At the end of 1980, snowflakes fell and accumulated overnight, decorating the whole of Paris like a silver-white fairy tale.

On rooftops, on the side of the street, in front of shops...... Almost everywhere seems to be covered with a layer of white whipped cream, and you can't help but want to pick up a handful and taste it.

Muggles came and went on this cold morning, crunching through the snow and exhaling water vapor rising lightly into the hazy air.

The rotation of the four seasons is the charm of nature.

It was this early morning that Blois Castle was also covered with a thick white quilt, which looked soft and not so cold.

Fort Blois looks busy today, and the snow in the atrium has not yet been cleared. The servants hurried back and forth in the snow, mostly with happy smiles, as if something great had happened in the fort.

A series of footprints became clearer and clearer in the vast courtyard, and at the end of the day, a wet snow path was trodden out.

"Is the kitchen ready? The first guests should be here soon, and everyone hastened—"

A handsome head maid stood at the door of the main castle, waving her hands neatly and commanding the servants in a loud voice, like a female conductor of a symphony orchestra.

But after saying a few words, he disappeared in place with a "crackle", leaving only a pair of deep footprints on the ground.

It seemed that she saw that there was no big problem here, so she apparitioned and went somewhere else to wave the baton.

"Oops! The eldest lady is about to give birth, and I don't know if the child will follow the father or the mother! ”

In the hallway at the edge of the atrium, two young maids apparitions appeared almost simultaneously. They greeted each other and chatted as they walked......

"It's right to be called 'Madame'! Even if you're here with your wife, it's time to change your mind! The other maid poked her waist with one free hand, and said with a smile, "As far as the appearance of the lord and the lady, no matter who it is, it is not the same!" ”

"Yes, yes! You say......" whispered the maid who spoke at first, "is it a boy or a girl?" ”

"I heard that the master doesn't care about men and women, he likes children! Therefore, neither the lady nor the lord had any intention of divination, but waited for Walden's blessing (1)! ”

"Alas...... The eldest lady is really happy! I don't know where my other half is? ”

"It's 'Madame', oops—you can't remember! I'll tell you......"

The maids were beaming with joy and teasing each other with envious looks, as they went to the other side of the corridor.

In a short time, the first guests had already arrived at the gate, and the extravagant carriages were precisely parked in the square in front of the courtyard, and the carriages were all printed with exquisite family crests without exception.

The French Blois family has always been low-key, but no matter how low-key it is, the wife of the new head of the family gave birth to her first child, which must not be ignored.

In the modern wizarding world, where pure-blood families are declining, the rebirth of an ancient bloodline represents the continuation of a noble tradition and the glory of the pure-blood family as a whole.

However, this generation of the head of the Blois family is a little different, because he did not ask the prophet to do divination, as was the case in the past.

That being said, with the invisible position of the Blois family in the French magical world, other families would not be stopped because of this little thing.

Soon, many guests who had done their proper manners were led by the servants and went to the second auditorium of the main castle one after another.

The first batch of guests who came early in the morning were not very high. They are here just to rub the big scene, and they are just familiar with the big families that can't intersect on weekdays.

Social conventions like this, whether in the Muggle world or in the wizarding world, make much difference.

In any case, Fort Blois is finally really lively today.

However, contrary to the warm atmosphere of the main fort. In the makeshift delivery room where the wife of the family was, the warm air seemed to be filled with a tense feeling like preparing for war before the army.

This temporary delivery room was specially packed out as a pregnant woman's bedroom when she was found to be pregnant.

At this moment, the lady was lying flat on the soft bed with a big belly, and the hair on her forehead was wet with sweat.

"Is it almost time?"

"Wait, wait......"

At the bedside, a handsome man anxiously asked the head nurse of the family, and the sweat on his cheeks was not much less than that of his wife.

"Honey, how do you feel?" The man approached the bed, held his wife's hand, and asked.

But his wife just shook her head slightly, signaling him not to be in such a hurry.

Time passed little by little, and the young head of the family, who really couldn't hold back this torment, went back and forth, and finally took the initiative to walk out of the room in order not to make his wife uneasy.

Leaning against the wall of the corridor outside, the man took a deep breath and began to mutter two names that had been booked just last night.

This waiting time seems to be infinitely extended, and there is no end to it.

The servants who ran from the porch to and from here had to salute him every time they passed by. But now his mind is full of his wife and the child she is about to give birth to in her womb, where can he take care of this.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the makeshift delivery room, and it seemed that this most critical moment had finally arrived!

"Oh! May Waldo bless! Boys and girls are fine, as long as my wife and children are healthy! The man stretched out his finger and drew an ancient symbol on his forehead.

This time he finally didn't have to wait too long, and with a clear cry, the child was born!

The man's eyes widened suddenly, and his handsome face showed great joy. He jerked around and took a step, opened the door and tried to enter, almost colliding with the maid with the washbasin.

"Oh! I'm sorry, old-"

"Let's let, let's go! It's okay, let me go! ”

He couldn't wait, so he simply turned sideways and pushed past the maid.

"Oh! Madame, how's it going—"

Before the words fell, an inexplicable aura suddenly spread in the delivery room. Including the lady who had just given birth, everyone's faces were stunned, and their eyes lost focus.

In the room, only the baby who had just been wiped clean and was still lying on the soft cot was still screaming and crying. The cry echoed through the room, and it seemed extremely secretive.

At this moment, with a cracking sound, the jewel pendant on the man's chest suddenly cracked.

He suddenly came back to his senses in a daze.

"How...... What's going on? ”

He looked left and right, only to find that everyone else was staring straight ahead with blank faces, and the scene was terrifying.

“……”

The man was stunned, his mouth half open, but he didn't know what to say or who to speak.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he rudely ripped open the collar of his shirt and put his hand on his chest. Immediately, he took out the necklace that had been hanging on his chest since he was a child, and looked at the part of the pendant in disbelief.

“…… Cracked? Is it really cracked? He gazed deeply at the shattered pendant gem and muttered, "The warning on the title page of the family tree...... Is it true? ”

Just as he was stunned, everyone in the room suddenly twisted their necks and looked strangely at the baby who was still crying.

The young head of the family suddenly came back to his senses, and he drew his wand with great decisiveness, and released more than a dozen spells in succession.

But when the tip of the staff was pointed at his wife, his arm subconsciously stiffened.

No matter how safe the spell is, it is also a curse, and the wife has just given birth, and her body is the weakest, in case the effect of the spell affects her body......

After a moment of hesitation, the young woman sitting on the bed suddenly burst into action, rolled out of the covers, and fell to the floor.

But she didn't realize it, and with a low cry in her throat, she crawled frantically towards him.

A streak of red flowed from the woman's lower body and fell to the floor, rubbing into a blurred mark of viscous blood.

"Tong, Tongtong Petrochemical-"

Seeing that the longer it dragged on, the worse the situation would become, and the man finally made up his mind and imprisoned his wife with a wave of his wand.

As soon as he finished casting the spell, he picked up his stiff wife and put her back on the bed.

Then, he hurriedly rummaged through the potions cabinet that he had prepared beside him, took out a bottle of potion, broke his wife's mouth and fed it.

After all this was done, he looked at his wife a few more times with a worried face, and then reluctantly picked up the still crying baby, pulled his legs and ran outside.

The child is too young to be able to move with his retinue. What he regrets the most at the moment is why he didn't exercise his body properly.

There were so many minions along the way that he had to free his hands and cast spells as he ran, knocking out or imprisoning everyone he met along the way.

For a moment, the side fort of Fort Blois was a complete chaos, and almost every other distance he passed, a man fell to the ground unconscious.

He was barely relieved when he went downstairs out of breath and plunged headlong into the basement.

According to the title page of the family tree, it must be the girl who may awaken the curse. However, the time of the awakening of the curse is not fixed, from the moment of birth, until the age of 22, it is possible.

But the chance of the curse awakening is so low that there hasn't been a single instance in the last few hundred years. And the warning on the title page of the family tree has even become a kind of "inheritance ritual".

Only at the ceremony of appointing the next head of the family will the ancient family tree be invited and read out, and that's it.

"Why...... Why is it my child? Why ...... My Willy! ”