My Magic Age

When the cold wind blew over the roof, there was a whistling sound. A strong north wind blew in the night, and the north wind rolled up the snow on the ground, hitting the glass windows with a "pa.pa.pa".

There was a gentle knock on the door outside the attic.

"Knock knock knock"

The sound was light and urgent, and I opened my eyes from my sleep.

At this time, Catalina, who was lying next to me, got up from the bed lightly. She jumped off the bed barefoot, walked to the door on the cold oak floor, and gently opened the door.

With the moonlight shining in from the window on a snowy night, I saw Yingli, Helena and Becky standing outside the door in warm cotton pajamas. Yingli, with long black hair, smiled apologetically at Catalina.

Catalina quickly pulled Yingli into the attic, and then said to her: "Come in quickly, Jijia can't sleep either, and wants me to call you, otherwise we can chat in the attic?"

Yingli's expression was a little pitiful. Hearing Catalina's words, she nodded happily, tilted her head and smiled guiltily at me who sat up from the bed, and then said: "Sorry, it's so late, and I have to disturb your rest."

I threw off the quilt and jumped out of the bed. Fortunately, I was very tired from the journey just now, and I fell asleep as soon as I lay on the bed. I didn't get disheveled because of being intimate with Catalina. My pajamas were neatly worn. I scratched my head and smiled and said to Yingli: "Are you unable to sleep lying on a strange bed?"

Yingli blushed and nodded shyly.

Catalina pulled Yingli in, and Yingli looked at the furnishings in the attic in the moonlight outside the window.

Helena followed Ying Li in cotton slippers, saying as she walked: "I feel a little scared when I hear the 'woohoo' outside."

"It's been so long, and the furniture in this room seems to have remained the same." Becky said.

The room was a little cold. I took out a piece of magic parchment from the desk, took out a magic engraving pen from the pen holder, took out half a bottle of magic ink from the magic waist bag, sat on the chair and quickly drew a magic scroll of 'Fire Gathering'. I put the scroll on the silver plate, and red flames came out of the scroll, instantly making the room warmer.

Looking at the snowflakes blown by the wind outside the window, Ying Li asked me in surprise: "Is it snowing outside?"

I pressed against the glass window and looked outside carefully, then said: "No, these are just snow on the ground, but the wind outside is a bit strong. It is the easiest to freeze to death on such a cold night. Every morning, there are night watchmen pulling flatbed carts to look for frozen bodies on every street in the city."

As I said this, I spread the quilt on the bed, took out a blanket from the cabinet next to me, and asked Ying Li, Helena, and Becky to sit on the bed. Everyone sat on the bed and hugged the blanket to chat, which was warmer than on the ground.

"Would you like a glass of golden apple wine? Drinking a little should help you sleep." I said, and took out a bottle of golden apple wine from the magic waist bag.

Catalina found a few tall wine glasses from the kitchen downstairs, poured a glass of golden apple wine for each of us, took off her shoes, and squeezed into the bed with us. Yingli sat on the innermost side of the bed with his hands hugging his knees, Helena was next to Yingli, then Becky, and then Catalina and I.

The five of us hugged a blanket and leaned against the wooden wall, just enough to see the snowflakes flying outside the window next to the writing desk.

We drank golden apple wine and chatted aimlessly. Catalina talked about her first impression of Ayr City.

Catalina said that because we came by airship, Catalina first saw the whole picture of Ayr City on the airship. Every street was very clean. The city did not have the desolation and desolation of a small border town. When it was getting dark in the evening, the chimneys of every house were filled with light smoke, making the city full of vitality.

She also said that Ayr City was not as cold as she imagined, at least not as cold as the winter in the New Siachs Mountains.

Later we talked about my first encounter with Ying Li, about going to the rose garden at night, and about swimming in the Galloping Horse River in summer.

Time slipped away from us unknowingly, and finally we squeezed together and fell asleep against the wall.

When I woke up, Ying Li, Helena, and Becky slipped back to their rooms without knowing when.

…

Because we talked a little late last night, I got up a little late. Ryant and Fanny had already had breakfast and went out early.

Ryant and Fanny seemed to have made an appointment to play cards with colleagues from Stans College today.

In winter, playing cards has almost become the most popular entertainment activity in Ayr City.

When I came down from the attic, I found that Cindy and Nancy were still busy in the kitchen. Tracy asked Cindy to help her prepare a lunch box while eating breakfast, which seemed to be for Allent who was on duty in the guard camp.

When we sat down to eat breakfast, Tracy kept staring at me with a strange expression. I thought there was bread crumbs on my face, so I wiped it off.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked Tracy.

Tracy ignored me and snorted with disdain.

I turned my head and looked at Cindy in confusion, trying to get some clues from her to see what was wrong with this bad-tempered lady, but I didn't find the answer from Cindy. When I looked at Cindy, she hurriedly looked away, and her cheeks turned red.

After finishing her breakfast, Tracy walked to the door with her lunch box. After hesitating for a moment, she turned back and stood beside me. She leaned over and asked me with wide eyes: "Can the small wooden bed in your attic really accommodate so many people?"

At first, I thought Tracy was asking me about the all-night chat last night, so I nodded casually.

"Although it has nothing to do with me, I still want to remind you to pay attention to your body. Magicians lack exercise, and you work so hard all night. Although you are still young, do you really think you can handle it?" After saying this, Tracy went out with her lunch box without waiting for my answer.

I sat on a chair next to the dining table, a piece of bread, looking at Tracy's back in a daze. Only then did I understand the meaning of her words. I wanted to catch up with her to explain, but I found that she had already walked out of the yard quickly.

...

The north wind blew all night last night.

When it was morning, the north wind had stopped inexplicably.

Our vacation life in El City officially began. Ying Li and the other girls planned to visit the War Magic Academy on the top of the Central Mountain, and visit Dean Godfrey, Director Ross, Teacher Heidi, and Teacher Tobyin in the academy. By the way, we went to the magic grocery store in the magic market next to the academy to see Marvin.

El City is not very big. There is no place to rent magic caravans in the city. It doesn't take long to walk to the Junior War Magic Academy on the Central Mountain.

I walked on the street with Ying Li in a Misoli magic robe, followed by Catalina, Becky, and Helena. The civilians we met on the road retreated to the side of the road and waited for us to pass before leaving. In El City, civilians are still full of awe for the magic nobles, which is mainly based on the reputation left by Teacher Heidi in El City.

Every time when defending the city, Teacher Heidi, who has group ice magic, will show her power and make those barbarians suffer under the city.

The folk customs of El City are tough. The civilians here are not afraid of the noble forces, but they are respectful to the magicians.

Walking along the Central Street all the way to the Central Hill, I saw that the City Hall had unified arrangements for the homeless people who stayed in the city this year, because I found that the simplest felt tents can often be seen in the shelters on the streets. These felt tents placed on the street are temporary residences for street homeless people. These felt tents are the best to resist the biting cold wind in the middle of the night.

There are also places to cook porridge on the street, usually with a big iron pot set up, firewood burning under the iron pot, and water splashing inside the iron pot.

From time to time, some wealthy merchants and nobles walked to the iron pot and poured some leftover food from last night into the big iron pot. This kind of charity will continue until the spring when the flowers bloom.

When we came to the Junior Magic College of the War College and visited Dean Godfrey, the attendant guarding outside the residence said to us: The dean went out to visit friends and would probably be back in two weeks. It’s a pity that we didn’t see Dean Godfrey, so we could only leave the gifts brought to him by Scholar Yekis to the attendant at the door.

We went to visit the Dean Ross again. This time we did not miss him. Ross looked the same as always, but he was a little surprised by my visit. I took out two boxes of cigars that Yekis brought him, and said that this was a gift that Yekis asked me to bring him. Dean Ross took the cigar box and was very happy.

Dean Ross invited us to have lunch together, but I shook my head and refused.

I found Teacher Toby in the college and took out the "Wind Magic Rune Collection" that Yekis gave him and gave it to him. Teacher Toby loves all kinds of new magic runes. When he saw that Yekis brought him a rune magic book, he happily flipped through the magic runes on the cover.

We went to Teacher Heidi's residence and found that Teacher Heidi was not at home either.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that the winter falcon operation in El City had begun. Many strong men hiding in El City would form combat teams and run outside El City to hunt barbarians. As the hatred with the barbarians of the Storm Bear Tribe has deepened in recent years, the falcon team will not leave any survivors when hunting barbarians in the past two years.

Leave the War Magic Academy, go out and walk into a small alley on the right. This is the free market outside the magic academy. It was originally a place where magic students in the academy sold their own small works. Later, it gradually evolved into a market. Marvin and I opened this magic grocery store. Business in this small market has always been very good.

This magic grocery store looks the same as before.

After the arrival of winter, the red bean smoothie shop next to it also closed down. Perhaps because of the winter vacation, other shops here also seem very depressed. We came to the door of the grocery store. It seems that this grocery store has not officially opened yet.

There is also a courtyard behind this grocery store. Marvin and Si Pei usually live here.

I walked outside the courtyard and saw that the gate was also tightly closed, so I walked up and knocked on the gate.

A reluctant voice came from inside the courtyard: "Who is it?"

Just by listening to the tone, I could tell that it was Ma Wen's voice. It seemed that I had found the right place, so I pushed open the gate and walked in.

Although the courtyard was very narrow, it was filled with all kinds of items, and the whole courtyard was crowded with all kinds of groceries.

Perhaps because he heard the footsteps in the yard, Marvin seemed very annoyed. Before he even walked out of the house, his voice had already spread: "How can you just break into someone else's yard..."

Then, I saw a magician in a magic apprentice robe push the door and walk out. When he looked at me, he thought he was seeing things at first glance, so he rubbed his eyes hard and blinked hard. When he found that I was still standing in front of him, Marvin shouted, "Ji Jia!"

He strode to me, gave me a big hug with one hand, then put a fist on my shoulder and asked me, "When did you come back?"

"Your magic robe is really beautiful. You look like a great magician. Are these your friends?" Marvin said to me, looking at me.

He first glanced at Catalina and found that this red-haired beauty had an outstanding temperament. He couldn't help but look at her twice more.

Then, his eyes fell on Ying Li beside him. He still had a deep impression of Ying Li. He tried hard to recall it, and suddenly seemed to remember it, so he said to Ying Li: "Are you Ying Li? I heard that you went back to the imperial capital. This time Ji Jia went to the imperial capital. Are you and Ji Jia studying in the same magic academy?"

"Hi, hello, Marvin!" Ying Li walked out of the crowd and said to Marvin kindly: "Ji Jia and I were not in the same magic academy before. This time, when school starts, we will all study magic together in the Royal Magic Academy!"

At this time, Marvin couldn't help shouting into the house: "Si Pei, get up quickly, and see who is back!"

Hearing Marvin's shout, Si Pei came out of the house soon. While she was tidying up her leather jacket, she looked out the door. When she saw me, she ran out excitedly, hugged me all of a sudden, and said to me with joy: "Ji Jia, are you guys on vacation?"

Si Pei looked much plumper than before. After she married Marvin, her life was quite comfortable.

I asked Si Pei with a smile: "Si Pei, when will you and Ma Wen hold your wedding?"

I guess this might be Si Pei's biggest wish at the moment, so I simply asked in front of Ma Wen.

Si Pei looked at Ma Wen shyly, but did not speak, making it clear that this matter would be arranged by Ma Wen.