Whispering Poems

Chapter 2607: Strengthening Courses and the Adopted Lady

The maid walking at the end closed the door of the studio. Ajelina tiptoed towards the door and leaned sideways to listen, then she said happily:

"Good afternoon, Shad."

She smiled and picked up the cat. Shade did not immediately return to his original form:
"Good afternoon, Ajelina, your painting is really nice.

Do you know where Leicia is now? I want to borrow her relic earring. "

"My sister went to the countryside with my father and brother to inspect the autumn harvest. They will probably be back after dinner."

Seeing that Shade didn't object, Ajelina gave the cat a fierce kiss on the face. If Shade was in human form, she would certainly be embarrassed to do so, but now she was just facing a cute cat.

Xia De and her had done even more extreme things before, and he didn't react when she kissed him on the cheek:
"Then please help inform Lecia about this matter in the evening. If it is convenient, you can find time to ask Jialina to help bring the thing to me."

"Sister will definitely send it to your house herself. Do you want to leave now? If you have nothing to do in the afternoon, can you let me paint an oil painting for you?"

She asked, blinking, with an expression that was really hard to refuse.

So the cat thought:

"I don't have anything to do this afternoon."

"Then let me draw one, it will be over quickly."

Then he picked up the silver cat and placed it on the high stool where the maid had just been sitting, and then happily picked up the paintbrush and palette.

So when the maids who prepared afternoon tea came back, Ajelina had no intention of drinking afternoon tea at all:
"You guys eat these snacks. I'm trying to lose weight recently."

Although Ajelina said that the painting would be finished soon, when Carina came to Ajelina in the evening and told her that she would have classes with Iluna next week, she saw a familiar cat squatting on a high stool acting as a painting model.

The cat's big eyes looked at her. The red-haired Duchess couldn't help but smile at first, but then she scolded with a stern face:

"I was wondering why you disappeared. It turns out you abandoned me as your master and came to get close to little Ajelina, right?"

Although she said this, she did not disturb Ajelina from finishing the last part of her work. But when Ajelina finished the painting, she took the cat away:
"Ajelina, go change your clothes and come with us. We will only wait for you for twenty minutes. If you are not ready, we will not wait for you."

And Shade was able to regain his human form in the carriage:
"I actually never understood why you were so interested in my cat form."

"Because this is the only chance I can bully you, but you can't bully me."

The witch gave an irrefutable reason, and the little princess snickered beside her, then blinked her eyes before realizing what she meant.

Yesterday, Shad came home very late and didn't have time to treat Vanessa to a formal dinner, but today everyone finally had some time.

Carina Cavendish never cared about the cost, so she simply held a dinner party at Rhodes Manor, where the girls from the Golden Dawn Opera Company lived, and invited the girls from the opera company and her followers to attend.

The only male present was naturally Xia De.

Although this dinner party was formal, everyone was actually just wearing their daily clothes. Luvia and Resia also showed up after the party started, and it was at this time that Resia handed the [Saint's Curse-Removing Stone] to Shade.

She didn't ask Xia De what he wanted the relic for, but just said jokingly:
"Shad will never give my jewelry to someone else as a gift, right?"

The banquet lasted from 6:30 to 8:30, and then the two witches followed Shade home. Leicia and Ajelina could certainly guess what happened that night. The gentleness and enthusiasm of the two witches probably caused some things to happen in Shade's bedroom that might not even be written in the books:
"Is Shad okay?"

The little princess quickly followed her sister and asked worriedly:

"Sister, won't you stop them? Grandma and the southern baron are both very capable witches. Shade is alone..."

After saying this, he turned around and looked in the direction of St. Teresa's Square outside the gate in the night.

The elegant red-haired princess looked at her sister with strange eyes:

"As much as I want to praise you for caring about Shade's health, it seems that I was a little too harsh on you."

Ajelina blinked, not knowing what this meant, so she said in the most conservative manner:

"Sister, you are very kind to me. You are not strict at all. It is good for me to be strict with me. I can..."

"Well, come to my room tonight and I'll tell you a bedtime story. Seeing your question just now, it seems that it's time for you to know something.

It seems that our tradition in Delarion is that the mother or elder sister will explain this kind of thing to the girls before they get married, but this time I have to do it to prevent you from asking such embarrassing questions next time."

After saying that, she took Ajelina's hand. The little princess followed her obediently. She understood what Leisia meant:
"Sister, I've seen that kind of knowledge in books. I also saw it in the cupboard when I was at Green Lake."

She tried to weaken the pronunciation of the word "book" to avoid being discovered that she was actually secretly hiding some of it.

And Leicia shook her head:
"It's not basic knowledge, but advanced knowledge related to our knight. This is considered an enhanced course."

"That's it."

She didn't know what she would hear tonight, and she didn't know that Lesia's story would become the most frequent scene in her dreams for quite some time.

The Golden Dawn Opera Company's visit to Tobysk was a major event in the second half of this year. Ordinary people did not feel much about it, but the nobles wanted to know the specific performance schedule of the opera company and buy tickets, as if they could show their artistic taste just by listening to an opera.

Therefore, Vanessa is actually very busy. Although the first two days after arriving in Tobesk seemed very leisurely, it was only because the opera company had not yet settled down.

Once the preparation period was over, the long schedule of performances and organizational coordination would keep her and Hillis busy for a while. Therefore, she left home even earlier than Carina on Friday morning.

But at least the two witches had breakfast with Shade at home, and the three of them walked out of the bedroom together. Facing Carina's maids, Vanessa was a little embarrassed at first, but then she found that the Duchess was calm about it.

"Carina, how many things have you and Megan done without telling me and Shade?"

Karina, who seemed a little complacent, thought for a moment:
"That's too many to count. Can you remember the number of times you and Shade shook hands?"

The blonde witch was somewhat dissatisfied with this, but she said nothing. But judging from her expression, she would appear frequently at number 6 Saint Teresa's Square this autumn.

After breakfast, Shad prepared to set off again. He did not forget to bring breakfast for the elf girl, nor did he forget to ask Vanessa to send a message to her apprentice Margaret, asking Her Royal Highness the Princess to investigate in Willendel which school participated in the renovation of the temple on the top of the hill in Creekwood Town more than 50 years ago.

This is bound to be a task that cannot be completed in one day, so the investigation of the old temple can be slowed down for a few days, but you can take a walk around it when you go to the concert on Sunday.

After chatting with the elves in the forest for a while, Shade went directly to the city. When he arrived at the Accordion Inn, the chubby round-faced owl was talking to Miss Danister fiercely. When they saw Shade knocking on the door and coming in, they waved to Shade together:

"Come on, the investigation has yielded important results!"

"What major discovery? I have some here too. Let's try the Curse-Removing Stone."

The appearance of the sage-level relic [Saint's Curse-Removing Stone] startled both ladies, but Miss Danister knew that the relic was in the Zalas Academy of Arts. She was wondering where Shad got it from, and then she saw Shad handing the relic to her.

"Unfortunately, the time curse doesn't seem to be considered a normal curse. It has an effect, but not a big one. Given that the side effects of this relic are too obvious, I don't recommend that Flora and I wear it."

The eighteen-year-old girl put the ruby ​​earrings on her ears, tried them a few times and shook her head, but there was no regret on her face at all:
"Thank you, Shade. We asked you to rest yesterday, but you were still busy for us."

Xia De had no choice but to put the relic away:
"It's okay. We can continue to try other curse-breaking relics later. What major gains did you mention just now?"

So the witch who transformed into a human asked excitedly:
"Remember? We used the relics at the banquet to discover that Mrs. Bennet and Baroness Cumming were actually sisters?"

She didn't let Xia De guess the reason:
"We have found the results of our investigation. Just as you guessed, their sisterhood is not the result of time travel. They are sisters born normally."

The red-haired girl at the side handed the document to Shade:
"This is all thanks to the information from Gray Gloves. Although Baron Cumming does not engage in import and export trade, he is also under the surveillance of Gray Gloves because he is involved in Ximu Town's foreign timber business in addition to the construction industry. Gray Gloves naturally conducted a special investigation into the identity of his wife.

The Baroness Cumming, as people now know, is the only daughter of a local timber merchant who has passed away, but Gray Gloves found out that the merchant had suffered a genital injury when he was young and was completely infertile. The file contains a list of his medical records.

Xia De looked at the documents suspiciously:
"So where did Baroness Cumming come from? Was she adopted? Wait a minute, I saw it, it says that she was picked up from the woods outside the town by a timber merchant and his wife? Is there such a thing?"