Violet Orchestra

After inadvertently hearing about Violet's "secret" from Birkins that night, although he didn't continue to ask, Elaine was always curious, so that in the next few days, he would always be unconscious. stared at Violet.

He thought he was covering it up well, but in fact Violet had heard about it from Birkins, and for lack of skill the poet caught almost every sneak peek.

Violet thought it was a little funny, and she was so curious that it was almost written on her face, why couldn't she have the courage to ask?He can't eat people.

After playing this game of cat and mouse for more than ten days, they finally left the wilderness and entered the town.As the weather became warmer as they were far away from the ice sheets in the north, Violet took out his favorite robes and hung them in the carriage, and asked them, "Which one looks the best?"

Mainly, of course, asking Petra—he didn't expect any good advice from Hodge and Birkins.

But Petra, who is the only woman in the team, is actually not much better. She traveled with Violet for so long, and almost all the clothes on her body were bought by the poet for her. Hodge has the advantage.She looked at the few robes that were not much different in her eyes for a while, and finally frowned and asked, "What's the difference between them?"

Violet: "..."

He suddenly felt that the aesthetics of his members needed to be improved urgently, and the burden on him was even heavier.

He was about to take back the robe and choose it for himself, but Elaine, who was out shopping, came back at this moment. Seeing him packing his clothes angrily, he asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"He asked us to choose the best-looking one among these several robes that all looked the same." Hodge repeated the question expressionlessly.

Shocked by his expression, Elaine was even more confused, and asked casually while getting into the car: "Then why didn't you choose?"

"Because they all look the same!"

"Hodge, I think you need to find a place to treat the problem that you can't distinguish the color." Violet helplessly shook out the robe she had folded again, and showed it to Elaine, "Obviously the color and material They are all different, and this one has embroidery on it, why do you think they all look the same?"

Birkins coughed in embarrassment, and wanted to avoid the impending war on the grounds of driving a car, but Elaine glanced at the few robes with a puzzled face, and said blankly: "I think...they see It looks different."

Violet's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his robe in front of him: "What do you think is different?"

Seeing that someone answered the question for them, Petra and Hodge were also relieved, and slipped away without a sound.

"The white robe embroidered with gold thread is very delicate, but I think this blue one is more suitable for you." Elaine looked at each piece, and finally her eyes fell on the robe held in his right hand, looking up at He smiled, "It's the same color as your eyes, so pretty."

"Really?" Violet looked at the robe himself, and felt that it was indeed pretty good, "Then let's wear this one today."

Putting away all the other pieces, leaving only the selected blue robe, Violet chatted with Elaine who helped clean up the mess while changing clothes: "You are quite talented."

"What?" The young man obviously didn't hear what he said.

"'I can't even figure out what colors look good together, I don't look like I have any talent in this area'." Violet repeated what he said, "Can't you tell the difference? Much better than the few of them."

Only then did Elaine understand what he meant, scratched her head, and said honestly: "It's nothing, in Rosalia, maybe any kid on the street can speak better than me."

"Are you from Rosalia?" Violet heard him say this for the first time, contacted his mother's evaluation of him, and seemed to understand it, but...

"Honestly, not quite." He couldn't help laughing.

Rosalia is a small country, famous for its beautiful scenery and various festivals, it can be said to be a complete tourism country.Although Violet has never been there, various stories of Rosalia have spread throughout the continent, not only the various festivals held throughout the year, but also the Rosalia people who pay attention to all clothing details.It is said that in Rosalia, neat and tidy dressing is the most basic etiquette, and men and women dressed in costumes can be seen everywhere on the road, and they are proud of it, and this custom has lasted for hundreds of years.

And Elaine seemed to be the most ordinary boy, as simple as growing up on a farm that had just passed by, and couldn't bear any resemblance to the legendary Rosalia.Of course Elaine wouldn't lie to him - in fact he didn't think young men would lie to anyone - and what a fun Rorshalian he was.

"That's why I seldom say I'm a Rosalian after I left my hometown." Elaine's cheeks flushed slightly, "It really doesn't look like it."

"I once thought about going to Rosalia. There are very few countries like that on the mainland. It sounds very interesting." The poet remembered the various legends, and smiled while buttoning up his buttons, "But when I was planning to leave, I heard that there are three countries in March. Until May, the entry application of foreign males was not accepted, so it was not possible to go... Is this true?"

"...Uh, yes." Elaine nodded in embarrassment.

"Can I ask why?"

Elaine hesitated, and finally told him.

Hearing a few words in his ear, Violet opened her eyes wide in surprise: "...It's really surprising that there is still such a custom."

"But it's September now. If you want to go, there are many festivals in Rosalia recently." Afraid that he would leave too many strange impressions on his hometown, Elaine quickly remedied, "The Harvest Festival parade, and The full moon festival and the like are all festivals that welcome foreign guests."

Even he himself felt that the custom of "rejecting foreign men from entering the country for three months in a year in order to allow domestic men to have sufficient time to develop relationships with their wives or lovers" was too magical. I don't think there is any need to say...

His guilty look was unexpectedly cute, so he couldn't help teasing a few more words: "It seems that if we want to visit you in the future, we have to pick a good time."

"Don't tease me." Elaine looked at him embarrassingly. "Of course friends can come to visit at any time. This rule is only set for ordinary tourists."

He made it vague on purpose, after all, "you can come anytime" sounded like a hint, what if Violet didn't feel happy?

"Well, my pleasure."

Well versed in the principle of quitting as soon as it is good, Violet patted his head and turned to do other things.

It's just like soothing a puppy, but Elaine's short hair is not thorny, but soft and soft, indeed a bit like the hair of a small animal.When making a new camouflage on her face, Violet couldn't help thinking about it, and felt that it felt good.

He didn't know that the "my pleasure" he said casually made the young man start a new round of blush, and it wasn't until Hodge entered the car with his lunch that he let out a "huh" and exclaimed: "Violet is right What did you do, why are you so shy?"

"I didn't do anything." Violet, who was putting on makeup with her back to the entrance, proved her innocence without looking back.

"I don't believe it." Hodge pouted, "Go ahead, I'll go outside to eat."

"Nothing really." Elaine echoed unconvincingly, "We just chatted about my hometown."

"You can blush when you talk about this kind of topic, don't you come from the second prison?" Hodge teased him.

Elaine, who couldn't argue with anything, had to keep her mouth shut.

Violet found that the topic had gone to a direction he couldn't understand, so he turned around inexplicably——

"Why are you blushing like this?"

"...Probably because the weather is a bit hot." Elaine racked her brains to find an excuse.

Although he didn't know the specific reason, his intuition told the poet that his reaction had something to do with him. Since Hodge was a guy who couldn't control his mouth, Violet decided to defend the poor little guy.

"Well, it's a bit hot, you can buy some thinner clothes later."

Hodge looked back and forth between them suspiciously, inexplicably feeling that the air in the carriage was a bit strange.But he quickly remembered what he came back for, so he pushed Violet who was combing his hair, and said, "Petra has found a hotel in the town, and we don't need to sleep in the car tonight."

This is good news. They lived in the wilderness for more than ten days, and they just needed a place to stay and take care of themselves.

"That's great." Violet pushed him back casually, stood up and walked out, "I'll go see how the hotel is doing, you can drive the car over later, don't wait for me."

Hodge whistled and watched him get off the car, then looked back at the innocent Elaine.

"I leave the task of driving the car to you. There is only one hotel in this town, so it's easy to find." He left two bread and a bottle of water, and wanted to leave with half a bun in his mouth, but was stopped by Elaine up.

"What are you all going to do?"

"Oh, young man." He patted Elaine on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Adults have their own things to do, such as having some fun, so you can go to the hotel to rest early, maybe you can Get taller."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Elaine to ask any more questions, he jumped out of the car and ran away.

Elaine obediently drove the carriage to the hotel, where Petra and Birkins were waiting for him, but there were only the two of them, Hodge and Violet were not there.

"I ran out to fool around again, don't worry about them." Petra, who was obviously used to it, shook her head, and threw the three keys on the table, "How to divide the three rooms?"

"There is a small room, you can live in it by yourself." Birkins pushed the smallest key to her.

Elaine also nodded, it is indeed more convenient for a lady to live in a room alone.

"Okay, we usually live together, what's so special about it." Petra took away a key to a double room, "I'll watch Hodge, lest he sneak out in the middle of the night to touch the mayor's small coffer."

"Actually, I can come too..." Birkins frowned.

"And let Elaine listen live in the middle of the night?" Petra said.

Elaine was confused: "What scene?"

Birkins was at a loss for words, and agreed after a while: "Okay, you are right, the single room is reserved for Violet, and I share a room with Elaine."

The allocation of the room was decided in this way, but Elaine still didn't understand: "Birkins, why listen to the scene in the middle of the night?"

Petra shrugged, leaving him the task of educating the youth, and took it upstairs herself.Birkins had no choice but to explain to Elaine: "Violet sometimes brings people back at night, so it's better to live alone... well, it won't disturb us."

"...Oh." Elaine finally understood.

"Then let's stay in this room tonight, and you can leave the rest of the keys with the hotel owner at dinner, and Violet will pick them up when she comes back." Birkins explained the problem of the keys, and then picked up the keys from the luggage. Li took out a roll of parchment, "I have some things to do, I will be back later, you can take a rest first."

Elaine went upstairs with two keys, and after finding her room, she lay on the bed for a while, remembering what Birkins said that Violet would bring someone back at night, and thinking of the acquaintance in Dysnope's tavern. Violet, the boy who drank, was a little irritable in his heart.

This irritability lasted until dusk, and the room was quiet, which aggravated his anxiety and uneasiness.

He sat up abruptly and decided to go out and have a look.