Whispering Poems

Chapter 1624 Jasmine Opera Troupe

"Yes."

Angel smiled and nodded.

"Excuse me, why did you give me this gift? I am not unwilling to accept your gift, but what is the price of this gift?"

Xia De wondered, the angel looked at him and the cat in his arms:
"There is no price, just to thank you for sacrificing yourself to save the earth. You have many choices, but you only chose the most difficult one."

"This is what I should do."

Xia De reached out and grabbed the feather, and the goddess of the lake explained:

"In addition to the divine characteristics, the power contained in it can give you three chances to separate the two bonded souls again. As a wise man who has passed the test, you come to me for the answer. I know the answer but can't tell you, so Please take this, it will help you."

"Allow me to express my thanks again."

Xia De bowed to thank, and the white-robed lady holding the stick shook her head slightly:

"Next you will face more difficult tests. I hope wisdom will guide you and find the ending that suits you best."

After returning to Tobesk, it was already noon this day due to the back and forth, but Shad still did not rest.After returning from Huntington, he took Mia to Quill Street without stopping. Unfortunately, Dorothy was not here, and Shad was in vain.

Fortunately, the landlady knew about Dorothy's whereabouts, and the woman wearing a wig told Shade that the blond female writer had gone to her actor friend in the north of the city.Xia De had been there with Rezia last night, so he knew what this was referring to.

However, when Xia De was about to bid farewell to the landlady at the door of the apartment, the fat woman with brown eyes stopped Xia De:

"Mr. Hamilton, allow me to call you that."

She grabbed the door frame, as if hesitating, but finally said:
"You are very famous in Tobesk, very famous. Those rumors about you and Duke Galina, and the rumors about you and Princess Leizia after the Ring Riding Competition. Dorothy is a good girl."

Although his tone was hesitant, the brown eyes that looked at Shad were very powerful.

Xia De immediately understood what the other party wanted to say to him. He was very happy that Dorothy's landlord cared about her as much as she had said:

"Don't worry, I won't hurt Dorothy."

He hugged the cat with a stinky face and assured that Mia was not happy at this time, on the one hand because Xia De took it out all morning today, and on the other hand because it was obviously lunch time, and he had no intention of going to eat.

"I know what you're worried about. Yes, the gossip about me is indeed a bit um, hard to describe."

He laughed to himself, and then said to the landlady:
"But I never lied to Dorothy, and the lady writer could tell for herself if I was lying. It would be too formal to swear to you in the name of [Mr. In the name of a cat, if I hurt Dorothy, let Little Mia go away from me."

"Meow~"

Hearing his name, the cat meowed, and a gentle smile appeared on the face of the landlady:
"Mr. Hamilton, you don't have to be too serious. It's just that I have known Louisa for too long. As someone who has experienced it, I feel that I should be obliged to remind her of some things. To be honest, if you don't care about those rumors, just look at you You're absolutely brilliant when it comes to conversations"

Before she finished speaking, a young man in a brown leather jacket, blue-gray overalls, and a black hat walked towards the two people at the door of the apartment.

It wasn't that Xia De was unlucky enough to be assassinated again, and the other party didn't want to rob, but took out two pieces of paper and handed them to them respectively:
"The Pantanal region must be ours! The glory of Delarion cannot be insulted!"

He said to the two seriously, and then continued to walk towards other pedestrians on the road.

They were two leaflets printed in ink, very heavy in ink, but professionally laid out.In addition to the printed leaflet frame and text, there is also a purely hand-painted Delarion coat of arms on the paper page. It is hard to imagine how much work it takes.

As for the content of the leaflet, it calls on the citizens to boycott Carson Rico goods, and stand up and spurn those Carson Rico cultures to support the border and trade negotiations on the Pantanal region.

Seeing Xia De looking at the flyer in surprise, the landlady, who was probably in her 40s, explained to him:
"You young people probably haven't seen anything like this. When I was your age, Carson Rico and De La Rion weren't as peaceful as they are now. It's this time again. Leaflets, public speeches, newspapers denounce , if you are lucky, you might still be able to see the parade on Silver Cross Avenue."

She shook her head and sighed, looking at the leaflet in her hand, as if recalling the past:
"After 20 years of peace, I have almost forgotten these things."

"Was that from the city hall just now?"

Xia De lowered his voice and asked, the landlady shook her head:

"Of course not, probably the students in the University District. Oh, Mr. Hamilton, this is not something to talk about in public, and we don't want to get ourselves into trouble. When the girls who rent my house come back tonight, I will still Talk to them and don't get involved in these things."

She said goodbye to Shad and closed the door.

Xia De hugged the cat and was about to leave with the paper in his hand, but when he turned around, he saw the young man who gave him the leaflet twenty steps away, talking to another passerby.And farther away, on the bustling quill street, between the windows with clothes drying on both sides, flower pots and sundries, there are other people doing the same thing among the crowd .The street patrol policemen resting their feet under the gas street lamps at the intersection with batons in their hands seemed to have not seen this scene.

The sun at noon in spring was covered by thin mist, but it still felt warm on the body.

Although I have learned from different channels what the negotiations in the Green Lake area mean, but the moment I turned around and saw this scene, people from other places really felt that the wheels of the times were turning again.

He saw the carriage moving forward quickly, but he didn't know what he could do.

Next, Xia De took a carriage from Quill Pen Street to Shengcheng Square in Beicheng District, then got off at the entrance of the Three Cats Hotel, then walked more than 100 meters, and came to the entrance of the theater last night.It's just that at noon, there wasn't any performance going on in the theater, and the conductor Xia De and Rezia saw last night was yawning and wiping the table at the door.

He seemed to have just woken up, and he was in a daze. Seeing Xia De approaching, the young conductor said to him:
"Sir, the performance in the afternoon starts at 02:30, and the actors also need to have lunch and rest."

"Meow~"

Little Miya wanted lunch and a rest too.

"I didn't come to see the show, I came to find people."

Xia De then said, worried that the other party would not let him in.

"Find someone?"

The young man with the rag sized him up:
"You look familiar. Forget it, you can find someone, and you will pay for the entrance fee, 4p. Do you need some change?"

"But I didn't come to the show."

"But you have to pay the entrance fee to enter the door."

The young man insisted, but the action of wiping the table with his hands did not stop:
"Otherwise, if anyone comes looking for someone, I will let him in. Will the theater still be open?"

What he said is indeed very reasonable, and it is indeed wrong to let people in arbitrarily.But the problem is that although Xia De doesn't care about 4p, he doesn't want to waste money:
"I'm a friend of Miss Dorothy Louisa, why don't you call her? Or, I go over the wall to find her, and let your theater director reprimand you?"

He made his suggestion, and the conductor who wiped the table immediately hesitated, really worried that the other party was a friend of one of the main patrons of the theater.

While he was hesitating, the tired Miya jumped out of Xia De's arms, and before he could react, she entered the theater through the crack of the door.

Xia De immediately wanted to catch up, but stopped after thinking about it.Sure enough, after a while, Dorothy came out holding the wronged cat. Today Miss Writer was wearing a black gauze dress, and there was an artificial knitted flower pinned to the left side of the white belt. The red butterfly pendant in the flower is the sage-level relic Xia De gave them.

"Shad, did you forget to feed the cat? Look at it."

Goldilocks asked, and the poor cat meowed immediately, then broke free from her arms and jumped onto the table, beckoning Shad to hold it.

Now that Dorothy was out, Shad could get in without paying the entrance fee.Dorothy heard that Shad and Mia hadn't lunched yet, and she planned to go with them to meet her friends at the theater, and then take them to lunch at the Three Cats Inn.

"I knew the members of the Jasmine Troupe three or four years ago. It's really interesting to think about it now. Their performances have helped me a lot in my writing."

Dorothy said with a smile, and led Shade through the empty auditorium, through the low wall separating the auditorium and the backstage, and into the courtyard behind.

On the left side of the open-air backstage is a white low building for troupe members, which is exactly the same as the one behind the auditorium.At this time, there were three people standing scattered in the yard, repairing the stage facilities, but the sound of heated conversation came from the door that was not closed:

"Absolutely not. Why did we give up performing Kasenlik's plays and operas? Last night's "Belfry Lovers" was also Kasenlik's ancient folk fairy tale, but the audience didn't say anything."

It's a woman's voice.

"Marianne, we're not trying to keep the audience from saying anything, we're just in case we all want to keep the troupe alive, some things are necessary. I know you're advocating artistic freedom, but we can't get ourselves into trouble these days. .It’s just the last one or two months, until the negotiations in the Green Lake area have results”

It was a man's voice, but he stopped short when Shad and Dorothy entered.

(End of this chapter)