A lovely silhouette suddenly caught Qingdeng's eyes.

"Miss Angoulême?" Qingden subconsciously whispered the name of this beautiful figure.

Little Elodie de Angoulême, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, was holding up a small white parasol in her left hand and holding up her white dress with her right hand. She walked straight towards the hotel with a cheerful face and a quick pace.

Qingdeng.

The parasol held by Elodie's left hand is too small for an adult. It is useless except for showing off, but for a person who is only 12 years old this year, her figure is quite petite.

For Elodie, it is just right.

Elodie leaned the pole of the parasol on her left shoulder, with Elodie's waist as the dividing line. Her body above the waist was hidden under the shadow of the parasol, while the body below the waist was exposed in the light.

middle.

Half of her body is in the shadows, and half of her body is in the sunshine. The combination of strong contrast, coupled with Elodie's extremely cute face, makes her figure cast a hazy color.

Elodie still has the same hairstyle. Her waist-length blond hair is braided into a neat three-strand braid, hanging forward from her right shoulder. Her thin and slightly inward-curled forehead hair is a bit like the "air bangs" that are very popular in modern times.

On her forehead as smooth as suet.

The three-strand braid hanging down to her chest kept jumping up and down in a light arc as she ran.

Compared to this unchanged hairstyle, Elodie changed into a white dress that Qingden had never seen before.

Qingden didn't know anything about Western clothing of this era. He only knew that the dress that Elodie was wearing was in the style of a tutu with a hem that reached to her feet.

Judging from the seemingly high-end fabrics and the rather fine stitching details, the price of the white dress Elodie is wearing must be so high that Qingden can't help but slow down his breathing.

The early summer sun hung just in the sky in front of Elodie.

Under the direct sunlight and against the background of the high sky, Elodie's petite figure seemed to have some kind of magic power, which naturally made people's eyes focus on her unconsciously.

After discovering Elodie, Qingden immediately found two people behind Elodie who were very familiar to him and almost always appeared with Elodie.

Elodie's brown-haired maid, Leroy, hurriedly followed behind Elodie. She kept shouting at Elodie in French that Qingden couldn't understand.

But judging from Leroy's expression, Qingden guessed that she was telling Elodie not to run too fast.

Behind Leroy is the fat old KFC grandpa... Ah, no, it's Elodie's grandpa: Anthony.

Anthony grunted and followed closely behind Elodie and Leroy, while casting a surprised look at Qingden.

Saito, who first fought alongside Aoto, knew Elodie and others. Nagakura, Harada, and Toudou met Elodie and others for the first time.

"Mr. Tachibana." Nagakura turned to Qingnobo and asked, "Do you know this beautiful little girl?"

Elodie's appearance is significantly different from that of ordinary Western girls.

Although she also has deep facial features full of Caucasian characteristics, the lines of her facial features are much softer than those of ordinary Western girls, and her frame is much more petite than those of ordinary Western girls.

This kind of appearance that combines Western beauty and Eastern beauty made Nagakura, who was not used to Western looks, have to agree that the little girl who just called Aoden "Mr. Orange" was very beautiful.

"Yes." Qingdeng nodded, "These people are all people I know."

At this time, Elodie finally rushed to Qingdeng.

"Mr. Orange, long time no see!" Elodie raised her little head and flashed her beautiful sky blue eyes towards Qingden, "Why are you here?"

Before Qingden could answer Elodie's question, Anthony and Leroy both came to Elodie's left and right sides.

"Long time no see, Mr. Orange. What a coincidence, I meet you here. Why are you here?" Anthony asked the same question as his granddaughter.

Qingden smiled slightly and greeted Elodie and the others politely: "Mr. Angoulême, Miss Angoulême, Miss Leroy, long time no see."

"My companions and I are here to conduct some official business."

After briefly discussing why he appeared here, Qingdeng asked:

"Monsieur Angoulême, are you... taking a walk around here?"

Qingdeng originally wanted to ask, "Why are you here?" But when he was about to say the words, Qingdeng suddenly realized that this was a very stupid question, so he abruptly answered the questions that had already flowed to his lips.

Swallowing it back, I changed the question to "Are you taking a walk around here?"

Elodie and the others are French and live in this settlement where foreigners gather. There is nothing surprising about meeting them here.

Anthony laughed "hahaha" a few times: "Yes, I rarely have free time today, so I went out for a walk with Elodie."

"What a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you at the door of my house when I came home from a walk."

"At the door of your home?" Qingden keenly discovered this word in Anthony's words that he could not ignore. "Mr. Angoulême, do you live near here?"

"Huh? Yes." Anthony nodded, then pointed, "That's our home."

Qingden looked in the direction pointed by Anthony's finger.

What Anthony is referring to is a very new, 3-story Western-style mansion.

After seeing this mansion, Qingdeng's eyes immediately narrowed slightly and his expression became slightly weird.

Nagakura and Harada, the two upright and blunt-minded people, looked as usual.

On the other hand, after Saito and Toudo saw the home that Anthony pointed to, their expressions remained the same as Aoto, showing thoughtful expressions.

The reason why Qingdeng and the others were like this was not because of the special appearance of Anthony's home.

But because - Anthony's home is located diagonally opposite the dim sum shop they want to monitor...

If you stand on the top floor of Anthony's house, you should be able to see everything going on in the pastry house.

"...Mr. Anthony." Qingdeng turned his attention from Anthony and his family's home back to Anthony, and said seriously, "I have a heartfelt request..."

…

…

After a while——

"Mr. Orange, welcome to my home!"

As soon as she led Qingdeng and the others into the entrance hall, Elodie shouted to Qingdeng and the others in a cheerful tone.

After passing through the exquisite gate and filing into Elodie's home, Yongcang and the others were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking around with their eyes wide open.

Every part of this house with a complete French decorative style, both in appearance and interior decoration, was a huge cultural shock to Nagakura and the others.

After entering the house, Qingnog also opened his eyes in surprise like Nagakura and others, but he was not shocked by the cultural shock. As a time traveler, he was naturally unlikely to suffer any cultural shock.

I was shocked by how exquisite and beautiful the decoration of this house was.

After entering the house, you can first see the gray carpeted floor, the high coffered ceiling with diamond arch lines, and the white velvet walls. There are quite a few oil paintings hanging on the walls. Most of these oil paintings are exquisite.

landscape painting.

Under the guidance of Anthony, Elodie, and Leroy, as they headed for the stairs leading to the upper floor, Qingden and the others passed a spacious room that looked like a dining room.

Two chandeliers hang low above the long table in the dining room.

On the table covered with white tablecloth, there are several candlesticks mainly used for decoration, and also decorated with a few flowers that Qingdeng cannot name - things and places with exquisite arrangements like this long table are here.

The house is full of them.

The layout of this mansion gave Qingdeng the feeling that it was "just right".

Everything is so "just right", neither too luxurious nor too shabby.

——As expected of a businessman who can engage in cross-border business in this era...

Qingdeng silently praised Anthony for owning such a beautiful house.

Qingzhen understood that Anthony, as a businessman, specialized in doing business - reselling Japanese specialties back to the West.

Being able to conduct cross-border business across oceans in this era would naturally not be a small businessman who lacks money, so it makes sense for Anthony to own such a house.

"Mr. Angoulême." Qingden couldn't help but ask as he followed Anthony and the others up the stairs, "Didn't you hire any other servants?"

Qingdeng found that since entering Anthony's house, he had not seen anyone else.

"I don't have any other family members." Anthony joked, "The family members in this family are currently only me, Elodie and Leroy. I have no plans to add new members in the short term.

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"Leroy is very capable. With her own efforts, she can keep this house and our clothes clean every day, and she can also make Elodie and I eat very delicious food every day."

Meals.”

After hearing this, Qingdeng couldn't help but smack his tongue, and then secretly cast a look of admiration at the taciturn maid who rarely showed expressions on her face.

To single-handedly maintain the normal daily operation of this large house with a total area of ​​at least 300 square meters, and also take care of the food and clothing management of Anthony and Elodie... This ability really has to be admired.

After reaching the highest floor of the house, Anthony took Qingdeng into a room with two bookshelves filled with various books.

"Mr. Orange, this is our study room. Do you think this room is okay?"

Qingdeng walked to the window of the study room in three steps and looked out - he had a clear view of the dim sum shop diagonally opposite.

"Yes." Qingdeng nodded with satisfaction, "This place is just right. Mr. Angoulême, thank you very much for your help."

"Hahahaha." Anthony waved his hand, "No thank you, it's just a small favor. Just use this room."

Just now, after discovering that Anthony and his family's home is located diagonally across from the pastry shop, Qingdeng made a request to Anthony: Can you let them borrow a room on the top floor of your house so that we can monitor the pastry shop.

After briefly summarizing the general reason for the incident with Anthony, Anthony said "no problem!" very readily.
To be continued...