Hearing the content of the attendant's report and seeing the change in the expression on Luo Penny Grant's face, Gawain immediately guessed what happened.
As he knew and speculated—Patty Glenn was the daughter of the lord of Glenland, and that little girl must not be in a very good condition now. The reason why she connected to the spiritual network of the Eternal Sleeper is probably It also has to do with her physical condition.
Gao Wen concealed the turmoil in his heart, and there was pure curiosity on his face, "Ms. Gu Lan, what happened?"
"Please don't worry, you can just wait here for a while," the Countess Luo Penny controlled the worried look on her face, she bowed slightly to apologize to Gao Wen, and said in a low and fast tone, "I need to leave for a while, Will be back soon."
Gao Wen thought for a moment, then nodded, "... Please feel free to deal with your affairs, and don't worry about us. But if there is anything that needs help, I am always happy to help."
Countess Luo Penny quickly thanked her, and then hurriedly followed her attendants out of the living room.
Gawain watched the other party's figure disappear behind the door, but until the end he controlled the urge to inquire further, and did not bring up any idea of meeting the other party's daughter—because it was too abrupt.
Patty Grant should only be a child around ten years old, and he, Gawain, is a frontier duke who has just been resurrected not long ago and is currently opening up wasteland in the Great South. It is really suspicious to suddenly want to see the other party's daughter under such circumstances. It’s a bit too much, I can’t just pull other single mothers to say, “My fellow, I heard that your family has a daughter?”—If that’s the case, I’m sure I’ll lose my fame for the rest of my life...
In order to avoid arousing Luo Peini's vigilance and resistance, he had to make his words and deeds more natural, so Gawain just silently watched the Viches leave the room, knowing that he would always find a chance to meet that "Patty Grant" one sided.
After waving his hand to silence the noisy harps and lyres, Gawain began to walk around the reception room with interest, observing the collections and creations from the former Viscount Glenn, while looking at those quite personal Unique things, while recalling various accounts and rumors about the former Viscount Glenn in his mind-these events are only a few years away from now, and the longest is only more than ten years ago, but the records that have become chaotic in this era It becomes absurd through habit and some ulterior twist, like a dark tale handed down from hundreds of years ago.
In those various versions of the stories, the former Viscount Glenn was a mental patient who was plagued by evil spirits or genetic diseases. He had the characteristics of wisdom and madness at the same time. , but he squandered his wealth recklessly, ruining the tradition and reputation of the family, and causing chaos in the territory. He used to be a leader among the younger generation of southern nobles, and was the ideal lover in the hearts of countless noble ladies. I fell into the thirst for forbidden knowledge, and even died in the magic laboratory...
Gao Wen kept piecing together the true and false stories in his mind, and most of those stories were the result of the investigation by the amber sent. The elf nodded, "Are you full?"
"I'm full, I'm full!" Hu Po patted her stomach in a very unpromising way, "Look at your expression and tone... you must ask me to work again, right?"
"It's not a very troublesome matter," Gawain smiled. "You go to the gate of the castle and look at that door..."
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Before the evening dance began, Ropeni Grant finally appeared in front of Gawain again—of course, Amber returned to Gawain's side one step earlier than her.
There was a trace of exhaustion on the countess's face, but her emotions had obviously calmed down. After seeing her, Gawain asked naturally with curiosity, "I heard what the attendant said just now, is Patty Grant …”
"It's my daughter," the Countess Luo Penny smiled faintly. It seemed that the smile on her face would be softer and more natural only when she mentioned her daughter. "She is not in good health..."
"I hope she can recover soon," Gao Wen said. "If there is a chance, I would like to see that child—there is a very good druid in my territory, maybe it can help."
The expression on Luo Peini's face was softer, and her tone of voice when she spoke to Gao Wen was a little more sincere than before, "Thank you for your kindness, but I'm afraid no druid can cure Patty's illness. Of course, you can go see her, I think Patty would be delighted to know someone as legendary as you — she used to hear your stories as a child."
The dance started as scheduled.
In the largest banquet hall in Glenburgh, the dining tables are filled with food and wine, and the performers provided by the Glenn family are playing soothing and beautiful Ansu court music on a wooden platform in the corner of the hall, gentlemen and ladies in costumes They walked into the banquet hall and started their aristocratic socializing in this prosperous and luxurious place, and these small and medium-sized nobles or noble heirs from around Glenland did not ignore the person sitting on the platform at the end of the hall—from time to time someone looked at him Throwing to the place above the ground, looking at Duke Cecil and Countess Glen who were talking on it, and guessing what they were talking about.
Gao Wen was actually just chatting with Luo Penny. After seeing the specifications of the dance, the texture of the tableware used, the number of musicians and their costumes, he smiled and praised, "It was a good dance."
"It is a great honor to receive your opinion like this," replied the Vitesse, "I have done my best to make this ball worthy of you."
Gao Wen just nodded slightly, and at a certain moment after that, he noticed a change in the eyes of Ropeni Grant when she looked at the noble members in the hall.
It was deep hostility, contempt, a flame that bordered on hatred.
This change in eyes was well hidden. If Gao Wen hadn't caught it, he might have overlooked it with his power of observation.
A smile appeared on the corner of Gawain's mouth, and he said in a very casual tone, "How many of those who appeared here today also appeared at Count Karlov? Hosman's banquet hall ten days ago?"
Luo Penny Grant's expression seemed to be stiff for a moment, but all her abnormalities were fleeting, and in the next moment, she had calmly said, "It seems that even after seven hundred years have passed, what happened on this land Things still can't hide from your eyes."
"No, there are many, but I just happened to know about one or two of them after the fact."
"... Earl Hossman used disgraceful means to steal your wealth, but fortunately, Glenn was not involved in it." The Viscountess said after two seconds of silence, and calmly avoided Gawain's initial question, The topic was not brought to the members of the nobles who gathered here.
But Gao Wen didn't come to pursue this matter himself, he just mentioned something casually, looked at Luo Penny Grant's reaction, and then pretended to forget the topic, and suddenly said "Your husband , a remarkable man in my opinion."
"...that amazing man, just left me with a mess."
Gao Wen smiled slightly, and turned his head to look at the southern nobles who were dancing in the banquet hall, speaking elegantly, as if they were stage actors. Suddenly, his sight was caught by a crack in the door of the banquet hall Indistinct shadows attract.
He couldn't see what it was, but he knew that there was indeed someone in the crack of the door—because Luo Peini Gulen next to him had stood up and looked at the same place with surprise, nervousness and worry.
The Viscountess seemed a little at a loss, "Your Excellency, please allow me first..."
Gao Wen had already stood up at this time, "Don't worry about it, let's go."
The Viscountess left her position almost immediately. She quickly passed through the side of the hall and walked towards the gate of the banquet hall, while Gao Wen followed naturally.
Someone in the banquet hall noticed this scene in surprise, but after Luo Peini waved her hand, the music continued to sound, and the nobles who participated in the ball did not leave, but many people's attention had clearly reached the gate, and followed Luo Peini and Gawain's figure.
Luo Peini pushed open the door of the banquet hall, and Gao Wen stood behind her and looked out.
A wooden chair with wheels was parked in the corridor outside the door, a slightly panicked maid stood behind the chair, and a small, curled up figure sat inside the chair.
That small figure is a girl, she is wearing a white, specially cut "clothes", the clothes has only one sleeve, and the waist also has a big opening, because the skin of the person wearing it is fragile and festered, I'm afraid Can no longer touch any fabric; she sits in a chair in a crooked posture, where several straps hold her body in place to prevent her from rolling down; under her skirt, one leg has been pulled from the knee The truncated, shriveled and shriveled stump was lying powerlessly on the chair; half of her torso seemed to have been scorched by flames, her skin was scorched and wrinkled, and layers of scars formed after cracking and scabs could be seen everywhere, a twisted and weird Flesh and flesh stick together and grow on her scorched and wrinkled half of her body. It was an arm she once had.
She was tied to the chair like a tattered doll, her head was supported with difficulty, and kept shaking slightly, as if it was difficult to fix her neck at any angle.
But she still had a pair of bright eyes, which were staring at Gao Wen curiously.
A third of her face is covered in ugly, twisted purple scars, but she's still smiling and looking happy
"You are so tall!"
Then, she added, "Just like Dad said in the story!"
Gawain squatted down in front of the chair so that the little girl didn't have to lift her head up. He looked at the bright eyes of the other party, but these eyes were still exactly the same as the lively girl in the Dreaming City.
"Hi, Patty."
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