Lu Li never asked about Anna's life experience. He didn't know anything else except that her mother's name was An Lei and she seemed to be from a noble family.
In fact, it is not accurate to call it a noble, unless you add the line "downcast" to the prefix. At least when Anna was born, her family had no noble title, and only had a manor and a gallery with few guests.
With inexplicable shyness, Anna revealed the above content.
A few months after Anna died of an infectious disease, her mother, who had not yet recovered, also died of mental and physical exhaustion and grief.
"Is there anyone else in your family?"
The mother and daughter died successively, which gave Lu Li more ideas.
Loneliness appeared in Anna's eyes: "No more...only my mother and I are left, and then..."
Then she and her mother disappeared.
The possibility of his relatives plotting to seize the family property was ruled out. Lu Li turned to ask, "Where is that manor?"
His eyes fell on the picture frame on the bookshelf. Behind the green garden was the three-story mansion.
Lu Li knew the whereabouts of the gallery. It was given to the stingy boss Benjamin by Mrs. An Lei before her death, and it was he who indirectly contributed to the encounter between Lu Li and Anna.
"Okay...it seems to have been donated..." Anna's voice trailed off.
Lu Li, who seemed to be just asking casually, said, "Tell me about the treasure."
"'Little Anna, let me tell you a secret. There is a treasure buried in our family, which contains the most precious treasure for the Lotta family and me.' My mother said this to me at the time. When I was six...seven years old
time."
Anna was too young at that time, maybe Mrs. An Lei was just coaxing Anna and didn't have much treasure, but as a former aristocrat with artistic literacy, she couldn't possibly lie to Anna.
It was easy to distinguish between reality and fairy tale. Lu Li asked: "Did she tell you the location of the treasure?"
"Well... let me think about it..." Anna let herself fall into memories.
Warm afternoon sunlight poured out of the window, and the cozy bedroom with warm colors looked like maple leaves in autumn. Little Anna sat in her mother's arms, holding her clothes with both hands and asked: "Where is the treasure?"
The face of the past has been blurred, and Anna only remembers her gentle and kind mother smiling softly and saying: "You know where it is."
"How do I know where it is?" Little Anna tilted her head in confusion.
Mrs. An Lei rubbed her little head: "The treasure is buried in the deepest place in your memory."
"Oh..." Little Anna responded honestly, pouted and stopped talking. She did not act coquettishly and yell at her mother like other children.
Mrs. An Lei pinched little Anna's cheek by the way: "I will tell you when you grow up."
Little Anna dodged, but couldn't avoid the big soft and warm hand, and giggled.
This scene gradually became blurry and mottled, fading yellow like a book page, and filled with a deserted blue-gray color. The contrast between warmth and desolation suddenly made Anna feel extremely uncomfortable and contradictory in her heart. Almost instantly, the cold breath came from
Her body was stretched out, and a touch of scarlet appeared in the depths of Anna's pupils.
The shadow began to extend outward, but then stopped.
Lu Li put his palm on Anna's shoulder, his lowered black eyes looked into Anna's sad eyes: "Keep calm."
The voice and the figure suddenly came into view. Anna looked at him blankly, looking at those calm black eyes that had not changed. Her nose felt sore for no reason, she turned her head slightly and whispered like a gnat: "I miss my mother.
…”
"..."
Lu Li didn't say a word. He didn't know how to comfort people, so naturally he didn't know what to say or what to do at this time.
But usually you have to say something at this time.
After thinking for a while, Lu Li added: "The pot is already boiling."
The sound of boiling water and the sound of a pot lid being lifted were heard in the kitchen.
Anna, who was trapped in memories, woke up the moment she finished speaking and ran into the kitchen anxiously.
"It seems like everything is fine." Lu Li thought to himself.
"It looks like everything's okay..." Anna calmed down her breath and thought to herself as she watched the scarlet color deep in her eyes gradually fade away in the mirror.
She took off the hot pot lid, stirred the pot with a spoon, and then put the lid back on.
After gathering her emotions, Anna floated back to the living room. Lu Li had already returned to the desk and sat down. Because of the previous contact, Anna was slightly embarrassed: "My mother said that I know where it is, and it is buried in the place where I have the deepest memory."
"So where?"
"..."
Anna looked at Lu Li silently and blinked.
"Forgot?"
"Um……"
Anna looked away from her guilty gaze.
The mother did not tell Anna the location of the treasure when she grew up.
"Maybe it won't be difficult to guess." Lu Li said suddenly. "When you were six or seven years old, you didn't have many things in your life. You just need to remember what was precious to you at that time."
"Well..." Anna said in a thoughtful voice.
"Playmates, friends, elders, family." Lu Li provided keywords for Anna to think of.
"Well..." Anna continued to make a long and deep sound.
"Servants, food, beloved things."
"Hmm...?" The end of the long sound draws an arc that represents doubt.
Anna seemed to have thought of something.
Lu Li followed the point about his favorite things and continued: "Potted plants, dolls, plants, pictures——"
"I thought of it! The most profound thing in my memory!"
Anna suddenly shouted, her bright eyes seemed to be filled with starlight: "I will bury it under the roots of my sister's tree!"
Lu Li didn't say anything, only looked at him questioningly.
"That's a doll named Nini... Well, my sister is a tree planted by my mother after I was born. I always played with it when I was a child... After the doll named Nini died, I took it
Buried under the tree."
"Die?"
Anna's cheeks turned red and she hesitated: "I didn't understand at that time. I thought it was dead when I found its cotton core leaking out..."
"Then what?"
"Then it seemed...I can't remember exactly, but the treasure must be there!"
Anna could no longer recall the details. She only remembered that her mother seemed to have mentioned words like "treasure" at that time.
And that incident was indeed the most profound thing that Anna, who was six or seven years old, remembered. She still remembered that she woke up from her sleep crying several times and shouted about Nini's embarrassment.
"Do you remember where the manor is?"
"How could I forget this?" Anna muttered, telling Lu Li the address of the manor and where her "sister" was planted.
"I wonder how it is doing now..."
Anna's tone was a little sad. Of course she couldn't treat a tree as her sister, but she did have special feelings for that tree.
Anna, who was aroused by Lu Li's nostalgic thoughts, thought for a while and slipped back to the kitchen to process the food.
Lu Li had no reason not to believe Anna.
Anna's former manor was in Himfast, in the middle of the Allen Peninsula. In the past, a trip didn't take too long. But not now. Lu Li had to wait until the merchants arrived in a few days before setting off.