Because he had already given the New Year's Day gift to Iluna early that morning, after returning to Tobesk at noon on Tuesday, where everyone was celebrating the New Year's Day, Shade went directly to Yodel Palace.
Waiting for the king's summons.
Today's King Larus III seems busier than ever. Shade met the king on time at one o'clock, and then accepted a very formulaic encouragement and reward. Just as Director Anlos said, Lesia's father hinted
Chad wanted to maintain his relationship with Princess Margaret. Of course, this was only a hint, and there was no evidence to prove that His Majesty the King had given such an order.
The awarding ceremony will be held publicly after the year, and a suitable reason will be given to explain Sha De's achievements. As for the bonus, of course His Majesty the King will not give it to Sha De personally, but after Sha De leaves the king's study, the door
The eunuch attendant in red who led him here handed Shade a money order:
"1,000 pounds? How generous."
Shade said with a smile in his heart, and collected the money order with an expressionless expression on his face.
When the attendant led him out, he unexpectedly met Lesia and Agelina, who were all dressed up. The princesses and Shade did not walk in the same corridor, but Shade relied on his extremely excellent hearing.
I still heard their conversation.
The little princess seemed to be asking Lesia why she looked younger and younger recently, and then was scolded by her sister:
"Agelina, didn't I look younger before?"
Even at the end of the year, Lesia was not afraid to show her majesty to her sister. What Shade was more curious about was how Lesia and Dorothy negotiated the time with Luvia.
No matter how much he thought about it, he could not imagine that Lesia would agree to waste even one hour of the precious 24 hours of Red Butterfly Day.
After leaving Yodel Palace, Shade first took a carriage to the cemetery outside the city and sent a bouquet of flowers to Detective Sparrow who was sleeping here. After mourning, he went to Miss Carina's manor to meet the witch and the black man.
Send maids to wish each other happy holidays.
Miss Carina will spend the end of the year at the Yodel Palace, which is also a royal tradition. And tonight, Lesia obviously plans to sneak out after the family dinner.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to the city, and the festive atmosphere in the city was about to reach its peak. Shade first went to Old John's pawn shop and found that the old man had also returned to the city. Father John still looked the same.
It was as if it was really just a long trip, and he even brought Shad a Carson Ricke rabbit fur hat as a gift.
The last stop this afternoon was Dawn Church, which was full of festive atmosphere. As one of the core believers of the diocese, although Shade was unable to participate in the full-day activities, he at least had to participate as a representative of believers with Bishop Owen.
This afternoon's New Year's Eve Opera.
It is worth mentioning that Shade played himself in the opera that afternoon. The content of the opera was that Shade blocked a bullet for Queen Diana in the summer, and the "Feast of Holy Prayer Commemoration" blessed by the gods
"Coin" blocked the fatal blow for him.
The opera adapted from this legendary story was very attractive. A few weeks later, Shade even heard that the script had been purchased by a local opera company and wanted to adapt it into a large-scale opera in five acts. Shade himself also received the news.
A rather generous "image fee".
Of course, that's all after the New Year's Day.
It was Tuesday night, the last night of 1853. Most of the shops in the city were not open at all today, and most of the shops and restaurants that were open closed in the afternoon.
People of this era prefer to spend this most important festival of the year at home with their loved ones. Shade's home has also been decorated by the maids.
Miss Carina even considered Shad's end-of-year dinner. Although she could not accompany Shad herself, in order to prevent Shad from having nothing to eat during such an important festival, she asked the chef of Yodel Palace to prepare a sumptuous meal in advance.
Dinner was served directly to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square.
The servants filing in and the dining car being pushed in could not be hidden from others, but since the current owner of Yodel Palace, the Duchess's nephew Larousse III, did not say anything, others naturally would not say anything either.
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This sumptuous dinner was not only enjoyed by Shade and Mia. It was Luvia who had the last dinner with Shade at home in 1853. After all, Lesia and Dorothy both had their families to accompany them. Lesia naturally did not have to
To say the least, although Dorothy has moved out of her home to live independently, she still spends every New Year's Eve at her home with her parents and unmarried brothers and sisters.
The dinner was very sumptuous. Although she was just eating at home, Luvia did not dress up, but she also put on light makeup. It was obvious that she was in a particularly good mood tonight, and she even tried to feed little Mia food.
Of course, the cat didn't accept it. It rarely eats food offered by anyone other than Shade.
As night fell, the sound of fireworks continued to be heard outside the window. Even though the night sky was still filled with gray fog, the lights of Yodel Palace not far away, you didn't even need to be close to the window to see that the light almost illuminated the entire night sky.
This was a night worth remembering. The purple-eyed girl sat across from Shade at the dining table, twirling a glass goblet, listening to the sound of fireworks and phonograph stones, laughing and sighing with him about the entire year of 1853.
How difficult it is.
Amidst the sound of fireworks exploding outside the window, at the last supper time in 1853, Luvia and Shade raised their glasses and clinked their glasses together. Then they both stood up slightly, stretched out their heads and kissed above the table.
The girl's lips are so soft.
Whether it was because of drinking or being overly excited, Luvia's cheeks were quite rosy. She put down the wine glass and picked up the knife and fork again, then smiled and looked at Shade's face under the light of the golden candlestick:
"Meeting you is truly the greatest luck in my life."
"If you say that, I will be shy."
Shade smiled and said while touching little Mia, tonight is a special day. He let go of the standard for the cat to eat every meal because he was worried about the orange cat's weight. Now the cat is eating happily.
It was only 7:30 in the evening after dinner. Luvia and Shade watched the fireworks from the Yodel Palace together from the window, and then gave each other year-end gifts.
What Shade gave was the "Book of Fools" written by the ancient fabler. Luvia did not give the gift immediately, but smiled and said that she would wait until the evening to give the gift.
To this day, Shade still doesn't know how Luvia negotiated the time with Dorothy and Lesia, but it seems that the purple-eyed fortune teller lady has made up her mind not to leave tonight.
The atmosphere was just right for the New Year's Eve. After watching the fireworks, Luvia smiled and said she wanted to go to the bathroom to wash up, so she went into the bathroom with a change of clothes.
Shade stood in the living room holding little Mia, lowering his head and looking at his cat. The cat once again looked at Shade with wide eyes, obviously seeing what Shade was going to do.
It didn't try to escape. Instead, it huddled in Shade's arms and meekly called "meow~" a few times. Unfortunately, this did not arouse any sympathy from Shade.
However, before Shade could help the cat build a soft nest in the closet, he heard the sound of the door opening downstairs. There were only three girls with the key to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square. Shade went to the stairs and took a look.
, and sure enough, I saw Her Royal Highness excitedly holding up the hem of her skirt and walking up the stairs on white diamond-encrusted high heels.
She had probably just attended the dinner at the Jodel Palace and watched the fireworks with Larus III and Queen Diana. She didn't even change out of the golden princess dress she was dressed in, and she didn't take off the ruby-encrusted crown on her head.
I came here excitedly.
I met Shade at the door of the second floor. Her Royal Highness the red-haired princess enthusiastically gave Shade a hug and an even more passionate kiss:
"Oh, it's not easy to run out. Fortunately, Agelina helped me. Isn't Dorothy here yet?"
She smiled and hugged Shade, with a burning fire in her eyes:
"This is the first time that I have not spent the whole New Year's Eve night at the Yodel Palace. Even during the years when I studied at Zarath Academy of Literature, I would go home during the New Year's Day. I had long thought that I would sooner or later
There is such a day, but even in the fantasy of an adolescent girl, I never thought that I would meet a handsome knight like you."
She kissed the side of Shade's face with her lipsticked lips, and then she and Shade held hands and entered the living room. Shade was surprised that she actually acted as if she couldn't hear the sound in the bathroom at all, and asked Shade to sit down.
on the sofa:
"It's certainly worthwhile to postpone the Red Butterfly Day for nearly three weeks. Shade, don't arrange anything for me tomorrow. How about we go for a walk in the city together? I know you have no memory of the past, so
I definitely don’t know about the Silver Cross Avenue float parade at the end of the year.”
This is an event sponsored by the royal family and is the most grand celebration on the first day of every year.
"I have never seen how the churches of the Five Gods Church are decorated for the New Year's Day. We can go to the church to listen to the New Year's choir's hymns!"
When he went to Dawn Church this afternoon, Shade saw some of the New Year decorations and could only say that the church was really rich.
“I had no idea how great the Opera House’s year-end performance was!”
Lesia's face flushed with excitement, and the fireworks exploding outside the window made her face even more beautiful. She had already arranged all the activities for tomorrow.
"But you won't show up at Yodel Palace all day tomorrow, is that really okay?"
Shade was worried about this, but Lecia pressed Shade on the sofa and said with a smile:
"I temporarily surrendered to Carina and asked her to help cover it up. She agreed probably because of the New Year's Day. I didn't expect that one day she would be willing to help me."
