Evetrona's old stories

"Fight? I don't think so." Gorgon replied.

"why?"

"It's you—why do you think they're going to fight? Because of what Slim said just now?"

Eve nodded.

"Sheng Fengyue and the Logos Academy don't have such a big conflict... at least it is now." Gorgon smiled, "You also know who are the people who are studying in the academy and the training center today—whose descendants are they?——I can't imagine what it will be like when they fight. As for why Shi Lin said that, who knows, maybe he didn't tell us."

Not long after, Asd came back. He sat in the carriage of a four-seater carriage, stretched out his head, and beckoned the two to come up.

So they all got into the carriage.The carriage was not too spacious, Ast and Gorgon were squeezed together, and Eve sat alone on one side.With the addition of Asder, the communication between them finally became smoother—to Eve's surprise, Gorgon's residence was not in the Benlong Castle, but at the foot of the mountain, in the urban area of ​​the so-called Benlong Castle.

According to his own explanation, this is because it is "too inconvenient" to live in Benlongbao.

His residence is not far from the train station, near a river bank, where there is a manicured yard and a small two-story wooden house.

As soon as they entered the yard, a young woman greeted her. The woman was handsome, not tall, and her skin was slightly dark. Eve guessed that she was probably from the grasslands in the south like Gorgon.

"This is my wife, Barnova..." Gorgon stepped forward and introduced to the two.But before the introduction could be finished, another woman came out of the room, and this woman looked very similar to the Barnova in front of her.

"This is Shatinova." Gorgon put his arms around the woman's waist, "Shatynova is Barnova's biological sister, and she is also my wife."

"Oh... hello." Eve waved to them, she was shocked by the situation in front of her.

The two women of different races smiled and nodded towards her and Asde.

"Barnova and Shatynova came from the south with me, and they don't speak Krigin very well," Gorgon said.

While talking, another person came out of the house, also a woman.This person has a big belly, obviously pregnant, and judging from her facial features, she is probably a local.

"This is?" Eve smiled unnaturally.She roughly guessed the woman's identity, but she asked a question out of caution.

"That's right, she's also my wife." Gorgon said this, with a happy and proud smile on his face, "You can call her 'Nadian', that's the name I gave her. The year before last, when I first came here, she was my guide in Runlong Castle. Later...we fell in love with each other."

"Not really." Nadian covered her mouth and laughed, she said to Eve, "He always likes to say nice things in front of 'us', in fact, I fell in love with him first."

The three wives of Gorgon seem to get along very well, which makes Eve marvel.

Barnova and Shatynova helped the pregnant Nadian back to the room first, and Eve and Asd followed Gorgon and entered the cabin.

The interior of the house is much more spacious than imagined. The living room is at the entrance, and there is a bedroom on the left and right. The log-colored walls are polished very smoothly. There is a wooden staircase against the wall on the east side of the living room, leading to the upper attic.The room is covered with woven wool decorations of various sizes and colors, and the number is overwhelming, as if you are in a handicraft exhibition hall.Gorgon proudly told the two that these are the masterpieces of the two sisters, Barnova and Shatinova, and that he could give them some more later.

Not long after they entered the house, two boys ran out from the inner bedroom. They were about seven or eight years old. They wore cotton and linen clothing that was no different from the local children, and they were very lively.When the two brothers saw Eve, they ran towards her, as if they were going to jump on her, but just halfway through, they were picked up by their father one by one and held under his armpits.

"This will not work." He whispered to the two children.

What doesn't work?Eve was a little dumbfounded.Obviously, Gorgon had said something to his two mischievous sons - but this was a secret between their father and son, and Eve didn't ask more out of politeness.

After half a day of tossing, the three of them were already hungry.Earlier, the two sisters knew that there would be guests at home, and they had already prepared lunch for them.Gorgon's dishes are very special - braised lamb and lamb chops, yogurt filled scones, and kippers... a lot of kippers.Since he came to Benlongbao, Gorgon has fallen in love with the local style pickled fish. He hates the taste and fishy smell of fresh fish, but he likes to eat this kind of pickled and dried fish. Most of the fish in the lake have intermuscular bones. During the process of pickling fish, these tiny fish bones will not be removed. They will gradually harden and become brittle during the drying and smoking process, and finally become part of its taste.

[134] Under the fame (the eleventh)

"Should we have some wine?" When he said this, he had already brought a bottle of spirits to the table, "I heard that people who have been on the battlefield like to drink, do you drink?"

"Of course." Ash replied with a smile.

"I've never been on a battlefield," Eve said.

"It doesn't matter whether your words are true or not." Gorgon held the wine bottle, "But you have made military achievements, who hasn't heard of someone defeating a witch?"

"Actually... to say that I have defeated a witch, there is a lot of water in it."

"But who cares. In short, you defeated the witch and gained fame, that's enough." Gorgon hadn't started drinking yet, but his words seemed a little drunk, "Before I asked Elka, how can I quickly improve my kriging level, so he took me to the academy's rhetoric class, and I listened to them reading poems for a month in a daze. Do you know what that means?"

Eve didn't answer, just shook her head with a smile.

"That is to say, the so-called heroes have reputations with water—I think this is simply the fucking truth—Shern, Lotilan, and Hollyn, after I met them, I felt that they were nothing more than that, and when I think about those who have not masked, such as Grand Duke Hyde, Siheleu, and even your father Harvein, I think they are probably not perfect—what do you think?"

"Yes." Eve agreed with his words.Aster was in a state of contemplation. He was on the sidelines and did not express his views.

"Oh, I forgot, this bottle of wine hasn't been opened yet—haha, these words are too early!" Gorgon blinked at the two of them, and then he said half-jokingly to Asder, "Asder, if you must repeat my words to others, you must first tell them that these words were said by Gorgon-Hilven after drinking, remember, after drinking—"

"Don't worry, I won't say anything." Asder echoed him with a smile.

"Eve, you haven't answered yet—would you like some wine?" Gorgon asked her again.

"Of course, come on." Eve held up the empty glass in her hand.

Gorgon smiled and poured wine for the two of them, "Today we must talk freely. Elka always advised me to drink less, saying that drinking would hurt my health, but I don't think that's the case—things that make people happy physically and mentally are all good things."

He raised his glass and drank the wine in the glass.

"Who is Elka? You seem to keep mentioning him." Eve asked.

"He is a teacher at the School of Philosophy. I don't have many friends here, but he is one of them." Gorgon said, "He is very interesting. I will definitely let you guys get to know him next time."

"What grade does he teach?" Eve asked.

"Should be in the third grade." Gorgon said, "Teaching grammar and ancient poetics."

"Then I do want to meet him—maybe I can use it later."

"Oh?" Gorgon obviously didn't understand what she meant.

"Eve is still studying at the academy." Asd explained to him, "This is only the second year."

"Oh!" Gorgon was taken aback, "So that's the case. I haven't dared to ask about this before—I always feel that you seem very young... I know now that you are really young, so young that I am jealous. If you have such achievements and opportunities now, it is hard to imagine how much you will achieve when you reach my age."

"I'll forget it." Eve smiled and shook her head, "I prefer a more relaxed life, and being able to sit here now is largely not out of my will."

Both Gorgon and Asder were looking at her with inquiring expressions.

"Perhaps I fell in love with it slowly." Gorgon said.

At this moment, the cry of a baby came from inside again, which interrupted their conversation.Shatinova was still standing in the living room doing handicrafts. After hearing the cry, she ran back to the bedroom in a panic.

"How many people are there in your family?" Ast couldn't help asking him.

"Three wives, four sons, myself, and the daughter in Nadian's womb." Gorgon snapped his fingers, "There are nine in total."

"It really is a big family." Asde exclaimed, and then he asked again: "But how do you know that Nadian is pregnant with a daughter?"

Gorgon laughed, and he called Shatynova by name, telling her to bring out their youngest son to show them both.He said to Asder: "I have four sons, and it is impossible to be a son again."

Only then did the two understand that Gorgon was talking nonsense.

Gorgon held the swaddled baby with the baby's face facing the two of them.The baby was neither crying nor fussing at this time, his eyes were looking left and right, and his eyes were full of surprise.

Neither Asder nor Eve had a family, and Gorgon's current living conditions were, after all, somewhat unfamiliar to them.

"Your father is also working hard now—" He drew a long voice, and lightly tapped the tip of the baby's nose—the nose was small and soft—the child opened its mouth wide when it heard Gorgon's voice, and started babbling, as if imitating his father.

In the distance, Nadian was standing at the door of the bedroom on the other side with his waist supported, covering his mouth and smiling.Eve and Asder couldn't help laughing at the warm scene of this family.

Shatinova took the child back, and Gorgon told them about some of his past.

Maybe it's because he doesn't have many friends here, or maybe it's because he just drank alcohol. In front of Eve and Asder, his desire to express is very strong.He talked about his previous experiences on the grassland, why his mother traveled thousands of miles to a foreign country, and how she married the son of a grassland leader.

Gorgon's father had six wives, his mother being the last.In his opinion, it is a condescension for his mother to marry his father, and it is an advantage for this illiterate prairie man.

Gorgon worships his mother more than his father.He once heard others say that when his mother was pregnant with him, she still sat on the horseback and fought outside with her father for the tribe.Gorgon's mother is different from those local women. Her surname is Hyde, her blood is noble, and her character is naturally calm and self-possessed.Although she was committed to this, she also gradually won the respect of the Hiruven clan—this relationship was occasionally manifested before her father became the next leader—he would discuss with his mother and ask for her opinion on every important matter.His father admired her and relied on her, and his wives and concubines did not dare to look at her when they met on weekdays, and even lowered their heads to say hello to her the same way they did their own husbands.And when her father became the leader, she naturally, like those men, sat in the tent and participated in the decision-making of the clan's major affairs.She used her ability to win a transcendent status for herself in the clan, and Gorgon was also favored by virtue of her mother's weight in her father's heart.When Gorgon was ten years old, a man from the north grabbed him by the shoulder, laughed and asked him to call him "uncle" - he only knew at that time that his mother was not from the local area, she came from a nearby country, from an ancient noble and lord family, and she also had a heroic older brother, the one in front of him.

The uncle told Gorgon's father that he was very reluctant to part with his sister back then, and missed his sister more and more as time passed, so he followed him and planned to live here permanently.

From then on, he followed his uncle to learn skills—kree and ancient Franto, martial arts and swordsmanship, herbs and medicine, and everything he taught him.

From this point of view, Gorgon is somewhat similar to Eve—they have carried the fate given by others without knowing it.But Gorgon is different from Eve. After he learned the truth of the matter, he did not show any rejection.

"My father said to me before I left. He said—'If you fail, come back and be the leader'. This was probably a promise, and I nodded in agreement at the time." Gorgon said, "But after coming here, I was a little shaken. Life here is very good, and I really don't want to go back to live in tents on the grassland."

"You have three wives. Even in Kliking, no one lives more elegantly than you." Eve still broods over this matter.

"That's true." Gorgon laughed, "I'm very satisfied with my life now."

While they were talking, Nadian had been walking by the wall. When she heard Gorgon's words, she stopped and coughed softly, and said, "But it's not the best—it would be better if I could live in the castle."

Gorgon turned his head to look at his wife, with an unhappy expression, as if dissatisfied with Nadian's intervention.He said to her, "Nadian, go in and get some sleep, don't be tired after you've been active for so long."

Nadian obviously wanted to say something more, but Barnova, who rushed over, held her arm and pushed her back into the room with almost brute force.

Gorgon glanced at Eve and Asder, then shook his head with a smile.

"Asder, you don't seem to talk much today." Gorgon filled him with wine, "What did we say before?"

"I know, it's still a long time, so don't rush to say it." Asd looked at the cup in his hand, as if he had something on his mind.

"Then you can't break your promise." Gorgon raised his eyebrows, as if he was threatening, but also as if he was joking.

"What did you say before?" Eve asked curiously.

"Asder told me before that he must tell you the truth before the competition begins." Gorgon raised his eyebrows, "I said a lot just now, but he hasn't said a word yet."

"Oh." Eve suddenly said, "Why don't I talk about myself first?"

But when she thought about it again, she had lived an ordinary life these years, and it seemed that there was nothing worth mentioning.

"It's okay, you don't need to say anything." Gorgon waved his hand, "Let him say it first, I can see that he is not unwilling to say it, it's just that he can't let it go, he's tense."

"I was just thinking about how to start this." Asde said, he drank the wine in his hand again.

"I know, old things are always a bit difficult to talk about, but I have a way to make you relax, do you want to try?"

"any solution?"

"Say something to Eve."

"say what?"

"Just say—'Eve, you must be the most beautiful woman in the world.'"

"Hello!" Eve couldn't sit still.

Seeing the stunned look of the two, Gorgon laughed out loud.

"I'm just kidding." Gorgon said, "However, some words are also true. In my opinion, women's beauty can be roughly divided into two types: one is from age, most women will go through such a period of time, at that time, their beauty comes from the tenderness and perfection they have had since their infancy, and after this age, their brilliance and beauty will disappear. Like men, they have a wide range of experience and hobbies, and in their beautiful bodies, there is also a valuable and insightful soul. For them, their beauty becomes a foil, because their beauty is deeper, and their charm will increase with the passage of time. Even if one day, their appearance is old, men will still be fascinated by them and flock to them... "

After he finished speaking, he kept looking at Eve, as if to see her reaction.

Eve suddenly laughed.Gorgon is a little confused, he looks at her in bewilderment, and asks why she is smiling.

"You made a lot of sense in such a strange tone." Eve raised her glass, "I admire you so much, I have to toast you."

Gorgon looked at her a little helplessly, as if he had punched the cotton with his fist.He watched her finish the glass, then he drank one himself, refilled it, and drank a second.

"Actually, I want to say one more thing." He glanced at Eve, then at Asde, "Do you remember when we went to see the old lady in the morning? When she just sat down, she noticed that I had been He stared at Eve, so he reminded me."

"It seems to be." Asd nodded, he had an impression of this.

"I was indeed looking at Eve at that time. On the one hand, I was attracted by her—I admit this—and on the other hand..." He looked at Eve with a calm gaze, "I was actually thinking about something at the time."

"What are you thinking?" Eve couldn't help asking when he saw that he had stopped talking again.

"Before the old lady said that you were like 'the hostess after Benlongbao', she said this in a joking tone, do you remember?"

Both Eve and Asder nodded.

"Asder, why do you think she said she was the hostess? One more word, but the meaning is different."

"I... don't quite understand, you can just say it straight." Asd replied.

"Eve, who prepared the outfit you are wearing now?" He turned his head and asked the girl again.

"Yes—Ms. Rojeka." Eve replied.

"Yes, Nadraorola had already guessed it at the time, I just need to confirm it again." Gorgon said, "Aster, there are some things that need not be clarified—you should have noticed the problem."

Eve didn't fully understand the meaning of Gorgon's words, but seeing the embarrassing look on Ast's face beside her, she could see something.

"You're right." Asd suddenly stood up from his seat, and the atmosphere seemed a little tense.Eve looked at him, not knowing what the other party wanted to do.

"Excuse me, I think some things need to be clarified as soon as possible." He said to the two.

"You still smell of alcohol." Gorgon reminded him.

"It's okay, Ms. Rojeka is not an outsider, she will understand."

After that, he strode towards the door.

Nadian poked his head through the crack of the bedroom door and looked towards the door.

"Aster, will you come back?" Gorgon asked him.

Asde stopped and paused for a few seconds before saying, "Yes, it won't take long, you two, please wait for me to come back."

"I know, some things may not be convenient for you to speak, if you trust me..."