The little princess looked very nervous, after all, she had never done such a thing before.
"Yes, you need to exercise too. Besides, it's very simple, isn't it?"
Agelina glanced at Shade again, then took the photo and went to change clothes. Dorothy winked at Carina's maid who had just found Agelina, and the latter went to find her knowingly.
The man followed the little princess for a while.
Even if it was daytime, Dorothy would definitely not let Agelina go on the mission alone.
"She does need some training. Just reading books and learning from others will not produce a good ring warlock."
After the maid lady also left, Dorothy said this, and smiled and asked Shade to guess whether Agelina could complete this task before lunch.
Shade believed in Agelina very much, not only because of the great things the little princess had accomplished in "The Past", but also because he really believed that Agelina was very capable:
"She'll make it."
Shade's feeling was correct. Before lunch, Agelina successfully brought back the news about the flower seller, and she was even able to provide detailed background information about the other party.
Agelina's approach was very simple. She also knew the power of Carson Ricklang. If an adult man like Shade paid for the information of an underage flower girl, this would certainly be suspicious, but it seemed easy.
Agelina, who came from an extraordinary background, only allowed some greedy girls to increase the reward for providing information.
"The person I'm looking for is called Jenny Cree. She is a poor girl from the old city. She is 13 years old. There is no abnormality in the background check, and she has not been found to have any connection with the Berkeley Used Bookstore."
Shade read the simple report handwritten by Agelina, which was actually just one page. Luvia on the side asked:
"What do you think the relationship between the person the old shop owner is looking for and this flower girl is?"
"The old shop owner should be looking for her. Jenny Cree has no sister. Although her mother is of the same age, she is not a flower girl. The old man and Jeanne Cree should have a relationship through time."
Shade put down the page and touched the cat that was eating, then picked up the knife and fork:
"I used a beacon acorn in the morning, but I didn't feel any time travelers within the city limits of Vista."
"That child must not have left Vista City in the morning!"
Agelina said immediately, and was very confident in her conclusion.
Meghan wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, smiled and said to Shade:
"So, is there really a time traveler who can escape your perception and the beacon acorn's sense?"
"Perhaps neither of them are time travellers, and there is another story."
But Flora gave the opposite opinion:
"When Shade first arrived here, I thought that the perception of the ring wizard and the acorns of the hermits must be reliable, but now I feel that this is not necessarily the case.
After all, from a city-wide perspective, there are only one or two time travellers, which is too few. It is impossible that the era when we came to Vista City was the lowest period for time travellers in this city, right? Now this is a local
The most chaotic period of time."
But this also raises a new question. If there are really time travelers who can escape Shade's perception and the effect of the beacon acorn, then how do they do it?
The girl Jenny Klee did not go to sell flowers in the morning, but stayed at home to help her mother, who worked in the laundry room, wash clothes. After all, the Aronson River in early winter had not frozen yet, so they worked on the riverside all morning.
After lunch, Shade went to the old city alone. Downstairs in the slum, he saw the girl who was helping her mother dry the clothes. There was also no trace of the time curse on her body, so what happened to her and the old owner of the second-hand bookstore?
Who has questions? Shade can't give a conclusion yet.
As for letting the girl go to that used bookstore, it's not a very troublesome thing.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the door of the bookstore was pushed open and the bell rang again. The old shopkeeper who was checking an old book behind the counter raised his head and saw the familiar but unfamiliar girl walking through the door.
Come in.
The girl who lived three streets away looked very nervous, but she still walked to the counter and handed the letter in her hand to the old shopkeeper:
"A gentleman asked me to deliver this letter."
The old man who tried his best to control his emotions stood up and reached out to take the letter handed over by the short girl outside the counter. When the girl wanted to turn around and leave, he stopped her again:
"Please wait"
For a moment, the innocent girl seemed to see tears flashing in the old man's eyes. His expression at the moment looked very strange, but the girl who had not yet grown up could not understand this and those buyers who had clearly given flowers but were still broken up with.
The expressions of the flower people are not very similar either.
"The gentleman who asked me to deliver the letter has paid me. Do you want me to deliver the reply? But he has already left."
"I wanted to say, do you want some candy?"
The old man asked, bending down and taking out a sugar bowl from under the counter. After thanking the little girl hesitantly, he stood on tiptoes and reached out to grab a handful in the sugar bowl, and then left quickly. Although she is young, she has always been there
It's not like she doesn't know anything about life on the street.
When the door of the used bookstore was closed again, the old shopkeeper was still staring blankly in the direction of the door. After a long time, he covered his face and fell back on his chair, whimpering.
It took him a long time to control his emotions that were close to collapse. When he took his hand away, he found that Shade had reappeared, holding a copy of "A Midsummer Night's Wish" and reading:
"You were really sad when you cried just now."
He put the old book back on the shelf:
"I originally thought that the sound of my coming in would make you control it, but it seems like you didn't even notice that I was coming."
"I'm sorry, young man. Some people will see through life completely when they get older, but fools like me can't get out of it."
He spoke in a polite manner, and after apologizing to Shade, he went back upstairs to wash his face, and then came back.
Shade looked at his pocket and guessed that the invitation he wanted was in it, but he had other things to do before getting the invitation:
"If you don't mind, you can share your story with me. You have been holding it in your heart for so many years, and you are actually in pain, right?"
"No, that's definitely not pain, that's anticipation."
The old man corrected him. Although his eye circles were still a little red, his mood had stabilized.
He prepared tea for Shade and then began to tell the story of his life on this peaceful Saturday afternoon:
"When I first met her, she even looked younger than you. She was also much taller then, you know? When she put on her high heels, she even looked taller than me.
It’s higher.”
As he spoke, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth unconsciously. Shade picked up the teacup and touched it with him, then asked curiously:
"So how did you meet her? By chance?"
"No, no, I didn't live in the town when I was young. At that time, I lived with my parents in a village outside the town, working for Mr. Bennet's family. It was a winter, and there was a heavy rain that year.
Snow, my mother took me to the farm to deliver food to my father, and on the way back, I met her in the woods wearing thin summer clothes.
She said she was lost. My mother is a very good person. Even though I could tell that something was wrong with her at the time, my mother still invited her to our home."
"Has she been staying at your house for a long time?"
"Yes, she has lived in my house since then. She never mentioned her origins, but she is a very good working girl. My mother likes her very much, and I also like her very much."
The old man's vision seemed to have traveled through time, and he saw the scene of his youth again:
"When did the relationship between me and her start to change? I don't know. It seems that unconsciously, we started to pick mushrooms in the woods together, sit in the grain piles to watch the stars together, and hide together.
I would whisper to my mother until the summer of the second year when she suddenly told me that she was leaving."
"Going back, right?"
"Yes, she said she finally found a way home. She left in a hurry, leaving me only the pocket watch with her photo on it, and then disappeared without a trace. At that time, the pocket watch was owned by Mr. Bennet
It was an expensive product that even the big shots couldn't afford. People in that era didn't even know what a camera was.
After she left, I searched for her like crazy for many, many years. Later, my parents passed away and I moved to the town. When I was thirty-five years old, one day I found an invitation in the mailbox.
letter, and then went to that place.”
He did not explain to Shade exactly what "that place" was:
"The people there told me that they could send me to meet her, and they told me clearly that I was meeting someone from the future. But I don't know what era she lived in, and I don't even know her real name. ——She obviously didn’t want to say it.
But I knew I couldn't give up this opportunity. This might be the last chance. So I said 1835, and then it really came to that time. I didn't know if I had chosen the right date, so I originally went to my home in Ximu Town. I opened this bookstore in a certain location, and I look forward to the day when she can open the door and come in. She is a girl who likes to read.”
The melancholy story is not very long. It is another story about choosing to wait for a long time because of love. The old man behind the counter is just an ordinary person. He came from an earlier era and lived here for 19 years after 1835. , but was not lucky enough to meet the flower girl.
In other words, that girl should have gradually grown up in recent years to resemble the girl in the old man's memory.
If Shade didn't come today, he would probably have to wait for many, many years, and he might even die without knowing that the person he wanted to wait for had already been born and was living not far from here.