Kokarasuma didn't know the purpose of Karasuma Renya's visit to Hatoyama's house.
After meeting this little girl from the Karasuma family, Hatoyama Keiko quickly found out this from her mouth.
This is a very innocent, cute, and unsuspecting little girl.
She didn't know the real purpose of Karasuma Renya's trip, she just thought it was a normal visit between the two families.
After understanding this, Hatoyama Keiko did not mention anything about Karasuma Renye again, and the two chatted casually in the small room isolated from the severe cold.
From the relationship between hemophilia and Queen Victoria in modern European royal families, to why there was no participation of the lower class people in the process of amending the Constitution when the United States was founded.
With the huge knowledge base built up by being sick for many years and reading all kinds of books from various countries, Hatoyama Keiko can easily catch no matter what kind of topic Kokarasuma throws.
They traveled far and wide and talked about everything.
Although there was an extremely embarrassing situation where she accidentally held the book upside down in a hurry, and was exposed by Karasuma.
But Keiko Hatoyama wisely chose to forget automatically.
Is there such a thing?
Absolutely not!
To be honest, if the memory of this meeting can stay here, then this day will definitely become a day treasured in Keiko Hatoyama's memory.
But unfortunately, the established facts will not be changed according to her personal will.
It wasn't a great day.
Instead, it was the beginning of tragedy that shattered their lives.
"Miss!"
Suddenly, the old housekeeper's voice sounded outside the door again.
"What's wrong?" Hatoyama Keiko stopped communicating with Karasumaru and turned to look at the figure that appeared outside the shoji door again.
The old housekeeper's voice was not as calm as before, which already gave Hatoyama Keiko a bad feeling.
But at this time, she thought something happened between her grandfather and Karasuma Renye.
However, her speculation was soon overturned.
Things suddenly deteriorated to the extreme in a place she didn't expect, and in a way she didn't expect.
"I...have something important to tell you."
The old housekeeper seemed to be worried about Karasuma who was also in the room.
Hatoyama Keiko didn't say anything, just stood up, opened the shoji door, and walked outside.
In an instant, the cold air from outside rushed in again, and the snowflakes drifted into the room along the wind.
Xiao Karasuma seemed to be aware of this. She did not get up to follow them, but sat quietly in the room, looking at the two of them doubtfully.
"It's the Baihe family." There was a rare look of hesitation and intolerance in the old housekeeper's cloudy eyes.
"What... happened to them?" His reaction made Hatoyama Keiko's inner uneasiness soar rapidly.
"The mother...was killed."
The old housekeeper finally told the truth.
"Buzz!"
For a moment, it was like a bolt from the blue.
Hatoyama Keiko only felt a buzzing in her mind, and could only vaguely hear that the old housekeeper was still talking to her about who was killed, and that the Metropolitan Police Department had been dispatched...
Xiao Qing's mother was killed. She was killed by gangsters. Her eyes were gouged out, and her death was extremely cruel.
She subconsciously took two steps back and leaned against the shoji door. Her face, which was originally much fairer than ordinary people, was now even more pale.
In fact, Keiko Hatoyama had noticed Shirakawa Kiyo from very early on.
Because the distance between the Baihe family and the Hatoyama family is not far.
A few hundred meters away from the Hatoyama family's mansion is an old town in Tokyo, where Shirakawa Kiyoshi and his mother live.
Therefore, when Bai Heqing went to and from school every day, he would pass by on the street in front of Hatoyama's house.
Due to her health, Keiko Hatoyama was basically not allowed to go out when she was young.
But she has a heart that yearns for freedom.
After being really annoyed by Hatoyama Keiko's countless attempts to "escape" from home, Mr. Hatoyama had to build her her own watchtower in the mansion.
It's impossible to let you go out. At most, I'll let you take a few glances to soothe your free and restless heart.
But after Keiko Hatoyama argued hard, Mr. Hatoyama finally gave in again and allowed her to go out once or twice accompanied by the old housekeeper.
In this way, climbing up the observation tower every day when she was bored from reading and looking at the streets and pedestrians outside Hatoyama's house became Keiko Hatoyama's only pleasure when she was young.
Unlike the servants at home, she can see new things every day outside.
Among them, she gradually noticed that at fixed times every morning and evening, she could always see a somewhat thin boy carrying a schoolbag walking on the street in front of Hatoyama's house.
This boy is special because he is punctual.
And it was very accurate. The time he passed by her house every day was exactly the same.
Hatoyama Keiko, who did not believe in evil, once squatted on the watchtower with a pocket watch for several days in a row, counting the time when the boy would come.
In the end, it was proved that this special boy really walked by her door at the same time every day. Even if there were differences, the differences were all within half a minute.
Even the time it took for the boy to walk past her door was almost exactly the same.
Amazing!
After proving this, Keiko Hatoyama couldn't help but feel shocked.
How can you be so stable? Are you a robot?
From that day on, the young Keiko Hatoyama officially started to "study" twice a day. It was like she suddenly discovered some very interesting social observation project. Every time for a short while before the boy went to and from school every day, she always She would run to the watchtower with her pocket watch in hand, waiting for the figure whose name she didn't know at all but was already familiar to her.
She just wanted to find out if even once, this special boy was not on time.
It was also during this process that Keiko Hatoyama gradually noticed another special thing about the boy.
He never seemed to laugh.
No, that may not be accurate.
It should be said that there never seemed to be any other expression on his face.
From the first time he noticed him until now, the boy's face has always had a somewhat stern and indifferent expression, as if he was repelling people thousands of miles away.
Yes.
In the short half-minute of passing by her house twice a day, Hatoyama Keiko had never seen any expression other than this indifferent expression on the boy's face.
Not only that, she suddenly noticed that she seemed to have never seen this boy have any friends.
Every day, he goes there by himself and then comes back by himself. No one ever walks with him.
After noticing these abnormalities, the young Keiko Hatoyama suddenly felt a little sad. She instinctively did not want to stay with this boy anymore.
Life is definitely not good for boys.
She knows that this is an idea of escape, an escape from a certain misfortune that is known but unable to change.
Then, on that day, she finally realized that the boy was "late".
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(End of chapter)
