"Rose family, I didn't expect to see you one day." Joao put down the book in his hand and pushed up his glasses. The silver chain of the glasses added an elegance to him.
"Do you know me?" Xavier asked with interest.
"It seems that Ye Luo is living better with you." Joao did not answer Xavier. He looked at the little girl who was quietly wiping her tears, as if he was relieved.
"Teacher, Ye Luo is now working as a maid in the Qiangwei family!" Ye Luo patted her chest and raised her head and chest.
"It's good. If it weren't for your eyes, I would hardly have recognized that gray-faced little guy I picked up in the slums." Joao winked at Ye Luo, who thought she shook her head without leaving any traces.
Shake his head.
Xavier already had some confidence in his heart, and it seemed that Yeluo also had some hidden secrets.
"There is a supply of hot water downstairs. Can Xiao Yeluo help make some Paz tea?" Joao also saw Xavier's little movement of squinting his eyes. He quickly turned to the still young and proud Yeluo and spoke softly.
"Yes! Let the teacher taste the methods that Ye Luo and the maid sisters learned!" Ye Luo stood up excitedly and jumped out of the room.
Without Ye Luo, the ward became quiet again. Xavier walked to the window, opened it halfway, and looked at Noli's city house quietly.
João also picked up the thick parchment book titled "Old Times". The sun shone on him, and he seemed to be wearing a golden gauze.
"To answer your question just now," João finally spoke, "Black-haired Rose has always been a legendary family of Sentinoa. Each generation of their family heads has awe-inspiring talents, and they have the "Kiss of the Goddess" in them.
, this is a family favored by the goddess."
"Being pitied by the goddess...?" Xavier breathed out softly.
"There is a sentence in Chapter 4 "Dark Night" of "Covenant". The goddess gives her kiss to those brave warriors. The warriors who have the kiss of the goddess are filled with blazing fire, and their feet are like shining sunlight."
Joao closed the book, looked at Xavier with his back turned, and murmured.
"Very appropriate." Xavier said without any emotion.
"But I heard that the current head of the Qiangwei family has something special. Although he still has pure black hair, he has lost the black pupils that are more terrifying than the night." Joao stared at Xavier closely.
"There have been house owners who married wives with blue eyes or other eye colors, but no matter what, Qiangwei's eyes will always be dark. You are the most special. No one dares to look directly into your eyes. I finally feel it."
At that moment, Xavier could feel Joao trying to look at him, but Joao immediately looked away.
What kind of feeling was that? Joao felt that he couldn't explain it. It was like facing the fear in his heart, his limbs were as stiff as falling into an ice cellar, and he couldn't help but shudder.
"If you think you've dug enough about me and Qiangwei, just tell me what you really want to say. Isn't that why you sent Yeluo away?" Xavier snorted coldly.
He never really liked people discussing the Rose family and these somewhat secretive private matters.
"She is a good child. She was less than six years old when I picked her up in the slums. She was wearing rag-like cloth, like an abandoned kitten." Joao sighed.
"You want to say that you hope I won't exclude her because of her past?" Xavier raised his eyebrows.
"Well, she seems to like adults very much. Apart from Michelle and me, you are the third person who can make her so clingy." Joao said.
"At 6 years old, there are only a few jobs to support yourself in the slums, right?" Xavier snorted abruptly.
"As expected of you, sir, did you guess it so quickly?" João's face darkened, but he nodded after all.
Thieves and pickpockets are the most common occupations in slums, and many children also rely on stealing the wallets of travelers in surrounding towns to make ends meet.
Yekarena once took herself to the slums. Those thieves were as nimble as wild cats and could take away valuable things from you the moment they passed by.
"But sir, she has stopped doing that illegal thing a long time ago! I can guarantee that Ye Luo has a very kind heart..."
"She is a witch, you don't know that, right?" Xavier interrupted Joao.
"Kacha!" Joao's pupils shrank violently, and his face suddenly darkened. Just when Xavier thought that Joao would draw the blunderbuss next, the latter bit into pieces of a biscuit in his mouth.
"You can't beat me at this distance, even if you have the blessing of the forest demon." Xavier smiled with a hint of sarcasm.
"What do you want? My lord, Yeluo believes in you very much!" Joao's fists clenched the quilt tightly, making wrinkles.
"Michelle is also a witch..." Xavier shrugged, and this man who had always been calm and elegant finally showed a crack.
"Is that so... The idea of using a witch, sir, is really appalling." Joao seemed to have suddenly thought of something, his body slowly relaxed and he curled his lips helplessly.
Can you guess it so quickly? Xavier frowned. He originally wanted to deal with Joao more, maybe he would get something interesting out of him.
However, the city lord was obviously not a fool. He quickly saw that he would not harm Ye Luo and the other two.
"Baron Holmland, you should have heard something." Xavier faced Joao, his eyelashes covering his eyes.
"The leader of the rebel army and the city lord of the industrial capital of Norway. However, because Holmulande only stood up in the past few years, he has not yet passed the requirements to apply for the city." Joao touched the bandage on his head and was very surprised.
I thought of it quickly.
"He was ready to surrender to me."
"It's unbelievable. That baron has an arrogance and conceit that is inconsistent with his status. If he were to surrender to someone, it's hard to imagine who that person would be." Joao shook his head.
"He was said to have been possessed by the devil before that. His request was that the devil would not harm his family. Devil, can you think of something?" Xavier's face began to become serious.
"Monsa? But those are all demons from the goddess era, right..." Suddenly, Joao shuddered, "There... seems to be one..."
"A man in black, he was very tall, but that was many years ago. I was not the city lord at that time, my uncle was the city lord of Sinto City. I followed my uncle's request to go to other cities to search, and in a
When I was in a small village, I saw a dark shadow that night. It's hard to say what it was. It looked like a person, but more like a ghost."
"I fell ill the next day, and the priest from the Donald family in Norway said that I was haunted by the devil. On the third day, the village was massacred, and only one girl survived in the village.