Chapter 22: Vera's Mother
Coming to the door of Professor Roddy's independent courtyard, Chris knocked on the door, and the door quickly opened, and a servant stood in the doorway, looking at a few people, and asked politely, "Excuse me, is there something wrong?"
"Is Professor Roddy here? We're his students. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Before the servant could reply, he heard Professor Roddy's voice come in, "Come in!"
The servant stepped aside, and Chris, who was not polite, hurried in.
Professor Roddy's courtyard is about the same size as Chris's dormitory, and the layout is exactly the same, behind the door is a courtyard, followed by the residence, and when you enter the door, you can see Professor Roddy walking down the hall from the courtyard.
Seeing a few people at a glance, Professor Luo Di smiled: "All of them are here?"
A few people saluted, and Chriss asked, "Professor Roddy, let's go to Vera and Ties." ”
Luo Di was stunned: "They didn't come to me, what's wrong?"
"I had an appointment to come to the party, but I didn't show up, and I wasn't in the dorm..... you know, it's so late. ”
Professor Roddy's face became solemn, pondered for a while, and said, "They don't come to me often on weekdays, and they don't have the habit of going out to hang out, so let's go our separate ways and look for them while it's not too late." ”
He said to Maya, "Maya, you go to the girls' dormitory and check for a while, and the others go to the library, the woods, and the school districts." ”
Everyone was about to nod their heads, but Chrissy interrupted, "Professor Roddy, no offense, but I always felt that they wouldn't be in the Academy. ”
"You mean they've been kidnapped?"
"Oh, no, no, I mean, maybe they're out and there's something about it. ”
Seeing Professor Roddy's hesitation, Chris said, "I want to go to the academy's guard to check the entry and exit records first." ”
Luo Di nodded and said, "Yes, let's go together." ”
The group walked towards the entrance of the academy.
When she was about to arrive, Maya suddenly said, "Look, isn't that them?"
Everyone looked and saw that the two sisters Vera were coming in from the gate of the academy, and each breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly stepped forward.
Although Vera and Tis looked ugly, fortunately there was no sign of a fight, and Professor Roddy asked, "Where have you been?"
With a rare frown on his face, Willa nodded to everyone, smiled gratefully, bent down, looked at everyone with apologetic eyes and whispered, "Thank you for your concern, we... We just went out for a casual walk and forgot the time for a while, so I'm sorry. ”
"Thank you very much for the delay, we're fine, it's too late, please go back and rest." ”
This girl doesn't mean it!
Something must be wrong!
Chris frowned slightly.
Several people looked at each other, and Maya said, "Since it's okay, let's go back." ”
Vera said, "We still have some things to ask Professor Roddy, you go first." ”
Everyone pressed down the discomfort in their hearts and said goodbye.
Tis suddenly walked up to Chris and said, "Help." ”
Sure enough, something happened!
Maybe it was inconvenient for the two sisters to say this in front of everyone, Chris turned to look at Vera, she looked a little embarrassed, but quickly reacted: "It would be better if you could help!"
Arriving at Professor Roddy's address, everyone sat down, and Roddy waved the servant away.
Vera bowed again and apologized: "I remember and am very grateful that everyone is looking for us because they care about us tonight, but because it is about my deceased mother, I think the less people know about this matter, the better, and I don't believe everyone." ”
Chris nodded.
The two Vera sisters were born in a southern city not far from Didu, their father is a small local fur merchant with assets, for business, they travel back and forth in the surrounding cities all the year round, so most of the time they are not at home, because there are no other relatives in the local area, so their mother stays at home to take care of the two sisters.
The area was a very cult of the Illuminati, and on weekends of the week, my mother would go to the temple church to pray, because the two sisters were so young at that time that the mother would leave them at home for the care of the servants before going to church.
It is said that such days lasted for many years before the mother was married.
It can be said that if there is no accident, until the two Vera sisters grow up, such a day could have been lived in such a warm and plain way.
But in the summer when Vera was five years old and Tis was three years old, her mother never came back after a church prayer trip.
My mother left for church in the morning, and the distance from her home to the church was less than twenty minutes, or ten minutes at most if she had taken a horse-drawn carriage. But until noon, I didn't see the mistress come back, and the maid who stayed at home to take care of the two sisters had already faintly felt that something was wrong, but there was no one to talk about at home except for the two sisters, and I couldn't help but be anxious.
Fortunately, that night, Vera's father happened to return home, learned of the situation, and quickly found the city police station, unlike civilians, the city police station attached great importance to the report of Vera's father, a businessman, and immediately sent people to search around.
Later, in the city, I asked a person who knew Vera's mother, who also went to the church in the morning to pray, and according to her, after entering the church, when she listened to the singing of hymns on the stage, she also saw Vera's mother sitting in the first few seats of her right row, not very far apart, but after praying, because too many people went out together, she did not see Vera's mother again, and I don't know if she came out with her.
According to this woman, Vera's mother should have happened after this.
While the city police department sent people to continue the search in the city, they came to the church to inquire about the relevant personnel.
It's just that because the power of the Temple of Light is too great, even the city police department can't face the bishop who prayed that day, and when asked about the papal servant who was in charge of the church sprinkling, there was no result, Vera's father had to throw money everywhere, and in the end the bishop still didn't come forward, but finally made people throw out a sentence: "I don't know!
For the faction of the temple, it is rare to be able to say such a sentence for a believer, but not be angry because he is suspected.
The city police station was helpless.
Vera's father was almost desperate.
But three days later, Vera's mother's body was found by a river outside the city.
At the same time, the bodies of two other men were on the side.
The city police station came and looked at the scene, and deduced that after the two men found Vera's mother in the church, they secretly controlled her because they coveted her beauty, and wanted to take her out of the city, but because of the search of the city police station these days, they had to wait until two days before they went out of the city at night, and when they arrived at the river, for some reason, the two started an argument by the river, first killed Vera's mother, and then began to kill each other, one of them killed the other, but because he was too seriously injured, he bled to death by the river.
And soon, the identities of these two men were also found out, and they were two local hooligans.
When Vera's father, who hurried to the scene, came, the bodies of the three had been wrapped, Vera's father endured his grief and checked his wife's body, and then insisted on looking at the bodies of the two murderers, didn't say anything, just cried, and then buried his wife in the cemetery of the imperial capital.
Vera's father, who was also a believer in the Temple of Light, never entered the temple after his wife's death, and no longer donated or funded even a single copper coin for the temple.
As the two Vera sisters grew up, they could clearly feel their father's heartfelt anger towards the temple.
Until one day when Vera was fourteen years old, when she inadvertently expressed her desire to become a nun in the temple, her father smashed the porcelain he was playing with on the ground.
Vera swore that it was the first time she had seen her usually loving father so angry since she was a child.
The father roared at Vera, "You want to be with your mother's murderer?" and then, after a remorseful pause, the two sisters were confined to the house until a few days before they arrived at Lantis.
At that time, the father's words frightened the two sisters, and after repeated questioning, the father told them that when he saw his mother's body, the corpse had already emitted the smell of decay, and the two "murderers" only had the smell of blood all over their bodies.
In other words, Vera's mother and the two murderers did not die on the same day, the weather was getting hotter at that time, and it was likely that they were killed on the second day of their disappearance, so the inference of the city police station was completely unreasonable, after retrieving his wife's body, Vera's father also found an insider to quietly examine his wife's body, and the strangulation marks on the throat of the corpse were added after death, except for a very inconspicuous mark under the hair, there were no injuries at all in other parts.
Vera's father, fearful of arousing suspicion, hurriedly buried his wife, and spent several years secretly inquiring about the cause of his wife's death, and finally accidentally learned from a wandering magician that this slight burn that touched the scalp without damaging the hair was difficult to cause even with fire and air magic, and there was only one left: light magic.
Vera's father knew that with his own ability, he was afraid that he would not be able to avenge his wife in this life, but not only that, but he must also bury his hatred in the bottom of his heart until his two daughters grow up.
Vera choked up and said, "Today is my mother's death day, because we have to compete during the day, so we can only go to the cemetery after the race to sweep my mother's grave." ”
Vera and Tees went to the cemetery, found their mother's grave, and saw that the grave was overgrown with weeds, so they carefully cleaned them one by one.