Chapter 13: Becoming Benjamin Reese
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"Master Benjamin, it's time to get up, and the old lady will let you go down for breakfast. ”
The housekeeper's voice and knock on the door sounded together, bringing Gu Bei, who was still lying on the bed, back to reality.
Is it already morning?
He smiled bitterly in his heart. Unexpectedly, just absorbing the memories of Benjamin Reeser himself, he stayed up directly from midnight to early morning, leaving no time for himself to rest.
It's not a problem with the system, the simplified version of the memory is indeed simplified enough, and I gave a general introduction to my situation within half an hour. However, the problem is that it is a bit oversimplified, Gu Bei searched through his memories, but he did not find the person who might have hired an assassin to kill him.
So, he could only refine the question and began to ask the details of the system's memory in detail.
Because this kind of inquiry was no different from looking for a needle in a haystack, and because the system was sick from time to time at that time, the search operation of the mastermind behind the scenes continued until the morning, and the housekeeper came to call him for breakfast, but he did not come up with a single result. In other words, he still doesn't know who wants to kill him.
Gu Bei was a little frustrated, as if a whole night's time had been wasted.
No way, when the time is up, he can't continue to search for the details of his memory. The butler was waiting for him outside the door, and he was about to confront the people of the Reese—a matter of greater importance and urgency at the moment.
Will he be able to get through it under the noses of "his own" loved ones?
From this point of view, the night's work was not wasted. He memorized a simplified version of his memories and reviewed many of the details in his memory, which was very helpful for his disguise.
Relying on these memories, it shouldn't be a problem to deal with the current housekeeper.
"Got it, I'll be there in a minute. ”
He replied to the butler.
"Jeremy is not feeling well, so I'll wait for the young master to get up. Unexpectedly, the housekeeper opened the door and came in and said to Gu Bei.
"No...... No, I'll do it myself. Gu Bei hurriedly refused.
It feels a little weird to let a middle-aged man wash and change his clothes. No, it should be said that as a good young man in the new era, he is not a three-year-old child, let alone a mommy baby who is ridiculed, it is not normal to let others help him get dressed.
However, after listening to Gu Bei's words, a strange expression appeared on the butler's face.
Gu Bei immediately realized that something was wrong.
"Hey, you didn't tell me last night that the nobles here are used to letting others serve and dress, and it would be strange to dress themselves. He asked the system in his mind.
"No, although it is true that there is a habit of having servants serve here, it is not surprising that there has been a trend recently, and many people have begun to wash and dress themselves. The system also seemed to be a little puzzled, and said.
"Is that ......?"
Hearing this, Gu Bei felt a little relieved.
Since the system has said so, then I shouldn't be exposed. Maybe Benjamin used to let others serve him, but one day his temperament has changed a little, and it shouldn't be a big deal.
I am a thief with a weak heart.
Thinking of this, Gu Bei took it for granted and said to the housekeeper: "It's okay, you can go about your business, I'll go down soon." ”
Sure enough, the butler did not object, bowed and put his things down, and turned to leave.
Gu Bei breathed a sigh of relief.
Every step after returning here is a war without gunpowder!
He got up from his bed and looked around. I didn't see much of it last night because of the light, but now I think about it.
Speaking of which, my room is still quite large, comparable to the living room of a modern well-off family. Desks, wardrobes, dressers, bookshelves, and windows are not small, but they are firmly covered by elegantly decorated curtains, and European wall clocks with pendulums hang on the walls. The whole room looks quite like a Western aristocracy, and there is a religious oil painting hanging on the wall at the head of the bed.
And the night pot that was in the limelight last night was also placed by the housekeeper just now by the door.
Gu Bei walked to the dresser, washed with the water left by the housekeeper, and tidied up his hair by the way. Then, following the instructions of the system, he took a shirt and bib from the closet and changed them into.
In the mirror, he saw himself for the first time.
A typical white teenager with blond-brown hair, light blue eyes, a thin figure, a few faint freckles on his pale to reddish cheeks, and a kidney deficiency temperament leaked through the whole face.
He wasn't too disappointed. He doesn't ask for much, just don't look stumbling. He also believes that this kind of wilted temperament at the moment will get better in the future.
He just silently remembered the face and remembered what "himself" looked like.
A voice sounded in his heart: From this moment on, he was no longer Gu Bei, he was Benjamin Reese.
Gu Bei's life has broken at the twenty-five-year-old scale, and from today on, there is no longer the so-called "Gu Bei". He's going to have to make himself Benjamin Reese through and through.
He looked at the unfamiliar face in the mirror and secretly made up his mind.
Then, Gu Bei pushed open the door...... No, it should be said: Benjamin pushed open the door and walked out.
Benjamin followed the route map given by the system, went downstairs, and came to the living room where the Reeser family was accustomed to dining. At the door of the parlor stood two servants, who bowed to him, and he nodded to them.
Everything was "as usual", nothing unusual, and Benjamin walked into the living room.
If his bedroom is about the same size as the living room of ordinary people, then this living room is already at the level of a local tyrant. A long brown table of nearly ten meters spans the entire living room, dividing the room in two. The sideboards on both sides of the living room are placed against the milky white wall, and they are very symmetrical. Four religious paintings with different contents hang on the four walls of the living room, adding a sense of mystery and solemnity to the baroque room.
The huge living room was a little deserted, with only two people.
An old lady in her eighties, dressed in splendid clothes, sat at the table for dinner, while a maid in her fifties waited beside her, looking respectful and unmoving.
Through the systematic transmission of his memories, Benjamin knew that this old lady was his grandmother, the "old lady" of the Rieser family.
There was only one person at the meal, so he was naturally a little surprised, but he was also a lot more relieved.
He expected that this breakfast would be his relatives throughout the Rieser family—his parents, his brother, and the grandmother in front of him. Now I don't know what happened, only the old lady was alone, which naturally made Benjamin's pressure suddenly decrease.
He walked over, sat down at the table, and greeted the old lady respectfully.
"Good morning, Grandma. ”
The old lady glanced at him and raised her eyebrows meaninglessly: "Good morning, child." Young people are always full of energy, eager to turn the whole world upside down, not like us old guys, aren't we?"
It is worth noting that her tone is somewhat subtle, not at all like she is talking to her juniors, but instead makes Benjamin hear a hint of cynicism, as if Benjamin is her nemesis's junior.
What does she mean? What does she want to say?
A big question mark rose in Benjamin's mind.
Before Benjamin could figure out how to answer, the old lady suddenly put down her knife and fork, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and then looked at Benjamin with an indifferent look, and said:
"Are you hungry?" the cook didn't prepare breakfast for you, but since you're a strong young man, you don't care about these things. ”
“......”
Is it really biological?
Obviously you called me down for breakfast, no breakfast? Why did you call me down without breakfast? Eat the air?!
Benjamin was shocked.
The system popped up at the right time, and Benjamin said in his heart, "I seem to have forgotten to tell you last night." Ever since your grandfather died, this old lady has become more and more eccentric and difficult to deal with, and even your genius brother can't get a good face from her. I think she's angry at her for the noise you made last night. ”
"Didn't you say it sooner?" couldn't do anything to the old man, Benjamin had to vent all his anger on the system.
"Isn't it all in the category of minutiae? You didn't ask any questions when you said this yesterday. The system replied with confidence.
"......" faced with the cheekiness of the system, Benjamin was defeated again.
In reality, seeing that Benjamin did not answer, the old lady turned her eyes and continued: "Young people still have to learn more etiquette, and the little guy of the Fur family has not been sick for a day or two. Although I don't like him either, the bad guys also come to us as guests, and basic politeness must always be necessary, otherwise the other nobles in the royal capital will think of us. You say yes, right?"
Hearing this, Benjamin finally understood what she was trying to say.
The system is right, the disturbance she made last night definitely provoked her.
But Benjamin was still helpless. If this grandmother said to him in the tone that the younger generation had done something wrong and the elders had taught the younger generations a lesson, then he would never complain at all. But this weird tone of yin and yang really made Benjamin speechless.
Can we talk properly?
In any case, she was also kidnapped and rescued after nine deaths, as her own relative, shouldn't she be concerned? How can she act as if nothing happened?
Or is it the same sentence, what is wrong with this world?
"Young people nowadays, they haven't learned any real skills, but they are very proficient in pretending to be deaf and dumb, and the elders speak as if they didn't hear it. Do you say?" said the old lady.
Benjamin is really a bit of a fire now.
"Since there is no breakfast, then as a grandson, I will go back to rest first, grandma, you use it slowly. ”
As soon as the words came out, Benjamin regretted it a little, which was certainly not what Benjamin would have said in the past. But in his heart, he was still secretly refreshed. He is really fed up with this attitude of relying on the old and selling the old.
The old lady's performance also pleased Benjamin. Her eyes widened and she looked at Benjamin in surprise, her wrinkled eyelids twitching, and for a moment she didn't continue her cynicism.
Seeing this, Benjamin didn't say anything more, stood up, bowed to the old lady with irony, turned around, and left the living room very individually under the stunned gaze of everyone.
The old lady looked around with wide eyes, and suddenly showed an innocent look, and said to the servants, "What's wrong with this child? What did I say, why did he leave all of a sudden when the meal was eaten?
Several servants looked at each other, not daring to speak.
On the other side, Benjamin returned to his bedroom.
As soon as the bedroom door was closed, the sound of the system rang out:
"You've just done amazing! everybody thinks, 'This is our young master Benjamin, this is what Master Benjamin used to be, he's really exactly the same as before!' no one will doubt you anymore, I'm so proud of you.'" ”
Benjamin's forehead was bruised again: "Shut up, the limit I can endure today's taunts has been used up." ”
"So what are you going to do? Benjamin used to be a poor worm, and the way you are now, everybody is starting to feel that something is wrong. The system asked rhetorically.
"No, no one will doubt me. ”
Benjamin gradually regained his composure, and did not show any panicked look.
"How do you know?" the system clearly still doesn't believe it.
"It's simple, because Benjamin was a wretched creature in the past. Benjamin paused for a moment, then said something he had just realized, "Because of this, the others didn't really pay attention to Benjamin Reese, they didn't know what Benjamin Reeser was thinking. In this case, even if I behave like today, others will only think that I am a poor worm who has been stimulated, thinking that this poor worm has finally exploded for a while today. They will only be surprised, but no one will doubt me. ”
"How do you know?"
"Because I'm smart and you're stupid. ”
"......" This time it was finally the turn of the system to be speechless.
As he turned to leave the living room, Benjamin paid special attention to the way the servants looked at him. Those eyes were shocked, yes, but after careful consideration, he was sure that that kind of eyes were "my mother, young master, I have endured it for so long, and I really broke out" type of surprise, not "my mother, young master, my whole person has changed, is it being crossed by someone".
This completely reassured Benjamin.
To put it bluntly, even if he behaves outrageously in the future, others will think that he has been suppressed for too long, and his whole personality has changed greatly after being kidnapped, and no one will think of things like crossing or soul possession.
Why? Because to put it bluntly, no one pays attention to Benjamin Reese, he's just a piece of waste. No matter how much the character of the waste wood changes, no one will care.
Benjamin was not frustrated, but rather happy.
No one is looking—that's where a mage should be.
"Well, even if I go out now, no one will notice. Benjamin thought and said.
"Where are you going?" the system was puzzled.
"Go to church. ”