[HP]Blue Soul

It was Tammy Taylor, her light-tan eyes full of curiosity, who rescued Charlotte from her thoughts.She said to Charlotte: "Miss Smith, I heard from Mrs. Betty that you will leave when I get hired?"

Charlotte, who came back to her senses, nodded, "That's right. Maybe Mrs. Betty didn't tell you that I'm going to be an assistant to a scholar who studies biology."

Tammy Taylor flung herself on the cashier counter childishly, her round chin was pressed into a line on the table, she raised her mouth that could hold the oil pot, and said, "That's not a pity. I'm very happy." I like you, and I want to spend more time with you." Charlotte thought of what she said before "like her mother", maybe this is why she is now relaxing like a baby in front of someone she just met for the first time, she now It looks like the little Bain who acted like a baby to her when he was born.

"He doesn't live far away, just on the other side of the town, so if I'm free, I'll come back often." Charlotte restrained the desire to rub Tami Taylor's fluffy head hand.Obviously Tammy Taylor is 6 years older than her, but the current situation looks like she is older than Tammy Taylor.She remembered what Daniel said: "I always thought I had an extra sister, but in fact I had an extra sister."

"Let's be friends!" Tammy jumped up and said excitedly, "I call you Charlotte and you call me Tammy. Is that okay, Charlotte?"

"Okay, Tammy."

For the next hour, Tammy had no time to chat with Charlotte, because a broken husky was rushed by its owner, and Mrs. Betty entrusted the task of attending to Tammy in order to test Tammy's skills. Instead of Tammy, she was just doing some handy work on the sidelines.Charlotte has no place to play a role at all, so she can only go back to the cash register and continue to reconcile the account, and do some reception work.

The morning passed quickly, and by noon, the injured husky had been dealt with.After the dog owner settled the bill at Charlotte, he went back with Husky in his arms.And Mrs. Betty took Tammy to change the white clothes for sterilization and wash hands with disinfection.Mrs. Betty was all dressed up, even putting on her hat, and said to Charlotte, "Let's go and have dinner together."

"Ah, I have to go home." Charlotte said sheepishly. "Sev is at my house. I have to go back and cook for him."

"That's true. Severus is on summer vacation. I don't know why he has to go to a boarding school so far away, and we don't see each other a few times a year." Mrs. Betty frowned and muttered, "Then you go back. Today You don't need to be so anxious—" Mrs. Betty laughed, "It's okay to come later, with Tammy here, I don't think I need to go into the treatment room." It seems that Mrs. Betty is very satisfied with Tammy's technique.

"Mrs. Betty is overrated, she's not that powerful." No matter what Tammy said, she seemed a little playful, thanks to her always rising tone suddenly.

Charlotte bid farewell to Mrs. Betty and the two, and quickly went to the blacksmith shop to get a new key.On the way, she looked at the lonely key, and was already thinking about what to tie on it. Her own key was hung with a leaf button that she changed into a pendant (it was the first time when Lily and Sif saw off The one I gave you when I was in Les).

She hadn't figured out why until she entered the house.

The house is very quiet, it doesn't look like anyone is there.Charlotte didn't see Severus, she walked to the door of the potion room, put her ear on the door, and it was quiet inside.She scratched her head in doubt, didn't she agree to wait for her to go home?Where did people go.

Then the door opened, and she fell into an embrace that lingered in a bitter breath.

Holding onto the clothes in front of her tightly so she wouldn't fall, she looked up to see Severus looking down at her with a frown.She laughed dryly twice, struggled to stand upright, smoothed the folds on Severus' chest, and said, "You're actually inside, I didn't hear the sound at all, I thought you weren't there."

"Those who don't know think you are a thief." Severus said pretending to be cold.

Charlotte knew he wasn't angry because it was nothing like the way he used to be when he was angry, when he would call her "Miss Smith" dryly, and stare straight at her with obsidian eyes until he stared at her. She felt faint.So she laughed happily: "Didn't you think you weren't here? I just wanted to hear if there was someone inside."

Severus opened the door completely, turned and walked back into the room, stood by a table, and said, "You can't hear it. I set a lot of spells, even if it explodes inside, you won't be able to hear it outside."

"It's so powerful." Charlotte exclaimed.

She followed Severus into the room, and the room had completely changed. From the ceiling to the floor, there was no trace of dust. It was a shelf, and it was already filled with various glass jars. Some jars contained animal feathers, and some jars even contained slimy-looking things floating in them. These were potion ingredients.At the bottom of the shelf are several flowerpots, the plants in the flowerpots only show a little seedlings, which look like they have just been transplanted.And in the gap between the flower pots, there is silver water shining with silver light, attracting her attention as always.

"Silver Light Water?" Charlotte asked.

"Mm." Severus was standing by a small square table in the middle of the room. There were already a lot of parchments on the table, and he was holding one in his hand and looking at it carefully.There was a long table behind him, on which were placed two crucibles, and in a wooden cylinder next to the crucibles were two stirring rods, one silver and one copper, and a silver knife, and a pair of leather gloves were placed beside the wooden cylinder.Severus didn't take his eyes off the parchment. He said, "Silver water is very strange. I took a bottle to school, but I didn't find any results. But where there is silver water, plants grow It will be faster. So I took them and put them next to the herbs."

Charlotte glanced at the gleaming silver water, and remembered the elf text she saw from Allen. The elf spring water recorded on it was the source of life for the elves, and it was the precious wealth of the elves, but now it is probably the elf spring water However, the things that were used were reduced to being used as accelerants for potion materials.

"Are you still unconsciously lost in thought?" Severus put down the parchment in his hand and replaced it with another.

Charlotte nodded, and said helplessly: "Yes, it's very strange, completely uncontrollable, as if her soul is lost." Especially when she is pulled out of her thoughts by others, there will be a momentary Unreal, she always seems to hear voices speaking to her from another direction.

"Not to St. Mungo's?" Severus put the parchment down completely and looked at Charlotte with a frown.

Charlotte scratched her head, "I haven't had time to go yet."

"I'm going to Diagon Alley tomorrow. You can ask for leave to go to London with me, and I'll take you to St. Mungo's. Maybe you were under a spell in Mr. Allen's incident." Sif Ruth said, and then he seemed to remember something, and asked, "When are you going to be Mr. Allen's assistant?"

"It should be just a few days. Mrs. Betty has a new employee, a lovely Scottish girl, and Mrs. Betty likes her very much. I am going to leave this afternoon.--but I don't think it is because of the spell, I remember that day At St Mungo's Mr Allen had me checked by a therapist a number of times. If there was a problem, I don't think the therapist would have let me go," Charlotte said.

After hearing this, Severus bowed his head in thought for a while, and muttered, "What could be the reason?" He reviewed the St. Mungo's study guide that Irene had given him, which introduced St. Mungo's in detail. Various departments: the artifact accident department is responsible for treating accidents caused by artificial products; the biological injury department is responsible for stings, burns, and incisions, etc.; The Poison Department is responsible for treating rashes, nausea, laughing, etc.; the Spell Damage Department is responsible for the treatment of poisonous spells, jinxes, and wrong spells that cannot be removed.From this point of view, if Charlotte didn't check out the reason in the curse damage department, then going again would have the same result. "Did you do the examination in the curse injury department?"

"Uh—I don't know if it's the Spell Damage Department—" Charlotte recalled, she followed Allen from the hall on the fifth floor, "It's on the fifth floor anyway."

"That's right." Severus frowned again, "Then there's no need to go to St. Mungo's. It seems that St. Mungo's can't detect all diseases." Severus pouted He curled his lips, he had once planned to work as a pharmacist in St. Mungo's, but at this moment he suddenly felt that St. Mungo's might not be suitable for him. "Then do you want to go to Diagon Alley with me tomorrow? You seem to have been there once."

Charlotte thought for a while and refused, "I want to go to Mr. Allen tomorrow to settle the matter."

Finish talking with Severus.Charlotte immediately went into the kitchen and made a simple lunch.During dinner, Charlotte tossed her own key to Severus, and since she hadn't figured out what to put on the new key, she decided to just leave it to herself.Severus took the key, touched the silver and green leaf, and said, "Maybe your memory hasn't gone bad, I already have one here." He lifted his collar, and the shirt inside On the neckline, there are buttons that are exactly the same as those on his hand.

"Hold it first." Charlotte glanced at the leaf button around Severus' neck, she didn't expect Severus to wear it close to his body all the time, and she felt joy from the bottom of her heart because of such importance, "There must be no pendant on the key, otherwise it will be easy to lose. When I figure out what to hang, I will give you a new one."

Severus glanced at Charlotte, said nothing more, tucked the key into his clothes, and resumed his lunch.

The noon time passed quickly, and before Charlotte had time to take a nap, she had to tie her hair and go to the pet store again.Her hair hadn't fallen out since Severus gave her a headband.When she arrived at the pet store, there were already several people sitting in the lounge.The wives who are usually chattering all opened their eyes quietly and listened to Tammy's words. Accompanied by Tammy's slow and playful voice, the wives said "Oh my God" and "Aha" from time to time. Such an exclamation.

Tammy is such a talkative person, she seems to glow in the middle of a crowd.

Just when the indoor conversation was in full swing, the sky suddenly became gloomy, and dark clouds seemed to be pressing on the roof of the opposite shop. Charlotte stood by the glass window and looked up at the sky. After a while, the big raindrops began to splash. It slammed down and hit the glass of the window with a slap, everything in the rain curtain seemed to be shrouded in mist.Because Charlotte finally handed Xiaobai back to Alan, the animals in the pet shop resumed their twittering.The room also darkened, and Charlotte turned on the lights in the lounge, added backwater to these people, and went to the pet grooming room to see Mrs. Betty's work (even though Tammy is very good at treating pets, but She doesn't have much experience in pet grooming).Mrs. Betty didn't need help, and she threw Charlotte out, which made Charlotte swallow the words that were on his lips.She could only go back to the front, took a chair and sat by the sofa, the pets brought by the wives leaned over one after another, and crawled down around her feet.

Tammy was still telling stories about her hometown.As the daughter of a Scottish farmer, Tammy encountered many things on the farm, and it seemed that nothing that happened within a hundred miles could escape her eyes.The unique rural farm life is very novel to the wives who have been living in Cokeworth.Coupled with the fact that Tammy always speaks with strong emotions, it is easier to immerse people in the stories she tells.

"Recently, the economy there is not good, and many farms have closed down. That's why I left my hometown and came here to find a livelihood."

"These days, the economy is not doing well anywhere."

"Yes, yes. The factory one of my relatives worked in closed down a long time ago, and I haven't been able to find a job that suits me."

"Who isn't. Don't you see a bunch of unemployed people wandering around in Spinner's End?"

"Spider's End Alley, it is said that it used to be quite prosperous. There are many factories nearby, but unfortunately——"

The words of a group of people in front of them were like the radio stations on the radio. As time passed, they slowly seemed to be getting farther and farther away from themselves. Charlotte picked up a white cat and gently stroked her back.It was raining heavily outside, and the atmosphere inside was warm. A thick glass window divided the indoor and outdoor into two worlds, and there seemed to be a transparent barrier between Charlotte and the crowd, separating them.Charlotte's thoughts began to wander again, as if she had entered the rain curtain, rushed into the sky like thick ink, and her mind was like a ball of numbness, from the books she had read to the things she had seen, from the things she had seen From the people she met to her illusory yet real dream...

It wasn't until a man holding an umbrella walked past the window and finally pushed the door open that the violent bell on the door woke Charlotte from her thoughts.The man's face was full of anxiety. He put the umbrella on the umbrella stand by the door, and said to Charlotte who came up: "He fell from the second floor, please help me, he is bleeding all the time." In his arms was a brown puppy who had been whimpering.

Everyone in the lounge had stopped talking when the man came in. Among the crowd paying attention to Charlotte, Tammy quickly stood up and walked over, taking the puppy from the man's arms , "I'm going to do an inspection now, you can wait here for a while."

Tammy hugged the puppy and went to the treatment room at the back. The man relaxed a little bit, and finally saw a group of wives looking at him with fiery eyes. He smiled awkwardly and walked to the other side. Beside the shelf, start pretending to look at pet treats.Seeing this, the ladies turned their heads around and began to discuss in a low voice, "It's him, the one whose girlfriend ran away with someone else—" "It's poor, I heard that in the rain in the square that day Standing for nearly an hour"...

Charlotte ignored the gossiping ladies. He moved the stool to the shelf and said to the man, "Sit down for a while, sir. Your dog will be fine." The man nodded and sat down.Charlotte went to the kitchen and poured him a cup of hot tea, hoping to suppress the panic on his face.

Mrs. Betty and Tammy didn't come out the back door until the rain stopped.Mrs. Betty collected the money skillfully, and Tammy enthusiastically sent the smiling man out of the house. During this period, Charlotte had no place to be used.The outdoor sky was getting brighter, and the lampposts on the roadside were shining cleanly under the setting sun after being baptized by the rain. Charlotte looked at Mrs. Betty and Tammy who were tidying up the lounge together, took a deep breath, and shouted: " Mrs Betty."

Mrs. Betty put the plate she had just picked up back on the coffee table, and she looked back at Charlotte suspiciously.

"I think—I think tomorrow—" Even though she had prepared countless times, she couldn't say it again.

But Mrs. Betty understood what she meant, and her face was not disappointed, but joy was revealed, "Ah, tomorrow?" A big smile appeared on her face, "It means that since Tammy is recruited, You'd better report to Mr. Allen as soon as possible, I'm so happy today, I even forgot about it." Then she saw the guilt on Charlotte's face, she walked up to Charlotte, and told her Say, "It's not a bad thing, Charlie. You don't have to feel guilty about it."

"I'm afraid you'll look at me like Mrs. Brown." Charlotte lowered her head. She always remembered Mrs. Brown's evaluation of Mr. Brown's two apprentices. She didn't want her to become an ungrateful person in Mrs. Betty's heart. , Mrs. Betty is Ava and her benefactor, and she values ​​Mrs. Betty's opinion very much.

"I'm not Mrs. Brown, Charlie. I'm glad you have more opportunities to learn and have a better future." Mrs. Betty said softly, "I know you have always been a good boy. You are still young, and you still have It's a long way to go. Sometimes, you should think more about yourself, okay?"

Charlotte nodded, her nose was a little sore, how lucky was she to meet such an elder in her life?

"I will come back often, Mrs. Betty." Charlotte said softly, holding back her sobs.Since Ava's death, she has regarded Betty's pet store as her second home. No matter how far she goes in the future, she will never forget that there is a kind and gentle old man here, and she will never forget that she is here. What tender love has been felt here.Her heart will always be here with her.

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