Continuation of "Gone with the Wind"

Chapter 19 Strange Children

It is not easy to find a homeless child in Charleston, which is not too small, and no one knows or even pays attention to it. Scarlett only has a few days, and it is impossible for her to make a big splash in the newspapers. Search notices.But none of these troubled her. She had already sorted out the cause and effect of the whole incident, and she had a plan in mind.

She didn't care whether the child fainted in front of the monastery was premeditated or an accident, and why he stole the account book was not her concern. Whether he could understand the string of various numbers was still a problem.But it seems unlikely that it was purely a prank.Now she has to think about how to find the child, get the ledger, or steal it.The long-term speculation has honed her a sensitivity unique to businessmen, just like sharks are sensitive to the smell of blood.She intuited that there were definitely ulterior things recorded in that ledger, and thinking of the luxurious furnishings in the monastery made her dizzy, she became more determined.Of course, she has no interest in upholding justice or robbing the rich and giving to the poor, she just wants to get back the property rights, even if it is by means of threats.

Finding the child became a top priority.So after she came back from the monastery, although she visited the local people with her aunts every day-this is not a pleasant thing, she remembers the names of those people and her head hurts, since she was a child, she can only remember numbers- But the mind is not here, she has to find the child before the monastery, otherwise there is no hope.So every time she met a new person, after the politeness, she would directly ask if they had seen a child, and took the trouble to describe the characteristics she heard from Karin.Facing the questioning eyes of others, she had already thought of a countermeasure, saying that it was a request from a relative before her death, asking her to find her child who was stranded in Charleston due to an accident.People are naturally very moved to see her so dedicated and responsible, even if they have never seen her before, they just say that they will pay attention to her.It didn't take long before her efforts paid off when she was told that the child had been found.

Only when she saw the child up close did she realize that her previous impression was wrong.He wasn't really short, of course compared to a kid his age.He was probably only eleven or twelve years old, only a little older than Wade.But the indifference and calmness on his face were far beyond his age, making him look much more mature than ordinary children.It seemed that his body and his soul were disconnected, or that his body was occupied by an old soul, Scarlett suddenly had this idea.She had never looked at a person so carefully before, and for some reason, she had an inexplicable feeling of intimacy with him—at least a faint familiar feeling—and her eyes softened.

The child seemed a little uncomfortable being stared at by her. For the first time, something that could be called an expression appeared on his face. That expression should be called "stiff" or "bewildered".This instead made Scarlett feel that he was more like a "child" at this moment.

But what Scarlett was worst at was dealing with children.Just when she was about to break the dull air between them, he spoke, his voice was very strange, not at all childlike, but not so mature, like water flowing over sand.It's not pleasant to hear, but it can naturally attract the attention of others.Scarlett felt that his voice was more intimate than the indifference floating around him.The feeling of déjà vu reappeared again, which made her feel strange, as if she caught something that flashed by for the first time.