On a very famous street in the upper town, where rich and noble families lived, Rochette successfully passed the sentry in front of the door, and the greetings of the guards to the little master were naturally indispensable, but the expression on his face as a child returning home was really not happy.

Entering the palatial mansion with ease, although it was not yet dark, all the magic lights inside had been lit, which also showed the generosity of the residents from the side.

Along the way, the free butler and servants stepped forward to serve him to clean his hands and face and change his clothes for going out, but even so, he stubbornly put the gray alchemist's robe on top of the very ornate house clothes.

As he was led directly into the dining room, he was greeted by a graceful lady who got up from her seat and hugged him and gave him a shallow kiss on the cheek, which was his mother Evelyn.

"My dear Rochette, you have worked so late this day! I see that you have not eaten much in the morning, and now you must be hungry, so take a seat and get ready for dinner!"

Rochette did as he was told, and before taking his seat, he greeted the middle-aged man who was sitting at the front of the table reading a paperwork.

"Father, I'm back!"

"Hmm......" casually agreed, and Abdul-Jabbar glanced up in his son's direction and frowned:

"How many times have I told you, you look a little bit at home and outside, and what kind of decency is it to dress up like this!"

"Oh, what are you anxious about!The kid has just come back, you keep quiet!" Evelyn complained, and then said to Rochette: "Your father has been doing a lot of business lately, don't worry about his bad temper, but this is also true, we are not ordinary people after all, and we can't be too casual in dressing!"

"Mom, don't forget that I'm an alchemist, and it's a deviant dress not to dress like this!" Rochette said helplessly.

"That's enough! Don't let me know that there is no rule in the rules of the alchemist's conduct that requires you to wear a magic robe and a working suit to live, are you deliberately going against me like this to anger me!"

Jabbar was so angry that he slapped the table directly, startling Evelyn, but Rochette reacted to this with the same violent, replying loudly:

"Okay, since you have to expose it, then why don't you tell the truth yourself, you just don't want me to be an alchemist, right, in this case, why do you have to pretend not to mind, do you have to wait for every time you come back to pick your nose and eyes at me!"

"Do you listen to what I say? Do you know how hard it is to convince yourself to accept it! I don't support you, who pays for you every year in the academy for countless food, clothing, and flowers! It's still this kind of childish idea all day long, when will you be able to grow up a little bit!"

Father and son glared at each other angrily, and Evelyn was worried but could not interject, and it took a long time for Abdul-Jabbar to calm his breath and speak again:

"Leipzig has been doing well in the store lately!"

Rochette replied, "It's okay, I'm learning, there are a lot of things I'm not very proficient in!"

"You see, I'll just say that our son is very good, and even Leipzig praises him!" Evelyn was worried that she had no chance to ease the conflict between father and son, so she deliberately showed extraordinary joy to infect Abdul-Jabbar, but to little avail.

"Now that you know you're not exercising in business, don't get too involved. This transaction is very important, and it is related to whether we can win the cooperation order of the military department, and we can't let you be willful!"

"It's because it's important that I'm so cautious, I'm an alchemist, and no one has more say in these matters than me!" Rochette naturally knew that his father was referring to the business he had been eyeing recently.

"But you haven't noticed anything wrong in the past few days, have you! Besides, the chief alchemist in the shop has confirmed that there is no problem, do you think you have reached the level of a craftsman?!

From now on, you don't have to worry about this anymore!"

"You...... Forget it, I don't understand it to you!"

Rochette angrily got up and left the table, not entirely because Abdul-Jabbar's words were heavy, but also because it poked him in the sore spot, and he was under a lot of pressure to insist on his opinion despite the different conclusions of his predecessors who were higher than his own.

Jabbar still blushed, and Evelyn next to him said angrily: "My dear, how can you say this about your son, he has just come into contact with business matters, and it is already very good to have such a performance! Even if he seems a little impatient, he still wants to behave well in front of you, how can you hit him like this!"

Could it be that as he said, you are still haunted by the choice you made back then, don't forget that I also support this kid to be an alchemist, you really want to blame me than blame!"

Jabbar took his wife's hand and sighed:

"I know this, I've been in a bad mood lately because I've been busy, and it's really wrong for me to lose my temper a lot!"

"Hmph, tell your son to go, always have to show off your majesty, he is not your shopkeeper and buddy, see what he will do if he ignores you in the future!"

"Okay, well, I'll explain it to him well after I'm done with this time! But now the review on the military department's side has reached a critical time, and this time the military department has deliberately put forward requirements that exceed our ability in order to test the strength of our two families, so the order of the thirteen is the key.

As long as we can win the long-term cooperation order of the military department, our business and profits can be increased a lot, and there must be no mistakes in this matter, and now the other party has begun to have opinions, I can't take Rochette's feelings into account too much at this juncture, and you can persuade him to be less entangled in this in the past few days, it is nothing more than a mistake in judgment for fear of not looking good on the face, but if it is really because of this, the opportunity is ruined, it will cause a big disaster!"

"I'll try, but I don't think it will work! You know this kid has been assertive since he was a child. By the way, didn't you go to a feast yesterday with Mr. Solari, the head of 'Shining Gold'!

You said that if we can reach a cooperation with the military department this time, we may have the opportunity to look at the status of those four, of course, we don't expect to be able to replace them, as long as we can be among the top ranks. ”

Evelyn replied a little helplessly, but then she was also full of energy when she talked about business, and her mother's family was also a well-known merchant in other countries, so he was naturally not the kind of vulgar woman who only wore heavy makeup and was extremely luxurious.

"No way, even if we have this opportunity, we are still far from the four major chambers of commerce. This is a gap in the background, and it cannot be smoothed out in a moment. And I heard that Solari said that his youngest son had recently begun to learn about business, and that his eldest son had been rumored in our circle to be a classic example of a businessman raising his children, which I had to admire.

Actually, I'm not dissatisfied with Rochette. If only he could know a little more about human feelings, instead of becoming a pedant who only knows how to delve into knowledge......"

The conversation between husband and wife is naturally short, warm and peaceful, but at this time they did not expect that a big crisis was quietly brewing!

(End of chapter)