When the cold wind blew through the ridge of the roof, there was a whining and whistling sound, and in the night a great north wind hung up, and the north wind rolled up the snow on the ground.
Syllable.
Cracked against the glass window.There was a soft knock on the door outside the attic.Tuk Tuk's voice was soft and urgent, and I opened my eyes from my sleep.At this moment, Caterina, who was lying beside me, got up lightly from the bed, jumped out of bed barefoot, stepped on the cold oak floor, walked to the door, and gently opened the door.By the moonlight shining through the window on a snowy night, I saw Win Li, Helena, and Becky standing outside the door in warm cotton pajamas, and Ying Li smiled apologetically at Caterina with her long black hair.Caterina hurriedly pulled Ying Li into the attic, and then said to her, "Come in quickly, Jijia can't sleep, and you want me to call you, or we will talk in the attic?"
”The expression on Ying Li's face was a little pitiful, and when he heard Caterina say this, he nodded with joy, tilted his head and smiled guiltily at me who sat up from the bed, and then said, "I'm sorry, it's so late, and I have to disturb your rest." ”I lifted the quilt and jumped off the bed, fortunately I was very tired from the journey just now, and I fell asleep on the bed, and I didn't make love with Caterina and was disheveled, and the pajamas were neatly worn on my body, I scratched my head and said to Ying Li with a smile: "Is it lying on a strange bed and can't sleep?"
”Ying Li's face was slightly red, and he nodded a little shyly.Caterina pulled Ying Li in, and Ying Li looked at the furnishings in the attic by the moonlight outside the window.Helena, wearing cotton slippers, followed behind Ying Li, and said as she walked, "I feel a little scared when I listen to the whine outside." ”"It's been so long, and the furniture in this room doesn't seem to have changed."
Becky said.It was a little cold in the room, I took out a piece of magic parchment from the desk, took out a magic pen from the pen stand, took out half a bottle of magic ink from the magic waist bag, sat on the chair and quickly drew a magic scroll of fire gathering, I put the scroll on the silver plate, and the red flames came out of the scroll, which instantly warmed the room.Looking at the snow particles blown up by the wind outside the window, Ying Li asked me in surprise, "Is it snowing outside?"
”I stuck to the glass window, looked out carefully, and then said, "No, this is just snow on the ground, but the wind is a little strong outside, and it is easiest to freeze to death on such a cold night. ”As I spoke, I laid out the quilt on the bed, took out a blanket from the cabinet beside me, and beckoned Ying Li to sit on the bed with Helena and Becky, and everyone sat on the bed and hugged the blanket and chatted, which was warmer than on the floor."
Would you like a glass of golden cider?
Drinking a little should help you sleep. ”I said, pulling a bottle of Golden Cider from my magical belt bag.Caterina fetched a few goblets from the kitchen downstairs, poured a glass of golden cider for each of us, took off her shoes, and squeezed into the bed with us, Win Li sat on the innermost side of the bed with her hands on her knees, Helena next to Win Li, then Becky, followed by me and Caterina.The five of us were hugging a blanket against a wooden wall, just enough to see the snow flying outside the window next to the desk.A few of us chatted aimlessly over a glass of golden cider, starting with Caterina talking about her impressions of the city when she first arrived in El City.Caterina said that because we came by airship, Caterina first saw the whole picture of the city of El on the airship, every street is very clean, the city is not at all desolate and desolate in the border towns, and when it is almost dark in the evening, there is a faint smoke in the chimneys of every house, which makes the city full of life.She also said that El City was not as cold as she thought it would be, at least not as cold as winter in the New Siachis Mountains.Later, we talked about my first encounter with Ying Li, about going to the rose garden at night, and about swimming by the Benma River in the summer.Time slipped away from us unconsciously, and at last we huddled together and fell asleep against the wall.When I woke up, Win Li had slipped back to her room with Helena and Becky at some point.I woke up a little late because we talked a little late last night, and Ryan and Fanny had already had breakfast and went out early.It seems that Ryan and Fanny have already made an appointment to play cards with their colleagues at Staines College today.During the winter months, playing cards is almost one of the most popular pastimes in the city of El Eyre.Walking down from the attic, Cindy and Nancy are still busy in the kitchen, and Tracy is eating breakfast while asking Cindy to prepare a lunch box for her, apparently to bring to Arendt, who is on patrol in the guard barracks.When I sat down for breakfast, Tracy kept staring at me with a strange expression, and I thought I had bread crumbs on my face, so I wiped it vigorously."
Why are you looking at me like that?"
I asked Tracy.Tracy ignored me and snorted disdainfully.I turned my head and glanced at Cindy suspiciously, trying to get some hints from her to see what was wrong with the grumpy lady, but I didn't find an answer in Cindy, and when I looked over to Cindy, Cindy looked away in a hurry, and her cheeks turned crimson.After eating breakfast, Tracy walked to the door with her lunch box, hesitated, then she turned around and walked back, stood beside me, leaned down and stared at me with wide eyes, and asked, "Can that little wooden bed in your attic really squeeze so many people?"
”At first, I thought Tracy was asking me about the all-night chat I had done last night, so I nodded casually."
Although it has nothing to do with me, I still want to remind you to pay proper attention to your body, the magician has a lack of exercise, and you still work all night, although you are still very young, but you really think you can afford it?"
After Tracy said this, he didn't wait for me to answer, and went out with his lunch box.I sat on the chair next to the table, a slice of bread, and looked at Tracy's back in a daze, and then I understood the meaning of her words, and tried to catch up and explain it to her, but found that she had already hurried out of the yard.Scraped one last night.
North wind at night.By the time it was morning, the north wind had inexplicably stopped.The holiday life of the few of us in El City has officially begun, and I plan to visit the War Magic Academy at the top of the Central Mountain, and visit Dean Goldfrie and Director Rose, Mentor Heidi, and Teacher Tobiin in the Academy, and then go to the magic grocery store in the magic market next to the academy to see the horses.Eyre isn't that big, there's no place to rent magic caravans in the city, and it doesn't take long to walk to the junior war magic academy in Central Mountain.I wore a Misoli magic robe and walked down the street with Ying Li, followed by Katerina, Becky, and Helena, and the civilians I met on the way retreated to the side of the road, and waited for us to walk before leaving, in El City, the commoners are still full of reverence for the magician aristocracy, which is mainly based on the prestige left by Heidi's mentor in El City.Every time he defended the city, Mentor Heidi, who possessed the magic of the group ice system, would show his might and make the barbarians suffer enough under the city.The people of the city of El are fierce, and the common people here are not afraid of the aristocracy, but they are very respectful to the magicians.Walking along the central street towards the central hill, I saw that this year the city hall has a unified settlement for the homeless people who stay in the city, because I found that in the sheltered places on the streets, you can often see the simplest felt tents, these felt tents placed on the side of the street are the temporary shelters of the street homeless, these felt tents are used to withstand the biting cold wind in the middle of the night.There are also places where porridge is cooked on the street, usually with a large iron pot with firewood burning under the iron pot and water splashing inside the iron pot.From time to time, wealthy merchants and nobles would come up to the pot and pour some of the food left over from the previous night into the pot, and this alms would continue until the spring was in full bloom.When we came to the Junior School of Magic at the War College to visit Dean Goldfrie, the attendant who was guarding outside the apartment told us: "Lord Dean has gone out to visit friends, and it will be about two weeks before he returns.Unfortunately, we didn't see Dean Goldfrie, so we left the gift that the Jerkis scholar had brought to him for the attendant at the door.We went to visit the Dean of Studies, Lord Ross, this time we didn't make a splash, Lord Ross still looked the same, but it was a little unexpected for my visit, I took out two boxes of cigars that the Jerkes Scholar had brought him, and said that they were gifts that the Jerkes Scholar asked me to bring him, and the Director Ross took the cigar box, and his eyes were full of love.Director Ross invited us to lunch, and I shook my head and declined.I found Mr.
Tobiin in the academy and took out the Wind Talisman that the Yerkes Scholar had given him and gave it to him.Mr.
Tobion was fond of all kinds of new magic runes, and when he saw that the scholar of Yerkes had brought him a book of talismans, he happily flipped through the magic talismans.We went to Mentor Heidi's house and found that Mentor Heidi wasn't at home either.At this time, I suddenly remembered that the Eagle Operation in the winter of El City had begun, and many strong people hiding in El City would form a battle team and run outside El City to kill the barbarians.Leaving the Academy of War Magic, go out and walk into a small alley on the right, this is the free market outside the Academy of Magic, this was originally the magic students in the academy to sell their own small works, and then gradually evolved into a market, Ma and I opened this magic grocery store, in this small market business has always been very good.This magical grocery store still looks the same.After the winter came, the red bean smoothie shop next door was also closed, perhaps because of the winter vacation, the other shops here also seemed very depressed, we came to the door of the grocery store, it seemed, this grocery store has not officially opened.There is also a courtyard attached to the back of this grocery store, where Ma and Si Pei usually live.I walked outside the courtyard and saw that the gate was also tightly closed, so I went up and knocked on the gate outside.A reluctant voice came from the courtyard: "Who!
”Just by listening to the tone, I could tell that it was the sound of a horse, and it seemed that I was not looking for the wrong place, so I pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.Although the courtyard is very narrow, it is filled with all kinds of items, and the whole courtyard is crowded with all kinds of groceries.Perhaps it was because he heard the footsteps in the yard, the horse seemed very annoyed, and before the person came out of the house, the voice had already come out: "Why do you casually break into the courtyard of someone else's house" Then, I saw a magician wearing a magic apprentice's robe push the door and come out, when he looked at me, at first glance he thought it was a mistake, so he rubbed his eyes vigorously, blinked vigorously, and found that I was still standing in front of him, and the horse screamed and shouted: "Jijia!
”He strode up to me, gave me a big hug with one hand, then threw a punch on my shoulder and asked me, "When did you come back?"
”"Your magic robe is really good-looking, you look like a great magician, these are your friends?"
The horse looked at me and said to me.He first glanced at Caterina and found that this red-haired beauty had an outstanding temperament, so he couldn't help but look at it twice.Then, his eyes fell on Ying Li next to him, he still had a deep impression of Ying Li, he tried hard to recall, and suddenly seemed to remember, so he said to Ying Li: "You are Ying Li?"
I heard that you went back to the imperial capital, this time Jijia went to the imperial capital, did you and Jijia go to the same magic academy?
”"Hi there, Ma!"
Ying Li walked out of the crowd and said to Ma kindly: "Ji Jia and I were not in the same magic academy before, but this time the school starts, we will both study magic together at the Royal Academy of Magic!"
”At this time, Ma couldn't help but shout into the house: "Spee, get up quickly, and see who is back!"
”Hearing the horse's shout, Spee came out of the house not long after, and while she was tidying up her leather clothes, she looked out the door, and when she saw my figure, she also ran out with excitement, and at once hugged me, and said to me with joy in her eyes: "Jijia, you have a holiday over there?"
”Si Pei looked much more prosperous than before, and after she married Ma, her life was quite nourishing.I smiled and asked Si Pei, "Si Pei, when are you and Ma going to have a wedding?"
”I guess this is probably the biggest wish of Spee at the moment, so I simply asked in front of the horse.Spee glanced at the horse with a shy look, but did not speak, making it clear that this matter was up to the horse's arrangement.