As night fell, Brittus was still shrouded in mist, and many horse-drawn carriages came from Rotterbeni Harbour, their wheels creaking over the greystone pavement.

Rows of gas street lamps turned on, illuminating the central block, and it was now off-duty time, and the streets were crowded with pedestrians hurrying past to make their way back to civilian areas.

Brittus has five districts, including the Plebeian on the west side, the Wealthy District on the east, the Noble District on the south, the Old Town on the north, and the most prosperous central district.

These areas are not neatly divided into five pieces, they are different in shape and size, but there are clear boundaries and stylistic variations between the areas, and the general orientation corresponds to east, west, north and south.

At this moment, in the wealthy area on the east side of Brittus, a beautiful carriage was speeding through the spacious and tidy streets, and suddenly stopped in front of the compound of a luxury villa.

The doors of the villa opened, the carriage entered the forecourt garden, and in May everything was restored, and the gardener was toiling to prune the budding plants in the garden.

Stopping at the main entrance of the villa, a silver-haired old man stepped down from the carriage, with a majestic demeanor, his face was full of wrinkles, and his spirit was shining.

He walked into the mansion with a cane, a black social suit and a top hat of fine workmanship, with dark lines to show dignity, and a bow tie around his neck.

The old butler and a row of servants waited at the door, bowing deeply.

"Master, you're back, dinner has been prepared, ...... now?"

"After dinner, what about Elija?"

"Miss Illya is undergoing emergency etiquette training in preparation for the dinner party she will be attending. ”

The butler replied respectfully with gray hair and a smile on his face.

"Call her to my study. ”

"Sir, will you wait until the end of the course or now?"

"Now, of course! now! now!"

Colon Barclay suddenly struck the tiled floor with his cane, trembling all over, almost forgetting that a gentleman could not be rude.

"Yes, I'll go find Miss Illya right away!"

The housekeeper hurried to the back garden, where a middle-aged lady stood with a stern expression and guidance, and Illya Barclay was expressionless and did not pay attention to her words.

"I'm sorry, Lady Babana, but now Miss Illya is suspending the lesson, and Master Colon is looking for her. ”

"Yes, Mr. Butler, then I'll come back tomorrow. ”

Lady Babana saluted the butler, turned her head to see Illya return to her usual sitting posture, and shook her head to leave.

"Miss Elijah, please come with me, your father seems to have an urgent matter for you. ”

The housekeeper also sighed secretly, the only person in the family who had the courage to provoke Master Kelong was this extremely willful little daughter.

"Father looking for me?"

"It's so fast, I thought it would be a few months before I was free. ”

Illya said two words that the butler didn't understand, and the corners of her mouth secretly curved.

The butler didn't dare to say more, so he took Illya to the door of the master's study and waited outside the door.

"Father, you're looking for me. ”

"Come in. ”

Illya knocked on the door of her study, still wearing the clothes she wore from her etiquette class.

Pale pink wide-sleeved dress and small leather shoes with low heels, permed hair curls and gold and silver jewelry.

She is very beautiful, and her face can vaguely see the shadow of Kelong's youth, but her face is expressionless, and her soul is not here.

Looking at this face, stubborn and capable, Kelon was very entangled in his heart, he often thought that Illya was more like his younger self in terms of personality and appearance than his three sons.

So I often think about whether those decisions are the right one.

But these emotions are not revealed in the slightest, he is the head of the family, and his daughter openly resists his arrangement, and everyone knows about it, which is the biggest disrespect for him!

"I heard you took a client's safe, where is the safe?"

Colon Barclay gets straight to the point, always being concise in his work and life, and only willing to say a few words when he meets nobles and high-ranking officials.

"Did he come to the door, much sooner than I expected, because he said he was going to keep the safe for months. ”

After hearing Kelon's words, Illya sat calmly in front of Kelon, with only a simple dark red solid wood desk between the two.

"A client came to Brittus from Gruncy and asked us for a safe, which you shouldn't have done. ”

"You shouldn't have suddenly fired me and frozen all the deposits in my account, father, you didn't follow the rules first, I learned from you. ”

"Learn now, sell now. ”

Illya added, in a tone like a child's deliberate revenge.

The green tendons on his forehead throbbed, and Colon suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to maintain a calm tone.

"Even so, I won't let you go back to the company to continue working, this threat is useless. ”

"Father, I am well aware of the problems faced by the company, and you must not let any rumors of bad things get out, or you will not ask me where the safe is. ”

Illya smiled faintly, confident that Korn knew she was right.

Riding the spring breeze of industry, more than 20 years ago, Kelon Barclays opened factories with keen judgment and bold actions, made industrial investments, and expanded the scale of the company, making Barclays a big consortium that was also famous in Norman.

He once thought that the company would develop smoothly, but in recent years he realized that he was wrong, the development of the Barclays consortium has already reached a bottleneck, and countless groups are waiting for Barclays to make a fool of themselves and want to bring them down.

Not just the Barclays consortium, but more and more of the emerging bourgeoisie realized that when their businesses grew bigger and made more gold pounds, these money-making businesses began to be suppressed and targeted by the government.

The government even legislated to revoke the right to operate mines, frantically restricting the free development of the bourgeoisie, and its policies were always biased in favor of the traditional aristocracy, including restricting the production of new technologies and dividing strict hierarchies to ensure the rights and interests of the aristocracy.

The government does this for a simple reason.

Centuries ago, when the aristocracy launched a movement to restrict many of the king's rights, the top of the government, including the representatives of the parliament, were all made up of the nobility.

Therefore, Kelon realized that if the company wanted to continue to expand, it had to find other ways out, and getting closer to the aristocracy was one of them.

The society is developing rapidly, and under the new situation, he must be fully prepared in advance.

Among these preparations was for Illya to get to know as many nobles as possible, marry high-ranking nobles, and open channels for the Barclays consortium business.

Colon looked at Illya, his only daughter, and didn't seem to understand his good intentions.

"Father, to be on the safe side, the safe is hidden by me. ”

"No one but me knows where it is hidden, and if you let me go, and promise not to force me to marry a nobleman again, I can hand over the safe. ”

Illya said it very bluntly, they are all smart people and do not need to be disguised.

"Illya, now is the critical moment for us to enter the aristocratic class, do you know how much effort I make every day to integrate into them!"

"If, at a time like this, it is rumored that we have a credibility problem at Barclays, all the hard work will be wasted!"

Colon finally roared and slammed the table, and the newspapers and letters on the table began to tremble.

"Father, since when have you become so timid and afraid, when you were young and never paid attention to the nobles, you have fallen. ”

“...... Times have changed!"

"You are my daughter, and Dad wants you to marry a nobleman, and it is also for your good!"

Cologne's reply was stiff, and a rough breath came out of his nostrils.

"I don't want to argue with you, father, I can return the safe deposit box to the customer, but you can't restrict my freedom, I'm going to go to the bank and pay him back myself. ”

"No, you can no longer have any contact with the company and let the bank manager take full responsibility for this. ”

"Then let the company be discredited, I don't care. ”

"You!"

Colon Barclay was never afraid of countless enemies, and it was only when he faced his daughter that he felt helpless.

Taking a deep breath to calm his anger again, Kelon Barclay thought quickly in his head about a solution.

"Viscount Goode, 35 years old, graduated from the Diplomatic College of Norman College and now works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and we have had several exchanges. ”

"He's seen your photos, he's interested in you, and he's interested in working with us on the funding side. ”

"You're going to marry him, it's a win-win, he's a very mature man and can take care of you. ”

Colon hesitated for a moment, frowned, and said the news that Illya had never heard before.

It's a secret, and no one knows about it except the people of Viscount Goode's family and Colon Barclay.

“！”

Illya was shocked for the first time tonight, thinking she still had time to maneuver, and even the marriage was arranged.

"Daddy, that's Viscount Goode, the most famous playboy in all of Norman!"

"And he's 35 years old, Dad, are you going to let me marry an old man who is more than a decade older than you?"

"Every day there are news reports that Viscount Goode lingers on social evenings all year round, and that his work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also because of ......"

"Enough!"

"Illya, you should be content with Viscount Goode and still willing to give you and Barclay this chance!"

"You don't know about aristocratic society at all, and now you don't have any chance of marrying a nobleman except for Viscount Goode!"

Kelon interrupted Illya with a tough attitude, and Illya stopped talking, and could only express her dissatisfaction with silence.

"If you stop messing around and prepare for the marriage with peace of mind, I can lift the lockdown, and tomorrow you can go to the company and handle the safe deposit box yourself. ”

"You're 22 years old, don't want to continue to be willful!"

The two looked at each other for a long time, this time Kelon did not leave Illya any room for negotiation, if Illya continued to refuse the proposal, then Kelon would definitely take special measures.

"Okay, I see. ”

"When I see a client, I return the safe to him. ”

Illya finally relented, got up and left the study, only to continue muttering.

"But not tomorrow. ”

After Illya left, the butler went into the study and brought hot tea and delicate pastries, hoping to use the food to make Master Colon forget his troubles for a while.

"Sir, have something to eat, the tea that the merchant ships have brought from Aslan, and your favorite macaroon. ”

"Alas......"

The housekeeper put the refreshments in front of Kelong, and the fragrance of tea overflowed, but Kelong held his head, revealing the tiredness and old age that had never appeared in front of his children.

"Will I make the wrong choice too?"

"It's double insurance, and Baili is harmless. ”

The butler didn't know how to answer.

"From tomorrow onwards, Illya will be free to move, and you can find a few people to secretly follow Illya to see where she has gone and who she has come into contact with. ”

"I don't believe she's going to be honest with her to hand over the safe, and it's up to us to find out where the safe is hidden. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The butler bowed and exited the study, leaving Colon Barclay to continue working on the letters.

In the two-story brick building, Bill kept watch all night, and he was very disappointed because the sniper did not show up.

"If the sniper doesn't show up, won't I be able to sleep peacefully for the rest of my life?"

"Tsk, I'm sorry, I want to know more about Williams. ”

"But that's fine, I can do more today to make sure nothing goes wrong. ”

Bill can't wait for the sniper to come to the door and ask who wants to kill Williams.

It was completely bright, and Bill left the brick building and headed for the Barclays Trust Bank, where he had to ask the woman Illya for an explanation and get the safe back.

Brittus had already entered daylight, and the coal city far west had just dawned.

Although the mining area exploded, the state invested more money and manpower to build the mining area, and Jikronsi remained vibrant.

Inside the police station in the center of the city, a ray of sunlight shines into the sheriff's office, bright and warm.

The young cop is cleaning the office, but Sheriff Savoy is nowhere to be seen.

"I said Erwin, why are you cleaning the sheriff's office again?"

"Yes, the new sheriff is in office today, you can't think about Sheriff Shawei all day, be careful that the new sheriff puts little shoes on you. ”

When their colleagues had just come to work, they saw Erwin coming out of the office with a bucket of water, and they kindly reminded them that they had long been accustomed to the sheriff's transfer.

The Jikransi Police Department was a springboard for the children of high-ranking officials to accumulate experience and be promoted, and in just five years, they have changed three sergeants and two chiefs.

"I know, it's okay, you don't have to worry about me, I'm just easy to miss the old ......"

Erwin is still sad, Sheriff Savoy was his first boss, and although he only had a brief contact with Sheriff Savoy, he found Sheriff Savoy to be very attractive, unlike those wine bags and rice bags.

The officers shrugged and ignored him.

Erwin looked out the window, the vendors in the city were as usual, and he was muttering to himself with his face to the east.

"Capital, Britts ......"

"Well, it's a big city, and I don't know how Sheriff Shavoy is doing when he returns. ”

"Ahh

The new sergeant had just stepped into the police station, and when he heard the young policeman shouting, he snorted coldly in his heart.

Secretly note that since he doesn't like to stay here, he will find an opportunity to get this policeman out.

Erwin was still struggling with the windowsill, but he didn't know that he had left a special impression on the new sheriff's heart, and the next few days would really not be easy.