Upon seeing her enter, Charles felt that if he did not go in, he was not manly enough. After taking a deep breath, he shivered and followed Sonia into the old manor. As the old manor had not been inhabited for a long time, it was completely covered with cobwebs and dust while looking exactly like a haunted mansion in movies. Thus, it was no wonder that he had wondered about ghosts.

It was after Sonia wiped a handful of dust off the table that she thought of something.

"Baby." His voice sounded behind her.

She patted the dust off her hands, then asked, "What's wrong?"

"Where are your grandfather's notes?" He was holding a broom that he found from somewhere and waved it while asking.

While pointing in the direction of the study, she answered, "It's over there, but it's way too dirty here. Let's clean this place up first before searching for the notes later."

"Yeah, we should do some cleaning; otherwise, there's no way to stay here tonight." Charles nodded in agreement.

Thus, Sonia opened her suitcase and took out from it a few towels that she brought. "Let's get started then."

"Okay, you wipe the tables and chairs while I’ll remove the cobwebs and sweep the floor," he said as he stopped waving the broom.

"Sounds like a plan," she concurred. "I'll go to the well to get some water."

the backyard where

the two began to work for hours on end; it wasn’t until 4:00PM that they were done with cleaning the large place. They were now bone-tired and lay on the respective benches to

"Baby, t-this is the first time I’ve done so much

so I will make some delicious treats for you later." Sonia was also

"Okay. I want to eat fish, though. Is

fish at the village head's house. A few years ago, I even went to buy some from there, so I’ll just

great." He happily

you make the bed

seemed that tonight, he would stay in that room. "So, baby, which room will

to look at her and offered, "I'll make your bed

his offer sounded alright, she pointed to the room opposite his. "That's the one. That's the room

Charles clapped his hands

straight to the old man's study. The study had just been cleaned, which was why it was spotless and clean. She came to the desk and began to search for the notes. Since the document was not difficult to locate, she managed to find it in the second drawer. After flipping through it to confirm that it was the one Leonard had asked her to get, she closed it and was

photo album?" Sonia saw a pink photo album that was underneath the notes and couldn't help but reach out to take it out. The album was small and only palm-sized, but it was voluminous. What really aroused her curiosity was that she had never

an extremely old one. In fact, it was probably more than 10 years old, so it was impossible for

search for anything, but whenever she entered Leonard’s study, he would instruct her not to open this particular drawer of his desk, as if there was something there that he didn't want

was in this drawer in addition to the notes, he probably didn’t want her to see it. As for how she knew it wasn’t the notes that he refused to let her see, it was because she had seen all of his other archaeological notes; he definitely wouldn’t have

fell on the photo album that she held in

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