Paucus still looked the same as before, except that she often stayed up all night, sitting at Red's bed and watching him.

After that day, Tom - or the other name she should call him, he never showed up again. For several days, she had cleaned every corner of the house, throwing away and burning all the plates, teacups, chairs, sofa cushions, pillows, etc. that he had used. The floors were painted over and over again, and the carpets were given to the neighbors.

She tried her best to take a shower, throwing away the sheets, pillows, clothes, everything he had used to lie down.

Red watched his mother do these things and never spoke.

She used to tease him about his father, asking him if he missed him and remembered him, but now she wanted to dig everything out of his head.

She thought about running away with Red, and even asked the priest about a ticket to a foreign country, and she carefully calculated the distance, where to go, which train to take, and where to board the ship. How long she has enough money, where are they going, what kind of job she can get, etc.

But she soon remembered the time she had taken Red to London, and he had caught up with him.

- She didn't know if it was her or Red, or both. Those sorcerers' dirty little tricks, little spells.

He can find them. If they escaped, he would immediately catch up, and then she would not be able to protect Rhett at all. She couldn't explain why she had fled.

She put away the locket that Tom had given to Red and wanted to throw it away, but she didn't dare. She hid it in many different places, in the attic, or buried it in a flower bed, and finally she put it in an old shoebox under the bed.

What was she going to do?

She struggled to remember about the book. Ha! It turns out that she is not a living person, it turns out that she is really dead! And even all this is fake! Just a book! A fairy tale! Everything is fake!

Paussie couldn't laugh.

She saw Rhett standing by the door, he was so young and sensible. Even though she was going crazy all this time, he never cried. She walked over and took him into her arms, even if it was for him, she couldn't just give up.

It's been many years, and there's not much she can remember. She remembers the story of a young boy who began to resemble "Cinderella" and suffered at a relative's house, living in a cupboard, wearing old clothes, and working non-stop every day. And then just like in "King Arthur", one day, a wizard told him that he had sent him here so that he could grow up in a safe place, because his parents had been killed, and he had a great mission to defeat a demon king and save the wizard and the world from evil. Then the little boy met two friends in a magic school, a lively boy and a serious girl, and the three of them defeated the demon king after many things, and everyone lived happily ever after.

And then the wizard who went to pick up the little boy, like the Great Wizard Merlin in "The Legend of Arthur", was the old wizard who came to Red's birthday dinner that day, Dumbledore.

- She remembered who this man was now, the headmaster of the school of witchcraft and wizardry.

The Great Demon King is Tom - of course, he is not yet a Demon King.

And the little hero hasn't been born yet, maybe even his parents haven't been born yet.

Baosi now wishes that the little hero would be born soon, and he would grow up immediately, and time would fly like a fly to the time when the Great Demon King was defeated.

Then she won't have to be afraid.

Right now...... Who can help her?

Go to the headmaster of the wizarding school? Not knowing how much it would work, she begged him to hide their mother and son? But from that night, it seemed that Tom had not gone bad now, and Dumbledore still regarded him as his student. He probably won't believe her and think that Tom is going to hurt their mother and son.

—or could she tell him what Tom was going to do in the future? Disguised as a prophecy?

No, she remembered that there was a prophet in the story, a very humble female professor. And wizards seem to have many ways to get people to tell the truth, with a kind of medicine or a spell.

She couldn't take any chances. There were too many loopholes to do so, and she wasn't sure she could hide it from all the wizards. And then she couldn't protect Red, just thinking about how the old wizard did to that little hero, she couldn't help but think about whether he would do the same to Red.

- Missionary or heroic?

No, she wouldn't let people choose their path for Red. When he grows up, he chooses the path he wants to take. And she didn't want people to look at him with prejudice. Tom is his father, but what Tom does has nothing to do with him, and it doesn't mean that he will become like his father in the future.

If she takes Red to the wizards and tells them what Tom will do, then they might help them and teach Red to be on guard. They may tell him what his father has done and remind him not to follow the same path as his father. If he does something wrong, even the smallest thing will become big in the eyes of those people.

- She can't do that.

A year passed, and Tom seemed to have disappeared and never returned.

She couldn't help but think, maybe he would never come back? Maybe he abandoned them? That's great! Maybe he thinks they're worthless, yes, that's it. She's a 'Muggle' in the eyes of wizards, and Red is a half-blood, and maybe he hates them.

She was nervous and expectant.

When Red was four years old, she discovered that he could play with snakes just like Tom did when he was a child. She remembered that the demon king could speak snake language, and she remembered that when Tom had killed a rabbit with a snake, she didn't think it was because he could talk to snakes - yes, who would think so?

- Now Red is like his father when he was a child.

Watch him play with a snake without a teacher, the little snake is like a toy in his hand, obediently coiled around his arm. Just like Tom back then.

Paucus knew she had to do something.

She borrowed a typewriter from the priest and wrote several fairy tales, including Harry Potter. She wrote it into a short story of several thousand words, accompanied by a few pages of pictures, about a little boy who has no parents since he was a child, suffers and suffers, and one day he discovers that he has an enemy, and then tries to learn magic swordsmanship, and finally defeats the devil with the help of his friends.

The story is simple and mundane, and like many adventure magic stories, it's not at all remarkable.

— and then she rewrote the 'story' in Chinese later.

She gave these little stories to the priest, who said she wrote them well. The church didn't have enough money to buy books for all the church schools or orphanages, so he could make a simple storybook and put it in the church for the village children to read.

Pauss enthusiastically offered to help, and she went home with a few printed books.

She sent some of her old clothes and these books back to London as a gift to Susan. She knew Susan, as long as it was sent to her, no matter how worn and old it was, she would not lose it. She wouldn't even be able to read these books.

- She remembered her unjustified amnesia.

It so happened that she knew that the wizard had a spell that could make people amnesia, and it was after that that she met Tom. He took her away from London so enthusiastically, married her, and did everything possible to keep her here......

Thinking of this, Baosi hesitated a little. If he was really the Demon King, why did he marry her? Or even gave birth to Rhett?

- 'How could you possibly get pregnant?!' ’

Tom was so surprised the day he found out she was pregnant.

So, he didn't actually plan to get her pregnant.

After figuring this out, Pauss looked at Red with both regret and guilt. If she had known, she wouldn't have given birth to Red. She wouldn't let him have such a father.

- Why did she marry him so easily in the first place? She should have thought about it again!

Probably for Tom, marrying her wasn't a big deal, because she didn't matter at all. She looks at Red, who is playing with snakes, and he is what matters to Tom.

- Maybe she should take Red to the wizarding headmaster?

But she feared that if Tom had forgotten about them, it would be counterproductive for her to do so.

As the days passed, she felt more and more that Tom had forgotten about them, only to be awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night, in which Tom had come and snatched Red.

In the darkness of the night, he stormed through the gate with strong winds and torrential rain and snatched Red away.

At this point, Rose would wake up from her dreams, sweating profusely, and then sit on the edge of Red's bed all night watching him.

- What the hell is it going for her to protect him?

Ross lay helplessly beside his bedside and began to cry bitterly.

When Red was five and a half years old, Tom hadn't been here for three years. Paucus thought the time was ripe and he should have forgotten about them.

She got a job from the priest, she was willing to work in a school run by the church, any job was fine, she could do without money, she just wanted the priest to let Red go to school in the church school.

The priest gave her a letter of recommendation, which she took to buy a train ticket. She had a good idea, pretending to take Red to school first—if Tom came after her, she would at least have something to say.

If they leave the school and Tom hasn't caught up with them, she'll find a way to buy a ticket through the church and escape with Red to a foreign country. She decided to take Rhett to hide in Hong Kong, where there are foreigners, she and Rhett will not be very conspicuous there, and she knows Chinese, so it is not difficult to integrate into life there and find a job.

She packed her bags and didn't tell anyone that she was leaving, not even the priest who said she would leave next year. She wanted to leave quietly.

Red is already a sensible child, and he can't walk away with a pick like he did when he was a kid. Although he hadn't asked Tom about it or why his father hadn't come back, he had been standing by the door and watching while Rose was packing.

She knew she should explain to him that Red wasn't one of those kids who could be easily coaxed, and that she had to tell him part of the truth.

She looked for an opportunity, hugged him and said, "Red, will Mom take you to school?" ”

"Going to school?" He asked.

"Yes." She thought for a moment, smiled and said, "It's just a place where a lot of kids will play with you." He doesn't have any friends of the same age, and he just plays with the family dog and cat, and his snake.

"You can play every day, okay?"

He nodded, jumped off her knees and ran out to play with his snake.

She breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she persuaded him not to make a fuss. She wouldn't tell him anything else.

Everything was ready and the train tickets were bought. She didn't want a lot of things, so she simply packed some clothes for the two of them and sorted out two small suitcases. She borrowed a carriage, and when she drove it with Red, she went before dawn, and no one would know. When she is gone, it may take several days for the people in the village to find out.

The money and tickets were in the hidden pocket of the skirt, sewn tightly inside, and the outside could not be seen at all.

- No problem.

She told herself. Then deciding to have a good meal on the last night, she made a big meal and went outside to find Red.

But Red was gone.

She searched back and forth five or six times along the only road in the village, and had to admit that Red was really gone!

The villagers said they didn't see Red.

Ross is crazy.

She ran home, took the keys and change and was going to the post office to send a telegram without caring about anything, she had no choice! She had to find Tom right away, or the wizarding principal, or whoever it was!

Then she saw Tom sitting in the dining room with a sumptuous dinner she had made at the table in front of him.

"Tom!" She lunged over and grabbed him and shouted, "Rhett! Red is gone! He lost it! I can not find him! You go to see, you go, he's gone! I don't know who took him away! ”

She cried the moment she saw him, and at this moment she didn't care what kind of great demon he was, she even rejoiced that he was a powerful wizard, whether it was good or bad. If something happens to Red, he'll be able to save him!

He hugged her and didn't speak for a long time, then he spoke, "Don't worry, Rose, I let Rhett take him, and my friend took him out to play." ”

He grabbed her by the arm and sat her down, looked at the table and said, "He's not coming back tonight, let's eat." You did it all? ”

After hearing that he had taken Rhett away, Ross calmed down in the blink of an eye and began to think calmly. She sat down, wiped her tears, and complained slightly, "Why didn't you tell me?" Scared the hell out of me! ”

She was amazed to find that she could laugh easily, as if Red had really asked her father's friend to take her out to play.

"Yes, the soup is a little cold, I'll go hot and hot." She returned to the kitchen with the soup pot.

Tom asked her, "Are you going to go out?" ”

She knew it was because he saw the suitcase on the ground. She came back with the hot soup, and naturally served it to him, and said, "Yes, I'm going to take Rhett to London and go to church school." ”

She sat down, cut him two slices of bread, served the vegetables, and said, "He's almost six years old, and I think it's just right to start preparing now." I asked the priest for a letter of recommendation, and I would go with him and accompany him at school. I'm not going to rent it out, I'll bring it back with Rhett during the holidays. ”

She said as if that's exactly what she was going to do. She hadn't been looking at him for too long, but she wouldn't fail to look into his eyes, which would have made him suspicious.

"Hmm." He nodded and said nothing.

After eating, she went to boil water for him to bathe, and then she made the bed in the bedroom. When he came out of the shower, she leaned into his arms like any wife who hadn't seen her husband for a long time, and everything was in order.

She stretched, almost passionately tangled with him, until they both sweated profusely. They lay on a bed, and she leaned into his arms as if drowsy.

He said, "Red doesn't go to Muggle school, he goes to wizarding school." You don't have to rush. ”

"Really?" She yawned, "Okay. She said, as if she was so tired that she didn't have the energy to speak anymore.

He's still saying, "...... There's still a long time, so you can sleep first. ”

She closed her eyes, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw him reach for the wand that was placed at the head of the bed.

- Don't tremble.

Her whole body relaxed, as if she hadn't noticed anything, and was ready to fall asleep.

A blinding white light exploded in her mind, and she ......

A week later, a patient was admitted to the London Mission Hospital, who had no identification papers and could not even tell her name.