Chapter 45: Is There a Ladder?
Charlotte recently picked up a new hobby, fishing. Today, the wind is beautiful, the sun is shining, the breeze is slow, the water is rippling, Mary carries a worm box, looking for fishing insects in the fertile soil under the big trees by the pond.
Charlotte wore a hat with a gauze net, and sat leisurely on the big rock by the pond, Charlotte was not worried about falling, and naughtily put her feet into the water.
"It's autumn, and the water is a little cold."
Didn't you come here to fish? How do you change it to foot soaking?
"Hmm~It's fun~"
Charlotte deliberately fluttered her feet, and the clear water was lifted up and turned into fine pieces of light and fell, splashing and wetting her dress, Charlotte was happy to do it.
"Charlotte, you're going to scare the fish away!"
Mary, who was looking forward to catching a big fish, worked hard to dig for insects, but she couldn't let Charlotte waste it.
"Don't you think playing in the water is much more fun than fishing, Mary?"
Charlotte's purpose of fishing is not to eat fish, but to like water, but unfortunately the pond is deep, Charlotte likes shallow ponds the most, light blue, turquoise, cyan, these are intertwined, all beautiful.
Mary shook off the mud from her hands, washed her hands by the pond, picked up the big rock in Charlotte's hand and took out the fishing rod.
"I'll be in charge of fishing, you go catch insects, as long as it's soft~".
As the novel speaks, a fishing insect is pinched, the insect body is still soft, and it is twisted around Mary's fingers, Charlotte retched, and couldn't stand Mary away,
I hate bugs the most, let her catch them? It can't be okay.
Mary had already walked away with the fishing rod, Charlotte looked at the mollusk rolling and entangled in the worm box and was so disgusted that she couldn't do it, and she opened her eyes in disgust, Charlotte decided not to think about catching insects for a while, but to play in the water~
In order to prevent Charlotte from making trouble, Mary decided to go fishing through the bushes to the pond on the other side, just walked into the bushes and saw a familiar face, Mary was stunned, the Duke of Windsor put his index finger on his lips and blew softly, Mary didn't know whether to remind Charlotte, who is this? Why do you peek at Charlotte here?
"Who are you?"
Mary didn't make a sound, only spoke with her breath, and Windsor smiled kindly at the children, and said in the same low voice,
"Duke of Windsor, little friend, keep it a secret for me. Goodbye~"
Is it the Duke of Windsor? She heard her right, right? Master of the Southlands, second heir to the throne? The man of the hour who will soon have a decisive battle with the prince?
Mary quickly shifted her gaze from looking at passers-by to adoring mode, but Windsor had already turned away and couldn't see Mary's adoring expression.
After Lydia was released, she lived by reading Charlotte's letters every day, and she was depressed for a few days when she learned that her daughter couldn't come back, until a letter from Mary suddenly became clear, her daughter and the Duke of Windsor really had a fate, or let them meet, it was okay not to come back, and I don't know how safe my daughter is to have Windsor's protection in the Southland.
After a month of absence, Emily's hair was half white, and she anxiously found Lydia, and her eyes were dyed with sorrow after a few days of happiness.
"Ma'am, Miss Cinderella is not in the room, I have searched all over the house, and I still don't see her, will I?"
Lydia folded the letter in her hand and put it away carefully, she had long expected that this little daughter would not be reconciled, she was such a stubborn person, it was good to go and see it, otherwise she would not give up,
"Sure, let her go."
"Madame, she is alone, alas!"
Although the lady and the eldest lady are Emily's center, Lydia and Cinderella encourage each other during her days in prison, and also accumulate a relationship, at this time she is sad on the road alone, Emily is a little relieved.
"Charles has something to do to go to the royal capital, and I told him to follow Cinderella secretly. Alas! This kid is stupid and stubborn, I don't know if he will turn back after suffering hardship. ”
Or Mrs. is considerate and thoughtful, and her vision is longer than herself, and it is good to trust Mrs. in everything, Emily calmed down and accompanied Mrs. to sew a dress for Miss Charlotte, the skirt was made of precious materials, silk was exchanged from the East, Mrs. cherished it, and Emily often had to take a hand.
Cinderella rode a horse and galloped on the street, she had been burned with anger in her chest, she could only see the road in her eyes and could not see people, Charles followed Cinderella not far behind, he was originally worried that following Cinderella would delay his trip, but he didn't expect it to be much faster, in the lively street where people come and go, although Cinderella is on a rampage, but thanks to excellent riding skills, no one has been hurt so far, Charles just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, and saw the dangerous situation not far ahead.
On the roadside mask stall, a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old led a boy of seven or eight years old, they were like two sisters and brothers, I don't know why they argued, the girl pushed the boy hard, and the boy fell uncontrollably in the middle of the road. Cinderella's horse galloped towards the weeping boy, and the sister, seeing the prelude to a tragedy from the exclamations of others, rushed in horror and hugged the boy, wrapping him tightly with her body.
When Cinderella found the boy, she confidently pulled the rope, it was not difficult for the horse to jump over the boy, and when the horse's hooves jumped high, the boy's sister suddenly rushed over and hugged him, Cinderella miscalculated the height, and the hind hooves landed on the girl,
"Ahh
Hearing the girl's groans of pain, Cinderella panicked and tried to run away immediately, but the people in the street gradually gathered around, and people blamed her and took pity on the little girl.
The girl's shirt was torn, and there were two bloody marks on her back, and Chu Chu lay on the ground pitifully, and the boy had long forgotten his sister's action of pushing him, and yelled at Cinderella viciously.
The scolding continued, and Cinderella's guilt at the sight of the girl's injury was replaced by anger, and she kicked the horse's belly in hatred, and the horse neighed and raised its hooves and galloped away, and the crowd of people could not dodge and bump into a piece, and the screaming and scolding was doubled.
Charles couldn't predict the emergency, so he had to clean up the mess for the master after the incident, and distributed a little gold and silver to everyone to see the excitement, but the two sisters and brothers were not easy to deal with, and they didn't say anything when they asked him, and the adults in the family were nowhere to be seen.
The younger brother knew that Charles was in the same group as the person who had just injured his sister, so he didn't want to deal with him.
"Forget it, I'll take your sister to the doctor, you follow, and then go home and find your parents to pick you up, nod if it's okay."
The younger brother nodded in agreement, and Charles looked worriedly at the direction in which Cinderella left, and reluctantly picked up his sister to find a doctor.
After smearing the potion for a week, Charlotte felt the smell of potion all over her body, and today she finally used up the medicine left by Egubu, and her body is almost fine, so she can take a bath~
In order to take a bath conveniently, Charlotte asked Igub to find someone to design a shower for her, and today is the first time to use it, Charlotte excitedly closed the door and stripped naked, Mary also wanted to observe how she washed it, but was kicked out by the shy Charlotte.
After being driven out, Mary wandered the yard boredom counting the stars, and the fireflies were left in the autumn, floating lazily among the flowers and grasses, and the cool evening breeze carried the fragrance of ripeness.
The sound of a heavy object falling under the outer wall of the street caught Mary's attention, and it was vaguely recognizable that it was a man, and the man slowly walked out of the dark shadow of the corner, and the psychedelic light of the night was not as psychedelic as his side face.
"Is there a ladder?"
The Duke of Windsor's smiling appearance is too easy to deceive, Mary nodded frantically, trotted and dragged the ladder, Windsor smiled embarrassedly when she saw her struggling, and quickly took the ladder from Mary's hand and set it up outside Charlotte's window, in fact, he didn't have to climb the ladder so hard, but he was afraid that the cornices and walls would have a bad impact on the girl, so he thought of climbing the ladder. (Is it good to climb the window in the middle of the night to peep at girls!?) Windsor laughs: Mary is still young, she doesn't understand. )
Mary is intoxicated by the duke's handsome back, and the duke's action of climbing the ladder is also very cool!
There is no bath with shower gel essential oil, Charlotte is still very comfortable, the bubbles rubbed out by the honey locust have the natural fragrance of plants, easy to wash clean and refreshing, the only deficiency is the long blonde hair slightly curly, Charlotte used to have straight hair, she didn't know how to take care of herself after leaving Lydia, Mary was too young to help, Charlotte shook her hair in distress, not knowing what to do.
The heart that wanted to take a bath before was too restless, and she didn't even take the dressing gown, Charlotte thought that there was no one in the room anyway, and Mary must have gone out to play, and she wouldn't agree if she was asked, so she should go out and get it herself. Turning off the shower, gently wiping every inch of her skin with a towel and absorbing the droplets of water hanging from her hair, Charlotte slowly walked out of the bathroom.
Windsor had just climbed to the window, and before he could take a look, he heard a sound of the door opening, afraid of being discovered, he quickly buried his head, and listened quietly for a while There was no movement inside, Windsor looked into the room cautiously.
After rummaging through the bedroom several times and not finding a clean dressing gown, Charlotte grabbed her messy hair and rushed to the living room window,
"Mary, Mary? My dressing gown is gone! ”
As soon as poor Windsor raised his head, he looked into the deep ditch in the middle of a pair of snowy peaks, and suddenly his head was hot and his limbs were numb and he slipped down the ladder, Mary exclaimed and helped the Duke of Windsor up, seeing that the Duke was bleeding from his nose, Mary asked anxiously,
"Lord Duke, are you hurt? How did it bleed? What else are you uncomfortable with? ”
Windsor's face turned red, and she escaped Mary's support and jumped out of the Egub house with ease.
Charlotte pushed open the window, wrapped in a towel, looking puzzled,
"Mary? Who did you just talk to? ”
Mary clearly denied it with a weak heart,
"No, no one. I was talking to myself. ”
Charlotte raised her eyebrows and pointed to the ladder,
"And how do you explain this?"