Chapter 291

As the saying goes, a few families are happy and a few families are sad.

Sailors with families welcomed their families in the strange new world with joy or worry, but they finally got the reunion Christmas they expected.

Those who stay where they are are really lonely in this world.

Haina, Noah and Wang have no relatives left; Katrina was tortured by past tragedies and was unwilling and afraid to contact her relatives; Lorraine's last family is in Hamilton. It sounds close at hand, but Lorraine doesn't want to spend Christmas with him anyway, Daniel

Lorraine looked at Daniel strangely: "Daniel, I don't seem to have heard you mention your family?"

Daniel bowed slightly: "my wife died of a disease six years ago. I thought I could recapture her from death with my medical skills and alchemy, but it backfired."

Halfway through, his voice suddenly stopped where it was.

"Today is not a suitable day to share sadness. If I have the opportunity, maybe one day I will be willing to tell you my story as long as you are willing to listen."

"I'll wait," Lorraine whispered.

The only thing that stood out in the crowd was bell.

Because he always likes to talk about his sister, the fact that his mother and sister are both on board is well known. But seeing that the greeting people were almost scattered, bell still stood beside Lorraine with a smile

Haina gave Lorraine an inquisitive look.

Bell waved to interrupt Haina's sight, smiled and said, "don't embarrass our captain. He has an old relationship with my family. It's probably hard to tell me about my being wanted by the Navy."

"But it's not." Lorraine shrugged and separated from bell until she retreated between Haina and Noah. "I think it's the right choice to inform my aunt of your recent situation as soon as possible, so I wrote a letter to ask Ramos to hand it over to her. From the reply, she and Eliza are at the manor now. They should have doubts about your situation. They didn't pick you up, but wait for you to explain."

Bell's face was blue, and a smiling face was more ugly than crying.

"Did you... Tell my mother?"

"Telling the truth is your right and obligation, not mine. I just told her that you have a long holiday this year and have decided to come to me for Christmas."

"Thank God!"

Leaving this sentence, bell ran away, and Hannah tilted her head, looked at his back and whispered softly.

"No matter how much he wants to see his family, he seems to have overreacted."

"Probably because it's not just pure missing?" Lorraine said uncertainly.

He also felt that Bell's reaction was a little too extreme. He was a little less surprised and a little more frightened.

But Bell's motive review was long over, and all the conclusions proved that he would not be harmful to the chamber of Commerce or Lorraine.

In that case, as the captain, Lorraine had no reason to continue to doubt his crew, which not only seemed reluctant, but also artificially created an atmosphere of instability on the ship.

Believe, because you need to believe.

Lorraine held out his hand and pinched Haina's wrist: "after all, Bell's family is special. It's difficult for him to tell the truth to his aunt, and he's afraid of cheating his relatives. He wants to see it and doesn't dare to see it. His reaction is not unreasonable."

"Don't let me continue to check him, do you?" Hannah turned her wrist and naturally clasped her fingers with Lorraine. "I understand."

"I know you understand."

……

Bell ran to the manor in a panic. On the way, he met ophy who was too busy to touch the ground and didn't even have time to meet Lorraine and do his duty as housekeeper.

"Miss grumpy!"

"Ah! Mr. starving ghost, are you..."

"To make a long story short, where are my mother and sister?"

"Your mother and sister?"

"Madame Judea! Cherie Judea and Eliza Judea!"

The quiet and elegant lady and the quiet and dignified girl just like her mother jumped out of ophy's mind.

Because of the impact of elegant temperament and simple clothes, they are the people who impress aofei most among all the visitors.

"They... Are your family?"

"Don't talk nonsense, where on earth do you hide them!"

Quiet.

silent.

Dead silence.

Only confined to the dead silence between two people.

"The third floor, the third room in the East, Mr. Judea. If there is nothing else, please let me take care of my work."

Looking at ofey's stiff face like ice, Bell's heart was dead.

"Thank you... Thank you..."

"No thanks. But please understand that the housekeeper of the Drake family is different from the master. We won't take prisoners and blackmail. Goodbye."

With that, ofey turned around and left.

Bell suddenly rolled his eyes and didn't understand what the girl imagined the people on the ship, aristocracy?

Normally, no one except the nobles, such as mountain bandits and pirates, takes captivity as their industry?

But this doubt will not be answered in a short time.

Bell flies to the villa, passes through Karen's nephew, who runs downstairs through Sahuan, asks the young cousin who is asking pierce for advice, avoids Carmen's father who is sulking alone in the aisle, knocks Cecilia, who is ready to tangle with acharin's lips and teeth, and finally comes to the door of the house mentioned by ofey.

Dong Dong Dong

A voice came from the room, "is that bell?"

"Yes, mother, can I come in?"

"I'm afraid not until I get a reasonable explanation."

Lady Judea's voice was soft and firm.

"Little Lorraine told me that you came to him for Christmas because you had a holiday this year. But housekeeper McCarthy said that you came here despondently and worked as a farmer in the plantation for a long time in order to see little Lorraine. Who is lying, bell?"

Bell felt that his head was about to explode. "Mother, didn't miss ofey say she didn't know you were my mother?"

"She doesn't know," Mrs. Judea explained slowly. "She just talked about the two most annoying people when arranging a room for me. The evil pagan should be little Lorraine and the shameless fraudster... Should it be you?"

"Ah..."

Bell opened his mouth wide and made a long meaningless sound for a long time.

"You have to listen to me, mother. Also, please immediately warn Eliza to stay away from all the men in this room. She is 14 years old and easy to be cheated by bad men."

……

It's nightfall.

After a busy day, Lucie manor gradually became calm.

Lorraine entertained all the guests from far away at the dinner party, then raised his glass and formally invited them to the Christmas Eve banquet scheduled for December 24 and the Drake 1779 Lusi annual meeting scheduled for December 27.

There are 11 days before the annual meeting. Ramos and Eddie of northwest Europe will bring their families to Lusi in the next few days, and those in the Caribbean will arrive on the day of the annual meeting after Christmas.

Everyone accepted the invitation as a matter of course.

After the dinner, Lorraine took Haina to visit Mrs. Judea as a junior.

Little Jasper Eliza and Sao Mei took care of bell to accompany her. The fireplace in the room was blazing with flames, shining all over the room in spring.

Lady Judea looked at the brown Haina carefully.

"Little Lorraine, I haven't seen you for years."

"Yes, aunt, the last time I visited you was in 1775. Bell and I were on vacation."

"As like as two peas, you have been more solid than your father," said the lady, smiling. "And your eyes are more unique than your father. You are only afraid of worldly things. You are 4."

Lorraine raised her eyebrows.

He brought Haina just to try to defuse Haina's wariness of bell, but his wife seemed to have misunderstood.

Just how to explain this problem?

Lorraine stole an eye to see Haina. She was seeing the blush on Haina's face.

The faint blush is dyed under the healthy and shiny skin, reflecting the emerald like double pupils, but it is not matched with the shame and retreat that normal girls should have.

She never shows her weakness in front of strangers.

Lorraine suddenly decided not to explain.

He smiled back and whispered, "my wife and father have only met once in Plymouth and once in Tavistock, but they speak like old friends."

"Because your mother and I are best friends, Helena's topic will never leave her proudest husband and son."

"As always, I can't tell you."

Mrs. Judea was a little happy. She raised her hand and rubbed Bell's hair. She asked softly, "are you here to see if bell has confessed to me?"

"I have no need to hide it from you."

"He said major general Drake asked him to protect you."

This answer was greatly beyond Lorraine's expectation, and obviously beyond Haina's expectation.

Really? Fake?

From bell, they can't tell the truth of this answer at all, and from the previous motivation reviews, it seems that they can't give an absolute answer.

Bell... On the order of Shaq?

With full doubts, the two ended their visit, holding hands and walking silently to Haina's room.

Haina gently pushed the door open, stepped into the door line and turned around again.

"Lorraine, do you think..."

"I don't know. I can't guess." Lorraine frowned. "If it's true, I don't understand Shaq's motivation. If it's false, I don't understand Bell's idea."

"Will he deceive his wife?"

"Whether true or false, this reason is not cheating, because he did come out of the army and is with me."

"But the lady doesn't seem to know about his crime."

"The crime was strange. Look how many times Emmons stepped on the line these years. If Shaq was really selfless, the snake would have been hanged."

"So... What Bell said is true?"

"The key to the problem lies in time. We have also discussed before. When bell left the army, the Caribbean branch started, and smuggling is far from taking shape." Lorraine sneered, "I didn't have any reason to be pitied by my good brother at that time, let alone to gamble on the reputation of a person who longed for glory like bell."

Haina has to admit that Lorraine's analysis is very rational, at least not affected by his prejudice against Shaq.

Since neither true nor false is desirable, then... Half true and half false?

Bell was squeezed out of the army because he offended shack. In order to reassure his wife, he found a false reason that is not a lie?

It seems that this is the most likely explanation.

Both felt a little headache.

Seeing the mid moon, Lorraine leaned over and gently hugged Haina: "good night, a rare holiday, have a good rest."

"Yes."

After saying goodbye to each other, Lorraine let go and prepared to go back to the room. Without warning, Haina grabbed him and stood on tiptoe. Her soft lips covered Lorraine's lips without hesitation for a long time.

Above their heads, green mistletoe twined in circles, and bright red ribbons fluttered in the wind.

Long kiss to the end.

Lorraine touched her hot lips and looked at Haina strangely.

"Why suddenly kiss me?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know?"

"Carmen told me that if I didn't kiss you under the lintel today, she would kiss you tomorrow. I don't want you to kiss, that's it."

"Ah..." Lorraine kept touching his lips and thought for a long time, "well, good night? Or kiss again?"

"Good night!"

Bang!

"Oh, strange woman..."