MTL - After Rebirth, I Returned to Miaojiang to Inherit My Family Business-Chapter 245

The kid standing on the edge of the crowd was very inconspicuous. Although he was considered tall and his appearance was not difficult to recognize, people who looked at this photo would not pay attention to him easily.

Maybe it's his gray clothes, faded overalls, weedy taupe hair that blends in perfectly against the dark background, or maybe he looks so 'normal', like many people do , neither fat nor thin, neither the tallest nor the shortest, no unusual hairstyle, no unusual hair color, nothing that can be called a feature.

Standing in the crowd is like the background, the viewer glances over, and his eyes may stay on the saint Vivienne, the elderly nun who is compassionate, or someone who looks like a big head with a body The poor, skinny child might stay on the nun's arms, and the baby who was not in harmony with the world, but it would not stay on him at all. He is like a shadow in a dark place that no one will notice, without any sense of existence at all.

Only with an intuition as strong as Wu Rong's would he add the adjective 'thick' to this shadow.

He even said that the first thing he saw was not the saint Vivienne, but this tall and thin boy. From him, Wu Rong felt a subtle sense of disobedience, as if he was separated from the other people and the scene in the whole photo. He was no different from other children in terms of dress, appearance and expression, but Wu Rong just felt it. That imperceptible strange feeling.

It's like being able to stand among ordinary people, just like criminals who mix in the crowd. They may look ordinary and look inconspicuous, but the feeling they reveal at a certain moment is definitely different from the general public.

But this is just an old photo, and it has been remade, it is not the first original photo, even Wu Rong can't feel more from it. In the upper left corner of the photo, there is a line of golden and protruding English, roughly the time and place when this photo was taken.

"June 7th, 2066, Slenderman, Slenderman, Jade Salesian"

Fu Qing read out the meaning of the English representative: "SlenderMan, a Slenderman."

The Slenderman, which is the English transliteration of the slender ghost, is a famous character in American urban legends. He wears a black suit and a black tie. He is taller and thinner than ordinary people. He has a ghost-like A completely blank face. According to legend, they will appear in places where children gather, appear in cloudy evenings, abduct children who have not yet returned home, and brutally kill them.

Before the supernatural recovery, this urban legend was probably fabricated by someone in order to let the children go home as soon as possible before dark. But after the spiritual recovery, the slender ghost is no longer just a legend, and it is understandable that it appeared near the sales home where the children gather.

It is very likely that they fought against the slender ghost just now, so it was recorded on the photo.

Fei Leng Cui Salesian, Leo and Saint Vivienne, the figures of the two heroes when they were young should have been photographed in this photo.

Wu Rong's eyes still fell on the young man standing at the edge of the crowd, could he be Leo?

Fu Qing flipped through the photo and found a small note stuck to the back of the photo. It had been with the photo for so long that it stuck to it, but at the slightest movement it floated off and landed on the pocket watch. The note is not in a regular shape, but more like a piece of paper torn from somewhere. The crooked handwriting on it has been blurred, and there are many spelling mistakes and illegible consecutive strokes. Fortunately, the sentence is very short, and the meaning can still be guessed .

【Back to you】

When eating at night, Wu Rong was still thinking about the meaning of the photo and the note. They will appear in Vivienne's relics, indicating that these two things were very important to her during her lifetime. In other words, even if they were not inserted by Vivienne, but by the person behind the scenes who sent the olive wooden box to Fu Qing, it is enough to show their importance.

Notes, photos, what special meaning do they have?

"Brother Rong, I do remember something about the Fei Leng Cui Salesian Home."

Obviously absent-minded during the meal, Zhou Jin, who had something to say, finally finished the draft and spoke. Zhou Jin was a little nervous, because he took it upon himself to call Wu Rong closer to 'Brother Rong'. But the other party was not angry or refused, but put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at him calmly. Wu Rong's acquiescence gave Zhou Jin more courage, and also made his words fluent immediately.

"The Fei Leng Cui Salesian House is actually very famous throughout the European Federation, but it and the surrounding area have been designated as key protection areas. Except for the locals who have been living there and some clergy in the church, outsiders do not Allowed to enter."

Zhou Jin regretted: "I couldn't go in either, but at that time I had Archbishop Joseph by my side. Thanks to him, I took a few photos at the entrance of the block."

Zhou Jin handed the phone to Wu Rong and opened the photo in advance. He did not take many photos, only three. One is a quiet street in the early morning, with white pigeons fluttering and flying, European-style buildings shrouded in the faint morning light. He took the second photo at the entrance of the street. There are special guards stationed at the renovated street entrance. The black gold cast iron statue stands at the entrance of the street. The statue is not tall because it is just a statue of a tall and thin child. There is a string of golden English on the base of the statue.

[He is a bad boy, but also a good person. 】

【—In memory of Sir Leo (2059—2085)】

Sure enough, the moment Wu Rong saw this statue, he thought of the tall and thin boy in the photo. Perhaps according to the date, he should still be a child, but most foreigners seem to be very precocious. In 2066, Leo was only seven years old at most. At the age of eleven, he looked no different from eleven or twelve years old. At the same time, this date also reminded Wu Rong of Fu Qingnan.

Speaking of which, Fu Qingnan was also born in 2059. Although Fu Qing only mentioned it once before, Wu Rong has habitually remembered it in his heart. It seems that he always unconsciously remembers the things about Fu Qingnan, just like a habit he developed at some point in the past.

Leo and Fu Qingnan were born in the same year and died in the same year. The year that the heroes died was the year when the Great Tiankeng was sealed.

In addition to these two photos, the last photo is a group photo of Zhou Jin and a fat old man with two white beards and a kind smile.

"He's old Jotun, he was polishing the statue when I took the picture, and I had a chat with him."

Recalling what happened at that time, Zhou Jin also expressed some emotion: "He was also born in Fei Leng Cui Kindergarten, and he has never left this area since he was a child. There are not many people who stay there now. Every one of them On Sundays, I would spontaneously come and polish Leo's statue."

"He is a very talkative old man, and he chatted with me for a long time. He was born in 2066. His parents were killed by a ghost when he was three months old. And Sir Leo was also in the Salesian at that time. It's a pity that he was too young, and when he was old enough to remember, Sir Leo had already left the Salesian and entered the church for further studies."

"But every few months, Sir Leo would come back to see them at the Fei Leng Cui Nursery, and would bring him an extra piece of candy every time. What Old Jorton looked forward to most was the day when 'Brother Leo' would come back, Of course, at that time, he was the youngest one in the Salesian’s School, and everyone called him Little Jotun. Now only the relics of the Fei Leng Cui Salesian’s Home are left. Only he is alive."

Born in 2066, a baby, Wu Rong thought of the baby held in the arms of a nun in the photo in the pocket watch.

Maybe he is the little Jotun, from the little Jotun to the old Jotun, decades have passed, the world has already changed, and the only person in the photo at that time is him still alive in the world.

"What does it mean?"

ah?

Zhou Jin was still racking his brains to tell Wu Rong that he knew something about the Fei Leng Cui Kindergarten, but when he asked him about it, he froze for a moment before realizing that Wu Rong had changed the photo on his phone to the second one. What I asked was the words engraved on the base of the statue.

[He is a bad boy, but also a good man]

Everyone can understand that Sir Leo is a good man, because he is the hero who sacrificed himself to seal the Great Tiankeng. But the words 'he is a bad boy' are also engraved on the base of the statue, which shows that the degree of his 'badness' is definitely not naughty or anything, but an exceptionally memorable 'badness'.

"Old Jotun said that the words on this statue were the words that Sister Maria's mother-in-law murmured on her deathbed."

When people are old, they like to recall the past and talk about what happened, especially when there is a young man who is willing to listen patiently. Old Jotun did tell Zhou Jin many things, including the Fei Leng Cui Salesian Home, Sister Maria, who was like a mother, and this special statue.

There are many statues of Sir Leo across the Commonwealth, a hero of humble birth loved by many. But most of those statues are adult, handsome, gentle Leo knight statues, and most of the words engraved on the base are something like 'he is a real hero', 'the greatest man' and so on.

No one has ever erected a statue of a tall, lanky, unruly child with many angry and alert eyes, but Sir Leo can only be called a "bad boy". Sister Maria, who was taken back to the sales school and brought up with care, is eligible.

"'Sir Leo was really naughty when he was a child, and he was the most difficult child in the Salesian', that's what old Jotun heard from Sister Maria."

Normal people would feel uncomfortable talking bad about heroes, Zhou Jin too, but Wu Rong is the biggest in the world, and Wu Rong is still listening carefully, obviously very interested in what he said, as long as Wu Rong is interested, it will be like going downhill. Zhou Jin would rush forward without hesitation, let alone just repeat what Old Yue Dun said to him at that time.

"That child is very strange. He obviously grew up with other children in the sales school, but he is like those children who were raised by wild animals and lived in the wild. I thought at first that he might have mental problems, because until the age of five When he was young, he didn’t know how to dress himself, didn’t know how to use knives, forks and spoons, and he would bite directly every time he ate, and he ate a lot and very fast. If you don’t give him enough food, he will never Don't hesitate to grab other children's meals, no one can beat him."

"He's like a wild little beast who doesn't know any rules."