Sofia seemed to be getting better, her daze time was getting shorter and shorter, and her mood was becoming less and less out of control. Not only did she start to help her mother do some simple things, she once walked up to her infant son and reached out to pat her. When photographing children, more often than not, Sophia no longer holds the box and looks at the bone jade, but sticks to her mother like a child.
Even if Elizabeth sometimes goes out to buy things, Sofia will still follow Elizabeth even if she faces cold looks from others. After being criticized on the road, she doesn't lose any control when she comes back.
Elizabeth was relieved and didn't care whether she had to move. After contacting a good person, she agreed on a time to board the ship and packed up at home. Although she was worried that her daughter would be stimulated and rarely took her out, she also hoped that her daughter could go out for a walk. Will bring it with me every time.
Every time the mother and daughter went out, two mist clouds floated over the herbal medicine shop day by day. They watched the two disappear from sight from a distance. When the mother and daughter came back, they continued to stare at each other.
Once, twice, three times...
Watching mother and daughter go out again, Koizumi Hongzi became optimistic, "Son of nature, do you think Sophia will really get better?"
"I can't tell," Chi Feichi said.
"Think about it, if she feels guilty about her mother, she can make up for it by being strong and taking good care of her mother," Koizumi Hongzi said, "If she died, wouldn't her mother be even more sad? As long as she thinks about this , she will become really strong..."
"Don't take it lightly." Chi Feichi reminded.
I'm afraid that Sophia can't figure it out, or thinks too clearly.
Koizumi Anko ignored one point. Now is the war period. What if Sophia compared 'moving away may cause the death of her mother' with 'if she dies, her mother will still be alive if she stays', and then chooses the latter?
"Understood, we can't do anything else," Koizumi Hongzi said confidently, "But if Sophia acts randomly at home, we can use bone jade to remind Elizabeth to stop her. At the last moment, we cannot take it lightly."
The two did not take it lightly, but Elizabeth was deceived by the illusion.
This time when Elizabeth came back from going out, Sophia was no longer around. After hearing the sound of the bone jade, she vaguely guessed the question of the bone jade. She smiled and replied that Sophia had gone back to pack her things, and she would go over tomorrow to help bring the things over.
Koizumi Hongzi's mist floated as high as possible and stared in the direction of Sophia's residence.
It was very dark that night and the wind was blowing very fast. A fire suddenly lit up behind the wall of Sofia's house. When the wind blew it, the fire immediately spread to the top of the wall.
Koizumi Hongzi was startled, and turned to look at the fog beside her with an ugly expression, "Child of Nature!"
Chi Feichi had already seen the light of the fire over there, which kept the bone jade ringing and woke up the sleeping children.
Although he was not sure that if Sophia wanted to die, it was not too late yet...
On the wall over there, the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the tops of the elder trees sticking out of the wall were licked by the flames and slowly turned black.
In the room, the baby started crying loudly.
Elizabeth was disturbed by the noise of the bones and the cry of the child. After walking out of the house, she vaguely saw the sky red with flames in that direction. Her face turned pale for a moment. She was stunned for a long time before she stumbled out and ran out. .
It's too late.
There were no such complete firefighting facilities at this time, and during the war, even the police station did not have enough manpower, let alone firefighters.
The fire was not extinguished until the next morning. In the afternoon, the people of Jiangshenyuan brought back Elizabeth, who looked dull as if she had lost her soul.
The baby who had cried all night slept quietly in the room. Although people did not find the baby's body in the ruins, considering that the child was still young, it was difficult to find the charred body mixed in the ruins. They thought that Sophia had committed suicide with the child. Elizabeth comforted her for a while.
Elizabeth didn't seem to hear a word. She sat there until everyone left, and then sat there until dark. It wasn't until she heard the child's cry that she suddenly woke up and went back to the house to take care of the child.
As the days passed, the person Elizabeth contacted arrived, but Elizabeth only entrusted the child to the other person, and asked the other person to take the child back to the Montgomery family and pay alimony. After everyone left, Elizabeth shed the baby for the first time. tears.
The man over fifty sat in his room and cried until he fell asleep unconsciously.
After this time, Elizabeth seemed to have completely become a zombie. When someone came to the medical clinic for medical treatment, Elizabeth would also receive him. She would eat when it was time to eat and sleep when it was time to sleep. She just shed tears every night and ignored the sound of the bone jade, which made Koizumi Hongzi... I was worried that Elizabeth would suddenly lose her mind.
A year later, the war was over.
Many people who returned home dragged their broken bodies and continued to live. Elizabeth cheered up with tenacity, continued to run the herbal medicine shop, continued to treat people in Jiangshenyuan, and occasionally gave free herbal medicines to the children. The clouds of sadness dissipated little by little, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes looked more kind and tolerant.
Both Koizumi Hongzi admired Elizabeth's tenacity and lamented repeatedly that she was worthy of being judged by Chi Feichi to be "like Beji".
One day, Elizabeth was invited out. When she came back in the evening, with a smile on her face, she went to the wooden house to pack up the herbal medicine books and put them into three large boxes.
"Is Elizabeth ready to leave here?" Koizumi Hongzi asked doubtfully.
"Won't……"
Chi Feichi looked at the people waiting in the herbal garden. They were Jiang Shenyuan, a prominent figure and two strong men.
His grandfather has not yet arrived, and Elizabeth will definitely not leave Jiang Shenyuan at this time.
Outside the wooden house, two strong men looked at the herbal garden. After waiting for a while, they became bored and started talking in a low voice.
"Is Elizabeth really going to give all the herbal books to that lady?"
"Hey, I should say His Excellency the Baron."
"Ah, yes, but I always want to call her Madam. I heard it's because she also had a child who died in the fire like Sophia..."
"Isn't it because the other party is willing to donate and build a new dock for Jiang Shenyuan?"
"It's because I don't want to see this kind of tragedy anymore," Elizabeth walked to the door, turned to look at the room, and said with emotion, "It's been packed, everything is inside, although I don't know if they can use it. , but even if it’s just a little help, it’s like they don’t know if they can use it, but they are still willing to give in return.”
Chi Feichi heard the sound of a car in front of the door and drifted towards the door.
Could it be that his grandmother is here too?
There was no fog in Jiangshenyuan in the evening, and two cars, later known as 'classic cars', were parked at the intersection.
A boy got out of the car, said something to the people in the car, turned around and walked in the direction of the herbal medicine shop. The purple pupils in his eyes were dim and dull, as if they were covered with a layer of fog.
Koizumi Hongzi followed the door and looked at the boy. She turned around in surprise and asked Chi Feichi, "Is this person related to you by blood? Your eyes are exactly the same, and I heard Mr. Shinosuke mention that your mother is very worried about your blindness. …”
At the intersection, a strong man with a European face in a suit got out of the car, but he was left behind by the boy. He only followed from a distance and said something to the front.
Chi Feichi didn't pay much attention to the man, but just stared at the boy who was walking slowly step by step without relying on a guide stick, "My third uncle, Mitchell."
His maternal grandfather is Asian and has Asian features on his face. So, that man should be a bodyguard or housekeeper, so don't pay attention to him for the time being.
As the two people got closer, Chi Feichi and Koizumi Hongzi also heard clearly the conversation between the two with strong British accents.
A certain young lady faced forward, walked slowly forward with a stinky face, and said in a cold tone, "Didn't I say it before? I can smell such a strong herbal smell, and I know the direction, so I won't be so stupid. If you hit the wall, you don’t have to follow me.”
The face of the strong man behind was obviously stiff for a moment. I don't know whether it was embarrassment or some other emotion. His eyes were wandering. "You misunderstood. I wanted to help carry the box..."
Chi Feichi: "..."
What did Ikegana tell him before?
His third uncle, Mitchell, was gentle, cheerful, loved to laugh, and had a bright smile... These descriptions had nothing to do with the young lady in front of him!
People do change.
"No wonder..." Koizumi Hongzi couldn't help but look at Chi Fei Chiwutuan next to her, and commented, "She looks a lot like you."
The young shota who reached the door stopped, turned back to the strong man and said impatiently, "Then walk in front of me!"
Chi Feichi commented, "I think there is still a slight difference."
He's not that angry, is he?
But it's no wonder, judging from this, his third uncle is a man with strong self-esteem. He doesn't like others to take care of him as a blind person, and he doesn't like the blind person's habit of "turning his ears to the speaker first" when talking to a man. When walking, his face was facing the man. Even when he walked, except for his slow speed, he did not show any characteristics that a blind person should have.
Mitchell has been blind for about one or two years now. The fact that he suddenly cannot see the world, the embarrassment caused by the inconvenience of life, and the sympathy he feels are enough to hurt a child's heart, making him sensitive and emotionally unstable. Not surprising either.
"I don't think there is any difference." Koizumi Hongzi watched the strong man bravely walk to the front and paused. "It's not easy to fool either."
The strong man walked forward and backward, and at the corner of the entrance, he secretly glanced at the young shota from the corner of his eyes as he walked.
Mitchell took two steps forward, then suddenly stopped, his head tilted slightly to one side, as if he was petrified, and even his breathing slowed down.
"What happened to him?" Koizumi Hongzi asked curiously.
Chi Feichi looked at Mitchell's right ear, which was vaguely facing them, "He's listening to what's going on here."
"Listen?" Koizumi Hongzi asked in a low voice, "He won't feel our presence, right?"
"It is very possible," Chi Feichi said, no longer deliberately lowering his voice. "When a person becomes blind and loses the largest entrance to receive external information, the brain will focus more attention on other entrances. As long as one consciously With training and feeling, a person's sense of hearing, smell, taste, and even feeling may become sharper than that of a person who is not blind, and he probably feels our sight."
