Chapter Eighty-Eight: Balancing Interests
"You're Amanda?"
Gretel suddenly remembered what Dilledo had said. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info He said that Winnie has an only daughter named Amanda. He said he liked her, but he couldn't take her away......
Anyone who hears what Diredo said will think that Amanda is already dead, but the woman in front of him said that she is Winnie's daughter?
Gretel subconsciously lifted the tulle that covered the woman, and under the light of the lamp, a beautiful face appeared in front of him. To be fair, this woman's eyes are not attractive, but when these almond-shaped eyes are combined with a straight nose bridge and a small mouth, they form a soft-hearted face, and this face is simply a replica of Winnie's youth.
"Yes, my name is Amanda, do you want to know the whereabouts of those two children? Tell me what's wrong with Vinnie?"
Amanda grabbed Gretel's arm in desperation. She inadvertently touched the whip marks on Gretel's body, and Gretel's body trembled slightly, and her mouth unconsciously let out a "hiss" sound. Seeing this, Amanda hurriedly let go of her hand, and the two fell silent for a while.
Just as they were about to restart the conversation, the two maids who had left earlier returned again, only to hear the sound of "tom tom tom" from the ladder, and Gretel only had time to drop the sentence "Flegg takes care of Winnie" before Amanda pushed her away.
He stood in the shadow of a pillar. A maid saw Amanda arranging her veil, and suspiciously raised her lantern and shone it around.
Gretel hurriedly leaned slightly sideways against the stone pillar, and the maid, who had not noticed, turned her head to look at Amanda, and then whispered a few words to her.
After a while, the light of the lantern moved out of the side hall. Gretel watched Amanda go away with the two maids, and couldn't help but clench her fists in frustration. I'll have to wait a week for this opportunity again.
But forget it, I've been waiting for many years, do you still care about a week?
At dawn the next day, the overnight showers stopped, but the weather was a little colder than before the rain. In the woods near Nightingale's village, the grass was shrouded in mist, and the occasional birdsong sounded in the branches, and Wall and Hirres wandered through the somewhat cold woods.
After asking good morning and talking about the weather, Wall couldn't find a new topic for a while. The two walked for a while, and there was nothing to say. The atmosphere was embarrassing to Wall, and he peeked at Cyreth with trepidation, only to find that Silreth had been looking slightly downward, looking a little absent-minded.
Wall's brow furrowed. Did Cyreth find him too boring?
"Uh-huh......" he cleared his throat, deciding to liven up the atmosphere by making fun of his idiot brother.
"I remembered a joke about Dillado. ”
Wall began to dig through old accounts of Diredo in his mind. Speaking of which, there are indeed a lot of jokes on Diredo's body. He remembered that this guy didn't like to distinguish between reality and fantasy when he was a child, and his peers had more or less coaxed Dildedo into doing stupid things when they were children. For example, telling him that if he eats earwax, he will see little fairies, and if he fingers the moon, his ears will be cut off, etc. Some jokes are not quite suitable for girls.
"Wall. ”
Before Diledo's joke could be finished, a soft snort from Hilles interrupted Wall's thoughts.
"Huh?" he replied with a wink.
"Didn't you ask me if I promised you?" Silreth looked up at Wall.
At this moment, the rising sun finally dispelled the mist, and a ray of sunlight fell on Cirris's face through the branches, and the light reflected her cheeks white, and the fluff on her face was faintly discerning. Wall found that Sirris's face, if you looked closely, was actually much more immature than in the image. This made him stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Cyrith was about to answer his request to marry her.
"yes. Wall hurriedly responded, and he added, "But I'm not in a hurry to hear the answer." One-year, two-year ...... No, no, no, you can agree whenever you want. ”
This slippery remark of "agree" made Siris laugh and sigh.
"I thought about it for a night. She said.
Wall's eyes widened, and a flattered expression appeared on his face, and he wondered how Sirreth felt about him, but Sirrise's next sentence made his head droop. Just listen to her: "If Ora is going to leave us anyway, Nightingale needs a long-term ally on her side. Of course, if she's willing to stay, multiple allies aren't bad. ”
"It turns out that she is still thinking about business, and I am really self-inflicted. Wall thought.
Silreth made it clear that she would agree to marry her for the good of the village, in short, she approved of a marriage with a political purpose.
Such a reply made Wall feel very unhappy, and his eyes narrowed into a line. Hilles looked at him with a look of ten thousand displeasures, and suddenly stopped.
"Look at you, you don't seem to be happy to marry me?" she asked.
The flat tone and indifferent attitude made Wall panic.
"It's not like that. Wall scratched his cheeks and explained.
"I'm just a little lamented that there aren't many women like you...... Well, I know how to buy and sell, and I have a big picture...... Well, I don't mean to belittle women, but that's what I'm talking about. ”
"I'm really a businessman. Sirreth shrugged her shoulders in understanding, and when she saw Wall desperately shaking his head in denial, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Don't be busy denying it. We've known each other for a short time, and no one has ever mentioned marrying me, so ......" Silreth pursed her lips and lowered her head.
"I don't know how to answer, the village is like that again, and I have very few options. In the end, I could only weigh this matter from the perspective of interests and came to this conclusion. You can see that you hate this kind of ......."
Seeing Silris's troubled expression, Wall only felt that what she had just said came from the bottom of her heart and touched her heartstrings.
"Actually, when I started thinking about you, I also had bad intentions. He couldn't help but say the words that were heart-wrenching.
"Oh, what's the bad intention?" Silreis looked up at once, her eyebrows raised high as she looked into Wall's eyes.
This look of "interrogating the prisoner" made Wall's heart ring the alarm bell. He didn't dare to tell Hilles that he had taken a fancy to her ability to do things at first, and wanted to marry her back to act as an agent for "government affairs", so that he could be lazy to his heart's content.