The Whispering Verses Chapter 2609: Timeline of the Cumming family
Chapter 2608 The Timeline of the Cumming Family
Although the investigation revealed that Baroness Cumming was an "abandoned baby" picked up in the woods by an old timber merchant and his wife, Gray Gloves did not find out how the Baroness ended up in the woods.
The timber merchant did not want everyone to know that he had lost his fertility, so he kept claiming that the current Baroness Cumming was his biological daughter. If Gray Gloves hadn't found the old servant who used to drive the merchant's carriage, he wouldn't even have been able to investigate the matter of "picking up a crying baby girl in the forest".
"According to the information, after the timber merchant and his wife fell ill and died one after another, according to the will, two-thirds of the property was left to the merchant's brother's two sons, and the other one-third was given to Baroness Cumming. dowry, so now the Cumming family is qualified to participate in the local timber industry as 'foreign builders'."
He read the information, and Miss Winslet handed him another document:
"As for Mrs. Bennet's situation, it is easy to investigate. Her family used to be very prosperous, and she owned a farm and a lumberyard.
My girls went to the village on the outskirts of Vista City to find her former neighbor. The old woman who was in good spirits said that Mrs. Bennet’s mother did give birth to a child before she gave birth to her. child, but the child disappeared in 1809 at the age of one. ”
Xia De looked up:
"Is the time when the child disappeared close to the time when the timber merchant and his wife found the child?"
"Very close, or rather, the same morning and afternoon on the same day in the summer of 1809.
The current investigation results are only these, but it can be inferred that Baroness Cumming, who is one year older than Mrs. Bennet, was stolen and then deliberately placed on the path of the old timber merchant and his wife.
Otherwise, with the size of Vesta Grove, there's no reason they happened to see the baby. Moreover, the child was taken away in the morning and adopted in the afternoon. This is really a coincidence. ”
These things are only related to Mrs. Bennet and Baroness Cumming. Although it seems to have nothing to do with the strange "father and son" relationship between Baron Cumming and Little Cumming, since there is a problem, Shade feels that there is a high probability that it is still Can involve the Baron and his son:
"What are the results of the investigation into the missing baby case?"
This time Miss Winslet shook her head:
"At that time, Ximu Town was still in the transition stage to Vista City. It was a small place and there were not many police officers. The sheriff of that town sent people to search, and the only clue he got was At that time, a strange man appeared in the town.
After the investigation, no one knew where the outsider came from or where he went. It was summer, there was no rain in the area, and he didn't even leave any footprints. ”
"Does that mean there are no clues?"
"No, there is another person who clearly saw the thief who stole the baby back then. But the brain of a one-year-old baby is not fully developed, so it is probably difficult to fully display the memory."
Miss Danister reminded, Shade also understood:
"Yes, Baroness Cumming must have seen the other party's method of retrieving memories. Is she ready?"
Both ladies laughed:
"I knew you would ask this. We had breakfast this morning and went out together before you came.
Extracting memories from infancy requires a lot of expertise. Although none of us are magicians who specialize in this, Danist casually borrowed the alchemy items made by the professors from your academy. ”
Miss Bell walked to the window and closed the curtains. There was no need to turn on the lights during the day, so the room suddenly became dark.
The red-haired girl has an Erlenmeyer flask in her hand, and a warm white light is shaking in it:
"The reason why we don't use relics is to try to prevent ordinary people from being exposed to the whisper elements. We don't know whether there is content in this memory that we need, so let's try our luck."
Miss Bell placed the water basin on the coffee table, and as Miss Daniste put the light from the conical flask into the water, the four of them saw an illusory projection appearing above the water basin.
A series of discontinuous images flashed quickly in the dark room. The early memories of Baroness Cumming's life were more broken than Shade had imagined.
Fortunately, Miss Daniste still had a way. She tapped her fingers in the air twice, and all the pictures that flashed by quickly unfolded, and soon hundreds of different pictures were spread out in the room.
Most of the translucent images with a faint glow are blurry, requiring great patience to carefully identify the scene.
So Miss Winslet said to her apprentice:
"Call all the girls who are not out on missions to come up. Whoever finds the key picture, I can let her choose any secret technique in the middle circle to learn."
"That's not necessary."
Shade raised her hands and moved forward, and the three ladies followed her. "She" informed Shade of the results of the investigation, and Shade pointed to a picture that was probably a child's perspective looking at the nursery:
"Can I zoom in?"
"Yes."
The red-haired girl reached forward and touched it, and all other scenes disappeared. Then she pinched her fingers and pointed them at the picture pointed out by Shade. As her fingers slowly opened, the picture also expanded. Finally, with a flick of her wrist, the enlarged picture moved to the wall. Foreigners felt that this operation had a sense of déjà vu.
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The four people gathered close to the wall. The details in the enlarged picture are still very fine, but the originally blurry areas are still blurry:
"Who is this?"
The corner of the picture is the window of the room. I don’t know if the window glass has not been wiped for a long time or for other reasons. The face that appears outside the window is strange and hazy, but at least it can be seen that it is a man.
"Can you think of a way to make this clearer?"
Shad asked again. He didn’t have any hope at first, but to his surprise, Miss Danister nodded:
"Yes. There are professors in the college who specialize in the restoration of ancient murals. When it is difficult to reverse time, the picture is divided into different points according to the remaining pictures and color traces, combined with the color distribution of the same type of murals, Through a series of complex calculations, it is possible to simulate what the painting might look like when it is complete."
Xia De felt that this idea also had a sense of déjà vu.
"Of course, this method is only effective for scenes that do not contain elements. Fortunately, Baroness Cumming is just an ordinary person, and her memory has not been deleted."
She gestured at the glowing screen a few more times, and the blurry man's face gradually became clear, as if it was filled with colors and details layer by layer.
Before the face was completely clear, Shade recognized who it was, and his eyes widened:
"Looks like a young man, James Cumming?"
"No, don't jump to conclusions so early."
Miss Winslet stopped her, her golden eyes fixed on the face that was undergoing final repairs:
"It does look a lot like James Cumming today, but there are differences if you look closely.
I specialize in animal transfiguration and am very sensitive to the characteristics and details of living things. If Danist's restored hair color, cheekbone shape and eye size are correct, this isn't James Cumming, this is Kane Cumming! ”
"Who?"
Shadow was startled, and then Miss Charlotte Bell reminded her softly:
"That is James Cumming's son and non-biological father, who is now Baron Cumming."
Everyone was shocked, and Shade asked again:
"Baron Cumming is about the same age as his wife, right?"
"There is a difference of five years, so when the baby was stolen at one year old, the Baron should have been only six years old, not in his early twenties as we saw."
The red-haired girl nodded, while Shade covered his forehead:
"So Baron Cumming also has a time curse, not because he was born through time travel. If our speculation is correct, then there is a high probability that he has also used a tree hole? What is going on with this family?"
Miss Winslet quickly used thaumaturgy to draw the restored face from the memory scene. Everyone sat down again, and Miss Danister came up with a new idea:
"Since the third tree hole "Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" that Shade saw was once in the hands of Baron Cumming's mother Erica and is now in the hands of James Cumming, then this book There is a high probability that the book has appeared in the hands of Baron Cumming."
Miss Winslet picked up the report again:
"It makes sense that Baron Cumming's mother died when he was a teenager. But if the Baron also discovered the secret of the book, why would he give it to his son? Well, give it to him Father? In other words, what did he learn through that book?
"Let's summarize the current situation."
Xia De rubbed his face:
"According to chronological order, in 1802, a girl named Erica met James Cumming, who traveled through time, and then in"
"In 1803, Baron Cumming was born, when she was already a baroness."
The witch holding Baron Cumming’s information said.
"Then today's Baroness Cumming was born in 1808. In 1809, when she was one year old, she was stolen by Baron Cumming who traveled through time, her future husband and actual grandson, and was stolen by Old Timber The businessman and his wife adopted her biological sister later."
The witch continued to add:
"Her biological sister Mrs. Bennet was born in the autumn of the same year. Then eight years later, in 1817, Erica died. Baron Cumming, 14, discovered the secret of the book at an unknown age. In his twenties, he traveled back in time to 1809 in the 1820s. ”
Miss Bell casts a spell to make a whiteboard float in the air, and she draws a timeline based on everyone's stories.
"In 1830, the 22-year-old Baroness Cumming gave birth to James Cumming with an unknown person. Of course, the child was regarded as a son by the 27-year-old Baron Cumming. But whether the Baron knows the truth, none of us can Can't tell.
Two years later, in 1832, Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Bennet gave birth to their eldest daughter, Jane Bennet. Then, 22 years later, James Cumming traveled through time and met Erica from the past, and got engaged to Jane Bennet this year. ”
PS: The picture in this chapter is "Time Cumming Family Timeline".
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