One week after the ribbon-cutting of the Moon Bay Bridge, Monday on the 29th of the Sleeping Month, the last Monday of 1854.
When Xia De opened his eyes in the warm home, stepped on slippers and walked down the stairs with a very energetic cat, and opened the door to get goat's milk, he found that the gas lights in the snow square had been decorated for the holidays.
The girl held up the water bottle and shaped fountain, which was also decorated with fresh decorations, and he knew that 1854 was really about to end.
News of the war is still circulating throughout the old continent, but the smoke of the Principality of Sett and the Principality of Milson has not yet affected the mood of the people in the capital for the holidays.
The end of the year is this Wednesday, but the preparation for the holiday will definitely not be held on the day of the holiday. Although the holiday at the end of the year will only start tomorrow, it has actually entered the traditional sense since last weekend.
The festival preparation stage is now.
Although there will be many guests and family members at home at the end of this year, Xia De herself does not need to prepare anything in advance. Jialina has already said hello, and the ingredients used for the holidays are transported directly from her manor.
The maids and ladies have already done the whole house cleaning before the festival. As for the holiday decorations hanging on the doors and the walls on the outside of the house, Xia De doesn't have to worry about it himself.
Xia De also asked a question at that time;
"So what do I need to prepare besides the end-of-year gift?"
And Lei Xiya, who happened to be there at that time, smiled and gave the answer:
"Of course you are ready."
Although it is a bit strange to do nothing, Xia De thinks that if he really has to organize his house and purchase holiday supplies by himself, he feels that this is actually quite good now.
It didn't snow early this morning, and the milkman and postman who had adapted to the bad weather had also delivered goat milk and newspaper letters on time.
Xia De opened the milk box on the side of the door and took the glass bottle. When he stuffed the empty bottles left yesterday, he turned his head and looked at No. 7, St. Terran Square next door.
After more than half a month of renovation, the traces of the former owner of the house have been completely erased - although the other party has left no traces. The furniture has been replaced, and the room has been cleaned according to the standards of cleaning at the end of the year.
The decoration style has been unified with No. 6, St. Terrain Square, and furniture and daily necessities have also been replaced with things of the same specification as Shade.
These things may be complicated, but compared to Galina's estate, the size of the house is not worth mentioning to the maids.
However, the wall between No. 6 and No. 7 has not been opened yet. This is not because Xia De intentionally stopped it, but when the construction worker confirmed the building drawings and avoided the load-bearing wall, he was about to swing a hammer to smash a door on the first floor.
hour--
The first worker dodged his waist, the second worker spitted into the palm of his hand, picked up the hammer, and then sprained the ankle and broke the fracture on the spot when he lifted the sledgehammer. The third worker raised the hammer head and the hammer head were from the hammer handle.
Leave and fly.
Although he was not injured himself, he smashed the glass window that had just been reinstalled.
After a series of accidents, Xia De, who knew that his family was very strange, gave up the idea of connecting two houses through physical destruction. This would not affect the use later. Open a door on the wall to make the space ring.
It's not difficult for warlocks.
Lessia and Dorothy plan to wait until the day of the Red Butterfly on the end of the year, pull Grace and Helen into space candidates, and then create a permanent China Unicom No. 6 and No. 7 on the wall.
Door.
In this way, the same effect can be achieved without destroying the body of the house.
Although I didn't understand how the series of accidents happened, after the renovation team's accident, Xia De still pretended to go to Dawn Church to invite the priest to exorcise evil spirits, but the church ring warlock who came to help did not find it in the house.
There is any "evil".
"So why can't I smash the wall? Or I'll give it a try?"
Emilia, who visited the house, was eager to try after hearing the news, but Xia De stopped the elf girl's reckless behavior and successfully used the "ghost story" at home circulating nearby to make her completely give up on such thoughts.
Because he had participated in the "Tobesk Region 1854 Late Festival Rhodes Grand Prix" held by the local Prophets Association last week, and played a game with the final winner as a special guest, so this year he is left
The important thing is that besides visiting friends from all over the world, the only thing left is to attend the end-of-year activities of the Dawn Church.
Xia De also participated in the event last year, which only took one morning on the end of the year and would not delay many things.
[Don't forget to go to Sparrow Hamilton's grave.]
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot about this."
The weather was too cold, so Xia De no longer had the idea of taking Xiaomia to the next room No. 7 to take a look. After walking upstairs with slippers, holding the cat, holding newspapers and goat milk, he walked out of the bedroom in a nightgown.
Luvia asked:
"You are so energetic. Speaking of which, the association starts on holidays today, which is one more day more than others' holidays. Dorothy invites me to go shopping together for clothes later. Do you have any arrangements today? Oh, sit down and read the newspaper
Well, I'll make breakfast."
Xia De did not refuse, Luvia's craftsmanship was indeed better than him:
"Nothing is wrong today. I plan to visit my friends everywhere to prevent them from coming tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
As he said that, he looked at the stack of letters in his hand. The end of the year was approaching, and the frequency of receiving letters increased a lot. In addition to letters from his friends, the restaurants, dessert shops, etc. he often visited would also send letters to express his gratitude.
Some even come with discount coupons.
Luvia went to the bathroom to wash, and Xia De put the cat on the dining table and checked today's letter.
The first letter was the Steam Bird Daily he subscribed to with the end of the year thank you letter sent by the newspaper, after all, Xia De advertised there;
The second letter is the official greeting card sent by the city hall. The knight is also considered aristocrats. The city hall will send greeting cards for the holiday to the local nobles who have lived for a long time at the end of the year;
The third letter was from Dr. Schneider's letter, which was found to be sent from Winterfell. Due to various unexpected delays, he finally arrived at his destination until last weekend, and it seemed that he was going to celebrate the festival there.
The fourth letter is an advertising letter, which Xia De intends to throw directly into the fireplace in a while; the fifth letter is a thank-you letter and greeting card sent by the client he encountered this year when he helped handle the case; the sixth letter is a year-end greeting card from the Milk Company;
Seven letters come from Biford Auction, a branch of Cassandra Auction. The manager sent a letter to hope that Xia De would continue to visit next year.
The eighth letter was sent by Joy Patton and Ms. Marilyn Handel, who are cursed by death, who are now traveling south of the Old Continent and dealing with the disaster of death, and sending a letter to congratulate Shade on the arrival of the end of the New Year,
The gift of letters is two short stories they encountered about death.
This gift is very unique, and Shade believes Dorothy will be interested.
"I have so many letters today, but it's normal at the end of the year."
The ninth letter comes from Virondell. Shade's friend Arman Bernhardt sent a letter to express his congratulations on the end of the year, saying that he sent a batch of very good red wine as a gift for the end of the year.
Although the red wine did not appear with the letter today, it should be delivered tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
The tenth letter was another advertisement letter, and the eleventh letter was a thank-you letter and greeting card sent to major customers by the "Royal Bank of Delarion". The letter also included two coupons from local clubs.
The newest ⊥Xiao⊥Speak⊥Send⊥Six⊥9⊥Book⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥Book⊥⊥⊥First⊥!
Part of Xiade's deposit is placed in cash at home, while the other part is in this bank.
The twelfth and thirteenth letters come from Shade's local "Rod card friend" Baron Ravend and the Rwandan Baron. They are not in Tobesk at the end of the year, but I heard about "Founder Time"
I want to see the things I have at the poker table of the Prophets Association after returning to this city after the New Year.
As for the fourteenth letter—
"Hmm? Miss Gaode's handwriting?"
The familiar flower letters surprised Xia De. The lady always sent letters at the beginning of the month rather than at the end of the month. Moreover, she said she would come to Tobesk again before the end of the year, so there was no need to send letters.
Here comes:
"It's not really because of heavy snow, did I cancel the trip? I knew it would be like this."
Thinking about it, I looked at the address on the envelope again, and then unexpectedly found that there was no address or stamp, so this was a letter that was sent directly to St. Terrain Square.
After disassembling it, Xia De was even more surprised. At this time, Lu Weiya had already washed up while Xia De had opened the letter and was preparing breakfast in the kitchen. Xia De stretched his head and said to Lu Weiya:
"Miss Gord said she was visiting me this morning at No. 6 St. Terrain Square."
The purple-eyed girl wearing an apron was not as surprised as Xia De. After all, she had already met Miss Gaode when Xia De was deeply involved in the "Jodel Palace Time Cycle":
"Do you need me to stay and help you receive guests?"
"You go shopping with Dorothy, I'll just receive it myself. But she actually came?"
"Don't you always say that you're sorry that you didn't see her in Xia Mo? Why did she really come? You're hesitant?"
Luvia asked, turning aside the fried eggs in the pot:
"Don't believe she will come?"
"Yes, Miss Gaode has always been mysterious and said that she came by around 10 am, and I will wait at home for three hours. Don't go out to prevent accidents that cannot be returned, don't contact any relics to prevent the relics from getting out of control. I will not contact me.
Have to go out."
In order to prevent accidents, he did not even immediately go to get the last gift of 1854. After breakfast, he kissed Luvia goodbye downstairs, and sat on the sofa in the living room with his cat in his arms. Because he felt a little bored, he went from [Moon]
The Library takes a book about the most basic introductory mystery book brought from "Alien Tree Academy" to pass the time.
At this moment, I saw it at about ten o'clock. When the bell in the corner rang, Xia De stood up immediately, but unfortunately there was no knock on the door:
"I just said there would be an accident. It's about ten o'clock, so what time is it?"
And ten minutes later, just as Xia De was walking in front of the fireplace—
Dingdang ~
The doorbell downstairs was ringed.
PS: Pictures in this chapter: Marilyn Handel & Joey Barton.