay attention to Grande's sanitary environment!
Zach pouted again, "I wonder if you have any more convenient outfits." ”
The skirt opened as she walked up the stairs, and a white jade-like hand rested on the handrail, Mo paused, turned his head and smiled at Zack, and when she stepped up again, the vermilion 'smoke' enveloped her, and when she stepped into the half-floor and turned, the smoke and dust dispersed, and it was the same clothes as Louise.
"I don't have much to refer to, the Republicans are still dressed very differently from yours, and most of what I saw on the way here were the formal uniforms of male emissaries and the military uniforms of escorts. ”
Zach could only accept this explanation, and then turned to continue up, "The east door is the office. ”
"What about the west side?" seemed to be a curious 'ghost', who bent slightly at the top of the staircase, as if trying to see what was on the short side of the L-shaped turn.
"Housing. Further on that side are the guest rooms and bathrooms. Zach answered in detail, walked past Mo's side first, opened the door, and assumed a posture of inviting in.
"Shounomiya told me about the structure of the Grande, and it seems that there has been a slight change. Ink withdrew his gaze, smiled at Zack, and walked into the office.
Zach waited for the other party to sit down at the desk, then closed the door, walked to the bookcase first, old habits, poured 'wine', sat down behind the desk with a rock, and looked at the woman opposite, "I already feel that there is no symmetry." Zach's tone was neither good nor bad, "Kim should have told you a lot of things, but I don't know a little about you yet." ”
"You know call me Mo Qing. Mo smiled, "So it's not like I don't know at all." And. Mo's gaze began to wander around the office, in line with someone who had come here for the first time, "Morinomiya told me that you once asked his name, and you seem to be able to understand his answer. According to the republican saying, we are destined. ”
The conversation between the two first acquaintances has begun.
"I've just lived long enough to know a few things about the early days of the Union. Zach took a sip of wine, and now, he couldn't tell if the appearance of such a 'ghost' in Grande was a good thing or a bad thing. Zach gave a look of remembrance. "When the Federation was first established, there were a large number of missions from countries outside the Federation, and the alien races under the belief in witchcraft and the belief in the Holy Lord faced an invasion from outside. ”
Zach never mentioned this, because it wasn't worth mentioning, compared to the battle with the Witchcraft Saint Lord during the Colonial War, those were just a slice of cake......
Zach shook his head. Looking at the woman with a republican face in front of him, the figurative expressions of his thoughts were all disordered.
"Some of Kim's behaviors (e.g., picky eating, e.g., instant defection to Grande...... It reminded me of some rumors about these aliens at the time, so I tried to ask. ”
"That's right. Mo had already looked at everything in this office and looked back at Zach with a smile, "Then do you know what it really means to keep the palace?"
Zach shook his head.
Ink stretched out his arm, Louise was wearing short sleeves today, but Ink still made a sleeve pull-up motion, and Snow's arm was displayed in front of Zack's eyes.
"What am I going to see?" Zach frowned.
"Originally, there was something called Shoumiya Sand. "Mo is only on this arm. "A small lizard called Shougong is used, which is kept in captivity in cinnabar for seven days, crushed and ground, and dotted on underage girls, the color is vermilion, representing the virginity of girls. ”
Zach tugged at the corners of his mouth, early in the morning, who wants to listen to such a thing! Zach took another sip of 'wine'. Dispel unpleasantness.
Ink withdrew his arm, "I thought it was pitiful when I was younger. Secretly used my mother's rouge to paint the earth dragon (gecko) on the eaves, and replaced it, and then it stayed by my side and married into the royal ...... with me" Mo tilted his head sideways, as if sensing that the master of Grande did not want to hear this story, and automatically skimmed by. "When the Federation was founded, the envoy of the Federation came to visit, and among the people who accompanied him was an Indoan, who had some special power, called ......"
"Papa midnight. "Zach is done. The establishment of the Federation was the result of the truce and peace between the Indons and the colonizers, and at that time, in order to declare the establishment of the country, there were representatives of the colonists and Indians among the envoys to other countries. As for who the representative of the Indoans can be, is it still an accident?
"Yes. Mo smiled, "Envoys always come and go, knowing that there are special people with this kind of power in the Federation, I don't worry that my son is unprepared to go to the Federation, so, Shougong, came to the Federation." ”
"And then I didn't go back. Zach glanced at the ink.
Mo nodded, and shook his head again, as if sad, "I thought I'd never see him again." She smiled genuinely again, "Just as I was about to give up, he came back." ”
According to what Mo said, the gap between her and Kim lasted for nearly four centuries! Zach gave the other party time to sigh, and then, "I'm glad Kim is back, but ......" Zach took another sip of 'wine', "I'm not sure if I'm glad you came along." After all. Zach put down his glass, "I don't know what you are yet." ”
Zack doesn't feel it! On the ink in front of him, our vampire can't feel his racial superiority at all! The blood of the vampire that corrodes the soul flows calmly and without any waves in Zack's body at this time, and he can't feel the temptation of the 'prey' in front of him at all!
"The wizard was right, I'm a ghost. Mo looked at Zack's serious expression and tilted his head slightly, "But I don't quite understand what he means by soul aliens." Mo sighed, "The republic's is very bad now, so bad that he can't understand it when he returns to the palace, I don't expect you, a federal person, to understand, so ......"
Mo gave an apologetic look, "Please understand, I can't understand your Federation's so-called alien classification. Even if ......" Mo frowned, even if he frowned, this is still a beautiful woman full of exotic styles, "Your holy lord believes in alien races, and the man who calls himself an angel, and the man who calls himself an angel, and the man who is in the middle of the night in Papa, is constantly stirring up chaos in the republic. She shook her head, "I've been dealing with them many times, and I still can't understand their ......," her expression was a little strange, "how could there be a life form like that." ”
Zach raised his eyebrows, and he understood the other party's tongue-twisting explanation, that is, under different belief systems, they didn't understand each other. It's the same as Zach always rejects Benjamin's use of the witchcraft spice.
"I take the liberty of asking. Zach frowned, "What is the republican faith." "The situation of the republic may give him a glimpse of the purpose of Murton's coming to Patton and to Grande.
"Faith?" Mo asked rhetorically, "do you mean that the Lord of those angels is a god, and that Papa thinks of himself as a god of witchcraft at Midnight?"
Zack's original intention is very simple, the belief system, at least the two belief systems that Zack is familiar with, have a guy at the top, remember the similarity between the Holy Lord's belief in alien races and witchcraft belief in alien races a long time ago?
That's why Zach nodded at this point.
"It's too much. Mo replied, "If you count the paintings, I am also a so-called god." Mo tilted her head, "I bless the ...... who worship me," she thought for a moment, "The life of the women in the courtyard of the Sifang Palace, I am the god they believe in." ”
Mo raised his chin again, "But I'm not the only god, those women still have a god who asks for an heir, and after having a daughter, there is a god who asks for a son, for the glory of the descendants, and the ancestor god who protects the bloodline, and for the sake of his own next life, there is also a god of glory and reincarnation......" Mo pursed his lips, "The people outside the Sifang Palace have more gods to believe." The god of the door who cares for the house, the god who fights for righteousness, the god who sleeps peacefully every day, the god of the stove who worships the housewife, and even the evil god who takes revenge on jealousy, and the god of chaos who disturbs the prosperity of the world......"
Zach tilted his head, frowned and emptied the 'wine' in his glass, and shook his hand to stop the woman in front of him from continuing. That kind of world, our vampires can't imagine.
Mo didn't say anything more, and looked at our vampire with a smile, "Look, I said you can't understand it." ”
Zach put down the empty glass, still frowning, "Just tell me why you're here." ”
"Because I have nowhere to go. Ink replied naturally, "Republic." She bowed her head and shook slightly, the black silk in front of her forehead swayed softly, "It's the people of the Republic, they want to break all the so-called beliefs, 'cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods'." Mo said something that Zach didn't understand, please ignore it, "In the republic, we inhuman things are being slaughtered and dying out by manpower. ”
"What do you mean. Zach frowned, he heard something important.
"Do you hear that?" Mo smiled and nodded, "so I don't understand what you 'people' from the Federation are fighting for. The republic is not an unexplored new territory they can stay in. The people there will no longer have faith, and it will become a dead place for those who rely on faith to sustain their existence, your words 'aliens'. ”
Alice happily came in with a stack of gray-green squares, "It's done! Kim is very satisfied, look at the taste!"
Mo turned his gaze, smiled and pinched a piece, and put it in his mouth, "Well, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to adapt to your kitchenware and not be able to master the heat, but I didn't expect it to be good." Alice remembered that this simple thing was called mung bean cake. Tomorrow I will teach you lotus root powder osmanthus cake, there have been countless women who have relied on this to have a lifetime of glory. ”
Zach needed to be quiet. (To be continued.) )