The beauty of Haiyinsi City lies in the integration of water and buildings.

Most of the buildings here are Baroque style, and all buildings have a strong artistic atmosphere. Under the clear water and blue sky, the ancient stone walls are slightly yellow, just like the parchment paper with yellowed words in the library. No matter where you go, you can always see beautiful scrolls from different angles.

There are some piers that allow ships to dock temporarily in the water market in Haiyinsi City. We took a small boat to dock at a pier. Angelo pulled Leah off the boat first. The two children ran in the front, and Kong Zhen chased behind the two children, and greeted them slowly.

Most of the northwest of Haiyinsi City belongs to civilian areas, and various workshops can be found nearby.

Kong Zhen told me that Fred and Singer spent all their savings to buy a very ordinary house with a courtyard in a civilian area, and used the money they saved to open a leather shop. However, Haiyinsi City is very hot all year round, and no one likes to wear leather clothes. Opening leather shops here mainly involves making some furniture, protective gear, luggage, etc. Therefore, in Haiyinsi City, the leather shop business is not as popular as in northern cities.

The boatman took the silver coins from Helena, bowed deeply to Helena, and shook the oar to row the boat away.

Ying Li, Helena, and Becki and I followed Kong Zhen and walked slowly along the bluestone road. The buildings here seemed much cleaner, at least not that old. There were even traces of re-flipped overturns in some places. There were many small workshops on both sides of the street. There were only a pedestrian stone street at the entrance of these workshops that could accommodate three people in parallel. There was a wide waterway in the center, and the blue water was particularly quiet in the city.

There are many handicraft workshops in this area. Some civilian women set wooden tables on the street outside the workshop, facing oysters that look like hills. Women hold a small shell knife in their hands, pry the oysters quickly open them, and then take out the oysters inside and throw them into a basin. It is said that some of the peeled oysters are not for themselves, but sent to the market. Many nobles like to eat lemon oysters but do not like to peel them, so they will buy these peeled oyster meat on the market. Many women from civilian families are also happy to make some money to subsidize their household income.

Uncle Fred's leather shop is at the seventeenth house on this street. Angelo led Lea all the way over and ran to the shop with a leather hanging on the plaque at the door. There was also a wooden table at the door. A woman with a thick waist as strong as a bucket was cutting oysters quickly with a knife. She didn't even raise her head. She said in a sarcastic tone to Angelo and Lea standing at the door of the shop: "Look at who is here, who patted her breasts last time. Did she say no again? Why did she run over again in half a month?"

His sharp eyes stared at Angelo, and there was a strange sharpness.

Angelo, however, pressed against the wall, pursed her lips, stood there without saying anything, her face full of stubbornness.

At this time, I didn't expect that Lea behind Angelo would stand up bravely. She blinked her naive big eyes and ran to the wooden table. Her chin could be carried on the table on the wooden table. Then the little girl said to the woman: "Aunt Marian, you peel a lot of oysters? Lea helps you peel the oysters!"

Aunt Marian heard Leah's voice, her eyes became softer, and some smiles squeezed out from her fleshy face and praised Leah:

"Oh, my little Liya, you are so good at talking. Auntie doesn't need your help. Come in and play with Brother Garcia. Auntie will cook oyster soup for you for dinner."

Angelo was so angry that he stood in the corner and said stubbornly:

"I don't want to come. It was Liya who pulled me to come, and there is also..."

Before he could finish speaking, Aunt Marian's eyebrows were about to stand up.

"Angelo, Riya, come in quickly." A familiar voice came from the room. Although the voice was a little hoarse, I could hear that it was Sister Singer's voice at once.

A familiar figure walked out of the room, wearing a clean linen skirt. She pulled Angelo to the side, leaned down and touched Angelo's head, then pulled Angelo with one hand and Lea with the other, and walked into the room, saying as she walked: "Angelo seems to have grown taller again, and these pants are a little short. Come here and take these pants over and try."

Angelo, who has a stubborn personality, quickly refused and said, "Aunt Singer, you can still wear these pants."

Singh took him a pair of smaller pants and said to him: "Go and change it quickly, I will tell her the other side of Kuman."

Little Liya followed Angelo, holding her hands as thin as a stinging pole above her head, holding a box of canned lunch meat that was only half left. She struggled to cushion her feet, her eyes looked very cute, but she was so stubborn, as if Singer would keep holding it like this if he didn't take it over.

"Little Liya, what is this?" Singer took the canned box and saw that there was half a box of lunch meat left in the box, so he asked Liya.

When Riya saw Singer take the canned box, she looked extremely happy. She quickly said, "Aunt Singer, this is a box of canned lunch meat, which Angelo and I have saved for you."

Singer shook the canned lunch meat in his hand and asked the little girl with a puzzled look on his face, "Liya, where did you come from?"

"It was given to us by Princess Yingli." Lea and Angelo answered in unison.

"Princess Yingli?" Singer repeated in confusion.

The two children began to argue and explain: "Yes! Princess Yingli and Young Master Jijia come to my house..."

Kongma stood behind me, and she gently pushed me and let me walk into this house.

The woman at the door at the wooden table saw us and was about to ask Kong Zhen, then glanced at Ying Li and me, and then she was so scared that she immediately closed her mouth.

"Sister Singer..." I followed Angelo and Lea's footsteps and walked into this house. This house was considered a house for ordinary civilian families in Haiyinsi. It was obviously much better than the house in Kongzhen. There was a small courtyard inside, and the side facing the street seemed to be a store.

My voice fell into Sister Singer's ears. She suddenly turned around and saw me standing at the door, with bright colors in her eyes.

"Gija, it's really you. You've... grown so tall. Have you really become a magician?" She said, walking over and seeing that I was almost as tall as her, looking at me with great care in her eyes.

“…”

I was really embarrassed when I talked about my height as soon as I met. I put a magic badge on my chest and showed it to her.

Her eyes were filled with relief and excitement. She grabbed my shoulders with both hands, almost holding me in her arms, and said to me: "How have you been here in the past few years? I occasionally think of that trip, and I always feel like something happened yesterday."

Sister Singer is not that young, with crow's feet showing the corners of her eyes. Her hands look a little rough and there are a layer of calluses. It is probably what she has been doing rough work over the years, but she is in good spirits.

I asked Sister Singer, "Sister Singer, where is Uncle Fred? How are you doing?"

"He is still the same. You know that he is a cobbler. He opens a leather shop here, and can eat a bite with his skills." Sister Singer wiped his red eyes and said as he calmed his excitement. Then he looked at Ying Li, Helena and Becky behind me and asked, "Look at me, I forgot everything when I see you. Are these ladies your companions?"

At this moment, I hesitated for a moment because I was thinking about how to introduce them. Because of the magic of soul link contracts, the three of them had become one. After Ying Li married me, Helena and Becky also became my wives, so I said to Sister Singer:

"This is Ying Li, Helena, Becky, they are all my wives, Sister Singer, I got married last year!"

Sister Singer opened her eyes wide. I could tell from Sister Singer's eyes that she could see that Ying Lizhun had a close relationship with me, but she was a little surprised that they had all married me. She stretched out her finger and calculated, and said, "Let me think about it, last autumn... it seems that you are going to attend the chéngrén ceremony..."

"It was the wedding that was held that night after the chéngrén festival," I explained.

Sister Singer was so shocked that she couldn't stop talking. She felt that she was a little out of control and wanted to cover her with her hands, but she couldn't help but ask me:

"Did you have the night of the chéngrén festival? You can't wait! They are your brides? Then where are you living now?"

I said to her: "I live in Didu now, and I have lived in a place called El City in the north a few years ago!"

Sister Singer brought us into the yard. The courtyard was clean and tidy. She asked us to sit on the wooden chairs in the yard and asked me while making tea for us:

"Have you ever met Chig and Katerina on Didu? I know Katerina is waiting for you all the time."

I knew Sister Singer would ask these questions, and I was not going to hide it, so I said straightforwardly:

"Well, I married Chigh at last year's chéngrén ceremony! Katerina has been with me recently."

“…”

At this moment, Sister Singer was almost suffocating, and she stared at me in disbelief.

...

The water in the cooked skin was still emitting hot water vapor, and the charcoal fire under the cooked skin was almost burned out. Some cooked skins were dried on the wooden rack next to it. The workshop was filled with a sour smell of rotten animal fur, and some coarse salt was piled up in the corner of the wall. Some air-dried animal skins were piled on the wooden rack at the door. All the space in the narrow room was basically covered.

Uncle Fred sat on a small wooden chair with his belly outstretched, and his head was down and dozed, and his snoring was intermittent. He also held a pair of tongs in one hand, an iron hook on his other hand, a pair of cowhide boots on his feet, and a naked upper body, only a leather apron. His face was covered with sweat and oil stains. His face, which was squinting, was covered with fatigue, and his sideburns were already a little white.

Singer walked into the workshop, first took away the hook and tongs on Uncle Fred's hand, and called his name lightly: "Fred, see who is here."

At this time, Uncle Fred slowly woke up from his sleep. He opened his eyes, his eyes covered with red bloodshots. Seeing Singer holding a towel to wipe his face, he asked, "Are you ready to eat?"

Sister Singer leaned against the side, exposed my body, and said to Uncle Fred, "It's Jijia here."

Uncle Fred opened his mouth wide, and he pushed Singer away, stood up from the small wooden chair, looking at me standing behind Singer, his eyes suddenly changed from chaos to clear, and he smiled excitedly: "Jijia, it's you here, let me see, oh, I've grown a lot, my appearance has changed a lot. I remember that you were so tall at the time in the caravan. Now you are wearing decent clothes. If you walk on the street, how can you recognize you!"

Uncle Fred looked at me carefully, and he wiped his hands hard on his leather apron and pinched my shoulders hard.

Uncle Fred's face was covered with wrinkles, and even his teeth became loose when he smiled. I couldn't help but sigh and said, "Uncle Fred, you are old."

Uncle Fred just said 'hey' and hugged me, walking out and said, "Hurry, let's go to the yard to sit. This studio is so choking."

We all sat in the yard, Ying Li, Helena, Becky, Kong Zhen and her two children, as well as Uncle Fred and her other two wives and three children, Sister Singer is the third wife of Uncle Fred. The woman we saw before at the door of the yard was his eldest wife.

I said to Uncle Fred, "This time I came to Haiyinsi to accompany Yingli to a funeral. I can only make a short stop in Haiyinsi City. Sister Singer, do you want to go back to Didu City with me? You and Kongzhen, Uncle Fred and this family, the living environment there will be better than here. I have also mentioned this to Kongzhen. You can come to Didu to help me, and wait for me to return to Haiyinsi City again. If you are willing to go to Didu, you must go with us."

"Of course, if you want to stay with Haiyinsi, I happen to have some resources in my hand to help you open a magic store or a grocery store specializing in imported products from the Orc Tribe. Of course, you can do it. I have some spare money now, just think it's my venture capital."

"Or, have you ever thought about returning to the North? I know that Uncle Fred's hometown is in Sloyd City, and it seems that he offended a nobleman there. If he goes back to the North, I will help you settle this matter. We can ask the nobleman to sit down and talk. I will meet some very energetic friends in Sloyd City. If they come forward to help us, there should be no problem."

Hearing me say these words, Uncle Fred fell into deep thought. He took a sip of the cigarette hard, held the pipe in his hand, and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Chapter completed!