Why it never ends

Chapter 291 Eureka
There was a slight sound of the door opening upstairs, Hesta looked up and saw Villefort coming out of the bedroom with a dazed expression.

Ende greeted him, but he didn't hear her.

Everyone else in the hall also stopped what they were doing, and all the subtle sounds disappeared instantly. This sudden silence woke Villefort from his trance.

He looked at every pair of eyes looking at him here, and said "good afternoon" in a vague voice.

"The Duke finally woke up?" Ende asked.

Villefort smiled haggardly, "I have caused you trouble."

"Come down for a cup of tea, please."

Villefort obediently went downstairs and sat down on the sofa next to Ende.

Endai pushed a cup over: "I woke up at around three o'clock last night and found that the light in the study room on the first floor was still on. At that time, I saw that you were fascinated by reading, so I didn't bother you... What time did you go to bed later?" of?"

"I don't know too well, it's after dawn anyway."

After taking a sip of tea, Villefort coughed a few times, trying to pull himself together, "I really couldn't sleep, so I got up and flipped through the book."

"What book is so beautiful?"

"It's not interesting, it's just some history before the blackout era, in the [-]th district..." At this point, Villefort suddenly remembered something, and he looked at Hesta, "I always thought that Miss Eureka's The name sounds familiar, but I suddenly read the source yesterday."

"Really?" Endeyou looked at Hesta curiously, "What's the source?"

Hesta's eyes lowered slightly, "It's a classical language, Eureka."

"……What does that mean?"

Hesta was silent for a moment, and was about to answer when Villefort had already spoken.

"During the Iron Age, there used to be a very learned scholar in District [-]. One day, he was called into the palace, and the emperor handed him a newly made crown and told him, 'This is the crown made by my newly appointed craftsman , but a whistleblower told me that the craftsmen have corrupted my gold, please help me to check whether it is true'.

"The scholar pondered for several days and still couldn't figure it out. One day when he was taking a bath, he sat in the bathtub and saw the water overflowing from the basin. He suddenly realized that the overflowing water was exactly equal to the volume of his body. This method can help He accurately measured the volume of irregular objects, and thus verified that the crown was pure gold.

"He was so excited that he jumped up and shouted, 'Eureka!' 'Eureka!'," Wilfort paused. "In classical language, this means 'I found it' and 'I found it'."

Ende let out a soft sigh, she turned her head to look at Hesta, "Is that so?"

"Yes," answered Hesta, "that's why I named it because I liked it."

Endai propped her chin: "In other words, do you also have some questions that you have been thinking about but still can't solve?"

Hesta smiled. She shook the cup in her hand slightly, and the remaining half cup of tea swirled in her hand.

"Yes...there are many," she raised her head, her eyes glanced at Villefort inadvertently, "but in this matter, maybe everyone is similar?"

Villefort frowned slightly, and a little sadness appeared on the face that was already showing signs of aging. He put the cup back on the table, and said to Ende, "Thank you for the tea...I, let's go for a walk."

Hesta watched him leave, "Don't we have to follow him out?"

"No need. Victoria said before that the Duke is completely free during this period," Ende thought for a while, "or, is it not free at all?"

Hesta stood up.

"Where are you going?" Ende asked.

"I'll go up and see Sophie and the others."

……

On the stone road leading to the countryside, Su Lei's car was driving fast, and a burst of light gray mud and dust rose on the road she passed.

On the co-pilot, Stella held on tightly to the window rail. Along the way, they often ran into cars returning from the opposite direction—they should all be citizens who made a special trip to the Golden Crow Palace to lay flowers.

They both carry cameras, but for different purposes.After arriving at the destination, Stella ran back and forth many times, and finally chose four shooting locations, and included the sea of ​​golden gardenias and the ruins behind them into the lens.

Su Lei took a camera and jumped into the ruins alone to find clues.

In the past few days, all the investigation teams sent out failed to make any progress. After exhausting all his efforts, Su Lei decided to try his luck at the Golden Crow Palace again. Stella just asked her if she could take a car. people come together.

It was almost night, and Su Lei jumped out from a half-collapsed wall.

"Have you gained anything?" Stella asked.

"No." Su Lei replied calmly, and she walked to Stella, "What about you?"

"It's pretty good." Stella took out a golden gardenia from her handbag, "I took two, would you like one for you?"

"...Why are you still stealing the flowers offered by others, put them back quickly."

With sharp eyesight and quick hands, Stella took the flowers back, "Of course I have my own uses, and besides, there are so many golden gardenias here, and these two are not bad!"

Si Lei put his hands on his hips and exhaled, "Okay, get in the car and go back."

On the way back, the two were thinking about their own affairs, and there was silence in the carriage for a while, until Stella suddenly said, "Do you know the origin of Jin Zhi, Officer Su Lei?"

Su Lei glanced at her, "I don't know, what is it?"

"The origin of the golden gardenia is in the twelfth district, not the local flower in the third district," Stella said softly, "The earliest records about the golden gardenia can be traced back to the myths and stories of the Iron Age. The golden gardenia was originally a nobleman. The daughter of Dehe, who served the earth god Dehe in the local temple since she was a child. Later, the father god Ebai started to burn down Dehe's temple. He sent down fire from heaven three times, but Jin Zhi cleverly used tricks to save the temple three times. .

"Erbai was very annoyed, so he sent Xifeng God to assassinate Jin Zhi, but Xifeng God took it upon himself to kill him, but instead took the woman back to his island, intending to take her as his own.

"While passing through a canyon, Jinzhi painfully called out Daihe's name to the abyss, and a miracle happened at this moment—Jinzhi's body turned into countless seeds in an instant, and then bloomed all over the mountains and plains. White golden gardenia.

"People in the third district like golden gardenia very much, because it is a rare flower that can bloom in winter. It looks good and smells good, and its petals are white. People say that it symbolizes a pure heart. But in fact, the flower language of golden gardenia is 'Chastity', in the [-]th district, people enshrine her as the goddess of chastity, saying that she will protect young women from losing their virginity before marriage."

Stella turned the flower branch, and the snow-white petals fluttered like a skirt. She looked sideways at Si Lei.

"What do you think of the story?"

(End of this chapter)