Chapter 135 Letter and Painting (Part 2)
Andrei and Jiangyou divided the work and cooperated with each other. They locked the door, put the food on the table, and each took out the evidence and paper and pen that they had discovered separately today, and started tonight's script-killing...ah, no, it was a discussion of the case.
Andre was the first to draw a long line on the white paper, and then quickly marked the time at the beginning and end.
"Mi Funa was murdered in the capital on the third day of the last spring month of the year 985 of the Tower Calendar. After Mi You received the news, he held a funeral for his mother and returned to the Mage Tower outside the capital to bid farewell to his mentor, Maybury. Maybury persuaded him to attend the Magic Academy."
Andrei pulled out a copy of his student file. The first page was a close-up portrait of Mi You. The girl had a gloomy expression, black hair and dark eyes, her drooping brows obscured by long bangs. She looked extremely insecure. Her face was round and a bit chubby, her long black hair almost obscuring half of it, and her lips were so tightly pursed that they were almost a dull straight line.
This was the first time that Jiangyou really saw what Miyou looked like, and the first time he matched her appearance with those words.
Mi You entered the Magic Academy on the first day of the first month of autumn in the year 985 of the Tower Calendar. After all, the first day of the first month of autumn was the Magic Academy's standard admission date, and it had never been an exception for any student in all those years. Her age was registered as twenty in her student records. Mi You stayed at the academy for six months, but on the twelfth day of the last month of winter, she submitted a scribbled, error-riddled exam. She completed her withdrawal procedures on the first day of the first month of spring in the year 986 and left the Royal Magic Academy with her luggage.
"She didn't return to Eston West City until the early spring of 988. In other words, she disappeared for two full years before returning to this city."
Jiang You took out the letters and paintings she had received from Mrs. Amanda.
The twelve letters are of varying lengths. As Mrs. Amanda said, they are all Mi You's thoughts and ideas written casually during his travels. The words are full of free but lonely thoughts and emotions - Mi You seems to want to find someone to share his happiness, but does not necessarily want a response from the other person.
——So, she sent these letters and paintings to Mrs. Amanda, because this bookstore owner could barely be considered Mi You's friend and listener, but she was not Mi You's elder or relative, and would not offer any "opinions" or "suggestions" on her life.
The handwriting on the letter was elegant, much neater than the writing on the diary that Jiangyou had found before, which was suspected to be Mi You's "suicide note", but the two had a high degree of similarity in penmanship, writing style and curves, and the smell of emotional energy exuding between the brush and ink was also very similar. It can basically be determined that they were written by the same person.
Takumi Yu arranged the letters according to the time they were sent, and Andrei wrote down the dates and Mi Yu's location at the time.
In two years, Mi You traveled across most of the Principality of Huntington, leaving behind seven watercolors along the way. The first city she stopped in after leaving the academy to write a letter was Port Melori.
The painting she enclosed in her first letter depicted a busy port, workers loading cargo onto ships. Under a blue sky and white clouds, distant ships' tall masts rose, and waves surged against the embankment...
The entire watercolor painting is in a typical Impressionist style. The characters in the painting are all painted with a few strokes. However, with only a few blocks of color, the faces are hazy and unclear, but people can accurately imagine the other person's figure and movements.
The scenes depicted in the paintings are filled with vivid natural light and vibrant colors, radiating a vibrant and surging vitality. Gazing at the paintings, Jiang Youdu seems to be able to smell the salty seaside air through the paper, hear the dock workers' "Hey, Hey!" calls, and feel the refreshing and comfortable sea breeze...
"Mi You is really talented in painting!" Jiang You couldn't help but sigh, "She really shouldn't study magic, she should go to art school for further studies."
This light and shadow, this color, if Mi You has the opportunity to work hard in this area, maybe he can become the Monet of this world!
Andre began to read Mi You's first letter carefully. The content of this letter was very ordinary. It recorded Mi You's experience of traveling south to Melori City after leaving the magic academy. She focused on describing her excitement when she saw the sea for the first time in her life.
[…My mother is from a country on the other side of the ocean. She often described to me the hardships she experienced while crossing the ocean, as well as the horror and intimidation the ocean held in her mind… She said that she had seen more than once people dying of illness in the cabin being thrown overboard by sailors and falling into the deep, dark ocean. That was an unforgettable nightmare for her.
But before this, I had never seen the sea. I was born in the Duchy of Huntington, and as far back as I could remember, I had already lived in that unremarkable brewing workshop in the west city of Eston. It wasn't until my mother sent me to Mentor Maybury's magic tower that I left the city that had bound me for the first time.
I hated Eston West City; it locked my future. I also hated the capital and the Magic Academy, because they were my prisons. But today, when I saw the sea, my heart calmed down.
The ocean I saw wasn't the all-consuming, terrifying entity my mother had described, nor was it the unpredictable evil overlord. I saw gentle waves crashing against the embankment, the rustling sound of the waves so beautiful...
I smell the fragrance of freedom in the sea breeze, I feel the infinite possibilities of destiny slowly unfolding before me, I see the people here working hard with their hands and feet in exchange for coins... Even if people don't know magic, they can still move goods, conquer the sea, and catch the overlord of the sea. Magic is not the only answer to everything.
I painted a few pictures at the pier, and the two most complete ones were bought by a passing lady, which helped me to finance my trip.
I have enclosed a draft with this letter. My good friend, I hope you can also see the beautiful scenery of the seaside.
I've decided to stay in Melori for a while; the harbor here really attracts me. Next, I might follow the coastline south or east, perhaps retracing my mother's path and visiting her hometown. You know, I've never understood my mother and her overly high expectations of me...
The world she saw was so different from the world I saw, just like the sight of the ocean only filled her with fear, while I, seeing it, could not help but leap with joy and longing. Our differences had existed from the beginning, irreconcilable; it was just that I had always wronged myself, trying hard to twist my soul to fit the predetermined template in her mind...
Perhaps, I can find the answer I have been looking for in this journey. 】
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