Considering that this was a relatively important industry expansion, Zach hesitated and called Madison seriously, "Come here, let's talk about work."
"You're going to fire me."
Zach frowned, "What makes you think this way?"
"What are you going to do?"
“I’d like to expand the mill business.”
After a moment of silence, he said, "I won't help you with your Grand Gray business."
"Well, what made you think this way?"
"What on earth do you want to do?"
"Come here, let's have a meeting, Ford is here."
"Ford Funeral Home?"
"yes."
"Wait a minute, I have to go to the police station and I'm being summoned."
"Oh, Allen's case?"
"Otherwise, what else could it be?" The person on the other side of the receiver felt helpless and kept quiet for a while, "Did I do something unnecessary and I shouldn't have reported a missing person?"
"No." Inexplicably, the call turned into Zach trying to comfort Madison, "You did the right thing. Your employee is gone. You did what you should do responsibly."
"Then afternoon."
"Okay." Zach nodded and put down the phone. He glanced at Ford and said, "Madison is temporarily busy. You need to explain to me the process of joining the ceremony before cremation."
Ford, who was listening on the phone, almost understood and nodded, "Then, let's get started. It's actually no different from a traditional funeral. The mill and your current Grande should be very handy. I just happened to bring the customer's request, so With this in mind..."
Don't worry about this kind of work. Anyway, thanks to the insistence of a certain client, Grande got an extra business. One order can contact Grande and the mill, mainly the business related to Zach and Madison. It is conceivable that in the future, this new business where Grande is responsible for the ceremony and the Mill is responsible for the cremation, and the price is between a full set of traditional burials and simple cremation, will be added to Grande's funeral package options.
The only one in Barton that offers such comprehensive funeral services.
We went to see Maya and sat on the back porch early in the morning in a daze, not knowing what to think.
She was a guest and could not go to work, so she just watched Matthew quietly doing some chores. Because of the guest's visit, Benjamin finally returned to his life and basked in the sun in the hammock. Mo and Louise were away, Alice was in school, and Maya was probably bored.
"Why are they all banshees? You were sent to Salem by your family, but Alice from the Yinghuo family was sent to my house."
This is the umpteenth time Ryan, who was treated as nothing in Grande, has repeated this question. The tone has also changed from the initial provocative ridicule to a real question, and now it is straightforward.
Ryan wasn't expecting an answer at all.
He must have gotten bored to a certain point.
"Maybe Yinghuo is still preparing to cover it up." Maya actually answered.
Just when Ryan was about to disappear into the land, his body flickered, resurfaced and floated in front of Maya, "What did you say? Say it again."
Maya curled her lips and looked at Ryan expressionlessly, "I'm curious, Yuehua and Baiying said that Sibella is very strong. When she first came to Barton, she had no contact with him, but she actually managed to defend Papa Midnight. They admired the barrier very much, and they built a foundation in the later stage. Of course, there is also Alice’s brother, um, John, right, they are all very strong.”
Ryan didn't react at all. The topic suddenly came to him, and Maya didn't give him any time to react—
"I was just wondering, why is your mother (Sibela) so powerful, yet she came to Barton to live in seclusion? What is your mother's original surname? Which family does she belong to?"
Ryan was stunned for a moment, his transparent face darkened, "Answer my question first."
Maya looked at Ryan expressionlessly for a while, "It's a shame for a family to have a daughter of a banshee, you know that."
"I don't know." Ryan shook his head honestly, his face still dark, "I only know that after the banshee has mastered enough witchcraft, she will become a black witch, go crazy, and be a threat to everyone, because they can see Any other creature that cannot see its own death will go crazy and become dangerous.”
Maya had an expression on her face and waved her hand contemptuously, "How old is this? Have you ever heard of any black witch in Salem who is crazy?"
"That's because you are gathered together and can take care of each other." Ryan was actually debating this matter seriously, and at the same time curled his lips, "Because of the Salem that Zach (Toledo helped the black witch build) )." By the way, at this time, he was seriously discussing business expansion with Ford in the office, "Then your biggest fear is not knowing that your death has been compensated by your companions, and then you, um, get back to normal." One side said He said, "Whether it's a single black witch or a banshee that hasn't grown up yet, it's still dangerous." He said softly, "You should look at Alice before. She looked like she could collapse at any time. She didn't even dare to open the door." It was only after Yuehua and Baiying arrived that I started to feel cheerful."
Ryan said the truth. So Maya didn't say anything immediately, but tugged at the corner of her mouth and nodded, and then said, "But after all, we got together, those are things in the past." It's better to be more comprehensive, "Of course, we don't rule out that there will be scattered The banshee outside is really crazy." Suddenly, he felt melancholy, lowered his head, and sighed softly.
"You just said it was a shame to the family." Ryan, who really wasn't a considerate guy, pressed the question.
Maya raised her eyes, gave Ryan a roll of her eyes, and answered, "Because once the banshee appears, it means that in the family's genealogy, on that line of blood, at a certain node, someone prays to Papa at midnight. Passed. That’s why the soul seeds of Papa Midnight’s sister were buried on this line of blood. In a certain generation, the banshee will awaken.”
Papa Midnight’s sister was the first banshee. Remember, Papa Midnight coveted eternal life in order to achieve her status as a religious leader. The first work she created was successful.
Ryan frowned, "I don't understand."
"Are you a Holy Bishop?" Maya asked, staring at Ryan.
"Of course not!" Ryan felt offended. Sibella and Corden Winds were both Indians, and he was also a pure-bred Indian. Although he was limited by his lack of witchcraft talent and could not devote himself to witchcraft beliefs, But that’s not enough to abandon the source of blood and believe in the Holy Lord.
"But you know what Holy Lord believers like most is to pray and call their faith leader, Holy Lord, right." Maya was probably teasing, "'Holy Lord bless you!', 'My Holy Lord, this is great. !', 'I swear to the Holy Lord!'... No Indian would say, 'Papa bless you at midnight.'" Rolling his eyes, "That's asking for death."
Ryan frowned and was silent for a while, "I know that if I ask Papa Midnight for help, I will pay a price. It's like making a deal with the devil of the Holy Lord's faith."
"It's worse." Maya shook her head, "The devils who believe in the Holy Lord are very simple. No matter what you pray for, the last thing they want is your soul. Ordinary people don't care at all. That is what happens after death. Papa Midnight Differently, witchcraft belief does not have a destination for the soul after death, so the midnight of Papa will make the life of the person praying miserable."
"Then what do you mean? Are you trying to say that the fact that you are a banshee proves that someone in your family once prayed for Papa at midnight, and you are the price the family paid?"
"I'm just ancillary price." Maya waved her hand, "No one knows at what point in the family tree the Banshee will awaken. The people who originally prayed to Papa at midnight have already paid the price while he was alive. But Think about it, what he paid, and what he gained. Which of the current witchcraft families is not a family that inherits the faith and finally survives the ups and downs of the Federation. The glory of this inheritance must be given to the one who once climbed up the ladder at all costs. Is it Papa Midnight who is at the top of his faith? So, it’s a shame.”
Ryan frowned and suddenly laughed, just once, with a gloomy face, "It doesn't matter that the Federation was eventually occupied by the Faith of the Holy Lord. We believe in ourselves, and no one likes the one at the top."
Yes, everyone loves the Holy Lord, at least they don’t hate it, but they hate the wizards of Papa Midnight, a bunch of them. Well, of course there is Boysen.
Ryan flashed a few times quickly, probably throwing away some thoughts that he didn't want to go into. "That is to say, sending it to Salem will bring shame to your family. Alice, the Yinghuo family still wants to struggle. I wanted to cover it up, so I sent Barton."
"The former family." Maya emphatically corrected Ryan's wording, "I can confirm it because it is my personal experience, but Yinghuo? I can only say roughly, I guess it may be like this, specific , why don’t you ask Alice herself.”
Ryan pouted, "She was too young when she came and didn't know anything."
"What was Alice like when she was first sent here?" Maya seemed to be really curious about this matter and asked seriously,
"I often cry. I often say I saw some bad things." Ryan lowered his head and stared at the space between his feet and the ground. "At first, he could still be treated like an ordinary child, but as time went by, It’s getting more and more serious, and it’s no longer possible to convince others that it’s just a child’s discomfort with a strange environment.”
Maya frowned. Ryan continued, "In the end, mother had no choice, and Alice also began to have a strong sense of witchcraft, and began to discover her mother's witchcraft notes." Ryan waved his hand, "In short, the situation is getting worse and worse. Under control, the mother did not come and contacted Yinghuo, saying that she could no longer control the awakened banshee and asked Yinghuo to take her back, but she was refused. In the end, she had no choice but to throw her away."
Maya's face was gloomy, "Throw it away. What do you mean, throw it away."
Glancing at Maya, she unexpectedly felt neither humble nor arrogant, because he was also a child at the time. He was not the one who threw her away, and it was certainly not his refusal to take Alice back. "Literally. If our family can't support it, then we won't raise it. It's lost." Go to the street and let her fend for herself, it’s not our Hayate family’s problem anyway.”
Maya clenched her fists and stared at Ryan without moving.
Maya clearly didn't move, and the boundaries of Ryan's body were trembling and flickering. Ryan's own emotions were swinging. This allowed him to start the next narrative as quickly as possible—
"Then the vampire and Alpha came, a strange combination, but what's even stranger is that the vampire clearly has a noble bloodline, but he is alone." Toledo, who is four centuries old, "Alpha is a complete inheritance (Benjamin said , he ate the previous generation Alpha), but had no clan. These two guys protected a human in Barton, the current mayor."
"Then after this pair of guys eliminated some aliens who were unwilling to keep secrets, they helped the police solve the case in Barton and helped the former mayor Anthony. I don't know what my mother was thinking. I observed these two guys for a while. After a while, we led them to the street where Alice often appears, and then that’s what you see now.”
Maya's face recovered and she lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.
Ryan drifted back slowly, preparing to take advantage of Maya's thinking and not go back underground. By the way, he didn't want to answer Maya's earliest question—
"I've finished answering your question. It's your turn." Maya looked at Ryan, whose body had sunk halfway, and waved. A flash of red drew Ryan's attention back to her, "Answer me about your mother, Silk Bella's question. Why did she come to Barton? Well, what did she do before coming to Barton?" Then she curled her lips and said, "It's not about anything, but your father is just an ordinary person. I really have no impression of the surname Hayate. You Why did your mother, such a powerful wizard, marry your father?"
Ryan's face was gloomy as he watched the red spell that hooked him fade away. He frowned and stared at Maya, saying, 'It's none of your business. 'But, I dare not.
"My mother turned out to be very powerful. She was also friends with Yinghuo and Alice's mother. They were both powerful wizards. They would travel together in the Federation to rescue wizards who were abducted by wolves (werewolves). She once told me that this is the family A common training method for wizards..."
Maya interrupted, "I know this, tell me something I don't know."
"Then during an operation, my mother met my father. My father was a hunter and he was hunting the same wolf pack with his companions."
Maya raised her eyebrows, "Powerful wizards trained by witchcraft families generally disdain to act with those no-name hunters, unless they fall in love."
"Well, it seems that you also know. Do you have anything else to ask?" Ryan stared at the ground, his desire to get in was no longer hidden.
"What about your brother? Rui Wenqi, what's going on with him?" Maya is not a considerate character, well, maybe she just doesn't want to be considerate to this guy who once wanted to peek under her skirt, "I know he Later, he came to Barton, did a lot of things, and became Alpha, Papa Midnight. What about before? Your family has already retired, why did he still run out to be a hunter? "
"Do you expect me, who was still ten years old at the time, to know what my adult brother was thinking?" Ryan's face was blurry, emotion-driven. Remember, Ravenci once tried to burn the Earthbinder Ryan, who was not mentally prepared at all, and even took action.
Maya frowned and waved her hand, "That's it for today. Let's talk next time." (.)