Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther still woke up very early the next day. Her biological clock was stable in Tingen. Now even without her personal pocket watch, she can guess the approximate time. It is not yet seven o'clock.

She stretched, and when she got up from the bed, as expected, she saw the skylarks squatting by the window again.They seem to recognize her, and when they see her standing on the ground, they immediately make a melodious chirp.

Esther smiled knowingly, took out the leftover sandwiches from last night, opened the whole window, broke some bread crumbs and sprinkled them on the window edge, the little birds wagging their tails happily under her gaze. Jumping around to pick up food.

Esther yawned and went to the bathroom to wash up.

A black shadow flew down from the roof next door. Relying on its size a circle larger than the skylark, it directly slapped two little skylarks away with its wings.Amidst the angry insults of several larks, the crow swallowed a few mouthfuls of the largest piece of bread that was stained with scrambled eggs, then pushed off the window sill, and flew back to the direction north of Backlund.

When Esther came back, a few skylarks were still chirping and flapping their wings. She took out the sandwich again in a daze, broke some bread crumbs to appease the birds, and stuffed the rest into her mouth.

Why do they look so angry?

This is just a brief morning episode, and it will not affect Esther's life. There is still a lot of time before she goes to work at Tianlai Cafe. After seeing Mrs. Romano walking downstairs carrying a pot of fertilizer, Esther Sturt offered to ask if she needed help.

"So free? Have you found a job? Don't be like that bastard Galvin who idles around every day." Mrs. Romano said so, but she rudely stuffed the fertilizer she was carrying into Esther's hand .

"It will take some time before I need to go to work. It's the Tianlai Cafe on the corner of the street. They don't have many customers in the morning."

"Oh? It's really strange that someone as stingy as Martha is willing to hire new staff."

Mrs. Romano led Esther to the door, and instructed her to water the square flower beds with a watering can, and sprinkle enough water on the leaves when watering the surface soil layer. Backlund's air pollution caused the flowers and leaves of the plants to also water. Frequent dusting.

"Okay, I can see you are a meticulous guy, much better than Rich. He broke three of my flower pots before, can you imagine? Three! I never let him near mine again children."

Not long after, Norn also came out of the apartment, carrying his old backpack with a huge capacity, and greeted the two of them: "Good morning, Mrs. Romano, Luna."

"Good morning, Norn."

Norn walked up to Esther and looked at the straight sunflower: "How should I put it? The sunflower is really suitable for you."

"Really? I don't know what flower Norn likes?"

Norn smiled slightly, and pointed to the low pot of red geranium next to the sunflower: "When I was young, it was the one that hung the most at the door of my house. I——my mother once told me that its flower language is'Happiness is in you Beside'. Before their accident, my family ran a flower shop."

Esther stopped watering the flowers with a sad face: "I'm sorry..."

"No, no, I'm talking too much, I have to leave quickly." Nuo En waved his hand and said goodbye to the two people, "The subway will be more crowded later."

"See you later. Hope you have a nice day!"

Norn smiled bitterly: "As long as the children don't ask too many strange questions."

It wasn't until Norn was out of sight that Mrs. Romano cleared her throat: "Well, I don't know when Norn is so glib."

"Slick tongue? No?" Esther continued watering the flowers in a daze.

"Young man, don't underestimate the observation ability of the old man! Although Norn is not a bad boy, I don't suggest you get too close to him."

Esther's movements froze, recalling the crazy eyes she saw through the door that day: "I know, but it's better to have a harmonious relationship between neighbors than to fight every day."

Even if it's just a false rapprochement.

When Esther was standing by the flower bed and listening to Mrs. Romano's science about her "children"'s regular flowering period, a man wrapped in a brown trench coat came out. He glanced at the two of them coldly and said nothing. Fadi quickly left.The eagle-like sharp eyes under the man's mask made Esther frown. It seems that this is the gentleman who lived in [-] according to legend.

It was really fierce.

A few minutes later, Agnes and Josephine also came out. Agnes changed into warm orange lipstick and bright gold eyeshadow today, and she looked radiant.Ten minutes after the two girls who were heading to the Backlund University campus left, Rich also ran out of the house in a panic.

"Damn, I almost forgot I had morning classes today! Bye ladies!"

Rich didn't even wait for Mrs. Romano and Esther's response, and rushed to the street corner to the subway station.

Esther estimated the time, said goodbye to Mrs. Romano, and headed to Tian Lai Cafe.

A few minutes later, Galwin stretched out from the apartment door, and when he passed Mrs. Romano, she was suddenly stopped by her: "Galwin, what are you looking at?"

Galwin's expression was blocked behind the sunglasses, he stopped and stood beside the sunflower: "Of course I'm looking at flowers. Flowers are also art made by nature. Since there is beauty worthy of my appreciation, I Naturally, it will linger for it.”

"You've been watching flowers at the window for so long, why don't you come down and look at them?"

Galwin was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head: "It's hard to see clearly if it's too close, ma'am. But why is this sunflower so tall? It looks out of place."

Mrs. Romano was sitting by the flower bed, twirling the Holy Emblem of Life of the Mother Earth, and laughed: "A flower is a flower, there is no need to incorporate anything."

"It turns out that I was taught."

Galwin didn't say goodbye, just left the apartment so quickly, and walked towards the subway station.

Mrs. Romano looked at Galwin's back, and stretched out her hands to beat her waist and arms: "Oh, it's too late to be dissatisfied. Fortunately, there is little Luna. I knew that this apartment would welcome so many young people with different talents. You should know it's a bad job..."

The peaceful and ordinary life in Lily of the Valley is still going on.

When Sherlock Moriarty gradually established himself as a "private detective" at No. 15 Minsk Street and was in frequent distress, Luna Duboa, the "pianist" at No. 29 Lily of the Valley Street, also entered here The curious eyes of the residents.

Esther is very happy to have two weeks of peaceful life. Compared to the Nighthawks worrying about life issues all the time, she prefers Lily of the Valley Street, which is close to the daily life of ordinary people.

But there are also people who enjoy group activities, such as Rich.

"An outdoor concert?"

After Esther repeated the word, Candela's expression on the chair next to him suddenly became gloomy: "It's not that exaggerated, it's just playing something casually, just for entertainment. But the last 'concert' was a disaster."

Rich slapped the table, and then rubbed his sore palms on his trouser legs: "This time it will definitely be different! You don't know, Norn wrote a score, it's really good to hear him hum! We can press Play with this!"

"But I don't know what instrument I can play. The piano may not be convenient."

Candela shrugged. "You could shake my maraca, I'd love to. Agnes plays the harmonica, Josephine has a triangle, and Rich plays the accordion."

Rich patted his thigh hard this time: "That's right! Let Norn be the conductor!"

Kendela raised a hand, "Stop! First of all, Norn doesn't know how to command, and secondly, none of us can understand command gestures. Can you use your brain?"

"So Gal isn't going?" Esther asked.

The corner of Kendela's mouth twitched: "Letting him participate was the biggest disaster last time."

Rich laughed wildly, and he kept laughing "quack" for a long time before he stopped: "It's interesting to say that Gal, who is full of 'love art', is a tone idiot. He brought a violin and played it. Even the pigeons in the square were frightened and ran away.”

Esther also laughed: "How could this happen! Seeing that he often comes to the cafe to listen to me play the piano, I thought he was a music fanatic."

"He's a rambunctious playboy, everyone here knows that," Candela said disdainfully.

"Okay, don't speak ill of our Mr. Sunglasses behind his back, he will be sad to hear that."

Candela put his hands on his forehead and said helplessly, "You should know that his 'sadness' is all exaggerated acting?"

Rich scratched his hair embarrassingly: "Really? But he does look sad."

Kendela looked at Esther: "Luna, you can come and have a look, I don't think there will be any trouble with you in Gal. But don't take what that guy said to heart. As far as Rich knows, Gal doesn't have any girlfriends." More than two weeks."

Esther nodded vigorously: "I understand, I will be careful."

Then Candela pointed at Rich: "As long as you're not such a fool, there's nothing to worry about."

Rich blushed in embarrassment, but he was still smiling, completely unaware of being called a "fool".

"The time has been set for this Sunday afternoon. Today is only Tuesday, and we still have time to practice." Rich suddenly rummaged through his briefcase, and then took out three sheet music written by a novice. Distribute the backup to the participating members, "This is the piece written by Norn. I will be in charge of the main theme then, accompanied by Agnes' harmonica. Can you understand it?"

"no problem."

Esther also bought some music books at a nearby bookstore during this period, and also played a lot of popular local melodies, which won unanimous praise from customers.With the analytical ability of a "cryptographer", she quickly mastered the slightly different seven-line notation of this world, and learning new music is a piece of cake.

Esther took the paper in Rich's hand, just looked at it, the expression on her face gradually became empty.

Rich seemed to like this piece of music very much. He hummed a little, and then looked at Candela with great interest: "How is it? Isn't it very good?"

"Wouldn't it be too sad to go to the Fountain Square and play something like this?"

Rich shook his head vigorously: "How is it possible! As long as we play well enough, the problem of melancholy tune is nothing at all! And it's rare that Nuowen specially wrote such a piece of music, I really want to try it."

Kendela sighed: "Oh, whatever you want. Luna, don't you have to go to work on Sunday?"

After a moment of silence, Esther squeezed the score tightly, which made Ricky feel nervous and wanted to snatch the paper back, until Esther showed a very shallow smile: "I will ask for leave, of course I will go to the square to participate in your Concert. I will ask Martha to give me a rest, and then go back to the store to work overtime after the concert."

"That's great! You must come to join us!" Richie said with a smile.

Esther returned the score to Rich: "Does Norn have a name for this piece?"

"No, he never thought about it."

"I have a good suggestion." Esther stood up from the chair, she needed to go back to the room to calm down, "Can you tell him for me? 'Birch Forest'."

Because that's what it originally had.

*It is the Russian version of Bai Hualin's "Берёзы", not Pu Shu's version. Although that version is also very good, it is his original version, not a Russian version.