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Catherine was startled by Freya, but she tried to calm herself down. The feeling of the cloth wrapped tightly around her hands made her feel uncomfortable, but she didn't say anything. She just nodded and said, "Of course, Sister Freya, you are my friend and my sister." She gently broke free from Freya's hand, turned around, put the box in her hand on the shelf by the wall, and took out a gift from inside.

"There is a course in astrology at Goletia College, which uses a lot of instruments for observing the starry sky. When I saw this thing, I thought you would like it." Catherine said softly, taking out the telescope that she had asked Goletia's merchant to order from the dwarves, and handed it to her from under the black curtain.

"This is a small instrument. Although it can't compare with large instruments, it can also see very far away. I know you like to look into the distance from the top of the tower." Catherine sympathized with this cousin who could not step out of the White Tower in her entire life. She always wanted to do something for her and gave her some advice.

"I have an astrology class every Thursday afternoon, on the tallest tower of Goletia. You can use this to look over there. If someone is waving in your direction, it must be me. How about we just treat it as a meeting?" Catherine said sincerely, looking at the black curtain in front of her.

But Freya didn't respond. She just rubbed the strange new prop in her hand carefully. After a long time, she asked with a sigh, "You can see so far... Then, you should be able to see the palace clearly, right? That's closer, maybe I can see my mother."

Catherine was startled.

"Actually, I ran down from the rooftop when I saw your carriage coming." Freya said to herself, "I saw your carriage coming from the direction of the palace..."

Catherine clenched her fists when she heard that, her nails digging into her flesh with nervousness.

"Have you seen my mother, Catherine?" Freya finally asked the question that made Catherine feel the most pressured, "Did she ask you to convey anything to me?" The girl's tone contained a hint of anticipation.

"...Of course, of course." Catherine was thankful that there was still a layer of black gauze between them, so Freya couldn't see her nervous expression, and her clumsy lie was not so easy to expose. "It's very cold this winter, and Auntie wants you to keep warm and not sit on the windowsill to enjoy the breeze all the time... and don't always indulge in reading, which will hurt your eyes. You can have some entertainment, such as music..."

Her eyes wandered towards the walls of books in the tower, trying to compile the concerns that didn't exist at all.

"Yes! I remember it!" Freya nodded solemnly, her tone cheerful. "I will pray for my mother during Hanukkah!" Even though Catherine couldn't see it, she knew that her cousin's face must be full of sweet smiles at this moment, and she felt bitter in her heart.

"Come with me to the top of the tower, Catherine. It's much brighter there. I want to show you my new experiment. I have discovered many interesting things..." Freya finally walked through the curtain, came in front of Catherine, took her hand and walked towards the spiral stairs.

Catherine let her pull her forward, but after taking two steps, Freya stopped again. Her eyes turned to the gift box that Catherine brought, and she did not move.

"...Sister Freya?" Catherine called her cautiously. She followed Freya's gaze and her heart skipped a beat, realizing that she seemed to have done something wrong again.

"...Two more?" There was no smile in Freya's voice. "I said there is no need for double gifts, Catherine, why do you always disobey me?" Her tone gradually became colder, and she became the way Catherine remembered her.

"But, but I think you can all..." Catherine looked at Freya's back, trying to explain.

However, the other party seemed to have touched some angry switch. Freya suddenly took a few steps forward, grabbed another brand new telescope in the box, raised it high, and threw it hard to the ground. The precision instrument could not withstand such a beating. The lens broke out of the long tube and hit the ground and shattered. The blind old woman in the distance just tilted her ear when she heard the sound, and was not surprised by the saint's behavior.

"Sister Freya, please don't be like this, I just hope..." Catherine tried to comfort her hysterical cousin, and a feeling of powerlessness filled her heart.

"Get out! Get out!!!" However, the other party did not give her the chance to speak. She lifted layer after layer of black veil and rushed upstairs, leaving Catherine alone there.

The black veil fluttered again, and Catherine turned back in a trance. It was the blind old woman, who slowly groped her way towards the wall. She had heard the saint's instructions, and came over dutifully to open the door for Catherine and asked her to leave.

Catherine sighed, walked to the door, and told the woman before leaving, "Please tell the Saint that I will come to see her next time."

The woman rolled her ears without saying anything. Catherine stopped talking, tightened her cloak, and left the Shining Moon Tower with its eerie atmosphere.

……

The snow in Shelley Town finally stopped today. As the festival is approaching, the workers of the Shelley Brewery have all taken a day off, but from a distance, white smoke can still be seen coming out of the chimney of one of the workshops.

"Lilith, is this really okay?" Lilith's former classmate, now a winemaking apprentice, asked with a frown.

The blonde girl stood on a stool, stirring the wooden barrel with a huge spatula to exhaust the fermenting mash inside. The temperature in the house was extremely high due to the constant fire. Lilith was sweating profusely. Hearing this, she glared at him fiercely, "Stop talking nonsense, Peggy!" She stuffed the big spatula into her childhood friend's hand, "It's your turn!"

The sturdy girl took over the baton from her host with a bitter face, "You're wasting food like this. When Madam Mary scolds you, can you please not say that I helped you?"

“Don’t worry about that.” Lilith waved her hand domineeringly, and she had the same momentum as when she led everyone to play war games before. “I am doing this to generate income for the brewery. If this distilled liquor is successful, we will be the most powerful brewery in the Gaia Empire, and we can sell it all over the country.” The shelf life of distilled liquor is much longer than those fermented beers.

When Lilith returned home this time, she found out that thunderstorms were very frequent this year. Not long after she left, the forest in Shelley Town experienced a wildfire. Most of the wild shelley fruits that they relied on to make wine were burned by the wildfire. It is foreseeable that the output next year will drop sharply. Because of this, everyone was even a little worried about celebrating Hanukkah.

"Didn't you use your magic to create new Shelley Fruits to fill the gap?" Peggy stirred the steamed grains, not understanding why Lilith would go through all this trouble.

"Innovation, innovation, do you understand?" Lilith said to her friend with disappointment, "Don't you want to go on a blind date so soon, Peggy? If you learn this, you will be the technical consultant in the factory in the future. Those guys will have to rely on your skills to make a living. What do you think?" There were no female apprentices in the winery before. Peggy was specially recruited after Lilith returned home this time.

"It sounds good... but..." Peggy looked at her friend in front of her suspiciously. Lilith had never cared about the winery before, but now she suddenly started a new way of brewing. She felt that - "it didn't seem very reliable."

"Huh? Are you kidding me?" Lilith put her hands on her hips and said, "There is no more reliable winemaker than me."

Fortunately, in her previous life, her mother always made some koji and homemade sweet rice wine for her to drink with eggnog. She had seen a lot and knew some general steps. After she successfully made the koji these days, she started steaming grains and fermenting them without stopping. Although she had never made distilled liquor, she still understood the basic principles. It was just heating and then cooling.

Lilith dreamed of becoming the number one winemaker in the country and couldn't help but chuckle. As for money, no matter how much you make, it's never too much. She felt uncomfortable spending the Friar family's money all the time and she still had to earn it on her own.

"Bang!" Someone rashly pushed open the front door of the workshop.

"Close the door, close the door." Lilith thought it was Bella calling her to eat, so she shouted a few times hurriedly to keep the temperature in the house.

"Lilith Flair." A strange voice suddenly sounded. It was rare for Lilith to be called by her full name. She turned around in confusion and saw a strange man in a black robe standing at the door. With his balding head, he looked like a giant vulture.

"——You are under arrest, please follow me."