Thalia's peripheral vision glanced at Merkel's frown. Dissatisfaction was already written on the butler's face. Thalia knew what he was dissatisfied with.
This is a very luxurious manor, and every decoration has the name of the upper class, and she just jumped off the roof and landed in the garden. Any manor housekeeper has the right to pick up a shotgun and shoot such an uninvited guest.
gun.
But Schiller opened the door to welcome her, and even served her wine and food. He chose a common polite topic in upper class society, talking about a person that both parties knew.
In this environment, all of Schiller's behaviors were normal, even tolerant and patient, but all of Thalia's behaviors seemed to be crazy, and they were like the kind of persecutory paranoia that makes unreasonable assumptions about others and malicious associations.
Out of anger leads to madness.
No matter how loud Thalia's instincts screamed, no matter how dangerous her killer instinct told her how dangerous Schiller was, no matter how many ways Thalia imagined Schiller to kill her, in the real world, Schiller was
Nothing is done, is it?
This makes Thalia's various excessive emotions very inappropriate, extremely unseemly, and even completely rude and deserving of criticism.
Thalia tried her best to suppress her anger, but even so, she couldn't put on a smile and say sorry to Schiller.
Schiller obviously ignored her, why should she apologize?
Thalia sat there with a cold face, ignoring the red wine stains on the back of her hands and on the table, picked up the wine glass and took two sips of cold red wine, which made her brain a little clearer.
"Are you going to respond to my father's solicitation?" Thalia herself could hear how stiff her tone was. It sounded like a warning that contained a personal threat.
Merkel had completely come in from the door, putting on a defensive posture, as if to guard against this crazy woman going crazy further, but Thalia gradually no longer felt weird, and she even understood Merkel's so
The idea of doing it.
He is just a housekeeper who knows nothing. Thalia thought that when a guest spoke to her master in such a tone, she would inevitably guess that her next step would be an explicit threat. And if things develop to this point,
In order to keep her job, Merkel must also ask rude guests out.
"It's too early to call this solicitation, miss." Schiller sat back down with an elegant gesture. He gently put the handkerchief back into his pocket and still said in a calm tone:
"We just had a little exchange of views on the world. It would be of great benefit to me to talk to your father. He is a learned man. I will visit him if possible."
"You can't go!" Thalia said immediately, her tone rising.
Schiller seemed to be shocked again, and then he looked at Thalia with that doubtful look.
Thalia felt a little proud in her heart. She finally made this calm man succeed. Thalia thought Schiller must be wondering why she objected.
"Don't worry, miss." Schiller said, "If you mind, I will try my best to avoid mentioning you during the communication with your father."
Schiller chose to appease...how could he choose to appease?!
Thalia was furious again, which proved that Schiller chose to give up thinking about her logic from the beginning and just wanted to appease her emotions.
This situation usually only occurs when adults choose to appease the crying of too young children or respond to the barking of pet cats and dogs.
Because when faced with children who have no ability to think independently and cats and dogs who cannot communicate at all, it is meaningless to think about the logic behind their crying.
Just like people don't think about why dogs must go outside to play, and what happiness is brought to dogs by playing Frisbee. They only need to know the logic of dog behavior, that is, dogs will be happy when they go out to play, and then decide what to do.
Don't take your dog out to play when it barks.
When they decide not to take the dog out to play, they will not wonder why the dog cannot understand that the weather is bad today and cannot go out to play. They will only choose to appease the dog's emotions and calm them down as soon as possible.
They know very well that saying things like "The weather is bad today so you can't go out to play" at the dog has no practical effect. It is just to express an attitude to appease the noisy pet.
But if it's a client at work or a partner in life, they will do their best to explain to each other how bad the weather is that prevents them from going out.
The reason why the sentence "Calm down your anger first" will make the other person even more angry is because it will make the person who hears this sentence feel a kind of humiliation caused by not paying attention, as if he has become that dog.
He believes that the most fundamental reason why the other party does not want to reason with him is that he has never regarded him as an equal intelligent creature. In this case, soothing his emotions will only be counterproductive.
The correct approach is naturally to apply it in reverse, that is, pay attention to the other person's thinking logic and ask him "What do you think" and "Why do you think so".
Of course, there will also be people who speak confusingly and cannot express their thoughts clearly at all. At this time, you only need to be a repeater and keep repeating "Can you say it again? I didn't understand" until the other person is confused.
Just run until you are tired.
As for the accusations along the way, such as "Why are you so stupid?" and "I've said it so clearly and you still don't understand, are you stupid?" you only need to accept them all. Once the vast majority of such people feel that you have completely listened.
If you don't understand human language, you will never be a victim of their unrestrained output of opinions.
As long as you take turns adhering to the two viewpoints of "you are crazy" and "I am crazy", there will no longer be any difficulty in interpersonal communication.
But now, Schiller only wanted to appease Thalia's emotions and did not care about her thinking logic at all, which completely angered Thalia, because this confirmed Thalia's previous assumption, that Schiller completely ignored her.
She probably just sees her as a crying baby.
In fact, Thalia is very good at handling all kinds of dangerous confrontations because of her rich experience, but she has almost never dealt with a situation where others completely ignored her.
From a realistic point of view, Thalia is indeed not a person who is easily ignored. She is very beautiful and full of aggression. Men who have no courage imagine her, and men who have courage pursue her.
Even if Bruce only regards her as a simple enemy, he still has to arrange a banquet carefully, create a poison that Thalia will not detect, and even call on his accomplices to make complete preparations.
Precisely because Thalia was difficult to deal with in every aspect, she had never experienced a situation where the other party treated her like a helpless baby.
Thalia simply felt ridiculous. Why did Schiller dare to treat her like this? Did he think that since she had no weaknesses, she didn't have to worry about others becoming her targets?
Thalia stood up following the dangerous thoughts in her heart. She rushed behind Merkel at an extremely fast speed and grabbed his neck.
"Stand there and don't move." Thalia said coldly.
And Schiller's face showed the confusion and doubt that made Thalia angry, as if he had done nothing and Thalia suddenly went crazy.
Thalia realized that this was the case. Judging from the angry expression on the face of the housekeeper she held hostage, it seemed that in the eyes of others, she was making trouble unreasonably.
Schiller also stood up from the sofa. He said with a helpless attitude that drove Thalia crazy: "This is a bit too much, miss. Even if my words are offensive, you should not involve my housekeeper."
, he is just an ordinary person, please let him go, okay?"
Just as Thalia was about to say something, Schiller interrupted her and said: "Calm down, miss, I know you may just be impulsive. I apologize again for my offense."
Thalia felt that the muscles in her throat were constantly twitching. The unbearable sourness and the pressure that kept rising made her not know what to say. Why was Schiller still trying to soothe her emotions?! Why didn't he pay attention to what she was doing?
The reason?!
Thalia felt that she might have stood there thinking for a long time, because when she came back to her senses, a trace of cold anger finally appeared on Schiller's face.
Is he going to take action? Thalia tightened her fingers a little more, feeling nervous and excited. She didn't think she could defeat this man completely, but a fight was the best way to solve this confusing situation.
.
But Schiller didn't take action. He just walked quickly to the nearby telephone desk with a slight anger. While dialing, he looked at Thalia and said: "I'm afraid I have to tell your father about your rude behavior, Thalia."
Miss, this will make me reconsider the necessity of cooperating with your father..."
Thalia froze on the spot. She glanced down at Merkel's neck, which she was holding in her hand, and then at Schiller's dialing action. She almost screamed: "Why don't you attack me?
!I kidnapped your butler!!!"
Schiller just shook his head and sighed helplessly. After the call was connected, he said to the other party as if he was suppressing his anger: "Mr. Lei Xiaogu, I'm sorry for contacting you again so soon. There is something about your daughter.
I had to……"
Schiller paused when she said this, and Thalia could clearly hear Lei Xiaogu interrupting her.
"Oh, yes, I remember you mentioned something about cooperation... No, I'm afraid we can't talk about this topic for the time being, because your daughter did some very disrespectful things in my manor, and she is even holding her hostage now.
With my butler..."
Schiller glanced at Thalia with his peripheral vision as he spoke. Soon he took the phone receiver and said to Thalia: "Miss Thalia, your father asked you to answer the phone."
"Tell him I won't answer!"
Schiller's eyes widened slightly, as if he had been shocked again. Thalia couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't want to see Schiller's innocent attitude as if he had done nothing but just dealt with a madman unilaterally.
, so she threw Merkel aside, rushed forward and took the handset of the mobile phone.
Thalia could not help but point out the hostile relationship between the League of Assassins and Schiller, and then blatantly attacked him.
But Lei Xiaogu on the other end of the phone said in a low voice: "Go and apologize to Professor Rodriguez."
Thalia's eyes widened, and she stood by the phone receiver like an ice sculpture, and then she couldn't help but roared: "What the hell are you doing? Aren't we..."
"Don't say stupid things, you idiot! Professor Rodriguez is our future partner, and you stupidly took his butler hostage. Now go and apologize to him!"
"No way!!!" Thalia screamed.
"This is an order!" Lei Xiaogu's voice had no emotion at all. He said, "You know the consequences of disobeying orders, and we will discuss your reckless punishment when we get back."
At this time, Thalia realized a cold reality - her dignity was nothing compared to the benefits that Schiller could bring to the League of Assassins.
Although Thalia thought she had long been accustomed to nothing being greater than his ideal in Lei Xiaogu's eyes, when the knife pierced her heart in an unprecedented cold way, she still felt a
Pain and chills that invade the whole body.
She hung up the phone with a somewhat slow movement and stood in front of the phone desk in silence for a long time.
Suddenly, Thalia turned her head and saw Schiller, who had sent Merkel out of the room, standing in the center of the room again, as silent as a mountain.
Thalia tugged at the corners of her mouth stiffly, trying to maintain her last dignity with a smile. She said nonchalantly: "You know he doesn't care..."
She could hear the tremor in her own voice, like a vase shattered by a dart.
Thalia imagined that Schiller must be very proud at this time, because his attitude towards her was completely correct. Lei Xiaogu's indifferent attitude proved that even her biological father would abandon her in the face of interests, and who would have to pay attention to her?
"Thank you for letting go of my butler, miss."
Schiller turned sideways to get the air conditioner remote control placed on the table, raised his head and used the buttons to adjust the air conditioner temperature, then put one hand on the back of the sofa and looked at Thalia, and said:
"I see you are shivering. Maybe the temperature of the air conditioner is too low. Do you still feel cold now?"
Thalia just hunched her shoulders, folded her arms and lowered her head, shaking her head silently, while Schiller walked to his desk.
Thalia looked up at his back and thought of the metaphor that made her angry before.
At this time, she understood another meaning from Zhongpian - instead of just needing a vicious dog to bite the enemy's owner, at least the man in front of her would comfort her, right?
When encountering a similar situation in reality: Run!!! Run without looking back!!!