Are you interested in coming to my house for a casual meal?
In fact, since meeting Christie this morning, Ge Sheng has never refused any of her requests.
Whether it was the free bill she asked for in Blue Fantasyland or the scenery she invited him to see at the Glitter Gold Merchant Guild, Ge Sheng did not refuse any of these.
It’s not that Ge Sheng is admiring or submissive, it’s just that every request of this girl named Christie hits the most harmonious part of the conversation, making you feel that if you reject her, That was my greatest rudeness and offense.
If this was a talent, Ge Sheng would sometimes think that it might be one of the most terrifying talents in the world.
So when Christie made this request, Ge Sheng had no reason to refuse.
Passing through the underground courtyard with a crystal roof filled with the sun, moon and stars, and opening the closed door of the mansion, Ge Sheng looked back at the exquisite garden that was no different from the ground. When he looked forward again, Ge Sheng saw Two people.
Men and women.
They wore simple, slim-fitting but stunningly elegant red and white house dresses. The men wore white and the women wore red. They also had long dark chestnut hair, with different buns and crowns, showing an indescribable charm.
"I've met my father and my mother."
Christie quietly bowed next to Ge Sheng, performed a very standard greeting ceremony, and then smiled and said, "I brought my friends back for dinner."
The man nodded. His face was delicate and upright, and he had an indescribable elegance. Both his face shape and temperament had many similarities with Christie. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Tina didn't say hello first, and the family was not prepared." Cook it with some good food."
The woman on the other side was slightly sullen and stared at Christie coldly, as if she was very dissatisfied with her bringing Ge Sheng back.
When Ge Sheng saw the woman for the first time, he suddenly realized why he had the same mistake as Christie and An Ning's mother at that time.
Because this woman whom Christie calls mother has nothing in common with An Ning in appearance and temperament.
But that peculiar smell, or charm, is exactly the same as that of Ge Sheng's mother, who he has been with for more than ten years.
"Mom~~" Christie shrank her neck and cried out sweetly, almost coquettishly. Ge Sheng had seen the awe-inspiring and graceful side of this girl, but he never imagined that this girl would also behave like a baby in front of his mother. Like countless other ordinary girls, she is naive and willful: "I brought Aunt An Ning's child back to see you, please stop showing off, okay?"
"An Ning?" The woman's eyes focused slightly, and then she shot straight at Ge Sheng, which made his skin ache slightly: "Are you Ge Qiu's son?"
Ge Sheng looked at him in surprise: "Do you know my parents?"
"More than just acquaintance..." Christie was about to speak, but was given a cold look by the woman, and then she silently closed her mouth. Ge Sheng only glanced at her and felt extremely refreshed.
There's nothing more fun than watching this guy get fucked up.
"Classmate Ye Ye." The woman stated concisely and concisely, then looked at Ge Sheng quietly, but her eyes finally softened: "Your mother never mentioned us, right?"
If we are not mentioned, who are we referring to?
In Ge Sheng's memory, most of the time, An Ning's mother just looked like an ordinary mother, teaching him some of the most common knowledge and skills. Apart from not aging, there was nothing surprising compared with any other mother. .
She never mentioned anything about her past friends, and even the existence of Ge Qiu was explained in only a few words.
It was not until later that Ge Sheng gradually realized how powerful and powerful his mother had been.
"No." Ge Sheng shook his head.
"She has the most arrogant personality among us, so we couldn't believe it at first that she would choose Ge Qiu. It wasn't until time went by that we slowly understood that she is the one who knows what she wants best. That person." The woman slowly explained: "I am Stella, Stella Croft, maybe your mother's best friend when she was a student, or one of her best friends in her life, but later she encountered a big problem. Due to the accident, he cut off all contact with us out of frustration."
Even if Stella didn't say it, Ge Sheng could guess that the so-called big change was naturally related to his father's death.
"But now." Stella said with an imperceptible bitter smile, "An Ning really raised a good son."
"Xia's disciple." Stella's eyes suddenly turned and looked at Ge Sheng coldly, all the warmth she had just shown was gone.
"Do you know what it means to come here with my daughter?"
Ge Sheng looked at Christie, who was watching with an intriguing smile, and then shook his head: "I don't know."
Stella was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Christie in confusion, as if even she didn't understand what her daughter wanted to do.
"I just want to bring him here for a casual meal." Christie said with a smile. Until this time, her attitude changed from polite and reserved at the beginning to charming and gentle, and returned to the one that Ge Sheng was most familiar with. There is a gentleness and indifference that is a bit tooth-grinding, a feeling that everything is under control, like a monarch looking around the country.
The man who had been silently watching the confrontation between his wife and daughter finally spoke up. He smiled and stretched out his hand to rub Christie's long, smooth chestnut hair, deliberately messing up its originally smooth lines.
"In that case, Tina, come and cook. It's been a long time since I tasted the cooking of our little sweetheart."
Christie lowered her head, curled up like a nestling bird and seemed to enjoy receiving her father's caress. Then she nodded with a smile: "Father, please look forward to it."
In this way, Christie went to the kitchen alone, leaving Ge Sheng alone with her parents. It was only then that Ge Sheng discovered that this huge maze-like building, a palace with at least hundreds of rooms, only had Christie's parents. Two people live there.
In Christie's previous description, this black and white palace, or underground palace, is the core asset of the Croft family. Judging from her description of growing up here, this place at least bears all the core assets of the entire Croft family. Clothing, food, housing, and transportation, whether it is from the scale of the Black and White Palace or the layout of the rooms, this is a fact that can be easily inferred.
But the fact before Ge Sheng now is that there are only these two people here.
Not even a servant or maid was accompanying him.
Like a prison.
Ge Sheng never imagined that a few hours ago he was sitting in the shop reading in a daze as usual, and the day would pass in a blink of an eye.
However, a few moments later, he was already sitting thousands of feet underground, next to An Ning's mother's classmates when she was studying at Ye Ye College.
Christie was busy in the kitchen. The layout here was almost palace-like. The kitchen and the dining room were far apart, and it was even more separated from the dining room where Ge Sheng was. Only after he was far away from that strange girl did Ge Sheng feel that he was separated from her. That strange realm that can almost distort reality began to review the abnormal behavior of the past half day.
However, Ge Sheng was more interested in Stella.
She is my mother's classmate.
Ge Sheng never knew that his father and mother were former students of Ye Ye College until he came to the City of Eternal Night. So when he finally left Fengmian Villa for Ye Ye, An Ning calmly told him before leaving. This fact about him.
So even a child like Ge Sheng, who is very capable of restraining his inner curiosity, can't help but wonder how his parents met and interacted with each other.
And there is the best witness right in front of you.
"An Ning?" Stella smiled, showing an expression of reminiscence. Christie's father, Noct, sat calmly opposite the long soft chair, flipping through a stack of newspapers by himself, without any intention of doing so. Interfere in his wife's conversation.
Stella is wearing a bright red trimmed long skirt. It is comfortable and convenient at home, but it is also elegant and beautiful. If such clothes were put outside, counting the fabric and workmanship, they would probably cost more than ten golden leaves, but when Ge Sheng After learning about the background of the Croft family, you will naturally not be surprised.
What surprised him was only Stella herself.
She is the same age as An Ning, so she is now nearly forty years old. Unlike An Ning's appearance, which has no trace of time, Stella looks more like an older mother - but this is only relative. In terms of.
Ge Sheng could not judge Stella's specific strength, but even with the most conservative calculation, it is almost a certain fact that the elite of the direct line of the Croft family, the mother of the current head of the family, is twenty-eighth, and even climbing to the heaven level is not completely unreasonable. It's possible, but - the feeling Stella gave him was exactly the same feeling An Ning gave him.
Very approachable and friendly, without any pressure.
"An Ning is the proudest one among us, but at the same time, she is also the most peculiar and mysterious one." Stella said with a smile.
"Although Ye Ye College does not pay attention to origin, not everyone is His Highness the Third. Even if we just know each other, we must at least understand each other's family background and origin, because after all, we cannot always be in the Garden of Thousand Pagodas. "
"The one with the highest status is naturally Lan Zhi. She is the oldest and the second daughter of the second family named Lan. Even at that time, we all knew that she would be the next queen of Lan Ye Emperor, but we did not guess it. Ye Xiao is actually so close to us, after all, although he has not yet ascended the throne, he is already the prince and often hangs around Ye Ye City."
"Next is Lan Xinyu, the youngest daughter of the third family, with such outstanding light talent, but the most dazzling one is the guy himself. The four of us can get together regardless of age, thanks to It takes her to glue it together.”
"As for me, Croft's identity cannot be made public, but it does not change the fact that Ye Yecheng is still closely connected with the family. I entered the school as the niece of the Grand Duke Augustus of the Commercial Federation, although it is a forgery Yes, but if we investigate, everything will be proven."
"Only An Ning herself has no identity."
"Sometimes, without identity and origin, it is the greatest identity and origin."
"Nothing in this world is born from nothing."
"Although we have never deliberately traced An Ning's identity, whether it is Lan or Croft, as soon as they learned that we were in contact with her, they would spontaneously conduct some basic information sorting."
"But for her, none of this existed."
"There was a void behind her."
The more Ge Sheng heard, the more shocked he became. He couldn't help but stand up: "How is that possible?"
Stella smiled and stretched out her hand to signal Ge Sheng to sit down. When she saw Ge Sheng sitting back, she smiled and said, "Yeah, how is it possible? Even the tentacles behind us were exclaiming in the same way, but this is right in front of us. fact."
"She appeared out of nowhere, without even concealing her intentions and thoughts. Before she stepped into Ye Ye College, there was no trace of her in the world. It was not until she appeared here that An Ning appeared in the world. exist."
Stella looked at Ge Sheng with a half-smile: "What does this mean? I believe you can guess it."
Ge Sheng had indeed guessed it.
Perhaps Ge Sheng, who had just walked out of Fengmian Villa, still couldn't guess An Ning's identity, but at this time, Ge Sheng could see it very clearly.
"Is mom a hidden tribe?"
Ge Sheng said tremblingly.
"That's right, the Hidden Tribe." Stella confirmed with a slight smile: "It's impossible to confirm whether she wears something that hides physical signs, so even the specific race cannot be confirmed, but the fact that she is a Hidden Tribe is an undoubted fact. , and in the subsequent interactions, she did not hide this, she just told us that although her ethnic group cannot be mentioned, she is an outcast of the ethnic group, so it is enough to just treat her as an ordinary genius orphan."
"In fact, she is also talented enough. To be precise, during the five years at Ye Ye College, she was even able to overwhelm Sister Lan Zhi and get the first place on the Pearl Curtain Ranking."
When Stella mentioned the Pearl Curtain List, Ge Sheng finally couldn't sit still: "Don't you think those scum in Feixin Gym keep changing their names and they won't be able to form a brand identity?"
Stella couldn't help laughing when she mentioned the name of Fei Xin Gym. It seemed that this name could leave a deep mark in the hearts of all Ye Ye students. She covered her mouth and said with a smile: "You don't know, then. The first-term Feixin Gym Leader is your mother An Ning."
Ge Sheng was completely shocked. This piece of dirty information was a bit too violent. Looking at the current conduct of senior students Qi Xia and Zhou Xing, Ge Sheng really couldn't imagine An An, who was growing flowers, raising birds, cooking and settling accounts at home today. Mother Ning, what on earth did you look like when you were sitting at the top of the gym?
If Qi Xia's style of painting was a complete pervert, Ge Sheng felt that he would blaspheme his mother just by thinking about it.
Seeing Ge Sheng's reaction, Stella couldn't help but guess what Ge Sheng was thinking: "No, no, no, you guessed wrong."
"The two years that An Ning was in charge of Feixin Gym were the most refreshing and upright period in the history of the gym." Stella recalled the scene at that time, and if she hadn't considered the impact, she would have just sighed: "After all, An Ning is so arrogant and unreasonable."
This old friend of An Ning's mother did not hesitate to use the word "xiazuo", which is not so good-looking and pleasant-sounding.
