OBS Chapter 2888 Debt Repayment and the Old House
Chapter 2888 Debt Repayment and the Old House
Chapter 2888 Debt Repayment and the Old House
[I noticed that you didn't object to the fact that you like dragon maids.]
"She" laughed softly in Xia De's ear, and when Xia De couldn't refute, he still chose to pretend not to hear it.
Regardless of whether it was out of fear of Shad or Flora really convinced them, in the following conversation, the two dragon ladies answered all of Shad's questions intermittently.
First of all, the blood of the Dragonborn will definitely not be transmitted through intimate behavior, so they are indeed relatives. The noble lady Anne Dupont is the last generation of the disappeared Jindel family, and the maid Jessica has a common great-grandfather with her.
Anne Dupont's dragon bloodline was revealed when she was very young, and the elders who had not yet passed away taught her how to control this "cursed power."
As for the maid Jessica, she was just an ordinary normal person when she applied to be a maid in Colonel Dupont's house. It was only after she started having an affair with the colonel's wife about five years ago that she gradually showed these inhuman characteristics.
At first, the two people who knew nothing thought that the curse of Anne Dupont was passed on to the maid who had close contact with her. But later, after hiring a private detective to investigate and learning that the two had a common ancestor, they realized that the maid Jessica also had Jindel's cursed bloodline.
"I need to correct this, this is not a curse, this is the awakening of the dragon bloodline."
Shade said by the fire. At this time, the three high-ring girls who were hiding in the forest also came to the fire to rest. Shade called them over to warn Anne Dupont not to have other ideas.
"As for the sudden awakening of this young lady's bloodline, it is indeed related to the close relationship between you two."
Shade had acquired knowledge about dragons, so he deduced from an academic perspective:
"You two have the same bloodline. When you are in close contact, the spiritual power of both of you may stimulate the bloodline of the other party. However, this method is often used by elders to use spiritual power to assist the younger generation in meditation. Your method is rare."
"How rude!"
The colonel's wife then picked up a dry branch from her hand and threw it at Shade to protest his words. Shade took the branch and threw it into the fire:
"Then it can be explained why you look so young. Anti-aging is a very common trait among Dragonborn. I just sensed your strength. Although it exceeds that of ordinary people, it is still far from that of normal Dragonborn. Your Dragonborn bloodline is very weak, and it was not activated deliberately during your puberty. Therefore, youthfulness should be the biggest inhuman trait you have acquired."
"We are human beings, please don't call us inhuman."
The young maid whispered, and Flora asked curiously:
"Madame Dupont, do not your children show the same characteristics as you?"
"No."
The latter immediately shook his head:
"When I first gave birth to them, I was very worried and even thought about confessing my family's secret to my husband. But fortunately, the inheritance of this bloodline is not stable. In fact, before me, the Jindel family had not had this trait for two consecutive generations.
When my children grow up, I will tell them about this to prevent this trait from occurring in their offspring.”
Although Madame Anne Dupont also did not know what a "ring wizard" was, she had heard that some people in this world could use magical powers. However, she was also certain that such a powerful person should not have appeared in the Jindel family in the past two hundred years.
When Flora asked her about the origin of the Jindel family's bloodline, the colonel's wife thought for a long time before speaking. It was not that she refused to answer, but she had to recall it carefully:
"My family told me about this when I was a child, but I didn't listen carefully. It seems that when my family just moved to Ximu Town from another place, an elder in the family saw a very strange egg in the woods. Out of curiosity, he wanted to know what was inside the egg, so he tried to hatch it.
He spent many years bringing the strange creature out of the egg and cared for it during its infancy. But when it grew up, it turned its back on us and cursed us before leaving.
If we replace "strange creature" with "dragon", the story is much easier to understand, but Flora and Shade do not think it is "repaying kindness with enmity":
"Then do you know how your ancestors acquired a large amount of wealth and were able to gain a foothold in Ximu Town?"
Xia De asked again, and the maid Jessica shook her head. She didn't even know that her bloodline came from the Jindel family until recent years. And Anne Dupont showed a clear sense of stupidity:
"Doing business."
"what kind of business?"
"The smuggling business to Delarion. I know that my family is related to the Duke's family in the North. Judging from your expressions, isn't that the case?"
"Of course not. Your family was able to make so much wealth in Ximu Town as an outsider because of the strange things in the forest you mentioned."
Shade does not mention "dragon dung" directly:
"We keep our promise and won't disturb your life again. But do you really not know anything else about the Jindel family?"
The Colonel's wife frowned and recalled again. Finally, it was the maid who reminded her:
"You mentioned those things."
Then Anne Dupont remembered:
"After my parents passed away, the family business was handed over to professional managers, and the contact with MI6 was also cut off. This is true. At least my generation has absolutely no connection with the Northland!
The house in my hometown was burned down by fire more than ten years ago. But our old house still has a basement, and there may be some things in the basement. The fire should not have burned the basement. "
"What else?"
"I don't know. The house has been abandoned since it burned down. My parents once said that after I get married, the Jindel family name should slowly disappear. Jindel was not supposed to belong here in the first place. It's a good thing for everyone to be able to wait until this ending in peace. They have also repaid the debt owed by their ancestors to the Cavendish family."
The "debt" here refers to the affair between Duke Jinder's brother and the queen, but the colonel's wife today is unaware of such a royal scandal.
After she said this, she assured:
"That's really all I know. Just take whatever you like from the basement of the old house. You don't need to tell me. If you want, I can give you the title deed and house deeds. They are useless anyway. Will you really not disturb our lives in the future?"
The artist lady continued to play the role of a good person and said with a smile:
"Of course we won't bother you, and we don't want your old house. But if there is anything else we need to ask, we might come visit you again. Of course, it's just a visit, and we'll bring gifts."
"Excuse me, do you have any way to make us become like normal people?"
Jessica, the maid who was huddled beside Anne Dupont, asked again, so Flora looked at Shad, who also shook his head;
"I'm really sorry, but your characteristics are inherited from your bloodline. No one can change this."
However, thinking of the fact that groups like the Blood Spirit School and the Truth Society that love "biological experiments" are also in Vista City, he added:
"If someone says they can help you get rid of these characteristics, don't believe them. There have been a lot of bad guys coming to Vista City recently. If you don't want to end up like the Kant family, you'd better not get involved with us ring wizards."
Shad was able to find the Jindel family because of the memories read by the doctor who devoured the devil. The Jindel family seemed to have completely disappeared at present, so he was sure that no one would be able to find the Colonel's wife for the dragon beast.
After sending the fleeing master and servant back to the city, Shad and Flora returned to the hotel and called the purple-eyed fortune teller who was very good at finding things, and then went directly to the old house of the Jindel family in the northeast of the city.
Because of the city's relocation, it is now considered an area outside the city's edge. Large tracts of farmland surround the burned manor. When the carriage passed the burned Hoy Manor, Shade suddenly thought whether the fire in Jindel's old house was also related to the devil.
But at least on the surface, the Jindel mansion had only experienced an ordinary fire, so the manor was not burned to the ground and still maintained its basic framework.
The manor ruins were adjacent to a small village outside the city, and a tributary of the Aronson River ran between the manor ruins and the village. Shad could almost imagine that in the summer, the children in the village would cross the river on the bridge and run into the manor to play hide-and-seek.
Because they were worried about getting into trouble, in addition to Flora and Luvia, Tifa also brought three high-ranking maids from the North. The group of seven was too conspicuous, so they did not pass through the village, but took a long detour and came directly to the gate of the manor.
When the carriage was about to stop, Xia De saw someone in the ruins from afar. So he signaled the girl driving the car to stop the car in advance and let everyone wait here for a while, and he walked towards the ruins.
The river water has not frozen yet in today's weather, and the continuous autumn rainstorms have caused the water level upstream to rise. Now you can hear the gurgling sound of water when standing in the ruins of the manor. The elderly Professor Yuk Wood seemed to have just walked out of the ruins of the house. When he saw Shade waving and greeting him, he also walked towards him with a smile in the yard covered with dead grass:
"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence that we meet again."
"Yes, it's a coincidence."
Xia De also answered with a smile and shook hands with him:
"I was asked by a friend from the North Country to investigate the relationship between the local Jindel family and the Duke family of the North Country. Professor, are you here for this too?"