823 Books The Girls of the Holy City
The ladies of the wealthy families in the Temple City usually have few leisure activities, or they have no opportunities to do it at all. As a girl in a religious city, the tutoring is several times stricter than in other cities. The cake shop is the only place for them to have fun, but they can only eat quietly in the company of their attendants.
The Egret's home is somewhat famous in the Temple City, and there are many business dealings with the temple, and most of the people who come and go in the house are clergy. As a child in such a family, the usual discipline made her a little breathless. Although it seems that after sixteen years, it should be used to it, but Xilu, who is about to think about marriage, finds that she is increasingly unable to bear this kind of pressure.
She always heard the nun say that the age of sixteen is a period of rebellion, and if you don't keep your faith, it will make a big mistake and cause a big disaster. As for what misfortune happened, she didn't know, and she hadn't heard of any girl of the same age who was unlucky. She began to wonder if she had been deceived.
Just the day before, she had just had a big fight with her mother. It was a big rebellion, and she was so worried after the quarrel that she didn't sleep well all night. The next day, seeing her mother greeting her like she was okay and arranging things for class, she thought that this might be the calm before the storm.
Nervous, she ran to a cake shop near her home in the only place where she could usually calm down, only to meet a civilian girl who she thought was particularly uneducated ā“.
Xilu is also a commoner, but it is more or less a service to God, and the people in the temple tell her that those who serve God are much nobler than civilians.
As soon as I arrived at the store at night, I looked like a wild child. The discipline at the girls' home was strict, but it didn't affect her way of doing her own thing, and even Otis's fists didn't change her in the slightest.
The heron looked at this food and swallowed it without even chewing three bites. The food and water lead to the guy stuffed in the mouth, which is particularly unpleasant.
She had choked on food because of a similar situation, and was seen by a priest who came to her house as the water went down. At that time, the priest said very easily, 'uneducated', so that the heron did not have a minute of personal time for two whole months, and was constantly watched by the liturgical teachings.
'It's not fair......'
The heron is very jealous of the night, jealous that she will not be blamed. She hoped that the calamity of the nun's mouth would befall the girl. And pray from the bottom of my heart. Prayed for a minute, to no avail, and the unbearable Yulu learned to do the same as when other girls bullied others, and tried to find trouble for the night.
Night Bee has always been the patron saint of her children, protecting them from being bullied by orphans in older girls' homes. Now someone is bullying the night bee, although both of them have graduated, but after all, it was only a few hours after graduation, and she secretly left the girls' home in advance, and there was still a little bit of no reaction at this time.
I saw that I was bullied by outsiders at night. She didn't think about it before she made a move.
Last night, the night bee-eater and Crane Rhine sneaked out of the girls' home. The two of them were told about the selection of the main god by the guardian spirit, and after each finished speaking, they were possessed and became the god's companions. The two of them separated and felt the changes in their bodies a little, feeling an inexplicable fear of the power they had gained, and they were also somewhat looking forward to it. I was still thinking about communicating with the gods, but I found that the other party suddenly disappeared silently. I can feel the zĆ i, but I can't get a response.
The two of them got together a little confused. Finding out that the other was in the same situation, they were sure that God should be asleep, and that it was just a normal process. There's no need to panic.
That being said, the selection of the main god itself is a game of deciding the winner by killing, and the two who originally had a good relationship looked at each other and found that they had been affected. He would be wary of the friends in front of him.
ā...... The atmosphere has changed. ā
Crane Rhine was the first to speak, breaking through this point.
During a brief encounter with the Patronus, Nightbee learns from Armor that all she needs to do is defeat the Patronus called the Tiger Girl. She heard about it. The Tiger Maiden chose Cherish Night as her companion, and I heard that she was not at all prepared to unite with humans.
It's strange to choose a partner if you don't combine, but when you think of the word 'don't combine', Night Bee suddenly feels that she is in danger.
If one's patronus is asleep and his opponent is unharmed, then it is impossible to say how terrifying the situation is.
When Crane Rhine heard about it, he ran away, so the two of them held hands and climbed over the wall to leave the girls' home where the orphans gathered. As a result, not long after walking down the street, I ran into robbers.
The Night Bee had easily knocked them away, and it was the first time she had fought. Usually girls stay away from violent conflicts, basically all the fights are contracted by Otis alone, and the others have no chance to fight at all. Whoever it is, whenever there is an imminent armed conflict, the Ottis will always rush out of the strange place, beat both sides and then suddenly disappear. Sometimes they will leave a sentence of 'welcome at any time, but do not build yƬ revenge'.
Night Bee doesn't engage in pointless fights, and after beating someone, she takes the rogue wallets and finds a place to stay with Crane Rhine for the night.
The two of them had wanted to get out of the city, to leave the city and go to a safer place. The patron saint of the crane Rhine is called Stinger and is a bird. While possessing Crane Rhine, he said that he did not intend to win the game, he just wanted to survive the game.
In fact, there is a little contradiction in this statement, after all, there is only one winner, and the candidate god who survives to the end is naturally the winner. Crane Rhein felt that since he wanted to survive to the end, then escaping was the best way. She almost said goodbye to the night bee and left alone, but in the end, she gave up her plan and came here to eat cake.
"Cherish the night, you were bullied, can't you resist?"
The Night Bee strikes out and drops the plate of cake on the head of the Egret of Sunset. The forehead of the heron was a little wide, and when she heard any movement above her head, she also raised her head directly, and then was slapped on the head by a plate.
"You! what have you done!" the Nightset Herot's attendant stared in disbelief at Night Bee and Crane Rhine, who were dressed as badly as Night, and wanted to get angry. However, when she saw Crane Rhine, she was a little hesitant.
Crane Rhine is a god-like existence in the girls' home, and it is the god of beauty. She inherited the most perfect looks from her parents and was then abandoned. The night bee heard a little bit about the situation, but she quickly cut off the topic and seemed to decide not to talk about it.
Crane Rhine's appearance shocked the maid a little, in her opinion, this girl was simply the princess described in the book, and she came to patrol in microclothes. If it weren't for the royal family in the city right now. The old princess Netherheim is almost fifty years old, and she may unilaterally treat her as a princess.
Night Bee didn't bother with this rich girl who only dared to say sour things on the side, and there was an argument in the store, and the most troublesome thing was to deal with the store that came to her. She wasn't going to entangle with the shopkeeper, and when she saw the night staring at her blankly, the night bee patted her head very casually and forcefully, and asked, "Is your god nearby? She didn't abandon you, did she?"
Xiye habitually confessed to the truth, and pointed to the door, "Tiger God, she is waiting for me at the door." She said she didn't want to excrete, so she didn't want to eat with me. ā
Night Bee and Crane Rhine glanced at each other, not knowing how to talk to the little man.
"Since she's outside. Night Bee smiled wryly, "Then I'll go first." Remember that if you are bullied outside the girls' home and don't fight back, you will be bullied forever. Even if you have God around you. ā
With that, the night bee grabbed Crane Rhine's hand, and then smiled and said 'bye-bye'. It was like saying this to everyone in the store.
Crane Rhine closed his eyes vigorously. The delicate brow is very cute. Immediately after that, the two people who were still poking in the store suddenly disappeared. I don't know where I went.
This scene is all too familiar to the inhabitants of the Holy City, but everything that goes against common sense can be simply summed up as 'the patron saint'. That is, "Those two girls, are the Patronus?!" "I was just slapped on the forehead by the Patronus?!"
The heron blinked in disbelief at the place where the two had disappeared. I looked at the night with a pot of juice in his hand.
She suddenly felt that something was wrong, as if some bad luck was about to befall her, perhaps the great calamity that the nun had spoken of.
As soon as Xiye and Crane Rhine disappeared, the Tiger Girl rushed in from outside the store.
"I feel the stinger, what about her?"
I saw my own god appear at night. Very casually told the truth, "He just left, and suddenly disappeared." ā
"Well, that's his special ability, perfect for escaping. The Tiger Maiden was obviously a little disappointed, and asked Xiye, "Is Stinger awake, or is he asleep like Moyakata?"
"Nope. ā
The words of the night confirmed the conjecture of the tiger girl, and all the guardian spirits were to be dormant when they were united with humans. It's a good thing for her, and she can do something while others are dormant about her own business.
The tiger girl was a little excited when she spoke, her mouth opened and closed, and her mouth full of shark teeth that did not look like a human was clearly exposed. Look at her and listen to what she has to say. There is no doubt that it is thought to be a patron saint.
Everyone in the store bowed their heads to the Tiger Girl as a sign of humility, including the Egret Tree. The heron is now scared, very afraid. She could feel the reproachful glances that the others in the store were throwing at her, not the kind of approval she had before.
She was breaking out in a cold sweat, and she wasn't worried about God's punishment, or she would rather be slapped to death by God. She was afraid that her parents and etiquette would know about it, and when the time came, she was afraid that she would be grounded for several months, so she poked a heavy decorative book on top of her head every day to practice standing, which was simply a punishment for standing, a whole day, and a few months.
The tiger girl was very keen, and felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the store, so she casually asked Xiye, "Did something happen?"
Xiye stared at the frightened Xilu and pointed at her, "This guy was bullied by the night bees." ā
"Night bee, that little girl in armor is right? Sure enough, she likes to bully people, and I've seen her bully you before. ā
"But isn't she, she's so fierce!" she grumbled, as if she didn't remember that someone had just been upset about her, and that person was called Night Bee.
Xilu's heart was about to stop beating when she saw Xiye put her finger over, but fortunately, what she was worried about didn't happen, and she was relieved.
Xilu cast a grateful glance at Xiye, she knew that she was wrong, and finally understood why the nun kept emphasizing cultivation, it turned out that poor cultivation would really kill people. I'm just slacking off a little bit. I almost died.
I always feel a little uncomfortable when I see this store saluting the tiger girl at night. She had already finished her shopping and had no intention of lingering in the shop, so she pushed her god out of the cake shop with her cake in her arms.
"Don't you really want to eat it?" On the street, Xiye grabbed the cake and held it high above his head and brought it to the mouth of the tall tiger girl. The girls in the girls' home are used to 'sharing'. Eating by yourself, others watching this kind of thing from the sidelines, but unfortunately you can't do it at night.
"They all said that it would be very troublesome for me to eat. ā
"I don't think it's troublesome!"
"So you're mortal. ā
The tiger girl found that she couldn't explain it clearly to this guy, although she had just been born and didn't know anything about the things in this world, but her innate common sense told her a lot of things.
There are actually a lot of guardians who like to eat human food, and as long as they eat food once, the guardians who don't need to eat will be hooked up and addicted, and it will be difficult to quit. Due to the longevity of the Patronus, it seems that it will not end its life at present, so as long as it is eaten for a long time. The body is attacked by toxins contained in human food. Although it is not very violent, as long as it lasts for a long time, it will still cause various problems in the body, and the trouble caused is not only metabolism.
The tiger girl regards human food as a flood and a beast, and guards against thieves. Cherish the night and sigh that God really can't think about losing the pleasure of eating because of a little thing.
After eating the delicious food, she next moved in the direction of a more familiar small troupe.
A theater company is not the same as a theater. Theatres often invite a variety of theatre troupes to perform, and troupes usually only perform one or two plays on their own stage. Unless they write a new script.
The Girls' Academy occasionally takes everyone to see performances, all of which are free of charge, and are charity performances of the troupe. The small troupe she brought Tiger Girl to often perform in the girls' home, and there were also orphan girls who had graduated to work in it.
Every time I watch a play, the orphans are very happy. Their cultural life is very boring. Books are so precious that they don't flow into their hands, and drama is the highest form of entertainment. At least for them.
The tiger girl yawned and watched the excited little girl all morning. God is rarely tired, and she admits that she has been defeated by the night today.
The stage of the small troupe is underground. The roof is low, the space is small, and the stage is very simple. There was a hole in the floor that had been patched, and Tiger Girl had been worried at first that the actors would make a joke by stepping on the hole by mistake, but after being bored by these guys, she in turn expected these guys to step on the hole by mistake so that she would laugh a little bit.
It's a pity that these people naturally and skillfully toss and turn on the stage, and perform emotionally. The actors' feet stepped over the hole hundreds of times, and each foot was perfectly on the edge of the hole, very sharp.
The Tiger Girl, who was bored by this performance and was about to go crazy, felt admiration for these actors together with Xiye before the end of the play. Xiye thought they were acting very interesting, and the tiger girl was naturally lamenting their excellent positioning.
"Okay, now that the play is over, what are you going to torture me next?"
The Tiger Girl has lost all hope for the so-called 'fun' of humans, and she is sure that humans are just a bunch of boring people. With the kung fu to hang out with them, it is better to fly to the sky and sleep.
"Let's go to a concert!"
Xiye pointed to a sign and made a very elegant opinion. She knew that there was a concert in this world, and she knew that it was very popular with adults, but she didn't participate in it.
The orchestra is different from the theater troupe, the gap is in the rank, and the orchestra is more respected than the troupe, which is a shallow understanding of cherishing the night. She was attracted by the colorful pictures on the billboards, and she was at this age when it was easy to be confused by the colorful colors.
The tiger girl glanced at the clothes of the little guy next to her, "If people ask for formal attire to attend, you will be kicked out by others." ā
"Then it's good to dress up and attend!" "Give me the money, let's go buy beautiful clothes!"
Ottis became a servant in the mansion of the Chamber of Commerce's president. Not long after she came here, there was no one to receive her, and after being picked up by the carriage, there was only a large group of girls of the same age around her, and after a little inquiry, they were all picked up recently.
"What are we going to do here?"
Otis changed into her maid's outfit in a large dressing room, which was honestly the best material she'd ever worn in her life.
She asked the question by grabbing someone's arm as she got dressed and ran to the middle of the girls her age. She had thought that she would soon be ordered a mess of work when she came here, and then she would grab a girl by the arm and force her to do it for herself.
Unfortunately, she found that she had lost another opportunity to bully, and the girl looked at Otis with a particularly strong hand in horror, "No. No work. You, before you came, we were all done. ā
"You're stammering?"
The girl shook her head.
"Then let's talk!"
Tossing the girl aside, Putis grabbed another girl who passed by the Lord.
"How many servants are there in this house, so many that you can't even get a job?"
The other little girl was also flustered for a while, and nodded vigorously, "In the past few days, we have just cleaned up the house at most, and then helped the kitchen wash the vegetables." It's all right......"
"Strange thing. ā
When Ottis first came here, a male butler told her to find something to do and not get into trouble, and then the people were gone. There was not a single master in the house, except for a few young girls who were servants and were all beautiful.
Just when she couldn't figure out the situation, lunch was ready. Following a restless little girl to the servants' dining room, Ottis finally confirmed the full number of maids.
"Twenty maids, what are you going to do?" she said, carrying the food she had fetched. Potato corn soup with minced meat and bird meat is delicious. Eat your share quickly. Then she snatched another portion from the maid at the same table, and when she had finished eating, she caught a little girl with a question mark on her head, and asked her to take her around the house.
"Walking around the house, if it's just the first floor and the courtyard, the housekeeper says we can't go up to the second floor, and we shouldn't talk to the people on the second floor. ā
"Anyone else on the second floor?" Otis frowned, grabbing the girl and sneaking up the stairs on the second floor. I pricked up my ears and listened upstairs, but I didn't hear anything. "You're all new here, like me?"
"I've been here for two days, by the way, did you just steal someone else's lunch? ā
Otis twisted the flesh from the waist of the mouthy maid beside him. She screamed in pain.
"You're in good shape, you don't even have some fat. ā
"You, what are you doing!" the little maid was already in tears, and she was sure that the place where she had been twisted would definitely be bruised.
"It's okay, just pinch it casually, you can also pinch it back for me." If you are bullied, you have to take revenge, this is the truth. ā
The little girl frowned and looked at Putis, and without saying a word, she turned her head and ran. She felt that she couldn't handle this guy, and that it was the right choice to slip away quickly.
With a casual snatch, Otis grabbed the girl's long hair. The maid's hair was tied up, and now she was scratched up.
The girl who was caught by the hair was still on the run, but she was directly caught and lost her center of gravity and sat on the ground. She's going to find out that this guy here today is a violent maniac!
As she looked in horror at Otis, who was clutching her hair, wondering how to escape her clutches, Otis held out a hand to her.
"Come, I'll help you up. What's your name?"
"Yanni!" Yanni replied, "Help me, but can you loosen my hair first." ā
"No, I can't. Ottis opened his round glasses, as if he had heard some rude plea, "Loosen your hair, what if you run away again?"
Yanni was speechless, but she chose to get up from the ground first. Otis heard that there was no work to do, but he was actually happy to hear it. She wasn't much interested in what was going on in the house. She grabbed Yanny's hair and casually let her take the lead around the first floor, and then went out to the courtyard again.
Yanni was depressed and was led by the new violent woman, wanting to resist but feeling that she couldn't beat her. Out of boredom, Ottis casually asks questions such as when she will be busy, and she wants the little girl named Yanni to help her with her work when she is busy.
"If you're busy, I'm afraid not. Yanni suddenly lost her mind when she heard this, and her face turned gloomy, "We are all girls here, and we are all beautiful girls, and they have all been sent in the last few days...... People are wondering if our real work will be ...... It's ......"
"You're stammering too?" Otis tugged at Yanny's hair, "Speak merrily!!"
Yanni, whose hair was caught in pain, blushed and shouted, "-girl!" and then deflated like a ball.
"Well, it's possible. The president of the Chamber of Commerce would call the male business partners he needed to get in touch with and let us serve those people so that he could do business. It's reasonable, but what about growing others?"
Yanni shook her head and said she didn't know, "But I heard from the other girls that the president is currently in another city, but he will be back soon." When the time comes, we'll ...... We...... Ahh
Otis let go of her hand gripping Yanny's hair and pouted. "I don't know what will happen to the other maids, but I promise you will never speak in such a stumbling tone again, unless you want to have my scalp ripped. (To be continued......)