Chapter 195: Falling Toes
When Tilan came out of the immersion pod, it was already half past eleven in the evening, and they had several rounds of solo battles after three games. Because the purpose of the live broadcast is not to compete, so all four of them use a full random deck, that is, in the first 300 decks that are popular on the Internet, they will randomly take out a deck to use, which will be a lot more interesting.
Due to the unfamiliarity with the deck during the battle, there are often a lot of funny scenes between the two sides, and occasionally there are unexpected unpopular effects, even if the audience is quite unfamiliar, bringing a lot of joy and laughter.
Compared with the reality of many things to consider, as well as the constraints brought about by personality habits, Ti Lan feels much more relaxed on the Internet.
Hawkers, it's a big deal to change your avatar, or change your number.
After a night of fun, Tilan turned off the immersion pod and turned her head to look at the time.
Let's go take a shower, or it will feel a little slimy.
She picked up a change of clothes and walked downstairs, where the hall on the first floor was still lit and the maid Eco was sitting on a round stool in the corner.
"Good evening, Miss Tilan." When she saw the girl coming down, she stood up and stepped forward, as if she wanted to ask Tilan what she needed to command.
"Need to make some late-night snacks and drinks?"
Originally, Ti Lan subconsciously wanted to refuse, because she didn't want to trouble the maid, but it was almost 12 o'clock, and she was indeed a little hungry.
"Polenta and hot milk, not too much, Ike will make some for herself."
"Okay, if you soak in the bath, I'll send it over later." Echo saw Tilan hugging her pajamas and knew that the girl was going to take a shower.
"Thank you, Echo." The girl nodded.
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After a simple shower, Ti Lan went to the bath where the water was placed, poked her toes, tried the warm water in the pool, felt a little hot, but it was quite adaptable, and then stepped into it, and then slowly sat down in the somewhat hot pool.
The gurgling sound of water splashing came from under the water bottle statue, and the steaming hot water flowed out of the water bottle and fell into the pool, because she was a little afraid of heat, Ti Lan sat far away from the water outlet, and her smooth back leaned against the marble steps, a little cool, but she liked the feeling.
Fingers swept through the water, feeling the flexibility and resistance of the water, and then lifted, watching the water droplets roll down in the palm of her hand and fall into the pool with a bang.
This kind of relaxation and unconscious play didn't wake Tilan until the sound of Echo's footsteps came from outside the bathroom.
"Miss Tilan, may I come in?" There was a knock on the door in the distance.
"Yes." Ti Lan replied, then picked up the bath towel and wrapped herself around her body briefly, then sat up slightly upright.
Ai Ke walked into the bathroom with the tray, first took out the special wooden shelf in the bathroom and placed it next to the bath, and then placed the tray on the wooden shelf on the side, so that Tilan could easily reach it in the bath, and would not be too short and stained by water stains on the tray.
On an oval, white thick porcelain plate is a glass of milk, a bowl of steaming polenta, and two pieces of chopped cantaloupe on the side.
"Did Echo make something for herself, it's not too early." Tilan drank some milk before asking the maid.
"Ready." Eco nodded.
"That's fine."
The girl blinked, she could sense that Aike was not politely lying, for the profession of maid, Aike and Ella, the two sisters can be said to be quite professional, even dedicated, and they used to work in the 'Dream of Glass', which are two completely different mentalities.
Maybe they just saw it as a job or a life at the time, but for Echoella, they saw the job of a maid as some kind of career, especially solemn and focused, sometimes it may be that they have unconsciously mentioned something, and they will carefully record it and improve it next time.
"How did Ai Ke achieve this mentality and thinking?" Ti Lan had asked curiously before.
"Miss Tilan's question must be that everyone should be independent and not become anyone's vassal." After a year of getting along, the two maids gradually got to know Tilan's personality and thoughts.
"That's right." The girl nodded.
"We are also independent, and we also think that we are doing something meaningful." The two maids then continued to explain.
"Just like the game team, different people have different positions, and our task is to assist, such as Miss Tilan, so that you can save a lot of time and energy and devote yourself to more important things, so as to maximize the interests of the group."
"Not everybody can be number one, and we know very well about ourselves."
"That's it......" the girl thought carefully, but it still felt like there was still a bit of a problem with the details.
"What if the one you assist is not that good, or if she treats you badly."
"If it's not as good as expected, it's probably a matter of our vision, even good investors will have times when they look away, which is normal."
"As for what you said, if the other party treats us badly, it depends on the specific situation, and if we really can't bear it, we will also resign." Aiko explained.
"However, the two of us, as well as our parents, and even our grandparents, all work in the Silver Leaf Workshop, and the Silver Leaf Workshop has also signed a lifetime contract for us, and we will not leave unless we have to." There is a kind of stability and calmness in their words, and there is no anxiety about the wandering migrant workers in the outside world.
The mentality is different, this kind of worry-free and stable about the future can make them patient and do very detailed things, and they will not be anxious.
Sure enough, what kind of mentality problem is still determined by the economic foundation, the girl shook her head, and inexplicably felt that her inner troubles were much less.
After drinking half of the milk, Tilan held the polenta in her hand and drank it in small sips, so that Eco had already left the bathroom, and she didn't have to worry.
After drinking the polenta and milk, and eating two crisp cantaloupe, she dived into the water again and tried swimming in the warm bath before popping up, drying herself with a towel and changing into refreshing pajamas.
The next day,Ti Lan came to the school garden,Walking under the trees that are gradually budding and young leaves growing,She suddenly felt a kind of freshness and strangeness。
The seasons in the southern hemisphere are inverse to those in the north, and in the past, September and October were autumn, but now it is spring, the season when everything grows.
When I came to the student union office and sorted out the arrangements for various clubs this semester, it was almost noon, Ti Lan stopped, looked out the window, and then put down her hand.
Plans and schedules have been set, these plans are arranged by each club according to their own situation, and with the advice of professional consultants, she has also participated in some of the settings, it stands to reason that there is no big problem, and then you just need to follow the plan.
After sitting at the table and thinking about it for a long time, Ti Lan felt that she might have fallen into some misunderstanding before.
Reality is not a TV series, nor is it animation and games, there will be all kinds of emergencies, all kinds of cheering and the like, and more of an ordinary day spent simple and serious.
It's true that it's plain, if every time you practice and study, you have to make the scene so bloody and touching, it will be very weird, just once or twice, and if you have more times, you will only get tired.
Just like some thank-you ceremonies, or advocacy conferences, once or twice, everyone may be enthusiastic and moved, and if there are too many times, they will only feel that this kind of thing is a waste of time, forcibly moving people or something, and finally they will rebel and disgust.
Instead of having so many formal activities, it is better to let everyone live every day well.
After thinking about this, some of the anxiety that had surrounded her before also dissipated.
Grabbing the blue feathered beret that had been placed in the Student Council room, Ti Lan closed the door and left the Student Union building to wander around the campus.
Actually, there is no purpose, just a pure desire to walk around.
Edus Academy, which is rich in vegetation, is full of lawns and white rock-paved roads, in which tall buildings are dotted and dotted, and then there are lawns and various large trees next to the buildings, some with wide canopies and dense and swaying young leaves, and some with straight trunks and sparse flowers and leaves.
On this campus, there are not only many artificial beautiful gardens and lakes, but also many woods, hills, etc. that remain in their original state.
After letting go of the tense emotions that have been tense,She walked in the quiet campus,At this point in time,Either the students are in class,Or simply asked for leave and didn't come,Usually on Fridays and weekends,The school park will be lively,There will be groups of students。
Half an hour later, Tilan stopped in front of a thick tall grass, a relatively remote hill in the school park, with shrubs and grass on the sunny side of the hill and woods on the shady side of the back.
Listening to the sound of ropes in the grass, Tilan half-bent down and brushed aside one of the chest-length green blades of grass, and then a chubby gray creature sprang out from under the grass, ran a little panicked across the clearing, and then burrowed into the low bushes in front of her.
Is that? Ti Lan thought it was some kind of hamster or bamboo rat.
Is there this kind of critter in the school park?,Or did it sneak in?。
She looked around, then broke a long branch from the bush, the pliable bark still connected, and when she tore it open, the pale green bark on the inside gave off a peculiar smell of grass and trees.
Is the bark of the shrub like this, Tilan pinched the broken part with her hand, the light green branch that tore the bark was a little sticky, and the sap on it was the source of the fragrance of the grass and trees.
When I was a child, I lived underground, and shrubs and plants were very precious things, and she generally wouldn't break them, because she would be told by her mother, and then it was not good to destroy public property.
This is the first time she has done such a thing, Tilan looked around, no one should care and accuse her, this is a native hill and wood, there is no trace of artificial trimming.
In other words, the disadvantage of urbanization is that it loses the sense of relaxation and casualness in nature, because all kinds of flowers and plants that people see are either part of public facilities or commodities, and cannot be used and destroyed at will.
Breaking and tearing off the forks on the green branches one by one, slowly, Tilan had a relatively straight wooden stick in her hand, and she could hear a slight sound of breaking the air with a simple wave in the air.
A simple thing, but it is not fun, and it is not boring and boring at all, this mood reminds Ti Lan of when she was a child, it seems that her father also made wooden swords for her and her sister, when she and her sister wielded it, and wanted to chop and chop when they saw everything.
Recalling this feeling, Tilan held the stick and pushed away the shrubs and grass that were sheltered, and continued to move forward as if she were adventuring.
This remote hill is rarely visited, and there is very little place to settle on the ground, either thick grass, shrub branches, and tangled vines.
When she walked through it, Tilan's skirt and pantyhose were often hooked by the branches, but fortunately, she was not in a hurry, slowly pulling away and moving, and she didn't care about the dust and fallen leaves on her clothes.
Is it here, she walked a long distance and came to a large tree, where there was a slight place to stay, probably because of the shade of the trees, and there was no vegetation below.
The rotten leaves were soft and made a slight noise when stepped on, and there were moss-stained stones and an inconspicuous hole under the tree.
Leaning on the side of the stone, Tilan pushed a little harder, and the stone moved away, revealing the slightly damp dirt below, with a few bugs crawling through it.
Afraid that the worm would crawl along the stone to his hand, Tilan let go of it early, and then the stone fell back again, shook it slightly, and finally stabilized again.
Not here, Tilan walked around the tree, then found the two stone slabs stacked on top of each other not far away, and stopped.
There is a gap between the two stone slabs from nowhere, and there should be a hidden space inside, and you can feel shaky when you step on the stone slabs.
It was here, the girl closed her eyes and felt that the little guy who had run in front of her before was hiding in the stone slab.
How to get it out, she can just break the slate, but she is afraid of frightening this little guy.
After thinking for a while, Tilan looked at the sky, then stretched her fingers into the grass, shook slightly, and a few salt-baked nuts appeared on her fingertips, then picked them up and placed them in the open space in front of the stone slab.
After doing this, Tilan took an easy leap and stood on the thick branches of the big tree, first using the soles of her shoes to sweep away the dust and mud that had accumulated on the thick branches, and then raised her fingertips to let a gust of air wrap around the thick branches and spiral past, carrying away the dust and broken bark, and becoming cleaner, before sitting down.
This branch, which is similar to Tilan's waist thickness, doesn't have to worry about not being able to bear her weight, but it will shake slightly when she sits on it, but Tilan finds it quite interesting, feeling her body slightly back and forth with the branches, and the tips of her shoes in her sight constantly moving in a few centimeters, occasionally obscuring the stone slab below, and occasionally skimming the small yellow flowers in the distance.
When you pluck a leaf with your fingertips, press your nails slightly, and there will be dark green traces, and then the slightly wet water traces will seep out of the leaves, and you can smell a faint fragrance on the tip of your nose, which is particularly quiet.
When Ti Lan observed the leaves in the palm of her hand, there was a slow sound of activity from the stone slab below, perhaps the smell of salt-baked nuts gradually dissipated, and a gray bamboo rat poked its head out, looked around, and then ran towards the nut, compared to the chubby body, the short limbs looked a little cute and compact.
If it were in nature, this kind of guy who runs slowly and has low vigilance would probably have been preyed upon a long time ago.
Ti Lan put down the leaf and watched the chubby little guy gnaw on the nut below, she wondered whether to catch it, she always felt that she had done nothing, and she felt a little lost.
Sure enough, she grabbed it, and after thinking about it, she jumped lightly from the branch, landed silently on the stone slab, and walked over.
The guy who was enjoying the delicious food waited until Tiran pinched it on the neck with one hand, then realized, and then writhed and struggled.
"I can't run away." Ti Lan carried it in front of her and looked at it carefully.
Compared with voles and house mice, bamboo rats are slightly in line with human aesthetics, and they are much cleaner, after all, its staple food is grass.
After observing and teasing the little creature with a twig, Tiran placed it on the slate, and in a moment it burrowed into the gap between the slabs below.
"Hiding in this kind of place will be eaten by snakes, next time you should find a dry and safe place, or you will have to learn how to climb trees......" Tilan said with a wooden branch tapping on the stone slab, and then stood up.
The daylight gradually came to noon, the birdsong in the woods was much quieter, and the early spring wind blew the branches, and the young leaves were scattered in the light, which was exceptionally clear.
Now Hethia Tilan is 17 years old, this is her quiet and ordinary day, there is nothing great, nothing touching, and no blood, but there is a simple and simple happiness, and the heart that once had nowhere to settle is also slowly falling.
(End of chapter)