Whispering Verse

Xia De didn't wait too long, but within five or six minutes, the unique sound of high heels touching the carpet sounded in the corridor outside the door. Hearing the sound of footsteps, Leiziya seemed to have brought a lot of maids with her.

He got up from the sofa to greet her, and after Leizia's maid opened the door, Leizia walked in with the little princess Adelina in a red dress.

The little princess greeted Xia De very gracefully, then raised her head and asked with concern:

"Knight, are you Wednesday night... all right?"

This was the first time she saw Xia De after the reading salon.

"It's okay, I just fell into a coma for a day."

Xia De replied, and then looked at Rezia, Her Royal Highness smiled and nodded to him, with a very polite look:

"Mr. Hamilton, the accident on Wednesday night caused you to suffer bad luck for no reason. I invite you to watch the opera together today, which is a formal apology."

Although he didn't know why Rezia said that, Xia De followed her meaning and replied:

"You don't have to blame yourself, and the responsibility for this matter mainly lies with the Prophet Association. They have already compensated me. I heard that in order to fight for the [Founding·Knowledge], you also helped me. Thank you very much. I He is healthy now and has not left any sequelae from that incident."

Rezia nodded, and the lady of the royal family said softly:

"Then you have to apologize well. I can personally check your body. Gas poisoning is not a trivial matter."

Adelina opened her mouth slightly and looked up at her sister. Rezia looked very serious, as if she was talking about something serious:

"The cause of this incident, after all, is that I invited you to my reading salon, and I have to take responsibility."

As he spoke, he waved to the maids behind him. These are Leiziya's personal maids, so they naturally knew what Her Royal Highness meant, and retreated to the next room through the side door one by one.

Rezia said to Adelina again:

"I'm going to talk to the knight about compensation for him, and I'm going to help him check if he has any other problems due to gas poisoning. Adelina, you go to the next door and help us guard the door. Don't let other people in. If someone else It would be disrespectful to misunderstand that we are doing something bad."

"body check......"

The little princess pursed her lips and looked at Xia De. From Xia De's expression, she knew that Xia De didn't know the words of "checking the body" before he came. Maybe he was deceived by other reasons.

"I see."

Agelina said a little dejectedly, and looked at Xia De with some unbearable. And at the same time she walked towards the side door pitifully, turning her head three times at a time, Leiziya had already taken off her red lace-up high-heeled shoes, holding the shoes with **** in her right hand, shaking them twice in front of Xia De with a smile, and then It is very uncivilized to put it on the coffee table.

Rezia sat sideways on the sofa, her legs in white stockings with garters pressed against Shad's thighs. Xia De looked at the pair of stockings, and thought of the witch's clothes he had seen in 5177 of the last era.

Rezia stretched out her arms, hugged Xia De's neck affectionately, and turned her head to look at her sister who hadn't left yet, with a harsh tone:

"Adelina!"

The little princess walked out to the side with her head down, and with a click, locked the door on the other side.

"Bring on the demon hunting ring, the devil's business..."

Shad still wanted to talk.

"Maybe she thought that I tricked you here with other reasons."

After throwing down the Silence Charm, Leizia interrupted Xia De with a smile, put the ring next to her high-heeled shoes first, bit her rosy lower lip with her white teeth, and looked at Xia De closely with her beautiful eyes.

Rezia could completely guess what Adelina was thinking. Of course, Rezia doesn't care what Adelina thinks tonight, she won't waste this precious weekend tryst:

"Knight, let me check your body. I really hope you don't always be greedy for our Miss Writer, and the princess needs you sometimes. The opera is about to start, it's wonderful, a weekly tryst... .”

(Iluna is writing a report...)

If you don't get enough rest, even a ring warlock will be in poor spirits the next day. It was eleven o'clock when I got home on Monday night, but it was already midnight when I went to bed.

Anyway, early on Tuesday morning, Xia De, who was yawning and stepping on slippers, went downstairs to get the newspaper and milk. After pulling out the long blond hair that made his neck itchy from the collar of his pajamas, he saw Miss Gould’s letter on the mat at the door. incoming letters.

Last month's letter didn't arrive until nearly the middle of the month, but this month's letter arrived on the third day.

The address on the envelope is still a remote town on the eastern coast of De La Rion. Xia De is already quite familiar with Miss Gold's handwriting, and in this letter, the lady told Xia De good news.

"Miss Gothe's illness is completely cured."

Sitting at the dining table, Xia De, who opened the letter, said happily. Miss Writer, who started living together for a short time, caressed Mia while eating. For the sake of her making breakfast, the cat didn't resist.

"In the previous letters, this lady also said that there were some strange phenomena in the town where her family is located. At that time, I was still a little worried. Unexpectedly, it was only half a month before the matter was temporarily resolved by the church. Gothe Miss's illness is almost cured."

He said while continuing to read the letter.

"You originally planned to take a steam train to that town in the spring of 1854 to complete the last commission from the former detective. Can you start your travel plan now?"

"Yes, if all goes well, I plan to leave in April next year."

Xia De nodded and read the last line of the letter. When Miss Gaode writes a letter, she will affix her seal at the end of the letter. Judging from the traces, it was an ancient metal seal, probably left by her ancestors:

"The things in the town are temporarily settled. Miss Gao De plans to repair the ancestral house this winter, sell off unnecessary family collections, reclaim the land deeds buried in the courtyard, and deal with the family's abandoned banquet manor and farm by the way. She told me , if the plan goes well, she wants to restore the pier in the bay and restore the town's ocean trade."

Xia De smiled and said:

"It looks like the lady won't be leaving town anytime soon, and she won't be returning to Tobesk either. I'm confident I can convince her to sell Mia to me."

"Did she mention Mia again in her letter?"

Dorothy asked curiously, Shade nodded again:

"Yes, the lady asked me again to take a photo of the cat and send it to her. She still has a lot of affection for Little Mia and she wants to see the cat again before the end of the year."

"Photograph?"

Dorothy's eyes lit up, and she pretended to say unintentionally:

"I noticed that there aren't any photos of you in this house except the one you sent to Miss Gold in the fall. Since you're going to take pictures, why don't you take a few more. I know you don't like to let your face It appears in the photo, but if it is hung at home, it’s okay to think about it. It’s even more strange that there is no photo of yourself at home.”

Xia De thought for a while, tilted his head and looked towards his living room:

"That makes sense...I'll make an appointment at the photo studio in the afternoon, how about taking pictures together?"

Then he suggested, and Dorothy nodded in satisfaction:

"Also, let's take pictures together. Since it's the end of the year, I also want to commemorate this extraordinary year. Take a photo and keep it. Maybe the literary award at the end of the year will really need my photo."

Nothing interesting happened on this somewhat boring Tuesday day. It's not that Xia De didn't go out all day. Besides reading at home, he also wrote a reply letter to Miss Gothe. Of course, he didn't forget to ask about Mia's breed in the letter.

The investigation report to Baron Cameron was not in a hurry, so Xia De just went to the photo studio to make an appointment to take pictures in the afternoon. At the end of the year, the business of photo studios in the city was very good. In addition to the fact that customers can take pictures in person, the photo studio also allows photographers and apprentices to come to the door with equipment to take pictures.

The former requires an appointment, while the latter only needs to pay an extra sum of money and can be photographed immediately.

In order to save waiting time, Xia De made an appointment with the photographer to come to his home at four o'clock this afternoon. When she got home and told Dorothy, Goldilocks complained that Shad didn't give her enough time to put on makeup.

And this week's "God's Gift Box" gift, Xia De only remembered it near the evening.

At that time, the photographer had been busy for more than an hour, and just left, and made an appointment with Xia De to pick up the photos on the weekend.

He was about to go out for dinner with Dorothy. The clothes needed to be worn in winter were far more troublesome than in summer. Miss Writer managed to pack them up and put on a red mink scarf—this was her manuscript fee a few days ago. I bought it myself.

Shad didn't want Dorothy to wait for him any longer, and in his opinion, taking presents every week was a very "sacred" ritual that should not be done in a hurry. Therefore, the two of them and the cat first went to Silver Cross Avenue to have dinner, and then went for a walk together in the University District when the lights on the street first came on.

After returning home, Xia Decai finally went to the basement to take out the "God's Gift Box". Touched Little Miya to increase his luck, then put his hand into the box:

"So far, I have only found one [Master Key] relic, is there any luck this time..."

The palm of the hand touched a thin metal object at the bottom of the box, and after taking it out, it turned out to be a pen. Of course, although it looks good and there are cursive handwritten letters on the surface of the pen cap, it is just an ordinary item.

"Still no luck."

Shade sat back on the sofa with some disappointment, and handed the pen to Dorothy.

"It's an 1844 Mendy fountain pen."

Dorothy took the pen from Xia De's hand, and her tone seemed to indicate that Xia De was ignorant:

"Purely handmade, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the writing of "Group Poetry: The Emperor's Riding", only 300 pieces were produced, and most of them were given to well-known writers. Each piece has a special number, last year in the city The auction house sold it for a high price of 287 pounds!"

Obviously, three years ago Dorothy was not a well-known author, so she had only heard of it.

"Now the total has become 301."

Xia De said with a smile, Dorothy pulled off the cap of the pen to check the serial number on the inside, then reached out and wiped the position of the serial number:

"This is mine~www.readwn.com~ she said with a smile, examining the pen fondly.

Xia De nodded:

"Would you like to guess what my task for this week is?"

"Since the gift is a pen, then the task is to write an article?"

"No, no, the children's task is not so troublesome. It is to practice calligraphy, or copying. You can copy anything you want, and the total number of words must reach 300."

"That old **** really favors you, big boy."

Dorothy said softly, putting her right arm around Shade's neck, and drawing him closer to her:

"I really don't know from which aspect you can be classified as a 'boy'."