Before dinner, Su Ge'er invited my father to stay for a performance. This time, some mid-level civilian officials from Wiruga will attend. After the performance, Su Ge'er thought that they would be able to have dinner together at around nine o'clock at the latest.

The father looked at the goblin, and the goblin had an expression of wanting to stay, so the father said to Su Ge'er, "Okay, miss, we will stay and watch your performance." ”

Su Ge'er smiled slightly, and said something that the goblin didn't expect: "Sir, is there nothing wrong at night?" ”

When his father heard that this was an eviction order, he looked at the goblin in embarrassment, and the goblin smiled innocently: "It's okay, it's okay, it's nothing." ”

The father saw his past from this: when he was at a loss for girls. He couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

Su Ge'er's expression was like a clear pool slightly wrinkled by the wind. She thought about it, and found that if she drove away this uninteresting goblin, maybe Huo. Arcadia the second will go together. Su Ge'er frowned, a little unhappy in her heart.

"Okay", Su Ge'er regained her smile, "Mr. Goblin, I'm glad you can stay for my show." My singing will start around six o'clock. I'm going to get ready, I hope you enjoy my singing, I don't want to disappoint you. ”

"Oh, your singing is beautiful, and I feel happy to hear you sing," Goblin said.

Su Ge'er often heard this kind of words, and when she heard the goblin say this at this time, she even had some disgust in her tiredness, "This is another duplicitous guy", she thought to herself.

"Oh?" , Su Ge'er suddenly asked: "But you don't seem to have heard me sing, how do you know that my singing is beautiful?" Someone once told me that they heard me sing in their dreams, haha, what a beautiful lie. They thought all women loved to hear it. ”

"Actually, I've actually heard you sing," the goblin said seriously.

"Is it also in a dream?"

"To be honest, it really feels like it's in a dream." Goblin nodded, "The last time I saw you was in the university in Djerkhara, maybe you don't remember it anymore, I was the one who prepared the lights for you." I've been watching you, but you won't know. I stood alone in the dark corner of the roof, controlling the spotlight. How I want to be like others, go downstairs, get closer and look better at you, but I'm afraid that as soon as I leave, something will go wrong with the lights and affect your performance, so I don't dare to take a step, hehe, I've been watching you. It was the most beautiful music I've ever heard. ”

At this time, Su Ge'er noticed my father's smile that he was trying to hide, which made Su Ge'er feel sad. At the same time, the goblin's words also made her have to look at this somewhat raunchy man again.

"Thank you, sir, I'm really glad you like my singing, Mr. Goblin", Su Ge'er thanked from the bottom of her heart.

The hotel has a small opera house that can seat nearly 200 people, most of whom sit in the triangular audience area on the first floor, the apex of this triangle is a somewhat narrow stage, and on the left and right walls there are a total of 8 boxes, large and small, and my father and goblins are seated in one of them. They watched a jiu-jitsu performance, a mountain dance, and a couple of ventriloquist gags. The father watched with relish, while the goblin was visibly absent-minded. Father knew that goblins were waiting for the most delicious dish.

When my father was fine, he looked at the people in the two boxes on the left and right, and these people were either smiling or smiling or watching the performance with a rigid face, and my father liked to watch the various movements of these people, and he felt that sometimes the movements of these people were more interesting than the performances of the people on the stage. The dim and warm atmosphere reminded him of the winters in the Valley of the White Dove, when the Nord woman would warm up a few pieces of lamb in the conservatory and tell him stories about the North Sea. He vaguely remembered that the bachelor's widow had also sewed clothes for him here, and that she was sleepy by the warm stove, as serene as a lazy cat in the sun, when the burning wood in the stove beeped and sounded with the snoring of the old woman all winter.

When these memories faintly entered his mind, he would feel an inexplicable heaviness. Then I thought of my mother. He knew why his mother was so far away from him, because of the misty legend that he had squeezed out his grandmother.

He had never seen his grandmother, and he could only figure out what his grandmother looked like from the widow of the bachelor. That statement broke his heart. He kept telling himself that he wasn't going to squeeze out his grandmother.

The father decided in his heart that no matter what, he would stand on the side of the weak, and he would use his strength to protect them. He thought of his poor old grandmother, of his equally poor mother, and of the old butler, and then of Jill, and of Rhine. These people are no longer with him, some have suffered setbacks in their lives, disappeared without a trace, and some have returned to the earth. The thought of Rhine lying cold on the ground made him feel sad.

How nostalgic those sleepy times in the conservatory, how nostalgic those sunny childhood years are. So much has happened since then, and now what he wants to do is to protect the good things in life, to protect the poor people.

At one point, the Goblin asked him what he thought of the Rhodok civilians demanding more rights.

"It's their duty," replied my father without thinking, and through his contact with Cesar, he learned more and more about the beautiful picture of a society where all people are equal. "They're supposed to enjoy these things. Isn't it? As it has been said in political history, when the empire was in trouble, these citizens gave their rights to support the empire through famine or war. But when these difficulties passed, the empire was unwilling to return the rights, and the high and low appeared. Now that the Rhodoks have set a good example for the people of the whole continent, the government should gradually return the rights of the people to the people. ”

The goblin raised an eyebrow, turned to Cesar, and said, "You've assimilated a Yankee." ”

Cesara laughed, sneering at the failure of Wright's aristocratic propaganda. Wright didn't say a word, but he privately approached my father: "You're going to hurt you like this, and maybe one day we'll part ways." ”

The father just listened silently, but the decision to protect the weak had become extremely firm because of a series of experiences as a child and the education he received when he grew up.

"I'm going to protect them, no matter what the odds. If I do well, Rhine will not die; If I do well, the old butler will not die; If I do well in the future, I will be able to help more people. I'm someone who cares for others, not the one who squeezes out my grandmother," my father thought to himself.

Regarding his father's thoughts, Goblin approached Sabel. The goblins themselves had suffered the losses of the powerful, so he agreed with his father's idea. Sabel, on the other hand, did not express an opinion, he simply said: "Well, if the weak are strong enough to a certain extent, they are not weak." ”

The goblin is puzzled and asks Sabel to explain.

"Look," Sabel said, spreading his hands, "Now the life of the Rhodok farmer has become the envy of farmers all over the continent. Soon, the so-called weak will consult with each other in the tavern or on the ground, and they will, discuss how they can obtain this freedom and dignity. Then the weak people who are scattered will coalesce, and at this time, if a group can represent them, then, do you think they are still weak? Didn't you hear the farmers say it when you passed through the Suno Plain this time? A lord's son rescued a farmer from a village in Elindaha, and now all the farmers want to work for him. This young man, I'm joking, is probably the most appealing person to the weak on the Suno Plain. ”

"Yes, I heard. I guess it's a young master who has nothing to do. I did an elbow turn out. His lord's father, must be mad with rage," the goblin said sarcastically.

"But you know what? Not long before these peasants were saved, I heard that it was there that Kazak died, and that our Ho. Arcadio chased after the robber who had kidnapped his maid. That is, at that time, Huo. Arcadio II was in Elindaha at the time. Who do you think this stunned young boy with his elbow turned out? Sabel laughed.

"Huo''Huo. Arcadio second?! The goblin was surprised.

"Well, now it seems to us that a boy who sympathizes with the people, rescues the farmer, and takes risks for his little maid is a fool. But one day, if the farmers of Swadiana, who make up the majority of the population, were to choose their spokesperson, would you say, would this fool have made the most suitable investment? Sabel still had that inscrutable expression.

The goblin pouted, "Ho. Arcadio doesn't look like a country seeker. ”

"No one was in the first place. By now you should have seen that Wright seems to be outdoing him in every way. But maybe half a century or a century later, when people at that time come to evaluate them, they will find that Wright is not as good as Hawk. Arcadion's second biggest point", Sabel paused as he said this, so that the goblins could listen to his next sentence: "Wright is on the wrong side." ”

"You''re saying that people will eventually get their rights?" Goblins don't dare to guess anymore.

Sabel walked to the window. The curtains were opened, and a sunset burned faintly outside the window, baking the sky purple red, and a faint blue emanating from the transparency. "There's nothing surprising to be surprised about, you should know through history that the people will one day get back what belongs to them."

Saying this, Sabel sighed: "But the road will be long, just like that precious stone coal, it will change our world completely sooner or later, but the process will be quite long. If we were to measure this length in terms of one's life, we would feel hopeless. ”

The last flock of pigeons chirped the glow of the sky, as if singing an elegy for the ancient system, and also calling for the arrival of a new era.

The father got rid of himself from his thoughts, because at this time, the host loudly announced: "Let everyone applaud and welcome Miss Su Ge'er from Sunuo!" ”

The curtain opened, and Su Ge'er, who was dressed as an ancient fairy, fell from the sky, her clothes fluttering, as if she was an elf only in an ancient pastoral song. People were stunned because they had never seen such a stunning appearance. In fact, this is the latest invention of the Rhodoc craftsmen, who simply modified a loading winch handed down by Nord and improved it to create the movement of an actor flying over. Legend has it that the head of the Royal Samurai Order of Nord worked as a brewer, and it was this kind of winch that he pushed at that time.

Su Ge'er began to sing, the first being "Rhodok's Spring", which is the most popular song of Rhodok at the moment, and then she sang a few more poems by Gucarade. Elsewhere, after the song of the Calradia continent was sung, Su Ge'er sang an oriental poem. The poem came from the eastern side of the Great Mountain, brought by the poet of Salander.

The Salanders say that the poem came from an empire in the far east. The Saland's people had fought against these people and captured some of their soldiers and artisans. These people were taken to the end of the desert by the Salander people, hundreds of years ago. There, the Salanders translated their words and poems, and it is said that the paper now used on the continent was brought by these people of the Eastern Empire. The Salanders say that these people are fellow villagers of the Kujits, but that their cheekbones are not as prominent as those of the Kujits, and that they are mild-mannered and not nomadic, but skilled in farming. And that poem also came to the mainland at some point. My father had studied this poem in college, but he didn't expect it to look so moving when it was sung.

The father listened blankly, lying on the railing and looking at Su Ge'er. When he heard the last "The mountains have trees and branches, and the heart is happy and the king does not know", the father asked the goblin: "Sir, do you know the meaning of this sentence?" The first time I found out, I thought it was very touching. ”

"Oh, I know. ' There are shady trees on the hills, and the trees have delicate branches; I love you in my heart, but you don't know anything about it.'"

"Yes, yes. Although you violated the principle of not changing the original meaning of the text in the translation, I have to say that you translated it very well. Hey? Why is your voice so soft? ”

"Guess."

"Why?"

"Because I'm Aoi."

The father was shocked, turned his head suddenly, and looked at Xiao Kui sitting in the back with a look of interest.

“？！”

"What's wrong?"

"Where did you take the goblin sensei?!"

"What did I take with me, did I bring a big man? Just now, when I was walking around, I saw a man running backstage from this box, I guess he was going to have a good show. When I passed by the door, I saw you staring at the singer with a look of looking through the autumn water, so I came in and sat down. You're not welcome, aren't you? Aoi made a sad look.

The father didn't know the girl's intentions, but he felt like he was facing a great enemy.

"Huan'''Welcome, why are you here?'''

"Oh, my dad and their guild accepted the invitation to come over to watch the show, and I was brought over, I didn't expect to bump into you, it's really unfortunate", Xiao Kui exhaled sadly.

"You think you're unfortunate enough to run in? Why not slip away? The father asked, staring at Aoi.

"Oh, I've always reminded someone that the agreed things have to be followed. If you don't come to my house and visit me, my father, the news of you peeking at me bathing in the hot spring town will get out. Okay, you go ahead and look at your beauty, I'll go back. Aoi swaggered away, taking a bunch of grapes and a plate of pastries from her father's box table away.

My father was so made by this change that he couldn't laugh or cry.

The goblins were beside the curtain, watching Su Ge'er sing as she stood on the stage. He remembered the lonely evenings of stargazing, those days that would have been fulfilling for the goblins, the source of his happiness, and the whole of his career.

But now, these things are worthless. He felt terrible when he thought about the long nights when he couldn't see Su Ge'er. He felt that the stars were no longer attractive, because there was a more fascinating light than the stars.

The goblin looked at Su Ge'er quietly.

Su Ge'er softly sang the last lyrics: "The mountains have trees and branches, and the heart is happy and you don't know."

When this lyric spread clearly, Goblins, Xiaokui, and Su Ge'er themselves all felt a slight pain in their hearts.