Soon, Benjamin said goodbye to Sean at the carpenter's shop in the east of the city and left there.
With extremely complicated emotions, he did not stay in the outer city, but went straight back to the inner city, back to the big house of the Riese family.
If, as usual, he would enter directly through the front door and let the servant at the door take his coat and change it. Or, he would go around to the backyard, climb in through the railing, then sneak in through the window of an empty room, avoid everyone's eyes, and tiptoe back to his room.
However, today…
But he didn't know how to step into this large, seemingly grand and elegant house.
He has also lived in this house for some time since time travel. When facing people in his family, although he didn't treat them as real family members, at least after eating together for so long, he could still develop some feelings.
That's why Benjamin was so shocked when he first heard the system say that the pearl necklace came from Mary.
Mary—Benjamin and Grant’s biological mother, Claude’s husband, and a well-known virtuous wife and mother among the nobility.
In Benjamin's impression, Mary has always been a gentle and demure mother. While Claude treated his two sons one-sidedly, she liked to speak for Benjamin and even brought food to Benjamin who was in solitary confinement. Judging from Benjamin's experience so far, she is a quite competent mother.
Even though she and the old lady didn't get along well, Benjamin in the past would not think that this was Mary's fault.
But now Benjamin…
Now Benjamin doesn't know what to think.
He suddenly thought of the gratuitous words the old lady said when she left him the necklace to open the treasure house: "What you see may not be true." At that time, he thought the old lady was hinting at something related to Michelle. thing, but never connected this sentence with the quarrel between her and Mary.
But now it seems that the old lady said these words as if she was warning him to be careful about Mary.
Watch out Mary…
Should he really be careful about Mary
At this moment, Benjamin still had the illusion that he was dreaming.
Is all this true? Why would Mary be the one who instructed the assassins? Why did Mary have murderous intentions for him? And... even if she really had murderous intentions, why would she make such a stupid choice
Yes, stupid.
Mary did not seem to be a smart and insightful person, but this series of actions seemed too stupid to him, so stupid that it was almost unreal.
Why
Ultimately, Benjamin still couldn't figure out Mary's motives. He didn't understand what benefit it would have to Mary to hire an assassin who posted small advertisements all over the city to kill him.
There were still quite a lot of doubts in his mind.
He had to figure it all out.
In this way, Benjamin stood outside the gate of the Reese family, thought for a long time, and finally made a decision.
He wanted to hold this necklace and test Mary's reaction. He wanted to find out whether, as the old lady said, "what he saw" was real.
He kept an eye out and hid in a remote corner, dug a hole and buried the suspicious things on his body. Then he returned to the front door and strode into the house.
Ignoring the servant at the door, he walked straight along the corridor, and happened to see Mary standing alone in the living room. Mary in the living room was holding her hands together, looking a little nervous, as if she was waiting for someone.
At the same time, she also looked up and saw Benjamin outside the door.
After a brief daze, she tentatively spoke: "Is it, is it Benjamin?"
Benjamin swallowed the unspeakable taste in his mouth and nodded.
"Yes, my... mother."
Mary's face suddenly showed an expression of relief. She walked over quickly and said as she walked: "I finally found you. Where did you go, kid? I said I couldn't find anyone."
She stretched out her hand as if to take Benjamin's arm, but Benjamin subconsciously dodged it.
"You..." Mary was stunned for a moment. Then, she looked down and suddenly saw the pearl necklace half hidden in Benjamin's hand.
At that moment, her expression changed drastically, as if she was a different person. She reached out and snatched the necklace away like an eagle pounced on its prey.
Because of Mary's sudden change of expression, Benjamin didn't react for a moment, and Mary snatched the necklace away.
However, after reacting, he did not make any resistance. Instead, he took a deep breath and was too lazy to care about the string of pearl necklaces that had been snatched away.
He really didn't expect that Mary... would show her weakness so quickly.
... It's okay, it saves him from having to make detours here.
"Mother, are you going to explain this necklace?" He looked at Mary coldly and said aloud.
Mary held the necklace and was stunned. She seemed to realize her gaffe, took a few steps back, adjusted herself, and soon returned to her former gentle self.
Suddenly, she smiled awkwardly, and then showed a serious expression.
"Dear child, no matter what you hear, you must not believe it." Although she was trembling a little, her tone still sounded unusually "sincere."
Benjamin's tone became colder: "Really? But this matter is not something I heard about, but something I experienced personally. In the middle of the night, a man with a dagger ran into my room and said he wanted to kill me. "
If Benjamin was still doubtful before, now, after seeing these clumsy performances, he was convinced of the fact that Mary wanted to kill him.
However, he still didn't understand why Mary did this.
What's the motive
There should be a reason behind everything.
"What? Really? But... I... No, you..."
After hearing Benjamin's words, Mary also showed a confused expression and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to explain something. However, after hesitating for a long time, except for her increasingly panicked expression, there was no substantial progress.
"I'm sorry, my mother." Benjamin interrupted her impatiently and said indifferently, "I was too abrupt. Maybe I should give you more time to make up an excuse to deal with me. Isn’t it?”
Suddenly, Mary was choked by this sarcasm and couldn't speak, and her hands holding the necklace trembled slightly.
She just stood there, silent for a while. Suddenly, her expression changed again, she lowered her head, covered her mouth, and several sobs came from her mouth.
“…”
Which show is this being played in
Mary came up, took Benjamin's hand, and said with choked sobs: "It's my fault, it's my fault. I was obsessed for a moment. You will definitely forgive me, right? I was confused for a moment, and I didn't expect it to be true." of… "
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
So, are you too lazy to deny it
He didn't expect Mary to admit it so quickly. She just saw the necklace and was questioned casually, and her whole body became like this, with no intention of denying it any more.
If you want to perform a play, just perform the whole set, at least play more of the sophistry part.
Benjamin suddenly felt a deep powerlessness.
but…
That's fine, so that he doesn't waste any more time talking.
He shook Mary's hand away, showing an unusually wary look, and took a few steps back.
"Why are you doing this?" he asked coldly.
Hearing this, Mary tightened her grip on the necklace in her hand, choked with sobs, and shook her head helplessly: "I... I can't help it. This is all for everyone, all... for Grant."
Grant
The doubts in Benjamin's heart only increased.
"You want to kill me, what does it have to do with Grant?" he asked immediately.
Mary, however, acted as if she hadn't heard anything. She fell into some kind of emotion that she couldn't extricate herself from. While crying, she staggered back a few steps and began to talk to herself abruptly:
"You... you all don't know how difficult it is for me. I am all for this family, and even Claude doesn't care... Do you know? When Grant was a child, he was almost killed by an assassin, but Claude didn't even care. Who can protect him...but we are his parents, who else can protect him besides us?"
Benjamin stood aside with a cold face, staring indifferently at Mary, who had a tendency to lose control of her emotions, as if he was watching a disgusting performance.
And Mary's soliloquy is obviously not over yet.
Along with this emotional self-confession, her state began to become a little abnormal. Even the pearl necklace in her hand was held tightly by her, as if it would be torn apart if she pressed harder.
"You all don't know how hard I have worked to protect this family. That dead old woman knows nothing but cynicism every day!" She became more and more emotional. "Do you know? From that day on, Every night, I would secretly change the house numbers on the door of your and Grant's rooms, and then change them back before dawn... I persisted for more than ten years. It was me, it was I who protected Grant, so that he was not kidnapped by the bad guys, but no one You know, no one ever..."
Damn...
After hearing this, Benjamin could no longer maintain his indifference.
She... what on earth is she talking about
Benjamin's mood at this moment can no longer be described by a few simple "fuck" words.
Didn't everyone in the family think that Benjamin ran away from home that time and was not kidnapped? So what does Mary mean by saying this now? She knew that Benjamin was kidnapped, so why didn't she tell him
What about treating everyone equally? He originally thought that Claude was partial enough, but he didn't expect that the one who was really partial was the seemingly gentle and harmless Mary in front of him.
Moreover, Michelle kidnapped the wrong person, so it was not an accident
Benjamin didn't know what to say.
How could he have imagined that the kidnapping he experienced at the beginning of time travel was not because of anything else but because Mary would switch his and Grant's house numbers every night
She is really... a dedicated mother.
hehe.
"Don't blame me, I'm doing this all for this family. Do you know how many people in the entire capital are planning to kill Grant?" Suddenly, Mary's eyes returned to Benjamin, "That day... that night, The Paladin sent you back, and I was the only one at home. I... I suddenly thought that if Grant was not such a dazzling child, if... if he were you, would he be able to survive well? Then... Then I don’t know what happened, but this idea has always been in my mind and I can’t get rid of it. I was confused for a moment and saw the notice again on the street, so... just... "
Seeing Mary starting to walk over again, seemingly wanting to hold Benjamin's hand and ask for forgiveness, Benjamin could only shake his head in astonishment and back away.
He never imagined that Mary hired an assassin to kill him for this reason.
This woman has gone crazy.
Crazy and stupid.
He didn't know how much obsession Mary had in her heart, and how much pressure Grant's reputation as a genius put on her. But no matter what, Benjamin was also her biological son. Just for this reason, she wanted to let Benjamin die. This was definitely not something a normal mother would do.
In her eyes, Benjamin is Grant's scapegoat
No wonder... No wonder the old lady faced her with that attitude every day.
"Can you please forgive me? I am doing this for the Reese family and the future of the family... You can't blame me." Mary raised her head and looked at Benjamin, with a long-repressed madness in her eyes.
The makeup on her face was stained, her hair was messy, and her eyes were bloodshot. She was trembling all over, and she didn't look like an ordinary lady at all.
"I won't blame you." Benjamin took a deep breath, shook his head, and said coldly, "I will only tell my father, grandma, and everyone about this."
He believed that at least on this matter, Claude would give him a satisfactory answer. Moreover, the old lady should be very interested in this matter.
This inexplicable farce must come to an end.
Hearing this, Mary suddenly shook her head and took a few steps back.
"You... your father is still in the territory, your grandmother... she went to have tea with Mrs. Wood... at home... I am the only one here." For some reason, she stopped sobbing at this moment, as if she had recovered from that semi-uncontrollable emotion. She struggled out of it and began to gradually return to her usual gentle and restrained shell.
In line with what she said, the atmosphere in the entire corridor suddenly became a little weird.
Only...she's here
Benjamin suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
He stood in the corridor outside the living room door and looked around.
In the entire big house of the Reese family, Benjamin did not see any of the servants who usually came and went. The servant who was guarding the door just now has disappeared. I don’t know where he went.
Something is wrong.
How is this going
At that moment, Benjamin suddenly felt a chill running down his spine.
Could it be that... something happened at home
"Where are the others? Where is Jeremy? Where is the housekeeper? There are other servants, where have they gone?" He first looked at Mary and asked sharply, and then he couldn't care so much and shouted. , shouted loudly, "Jeremy! Come out! Jeremy!"
His voice echoed over and over again in this empty house.
No one responded.
"They... were all pushed away by me." Mary wiped away the remaining tears, and her choked voice gradually began to calm down, revealing an inexplicable strange feeling.
"What do you want to do?" Benjamin took a few steps back, even ready to cast a spell.
Mary shook her head and looked at Benjamin quietly.
"I do this all for the Reese family, for the church, and for the supreme will of God. Everyone will forgive me... Claude, he will understand why I do this."
Benjamin felt in his heart that ten thousand grasshoppers and horses were running past.
He didn't know what Mary was going to do, but his intuition told him that he had better not stay here any longer, otherwise, something terrible might happen.
Therefore, he turned around and prepared to leave here first.
However, at this moment, at the other end of the corridor, the door of Rise's house was suddenly pushed open. At the same time, Mary, who was standing at the entrance to the living room, also moved. She seemed to have made up her mind, and even the necklace in her hand broke apart due to her sudden strength.
She threw off the necklace, ran to Benjamin, fell to her knees, hugged Benjamin's legs, and suddenly burst into tears.
Benjamin was confused.
what's the situation
She cried and shouted: "Grant, you... how could you do such a thing? My Grant... my child, you are so... you are so... "
Along with her words, the broken necklace spread out, and the pearls fell on the smooth floor, bouncing gently and making a crisp crackling sound.
At this time, outside the door that was pushed open, a large group of people walked in. I saw that the two leaders were Bishop and Ax Foer, followed by a large group of Paladins.
They walked over and quickly looked at Benjamin, who looked stunned, and Mary, who was holding Benjamin and crying.
The atmosphere was eerie and heavy.
Suddenly, Akers let out a cold snort, stepped forward, and yelled at Benjamin loudly, as if a judge knocked his gavel and pronounced a death sentence:
"Grant Reese, as a trainee priest, God gave you the gift of the Holy Light, but you fell into the Holy Light and did that kind of thing with someone of the same sex. I have told everything to the Bishop. Tomorrow, you will be Be tied to a sinner’s cross and burned to death to cleanse the holy light from the pollution you have stained!”
After he finished speaking these words, the pearls scattered on the floor finally stopped rolling at this moment, as if a person before death finally stopped breathing after a painful convulsion.