The Whispering Verses Chapter 2614: Tough mortal
Chapter 2613 The Tough Mortal
"James doesn't know."
The Baron shook his head and looked at the flames in front of him. He suddenly looked much older:
"My mother never told James that the man she was engaged to was also named Cumming, so James knew nothing about it. As for my mother, she probably guessed something before I was born, but because of love, she didn't want to Accept the reality, so pretend not to know.
The premature death of her mother was probably related to the speculation that the future would be a little bit closer to her and she didn't want to pay attention to it. Coupled with the fact that she was unable to contact her father again, her heart finally died and she died of anxiety and longing.
So in our family's fifty-year story, among all the participants in this tragedy and comedy, I know everything best. ”
Xia De looked at him curiously:
"But I still don't understand, what does this have to do with when you were young and went to 1809 to steal your one-year-old wife?"
"It took me at the age of 23 more than half a year to read my mother's diary and figure out what happened. At that time, I almost went crazy, and even wanted to treat the diary and the book as if my mother was crazy. Evidence, after all, my mother was indeed mentally disturbed when she was alive."
He took a deep breath, trying not to be so excited:
"I read a lot of books and searched for a lot of information during that time, and then I realized one thing: many things that have not happened in the future have jointly caused me to be who I am at that time. And once the future If something doesn't happen, then I don't exist."
He paused for a moment, then asked Xiang De seriously:
"Do you understand what I mean?"
Xia De nodded slightly:
"Understood, normally the [past] determines the [present]. But because your family's affairs involve time travel, for you the [future] determines the [past] and [the present]."
The baron exhaled a breath of white air and picked up the tea cup given by the monks just now:
“I never thought about changing the past. When I was young at that time, I just thought that I must exist and what should happen must happen.
It took me a long time to sort out everything that happened in the past and future, and the occasional voices in that book, which I guessed came from other times, allowed me to further complete my own story. The entire experience of three generations of my family from my mother to my son, including my wife’s origins.
Later I found out that it was me who said this near the book in 1850. ”
He looked at Shade:
"The only thing I didn't figure out when I was young was who James' father was. It seemed that all the previous holders of this book had not figured it out. But at least I knew the origin of my wife and James. You must get this book. This is a must for me."
"So, was it really you who gave "Open Doors: Our Animal Companions" to James Cumming?"
"I didn't give it away, I just let him discover it. I didn't give him any hints. He discovered the function of the book by himself, and he also contacted his mother who lived in the 1800s."
The Baron took a deep breath again and looked at Shade in the snow:
"So the answer is this, I'm not sure who stole my wife. But if she didn't become my wife, failed to become a baroness, then James would not have been born, then mother Erica If I wouldn’t have known James across time, I wouldn’t have been born.”
Both Shade and Owl understood:
"Did you do this yourself for you or you?"
"Yes, although I am not familiar with Ximu Town and the farm where her real parents are, I succeeded in taking out the child after only one attempt.
While I was able to determine the address of her real family, I was unsure of her adoptive parents' schedule that day. I had already planned to wait for a long time before I found the opportunity to send the child away, but in the afternoon when I took the child away, I met the timber merchant couple in the forest. ”
Now that everything is closed, Shade can even think of the expression on the young Kane Cumming's face when he saw the timber merchant riding a carriage in the forest, holding a baby.
And Baron Cumming still has his own thoughts to say:
"I'm not a ring warlock like you, I'm just an ordinary person. When I took her away, I thought this was fate arranging three generations of our family, but when I watched her being adopted, I suddenly understood , my existence itself proves that I must do this.
As I said when I told you this story at the beginning, this story spanning fifty years is a circle. All beginnings are endings, and all endings are also beginnings. ”
"No, the beginning of everything was when Erica got the book. The end of everything was when James Cumming lost the book and severed contact with Erica."
Xia De corrected, still savoring the story carefully in his heart.
Compared with what outsiders have experienced before, the story of the three generations of the Cumming family is more complicated. Two time travels, namely James Cumming getting Erica pregnant and Baron Cumming stealing the baby, together completed this fifty-year cycle.
For the Baron, this is indeed a circle. The fate of three generations keeps wandering in this cycle. Only people like Shade outside the story are qualified to say "beginning" and "end".
The most bizarre thing about this story is that there is no pure bad guy in it, but everyone did something wrong.
The love between two young people across time is not immoral, but it is just immoral and despised. After all, they both have their own marriages; Baron Cumming made the big mistake of stealing babies, but since he exists, Then this thing must happen, and it can even be said that he took the initiative to maintain the stability of time.
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So neither Shade nor Miss Winslet knew how to evaluate all this. Absurd but very reasonable, taboo but if you think about it, everything is voluntary.
Snowflakes fell from the top of the head, and the sound of the round-faced owl on its shoulders shaking its body broke the silence of this moment:
"According to what you just said, when you married your wife, you actually knew that she was actually your grandmother?"
The Baroness gave birth to James Cumming, and James Cumming traveled through time and gave birth to the current Baron with Erica, so this title is correct.
The baron nodded silently.
"So when you married her, you knew that she would definitely give birth to someone else's child?"
Xia De asked again, trying not to let any pity appear in his tone. He actually didn't really want to ask this kind of question. This matter would tear a wound from the other person's body, but he had to ask for the truth.
The Baron did not nod this time, but said in a hoarse voice:
"I thought at that time that if James was my biological son, and then my biological son gave birth to me, then it would actually be nothing, but then I met them."
He looked at the hermits:
"They told me some basic common sense about time travel. If I am James's father and James is my father, then our paternal bloodline is equivalent to arising out of thin air. This level of paradox is not something ordinary people can create. So James was born in an affair with my wife and she still thinks I don’t know about it.”
Shad is now envious of the owl on her shoulder, because she can care less about her expression, but Shad must not show more pity:
"I'm sorry to hear that."
The Baron shook his head:
"Don't be sorry, because she also doesn't know that I also have illegitimate children outside, two sons and a daughter. I only made up my mind to do this after I knew that James could not be my son. After all, no matter what I also want to leave my own descendants. Although in terms of blood, James and I have nothing to do with the blood of the Cumming family."
The sad man looked up at the falling snow. Even by the bonfire, the snow had already dyed his shoulders white:
"Besides, I don't want to leave any descendants with her. The relationship between her bloodline and mine is very complicated. I want my descendants to get rid of this."
At this time, Shade even admired the ordinary man who was shivering in the cold. As an ordinary person, Baron Cumming had extraordinary thoughts, ideas and actions. He did do something wrong, but It's really not his fault.
The closed time loop was completed, without embarrassing other parties involved in the matter, and he himself also realized his wish. Even if the outsider doesn't appear here, he has already achieved a result that everyone can be satisfied with by his own hands.
"So you see, sir, you don't have to give me a hard time, it's all over. Even if you want the book, just take it back to 1854, I've done everything I can do , it’s over, it’s all over.”
The baron showed a sad smile, shook his head and looked at the flame again.
Xia De heard what he meant:
"So, Erica Cumming is pregnant?"
"Yes. If they can meet again next time, mother will tell James about it. So actually it doesn't matter whether they meet or not. My age has reached the end of all things. If you don't come, I will also find a chance to get rid of that book."
Xia De touched the owl again:
"Where did your mother get this book?"
The Baron shook his head:
"It's not written in the diary, and I haven't found any clues. But I should have bought it from a bookstore. I have researched this book. It is a very common book in this era. Now there is a bookstore in the town. It’s sold here.”
"So who is James Cumming's biological father?"
Xia De asked again. This question is actually not very important. After all, this man is not involved in this fifty-year cycle. He is just having an affair with the Baroness, but Shade is still curious.
The Baron still shook his head:
"If I wanted to investigate, with my status and financial resources, I would definitely be able to find some private investigators, but I didn't do that.
What will happen even if it is found? It's impossible for me not to love James, after all, we are indeed the closest blood relationship. My wife cheated on me, but she gave birth to James, and I had an illegitimate son. So I shouldn’t know who it is, if I know who it is, I will have other ideas.”
He laughed at himself:
“I have experienced too many things in the first half of my life. I understand very well that the less I know, the happier and safer I am. It is only because I know too much that I become what I am now. If I had If the relics left behind by my mother are not discovered, time will actually close the loop in other ways. This is also a very dangerous idea. I can't think about "if I didn't have it".
What he said at the moment, "the less you know, the safer" is also the consensus of the ring magicians, and Shade understands his thoughts.
PS: Additional update 3/3. There is another chapter after turning back, which is a normal update this morning.