Lizard Keeping Diary

The gallery is located on the third floor.

There are many portraits and color oil paintings hanging there, with uneven styles.There is an introductory text underneath, explaining who is the previous generation and who is the next generation.

Schatz admired a lot of portraits along the way, but he didn't know most of them, hadn't seen them, and it was useless to see them.The only names he had ever seen were mentioned in anti-black pamphlets distributed by the Holy See.

In order, those displayed on the outermost are relatively new generations.Schatz also saw Gareth's name and portrait.This recalled his memories of being on the riverboat, together with those good days about keeping lizards, and caused him to stop for a long time, and let out a light, inaudible sigh as he moved.

time flies.

Badley was by his side, allowing him to look at the paintings, and said casually, "Ah, I remembered, in terms of seniority, Gareth should be your great-great-great-great-grandnephew."

So he lived in the same era as his great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew, and had they met and talked?

...Badley must be at least a few hundred years old based on this calculation.

Schatz continued on until he reached the end of the gallery.He could not help being a little confused that one portrait had Badre Saktalen written under it, and the other portrait in front of it also had Badre Saktalen written under it.

But he quickly remembered that Badre was named after his father. No wonder there are two people with the same name and surname next to each other. It seems that Badre has no peers.

Looking further ahead, there is only a portrait left, with Shelia Saktaren written underneath.

Schatz looked at it for a moment, a little surprised.

At first glance, Shelia really looked a lot like him.No wonder the elf Farrell called out Sactalon's name when she saw him.

If Badre hadn't claimed to be his father, he would have thought Shelia was his father!

"It's the power of atavism." Yoyo's voice came from behind, "You have Patty's red hair and lips, and Shelia's eyes, nose and face shape. I guess the only thing you are similar to me is the hairline gone."

Schatz smiled slightly and turned around, "Will I appear in this gallery in the future? Inside or outside?"

"Yes. Your portrait has not yet been made. It will hang behind me. There are many family members here who only entered the gallery after their deaths."

"You seem to have many children, Father."

Schatz bent down and pointed to the past. The row behind them were all children of Badre, and their birth dates were marked very early. From Schatz's point of view, they were all ancient people.

As for the dates of birth of Badre and Shelia, it was earlier.Schatz remembered that, in Shelia's day, Munro had no Paladins, let alone many of the things that are now considered routine.

"Yes, all my sons and daughters are dead." Badre admitted, "You are my youngest son, and the only one left."

So Badre really lived for many years...

For some reason, Schatz accepted this fact immediately.

If he couldn't even live a few hundred years longer, he felt that Badre was not such a powerful magician.

"By the way, why isn't my mother here?" Schatz asked. "She's dead."

"I'm sorry to hear the news," Badley said, "but... she doesn't have the blood of the Sactaren family. Outsiders have no right to stay here."

When he said this, Badre's tone was very flat, as if he was stating the objective fact that "the world is round".

Schatz was taken aback, "What is an outsider? My biological mother, your legal ex-wife, is an outsider in the family?"

Badre gave him a strange look, "I didn't marry Patty. Why would I want to marry that kind of woman?" After pondering for a while, he added, "The members of the Saccharon family before my father also all Did not enter the gallery."

However, Shatz's ears can only receive messages from his mother.

"What do you mean by that kind of woman?!" Schatz shouted angrily, "Although my mother was a little bit offended, she never did anything bad. She is much better than you who look down on her!"

Badley shook his head, not wanting to argue with Schatz, and turned to walk towards the stairs.

But Schatz ran over and asked, "What the hell happened to you guys? If I was born here before, why didn't I grow up here?"

"Because she took you away!"

Badre turned to look at him sullenly.

"That ignorant and cunning woman was greedy and left the manor with you as a baby, and it took me many years to find you."

Schatz froze.

Budley looked at him fixedly, his tone full of disappointment, "Don't try to defend her, child, this will only remind me how she has educated you in the wrong way all these years, making you call another A man is a father. It was too late when I found you, stop hurting me with the lies you heard."

Dad was really hurt.Schatz looked at Badre's expression and was suddenly at a loss.He still doesn't understand what happened, so he can't criticize it.

Shatz bit his lip and apologized to Badre.

"I'm sorry, father. I didn't mean to hurt you, and...although I was forced to call Hall's father for years, I didn't like my stepfather...I hated him. I hated him."

In any case, he could see that Badre at least cared about him and would show real emotions, while his stepfather Hall would only beat and scold him and blame everything on his mother.

Every time he was called a bastard before, he never understood the real meaning.

Thinking about it now, maybe Hall knew that he was not his own child, and that's why he treated him so badly.

Seeing Schatz sink into depression, Badre sighed softly, "Maybe I should tell you the whole story. From beginning to end, about me and your mother."

Schatz was hugged by the shoulders, and along with Badre, he walked slowly down the stairs.

It's a very simple story.Patty is his mother and Badre is his father.The two met on a night with a strong festive atmosphere. They were overwhelmed by each other's appearance and style, and with the help of alcohol, they had a romantic relationship.

Originally, this could be just love affair.But Patty found that there was a special temperament in Badre, which was different from others, so mysterious that she was fascinated.

She decides to get to know Badre well and asks him out on a date, which he accepts because he likes Patty too.The two dated like this.

During this time, their conversations were always pleasant, and Patty always caught up with him and agreed with him.Although in the eyes of Badre today, she may have been just acting.

Their romance progressed, and at a certain stage, Badre confessed to Patty that he was a notorious black mage.

His strength did not frighten Patty, but made her feel adored.She even moved into Sacktallen estate after finding out she was unexpectedly pregnant with a child.The next cohabitation life made them more gluey.

Badre always tried his best to prepare surprises for her, and gave her gifts from various worlds. Once, he even carved emeralds by himself, but he was unskilled and made a very rough disc.

But because Patty thought it was cute, he carved the word "Pa & Ba" on the disc, and then strung the disc into a necklace and put it on her neck.Patty smiled broadly.

Patty knew that Badre had had many exes, but she didn't mind, many rich and powerful men had more than one wife, and it didn't matter as long as she was the only incumbent.

Until then, she and Badre had had little friction and were a perfect couple.

Badre also thought that he would stay with this woman forever.

But sometimes, conflict just needs an opening.

And after that came the flash floods.

One morning, Patty discusses the wedding.Badre didn't take it seriously at first, but when he realized she was serious, he told her that marriage was impossible.

Patty has always thought that getting married is a matter of course. I can't believe that he would object. Besides, she is still pregnant, so how can she not have a status?Do you want the child to be an illegitimate child outside of marriage?

Regarding this question, Badre still remembers his own words: Don't use the secular way to restrain me.If you choose to follow me, follow my principles.Our family has nothing to do with your family.You have to cut ties with your old life.You serve me and I serve our children.This is my principle.

Naturally, Patty was shocked by his reply.

During the time they spent together, Patty seldom contacted outsiders, because he had too many things to dig. too little.

So at that moment, she seemed to have been slapped in the face, she was slapped hard, dizzy, and her ears were buzzing.

Badre insisted not to marry her, but then what would she become?She was born in a nouveau riche family, and she abandoned propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame to follow him because she regarded him as her future husband.

As long as he is willing to put in the effort to come to her house to ask for marriage, she promises that her parents will agree to her marrying this handsome man who also owns a large manor.

After that, she can gradually reduce her contacts with her original family, but she must have a status so that she will not be ridiculed for having children out of wedlock.

In order to get Badley to agree to the marriage, Patty begged hard in every possible way, but failed to make Badley sway.

Badre simply thought marriage was stupid.

But Patty had the opposite idea.

The two opinions could not live and die, and Patty desperately expressed that he would leave him and kill the child in his womb.This made Badre very angry. He was looking forward to the birth of the child every day, adding precious new blood to the Sactaren family, and would never tolerate her private abortion!

Therefore, Badre locked Patty in the manor, restricted her physical activities, and could not do anything except necessary physical needs.He also threatened Patty that if he dared to harm the fetus, he would let her whole family be buried with him.

The image of her former lover was completely ruined, and she became her prisoner.Resentment began to grow in Patty's heart.

Every day in captivity, Patty lived in fear and suffered a lot, but did not dare to commit suicide.By the end, Patty gave birth to a baby boy.

The baby boy had green eyes, and Badre was very pleasantly surprised, because there has been no green-eyed descendant in the family for a long time, which has special meaning.

Now that the baby was born, it didn't matter if Patty stayed or left.Badre announced that she was free and could leave at any time, and then ignored her and concentrated on taking care of the child.

Patty was weak after giving birth, and seeing him throwing himself on the child, completely disregarding his own life, the resentment in his heart deepened.She decided to take revenge on him.Don't care about children?Then take away his child, so that he will never find the child!

At that time, Patty couldn't think of anything else, but was urged to act by this one thought.

Under the effect of the magical defense mechanism, she couldn't break into the dark and foggy nursery, but she could lure the child to crawl out, and as a mother, she knew how to do it.

In the middle of the night, her ruse worked.She took the child and fled the manor overnight, afraid of being caught up by Badley, she kept running and did not dare to stop.

When she spotted a delivery truck, she ran after it, sat on the back of the truck, and flew away.

Although she fled the manor, she was too afraid that Badley would catch up, so she never dared to stop. She heard the wind on the way and thought it was a magic attack. She was so scared that she jumped out of the car with the child in her arms and ran away.

There was a wood nearby, and there was a small river in the woods, and she ran along the river until it was daylight, her arms were numb, and her legs were limp.

Finally she couldn't hold on anymore and fell down unconscious.

When she woke up, she was in a stranger's home and was being cared for by strangers.This stranger was named Hall, with an ordinary appearance, but he cared about her very much. He asked about her health, served tea and water, and took good care of the frail her and the child.

After a while, she completely recovered her health.Hall began to beg her not to go, hoping that she would stay and marry him.

In the past, she would never have looked down on such a villager.But now, she hesitated.

She is already homeless.Her life has been ruined since she was born out of wedlock.If she came home, Badre would find her.Anyway, it has been reduced to this point, it is better to forget the past and start life again.

In this way, Patty chose to stay in the village, married Hall, and gave the child her mother's surname.

After a few years, she found that Badre seemed to have forgotten her, or never found her, and never appeared in her life again.Because of this, she felt relieved and planned to live a good life with her children and husband from now on.

But unfortunate things are always inevitable.I don't know when, Hall got into the bad habit of drinking and became irritable, and he was completely different from before.

He lost his job because of alcoholism, and beat and scolded the mother and son if anything went wrong, but she endured it in tears, thinking it was her fault.She once wanted to kill the child and steal the child from the biological father.Now she has to pay the price for these things, repaying them one by one.

She only has one wish left, which is to watch the child grow up healthily, stay away from evil, and become a good person.

Before dying, this wish was finally fulfilled.

……

Shatz was stunned for a long time, his nose was sore, he didn't know what to think about this story.

Badre seemed to be immersed in the memories. Although the story was over, he still couldn't get rid of his emotions, "Now that I think about it, I hate Patty. How could she kill you who was not born? But she should hate me more .There was never love between us."

Schatz yelled, "No, you're wrong!"

Then Schatz ran away.He quickly ran back to the room and rummaged through his backpack, the backpack that accompanied him from Munro to Guangming Island, to the Mermaid Palace, to the town of La Sambre, and to many places along the way.

In the backpack, Schatz found a necklace that he had taken away from his hometown, his mother's old necklace, which had been with him as long as this backpack.

Then Schatz rushed out, bumped into Badre outside the door, and gave him the necklace.

"Take a look, what is this."

Badre picked up the necklace, and saw a round emerald disc hanging in the middle of the chain, which was covered with traces of time, and the wind and rain still did not obliterate the handwriting.

He brought the emerald disc close to his eyes, looked carefully, and there were two initials on it: Pa & Ba.

His black fingers trembled slightly.

"Patty..."

She did not throw away or sell the jadeite.Even after fleeing from his side, she never forgot him.She remembered their love, even though it had rotted and become something to be reviled.

But he could no longer deny that there was love between them.