Carol, your sister is here!

elegant! "

On the small steps at the door, the middle-aged woman who was half bent over to feed the hens in the garden, and looked back suspiciously after hearing her name, was not the same woman who left without saying goodbye in Crete An Liya?

Although she has lost a lot of weight and haggarded a lot, Kathy, who has been with her day and night for more than half a month, still recognizes her at a glance.An Liya didn't realize that the strangely dressed woman not far away was Kathy. It wasn't until she recovered her crisp and sweet voice that she suddenly realized that she pulled out a bright smile and stepped forward to greet her.

Witnessing the intimacy of this pair of long-lost and reunited old friends, Hassan finally let go of his hanging heart in relief, talked to An Liya about the precautions, left a small bag of belongings as a reward, and then left without stopping Already—if I don't show up at the banquet with Capri tonight, my partner will be annoying him to death with chanting Dafa.

Neither he nor Kathy thought that Bertha was actually An Liya's biological mother, and it is embarrassing that the strong old woman who had been alone for most of her life passed away in a sleep last month. I didn't even have time to meet my late daughter even for the last time.

Fortunately, her daughter An Liya was an old acquaintance with Casey, and he could safely hand her over to her without having to find someone else—in any case, his mission would end here and be successfully completed.

He is very satisfied to be able to help the kind and lovely Egyptian princess, even if it is only a little bit.Not to mention that Kathy herself is so likable and knowledgeable.

The separation didn't come suddenly this time, and Hassan promised to visit her when passing by, so Kathy was not as sad as last time, but sincerely thanked him with a smile on his face, and waved goodbye smartly.

After watching Hasan's back gradually disappear into the depths of the dense forest, Casey happily took An Liya's hand and followed her into the house.Then An Liya went to pour tea, she sat down as she said, and the questions she was full of were quickly thrown out one by one, wishing to use words to fill the gap brought about by the past year.

It's just that the more she talks, the stronger the sense of disharmony—An Liya's words are not as concise as the one she remembers, and she is even more vague about many questions, or deliberately shifts the topic and skips it.

Just now, he was dazzled by joy, and when the turbulent tide receded, Casey was a little shocked to find that An Liya had lost a lot of weight, and he muttered to himself.When we met in Crete, she was a well-spoken, energetic, capable, well-maintained single mother; looking at her today, she is almost ten years old, with frost on her temples and wrinkles on her face. Not to mention the corners of the eyes, the straight back is also a little hunched, the veins in the bony arms are no longer plump and plump, and the skin lacking moisture is also quite dull.

Also, what about her precious son Anyado who is as precious as the eyeball?Did you go to school?

Kathy waited politely and quietly, and glanced at the furnishings in the room out of the corner of her eye. It was very simple: a small round table in the center was separated from a rough pottery cup, and the dim kitchen occupied a small corner—due to too much It is inward and the light is too dim to see what is on it.On the other side was a wooden bed covered with a thin quilt. There were no decorations on the window rails, only rags were used to block the cool wind, and a half-meter-high haystack was piled underneath.

It is completely different from the warm taste given by the appearance——

It was so monotonous and unpopular.It is not like the warm little home that An Liya carefully arranged on the island of Crete. How can An Yaduo, who is lively and active at a young age, endure such tedium?

Facing her cautious questioning, the curved corners of An Liya's mouth dissipated, and a dark and unpredictable light flashed quickly in her eyes. She opened her lips and made a hoarse voice like a dilapidated sail. You can hear the deep pain in it: "Anyado, he..."

"He's dead. He died on a boat in *Qinhai."

Casey hadn't had time to react from the shock of hearing the news like a thunderbolt from the blue, but he was startled by Anlia's staring eyes and expression as calm as a pool of stagnant water, and his heart skipped a beat.

It's calm, not pain.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would have never imagined that An Liya would show such a secretive expression.

She has really changed a lot, whether it's character or appearance...

Casey hesitated, and subconsciously avoided the weird gaze. The panic and uneasiness that could not be ignored made her clenched her palms tightly until she felt a tingling pain when her nails sank deep into her flesh——

Is it really just because of the pain of losing her son that her temperament has changed drastically?

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Consciously accidentally poking An Liya's scar, Casey noticed that the suffocating atmosphere in the room was getting thicker and thicker. The sudden silence was like a sharp confinement like an eagle's claw, which roughly strangled the throat and obliterated the gap between the vocal cords. Those meager words of comfort that linger.She regretted everything, but didn't know how to remedy it, so she simply kept silent.

An Liya also seemed to have lost the desire to speak, and after sitting face to face for a while, she suddenly left Casey and went out before the sunset, saying that she was going to a small town to buy some food as a supplement.

At night, An Liya's face softened a little. Although she was still unsmiling, she thoughtfully proposed to give up the only bed to her.

It seems that she has gradually returned to the previous An Liya.

It's a pity that as a guest, Casey is not thick-skinned, so she firmly declined the other party's kindness.

That night, she chose to use the suit Hassan bought to awkwardly set up a temporary camp on the cold and hard floor—the design was similar to a sleeping bag, and she just made do with the warm plush sleeves inside the outer sheepskin for one night.However, the dew was heavy, and the eerie cold seeped in through the floor, making her sleep uneasy at all.Trembling to absorb the little warmth, counting sheep in vain, tossing and turning, sadly wandering in the half-dream and half-awake all the time.

Before the sky in the distance turned pale, Casey opened his eyes wide and gave up struggling. He quietly looked at the mottled scratches on the table legs in front of him and thought to himself: I can’t go on like this, I’m afraid I’m going to find Hasan Find another place as soon as possible.

At this time, An Liya gave her an inexplicable but extremely dangerous sense of oppression, which made her feel sincerely afraid, and instinctively wanted to stay away from the other party.

The carefree birds began to sing crisply, the dawn piercing the sky became clearer and clearer, and the brightness shining into the room through the thin curtains became more and more dazzling.Casey, who was tortured by insomnia and was extremely sleepy, was hesitating in a daze whether to continue trying to sleep for a while, or just get up and forget it, when the thin fir bed board suddenly made an overwhelmed sound-"Squeak "Voice.

Anlia woke up.

She knew that according to politeness, she should say hello when she was awake, but she closed her eyes in the next moment.

Why do you do that?

She couldn't figure it out either, but she couldn't help but just did it.

There was a continuous sound, and Casey, who was pretending to be asleep, heard it, but his chest felt uneasy as if someone was slamming a heavy hammer, and his mind was uncontrollably speculating secretly: I am afraid that it is An Liya's clothes. The movement of the clothes.

An Liya tiptoed out of bed.Then, even with her eyes closed, Kathy could tell from the sudden decrease in the number of light source stimuli received by the retina that another person in the room was standing in front of her without saying a word, and her body just blocked the dazzling light.

It was very quiet in the house.Except for the occasional intermittent birdsong, even the rustling of leaves disappeared in the windless weather.

The gloomy air was about to freeze.

With her ears pricked up and her sensitive nerve endings concentrated in her auditory system, she could clearly capture An Liya's breathing from calm to rapid and heavy.

At first she thought that An Liya was trying to wake her up, but the other party just stood there with such unclear intentions, looking at her—yes, she could feel the sharp gaze like a thorn on her back.

What is An Liya going to do?

How could An Liya's mood change so drastically?

Casey tried her best to control her closed eyelids from fluttering, relax her tense limbs as much as possible, and keep the frequency of inhaling and exhaling air consistent with the normal situation, so as to present the illusion that she is in a deep sleep.While hypnotizing herself, she was thankful from the bottom of her heart that An Liya didn't touch her carotid artery—otherwise, the sudden acceleration of blood pulse accompanied by emotional agitation would mercilessly expose her illusion of pretending to sleep.

She doesn't think she suffers from persecution delusions, but at this moment, the inherent tendency of human beings to seek good fortune and avoid evil sounded the alarm crazily—what An Liya releases is definitely naked hostility and full of resentment .

However, what Kathy couldn't figure out the most was—what outrageous things did she do that would cause An Liya to change her attitude of caring about her friends and elders 180 degrees, and hated her endlessly.

There is no love for no reason, and no hatred for no reason.

So where is the source of breeding resentment?

When they were in Crete, they once supported each other, and they even rescued her precious and only son Anyado——

That's right, did An Yaduuo's death destroy the spiritual support of being a mother, leading to a drastic change in temperament or mental disorder?

It is very possible that when talking about the changes in the surrounding atmosphere of An Liya, it seems that it started when he inadvertently asked about An Yaduuo's recent situation.But her words and deeds are all normal, and her conversation is quite decent when facing Hasan, and there is no sign of a lunatic at all.

It's just that according to what she said, the lovely little boy died in a voyage in the *qin sea, and then