Chapter 1578: Jasmine Opera Troupe

"Yes." The angel nodded with a smile.

"May I ask, why give me this gift? It's not that I am unwilling to accept your gift, but what is the price of this gift?" Xia De asked suspiciously. The angel looked at him and the cat in his arms:

"There is no price, just to thank you for sacrificing yourself to save the earth. You had many choices, but you chose the most difficult path."

"This is what I should do."

Xia De then reached out and held the feather. The Lady of the Lake explained again:

"Besides the divine characteristics, the power it contains can give you three chances to separate two bonded souls. As a wise man who passed the test, you came to seek the answer from me, but I know the answer yet cannot tell you, so please take this, it will help you."

"Please allow me to express my gratitude again."

Xia De bowed in thanks. The white-robed lady holding the staff shook her head slightly:

"Next, you will face more difficult tests. I hope wisdom guides you to find the ending most suitable for you."

After returning to To Bei Si Ke, because of the rushing back and forth, it was already noon that day, but Xia De still didn't rest. After returning from Huntington City, he took Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya and rushed to Feather Pen Street without stopping, but unfortunately, Duo Luo Qian wasn't here, and Xia De made a wasted trip.

Fortunately, the landlady knew Duo Luo Qian's whereabouts. The woman wearing a wig informed Xia De that Duo Luo Qian had gone to her actor friend in the North City. Xia De had been there with Lei Lei Qianya last night, so he knew what place this referred to.

However, just as Xia De was about to bid farewell to the landlady at the door of the apartment, the fat woman with brown eyes called Xia De: "Mr. Han Mi Er Dun, please allow me to call you that."

She grabbed the door frame, as if hesitating, but finally said:

"You are very famous in To Bei Si Ke, very famous. Those rumors about you and Duchess Jia Lin Na, and the rumors about you and Princess Lei Lei Qianya after the Ring City Equestrian Competition... Duo Luo Qian is a good girl..."

Although the tone was hesitant, the brown eyes looking at Xia De were very powerful.

Xia De immediately understood what the other party wanted to say to him. He was very happy that Duo Luo Qian's landlady cared about her just as she had said: "Please rest assured, I will not hurt Duo Luo Qian."

He hugged the cat with a stinking face and guaranteed, Xiao Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya was unhappy at this time, partly because Xia De had taken her out for the whole morning today, and partly because it was clearly lunch time, but he didn't mean to go eat.

"I know what you are worried about. Yes, those lace news about me are indeed a bit... um, hard to describe." He laughed at himself, and then said to the landlady:

"But I have never deceived Duo Luo Qian, and that writer lady can also distinguish for herself whether I am lying. If I were to swear in the name of 【Mr. Dawn】 that I am not lying, it would be too formal. Then let's swear in the name of this cat. If I hurt Duo Luo Qian, let Xiao Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya leave me."

"Meow~"

Hearing her name, the cat meowed, and a gentle smile appeared on the landlady's face:

"Mr. Han Mi Er Dun, you don't have to be too serious. It's just that I have known Lu Hui Sha for too long, and as someone who has been through it, I feel I have an obligation to remind her of some things. To be honest, if you don't care about those rumors, just looking at your performance when talking to you, you are absolutely an outstanding..." Before she finished speaking, a young man wearing a brown leather jacket and blue-gray work pants, wearing a black hat, walked toward the two at the door of the apartment.

It wasn't that Xia De had encountered an assassination again, nor was the other party trying to rob him, but took out two pieces of paper and handed them to them respectively: "The Pantanal region must be ours! The glory of De La Rui Ang cannot be insulted!"

He said to the two very seriously, and then continued to walk toward other passersby on the road.

Those were two leaflets printed with ink. The smell of ink was heavy, but the layout was very professional. In addition to the printed borders and text, there was a hand-drawn De La Rui Ang coat of arms on the page. It was hard to imagine how much work this took.

As for the content of the leaflet, it was calling on citizens to boycott Ka Sen Li Ke goods and stand up to spit on those Ka Sen Li Ke cultures to support the border and trade negotiations regarding the Pantanal region.

Seeing Xia De looking at the leaflet in surprise, the landlady, who was about forty, explained to him:

"You young people probably haven't seen this kind of situation. When I was your age, Ka Sen Li Ke and De La Rui Ang weren't as peaceful as they are now. It's that time again—leaflets, public speeches, newspaper condemnations. If you are lucky, you might even be able to see demonstrations on Silver Cross Avenue."

She shook her head and sighed, looking at the leaflet in her hand, as if recalling the past: "It's been peaceful for 20 years, I almost forgot about these things."

"Was that person from City Hall just now?"

Xia De asked in a low voice, and the landlady shook her head:

"Of course not, probably students from the university district. Oh, Mr. Han Mi Er Dun, this is not something that can be talked about publicly. We don't want to bring trouble to ourselves. After the girls renting my rooms come back tonight, I have to talk to them and tell them not to get involved in these things." She bid farewell to Xia De and then closed the door.

Xia De hugged the cat and took the paper in his hand, preparing to leave, but as soon as he turned around, he saw the young man who had given him the leaflet twenty steps away, saying something to other passersby. And further away, on the bustling Feather Pen Street, between the windows where clothes were dried, flower pots were placed, and sundries were placed on both sides, there were other people doing the same thing in the crowd. The patrolling police officers resting under the gas street lamps at the intersection seemed not to see this scene.

The spring noon sunlight was blocked by thin fog, but it still felt warm on the body.

Although he had long known from different channels what the negotiations in the Green Lake region meant, the moment he turned around and saw this scene, the outsider truly felt that the wheels of the era were turning again.

He saw the carriage driving forward quickly, but he didn't know what he could actually do.

Next, Xia De took a carriage from Feather Pen Street to Saint Song Square in the North City, then got off at the door of the Three Cats Hotel, and walked more than a hundred meters, arriving at the door of the theater from last night again. However, at noon, there was no performance going on in the theater, and the ticket seller Xia De had seen with Lei Lei Qianya last night was yawning at this time, wiping the table at the door.

He looked like he had just woken up and was confused. Seeing Xia De walk over, the young ticket seller said to him: "Sir, the afternoon performance starts at two-thirty, and the actors also need to eat lunch and rest."

"Meow~"

Xiao Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya also wanted to eat lunch and rest.

"I'm not here to watch the performance, I'm here to find someone." Xia De said, worried that the other party wouldn't let him in. "Find someone?"

The young man holding a rag looked him up and down:

"You look familiar... Forget it, you can find someone, but the ticket money must be paid, 4 pence. May I ask if you need change?" "But I'm not here to watch the performance."

"But you have to pay the ticket money to enter."

The young man insisted, but the action of wiping the table didn't stop:

"Otherwise, if I let anyone in who comes to find someone, can the theater still operate?"

What he said was indeed very reasonable. It was indeed wrong to let anyone in arbitrarily. But the problem was, although Xia De didn't care about 4 pence, he wasn't willing to spend money unjustly:

"I am a friend of Miss Duo Luo Qian·Lu Yi Sha, why don't you go call her? Or, I'll climb over the wall to find her myself, and then let your theater supervisor reprimand you?"

He put forward his suggestion, and the ticket seller hesitated immediately, really worried that the other party was a friend of one of the main sponsors of the theater.

While he was hesitating, Xiao Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya, who was already fed up, darted out of Xia De's arms and entered the theater through the door gap before he could react.

Xia De immediately wanted to chase after her, but stopped after thinking about it. Sure enough, after a while, Duo Luo Qian came out holding the cat that seemed to have been wronged. Today, the writer lady was wearing a black gauze skirt, and a white belt was also pinned with a knitted fake flower on the left side. The red butterfly pendant in the fake flower was the Sage-level Relic they had given them.

"Xia De, did you forget to feed the cat? Look at it like this."

The blonde girl asked, and the pitiful cat immediately meowed, then struggled out of her arms and jumped onto the table, signaling Xia De to hold it.

Since Duo Luo Qian had come out, Xia De naturally didn't have to pay for a ticket to get in. Duo Luo Qian heard that Xia De and Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya hadn't eaten lunch yet

The blonde girl asked, and the pitiful cat immediately meowed, then broke free from her arms and jumped onto the table, signaling Xia De to hold it.

Since Dorothy had come out, Xia De naturally didn't need to pay for a ticket to get in. Dorothy heard that Xia De and Mia hadn't eaten lunch yet, so she planned to go with them to see her friends in the theater, and then take them to the Three Cats Hotel for lunch.

"I have known the members of the Jasmine Theater Troupe for three or four years. Thinking about it now, it's really interesting; their performances have been a great help to my writing."

Dorothy said with a smile, leading Xia De through the now-empty open-air auditorium, through the low wall that separated the auditorium from the backstage, and into the courtyard behind.

To the left of the open-air backstage was a white low building for the use of the troupe members, exactly the same as the one behind the auditorium. At this time, three people were standing scattered in the courtyard, repairing stage facilities, and from the unclosed door, the sound of intense conversation came out:

"Absolutely not. Why should we give up performing plays and operas from Kesenrike? Last night's 'The Clock Tower Lovers' was also an ancient folk fairy tale from Kesenrike, but the audience didn't say anything."

This was a woman's voice.

"Marian, we are not trying to prevent the audience from saying anything, but to prevent... We all want the troupe to survive, and some things are necessary. I know you advocate artistic freedom, but in this day and age, we cannot cause trouble for ourselves. It's just for the last month or two, until the negotiations in the Green Lake area have a result..."

This was a man's voice, but his words were not finished before they stopped because of Xia De and Dorothy entering the door.