Chapter 12: Servants
Seven people, five of them, are the first generation of the famous "Chai Five Tigers" of the Childe family.
There are also two people in the middle, one is Yan Guichen himself, and the other is Mayer Child, who is the founder of the Chai family and the father of the Five Tigers.
Looking at this oil painting, Yan Guichen's thoughts suddenly drifted back to two hundred and forty years ago.
At that time, he was in Europe, leading the Fireplace Hermitage to expand its territory in Italy, and met Meyer Child, who was still an apprentice in a shoe workshop.
Yan Guichen saw that he was smart and clever, so he made him a servant, because of his own protection and funding, ten years later, Meyer Child became a well-known capitalist, and more than ten years later, Meyer has become the steward of the money bags of several royal families in Europe.
More than 200 years later, Meyer Child has long since passed away, but his children and grandchildren, each generation, will select the "Five Tigers" to manage the huge estate of the Childe family.
More than sixty years ago, before Yan Guichen left, he had spent some time in the manor with the Childe patriarch of that generation, Solenchild.
Time flies, like a white horse!
Now counting, even Solrenchild is more than ninety, and his son Adam is also seventy out of sixty, and if he is not in good health, it is possible to be an ancient.
Hey, the life of a mortal is like a mayfly, and it is so short that it is to die in the twilight of life?
He is burdened with the hope of the last human civilization and is looking for the mystery of immortalizing human beings, but for more than 10,000 years, he still has not made much progress.
When is this the end of a day?
"Huh...... Who are you and how did you end up here? A pleasant female voice sounded behind Yan Guichen.
Yan Guichen pulled his distant thoughts back, turned around, and saw a blonde girl in a gorgeous aristocratic dress standing behind her.
This girl is only seventeen or eighteen years old, with the fairness of a blue-blooded nobleman, in the cardamom years, very healthy, beautiful, and with the unique noble temperament of hundreds of years of aristocratic families, she is the daughter of a wealthy family.
"What's your name and what is your relationship with Adam?" Yan Guichen asked directly, and he saw the same decisiveness and wisdom as Meyer from the woman's eyebrows.
The woman frowned, feeling Yan Guichen's arrogance and rudeness, but she still said: "My name is Catherine, you are talking about my father, you haven't told me yet, who are you?" This is the inner hall of the family, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter! ”
"I'm not an ordinary person, I was brought in by the housekeeper!" Yan Guichen grinned, generous, as if he was at home, sat on the sofa, half-lying, arms open, how comfortable and how to come.
"You turned out to be Adam's daughter, even if Adam is sixty-seven, you look seventeen or eighteen, hehe, Adam, this kid, it's okay, it's old and pretty, and your combat effectiveness is still okay!" Yan Guichen laughed loudly and pressed his hand: "Dear Catherine, sit down, in front of me, don't be too restrained!" ”
Yan Guichen's every move, as if he was the master of this manor, did not have a sense of disobedience.
“……”
Rao is Catherine is well-cultivated, but she was also slightly irritated, she frowned, "Since the butler brought you here, then I believe him, but this is Child Manor, can you not use the master's tone to talk to me...... Also, who are you going to meet and who are you waiting for? ”
"Don't be so serious, I think you're a bit of an interesting little girl, but one thing you're wrong about is that this is Childe Manor, but it's also the headquarters of the Fireplace Retreat...... Hehe, I'll explain to you a little girl what this does, and to get down to business, I'm here to see your grandfather, oh no, I'm waiting for him to come and see me in person! ”
"See you in person, my grandfather? Impossible, my grandfather hasn't seen outsiders for more than ten years! Catherine laughed angrily, thinking to herself this madman in front of him, why did he think that his grandfather would come to see him?
"Others can not see me, but he can't not see me, if he can't see me before he dies, I'm afraid he will be very sorry......" Yan Guichen said lightly, waving his hand, this score is a bit big.
"Crazy, who the hell are you?" Catherine shuddered with rage.
"Who am I, don't you know now?" Yan Guichen smiled, raised his hand, and pointed to the eight figure paintings hanging on the wall.
Catherine turned her head and glanced at the family portrait painting on the wall, she was stunned for a moment, but then, she was shocked, her body trembled like chaff, she seemed to know what Yan Guichen's identity was......
There are eight paintings on the walls, which others don't know, but as a member of the Childe family, she knows it all too well.
The first is the founder of the family, Meyer, and the first generation of "Chai's Five Tigers".
A few more paintings are the "family heads" and "Chai Five Tigers" of the next few generations.
Among the figures above, there are several paintings, among which in addition to the people of the Childe family, there is also a person, who is said to be the master of the family, the master who has served all the members of the Childe family for generations!
The name is unknown!
It is only known that he is the lifelong elder of the Fireplace Hermitage.
If the Childe family controls more than half of the world's wealth, then the lifelong president of the Fireplace Hermitage controls the entire Childe family, because from the beginning to the end, the Childe family is only a servant.
It is difficult for outsiders to imagine that the Childe family, who control more than 51% of the world's wealth, is actually just a servant of a mysterious person?
In other words, the Childe family is just the steward of a mysterious man, and the family has been in charge of more than half of the world's wealth for this mysterious master!
What an amazing fact, even if it is said, who would believe it?
However, this is the truth, the paintings on the walls, and the most primitive manuscripts in the family ancestral hall all reveal such an amazing fact!
"You...... Who exactly? ”
Catherine was shocked, she had always felt that Yan Guichen seemed to have seen it somewhere, and it was only now that she realized that Yan Guichen's appearance was exactly the same as the mysterious owner on the family's paintings!
Catherine covered her mouth so that she wouldn't scream, her brain was buzzing and confused!
……
"Master, his appearance is very similar to the person in those paintings, I was shocked when I saw him for the first time!" In the hallway, Lawrence Butler said to Adam Child.
"He really said that when I was three years old, I on his neck?" Adam Child frowned as he walked.
"It's true!"
"Is the bark he brought exactly the same as the one in the secret room?"
"Exactly the same!"
"Looks like he's back, okay, I'll make a call first!" Adam Child took out his cell phone and called the family's hot spring estate. Sorenchild, who was lying on the bed recuperating, took the phone from the butler's hand.
"Father, calm down, there is something I want to report to you personally!" Adam Child said mysteriously and solemnly.
"Speak!" Solrenchild's old voice was calm and powerful.
"The person you've been waiting for is back!" Adam Child Road.
"Okay, I see, calculate the time, it's almost over, is he in Child Manor?"
"Yes!"
"Alright, I'll be right here!" Sorenchild put down the phone, and the whole person became much more energetic, "Quick, prepare the helicopter, and call the doctors and nurses again, just to carry me, and also to carry me back to Childe Manor, immediately!" ”
"Yes!" The entire hot spring estate immediately went into action, a helicopter was ready, and the medical staff carried the old man and got into the helicopter.
……
"Adam is here!" Yan Guichen smiled and said to Catherine.
Soon, Catherine heard footsteps, and in the blink of an eye, Adam Child and Lawrence, the butler, walked in.
Yan Guichen looked at it, the three-year-old boy back then has gray hair, after all, he is in his sixties, and the years are like a pig-killing knife, even the richest underground emperor in the world can't resist the erosion of the years.
"It's him, that's right......" Adam looked at Yan Guichen at a glance, and he was sure, because in Yan Guichen, he had the unique temperament of an immortal.
For example, the eyes, which hide vicissitudes and wisdom, are very attractive. As long as Yan Guichen stops wherever he goes, heaven and man will automatically become one, and the magnetic field of the entire environment seems to have been affected, and the changes produced make people feel happy, like a spring breeze.
Such a trait can never be imitated.
"Little Adam, I haven't seen you for sixty years, you have changed from a little kid to an old man!" Yan Guichen said with a smile.
"It's really you, master, you're back, just like in the past two hundred years, every once in a while, you will come back, leading the family, sheltering the family, and creating miracles!" Adam was so excited that the vague memories of his childhood began to become clear.
Catherine and Lawrence Butler were already dumbfounded.
With such a secret, how could they ever have heard that there are truly immortal people in this world?
Lawrence had also guessed before, but when it was really confirmed, he was still stunned, and Catherine was the same, she couldn't believe that Yan Guichen was the "master" of her family.