Chapter 1965: Witch's Joke and Changed Destiny

The originally leisurely breakfast atmosphere in the snowy day seemed to be poured into the room by a cold wind, becoming incomparably cold. Tifa's elegant tea-pouring action paused, the black-haired maid put down the teapot in the silence of the two witches, gave a look to the other maids in the dining room, signaling everyone to leave the dining room together first, but the Duchess raised her right hand, signaling not to avoid.

Her lazy expression disappeared completely:

"Tifa, don't prepare breakfast for Miss Edwards."

"Miss Edwards was yesterday's address, now it is more accurate to call me Mrs. Edwards."

Megan smiled and looked at the cold Duchess:

"It doesn't matter if you eat breakfast or not, anyway, our sisters had a very full late-night snack last night."

She winked at Galina:

"Duke, you also know that the strong dessert is delicious, right?"

The red-haired witch took a deep breath and immediately understood that this was the other party retaliating for the "little joke" she made at the banquet held in Green Lake City:

"Megan, what did you sisters do?"

"Of course, I did what you did, or do you want to hear me describe the details?"

She seemed not to understand Galina Cavendish's mood:

"But I have to admit that Xia De's taste is really good."

The maids tried their best to control their expressions, preventing themselves from being punished by the furious Duke for stepping with their left foot first after the guests left. But Galina didn't get angry at all... still a little angry, she adjusted her breathing slightly and frowned at Megan:

"You look like a child who snatched someone else's toy and came to show off. Megan, oh Megan, where did you put the dignity and elegance of a Great Witch? Using this childish method to retaliate against me, this is ridiculous."

She pointed to herself:

"Look at me, I was the first, but I never showed off to anyone."

She said while nodding to Megan:

"Yes, I was the first."

Megan just smiled and said:

"You didn't have a childish joke last time? But you underestimated me too much. I didn't come to show off to you, this is indeed too childish. Galina, we may have had unpleasantness before, but at least now, we are true sisters, aren't we? Although you hid the good things yourself and didn't share them with us, at least now, we all know this sweet and tempting little secret."

"Megan, Audrey, what do you want to say?"

The red-haired witch picked up the teacup, took a sip at the edge of the porcelain, and waved to the maid, signaling them to continue preparing breakfast.

"You and I can both see, Xivi, Emma, Vanessa, and those young witch apprentices..."

Megan looked at the good-figured maid standing on the side:

"Many people are staring at Xia De. I snatched the lead from those girls who were full of concerns, but I still hope that we can all keep this secret, and maybe we can cooperate. At least we two are standing together now."

"I didn't expect you to have such courage. I originally thought Vanessa or Emma would be the next one."

Galina said, but looked her up and down, and shook her head again:

"I also thought that your courage before the Green Lake Battle was pressed out between life and death, I didn't expect you to still think about this after the battle."

"No, no, I don't have as much courage as you, Duchess of Saladil."

Megan said with a smile, and also picked up the teacup:

"This is Lady Peacock black tea? It's really luxurious, and only the palace noble manor in Tobesk can see it. So now, Galina, do you agree that we advance and retreat together?"

Galina thought for a while:

"Your address to me?"

"Galina... sister?"

A smile bloomed on the Duchess's face, and she didn't mention that the other party, as a half-elf, was much older than herself, but stretched out her hand to her:

"If Xivi knew about this, she would probably be furious. She was the second Great Witch to know Xia De."

Megan reached out and held her hand, and then the second hand appearing on the wrist also held her:

"In my opinion, the witches of the Sixth Era, although they have quit most of the shortcomings of the witches of the Fifth Era, in terms of advantages, they lack the courage and boldness of the past."

"After all, this is no longer our era."

The two let go of their hands. Galina looked down at the breakfast on the plate in front of her, and suddenly looked up and asked Megan:

"I am very curious about one thing, I hope you can answer it for me, this also concerns our knight."

"What is it?"

Megan asked curiously, thinking she wanted to ask about the changes in her body after spending the night with Xia De.

The Duchess looked at her seriously:

"It's like this, since your wrist can have a second hand, your eyes can also appear in any strange place. Then, can your ** extend a tongue?"

"Pfft! Cough, cough, cough."

Megan really did spray out a mouthful of black tea, but it was no wonder she was so uncomposed; even the usually calm black-haired maid had a strange expression on her face for that instant.

Other maids who were holding their faces hurriedly came to change the tea set, tablecloth, and breakfast on the dining table. Only Galina held the teacup, tapped the porcelain cup body with her little finger, tilted her head and looked at the snow scene outside the window.

"Galina, you! You!"

The corners of her mouth hooked up and a smile appeared. She felt that this morning was not that bad:

"Look, I am better at joking than you... You forgot to call me sister."

(Little Mia is running...)

Not only was Tobesk snowing, but Green Lake City was also snowing, but it was just fine snow, so you only needed to put on a thick coat in the early morning without worrying about catching a cold.

The snow didn't affect the noise of the Green Lake City train station. After the Green Lake negotiations were suspended, this ancient city didn't have as many outsiders as in the past few months. But this Monday train station was still exceptionally noisy. The army soldiers who were recruited in uniform would say goodbye to their families today and head to the place where the motherland needed them.

Similarly, this morning was also the day when the doctor and his party left. Their train was scheduled to depart at 9:00 in the morning, so the three of them and Xia De came to the train station early, and just happened to meet the young people who were recruited gathering at the entrance of the train station.

Because of the witch's generosity, the tickets Xia De booked for the three were first-class carriages, and each person had their own separate compartment, which was the most comfortable way to travel. Everyone had a lot of luggage, so the boss of the Green Lake Hotel, Ms. Helena Green, who was rumored to have inherited an island with her younger brother, sent hotel helpers to help transport the luggage.

The departure time of the train taken by the young soldiers was twenty minutes earlier than the arrival time of the train expected by the doctor and the others, so both sides entered the train station together. Plus the other passengers in the train station, the noise everywhere made this snowy morning look quite hot.

Beside the platform, the troop train had stopped on the track. The white steam mist sprayed from the gap between the wheels under the carriage made the scene on the platform look even dreamy and blurred.

There were people saying goodbye everywhere. Young wives hugged their husbands, elderly mothers exhorted their sons, young girls held their fathers' and mothers' hands, and there were also young people who were alone but ambitious, carrying backpacks and longing for their future.

There were voices of speaking almost everywhere in the steam mist. Xia De and his party standing next to a pile of luggage were not very conspicuous. Drout Giles, wearing a black deerstalker hat, was helplessly dealing with the questions of Last Edwards, who was floating on the side. The girl couldn't understand the operation principle of the steam train very well; Priest Augustus was talking to the helpers of the hotel, telling them to move his luggage carefully.

Although the priest only brought two suitcases when he came, there were four more when he left. No one knew what was in those boxes he brought back from the wilderness.

The luggage of the crowd was piled on the platform. Xia De and Dr. Schneider, who was in a black long coat travel outfit, were talking on the other side of the luggage, checking the train schedule and the time they arrived in Tobesk.

The diffused steam mist made them almost unable to see the priest and Drout Giles on the other side, and the noise and farewells around them made everyone have to amplify their volume. Beside Xia De, it was Little John, whom Xia De was very familiar with, who put the doctor's black suitcase on the pile of luggage.

The boy who used to live in a trash can with his dog had now completely settled in the Green Lake Hotel. After washing and putting on decent clothes, and then wearing a brown flat cap, the boy had adapted to life in the hotel, and after learning that Xia De was also leaving this city and would probably only return occasionally in the future, he enthusiastically participated in the team helping to transport luggage.

In fact, with his physique, he couldn't move too much luggage, but Mr. Solon Green knew the story between him and Xia De, so he agreed to let him come to say goodbye, and told other helpers to watch the boy, as places like train stations were still too dangerous for children.

"Sir, this is the last box of luggage."

The boy reported to Xia De with a smile, so Xia De also asked with a smile:

"Very good, you have successfully completed your work, do you need me to give you a tip?"

Saying that he was about to take out his wallet, which scared the boy to wave his hand:

"No, no, I'll go see if Old Jeff parked the carriage in the right place. I heard people say before that if the carriage is parked in the wrong place, you will be fined. Oh, this gentleman, Ms. Green asked me to give you a letter."

He said and took out another letter and handed it to Dr. Schneider, and then left temporarily with another helper.

The doctor held the letter, watching the boy disappear into the blurred mist:

"He is the boy you mentioned?"

"Yes."

Xia De was also watching Little John's back.

"Detective, do you know? You changed a person's destiny."

The doctor exclaimed:

"If he hadn't met you, I wouldn't dare to say how much probability he would have to live to adulthood."

Although cruel, this was also the fact of that era.

"The destiny I changed is not just one."

Xia De did not deny what he did:

"I can't save everyone, but at least I can help those I know. If he didn't live in the trash can at the back door of the Green Lake Hotel, but in another trash can across the street, I shouldn't have done those things."

"Being able to help the people you meet is already the most a good person allowed by this world can do."

The doctor commented, raised his hand to straighten his hat, and took out his notebook to calculate the time. He had been away from Tobesk for too long, and after returning, he had to deal with all the patients he hadn't seen... referring to psychological guidance.

"Then what about those good people who can even help people they haven't met?"

Xia De asked with a smile. The humid steam mist made his skin feel dirty moisture. The fine snow floating in the sky was also temporarily unable to blow to the platform on both sides of the track.

"Count as saints. Everyone's power has a limit. If you want to help everyone in need, you are too greedy. So even if you are a good person, you can't be too greedy, so we must know our limits, instead of giving blindly." 【196

This middle-aged psychologist indeed had his own unique way of viewing the world and life.

Xia De nodded thoughtfully, feeling that what the doctor said made a lot of sense. Looking up, he saw that the young soldiers saying their goodbyes by the train had already begun to board one after another. The steam mist grew thicker, and it seemed the train was about to depart:

"Is this mobilization in Green Lake City a normal mobilization, or a temporary reinforcement mobilization?"

"I don't know."

The doctor shook his head and also looked at the train wrapped in steam. This was the steam boiler releasing excess steam to prevent the boiler from overheating or the pressure from rising to dangerous levels:

"But these young people are definitely going to experience a real battlefield. The situation between the two countries is becoming increasingly tense now. If a war really breaks out, I don't know how many of the young souls before us will be able to return to their hometowns exhausted."

The young people boarding the train waved their arms out the windows, and the friends and family who had come to see them off were also shouting their final words of advice.

Priest Ao Gu Si and Duo Luo Xi had already completely hidden themselves in the thick steam mist; it seemed as if the world only consisted of Xia De and Doctor Shi Nai De standing together.

This scene was fantastical yet hazy, like a dream, but it appeared more real than at any other moment:

"War—for a child like Little John, for these young people who don't yet know the cruelty of the battlefield, and for those of us who are temporarily on the sidelines—what does it actually mean?"

"Detective, that topic is a bit too big."

The doctor looked at the scene before him with a sigh:

"But at least for that boy, you let him avoid the future famine, war, and plague, avoided the possibility of becoming a gang member, and avoided the possibility of dying from disease and hunger. He might become a mechanical engineer, a university scholar, or just an ordinary person after growing up, but he will also influence more people because of this, meet his lover, get married, have children, and live an ordinary or not-so-ordinary life."

The blue-eyed middle-aged man looked at the steam mist before him and couldn't help but reveal a smile:

"Fate is truly fascinating. If either you or he had chosen a different option, it would have been impossible for him to appear at the train station to help me carry my luggage at this moment."

"Speaking of luggage, Doctor, aren't you going to open that letter and take a look?"

Xia De asked again. The letter that Miss Helena Green had asked Little John to pass on was tucked into the doctor's notebook.