Impaxiu Lake is frozen, and the ice surface is as smooth as a mirror.
Many tourists took their children to skate and play on the lake, leaving scratches or water stains on Impaxiu Lake's beautiful cheeks.
Ron is the most outrageous person present.
He cut open the ice that had frozen over overnight and dug a pit on Impaxiu Lake's face. Ron reinstalled the fishing net and poured the live fish into it.
Recliner, stove, hot pot, Needle Leaf tea.
Green ants' new fermented wine, small red clay stove.
That's probably what it feels like.
Ron swung the fishing rod and skillfully threw the bait into the water the size of a round table. While he put his thoughts on Chaos City's Doll, he fished leisurely.
"What are you doing?"
"... I'm reading a book."
"What book are you reading?"
"<Human Economic Theory>"
Ron looked through Doll's sight and saw the following words written on the book in Nora's hand--
"Summer is coming again. The Viscount specially bought me some interesting sets of clothes, hoping that I can change one of them every night. At this time, you can't let a man get what he wants. You must keep the most interesting one or two sets until the man gets tired of them."
If this is the content of <Human Economic Theory>, Ron is willing to eat it on the spot.
"It's the little pig who's lying."
"I'm not lying..." Nora twisted his body and put <Viscountess's Rise Diary> into the drawer with a guilty conscience, revealing the book <Human Economic Theory> underneath.
"How long will it take for the store manager to come back? It's already January." Nora changed the subject.
"Well... it should be soon." Ron counted, "If you include the time on the road, you can be back by the end of January at the latest."
"That's it... what a pity."
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"Grandma's death anniversary will be in a few days. I want to go to the mountain to pay my respects. It would be great if the store manager could go with me..." Nora said regretfully.
The grandma Nora mentioned died last winter.
The old lady was very kind when she was alive and liked to cook porridge for the street children around her. Nora was one of the street children who had been given alms.
Now that the old man's death anniversary is approaching, Nora wants to pay homage to him, which is what he should do.
Ron's heart softened upon hearing this, and he sighed, "Sorry, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in a short time. When I get back, you can take me to see her old man."
"Yeah!" Nora nodded vigorously.
Although the two major schools have already responded, he will talk to the two principals about cooperation tomorrow.
But even if the matter is resolved within a few days and we rush back to Chaos City immediately, it will still be more than ten days later.
As for using the space teleportation array to go back?
We didn't use the teleportation array when we came to Imperial Capital before. How could we wait until everything is over and spend a huge amount of Elemental Stone energy to run the teleportation array?
Even if Ron thought it was a very meaningful thing to accompany Nora to meet the old man, it would not be possible for him to do so.
"If you go to pay homage to grandma, remember to tell the patrol team in advance that you don't want to go alone and ask Yuna to accompany you." Ron warned seriously.
Nora nodded obediently. "I understand."
"Then you can continue reading, I have a visitor here."
"Hmm."
Ron took back his thoughts and turned to look at the extra recliner next to him. Watching Soven sit down, he couldn't help but ask, "What? Why don't you stay with Penny for a while?"
"Hehe." Soven raised his chin proudly, "Then Xiaonizi is still lying on the bed sleeping."
"It seems like it's going well?"
"That's not nonsense." Soven rolled his eyes, "If it weren't for your face, I guess I would have defeated her on Royal Jungle's horseback yesterday!"
"It's not my fault that you are handsome." Ron was speechless for a while. "And you have a lot of tricks up your sleeve?"
"What's the point on horseback?" Soven said with a disdainful smile as if you had never seen the world before, "In the carriage, on the tree, on the roof, in the closet of the girl's boudoir, any place is my battlefield!"
"You are awesome, I would like to call you the King of Fields." Ron took a cup of Needle Leaf tea from the side, "Here, let's make up for it, I guess you wasted a lot of bullets yesterday."
"You are looking down on me? I am not just saying that I have enough ammunition." Soven said this, but he still took the tea cup and drank it in one gulp, which gave him the feeling of strong liquor.
The two chatted for a while, and Soven also brought a fishing rod this time and leisurely fished with Ron.
"I thought you were just spending time with others, but I didn't expect there was such a big move behind the scenes." Soven took out a piece of fish from the hot pot and made a smacking sound while chewing it.
"I didn't do this big thing. It's just that some people couldn't bear to see how pitiful a victim I was, so they punished evil and promoted good, driven by a sense of justice."
"If those people heard what you said, they would probably tear your mouth apart."
"Haha, by that time I had already pushed their heads into this hot pot."
"Oh, if you make this choice, what will you do with that dear Miss Irene? She is your first wife after all."
"This matter won't really affect her. At most, she will be left indifferent for a while." Ron shook his head, "I can't really marry her, right? As long as she is still Mia's etiquette teacher, there will be no problem in living a normal life."
"What a cruel man. Wouldn't it be better to be a little more philanthropic like me?"
"That's promiscuity on your part."
"Every girl and I truly love each other, please don't taint others' innocence!"
"I remember you said that the night before yesterday, you had a group exercise with several girls. Is it possible that you have multiple hearts? Can you truly love each other with so many girls at the same time?"
"Damn! How can you be more serious about this kind of thing! When it comes to things between men and women, happiness is the most important thing."
"I beg to differ."
"Baby bird."
"Scumbag."
"Baby bird."
"Scumbag."
A morning passed without Soven catching a single fish. Finally, he impatiently packed up his fishing rods and deck chairs and said goodbye to Ron.
"You owe me a fish, don't forget it."
"You are breaking the rules." Soven snatched another cup of Needle Leaf tea before leaving, "I'd better go find my little Penny."
"Now I owe two."
"I know, I know, I'll do it again next time!"
Soven continues to be cool.
Not long after, a figure wearing a dark red robe slowly walked from the shore.
His face was expressionless and his expression was a little gloomy.
Ron caught a glimpse of the other party's figure out of the corner of his eye, holding the fishing rod leisurely with a relaxed smile on his lips.
When this middle-aged man, whom he had met several times before, came to Ron's side, the fishing rod in Ron's hand began to tremble violently.
Ron firmly held the fishing rod that completed the moon arc and said with an apologetic tone:
"Sorry, the fish is hooked, please wait a moment."
Diary of Pujie: There is a big boss in the group who has the word "flowers" in his pen name. For a long time, he can't hit 4,000 words a day. No matter how much the group friends encourage, he is unwilling to add more words, and he is as stable as an old dog. So later, "flowers" became a proprietary quantifier. For example, I am still short of 1.5 flowers.
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