novelonline Chapter 3005 Family Love
Chapter 3005 Family Love
Chapter 3005 Family Love
After the carriage brought Shad and Megan to the local Dawn Church, they went through the same process as before, except that they first changed into the clergy robes of the Dawn Church.
Except for the third daughter Linda Bennett, who has been expelled from the family, all six members of the Bennet family are here. The Bennets and their youngest son live in one room, and the remaining three daughters live in the same room. However, it is not very crowded, as the isolation and review room inside the Dawn Church is still very large.
Shad went out with Megan tonight just for this family. Before the final action, this should be the last time he can have such complete contact with everyone in this family.
Because perception and detection were ineffective for them, Shade and Megan did not plan to cast a spell to do anything. After getting the midnight snack cart just like in the Creation Church, the two first came to the rooms of the three daughters of the Bennet family.
Because of the precedent of Linda Bennet and what happened just now, Shad couldn't help but wonder whether among Jane Bennet (eldest daughter), Philly Bennet (second daughter) and Catherine (fourth daughter), there was anyone else who was involved with mermaids.
It is worth mentioning that before this, Shad had only had contact with Jane Bennet. The eldest daughter of the family is now engaged to James Cumming, but she doesn't know that her husband's father is actually the son of her rival. This relationship is very complicated.
The second daughter of the Bennet family, Philly Bennet, is the most beautiful of the four daughters. According to the rumors Miss Bell has heard, she is also the smartest girl of this generation in the entire family.
As for Catherine Bennet, who was sixteen years old this year, Shad had only met her a few times, and all he knew about the girl was what he heard from Miss Bell.
Fortunately, the three uneasy girls did not show any suspicious signs, and no one suddenly asked Shade if he liked the story of mermaids or suddenly exposed his breasts. However, this does not mean that they are necessarily ordinary people, and Shade still remains vigilant.
"Father, do you know when we can leave? I heard from my father that the hotel at home has also been closed down."
Philly Bennett, who was just reading Dawn and Hope, asked Shad, and Shad gave a prepared answer:
"Please rest assured, what happened today was not intentionally targeting your family. In addition to you, many other people have been temporarily quarantined for investigation. Once the church confirms the problem, it will let the innocent people go home, and the church will also compensate you for your losses."
Behind me came the sound of Megan and the other two Miss Bennet putting food from the dining cart on the table.
"Think about the Kant family some time ago. No, no, I'm not threatening you. I mean, if you compare the treatment of Director Kant's family with yours, you will know the difference in the church's attitude. Light follows shadow, and shadow follows dawn. Miss Bennet, dawn will not hurt any good people."
As he spoke, he skillfully drew the holy emblem of the righteous god [Mr. Dawn] on his chest. After all, one of the character settings that the stranger gave to himself was that of a believer of this righteous god.
Of course, the clever Miss Bennet is still worried:
"But we have answered all the questions from the church. The nun in the afternoon even asked each of us to write down what we said. Do you want to ask us some questions too? Father once said that no matter which of us inherits the hotel, we must remember not to provide free supper to guests unless their last name is Anjou."
Since she said so, Xia De didn't mind asking a few questions. However, considering that the church must have asked very detailed questions in the afternoon, he could ask the church for the inquiry records later, so he should ask some things that the church should not care about. However, compared with men, Megan is obviously better at speaking, which is something they discussed on the way:
"Are your family's tutors usually very strict?"
Philly Bennett nodded gently to the plain-looking "nun":
"It was usually our mother who disciplined us at home. People in the city actually knew that our mother was always worried about our marriage, so she paid great attention to cultivating our character. But sometimes..."
"She'll be too strict."
Sixteen-year-old Catherine said that the young girl was obviously not as sophisticated as her two sisters:
"Sometimes I feel that mother regards marrying off the four of us as the most important task in her life after she gets married. Although people in the city sometimes say bad things about mother, she still loves us very much. In fact, I think it doesn't matter if we can't get married. In the future, whether my sisters or my brother inherits the hotel, there will be no shortage of living expenses for us."
The eldest daughter, Jane, put her hand on her sister's shoulder in time to prevent her from saying more of the truth:
"Mother wanted us to get married, and she wanted us to marry well, which was actually good for us. We were not allowed to eat sweets after 7pm, we had to wear our corsets as tight as possible when attending banquets, we were not allowed to go out casually on Saturday nights, and we were not allowed to read novels about love stories between noble ladies and poor men."
She couldn't say anything more, so Megan smiled and asked:
"I understand everything else, but what's the point of not going out casually on Saturday night? Because Sunday night is safer than the night before?"
"We don't know the reason. This is an 'order' that our father asked our mother to give us. It is also one of the few rules that our father requires us to follow."
"Does your father usually focus on business matters and rarely pay attention to you?"
Megan asked again, and the three Miss Bennet shook their heads together:
"Father loved us very much. Sometimes my younger brother Albert would even say that Father cared more about us four sisters than he did."
Talking about their sisters, the three girls were a little sad:
"My father is a man who takes good care of his family. His love for our family is not as outward as my mother's, but his deep love sometimes makes us happier than my mother's, especially when my mother is talking about our future marriage."
The three sisters did not hate their mother for wanting to marry them off, but Mrs. Bennet's desire to make each of her daughters marry well made the gradually maturing girls feel strange.
This was certainly a mother's concern for her daughters, but the comments of neighbors and acquaintances were not entirely wrong - this sometimes sarcastic woman from the countryside regarded her daughter's marriage partner as part of her own face.
However, the stranger is not a Bennet, so he is in no position to judge what the relationship between Mrs. Bennet and her daughters is like.
Judging from the narration of the Miss Bennets, this is indeed just an ordinary merchant family in a rural city. Although they retain the aristocratic style of several generations ago, they have gradually "degenerated" into an ordinary family. The father is busy with business but still cares about the family, the mother is a little vain but responsible for maintaining the internal relationship of the family, the four daughters who are gradually growing up and facing marriage problems, plus the youngest son, this should be a happy family.
They didn't get much valuable information from the Bennet ladies, and when Shade and Megan went to deliver supper to the Bennets and Albert, the atmosphere was no longer as relaxed as before. As soon as they walked to the door of the room, they could hear a noise in the room, which was theoretically soundproof.
Of course, there were people guarding the door of the room. Seeing Shade's puzzled look, the ringmaster in charge explained:
"It is Thomas Bennet who is quarrelling with his wife. The lady seems to think that it is Thomas Bennet's fault that the whole family has been invited to church, which is so shameful."
"Why? What does she know?"
But the middle-aged nun shook her head:
"The woman said that her husband went to a witch doctor in a small village outside the city to ask for a secret prescription in order to cure her illness. This might be the reason why their family entered the church."
"This"
Even Megan didn't know what to say:
"The history of the church considering witch doctors to be illegal mystics dates back a thousand years, right?"
“We can’t expect everyone to have a basic knowledge of history.”
"But what illness does Mrs. Bennet have that requires the witch doctor to treat?"
Shade also asked, Miss Bell's investigation did not mention that Mrs. Bennet had an acute illness recently, so the nun on duty replied:
"It's probably chronic pneumonia. I heard that she coughed often, and when I investigated her family's background, the investigation file said that when the couple first got married, the Accordion Hotel was in a low period of business. At that time, the couple fired the cook and the accountant, and they stayed in the hotel day and night. Mrs. Bennet's illness should be caused by overwork at that time. We examined her and found that it was not caused by any extraordinary factors."
At this moment, it was not so much that the couple was arguing, but rather that Mrs. Bennet was unilaterally complaining loudly about her husband. Shad and Megan listened in the corridor for a while and found that Mr. Bennet hardly spoke, and even if he spoke, it was just to keep things quiet.
"So what those three girls said just now, that Mr. Bennet loves them more than his youngest son, is indeed correct."
Xia De said softly to Megan, and the witch nodded:
"Yes, the youngest son was in the same room with them, but when they started arguing, they didn't think to send him to another room first."
She sighed in her heart, "Sure enough, he is not her biological son." But she didn't feel sorry for the boy. The witches hated all male creatures equally. To them, Shade's gender was now a mystery. Shade knocked on the door twice, and the quarrel in the room stopped.
The room where the Bennets and their youngest son lived had the same layout as the three sisters' rooms, with a small hall connecting two bedrooms, one large and one small. In addition to the large bedroom, there was also a small bathroom.
The quarrel took place in the small hall. When the gas lamp with a spherical bulb in the brass ring on the wall illuminated Shade and the witch at the door, the couple greeted them as if nothing had happened.