2. Bread and poetry

Early in the morning, wake up.

Getting out of a soft bed is a test of willpower.

In the entrance door of the living room, next to Roy's mud-stained shoes, there was a finely made moccasin boot, and the other boot was attached to the door, it seemed that Ms. Belinda had returned last night, and sure enough, there was a skirt hanging on the chair.

Preparing breakfast is not a hassle, just peel the breadfruit and prepare a fragrant cup of tea.

Roy had always thought breadfruit was something magical.

There's no need for wheat flour and an oven, it's just that this stuff is very unto Roy's taste, but it can't be helped, everyone eats this.

Wheat flour is also available in Castletown Harbor, but these foods from the human world are expensive in the elven world, and Roy doesn't bake bread at all.

The breadfruit that the elves ate was very different from the one Roy had seen in his previous life, except that the name was the same......

This breadfruit is more like a durian.

This breadfruit grows in a hard, prickly shell, and when ripe, the shell can easily split into five petals, and the flesh lies in it like a croissant, but the flesh of the breadfruit is not too sweet, with a tree-like fragrance, and can be eaten directly or dipped in salt.

Roy broke a quarter of the breadfruit, first for himself and the other on a porcelain plate, and prepared a cup of impatiens honey tea for Belinda.

And he drank a glass of diluted tree of life sap, which slows down aging.

In the central garden of Castletown, there is a Tree of Life that has grown for nearly five thousand years, and the Silver Moon Elves in the city receive a copy there every month.

Belinda was always worried that Roy was growing too fast, and always said that she had dreamed that Roy had died in her arms, so she insisted that Roy drink it every day.

Sit at the table and eat the food from the list of tastes.

Thinking back to before he crossed into this world, he was a junior who was impromptu before the final exams, and that day Roy ran to the library early to take a seat, and there were many people in the library, even though he came early, but almost all those desks were filled with all kinds of personal books......

He walked along the rows of bookshelves, wondering how many rows of bookshelves there were in the second level of the library, and soon his attention was on them, and he always felt that he couldn't get any way to the end.

In the end, I just felt that I couldn't see other students around, but I didn't expect that there was such a quiet area in the library, which was really incredible.

It's just that the books on the shelves look like they're all in foreign languages, and those words aren't British, French, German, Italian, and Japanese, like inexplicable ghost drawings.

Casually pulled out a heavy copper ancient book, the cover of which was two elves, one holding a long sword and the other holding a magic staff, and the two of them looked up at a crescent moon above their heads. Although I can't read the text on it, the patterns drawn inside seem to describe the elven world.

In fact, Roy is interested in flipping through the backs, just to see if there are any elf beauties in the illustrations, and the slender figures of the elves are very in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people.

He only turned a few pages, and then the whole book turned on its own, and it became faster and faster, like a money counter, and only a few seconds later, a book was completely flipped through from beginning to end.

And at the end of the page is a huge vortex, like a huge black hole.

Immediately sucked Roy in, and he didn't have any chance to struggle and call for help.

……

I don't know how long I slept in the dark, but when Roy opened his eyes, he found himself in this elven land, and he had become the son of Lady Belinda.

This elven mother, who doesn't resemble herself at all, treats him well.

However, she is the kind of literary and artistic female elf who is a little petty-bourgeois, and almost all the money she earns is used to enjoy life, she is always so sentimental, and she likes to pursue both material and spiritual enjoyment, and often wears beautiful clothes to participate in various balls.

She is a Silver Moon Elf of pure blood, so when she puts on the dress, she can always enter the ball for all occasions.

Roy couldn't, even if Belinda assured that he was a half-elf with the blood of a silver moon elf, many guards at the door of the ball would not allow such a human-like half-elf to enter.

Roy would wait obediently by the flower bed at the entrance of the prom venue every time, and always reassure Belinda that she didn't like dancing at all.

How can there be elves who don't like to dance!

Ms. Belinda, Roy must have been comforting her, and the number of times Belinda took Roy to the prom slowly decreased.

Recently, Ms. Belinda has found a new job as an assistant to a sculptor in the city, and although she does some chores every day, such a job with a strong literary flavor is very suitable for her.

Ms. Belinda wore a cool nightgown and walked down the stairs yawning barefoot, her snow-white arms almost completely exposed, and the nightdress clinging to her slender body and not hiding much.

She almost always wears it that way when she's at home.

For a Silver Moon Elf who was not yet three hundred years old, she was still very young, if she happened to be twenty-eight or nineteen years old in the human world.

She has long silver hair with random balls on the top of her head, and there are heavy bags under her big blue eyes, and her eyes become a little puffy every time she doesn't get enough sleep.

She is not the kind of elf who is extremely beautiful, but she knows herself, and she can dress up, and she can always let herself have a kind of intellectuality.

Sitting at the table, he looked Roy up and down, then picked up the honey tea and took a sip before scooping up the breadfruit on the plate with a spoon and eating it.

Watching her eat breadfruit is like eating ice cream.

"How was yesterday?"

Ms. Belinda also tried to pinch Roy's cheek, but Roy turned his head to dodge it.

"That's why I want to go fishing at the beach today."

Roy put down the spoon in his hand and said what he was going to do.

Belinda hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes, but don't pick up any more shellfish from the rocks, they eat like slugs and make me sick to look at them." ”

Roy squeezed his shoulder, "Alright! Actually, that stuff was really tasty, especially with a little lemon juice. ”

Then came Ms. Belinda's nagging time.

Like all mothers, Ms. Belinda always had expectations of one kind or another for Roy.

"You have to learn the appearance and habits that elves should have, after all, you live in the elf realm, I really don't know where you learned these human habits, is it that the human talent hidden in the body has awakened?" Ms. Belinda was frustrated.

Thinking of the task given to Roy, Ms. Belinda asked Roy:

"Have you finished reading the book of poems that you read last week?"

Roy replied, "A little bit." ”

In fact, where the book was in the room, Roy couldn't remember at all.

Poetry of the elves......

Thinking about it, Roy felt that the whole person was not good.

"That's not going to work, we Silver Moon Elves, we'd rather have no bread than poetry......" Belinda nagged to Roy.

Not to be outdone, Roy replied:

"I know, you can eat fish without bread."

Breakfast was simple, just brush two plates and cups, which were pretty much made by Roy.

……

After breakfast, Ms. Belinda wore a new dress with a maple leaf pattern to work at the art gallery.

Roy also brushed his mud-stained shoes and hung them on the terrace on the second floor before walking out of the house with a fishing rod and barrel and walking downstream along the Dane River to the seashore, which is the mouth of the Dane River, and there is a reef area that is perfect for fishing.

The elves didn't like to wake up too early, except for those who went to the orchard in the morning to collect dew.

The street is deserted, but very clean.

On one side of the street is the Dane River, and on the other side of the street there are some shops, and the closest shop to Roy's house is the one that sells breadfruit, in fact, there are many other kinds of fruit in it, but Roy thinks that none of them can be taken out for breakfast, so he only eats breadfruit every morning.

There is also an apothecary store at the corner of the street, and the shelves are filled with various test tubes containing liquids of various colors, many of which are said to be expensive potions.

Roy didn't know any of this, but he knew the nightblade leopard cub tethered to the front of the pharmacy, and occasionally gave it a fish or two to eat.

Almost all of the streets are ordinary two-story wooden houses, and many of them have been painted many times on the outside, which is very bad about living by the sea, as if it is wet all year round, and even the wind blows with a strong smell of sea.

Further down the street, there is a temple of Liberty built on a slightly raised rock face, and it is said that every weekend morning a crowd of people run to pray and sit together to sing, and the eldest daughter of the neighbor Ms. Gillian is a member of the temple's choir.

Roy had always wanted to look inside, but every time he passed through the doorway, he would hesitate to see the statue of the goddess holding a scepter in the center of the flower bed in the temple courtyard through the iron fence......

Roy, who was standing on the side of the road, saw a vague figure emerge from the corner of the temple wall on the north side, and he swooped out of the wall, grunted into the grass outside the wall, and then disappeared.

Roy didn't care too much, the thief who dared to climb over the wall at a time like this in the early morning might be an elf who secretly dated a priest in the temple.

Standing here you can have a panoramic view of the harbor, there are more than a dozen three-masted sailing ships moored on the dock of the port, such as those small fishing boats there are dozens, and now the tide has just receded, only the smallest fishing boats can go to sea at such a low water level, and the big ships can only wait for the next big tide if they want to go to sea.

Next to the pier is a stretch of golden sand, and the receding waters have left many shells on this sand.

Barefoot and wearing a pair of suspenders, Roy strode down the beach with his trouser legs up.

The sea in the distance was connected to the sky, Roy first dug some sandworms on the beach and hit them in the barrel, and then ran to the reef area of the sea with a fishing rod, and climbed a huge reef closest to the sea, this reef was full of oysters, many places were very stab, and there were only a few places where he could stay, or Roy cleaned it up little by little.

This is where he fishes.

Stand on the reef.

Roy looked at the end of the sea and wondered what kind of country was on the other side of the sea......