RNP Chapter 2578 Father-Son Relationship
Chapter 2578 Father-Son Relationship
Chapter 2578 Father-Son Relationship
The three of them continued to sit at the table. When Miss Winslet called the waiter to take her order, she gently pressed the frame of her gold-rimmed glasses, and the relic's hypnotic effect took effect:
"What is your boss coming here for today?"
The waiter, who was taking notes with a pencil, answered without hesitation:
"Boss Bennet is here to check the account documents with Baron Cumming. He has an office on the fourth floor of the hotel."
"Your boss has a business relationship with the Baron?"
"Yes, the Baron is an important business partner of Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Bennet's eldest daughter, Miss Jane Bennet, is engaged to the Baron's eldest son. Mrs. Bennet is very satisfied with this and often tells us that her daughter is going to marry the future Baron."
Miss Winslet nodded, and Shade asked again:
"Is this pineapple liqueur on the menu strong? I'm not a big drinker and I don't want to embarrass myself in front of these two ladies."
So the red-haired girl patted him:
"I just like to see you make a fool of yourself."
The waiter, who had recovered from hypnosis, silently wrote down "pineapple liqueur" on the menu, without realizing what he had just said.
Because of what happened in the old Bennet house yesterday, Miss Danister was worried that there might be spies from the Tree Hole Association around old Bennet now, so after lunch, Shad exchanged the cabinet that Carina had someone build with the cabinet in the broom room, and temporarily put the cabinet that could travel through time in the witch's room, and then the three of them carried out the investigation together.
But old Bennet was just an ordinary man after all. After the three spent some time making sure there were no detection rituals or relic powers around him, the high-level witch Miss Winslet used her glasses relic to hypnotize the six people in the room directly through the ceiling.
After Old Bennet, Baron Cumming, Little Cumming, the two accountants and a servant had all lost consciousness, Shad, who was also in Miss Danister's room on the third floor, used "Ragley's Leap" to go upstairs, and returned in the same way three minutes later:
"There is no trace of the curse of time on old Bennet."
"Then why are you frowning?"
Miss Danister asked, and Shade was indeed frowning:
"That Baron Cumming and his son bear traces of the curse of time."
"what?"
Unlike the Bennett family who had taken root in the area since the time of Creekwood Town, the Cumming family was an "outsider" who came to the area when Vista City was first established. Moreover, the Cumming family did not settle down in the area, they were still nobles in the capital of Willendel.
Baron Cumming, now over 50 years old, is the son of Baron Cumming who first arrived in the local area. Because of business reasons, he spends half of every year in Vista City, so he can be considered half-local.
As for him and old Bennet, who ran the hotel, they knew each other for business reasons, and because both families happened to have young people of similar age, they arranged their engagement.
According to the inn waiter, it was not that old Bennet agreed to the marriage in order to curry favor with the nobility. Jane Bennet, 23, and James Cumming, 26, were in a free love relationship and met each other at a banquet. Mrs. Bennet used her eldest daughter's upcoming marriage to the baron's son as a topic of conversation and hoped that the remaining three daughters could marry equally well.
Therefore, the Bennet family was very happy with this marriage, and the wedding of the two young people was scheduled for next spring.
"You said that the baron and his son had traces of the time curse?"
Miss Winslet asked incredulously:
"Could it be that the treasures we found in the old Bennet house were hidden by this baron? No, this is not right."
"It's hard to understand why the Baron's family is not a complete local."
Miss Danister also said that she did not doubt that there was something wrong with Shade's perception:
"Do they know they are cursed? Could it be that they were cursed unintentionally?"
Shade shook his head:
"The curses on them are stronger than yours. I'm not sure what the curse is, but it's definitely not something you can get accidentally."
"I wanted to investigate Bennett, but now it's the Baron and his son."
Miss Winslet thought for a moment:
“After a while they finished checking the accounts and left, and I turned into a sparrow and followed them to see where they were going.
"Shad, Danister, wait for my news here. I'll go and confirm Baron Cumming's residence in the city, and then investigate. I just knew them before, and I don't know anything else about them."
Old Bennet, Baron Cumming and his son stayed in the hotel until two o'clock in the afternoon before leaving. Then the gray sparrow flew out of the window, and Miss Danister and Shad stood at the window watching the three people downstairs get on the carriage.
The eighteen-year-old red-haired girl suddenly had an idea. She took out the monocle she had used at noon, put it on her eyes and looked down. Then she grabbed Xia De's arm in surprise:
"Red Moon! What do I see?"
"What do you see?"
Shad looked down immediately, but everything was normal at the hotel entrance.
"Baron Cumming and his son are father and son."
The sorceress said in surprise, so Shade looked at his teacher in confusion:
"I'm sorry, is this weird?"
"She" beside his ear chuckled, and Miss Danister held Shade's hand tighter, staring at him with her rose-red eyes:
"That young man, James Cumming, son of Baron Cumming, is Baron Cumming's father!"
The outsider must admit that he did not understand what she said at first:
"Sorry. Huh?"
He took a deep breath, reached out and took off her monocle rudely, then put his hand on her forehead:
"Your spirit is very stable, and the whispering elements of the relic haven't fluctuated much. Are you saying that the 26-year-old young man, James Cumming, is the father of the 51-year-old Baron Cumming?"
Miss Danister pushed away Shade's hand and covered her forehead:
"I know you're surprised. I'm definitely as surprised as you are."
"Wait a minute, so Baron Cumming is little Cumming's father?"
Shade asked again, and Miss Danister took two seconds to understand what Shade wanted to say. She immediately shook her head:
"No, if there was such a relationship between the two parties, these glasses should have reminded me. Their only blood relationship is that the young man James Cumming is the father of the old man Baron Cumming. This relationship is one-way."
After saying this, both of them looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
They left the window and sat down on the sofa, the expressions on their faces almost identical.
"So, little Cumming is not Baron Cumming's biological son? No, no, that's too sinful. He is Baron Cumming's father, so of course he can't be his biological son. Otherwise, the origins of these two people would form a paradox."
Although the outsider's imagination is very rich, this matter is somewhat beyond his understanding:
"Someone has passed blood through time. James Cumming, who is about to marry Miss Bennet, already has a son, and his son is his non-blood father. Well, let's sit down and sort it out.
Anyway, I think we caught a big fish.”
Three hours later, in the evening, when the owl flapped its wings and flew back, the stranger thought for a moment that it was delivering a letter.
Then, the owl jumped off the windowsill and transformed into the witch with gray-black hair. She greeted the two of them enthusiastically:
"I'm sorry I'm late."
“Can you answer these questions?”
Xia De stood up and pulled her wrist to the sofa. When the witch looked down at his hand, Xia De had already stuffed a piece of paper into her hand:
“First, we found out that Little Cumming’s biological father is not Baron Cumming, but Baron Cumming’s biological father is Little Cumming, so it’s completely normal that they look alike.
But who is little Cumming's biological father? Is Baroness Cumming his biological mother?
"what?"
The witch who had been following them for an entire afternoon looked at the master and apprentice in surprise, while the master and apprentice who had been reviewing the logic for an entire afternoon were thinking much faster than her:
"Second, who was it that traveled through time? Little Cumming? If his biological mother is still the Baroness, then the Baroness is both his mother and his daughter-in-law? If this is true, it would be a bit sad for Baron Cumming, because his wife is both his wife and his grandmother.
If the Baroness wasn't little Cummings's biological mother, things would be a little easier for the family."
"what?"
This taboo topic made the witch look at the master and disciple with even more surprise, her thoughts still stuck on the first question.
"Third, if it was little Cumming who traveled through time, then why did Baron Cumming also have a time curse? Is it because Baron Cumming was born in violation of time? But what if it was Baron Cumming's mother who traveled through time? When the old lady was young, she came to the present and met little Cumming, and then brought the child back to her own time."
The witch stopped talking. She had given up thinking about this question. She reached out to stop Shade from asking further questions:
"Give up your questions. Now tell me, what have you discovered?"
The red-haired girl sighed and pointed to the relic monocle placed on a pile of papers on the table:
"I have said this more than ten times this afternoon: young Cumming is Baron Cumming's father; Baron Cumming is not young Cumming's father."
Even though she was a witch who prided herself on being smart, her lips trembled at this moment, and she covered her face and sat down. She thought for a long time before looking at the master and disciple who were looking at her inquiringly:
"I've been tired all afternoon, I need to rest! My apprentice has arrived, she's downstairs. I'll introduce her to you two first, then we'll have dinner together.
Give me some time to think about what you said. If this complicated father-son relationship is really caused by time travel, then I can only say that things in the Vista region are crazier than I thought. "
(End of this chapter)