Early Thursday morning, the same drama played out outside Smith's manor, and Smith looked complicated at the gate of the manor, watching Lydia, Eve, and Kepler get into Lola's car.

"I'll ask my brother to take care of my Flanders today. Lydia deliberately added a thank you word behind the window, then rolled up the window.

Halfway through the shake, Smith stopped with one hand, it seemed that he didn't want to repeat the situation of yesterday when he watched the car drive away speechlessly, "Lydia. You can't ...... your parents properly," but Smith still had to maintain his image in front of the children, his voice low and serious, making the third generation in the car consciously lower their heads and play with their fingers, "Sit down and talk." ”

"I've taken a step back. Lydia's hand was still on the handle of the window lift, looking at her brother through the crack in the window, "What else can you do if you want to restore Smith's surname, even if Flender changes her surname to Smith, and even Eve?"

"Uh......" Smith frowned, "These are not the essence of the problem at all, okay or not...... "The essence is that Lydia is married to an out-of-town, unidentified, ugly man, and by the way, she has an extra daughter!

"Flender is my husband and Eve is my daughter. Lydia's face also became serious, "If father and mother don't accept this, we have nothing to talk about." She brushed aside Smith's hand blocking the window, successfully closed the window, and cut off the outside world, her face instantly changed to a smile, and she looked at Lola, "Okay, you can go." ”

Lola quickly patted her driver, and the young man got the order and started the car.

Leaving the confines of Smith Manor, the route repeats yesterday's, passing through the former Grand Cemetery to Paising. It's good that Lydia, as Kepler's favorite aunt, has a topic about Grande. While these West End kids are around, I'm going to say it.

Why, after returning from Parker Elementary School yesterday, this aunt shamefully eavesdropped on the phone calls between her niece and her friend. Lydia discovers that if she hadn't taken Eve with her and Kepler yesterday, the kids would be going to the Grande funeral home. Taking advantage of the fact that Grande's owner seems to have something to do, he wants to find a friend named Alice, well, to chat. Even in the case of Kepler on the phone, the conversation with Lola was very careful to avoid anything that Lydia was curious about.

Lydia was thus very sure that this was the common secret of the Kepler children. And Elidia's knowledge of Barton, it's a very, very bad secret!

I don't know, is Lydia an adult, or someone who has ever been possible to share the Smith family business with Smith? Of course, she knew what Grande was - the 'clean-up' business run by two old men!

"That's right. Lydia said casually, "When will this Grand cemetery in our West End be replanned, and what will be built?"

Sure enough, at the mention of Grande, the children's hearts raced.

"Autumn, autumn. Lola replied, she was the one who managed to make herself look the calmest. "I don't know the specifics yet, but. Listening to my grandmother, it seems that it will be some kind of project of Liszt. "There's no need to be surprised, the public bidding hasn't even started, but for these people in the West District, there's really no need to make a fuss about it.

"Oh. Lydia nodded unconcernedly. "Yesterday I also flipped through Liszt's shopping guide magazine, and they worked with Kozier? "Let's hope it's not a boring shopping mall or a hotel, it's enough to have one in the North End." ”

Of course not. Lydia had just given her opinion of Liszt, and immediately moved on to what she wanted to talk about. "Speaking of which, I still remember the original Grande, how are those two weird old men now, and where have they moved to? Is Barton now only a [Ford] [Allen] funeral home? Unfortunately, I remember that the carpenter named Hank was very good, except for the coffin, his furniture was also very good, and if he was given enough money, he could customize the furniture. ”

What Lydia remembers more clearly is that these two old men can make something disappear in the middle of the night that is not suitable for the judiciary to discover, but, in no hurry, the topic can be guided slowly.

"In the South District. "The answer was quick, it was still Lola, and she looked a little strange," the south side is near the border. Well, you're talking about the old Grande is no longer there, and now they have a new owner...... "The volume automatically decreases until it disappears." This is accompanied by a faster and faster heartbeat.

The corners of Lola's mouth twitched, forcibly calmed down, and forced a smile, "They are now Barton's only traditional funeral business, Barton now, only their family has reserved the burial ground." Hopefully, Lola hopes, it looks like she's just introducing Barton to Lydia, who has been away for years.

"Oh. Lydia blinked, tilted her head, and asked curiously, "In the countryside like that in the South, how do you know so well?"

Lola's heartbeat skipped a beat, and Kepler came to the rescue, "Oh Lydia! You can only look through the newspapers at the beginning of the year! Who told you to only look at the clothes on Liszt's guide when you come back!" The girl deliberately hid her rapid heartbeat with a loud voice.

This bravado cover-up, Lydia's next question could have broken them, but—

"Kun, Quin's grandfather is buried there......" said Sherlock, the youngest child in the car, the younger brother of the Falken family.

Sister Charlotte fills in, "Brother Jackson is buried there, too!" seems to be afraid that Lydia will forget who Jackson is, "Jackson Bishop. ”

Saving the nervous little fat man Cody Fisher, his blushing face, "Uh...... Well, Kang, Connor, Connor Herman, too, are buried there. ”

Lola perked up, "Yes!" masking her nervousness in her voice, "We all attended their funerals, so, so, we go often...... "This time the silence was because the topic was about attending the funeral......

Lydia opened her mouth, every funeral that had suddenly been brought up at this time was more worthy of the attention of her, who had just been pointed out that she did not care about Barton's return!

Lydia pursed her lips, okay, let's change the subject. Lydia tilted her head slightly and glanced at Eve, who had been quiet, searching. Eve is more interested in which funeral.

Eve looked back at Lydia with a rightful look.

Do you still need to ask, of course it's Bisharp! That Torredo appeared in the already fierce territory of Bisharp Manor is what Eve saw with her own eyes, if the topic can lean a little bit over there, it would be good to be able to get even a little bit of information!

Lydia accepted, though she couldn't fathom Eve's mixed feelings about that Torredo, but had missed an opportunity to ask Bishop about it yesterday (Kepler told Lydia Jackson about Lydia Jackson's death in the room. Lydia just felt that the other party seemed to be a good boy), and Lydia felt that if she missed it again, she would be taught a lesson by Eve.

Well, Lydia thought for a moment, "Jackson of the Sharps......"

"Straight ahead here. Lola's instructions to the driver interrupted Lydia, and she pulled an address from her bag, "Let's not go to Parker Elementary School first, go here." ”

The driver who had already driven into the Paisying range took over the address. Oh.

"It was given to me by Teacher Cuisha yesterday. Lola looked at Lydia, her heart was gradually calming down, and she looked at the hungry Eve again, "Eve, aren't you going to hold a handicraft class to help everyone make trophies?" ”

Perhaps we should see Lola grow. Remember, the former Lola said to Matthew. "Why do you want to do it yourself? Why don't you just buy it. Now, Lola even knows how to save money on this material.

"Ugh. Kepler gave a roll of his eyes, "Didn't that workshop have an accident and things were burned, so they couldn't complete our order, will they not give me materials?" ”

"It's his workshop that has an accident. He couldn't meet our order according to the contract, don't you have to compensate us!" The first reaction was naturally Charlotte opposite Kepler, "It's good that we didn't ask for compensation, we just asked him for compensation, why didn't he give it!"

Lola pursed her lips. "'He', by name, is Boone Herrmann. There was a strange look on his face, "That trophy workshop is his property. ”

"Herman's brother?" Lydia, whose original intention was interrupted, actually interjected at this time, and she still knew about the relationship between these West End adults.

"Yes. Lola pursed the corners of her lips, "We are not familiar with each other, just try it, and Teacher Cuisha also said that if you can get the best, if you can't do it, forget it, and you are not ready to pursue the breach of contract." ”

"It's nothing. Kepler continued to roll his eyes, "The ...... of the Hermann plant is the size of the explosion"

"Kepler!" Lola nudged her, stopping her friend's cool words.

Kepler pouted, too lazy to mention.

The car returned to the usual relaxed atmosphere of the third generation of the West End, and Lydia felt as if it was not suitable for Jackson's funeral, so she made a helpless expression at Eve and waited quietly for the car to arrive at its destination.

The western border of Paisin is bordered by a forest separating the two districts, and in the middle there is the Paisin River, which leads to the port of Massa and the Charles River to enter the sea. Lola's car was driving on the edge of the woods.

Unlike the casual chatting of the other people in the car, Eve stared out the window and at the receding trees.

Eve is looking at something she's interested in—the barrier that changes the rules of the world. The people in the car didn't know, but Eve knew that they were now driving close to the boundaries of this magical sorcery barrier.

The porcelain doll-like Eve had a glint of excitement in her eyes, and if she could, she wanted to express the right choice made by someone four centuries ago (the man in Eve's crayon drawing yesterday). It's right to cross the ocean and come to this continent!

During the colonial wars, Papa Midnight's change of the rules of the world to vampires (referring to vampires being invited to enter the territory of the Indians) gave Remer, a group of magic-obsessed half-human, half-vampire mages, a glimmer of hope for the coexistence of immortal blood (the Vampire half of Remer) and soul (the human half of Remer) The laws of the world can be changed, and the Lord has done this, creating vampires who live forever but have crippled their souls, and Papa Midnight has done it, creating the 'invite' law that restricts the vampires' movements.

This shows that everything that vampire blood represents, its definition, its abilities, and the meaning of its existence can be modified, added, and even deleted! Things and laws can be modified!

But for the Ramers, both the Lord and Papa Midnight were looking down on the world from too high a position to try to analyze and penetrate their powers.

Now, in front of Eve, open the window. An invisible enchantment that can be touched by tentacles, Eve can feel that such a small change in the law is not from the Holy Lord and Papa's midnight!

Remer, these 'scientists' who have become half-vampires in order to study all strange things and phenomena, in words that we can understand, these magicians who have become members of the Thirteen Clans of Vampires for the sake of immortality, can understand it!

"It's here. The car stopped, and Lola reminded the group. I opened the car door.

Eve grabbed Lydia, who didn't seem to want to move, and said in a very low voice, "I'm going to go down and see." ”

It's the perfect place, a clearing with the charred residue of the fire, split in two by the world-changing barrier!

"I'm wearing new shoes!" Kepler said as he looked outside the car door, "I don't want to go down!"

"Kepler!" Lola reluctantly pushed Kepler away, "I'll go!"

"I'll stay with you. Lydia could only smile. In Lola's grateful eyes, she pulled up Eve, whom Lola should really be grateful for.

How to describe a scene after a fire, it should be able to sum everything up if people instinctively want to stay away. But. Lola came down with a mission, looking at the dilapidated and charred front door of the workshop, the pavilion where the doorman should have been there collapsed in half, and there was no one in sight.

Lola frowned, and she was not sure of her own words, "Well...... Let's go inside and look for it. See if there's a person in charge or something. ”

Lydia nodded, she could already feel the pulling of Eve pulling her in a certain direction. Lydia looked in that direction, and the pitch-black clearing radiated like ink-like burn marks around it, the scattered protruding steel bars on the ground, and the broken half-collapsed corners and eaves columns. It means that there used to be a building there, but it was changed to what it is today in the accident.

"Then I'll go over there. That's all Lydia can say.

"Oh. Lola glanced in the direction Lydia was pointing, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Lydia seemed to have chosen a place that seemed the most dangerous, "Then, then I'll go to the room there, maybe the office......" Don't expose the girl's careful thoughts.

"Be careful. Lydia only had time to explain before she was led by Eve to the place she fancied.

"What's the hurry?" Lydia pursed her lips and whispered to Eve, who was leading her steps.

"There's something here. Answering in the same whisper, Eve's gaze was fixed on the thickest inky black on the ground, and she walked deeper and deeper.

"What's there?"

Eve was silent for a moment, then raised her head and looked at the barrier that was stuck to the tip of her nose that no one could see except her, "Something, here, right here, where I stood, punished by the laws of the world, burned into nothingness. ”

Before Lydia could respond, Eve's voice trembled with excitement, "I want to figure out what it is? What is the punishment and burning!I want to know what the changed laws of the world are aimed at in the north and south of Barton!" Eve looked at Lydia with sparkling eyes, "I'm one step closer to understanding this barrier!"

Well, we can answer this question for all the creation of Papa Midnight. Don't tell her, let this Reimer enjoy solving the puzzle on his own.

We should pay more attention to our vampires, and Zach is in Grande's backyard, holding Riley's car door, and has no intention of helping Riley stuff the full blood canister into the back compartment.

Of course, this is to show loyalty to Louise. Zach smiled and explained to Louise, who was holding her arms on the back porch and watching Riley do the coolies, "Louise, if Wes, James calls, oh, and Jason, let them call directly to Bishop Manor, or wait for me to come back, soon, I promise." ”

Louise pouted, turned around and went in to help Alice prepare breakfast. (To be continued......)