Chapter XXXVIII

The happiest thing for Della is to go to see the fireworks. ()

At first, Della is scared of Yuu because she looks like a Kujit. Uncle Wright has been telling Della since she was a child that the Kugit are enemies and the Kugit are demons.

But I told Della that Yu is not a demon or an enemy, and that Yu is just a pharmacist in my family.

"Some people say that I was born with a strange disease, and the doctor in the town wants to bleed me and find someone to anoint me with oil, and they say that I have angered God and that I am to be punished. I was sick with a child at the time, but he was less sick than I was. But Yu said that he would not let the doctor in the town let me bleed", I put my index finger in front of Dela, "Well, the doctor wants to cut this finger of mine and let the blood flow all the time, and then there will be less and less toxins in my body, and I will be fine." ”

Della's eyes widened like glittering amber, "Doesn't that hurt?" ”

"People say it only works when it hurts--- except for You, of course. You said they were gods," I told Dela, "and then You used a stick to get rid of the doctor, who said he didn't want to come to White Pigeon Valley again, and from then on You became my family's pharmacist." But since that day on, no one in our family has ever been sick. And that time, You took care of my food himself, gave me a dark and bitter soup, and I was well a few months after I was born. Aunt Bi Anwen doesn't believe in You's soup now, and the aunt says that those things smell like things used before the funeral of the wizard gate. ”

"Oh," Della breathed a sigh of relief, "and what about a child?" Is it the one who got sick with you? ”

"That kid was treated by the doctor in town," I shook my head, "it didn't work, and the people from that family heard that I was getting better, so they came to Yu to give it a try." When you went, the child's blood was going to be gone, and his lips were white. You also had no choice, so he gave the parent of that family a bottle of calming elixir, saying that it could make it easier for the child to go. Then the child died, O Dela, if someone heals you in the future, don't let them bleed you, whoever does this is a liar who doesn't know how to heal, especially so. ”

"He's dead?" Della exclaimed in astonishment.

"It's her," I nodded, "Well, she died later, I heard that she was a pretty cute little girl, with a forehead like cream, but not as beautiful as yours, and your forehead like a crescent moon." ”

"Oh," said Dela, looking up at her forehead and touching her hand, "I think it's better like cream." ”

"Well, then your forehead is like cream," I said solemnly, "and I will only tell you that your forehead is like cream, and to everyone else it is like a crescent moon." ”

"Thank you," Della smiled, but immediately looked a little sad, "Eh, that little girl is so pitiful."

"Well, but You said that this is all a matter of fate, maybe the little girl is now 'reincarnated', I don't know what You means by 'reincarnation', but maybe I went to heaven and lived a good life, Speaking of You, do you want to see it?"

Della pouted and looked at her fingers, her eyes involuntarily squeezed into the middle, showing a serious cuteness, and when she heard my words, she looked up at me, "What's so strange?" ”

"Fireworks, the kind of fireworks you saw when you came. It's that kind of rainbow flying all over the sky, haha, that day your coachman all hid under the carriage, and his face was pale when he ate at night, what a shame. ”

"Dad said it was magic, tell me not to come closer."

"It's not magic, it's just an incendiary potion with some metal powder."

"I don't understand, but it sounds amazing."

"Let's go, let's take a look."

It was the most successful and proud of my work with girls.

As a child, I seemed to have a talent for dealing with girls, but that talent seems to have faded over time. Years later, when I met a girl, I didn't know how to talk at all, and I just said loving words to certain people, but the road to love was quite bumpy.

When people said that when I was a kid and could kiss a little girl I had just met for a few minutes, I always wondered how courage I had when I was a child. Because when I grow up, let alone kiss, I just stand in front of the girl, and if the girl seems a little cold or dismissive, I am at a loss and I don't know what to do at all.

That day, I took Dela's hand and walked all the way through the wheat fields that grew vigorously in the White Pigeon Valley, the flowers of the fields blooming around us, and Dela's beige linen skirt brushed the grassy grass, like white clouds licking the mountains in the distance. Then a south wind blew, and Della pressed the wheat straw hat on her head, and her hair fluttered in the wind, and I pulled her as if I were pulling the treasure of the world.

The place we are going to is You's house, or rather, there is a shack in which he has stored a lot of things.

You lived alone in an abandoned house in the Valley of the White Pigeon, where it was said that one of the sons of Aunt Pianwen had lived in the past. I really liked the layout inside, so I didn't change anything. He planted some strange flowers and plants around it, and the seeds he collected from other countries along the way.

In particular, I was told on one occasion that one of the herbs that saved my life was the root of the plant that bloomed white, and that the ointment that made the scar on my forehead heal quickly was made from the leaves of another plant. I memorized it for a long time, but I still couldn't remember the difference between the various plants. Until now, I still have a very little knowledge about trees, except for a few very common trees, mainly because You is always around, and it is good to ask him about anything.

I took Dela's hand and knocked on Yu's door, and after a while, the blacksmith's daughter ran out with a red face.

As we watched the girl run up the hill with her face covered, I introduced to Dela, "This is the youngest daughter of my blacksmith." Her dad was the man who always giggled at dinner yesterday. ”

Della nodded, "Oh, I remember, that person also wiped his forehead with a napkin, which was rude to death. ”

I was about to say a few words for the master blacksmith when I heard a clear throat from inside.

At this time, You said loudly inside, "Come in."

"Huh? Uncle You, are you teaching girls about body care again? I greeted as I entered.

"Nonsense, I''m ''Huh''? Isn't this the general's youngest daughter? What did you bring her for? ”

You Zheng sat in a high chair, and when he saw Dela, he showed a very curious expression.

"Uncle Yu, Della wants to see your magic fireworks, you can show her."

"Not yet, the materials have to be ready. And what kind of fireworks are set off in broad daylight, and you can't see it when you put it off. These things are very expensive and dangerous, so don't look at them. ”

Della looked around at the strange room: all kinds of sand tables, herbs, powders, boiling pots, and even a few bunches of garlic hanging on the wall, with two walls of books and a wall of herbs in baskets.

Hearing Yu's words, Della looked at me reproachfully, and I looked at Yuu expectantly.

"Yu, let's take a look, Della will be leaving in a few days"

"Well, what is this?''", You thought about something carefully, "It's really embarrassing." ”

"Alright, Uncle Uber. When the blacksmith asked me where his daughter had been wandering around lately, I said she had studied with Lady Bianwen at the castle."

You frowned, "What you said seems to be something, well, but it's not bad to say that, it's rare that your head turns quite fast." ”

"Then you'll show Della the fireworks."

"I can't see it during the day, wait until the evening. I'm ready to make the powder now. You thought about it carefully, and then took out a small scale, and found something from a corner. Let's go first, there's some danger here, you little crunch, be careful to burn yourself, remember the last time you burned half of Archie's idiot's hair, it made him look like a 'bearded ghost'. ”

"What is a 'Beard'?" asked Della in a whisper.

I said, "That's the enemy of You's homeland, who, like the Kujits, runs around on horseback and shaves half of their hair." ”

"Oh, that's it", Della nodded, and then said timidly to You, "Uncle, I want to see those things of yours, can you let me see them, I don't move, and Timmy doesn't move." ”

You Leng snorted, "You and I don't know, this little fool Timmy always secretly drinks my ink. On one occasion she threw mercury on the ground that I had bought from the people of Salander, and had the little girl ever seen it? It's that kind of wonderful thing like pearls, and it is so powerful that it can poison a cow with a little bit, and as soon as I came back that day, I saw Timmy on the ground with his fingers on the mercury beads that were sprinkled on the ground, and he was screaming excitedly, and I was terrified. I don't believe Timmy, do I, stinky boy? ”

I was a little angry at what I had done, "Hey, that's if you said it was good before, and I won't play with mercury after that." ”

"Yes, you don't play with mercury, you play with my sulfur, and you set half the room on fire. That Aunt Bianwen still says that the gates of hell were opened that day, hey, but hell is indeed full of sulfur in your story. Tsk, if those merchants in my hometown hear that your hell is all sulfur, it is estimated that your hell will be developed into a mine in a few years."

"Uh", "Then do you want to keep us and we can watch you make fireworks", I listened for a long time and then returned to the topic.

"Sit behind the chair, and if you take more than one step, you two will go back to the castle and make love." Well, what a bad luck, what a beautiful afternoon was ruined by two little things. You began to twist a little bit of yellowish powder with her fingers and sprinkle it finely on the scales.

Dela and I were bored, so we looked around.

Then I saw a pile of small wooden sticks, and I knew that You was making a novel ignition potion that could catch fire with a slight stroke of the stick.

I took it by chance, "Della," I whispered to Della, who was sitting quietly on the side, "Look, this kind of thing is very fun, it can be used as a small firework, as long as you gently scrape the wood, stone or whatever, this little stick will burn on its own, it's interesting."

"Really," Della squeezed it with a smile and carefully held it in her hand, "There's nothing special." ”

"Just scrape the wall."

"How do you scrape?"

"Use that end, it's the black particle end, yes, that's it, just wipe the wall, oops"

I saw a great flame blow out of Della at once, and the flame set a strand of her hair on fire, and the flame was not very loud, but when I put it out, Della was half scorched.

Della innocently looked at the extinguished stick in her hand, then at me, then at her own scorched hair, then at her mouth a little by little, and then burst out into tears.

You looked back at us, and at once he understood what was going on from the movements of the two of us and the crying of Dela. Yu's anger poured out of his chest almost uncontrollably, "Timmy told you not to mess with things"

Then he came over and muttered 'don't cry, don't cry', and pretended to knock me on the skull.

Ten minutes later, You and I stared at Dela, who was sobbing and choking.

"My hair, woo, ugly is dead".

"Don't tell Uncle and Aunt Wright, Dela, or they won't let me take you out to play."

"I don't want to come out with you, my hair was burned off by you, it's so ugly and ugly"

"Dala, you burned it yourself."

"That's right, yes, but no, I'm still to blame you, and this bastard stick, I hate it to death."

"Don't cry. Fireworks for you tonight, with multicolored "

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"I'll give you a crossbow arrow that my aunt sent me, the one with a beautiful sunflower carved on the back, and the girl can avoid danger by holding it in her hand."

"Don't'Girls don't play with these things."

"Uh, then what do you want?"

"I saw your shell bracelet last time" I didn't say I wanted it."

"I only have four", I was a little embarrassed, those were the small Rodoc shells that I asked Grandpa Pianwen to bring back from the city, and I put them on after a little bit of holes, "For you", "give you one"''? ”

"My hair''''

"Two ''!" I made up my mind.

Della pouted, "Mom said the boy was too stingy and didn't have any future in the future."

You looked at me sadly, with a look of 'I understand you'.

"Three of a kind can't be more," I was a little annoyed.

Della suddenly laughed, as if the morning breeze had blown away the fog of the field. She laughed away the tears in her eye sockets with a pop, and left her bones from her face, "You can keep that ugly gray bracelet for yourself, give me the rest, you will give it to me quietly, otherwise my mother will laugh at me again and annoy her."

"Okay", I thought about it for a long time and then squeezed out the word. Although it is very distressing, it is actually worth it to be able to keep Della from crying.

That night, Della sat next to me, and her hair was neatly cut out of a small gap, which made Della look like a child who had lost a tooth, which was very cute.

Especially in the distance, fireworks are set off, and Della looks at the sky in distraction. I stared at Dala, her face was round and had a nice curvature.

The roar seemed to be ringing in my ears now, and the night sky was bright and bright that night, but I think the brightest was the silly Della who was looking at the sky and wearing three bracelets on her hands. How I wished that moment would go on forever, in front of the castle in the Valley of the White Dove, we watched the fireworks, hid in a corner where no one was, and went on like this.

Three days later, Wright and his party left.

I followed the convoy into the valley, and Della frequently poked her head out of the carriage and waved at me, and many of the Wright's knights and servants turned back to cheer at me. But the group was gone.

After Della left, the whole valley seemed to be empty, I used to think that this was the center of the world, the most nostalgic place in the world, but from that day on, I felt that the Valley of the White Dove was a place full of sorrow. I want to go out and go to Della.

The valley was so empty that it was as if the whole world had disappeared when I first got lost in the set, as if there was no one in the world.

I returned to the castle in despair, and saw my father taking out a suit of iron armor, which he was wiping.

Grandmother Sumi took out a helmet with white tassels, and her grandmother and grandfather had complicated expressions when they looked at this helmet, and my father had no scruples, so he took the helmet and put it on his head, "It's very suitable." I'll take this with me when I go to Parabun, don't worry about mine. ”

That's when I knew my father had agreed to Wright's invitation, which was excellent news for me. If you go to Parabun, you can go to General Wright's house, and you can find my Dela.

I remembered the knight stories where knights would put their hands on their hearts when they missed their ladies or before fighting dragons, and I did the same.

I looked at the sky in the distance with a sad look, and I imagined that the journey to find Della would be difficult and long.

"What are you doing, Timmy?" My father, who was trying the size of a chain mail, asked me curiously, Grandpa Bi Anwen helped my father tie the chain mail from behind, it was still too big, and Grandpa Bi Anwen said that it could be changed to a smaller one, but it would take ten days.

"I'm 'pressing my heart and remembering my love,'" I read the verses of the story that the knight chanted.

"Timmy?"

"Huh?"

"The heart is on the left."