The Vanderbilt family's special caravans were very spacious, with 2 master bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, 6 guest rooms, 4 servants' rooms, 2 guardhouses (one at the end and one at the end), 1 secretarial room with telegraph system, dining room, kitchen, tea room, reception room, meeting room, office and games room, which were even longer than the regular passenger car. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After getting on the bus, Adele carried little Eric and went straight to the master bedroom of the car. On the way here just now, the little guy woke himself up with a soak of urine and cried for a while. Adele had to help him change his diaper.

Mary and Grandma Susan will be busy directing the crowd to rearrange the carriages. That's right, it's a rearrangement. Although the original layout in the travel car was no worse than that of a high-end hotel, it obviously did not fully meet all the needs of Adele and her party.

Don't look at the fact that there were only about a dozen people in their group, and they only stayed on the train for less than two days. But they really brought a lot of things with them this time, from Little Eric's cradle to the juicer used to make juice for little Ella, and even Adele's tea set and the crimson Vietnamese vase that never left her.

By the time Adele lulled little Eric to sleep, Mary and the others were still busy. Adele suddenly found that little Ella was missing, and hurriedly searched around. Pushing open the door of the conference room, the scene in front of her almost made Adele hold her breath. Ella actually climbed onto the back of the sofa in the reception room with her shoes on, and was trying to remove a picture frame from the wall.

"Ella, you come down for me!" Adele was really angry this time, "How can there be a girl like you!" ”

"Mom. Do you think this person is my father when he was a child? As if she hadn't noticed her mother's anger, Little Ella pointed to a five or six-year-old boy in a family photo.

"It should be, don't you see that it's not your Grandpa George standing behind him?" It's not the first time Adele has seen this family photo, they also have one at home. I remember her husband once told her that this family photo was taken in 1909 on the 60th birthday of the third uncle, William Sagem Vanderbilt, when he was only 5 years old.

However, Adele soon discovered that this photo was a little different from the one at home. Behind her husband, to the right of her father-in-law, George, there was a very beautiful young lady, but there was no such person in the family photo.

"Who's that woman next to Grandpa? She's so beautiful, I've never seen her in a photo before. Little Ella pointed to the woman and continued to ask curiously.

"I haven't seen it either, maybe it's some relative at home." Adele was telling the truth, the woman in the photo had really never been seen before. However, she has a faint feeling that this woman who has been erased from the family portrait (there were also photo retouching in that era) is likely to be the "mother-in-law" she has never met.

Over the years since marrying into the Vanderbilt family, Adele has also heard some rumors about her "mother-in-law". However, because John has always been secretive about his biological mother, Adele is very conscious and never takes the initiative to inquire. This is the first time Adele has seen a photo of her "mother-in-law" herself.

Judging from the photos, the young "mother-in-law" is really a woman full of "charm", and the Hollywood porn star Hedy Lamarr (the world's first female movie star to appear naked in a movie, is also a female inventor, she invented spread spectrum communication technology in 1941 - the predecessor of CDMA) is somewhat similar.

Although there are seven or eight young and beautiful ladies and eldest ladies in the photo, this woman is undoubtedly the most dazzling of them. Whoever sees this photo will notice her at first sight. Even Adele had to admit that only in terms of her appearance, she knew that only Cousin Consuelo could compare to her.

It's just that unlike Consuelo, a generation of celebrities who are enthusiastic about charity, her "mother-in-law" has become a well-known "courtesan" in the European social circle after returning to France. Not only has she been married four or five times, but she has also maintained an underground lover relationship with many powerful children for a long time.

It's a shame. Adele sighed secretly in her heart. How could the soul of such a woman who was favored by the Creator have fallen to such a degree. In Adele's view, who was educated in the church since childhood, this woman who was morally corrupt and disgraced her husband was destined to go to hell after death.

"Mom? Mom! When Adele stared at the photo in a daze, little Ella had already jumped off the sofa, pulled the corner of her clothes and said, "I'm thirsty." I want to drink juice. ”

"Oh, well, let's go find Mary and ask her to get you some juice to drink." Adele, who came back to her senses, hurriedly took her daughter's hand and left the room. She didn't want little Ella to have any connection with this materialistic depraved woman, even if it was just an old yellowed photo.

While Adele and the others left for Louisiana, John and Miller were busy packing up his new home in Alexandria under Mary's direction.

Originally, according to the 82nd Division's training plan, the whole division would have two days off after completing the 25-mile weight-bearing march training. Some of the soldiers who performed well were also allowed to leave the Klabe barracks and go to Alexandria. John also plans to use this time to finish the affairs of his new home.

As a result, John and Bradley underestimated how excited the recruits were about their first vacation. The night before the holiday, there was a large-scale drunken brawl at the barracks welfare cooperative, and the gendarmerie locked up more than 60 people in one go before they could barely control the situation.

Afterwards, in order to avoid the recurrence of such vicious incidents, Bradley convened a meeting of the main officers of the division headquarters overnight, and temporarily decided to cancel the leave of all the officers of the division. Since Colonel Martin of the 505th Regiment had taken leave of absence before the incident, John was ordered to go to the 505th Regiment to ensure that the regiment survived the two-day holiday.

So, it wasn't until the day before Adele and her party arrived in Alexandria that John barely managed to find time to get back to the city to prepare for the arrival of his wife and children.

The problem is that since he was born, John has grown up under the service of a large number of housekeepers, nannies, and servants. Tidying up the room, he never just talks about it. After getting married, these have always been Adele's cooking, and he has become a hands-off shopkeeper, and he rarely even moves his mouth.

Now, at best, John is able to take care of himself. Anyway, he lived independently for a while when he was a student at Columbia University. And he used to go camping and hunting almost every year, and small things such as laundry and cooking were not difficult for him. Otherwise, he would have finished his training at Fort Leavenworth Military Academy.

However, it was obviously an impossible task for him and Miller to pack up a total of 32 rooms on four and a half floors (including the basement and attic) and the two courtyards in one day.

Faced with dusty rooms, messy furniture, and hundreds of unopened suitcases, John and Miller realized something was wrong.