Female Novel
Chapter 2157
Wanda carried the tea upstairs and saw that the two old masters were in fact sitting in the second-floorliving room playing chess.
“Dad, Old Master Crawford, have some tea first. The refreshments will only be done later." Wanda didnot mention the incident with Jean and Marie.
However, Old Man Rayne had heard about it from the maid. He waited until she put down the teabefore asking, "Has that girl left?"
"Dad, you know about it..." Wanda sighed resignedly.
"The maid was the one who helped me after I woke up from my nap. How could I not know? Hasn't itbeen some time since she came here? Why is she back?" Old Man Rayne may be old and in need ofaffection from his family, but he did not have even the slightest bit of affection for Marie.
He thought that Marie was gone for good. He did not expect her to come again today, which made himfeel disgusted.
In Wanda's haste to rush out, she forgot to inform the maid to not tell the old master about this. Shethen glanced at Old Master Crawford.
Old Man Rayne noticed it and said, "It's fine for him to hear about it. Just tell me what's going on."
Old Master Crawford added, "Yes, yes, don't treat me as an outsider. I want to hear what's going ontoo."
"That child has a boyfriend and said that she brought her boyfriend over to visit you. She even said thatshe bought a bunch of gifts for you," Wanda had no choice but to say as Old Master Crawford alsoknew about what had happened between the Rayne family and Marie.
She felt ashamed to say it in front of him.
"She wouldn't be so kind." Old Man Rayne picked up his teacup and took a slow sip.
Old Master Crawford was shrewd enough to notice the grim look on her face and asked, "Who is thatgirl's boyfriend?"
"It's Jean Langdon." Wanda did not try to hide it as she reckoned that Jean and Marie would not stopthere. They might still come over again. Fortunately, it was hard for the old master to walk, so he wouldnot step out of the house.
He would not be able to catch both of them red-handed and get worked up.
"Him?" Old Man Rayne was very familiar with that name. Even after all these years, he remembered allthe things Jean had done to Bianca back then because of his unrequited love.
"Didn't they break up?" said Old Man Rayne as he remembered clearly that Jean and Marie hadbroken up after getting together.
"I don't know why they're together again. They even said that they wanted to visit you, but the problemhas been resolved," said Wanda. She saw Old Master Crawford open up the chessboard and helpedset up the pieces.
"Jean is a troublemaker as well. I heard Luke mention that he caused trouble at a bar because of awoman and the person he beat up was sent to the ICU. After he survived the critical period, he wasmoved to the general ward but had a sudden heart attack. The doctors weren't there at the time, soLuca was the one who had to rescue the man," said Old Master Crawford with a tone of admiration forLuca.
"Inform the management about these two and tell the security guards to not let them in." The oldmaster just wanted to live in peace and quiet without being disturbed by all of this.
He also wanted his granddaughter to be by his side, but the granddaughter he had in mind wascertainly not Marie.
"I know," said Wanda. When Old Master Crawford was telling the story about Jean hurting people, shenoticed that he had mentioned a name. She asked out of curiosity, "Say, Old Master Crawford, are youclose with Luca?"
"Yes. Speaking of which, she's also my benefactor. Luke got her to check my pulse once, and she saidthat there was no big issue, just some geriatric diseases. Then, I had her stay back for dinner. After shedrank a bowl of tonic, guess what happened?" Old Master Crawford purposely stopped at a cliffhanger.
Old Man Rayne also had a good impression of Luca, so he was interested in what the other man had tosay. "What happened?"
"She noticed that there were herbs in the tonic that was not suitable for me to take, and my insomniawas caused by consuming the herbs. My condition was made worse because of the herbs," Old MasterCrawford explained after seeing how curious Old Man Rayne was.
However, he did not mention that Susan was the one who had the cook add the herbs.
There was a saying that he stood by, 'Don't air your dirty linen in public'.
"Luca is really brilliant," praised Old Man Rayne.
"You're right, there are not many people who are as knowledgeable as her about pharmacology at sucha young age," Old Master Crawford boasted. An all-rounder like her who was also good with childrenwas the best choice to replace Bianca to be by Luke's side.
Although Bianca was still Luke's legitimate wife, no one knew where she was.
Old Master Crawford felt that it was a shame, but he also had a selfish desire for Luke to be happy anduse that happiness to make up for his unfortunate childhood.
Wanda listened to Old Master Crawford's compliments and was confused. It seemed that Luca wasvery close to the old master.
Then, why did she look so nervous when she learned that Old Master Crawford was here?
Old Man Rayne looked at Wanda who was deep in thought and asked, "Wanda, what snacks do wehave today?"
"You'll find out later. I'll go down and help out first." Wanda left them in suspense. Although Luca hadvolunteered to prepare cookies for the old masters as a snack, she was unsure of how good hercooking skills were.
Therefore, she did not say anything on purpose. In case Luca did not do a good job, she could stillbring out the snacks she bought from the store to serve the two old masters.
"Alright, you go ahead." Old Man Rayne was unaware that Luca had come. He thought that she wasgoing downstairs to help the maid.novelbin
In the past, it would be fine to have no snacks, but Old Master Crawford was here, so snacks were amust. It would be best if they were not store-bought because that would lack sincerity.
Wanda went downstairs and walked into the kitchen to see that Luca had already prepared the doughand was ready to use the mold.
"Wow, you're so fast." Wanda was surprised to see that she was already molding cookies on the tray.
"Because you let the butter come to room temperature beforehand, so I was able to do it this quickly,"said Luca while her hand movements were neat and efficient.
Wanda watched her work as efficiently as a professional dessert chef. The cookies came out lookinggreat.
Although she did not know how they would taste, they looked good enough as they were.
"What can I do?" She had originally wanted to help, but it seemed like this was Luca's home turf.Wanda just watched from the sidelines, not knowing what to do. She was worried that if she insisted onhelping, she would be more of a hindrance instead.
"I also want to make some cupcakes for the two elderly, Aunt Rayne. Why don't you help me cracksome eggs?" said Luca.
"Alright, how many do you need?" Wanda thought that preparing more would also show their warmwelcome to Old Master Crawford, so she picked up a clean bowl.
"Six, for now. No need to separate the egg whites. Just beat it," said Luca.
"Okay." Wanda picked up the eggs, and one by one, she cracked a total of six eggs into the bowl.