Chapter 330: Snowy City and Rose
After the 121st year of the Rune Calendar, the Republic finally stopped the climate impact on the continent that had lasted for more than 20 years, and the harsh environment of each region also lost the support of the domain power behind it, so the curtain gradually came to an end in the sincere prayers of the Sect of the Gods.
Therefore, the gods issued a 'metaphor about virtue', saying that 'God's gift' would only be carried out in the year of calamity, and that the rest of the time it would be necessary for the believers to strive for their own happiness through labor.
The angels under the throne of the gods provided the churches with simple and differentiated knowledge for them to spread among the faithful, so that 'labor' once again became the main theme of the continent.
At the same time, the high-level leaders of the various sects were also under the watchful eyes of the true gods and angels, and had to maintain their piety and integrity for a long time to avoid being punished by the godly monitoring angels.
Therefore, regardless of whether this belief is illusory or not, whether the gods and angels are selfish or not, as far as the mainland races are concerned, at least the believers at the bottom and middle level can no longer work for the slave owners of the powerful clan and the nobles of their own clan, and in the future they only need to be responsible for their own lives.
Since then, several years have passed, and the believers have ushered in real prosperity and the dawn of a new life, and they have thanked the gods for their gifts, and they have lived a life that is much happier and more stable than before, although it is still a little hard.
At this point, the situation of the separation and order of the 130 Churches of the True God has been completely stabilized in the north.....
These sects have built their own communities along the lines of faith, and apart from the single-ethnic settlements in the countryside, there is a multi-ethnic coexistence in the cities.
In the countryside, the settlements in the agricultural areas are naturally dominated by agricultural and animal husbandry production, and although most of the residents in the city are not engaged in the work of fields and pastures, they are by no means completely indifferent to production as in the past.
Convenient rail transit is not only the foundation of life but also the foundation of development, and the settlers or nomads of all walks of life within it have formed a relatively stable supply and demand relationship from the inside to the outside, so that each city is no longer just a military camp and grain depot responsible for enclosure, but initially shows that it is completely different from the past.
Generally speaking, the small citizens in the city will do some workshops in the front shop and back room to make a living, especially after the angels have imparted various knowledge related to labor and production, many types of small workshops have sprung up in an endless stream in these years;
Above the small citizens, there are ordinary businessmen and ordinary merchants who come and go to nearby cities, and they together weave a business network that goes deep into all corners, which is necessary to maintain the vitality of the city;
Further up, there are municipal officials of all levels and their proxies, as well as medium and large chambers of commerce that come and go with various sects, the former is responsible for managing the city and providing a stable environment, and the latter is exchanging what they have while expanding their own wealth;
Further up, there are priests at all levels who are extremely involved, and charismatic warriors at all levels are extremely involved, and they are naturally the real speakers of the city.
The Northern Continent, the Western Regions, the earthly kingdom of the God of Love and Beauty, 'Kuruxue' is such a city located at the hub of the orbit, where nearly 100,000 people from dozens of different races live, and 90% of them are believers of the God of Love and Beauty at all levels.
And around this city, there are countless settlements of all sizes, and more people of all nationalities are scattered in the vast plains, and around them, farmland has been cultivated, pastures have been laid out, and even a few mines are scattered in between.
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On the morning when the sun is about to rise, in a farming settlement just outside of Coolus, the Antelope breed Bhatty's family has a new day......
The beautiful lady Antelope woke up from her sleep, fanning her big watery eyes with long eyelashes, and looking blankly at the still dim roof of the masonry house, until a moment later her consciousness was completely awakened from her stupor......
At this time, she rubbed her hairy but somewhat harmonious cheeks, and gently stroked the dark and beautiful spiral horns on the top of her husband's head, and then carefully removed the hooves pressed against her waist, and gently rolled over and got out of bed and walked out of the bedroom.
After that, Mrs. Antelope came to the courtyard with her recurved legs with her fur color deep and shallow inside, and stepped on small hooves, and took out two buckets of cold water from the well with some difficulty, and began to wash her body attentively.
After a few moments, she finished freshening up, and was gently wiping her body with a short flannel cloth, and after shaking quickly from side to side a few times, and finding that there were no more water droplets splashing, she smiled with satisfaction;
After that, Mrs. Antelope took out a few different combs from the basket on the well beside her, carefully combed the stiff, soft, and fluffy hairs on her body, and after making them straight and shiny little by little, she took out the neat clothes made of coarse cloth from the basket and put them on, and pulled the erect, jumping and jumping conical tail behind her from the hole.
Immediately, facing the rising sun halfway above the horizon, she took a few deep breaths of the fresh morning air and returned to the house, entering the prayer room, and kneeling respectfully in front of the shrine.....
As the most devout believer in the family, Lady Antelope is truly grateful to the gods for their gifts, and thanks to the gods for freeing their family from the suffering of the past and ushering in the beautiful life that is now manifested.
"You are the embodiment of love and beauty... It's the light that shines in the daytime, the light that lights up in the night... All the gods of heaven have fallen under your skirt..."
After praying, Lady Antelope, who remained in a kneeling position, drew a simple emblem on her chest, and then got up, walked out of the prayer room, and went outside the house, and began to take care of the bright red roses with thorns in the small courtyard.
After the watering and other processes were done, she went to the kitchen and began to prepare breakfast for the family of five, as well as for her husband and eldest son, who needed lunch for the field.
The fire was turned on, the stove was preheated, and the smoke of birds and birds was rising from the roof of the small farmhouse....
Lifting the double pockets at the front of the dress, he leaned over slightly and squeezed a full pot of fresh milk, and kept most of it alone, and mixed the other half into the flour that had been ground yesterday, and in it were beaten two unfertilized eggs.....
After thinking about it, she was a little reluctant to take out one more and put it in, then knead the noodles and seasoning, and then spread the noodles on the preheated metal plate carefully.
Almost ten more minutes passed, and when Madame Antelope's preparations were nearing the end, the rest of the movement began to be heard in the house outside the kitchen.....
"Barty, little Stutta, are you awake?"
"Ah~ I'm awake...."
"Wake up Mom...."
After these two muffled responses, Mrs. Antelope took the pancakes, a basket of fruits and vegetables, and some fresh milk that had been kept warm on the stove since they were ready, and then Shi Shiran walked out of the kitchen and laid them out on the dining table one by one.
At this time, two other Homo erectus antelope species, who were still sleepy-eyed, also entered the dining room and sat down in the middle of the lake to prepare for dinner.....
The son looked very much like his father, and would not have been able to tell the difference between them by the cover of his hair, had it not been for the fact that the horns on the top of his head were two-thirds shorter, the spiral lines were more shallow, and his height was much shorter;
Of course, the antelope species itself does not have this identification barrier, let alone the female antelope as a wife and mother.....
Therefore, when she saw her eldest son reaching out to take the food with his claws, she immediately hit him with a 'snap'.
"Stutta! You disobedient dirty boy! ”
"How many times have I said that the god of beauty teaches us to be neat, to be clean, and not to wash our hands quickly!"
"You've forgotten your morning prayers, haven't you? Go quickly, or there won't be anything to eat here. ”
Although this was said to Stutta, one of her beautiful eyes, which were spread on either side of her cheek, looked directly at her husband, Barty......
"Let's go, go wash your hands and pray, don't make your mother angry again!"
Smiling at his wife, Big Barty scolded his son and dragged him out of the dining room quickly.
"Hmph, that's pretty much it~"
Mrs. Antelope glanced at the backs of father and son, and then began to arrange the food on the table, and she tried her best to make these kinds of food, which were not very rich, more beautiful and more appetizing, until she was satisfied, and then nodded and sat down with a dexterous triangular short tail.
Then a few moments passed, and the father and son, having washed and prayed, returned to the dining room.....
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"I saved another big bottle, I have to sell it at the market today, I should be able to exchange it for more Divine Grace Coins than ordinary milk.....
"Of course, after all, it's much better than the dairy ones, and I don't even want you to sell them~"
"Hmph, what a fool..... The next harvest is still a few months away, and if we don't sell it, what will we eat in the future? ”
Although she said this, the swinging leaf-shaped pointed ears and the short tail that kept jumping seemed to indicate that Madame Antelope was actually very happy with her husband's praise, so she snorted twice before continuing to mutter,
"I'm running out of eggs at home, so I'll have to buy some more..... It's just that the eggs of the clan are a little expensive, so this time I will buy ordinary poultry, right? ”
"Well, it's good if you decide~ Praise the beauty god and let me have a good wife~"
"Also, we have to send those two little things to the church school, and we can't read a single word like you two fools;"
Speaking of this, she seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and immediately emphasized with a little anger,
"You two are not good at studying, my sister's husband is running to apply for admission, what about you?"
“.... Did Stuta hear that? Dad is old, do you have to set an example for your younger siblings? ”
"Huh? ... Oh.. Good Dad, I will learn, I will learn. ”
Mrs. Antelope nodded with a little satisfaction when she heard this, in fact, while chattering, she never stopped the movement of her hands, helping father and son again and again, rolling in the washed vegetables and cut fruits in the pancakes, and then handing them to the two strong laborers.
The father and son occasionally responded with a word of praise, and more often they hummed and lowered their heads to eat, and the mouth that protruded from the cheeks was better, and they could eat a pancake roll in three bites, and then waited for Mrs. Antelope to hand over the next one, and sent more praise without money during the process.....
It was not until they had eaten all the food on the table that father and son finally felt full, so they took the milk from their wife and mother and drank it up, and praised it again with a smashing of their mouths, 'It is so delicious,' that the mother antelope got up with a satisfied expression and left the dining room with her recurved hooves.
By the time Mrs. Antelope had simply cleaned up the table and carried the basket to the courtyard, Barty and Stutta, father and son, had already taken the farm tools distributed by the church, and the son took over the basket from his mother.....
"It's hard for you to eat some cold food today." Tucked the thick cloth that could have some insulating effect carefully, Madame Antelope said with a slight apology.
"It's okay Mom, aren't you going to take your younger siblings into the city, wouldn't it be nice for us to eat cold food once in a while?"
"Haha, Stuta is right, it's actually nice to have lunch, like when I worked for the old men in those years....."
Between the words, as if he remembered some miserable lives in the past, Da Barty suddenly cursed a little viciously,
"These damn seeds, why doesn't the god of beauty let them all go to the ugly hell?"
"Well, the mercy of the god of beauty shines on all things, let's forget those bad pasts and live well." Mrs. Antelope stepped forward and gently explained as she straightened her husband's somewhat shazzy clothes.
“..... Okay, so let's go? ”
"Goodbye Mom~"
"Well, be careful on the road."
After sending off the father and son, Mrs. Antelope woke up the other two children who refused to wake up for a long time, and helped them to freshen up and pray to the goddess of beauty, and then watched the children finish their meals with a happy and warm smile......
"Go and put on nice clothes, mom will take you into the city today~"
"Really!"
"Really!"
It was a male and a female who were still young and light-colored antelope with their faces still growing, one of which had no horn on its head, and the other had only two rows of three very inconspicuous small bumps on its chest, both of which were still far from growing.
"Of course, let's go~"
"Okay!" *2
Smiling as the twin siblings jumped away, Mrs. Antelope returned to the kitchen, opened the cold cellar that had been buried in the ground, and with some difficulty took out a bottle that was a meter deep and contained a milky white liquid, and carefully placed it on the cart that had been prepared beside her.
As she pushed the cart into the courtyard, she whispered in the direction of the house,
"Mom is ready~ What about you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw two little ones running out in clean and neat clothes, and they cheered and came to their mother, ready to help her push the cart out of the courtyard.....
Closing the door and locking it, looking at this small courtyard that is not too large, but warm and beautiful enough, Madame Antelope's heart wells up with a deep sense of satisfaction and gratitude, which is both out of habit and from the bottom of her heart, and at this moment she whispers praises 'the god of beauty is above';
Then, with two happy little antelopes, he hurried towards the market in the city, which was open at any time.
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In this settlement where the Bhatti family lived, there were nearly fifty families living at this time, and most of them were blood compatriots from the same lowly servant clan, and they only had this life after they believed in the god of beauty and killed the 'nobles' of the clan who knelt and licked the lord in the clan in anger.
By this time, the male and sub-prime laborers had already left for the fields, so that there were only a few urchins and old people left in the settlement.
The former were running and jumping and playing merrily, and their clothes, which were obviously freshly washed, often turned gray and dirty in a morning, or even less, and they could foresee at a glance how their mother, or eldest sister, would spank them in anger later in the future.
The antelope species do not live long, and compared to those strong people, the duration of their prime is also very short, and after that, it is the old age when the relatively strong people are weaker, but in the past, when life was hard, there were hardly a few old people, but now they have accumulated a lot of numbers in the settlement, and at this moment they are basking in the sun and pulling the family together, and when they saw Mrs. Antelope and her two children, they also greeted each other with a smile......
"It's Barty's family~ Good morning! Are you going to sell milk at the market? ”
"Well, good morning, Uncle Tolan! Yes, just a little full. ”
"Hey! Litoto, Ferreira~ You two little guys are really strong. ”
"Haha, who made our big Barty and Stuttar diligent?"
"Ashley wait first!"
Just as the mother antelope was busy responding to these old uncles and aunts, a rather familiar voice came from behind her, and when she turned around, she saw her sister who was a little bit of a baby bottle in her arms, and soon came to the front, and took her sister's hand and pleaded,
"Ashley, can this help me sell it at the bazaar?"
"Let's go together..... By the way, your kid has just been born, right, okay, I'll sell it for you. ”
Mrs. Antelope smiled at first, then took the bottle and put it in the cart, and asked casually,
"Do I need to buy some things for you to come back, or do you just need Divine Favor Coins?"
"This ..... If it's not bothering, can you help me bring some blue-black nuts back? The younger sister's expression was a little tired, and her speech was still a little weak, and she was full of worry and gratitude, "Little Amir's body is a little weak, and the city priest's diagnosis is malnutrition, he asked me to add a little blue-black nut powder to the milk, saying that it will make the cubs a little healthier." ”
"Okay, it's really hard for you...... Bear with me, and when your Grand Amir passes the Probationary Priest Examination, I am sure that everything will be fine...... The god of beauty is above. ”
"The god of beauty is above.... I thought so too. Imagining her husband in a priest's robe, and the prosperity of her family, the young mother responded with wistfulness in her eyes.
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On both sides of the relatively flat paths in the countryside are patches of green farmland, among which many farmers are working hard;
And Mrs. Antelope, with two children and a cart, followed the small procession of walkers on the road, and after passing through the small gathering of two different races living along the way, she saw the Kuru Snow City and the bright red dome of the central church protruding from the highest point of the city wall.
The city had only been in existence for a few years, but with the help of the Divine Grace and the joint efforts of the transcendents and the people, it had become a very prosperous city.
The Syracuse City of Kuru is surrounded by a series of bunkers in a roughly circular shape, the church's thorn rose emblem is shining with divine light between the walls, and the large sea of roses planted outside the city is dazzling and brilliant in the sunlight, and it always exudes a strong and suitable fragrance.
There are four main gates in the city, and the settlement of Lady Antelope is located in the east of the city, so at this time, she is naturally facing its east gate......
In the past, the city was entirely the glory of the Lai Yin Lords, and although the inferior species of slaves and servants built it at the cost of their own lives, they were actually not qualified to really look at it, let alone do some small business.....
So, instinctively, Madame Antelope was still afraid of the city, and she hesitated at the gate for a long time, until she saw that one of the warriors on duty happened to be from the antelope breed, and then she made a mental construction, walked towards the city gate, and merged into the line of walkers......
But her fear seemed unnecessary, for the guards at the gate merely watched the comings and goings, and did not stop them for questioning, nor did they open their salutes to inspect them, so that Lady Antelope entered the city as easily as ever.
It was already morning, and there was a bit of noise in the city, and the streets were bustling with races of different heights and shapes, and the cries of selling in the word of divine grace were endless.
But the antelope species, which is naturally sensitive and timid, is not very suitable for this prosperity, and she still can't understand the words of divine grace, so Madame feels very nervous at this moment, and the two children are also grabbing the hem of her clothes and following closely behind their mother;
"It's okay... Don't be afraid... Everyone... Everyone is a god of beauty.... of believers..... The god of beauty is above, and the god of beauty blesses. ”
"Hmm... Mom.. We're not afraid, God of Beauty bless ....."
Comforting the child and herself, Mrs. Antelope bowed her head and lifted her heart, and walked quickly to the area where the market was located among the bustling walkers of different heights and among the beautiful houses beside the road with bright red and pink colors.
The two little antelopes had actually been here several times with their mother, but today they were still in the same mood of curiosity and fear, and they dared to look at the walkers in the road with their eyes half-closed, and peeked at the beautiful buildings on both sides of the street.....
"Litoto... Will we be able to move in in the future? The little antelope asked in a voice that seemed to be a mosquito;
"Don't... I'm going to stay in the settlement with my mom and dad. The little female antelope replied boldly, and then asked out in a rather puzzled voice, "Ferreira.... Don't... Do you want to live in the city? ”
"I don't know.... I thought a little, but I was also a little scared, but my mother said that we had to go to church, didn't that mean to go to the city? ”
"This.... Well, then I will definitely accompany you. ”
"Well, can we talk about it?"
"Well, let's go to church together."
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"Sister Alama ..... Why haven't you shown up after talking about this for a long time? ”
Xiao Rena, who couldn't hear the 'mission' after listening to it for a long time, asked reluctantly at this time, shaking the arm of the newly recognized big sister.
"Huh? Aren't Mrs. Antelope and Gazelle very boring? ”
"Not really.... They're still quite interesting, but I'd like to hear you talk about missions, especially combat missions~" Alena on the other side shook her big sister's arm and emphasized at this time.
"I don't care, the life of the antelope species is quite interesting;" Responding to Alama's inquiring gaze, Shaty first nodded and said, then shook her head and asked with a little puzzlement, "But how to say it, sister's story...... It's like you went into their house and saw and heard it with your own eyes? ”
"Hehe, don't worry about these details." Alama laughed and scratched her hair, and then responded to the little girls on both sides, "Soon, it's time for my sister to play, and it's a hero-like scenery~"