Chapter 15: A dilemma
If you can open the sea and the sky, it doesn't hurt to take 10,000 steps back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoBut the father's retreat will eventually fall into the abyss.
But on the flip side, what about in?
Where to go? How to get in?
In his previous life, Roy was still young and didn't know much about the social classes of the Federation. But now she knew exactly what a count's title meant. It usually means that the person who holds the title has an annual profit from the assets of his immediate family as much as the net income of tens of thousands of well-to-do families combined, that he has intertwined kinship with people in the upper echelons of the world, and that his social networks have access to government agencies at the highest levels of the federal government.
But on the other hand, this also means that the person's expenses are very large. Even if it is a private ball, the money and materials spent can provide an ordinary household with food and drink for two or three years. Even if it is missed once, it will cause an irreparable blow to its reputation in aristocratic circles. The so-called reputation will directly affect whether this nobleman can keep his position in the government and whether the business activities carried out in his name will be smooth. The aristocracy who is not popular in the circle will have difficulties in food, clothing, housing and transportation.
This series of causal relationships caused the nobility's expenses to reach staggering levels. And in order to ensure that "only the most elite people in the elite circle", the Federation established a mechanism for the demotion of the nobility. But if the nobles go bankrupt, the title will be stripped away. It's not like you'll get civilians all the way, but it's enough to make people lose face. The nobles who don't produce all day long are idle and only gossip, and any slightest disturbance by anyone is enough to make him laughed at by the whole circle, and then he can't get mixed up at all.
Therefore, the higher the title, the more the nobleman will try his best to make money, and try his best to save his face as a nobleman.
And for the families of the deceased, what could be better than confiscating all her and her father's property, and then executing their father and daughter to get both money and face?
The interior of the Federation has long been rotten to the roots. In such an environment, fighting with powerful people is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.
Stretching out the head and shrinking the head is also a knife, what can I do.
Roy pondered.
Look at her like that, and her father patted her hand lovingly. "Don't be in such a hurry. Hasn't my father been arrested yet? If you go out once, you might be able to break out of your life. ”
"That's right. Father, there's still a month! Why is there another month? Roy grabbed another lifesaver, "There's still a turnaround, right?" Let's talk about it, let's figure it out together. ”
The father did not speak.
The calm gaze cooled the hope that had been rekindled in Roy's heart little by little.
This month is the last delay that my father can do.
After that, maybe there will be a turnaround. But the hope was slim and the risks were so great that my father had to plan for the worst.
And the first and perhaps the only thing he did was to marry her and cut off the ties between them, so that she could stay away from the danger he posed.
"The entrance to the vein of the Dowry Planet has a genetic lock that only you can open. No matter who owns the property rights of the Dowry Planet, no one will want to mine even the size of a fingernail without your nod of approval. I've investigated Vincent's family background, and if I want to pay off all the bad debts of their family, there will be almost no inheritance except for the dowry planet. In the end, they still have to live on the dowry planet in your hands. You have become the bread and butter of the Cook family, and they can only please you, provide for you, and let you live like a princess. ”
Father said earnestly.
“…… So, I still have to marry Vincent. ”
The father paused, then nodded.
Roy is getting colder.
I just wanted to cool down. At this moment, she felt that her skin, muscles, five organs, and bones, little by little, were eaten away by the extreme cold, and gradually turned into cold dead meat.
After working again and doing so much, she still has to go back to the old way.
"Son, if you really hate Vincent, think he's a boat, but just run for your life through him." Observing Roy's expression, his father cautiously persuaded him, "When the wind calms down, you can give him a few dollars and send him away." ”
Anyway, by that time, his case should have been settled and forgotten. Without the protection of the Countess's name, Roy would not have been harmed.
But thinking of what Vincent's mother did today, my father couldn't help but get angry.
Finally relieved, he also felt unsafe, and after thinking for a while, he made a decision: "Otherwise, let's make a cut of the Cook family first." First of all, cut off the dead branches and leaves that do not need to exist, if there are still people who do not know the current affairs, when you get the name of the countess, it is enough to protect yourself, and the remaining rotten roots and empty stumps have no value in existing. ”
It took Roy a moment before he realized what his father was referring to.
Is this comparison of human life to a withered branch and a person who is so calm that it is almost an understatement really his father who is stoic and gentle, who thinks about others everywhere?
…… Oh yes. Father is not thinking about others, but only for her.
The former father must have been ruthless in his decision. Star thief Luo Xiu doesn't like to take people's lives, it doesn't mean that he doesn't dare to kill, and it doesn't mean that he hasn't killed anyone.
Roy knew that his father was very reluctant to be a star thief again. He was completely forced to take that path back then.
Sensing Roy's shock, his father smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "You don't have to worry about father. Anyway, I already have an earl's life on me, and it doesn't matter if I have more or less. ”
Vincent can be put aside for a while. But if Roy really married, Vincent's mother would never be able to stay.
Rosho began to think about how to make Vincent's mother disappear without a word.
Seeing his father talking and talking, touching his chin and falling into deep thought, a layer of cold sweat silently oozed from Roy's back.
“…… Father, you don't really want to ......"
"Huh?" Father came back to his senses and smiled hurriedly, "No, no, no. ”
Don't tell Roy. She's too small, don't scare her.
Roy was dumbfounded: "Don't be impulsive! ”
One count's life was enough for my father to drink a pot. One more, does my father still have a way to live?
Well, even if the "rotten roots and empty stumps" can be left there, the "dead branches and leaves" that must be swept away are still a countess, and the status is about the same as that of an earl.
When my father made this choice, he had actually given up on himself by default.
How can this work?
Besides, it probably won't work. If she wants to get the title of countess through Vincent, she must marry Vincent. But it was on the wedding day that Vincent attacked her and her father. Father is too late!
Father's newsletter chirped softly. It turned out that the guards reported the results of the search for Wei Yuan. No trace of the Man in Black was found.
That's right. Men in Black.