It's almost like I'm a fairy

During the time when the butler went upstairs, Qi Tianhe was sipping the unfinished scented tea.

Li Lian noticed the ink marks on his wrist, and handed over a handkerchief on the table.

Qi Tianhe took it and wiped it, and thanked him.

The maid standing in the corner remained motionless, watching the scene with cold eyes, not knowing what she was thinking, her originally empty eyes were a little more intriguing.

Suddenly, Qi Tianhe turned his head away and couldn't hold back a sneeze. Afterwards, he rubbed the tip of his nose lightly, with a hint of worry in his eyes: "Will the housekeeper secretly speak ill of us?"

"..." Chen Dianshui, who has always been reticent, glanced at him: "Your worries are really... unique."

Qi Tianhe knew in his heart that this person used idioms even more uniquely.

Just as he was talking, the butler had a straight face and walked slowly down the winding stairs, barely hearing the sound of footsteps.

When he reached the stairs, he stopped for a moment, and his eyes stayed on Qi Tianhe for a few seconds.

Qi Tianhe: "Is it an illusion, he seems to see me too much..."

"No." Liu Tianming was so close that he saw it very clearly just now, and instantly gave a firm answer.

At this moment, the butler had already come nearby, Qi Tianhe coughed and asked, "What's going on today?"

"Ballroom dancing."

The location of the hall is enough, and the outside sun is not bad, but the butler led them up: "There will be this part at the engagement banquet, and everyone needs to familiarize themselves with the dance steps in advance."

Qi Tianhe stared at the butler's back, and suddenly asked, "Where is Mr. Rost?"

The butler suddenly stopped, turned his head and changed his usually lifeless gaze: "Where did you hear the name of the old earl?"

Qi Tianhe replied with a smile: "Of course someone told me."

It's actually from the introduction of the prop Blood Pearl: Mrs. Rost's Dowry.

The butler moved his lips several times, and finally said in an almost commanding tone: "Ballroom dancing is very important, use more snacks on it."

Qi Tianhe looked taught, then turned to Liu Tianming next to him and said, "We can ask the lady outside during lunch."

Liu Tianming cooperated and said, "I think she must have the same question. Where did you know this name?"

Li Lian interjected, "If it's a secret, someone in the castle probably slipped it by accident."

Even Chen Dianshui made a rare speech, glanced at Qi Tianhe, and asked knowingly: "Who do you have the most contact with here on weekdays?"

housekeeper:"……"

Sure enough, these warriors were captured.

Then he once again looked at Qi Tianhe with the strange and indescribable eyes when he just went downstairs.

Qi Tianhe: "..."

Always feel that something is not right.

But now he can't allow him to think deeply. The confrontation between the player and the NPC makes the atmosphere stiff.

Mr. Roster, that is, the old earl in the housekeeper's mouth, seems to be a taboo in the castle and cannot be mentioned.And Qi Tianhe's threat was almost obvious: If he didn't make it clear, he would spread the news he heard from the housekeeper.

The butler looked hesitant, and his heart was a little shaken.

At this time, Qi Tianhe slowly spit out the name he saw from the cross last night: "An Qi."

The butler's pupils trembled, and his first reaction was that the old woman had said something to him, but after thinking about it again, he felt that it was unlikely.

"We just like to listen to stories." Qi Tianhe put on his usual smile again: "When people get older, don't they also like to talk about the past with juniors?"

Having personally experienced this man's ability to mess around, the housekeeper subconsciously controlled his hands, worried that an impulse would follow his inner thoughts, and pushed the bastard who kept beeping behind him downstairs.

"Mr. Roster is the earl's father." The butler turned his back and continued to walk up, not looking at Qi Tianhe's hateful face was his last stubbornness: "He passed away due to illness a few years ago."

Qi Tianhe: "It seemed that the relationship between his husband and wife was not harmonious during his lifetime."

The butler couldn't help but stop again, but didn't look back.

However, Qi Tianhe continued to walk up slowly: "It is said that the earl's mother and daughter have a bad relationship. I think Mr. Rost may be part of the reason."

From time to time, the air was silent for a moment because of his speech.

"The old earl...he lied." After a while, the butler finally said with blurry eyes, "He shouldn't have lied to Madam."

At the end of the stairs are three floors that have never been visited before.

At first glance, there are all rooms, almost densely packed, and there is only one room several meters away from the second floor, forming a strong contrast.

A small black dot flew over suddenly, Qi Tianhe lowered his head subconsciously, and heard something hovering from above.

The butler helped him drive away the bats with a cane.

"No one usually comes here, so there are inevitably some bats and spiders."

He spoke very flatly, as if he didn't see a huge spider crawling along the wall at all.

"Why not clean it up?" Qi Tianhe looked around strangely, the ceiling was covered with cobwebs.In contrast, although the decoration on the first and second floors is simple, at least they are clean.

"Some creatures are very capable of reproduction, especially some insect eggs," the housekeeper said with a smile: "If you make a nest for them, they won't be too reckless."

Qi Tianhe asked coldly, "Is it like a mutated bat in a rosebush?"

The butler nodded: "They chose to make their home there." As he spoke, he suddenly mentioned the old earl who was reluctant to talk about it just now: "The old earl is the same. For a while, he longed to have a family."

Qi Tianhe seized the opportunity, brought up the name 'An Qi' again, and asked the identity owner's name.

"Didn't I just meet yesterday? She still likes you very much." The housekeeper said as he pushed open the largest door among the many rooms. From time to time, there were bugs crawling rapidly along the gully.

Judging from the layout and structure, this is an abandoned dance studio.

Qi Tianhe just glanced at the interior casually, but he was thinking about what the housekeeper said. According to his hint, Angie is Mrs. Rost... the moody old lady from yesterday.

The butler brought them another gramophone, which looked very heavy, as if it could crush a person when bent over to place it.

He demonstrated the dance steps himself, holding the air in his arms as if holding a graceful dance partner, even though his body was a little stiff, he danced gracefully.

The butler only practiced the man's step once, and of course the player only needs to learn the man's step.

"If you want to dance better, you can invite the maid to be your practice partner."

Liu Tianming seriously went down to invite.

Followed by Li Lian, he has lost for two days in a row, and he has no better choice, so he must seize every opportunity at the moment.Not long after, Chen Dianshui also went.

Qi Tianhe thought of the maid standing quietly at the door like a ghost every morning, waiting for the player to open the door, with rejection written all over her body.

But the housekeeper looked at him like I knew you wouldn't go.

Qi Tianhe: "..."

What do you know?

The other three players quickly led their dance partners up.

The maid held the man's arm expressionlessly, showing no shyness or confidence at all at this age.

Liu Tianming was the first to dance with his arms around a maid's waist, and suddenly asked a question about the castle.

The maid turned around, turned her back to the other players, and mouthed something to him.

Through the blurred reflection in the mirror, Qi Tianhe deduced that only by inviting a dance partner would he have a chance to ask for clues, and then he walked up to the butler... May I ask who here would know more than the butler?

"I don't know if it's an honor. Would you like to have a dance?" Qi Tianhe bent down and stretched out his hands, doing a gentleman's courtesy.

The butler had a strange expression... Did you finally decide to attack him?

"I'm old." He said in a deep voice.

Qi Tianhe said seriously: "I just like people with a lot of experience."

The steward was not impressed, and then turned him down.

Stalking NPCs didn't help much, Qi Tianhe had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and turned around to look for the maid downstairs.

At the moment, almost all the maids are busy, and there is only one who is alone, who seems to be waiting for an invitation, and the other party easily agreed to Qi Tianhe's request.

A piece of slow-tempo music was playing on the phonograph, and the maid's ballroom dancing was very good. Although Qi Tianhe was not good at it, he had experienced it in real life, and the song was almost over, and there was no embarrassment of accidentally stepping on the woman's foot.

"I heard that the old earl and his wife had a bad relationship because of a certain lie."

After making contact, Qi Tianhe finally opened his mouth to bring up the matter.

The maid's tone was cold: "The old earl is a little forgetful and often leaves his notebook behind."

"notebook?"

"The old earl is a little forgetful and often leaves his notebook behind."

The maid is like an emotionless repeater.

After another dance, Qi Tianhe thoughtfully asked the maid to rest for a while, and went to pour her a glass of water to quench her thirst.

Looking back before going out, the maid stood motionless like a puppet.

Qi Tianhe was interested in the overcrowded rooms on the third floor, so he pushed through them one by one and locked them without exception.The lock head is rusty, showing some age.

Just as he was about to look for a lockpicking tool at hand, he suddenly thought of a small shovel, and Qi Tianhe tried to aim at the lock, and with a click, it really opened.

"I shouldn't have disliked you back then." Qi Tianhe murmured as he put away the small shovel.

There was a weird smell in the room, and because it was very damp, the corners of the wooden table were almost cracked, as if it exuded decay and corruption from the bottom of it.The most eye-catching thing is the row of transparent jars on the table, all bats soaked in the yellow-brown liquid.

When Qi Tianhe walked in, he stepped on something, it was very painful, and when he looked down, it was a thin and brittle bone.

"It should be the skeleton of an animal." A voice came from behind Leng Buding, Qi Tianhe stood up abruptly, and was stunned when he saw it was Liu Tianming.

Why doesn't this guy make a sound when he walks?

Liu Tianming walked straight over, picked up a relatively complete bone and lowered his head to study it without hesitation, then picked up a few bones scattered around, and pieced them together. Although a part was missing, it was barely recognizable. bat.

Qi Tianhe: "The old earl either has some perverted hobby, or he is doing some kind of research."

Liu Tianming agreed with this opinion: "Go and see in other rooms."

There are many rooms, but the things in them are similar, and after a while, it was roughly changed, and finally there was only one room on the inner side.This room seems to be rather special, with an extra layer of locks.

Qi Tianhe relied on a small shovel, no matter where he went, he could come and go as if he was in a no-man's land, even Liu Tianming couldn't help but take a second look at that ordinary-looking shovel.

The room is quite tidy, much better than the previous few rooms, but there are many weird pictorials on the walls.

When Liu Tianming checked the cabinet, Qi Tianhe was choked by the dust, walked to the window, and accidentally saw a small notebook stuffed behind the flowerpot.He shook the dirt on it, went to the side to browse, and asked Liu Tianming to take a look.

Liu Tianming: "Just give me a summary after you read it."

Qi Tianhe said 'um', but the ending sound was in a doubtful tone.

Liu Tianming: "According to my experience, the relics of the deceased have a chance of attaching a curse, which will be transmitted through a medium."

He thought for a while, and gave an example: "Sadako has done a good job in this regard."

"..."

Makes sense.

It's a pity that there are outsiders, otherwise he can let the parrot read it and then summarize it to himself. The other party has the habit of watching the news and should be literate.

At this time, the parrot said calmly: "Do you want me to peck your head?"

Qi Tianhe shut up, and focused all his attention on the notebook in his hand.

I don't know if all foreigners are like this. The diary is written like an autobiography.

The discussion in the first half of the book is an ordinary spiritual process, which can be summed up as the troubles of the young Rost. This Mr. Rost inherited a huge inheritance from his parents when he was born, and he also has a title that represents his identity. Tall and handsome.

To apply the current words, it is a collection of thousands of loves.

When all the material things are satisfied, people will start to pursue spiritual pleasure.In this era, there are no perfect charity evenings, donations, etc., and the books are also lackluster. At least Mr. Rost does not like those popular poems.

The peaceful days were broken one day, a beautiful lady was imprisoned in a high building, and of course some people said that she was burned to death, and the story about Bloody Mary began to spread. attracted by the legend.

Mr. Ross was also moved.

He is handsome and has countless wealth. If he can continue his life and appearance, it is simply a gift from heaven.

At that time, many writers keenly discovered the market, and a number of excellent works about vampires emerged, and they also made a clear classification of vampires. Among them, the easiest one to catch is the bat.

Mr. Ross was obsessed with it. He first searched everywhere for traces of vampires. After he was 30 years old and found nothing, he began to invest in research by himself.

Nowadays, people pay attention to science and experiments in research, which is different from a few centuries ago, when it was all based on imagination.For example, bloodletting therapy, which has been popular in Europe for a long time, and cutting open the skull to treat diseases and so on.

Dare to think and dare to do.

Mr. Roster continued this style very well. He locked himself in the laboratory to study bats and mice every day. At the beginning, he experimented on a few servants. Later, after he researched a bat that mutated and could survive in the soil, he didn’t know what it was. It gave him the courage to believe that the research has achieved a lot, and the experimental goal gradually developed into himself.

Qi Tianhe told Liu Tianming these things intact.

The latter did not feel sorry for Rost's boldness, but calmly asked, "What happened next?"

Qi Tianhe: "At the age of 40, this whimsical earl had to admit his failure. He accepted his fate, got a strange disease, and turned to seek the Lord's salvation."

"..."

Now even Liu Tianming's expression was a little strange.

Qi Tianhe continued: "At the end of the diary, it is written that he fell in love with a pious believer when he went to church to pray."

Speaking of this, Qi Tianhe can already guess what happened next. The devout believers think that he has found a partner who shares the same belief. Who would have thought that this partner is half sunk in the dark and has a strange disease.

Liu Tianming shook his head, didn't comment on the story itself, it took too long to tell it, so he suggested going back.

Qi Tianhe had the same idea, hesitated for a second when he left, and decided to take the diary with him.

For the next whole day, basically nothing weird happened, but the housekeeper emphasized for the first time after dinner: "Tonight is the day when the moon is at its fullest. It is best not to go out at night."

Before nine o'clock, there was a dead silence in the castle, and the busy maid had long since disappeared.

Because the earl wanted to see him, the butler followed the player up the stairs.

When he reached the second floor, he witnessed Li Lian pestering Qi Tianhe to live in the same room with him. He secretly reminded him: "The Earl doesn't like timid people."

Hinting that doing so will lower your impression score.

Li Lian had already weighed it. Anyway, the goal of survival this time is to live until the end of the engagement banquet. The benefits of being selected by the earl are the icing on the cake. Naturally, under difficult circumstances, life-saving is more important.

"It's okay." Li Lian scratched his head, still wanting to live with Qi Tianhe.

Worried that the thing in his room would continue to come out and eat his heart as a snack, he had nowhere to run tonight.

The butler emphasized: "Don't forget that you have traveled thousands of miles to marry the Earl."

Not knowing why he was stopped one after another, Li Lian glanced at Qi Tianhe asking for help.

Qi Tianhe said indifferently: "The key to this kind of thing is participation."

Li quickly repeated: "That's right, everything should be based on fate."

The heavy door was shut.

Li Lian couldn't help but said, "That's enough loyalty! I owe you one."

Qi Tianhe leaned on the bed and read his diary: "You're welcome, I don't dare to sleep alone at night, I need to exchange vigil with someone else."

Li Lian smiled: "You have a sharp mouth and a tofu heart."

Hearing this, Qi Tianhe glanced at him, then shook the diary in his hand: "I'm not joking, Liu Tianming said that this thing may attract curses."

"..."

The author has something to say: Qi Tianhe: Regarding the matter of marrying an earl, friendship comes first, competition comes second, and the most important thing is participation.

housekeeper:……