novelonline Chapter 2953 Unknown Time Traveler
Chapter 2953 Unknown Time Traveler
Chapter 2953 Unknown Time Traveler
"me?"
The little princess seemed very nervous, after all, she had never done such a thing before.
"Yes, you need to exercise too. Besides, it's a simple thing, isn't it?"
Ajelina glanced at Shad again, then took the photo and went to change her clothes. Dorothy winked at Carina's maid who had just found Ajelina, and the latter understood and went to find someone to follow the little princess for a while.
Even if it was daytime now, Dorothy would definitely not let Ajelina go on the mission alone.
"She really needs some training. Just reading books and learning from others won't make her a good ring mage."
Dorothy said this only after the maid had left, and smiled as she asked Shad to guess whether Ajelina could complete the task before lunch.
Shade believed in Ajelina very much, not only because of the great things the little princess had accomplished in her "past life", but also because he really believed that Ajelina was very capable:
"She'll make it."
Xia De's feeling was correct. Before lunch, Ajelina successfully brought back news about the flower girl, and she was even able to provide detailed background information about the other party.
Ajelina's method was simple, she also knew the power of Carson Rick Kron. If an adult man like Shad paid for the information of an underage flower girl, it would certainly be suspicious, but Ajelina, who seemed to be from an extraordinary family, did this, which only made some greedy girls increase the reward for providing information.
"The person I'm looking for is called Jenny Kerry. She's a poor girl from the old city, and she's 13 years old. There was nothing unusual in the background check, and no connection was found between her and the Berkeley Used Bookstore."
Xia De was reading the simple report written by Ajelina, which was only one page. Luvia asked:
"What do you think is the relationship between the person the old shop owner is looking for and this girl selling flowers?"
"She must be the one the old shop owner is looking for. Jenny Klee doesn't have a sister. Although her mother is of the right age, she is not a flower girl. The old man and Jenny Klee must be related through time travel."
Xia De put down the paper, touched the cat that was eating, and then picked up the knife and fork:
"I used a beacon acorn this morning, but didn't sense any time travelers within the city of Vista."
"That kid definitely didn't leave Vista City in the morning!"
Ajelina said immediately, and was very confident in her conclusion.
Megan wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and said to Shade with a smile:
"So, there really are time travelers who can escape your perception and the sensing of the beacon acorn, right?"
"Maybe neither of them is a time traveler, there is another story."
But Flora gave the opposite opinion:
“When Shade first arrived here, I thought the ring sorcerers’ perception and the hermits’ acorns were reliable, but now I don’t think so.
After all, from the perspective of the entire city, there are only one or two time travelers, which is too few. It is impossible that the era we came to Vista City is the low point of time travelers in this city? Now is the most chaotic period of local time order. "
But this also brings up a new question. If there really are time travelers who can escape Shade's perception and the effects of the beacon acorn, then how do they do it?
The girl Jenny Kerry did not go out to sell flowers in the morning, but stayed at home to help her mother who worked in the laundry to wash clothes. After all, the water of the Aronson River in early winter had not frozen yet, so they worked by the river all morning.
After lunch, Xia De went to the old town alone again, and saw a girl helping her mother hang clothes downstairs in the slums. She also had no trace of the curse of time, so Xia De could not come to a conclusion as to who had the problem between her and the old owner of the second-hand bookstore.
As for getting the girl to go to the second-hand bookstore, it wasn't a big deal.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the door of the bookstore was pushed open and the bell rang again. The old shopkeeper who was checking a used book behind the counter looked up and saw the girl who looked familiar but unfamiliar walked in from the door.
The girl who lived three blocks away looked very nervous, but she still walked to the counter and handed the letter in her hand to the old shop owner:
"A gentleman asked me to deliver this letter."
The old man tried his best to control his emotions and stood up, and took the letter from the short girl outside the counter. When the girl wanted to turn around and leave, he called her again:
"Please wait"
For a moment, the innocent girl seemed to see tears flashing in the old man's eyes. His expression at this moment looked very strange, but the girl who had not grown up yet could not understand why. This expression was not very similar to the expressions of those flower buyers who had given flowers but still got dumped.
"The gentleman who sent me the letter has paid me. Do you want me to deliver the reply? But he has left."
"I mean, do you want some candy?"
The old man asked, bending down and taking out a candy jar from under the counter. The little girl thanked him hesitantly, then stood on tiptoe and reached into the candy jar to grab a handful, and then left quickly. Although she was young, she lived on the street for many years and knew everything.
When the door of the used bookstore was closed again, the old owner was still staring blankly at the door. After a long time, he covered his face and sat back in his chair, crying.
It took him a long time to control his emotions that were close to collapse. When he took his hand away, he found that Shade had reappeared and was reading "A Midsummer Night's Wish":
"You were crying so sadly just now."
He put the old book back on the bookshelf:
"I thought the sound of me coming in would put you in control, but it looks like you didn't even notice I was coming."
"I'm sorry, young man. Some people see through life completely when they get old, but a fool like me can't get out of it."
He spoke in a very elegant manner. After apologizing to Xia De, he went back upstairs to wash his face before coming back.
Xia De looked at his pocket and guessed that the invitation he wanted was in it, but before getting the invitation, he had other things to do:
"If you don't mind, you can share your story with me. You must be in a lot of pain because you've been holding it in your heart for so many years, right?"
"No, it's definitely not pain, it's anticipation."
The old man corrected himself, and although his eyes were still a little red, his emotions had stabilized.
He prepared some tea for Shade, and then began to tell the story of his life on this quiet Saturday afternoon:
"When I first met her, she was even younger than you look. She was also much taller then, you know? When she had on high heels, she even looked taller than me."
As he spoke, a smile appeared unconsciously on his lips. Xia De picked up the teacup and clinked it with him, then asked curiously:
"So how did you meet her? By chance?"
"No, no, I didn't live in the town when I was young. At that time, I lived with my parents in a village outside the town and worked for Mr. Bennet's family. It was winter, and there was a lot of snow that year. My mother took me to the farm to bring food to my father. On the way back, I met her in the woods wearing thin summer clothes.
She said she was lost, and my mother was a very good person. Even though I could see that something was wrong with her, she still invited her to our house.”
"She stayed at your house for a long time, didn't she?"
"Yes, and she has lived with me ever since. She never tells me anything about her origins, but she is a very hard-working girl, and my mother likes her very much, and I like her very much too."
The old man seemed to have traveled through time and saw the scenes of his youth again:
"When did our relationship begin to change? I don't know. It seemed that before we knew it, we started to go to the woods together to pick mushrooms, sit on a pile of grain to look at the stars, and talk to our mother in secret. Until the summer of the following year, she suddenly told me one day that she was leaving."
"Going back?"
"Yes, she said she finally found a way to go home. She left in a hurry, leaving me only the pocket watch with her photo, and then disappeared without a trace. At that time, pocket watches were expensive commodities that even a big man like Mr. Bennet could not afford. People in that era did not even know what a camera was.
After she left, I searched for her like crazy for many, many years. Then my parents died and I moved to town. When I was 35, I found an invitation in the mailbox and went there.
He did not explain in detail to Shad what "that place" was:
"The people there told me that they could send me to see her, and they made it clear to me that I was meeting someone from the future. But I didn't know what era she lived in, and I didn't even know her real name - she obviously didn't want to tell me.
But I knew I couldn’t pass up this opportunity, it might be my last chance. So I said 1835, and then it really came. I didn’t know if I chose the right date, so I opened this bookstore in the place where my house used to be in Creekwood, and hoped that one day she would push the door and come in. She was a girl who liked to read. ”
The melancholy story is not very long. It is another story of choosing a long wait for love. The old man behind the counter is just an ordinary person. He came from an earlier era and lived here for 1835 years after 19, but he did not have the luck to meet the flower girl.
In other words, the girl should have gradually grown into a girl similar to the old man's memory in recent years.
If Xia De didn't come today, he would probably have to wait for many, many years, and he might even die without knowing that the person he was waiting for was born and was living not far from here.