[HP] If youth has an ageless face

When the ball was about to begin, Mrs. Zabini finally arrived late.She was wearing a light golden long dress and a tulle cloak embroidered with nine muses of the same color. Although she only applied a little makeup, her whole body was radiant and inviolable like a Greek goddess.

She didn't seem to be in high spirits today. After rejecting several men's requests to dance together, she walked up to the familiar Mrs. Greengrass, took a glass of red wine and started talking with her.

Sylvia has been trying to avoid appearing at the same time as Lopez, and tonight was purely accidental.

"Why did she come here?" She couldn't help but sneer, "It's really shameless!"

Lopez did not receive the invitation but came without authorization, which was very embarrassing for a time.Sylvia didn't understand why Lopez, who was always tactful, suddenly became confused today.

"Probably because the dog jumped the wall in a hurry." Edwina sneered.

"Is Blaise okay?"

"It's okay." Edwin looked at the children playing together from a distance.Brace was surrounded by several girls, including a pair of Greengrass sisters, and he didn't walk away, but he looked unhappy.

"It's okay," Sylvia reassured, "Boys don't like to play with girls when they are young."

While they were whispering, a jealous gaze was firmly fixed on Edwin La.

"That ship changed her fate, and the Davises treated this adopted daughter very well." Lopez took a panoramic view of Michelle's expression, and she looked at the stunned Davis family of four with a half-smile. "Look at her, do you still recognize your daughter?"

of course not.

Tears welled up in Sophie's eyes, and Joshua's expression was somewhat moved.

She was no longer Tracy.The woman in front of her is charming and charming, with elegant manners, but her temperament is not frivolous. One can tell that she has been well-bred since she was a child.Michelle and her are obviously sisters of the same father and mother, but they have no similarities in appearance and demeanor.

"Are you ready?" At this time, the first dance had just ended, and Lopez shook the feather fan lightly in his hand, and couldn't help showing a smug smile.

"Hey." On the other side, Sylvia called her, "Do you know those people around Lopez? Why do I feel strange?"

Edwina glanced at it and didn't take it seriously: "Who knows what she's going to do again."

Unexpectedly, the group of people came straight towards them.Sylvia frowned, and was about to ask if there was something wrong.Lopez had already raised his voice: "Mrs. Zabini, do you remember them?"

This mighty move immediately attracted the attention of many people.The several confrontations among Lopez, Edwinra and Silvia were big news that everyone knew last year. Listen to gossip.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Edwin's brain turned rapidly, but his face was still calm, and he even sat upright without moving.She didn't know them, but from what Lopez said... no, she did.The smile on her face faded, and her eyes fell on the face of the middle-aged woman.

"Mom—" the young Tracy cried and struggled, but could only watch the pier go away.

The woman cried heart-rendingly, trying to throw herself into the sea while calling her name.Her father held her tightly until she fainted in his arms.

That was her last impression of her parents and her hometown.

That's how it is... Edwinla sneered again, and put the wine glass on the coffee table beside him with a "click": "Long time no see, how have you been?"

"Tracey—" Sophie stared closely at her eldest daughter whom she had not seen for 20 years, and she wanted to cry.However, Edwin's cold expression remained motionless.

According to the plan, Michelle was supposed to play the leading role in this good show, but at this time, she felt a little guilty and timid in front of Edwin's frozen expression, ignoring Lopez's repeated hints, dawdling refused to speak.Lopez gouged her out bitterly, and had no choice but to go into battle himself:

"They've been looking for you for years, Madame Zabini."

Edwina turned his head and whispered to Silvia beside him, "Don't let Blaise come over."

She nodded and left quietly, leaving the battlefield to the victims.

Thinking of the money promised by Lopez, Liam became cruel and said first: "We have no other intentions, sister, we just want to see if you are doing well."

Edwin pulled a smile without saying a word.She has long forgotten about her childhood in Brazil, but Michelle was only three or four years old when she left home, and Liam was an ignorant baby in the swaddling baby—brotherhood?They probably have no impression of her.

"You don't know, Mom and Dad have always regretted sending you away. They often mention you these years, always afraid that you will have a bad life in England and be bullied." Michelle finally responded after being teased by her younger brother When she came over, she said emotionally, "We also wrote you a lot of letters and sent them to the Davis Manor, but there was no reply. I don't know if you didn't see it, or...you didn't want to reply."

Edwina patiently listened to her, then looked at the bewildered couple, and then smiled: "How can there be any reason to keep asking follow-up questions about the products sold?"

These words made Sophie's face paler.

"But mom and dad had to do it back then!" Michelle looked very excited, "Why are you so mean?"

"Then why did you steal the two hundred Galleons in the first place?" Edwina asked back.Lopez is obviously making trouble in this matter, but she is not a pure and flawless image in everyone's eyes, and she is not bad for the crime of "white-eyed wolf".

She was still thinking about how to end it, but Liam had already asked: "At least we are your family. It's fine if you don't have feelings for me and Michelle. Mom and Dad have raised you for six years anyway. How can you— —”

"Please be careful!" At this time, someone walked into the hall quickly. Edwin took a closer look and found that it was Jacques who hadn't seen him for a while. He looked dusty and still had a notebook in his hand. "When your family was in Brazil, you never mentioned your eldest daughter who was sent away in the early years. Now how can you have the capital to talk about 'family affection'?"

"Who are you?" Michelle was furious, but the people around had recognized the reporter.Pennington had repeatedly said good things for Edwin before, which made people feel very unusual, but now he suddenly appeared here, as if he wanted to help Edwin. Is the reason... Everyone is not a fool. There are more or less points.

Of course, the one with the most exciting expression is undoubtedly Lopez.She had calculated thousands of times, but she didn't expect that a Pennington would appear to intervene.

"Mr. Joshua Davis, it was already a crime for you to steal two hundred Galleons back then, and escaping was an even more serious crime. When your brother sent someone to Brazil to find you, he proposed two options for you: The money may go back to England to see him. You dare not see him, but you tell the captain he sent that your family is poor, and you can’t pay back thirty galleons, so you have to use your daughter as a mortgage. Garen’s situation, why did your life continue as before after the Davis family’s boat left? You didn’t cut down on food and clothing, and you didn’t regret it too much, and even spent money to repair the fishing boat soon after.” Jie Kun raised the money in his hand. Looking at Liam and Michelle again, "here is a list of what the two said to their neighbors, friends, and family members before they left for England. Do you want me to read it out in public?"

What Michelle wanted to say was immediately blocked back.

"Your relatives, friends and acquaintances are also disgusted by your behavior. I only asked them a little and told me these details. Also, the letter you claimed to write to England is also nonsense, so I don't need to elaborate on it. ?” Jacques suddenly turned to Lopez, “May I take a step to speak?”

I don't know what they said, but her face became very ugly in just 2 minutes.When she came back, her face was full of uncontrollable anger: "Yes, every time you are in danger, someone will help you - I will see when you are lucky!"

Then she left the Davis family of four behind and walked away.

Edwin La was deeply surprised.She was probably confused, and actually admitted her identity as the mastermind in front of everyone - knowing it is one thing, but saying it is another.Regardless of what Lopez originally wanted to do, this vigorous show now seems to end in a way that was caught off guard.

Seeing that the backer had left, Michelle felt unwilling to make a last-ditch effort: "You—"

"You do it yourself."

Sophie looked at her, still hesitant to speak.Edwinla didn't know until today that she was sent away because of their selfish motives. Originally, they could have given out the thirty Galleons, but...she didn't bother to investigate the reason.She couldn't speak of resentment towards her biological parents, and of course she couldn't forgive her: "Why, do you want me to give you thirty Galleons?"

Sophie's face froze, and then turned gray and defeated.

After watching their family leave in despair, Edwin turned to Jacques: "Thank you. You already knew what Lopez was going to do in advance?"

"It was Skeeter's slip of the tongue. She said that shortly after she came back from Romania, she heard that Lopez had also secretly invited four people from Brazil. I guessed there was a ghost among them, so I went to Brazil myself. "Jaquin told frankly, "As for the reason why I went to Skeeter... We have reached an agreement in private: she will not give up the opportunity to earn royalties from you, but her next work will focus on depicting All the follies your sister did when she fell in love."

Throw the blame on Constance?Edwin La's original intention was not like this, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it: "What did you say to Lopez?"

Jacques grinned: "The French Ministry of Magic is thoroughly investigating the people involved in the Chatillon case. I just kindly reminded her that she also played an accomplice in the Chatillon case."