my age of magic

Chapter 251 51. The Mysterious Rose Garden
The night wind blew, and my hands and feet were icy cold, as if surrounded by an irresistible cold wave. I could even clearly hear the clashing of teeth while trembling, and watched those two leave quietly in the middle of the night. The night watchmen, they wear black cloaks, almost blending with the night.

In the entire province of Sloit, only a small half of the southern cities are suitable for planting roses. It can be said that the rose garden in the northern suburb of El City can be said to be a little famous place, because the roses here are more delicate and colorful. .

In the cold north, summer is extremely short. Only the roses in El City Rose Garden can bloom beautifully in this cold land. Many people are guessing that the owner of the rose garden is a botanist. Roses have been studied very deeply, and their habits have been mastered, and even the genes of roses have been changed to make them more cold-resistant and drought-resistant.

Unfortunately, countless people tried to transplant some roses from the rose garden, but without exception, the roses that moved out of the rose garden returned to the appearance of ordinary roses.

During the trip with the caravan, the old Kuru taught me a lot of knowledge about magic herbs, which made me pay more attention to various plants. Even if it is not those rare magic herbs, I always like to observe their growth characteristics, And which parts of these plants are edible or medicinal.According to different regions, each place has unique insights and usage methods for some common herbal plants. For example, people in El City like to mash the leaves of one-leaf clover, mix them into wheat flour, and bake them into thin Crispy salty crackers, this kind of shortbread has a scent of clover, only the people of El City like to eat like this.

For a while later, I also wondered what was different about this rose garden, which would make the roses in those gardens so popular, but a rose garden is far away from the urban area, going back and forth between the rose garden and El City Not convenient.The second is that I like to be trapped in the attic by myself, and I have to practice manipulating those magic elements every day, so my mind gradually fades away.

I never thought that after accidentally breaking into this garden, I would discover such an astonishing secret: under the delicate and charming roses, there are actually some dead bodies buried, and the roses absorbed these corpses. Only the nutrients on it will bloom so beautifully.

It seemed like a silent irony to me, and it suddenly occurred to me, where did those corpses come from?By gravediggers who live in city sewers and cemeteries?While I was thinking wildly, Ying Li suddenly asked me: "What are they doing? A funeral ceremony here in El City? Jia, do you have the habit of burying your dead relatives in rose bushes here?"

I even saw Becky roll her eyelids up helplessly from the corner of my eye, her originally sweet face looked extra playful.Ying Li's eyes are not too big, and they always like to be fascinated into two crescent moons.

Among Ying Li, Becky, Lagertis, and Helena, Helena undoubtedly has a beautiful face that is disastrous to the country and the people. Apart from her youthful appearance, in terms of face alone, she is even more beautiful than Sophie. Be beautiful.

Becky has the best figure. Although restricted by her age, her body has not yet fully developed, but her breasts and buttocks have begun to take shape.

Lagertis always likes to cover half of his face with a veil, which always has a mysterious charm. Although I have seen that face more than once, when I think about what Lagertis looks like afterwards, I feel I can't make it clear, I'm confident that those photos immersed in the sea of ​​​​spirit will never fade, but I find that every photo of Lagertis's face is blurred.

Among the four, only Ying Li looks a little more ordinary, but that's exactly the case. Ying Li's smiling face like a crescent moon left the deepest impression on me. She always stands in front of the bookshelf, holding a copy of " Encyclopedia of Magical Runes and Drawings" and watched carefully with a smile.She is an optimistic girl, she has her own style.

The freshmen of these magic apprentices have just been exposed to the knowledge of magic runes. Those magic runes that have strict requirements on line thickness, pattern shape integrity, line fluency, and pattern size specifications always seem miserable. Tianmei practiced hard for a magic symbol, and it was difficult to draw them perfectly.When everyone was frowning, only Ying Li could smile and send the crooked symbols he drew to the instructor.She has great courage in the exploration of knowledge.

"We're no different here than anywhere else!" I replied in a low voice.

Becky, who was crawling on the other side of the wing, asked in a low voice, "Are they gravediggers?"

"It looks more like an ordinary night watchman, but this is the outskirts of El City..."

Before I finished speaking, Ying Li said excitedly, "Should we follow up quietly and see what they are doing?"

"Forget it, it's so late, and it's a little far away from El City, and we're not familiar with this place, it will be very dangerous!" If it was only me, I would follow without hesitation, but Ying Li was by my side. , although she is a magician's apprentice, she is no different from an ordinary 12-year-old girl, because she doesn't know how to use magic yet, she only has the identity of a magic apprentice.

"Maybe Lagertis and Helena are waiting outside!" Becky also obviously did not want Ying Li to be in danger, and reminded Ying Li from the side.

Seeing that Becky and I insisted on leaving, Yingli gave up his bold plan and lowered his head in frustration.

At this time, I found that the gate of the rose garden was in front of my line of sight to the left, and the direction of the gate of the rose garden was just opposite to the direction the two night watchmen left. Standing on the main road in the rose garden, I was already in the dark night, Seeing the exquisite patterns on the black-painted wrought iron gate, Yingli's caravan was already waiting outside. A dim gas lamp was hung on the waterproof edge of the caravan, under which stood Helena with an anxious expression on her face. , She clawed at the iron door and kept looking inside.

I no longer have the mood to fold a few roses to take back. The haze brought to us by those two night watchmen has stained our mood with a layer of dust.

I carefully threw a dead branch on the main road. The branch made a slight noise and didn't disturb any creatures. I preliminarily determined that it was safe here, so I walked out of the rose bush with Ying Li.

We walked back along the main road, and I suggested: "Maybe it's a good idea to tell the police department about the situation here."

Ying Li asked me imaginatively: "Jia, do you think they are a group of murderous monsters, just pretending to be night watchmen, so it is easier to operate at night?"

Then he added: "Perhaps the owner of this garden has some shady hobbies..."

We walked to the gate of the rose garden. The gate was locked by an iron lock thicker than an arm. The chain was made of ordinary gray cast iron. Although this iron is the worst metal, it is too thick After all, my Spike Dagger is only a bone dagger less than a foot long, it is not enough to cut it, I am worried that it will damage the edge of the dagger.

I tried to pry the lock open by inserting a sharp knife into the lock hole, but the lock cylinder was very astringent, and the tip of the knife protruded in for more than an inch. Maybe it didn't hold down the corresponding circlip. There is no way to rotate, I sighed, injected magic power into the iron lock little by little, and used magic power to perceive the internal structure of the lock, and then I found that the boning knife is not an excellent tool for picking locks, it is not as good as a Thin wire comes handy.

Ying Li's figure appeared behind me, and Helena outside the iron gate let out a long breath, kept patting her chest, and said with a soft cry: "You all scared me to death, Ying Li, Are you all right!"

Seeing that I had poked the iron lock a few times, but still couldn't pick it open, she turned to Lagertis and said, "Lagertis, didn't you learn the 'lockpicking' skill in Hawkeye class?" ?”

"But I haven't learned it yet!" Lagertis sat on the shaft of the car, jumped off with his hands supporting his body, looking at the huge lock in front of him, but also helpless.At this time, Becky, who had been silent all this time, came up, grabbed the big cast iron lock with one hand, raised the other hand high, and slammed the sharp round shield on the huge lock, the huge lock was instantly smashed to pieces, and the door rang. And open.

Ying Li cheered, pulled Becky and opened the door and ran out of the rose garden, leaving me standing inside with a dull expression.

I never thought that Becky had so much power.

Just after I stepped out of the rose garden, I suddenly felt a faint breath spreading from the rose garden, no!It was originally in the rose garden, and it was always paying attention to us, but we didn't notice anything in the rose garden. We left the rose garden, and the breath was still following us. Sensitive to me.

I stopped and turned my head to look into the rose garden. It was so dark inside that I couldn't see anything clearly.

Without any hesitation, we climbed into the carriage and quickly left this strange rose garden. At the last moment, I seemed to hear a soft sigh from the depths of the rose garden.

The road at night is not easy to walk, the road is rickety, and the caravan does not go fast. After the torment in the middle of the night, the girls are a little sleepy. The folding bed in the caravan is very small, so that the girls can sleep a little Take a break, I can have energy for class tomorrow, and it is not convenient for me to stay in the carriage, so I take the initiative to play the role of the driver. Although I don't know how to drive, these lions pulling the cart are tamed Very well, along the way, I didn't see Lagertis waving the whip once.

Sitting on the leather chair of the guardian, I still feel a little uncomfortable, and the image of the two night watchmen burying the corpse under the rose bushes always flashes in my mind.I shook my head vigorously, trying to get the thoughts out of my mind, but what followed were those pieces of Ye Meiluo that kept swaying in the middle of the night, The countless sharp spikes in the giant mouth make me feel sick.

The caravan slowly drove towards El City, and we were getting farther and farther away from danger.

At some point, Ying Li changed into a light yellow nightgown and pushed open the door of the caravan, walked out gently, sat on the shaft beside me, and asked me with a smile: "Are you sleepy? Do you want to go to bed for a while?" Son?".

I shook my head, but remained silent, coming out of the rose garden with a heavy heart.Originally, the rose garden, which was admired by the people of the entire Sloit province, actually contained secrets unknown to the world.

"Still thinking about that garden? Let's go directly to the security hall in the morning and tell the knights about it. They will deal with it. We don't have to worry too much!" Ying Li said to me.

Ying Li tucked his long loose hair behind his ears, squinted his eyes and smiled and asked me: "Hey, tell me about the wasteland, you must have experienced many things."

I took a deep breath, thinking of the caravan of Steward Leippas, the group of thunder rhinos, old Kuru and Kurtz, Qiger and Katerina, and Fred And Singh, I thought of the blue sky and the snow-capped mountains that were within reach, and the icy Ulutu River. Those pictures kept flashing in my mind, but I couldn’t help myself. I don't know where to start.

What I said was very messy, and basically I would say something when I thought of it. She and I would swim in the star lake and travel around on the wilderness riding Yagui beasts, where the low-level magic herbs were like weeds, everywhere. It grows everywhere.The flocks there are like white clouds in the sky, floating slowly in the green sea.

Yingli is very yearning for the Pai Plateau I mentioned. She always likes to ask about the orc girls who shepherd sheep in the orc tribe. eyes will become brighter.

She sat beside me with her hands on her knees and asked me, "Did you learn all your knowledge about herbal medicine from that old orc?"

I looked up at the bright night sky, the two star rivers intertwined in the sky, and I said: "His name is Old Kuru, he first taught me the orc language, and then he threw bundles of sheepskin scrolls to me very lazily. Me, let me read what is written on it, you know, I didn’t know all the orc characters at that time, so it was very difficult to read, and sometimes I mostly relied on rote memorization.”

Ying Li said enviously: "That is their inheritance. The orcs will never reveal their secrets to others easily, especially they are prejudiced against the people of our Green Empire! That old orc can teach you, you should He regards you as his child!"

I laughed at myself and said, "He just wants me to help him decoct the medicine so that he doesn't confuse those herbs! Hehe..."

Thinking of old Kuru, one would feel that at least there is someone worth caring about in the distance, and one does not know whether his dry tobacco is still fierce or not.

"We're almost there!" Every time I shifted my position, I looked up at the star map in the sky.

Ying Li covered his mouth and said in surprise: "Do you know the mysteries of the star chart? My God, you learned astrology from the orcs. My grandfather said to me: only the orcs have the ability to look at the stars in the sky. Come on!" Find out where you are! That's their secret!"

I thought to myself, have I even mastered the mysteries of their totems, the mysteries of werewolf bloodlines, and the star map?Every orc child knows how to read this thing, so how could I not learn it!

Before dawn we were finally back outside the north gate of Ayr, where the caravan was parked on the road outside the gate.

I don't know when, but I fell asleep.

When I felt my body shaking and opened my eyes, the sky had already brightened, and the sun had jumped out from the horizon, and was taking off my red coat little by little to make myself look more dazzling.

The glare of the sun made me squint my eyes, and the noisy hawking on the side of the road was so familiar. I like a snack called vegetable paste porridge, which is like the salty porridge in my memory, with the taste of my hometown.

The caravan has driven into the city of Ayr, and I am leaning against the railing of the caravan door, with a woolen blanket over my body, and the figures of Lagertes and Yingli are in front of me, sitting side by side on leather chairs , they were chatting and laughing, their voices were very soft, as if they were worried about disturbing me.

Familiar streets, familiar buildings, familiar cries...

I know it's not far from home...

I don't know if Fanny will be so worried that she can't sleep all night...

(End of this chapter)