Chapter 2: The Early Morning of Nelly's Adventure Party
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The City of Knowledge is located in the western part of the Western Region, close to the Neville Federation, and under the influence of the Neville Federation, the entire city is highly commercialized. In this megacity of nearly 800,000 people, the number of commercial buildings is second only to academic buildings and the second largest number of non-residential buildings. It is conceivable that in such a city, the price of every inch of land is amazingly high, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as an inch of land.
In the City of Knowledge, even though Fox Street is not the most prosperous area in the city center, the Garden Pavilion, which covers an area of more than one square kilometer in the middle of the street, may have more than 500,000 gold coins for the land it occupies, and if you add the buildings and gardens above, some people even estimate that the total price is close to one million gold coins. But what is strange is that such a large Western-style house, such a wealthy Western-style owner, did not hire any servants and maids for the Western-style house, but only hired some sweepers every few days to maintain the cleanliness of the building, or when he was away for a long time, hired some gardeners to mow the lawn in the yard, and most of the time, people would see the knight girl as the owner of the Western-style mansion and the priest girl as the first resident, diligently taking care of the huge building and garden, this kind of diligence is one of the reasons why the surrounding merchants love the girls in the Western-style house。
Today, however, the knightly maiden Catherine did not appear in the garden, but sat solemnly in the drawing-room, and opposite her, Pannis sat on a chair with a solemn face, staring down at the ground with her eyes down, as if listening to the teachings.
"Do you know how many times I received requests for help from neighbors last night? Fifteen times, fifteen times!! we have only been back for a day, and you have let me receive fifteen requests for help or complaints, all related to you. Catherine snarled out of shape, waving the paper in her hand, "Look at it, look at it, that's it." ”
"'Yesterday when I was packing up the shop and about to lock the door and go home, I felt someone staring at me from behind. It was getting dark, and I couldn't see it clearly when I looked back, but I saw a black shadow hiding in the far corner, and when I looked closer, the shadow was gone, woo, did I meet a ghost?' is the narration of Luna, the clerk of the tailor's shop, don't tell me it's not a good thing you did, you didn't do less on the way back from the weeping cave. ”
"Look at this again, the account of the owner of the grilled fish shop. 'Miss Catherine, though I am grateful that you can take care of my business, could you please tell that friend of yours to give our little shop a way to live?' This morning, as soon as our shop opened, your friend came in and ordered our three kinds of grilled fish specials for today. As you know, our special grilled fish is only 30 percent of the normal price, and we are selling it at a loss just for promotion, and your friend only orders the special fish, sits in the store all morning, and eats up all our stock of special fish. If he does this every day, we really won't be able to do business in the future. 'Look, look, is the grilled fish so delicious? You also eat special food, and you have cried out when you eat other shopkeepers, what about the dignity of your profession? ”
"And this, it's the clinic doctor's daughter, part-time nurse Jenny, 'Wow, Sister Catherine, it's terrible, it's terrible, just now people went to the backyard of the clinic to put away the uniforms that were dried in the morning, but I saw a strange person squatting on the wall of the hospital, smirking at the people's uniforms while looking fantastical, and when he saw that people appeared, he also asked people's names, ages, and addresses with a lewd face, wow, it's terrible, Sister Catherine, is there a ** running here near us. 'You're doing a good job, Jenny is only fourteen years old, only fourteen years old!!! you're fantasizing about a fourteen-year-old ** uniform, are you a scumbag????"
"And then there's the narration of Bill, the clerk at the prop shop. 'Miss Catherine, could you please tell your friend to stop sleeping in my tree?' I had just finished lunch this afternoon, and as I passed by the backyard, I saw that friend of yours was sleeping on a branch at the top of the tree in the backyard, drooling while sleeping, and I was startled. Tell him about it, it's too dangerous to sleep like this, it's so high, it's not a trivial matter if you brush it down. "Are you a cat? Do you have to climb on a branch to sleep, don't you have a bed at home? Don't you have a house at home? Why do you have to learn to be a cat? And you can sleep and drool, don't you feel ashamed!!!!"
Catherine clutched her head and groaned, "Fifteen times, fifteen times, it's just one day." Four times I accosted women, twice stalked women, twice peeped behind her for a long time, three times I made other people's shop owners cry, once I slept on someone's tree, twice I attacked other customers in other people's shops with vicious language so that they fainted, and once I actually made a face at the little girl while other people's parents were not paying attention and scared the little girl into crying for two hours!!! I said, are you so hungry and thirsty? Your garrison covers all the beautiful women from forty to fourteen years old. Are you so hungry? Are you so sleepy? And you actually scold people directly, you are very powerful, the most infuriating is the last one, I know you can use the control of the professional body to make some weird grimaces, but is it so fun to scare a four-year-old girl??? God, help me. ”
"Oh, that's not right. Pannis suddenly raised his head and said with a serious face, "I only stalked a girl once yesterday." ”
"You still dare to say it, you still dare to say it. Catherine slapped the table with a frenzied face, and finally lay on the table in frustration: "I know, you have just rediscovered yourself, and you are ready to live your true self, but don't you think what you are doing is a bit overdone?"
"Is it overdone?" Pennis scratched his head, "I don't think so." You see, the pursuit of beauty of the opposite sex is the desire that is difficult to hide in the depths of every man's soul, the pursuit of food is the most basic desire of every living being, and it is not a big deal to rest for a while when you are sleepy, as for the little girl at the end, that, that was purely accidental, I wanted to make her laugh, who knew that she had no sense of humor, and was actually teased to cry. ”
"Alas, Pannis. Catherine rubbed her forehead and said with a headache, "Do you really think you're doing this to face yourself and live your life?"
"Isn't it?" Pannis asked incomprehensibly, "Didn't you say it before?" Cry when you want to cry, laugh when you want to laugh, do what makes you happy, do what you don't regret, is this the way to face your true self?"
"I see, you did this because you suppressed your true personality since you were a child, and you don't know how a normal person behaves. Catherine sighed: "It's true that as you said, I said those things, but have you ever thought that many things may be done by you and you will be happy, but there will be some innocent and kind people who will be badly affected by what you have done, and when someone is hurt or affected because of your happiness, don't you feel guilty for it?"
Pannis was silent and lost in thought.
Seeing that Pannis listened to her persuasion, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "So, what I said before is indeed to face the true self, but it is based on not causing a bad influence on others. If your happiness is based on the pain and panic of innocent people and you still do it, then it is not real, it is selfish. Only a selfish person would act according to his own preferences and desires, regardless of other people's feelings, and a normal person would not do that. ”
"I think I seem to get it. Pannis said thoughtfully: "If you think about it, although yesterday's behavior was happy for a while, I do regret it when I think back to the trouble I caused others, so I am also troubled by the conflict between doing happy things and doing things that I don't regret." Now that I've figured out that if I do things that cause trouble to others, then I'm only going to regret it instead of being happy because of that behavior, so those things aren't really things that make me happy. I didn't control the balance between the two. ”
"Yes. Catherine clapped her hands in agreement: "You finally understand." ”
"Yes, I see. Pannis nodded: "So ......"
"So?" asked Catherine.
Pannis bowed his head with a heavy face and was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his head, showed a big smile, and gave a thumbs up: "So when I follow and peep in the future, I will definitely be very careful not to be discovered by them, so that it will not cause them trouble." ”
"Bastard, you must mean this. Catherine went berserk and waved the paper in her hand to chase after Pannis: "I'm going to kill you, don't run, let me kill you." ”
"Ah, it's so lively, sure enough, the eldest sister is nagging again, how did you provoke her again, Pannis, why did you provoke her, so that she was so energetic early in the morning. Lina's languid voice came from the stairs on the side of the living room. Lina, dressed in a white pajama with pink petals and unkempt silver hair, slowly walked down the stairs with her hands over her mouth and yawning, and asked vaguely as she slammed her head against the pillar in the living room.
"Wow, it hurts. Sister, why did you hit me. Lina, who was still half-asleep and half-awake, was babbling nonsense.
"It's good to kill you, stupid. Catherine glared at Pannis, stopped the pursuit, stepped forward to look at Lina's white forehead, which did not even have a red mark, and flexed her finger to add a blow to it: "Vivien, haven't you gotten up yet?"
"That slacker. Lina finally came to her senses, and while she laboriously straightened her knee-high silver hair, she said bad things about Vivien: "How can you get up before nine o'clock." ”
"You two are slackers. Catherine reached out and ruffled Lina's freshly arranged hair again, and said to Lina's protest, "Go take a bath, I'll make breakfast." ”
"Don't. Pannis stopped Catherine loudly, leaned over to Lina and asked, "Why do you let Catherine cook every day?"
"Because neither I nor Vivien know. Lina looked at Pannis with wide innocent eyes: "Is there a problem?"
"Hehe, hehe, a chef who can even produce seven colors of fried eggs. Pannis laughed dryly and said, "It's a miracle that the three of you have survived so far." ”
"Well, I don't know if it's a miracle. Lina pointed behind Pannis, "But I know that if you don't hurry up and think about your own funeral eulogy now, I'm afraid you'll never have a chance again." ”
"Ugh. Pannis felt two cold gazes behind him stabbing his back, and a murderous aura rose to the sky, so frightened that he even stimulated his fighting spirit, and rushed into the kitchen as fast as he could: "I went to make breakfast, and I didn't say anything." ”
Lina rubbed her eyes and shrugged innocently at Catherine, staggering towards the bathroom.