37. See mother-in-law
As soon as Rafael stepped into the garden of flowers, an extremely strong floral fragrance rushed into Fisher's nostrils. The building resembles a primitive garden rather than a man-made building, and flowers of all kinds can be seen everywhere.
The colorful petals bloom to their heart's content, but in Fisher's eyes they are not cluttered. In the meantime, the sound of some children playing and playing sounded far away, but from this small sound, we could tell that there were many children.
Rafael and Fisher did not move rashly after coming to this flower-based world, and after Fisher looked at it for a while, a white dragon woman dressed in red clothes greeted her among the flowers, who seemed to be a waiter in the Garden of Ten Thousand Flowers.
"Lord Rafael."
"Where is the mother? I'm going to see her now. ”
The waiter glanced imperceptibly at Fisher behind Rafael, and there was not much surprise in his eyes, but he replied to Rafael,
"Lord Ariel is in the Ancestral Court, and she has been waiting for Lord Rafael for a long time."
“.”
Rafael was slightly stunned when she heard this, then she took a deep breath and paused for a second before turning to Fisher and saying,
"Come with me, Fisher."
"Okay."
The attendant did not follow them, but turned in the other direction after reporting Ariel's instructions.
"After my father was killed by humans, my mother was the closest person to me. She was a very wise and gentle dragon race, and she supported me in times of difficulty and helplessness. I was the only woman among her children, and because of this, it was she who taught me the gentleness and kindness of women that I grew up training and hunting with my brothers. ”
Seeing the waiter go away, Rafael led Fisher to the gap between the flowers in the other direction, and as she went, she looked at the flowers around her and remembered it, and could not help but share her mother with Fisher.
In fact, more than once, human beings have pondered what it means to be a "companion".
In Fisher's view, the mystery of the union of a pair of beings lies in the fact that it connects two originally separate, distant trajectories after a certain point of contact. After that, the trajectories of their lives will gradually converge, and they will become a whole, supporting each other, trusting each other, and accompanying each other.
Their separated past will be rediscovered in a third-party way, and when you hear about her past, it will also become your past.
In a traditional country like Kadu, the word "marriage" is actually polysemy, and it has another meaning: "to be one".
In Kadu, your partner's parents will be your parents and her compatriots will be your compatriots.
Hearing Rafael talk about his mother at this moment, Fisher also had some new experiences.
Although it was not the first time he got married, because of Valentina's family reasons, such a normal experience was lacking in the holy marriage, and he didn't expect it to be made up by the Dragon Court at this moment
Why is it a "normal experience"?
Because if you think about it carefully, except for Rafael, the rest of the families of the ladies who are related to Fisher either have no relatives, or basically all of them have died (Elizabeth is even more so), and then there are such things as Jasmine, as long as you meet Fisher, you are sure that you will be stabbed.
"And what about your brothers?"
"There are two of them who are still there, and all the others are killed in battle, and the ones who died in the war are on good terms with me, they firmly believe in my ideals and are willing to fight for me, but I can't protect them."
Speaking of this, Rafael's tone was also a little lower, and she continued,
"When my father was still alive, my mother had thirteen children; After my father left, I led the migration of my people to Sunset Valley to establish the Dragon Court, and my mother also had eight children; But years later, she was left with only three children, including me. I'm very much about it. Guilty, so I didn't dare to come to my mother's meeting for a long time, and I was afraid that she would blame me.
Now she rarely cares about the affairs of the Dragon Court anymore, only concentrating on cultivating the descendants of the Dragon Court and dealing with various symbolic ceremonies, and basically stays in the Wanhua Court and never goes out. And I didn't dare to tell her about the difficulties and dangers that Long Ting and I were facing, so that she could worry. Fisher, after you meet your mother later, don't tell her about the coming war to make her worry, just let her rest here, okay? ”
Fisher shook her hand and apologized to her,
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned this."
She shook her head and said with a smile,
"You don't know, it's okay. It's war, and if I lose I'll die too, it's not a big deal. ”
Fisher could keenly sense the uneasiness in Rafael's words, which was clearly directed at the approaching army of Barbatos. She had fought Barbatos before, and she was beaten by him a few times. Failure turned into fear, embedded in the shadow of her heart that she was unwilling to face.
But she kept the emotion in such a way that even Fisher caught it for only a second.
"Here we are, Fisher."
Soon, they walked through the dense sea of flowers and came to a wide white hall.
At the end of the hall was a neatly recessed wall, each of which was lit with a candle. Looking closely, it seems that there are pieces of dragon scales of different colors burning in the candle, and it seems that each dragon scale represents a specific dragon race, which is kept in memory by the candle and left here for future generations to remember.
In front of the wall, there was a dragon race standing quietly staring at the dragon race in front of her, the dragon man was dressed in golden dragon scales, even if she was wearing an extremely simple white robe and no jewelry, she still looked shining.
In front of her long blond hair, a graceful but vicissitudes of life on her face showed a little sadness.
"Mother."
"Rafael, you're here."
Hearing Rafael's words behind him, the slightly older dragon-man in front of him also smiled and turned his head to look at her. A slender golden dragon horn snaked from her head, and a flash of golden ripples flashed when she saw Fisher beside Rafael in the afterglow.
"Hello, Aunt Ariel, I'm Fisher Benavides, first time we're met."
"Mother, that's what I said earlier, my tail-fitting partner."
The scales on Rafael's body fell little by little, and the tail behind her shook slightly, all of which showed the truth of her words.
Ariel was slightly stunned, then the smile on her face flashed again, she glanced at Fisher, and said gently,
"Hello, Fisher."
She pointed to the table and chair next to the candlestick, and said,
"Sit down, I'm ready."
Rafael was slightly stunned, and soon understood the pass that Ariel had prepared in advance,
"It's been a long time. Wait, it's Koshir and Fasher."
Ariel covered her mouth and smiled, and said,
"I sent them to watch you, you don't know how naughty you were when you were a kid. Except for the ones you can't beat, the rest of your brothers have all been beaten by you, how can I rest assured that I won't let them look at you. Although in the end they were also caught with you. Now that they are your subordinates and no longer obey me, I would be willing to tell them if I wanted to inquire about this kind of thing. ”
Rafael blushed slightly, shook his ears and tail embarrassedly, and reached out to stroke the red hair in his ears very ladylikely, as if to redeem his image in his mother's mouth.
Unexpectedly, Fisher, who was beside him, nodded in agreement and said to Ariel,
"That's true, I saw it early on."
"Huh?"
Rafael was so angry that she was about to have a tsundere attack, but thinking that she was still in front of her mother, she only glanced at Fisher angrily, and then said to Ariel,
"Mother, it was Fisher who rescued us after Kehiraar and I were captured by humans, and it was thanks to Fisher that I was able to return to my hometown. On the way, he taught me a lot and helped me a lot. ”
"I see, no wonder."
Ariel glanced at Fisher before she stood up and turned over to get the water she was drinking. Instead of continuing the topic, she asked,
"Is the war in the Dragon Court going to stop a little bit recently?"
Rafael was slightly stunned, then smiled and said,
"Ah, it's a lot better, but I still can't relax."
"That's fine."
Ariel placed two bottles of water filled with leaves soaked in some unknown leaf in front of Fisher and Rafael, who took the cup and drank it directly, while Fisher thanked him and took a sip tentatively.
Well, sweet.
And Yariel, who watched Rafael drinking water, smiled slightly, and then she looked at Rafael and Fisher in front of her, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, so she smiled and proposed,
"In that case, why don't you take advantage of this time to make a baby first?"
"Poof!"
Rafael coughed violently, and the tea she drank instantly choked on her throat, making her slap her chest while scorching steam continued to bubble out of her body.
"Ahem. Ahem"
Even Fisher, who raised his glass, was stunned in place, blinking at Ariel, who was smiling in front of him with a very expectant look, obviously this sentence also gave him a lot of shock.
"Ahem, mother. Mother! What are you talking about?! Small. Baby. Baby? ”
"That's right, cute half-blood drake baby. You are also at the age of giving birth, your brother has already had four children with your sister-in-law when you are your age, but you don't have one, how can this work? ”
"Four mes."
Rafael's face flushed, and she stretched out her paws and snapped her fingers, not knowing for a moment what to say.
The tail behind her patted Fisher's waist shyly and restlessly, as if to make him think something about it.
Even Fisher did not accept such a span of thought at once.
You must know that before he came in, all his thoughts and thoughts were prepared for this mother-in-law to accept him, and now he has not even stepped into the topic of this point half a foot, and Fisher has not had time to see the difficulties and challenges he is facing clearly, and the words "snap", "It's time for you to make a little baby" fell on Fisher's face.
What does that mean?
Have you already passed the test? Mother-in-law just accepts herself?
For a moment, a thousand thoughts flowed through Fisher's heart, but he really didn't come up with a suitable word.
"Why are you so shy? Ah, didn't you do it a long time ago? ”
"Be me, mother"
"And what about the time Fisher came back? With the interest of our dragon race, you must be staying together every day, right? Are you doing contraception? ”
“.”
Rafael was completely speechless, although it was said earlier that Rafael is much more defensive than Renee, but the problem is, what kind of person are you Renee, the kind that has no defense at all, so of course Lafael is much stronger in comparison.
But she is by no means an elder like her mother who has seen through the vicissitudes of life, and of course it is impossible to say these things without changing her face.
"So, anyway, our dragon race is very fast, and it only takes a few months to give birth to a child, so I can help you take care of it. What's more, Fisher is a human, and I've heard before that it's hard to have a half-breed child, let alone a dragon and a human child. In that case, how can you not try again? I'm afraid I won't be able to do it when I want to."
Of course, Ariel's worries were unnecessary, because Fisher's breeding rank had long been unknown to where it was.
If you really want to calculate it, if there were no restrictions on the reproduction of the mythical species, he would have ascended to the sky a step forward under the "devastation" of such scourge as Yaren Niang's completion of the manual, and he would have stared at whoever and that.
Theoretically, the objective conditions are completely allowed, but when it comes to giving birth to a child, Fisher feels that this matter is still up for debate.
Think about it rationally, if Elizabeth knew that she had an heir with someone else, if Renee knew that she and someone else had an heir first, if she let Herreel know that she had an heir.
The picture was so beautiful, like a firework that wanted to blow up the sky, Fisher couldn't even think about it.
Therefore, since Fisher's reproductive rank has increased to a certain level, he has always paid attention to contraception, unless there is no such need.
Rafael herself had other things to do now, and she didn't pay much attention to it, anyway, at that time she and most of the other women were basically delirious (except for one person), and they were all left to Fisher's worries.
Far away, Fisher glanced at Ariel, who looked expectant, and just wanted to use the current tense situation as an excuse to avoid this stubble, but he thought of Rafael's instructions when he came in, and he changed his words again.
He smiled and nodded, and said,
"Okay, I'll try."
"Zizi!!"
In an instant, the sound of a kettle being boiled by the heat could be heard from Fisher's side, and Rafael's face was flushed and his whole body was wrapped in steam.
Facing Ariel's expectant gaze, Rafael lowered his head a little, reached out and gently hammered Fisher's shoulder, while whispering,
"I'll do my best"
In fact, behind Fisher, her tail had been secretly poked and frantically pierced into Fisher's back, and she was really ashamed to do so.
It's just that Fisher's body is already like an iron wall, and it doesn't matter if she moves up and down.
"Okay, that's fine. Don't worry, you can try first, I still have some secret medicine handed down from my ancestors, and I will bring it back to Fisher later."
Before she finished speaking, Rafael next to her hurriedly shook her head and waved her hand, and said in a loud voice,
"Hah, for Fisher? Don't, Mother. No, I still don't want it, I really don't want it! He's had enough, again."
Ariel was slightly stunned, then smiled and held her chin, nodded and said,
"Well, it's okay if you don't, just be satisfied."
"Madame is satisfied! It's better to say yes. Not so much less. It's not bad."
The atmosphere here was surprisingly harmonious, and even Fisher didn't expect to go straight to the chatter now.
Whether Rafael's mother was too open-minded or the hook kiss was too stingy, Fisher couldn't help but wonder about this.
Of course he thinks that Hook Kiss is right, and he won't shamelessly ask Hook Kiss to learn from Ariel, otherwise he will really cut himself with a thousand knives when this sentence comes out.
But to be honest, the atmosphere was very good now, and the kind and gentle Ariel quickly made Fisher let down his guard and his previous preparations, and he immersed himself in this little warmth from his relatives with Rafael.
"Da Da Da!"
"Dumb. Kiln"
At this moment, under the light of the candle flame above the wall, which Fisher did not know the specific function, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps and the sound of trembling branches in the sea of flowers outside the ancestral garden.
Ariel got up and went to refill Fisher and Rafael, but Fisher's attempt to do it for her was tenderly refused.
Rafael turned his head to look, but saw that Kehir had anxiously come to the front of the ancestral court,
"Lord Rafael, there is."
But in the afterglow, when Ke Hill saw Ariel who was pouring water, her originally anxious tone also turned a little and became calmer.
"Rafael, pray that there is something in the tower that you need to take care of."
Fisher glanced at Kehir and saw the dust on her, if she guessed correctly, this urgent report actually came from the military camp outside the Dragon Court, not from the Prayer Tower at all.
But presumably Rafael's order that he didn't want Ariel to worry about was carried out, but Hill kept that in mind.
"Me"
Rafael was slightly stunned when she heard this, she looked at Fisher beside her and Ariel who poured water behind her, looking puzzled, and seemed a little hesitant for a while.
"What's the matter, Rafael, is there something big going on?"
"Pour. No, it's just some things in the Dragon Court. It's not serious, but I'm still going, and I can't leave everything to Jasmine, right? ”
"That's right, Rafael, Jasmine has also broken her heart for our dragon court all these years. She had nothing to do with all of this, she gave it all out of kindness and without regrets, you have to remember that."
"Ah, of course I do."
Rafael opened her mouth, the expression on her face slightly embarrassed, but she quickly adjusted her expression, stood up and said to Ariel,
"Then mother, I'll take Fisher away first, we still have things to do, I'll come to see you another day."
"Why did you take Fisher away? Could it be that he can still help you deal with things in front of others? And I've only met my son-in-law for the first time, and I haven't told you the story yet."
"This"
Rafael glanced at Fisher, as if asking for his opinion.
And Fisher glanced at Ariel in front of him, and then he also smiled and said,
"In that case, let me talk to Aunt Ariel here, it's all right, Rafael."
Ariel looked at Fisher happily, clearly liking what he had to say.
And Rafael looked at Ariel and then at Fisher, such a harmonious picture made her let go of her worries a little, and she finally nodded and said to Ariel,
"Then Mother will let Fisher stay here with you, he is very knowledgeable, knows a lot of things, I will not let you down, I still have some things to be busy, I will be back when I am done."
"Alright, you go, Rafael."
Ariel smiled and nodded, and then watched as Rafael walked out of the ancestral court with Kehir, slowly leaving the Ten Thousand Flowers Court.
Fisher watched Rafael slowly move away, and the atmosphere in the Garden of Ten Thousand Flowers became a little quieter, leaving only the fragrance of flowers as a companion.
Fortunately, the gentle and understanding mother-in-law, Yariel, is not such a good and stressful elder, I saw her eyes slowly move away from her daughter who left at the end of the sea of flowers in the distance, and then she smiled at Fisher, who was still in front of her.
She gently pushed the tea cup soaked in fragrant leaves in front of Fisher, and then softly pulled his gaze and attention back,
"Fisher, have some tea."
"Ah, thank you."
Fisher turned his head to face Ariel across the table, humbly held the tea she handed over in his hand, and enjoyed the courtesy of the other party very gentlemanly.
Ariel had tea in front of her own, but she only took a sip and put it down, putting her hands on her thighs and quietly watching Fisher enjoy the tea.
She looked at Fisher in front of her for a while, until the tea he was drinking slowly was about to bottom out, and then she suddenly spoke,
"Fisher, I would like to ask your opinion."
"You're welcome, Aunt Ariel, what is the problem?"
"What are you going to do with the intimacy between you and our sacrificial Jasmine?"
Behind Ariel, the candles on the wall shook as if to ignite the delicate fragrance of flowers.
Fisher's movement of putting down the teacup also stiffened slightly, and he looked at his mother-in-law with a stunned expression, and the smile faded in front of him.
At this moment, Fisher had only one thought in his mind: if, he was saying if
If he says he wants to leave with Rafael now, I wonder if his mother-in-law will agree?
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