The little girl felt Owen's warm palm and blinked her big, ignorant eyes, looking at him full of vigilance and curiosity.
It's like the wet eyes of a small animal that wants to be close to warmth but is afraid of being hurt.
"You're awake, are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
"Am I dead?"
"You're not dead." Owen looked at her and said, "What's your name?"
"Her name is—" Lim, the maid next to her, started to help, but Owen stopped her with a look.
The little girl looked at the maid Lim, then at the tall and handsome Owen, and whispered back: "My name is Shirley."
"Okay, Shirley, would you like to stay in Fukuoka Villa?"
Shirley squeezed the blanket in her hand: "I...I do."
Owen nodded and said to the maid Lim: "From now on, she will be left to you. Arrange a place for her."
"Ah?" Lim looked shocked, "Follow me? She has a fever!"
She sympathized with this orphan who had lost her parents, but she was also very afraid that she had a fever!
Everyone said that she had evil spirits in her body, which was why her parents were killed.
But the new owner of Floating Green Villa, although he looks young, obviously has big ideas and cannot tolerate disobedience. If he opposes it, he seems to be asking for trouble.
This can already be seen when he told himself to get out if he didn't obey at noon.
As a gentleman, he can actually say the word "go away" from his mouth. He must have been a poor boy before and did not receive a complete upper class education.
Maid Lim has already defined the new master in her heart.
Seeing Owen's unquestionable expression, Lim gave in.
Forget it, isn't there a magic medicine given by God today? If she unfortunately gets a fever, I hope the new owner can save her as generously as he did the little girl.
It's still uncertain whether he will die of illness, but Lim is very sure that if he doesn't agree, he will be kicked out and freeze to death!
The dilapidated thatched house in her home has long since collapsed.
Her family, unable to pay land rent and have enough food to eat due to reduced food production, simply moved to the city to work in factories.
She is homeless and must stay in the villa.
In fact, these servants were lucky, because the new master came alone and did not bring his original servants, and he did not fire them all.
When the original owner left, he only took his personal servants with him and abandoned them all. They had not received wages for two months.
In such a cold season, if they can't find a job, they may freeze to death in their thatched huts.
In addition to working for Fucui Villa, everyone doesn't know what else to do.
You must know that today's servants, especially a maid job, is already a very decent and good job for the lower-class women of this era. Compared with female factory workers and fireworks women, they are already considered to have a stable life.
The first meal Owen ate today was saved by the servants' concerted efforts to tighten their belts.
Because the granaries in the villa are already empty enough for horse racing.
The original owner of this Floating Green Villa, the previous wife of Mr. Irving, took everything she could with her when she left.
The new owner doesn't look like a rich man for the time being. If he was rich, he wouldn't come alone. He would definitely bring servants.
I thought that everyone would have to eat snow later, but I didn't expect that the new owner only appeared to be poor, but actually had his own protector.
Everyone is very happy about this.
Today’s dinner is lettuce and baked potatoes given by God. Not only the master eats this, but also the servants.
Mr. Irving specially approved it, so everyone can eat it.
After dinner, the servants in the castle tidied up and slept.
The curtains in the room were drawn, with only the occasional candlelight shining through, and the entire castle entered a "non-static state."
As for the thatched huts and small houses next to the castle, not even the light of candlelight could be seen, and they seemed to have fallen asleep long ago.
Xia Qingdai felt tired, yawned, and looked back at the time.
Oh my gosh! It’s already five o’clock in the morning and it’s almost dawn!
She actually watched the villain stay up all night without knowing it!
The night in the real world corresponds to the day in the villain's world.
But now it's dawn here in Xia Qingdai's place, and the villain's world has entered the dark night.
Xia Qingdai ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face again, then ate a piece of yesterday's birthday cake, then pushed the door into the room and went to sleep directly.
As for studying, I can only put it aside for a while.
It was about ten o'clock when Xia Qingdai woke up full of doubts and worries.
She got up and opened the door and found that Xia Shanglu had not returned home yet.
The castle model is still on the coffee table, nothing has changed.
After thinking for a moment, Xia Qingdai moved the glass base of the castle, moved the entire glass scene into her small room, and placed it on the bay window next to her bed. She immediately changed the position of the bay window. Fully occupied.
The snow stopped and the winter sunshine was beautiful. She opened the curtains and took a long stretch.
Then she went back to her room and took a look at the castle, and found that it was still dark inside, and now there was not even a candlelight visible. It could be seen that everyone had fallen asleep or had the curtains drawn tightly.
Since there was nothing to see, Xia Qingdai went to do her homework and study.
Although she had a lot of doubts in her heart, she resisted the urge to ask online because she felt it would be of no use and was just a waste of time.
Nowadays, the information on the Internet is indeed developed, but there is also a lot of useless junk information, and it is quite time-consuming just to distinguish the true from the false.
If she had the time, she might as well answer two more sets of questions.
After all, even if she has a magical castle toy, the college entrance examination is still the college entrance examination, and she is now the busiest high school senior!
At about ten o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Shanglu, smelling of cigarette smoke, finally returned home.
He even went to the balcony study to rub Xia Qingdai's hair, pinched her face, and said with a smile: "The little girl has grown up, let me see the difference."
Xia Qingdai slapped his hand away, covered her nose and said, "You smell like cigarettes all over your body. How many cigarettes have you smoked? Go take a shower!"
"There is no other way. If I don't smoke directly, I have to smoke second-hand smoke. It's better to smoke as much as possible and fight poison with poison." The flower pots in their police station were used as ashtrays and entered that environment. , you have to follow the crowd.
Xia Shanglu is a well-known frontman in their police station. Not to mention his exquisite facial features, he is also 185 in height.
In the summer, when Hangzhou held the Asian Games, he was borrowed by the city to work as a traffic policeman in Xihu, and he was on the hot search for a while.
Xia Shanglu looks like a handsome guy with an upright face on the outside, but in fact at home he is just a sock-throwing sock.
If it weren't for Xia Qingdai's love for tidying up, this house would probably be too messy to look at.
"Look, an important case has been solved, and the hairy crabs found in the office are so lucky for you today!"
"Ah! Hairy crab!" Xia Qingdai happily took it.
While Xia Shanglu was taking a bath, Xia Qingdai went to the kitchen to cook.
