The Whispering Verses Chapter 1381: The Grave of Love
Chapter 1381 The Grave of Love
Clerical relic [Wish Coin], draw a pentagram pattern on the ground, put five candles of different lengths at the top of the pentagram, then throw the coin to the center of the pentagram, and you can make a wish desire.
The way wishes are realized is always strange, and the smaller the wish, the more normal the way it is realized; the more ambitious the wish, the more likely it is to cause other disasters.
Shadow once got this coin from Miss Carina (Chapter 467). At that time, his relationship with Miss Carina was not as close as it is now, and the reward the Duchess requested was
【Have dinner with her. 】
This is the second time I encountered this kind of coin. Mr. Edmond’s price here is the normal price. Because wish-making relics are relatively rare, no matter how strong the side effects are, they are still very useful after all. Therefore, [Wish Coin] is considered to be a relatively expensive type among clerical relics. But no matter how expensive it was, Shade had to buy it.
Considering that the journey from the ruined tower in the mountains to Fort Rice, and from the White River Valley Vineyard to the city of Huntington is quite far, after leaving Coldwater Port, Shade just went home, took a shower, and then made arrangements. After eating dinner for the cat who woke up from her nap, and leaving a note for Dorothy who might come tonight, she headed for the Randall Valley.
It was still early before Margaret’s banquet, so Shade went to the Prophet’s Association to find Luvia.
Now Luvia has been in Randall Valley for more than a month and has gradually adapted to the work here. A few days ago, the Association informed her that key progress had been made in negotiations with the Order, but in fact Miss Lassers said that the Prophet Association seemed to have simply forgotten to send her a letter.
In short, when Shade came to the Prophet's Association, Luvia was still busy with work and asked Shade to wait for her at the Fertile Land Hotel. After Shade read an entire copy of the Randall Valley Evening News and chatted with the guests at the next table for half an hour about the "petrified plague" that had appeared in the city in the past few days, Luvia hurried over.
She didn't look like she was off work, so she wasn't holding her clutch.
This time the two did not chat on the first floor of the hotel, but went to Luvia's room. Shade happily showed off the two coins he got today, while Luvia looked troubled:
"I really can't leave recently because the local association is short of manpower due to the issue of the selected candidates. So the association communicated with the college and extended my secondment. Now I'm afraid I really have to wait until spring to return. To Tobesk."
"What does it matter? No matter where I am, you can see me every day."
Shad said:
"In addition. Iluna told me at noon today that she has been notified that she will leave on Sunday and arrive locally later next week."
"The church must have made great progress, otherwise Iluna would not be allowed to come now."
Luvia is a little worried:
"Those two coins, do you want to divination now? Use divination to find the sapphire earrings and the two hexagonal gems whose whereabouts are unknown."
"It's not necessary now, maybe I can run into them myself. Spring is getting closer and closer, and there will be more important things waiting for divination in the future."
Xia De said, and then issued an invitation:
"I'm going to Margaret's party tonight. Do you want to go with me?"
"There is still some unfinished work in the association. The association is trying to rely on divination to learn the location of the crazy land in the entire area. Today we found one and the church has already gone to deal with it."
The purple-eyed girl said, holding Shade's hand. She really wanted to accompany Shade:
"In addition, the 'universal earth elixir' you asked the witch to give to the church is indeed effective. I heard the news that the elixir can delay or even cure varying degrees of petrification in the range of 10 to 500 times dilution. Although it is not It’s a radical cure, but it’s already very effective. As for the [Healing] Holy Grail, it’s a pity that the potion transformed by the Holy Grail has no effect.”
"It's a pity that the Holy Grail in my hand is not enough."
"The number of cases today is 302. Even if you get one Holy Grail a day, it will not be enough."
Luvia sees clearly:
"We can never hope that we can save everyone."
Purple eyes looked at Shade. For a moment, Shade wondered who had said this to him.
Since Luvia had no time, Shade went alone to the manor where Margaret was staying to attend the banquet.
The manor where the princess and prince live is a local asset of the Angevin royal family. Located in an area north of the city center, the manor covers an area approximately twice that of Earl Granger's manor.
Although Margaret said that this was a banquet to celebrate the completion of the shipyard and invited relevant people and their families to attend, the actual number of visitors to the banquet exceeded Shade's expectations.
He came early and talked to Margaret in the room for a while. By the time Margaret went to greet the guests with her maid and attendants, and when Chad also came to the banquet hall, the long dining table, illuminated by the overhead crystal lamp and the gas lamp with the Anjou family crest, was already full of people standing around it. people.
"Did the shipyard matter involve so many local people?"
As the hosts of the banquet, Margaret and Prince William were both busy at the beginning of the banquet, so Shade could wander around. He originally thought about whether he could meet Stone Oxenfurt again, but then he thought that even if he did, there would be nothing to say.
Then he thought about seeing who was playing Rhodes in the banquet hall so that he could kill time, but while walking through the lively crowd with a wine glass in hand, he noticed an acquaintance standing by the window.
Xia De then changed his direction and walked over with the wine glass:
"Mr. Enriquez, I didn't expect to meet you again."
The man looking out the window alone also turned around, and then recognized this as the young gentleman he met at Earl Granger's place on Tuesday:
"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence, I meet you again."
The two clinked their glasses, and Shade also glanced out the window. The banquet hall is on the first floor, and outside this window is the back garden of the manor. It is now the end of winter, and although the weather is still surprisingly cold, there are still many people who are willing to travel at night in such temperatures.
At this time, around the corner of the evergreen bushes, two ladies could be seen sitting on a stone bench covered with cushions.
Only a few lonely gas lamps were still burning in the garden, leaving the two ladies talking in low voices in darkness and cold. The banquet hall was warm and bright, with pleasant music and lively chatter coming and going. Because the room is so bright, the glass reflects the situation inside the window.
Mr. Henriquez's face is therefore reflected on the glass, almost coinciding with the figure of Mrs. Henriquez sitting far away in the garden, wearing a white shawl.
One is outside and the other is inside, one is cold and the other is warm and comfortable.
"If the person talking to Mrs. Enriquez was not an older woman but a young and handsome man, this would almost be a world-famous painting."
The stranger said something in his heart that only he could understand, and then asked Mr. Enriquez:
"What's wrong with your wife in such a cold weather"
"She was talking to Aunt Angela."
Mr. Henriquez's expression was melancholy and his tone was extremely low. He probably didn't care who he was talking to, he just wanted to find someone to talk to:
"It's really cold outside, but."
He drank all the wine in his glass in one gulp, and Shade looked out the window:
"Please forgive me for being nosy, are you having a relationship problem?"
Mr. Enriquez nodded slightly, put the wine glass on the windowsill, and asked instead:
"Speaking of which, Mr. Watson, I think you have reached the age of marriage. Are you married now?"
Xia De shook his head:
"No, but I do have a few close friends of the same age."
【Overage. 】
Mr. Enriquez nodded. He was from a noble family, so he naturally understood what Xade meant.
He looked outside with bright eyes:
"It's better not to be married. Love is always happy and fulfilling, but marriage is always the grave of love. I didn't understand this sentence before, but when I got married, I realized how accurate it is. .So, Mr. Watson, do you know why fairy tales always end with the wedding of the prince and the princess?”
Xia De thought along his train of thought:
"Because after marriage, it is no longer as beautiful as fairy tales. Ordinary life, friction over trivial matters, and conflicts in personal habits. Children who read fairy tales should not be exposed to the adult world at a very young age. ”
"Yes, the helplessness of the adult world."
Mr. Henriquez stared blankly at the two people holding hands and talking outside the window:
"I used to be immersed in the beauty of love. It wasn't until I got married that I realized how difficult it is to start a family with another person."
It seems that what troubles him is not only his wife's experience while studying in Willendale City, but also the fact that after getting married, life is different from what he imagined.
However, although he seemed to be confiding in Shade, Mr. Enriquez never told what he knew. No matter how distressed she is, her wife has had a past with someone else, but she cannot tell it to a stranger.
"Perhaps you can ask a long-married relative for help."
However, Shade still gave his own suggestions:
"Although young people always think that the old people's ideas are outdated, in fact they are correct most of the time."
Mr. Henriquez nodded:
"Yes, that's why my aunt was talking to my wife outside. But she obviously got the wrong idea and thought it was my slovenly habits that made Maggie a little disappointed in me, but it was actually"
He did not continue speaking, but took another glass of wine from the passing waiter's tray.
There is no so-called "marriage counselor" in this era, but Shade knows a similar profession:
"Have you considered seeing a psychiatrist?"