novelonline Chapter 2587 Musicians' Banquet
Chapter 2587 Musicians' Banquet
Chapter 2587 Musicians' Banquet
By the time Shad and Miss Danister returned to the Accordion Hotel, the light of dusk had already shone on the walls of the golden music hall, making the square that looked like four-leaf clover petals appear magnificent.
Because the door could not be turned into a toy, Shade used an illusion to hide it and quickly took it to the third floor.
The witch should be in her own room at the moment, so after putting the door to Miss Danister's room, Shad knocked on the door alone and entered Miss Winslet's room 321.
The young witch apprentice was not here, and the curtains were not drawn on the windows of the suite's living room. At this moment, the brilliant sunset shone through the window, illuminating the floor and the black piano beside the window, as well as the chubby round-faced owl and the orange-white cat snuggling together on the windowsill.
"Ok?"
Xia De was stunned for a moment, then immediately closed the door from the outside. He stood in the corridor, blinked at the door, and then opened the door of Room 321 again.
As expected, he had seen it wrong just now because the sunset was too bright. In fact, Mia was lying on the windowsill with her tail drooping, looking at the sun outside the window, while the owl was standing next to her with its eyes closed. Owls sleep while standing.
"What do you mean by opening and closing the door just now?"
Flying down from the window sill with a flutter of wings, Miss Winslet appeared in the gray-white mist. She was wearing a light blue dress, and her hair was braided into a complicated style with a set of silver headdresses.
As he spoke, he turned around in a good mood, and asked Xiang Xiade with a smile in the sunset:
"Look, how about my skirt?"
The evening banquet started at seven o'clock, so there was no hurry to set off immediately. So the witch, dressed neatly, went to Miss Danister's room with Shade and listened to their experiences today.
It was just that Miss Danister didn't seem to want others to know that she was looking for a teacher, so she didn't say who the lady from three years ago was. So Miss Winslet's attention was still on the new tree hole and the [Hermit Group in the Forest]:
"Is it possible that they know about the Time Tree Hole?"
The witch thought for a moment and asked Xiang Xiade:
"Do you need me to send the girls around to follow them into the woods? Those hermits are not very strong. I have two high-level girls around me who can be deployed."
Xia De, who was stroking Mia, shook her head. According to her, Mia was very well behaved today, especially when she turned into an owl to rest, the cat even showed some intimacy, as if it regarded her as one of its own kind. Therefore, Xia De could entrust her to take care of Mia in the future.
"That's not necessary. We just established a relationship with the Hermits. There's no need for such hostile behavior."
He thought about it on the way back:
"I know some very low-key people in other places. They have a close relationship with the [Hermits of the Forest]. I will go there and try to see if I can learn more about those hermits through my friends.
I just can’t guess whether the hermits, if they really have control over the tree holes, will use them or prefer to guard and shelter them.”
Tomorrow is Wednesday, and Adele Isabella, who has come from afar, will appear in this inn. Shade plans to talk to Old John if he has time tomorrow, or go deep into the woods to meet the mysterious elf and ask her what she thinks.
Just avoid the real Adele tomorrow.
The evening party was attended by Shad and Miss Winslet. The witch had already packed everything, and considering that it would take too much time to go home to wash up, Shad borrowed the bathroom in Miss Danister's room to wash up a little. He brought the formal clothes for the party with him.
In short, as the gas lamps were lit one by one along the green avenue southwest of Vista, the carriage from the Accordion Hotel had already brought Shad and Miss Winslet to Earl Collins's estate at 14 Green Avenue.
They arrived neither too early nor too late. Shad was still very gentlemanly and jumped out of the carriage first, then turned around and took the hand wearing a white lace glove that was extended from the carriage.
When the lady with exquisite makeup stood beside him, he looked at the courtyard and the butler welcoming guests at the door and sighed quietly:
"It's more rudimentary than I thought."
The Earl's manor was not very big, and the courtyard was unexpectedly small. There were only the butler and three or four servants welcoming the guests at the door, and the house in the manor did not look very luxurious.
"You've seen the big things in Tobesk, so of course you think this is a country place."
The witch also whispered that although she was well-known in the art world, no one would come here to greet her:
"Let's go. It's best not to attract attention. We'll have a couple of drinks first. Ahem, I mean, walk around first before approaching the Bennets and the Cummings."
She naturally took Xia De's arm and tried hard not to change her expression:
"But you should run into someone I know soon, a pianist, conductor or composer who is attending the Moondance Festival concert. I will introduce them to you then, and all you need to do is smile. Today you are my distant cousin."
"Um, cousin again? I mean, no problem."
Once a single, living-alone older girl brings a man like her "distant cousin" to a formal banquet, people will basically think that he is a man they like, so they will actively avoid chatting up such a girl. This is also one of the unspoken rules of social interaction.
What was different from what Shad had expected was that this banquet was not a vulgar aristocratic social banquet, but rather quite upper-class, because apart from local celebrities like Sir Bennet and Cumming, most of the invited guests really had titles such as "musician".
Earl Collins prepared this banquet for artists participating in the Moondance Festival concert. It seems that there are not so many twists and turns in this music city.
Although she was young, Miss Winslet knew a lot of people. From the folk composer who came from the Kingdom of the Islands-Keragly, to the Northern Court musicians who had played for the king at the Yodel Palace, from the arrogant piano master who had been famous for a long time, to the eccentric conductor who dyed his hair green, almost everyone would take the initiative to greet her.
It was only then that Shade realized how much gold she had in the name of a "genius artist." And the thing people talked about most with Flora Winslet was whether she would attend the Moondance Festival this fall.
Miss Winslet is not like Vanessa who has not been on stage for a long time. Now is still her peak period of creation and performance.
She had actually originally planned to participate in this year's music festival as a piano solo, but now she was cursed and turned into an "owl". It was okay for her to participate in this kind of banquet that was not open to the public, but once she was seen by thousands of people in the Golden Music Hall, it was inevitable that someone would notice the clues of the transformation. She would not take such a risk.
Friends all felt sorry for Miss Winslet's decision, and even Earl Collins, who organized the Moondance Concert, came to try to persuade Miss Winslet to perform on stage.
It was a pity that she would not change her mind easily after making up her mind. The writer Ms. Austin, who was familiar with this lady with gray-black hair, even jokingly asked:
"Since you're not going to perform, why did you go to Vista City in the fall? Is it just to bring your handsome cousin to see the scenery of the South?"
Miss Winslet held the red wine glass in front of her mouth and smiled, but did not answer the question. The northern-looking Shade also smiled politely, and was very curious about how Miss Winslet would play the piano.
Both the Bennet family and Baron Cumming's family came, but from the Bennet family only came old Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, eldest daughter Jane Bennet and second daughter Philly Bennet, while Baron Cumming's family of three all came.
Shad was in no hurry to approach, and while Miss Winslet was chatting with her local acquaintances, she inadvertently talked about the Bennet family.
The musicians had a very bad impression of Mrs. Bennet:
"The Bennet family is respectable. After all, they lost their titles for protecting musicians more than 50 years ago. But such a family married a short-sighted woman.
We are not saying bad things about people behind their backs. Everyone thinks that the biggest mistake Mr. Bennet made in his life was marrying a young, beautiful but ignorant wife when he was young. There was not much in her heart that was worthy of attention.
Now that her eldest daughter is engaged to the baron's son, she is anxious to find marriage partners for her remaining three beautiful daughters. There is nothing wrong with a mother thinking about her daughters' marriages, but she is too anxious, and people can see that she only wants her daughters to marry rich and famous bachelors.
Mr. Bentley, who introduced the situation, was an elegant middle-aged man with a beautiful mustache. When he was young, he moved from the capital of Willendel to settle here. He was a very famous conductor in Carsenrick, and it was said that he was related to the Winslet family:
"Whenever she encountered something unsatisfactory, Mrs. Bennet would complain about her life with her hands on her forehead, citing neurasthenia as an excuse. Old Bennet was also a country gentleman from a respectable family. He couldn't handle his wife, so he didn't really care about the affairs of the family."
"How do you know so clearly?"
Miss Winslet asked curiously, and then Mrs. Bovary, who was also standing here chatting with everyone, said with a smile:
"Vista City is not very big, and there are not many families living here since the days of Riverwood Town. It is very small, so each family has no secrets.
You see, sooner or later Mrs. Bennet will mess up her daughters' marriages because of her own reasons. I would not be surprised if one or two poor girls become old maids who can't get married. "
Old Madame Bovary was an active singer in the last era and was still very respected. When she was young, she experienced the Willendel political movement half a century ago.
(End of this chapter)