In the past, Jill would come to visit her for various reasons, mostly when Hal was away. Jill always came in high spirits, but when he met her, he had nothing to say, and Jill didn't know what to say. Once, in order to temper the awkward atmosphere, Jill disguised a very pleasant tone and told Elune about the chemist who discovered the "laughing gas", and after smelling the "laughing gas", he couldn't stop laughing, and finally laughed so much that his jaw dislocated, "This is so funny", Jill himself seemed to be very happy and laughed a few times. Jill was even more embarrassed when he noticed that Elune's eyes were as calm as water, just looking at him faintly, but he was not amused in the slightest. At that time, Jill felt as ugly as a circus dwarf in exaggerated costumes, and Jill looked at Elune in embarrassment, "Okay... I know it's not funny at all", Jill admits to himself.

A smile suddenly bloomed on Elune's face, as fresh as a fresh rainbow that suddenly appeared after the rain. Jill looked at this smiling face and was a little stunned.

Elune likes this real young man very much, especially when talking about his career, Jill will always unconsciously exude a capable heroism. This kind of aura is not easy for people of his age to have. And Jill doesn't seem to notice it herself.

Hal introduced his daughters in turn, and had his daughters salute the two adults. The tax collector suddenly had a thought, turned back to his nephew, and said to Hal, "Sir, this is my nephew, and I have already introduced you to it." Although some unpleasantness happened later, it all went up in smoke. I think Ruda has already asked you for the remaining 200 dinars. Well, see this as the end of all bad luck. My eldest son is going to study in Paravon, and here you can treat him as my son, we have business to talk about, but young people don't like it. Let the young people go on their own. ”

Hal quickly calculated in his heart that this young man was a little ignorant of the world, and it was said that he only came from a country lord's family. Hal was ready to introduce his daughter to someone with a deeper background, but now that the tax collector was still talking, he couldn't refuse.

He had no choice but to introduce his daughter: "This is Huo. Mr. Arcadio II, the little maid who was going to leave you last time was taken away by him", Elune suddenly noticed that this strange young man's face was cold, Hal did not care about his father's feelings, and instead asked the tax collector who was next to his father, and the tax collector said: "His name is Wright, and he is a promising young man from an old noble family in Costholm. ”

"Wright?!" Hal was taken aback. "That Wright family on the edge of the Paraven Bay?!"

"Yes, sir. I am the eldest son of the Wright family. Wright was a little puzzled, wondering why this man was so surprised by his appearance.

The tax collector interjected and said, "Sir, the last time Mr. Wright and my nephew were kidnapped together. Speaking of which, it has a lot to do with you. ”

Hal muttered, "I'm afraid... It doesn't stop there..."

Wright asked, "Oh? Your Excellency is old to my father's generation? ”

Hal suddenly realized that he had returned here as a free man to work hard, and if he knew that he had been a servant of the Wright family, he would suffer a loss in reputation. Although the elder Wright had relieved himself of his obligations before he died, it was now impossible to find a witness. Hal, who had been a slave, felt a pang of resistance when he found out that he was about to pay a new price for this past humble life.

"Uh... Uh·· Yes. You know, when I was younger, I went to the mountains with the king, and there I met a man named Wright, also from Costholm. That's all I know. Hal said lightly.

My father was a little upset at first when he heard Hal talk about Rhine. At this time, I heard that Hal had seen another Wright, and I was also a little curious: "Wright, who is that person?" ”

“··· That's supposed to be my father", Wright suddenly lost his interest in dancing, he was now eager to talk to Hal about his father's time, and he wanted to know where his father was buried. He looked at Hal, eagerly anticipating the exchange. Hal sensed Wright's thoughts, and preemptively said, "Mr. Wright, if you want to ask me something about your father's time, you can come to me after the ball, okay?" ”

Wright was a little impatient, but he could only nod his head in agreement.

Hal felt that there was no need to introduce him anymore and prepared to take his daughter away. Elune wondered why he didn't introduce Jill.

Elune suddenly took a step forward, walked up to Jill, turned back to Hal and said, "Daddy, this young man hasn't been introduced yet. ”

Hal looked at the tax collector and wanted the tax collector to tell him who this man was. The tax collector knew that this was a servant of his brother-in-law's family, so he did not introduce him at first. But he knew that this Jill was very important, otherwise he would not have agreed to bring him here. At this time, Jill looked at Hal rudely and introduced himself: "I'm Huo. Arcadio's nephew. Jill. Bianwen. ”

Hal thought about this strange surname and felt a little strange, but the lord of White Dove Valley was defected by Rhodok, and maybe Jill was also Roddock's surname somewhere. Speaking of Rhodok, Hal recalls those terrible days on the front lines, which is one of the reasons why he instinctively rejected my father in the first place.

When Jill finished speaking, he noticed that the tax collector, Wright, and my father were all looking at him in amazement. It's as if he did something he shouldn't have done. Although Huo. Arcadio didn't pay much attention to these class divisions, after all, he was from Rhodoc, and the civic power in that place was no less powerful than the nobility, but in the Suno region, which was known for its traditions, the family view was still extremely strong. Including my father, when he was young, he also felt that nobles are nobles, commoners are commoners, and they can be friends, but they will not be all the way.

Jill felt extremely lost under the momentary puzzled gaze of the person closest to him, and this gap was usually hidden by the warmth of intimacy. But in front of his lover, when he was briefly questioned by his companion because of his identity, Jill suddenly had a feeling of collapse. He remembered an old man who bought him cherries many years ago, and he once asked the old man, "Is the lord really the most important person in the valley?" The old man didn't answer him, but just now, his friends answered him with their eyes, "Yes." ”

"You are the son of our servant, Jill." , the father said such a sentence. This phrase was remembered by Jill forever.

"The servant's son!" This sentence echoed in the hearts of everyone.

Jill was dressed in a dress as gorgeous as the people around her, but she felt as if she was naked. He looked at Elune, his lips trembling, not knowing what to do. Hal felt disdainful in his heart, he remembered how hard he had worked to hide his identity, and for a while, Hal helped the people of the trading house register the accounts every day, and during the hardest period of time, he could only eat one meal a day, and used bread crumbs to feed his stomach with sauerkraut and clear soup. Hal knew the helplessness of being a commoner or even a slave, and sympathized with the pitiful situation of Jill being revealed so suddenly, but he was more sympathetic to his early experience, and he felt that if Jill could enter the upper class of society in this way of climbing relatives, it would be a great insult to himself and a great disregard for his own struggle. Hal looked at Jill, it seemed that this kid also wanted to get to know his own daughter, and he was dizzy.

Elune also felt a little fluctuating in her heart, "·· The servant's son," Elune thought.

"You are the son of a servant?" Elune asked Gil suddenly.

"I'm sorry..." Jill seems to have lost everything suddenly.

"So what does it matter? Is the nephew of the lord on the other side of the mountain necessarily more important than the son of the servant? ”

The waltz sounded, and the men and women who were ready to dance began to enter the dance floor in pairs, standing on the starting points marked with special colored floor tiles. Jill looked at Elune, and in the sound of music, Elune's determined expression was like the first rays of sunlight on a winter morning, like a bright autumn moon in a dark night.

Elune stretched out her right arm, "Sir, would you like to be my first dance partner?" ”

"No!" Hal scolded in a low voice.

The rest of the people didn't interfere too much, as long as Jill was communicating in his own capacity, then it didn't matter.

They're all saying, 'No,' Gil thought, I'm just a servant's son, Gil thought, what can I give you, Gil thought.

"I'm sorry, I can't jump, ma'am." Jill retreated. Elune's hands froze in the air. Jill didn't blame him for hiding her identity, why should he blame herself. Elune felt unfamiliar in front of Jill for the first time, Jill was always so gentle and elegant, so that Elune could free his mind at will, but this time, Jill couldn't figure it out.

Elune slowly withdrew her hand, her movements stiffening, "Oh, that's right. The crowd was embarrassed, Hal whispered his displeasure to his daughter, Elune looked at Jill silently, and Jill lowered her head.

"Don't look at it, Uhru. Don't look at people like that. Spencer called out to Uhru.

Uhru hadn't taken his eyes off Elune since she entered the ballroom. In order to make it easier for Elune to look, he asked Spencer to stand in front of him, pretended to talk to Spencer, and then kept looking at Elune. Uhru's demeanor could not escape the eyes of some of the more sophisticated ladies around him, who laughed and teased the boy. Uhru didn't care, but Spencer was stared at by a group of old women.

"Aren't the three young people she's talking to right now the same ones we just met?" Ukhru said. ”

Spencer glanced back, "Yes, my God, the one next to him seems to be the sheriff, look at his uniform." ”

"It doesn't matter who he is. I'm going to have this woman. Is that middle-aged man next to her her father? ”

"I don't know, my God, can you not look at others so directly, that adult seems to have noticed us... Spencer pleaded bitterly.

Ukhru was about to say something, when his ear was suddenly grabbed. Uheru looked back angrily to see who dared to be so bold, and Spencer was already trembling with fear: "Old ... Master. ”

The head of the Kuji mission stood majestically behind the two young men.

If it weren't for Ukhru's being too direct and causing himself to be too conspicuous, he wouldn't have been discovered by his father. The head of the Kuji mission was walking back and forth between the merchants and magnates when he suddenly saw his son looking forward to it with a look of spring on his face. The head of the group was shocked, thinking that he had seen it wrong, wiped his eyes, and found that it was indeed his eldest son. When he found out that his son was looking at a beautiful girl who was not giving up, he still showed a smile in surprise, and his son's actions reminded him of his own dissolute behavior when he was young. He quietly walked in with his son and grabbed him.

Ukhru turned back, not knowing how to explain. The head of the regiment told his son that there were many people talking here, and that he should not express his opinions casually, and that if he could ensure that he did not talk casually, he could stay and play casually. "No problem," Ukhru said. ”

The head of the regiment asked again, "Who brought you here?" The assistant on the side had a bitter look on his face.

Ukhru thought for a moment: "Myself, father, I came by myself", and the assistant was pardoned.

"Uh, okay." Ukhru's father was a little unwilling, it seemed that he was still not strict with his subordinates, and it must have been his subordinates who told Ukhru.

After seeing through Ukhru's mind just now, the regimental commander wanted to take this opportunity to ease the atmosphere. So he helped his son to tidy up his appearance and flatten the folds on the shoulders of Ukhru's dress. "Let's go, son. Come with me to meet people. ”

Then for the first time in her life, Ukhru felt how great her father's love was, because her father had taken him to the girl who was as beautiful as the moon.

When the father introduced each other to the two officials and the merchant named Hal, Ukhru didn't listen to anything. He just looked at Elune, but Elune didn't look at him, Elune looked at one of the three young men, and the lucky young man had his head bowed.

Hal was flattered by the arrival of the Kugit chieftain, and when he found out that the Kugit son seemed to like his daughter, Hal felt that this time it was really not in vain.

"Go, go and dance with this Ukhru son." When the second piece of music plays, Hal encourages his daughter.

Elune waited for Jill's statement, and if Jill could hold her hand at this time, then she would accompany him to the dance without any fuss, and turn him into the most watched person at the ball.

But Jill still kept her head down. My father suddenly understood who Jill liked and why Jill had done what he had done. My father regretted that he hadn't covered for Jill. You shouldn't have said something that made Jill ugly. This sentence hurt Jill and made Jill hesitate now.

After what seemed like a long thought, and with a slight shake of his head, Jill once again gave up on Elune's kindness.

Uhru then walked between Elune and Jill, "Ma'am, can you dance with me?" ”

Elune sighed inwardly and took Uhru's outstretched hand.

Jill remembered a frozen butterfly he had seen as a child, which had fallen with beautiful wings and fell gently into the grass and was never to be found again.