"Oh, what's wrong with our eldest lady today, you can giggle for a long time when you have dinner with us?" Vinoll couldn't help but chat when he saw that Evan had been smiling all the time since he had eaten.

When Evan heard this, he immediately coughed dryly, and his expression immediately returned to his usual cold appearance, and replied in a cold tone: "Is there one?" It's not always like that. ”

"Eh, if the eldest lady is like this, then it will be much easier for us, right, Izu?"

Vinol rubbed Isu next to him with his elbow, and Isu sat upright, picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, and said indifferently: "Maybe Ivan encountered something that made her happy, but it was definitely not because of eating with us." ”

Hearing Isu's rare echo with Vinol, he pursed his lips and squinted his eyes at the two opposite.

"Then you mean that we are too cold to you on weekdays, so you have to be warm, right?"

Seeing Evan's slightly angry expression, Vinoll chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly said apologetically: "No, no, our eldest lady is very good to us, good enough." ”

Vinol paused, changed his words, put away the naughty tone he had just haught, and said, "Evan you can laugh sincerely, we are all very happy." ”

Hearing that Vinol rarely had such a serious tone, Ivan was also stunned, and Isu on the side also nodded in agreement, and said in his usual ethereal tone.

"Implement your own choices, and don't deliberately hide your feelings."

Evan looked out the window and remembered the conversation she had with her mother in her room the night before.

"Mother, may I come in?" Evan tapped a few times outside the door, but no one inside answered her words. I saw a warm light shine through the crack in the door, and then I pushed open the wooden carved door in front of me.

When Evan walked into the room, a woman was sitting in a rocking chair, her eyes closed and seemed to be asleep, the long and thick eyelashes covered it, the corners of her eyes had slightly appeared shallow crow's feet, and her kind face gave Evan as serene as ever, this was her biological mother Dina; Corterina.

There is a thick stack of materials on the table, and the day after tomorrow is the annual national promotion selection assessment, as the secretary of the Silver Flame Knights, the supervising professor of the Evebar Academy, and the mother of the triple identity of the Venus family, she will do her best to complete the review of the candidates' materials.

"Mother is really, she doesn't lie down in bed when she is tired." Evan looked at the lady in the rocking chair with a slight complaint, and after putting the tea set aside, he began to clean up the materials scattered on the table.

In the process of cleaning up, Evan couldn't help but think of the boy he met today.

"The list of Divine Refining Technician candidates is here!" Evan muttered, and finally found Kevin's information in the stack of application lists for the Divine Refining Technique.

"Kevin; Martini, right, seeing that you are so rude today, let me see you again, you must hum well! Evan subconsciously looked at his right hand, and an inexplicable slight feeling of heat came from his cheek.

Evan didn't know why he had such an idea, and immediately shook his head. But her actions woke up Dina, who was slightly asleep on the side, and she couldn't help but feel angry when she saw Evan looking through her information.

"Evan, it's not good to peek at other people's things!"

"Forehead......" Ivan's movements suddenly stopped, covering the information behind his back, and a stiff smile immediately hung on his face.

"Is there anything wrong with coming to me so late?" Dina looked around and smiled helplessly.

"No... No, I just saw that my mother's door was still open, so I came to see my mother, and by the way, I made a pot of cinnamon tea for you, huh? It seems to be cold, and I take it hot and hot. Evan put the information on the table, just left the one she was looking for in her hand, turned around and went out.

But how could this action escape Dina's eyes, just before Ivan went out, he said, "Put it back when you're done." ”

After a moment's wait, Evan came in with a reheated flower tea, and the scent of cinnamon wafted throughout the room, calming people's minds. Evan poured a cup of tea and handed it to Dina, then walked behind her and began to massage her shoulders.

Dina took a sip of tea lightly and said softly: "The exam will be raised tomorrow, mother, as a patrol exam, I have to take a look at the list of participants, but I have only seen less than a third, hey." ”

"Don't be in such a hurry, don't you have other members to help, mother should also learn to relax, look at the corners of your eyes are starting to wrinkle." Evan joked, sighing in his heart that before he knew it, his mother had begun to grow old.

"That's to tell you, when you grow up, how can you stay in my haven for the rest of your life?"

Suddenly, Evan's movements slowed down and he didn't answer.

"You're thinking about that again, aren't you?" As soon as Dina saw Evan's appearance, she knew what she was thinking, and she didn't think about it, but if she was herself, her life was sad and helpless. What's more, it is still in the age of the flowering season, who doesn't want to be able to freely control their feelings and experience the unique taste of happiness that only belongs to them.

But the reality is that he can't help himself, and even sacrifices his daughter's happiness in exchange for this so-called stability.

"It's okay, Chelsil is not a bad person, I think after getting along for a long time, I might find him good!" Evan smiled in response, but the disguised laughter was so heartbreaking.

"If you really don't like it, your mother won't force you, and then ......"

Evan immediately interrupted Dina's words, his eyes flashed with tears and said softly: "Don't say it again, I know that this is for the sake of the future of the family, I will correct my attitude towards this matter, as long as I pass my own level, maybe I will feel that way." ”

Dina didn't speak, she didn't dare to imagine how she could bear the mercy of all this unknown fate when her daughter who deplored the most said such words, but her heart was also dripping blood, and as her mother, Dina's heart was a thousand times more painful.

Seeing that his mother was not feeling good like this, Evan quickly interrupted the topic: "Mother, I have found a shop to help me repair the pendant." ”

Dina knew that no matter how much she said about this, it would be useless, so she sighed helplessly.

"Oh? Who is so capable of making my daughter fall in love with his craft, I guess what? Dina looked at Ivan playfully.

"Mother, just guess, hehe!"

"If there's no mistake, he will take the promotion exam, it must have something to do with the information you just took, right?"

"Mother, you guess right every time, it's not interesting at all, but it's quite interesting to meet that craftsman, so I entrusted him."

"It seems that you don't trust him very much, entrusting him to work, but you came to me to find his relevant information." Dina smiled and reached out to stroke the back of Ivan's hand.

"No, it's not his strange thing today, it got a fishy smell on my hands, and it hasn't been washed off yet!" Evan said angrily.

Seeing Evan's relaxed appearance, Dina's eyes reminded her of the situation that Evan always loved to pester herself when she was a child......

"Evan, come over to Mommy." Dina sat on a white carved chair beside her, beckoning little Evan.

"Mom, look at the garland I made." Little Evan trotted to Dina's side with an innocent expression, holding a wreath of colorful flowers woven from the flowers in the yard in his little hand. The housekeeper on the side anxiously reminded Little Ivan not to run so fast behind him.

"It's so beautiful, my daughter is so smart." Dina touched Evan's head and picked up the wreath in little Evan's hand, "I'm my mother's daughter, and Uncle Jason helped a lot just now." ”

The housekeeper on the side smiled and said, "It's still young lady who is smart, how can my old man say that he will help." ”

"Jason, don't be modest, you'll have to help me take care of this ghost in the future!" Dina pinched little Ivan's nose and said.

"That's what Madame said." Jason on the side laughed.

"Help me get the refreshments, I'm hungry after you guys played."

"Yes, ma'am." Jason bowed and withdrew from the inner room.

"I'm going to help get it too." Little Evan shouted, placing a wreath on Dina's head as he prepared to follow him into the house.

"Evan just let Uncle Jason go, I've got something for you."

"Oh?" Ivan was amazed and threw himself into Dina's arms excitedly.

"Your eyes light up as soon as you hear something for you."

"Hehe, my mother has been the best for me." Little Evan rubbed left and right in Dina's arms.

Dina touched Evan's head and took out a small wooden clip from her pocket, on which was engraved a line of text: "Until the end of the world, I still love you." ”

The wooden clip has no other embellishments than this line of text. Dina slowly opened the clip, and a silver necklace lay quietly in the red inner embryo, and the pendant was a lifelike eagle. The eagle's eyes are dark green on the left and royal blue on the right. The silver wings are also dotted with dotted gold veins. "It's so beautiful, is it really for me?" ”

"Of course it's for you, this pendant was given to me by your father when I met him." Dina said meaningfully, her thoughts flying back to the past.

"Father? Why do I rarely hear your mother talk about him? Where the hell did my father go? Little Evan suddenly asked, and also took the test for Dina, and didn't know how to answer her for a while.

After pondering for a moment, Dina sat on her lap with little Evan in her arms, pointed to the tall building in front of her, and said, "Do you see the castle floating in the sky?" ”

"Yes." Little Evan looked up, "It's so high there, that's where Dad went?" ”

"Yes, Daddy has something to do, it's going to be a long, long time, but he'll be there to watch you grow up, you can't be naughty." Dina said with a smile.

"Well, I know, I'll grow up quickly and make my dad proud of my daughter, hehe." Evan lowered his head and continued to play with the pendant, and asked, "Mom, what is the name of this pendant?" ”

"Huh? Well, Dian Bolu Eagle Eagle, this name was given by your father. ”

Seeing his mother sitting motionless, Evan called her mother's name several times in a row without responding, and swept her eyes with her hand, and Dina finally came back to her senses.

"Mother, what are you thinking, thinking so intently?"

"No... It's nothing, it's just that the crying and troublemaker has grown so big, do you think my mother is a lot older? ”

"What a troublemaker, if it weren't for your mother who often wouldn't let me run out to play, I wouldn't have tried my best to get Uncle Jason to help! However, my mother will always be so young and beautiful in my eyes. Evan pouted and said in a very coquettish tone.

"You know that your mouth is sweet, you should go and rest quickly, you will have a lot of things to do tomorrow!" Dina pinched Ivan's nose like she did when she was a child.

"Well, then mother, you go to bed early, if I still see you don't turn off the lights, hehe!" Evan quickly pinched Dina's waist, and Dina trembled.

"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, go to bed now."

The housekeeper who passed by the room was very relieved to see that Mrs. and Miss Evan were talking and laughing, after all, Mrs. Dina and Miss Evan were raised by themselves, and they had long regarded themselves as a family. However, the only thing that worried him was what the man said more than ten years ago that would happen to Ivan , and the old man only hoped that Mrs. and Miss could spend their lives in peace. Evan hurried back to his house, because he had left Kevin's address the last time he left, and it was supposed to be the day of delivery. However, after the promotion assessment in the morning, Kevin should know her identity without Ivan saying it himself.

Along the way, she kept thinking of her mother's sad look last night, and the serious concern of her two best friends, who she didn't want to worry about, but reality forced her to choose the opposite path.

"If you don't like it, your mother won't force you, implement your own choice, and don't deliberately hide your feelings."

The two sentences kept echoing in her ears alternately, and just when Evan's mood was very uneasy, Kevin's shadow flashed for some reason, and the moment when the four eyes looked at each other, it made her heart feel a strange rhythm.

"Huh"

Evan bumped into the person in front of her as soon as she was distracted, and her restless mood made her burst out: "Do you have long eyes, do you know how to see the road!" ”。

The moment he said this, Evan knew that he was at a loss, but when he looked at the person in front of him, he suddenly felt like he was stuck.

"This, what should I say, did you buy this road from the eldest lady?" Kevin looked at Ivan in a slightly flirtatious tone, although Evan was still wearing the same veil as last time, but with the look in his eyes, Kevin knew that she was not in a beautiful mood.