Mrs. Mela lowered her head in panic to pick up the pieces of the broken teacup. Seres saw it and stepped forward.
"Ma'am, just sit down and I'll take care of these."
Mrs. Mela was startled for a moment, and then slowly returned to her seat, but her hands were wringing uneasily and her head was lowered.
"I'm very sad to hear this news. Lord Angus is a kind man, why would something like this happen to him?" Her voice was broken and seemed to be very uncomfortable.
"Please have your condolences." Then Lorraine Hill waited for Mrs. Meila to slowly ease into a good mood.
After coming over for a while, Mrs. Mela stopped sobbing softly, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and then slowly raised her head. Her eyes were a little red and swollen.
Lorraine Hill saw that she was slowly calming down, and then he continued to speak.
"Although Lord Angus is gone, he asked me to take good care of you and your children before he died. Please don't worry about this."
"Thank you, thank you Miss Lacey. I...I don't know how to repay this kindness...If you have any requests, just ask."
"I don't have any requirements, I just want to see your child today." Lorraine Hill said the main purpose of today.
"Okay, wait a moment, Dill is upstairs, I'll call him."
"No need to go to such trouble, let's go together. It happens to be my first time here, and I am still very interested in the layout here." Lorraine Hill shook his head, showed a kind smile, and then stood up from the sofa.
"Okay...Okay, you come with me." Mrs. Mela hesitated for a moment, then walked ahead with Lorraine Hill.
This building has three floors. The second floor is the bedroom, and the third floor is the attic connected to the roof, used to store sundries. The floors inside the house are all marble, and the doors, handrails, furniture, etc. are all made of mahogany. It looks like
It's not old, it must have been made in recent years.
Passing through the corridor on the second floor, at the door of a room at the end, Mrs. Mela took out a key and opened the door. A 10-year-old child was in the room. He was throwing himself on the ground, drawing with colorful paints. Next to him,
There are also many colorful building blocks scattered on the ground.
When the child saw the door open, he raised his head and was very happy when he saw Mrs. Mela. He took the painting to him like a treasure and showed it to Mrs. Mela.
"Mom, does my painting look good?" The child looked a little happy when his mother suddenly appeared.
There is a little person drawn like graffiti on the thick white paper. The hair is smeared with yellow paint and the hair is exaggerated. The mouth is painted with light red paint. The corners of the mouth are cracked and it seems to be smiling. Overall, it can only be barely seen that this is a person.
The paint accumulates on the paper and looks very messy.
"I made you laugh, Miss Lacey." Mrs. Mela stepped forward and quickly pulled the child over, and the painting was thrown aside casually.
"Nothing." Lorraine Hill walked over and picked up the painting and asked the child.
"Who's that in the painting, Dill?"
"It's mom."
"Why is mom's hair yellow?"
"Because I want my mother to be like the sun and take me out... and to smile. My mother rarely smiles at me..." The child's voice was a little low.
Listening to the child's words, Mrs. Mela was a little shy and wanted to stop her, but she couldn't say it to her face.
Lorraine Hill didn't mean to make a joke. He looked at the child in front of him, who was pulled beside him by his mother. He was not tall, and the clothes he wore were very clean. He looked straight at her with big eyes, with curiosity in his eyes.
and admiration.
"Come, come to sister." Lorraine Hill squatted down, clapped his hands, and looked level with the child, with a smile on his face.
Mrs. Mela looked at it and had no choice but to let go of her hand and let the child walk over by herself.
Lorraine Hill touched Dill's head, blinked, and checked the child's condition.
Overall, he is relatively healthy. His eyebrows look a bit like his mother's, softer and not as sharp as Angus's.
Then there was another conversation, and after a while, Lorraine Hill took out the snack gift box prepared for the children, and invited the mother and son to move to the headquarters of the Carites Chamber of Commerce because it was safer there.
However, after being rejected by Mrs. Meera, Lorraine Hill couldn't keep trying to persuade her. Before leaving, she said she would come back to see them after a while.
After putting on the black hooded robe again and boarding the carriage, Lorraine Hill slowly thought about the process of this meeting.
"Serres, how did Mr. Angus meet Mrs. Mela back then?"
"It was at a banquet 10 years ago. At that time, the master's career began to flourish. He often attended banquets from various parties. Once he got drunk, and Miss Meira happened to be a member of the banquet. She was a certain little girl.
A merchant’s daughter.”
"So the drunken master had a relationship with Miss Meira, and in order to please the master, Miss Meira's father wanted to send her to be his side wife. Although the master did not agree, but in order to make up for the guilt in his heart, he gave Mei La
There are many benefits to attracting my father."
"As time went by, Meera's father became more and more greedy and spoke louder and louder. He even threatened to expose the matter if he didn't agree."
"Originally, the master was still thinking of love and tolerated everything. After that time, he directly sent people to take action. Mrs. Mela's father almost went bankrupt, and finally settled down. Mrs. Mela was caught in the middle. She asked the master for her father's money before.
There are many benefits, but I have always been very uneasy, and later I became even more afraid of the master."
"In this way..." Lorraine Hill listened to the butler Seres's narrative, but felt that there were still some ambiguities in it.
Why was Mrs. Mela more panicked than sad after hearing the news about Angus? Why did Mrs. Mela lock Dill in the room and lock it? Was she worried or abusive? Why did Mrs. Mela hear the news about Luo Lanxi?
When Er invited her to live at the headquarters, her first reaction was to refuse without any hesitation.
There must be something hidden in Mrs. Meila's heart, and there may be something hidden between her and Angus. Lorraine Hill sipped her tea, but she was thinking in her heart, how to find out the truth.
After a while, she finally spoke.
"Serres, can you arrange for your servants to inquire about Mrs. Mela's past acquaintances? I want to know what she was like ten years ago, before she came into contact with Angus, and what happened before and after that incident."
"I'm afraid this will be difficult, Miss, after all it has been ten years."
"Even if it takes ten years, many things will still leave traces. You should send someone to check."
"Okay, Miss Lacey."
After returning to the headquarters mansion, Lorraine Hill dealt with some matters of the Chamber of Commerce, and then in the evening, after dinner, she sat on a chair on the balcony to rest, looking at the night view of stars and lights in the sky, and the gusts of evening breeze.
Blow, bringing the slightest coolness.
Chelsea, the head maid, gently opened the floor-to-ceiling window of the balcony and walked over.
"Miss, are you calling me?"
"Yes, I want to ask you to do something." She paused for a moment, looking at the lights of thousands of houses in the distance, and the wind slowly blowing through the woods outside the balcony.
"Send a trusted confidant to secretly investigate the butler Seres and all the subordinates he has come into contact with in the past few days, and then report to me. You should be the first to come to Carites, so there should be many trustworthy people."
Lorraine Hill turned her head and looked at the head maid, her silky hair fluttering slowly in the night wind.
