kingnovel Chapter 202 How could there be so many wrongly taken children?
Chapter 202 How could there be so many wrongly taken children?
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"
The familiar knocking on the window sounded again. This time, Catherine didn't even bother to sigh and just pushed open the window.
But first a bag of sweet-smelling pastries was stuffed into his arms.
"I don't really like sweets..." Catherine hesitated for a while holding the thing.
"Wipe your saliva before you talk." The girl outside the window jumped in, looked at Catherine who raised her hand subconsciously, and chuckled. The worry that had accumulated in her heart finally faded a little.
"I don't plan to practice during the holidays." Lilith opened the snack box directly, sat at the table and ate a piece by herself.
Holiday practice at Goletia College is not mandatory, but most students hope to earn more income and gain more experience during the holidays.
Catherine nodded. "Me too. My father hopes that I can go back to learn how to handle government affairs. By the way, there are some other things..."
The mysterious pharmacist might still be hiding in Highgarden, and she would have to investigate it herself to feel at ease.
"Catherine." Lilith swallowed a piece of cake and tilted her head to look at the quiet girl in front of her. "What does it feel like to be a half-blood?"
This was actually very offensive, but Catherine knew that Lilith meant no harm. "Actually, I'm not a half-blood... Kanyon is. A daughter born to a witch can only be a witch. I just, I just awakened a little late."
Her mother would write to her every year to ask about her health. She was obviously a little worried, but she would always comfort her that it was okay. Although this situation was rare, it did happen.
"Oh..." Lilith sighed with some disappointment when she learned that Catherine was not in the same situation as her. She was still hoping to get some spiritual support from Catherine out of the mutual understanding among mixed-bloods.
"Why do you ask this?" Catherine finally couldn't resist the temptation, picked up a piece of cake covered with jam and started eating.
"Lucas drank the potion for a year and a half before he began to revert to his ancestral state, but I got it after just one bottle. Now there are three possibilities." Lilith sighed with a headache.
"First, my father is not a human being."
"Second, my mother is not a human being."
"Third, I'm a fake daughter who was taken away by mistake. Hehehe..."
Catherine choked. She had heard Lilith's melodramatic stories about true and false daughters before, and she couldn't help but roll her eyes at her. How could there be so many children who were taken away by mistake?
"And I'm not of human blood, maybe..." Lilith took out the information book she got from Madam Terra from the ring, turned to the picture page, and showed it to Catherine.
“——It’s a dragon.”
Catherine dropped the cake she had only taken a bite of.
She looked at the familiar diamond-shaped scales and the sharp claws with hooks in the book, recalled Lilith's appearance at that time, and believed it without hesitation.
"So, I want to go home during the holidays." Lilith closed the book with a snap.
……
"You won't take me with you, miss." Bella's eyes were filled with tears. She closed the door and lost her usual calm and strict demeanor towards her employees. "I'm your personal maid. It's fine if I'm at school, but you won't let me take care of you when you go home..."
"You said you were going home, so why would I need to take care of you at home? Are you craving for the mille-feuille pie that Mary made? Don't worry, I will definitely bring you a complete one!" Lilith coaxed her with a smile.
"No, no!" Bella was getting angry!
"Good Bella! I'm just teasing you!" Seeing Bella's face flushed with anxiety, Lilith quickly pulled her over and said, "Such a big winery with dozens of people, how can we leave you, Miss Bella, who can replace your importance?"
Bella was so happy to be praised that the cloudy sky turned sunny. She even said modestly, "Nancy has also learned to keep accounts well..."
"So she's going back with me this time, and Peggy too." The craft of distilling liquor has become increasingly sophisticated, and she has several new sets of stills in her ring. It's time to reform the distillery in Shelley Town. They held a small meeting yesterday, and Peggy and Nancy took the initiative to offer their willingness to go back to Shelley Town to provide technical guidance.
Bella pouted again and was about to cry. The lady took everyone else with her but not me!
"Oh! I find that your room is so cozy now! It's even better than our cottage!" Lilith abruptly changed the subject and began to praise the decoration of Bella's cottage.
"I have almost moved all my things here. I heard that the neighbors over there have been renovating their house for several months and are still doing so. They have recently urgently recruited many dwarf craftsmen to go over there. The enclosing boards are so high that we can't even dry our quilts in the yard!" Bella complained.
"Haha, then just live here peacefully, it's pretty good here! I feel more at ease when you're here with everyone, and I can sleep a little longer every day." Lilith pinched her face. "You've had a hard time these days, Bella."
Although she knew that with her own brewing process, the winery's business would not be too bad, but for such a long time, except for the initial fermentation failure, she had never made any mistakes. Even though the winery's staff has expanded from the original five to fifty, every time she came, she saw that everyone's work was carried out in an orderly manner.
She realized that Bella must be working diligently every day, checking every process and not causing any trouble for herself.
"I'm used to the work in the workshop and don't find it tiring anymore. Dealing with those businessmen is more troublesome..." Bella said with a bitter face. Who could have imagined that a girl who used to stutter when talking to strangers would now have to talk to those calculating businessmen every day.
"Well... maybe we can try to implement a dealer system next year. This way you only need to contact a fixed group of people, which will be more convenient." Lilith thought of a solution for her, "Oh, you can hire a few more assistants to help you--"
"Assistants? How many?!" Bella opened her mouth in surprise and pointed at herself - "I can have an assistant?"
"Of course!" Lilith nodded as a matter of course. "Dear Miss Bella, you don't still think of yourself as a little maid, do you? You are a manager! It's time to learn how to use people."
"Ah, do I have to learn something again?" Bella immediately put on a mask of pain.
"Eh? That's not what I meant--" Lilith was afraid that the poor girl would become bored with school, so she quickly flattered her. As a hands-off boss, of course she had to flatter her capable subordinates. If they went on strike, she would be finished!
Before dinner, Bella finally stopped worrying about the fact that the lady didn't take her with her, and instead started talking about the conditions -
"I don't want to go to class this holiday!"
"Good good."
"You, when you come back, bring me Lady Mary's mille-feuille and fig jam..."