After returning home that night, although Xia De was very tired, he went to Quill Street, found Dorothy, and asked her to go out for supper. Dorothy saw that Shade had a lot to say, so she put on her lady's coat to keep out the cold and followed.
There is a restaurant on Quill Pen Avenue that is about to close. They chose a location against the wall, and the gas lamp at the lotus leaf mouth is on the wall above the table. Xia De ordered food for the two of them and the cat, and then said sadly:
"Don't wear the Red Butterfly Pendant any more, and tell Rezia not to wear it either."
"Why?"
asked the blonde girl curiously.
"Because it's unlucky."
While waiting for the food, Xia De briefly talked about the story that lasted from the Fifth Era to the present. After hearing this, Dorothy covered her mouth, her eye circles were reddish, and she was relieved until the waiter in the restaurant brought fried shrimp **** and butter bread:
"This story is really...why is there such a thing, they are clearly sisters who promised to be together forever."
"This is Grace and Helen's own choice, we are just bystanders. Therefore, don't wear the red butterfly pendant."
Xia De stuck a shrimp ball with a fork, and looked at the female writer opposite him under the gas lamp:
"Your ending must be better than this. I swear."
After finishing speaking, he took the food off the fork and handed it to the cat who had been stuffy in the box for a day. The cat picked up the warm food with its two front paws and looked at Shad with some concern. It also saw that Xia De was in a bad mood.
"you are tired?"
Dorothy took the pendant around her waist to the table, then looked at Shad across the table and asked. Xia De hesitated for a moment, then nodded:
"Through so many things, but only this one..."
"I see."
She leaned forward slightly and grabbed Xia De's left hand on the table. Her green eyes met Xia De's. Xia De could see that strong soul.
"Although I don't know what you are doing in Mibao this autumn, both Leizia and I know that you have always wanted to help us. In fact, you don't have to work so hard, maintain the status quo, and have a bond with each other in a distant place." Kizuna's soul, we are already content."
"Your other me is merging, this cannot be regarded as maintaining the status quo."
Xia De shook his head, and Dorothy looked at him under the gas lamp, looking at the shadow on his three-dimensional face when he lowered his head, and for a moment didn't know what to say:
"Shad."
"What's wrong?"
He looked up, but the blonde girl smiled and shook her head again, and said softly and softly:
"It's nothing. I'm just thinking, if one day, Leiziya and I can really look at each other face to face, and even touch and hug each other, we will definitely give you a very special gift."
Tonight's No. 6 Place Saint Teresa was calm, and Xia De had a good night's sleep. Perhaps because of the many experiences during the day, he had a weird dream.
In the dream, he somehow came to the forest, followed a beautiful red butterfly through the forest until he saw the old castle in the middle of the forest.
Then the dream became strange. First, Luvia, who was entangled in the flames, suddenly appeared and attacked Xia De, and then the Mia cat, whose body swelled into a big tiger, had the word "King" written on his forehead by someone, and Still holding the [Night Watchman] in its mouth, it will also kill Shade.
This weird dream directly woke up Xia De, and it was already Tuesday, and it was already dawn.
Sitting up sweating profusely, I still feel short of breath. Suddenly awake, the picture in the dream still stays in my mind, so that for a while, I can't distinguish between reality and dream.
[Now it's reality. 】
"She" whispered softly.
"It's fine if it's reality. Oh, what a weird dream. I'd rather go look at the moon all night again than have these messy thoughts haunt me."
He wiped the sweat from his brow, sat up and looked at the dark bedroom.
As the weather turns cooler, he has also replaced the thin summer quilt with a thick quilt. After a while, the steam company will send someone to discuss this year's heating bill. The price is not fixed for the whole city, and Xia De also needs to prepare firewood for the winter in advance.
He plans to turn on the fireplace in his home, not only because Detective Sparrow's notes mention that there are more detective commissions in winter than in autumn, so he wants to create an atmosphere of "professional detectives", but also because heating only by pipes is somewhat not enough.
After all, the house is simply too big.
"Meow~"
A soft meow came from his hand, followed by the itchy feeling of Mia cat rubbing against the back of his hand. He stretched out his hand to touch the cat that had just woken up. For some reason, he thought of Mia, the "big tiger" in his dream, and couldn't help but smile.
The story of the Red Butterfly Twins is very sad, but Xia De's story must continue.
When he stepped on his slippers and went downstairs to get the newspaper and milk, he realized that the birthday present that Rezia asked him to send to Mrs. Louisa had already been delivered. The gift was wrapped in an exquisite but not particularly expensive red gift box, and a blue ribbon tied a beautiful bow on the outside of the box.
In order to prevent Shad from making a mistake, Rezia sent him a letter. It was a letter written by Leizia, not only her cursive handwriting, but also the smell of her perfume...
As he walked up the stairs, Shad put the bottle up to his nose and sniffed hard, making sure his sense of smell was normal (Note).
The letter not only mentioned what the gift was, how much it cost, and where it was bought from, but also wrote a sample birthday message to Mrs. Louisa, and asked Xia De to copy it down directly. The congratulatory message is appropriate, and the appropriate compliments and congratulations are neither humble nor overbearing. Foreigners have to study the grammar of this world for a long time before they can have this kind of literary talent.
"A white fox fur scarf from the Northshire of De La Rion, and a newly published book of poetry, Love and Peace. Oh, what a well-chosen present."
The cat squatting on the stairs on the second floor was waiting for Xia De to go upstairs to warm up the goat milk. When he saw him standing on the stairs reading the letter, he meowed and urged him to go upstairs quickly.
It can't miss the meal time every day.
After breakfast, Xia De wrote letters to Louisa's family in the study, and then wrote letters to invite friends to come home tomorrow night to help hold a ceremony to seal the border on the third floor, and then went out to send them to the Tobesk Post Office —
The mailboxes on the street are not allowed to deliver gifts.
Then I took Mia Cat to Midhill Castle again, walked out of the forest in the thin morning mist, and walked towards the city below the mountain.
Fort Midhill is very weird today, the concentration of morning fog is comparable to the autumn haze in Tobesk this morning.
You must know that Tobesk, known as the "City of Steam", is also due to the arrival of late autumn recently, and the steam factories want to finish the last batch of production before winter comes and heavy snow blocks traffic, so the air is so bad. In autumn, Fort Midhill should not have such autumn morning fog at all because of the mountains and monsoons.
As Xia De came to the city, instead of weakening, the fog became stronger. Standing on the street corner on Santa Carla Boulevard where Cassandra Auction House is located, Shad could only see forty feet (approximately 12.2m) away.
Pedestrians on the street walked carefully along the side of the street. Lanterns were hung on the front and back of the driving carriage, and the driver even kept ringing the bell to remind people to avoid and be careful.
It happened that a boy selling newspapers was passing by on the other side of the street. Shade waved his hand and called the boy with the patched hat over. After counting out five pence and handing it to him, he took the newspaper and asked:
"When did this fog appear? Eight o'clock? Seven o'clock?"
"No, sir, this fog suddenly fell from Mount Xikal last night. I went to bed early, but the little flower seller Lana said that when she got up at night, she saw the fog gushing from the mountain."
The brown-haired boy replied, hesitated for a moment, and reminded in a low voice:
"Fourpence for the morning Sicar paper."
"That penny is a reward for your honesty."
Xia De said, and then turned to look at Xikarshan:
"What's the matter? Is it related to the recovery of the Red Butterfly Twins yesterday?"
Walking into the Cassandra Auction House, someone immediately led Shad to the reception room on the top floor.
Granny Cassandra has been waiting for Shad as usual. There are antique oil paintings hanging on the wall, and a knight armor from hundreds of years ago standing beside the wall. Although the decoration style of the old witch is a bit old-fashioned, it is surprisingly It suits Shad's taste.
The young apprentice, Miss Rita Swift, served temporarily as a servant serving tea for the two. Since Shad had already met her, there was no need to hide the existence of "this kind of man" from Shad.
"Why didn't you see Grace and Helen?"
Xia De still wanted to meet them.
The old witch smiled while holding a teacup, as if she knew that Xia De would ask:
"Because the ceremony has just been held, it is difficult to completely control the whispering elements of the teachers. In order to prevent us from causing trouble, they temporarily live in a room in the basement of the auction house. The walls there have been professionally treated, enough to temporarily accommodate angels A super relic, it has been used many times."
"Then I..."
"Although it is still very dangerous, you can go and meet with the teachers, and you will have to quit in ten minutes, at most ten minutes. I think the teachers would like to see you too."
Grandma Cassandra put down her teacup and looked out the window at the fog:
"After so many years, even I'm about to leave them. I'm really glad that they can still meet you."
She looks sentimental ~www.mtlnovel.com~ and is deeply attached to Grace and Helen:
"Grandma, do you know our story?"
"Yes, I heard the story about you and the teachers more than a hundred years ago, when I was Rita's age, from the teacher. At that time, no one would have thought that you would really appear."
The old witch let out a laugh from her throat:
"This spring, Teacher Helen Black suddenly appeared in front of me and told me that you finally appeared in Tobesk."
The nostalgia on the old witch's face:
"That was one of the very few times I saw the teacher smile, and she was really happy to see you again."
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ps: In order to prevent readers from being confused, let me explain that this is Leiziya deliberately spilling her usual perfume on the letter paper.
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