Mrs. Mera lowered her head in a panic to pick up the broken teacup pieces, and Ceres saw it and stepped forward.
"Madam, just sit here, I'll take care of this."
Mrs. Mela was stunned for a moment, and then slowly returned to her seat, but her hands were twisted uncomfortably and her head was lowered.
"I am very sad to hear this news. Lord Angus is a kind person, why did this happen to me." Her voice was broken and seemed very uncomfortable.
"My condolences." Then Lorraine Hill waited for Mrs. Mela to slowly ease her good mood.
After a while, Mrs. Mela stopped sobbing in a low voice, wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and then slowly raised her head, her eyes were a little red and swollen.
Roland Hill saw her slowly calm down before continuing to speak.
"Although Lord Angus is gone, he asked me to take care of you and your children before he died. Please rest assured."
"Thank you, Miss Lacey. I... I don't know how to repay this kindness... Just say whatever you want."
"I don't have any requirements, I just want to see your child today." Roland Hill stated the main purpose of the day.
"Okay, wait a minute, Dill is upstairs, I'll call him."
"Don't be so troublesome, let's go together. It just happened that I came here for the first time, and I was still very interested in the layout here." Roland Hill shook his head, showing a kind smile, and then stood up from the sofa.
"Okay...Okay, you and I will come." Mrs. Mera hesitated, then took Loren Hill to the front.
The building has 3 floors, the second floor is the bedroom, and the third floor is the attic connected to the roof, used to store the sundries. The floors in the house are all paved with marble, and the doors, handrails, and furniture are all made of mahogany.
Passing through the corridor on the second floor, at the end of the door, Mrs. Mela took out a key and opened the door. A 10-year-old child was in the room. He was on the ground, painting with colorful paints, beside him. There are also many colored building blocks scattered on the ground.
When the child saw the door open, he raised his head and was very happy when he saw Mrs. Mela. He took the painting to Mrs. Mela as if it was a treasure, and showed it to Mrs. Mela.
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"Mom, I drew it, does it look good?" The child was a little happy when he saw his mother suddenly appear.
On the thick white paper, a little man was painted like graffiti, with exaggerated hair smeared with yellow paint, and his mouth was painted with light red paint. The corners of his mouth were cracked, and he seemed to be smiling. As a whole, it can only be seen that this is a person. Various paints are piled up on the paper, which looks very messy.
"I made you laugh. Miss Lacey." Mrs. Mela stepped forward and quickly pulled the child over, and the painting was thrown aside at will.
"It's nothing." Roland Hill walked over to pick up the painting and asked the child.
"Who's on the picture, Dill?"
"It's mom."
"Why is mom's hair yellow?"
"Because I want my mother to be like the sun, take me out... and laugh, my mother rarely smiles at me..." The child's voice was a little low.
Listening to the child's words, Mrs. Mela was a little shy and wanted to stop her, but she was not good at speaking in person.
Lorraine Hill didn't mean to joke. Looking at the child in front of him, he was pulled by his mother. He was not tall, and his clothes were clean. His big eyes looked straight at her with curiosity in his eyes. and admiration.
"Come, come to my sister's side." Roland Hill crouched down, clapped his hands, and looked at the child with a smile on his face.
Mrs. Mera had no choice but to let go of her hand and let the child walk over by herself.
Loren Hill touched Dill's head and blinked to check the child's condition.
In general, he is relatively healthy. His eyebrows are a bit like his mother, softer, and not as angular as Angus.
Then there was another chat, and after a while, Roland Hill took out the gift box for the children's snacks and invited them to move to the headquarters of the Karites Chamber of Commerce, because it was safer there.
However, Mrs. Mela refused, and it was not easy for Roland Hill to persuade them all the time. Before leaving, she said that she would come to see them after a while.
After putting on the black hooded robe again and boarding the carriage, Roland Hill slowly thought about the process of this meeting.
"Serez, how did Mr. Angus meet Mrs. Mera?"
"It was at a banquet 10 years ago. At that time, the master's career began to flourish. He often participated in banquets of various parties. One time he was drunk, and Miss Meera happened to be a member of the banquet. She was a certain young lady. The merchant's daughter."
"So the drunk master had a relationship with Miss Meera, and then Miss Meera's father wanted to send her over to be a side room in order to please the master. Although the master agreed, but in order to make up for the guilt in his heart, he gave it to Mei. There are many benefits to pulling my father."
"After a while, Mela's father became more and more greedy, opened his mouth more and more, and even threatened the master to stab the matter out if he didn't agree."
"Originally, the master was still thinking of love and forbearance at all times. After that time, he sent someone to do it directly. Mrs. Mela's father almost went bankrupt, and finally settled down, and Mrs. Mela was caught in the middle. She asked the master on behalf of her father before. There are many benefits, and I have always been very uneasy in my heart, and later I was a little afraid of the master."
"This way..." Roland Hill listened to the narration of Butler Ceres, and always felt that there was still some vagueness in it.
Why did Mrs Mera feel more panic than sadness when she heard the news from Angus. Why did Mrs. Mela keep Dill in the room and locked it, she was worried or abusive. Why when she heard Loren Hill invited her to live in the headquarters, her first reaction was to refuse without any hesitation.
Mrs. Mera should have something hidden in her heart. There may be another secret relationship between her and Angus. Roland Hill sipped her tea, but she was thinking about how to find out the truth.
After a while, she didn't speak.
"Cerez, can you arrange for someone to inquire about Mrs. Mela's past acquaintances? I want to know her ten years ago, before contacting Angus, and the situation before and after that incident."
"I'm afraid it's difficult, Miss, after all, it's been ten years."
"Even ten years, many things will still leave traces, you should send someone to investigate."
"Okay, Miss Lacey."
After returning to the headquarters mansion, Lorraine Hill dealt with some business affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, and then at night, after dinner, she sat on a chair on the balcony and rested, watching the night view of the stars and lights in the sky, and the evening breeze. Blow on for a hint of coolness.
The head maid Chelsea gently pushed open the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony and walked over.
"Miss, did you call me?"
"Yes, I want to ask you to do something." She paused for a while, looking at the lights of thousands of homes in the distance, and the wind slowly blowing through the woods outside the balcony.
"The confidant who sent the letter secretly investigated the housekeeper Ceres and all the subordinates he had come into contact with in the past few days, and then reported it to me. You came to Karites first, and there should be a lot of people you can trust."
Roland Hill turned his head and looked at the maid's long, supple hair slowly fluttering in the night wind.