Whispering Verse

Chapter 3178 Duo Xin's Morning

A week after the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Moon Bay Bridge, it was the Monday of the 29th day of the Sleeping Moon, which was the last Monday of 1854.

When Shad opened his eyes in his warm home, walked down the stairs in slippers with his energetic cat, and opened the door to get goat milk, he found that the gas lamps in the snowy square had been hung with festive decorations, and the fountain in the shape of a girl holding a water bottle had also been decorated with new decorations. He knew that 1854 was really coming to an end.

News of the war was still circulating throughout the Old Continent, but the smoke of war between the Principality of Set and the Principality of Milson had not yet affected the festive mood of the people in the capital.

The year-end holiday is this Wednesday, but preparations for the holiday will definitely not start on the day of the holiday. Although most people's year-end holidays will not start until tomorrow, they have actually entered the traditional holiday preparation stage since last weekend.

Although there will be many guests and family members at home this year, Xia De himself does not need to prepare anything in advance. Jialina has already made arrangements, and the ingredients for the festival will be shipped directly from her manor.

The maids are already doing the house-wide cleaning before the holidays, and as for the holiday decorations hung on the doors and the outer walls of the house, Xia De doesn't have to worry about it himself.

Shad also asked a question at the time;

"So what do I need to prepare besides the year-end gifts?"

And Leicia, who happened to be there at the time, smiled and gave the answer:

"Prepare yourself, of course."

Although it seemed a bit strange to do nothing, Xia De felt that the current situation was actually pretty good when he thought about actually having to tidy up the house and buy holiday supplies himself.

There was no snow early this morning, and the milkman and postman, who had adapted to the bad weather, delivered goat milk, newspapers and letters on time.

When Shad opened the milk box on the side of the door and took out the glass bottle, and then stuffed the empty bottles left over from yesterday back in, he turned his head and looked at Number 7 St. Teresa's Square next door.

After more than half a month of renovation, the traces of the previous owner of the house have been completely erased - although the other party did not leave any traces. The furniture has been replaced, and the room has been cleaned according to the standard of the year-end cleaning. The interior decoration style has been unified with No. 6 St. Teresa's Square, and the furniture and daily necessities have been replaced with the same specifications as the Shard.

These things sound complicated, but compared to Carina's estate, the size of this house is nothing to the maids.

However, the wall between No. 6 and No. 7 has not been broken through. This is not because Xia De deliberately stopped it, but when the construction workers confirmed the architectural drawings to avoid the load-bearing walls and were about to swing the hammer to smash open a door on the first floor -

The first worker sprained his waist. The second worker spat into his palm and picked up the hammer, but when he took a step forward, he sprained his ankle and broke it on the spot. The third worker, when he lifted the sledgehammer, the hammer head fell off the handle and flew away.

Although he was not injured, he smashed the glass window that had just been reinstalled.

In short, after a series of accidents, Xia De, who knew that his house was strange, gave up the idea of ​​connecting the two houses by physical destruction. This would not affect the subsequent use. It was not difficult for a space-based ring magician to open a door in the wall.

Leixia and Dorothy planned to wait until the end of the year when the Red Butterfly Festival began, and then take Grace and Helen with them to become the chosen ones of the space, and then create a permanent door on the wall connecting room 6 and room 7.

In this way, the same effect can be achieved without destroying the house itself.

Although he didn't understand how the series of accidents happened, after the accident with the decoration team, Xia De still pretended to go to the Dawn Church and ask a priest to come and exorcise the evil spirits. However, the church ring warlock who came to help certainly did not find any "evil" in the house.

"Then why can't you break down the wall? How about I give it a try?"

Emilia, who visited the house, was eager to try after hearing the news, but Shade stopped the elf girl's reckless behavior and successfully made her give up the idea with the "ghost stories" of the house circulating nearby.

Because he had participated in the "1854 Tobesk Region Year-End Rhodes Grand Prix" held by the local Prophet Association last week and played a round of cards with the final winner as a special guest, so the only important thing left for him this year, apart from visiting friends from all over the country, was to attend the Year-End event at the Dawn Church.

Xia De also participated in the event last year. It only took one morning on the year-end holiday and wouldn't delay many things.

Don't forget to visit Sparrow Hamilton's grave.

"Oh, yes, almost forgot about that."

The weather was too cold, so Xia De had no intention of taking Mia to the next room, Room 7. After walking upstairs in slippers, holding the cat, and taking newspapers and goat milk, Luvia, who came out of the bedroom in her nightgown, asked:

"You are really in high spirits. By the way, the association has a holiday starting today, which is one day longer than other people's holidays. Dorothy invited me to go shopping for clothes later. What are your plans for today? Oh, sit down and read the newspaper while I make breakfast."

As he spoke, he looked at the pile of letters in his hand. As the year was coming to an end, the frequency of his mail had increased. In addition to letters from friends, restaurants and dessert shops he frequented would also send letters to express his gratitude, and some even came with discount coupons.

Luvia went to the bathroom to wash up, and after Shad put the cat on the dining table, he went to check today's letters.

The first was a year-end thank-you letter that came with the Steambird Daily newspaper he subscribed to. After all, Shad had placed an advertisement there.

The second one was an official greeting card from the City Hall. Knights were also considered nobles, and the City Hall would send holiday greeting cards to the nobles who lived in the area at the end of the year.

The third letter was from Dr. Schneider, and the address was from Winterfell. Due to various unexpected delays, he finally arrived at his destination last weekend, and it seemed that he would spend the holiday there.

The fourth letter was an advertising letter, which Shad planned to throw directly into the fireplace later; the fifth letter was a thank-you letter and greeting card sent by the clients he helped handle the cases this year; the sixth letter was a year-end greeting card from the Dairy Company; and the seventh letter was from the Biford Auction House, which was a branch of the Cassandra Auction House. The manager sent a letter hoping that Shad would continue to patronize the house next year.

The eighth letter was from Joy Barton and Ms. Marilyn Handel, who were cursed by death. They were now traveling in the southern part of the Old World and dealing with the disaster of death. They wrote to Shad to congratulate him on the arrival of the end-of-year festival. The gifts attached to the letter were two short stories about death that they had encountered.

The gift was very unique and Shad was sure Dorothy would be interested in it.

"There are so many letters today, but it's the end of the year, so this is normal."

The ninth letter came from Willendel. Armand Bernhard, a good friend of Chad, sent a letter to express his congratulations on the end of the year. In the letter, he said that he had 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 advertising letter, and the eleventh letter was a thank-you letter and greeting card sent by the "Delaion Kingdom Bank" to its major customers, along with two coupons from a local club.

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Part of Xia De's savings is kept in cash at home, and the other part is in this bank.

The twelfth and thirteenth letters came from Shad's local "Rod card friends", Baron Lavender and Baron Rwanda. They were not in Tobesk at the end of the year, but heard about the "Genesis Time" and wanted to return to the city after the New Year to see it at the card table of the Prophet Association.

As for the fourteenth letter——

"Hmm? Miss Gold's handwriting?"

The familiar cursive letters surprised Xia De. The lady always sent letters at the beginning of the month instead of at the end. Besides, she said she would come to Tobysk again before the end of the year, so there was no need to send a letter:

"Is it true that the trip was cancelled because of the heavy snow? I knew it would be like this."

As he was thinking about this, he looked at the address on the envelope again, and was surprised to find that there was no address and no stamp, so this was a letter that was sent directly to St. Teresa's Square.

After opening the letter, Shade was even more surprised. Luvia had already finished washing up while Shade was opening the letter and was preparing breakfast in the kitchen. Shade leaned over and said to Luvia:

"Miss Goddard wrote to say that she would call on me this morning at 6 St. Teresa's Place."

The purple-eyed girl wearing an apron was not as surprised as Shade. After all, she had seen Miss Gold when Shade was trapped in the "Yordle Palace Time Loop":

"Do you need me to stay and help you entertain the guests?"

"You and Dorothy can go shopping, and I will take care of the reception myself. But she actually came?"

"Didn't you always say you regretted not seeing her at the end of summer? Why are you so hesitant now that she's here?"

Luvia asked, flipping the fried eggs in the pan:

"You don't believe she will really come?"

"Yes, Miss Gold is always mysterious. She said she would come around 10 a.m., so I have three hours left. I should wait at home. I should not go out to prevent myself from coming back. I should also not touch any relics to prevent them from getting out of control and I 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, then sat on the sofa in the living room with the cat in his arms and waited. Because he felt a little bored, he took a most basic introductory book on mysticism from the "Strange Tree Academy" from the [Moon Library] to pass the time.

It was exactly ten o'clock. When the clock in the corner rang, Xia De stood up immediately, but unfortunately there was no knock on the door:

"I said there would be an accident and I'd come around ten o'clock. So what time is that?"

And ten minutes later, as Shad paced in front of the fireplace—

Ding Dong~

Someone rang the doorbell downstairs.

PS: The picture in this chapter is "Marilyn Handel \u0026 Joey Patton".