Chapter 70: The Orphanage
Charlotte fell into deep thought, speechless for a long time.
He leaned back on the couch and lit a cigarette, white smoke drifting around his head like a dream.
Sean looked at Charlotte, who was a little depressed, as if he had thought of something, and said in a low voice: "Father, didn't you find your daughter?" ”
Charlotte's smoking hand stiffened, she took a deep breath of smoke, and said, "No." ”
Sean's brows furrowed imperceptibly, and he wondered, "Why?" ”
"Faith, let me ask you a question."
Charlotte suddenly tilted her head and looked at him.
Sean's heart tightened, and he nodded quietly: "Father, do you ask?" ”
"You ......" Charlotte was silent for a moment, her eyes complicated, "don't you want to know who your parents are?" ”
Sean was silent.
In fact, he didn't know how to answer Charlotte's question, or rather, he was worried that there would be some flaws in his answer that would make Charlotte doubt himself.
Charlotte saw that Sean didn't speak, and sighed: "Faith, although I don't spend much time with you, I can see that you are a very well-behaved child, oh no, it should be said that you are similar to me when I was a child." ”
As he spoke, his eyes gradually became firm, he violently snuffed out the cigarette, got up and said, "Let's go, let's go find your mother-in-law." ”
Sean was startled, but immediately followed Charlotte, who was hurrying outside, and said, "Why!?" ”
Charlotte's reaction was completely unexpected, and even, inexplicably, he was a little flustered.
Granny Russell has the impression that she is a powerful soothsayer, will such a person tell that he is a fake Faith?
However, Charlotte is a man who will never change his mind easily once he has made a decision, and after saying that he went to find Russell's mother-in-law, he immediately took Sean into a carriage and rushed to the Scott Orphanage in the western suburbs.
Sean had no right to refuse at all, so he could only follow Charlotte silently, thinking about the next response plan in his heart.
In fact, he can now find a chance to make Faith accidentally "die", and then leave Faith's corpse, so that he can easily get rid of Charlotte, but the problem is that he has not yet succeeded in advancing to Sequence 7, and it is very likely that the people of the Cadiz family and the people of Intix are still looking for him, and after he breaks away from the identity of Faith, his only choice is to go to sea.
If he is promoted to Sequence 7 Magician, it will be okay to go to sea, but the problem is that the conditions for the promotion of Sequence 8 Gardener are related to cultivating plants, and now he is stuck in a key position, and going to sea at this time is a completely wrong choice.
"Let's take one step at a time, think that no matter how powerful Granny Russell is, she won't be able to tell that he used A-grade seal black poker, right?"
In the carriage, Sean carefully talked to Charlotte while thinking about his situation, and finally decided to adapt to all changes for the time being, until he could only act as Baron Chester or Dick Victor.
......
Soon, they were in a carriage to the Scott Orphanage in the western suburbs, which Alicia called Russell's Orphanage.
This is a dilapidated orphanage isolated from the wilderness, from a distance, the mottled city walls are infested with messy graffiti, the heavy iron gate is covered with rust, and if it were not for the red chimneys of the houses inside, anyone who sees this place will think that this is a large courtyard that has been abandoned for a long time.
"Faith, you haven't been back in a while, have you?"
After paying the driver to leave, Charlotte took a heavy puff of the cigarette in her hand to drive away the cold.
Sean tightened the cotton clothes on his body, nodded silently, and said, "Yes, I don't know how my mother-in-law is now?" ”
With that, he followed Charlotte to the orphanage, where the iron door was tightly closed, and the man at the door was reading the newspaper through the window, and a bottle of liquor was placed on the table next to him.
Sean had never seen such a bottle, and thought it might be the product of some poor man making it himself.
The arrival of the two quickly attracted the attention of the uncle, who raised his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, first glanced at Charlotte suspiciously, and then his eyes fell on Sean.
"Oh, dear Faith, you're back!"
Sean's mind suddenly came up with the relevant memories of this old man, Jeep Hanweis, an old man in his seventies, a veteran, and his old thigh injury for many years made him a little inconvenient, but he was a contented old man, who liked to drink, read the newspaper, and go to the woods a kilometer away to hunt game.
"Grandpa Jeep, long time no see, you haven't finished your wine yet?"
Perhaps because of the fusion of souls, Sean subconsciously had a good impression of this Uncle Jeep, so he showed a faint smile.
"Hehe, the wine boiled in the robe just made a few days ago tastes good, do you want to taste it?"
Jeep Hanweis couldn't help but touch Sean's head while opening the iron door for the two.
"Nope." Sean smiled innocently, then pointed at Charlotte and said, "This is my father, you should have seen it before?" ”
Jeep Hanweis looked Charlotte up and down, and patted his head with a sudden realization: "Look at my memory, you are Mr. Charlotte who came a while ago, right?" ”
Charlotte smiled slightly: "Mr. Jeep, is Granny Russell here?" I have something to look for her. ”
"You're looking for an old woman!"
Jeep Hanweis hesitated and sighed, "She's resting in the room, huh...... Forget it, you'll know in the past. ”
Well?
Charlotte's face changed slightly, and she didn't say anything more, and walked straight to a room.
Sean's heart moved, and he didn't care about greeting Uncle Jeep, and trotted over while waving his hand.
Granny Russell's room was located in the corner on the south side, and Charlotte seemed familiar with it, so she quickly found a place and pushed the door open and walked in.
With a creak, the door was pushed open, and a familiar figure appeared in Sean's sight.
It was a beautiful woman of about twenty years of age, dressed in a pink dress with a stand-up collar, a precious pearl necklace around her neck, and her hair was long and beautifully curled like seaweed scattered on her hips.
"Alicia!?"
Sean recognized each other at a glance and almost screamed.
But the next moment, his eyes fell on an old woman lying on the bed where Alicia was sitting.
The old woman had an old face and kept coughing, and Alicia sat on the side and held each other's hands sadly, with tears in her eyes.
"It's ...... The soothsayer? ”
When he saw the old woman's face clearly, Sean's mind suddenly remembered the old fortune teller he had met at the small stall that day.
To this day, he still remembers the old woman spitting blood from her mouth after divination, shouting: "Taboo is the realm of taboos." ”
Some people died, but not completely......