It's been a busy day, and by the time Will returns to his room, the moon is already hanging in the sky.

"How's it going, exhausted?" Sedrine helped Will gently rub his shoulders, and the two of them spoke thoughtfully, and warmth and happiness filled the faces of the two old men.

The young master personally served his wife to sleep, and he had not closed his eyes since last night, and fell asleep with a pillow. On the soft couch separated from them, the old mother and her clothes were lying on her side, leaning sideways outward, half an arm's length away from the child's cradle, occasionally shaking gently, occasionally fanning the fan.

The concierge ushered in a busy day of sending off, and after sending off the last wave of guests, he was also happy, and he had no interest in bragging at all. After inspecting the door, he turned the oil lamp to the lowest dim and nestled in the porter. As if unwilling to fall asleep like this, he closed his eyes and groped for a while, took out a small bottle of wine from under the bed, and poured it before he was satisfied, grinning silently.

The old housekeeper prepared the reward money for everyone in the house, and planned to send it to everyone early tomorrow morning, so that everyone could be happy. There are a lot of things piled up in the backyard, all of which are gifts from old friends, and it took a lot of effort for the old housekeeper to put the name on the gift, and there is no time to tidy it up tonight, so I have to leave it for tomorrow. The old man lay on the rattan chair, lit a pot of long-bottomed tobacco, and took a beautiful puff, and the clouds were shrouded

In the dead of night, the entire Andrew Mansion was immersed in peace. A sudden light broke the silence. It was Andrew's study, and the person who lit the lamp was the old man who should have been asleep long ago - Andrew Weir. As if his eyes were a little out of sight, he moved the oil lamp closer, and held a letter to the firelight, and looked at it carefully.

"Squeak."

"It's so late, what's so important that you can't wait until tomorrow?" Will's wife, Sedrine, was dressed in a garment, and was obviously a little sleepy, and couldn't keep her eyes open.

Will quietly removed the letter and said with a loving smile, "Woke you up?" It doesn't matter, it's just that I'm too happy to sleep. The daughter-in-law was angry and renewed the incense for our family. Since you can't sleep, get up, look at the congratulatory notes from old friends, and be happy. ”

"Oh? Let me see. Sedrine felt that something was wrong, and it didn't look like Will couldn't sleep just now. She stepped forward and snatched the congratulatory note from her husband's hand and looked at it.

It's a very ordinary letter, but it's just congratulating Will on having a grandson, and then saying that he can't leave him if he has something to do, and he will come back later to congratulate Yunyun. But Sedrine felt that something was wrong, there was no basis, just a woman's intuition. She flipped through it several times, and finally, she noticed that something was wrong with the signature in the lower right corner of the letter. Suddenly, she thought of something, her eyes were clear, and she was completely sleepy for a moment. At this moment, she doesn't feel like an old woman, but like a sharp young man who often walks the rivers and lakes. She didn't look at her husband, she took the oil lamp in front of her, almost ruthlessly, and shook it at the sign a few times. Sure enough, she saw a sign she hadn't seen in a long time.

"Hey, I can't hide anything from you." Will looked at his wife's eyes and knew that she was angry, and hurriedly played a round.

"I said that I had to face everything together, why did you think you wanted to hide it from me?" The wife put down the letter and stared at Will unrelentingly.

"Bring the ink, and we'll see it together." Seeing that Will didn't speak, Sedrine spoke.

Will was helpless, at this point, he couldn't hide it if he wanted to, so he had to stand up, walk to the bookshelf, move the books on the bottom layer, and then tap the partition three times, and a cassette popped out. There was no treasure in it, just a bottle of liquid that looked like ink. He took out the porcelain basin and carefully poured out some, white, which looked a little heavier than water, and only laid the bottom of the layer.

Cedrine spread out the letter and slowly dipped it into the liquid.

After a while, the true content of the letter was revealed in front of the two of them.

Speechless.

There are not many words, only two or three sentences, and there are no code words. After the two of them remembered it, Will took out the letter and lit it with an oil lamp, not knowing what the white liquid was, and it did not prevent it from burning. When the paper burned out, Will poured a little liquid from the porcelain pot into the potted plant.

Sedrine watched her husband sit down at his desk again after his work before asking, "What do you think about this?" ”

"I'm going." Will didn't hesitate.

"Listen to you, let's go together."

"No way!" Will stood up when he heard this, "I just had a grandson, what's the matter if the two of us are gone, I'll go alone, I can spend more effort, it's a big deal to give up this old life, with the temper of an adult, I won't blame you and me." ”

"The grace of my lord's life is not only for you, but also for me. You don't need to persuade again, if there are no adults, where can we live to this age, and there will be successors. ”

The study swallowed up all the sounds, and only the faint flames flickered.

"Old man, people can't be too greedy, the two of us have been earning for decades, what else is there to regret."

Will was silent, he obviously didn't want his wife to be in danger, and wanted to make a final effort: "Since your lord has used this order, it means that it is not an ordinary thing. You haven't done anything with people all these years, I'm afraid"

The sound disappeared into the room again. And Will can't say it anymore not to take care of his wife's face, but that he is surrounded by a water balloon. But the water balloon broke in the next moment, like a phantom.

"I'm a mage after all, and I don't have to hone my skills every day, I can do it everywhere in my normal life. Although I haven't done anything with anyone over the years, perhaps because of my peace of mind, the magic has become more and more mellow. I thought I would never need it again in this life, but I didn't expect that there would be such a situation. ”

The water balloon that trapped Will just now was naturally issued by Sedrine, and it was a magic of the illusion series - Water Imprisonment.

Will let out a long sigh, and the last argument failed. Cedrine didn't chant and cast the spell just now, but she released the magic in an instant, and then withdrew it in a very short time, which can be said to be traceless, sending and receiving as she pleases, which shows that as she said, her magic is more lean.

"Alright, let's go together. Fortunately, there are still a few months to prepare, which is enough. Since there was no way to change the outcome, Will was quickly relieved. After letting go, there are even some faint expectations, and the expectation of going out into the world with his wife again. He stared at his wife, who had been with him all his life, his eyes as gentle as water. He felt like he was back forty years ago, when Sedrine was so beautiful and he was dreaming. The two of them crisscrossed the seas, fought pirates, and fought to the death with sea monsters, and those years seemed not far away.

Memory, in an instant, fierce as a tide

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