Whispering Verse

Chapter 2587 Musicians' Banquet

When Shad and Miss Danister returned to the Accordion Hotel, the dusk light had already shone on the walls of the golden music hall, making the four-leaf clover petal-like square look magnificent.

Because the door could not be turned into a toy, Shad used an illusion to hide it and quickly took it to the third floor.

The witch should be in her own room at this moment, so after putting the door in Miss Danister's room, Shad knocked on the door alone and entered Miss Winslet's room 321.

The young witch apprentice was not here, and the curtains were not drawn on the windows of the suite's living room. At this moment, the brilliant sunset shone in from the window, illuminating the floor and the black piano next to the window, and also illuminating the chubby round-faced owl and the orange-white cat snuggling together on the windowsill.

"Huh?"

Shad was stunned for a moment, and immediately closed the door from outside, stood in the corridor and blinked at the door before opening the door of room 321 again.

He had indeed seen it wrong just now because the sunset was too bright. In fact, Mia was lying on the windowsill with her tail drooping and looking at the sun outside the window, while the owl stood beside it with its eyes closed. The owl slept standing up.

"What does it mean to open and close the door just now?"

Flapping her wings, she flew down from the windowsill and appeared in the gray mist. She was wearing a light blue dress and a set of silver headdresses on her hair that was braided into a complex style.

As she spoke, she turned around in a good mood and asked Xia De with a smile in the sunset:

"Look, how about my dress?"

The banquet started at seven o'clock in the evening, so there was no hurry to set off immediately. So the witch, dressed neatly, went to Miss Danister's room with Xia De and listened to their experience today.

It's just that Miss Danister didn't seem to want others to know that she was looking for a teacher, so she didn't say who the lady from three years ago was, so Miss Winslet's attention was still on the new tree hole and the [Hermit Group in the Forest]:

"They may know about the time tree hole, right?"

The witch thought for a while and asked Xia De:

"Do you need me to send the girls around to follow them in the woods? Those hermits are not strong, and now I have two high-level girls around me who can be deployed."

Xia De, who was stroking Mia, shook her head. According to her, Mia was very well behaved today, especially when she turned into an owl to rest, the cat even showed some closeness, as if treating her as a kind. So, Xia De can entrust her to take care of Mia in the future.

"No need. We just established a relationship with the hermits. There is no need to do such hostile behavior."

He thought about it on the way back:

"I know some very low-key people in other places. They have a close relationship with the [Hermits in the Forest]. I will try to learn more about those hermits through my friends.

I just can't guess that if the hermits really master the tree holes, will they use them, or will they prefer to guard and shelter them."

It happens that tomorrow is Wednesday, and Adele Isabella, who came from afar, will appear in this inn. Shad plans to talk to Old John if he has time tomorrow, or go deep into the woods to meet the mysterious elf and ask her what she thinks.

Tomorrow, just avoid Adele in the world.

Shad and Miss Winslet will attend the evening banquet. The witch has already packed up, and considering that it would take too much time to go home to wash up, Shad borrowed the bathroom in Miss Danister's room to wash up a little, and he brought the formal clothes for the banquet with him.

In short, as the gas lamps were lit one by one along the green avenue in the southwest of Vista City, the carriage from the Accordion Hotel had already brought Shade and Miss Winslet to the manor of Earl Collins at No. 14 Green Avenue.

They arrived neither too early nor too late, and Shade still jumped off the carriage first in a gentlemanly manner and turned around to hold the hand wearing white lace gloves that was stretched out from the carriage.

When the lady with exquisite makeup stood beside him, he looked at the courtyard and the butler welcoming guests at the door and sighed quietly:

"It's simpler than I thought."

The earl's manor was not big, and the courtyard area was unexpectedly small. There were only the butler and three or four male servants welcoming guests at the door, and the house in the manor did not look very luxurious.

"You've seen big scenes in Tobesk, so of course you think this is a rural place."

The witch also said softly that although she was very famous in the art world, no one would specifically welcome her here:

"Let's go, it's best not to attract attention. Let's have a couple of drinks later, ahem, I mean to walk around first, and then approach the Bennet family and the Cumming family."

She naturally took Shad's arm and tried not to change her expression:

"But I should meet my acquaintances in a while, that is, the pianist, conductor or composer who came to participate in the Moon Dance Festival concert. I will introduce them then, you just need to smile. Your identity today is my distant cousin."

"Well, cousin again? I mean, no problem."

Once a single older girl who lives alone brings a man like a "distant cousin" to a formal banquet, people will basically think that she is a man they like, so people will take the initiative to avoid chatting with such a girl, which is also one of the unspoken rules of social interaction.

Unlike what Shad thought, this banquet was not a vulgar aristocratic social banquet, but rather quite upper-class, because in addition to local celebrities such as Bennet and Sir Cumming, most of the invited guests really have titles such as "musicians".

Earl Collins prepared this banquet for the artists participating in the Moondance Festival Concert. It seems that this city of music does not have so many twists and turns.

Although she is very young, Miss Winslet knows a lot of people. From the folk composer who came from the Kingdom of the Islands-Keragly, to the Northern Court musician who played for the king at the Yodel Palace, from the long-established arrogant piano master, to the eccentric conductor who dyed his hair green, almost everyone will take the initiative to greet her.

It was not until then that Shade realized how much gold content she was called a "genius artist". And the thing that people talked about most with Flora Winslet was whether she would attend the Moondance Festival concert this fall.

Miss Winslet was not like Vanessa who had not been on stage for a long time. Now was her peak period of creation and performance.

She was actually planning to participate in this year's music festival in the form of a piano solo, but now she was cursed and turned into an "owl". It was okay to participate in such a closed banquet, but once she was seen by thousands of people in the Golden Music Hall, it was inevitable that someone would see the clues of the transformation. She would not take such a risk.

Friends all felt sorry for Miss Winslet's decision, and even Earl Collins, who organized this Moondance Festival concert, came to try to persuade Miss Winslet to perform on stage.

Unfortunately, since she had made up her mind, she would not change it easily. The writer Ms. Austen, who was familiar with the lady with gray-black hair, asked jokingly:

"Since you are not going to perform, why do you come to Vestal City in the fall? Is it just to bring your handsome cousin to see the scenery of the south?"

Miss Winslet held the red wine glass in front of her mouth and smiled lightly, but did not answer the question. And Shade, who looked like a northerner, smiled politely, and was very curious about how Miss Winslet would play the piano.

The Bennet family and Baron Cumming's family came, but only the old Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, the eldest daughter Jane Bennet and the second daughter Philly Bennet came from the Bennet family, while Baron Cumming's family of three came.

Shade did not rush to get close, and when Miss Winslet talked with the local acquaintances, she also talked about the Bennet family inadvertently.

The musicians had a bad impression of Mrs. Bennet:

"The Bennet family is very respectable. After all, they lost their titles to protect the musicians more than 50 years ago, but such a family married a short-sighted woman.

We are not talking bad about people behind their backs. Everyone thinks that Mr. Bennet's biggest mistake in his life is to marry a young, beautiful but ignorant wife when he was young. There is not much in her heart that attracts people's attention.

Now her eldest daughter is engaged to the son of the baron, and she is anxious to find marriage partners for her three remaining beautiful daughters. There is nothing wrong with a mother thinking about her daughter's marriage, but she is too anxious, and people can see that she only wants her daughter to marry a rich and famous bachelor."

Mr. Bentley, who introduced the situation, is an elegant middle-aged man with a beautiful mustache. When he was young, he moved to the local area from the capital of Willendel. He is a very famous conductor in Carsonrick, and it is said that he has relatives with the Winslet family. ：

"Whenever she encounters something unsatisfactory, Mrs. Bennet will complain about her life with her forehead covered, citing neurasthenia as an excuse. Old Bennet is also a respectable country gentleman. He can't deal with his wife, so he doesn't really care about the family affairs."

"How do you know so clearly?"

Miss Winslet asked curiously, so Mrs. Bovary, who was also standing here chatting with everyone, said with a smile:

"Vestal City is not big, and there were not many families living here in the days of Creekwood. It's very small, so every family has no secrets.

You see, Mrs. Bennet will sooner or later mess up her daughters' marriages because of her own reasons. I won't be surprised even if one or two poor girls become old maids who can't get married."

Mrs. Bovary was an active singer in the last era, but she is still very respected. When she was young, she experienced the Willendel political movement half a century ago.

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