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The world covered in silver is completely white, and there is no end in sight.

Burt held Severus' hand, and Severus didn't want to be so tired, but Burt's hand really couldn't be freed, so he could only let it go.

"Can you feel it?" Burt asked with downcast eyes.

Severus nodded, he couldn't see any trace of the manor in front of him, but he could feel that the Prince Manor was here, and it was a blood connection.

Bert can actually feel it, of course not because of his blood sense, but because of his sensitivity to the existence of powerful magic contracts.Burt looked around and led Severus to the east, stopping in front of a snow wall.

After a cleanup, Severus and the others faced a dry tree covered with hideous thorns.

Bert observed with his eyes and found nothing unusual. He walked around the tree a few times and cleaned it up with a new one at the root of the tree, and a stone appeared.

"Guide stone?" Bert kicked the guide stone, and the stone showed a beam of light, pointing to the west.The contract fluctuation that Burt clearly felt was in the east, but this stone pointed in a completely different direction.

Severus frowned, and squatted down to look at the stone. There was indeed a crown of thorns on it, which meant that the direction the stone pointed was indeed Prince's, but Burt didn't follow the light.Burt doesn't believe he kicked out the information?

"The place I feel is to the east," Burt said, pulling Severus to face the path to the east, and making him look by the light of the guiding stone.

"It's really different." Severus raised his eyebrows, squatted down again, and pressed his finger on the guiding stone.This time the direction the stone points to becomes east, and when it is pressed again, the direction it points to becomes west.

"Looks like it's broken." Severus stated the fact blankly, then stood up without giving the stone a look.

Burt had never heard of broken guiding stones before. Frowning, he squatted down, looked at the guiding stone, lifted it up, and found that there was still a stone underneath.Looking at the small rock that seemed to be connected with the dead tree below, Bert knew that there was no problem.

"Sev, give it a kick." Bert threw the fake stone aside, and raised his chin at the shy little stone.

Severus didn't kick, he was really obedient and kicked, probably it was his foot that hurt, he just stepped on the stone, and then let his foot go.

The guiding stone emits a blue light, shooting towards the depths of the snowy forest in the east.

"What is Duke thinking?" Burt asked in his heart.

Severus and Bert dragged their luggage and walked slowly into the depths of the dense forest. They stopped amidst swamps and brambles.

"It's here." Severus lingered a few steps in front of the Thorn Gate, not knowing how to get in.

Bert took out the family crest and looked for a long time on the wall of thorns with his own feeling to find a circular gap.This is the gap to be put in, but this thorny thorn, if you want to put the thorn in, you must have the awareness to be penetrated by the thorn.Because, he just tried to put the family crest into it by magic, but it failed.

Severus looked at his hand, hesitated for a moment, snatched the family crest from Burt's hand and put it in the gap.But with the movement of Severus' hand, the thorns were all scattered.Until Severus put the crest down, his hand was unhurt.

Burt realized when Severus was grabbing the family crest, of course he wouldn't let Severus face it alone, he wrapped his hands around Severus's and put the family crest away together The one who went in, Thorn didn't show any pity for him, so his hands were covered with scars.

"Are you a troll?" Severus sarcastically looked at Bert's bloody hand.After several healing spells on Burt, Severus stopped only when Burt's hand stopped bleeding.

"Severus, don't risk yourself." Burt didn't care about the injury at all, of course, it would be different if he hurt Severus.

"Crack-"

The rustling sound passed, and all the thorns retreated, revealing the real gate of the manor.

The wooden door was carved with thorns, and Severus and Bert pushed it open together.

What came into view was a scene of singing birds and fragrant flowers, and the house obviously had to go further inside.

Severus followed Bert, the path was surrounded by potion ingredients that made him covetous, but he restrained his urge to pick them and walked with peace of mind.

An old lady was sitting in front of the main house, she seemed to be waiting for someone, her eyes were slightly closed, and she looked kindly.

When Bert and Severus came over, the old woman had already opened her eyes and smiled at Severus: "It was supposed to be the elf who came to show you the way, but Duke refused, so we Let you come in by yourself. But I still want to see you sooner, so I am waiting for you here."

"Ms. Merida, I would like to extend my sincere greetings." Bert let go of Severus's hand, which he had been holding all the time, and gave Merida Prince a junior gift.

"No need," Merida came over and stroked Severus' hair, but Severus didn't avoid it strangely, "I know, you're a kid from the Alfred family, and Duke likes it very much." you."

Burt smiled reassuringly.But Severus didn't know what to say and was a little at a loss.

Merida took Severus' hand and said, "You can call me great-grandmother, as Irene's child, I think you should know."

"...great...great-grandmother." Severus tried to call out.

This sound made Merida's eyes blush, because she thought of Irene.

"Let's go in, Duke will definitely come, he must be waiting impatiently." Merida waited in front of her senile.

The two of them followed Merida into it.

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Duke has silver-white hair and a thin body, but he still wears the wizard robe very smartly.He tried his best to sit up straight and looked at the two children under his nose: "Where's Irene?"

"Mother doesn't dare to come back." Severus couldn't let Bert speak out at this time, he needed to face these things by himself.

"Hmph, I dare not come back." Duke snorted coldly, expressing his dissatisfaction.

Merida was even more dissatisfied, she tugged on Raduk's sleeve: "Be more polite to the two children."

"Mother misses you very much, great-grandfather and great-grandmother. But she feels ashamed of your concern and dare not come back for a while." Severus said more politely.

"This time you can come back because of the Malfoy family's affairs. If you didn't ask me, do you still remember Prince?" Duke said very bluntly, but it also revealed his weakness.

Burt saw through the old man's tough and soft heart, and said: "Old Mr. Prince, of course it's not because we want to meet you in Prince. In fact, Aunt Ailin is very Earlier, I proposed that I want to come back to see you, but we have been busy, and now we deliberately want to see you, to express Aunt Ailin's guilt and love for you, and choose to come here as soon as the holiday is over."

Duke squinted his eyes, his black eyes fixed on Bert like a poisonous snake, and he said after a while, "Young Alfred family, he is very good at talking." The old man raised his eyebrows, seeming very satisfied with Bert look.

There was something odd about the atmosphere, and Severus looked around uncomfortably, before finally falling on Duke.

"Since we're back, let's do a ceremony to recognize our ancestors and return to our ancestors." Duke stood up and immediately went to the basement.

Burt and Severus looked at each other, got up at the same time, and were about to follow.But Merida stopped Bert and didn't let Bert follow.

Severus turned his head, Merida waved to him, Burt gave him a reassuring look, and didn't speak.Severus settled down and followed Duke down.

Merida poured another cup of tea for Burt. After drinking the warm black tea, Burt's eyes still looked at the place where Severus disappeared.Although he didn't speak, Merida could clearly see the worried look on his face.

"If you want to save Malfoy, you can. Duke could have prepared the potion himself and gave it to you." Merida's eyes were full of vicissitudes, "but we are too lonely, and the Death Eaters have been persecuting us for a long time , so Duke closed the manor in anger. Prince is about to disappear..."

"I understand, great-grandmother." Bert comforted Merida.People are old, but their children are not around, of course they are also lonely.Merida and the others have lived here alone for a long time, only worrying about Irene's safety and Prince's survival.This is the same feeling that Bert cares about Alfred's life and death.

"You moved so fast, this is something that neither Duke nor I expected." Merida remembered that when she saw Severus, she saw Alf hanging around Severus' neck Leed's necklace.

Burt smiled and said, "Sev is too charming, I have to settle down first before I can feel at ease."

"We haven't raised Severus for a day, so we can only support his decision. It's enough for Duke to have an heir. And I just want to see Irene live well." Mei Li Da took a sip of black tea by himself, with loving eyes.

"Of course, I'll do it," Bert promised.

Merida laughed, her eyes were as clear as a child's: "Of course I know, Duke and I have both paid attention. We have been paying attention to Severus from the first day he entered Hogwarts..."

Burt raised his eyebrows. He really didn't expect Prince to have such ability after closing the manor.

"Severus and Duke will come out soon, don't worry too much." Merida and Burt's eyes met, "There are things, I think you should know that we have to stay away. We have nothing in the manor except potions." None, I know that your family's alchemy has a shortcoming in potions, and Severus can help you in the future."

"Sev by my side is the greatest help." Burt raised his eyebrows.He is not good at potions, but he has no doubts about his alchemy.And the meaning of Severus is not in the classification of what can be used or what can't be used.He likes him and wants to form a lifetime bond.

Merida smiled gratifiedly and nodded repeatedly.That's what a partner is like, and Bert can treat Severus with such a pure heart, which makes her feel at ease.

In the basement, Severus was being trained as his heir.

When he came out, it was a new world again.

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