novelonline Chapter 1910 [The Wedding at the Sad Opera Lehman Manor]
Chapter 1910 [The Wedding at the Sad Opera Lehman Manor]
Chapter 1910 [Sorrowful Opera The Wedding at Lehman Manor]
Xia De squinted at the withered black roses in the window behind him, and then continued to say hello:
"Mr. Asmond, long time no see. Heavy rain, night, flower shop, candles, our meeting this time is in such an interesting environment. Would you like to sit down and talk?"
The demon scholar didn't care about the poor environment here, and sat down at the table in front of the flower shop. After the sleeves of his robe brushed against the table, the notebook he was carrying with him, which was even rolled up at the corners, was placed on the table. .
Shad pointed to himself:
"I spent most of the spring in Randall Valley, and I have to admit that the spring there is really beautiful. After the Golden Dawn Opera Company left Randall Valley, I also left. Then I went to the city of Willendale , originally wanted to go to Tobesk to watch the equestrian competition around the city, but the time was delayed because of some trivial matters. Boring policemen. So I came here to see if there is anything new during the negotiation between the two countries."
He smiled and said:
"I was also at the scene of the assassination not long ago. I plan to use that assassination as a model to write a good detective and spy novel. "Hamilton's Detective Stories" is about to meet its opponent. Oh, speaking of it, Why, there are also rumors of demons in the Green Lake area?"
Mr. Sean Asmond leaned forward slightly, his black eyes staring at Shad in the candlelight:
"Assassination? It was a short shower before intrigue and war. But the unexpected encounter is indeed suitable for storytelling. Yes, there are legends of demons in the local area, which is why I came here. Rumors, the island in the middle of Green Lake It is called the 'Island of Devils'. I stayed in the City of Glass for half a month, and then I came here again to inquire about the legend of the Edwards family that fell a hundred years ago."
"Oh?"
Xia De pretended to be interested, listening to the sound of rain, looking at the face of this strange man in the candlelight:
"So you're investigating this. It's interesting. So have you landed on the island? I heard that the island is shrouded in white fog all year round."
The demon scholar's black eyes were also looking at Shad, and he shook his head:
"I haven't landed on the island. After all, there are rumors of demons there, so I can't get in touch so easily, can I?"
"This cautiousness is really remarkable. It's a pity that we are not in a tavern now, otherwise I really want to buy you a drink."
Xia De said with a smile, the weird smile on the face of the man in the brown robe was even worse:
"No, I prefer this cold and dark environment to the tavern. In this wonderful environment, it is really wonderful to tell stories with friends. There is no need for drinks, Mr. Watson, just play Luo The German card? Just like in the past, I exchanged the Rhodes card for travel expenses."
"Why, you got a special rule card again?"
Xia De was a little surprised.
"It's not luck, an old gentleman who commissioned me to investigate the demonic curse haunting his family took this as a reward. But in fact, there is no demonic curse there, it's just the figure of the adulterous gardener and washerwoman at night .”
He took out his deck and handed it to Shad over the candle.Shade flipped through the first card and saw a weird black figure dancing with a strange figure in a red dress in the background of the card, with the manor building on fire behind him.
[Sorrowful Opera The Wedding at Lehman Manor], color sun 11.When drawing this card, throw a coin to guess the front and back. If the guess is correct and the total points of the hand including the hidden card are even, you can choose whether to discard this card and draw again.
"Oh, the sad opera series."
Shad sighed softly.
The "Sorrowful Opera" series includes traditional operas that end in tragedy.Correspondingly, it is the "Gleeful Opera" series of decks.
In addition to the title of "sad opera", people generally also call it "fifteen famous tragedies".As for "The Wedding at Lehman Manor", it tells the story of the love between the manor gardener and the cook, and this love affair triggered the love and hatred of three generations of the whole family about love, ethics, wealth, and power. It is a grand national and national epic.And all these contradictions broke out at a wedding banquet on a rainy night. In the end, the gardener killed almost everyone with a gun. Together with the corpse of the cook, he went to the distance in the rainy night and was struck to death by lightning in the final scene of the story. .
At the end of this opera, including the domestic pet dog and the named horse, all the famous and surnamed characters who have appeared on the stage all died, which is simply a tragedy among tragedies.It was, of course, Dorothy's least favorite kind of story.
Fortunately, this is a story adapted from traditional literature, not an ancient fairy tale, so Xia De doesn't have to worry about learning it in depth in the future.
"Although it was a series released more than ten years ago, because it has not been reprinted for the time being, and the card surface is very delicate, the price of the [Sorrowful Opera] series of cards has remained high. I think if I win, I will buy it for 40 pounds Play this card, and if I lose, how about buying this card for £55?"
Shad asked the man across the table, who put his right arm on his lap and leaned forward slightly:
"No problem. Of course, we must not forget our unfinished story."
He took back his cards and shuffled them with Shad.
"Yes yes, I'm looking forward to continuing to hear the continuation of that story."
Xia De said from the heart.
"Then Mr. Watson, do you remember where the story went?"
"of course."
Looking at the candlelight, he repeated the long and strange story amidst the louder rain:
"A wonderful existence, because of people's cognition, it really has the power of the rumored demon. It brings disasters to the world, until it meets a person who has no wish, because the other party seals the demon's 'wish', and stays with him That man has lived his life.
After the man died, the demon took his soul, returned to his hometown overnight, and devoured all his relatives.But those honorable people are doing their best to protect the last boy.The boy did not escape the demon by keeping his mouth shut, but made the same wish as the original man: I am willing to seal you with my whole life just like my grandfather.
He then walked a long way, until one day, the grown boy met the girl he wanted and fell in love with her.When she wanted to keep the young man to stay, the young man killed her, just to ensure that after his death, the devil would not change into his appearance and come to collect the girl's soul. "
Xia De sighed, and put the shuffled deck on the right side of the candle, and Mr. Asmond's deck on the left side of the candle.
"The story last time was really helpless and sad, but neither I nor the circus magician who played cards with us at that time can say that the young man's choice was wrong. If he didn't do this, the girl's fate would be terrible. Exactly the same as the youth's family."
"Mr. Watson, as a writer, don't you like tragedy?"
The two were going to draw cards. Although it was strange to play cards under candles on the street on a rainy night, the atmosphere was indeed very good.
Xia De nodded:
"Yes, I never liked tragedies."
The game adopts the most classic best-of-three system. If there is a tie, it will not stop until a certain party wins two games.The gameplay does not add any tricks. Xia De feels that facing the opposite scholar, who seems to have come from before the steam age, it is better for him to be more traditional.
The first dark card and the second card were drawn, and Shade's up card was 13 stars, which belonged to the largest number.He smiled, inserted Star 13 under the hidden card, and picked up the latter lightly, without any intention of hiding the first card:
"Sun 5, Star 13. Oh, the first round gave me problems."
The Demon Scholar didn't answer, and continued to reach out to his deck:
"This time the protagonist of the story is still the young man who grew up. He killed his lover in the village near the river, and then continued to travel far away. He walked, walked, and walked, and saw more things. Experienced more tragedies. After an unknown period of time, the middle-aged man who sealed the demon with himself came to a village that was ransacked by robbers on a rainy night, yes, just like the night now."
"In just a few words, a person has gone through half his life."
Xia De commented, and finally touched his third card:
"Maybe sometimes you really have to try your luck. If it is less than 4, I believe in my luck. Oh, the moon is 1, it seems that my luck is not bad. At 19 o'clock, I stop the card."
The Demon Scholar across the table showed 9 stars, 5 flowers and 10 suns together:
"It seems that I still lack some luck."
Although he busted, he didn't look surprised at all, and then started the second round with Shad:
"Even though it was raining, the burning fire still reflected half of the night sky red. The villagers' stumped limbs and broken arms were twisted in the village, and the wailing wounded were turned into ashes in the fire. The middle-aged man came from outside the village , headed towards the robbers who set fire in the rain for fun. The dark shadow emerged from behind him, and the sharp long sword sought justice for the innocent. Even without using the power of the sealed demon, so many years have passed The long road has made him strong enough."
Sean Asmond smiled at Shad on the other side of the candle:
"And in the bandit group, he rescued a noble girl who was occasionally resting in the village and was caught by the bandits, trying to demand a ransom from her family afterwards."
Xia De sighed:
"I met a girl again. Since he bears the responsibility of sealing the devil, he should not have anything to do with anyone. I can see that his life has been destined at the moment when he decided to seal the devil alone when he was young." tragedy."
The first two cards of the second round came to Xia De. He glanced at them and continued to draw the cards, while the sallow-skinned man on the opposite side of the table stopped drawing cards, leaning forward, still staring at Xia De.
PS: The picture in this chapter is "Rods Card - Tragedy Opera: The Wedding at Lehman Manor"
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