flower and big devil

"...Ladoni, don't be willful."

The black-haired young man frowned and shook off the hand of the little girl who was holding his sleeve. At the same time, he also saw the old mother of the orphanage and the shoemaker gradually walk out of the shadow cast by the gate—or the head shoemaker What did it look like? At the beginning, Luo Xiu almost stared his eyes round because of shock. In his dream, he had seen many characters who were projections of each other with the last source of infection in reality, but except for the Duke of Darkness, he had never I have never met a second person who is exactly the same as the real person!

And now he has.

The cobbler wears a tall, exaggerated hat on top of his head, about twice the height and size of a normal dress hat, it's hard to believe anyone would go out wearing something like this - it's all black , but thanks to the exquisite craftsmanship of this hat, even under the dim light at this time, Luo Xiu could still clearly see that the upper part of the hat is in the shape of an oriental dragon with its teeth and claws, and the three-dimensional dragon is coiled around the body of the hat. Above, the dragon's head is raised high, and with the approaching Hatter's footsteps, the whole dragon looks lifelike, as if it will come to life at any time in the next second...

The wide brim of the hat covered half of his face, but it couldn't cover the fiery red hair under the brim. The half delicate face revealed under the brim was a red-haired monkey that Luo Xiu would probably recognize when he turned gray. Edwin has the face!

"..."

At this time, the black-haired young man sitting on the sofa was stiff all over, as if he had seen a ghost, he stared at the hatter who came to stand still in front of him—the latter stepped on a pair of shoes of unknown material. The thick leather boots, even on the thick carpet, can make a "dong dong" sound with each foot. The boots that just reached the calf perfectly set off his curvy and slender calves, as if they were going to be with him. The hat on the top of the head is matched, and a pair of black bone wing decorations stretch out on the left and right sides of each boot, and the ends of the bone wings are hung with metal chains.

When the hatter stopped in front of the black-haired young man and condescended to look at him slightly, the former also saw the accessory belt that matched the metal chain and hung around the red-haired man's waist.

"Is this the child chosen this year?"

A lazy, hoarse voice sounded in the quiet side hall lounge because of having just smoked tobacco.

While talking, the young Mr. Hatter extinguished the hookah in his hand and hung it on his waist. Under the brim of his hat, his eyes seemed to be carefully looking at the black-haired young man sitting on the sofa. Let out a murmur that seemed to be joking and thoughtful: "You are much older than I imagined. Although you are good-looking, age is still the most important problem. I am afraid it will be difficult for such a child to find a home."

"..."

The veins on Luo Xiu's forehead twitched.

I have to say that the other party's mouthful of "children" made him feel hairy all over.

And the tone of "Mom Sang is looking for customers for girls in special industries" is even more unbearable for him.

The corners of the black-haired young man's lips moved, and he was about to say something, but at this moment, he felt that Ladoni, who was sitting next to him, suddenly grabbed his sleeve again, and let out a breath from his nasal cavity. Very vague exhortation——Luo Xiu subconsciously turned his head to look at her, only to find that the little girl at this time swept away her previous arrogant and domineering appearance. When the Hatter spoke, her face was pale and her eyes widened in horror. , like a frightened deer under the headlights on the road at night!

But at this moment, the shadow cast by the tall hatter when he bent down slightly almost enveloped her and Luo Xiu together.

As if feeling the strange atmosphere at this time, Mr. Hatter let out a strange laugh. He turned his head slightly, and a faint smile appeared in a pair of green pupils like lake water. His eyes almost shrank to Luo Xiu's body After sweeping past Ladoni, she didn't stop.

The child's reaction is the most sincere.

If last second, Luo Xiu could still convince himself with "Ladoni is a selfish brat", then now, seeing the sincere reaction of this little girl who was almost scared to pee her pants, now Luo Xiu has to admit The Mr. Hatter in front of him, who looks the same as the red-haired monkey Edwin, may really have a problem.

He lowered his eyes slightly, and in the silence of the room, he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "No."

"Huh?" The Hatter raised the corners of his lips and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he didn't understand what the black-haired young man in front of him meant by "no".

At this moment, the black-haired young man who had been sitting on the sofa stood up unhurriedly, and blocked Ladoni, who was still shivering on the sofa, behind him— The young hatter in front of him was probably close to 1.9 meters tall, he was more than half a head taller than Luo Xiu, so even if Luo Xiu stood up, when their eyes collided in mid-air, Luo Xiu could still feel it. The other party seemed to nod slightly, rubbing his hat brim and looking at him unscrupulously.

——It's like looking at the value of a commodity.

—or a guinea pig in a laboratory glass box.

This kind of gaze made Luo Xiu feel very uncomfortable. When his bare feet stepped on the carpet, the contact between the skin and the rough surface of the carpet caused a slight itching—compared to the neatly dressed and gorgeous hat in front of him, which was even a bit exaggerated. Carpenter, at this moment, the black-haired young man only felt that he seemed to be a bit shorter than the other party in every aspect.

This is really bad.

At this moment, Luo Xiu only felt that the atmosphere around him and the Hatter had solidified—the two forces were tearing each other apart—uh, that came from "poverty's pride" And the two forces of "the strength of local tyrants"... The black-haired young man took a deep breath: "I'm not from here, I came here just because—"

The hatter moved his head, and raised the brim of his hat with one finger, so that Luo Xiu could easily see his raised eyebrows: "Because of what?"

……………… Want a pair of shoes.

……………… And because you are the main NPC, I want to see you.

Two reasons, standing in front of the master at this moment, Luo Xiu found that he couldn't say any of them. He moved his lips, thinking that he must look stupid now that he is speechless.

But at this moment, Luo Xiu suddenly felt his ass being kicked from behind hastily.

...looks like someone is even clumsier about how he looks than he is.

Being approached so nonchalantly by the little girl behind him, the black-haired young man swayed but finally woke up from the dazed state. Before he had time to realize what he had done, he walked around the person in front of him. The Hatter rushed to the front of the opposite sofa. In the duet of the old woman behind him and the Hatter groaning in confusion, the black-haired young man grabbed Amy who was sitting on the sofa without thinking, and stood up. Straighten your back and say in a clear voice, "I'm here to adopt a child!"

Hatter: "..."

Ladoni: "Tsk."

Amy: "Huh?!"

Old Mammy: "Ah, that—"

Luo Xiu turned his head and looked at the bewildered old nanny who hesitated to speak—this was the first time Luo Xiu saw her in the eyes when she came in. You must know that most human beings have aura. , and the aura of this elderly woman can tell that she is a good person at a glance-it has to be said that the wrinkles around her eyes and the gray clothes and patches on her body add to her "good aura" There are quite a few points... At this moment, the tense face of the dark-haired young man who was completely unaware that he was only having a "poor soul resonance" with the old woman finally relaxed a little. He looked at the old man in the orphanage. Sister, said calmly: "I am the gardener of the Duke of Darkness, and I have a decent job. Don't I have the conditions to adopt a child?"

The dark-haired young man looked calm and composed.

In fact, only he himself knew that when he brought up the "Dark Duke" as a negotiation condition, he almost bit his own tongue.

The old nanny in the orphanage seemed a bit indecisive. She rubbed her hands against the front of her skirt, and her eyes wandered back and forth between Luo Xiu and the Hatter. Finally, she decided to throw this difficult problem to the third person. The person involved—then, all the eyes of everyone present were focused on the little girl with long curly hair and a deformed head.

"Amy?" The old nanny called out the little girl's name in a tentative tone.

Amy looked at the Hatter, then looked back at the black-haired young man who was gently holding her hand at this time—when her eyes met the latter's quiet eyes, after a while, she was like Luo Xiu When she almost thought she would nod in agreement, she did not expect that she lowered her eyes and gently broke her hand out of the black-haired young man's palm. Amy lowered her head and said nothing.

After a moment of silence, a chuckle broke the deadlock.

"Looks like we already have an answer."

Mr. Hatter clapped his palms and smiled lightly. This proud and rich young man never looked at Luo Xiu again after he won a complete victory. He stepped forward and gently raised Amy's chin with his hand wearing a black leather glove. After looking around, when the other party avoided his sight in panic, he let go of her without a trace, paused, and then asked slowly: "It seems that you are the one who is about to fly out of the bird cage this year." Lucky bird?"

Amy lowered her head, and she became the silent and quiet appearance when Luo Xiu saw her at the beginning. She nodded indistinctly. If it weren't for the silence in the room at this time, I believe no one could hear her clearly. The answer was "Yes, sir".

The Hatter glanced casually over her shriveled head.

Seeming to be very sensitive to such gazes, Amy trembled slightly as if in fear.

However, this degree of deformity did not seem to be a big surprise to the Hatter. He looked at it as if it was because he needed to look at it rather than out of curiosity, and he didn't make a sound to appease the emotion obviously caused by his gaze. Amy, who had become sensitive, kept the corners of his lips slightly curved: "I see."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and asked in a very low voice when the old nanny in the orphanage could go through the procedures for claiming. After the emerald green eyes showed a lot of emotion, the facial muscles twitched quickly: "It will be fine in a while."

The old woman answered in an aged voice.

"Extremely looking forward to it," said the Hatter in a voice that was not so sincere. "Tomorrow is Christmas, and as usual, before the sun is fully up tomorrow morning, I will send my people to give the first special gift to this year. Lucky bird, Mammy, do you think this is okay?"

The voice of the young red-haired hatter sounded polite and rusty, and the just-right bass made one almost believe that the person in front of him was a kind-hearted and elegant rich gentleman—however, as mentioned before, people always have He has an innate aura, and at this moment, this "kind-hearted and elegant rich gentleman" always makes people feel a black, unsettling mania in Luo Xiu's eyes. Qi.

When he spoke in a slow and pretentiously elegant voice, this "manic" atmosphere became more and more intense, almost drowning his whole body.

Such duplicity makes people feel very uneasy for no reason.

Luo Xiu subconsciously looked in the direction of Ladoni, but found that the little girl in the red cloak had left the sofa at some point. When the old nun and the hatter were discussing the adoption procedures, She walked out of the door of the side hall quickly, as if there was no one else around, while Amy looked out of the window as if avoiding it, even though there was nothing worth looking at there.

No one stopped Ladoni.

From the beginning to the end, it was as if she didn't exist.

……

Just as Luo Xiu judged, the old nanny in the orphanage is a really good person. She doesn't seem to be annoyed that he almost messed up the tradition of the orphanage. After the pen was enough to support the entire orphanage's annual expenses in the coming year, in front of the red hair, she even gently invited Luo Xiu to stay with him and leave after Christmas.

"Don't look at our place seems to be well-behaved on weekdays, but after all, there are still many children. Christmas is much more lively than you imagined!" the old nanny persuaded.

And Luo Xiu was very happy to hear this, because even if someone chased him away with a broom, he didn't plan to leave the orphanage for the time being... So, when he was sitting at the table and signing some documents The hatter seemed to have heard their words when he stopped what he was doing and raised his head to look at the dark-haired young man standing aside—the latter stretched the muscles on his face, showing a half-smile expression, and stared at the hatter With those emerald green eyes, he said to the old mother almost word for word in a very aggressive tone: "Then respect is worse than obedience."

Of course, the Hatter recognized the provocation in the words of the black-haired young man in front of him.

The two looked at each other for a while.

Sword and sword shadow.

And so, when the old Mammy went out to serve tea and they were alone in the office, the young Hatter, sitting in the wide armchair by the table, finally revealed himself.

The red-haired hatter swept away the dog-like elegant face before, the chair made a harsh sound of "creak" under his buttocks, brushed the ground and retreated a small half step away from the table, and remained upright and elegant in the last second The sitting young wealthy businessman raised his legs, shook his legs like a street hooligan, and casually threw the quill pen he was using in his hand - without even looking at the ink on the pen tip, the document was stained. Xiao Kuai, he just stretched out his hand, put on the brim of his hat, and showed an unscrupulous smile at the black-haired young man standing silently in the corner of the office at the moment: "Oh my goodness."

Luo Xiu was stunned because of the other party's quick face-changing virtue.

The Hatter raised the corners of his lips, showing a distasteful expression that was half a smile: "You seem to hate me, why, are you hating the rich?"

Luo Xiu: "..."

"That's such a pity, you are very beautiful, the type I like." No answer was received, but the Hatter was very happy talking to himself, looking at the black-haired young man with that unhurried gaze. After sweeping around the person, he said slowly, "I was going to ask you just now if you would like to work in my antique shop. I can pay you more than the Duke of Darkness."

"Oh?" Luo Xiu raised his eyebrows, "How much money are you going to use to poach the wall?"

"How about three thousand gold coins a night?"

one night.

Really simple and rude, huh?

"...is this what you call 'job'?"

"At least I won't let my people run around the world with bare feet." The Hatter chuckled lightly, showing a little complacent expression belonging to a young man, "I am much more careful and gentle than the Duke of Darkness when it comes to treating my lover. ——He is too old, lacks enthusiasm for this aspect, and it is easy to make people boring.”

... At the end, don't forget to step on the "competitor".

Thinking about the handsome face of the black-haired Duke, based on his partiality for Uzrok (face), Luo Xiu threw the hatter's words into the trash can without hesitation.

And the Hatter was still chattering about "persuasion": "Probably elderly people have little need for bed affairs. I often hear the lover of the Duke of Darkness complain that he is frigid. Although that face is good-looking, but You can’t climax just by looking at your face these days, right?”

The corners of the black-haired young man's lips twitched, and he was about to say "rogue" to the brazen hatter, but at this moment, he saw the hatter pick up the quill that he had thrown away before, and regained his dignified expression. Sitting upright and posing the correct posture for signing documents before——just as Luo Xiu wondered why this guy was having a fit, the door behind them was pushed open, and the old woman who was holding afternoon tea walked in ma.

But at this moment, the office looks exactly the same as when she left.

She had no idea that her distinguished guest had already harassed her poor guest with lewd words just now.