Path of light

Chapter 2 2. Bread and Poetry

Early in the morning, wake up.

Getting out of a soft bed is a test of willpower.

At the entrance door of the living room, next to Roy's muddy shoes, there was a finely crafted moccasin boot, and the other boot was stuck to the door. It seemed that Ms. Belinda came back last night. Sure enough, A dress hangs on the chair.

Preparing breakfast is not a hassle. All you need to do is peel the breadfruit and prepare a cup of fragrant tea.

Roy always thought breadfruit was a magical thing.

There is no need for wheat flour or oven, but this thing is not in line with Roy's taste, but there is nothing we can do, everyone will eat this.

Wheat flour can also be bought at Castletown Port, but these foods from the human world are very expensive in the elf world, and Roy doesn't know how to bake bread at all.

The breadfruit the elves eat is very different from the one Roy saw in his previous life, except for the same name...

This breadfruit is more like durian.

This kind of breadfruit grows in a hard and prickly shell. When ripe, the shell can be easily separated into five parts, and the pulp lies inside like a croissant. However, the pulp of the breadfruit is not too sweet and has a tree-like flavor. It is fragrant and can be eaten directly or dipped in salt.

Roy broke open a quarter of a breadfruit, gave one to himself first, put the other on a porcelain plate, and then prepared a cup of impatiens honey tea for Belinda.

And he drinks a glass of diluted tree sap of life, which slows down aging.

There is a tree of life that has grown for nearly five thousand years in the central garden of Castletown, and the Silver Moon elves in the city can receive a copy there every month.

Belinda was always worried that Roy would grow up too fast. She always said that she once dreamed that Roy died in her arms, so she insisted that Roy drink it every day.

Sit at the table and eat food from the taste list.

Recalling that before he traveled to this world, he was still a junior student who made a surprise attack before the final exam. That day, Roy rushed to the library to grab a seat. There were many people in the library. Even though he came very early, those There are almost all kinds of personal books on the desk...

He walked along the rows of bookshelves, curious about how many rows of bookshelves there were in the second floor of the library. Soon his attention was focused on it, and he always felt that he would never end no matter how far he walked.

In the end, I just felt that there were no other students around me. I didn't expect that there was such a quiet area in the library. It was really incredible.

It's just that the books on the bookshelf all seem to be in foreign languages, and the words are not in English, French, German, Italian or Japanese, like inexplicable ghost symbols.

He casually pulled out a heavy copper-covered ancient book. The cover showed two elves, one holding a long sword and the other holding a staff. The two faced each other and looked up at the crescent moon above their heads. Although I can't understand the text above, the patterns drawn inside seem to describe the elf world.

In fact, Roy was interested in flipping through it just to see if there were any beautiful elves in the illustrations. The slender figures of the elves were in line with Chinese aesthetics.

He only turned a few pages, and then the whole book turned by itself, faster and faster, like a money counting machine. After just a few seconds, the book was turned over from beginning to end.

And at the end of the page, there is actually a huge vortex, like a huge black hole.

Roy was sucked in at once, and there was no chance for him to struggle and call for help.

…

He didn't know how long he had been sleeping in the darkness. When Roy opened his eyes, he found that he had arrived in this elven country and became the son of Ms. Belinda.

This elf mother, who looked nothing like him, was pretty good to him.

However, she is the kind of literary and artistic female elf who is somewhat petty bourgeois. She spends almost all the money she earns on enjoying life. She is always so sentimental and likes to pursue both material and spiritual enjoyment. She often wears beautiful clothes to participate in various dances.

She is a pure-blooded Silver Moon elf, so after putting on a dress, she can always enter balls on various occasions.

Not so with Roy. Even if Belinda guaranteed that he was a half-elf with Silver Moon Elf blood, many guards at the dance entrance would not allow such a human-like half-elf to enter.

Roy would obediently wait by the flower bed at the entrance of the dance venue every time, and always comforted Belinda that he didn't like dancing at all.

Why are there elves who don’t like to dance?

Ms. Belinda thought that this must be Roy comforting her. Later, the number of times Belinda took Roy to dances gradually decreased.

Recently, Ms. Belinda found a new job and became an assistant to a sculptor in the city. Although she does some odd jobs every day, such a job with a strong literary and artistic atmosphere is very suitable for her.

Ms. Belinda was wearing a cool nightgown, yawning and walking downstairs with bare feet. Her snow-white arms were almost completely exposed. The nightgown clung to her slender body, not covering much.

She almost always dresses like this when she's at home.

For a Silver Moon elf who is less than three hundred years old, she is still very young. If she were in the human world, she would be in her mid-twenties.

She has long silver hair that is randomly tied into a ball on the top of her head, and there are heavy eye bags under her big blue eyes. Her eyes will become a little puffy every time she doesn't get enough sleep.

She is not the kind of extremely beautiful elf, but she is good at understanding herself and being able to dress herself up, which always makes her appear intellectual.

Sitting in front of the dining table, he looked Roy up and down first, then picked up the honey tea and took a sip before digging into the breadfruit on the plate with a spoon.

Look at her eating breadfruit like she's eating ice cream.

"How was your day yesterday?"

Ms. Belinda also wanted to pinch Roy's cheeks, but Roy turned away.

"That's it, I want to go fishing at the beach today."

Roy put down the spoon in his hand and stated his plan.

Belinda just hesitated for a moment and then said: "Okay, but don't pick up those shellfish on the rocks anymore. They taste like slugs and just looking at them makes me feel sick."

Roy shook his shoulders, "Okay! Actually, that thing is really delicious, especially with a little lemon juice."

Then it was time for Ms. Belinda to chatter.

Like all mothers, Ms. Belinda always had this and that expectation for Roy.

"You have to learn the appearance and habits of elves. After all, you live in the kingdom of elves. I really don't know where you learned these human habits. Could it be that the human talent hidden in the body has awakened?" Bei Ms. Linda felt helpless about this.

Thinking of the task assigned to Roy, Ms. Belinda asked Roy:

"Have you finished reading the poetry book I asked you to read last week?"

Roy replied bravely: "I looked at it a little bit."

In fact, Roy couldn't even remember where the book was in the room.

The poetry of elves...

Just thinking about Roy made him feel bad.

"That's not okay. We Silver Moon elves would rather live without bread than without poetry..." Belinda nagged to Roy.

Not to be outdone, Roy replied:

"I know you can eat fish without bread."

Breakfast was very simple, just washing two plates and cups, and Roy did almost all of this.

…

After breakfast, Ms. Belinda wore a new dress with a maple leaf pattern and went to work at the art gallery.

Roy also washed his shoes that were stained with smelly mud and hung them to dry on the second floor terrace. Then he walked out of the house carrying a fishing rod and wooden bucket, and went down the Danne River. You can reach the seaside by just walking, where is the mouth of the Danne River. There is a reef area that is very suitable for fishing.

Elves don't like to get up too early, except for those who go to the orchards to collect dew in the morning.

The street is deserted, but very clean.

One side of this street is the Dane River, and some shops are open in wooden houses on the other side. The nearest shop to Roy's house is a shop selling breadfruit. In fact, there are many other types of fruits in it, but Roy I didn’t think they could be used as breakfast, so I only ate breadfruit every morning.

There is also a pharmacy store at the corner of the street. The shelves are filled with various test tubes containing liquids of various colors. It is said that many of them are expensive potions.

Roy didn't understand this, but he was very familiar with the night saber cub tied at the door of the pharmacy, and occasionally gave it one or two sea fish to eat.

This street is almost full of ordinary two-story wooden houses. Many of the wooden houses have been painted many times on the outside. This is very bad about living by the sea. It seems to be wet all year round, and even the wind blows There is a strong smell of sea in it.

Walking further from the street, there is a Temple of Liberty built on a slightly raised rock wall. It is said that a group of people come to pray every weekend morning, and everyone will sit and sing together. Neighbor Ji Ms. Leanne’s eldest daughter, Sabrina, is a member of the choir in the temple.

Roy had actually always wanted to go inside, but every time he passed the door and saw the statue of the goddess holding a scepter in the center of the flower bed in the temple yard through the iron fence, his steps would become hesitant...

Roy, who was standing on the roadside, saw a vague figure emerging from the corner of the north wall of the temple. He suddenly jumped out of the wall, threw himself into the grass outside the wall, and then disappeared. .

Roy didn't pay too much attention. The thief who dared to climb over the wall at this early morning time might be an elf secretly dating a priest in the temple.

Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the port. There are more than a dozen three-masted sailing ships moored on the pier of the port, and there are dozens of small fishing boats. Now that the tide has just receded, only the smallest fishing boats can operate at such a low water level. Going out to sea, big ships can only wait for the next high tide if they want to go out to sea.

Next to the pier is a golden beach. The sea water receded, leaving many shells on this beach.

Roy was barefoot and wearing a pair of suspenders. He rolled up his trousers and strode down the beach.

The sea and the sky in the distance were connected. Roy first dug some sandworms on the beach and bumped them into a wooden barrel. Then he ran to the reef area by the sea with his fishing rod and climbed up a huge reef closest to the sea. , there are some oysters scattered all over this reef, and many places are stuck. There are only a few places where you can stay, but Roy cleaned them up bit by bit.

This is where he fishes.

Standing on the rocks.

Roy looked towards the end of the sea, wondering what kind of country there was on the other side of the sea...