Why it never ends

Chapter 84 Prayers for Gold Coins
This night, when Valenti returned to the base alone, it was already past nine o'clock at night.

Along the way, Valenti was in a daze. When Helu turned her head from the driver's seat and reminded her that she had arrived at her destination, Valenti woke up like a dream.

She kept thinking about Liz, and couldn't help crying.

At this point, everyone in the office building has already left work, and Valenti has to go back to put some documents. She rubbed her eyes while walking up the stairs. As soon as she reached her floor, she heard a familiar voice Voice, "Miss Valenti?"

Startled, Valenti took a closer look and found Hesta standing a few steps away from her, looking at her with concern.

"What's wrong with you, are you crying?"

Valenti sighed, "It's nothing, don't worry about it, I just thought of some sad things, I thought there was no one here, so I wanted to cry for a while..."

Valenti began to take a deep breath, adjusting the breath of her speech.

"Have you come to see me, Jane?"

"Yeah." Hesta nodded, "I want to look up some information, I asked a lot of teachers, and found that I can only look up from you."

"Oh, really." Valenti quickly took out the key, "Then you must have been waiting for a long time... Let's go to the office first."

Pushing open the door of the office, Valenti first went to the bathroom inside to wash her face, and when she reappeared, her mood had almost calmed down.

"What are you looking for, Jane?"

"Recently, has anyone outside the base asked to see me?"

"Huh?" Valenti looked up with some concern, "What kind of person?"

"It's just... I heard that some time ago, many people wrote emails to the base, wanting to visit me and even adopt me-I wonder if there are any such people after Miss Stella Viking's report was published ?”

Valenti reacted, "Oh, I see... There were indeed many people who sent us such emails a while ago, I'll check it out."

As she spoke, Valenti pretended to glance at Hesta casually. She had never seen such a vivid expression on Hesta's face—a mixture of anticipation, fear, joy, and anxiety.

She must... be expecting a message from someone.

"Name?" Valenti asked.

"I'm not sure...she could be any name."

"Is it a woman?"

"Yes," Hesta nodded, "female."

Valenti began to search, and although she didn't know the result yet, her heart sank a little—she remembered that most of the visit requests happened before Stella's report was published, and after that report, the public's attention to Hess Tower attitudes turned to the other extreme.

Under such circumstances, of course, one cannot hope that there will be any application for visitation...

However, after several clicks and carriage returns, Valenti's eyes lit up.

"...Eh, yes, there are, but they are not women."

Hesta's eyes also lit up, "Who is it?"

"One is the Baron Tanglars, the other is the Duke of Villefort, and both are new emails sent this afternoon-do you know them?"

Hesta was a little dazed, she thought for a while, then shook her head.

"I have some impression of the Duke of Villefort," Valenti tilted his head slightly, "he is my father's friend, and he is a very kind gentleman in the city of Tany—"

"Did they say why they want to see me?" Hesta asked, "Have they been entrusted by anyone?"

Valenti beckoned to Hesta, beckoning her to sit beside her.

Hesta couldn't wait any longer. Under Valenti's operation, she read through the emails of the two jazzes. However, the letters were just some clichés. I am concerned and hope to come to visit and meet the legendary Jane Hesta who is like a devil in person.

"These visitation applications are generally directly rejected by the base." Valenti said softly, "Or...do you want to meet them?"

Hesta sat there quietly and said nothing for a while.

"simple?"

"...No, no need." Hesta whispered, she got up and stood up, and the chair made a short friction sound on the ground, "I understand, thank you."

"Whom are you looking for, Jane?" Valenti asked again. "Do you have any other relatives in the third district?"

Hesta shook his head, "No more, Miss Valenti, I'm going back."

"and many more--"

Valenti took Hesta's hand.

"Wait, Jane."

Hesta turned around slowly, "...do you have anything else to do?"

"I met Masaki this afternoon, she has something for you, and I brought it back..."

As Valenti spoke, she began to rummage through her canvas bag. She took out two bunches of keys, a coin purse, three pens of different colors, two band-aids, two bonbons wrapped in tin foil, and three first The very popular black tea hard candy in the three districts...

"Ah, I found it, this one!"

Valenti finally pulled out a palm-sized paper bag from her bag, and she placed it in Hesta's palm.

"...what is this?" Hesta asked.

"You open it and take a look?"

Hesta opened the paper bag, and a gold coin slipped out.

"Pray for gold coins?"

Valenti laughed, "It seems that Masaki is right, she said that you should be able to recognize this thing when you see it."

Hesta's thumb lightly stroked the eagle on the reverse side of the coin. She turned the coin over, and unexpectedly saw a series of names on the front side. These densely packed names were written very small, and each name was closely connected to the next name. , forming a spiral winding slowly towards the center of the circle.

Valenti said softly: "Didn't Mazaki go to the [-]th district last month? When she passed Jiaozhi Mountain, she happened to meet some Hesta people who were holding a hundred-day banquet for one of their newborns. It was an accident. Such a gift. She originally planned to hand it over to you the day before yesterday...but she encountered some accidents and was delayed."

This time it was Valenti's turn to ask, "What is this?"

"This is... the prayer gold coin of the Hesta people," Hesta whispered. "Whenever a baby is born, people in the family will prepare a prayer gold coin for him, hoping that he will be healthy and safe."

"These runes are so beautiful, what do they write?"

"It's the name. After the child is born, the local priests will engrave the names of the seven generations of female elders in the family, and place the child's name at the place closest to the center of the circle, symbolizing that the elders in the family are surrounded by layers. Shelter the child in the safest place."

Hesta handed over the gold coin in her palm to Valenti so that she could see it more clearly.

Valenti thoughtfully as she gazed at the gold coin.

"...Then who are the names engraved here?"

(End of this chapter)