Victor couldn't help but feel chills running down his spine as he thought about this.
To be able to achieve this level, I am afraid that the foreign ancestral spirit has already buried more hidden power deep in the Greybean Empire.
So……
Should we save Abigail?
Saving her might expose him, and there is no way he can think of it yet...
Only by abandoning Miss Writer can he, Victor, protect himself perfectly.
After sitting on the futon and thinking for a long time, Victor never left his secret place.
The power of human beings is really too small... That's why mortals long for the extraordinary power transmitted secretly. Otherwise, they are just bugs in the gutter, rolled over by the wheels of history and turned into endless mud...
Slowly, Victor opened his eyes. He stared at the dense fog outside the open door, and he suddenly made a decision in his heart.
"Some things...you don't have to persevere when you see hope, but because you persevere...there is hope!"
…
Renekton's night came with a thunderous thunder, and a violent rainstorm swept the entire city from above.
At such moments, Stormwind Villa is the center of the strongest storm. As its name suggests, it is a natural attraction for lightning and thunder.
Dutch put on his nightgown, held a hand of hot coffee, and leaned on the soft sofa to taste it slowly.
Manager Parker beside him was putting candy cubes and cheese into the kettle in front of him little by little.
"How does it taste, Mr. Dutch?" Parker asked respectfully.
Daqi shook his hand: "Okay, no need to be sweet. Go down and see if Siqin is back. I want to see him."
After waiting for a while, Parker brought Siqin in front of Daqi and then stepped away.
Siqin took off his coat and hung it on the hanger on the side, then sat in front of Dutch with his legs crossed, still competing with his brother.
Since the last showdown, as long as the two brothers didn't talk about work, Xiqin would always look like this during normal interactions, with a risk-taking mentality.
Daqi has never argued with his younger brother, and it was the same today. He placed a stack of paper in front of Xiqin and asked him to pick it up and check it.
"What is this?" Xiqin raised his left eyebrow and squinted downwards.
He saw some addresses and statistical data, as well as the seal of the Greybean Empire.
"The Castle of Silodidire, built in 1553 in the Third Age, passed down from the then Silodidire Berkeley to today's Edward Berkeley II, covering an area of about 5.3 hectares (hectares), and the internal area alone is
There are 4.5 square meters. There are more than 1,000 rooms and more than 300 fireplaces in the castle. The largest room is St. George's Hall, which is about 55.5 meters long and can entertain 162 guests at a banquet. In addition to the magnificent interiors and gardens
, there are also some important collections in the castle, which are valuable..."
"Danlunqiu Farm is half an hour's drive from the city of Velun. It covers an area of 55 square hectares, about 31 square hectares of mountain forest, and thousands of acres of orchards. The forest coverage rate exceeds 70%."
"The Glorious Royal Racecourse is located about 50 kilometers north of the center of Velen. It includes castles, forests, and racecourses. It covers an area of 65 hectares. It is a place where princes and nobles often hunt. The main track is 2,400 meters long.
The other one is 2,150 meters long, and there is a track ranging from 1,400 to 2,400 meters.”
…
The stack of paper was filled with this kind of real estate information. After reading a few pages, Xiqin roughly understood the situation.
"Are these the assets of Greybean?"
"Yes..." Dutch leaned lazily on the sofa, "But these are all mine... Since the death of Uncle Edward and a bunch of uncles I have never met, I inherited the Berkeley family's stay in the Western Continent.
Everything, if converted, will not be less than millions of francs."
Siqin put down the paper, frowned and said nothing. This amount of money seemed astronomical to other people who were not so wealthy, but for their family branch that runs Baofeng Bank...
Actually it’s nothing…
"Then what? What do you mean by showing this to me? Showing off how rich you are? That doesn't look like you, brother."
"No……"
Dutch shook his head slightly, then glanced at his "wife" who was taking care of the child on the balcony behind him.
"Queen Victoria hopes that I will transfer these assets to the state of Greybean, free of charge..."
As soon as these words came out, Xiqin sat upright in an instant: "What? Why did Her Majesty the Queen do this? The relationship between us has not always been..."
"It's pretty good, but now she's in a predicament that's hard to get out of... Well, it should be that the entire Greybean is in trouble. The Jotun disaster has caused a serious deficit in the empire's finances, and she is trying every means
Prepare funds." Dutch took a sip of coffee and looked at his brother.
"No... this is too shameless. What can she give us? Although we don't need the overpriced land in the Western Continent at all, but... we don't owe her anything, and her position still depends on us...
"
"But our family has also received a lot of care after he took office, especially related to trade tariffs..." Daqi interrupted Siqin, making him unable to refute.
Xiqin's expression was complicated, and he had mixed feelings in his heart. He finally sighed and said, "Okay! You are the owner of this family, and they are all your assets. You can do whatever you want with it! Tell me what to do! If it's okay, I'll go back to sleep!"
After saying that, Xiqin grabbed his coat and wanted to leave.
But at this moment, Dutch suddenly stopped him and said something that completely surprised him.
"I want to give all of this to you, Siqin, are you willing to accept it?"
Xiqin's body suddenly froze in place, and she turned back to look at her brother in disbelief.
Dutch continued: "We don't owe Her Majesty the Queen, and Her Majesty doesn't owe us, so I can refuse any of her requests... The Queen has a blood relationship with the Berkeley family itself, and she will not turn against me because of this. This is very important to today."
The situation in the empire is harmful rather than beneficial...and what I want is to at least leave something behind for you."
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Dutch continued: "You have been my foil since you were a child. The family legacy and inheritance have never considered you. And the only wife you longed for eventually married me. Even if you had an affair with her later, I still think that
, you actually deserve this."
"Besides, the child is dead now. It's not my son who died, but your son..."
Upon hearing this, Xiqin's eyes immediately turned red.
Dutch raised his head and looked at his brother: "Now I give you two choices. One is to continue to stay with me and live in Storm Mountain Villa as Dutch's foil. I will stop any storm for the family... and the second
The choice is to return to the Western Continent to inherit everything you just saw, completely separate from me, become your own lineage, and be yourself!"
Assets of several million francs are nothing to Baofeng Bank, but if they belong to personal entrepreneurial funds...
That’s too! Too! Too! Too much!
Siqin has always felt that he is living in the shadow of Daqi, and he always wants to leave the family, but because of the existence of a certain woman, he has never been able to let go...
After listening to Dutch's suggestion, Siqin turned his attention to the balcony, where the woman he loved was taking care of the baby in the cradle, smiling like a flower.
"What should I do with Shasa?" Siqin asked with a trembling voice.
"I decided to send the child to an orphanage..." Dutch replied coldly, "throw him out of the Berkeley family completely."
"What?" Siqin couldn't believe it, "That's just an innocent child, and if he is sent away, Shasa's mental state..."
"That's what you should care about!"
Dutch's tone was as calm as his mood, and the baby's cry on the balcony suddenly stopped.
"Take Shasa away and go to the Western Continent together!"
The elder brother actually gave up his wife, a decision that Siqin never expected.
I don’t know what the other person has been through, why he suddenly became open-minded and willing to help him...
Logically speaking, Siqin should be extremely happy now, but for some reason, his heart is extremely complicated.
"You mean...let me take Shasa..."
"Fly away, it's best not to come back. I'll declare to the outside world that Shasa is dead." Daqi closed his eyes slightly and stopped talking, as if leaving time for Siqin to go down and think for himself.
…
After Xiqin left, Dutch suddenly coughed violently, probably because he choked on his coffee.
He stood up, hammered his chest, sighed and shook his head.
"That's all I can do for you. I hope you won't hate us anymore from now on, brother..."
After muttering to himself for a moment, Dutch realized that the child's cry had disappeared.
At first, he thought the child had fallen asleep, so he walked to the balcony, only to find that Shasa and the child on the balcony were gone!?
Dutch's expression changed, and with a loud bang, a thunder crashed down and pierced the sky. All the lights in the room behind him were extinguished in an instant, and the entire room was suddenly swallowed up by darkness.
"Sasa!?! Sasa!?"
Dutch kept calling his wife's name, and the bad feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger.
"Parker! Parker!?"
He called to the supervisor again, but he got no response after shouting many times.
Immediately afterwards, he wanted to leave the room, but he couldn't open the door that Xiqin had just opened when he left!
"Someone locked the door from the outside?" Dutch couldn't help but feel chilled. He thought of a terrible thing, but it was not clear yet.
Next, he called out the names of the servants, but still no one came to check for any abnormalities in the room.
There was darkness and silence all around, with only the thunder and lightning roaring outside.
Then, he heard a singing voice...
A woman sings a lullaby.
"I will rock you in the cradle and sleep peacefully. The night is quiet and the quilt is warm. All the happy wishes in the world belong to you..."
Dutch, who had always been extremely calm, finally felt frightened.
He didn't see anyone in the room, but he could hear Shasa singing, and that sound came from the balcony where Shasa was sitting!
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Under the storm, Xiqin left the big house with mixed feelings. He walked alone to the entrance of the back garden, stood under the cover of the dome, and stared at the heavy rain, lightning and thunder outside, but did not take a step.
"So it turns out that I have been wrong about Dutch all this time..."
The complexity in Xiqin's heart was beyond description, but no matter what, the traces of joy kept flooding into her heart.
He could finally take Shasa away and enjoy his own happiness.
With happiness and desire, Siqin raised her head and looked at the balcony above the mansion, where Shasa often put her children to sleep.
But when he looked over, he found that Shasa was not on the balcony.
Xiqin's face was slightly stunned. Before he could react, he suddenly heard a scream, and then a figure in a nightgown rushed out of the house like crazy!
The man bared his teeth and claws and ran away, feeling as if his whole body was being bitten by bloodthirsty insects.
He directly smashed through the Aquarius Pillar guardrail on the balcony and jumped straight down from the several-story balcony!
Plop! In front of Xiqin, the man was smashed to pieces on the hard rock ground not far away...
Xiqin's heart also jumped violently. He covered his mouth with trembling hands and quickly ran over to check, regardless of the fierce rain hitting him.