Chapter 2562: Enhanced Course and Adopted Lady

The maid walking at the end closed the door of the painting room, and Ajelina stood on tiptoe and turned to the side of the door to listen, and then said happily:

"Good afternoon, Xia De."

She hugged the cat with a smile. Xia De didn't change back to his original form immediately because of this:

"Good afternoon, Ajelina, this painting of yours is really good.

Do you know where Princess Lei Lei Qianya is now? I want to borrow her artifact earring."

"Sister and father and brother went to the countryside to inspect the autumn harvest, and will probably be back after dinner."

Seeing that Xia De didn't object, Ajelina kissed the cat's face fiercely. If Xia De was in human form, she would of course be embarrassed to do this, but now she was only facing a cute cat.

Xia De and her had done even more excessive things, and he had no reaction to kissing her cheek:

"Then please help me inform Princess Lei Lei Qianya about this tonight. If it is convenient, you can find time to let Miss Jia Lin Na help bring that thing to my place."

"Sister will definitely send it to your house herself... Are you leaving now? If you have nothing to do in the afternoon, can you let me paint an oil painting?"

She blinked and asked, that expression was really hard to refuse.

So the cat thought for a while:

"I have nothing to do in the afternoon..."

"Then let me paint one, it will be over soon."

Then she hugged the silver cat and put it on the high stool where the maid lady was just sitting, and then happily picked up the paintbrush and palette again.

So when the maids who prepared afternoon tea came back, Ajelina had no intention of drinking afternoon tea at all:

"You guys eat these snacks, I am losing weight recently."

Although Ajelina said she could finish it soon, in fact, when Miss Jia Lin Na came to find Ajelina in the evening and told her about taking classes with Yiluna next week, she saw the familiar cat squatting on the high stool acting as a painting model at a glance.

The cat's big eyes looked at her. The red-haired Duchess couldn't help but show a smile, but then she scolded with a straight face:

"I said why did you disappear? It turns out you abandoned me, your owner, and ran to get close to little Ajelina, right?"

Although she said so, she didn't disturb Ajelina to complete the final part of the creation. But when Ajelina finished the painting, she still hugged the cat away:

"Ajelina, go change your clothes and go with us. I will only wait for you for twenty minutes. If you haven't packed up, I won't wait for you."

And Xia De only had time to recover his human form in the carriage:

"I actually never understood why you are so interested in my cat form."

"Because this is the only opportunity I can bully you, but you can't bully me."

The witch gave an irrefutable reason, and the little Princess giggled on the side, and then blinked and reacted to what she meant.

Xia De went home very late yesterday and didn't have time to treat Vanessa to a formal dinner, but today everyone finally had time.

Miss Jia Lin Na Cavendish never cared about spending money, so she held a dinner party at the Rhodes Manor where the 【Golden Dawn Opera Troupe】 lived, allowing the girls of the opera troupe and her followers to attend together.

And the only male present was naturally Xia De.

Although the dinner party was formal, everyone was just wearing daily clothes. Luweiya and Princess Lei Lei Qianya also appeared here after the dinner party started. Princess Lei Lei Qianya handed the 【Saint's Curse-Lifting Stone】 to Xia De at this time.

She didn't ask Xia De what he wanted the artifact for, just joked:

"Xia De wouldn't give my jewelry to others as a gift, right?"

The dinner party lasted from 6:30 to 8:30, and the two witches who went home with Xia De were naturally the two witches. What happened that night, Princess Lei Lei Qianya and Ajelina could of course guess. The tenderness and enthusiasm of the two witches would probably make Xia De's bedroom happen things that might not even be written in books:

"Is Xia De okay?"

The little Princess followed closely behind her sister, asking with some worry:

"Sister, don't you stop them? The great-aunt and that Baroness from the South are both very capable witches. Xia De alone..."

After speaking, she looked back at the direction of Saint Delan Square under the night sky outside the gate.

The elegant red-haired Princess looked at her sister with strange eyes:

"Although I really want to praise you for being able to care about Xia De's body, but... it seems I have been too strict with you."

Ajelina blinked, not knowing what this meant, so she said with the most conservative attitude:

"Sister, you are very good to me, not strict at all. Managing me strictly is for my own good, I can..."

"Alright, go to sleep in my room tonight, I will tell you a bedtime story. Look at your question just now, it seems it is time to let you know some things.

Our tradition in Delarion seems to be that girls are explained this kind of thing by their mothers or elder sisters before marriage, but this time I can only do it, to prevent you from asking such embarrassing questions next time."

After speaking, she took Ajelina's hand. The little Princess followed her obediently. She understood Princess Lei Lei Qianya's meaning:

"Sister, I have seen that kind of knowledge in books. When I was in Green Lake, I also saw it in the cabinet..."

She tried her best to weaken the pronunciation of the word "book" to prevent being discovered that she actually secretly hid a part of it.

And Princess Lei Lei Qianya shook her head:

"It's not basic knowledge, it's advanced knowledge related to that Knight of ours... This counts as an enhanced course."

"I see."

She didn't know what she would hear tonight, and she didn't know that Princess Lei Lei Qianya's story would become the scene that appeared most often in her dreams for quite a long time.

The visit of the 【Golden Dawn Opera Troupe】 to Tobesk can also be considered a major event in this city in the second half of this year. Ordinary people don't feel much about this, but the nobles all want to know the specific performance arrangements of the opera troupe and buy tickets, as if just listening to an opera can show their artistic taste.

Therefore, Vanessa was actually very busy. Although she looked very leisurely in the first two days of arriving in Tobesk, that was only because the opera troupe hadn't settled down yet.

And once the preparation period passed, the long performance schedule and organizational coordination work would keep her and Xilisi busy for a while. Therefore, early Friday morning, she even went out earlier than Miss Jia Lin Na.

However, at least the two witches accompanied Xia De for breakfast at home. The three of them walked out of the bedroom together. Facing Miss Jia Lin Na's maids, Vanessa was a bit embarrassed at first, and then found that the Duchess was calm about this.

"Miss Jia Lin Na, how many things have you and Megan hidden from me and Xia De?"

Miss Jia Lin Na, who was slightly complacent, thought about it:

"That's countless. Will you remember the number of times you shook hands with Xia De?"

The blonde witch was a bit dissatisfied with this, but said nothing. But looking at her expression, she would probably appear in Saint Delan Square No. 6 frequently this autumn.

After breakfast, Xia De prepared to set off again. He didn't forget to bring breakfast for the elf girl, nor did he forget to ask Vanessa to send a letter to her apprentice Margaret, asking the Princess to investigate in Willondale which school it was that participated in the renovation of the temple on the top of the hill in Creekwood Town more than fifty years ago.

This was destined not to be done in one day, so the investigation of the old temple could be slowed down for a few days, but he could walk into it when listening to the concert on Sunday.

After chatting with the elf in the forest for a few words, Xia De went directly to the city. When he arrived at the Accordion Hotel, the chubby round-faced owl was arguing fiercely with Miss Dannister about something. Seeing Xia De knock on the door and come in, they waved to Xia De together:

"Come quickly, the investigation has major gains!"

"What major gains? I also have gains here, come and try the curse-lifting stone."

The appearance of the Sage-level artifact 【Saint's Curse-Lifting Stone】 made the two ladies startled. However, Miss Dannister knew that this artifact was in the Zaras Academy of Literature, and was guessing where Xia De found it, when she saw Xia De hand the artifact to her.

"It's a pity that the time curse doesn't seem to be regarded as a general curse. It has an effect, but the effect is not great. Given that the side effects of this artifact are too obvious, I don't suggest that Fuluola and I wear it."

The eighteen-year-old girl wore the ruby earring on her ear, tried it a few times, and shook her head, but there was no regret on her face at all:

"Thank you, Xia De. We clearly let you go to rest yesterday, but you are still busy for us."

Xia De had to put away this artifact:

"It doesn't matter, we can continue to try other curse-lifting artifacts later... What major gains did you just say?"

So the witch who turned into a human asked excitedly:

"Remember? We discovered with artifacts at the banquet that Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Kaming are actually sisters?"

She didn't let Xia De guess the reason for the matter:

"The investigation about this has results. Just like your guess, the sister relationship between the two of them is not the result of time travel, they are sisters born normally."

The red-haired girl on the side handed the file to Xia De:

"This is thanks to the information of the 'Gray Gloves'. Although Baron Kaming doesn't do import and export trade, because he also dabbles in the timber business outside of the construction industry in Creekwood Town, he is also under the monitoring of the Gray Gloves. The identity of his wife was naturally specially investigated by the Gray Gloves.

What people know now is that Mrs. Kaming is the only daughter of a local timber merchant who has passed away, but the Gray Gloves investigated that the merchant was... injured in the lower body when he was young and had no fertility at all. There is a list of his medical records in the file."

Xia De looked at those files suspiciously:

"Then where did Mrs. Kaming come from? Was she adopted? Wait a minute... I see, it says that she was picked up by the timber merchant couple from the woods outside the town? Is there such a thing?" ===== CHAPTER 2563 =====