The Whispering Verses Chapter 1550: The Pigs of Willendale
The dressing table and mirror will not be taken away by Miss Carina now. Someone will deliver them directly to Carina Manor in a while. Now that the matter of the relics has been dealt with, Witch and Shade continued to chat about recent events and related matters related to registration for tomorrow's riding competition around the city.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the maid's voice came from outside the door:
"Miss, the theater manager Mr. Neser has brought two actors."
The witch looked at Shade with a smile:
"They are here, and they are wearing costumes. Shade, do you need us to give you a room so that you can be alone with them? One hour or two hours? Although I have great power here, really If you threaten the theater and the troupe, you can take them home, but your reputation will be ruined."
"Please stop joking, I don't remember making such a request."
Xia De shook his head:
"Besides, with you by my side, why should I think about an actress?"
This sentence is very honest. No matter how beautiful the actresses in the theater are, they cannot compare with the appearance of the big witch.
Sure enough, a smile appeared on Miss Carina’s face:
"Let's meet briefly, take a photo and say a few words. Then, we'll go home."
Those golden eyes looked at Shade:
"I have been looking forward to tonight for a long time."
The door was opened, and two ladies in costumes walked in quite uneasily. They seemed to be guessing that Shad Hamilton wanted to do something unseemly. The actresses knew that Miss Carina was here, so they bowed when they entered.
After receiving the answer that there was no need to be so formal, they exchanged greetings with Shade uneasily. The witch, who was obviously evil-minded, then said:
"All servants go out, Tifa, you go out too, and then close the door from the outside. Shade and I will have a few words with these two ladies here. In addition, no matter what sound is heard inside, Don't open the door. If we haven't been out for a long time, don't bother. Hamilton from Rejed wants to... talk to them in depth."
She said with a smile, and then Shade saw the shocked expressions on the faces of the actresses and the theater manager Mr. Neser outside the door.
The corner of his mouth twitched a few times, then he spoke to stop:
"No need to bother, we will only bother you for a few minutes."
As he spoke, he looked at the red-haired duchess:
"Carina, don't make fun of me."
"Really, I thought you liked this."
She held Xia De's hand and said that this time Xia De was really worried about what the tabloids would say about her in the next few days.
Shad just wanted to go home now, so after a few words with Miss Mellie Jones, who played the knight, and Miss Alita Lawns, who played the knight's lover, he came up with the idea of taking a group photo. .
Shad has never met these two ladies before, and they have only heard the rumors about "Duchess Carina's Lover". Today is the first time they see Shad. At the beginning of the meeting, he was still a little cautious. Even though Sha De asked not to close the door, he still doubted whether he would be forced to do something next. But after seeing Sha De's face, the worry and uneasiness gradually disappeared, and even Sha De When asked to take pictures, they also showed a considerable degree of happiness.
It is easy to borrow a camera in the opera house. Shade invited Miss Carina to take pictures together, but the duchess refused. So, he could only stand between the two actresses and took the photo. Because he knew how to develop photos himself, and he did not want his photos to be leaked, he took away the negatives and asked two opera singers to sign his name in his notebook.
This seemed like a normal meeting between theater fans, and no one suspected that the real purpose was the makeup mirror in the corner.
While Shade was holding a notebook and discussing an opera that he had not listened to just now with the two ladies, and praising their singing and acting skills, a theater servant hurriedly walked from the other side of the corridor and whispered in the theater at the door. Mr. Neser, the manager, whispered something into his ear.
Although the sound is very soft, for a ring warlock, you can still hear it if you want to.
Shad raised his eyebrows and looked at Miss Carina standing aside. The witch didn't like contact with men, but she had no problem communicating with beautiful women normally. The latter naturally heard the sound outside the door. She thought for a moment and nodded to Shade, so Shade asked Mr. Neser:
"Is there something urgent you need to deal with?"
The fat middle-aged man had more sweat on his face. He hesitated and didn't want to say anything, but when he remembered that there was a Duke of his own country in the room, he could only wipe his sweat and said:
"There is someone else who wants to meet Miss Jones and Miss Lawns, it is Earl Lewis of Carsonrick. I will refuse him now, please don't worry."
Earl Lewis is the nobleman who came to discuss the time and place of negotiation with Delrayon on behalf of the United Kingdom of Carsonlik.
"It seems that the Earl of the South can also appreciate the opera of the North. Let him come directly, this room is not too small."
Xia De said with a smile, judging from Miss Carina's intention, she wanted to meet the earl in advance. After all, there's a chance she'd be assigned to handle the matter.
The servant left in a hurry, and five or six minutes later, dense footsteps came from the corridor again. Then, a nobleman in his forties, who was fatter than Mr. Neser, the theater manager, but taller than Shade, walked into the dressing room followed by a crowd of people.
His eyes are green, his hooked nose and deeply sunken eyes make him look extremely cold. This is the kind of guy who seems to know how to be unkind. Coupled with his noble status, it is indeed very suitable for this Earl of Lewis to be sent to prepare the preliminary matters for negotiations.
Among the crowd following him, Shade saw the same five-ring warlock he had seen on the rooftop just now. Combined with what Miss Carina said just now, it is obvious that they are the twin sons of Marquis Folan, brothers Eric Folan and Charles Folan.
However, they looked to be only in their mid-twenties, but Miss Carina said they were already thirty-one years old.
Shad didn't expect to see them again in such a short period of time, but fortunately they didn't recognize Shad.
"Good evening, Duke Carina."
The tall and fat Earl of Southern Country entered the room without even looking at Shade, and walked towards Miss Carina. But he failed to walk over and was stopped by Sha De:
"Good evening, Earl Lewis."
He smiled and said:
"I'm sorry, but you should have heard that Miss Carina doesn't like to be in contact with strange men."
He stretched out his hand to the southern noble, who looked down at Shade's hand, and his own white-gloved hand did not move at all:
"Who are you?"
"Shad Hamilton."
Xia De said, and the latter frowned:
"You are the one..."
His eyes turned to the two actresses in costumes standing aside, still ignoring Shade's gesture of extending his hand to shake hands.
So Xia De also took back his hand:
"It's a pleasure to meet you at the theater. Would you like to talk to these two ladies? Their singing voices and acting skills are really outstanding."
Earl Lewis glanced at him, and then said to Miss Carina:
"Since Duke Carina is here, I won't bother you anymore. Duke, let's meet at the Yodel Palace on Saturday."
After saying that, he ignored Shade and turned around to leave with the servants behind him. On the other hand, Mr. Fulan, who wore a monocle in his right eye, showed an apologetic expression to Shade, and then hurriedly followed.
"Let's go too."
Shad said to Miss Carina, and the witch nodded. After Shad said goodbye to the actresses, she and Shad left the dressing room to go home:
"Earl James Lewis, even within Carsonrick, has a pretty bad reputation. To put it simply, this man is quite lecherous."
When the carriage drove them into the thick night, the witch introduced the situation just now:
"He is a distant relative of the Anjou royal family, and his family controls the salt business in Carsenlique. Since he was young, his reputation in Willendale has been bad, and people still refer to him as Because of the 'lecherous pig James'. Yes, he was so fat when he was young. If he hadn't met us today, I'm afraid those two beautiful girls would have been in trouble later."
After she finished speaking, she saw that Xia De frowned and did not answer her words, so she asked curiously:
"Why, are you unhappy that someone has offended you? This is also a normal thing. After all, the status of a knight is nothing to a real noble. Although most of the nobles you see in daily life are humble and polite, But there are also disgusting nobles. However, if you can convince Lecia, Dorothy Louisa, and Luvia Anat to let you and I hold a wedding..."
Sitting aside, Tifa pursed her lips to prevent herself from laughing, while Shade said:
"I noticed that the guy looked at you very strangely just now."
The witch was stunned for a moment, and the smile on her face became even stronger:
"You say this. I'm used to it. Since I came of age, I have been the most beautiful unmarried female noblewoman in Tobesk. Girls like Lesia can't compare to me. They can't attract the attention of flies. It’s normal, so I don’t like to show up much. It’s not the first time I’ve seen James Lewis. I know what kind of person he is... What are you thinking?”
She smiled and grabbed Shade's hand:
"Oh, my knight, this is the first time I have discovered that you are such a narrow-minded person. Are you angry?"
"Of course, I extended my hand but he didn't shake it, and he also had thoughts about you. Not to mention that this person usually has a very bad reputation and must have done a lot of bad things. It's not normal for me to be angry. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but I don’t have many enemies to worry about, because they are all dead.”