Luo Ling looked at a photo and asked, "It seems like these two brothers are inseparable. Do they have very similar personalities?"
"If you have children, you will know that even twin brothers have different personalities. The elder brother, Algodo, is more enthusiastic and positive. If the two brothers are together, he will go and interact with others.
The younger brother, Bermudo, is calmer and seems to be quiet, but when they play together, he is usually the one who makes the decisions. "
Luo Ling noticed that some of the photos were taken by four young people, two men and two women.
Seeing that she was looking at a photo of four people rowing together, Carmela said, "The one sitting at the bow is Algordo, and the one at the stern is Bermudo."
Luo Ling saw that the girl with Algodo was a blonde, and the girl closer to Bermudo was a red-haired girl.
"That's Algodo's girlfriend Catherine and Bermudo's wife Felicia." Carmela said, "I thought the four of them would live happily like this. Felicia really married my son, but Catherine... That's such a poor child. She waited for Algodo for eight years, but got nothing."
"Eight years? It's only been seven years since that incident happened." Xiao Chen asked.
Luo Ling said, "Carmela said that since Algodo went to study in China, Catherine has been waiting for him, right?"
"Yes. Catherine is a very loyal girl. Her parents are very devout Christians. When I saw her, I felt that she would not let Algodo down. They agreed to get married after Algodo came back, but Algodo never came back. Even when I had no hope, Catherine waited for him for another five years."
"She must be deeply in love with him."
"Yeah, just like you two."
"Ah?" Luo Ling blushed slightly.
"You are really sharp." Xiao Chen said.
Carmela covered her mouth with her coffee cup and smiled, "I've been through this before. I also fell madly in love with Fedro. I can smell that scent, the scent of lovers' attachment to each other. Every time I chat with Catherine, I can find this scent in her."
"What happened next?" Xiao Chen asked.
"I advised her many times, but later I don't know whether she figured it out herself or listened to me. She finally left here and left Barcelona."
"A sad person should leave the sad place." Carmela gently stroked the frame of the boating photo. "If Bermudo wasn't still here, I would want to leave too."
"I haven't seen her since then. Felicia said she went to France, married a French man, and just had a child."
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling chatted with Carmela for a while, and Carmela decided to take them to visit the empty room in Algodo.
It was a bedroom on the second floor. The room was not big, and the main color of the whole room was green. The curtains were light green, the bed sheets were dark green and blue, and the furniture was all natural wood color. The lines were simple and modern, and it looked quite bright in this slightly depressing small building.
Xiao Chen imprinted the environment of this room deeply in his mind, replicated its appearance in the meditation space, and combined it with the other parts of the small building he had drawn.
The room felt like it hadn't been cleaned for a while. Luo Ling touched the table and felt a lot of dust.
Carmela said, "I'm sorry, I haven't cleaned this room these days. I was really confused and shouldn't have brought you to this unprepared place."
Luo Ling said, "No, after coming here, I understand what you said better. In my heart, Algordo seems to have come alive. He must have looked at the posters of football stars on the wall while lying in bed, and he must have sat at that desk to finish his homework. Maybe when it rains, he will lie at that window and watch the raindrops fall on the ground. And when you pass by, you may peek in through the crack of the door to make sure he is okay."
Carmela stared at Luo Ling in a daze, tears welling up in her eyes. She gently held Luo Ling's hand and murmured, "Yes, he is like that. I have seen every scene you described.
In fact, I have avoided this room for the past few years. You may not know what it feels like for a mother to miss her son but never see him again.
While Luo Ling was talking to Carmela, Xiao Chen was observing and memorizing Carmela's behavior, the way she cried, the way she talked about her son, her movements, her tone, her expression. All of these would become the material for him to create an illusion.
He took advantage of Carmela's excitement and used his mental power to quietly open the drawers one by one to see what was inside. By the time Carmela calmed down, Xiao had already explored the room thoroughly.
In the room, Carmela recalled some things about Algodo's childhood. Luo Ling would occasionally interject or ask a question at key points, which aroused Carmela's talkativeness. Before they knew it, they had been chatting in the room for nearly an hour.
Luo Ling looked at Xiao Chen, who made an OK gesture, so Luo Ling said goodbye to Carmela.
"Thank you for talking to you today. I feel much better. As long as there are people who remember Algodo, he should not have completely left this world, right?"
"Yes. I feel like I already know Algodo." Luo Ling said.
When they were about to go downstairs, Xiao Chen noticed the room at the other end of the stairs. The color tone of that room was also green, but the furniture in the room was mainly dark. The whole room felt much darker than Algodo's room.
"That's Bermudo's room. But now he lives with Felicia and rarely lives in this room. They rented a house where I used to run a flower shop as an office, and they live upstairs from the office.
He now provides flower delivery services, and also provides flowers and trees for other people's offices or houses, which is a business I am not familiar with."
Luo Ling asked: "Is the flower shop you opened before still in business?"
"Of course, that's where Fedro and I met, where the two Algordo brothers played when they were young, and where Bermudo's current career began. But Bermudo doesn't go there very often, and most of the time it's Felicia who looks after it."
Luo Ling said, "After talking to you for so long, I really want to see what the flower shop you opened back then looks like now. Can you give me an address so I can visit it?"
Carmela happily said, "Of course, of course."