"They won't come back, right?"
The priest girl lay on the table and said weakly.
Alice looked at the envelope in front of Abu tangledly. She was not sure, but she still mustered up the courage to say: "Their luggage is all there and they should be back. Maybe yesterday was just an accident."
But even she couldn't convince herself with such a reason.
Just when the three of them fell into an eerie silence, the person they were waiting for arrived belatedly and appeared at the door of the hotel.
"Are you all here?"
Zhou Jinru walked in first and saw Alice, Beeswax, and Abu sitting next to them.
The messenger can wait for me here, compared to when the letter to be sent has been delivered to the recipient?
"Mr. Aguang."
Abu stood up, but his attention was not on Zhou Jinru. He looked over the man's shoulder and landed on the lady behind.
When Abu saw Xu Yu, his facial expression trembled obviously, and he said in a dry voice: "There is a letter here from Miss Xu Yu."
Zhou Jinru immediately realized something and asked: "Are you talking about the letter that no one has accepted for many years?"
The messenger nodded with difficulty, but Alice and Beeswax next to her already knew it, and they still showed surprise when they saw Xu Yu himself.
"Is this my letter?"
At this point, Xu Yu crossed Zhou Jinru and took the letter from Abu, staring at the old handwriting on the envelope and another letter seen through the hole in the envelope.
Abu quickly explained: "I didn't open this because the letter paper was too old and the damage was caused by no human factors."
"I know."
Xu Yu didn't say anything. She took the envelope and looked at the years written on it quietly.
Alice's eyes on the side were extremely complicated. She secretly clenched her fists and slowly released them. She took a deep breath and asked, "Miss Xu Yu, what is your relationship with the original owner of Oia No. 4?"
According to the speculations of the three people, Xu Yu is most likely their descendant, and this letter finally found its owner after a long period of time.
"I do have some relationship with Ea No. 4, why do you ask?"
"If that's the case," Miss Feilin took out a small paper bag from her bag and slowly placed it in front of Xu Yu, "this is the key that was kept by a little girl in Oia No. 4 forty years ago. The time she set is this year, and I need to send it to the owner of Oia 4.”
Xu Yu looked at the small paper bag silently, then she looked at Alice: "Miss, I have no evidence to prove my relationship with Oia No. 4, but if you want to find its owner, there is no better person besides me. chosen."
As the owner of the dream castle, Alice not only delivers the items stored by the children to them at a specific time, but also acts as an investigator to find out whether the person who collects the items many years later is the person originally designated, but this The exception is a key because it has no clear assignee.
"I guess I have no better choice."
Alice handed the small paper bag to Xu Yu.
While holding the paper bag with her fingers, the girl slowly opened it. Inside was a brass key, which had been well preserved over the years. Except for some uncontrollable oxidation reactions, the texture and feel were very good.
Xu Yu was sitting at the table, and there were several people sitting around her, all of whom seemed to be waiting to see the unpacking.
"If it's inconvenient, we can leave first."
"I can open the envelope first."
Xu Yu used a pair of small scissors to cut open the old envelope along the dotted line. In addition to a letter, there was also a small dark wooden box with a copper lock hanging on the wooden box.
"This key..."
Alice immediately noticed the copper lock and brass key, and Xu Yu had already tried to open the lock with the key. The brass key was inserted into the lock cylinder, twisted slightly, and with a click, in the eyes of several people, the lock opened.
Sure enough, both the key and the letter belonged to Miss Xu Yu.
Seeing this, Alice stood up with satisfaction, stretched out, showing off her graceful figure. Girl Felin yawned and said with relief: "I have delivered the things to the recipient. The task has been successfully completed. I'll go." Take a rest, call me during lunch."
The owner of the dream castle walked lightly, sweeping her long tail behind her, and went upstairs to her room to rest. Her departure also made Abu realize that he should leave too.
"Miss Alice is right, I also need to take a good rest. See you later, everyone. Remember to attend the concert the day after tomorrow."
After him, the priest girl looked at Zhou Jinru nervously and pointed at her nose: "Aguang, should I avoid it too?"
"Yes, you have to avoid it, and I have to avoid it too."
Although Xu Yu had agreed to return to Rhode Island with him, opening the letter was her privacy and she couldn't pry into it, so the remaining time and space were left to her alone.
Zhou Jinru went back to the room and drove away the beeswax. Xu Yu was the only one left in the front hall of the hotel, looking at the letter and the small wooden box quietly.
She stretched out her fingers, very slowly, and gently opened the lid of the wooden box. The first thing she saw was a black and white photo.
In the photo, a girl with medium-length hair hanging down her shoulders stands next to a man wearing a helmet, with a waterfall in the background.
Xu Yu turned the photo over, and there was a line of words written on the back in elegant handwriting: Terra 944, Pingpan, Sika Photo Studio.
Back then, the pixels of the cameras were not high, so the results were blurry, and only the outlines of the faces in the photos could be clearly seen.
Her fingertips gently touched the girl's face in the photo. Xu Yu pursed her lips and turned her gaze to the wooden box. There were several letters inside. She opened one of them. The content was not the format of a letter, but about life. notes.
"He is a strange person. He wears a helmet most of the time every day and rarely takes it off. I am very curious about what he looks like."
"Ah, he doesn't like to eat meat, or he eats very little meat. I asked him why, and he said he just didn't want to eat it. Well, there must be a secret, I'm sure!"
This is a little thing written by a girl. Most of it is a peek at a man. Judging from the content, they have not known each other for a long time.
Xu Yu then looked down.
"We have been together for a while. It's strange. He is more like an elder than a lover. Maybe I made something wrong? In short, it doesn't feel bad. I like this. Maybe I will fall in love with him. "
"Today, I am convinced that the reason why he refuses to eat meat is that he is a soldier and has come off the battlefield. This can be explained by the fact that many soldiers with battlefield syndrome will have stress reactions."
"Today, I saw his face. It was the first time he took off his helmet in front of me. It was really scary. Apart from the basic features of his facial features, none of the facial flesh was good. It looked like it had been melted by something. , he said he did it himself because his body could not withstand the excessive force."
"I found myself falling in love with him."
