When the time came to Wednesday, the renovation of No. 6 Place Saint Teresa was still in progress. Xia De went to the third floor to take a look in the morning. According to the current progress, most of the work should be completed this week.
Although after the repairs are completed, it is necessary to wait for the drying of the cement, the trial of the gas pipes and steam pipes, and the inspection of the city hall's house maintenance center before the third floor can be completely included in the usable range. But this kind of joy that the long-awaited thing is about to be completed still puts Xia De in a good mood.
Going to Coldwater Harbor today for a short trip with the Witch. So Shad, after breakfast, went to Dorothy to ask her to take care of the cat for a while.
But unfortunately, Dorothy went out early today. Her "Hamilton Detective Stories" has been in the serial for two weeks and has garnered unexpected attention. The landlady said that Dorothy went to the "Steam Bird Daily" newspaper office to discuss the next serialization plan with the editor, and I am afraid that she would not come back before noon.
Shad had other options besides Dorothy. He thought about it carefully, and finally did not ask other friends for help.
Mia is difficult to get close to strangers, and it took a long time to get used to the familiarity with Dorothy. Therefore, instead of letting the cat be wronged and stay with other people for a day, Xia De thought it would be better to take the cat to Coldwater Harbor by himself, and entrust the cat to Miss Aurora's maid to take care of it when it was time to go on an adventure.
In this way, Xia De showed up at Aurora Manor on time at 8:30 in the morning. After taking a hasty shower, he was immediately pulled into the carriage by Miss Aurora, and the carriage went straight to the Coldwater Harbor Railway Station.
Miss Aurora's trip, of course, would not be to leave with her suitcase alone. She bought tickets for the VIP carriage in advance, which is a separate box. In addition to Xia De, there were three personal maids and more than a dozen ordinary servants who were responsible for carrying luggage with her.
The three maids are all ring warlocks, and the ones with a very uniform level are all five rings. They don't look very old, they are only about two or three years older than Xia De's physical age.
"Why are there always so many young but not low-level sorceresses around the witches? Even the Orthodox Church finds it difficult to find so many young middle-ring sorceresses."
During the rest of the journey, Xia De asked Miss Aurora for advice.
The wheels of the train rolled over the rails, making a regular rattling sound. Because of the installation of mechanical shock absorbers in the first-class carriages, train travel is considered comfortable.
The witch was holding a book and sitting at the desk in the box, while Xia De was sitting on the sofa. This entire car is a box, arranged like a living room, and even has a decorative fireplace, not a car divided into five or six spaces as Shad imagined.
In this era, the quality of life of the rich is far beyond the imagination of outsiders.
"It's very simple, they all have the power of a witch."
The witch with long brown curly hair said, and called the girl with short hair in a shawl who was bending over to pour tea:
"This is Keith. I found her from the orphanage when she was nine years old."
It is worth mentioning that although Miss Aurora is wearing a ruffled dress, her current posture is very unladylike with her legs crossed, and one hand is covering the knee of her right leg with a book.
She waved her hand to signal the maid to bow her head, and then stroked her face with her hand.
"I originally wanted to train me to be a secretary who would help me with my paperwork when I became an adult, but I didn't expect her to awaken her talent when she was seventeen years old. Ji Si is 24 years old this year, and it took seven years to become a secretary with the help of witch power." Five rings, although this speed is faster than normal ring warlocks, it is already very slow compared to you."
As she spoke, her right hand slipped from the maid's side, stroking the other's cheek, to her chin. Then, the witch's slender fingers lifted the maid's chin, making the latter's blushing face slowly approach her.
Xia De consciously blocked the eyes of Mia who was squatting on the sofa cushion with his hands.
Miss Aurora didn't do anything more extreme, she just kissed her personal maid lightly, and then let the maid continue to work. Seeing Xia De's embarrassed look, she smiled lightly and said:
"Don't act like you haven't seen the world, Xia De. Speaking of which, you haven't had intimate contact with any girls yet, have you?"
Seeing that Xia De was unwilling to answer, he continued to laugh;
"Isn't the aesthetics of the girls living in the Northern Pearl different from those in the coastal areas? This is interesting, or maybe it's Galina who stopped those suitors for you."
"I don't think so, in fact, I rarely appear in public."
"Hamilton Cavalier in Rejde told me he was a very low key guy."
The witch smiled and shook her head:
"Partner."
"Is that what you think?"
Miss Xi Wei Aurora picked up the teacup and clinked it with Shad:
"Then good luck to you, Mr. Detective."
Klein City is located in the east of Coldwater Harbor. This city, like most cities in the Old World, has progressed with the rise of the Steam Age, but it cannot absorb more dividends from this era like Tobesk and Coldwater Harbor. .
Herkyers Town is a small town in the south of Klein City. The town is mostly mountainous, but because it is the last pass before entering the rugged basin in the middle of the west coast of the Old World from the open plains in the north, even if it is just a town, it is still a small town. There is a train station.
This can be regarded as the traffic artery in the eastern part of Lengshui Port, but most of the tourists who stay here are scattered tourists, and the north-south transshipment of goods is mostly by sea, so the status of the traffic artery does not bring more trade opportunities to the town.
The history of the town of Herkys is completely untestable, but this is a small town where you can see both the past and the present at the same time. When Xia De walked out of the station with Miss Aurora, he first lamented the depression of the rural town, and then realized that compared with most small towns in the Kingdom of Delarion, this place is already considered prosperous.
The whole town is composed of eight streets in three vertical and five horizontal lines. The city center is not the Herkys Town Public Security Office located in the center, but the small town railway station in the west of the city. Surrounding the train station, hotels, shops, restaurants, and pubs lined up in sequence. At least in the two streets around the train station, you can still feel a bit of the atmosphere of a big city.
Miss Aurora brought Xia De here, of course not for tourism. She booked a room early in the town's largest hotel "Candide Hotel". After a short rest, a personal maid and other servants who were responsible for carrying the luggage were guarding the luggage at the hotel and were ready to pick it up. Xia De took the cat and set off together with the other two maids and Miss Aurora.
Because I ate a special lunch in the first class compartment of the train, I didn't have to think about the food in the small town anymore. The witch is quite well prepared, and all the action plans have been drawn up. The first step is to visit the old lady Ilar who lives in Herkys Town.
An old woman who lives alone in a house on the edge of town. There are no single-family apartments that are common in the city in the small town. The house where the old lady Yilar lives, seems to be a product left over from before the steam age, standing on the side of the street.
The rough dirt road extends to the front of the house, and crooked wooden fences are used to delimit the house. The old man opened up two vegetable fields in the yard in front of the house. Outsiders can't tell what those green vegetables are, but the cat he put on his shoulder is very interested in those plants.
Probably the city cat has not only never seen the sea, but also never seen a vegetable field.
The steam pipes and gas pipes are not buried in the ground, they are directly attached to the ground and enter the house. Pushing open the fence gate outside the yard, which seemed to be knocked down with one foot, and avoiding the chickens running around in the yard, the four of them came to the door.
This time Mia became more active. She was never afraid of creatures slightly larger than herself, so she had the idea of jumping off her shoulders to compete with those chickens.
When Xia De held the cat down and looked at the chicken coops and vegetable fields in the yard, the maid had already started knocking on the door.
"How does it feel here?"
The witch asked Xia De very interestedly:
"I've heard Galina talk about your origins. You probably don't have memories of places like this."
"Yeah, it feels like it's here... While it's fun at first glance, I'd rather live in the city."
Xia De's answer was very honest~www.mtlnovel.com~ Someone came to open the door soon, probably because he had made an appointment, so when the old woman with a stooped back, a headscarf and a cane saw When there were four people and one cat outside the door, they were not surprised.
The old lady Yilar was the oldest person Shade had ever met in this world, or at least the oldest person in appearance. She is already a little awkward to walk, but she seems to be in good spirits.
What surprised Xia De the most was that the other party was actually a ring warlock. But the level is very low, according to the reminder of the whispering voice in the ear, the other party is either the first ring or the second ring, and it is impossible to be higher than Xia De.
Inside the house, there is a strange smell unique to the elderly living alone, as if everything here is going to decay. The decor is old, and the wallpaper used to hide the cracks in the walls has long since turned yellow. As for the old furniture, probably only Old John's Pawn Shop or the junkyard would be willing to recycle. When Xia De sat down on the sofa, he even clearly heard the terrible creaking sound from the sofa.
Considering that his weight is standard, this can only mean that the sofa, like the old lady Yilar, is coming to the end of her life.
After the two parties sat down, the maids went to the kitchen to get some tea, and the witch finally introduced the identity of the old lady in front of Xia De:
"This is a follower of the old **** [Earth Shaker] and the current high priest of the church."
"Don't mention the high priest, I'm the only member of the church."
The old man waved his hand in embarrassment. Her eyes were very bright, and when she smiled, she looked very kind and kind.