"Um." Although it was a bit strange that there were only three people in the family photo, Leon, who had seen other photos of himself and his parents, did not think too much about this photo. He just asked casually: "When was this photo taken? Why is it that you are the only one in the family photo, not the three of us?" "It was just a mistake in the photo studio." Seeing that Leon didn't think much about it, Anna couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied in as calm a voice as possible: “When we were taking pictures, the last family had just left, and the person collecting the scenery left the family photo sign, and there was this photo. Although my mother was a little dissatisfied and wanted them to remove the sign and take another photo, my father liked my mother's smile in the photo, and the people in the photo studio were willing to charge only half of the price, so he made do with it. " "So this is ah……" After nodding with a sudden look on his face, Leon lay on the bed and breathed in hissingly, and then said indifferently: "What about the three of us? Why were you the only one there at that time?"
"Because Melanie and the others were only born the following year, and this photo was originally taken for me." Ana opened the photo album and rummaged through it, took out a photo with the same background and handed it over, and then said with a smile: "It was a community public school exam. Your score was last in the school, but I got first place. My mother asked me what gift I wanted, and I said I wanted a photo to commemorate it. Well, the badge I wear on my chest was given to the first place student by the school at that time. Although I also wanted to get you to take the photo with me, you were so awkward at the time, saying that your grades were not good, and refused to take the photo together. In the end, you had no choice. They only took photos of us. " "Ah...were I so stubborn when I was a child?" Hearing the embarrassing things about his childhood, Leon, who had no relevant memories, couldn't help but scratch his head, looked up at Anna's expression, and said with some embarrassment: "Then you weren't disappointed at that time, were you?" "That's not true, because I actually did it on purpose." After smiling evilly at Leon, the sickly girl said with a smile: "When I was little, you always liked to compete with me for things, even my dolls, but you could run faster than me, jump higher than me, be stronger than me, and even eat more than me. I hate it so much. . Fortunately, you were very naughty at the time and had always been poor at studying. I was still a little better than you, so I took advantage of that opportunity and made you angry, so that you got awkward and didn't want to take pictures with me. " "You really...have been so vindictive since you were a child." After shaking his head speechlessly, Leon, who was lying on the bed, waved his hands and said: "Okay, now that the ointment is finished, you should go back to bed quickly. We have to get up early tomorrow!" "Then I'll go back. You should also be careful when you sleep. Don't touch it again." You knew it would hurt if you touched me, but you still hit me so hard! "I know, I know!" After imitating his sister and rolling his eyes at her, Leon turned his head to look at the small window of the second bedroom and asked casually with his back to the door: "By the way, are you sure my birthday is correct?"
? ! ! ! After hearing Leon's question, Anna, who was about to leave, trembled all over, and then whispered without looking back: "How could it be wrong? Why did you suddenly think of asking this?" "Actually, it's nothing. I just met a fortune teller who is said to be very accurate." Leon, who was lying on the bed, narrowed his eyes, then yawned and said: "She asked me my birthday and then made random calculations, and everything she calculated was inaccurate. Maybe she felt that she couldn't save her face, but she must have said that the birthday I told her was wrong... Haha, she can't walk on three legs. If you insist on complaining about uneven road construction, do you think it’s funny or not?” "That depends on whether you pay or not." Hearing Leon's casual question, Ana, who was relieved, regained her composure and replied with a smile: "If you didn't pay, then she was funny, and if you paid, then you were funny~" "Go, go, I think you're so funny! It's so late, go back to bed!" After showing off the "majesty of the eldest brother" and driving away his sister who was teasing him, he looked at Anna who breathed a sigh of relief in the reflection in the small window and opened the door to leave in a hurry. Leon's brows could not help but frown. Although Anna concealed it well, there was still something unnatural in the end. It might not be noticeable to others, but to Leon, who had been with her day and night for several months and spent two years in hell together, these unnatural places were really too obvious. She is hiding something from me... According to Anna's character, after seeing the photo dropped, she would probably just say "Oh, why did it drop?" instead of making such a big deal. Later, she stopped packing her luggage and sat by the bed, as if she was deliberately giving it to her. The same opportunity to ask your own questions. Also, judging from her appearance in the photo, it was at least seven or eight years ago, or even longer, but after hearing her question, she directly answered it without even recalling it. In just a few words, he narrated everything that happened that year. Everything was explained so perfectly that there was almost no room for doubt. It was as if it had been rehearsed countless times in advance. When asked about her birthday later, her obviously startled expression in the reflection in the small window directly confirmed my judgment. Just as the black goat said, the probability of the Lord of the Starry Sky making a mistake is almost zero, so the day he went to the water conservancy company was indeed his birthday. And Anna's strange behavior proved that she must know something, but for some reason, she didn't want to tell him the truth, and even made up a lie in advance... Faced with these evidences that were almost ready to come out, Leon, who had been influenced by all kinds of bloody plots in his previous life, almost instantly came up with a natural guess. So... I was adopted? After this rather bloody thought came up, Leon, who was in an extremely complicated mood, immediately got out of bed, tiptoed to the packed luggage, took out the old photo album and flipped through it. However, after looking at the old photos for a while, Leon turned his head again and looked at the small window. Looking at the black hair in the reflection that was exactly the same as his father's, and the handsome eyebrows and eyes that were very similar to his mother, he couldn't help but feel troubled for a while. Even if the adopted child was not a stranger, but a cousin's child, it would be unlikely to have the characteristics of both sides at the same time, right? Am I thinking too much? … With a lot of unresolved confusion, Leon tossed and turned until the second half of the night, and barely managed to sleep for a short while. When it was just dawn, although he was far from getting enough sleep, he was awakened by Anna and learned that the carriage had arrived. Leon had to get up in a daze, carry his luggage and walk to the entrance of Veteran Lane. After forcing himself to stuff the luggage into the cargo box and telling the coachman who had rented it in advance about the location, Leon, who had only slept for more than an hour, got into the four-person carriage with his equally drowsy brother and sister.
Anna, who followed him into the carriage, looked at him so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes, and couldn't help but complain with both anger and amusement: "Brother! Didn't you go to bed early yesterday? Why are you so sleepy now?" "Yesterday... Huh... My mind was a bit confused last night... I didn't sleep much in the first half of the night... Um... Let me lean on you for a while..." As the carriage swayed, his body leaned to the side and leaned on Anna's shoulder, who looked a little flustered. Leon, who was really sleepy, squinted his eyes, and with three points of temptation and twelve thousand points of seriousness, he whispered in her ear: "Don't worry... I don't have to ask about anything you don't want to say. Also, you can actually rely on me as much as I rely on you... I promise you that no matter what happens in the future, you will always be my sister."