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Paloma slowly frowned, “What do you mean? You mean her
boyfriend…”
Natalie said, “It wasn’t Kieran’s fault, it was the Argent family’s
adopted daughter. She stuck to Kieran since they were kids. She
knew Kieran had a wife but still clung to him, so shameless. She
knew Rose and Kieran were getting engaged, and she made a
scene at the engagement party, almost got Rose in trouble.”
Paloma said, “The adopted daughter of the Argent family?”
She did remember a bit, seemed like she was the driver’s
daughter.
A dark light flashed in Natalie’s eyes.
She sure knew the truth behind what happened on the
engagement party day, but a lot of other people didn’t know. Only the people who really got involved with it knew.
Many other people thought it was Alarieka pulling the strings
behind the scenes.
She said, “Yeah, you’ve met this person too.”
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Paloma did look up in confusion: “Who?”
“Just one of those two girls from earlier, Alarieka.”
Paloma’s face changed.
Alarieka looked pale and stared at her toes, and Jaylene raised
her hand and patted her on the shoulder.
“Let’s go back first. Looks like Ms. Wyatt had a bit of a temper.
We’ll go back and talk it over.”
Alarieka knew that just standing here waiting wouldn’t help, so
she just nodded.
She and Jaylene had only walked a few meters when a middle-
aged man in his fifties came over from the side, carrying a
bunch of stuff in his hands and on his shoulders, all kinds of bits
and pieces, looking like they were about to fall.
Alarieka didn’t think much and went up to help, saying, “Sir,
where do you live? My friend and I will take you home.”
The middle–aged man’s eyes crinkled up with a smile: “Thank
you guys, my house was just up ahead, really appreciate your
help.”
The man dressed very plainly and simply, and there were even
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yellow sweat stains on his collar. If you got close, you could
even smell the sweat on him. But the man’s expression was very
gentle.
Alarieka looked at him and couldn’t help but think of her dad
who had died.
Alarieka smiled and said, “It’s okay.”
On the way, the man said, “I saw you guys waiting here before.
Are you looking for her for something?”
Alarieka bit her lip awkwardly, “I forgot to sign up for a
competition, and this teacher had a spot, so I thought I’d give it a
try.”
The man said in surprise, “You don’t seem like a careless person,
so how did you forget to sign up?”
Alarieka would never tell anyone that she missed the
registration because she was reborn. If she said that, people
would definitely think she was crazy.
She said, “I wasn’t really interested in the piano before. It was
only recently that I wanted to really learn it. I thought about
joining a competition, but when I remembered, the registration
time had already passed.”
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The man sighed, “So that’s how it is. The teacher you found lived
right next door to me. I knew she didn’t have a very good
temper. You might have a hard time.”
Alarieka’s voice was soft but firm: “It’s okay, I missed the
registration time myself, I could accept any consequences.”
The man nodded, took a breath, and said, “Alright, I can give you
guys a hint!”
“Recently, she had been busy in the fields just to plant her tulips,
but lately there were a lot of mice around, always coming to bite
her tulips. If you guys had time, you could come deal with it.
Maybe if it got handled, she would agree.”
Alarieka’s eyes lit up. “Thanks for the reminder, sir.”
The man directed them, told them to put things on the ground
one by one, and waved his hand saying, “Alright, thank you. Do
you want a glass of water before you go?”
Alarieka couldn’t wait to leave: “No need, sir, goodbye.”
It was really rare to grow tulips in the village, so Alarieka didn’t
even need to ask around to find the tulips Paloma grew.
Large patches of tulips in all kinds of colors that hadn’t fully
bloomed yet were way too eye–catching in the green field.
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Alarieka and Jaylene carefully walked through the gap in the
field, stood by the tulips, and looked closely.
Jaylene leaned in a bit. “I saw it, a lot of them had marks from
being bitten by rats.”
Alarieka nodded.
She saw it too.
It wasn’t just the tulips, other crops also had more or less some
marks from being bitten by mice.
I heard from the local farmers that they had tried a lot of ways
to deal with it. After they got rid of some rats, another group
would show up. They just couldn’t catch them all.
