The Troublesome Hero Among the Heroes

According to legend, King Nebuchadnezzar II of the Kingdom of Babylon built a sky garden for his wife in the city of Babylon. It is speculated that the Hanging Garden is a stepped pyramid-like building with various plants planted on the steps of each layer.

Now, what appeared in front of Charles and them was a garden similar to a sky garden.

The hills that were originally more than 30 meters high were cut into ninth layers, and the plants planted on each layer have their own characteristics. There are plants for viewing flowers and plants for viewing leaves. Although it is already autumn, not the season for viewing flowers, some two-meter-high trees are full of fruits of various colors, so it seems that you should not lose the flavor.

At the foot of the hill, a small lake several meters wide surrounds the hill. On the hills, water flows down the canal and flows into the small lake.

The carriage stopped in front of a wooden bridge. Charles and Altria, led by Steward, walked across the wooden bridge and stepped onto the stone steps to the top of the hill.

At the top of the mountain, it is another scene.

A big white house is built in the middle of the top of the mountain, and on the open space outside the house is a small garden built around a curved pond. On the edge of the pond, there is a pavilion covered with vines facing the water. In the pavilion, you can see the spring in the middle of the pool.

It's a pity that due to the season, many plants have begun to shed their leaves.

Steward walked into the house with two guests. There was a huge oil painting hanging on the porch. As soon as he walked in, Charles was attracted by this oil painting.

Different from the common religious and heroic paintings in this world, the oil painting depicts a middle-aged couple and their children during an outing by the lake.

On the left side of the picture, a middle-aged couple sits on a blanket under a tree and whispers. The blanket is filled with fruits, snacks and fine wine. In the middle of the picture, a little further away, a young man is playing with his hound, another young man is sitting on a rock by the lake and playing the lioness, and a beautiful girl in a long dress takes off her shoes Throwing on the grass by the lake, at the moment he is holding the skirt and playing in the lake with splashes. On the right side of the picture is a lake reflecting the distant woods and blue sky. The microwave rippling lake surface is dotted with two butterflies flying over the lake and a fish jumping out of the water.

The whole oil painting shows a warm and cheerful picture full of family through rich and coordinated colors and elegant tones.

Charles stared at someone in the painting without saying a word for a long time. And Steward stood quietly aside, not to disturb his appreciation of the master's work.

After Charles regained his gaze, steward introduced: "This is Master’s early work. It records the scene of the owner’s family outing."

Charles pointed to the painting. One of them asked: "Does this person come back to visit mother every year?"

steward nodded with a smile, and then led them to the living room.

This is a circular living room decorated like a pavilion. There are many windows on the wall of the living room, the foot of the wall is soft green, and then gradually fades upwards, and when it reaches the semicircular dome, it is already pure white. The copper decoration on the wall is composed of vines, trees, flowers and other patterns, which are also dotted with bees and butterflies. The patterns on the dome are flying birds, and none of the many bird species and postures are repeated. Sitting in the living room, it was like being in a spring field.

After the maid served tea, Steward asked Charles to wait a while, and he went to inform the host about the arrival of the guest.

Altolia admired this unique style of living room with great interest. In the past, the decoration of the house was dominated by geometric figures, and the irregular patterns and lines were only auxiliary. It was the first time that she saw this living room decorated with the theme of the spring field.

Charles introduced for her on the side: "Mrs. Veri is an art master who has the courage to break the stereotypes. Her works take daily life as the theme and advocate the use of art to express the relaxed and happy side of daily life. . In terms of painting techniques, she further deepened the perspective application of near-large, far-small, near-real and far-out. At the same time, she was also an advocate of direct coloring."

At this time, she was anxious. Broken footsteps came from outside the door. Not long after, a tall and thin Old Lady in a yellow home-length dress hurriedly walked into the living room.

Charles and Altria got up from the sofa, preparing to salute her, who wanted Mrs. Very to come directly to Charles and then raised him high.

"Charlie, are you not hurt?" Mrs. Verrie checked that Charles' arms and legs were all in place, and she was relieved.

"Thank you for your concern, Mrs. Verry." Charles thanked after he was seated again.

"You don’t need to be so polite, call me mother-in-law." Mrs. Verrie touched Charles’ head and said, "Your mother was one of my best students back then. When I visited your house last time, You are still in Winnie’s belly. This spring, your mother sent me a large box of maple syrup. Didn’t expect, oh..."

"Right!" Veri The lady suddenly remembered something, and she asked Steward to get something over.

After a while, Steward took out an oil painting from the room next to the living room. The background of the painting is a garden. The protagonist is a little girl wearing a small skirt standing next to a chair, and a little boy who is less than two years old sitting on the chair.

Ms. Verrie pointed to the portrait and said to Charles: "Look, this is Winnie's portrait of you and Mira. She sent it six years ago."

Recalling the experience of being a model in the garden with his elder sister and being posed in more than a dozen poses by his mother, Charles couldn't help but sighed.

After recalling the past, Mrs. Verry asked: "Charles, what can I do to help you when you are here?"

Charles replied: "Now I have worshipped elven princess Elizabeth is a teacher and also serves in the caravan "Big Tree and Wheel". It's just that I was separated from the caravan a few days ago for some reason, and now I plan to wait for the caravan to arrive here."

Although they are acquaintances, there is still no lack of etiquette. Charles made a gesture, and Altria on the side handed a flat gift box to Mrs. Very.

When noble is traveling or doing business, sometimes it is necessary to stay at other noble’s homes. At this time, the accommodation and food expenses are naturally unavoidable, but it hurts feelings to talk directly about the money, so the practice of replacing the board and lodging expenses with gifts has appeared.

The host will arrange the guest’s board and lodging standards according to the guest’s gift. Generally speaking, the value of the gift is the bottom line. The hospitable host sometimes raises some standards.

If someone offers a standard far below the value of the gift, then the family will wait for the notoriety. In serious cases, there will be no help in future fights, and will even be called by the lord to be reprimanded.

However, Mrs. Verrie declined the gift from Charles. She said to Charles, "Don’t be so polite with me. You are here as if you are home. However, I have a little Please."

"Mother-in-law, please say, I will do my best if I can." Charles replied.

Mrs. Veri watched Altria for a while, and then said to Charles: "I'm old and I don’t want to have an animation pen, so I have been preparing for the last of my life for the past two years. Painting."

Then she sighed, "I want to use the theme of King Knight as the end of my painting career, but I can’t grasp the essence of King Knight’s temperament, so my painting has not been completed for a long time. "

Finally, she said: "And your Knight looks very similar to King Knight, and his temperament is 80 to 90% similar. So, can you let her be in the past few days? Model for me?"

Charles smiled and replied: "If she agrees, I have no objection."

Altolia was stunned, she didn't The first thing expect encountered after she returned to human society was to let her act as herself.

After seeing Mrs. Veri's white hair and wrinkles, and the look of expectation in her eyes, she finally agreed.