Chapter 13: The Past (2)
Anna swam around in the pool, diving into the water and climbing to the shore again, feeling uncomfortable.
It seems that she used the bath as a pool.
"Oh yes," Elena said suddenly, "it's a rare dip in a medicinal bath, why don't you meditate?"
"Huh?"
Bella didn't know why Elena suddenly made this request.
"This medicinal bath, it is said that my grandfather added ingredients to help with magic cultivation, and it has a certain effect on the strengthening of mental power."
"Really?"
This is somewhat similar to the effect of the natural hot springs in Bella's hometown.
Since Alina said so, Bella might as well give it a try.
She closed her eyes, calmed down, and soon felt the full magical element in the water.
The ingredients in the hot water are very active, as if they have been refined into the essence of magic, stimulating the skin on the surface of the body.
Not only can it relieve fatigue, but it also seems to have a certain nourishing and massaging effect on the magic circuits in the body.
"How's it going?" Seeing Bella open her eyes, Elena asked excitedly.
"Hmm." Bella nodded, "It's really special."
"I'll just say it." Elena smiled smugly, "However, our family majors in fire-based magic, and Bella, you and Anna are good at water, do you feel a little uncomfortable?"
"Not really." Bella shook her head, "The magic elements in it are relatively abundant, and the main function is to restore mental power and exercise magic circuits, but there is no dependence on the type of magic."
"That's good." Alina said happily, "Anna, let's give it a try, too?"
"Aang? What's the matter?" Anna was sitting on the shore, swinging back and forth with her feet on the water, and only then did she look blankly at Elena when she heard her call.
"Come down and work out, this potion is very helpful for magic practice!" Elena replied.
"Huh? Really?" Anna jumped down with a thud, "Can I drink it?"
"Uh......" Elena frowned, "It stands to reason that you can drink it, but it's ......."
Before Elena could finish speaking, Anna plunged into the water with a grunt.
Then, soon he came out of the water with a hula and lay on the rocks on the shore and vomited and coughed.
"It's so bitter!"
Anna frowned, and her aggrieved face was about to cry, causing Bella and Elena to burst into laughter.
"Sister Miriamโโ!
Anna cried out miserably.
After a while, Miriam came over with a glass of honey, and after Anna drank it, she recovered a little.
"Actually, I did that when I was a kid." Elena said.
"Hmph."
Still angry and not wanting to speak, Anna picked up the biscuits on her plate and began to eat.
Perhaps, only dessert can soothe her wounded heart.
"I don't know, what kind of person is Elena's grandfather?" Bella asked.
It's possible to make such a powerful potion.
According to Elena's description just now, the old Mr. Giovanni is the basic formula brought from the East. However, the magic system of the East is completely different from ours, and it must not be easy to transform it into an effect suitable for the European human body.
"He's a weird old man, right?"
"Huh? Is it eccentric?"
"Hmm...... What do you say......" Elena touched her chin thoughtfully, "I remember when I was a child, he used to take me to the river to fish. However, the result is that every time I go home empty-handed."
"Huh? Didn't you catch a single one?"
"It's not." Elena shook her head, "It's the opposite, I should say. My grandfather's skills were particularly good, and he was able to catch a lot of fish every time. It's just that he let them all go later."
"Have they all been released?"
"That's right. Moreover, he has a different reason every time. For example, if you catch a small fish, he will say, 'Ah, you're too young to have experienced anything, and you must try the ups and downs of the fish.'" Then, I put it back into the river. If he catches a big fish, he will say, 'You have lived for so long, it must be not easy, you have worked hard all your life, and you have been eaten like this, what a pity, go back and enjoy your old age?' And then I put it too. If he catches a fish that is neither big nor small, he will say, 'Oh, you are young and strong, and there must be old and young in the family, and I will take you away like this, and the Virgin Mary will be sad, so go back quickly!' In the end, I also put ...... In short, none of them remained."
Hearing this, Bella couldn't help but giggle.
"What an interesting person." Bella said.
"yes." Elena continued, "He also used to say that etiquette is to be seen by others, and when there is no one else, you don't have to keep yourself working so hard, and you can walk as you want to walk โ which is exactly the opposite of what my father taught. And, his motto was, 'If you can sit and never stand, if you can lie down and never sit.'"
"It's amazing!"
"That being said, he is not lazy at all, and in his later years he was often busy in the alchemy room of the perfume workshop, and the 'Angel Sevenfold Bondage' is a half-finished product left by him, and I completed the rest of my research on his basis."
It seems that Elena and her grandfather have a very deep relationship.
"Almost all of my knowledge of alchemy was taught to me by my grandfather. My father was busy with politics and my brother was in charge of the bank, so I had to inherit the alchemy workshop. However, my grandfather took good care of me, never exposing me to some dangerous experiments, and by the last years of his life, he had taken care of all the potentially dangerous work. So, every time I encounter difficulties, I think of my grandfather's kind and mischievous smiling face. He must be quietly guarding me in the sky, so how can I be willing to let him down?"
Elena looked at the starry sky above her as if she had seen her grandfather's face.
Bella seemed to be lost in her thoughts.
The open-air design of this bath is just right for admiring the stars at night.
Anna seems to have discovered this use as well. She lay alone on the marble on the shore, holding the leftover half of the biscuit in her hand, blocking her eyes, as if she wanted to embed the moon in the biscuit and eat it together.
"Bella, do you want to look at the stars in a moment?" Alina asked suddenly.
"Huh?" Bella wondered, "Aren't we watching now?"
"It's different!" Elena explained, "With a special instrument."
"Special equipment?"
"An astronomical telescope left by Galileo, the scientist in Pisa, and later bought by my grandfather. You can see the outlines of the mountains on the surface of the moon!"
"Really?"
"Won't you try it later?"