"Oh, Marianne, it's been a long time. Thank goodness Augus has finally seen you, and he's finally no longer with a straight face, haha. Good afternoon, lovely Miss Nine Seven. And you, little Corian Sir, get out of class is over?" Feriggs Lemon, the old city lord wearing a big burgundy hat, sat on the big chair by the door basking in the sun, and waved cheerfully at Li Xin and the others.
"Feriggs. Long time no see, you look fine?" Marianne smiled and leaned forward to hug him.
"Good afternoon, Mr. City Master." Li Xin and Keruian owed their debts together.
"Of course I'm fine, especially in such good weather." Feriggs Lemon said with a smile: "Come on, let's enjoy the sun, dear Marianne. I haven't talked to you for a long time."
Augus frowned slightly when he heard the words.
"Don't be like this Augus, it's just for a while. It's enough for you to bring these two little guys in, my dear." The old city lord raised his eyebrows and glanced at him unhappily.
"Go." Marian smiled and patted Augus' arm lightly, then turned her head, her green eyes stared at Li Xin and said, "Come back safely. When you come back, I will give you a gift. , and Augus will give you some precautions later... good luck."
"Goodbye, teacher." Li Xin nodded and followed Augus in.
"You go too." Marianne looked back with a smile, looking at the blond boy Corian, who seemed to be hesitant to say anything.
"… Well, goodbye, Marianne." Corian hesitated, then nodded.
Augers strode ahead, led the two of them into the back hall, and stepped into a courtyard with a "guest resting place" hanging on the threshold.
"Augus, I'm so glad to see you." The bearded middle-aged man who was waiting at the door with a chubby, kind-hearted face greeted him and said softly, his eyes swept calmly towards Lixin and Kerian behind him.
"So, these are my two children?" he said with a smile.
"Yeah." Augus nodded, turned around and said briefly: "Jiuqi, Kerian, Dilaine Lister, the deputy head of the Eastern Trading Group on this trip."
"Mr. Lister." Li Xin and Kerian bowed together.
"Two beautiful children, come with me." Dilaney raised his hand and patted the shoulders of the two with a kind smile.
On the way, Dilanie walked between the two of them, holding Lixin and Corian with thick hands, smiling and whispering: "Two lovely ladies and gentlemen, I won't let you call me father. What, that's embarrassing isn't it
"Yeah." The two nodded obediently.
"Okay, we have reached an agreement." Delaney smiled and pushed the two of them towards the three-story blue and white attic in front: "Go, one of your remaining companions is already inside."
Just as he was talking, the carved wooden door on the first floor of the attic opened with a creak, and a woman in tawny fur came out.
The woman doesn't look young anymore, with a thin body and long orange curly hair draped over her shoulders, but she looks good when she smiles, with red lips and white teeth.
"Hi DeLaney." The woman came over and hugged DeLaney Rist affectionately, "When did you come?"
Her voice is also very nice, with a soft and hoarse tone.
"Just arrived. Kasanna, let me introduce you. These are my two children." Dilaney introduced enthusiastically, beckoning to Li Xin and the two: "Come on, children."
"Oh my God... You have two children of this age?" Kasana's slender and charming brown eyes widened in surprise, she covered her mouth and smiled: "To be honest, I still think you are twenty next year, my dear."
"Don't be so hypocritical, Kasanna." DeLaney looked at her helplessly.
"I always tell the truth... But, the mother of these two children must be very beautiful?" Kasanna curled her lips, looked up and down DeLay with her eyes a little deliberately, and teased with a smile.
"Haha, of course she is the most beautiful girl in my mind." Dileni laughed and pointed to Li Xin and the two of them: "This is Jiu Qi, this is Corian. Children, this is Kasanna. Ms. Cudo is also the head of this business group."
"Just call me Kasanna, two cuties." Kasanna curled her red lips, reaching out and rubbing the pair of furry fox ears on Li Xin's head, "Especially this little girl, I I like it very much.”
"Oh... Augus?" The red-haired lady finally found the tall and thin man standing behind the threshold of the attic, her eyes lit up instantly, she dropped Li Xin's long legs and leaned over with a smile like a spring breeze. , "God... Look who this is? How long has it been since the two of us saw each other? Augus, you always avoid me."
When she said the last sentence, her eyes were very resentful, and she glanced at Augus sideways with sparkling eyes, and looked like she wanted to hug him.
Augus frowned and took a step back, his smoky gray eyes stared at her with a warning, and said coldly, "Miss Kudo."
"Alas. Such an indifferent man is really heartbreaking." Kasanna put down her hands and sighed long, "Augus, isn't our eight-year friendship enough for you to call me? name?"
"It's just the same school, ma'am." Seeing Li Xin and Kerian looking at the same pair of blue eyes, Augs corrected his eyebrows.
"Yeah. The same school, from the junior school to the senior school, has always been at the same level... Dear Augs, eight years, isn't it fate?" Kasanna chuckled, deliberately paused and then raised : "Is it just because I told you about my friendship on the day of graduation and was rejected by you?"
This time, even Dilanie Riester raised his eyebrows and looked over.
"It's been so many years, and I'm about to forget it, what are you still worried about?" Kasana took another step towards Augus, stopping at an ambiguous distance, her eyes wandering. Staring at him, red lips opened and closed: "I'm looking for you, but you won't see me. Now that God has let us meet, you won't have a glass of wine and won't give you a face?"
Augus backed away again, his brows almost frowned, and he pursed his lips and whispered to Lixin, "Follow your father's words." He turned around and left quickly.
"—Augus? Augus Cary!" Kasana was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Augus to leave without giving any face. She screamed angrily, seeing that he didn't care Turning back, stomping his feet and twisting his waist, he raised his legs and chased after him.
"You stop for me!"
The rest of Delaney looked at Corian and Li Xin with a subtle expression, and looked at each other.
"Love makes you young." The chubby Dillane Riester sighed with his sleeves covered.
…
"Why are you?!" Lu Zhigui, who was leaning on the corridor fence and wiping a dagger with a low eyebrow, heard footsteps, and when he looked up and saw Li Xin, his long and narrow phoenix eyes suddenly widened, and he said in shock.
Delaney List frowned.
"Mr. Tianya Zhigui, please pay attention to your words and deeds." He reminded in a low voice, "It's not all our people here."
As he said that, he pulled Lixin and the two of them and said, "Jiuqi, two dears of Kerian, let's get to know each other. This is the guard I found for you on this trip. His name is Tianya Zhigui."
"Hello." Li Xin rolled her eyes and said warmly.
"Mr. Lister is right, you should be more cautious." A hoarse voice came from the room next to it.
The dark brown door was silently pushed open, and a tall, stout man in a brown cloak walked out.
The man raised his arm, which was tied with a black cloth, and pulled down his hood to reveal a face covered in flesh. His dark blue pupils looked around for a week, and he grinned, revealing sharp teeth: "Good day, everyone."
"Mr. Borg." Dilanie Lister chuckled, "You haven't left yet?"
"Let's go, Mr. Lister." Grecklin Berger replied nonchalantly, walking a few steps in the corridor with his feet in jet-black leather boots, suddenly turned his head, and his dark blue eyes turned to Li Xin, He stared at her for a while.
Li Xin let him look at him without blinking.
Grecklin grinned, leaned over to look at her again, and said softly, "This is, that Miss Jiuqi?"
"It's her, Mr. Glicklin." Lu Zhigui said in a low voice, "You didn't tell me that you were working with her..."
"Why, you don't want to do it?" Glicklin straightened up and glanced back at him with a half-smile.
"No..." Lu Zhigui hurriedly shook his head.
With a snort, Glicklin ignored him, turned his head and said, "Goodbye Lister, and... this Miss Ninety-seven."
After he finished speaking, he raised his arm and jumped down from the second floor with a railing, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Then, let's go in now." Dilaney Lister clapped his hands and pulled the three people's attention back, and pointed to the depths of the corridor with a genial smile: "The three rooms 17, 18, and 19 are for you, dinner. In two hours, in the restaurant downstairs."
Delaney gave a brief explanation, telling the three-man team that they would set off in three days, and went directly to the second floor of the house behind to find him, and then left.
"I hope you understand that we are teammates this time, and our actions are clear." Before Li Xin opened the door and entered the room, Lu Zhigui stood in the corridor and stopped her coldly.
Li Xin looked back at him, her sky-blue eyes blinking.
Lu Zhigui was stunned by this inexplicable gaze, and then swayed by this delicate face, and for a moment even wondered if he had mistaken someone.
"Boom."
The door closed in front of him.
Lu Zhigui: "..."
To be honest, the impression this woman named Jiuqi left on him even became the deepest one in his life in the past 20 years after being killed not long ago.
He had mixed feelings about her.
This is the first time he has suffered a loss from someone whose gender is female, and it is also the first time that he has encountered emotions other than ambiguous with them, which made Lu Zhigui a little at a loss.
If it was a man who killed him, of course, he would take it down deeply, and then take revenge, trampling him under his feet and never turning over. He has been quite proficient in this set of procedures since he was a child—but a woman
…
Lu Zhigui stood in the corridor and fell into deep thought.