Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 348

2021-09-22

Chapter 347 The Rainy Day Visit

Laccia Princess is ready for Wednesday's joint action Be prepared. She arranged for a special carriage and driver in advance, and gave herself a fake identity for convenience.

Now Shade is still an MI6 spy in Cold Water Harbor, while Laccia is an active contributor at Cold Water Harbor Wharf, contributing to the local "Golden Spear Fish Art Newspaper". She has a full set of documents there, unless someone directly recognizes her face, they don't want to see her identity.

"Do you do this often? I mean in Tobesque, also operating under false identities?"

Shade curiously asked when boarded the carriage.

"I used to do this often before I met Dorothy. After all, father's discipline was very strict, and no one in the family dared to disobey him. Even an adult like me, Princess, or even the big brothers. With Prince as a child, unless you give up the title, you don't have any freedom. But after getting to know Dorothy, it's so much better. I occasionally ask her to use her body to act, which is really interesting."

It sounds like the current king of Delarion is a tough guy with children.

"Is this "Golden Spear Fish Literature and Art Newspaper" real?"

Shade became interested in her journalist credentials again.

"Of course."

The Princess said, and after the carriage started, ask the maid in the carriage to help pour the tea. This carriage looks ordinary from the outside, but it has all kinds of utensils inside. Fixed small table, tea set, aromatherapy, Shade even found a rifle in the hidden compartment under the carriage seat.

"This identity is real."

"You bought the local newspaper?"

"Of course not, "Golden Spear Fish Literature and Art Newspaper" It's my industry."

Shade immediately showed an expression of sudden realization. Outsiders claim to be experienced and knowledgeable, but they still lack the imagination of rich people.

The destination of this visit is the dilapidated old urban area bordering the southern area of Lengshuigang City and the wharf area, where the old urban area of Lengshuigang City was before the new continent was discovered. However, as the exploration of the new continent deepened, the center of Lengshuigang gradually moved to the north of the city, which was more suitable for building deep-water wharves, causing a large area of the old urban area in the south of the city to be abandoned.

There are still residents there, but most of them are local elderly people who care about their past memories, or poor people who have no money to rent a house in the city.

A carriage carried the two men to the ancient street known as Kesheim Lane at eleven o'clock in the morning. This street is the dividing line between the dock area of the seaside and the old town in the south of Lengshuigang. Looking east along the alley, you can vaguely see the Church of Peace with an old classical style spire. The old church has a history of 900 years and has been rebuilt many times, which means that the Church of Peace is the first church of the Five Gods to take root in Coldwater Harbor.

The rain is still falling, the moss is all over the corners, and there is almost no one on the street. The desertion of the old alley is not only due to the rain. Judging from the nearby wood-paneled windows, the empty open shop doors, and the disrepaired gravel road with potholes, even on a sunny day, the old There are probably not many pedestrians on the streets of the city.

It's best to stay out of sight when walking around the immediate area, especially the old town east of Kesholm Lane. It's not that Shade discriminates against the underclass citizens who are nostalgic for the old days, but in this seaport city, most of the residents living in this cold and humid old city are gloomy and hostile to outsiders.

On the way here, Laccia told Shade that the nearby area is one of the areas with the highest concentration of missing persons in Coldwater Harbor.

The ring warlock, who claimed to have removed the curse of the mermaid, lived in the ancient street in front of him. Shade and Laccia Princess got off the bus at the intersection and came to the street with an umbrella each. . They did clever makeup in the carriage, and in this age of photography and no clever way of documenting, that kind of cover-up was enough.

It is very coincidental that when the two got off the car, another taxi carriage stopped at the intersection. Both Shade and the red-haired girl looked curiously and found that two men with glasses and glasses got out of the car.

The older one was wearing a white shirt with an old-fashioned brown double-breasted waistcoat and a black pen in his pocket. He was about fifty years old. Youngster looks five or six years older than Shade's appearance, her hair is meticulously combed, and she looks at the street scene all around curiously after getting out of the car.

Both are holding umbrellas and the same badges on their chests, and the older one is holding a cane. Shade glanced at Princess, who explained to Shade in a low voice:
"That's the badge of Lengshuigang local university. I remember it was Lengshuigang No. 3 Machinery Manufacturing Academy. These two people should be the scholar of the school."

The scholars who got off the bus also noticed the two of Shade, but because they didn't meet each other, so seeing that both of them were well-dressed, they greeted each other through the rain curtain.

Just as the four people walked along the street, Shade unexpectedly discovered that the other party's course of action seemed to coincide with his own.

"Sorry, are you also here to visit Mr. Jude, the antique collector?"

The young scholar asked in a low voice on the street after getting closer. When she saw the strange man approaching, Lecia dodged and avoided, while Shade slowed down and started talking to the other party:

"Yes, this lady is a reporter from "Golden Spear Fish Literature and Art Newspaper", I am She is her assistant, and she is also a bodyguard. May I ask you who are"

Although the social atmosphere in this era is relatively open, and it is normal for women to go out to work, female reporters who act alone are often accompanied by a male assistant when they go out. This is also for safety.

Lecia calmly bowed to the young scholar, who was attracted by the beautiful girl's face and explained in a low voice:
"This is my teacher, Professor Katya, I'm Lim Scott, and we're visiting Mr. Jude for the subject at hand."

Professor Katya's kind nodded to the dashing redhead and Shade.

“Are you scholars?”

Shade asked again.

"Yes, folk scholar."

Lecia didn't respond, but Shade blinked. According to the passages of the classic horror novels he had read, when visiting such a remote ancient city area, when most of the information about the object of the visit was unknown, a group of four actually appeared in three occupations: reporter, detective and folk scholar. Very ominous sign.

"Teacher and I are working on the topic of the old town in the south of Coldwater Harbor. Mr. Jude, who lives here, has some materials that we are very interested in. We came here only after being introduced."

The young scholar continued, and Shade also explained that he and the lady beside him came to collect information for the renovation of the old southern city.

Since both parties wanted to visit the same person, the four came together. With the cover of the two folk scholars, the visit of Shade and Laccia Princess can also appear more natural.

However, when the entire group reached the downstairs of the stone building that had been through hundreds of years, Shade looked at the rainwater sliding down the wall, and always felt that the trip would not be so easy.

Most of the buildings in the old town in the south of Lengshuigang are old houses a hundred years ago. Probably because of local customs, most of the houses are gray stone buildings and not painted.

It took a long time for someone to open the door for them after knocking on the rusted iron door. Behind the door was a gloomy middle age person with heavy eye bags and dull skin. He was wearing a long leather apron with white marks on it that looked like flour:
“Morning Good sir, we are the reporters of "golden spear fish literature and art newspaper", these two are folk scholars of the third machinery manufacturing academy in cold water port, we are all here to visit Mr. Jude."

Shade and The young Mr. Scott handed over the business cards of the reporter and the professor respectively, representing the identities of the two teams.

The middle age person took the business card, glanced at it with slightly raised eyes, and then looked at the four people standing at the door holding umbrellas. His face was very bad, and his accent was very strange, and his throat made a grunting sound from time to time:
"Good morning, gentlemen and ladies. Please come in first, wait in the hall for a moment, sir is reading in the study room on the second floor. I'll report, please don't walk around."

The men let the reporter enter the door first, then rub their feet on the insole at the door, and put the dripping umbrella on the wooden umbrella stand by the door.

Without the owner's permission, the four of them temporarily stood in the hallway. Fortunately, this rather old building is larger than Shade's Six Saint Teresa Square, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a mansion, so it does not appear crowded.

Probably because of the heavy rain today, the humidity inside the stone building is no lighter than the outside.

I don't know why the lights are not turned on indoors, and the whole house is very gloomy in the morning on a rainy day. Of course, there are no windows in the entrance hall, and the rainy sunshine from the living room casts large shadows in the interior.

On the walls of the foyer hangs a cool-toned oil painting of the ocean on a stormy day, including a capsized fishing boat.

The four guests in the entrance hall stood in the darkness like this, looking at the somewhat terrifying oil painting and listening to the increasingly violent rain outside the door. The strange atmosphere in the room made them all involuntarily imagine what kind of person that Mr. Jude would be.

The walls are covered with old, yellowed wallpaper, and behind the peeling wallpaper is the moldy wall. This house has stood from ancient times to the present, and has witnessed the changes of Coldwater Harbor in countless days and nights. If you want to study local folklore, the house itself is the greatest value.

If Dorothy is interested, come and take a look at the house and she will surely find more ideas. The eccentric atmosphere inside the house is also in line with the identity of the ring warlocks.

Shade was just curious if Mr. Jude, who hadn't shown up yet, would have developed a rheumatic disease from living in such a place all year.

(end of this chapter)