novelraw Chapter 131 The Zabini House Christmas Chapter
Chapter 131 The Zabini House Christmas Chapter
If you have money or not, go home for the New Year... oh no... it's Christmas.
A box in the left hand and a stack of books in the right.
Blaise Zabini has always been very good, and he insisted on going home for Christmas into the atmosphere of returning home during the Spring Festival.
Or the one with the "object"...
"My mother is still very easy to get along with, she likes to have guests come to the Zabini House." Blaise had a faint smile on his face, his nose was red from the cold weather in England. "When I was very young, I hated... even hated her, but now..."
He stopped and looked at Annie, who was carrying the luggage.
"It's not going well now," Blaise said. "Can you handle it by yourself? Need help?"
"No, no, no, no! I can..." Before Annie could finish speaking, Blaise carried the luggage in her hands together... Annie's unsatisfactory hands, she just let go when she was helped by others.
"Hey... this young man is on the road!" Annie's pet turtle, Gedan, was lying on the suitcase and almost slipped into the snow.When winter came, Godan gradually went into hibernation and talked less and less. After a while, he retracted into the tortoise shell and fell asleep.
"The snow is too thick, it will be much easier for you to follow my footprints, and you will be there soon." Blaise walked in front, looking back at Anne who was walking wobbly from time to time, stepping into his footprints step by step .
Blaise's footprints were much larger than Anne's, and the ankle-deep cedar was fluffy, like a layer of sugar cake.
"Ouch... my God..." Annie slipped her foot and grabbed Blaise's scarf, nearly strangling Blaise.
A murder almost happened...
"Can you stop thinking about "going to the underworld" with me all the time? Cough cough cough..." Blaise loosened the scarf around his neck, as if reborn.
"Sorry! I swear it was Xue who did it first." Annie spoke nonsense solemnly, making both of them hold back their laughter.
"Why don't you smile more?" Blaise said, thinking of an idea, he deliberately tugged Annie's sleeve, and Annie fell into the snow unsteadily.
"what!"
"Are you okay?" Blaise showed an apologetic expression. Although the scarf around his neck was still tightly attached to the skin, he didn't have time to tidy up and kept panting.Looking at Annie's faces twisted together, "Does it hurt?"
"No, I lied to you." Annie stuck out her tongue, "How could you get hurt in such thick snow?"
Her tailbone is doing well!
Zabini Mansion is close to the coastline, and you can play by the sea in summer, but now it is winter, the sea is pitch black, and white foam washes the moon-white sand. Standing in the snow in her apricot velvet hat, her pale chocolate skin and deep-set eyes made her look very delicate.
"My child! You are finally here!" Mrs. Zabini stretched her arms slightly, showing a perfect smile.
"Mother..." Blaise stretched out his hand to hug his mother, Nalinda Zabini, but Mrs. Zabini automatically ignored it... directly causing Blaise to die socially.
The person involved, Brace, said: Regret...very regret...
Valid daughter-in-law invalid son
Nalinda hugged the panicked Anne and stroked her hair tenderly.
The scent on her body made Annie want to sleep, a warm and reassuring smell, like an intellectual big sister.
"It would be great if your hair color followed your father's... That natural silver hair is really amazing." Nalinda smiled, and thought of William again in her heart. The reddish-brown hair and eye color followed the female Muggle.
"Hahaha... yeah..." Annie smiled awkwardly.
One thing to say, she always thought that William's silver hair was dyed.
No wonder William Panik has always been so bloated. If she was born with silver hair, she would be bloated too!
Isn't this a standard configuration for the Chosen One?
Brace, who was beautiful alone in the cold wind, sniffed and adjusted his appearance, "I think it's time for us to go in."
The interior decoration of Zabini Mansion is fresh and elegant, completely different from the decoration style of Malfoy Manor.The internal structure is small and exquisite, yet dignified.The main hall is very grand, seven or eight house elves are cleaning the furniture with feather brushes bigger than their bodies, and their bodies are light yellow wrinkled cloth.But they were all very clean.
"I'll order them to clean themselves, not to look dirty," explained Nalinda Zabini, seeing Annie looking at the house-elf. "Of course, I'm not Malfoy, and I never abuse servants."
The house-elves took the initiative to take the luggage from Blaise's hands and arrange it, and everything was in order.
"I like this place the most. You can see the sea, bask in the sun, and drink afternoon tea alone, but since you are here, I think we can do some "girl" activities together!" Nalinda excitedly like a girl Said, "I also prepared a lot of clothes, and your room is also packed, you will like it!"
It all happened so quickly that Anne was indeed flattered by such warm kindness from a stranger.
"Christmas holiday is so short, I wish you could come every year, Anne..." Nalinda Zabini said suggestively, "Brace, you show Anne around, I have to prepare for our Christmas It's Christmas dinner, and it took me a lot of energy to decide on the arrangement."
She took a few steps, then turned around suddenly, "Well...if I were your mother, I would name you Rhianna, or...Annie is such a common name, sweetheart." She nodded.
Anne felt that Mrs. Zabini was like a social queen, and her tone of voice made people unconsciously immersed.
"Sorry, she is like this sometimes, a little... exaggerated... and often offends people." Blaise said helplessly, "But she is rich and beautiful, so it doesn't matter."
"Are you saying in disguise that you are rich? Comrade Zha Dafu?" Annie asked back.
"So you can spend as much as you want, Miss Panik." Blaise raised his eyebrows, with a smile on his lips, "If you choose me." Annie shook her head.
"If I choose you, I will pack and sell you to India on the first day." After saying this, both of them laughed.
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Christmas in Zabini Mansion is very warm, perhaps because of the addition of the third person, the family has become more lively.Warm yellow lights and a fire in the fireplace with a small Christmas tree.
Blaise was across from Annie, and glanced at Annie's dinner plate from time to time. Annie found that while she was eating mashed peas, Blaise was also eating mashed peas, and while eating buttered asparagus, Blaise also cut a small piece of buttered asparagus and put Into his mouth, he showed a painful expression after a while.
"Brace, I don't remember you ever being a fan of asparagus," Mrs. Zabini said. "How are you?"
"It's all right, mother."
Christmas puddings and jelly cakes are always a dessert at Christmas dinner, and Jenny makes them with orange juice because she and Eric love them.And there's definitely no Christmas pudding here.Annie was a little homesick, wondering what was going on with them...
William said before that the surroundings of their home have been monitored, but he has not yet figured out which side it is.
"What's wrong? Not to your liking?" Nalinda clapped her hands, and the house-elves appeared immediately, "Honey, what do you want to eat? They can do it right away."
"No, no, Mrs. Zabini." Anne said, slowly inserting the fork into the jelly pudding, "You and my father are old school friends, right?"
"Yes." Nalinda Zabini took a sip of champagne, "Well... it can be smoked with tobacco again, it will be better."
Annie took a deep breath, "No offense intended, I think you should know about my father's past, I want to know him better."
Nalinda Zabini wiped her mouth gracefully with a napkin, snapped her fingers, and the house-elf cleared her plate.
"Honey, you can come to the study to find me, so now I should exercise, I just took in too many calories."
Annie was in no mood to go on with the meal, she was desperate to know everything about William Panik, about his past, about Evan Rozier.What happened more than ten years ago?Anne thinks that Theodore Nott's father and Draco Malfoy's father should also know, but now she has no chance to approach them, let alone ask about William.
Bailey has been secretive about William's affairs, and Aunt Mary is also far away in the United States, so Anne can't ask anything.
So she will not miss the breakthrough of Nalinda Zabini.
Nalinda Zabini was waiting for her in the study, and Anne did not understand why all the secret conversations had to be in the study.
"Actually, I also want to have a girls' night talk. Let's lie on the bed together and tell each other secrets..." Nalinda seemed to see through what Annie was thinking, and took Annie's hand, "Is it okay?"
"But... yes." Nalinda's words seemed to be magical, such a gentle woman, Anne couldn't help but want to believe her.
When Annie entered Nalinda Zabini's room, she was stunned by the contents, a variety of Muggle fashions, and a cabinet full of wine.
"Drink a little milk before going to bed, it's good for the skin." Nalinda said, "Come on, girls talk!"
Anne really wonders now if Nalinda is Blaise's sister...so young and attractive.
"What's this smell? It smells so good..." Annie sniffed the faint sweet fragrance in the air.
Nalinda looked for her eye mask, "This is for sleeping, doesn't it smell very relaxing?"
"Yes." Annie realized that she was getting more and more sleepy, she shook her head to pull herself together.
"Madame Zabini, I want to ask..."
"Your father, right? I can tell you all the stories about him. Come and see." Nalinda took Annie's hand and walked to a pile of photos. There are many photos here. Nalinda nostalgic Put your hands together.
"This is my first husband and also Blaise's father. His hairstyle is so charming and his eyes are so beautiful. Blaise is the crystallization of my love with him." Nalinda stroked the man in the photo frame, In the photo, she is wearing a wedding dress and smiling happily.
"This is my second husband, a Death Eater..."
Annie was surprised that Nalinda would say it directly, but Nalinda continued to say indifferently, "At that time, a widow with a young child, or in that cruel period, I had to seek some shelter, he was a lunatic, So I'm glad the Auror killed him. I too could have avoided the trouble of "the man" in the name of "Killing Husband" during that cruel time."
Nalinda smiled, "Everyone thought he was killed by an Auror...Annie, this is my little secret."
Annie swallowed, feeling that the woman in front of her was terrifying.She doesn't have any sternness on her body, it's just that in every wedding photo, her sunny smile is getting less and less, and more is a proud smile.
"Do you know why I have been married so many times, but only have one child, Brace?" Nalinda picked up the photo of Brace in her childhood again, "I don't want to have a second child to share Brace's love, I'm sorry for the kid..."
"why?"
"We could have been a happy family, but Blaise's father died so strangely... So far, I haven't found out who did it. Blaise had to watch his death at such a young age. Mother married one man after another...then they all died strangely...he must think his mother is terrible." Nalinda's eyes were dim.
"No, Blaise can understand you now." Annie comforted Nalinda.
"He is a very sensitive child. He used to imitate me and wanted to take revenge on me in this way, but now I can see that you have changed him. This is the case with Zabini's family. He It's my child, I can tell. Thank you."
Annie looked at Brace's photo, "No, it wasn't me who changed him, but himself. He used to be conceited, label himself, and associate with girls everywhere, but he wasn't like that, he Will deserve a good man to love him."
"Yes, everyone in the Zabini family is like this. Once they fall in love, they will treat her with all their sincerity... His father is the same, how much I was infatuated with your father at that time... But when I look back When I found him, I realized that there is another side of the world. But do you believe it? When I proposed to date him, he actually refused. He said he would wait until the moment I really fell in love with him, and It’s not the best thing to do…” When Nalinda recalled this passage, she couldn’t help but smile happily on her face.
They continued to talk about the story of the photo, and Anne heard a lot of embarrassing things about Blaise's childhood, and finally, they came to a graduation photo.
"That's the subject of our story today, your father, William Panick."
Anne stared at William, who was smiling so much that his gums were showing in his graduation photo, and he was flirting shamelessly outside.
"He's so...unique..." Annie really couldn't bear to complain about her own father in front of outsiders.
William Panik owes a lot to this picture!
"Yes, do you know who is behind him?" Nalinda pointed to a strange boy in the photo, he smiled softly, with brown curls and pale skin.
"Evan Rozier..." Annie said the name involuntarily, and Nalinda looked at Annie in surprise, "How do you know this name? Who told you?"
"I heard what my uncle said, and I think it will help me understand my father's past." Annie strengthened her thoughts.
Nalinda sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the rolling waves outside the window, and her memory was brought back 20 years ago.
"It's a long story..."
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Anne's heart was beating so fast, she couldn't believe William had ever done such a thing...
This completely overturned her understanding of William. She originally thought that William was just a narcissist with a bit of a second disease, who was good at protecting himself. She never thought that his past would be like this... Her eyes were sore, and she wanted to cry for him.
Evan Rozier's death... It can be said that William's impulse killed him, not some Auror.
She couldn't sleep all night, and her mental state was very poor the next day. The owl sat firmly by the window with the "Daily Prophet" in its mouth.
What came into view was the mysterious attack on Arthur Weasley, member of the Ministry of Magic!The murderer turned out to be William Panik? "
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Next chapter: There will be some third perspective, and William’s story will be elaborated in detail. William Panick’s perspective tells the story of Arthur’s attack/Lao Fu and Tangtang’s collusion perspective
The conspiracy drama has begun!In fact, at the beginning, I wanted to write to the end from Anne's perspective, but I was worried that it would not be easy to write a summary of this fifth-grade drama, and the end of fifth grade was also a watershed for the article.