That strange witch, Natmay, had not been seen since that night.

Time flies, and spring has arrived in the blink of an eye.

Pauce knew she couldn't rush to find Red. She couldn't do it herself, and the witch obviously didn't know that Tom had a child with her. As she thought, Tom wouldn't tell anyone about Red being his son.

This way Rhett should be safe by now.

No matter where he is, as long as the people who take care of him don't know that he is Tom's son, he is not so dangerous.

She also warns herself that she can't show the slightest concern if it is found out that Red is her and Tom's son. It doesn't matter at all that she's going to act like Rhett.

She deposited the rest of her money in the bank, and she found that this was the first time she had ever thought about keeping it in the bank. In the past, she would rather hide her money at home, as if she was always ready to run away with all the money.

- Tom is dead. Or that he 'should' be dead, although she hadn't really thought about it, but deep down she should have relaxed. She really started to think about settling down here and slowly began to live a peaceful life.

She worked as a director in the church hospital, which was enough for her to live. In fact, it's just miscellaneous. She is not a nurse and cannot help doctors. Nor is it a clergy and is not responsible for the management of the hospital. But in fact she was busy every day, and Sister Maria did not seem to want to stay in the hospital for long, and she wanted to return to the convent as soon as possible.

She had been desperately lobbying for Pauss to become a nun lately, and she suspected that she was trying to dump all the work of the church hospital on her. Then she could go back to the monastery and continue to serve God.

She could understand why she wanted to do this, and if there was a place where she could eat three meals a day without having to work, she would certainly be willing to stay there forever. After all, the monastery is not like the church, where so many believers go to God for confession every day.

- All of this was Paul's own guess, after all, she had never been to the monastery.

She is now baptized and given a Christian name, and everyone in the hospital calls her 'Ann.'

"Ann, your husband is dead, and I know you are very sad. But God's love is eternal and great, and He will never leave you, will never forsake you, and will always love you. ”

From Sister Maria's face, Pauss could tell that she was completely convinced that this was the case. As long as you throw yourself into the arms of God, you have the most generous love in the world.

Pauss politely refused, and implicitly told the nun that the neighbor was looking for a second husband for her.

The nun was disappointed, but she did not give up and continued to convince Pause that God's love is better than worldly love.

Ever since Rose had held that expensive funeral for Tom, it was somehow rumored among the neighbors that she had inherited a large inheritance from her husband, who was a seaman. In hindsight, she found that almost everyone thought so.

- She got rich.

And then, she was still very young, and she had no children—she hadn't told anyone about Rhett, and she was so rich, and now she had no husband, and she was a very poor widow, oh, how she needed a solid pair of shoulders to support her miserable life.

That's what everybody told her.

It was also the first time she found herself so popular, and there were so many unmarried men around her who couldn't find a suitable wife like her.

Paucus had no choice but to continue to wear black or other dark dresses and live the life of a widow - she had never thought of it before. She thought it would be over after Tom's funeral. As a result, she now finds that she is more connected to Tom. All the people here began to call her 'Mrs. Riddle,' and everyone thought that she was basking in the grief of her husband's death, and that every sentimental neighbor came to keep her company, to comfort her, and not to make her feel lonely.

— and then every lady would cry in front of her.

She had no choice but to wipe away her tears, saying how much she missed Tom, how inseparable she was from him, and how happy, happy, and loving they were. Oh, how does she live? Not even the cookies could make her happy.

- Of course, she has no plans to remarry now. She thought she had had enough of the disadvantages of getting married without careful consideration.

So when the neighbor enthusiastically stood in front of her with one man after another in a plaid suit, either Mediterranean or not, she could only keep crying and missing her 'ex-husband' Tom.

"How I love him! I can't believe he just left me! When she couldn't lift her head from crying, the neighbors had to leave with their relatives, friends, and uncle's sons.......

She'd already had time to look at the things she had touched from Tom. The ring with a black stone on it was supposed to be the Resurrection Stone, and it was just a normal ring now.

- because when she saw it, she didn't hear a voice that kept telling her to put it on.

She guessed that Tom hadn't had a chance to do anything about it yet. She kept it in an old cookie box, along with old keys, thimbles, buttons, needles, and threads, and a few pennies of old coins, which were nothing but inconspicuous.

The dagger was not invisible, but there were a few large gems on it that Paucus wanted to pry them off and take them to the pawnshop for a moment—if she took the whole dagger, she was afraid that she would get into trouble.

It's just that the small black cloth bag that she used as a small purse, looks like it's half a palm big, I don't know what kind of cloth is used, the mouth of the bag is closed with a thick thread, but I don't know how many wizard gold coins are inside!

At that time, she just turned it upside down against the pillow quilt, and the gold coin fell out as if it could never be poured again! In the blink of an eye, the whole bed was covered, and it looked like she didn't know how many were still in it, so frightened that she quickly reloaded it. Holding the heavy gold coin in her hand, Baosi was very satisfied.

She was truly grateful to Tom for all that he had left her. As a husband - regardless of his side as a wizard, he is still very competent.

The last two things were also in that little black cloth bag, and they were two notebooks. One of them she recognized at a glance as her own, the other had a name on the first page: 'Tom Riddle', and on the back cover of it was a small chapter that read: 'Pease, Distributor of the Shops on Vauxhall Road, London'.

- Is this the magic notebook?

She wondered, now that Tom was gone, would it still work? Or is Tom trying to find a way to resurrect? Should she ruin it?

She thought about it for a day with this old-looking notebook.

No, she can't hand over this notebook until she finds Red. She believed that the journal could give her some revelation - it must know Tom's secret, because it was Tom.

She first tried to sprinkle some ink on it, she snorted, turned to look for the rag, and by the time she came back with the rag, the ink was gone.

She 'weirdly' flipped through a few pages and looked at it, shrugging her shoulders as if she had made a mistake herself. Then she sat down and started writing a 'diary'

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March 14, 1956

Today, I went to see Tom at the cemetery, and I brought him a bouquet of flowers. I can't believe he's left me until now.

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At first, the diary did not change, it was like an ordinary notebook.

She writes a few words on it every day, telling her uneasiness and disbelief about Tom's 'disappearance' or 'death', and how much she misses him.

After the witch Natme Indontris came, it took her a few days to write about it.

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Today a strange woman came to the house, and she said she was a witch. Tom had told me he was a wizard, but I never took it seriously. I thought he was just joking.

She attacked me with the little stick in her hand, called the wizard's wand or something. She said Tom was missing, and I wanted to ask her more about it, but she suddenly disappeared.

I drank the medicine Tom had left for me, and I thought, what Tom said might be true. So where is he now?

Is he really dead?

Or was he captured by some other wizard?

Hopefully the witch will come to me again, I want to know more.

I wonder if it's possible that Tom is still alive.

If he were really alive, then I wouldn't have anything else to ask for!

May God bless Tom.

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A few days later, late one night, as she sat at her desk again and spoke to the diary about her love for Tom, a large number of words suddenly disappeared, and she exclaimed, and then a beautiful line of English could almost be considered standard on the page.

- She had never written a word or line that Tom had written. It seems that his handwriting is good.

'Silk. I'm Tom. ’

Pauss paused for ten minutes before continuing:

'Tom? Am I dreaming? Or is it the devil's game? Whatever it is, thank God for me to see you again! Tom, Tom, how can you leave me? ’

'Rose, I don't know what's going on. Can you tell me more? I will definitely come back to you. My little cutie, how can I be willing to leave you? ’

Rose stared at the 'cutie' for a minute, goosebumps all over her body. Either Tom hadn't remembered who she was, or he had forgotten about her when he was making the diary, and they probably hadn't reunited at Little Hangleton at that time. Personally, she thinks it's the second.

'Tom! Tom! She couldn't write any more sensual words, so she had to keep writing his name, which made her even more excited, didn't it?

And then, as he asked, she wrote out everything that had happened since the reunion. This reunion refers to their reunion in the hospital, you know, she is a 'amnesia' person.

When she writes that they are married and have a child, it is obvious to her that Tom in the diary seems very unacceptable, because he continues to write back to her after a full day.

Of course, she called his name again.

'Tom! Tom! Why didn't you answer me? Don't leave me again! ’

Tom in the diary begins to complain.

'Pauls, my Rose. Of course I won't leave you. But I am very weak now, and if possible, I am willing to be with you day and night, without a moment of separation. ’

Oh, it's pretty much a no-brainer. Pauss went on to write:

So how can I help you? Tom, Tom, I want to see you soon. ’

- Yes, she did want to meet him. Even if it was him in the diary, this eagerness was on par with her desire to see Red. But the difference was that she was looking forward to seeing Red and kissing him hard, whereas after meeting Tom, it was hard to tell if she wanted to hit him hard or give him another shot.

She waited for him to say that he was going to take her to the diary, so that the two could meet. As a result, after a long time, he wrote down an address.

Leaky Cauldron Bar.

Paussy followed the address Tom had written in his diary and found a department store next to it and a tailor shop on the other, and the place he spoke of was a corner wall.

Taking advantage of the crowd's inattention, Rose slammed into the wall. She closed her eyes tightly, ready to hit the wall, but when she opened them again, she found herself in a dimly lit bar, with some old broken wood tables in the corner, and a man in front of the bar, who looked at her strangely.

"Hi, ma'am, who are you?" He said, constantly looking at the clothes she was wearing, "You're a Muggle?" How did you get in? ”

As Tom had taught her, "My son is going to wizarding school this year, and I'm here to buy something for him." ”

"Oh, I see." The man immediately laughed, "My name is Tom, are you going to Diagon Alley?" Come on, I'll send you over. You probably don't know that Muggles like you can't get there. ”

He graciously led Pauss through the bar, out the back door, around several large garbage cans, and standing in front of a low wall. He grimaced, and almost proudly pulled out his wand from his pocket and tapped it on the wall, which slid open and a street full of men wearing peaked wizard hats and wizard robes appeared before her.

Pauss's mouth opened in uncontrollable surprise. Seeing one or two wizards and seeing a group of wizards are completely different feelings.

"So, do you want me to take you to the bookstore?" This wizard, also named Tom, is much cuter than the other Tom.

Pauss smiled at him and said, "Thank you, no need." Someone wrote it all down for me. ”

Tom gave her a long list of shopping lists, some of which he bought in Diagon Alley, some of which he told her to go to Tumbledown Alley, and in his words, 'You just have to go to the end of Diagon Alley, and there's another path with signposts on it, and you can easily find it.' ’

But he didn't say a word about how dangerous it was for Muggles.

- Tom, Tom, you're Tom!

Pauss wrote it down but didn't plan to go. She didn't want to die.

She bought some potions first, and judging from the ones left by Dumbledore, many of the wizard's potions were very useful. Then I found a wizard tailor shop to order wizard robes - as the locals do. If she was going to come here more often in the future, it would be good for her to dress more like this, and she didn't want to be stared at with strange eyes all the time.

The witch's master tailor told her to come back in half an hour, and then the clothes would be ready. She was amazed, were wizards so fast? Then their lives are really convenient.

Everything here seemed to her to be so interesting, and with the large sum of gold coins left by Tom in her purse, she could buy everything here for as long as she liked. It made her nervous.

But in the end, she only bought what Tom asked her to buy.

She didn't know what the use of all these things Tom had asked her to buy, and some of the potions looked strange. She asked him, and he answered her.

He said, 'When the witch comes back, you can find a way to treat her to a cup of tea and ask her questions.' ’

Rose felt the potion bottle in her hand weigh up, and she felt that Tom's plan seemed a little too rough and eager, and he hadn't thought about what bad consequences might happen if he annoyed Natme Indontris.

Of course, she didn't expect that he would take her safety to heart, but now that he was just a notebook, wasn't he afraid that the witch would burn him in a fit of rage?

- Maybe it's just an illusion, but she gradually feels that Tom in the diary is a little too young.

He wasn't steady enough, like the Tom she knew before, and what he was going to do was going to be effective right away. He didn't care what the rest of the people in the orphanage thought of him, and he didn't care if the mothers in the orphanage hated him. He took everything he did as a demonstration.

Like now, he probably hadn't even thought about what the witch Natme Indontris would do to him, all he knew was to subdue her and ask her for more information about him.

- Paucus still knows too little. She didn't know anything about him in the wizarding world, and all she could give him was that they were married and had a baby, and that he would give her money every time he came back, and that he would be gone for four or five months or something. That's not enough for him.

And to Tom in the diary, the witch was just a stranger. He didn't have the slightest affection for her, so he was able to do it.

Pauc wants to delay for a few days until she comes up with a good way to kill herself before she finds Red. She excused herself from being able to find the witch, so she had to wait at home. Tom began to be anxious, and he urged her every day, and even questioned her:

'Paus, if you really love me as much as you say you do, then do as I say!' Find the witch! Bring her! ’

This little idiot! Only orders others!

While angry, Pauss cried and pleaded in her diary:

'Tom! Tom! I love you! I love you so much! I'm willing to do anything for you! ’

In the midst of this difficult tug-of-war, in the middle of a night in May, Natme Indontris finally reappeared.