The red moon returns

Chapter 470 Father’s Blessing (Two Chapters in One)

March 1399, 7, early morning.

With important things on his mind, Lin Qi got up early today.

Lynch hurriedly put on his clothes, opened the bedroom door, and then slammed it shut.

I rubbed my eyes, changed my posture, opened them again, and then closed them again with force...

boom.

The bedroom door was kicked open and Lynch was taken out with his arm twisted.

Lin Qi wanted to cry but had no tears. No, why was this cruel woman blocking my door?

The person blocking the door was, of course, Ms. Natalie Angle.

Today Natalie was wearing a purple silk dress and a white gauze sun hat. The sword she always carried with her was not by her side. In her hand she was holding a purple parasol, and her posture was exactly the same as when she was holding the sword.

It seemed, might, seemed, probably, that she had light makeup on her face. Lin Qi was not sure, but he did not dare to ask. Anyway, her lips looked bright and shiny, which made people wonder...

Officer Natalie took a step back, covered her lips and widened her eyes in surprise. Her face turned red instantly and steam began to come out of her head.

Humph, you're not the only one who's grumpy when waking up, men are too. Everyone has to pay the price for their actions!

So, Mr. Lynch Leviev paid the price for his smug smile.

Natalie chased him and beat him all the way downstairs.

Hiss, this woman’s hitting really hurts.

Even after they sat down at the dining table, Lynch was still grinning and moving his shoulders until he met the landlady's thoughtful gaze. He then coughed a few times awkwardly, pretending nothing had happened. He slapped away the little paw that was reaching for the fried ham in front of him, pinched the disappointed little face, and finally finished his breakfast in a lively manner.

We made an appointment to go to the cemetery to visit Mr. L, who has been famous for a long time.

After changing into the suit handmade by Master Christian and putting on the cufflinks and watch chain he had treasured for a long time, the handsome guy in the mirror straightened his bow tie, looking very excited.

In the mirror, Natalie appeared behind him, biting her lips gently and smoothing out the last wrinkles on his shoulders. Her usually sharp eyes revealed a rare tenderness.

He blinked at the woman in the mirror and got a light snort in return. The familiar reaction made Lynch smile knowingly. He picked up the lilies he had prepared and got into the hired carriage that arrived as promised.

The Rhine was not too hot in the early morning. Workers were coming and going on the roadside. Thick black smoke was already rising from the factory in the distance. The sharp sound of a train whistle could be heard faintly, and a new day had begun.

The two of them sat side by side in the hired carriage. It was not the first time they were in the same carriage, but this time it was strange. No one wanted to talk and let the strange silence slowly dissipate in the carriage.

As the car swayed, the two shoulders would occasionally touch each other gently. It seemed that no one wanted to move away first, allowing their shoulders to touch again and again.

Lynch finally moved. He shifted his body and moved closer, with their shoulders completely pressed together.

There won’t be a collision this time, Lynch was satisfied with his own intelligence.

The lady's face turned red again, she glared at him with gritted teeth, but she didn't dodge, she just put her fingers on Lin Qi's thigh...

拧。

However, before she could exert any force, Lynch's hand clenched up and grasped the weapon that was about to be used.

Struggle, struggle.

The policewoman's face turned even redder, and her powerful strength seemed to disappear suddenly. She tried hard several times but couldn't get rid of the clamp. After several times, her fingers finally relaxed, and she bit her lip and turned her gaze to the window.

The wheels rolled along the Land River all the way north.

Before eight o'clock in the morning, the hired carriage stopped at the gate of the cemetery in the suburbs.

The door opened, and the respected Sir Lynch Leviev was kicked out of the carriage, followed by the blushing female police officer who also jumped out.

Throwing two shillings to the coachman who pretended to see nothing and asked him to wait, the two stopped playing and walked into the cemetery side by side.

Silent, deserted.

This is the cemetery of Rhine City, where most civilians rest after death. No matter how wealthy or powerful one was in life, everyone is treated fairly after death. There is only a simple tombstone that tells everything about their life.

how is this possible.

There has never been fairness in this world, whether in life or after death.

The poor are buried on the east side, and most of them don't even have tombstones. It is completely free to be buried here, and maintenance is entirely funded by the city government. The only difference from a mass grave is that the bodies here are buried underground, and someone will patrol them every few days to prevent them from being dug out by wild dogs and eaten as midnight snacks.

Ordinary citizens are buried in the middle part, which is very similar to the cemetery in my hometown. The graves are neatly arranged, the weeds are cleaned up, and some graves are even decorated with flowers. There are special people patrolling every day, and if a cemetery is found to be damaged, it will be repaired immediately. You have to pay for the area, but it is not expensive, about one pound, which is still within the acceptable range for citizens.

As for the south side of the cemetery, it is like a beautiful garden. The whole area is artificially planted with lawns, and clusters of flowers divide the cemetery into small areas. Under the beautiful jade tombstones, the brick and stone cemetery is clean and magnificent. Each cemetery is clean and tidy, and it can be seen that someone cleans it every day. Some tombstones are embedded with photos of the deceased, and the deeds of the deceased are engraved on the back, which is obviously different from the previous two places. This is the high-end area in the cemetery. If you want to be buried here, ten pounds is the entry fee, and you have to pay maintenance fees every year. Only those who are really rich will be buried here.

Rand was very good to the soldiers who used their lives to maintain order. The treatment standards were very high both during life and after death. The cemetery of the Watchers was concentrated in a corner of the high-level area, with dozens of tombstones gathered together. For some reason, when Lynch saw it, he remembered the scene of a group of people drinking, chatting and betting on lizards in front of the bar.

All the watchers who died in the past hundred years are buried here. It’s not that only so many watchers died, but these are the only ones whose bodies can be found. For the others, only their names remain in the watchers’ files.

In comparison, Mr. L is still lucky, at least he also lives here.

On the white tombstone, his name was engraved in golden letters: Logan Angell. In the photo on the tombstone, the burly man with a full beard had a stern expression on his face, and looked upright and serious. Both his demeanor and facial features were somewhat similar to those of Officer Natalie.

After glaring at Lynch angrily, Officer Natalie let go of her arm, walked forward to wipe the platform in front of the tomb, took the lilies handed to her by Lynch and placed them carefully.

When she stood up again, the policewoman's eyes were already slightly moist. She stood silently, staring at the photo on the tombstone. Lynch did not disturb her. He stood quietly beside her, looking at the hard face on the tombstone.

After a long time, Natalie spoke softly, with obvious sobs in her voice.

"Father, I'm here to see you again. This guy is my...friend. Didn't you say before that you would beat him to death? Now I leave it to you." Lynch smiled, took a step forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Natalie, took off his hat and bowed deeply to the tombstone.

Everything was normal, and Mr. L did not crawl out to kill him, which finally made him feel relieved.

"You see, he is still very satisfied with me. It seems that I am qualified, otherwise he would have jumped out and beat me to death to protect his daughter."

"Nonsense, that's because he knows his daughter can beat you to death by herself." The policewoman punched Lin Qi on the shoulder and glared at him unhappily. Tears were still in her eyes, but she couldn't help laughing. She said viciously, "You'll be in trouble if he really gets out. He was very vicious when he was alive."

"More vicious than you? I don't believe it."

Natalie raised her parasol in a threatening gesture, then sat down on the stone slab of the tomb very skillfully, leaning comfortably against the tombstone, looking like a child sitting on her father's lap, and said quietly while looking at the surrounding garden:

"My mother died when I was twelve, and my father raised me. He was actually a very serious person, and I rarely saw him smile."

Lynch patted her shoulder and sat down next to her. Natalie nudged him in dissatisfaction, trying to push him down, but Lynch refused to go down. After several unsuccessful attempts, Natalie snorted and gave up, letting him sit next to her in front of his father.

"He was very tall and strong. When I was a kid, I liked to climb on him like this. I climbed so hard, but he didn't get angry. He just protected me and smiled foolishly. Unfortunately, he was later transferred to Norlin, and then he was given a code name and became a senior member of the Watchers."

“Only the top brass have code names?”

"Well, ordinary combatants only have names, and only high-ranking personnel are given code names. There are no more than twenty code name members still alive in the entire Watcher system, so I was surprised when Victor said he could apply for a code name for you last time. It was a very sincere invitation, but it was a pity that you still refused."

“It’s good to be in the system, but there are too many troubles. It’s not as free as it is now.”

"That's true. He thinks so, too." Natalie nodded and continued, "After getting the code name, he stayed in Norin and left my mother and me in the Rhine. My mother didn't see him for the last time until she died. He came back three days after my mother's death."

"Why didn't you go with him to Norlin? Given his status, he should have been able to take you with him. It wouldn't have been to keep order, right?"

"Observing order is always just an excuse. There must be other reasons for not doing so." The policewoman sneered, "Nolin is not a good place. Although I haven't been there, at least I've heard him say so."

"Ok?"

"Like you said just now, things within the system are too troublesome. After all, it's the capital and the situation is very complicated. If he was just an ordinary civilian, he could live a normal life, but he happens to be an upper-level Watcher, so he has to face a lot of trouble and pressure."

"Power struggle?" Lin Qi's experience in his previous life made it easy for him to understand that throwing a brick could kill ten department-level officials, but it was still a little strange. "I remember that the Watchers are directly under the royal family, so they have a special status. As long as they do their best and don't take sides, it will be fine."

"Well, but what about family members? Especially those outside the mysterious world. They have to face people with bad intentions all the time. If they are not careful, they may do something that will implicate the whole family. They must always be highly vigilant. Think about it, would you take Mrs. Maggie and little Martha to Norling to live like this, even for just a few days?"

"That's definitely not the case. Wait a minute..." Lin Qi said the wrong thing as soon as he relaxed. Cold sweat broke out instantly, and he thought it was sinister. "The example you gave is very problematic. I tell you, be careful with your words. You will be responsible for your nonsense."

"Hmph, man." Natalie rolled her eyes at him seductively, then stepped on him again, "No wonder my mother always said that about him in front of me. Animals like you can control your hands and feet, but you can never control your brains."

"We can't help it. The power of imagination is infinite. If humans lose their imagination, the world will lose its future." Lin Qi said seriously, "There is a saying in the mythological era that to observe whether a person is upright, you should look at what he does, not what he thinks. This is the truth."

"So you're admitting to my friend..."

Lin Qi almost slapped himself: "No, absolutely not."

“Hmph.” Natalie hit Lynch’s shoulder hard and sighed, “It can be seen that you don’t even want to take me and that person with you, let alone two ordinary people. My father has the same concerns, and Norin’s situation is worse than you think.”

"Ok?"

"There are a lot of cultists, lunatics, wanted criminals, murderers, mysterious weirdos hiding there. Half of the dangerous people in the country are concentrated there."

"Hiss, are there really still people alive there?" Lynch understood what Natalie wanted to remind him of, and shook the police officer's hand, "Thank you."

"Humph, I was just talking about my father. Who reminded you?" Natalie did not struggle this time. She let Lynch hold her hand and recalled softly, "But I was still young at the time and didn't understand these things. I always felt that he abandoned us, mother and daughter. I didn't listen to my mother's explanation and hated him very much. After my mother passed away, he tried to transfer back to Rhine, and I opposed him in every way."

"I can't tell." Lynch rubbed Natalie's rough hands. Years of holding the sword had left deep marks on her hands.

"That's because your eyesight is bad." The policewoman chuckled and muttered, "In fact, I admire that guy very much. I have always regarded him as a role model. Whether it is practicing swordsmanship or advocating the ideas of the Lord of Order, I am imitating him. But at that time, I was indeed very rebellious. I refused to admit it and was arrogant. I caused him a lot of trouble, but he always indulged me and never really lost his temper with me like he did with outsiders. In fact, I would rather he could teach me a lesson. In this way, I would not have been arrogant enough to want to help him that night and fell into danger, and he would not be because of my recklessness..."

Before he finished speaking, his voice was already choked with sobs and tears were already streaming down his cheeks:

"He never blamed me until the end. Instead, he was most worried about me and was always concerned about my future."

Lin Qi held her hand tightly, thought for a moment, and suddenly pulled her up. They stood side by side in front of the tomb again and said solemnly:

"Don't worry, father. I will take care of this woman from now on. Although I am a little bit of a jerk, I can swear to Scarlet Moon that I will be sincere to her and will never let her down. Otherwise, I will be struck by lightning."

[I am not in charge of this area, otherwise I would have split it long ago]

Lynch ignored his neighbor's ridicule, expressed his loyalty, hugged Natalie in the dazed gaze, and kissed her hard.

The sharp gaze gradually relaxed, and the eyes slowly closed. Natalie put her hands behind Lynch and made an awkward response.

Even the wind became much softer.

I don't know how long it took, just when the two of them felt short of breath...

"boom."

A loud roar caused the two men to separate subconsciously and look at each other.

Neighbor, do you want to be so smart?

Muttering to himself, Lin Qi laughed dryly and said, "Look, father heard it and is blessing us."

"I asked you to bless me, but I told you to talk nonsense. I can see that you have bad intentions, so I asked the gods to punish you." Natalie pinched him angrily, but soon frowned. "It's not thunder, it's like something exploded in the city. It can't be a factory."

"Let's go back and take a look."

(End of this chapter)