Chapter 310 The Warmth of a Winter Night
Ricardo had just sat on the sofa.
Although this is a stone house with a slightly old decoration, there are many sofas inside.
And the sofas formed a large circle in the very large living room of the house.
It can provide a place for twenty or thirty children to sit around the fire and listen to the stories told by their elders.
In this cold and snowy night.
You can sit around the fireplace with a group of friends, feel the orange light and warmth of the fireplace, and quietly listen to some adventure stories together.
Fear is also a different kind of style.
As soon as Ricardo sat on the sofa, he saw many vague similar scenes from his increasingly clear memories.
The emotions in these scenes were similar to what he was thinking now.
For many days and nights in the past, in the small stone hut of the Druid of the Tzu Chi Hospital, a group of children gathered together in the snowy nights that are common in the Snowy Mountains, spending one unforgettable day and night after another.
From the director of the almshouse who is a traditional druid, I heard one epic after another about the druid, about the natural school and the various spells of the druid school.
'It's really a wonderful memory...a beautiful temperature...and an atmosphere...'
Ricardo couldn't help but lay back and buried half of the back of his head into the soft sofa.
Although it is a shabby gray sofa, its texture is surprisingly soft.
aside.
Lianna, the purple-haired sister, also sat on the same gray sofa.
Just lie back and go.
The two people are very close.
Ricardo could feel the scent of the other person's purple flowers and even his body temperature.
In the vague memories of the past, this seemed to be an innocent sibling relationship, even though the two were just siblings of the Palan clan.
But at this moment, Ricardo didn't know why, but the heart-pounding feeling he felt when he saw the pen and ink drawing of Vera when he faced the girl he had a crush on in school kept reappearing in his heart.
What's wrong with me?
Ricardo felt his own delicate emotions. Although this pounding feeling was strange, he had to admit that with the addition of years of precipitation, this feeling was really wonderful.
Ricardo was a man of two generations. When he first arrived in the Wizarding Continent ten years ago, he was already very mature due to his old mental age, and his feelings for the beautiful girls who traveled with him were not as green as they are now.
Ricardo sighed and took another deep breath of the aroma.
He can teleport between two realms to leave dangerous areas at any time.
For this kind of abnormality, I can just enjoy it quietly now.
He could see Lianna's head out of the corner of his eye.
Do not know why.
Ricardo felt that the purple hair on Lianna's head seemed to have faded a little at this moment, and then her whole face became a little more charming, and the original solemnity seemed to disappear a lot.
This made Liana's face look closer and closer to Vera's.
"It's dinner."
Liana seemed to catch Ricardo paying attention to her from the corner of her eye.
A faint blush appeared on her face for no reason.
Then after saying a word, he sat up and stretched out his hands.
He stretched lazily.
This posture is closer to Vera than to the sister in Parambetta's memory.
For a moment, Ricardo was fascinated by this lazy posture.
He seemed to be unable to tell whether the complex emotions in front of him came from the face of purple-haired Liana, the face of Liana that was closer to Vera, or the original face of Vera.
The faces seemed to blend together.
Lianna reached out and took his hand.
"Get up."
After hearing this, Ricardo took advantage of the situation and sat up.
He smelled the aroma of the ostrich-shaped monster barbecue that was pushed towards the dining table.
The people in this room are all wizard apprentices and above, like Liana and the dean, whose strength is not comparable to that of new wizards.
Lianna's level even far surpassed the second level.
Under this kind of combat power, it is normal for a group of friends to have dinner together and occasionally try rare monsters.
Ricardo looked towards the dining table.
But at this moment, the expression on his face suddenly became startled.
It was like seeing something shocking.
He saw the dean who was pushing the round table, wearing a wizard's hooded robe.
The face under the hood was wrapped in a faint invisible gray mist.
The whole person's face was slightly pale, and his eyes were stiff, seeming to be focused on a certain point in the distance, only occasionally blinking, as if he were a living person.
Ricardo had felt that invisible gray mist before.
The texture of this gray mist should be the same as the gray mist he first saw on the boy's face in the pen drawing.
This kind of gray fog seems to be invisible to ordinary people and ordinary extraordinary people in the evil environment of Ziye County.
Ricardo had judged it before.
For people who have left the evil environment of Ziye County, the portraits and objects in Ziye County will appear in this state.
But the real person still has gray fog wrapped around his face.
What's the situation...
Could it be that the other party's soul has left Ziye County, so the body is in this state in Ziye County?
Nor did Ricardo appear unusual.
The huge prototype dining table was pushed into the middle of the circle formed by the fireplace and Shafang.
More than a dozen familiar friends from the Palan clan all stood up and helped the dean start clearing the table.
Bottles of fruit wine on the table were moved everywhere.
Wine glasses and dinner plates were taken out one by one and placed on the dining tables at each angle.
The insulation originally covering the ostrich-shaped monster barbecue was removed.
Boom!
Just when everyone was getting ready to eat.
There was a knock on the door.
Ricardo felt inexplicably nervous and quickly turned his head to look.
"They are the last group of friends."
Liana's voice rang in Ricardo's ears. Now a group of people had sat down around the dining table, and Liana was sitting next to Ricardo.
Ricardo and Ricardo sat closely together, like close siblings.
Last Batch…?
Ricardo just looked at the dean with a gray face and was a little frightened.
At this time, he saw the door of the stone house being opened.
A group of teenagers wearing hooded apprentice robes were running into the house.
The teenagers ran in quickly.
It was like running a long way outside the house just now to avoid the snow.
Ricardo looked at this posture and thought it was a normal living person.
But when he took a closer look, he found that the faces of these so-called last batch of young people who came in were covered with a faint gray mist just like the dean.
This is...
Ricardo was shocked again for a moment.
The corner of his eye glanced at Liana beside him.
But Lianna just laid a napkin on the dining table calmly.
Then he calmly laid out the napkin in front of Ricardo.
This round dining table is surprisingly large.
At this time, there were about twenty-seven or eight people in the room including the dean. But the sofa and the overlapping dining seats can actually accommodate everyone in an orderly manner.
The dean stood there, already picking up a huge table knife and cutting up the roasted meat of the ostrich-shaped monster.
Among them, after cutting the barbecue, a plate of barbecue was handed to Ricardo.
Liana stretched out her hand directly and took the dinner plate.
As if acquiescing to Ricardo's daze at the moment, he placed the dinner plate in front of Ricardo.
"Eat it. This Warcraft Barbecue was just caught from the Snowy Mountains in the afternoon. It is delicious."
Lianna's voice rang in Ricardo's ears.
Ricardo felt that the other party's words seemed to have some meaning, and it seemed that the focus of the tone was on the words 'can be eaten'.
Ricardo made a divination, and after confirming that it was correct, he subconsciously did not want to disobey Liana's trust.
He also ate the roast meat on his dinner plate.
From the corner of his eye, he had glanced at the dean and the last group of young men from the Paran clan to arrive several times.
He suddenly felt that the temperaments of the young men of the Paran clan seemed to be familiar to them.
He remembered...
when he was looking at the information about Parambeta, Alpha and Gamma, when he saw those photos, he seemed to have the same feeling as the boys in front of him.
Ricardo looked sharply at Paran Alpha and Gamma.
At this moment, he realized that the two young men who had accompanied him in the acquisition of the totem secret book from the Great Library and the trial in Xue Menglin (although his was a wizard trial and the other was an apprentice trial), had this look on their faces. There is also a faint gray mist spreading.
This is...
Ricardo felt a chill in his heart.
But under the dining table.
At this time, Lianna's hand reached out and held Ricardo's right arm that had just been put down near the elbow.
Lianna's hand patted gently.
It seemed to remind Ricardo not to panic.
Ricardo felt inexplicably relieved.
He repeatedly confirmed that the barbecue in front of him was normal, and the hope in the darkness of the flower language did not bring up any horrific images in his mind.
Although all this was a bit strange, Ricardo still accepted it.
…
It’s windy and snowy.
After Ricardo had a few mouthfuls to fill his belly, the dean opened a bottle of fruit wine.
Then he motioned to everyone in the house to drink together to cheer up.
"Damn it, a group of thieves came to our wine warehouse before and stole most of our treasured fruit wine stock! Now many warehouses in the town have been robbed. It has been so long, and the Wizards Council has not yet come up with the results of the investigation. Come on!"
The dean took a sip of the fruit wine and said with some complaint after the wine got stronger.
At this time, Ricardo also understood the reasons for the loss of various warehouses in Ziye County.
This large area has been circulated internally many times. In each cycle, the residents will reasonably understand the loss of goods, the organization of forces outside the area, etc. in other ways.
Of course, the material loss in the warehouse came from the previous cycle, but in the current cycle, they thought it was the work of thieves.
The snow is still falling and the temperature is getting colder.
If the people in the house were not at least wizard apprentices or above, they would probably feel a little shivering in the cold.
In fact, in my memory, when I was a child, on a cold night with wind and snow, there would be many children huddled together because of the cold, so as to keep each other's body temperature warmer.
The children of the Paran clan who come here are all those who have experienced some rough experiences in the clan in Hero Town.
Parambetta is an orphan.
As for Lianna, she was also an orphan, but because of her excellent qualifications, she was assigned to be the deputy of the legitimate daughter of the patriarch of the Paran clan in Hero Town.
After Lianna and the legitimate daughter both became candidate seeds for the Constellation Church, the two became known as sisters.
Lianna could also sleep with Ricardo on the bunk beds in the courtyard building every day like she did when she was a child.
The crackling of the fireplace continued.
After having enough wine and food, the friends who were assigned to be on duty today began to clear the table.
Ricardo was not on duty today, so he lay back on the sofa.
It has to be said that although the last group of friends who arrived had strange faces, they still behaved normally. After cleaning up
, more than twenty boys and girls gathered together, ready to start playing wizard chess, Games like Wizard Cards.
The entire large living room of the stone house suddenly seemed lively again.
This situation has been going on for many years.
The teenagers in front of me spent a happy childhood here.
More than 20 friends, all of whom are brothers, have agreed to support each other and be good friends forever.
Ricardo rarely took a break.
During this long blizzard night, he rarely teleported between the two worlds and rushed to the modern world to work overtime.
There was a girl in front of him who made his heart beat as if he was back on campus in his previous life.
There are wizard chess and cards that make him feel that the gameplay is novel.
There is also a group of gaming’s highest luxuries, a group of childhood playmates who trust each other and are also humble and kind.
On such a night, Ricardo decided to give himself a holiday.
…
late night.
Some friends went to the cupboard upstairs one after another to take out batches of quilts from Tzu Chi Home.
Then it was laid on the floor of the large living room of the stone house.
The fireplace in the great living room has some wizarding technology.
The same goes for the warmth of the ground.
According to usual custom, a group of clan boys can make a bunk on the floor of the large living room and sleep around the fire talking to each other at night.
On the second floor there is also a fireplace and many great rooms.
If you feel like sleeping here is not good, you can go to the second floor to sleep.
But no one seems to be doing so.
Ricardo didn't hide anything. He went to the second floor and took out two sets of modern quilts from his storage belt.
It was mixed with a batch of quilts from the charity home on the second floor and brought downstairs.
Ricardo spread the quilt on the floor and placed it next to Liana.
At this time, Lianna and several girls were playing a wizard game called Crystal Ball.
It seems to be similar to the tarot horoscope guessing game.
"You can sleep here later. Just like before."
Ricardo and Liana said.
He took a few traditional Druid books from the second floor, then leaned against Liana's body and fell asleep on the bed.
These books have special bookmarks. As long as you input spiritual power, the bookmarks will light up the corresponding pages. It will not hurt your eyes even when the fireplace light is not on.
Ricardo got into bed and began to read.
More than twenty teenagers gathered in the large living room, divided into groups, chatting or playing games. Some, like Ricardo, got into bed to read and repair.
As the night progresses.
The sound in the living room became quieter and quieter, and according to past habits, everyone habitually lowered the volume.
At this time, Ricardo was reading a book and could even hear the rustling of the snowstorm coming from outside the door and window.
This quiet and warm night passed like this.
In my memory, from childhood to adulthood, nights like this have happened many, many times.
(End of chapter)