The Battle Song of the Three Angels, Chapter 32, Mr. Reuben, the Strange Man

Compared with his strange penchant for residential taste, Mr. Reuben should be regarded as a relatively kind old man. The moment we arrived at the gate of the castle after a long journey, we saw the emaciated and tall figure of Mr. Reuben looking at us with a warm smile.

"Hey, welcome, Leonard, it's going to be hard work. How about a cup of tea and relaxation? Mr. Ruben greeted him affectionately.

"yes, it's really hard." I replied unceremoniously. Although my image is much better than Luna's gray face, my clothes are inevitably stained with black gray stains. However, Mr. Reuben is a model of old man, and he continues to smile and lead us through the door without care.

As soon as I entered the gate, I realized that the interior of the castle was not as eerie as it appeared from the outside, although it was a little dim due to the lack of lighting, but the proper decoration and furnishings fully appreciated the unique elegance and nobility of the European aristocracy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Luna kept looking around as if she had entered the Grand View Garden, wishing she could have more eyes.

"Well, my castle is pretty good." Mr. Ruben boasted a little proudly: "This is a real European castle of the seventeenth century, and I dismantled it into pieces and transported it by a spaceship." ”

"Indeed, it's really beautiful." Luna was already a little dazzled, first by Mr. Reuben's astonishing momentum, and then by such an amazing human treasure, that she couldn't reflect it for a while.

"It's really flavorful, but I'm afraid it took a lot of effort to transport it, not to mention the cost of transportation, but it is not a simple matter to get the Earth government to agree to sell this antique."

"You're right." Mr. Ruben said with some gloom: "At the beginning, the property of our Faletni family was more than 10 billion, and the value of the property confiscated by the corrupt officials of the Earth Government later under the pretext of far exceeding this ancient castle. Those days on Earth can only be remembered by this ancient castle. He sighed again.

In the week before this, out of curiosity, I had deliberately searched for some information about the old man in front of me who could be deeply respected by the entire PLANT government, and I also had some knowledge of his life.

The life of Mr. Reuben could definitely be written as a thick legendary novel. He was born in an ancient aristocratic family in Europe on Earth - the Faletni family, but because he was an illegitimate child and had no inheritance rights, he could only get a living allowance every month, and lived a slightly better life than ordinary people. If that's all there is, it's very simple, although bastards are not a good thing, but the big families on Earth have often encountered this kind of situation for hundreds of years, and the usual solution is to live in two worlds that have no intersection at all, just like the Faletni family, and live in a completely unrelated world.

However, what happened next was more dramatic, in addition to Mr. Reuben, the Faletni family also had another legitimate heir, the eldest son of the nobility named Henri Faletney, although he was born to enjoy the aura of various fames, but he did not inherit the slightest shrewdness and ability of his father and brother who were of the same blood, and in terms of character, he was not a gentleman, but he was cowardly by nature and had no opinions, which cannot be denied. The eldest son of the nobleman of noble blood played the role of a miserable loser from the time he first began to preside over a part of the family estate when he was twenty-five years old, until he died at the age of twenty-eight, when the old Monsieur Faletni had corrupted less than a third of the great estate of the family. At this time, Mr. Ruben learned of his background by chance, when he was already the owner of a large multinational group, and his net worth was no less than one-fifth of the Faletni family at the time of the victory, so he quickly contacted his brother Mr. Henry, who was in trouble at home and abroad. Fortunately, Henry; Although the eldest son of the nobleman was cowardly and incompetent, he was not confused at the critical moment, and he simply transferred most of the family's shares to this brother, whom he had only known and never met. Subsequently, the Faletni family quickly emerged from the predicament under the wise leadership of Mr. Ruben and then grew. Twenty years later, it has developed into a supergiant that can influence European politics.

The next thing is similar to what the speaker told me, after Mr. Ruben helped PLANT successfully establish the country, the earth government on the one hand hated his help to the adjusters, and on the other hand, it was also afraid of the increasingly uncontrolled power of the Faletni family, so it seized most of its industry under various pretexts, and later after the consultation between the PLANT authorities and the earth government, Mr. Ruben finally transferred most of the funds of the Faletni family to PLANT, However, the vast majority of real estate has to be left on Earth. Compared to that huge and terrifying family business, such an ancient castle is really nothing.

I opened my mouth to say something comforting, but I couldn't think of anything. I can't compare the experience of a person like Mr. Reuben who has lived most of his life and has a lot of experience, and to be honest, I am not qualified to comfort others. After all, although the adjuster has a higher IQ, he can't fake these things in the slightest about life experience.

Mr. Ruben saw that I was about to speak, and smiled: "Well, my old man is already half of his body in the ground, how can he not see these things outside his body." Leonard, come in with me, I want to talk to you about the other day. With that, he turned and walked to the back.

I confessed to Luna, and in her worried gaze I promised that nothing would happen and that I would hurry to follow, not to mention Mr. Reuben's age, but his body was not weak at all, and it took only a few minutes to stride through the hall of the castle and a long corridor behind it, until I entered a study at the end of the corridor with simple and solemn decorations.

"Sit down." Mr. Ruben greeted him, and then he first sat down in a large chaise longue.

"First of all, I want to tell you, Leonard, I admit that you are qualified to inherit the noble surname of Findrad, and after investigation, I can confirm that you are indeed the son of Baloca von Findrad, so today I am only coming to meet you as an elder who has not seen you for a long time, so there is no need to be the slightest nervous." As soon as Mr. Ruben opened his mouth, he completely relaxed the scene and brought the conversation into a relaxed and pleasant environment.