The maid gets up early to make breakfast. In the absence of servants at Smith Manor, this had become common knowledge. This seems to be a disorderly 'system', and the owner Smith did not make any arrangements, because the servants who stayed in the Smith Manor were all former employees of the old Smiths.
This means that they can be fully trusted and allowed to take care of the estate that also belongs to them. Don't worry about someone sneaking in a bug or something to record, with the intention of destroying the private property of the Smith family... As Zach saw, there was only one housekeeper running around Smith.
While the servants beside Mr. and Mrs. Smith were still preparing breakfast, the conversation between Lidia and Kepler had already moved from Lidia's room to Kepler's room. What a young girl has to do when she wakes up is no less than a Rimmer who first transforms herself into a thirty-year-old and then into a twenty-nine-year-old...
Of course, this Rimel Lidia has completely forgotten about serving Eve.
Lidia raised her eyebrows while combing Kepler's hair, looking incredulous, "What did you say?! That boy from Yuri's family dared to break up with you!"
"Yes!" Kepler stared. Lidia asked Kepler to tell all the interesting things before, but isn't this, "Can you believe it! It's him who wants to break up!" Kepler stared at his young and beautiful self in the mirror, "Break up with me?!" Look at me! He has no idea what he's missing!" Then she raised her eyebrows and began to brush her eyelashes.
It seems that the girl's emotional pain has completely passed.
"This is his loss~" Lidia said with a smile in her eyes, "I heard that we acquired the Yuri Group. Maybe one day, you can see this kid again."
"Who wants to look at him!" Kepler rolled his eyes. With the help of his long, curled eyelashes, his eyes seemed to reach the sky. "I'm very busy! I don't have time to pay attention to him!"
"By the way, what are you busy with during the summer vacation?" Lidia still smiled, "Sneaking out for shopping with Laura, you are not busy~"
"Lidya~" Kepler acted like a girl, "Who said I was going shopping! Laura and I are doing a charity project, okay! It's very important!"
"Public welfare project?" Lidia blinked. The Smith family manufactures drugs that ruin other people's lives. To do charity projects, eh. Of course, Lidia didn't show any sarcasm, "Isn't this kind of thing what Quinn and the others are good at?"
Irony appeared at this time, "When I was traveling outside, I heard about some things that Becky of the Quinn family did (the Quinn family is engaged in military-related charities, and the entire federation is very familiar with Quinn." Family, Poch once did some bad things in Quinn's name, James mentioned it)." Lidia tilted her mouth. “It doesn’t look like a charity at all.”
Kepler suddenly lowered his voice, "Lidya, let me tell you, Poch..." She blinked, and the girl's mind was temporarily knotted. There were too many things about Poch, it was hard to talk about. Kepler paused for a moment, his voice returned to normal, and he waved his hand. He looked like he was too lazy to mention it, "Anyway, that guy is currently locked up in Quinn Manor. In our charity project this time, everyone from our generation in the West District participated, but he did not."
Lidia became more and more curious as to what charity project Kepler was talking about. Just as she was about to ask, Kepler spoke again. He raised his eyebrows with a strange expression, "Oh! Well, Blake didn't participate, he is busy now. He is by the mayor's side every day, so he is a big shot, hmm."
Lidia nodded and wanted to ask again. Kepler seemed to have remembered something and took the lead again, but this time, his tone was a bit weird, "Well, also, Jackson didn't participate either, the one from the Bishop family..." Kepler glanced at Liddy. Ya, "He is dead."
"Oh." Lidia pursed her lips. She almost knew this because the Bishop Manor next door, shrouded in dark red, was hard to ignore. "I still remember when he was eleven or twelve years old, I came back once. It’s such a shame that I attended your junior high school entrance ceremony and seemed like a nice little boy.”
Kepler shook his head, getting rid of the uncomfortable emotions that suddenly flooded into his heart, and continued to put on his makeup.
Lidia waited for a while to make sure that Kepler would not think of anything else in a flash of inspiration, and then said, "What project are you working on? Is everyone participating? It sounds good."
"Yes." Kepler's heartbeat began to accelerate again, and she didn't know what she thought of that made her nervous. "Well, it was Laura who initiated it. We set up a nursery there at Parker Elementary School in Paising, North District. .”
Lidia is curious that Kepler has a secret.
"I saw the accident at the Hermann factory in the newspaper before." Lidya said in a slow tone, "Pai Siying must be very uneasy recently."
"Well." Kepler pursed his lips, "So Laura decided..." She rolled her eyes again out of thin air, "Under someone's instigation!" When she said this, her heartbeat accelerated again, The expression on his face also looked very strange, and his emotions were obviously very complicated, "Help provide a safe place for those Pai Siying children to spend their holidays."
"This is great." Lidia had a look of appreciation on her face, but obviously she would be more curious about the source of Kepler's complicated emotions - the guy who incited Laura, "Huh? You said someone instigated Laura? Kepler , This is a good deed, how can you use a derogatory word like incitement." The aunt is educating her niece, and the scene is like this.
"Him!" Kepler suddenly said such a title in excitement and shut up. In an instant, fear, disbelief, and patience appeared on the girl's face at the same time. Immediately, Kepler waved her hand like a girl, "Don't talk about him!" She fiddled with the cosmetics on her dressing table in confusion, "I have to hurry up! Laura is still waiting for me, we are going to Parker Elementary School. .”
Looking at the flustered Kepler, Lidia raised her eyebrows and answered casually, "I'll go with you today."
"Ah?!" Kepler seemed to be frightened and looked at Lidia, "Ah, uh, no, no need, there are children there. It's noisy, it's very noisy..."
"That's better." Lidia's suggestion was not random at all! At the same time, she was prepared to receive her niece's shock, "I'll take my daughter, Eve, you haven't seen her yet..."
"Wait!" Kepler stood up from the dressing table. "Wait! What did you say?! Daughter?! What daughter?! You got married?! When?! With whom?! Already have children?! Aunt Lidia, what happened to you outside..."
Lidia looked at Kepler with a smile on her face, "Kepler. Of course I have many interesting things happening, do you want to hear about it?"
Kepler opened his mouth, and it took him a long time to react, "Ah, ah... does this mean that I have a niece?!" Well, this was the first thing that the girl reacted to!
"Yes." Lidia nodded with a smile. "My name is Eve, Eve Rimmer." Lidia smiled and looked at the mirror on Kepler's dressing table, facing her own image inside, "And I, I am Lidya Rimmer. Mrs. Er.”
"No!" Kepler suddenly stomped his foot, "Lidya! You must at least keep our last name of 'Smith'! A middle name is fine too! Anyway, I will never change my last name in the future!"
Lidia smiled and looked away, "It's still early for you. I don't think your father is going to send you out too early..."
"Lidya!" Kepler's face turned red instantly, coquettishly. His mind was spinning very quickly, "What about Mr. Rimmer? I want to see him!"
"Come on then." Lidia stood up, pulled Kepler up, and twitched her lips, "He is temporarily staying in the guest room."
"Guest room?" Kepler walked beside Lidia, "Why?" Then he thought of the answer. Pouting, "Huh! Sure! Why didn't you tell us about your marriage?"
"Oh, Kepler!" Lidia had a look of grievance on her face, "Don't tell me. You also have to stand with your grandparents. You are my favorite niece. You have to support me!"
"Okay." Kepler pouted, "He'd better be handsome or something! He's worthy of my favorite aunt!"
"Haha..." This was Lidia's response.
Before reaching the guest room where Frand Rimmer lived, who was destined to disappoint Kepler, Eve appeared in the corridor.
Before Kepler had time to ask, Eve, who was like a porcelain doll, looked at Lidia, "Good morning, Lidia." Then she looked at Kepler, "Good morning, Miss Smith." She even bent slightly. , performed an ancient greeting ceremony.
Kepler was startled and bent over inexplicably, "Good morning, good morning..."
Lidia pulled Kepler up and said, "You don't have to! This is your niece, Eve."
Kepler's eyes widened and he was stunned for a moment, "E, Eve..."
"Yes, Miss Smith." Eve saluted again, using the social etiquette of that era. "You have a very beautiful home, and I am honored to live in it..."
"Eve." Lidia walked directly to Eve and pulled up Eve who would be nagging for God knows how long. "That's okay, she is your aunt, Kepler. Your behavior will make her uncomfortable. .”
"I'm just expressing politeness and kindness..." Eve's clear white cheek faced Lidya.
"No one expresses politeness in this way anymore. A simple hello is enough." Lidia waved her hand, as if helpless, and turned to look at Kepler, "Kepler, if you have room If you can let Eve learn more about the common sense of today's children's lives, I must go."
"Oh..." Kepler seemed to be still in a daze.
Lidia pushed Eve back into the room, "See? We're going out soon, don't worry."
Eve gave Lidia a look that only these two people could understand, pursed her lips, and went back to her room obediently. Maybe everyone has guessed that there is a Toledo from the Bishop Manor next door who will come here to manipulate certain things secretly. Rimel, who lives in Smith Manor, wants to stay away.
"She is so beautiful..." Kepler, who followed Lidia forward again, whispered, "I have never seen such a beautiful little girl..." Subconsciously, Kepler played with her hair, and then she He raised his eyebrows and said in a loud voice, "Lidya! She must be at least ten years old! When did you become Mrs. Rimmer?!"
Kepler's brain circuit is amazing.
"Stepdaughter." Lidia tilted her head and replied with a smile, "She was already here when I met Mr. Rimmer."
Did you think that Kepler would come up with something wonderful again? Everyone was disappointed. Kepler nodded as if he understood, and his voice became softer again, "Oh, then Mr. Rimmer must be pretty good, right?" , with such a good-looking daughter, she must be very good-looking too."
"Haha." Lidia felt that it was necessary to mentally prepare for Kepler in advance, "Well, Eve will follow her biological mother, that's it."
Before Kepler had time to understand the meaning of this sentence, Lidia opened the door in front of the guest room and said, "My dear, Kepler is here to see you."
Flanders, who was awkwardly tying his tie, glanced here.
"Ah!" Kepler yelled and ran away. Well, he ran away and disappeared in an instant.
Lidia tilted her head and shrugged at Flanders, who was wearing formal clothes, "Why are you dressed like this?"
"Uh." Flanders pulled off his tie and twisted his body uncomfortably, "Your brother's clothes. He said that your parents will be present at breakfast, so that I can at least look more acceptable..." At the end of the sentence, he looked at his own appearance in the dressing mirror and twitched his lips.
Lidia raised her eyebrows. This could not be considered her brother. Smith was supporting her, but there was still a hint of warmth.
Lidya's face returned to seriousness, "Don't worry about my parents, remember what I said, they have retired and now it is time to enjoy their retirement life." I hope everyone understands what Lidya wants to express. They are Rui Merle, the maker of 'Valmina', the competitor destroyed by Smith, she returned to Barton with a purpose!
Flanders shook his head, "They are your family, don't be too tough."
"I know." Lidia nodded, "Oh, by the way, Torredo from Sharp Manor will come to the West District for a few more days and seems to be cleaning up." Lidia had a strange look on her face. Smile, "He seems to be doing a good job covering up a manor occupied by evil spirits."
Flanders frowned and used a warning tone, "Lidya, don't cause trouble."
Lidia waved her hand, that was not what she wanted to say, "Kepler seems to be working on some charity project. I will take this opportunity to take Eve out to avoid this Toledo." She had a smile on her face, Looking at Flanders, "But it seems that you can't go. You can stay here and deal with the retired two elders and my brother."
"I heard it, but I can't." Flanders refused directly. "I have to go to protect you."
"Dear~" Lidia actually used a coquettish tone. It is really important whether the two are a real couple, "Flanders~ Eve does not need anyone to protect her. As for me, this is Barton, my city, I She is Smith's daughter, I will not be in danger..."
"No!" Flanders seemed determined, "Barton's Alpha hasn't appeared yet, and we don't know where that Alpha is yet. I highly doubt that he was among the two werewolves the night before! We don't know what he will do to us yet. What kind of attitude do you have! There are also Barton's demons. Legend has it that the demons here are fallen angels. I can't let you wander around without anyone to protect you... "
A butterfly floated into the guest room, "Flanders, you stay and spy on Torredo at Bisharp Manor."
This is the final decision. (..)