Chapter 49: Add
Add was born into the Vista Mantha Dalai family, the westernmost part of the continent.
One egg twins, one boy, two girls.
When he was born, the season was at the right time, and the sea breeze gusted, blowing the fresh fragrance of the 'indigo candle orchid' floating all over the sea into the delivery room, so the boys were called Rulan, and the girls were called Qingshi and Qingling.
The Xiaofeng family has been prosperous for nearly a hundred years, and when Eddie and his sisters were born, the direct population of their family was about to exceed 1,000, becoming the tallest of the many families on the west coast of the First Continent, so it was only natural that they would become the leaders of the local bull's ear.
The family is thriving, and there is no shortage of playmates. Eddie had many cousins during his childhood, and his cousins were spread across the continent of Mansadalai.
The Kand society is classless and does not have any concept of privilege, but considering that racial continuity is the first criterion of the Kanders, the Xiaofeng family has also been duly rewarded, their recognition is high in the West Coast Council, and the members of the family are also treated favorably in various aspects.
Add actually has many names, and Xiaofeng Rulan is the first one he acquired when he was born. As he grew older, he, like all the Kander boys, became more and more curious.
When he reached the age of study, his father began to instruct him about the other intelligent beings of Misopdashins, describing to him the planet on which these foreign companions lived, their appearance, their characteristics, and even their language and history. And whenever he was taught about a race, his father would ask him to choose a name that was appropriate to that race. It didn't take long for him to have the names of many different planets, different creatures, and different languages, and the name of the human race he chose for himself was 'Add'.
For the vast majority of Kander teenagers, childhood is undoubtedly happy and wonderful, and they can play to their heart's content without being subject to any social constraints. Because the school seems to be only a distant future, only after the female Kander comes of age, or the male Kande chooses to return from travel, will they devote themselves to various professional schools for vocational skills training, and after graduation, they will enter the corresponding positions to serve the needs of the society.
Every Kander, before entering the professional school, was far more knowledgeable than most humans of his age, as their respective fathers could be counted as the best governess known in the galaxy.
After marriage and childbirth, the male Kande people will take raising offspring as their first priority, and they will selflessly pass on what they have learned in their travels and what they are best at to their children. It is not until the children reach adulthood or continue their travels that they apply for school or become directly involved in social work for professional skills.
Eddie had what he considered to be the best father in the world, and when he was very young, the experiences of his father's own adventures became the bedside stories that he and his two sisters looked forward to every day.
Father would often mention the companions he had traveled with him, and when Eddie asked about the whereabouts of his allies, Father would always smile and not answer, but once Eddie stumbled upon his father, who turned around when he and his sister were not looking, wiping tears from his eyes.
The Kand are also sad, even if it makes them uncomfortable, and the Khandians seem to be the most carefree and intelligent creatures in the galaxy among the aliens, and they are optimistic and positive, which the Kand will more or less admit in private...... At least that's the case with the male Kanders.
Eddie's mother is a member of the Jade Belt City Council on the west coast where the Xiaofeng family is located, and she represents the political rights and interests of the entire Xiaofeng family and several other middle-class families in the surrounding area, and also has an office in the seaside residential area, which is responsible for the various demands of thousands of Kander people in the jurisdiction, and her work is extremely busy.
Although her mother was at home for a short time and had less communication with Eddie than her father, whenever she had free time, she would become a very rigorous teacher, teaching her three children about Kander culture and social practices. Kander women are known for being tough and stern, and although they never smile on the surface, Eddie knows that his mother loves him even better than his two younger sisters.
This is not something that the father can do, the father has always treated his three children equally, and although the Kande women never travel, the interesting stories that the father shared with Eddie will always be told to his two sisters in the same way, and as a good-natured father, he will explain all the details to his daughters.
Eddie doesn't ask questions when his father teaches, like his sister, and what his father says is just what he seems to understand as soon as he hears it, and he understands it as soon as he speaks. He used to think it was because he was a boy, and as a member of the family who was born a little earlier than his two sisters, he often felt compelled to protect his twin sisters, and he felt that he was doing a good job.
But Add sometimes worries that when he thinks about the day he will travel out of the galaxy in the future, his sisters will be just as adults as he is, and at the same age as the Kanders are married.
By the time he returned from his travels, they might have already married into human beings, separated by worlds of life, and become members of other people's families.
As soon as he thought about it, Eddie couldn't help but hate Kander's travels.
Traveling at the age of three and returning home at the age of four, the journey of the Kander usually takes a Kande year, and Eddie does not want to be separated from his sisters for so long. He always had a very strange thought, why did the male Kanders have the custom of going out to travel, and why did his children and grandchildren still go out and retrace their footprints after their father's father had already touched the whole galaxy spiral arm?
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Planet Vesta, known in Kandh as Kurubirris.
This beautiful planet is a paradise for young Add.
Here, he could spend his days naked in freshwater and the planet's extremely low air pressure allowed him and his cousins to swim far away, and they had gone to the isolated islands of the sea together to explore abandoned lighthouses, and with just one breath they could dive to the depths of the sea, where they had a pleasant conversation with beautiful salamanders.
He could go polar skiing with his friends in an airship, sprinting back and forth from one mountain peak to another, enjoying the chill of the snow stinging his skin.
He and his family can venture into the mountains of the jungle in search of adventures, listening to the elven birds pass on beautiful legends about the ruins of the Ascended Beings.
He can take a space elevator to Aeskudabis that surrounds Kurubiris, follow the Jack of the Clouds with a multi-armed guide with a particularly funny body language, visit the magnificent Rainbow of Haze, and play with all five of the other five satellites of Klubarris.
In this way, small tours can only be done in Kurubirris, so Add doesn't want any real tours. Such a happy life is enough for him, why do you want to go out and travel? Isn't there a male Kander who doesn't like to travel?
He often complained to his father: "I don't want to leave Kurubiris, I don't want to go on any hellish travels!" ”
But at this time, his father was always smiling, shaking his head and telling him, "You are still young, and your father felt the same way as you when he was a child, and everything will be different when you are an adult." ”
Eddie was puzzled by his father's statement, and he once puffed out his cheeks and asked, "How could I change?" You've taught me that the Kander never change their minds. ”
His father would always answer him like this: "Because of Kurusodamus." ”
As for Kurusodamus, Eddie knew that this was an important phrase of prayer in the Khand, and that he only happened among the male Khand, which in the lingua franca of the Silver Alliance means: driven by the soul.