Chapter 169: Human Nature and Selfishness
"Ted, I have something very important to talk to you about. In the afternoon, the convoy moved on again, and Fran, who had slipped into Kane's car, said with a solemn face.
"Is it an inheritance? I really have some personal views on that. ”
Fran was originally going to talk to Kane about Charlotte, but when Kane said this, he was stunned at first, and then said, "Please speak." ”
Kane nodded and said slowly, "Fran, you are an excellent person, honest, kind, decent, and hardworking. Still a generous boss, I noticed the reputation of the caregiver in your textile factory, and the trick you played in asking John to help the employees who were in practical difficulty. ”
"Thank you for the compliment. Fran was a little happy, if Kane's first sentence was a bit hollow, then the latter sentence made up for it. Fran is glad that Kane has noticed that he is helping employees in need in his own way.
Kane said in a deep voice: "However, these, in some context, can also become your shortcomings. ”
"Huh?"
Seeing that Fran was successfully attracted and made a gesture of listening, Kane said, "Take this incident as an example. I occasionally suggest you change your style. When I arrived at the villa, the first thing was not to treat the funeral, but to quickly inherit the title, and the family property could be postponed, but the title must be implemented. Become the owner of Crimson Hills, and then preside over affairs. ”
Fran thought about it and understood what Kane meant:
Don't bow first, but take power first.
In other words, inheriting power is the greatest gift.
A kingdom shall not be without a king for a day. Although the Marquis of Scarborough is not comparable to the great nobles of the old feudal state, the principle is the same. To obtain this right is to call the shots in the name of a new generation of marquises.
In doing so, there is less to do.
No matter what filthy thoughts these relatives have, the power oppresses people and does not give them a chance to attack. If you are smart, you will know that the general trend has been decided, and you will no longer carry the risk of tearing your face to make trouble, and the odds of winning are too low.
On the other hand, that's a lot to say.
Fran nodded in agreement and said, "Then, I will now invite the arbiter of the Ministry of Magic to meet directly at the manor." ”
"Well, I think so. ”
Kane tapped the roof of the carriage with the handle of his cane, and Lincoln, who was driving, stopped the carriage, and Fran wrote letterhead in the carriage, sealed it with wax, and stamped it.
The car door whistled, and after a while, an eagle flew down.
In this era, there are not a few wizards who take eagles as pets, this kind of eagle is a hybrid transcendent creature, which is rare in later generations, the key is that the environment is harsh, and it is not easy to survive.
The car started again, and Fran told Kane about Charlotte.
Kane didn't follow Fran's train of thought and talk about Charlotte's not. That's unwise, with his role, it's easy to expose the bottom if he talks deeply, and if he talks shallowly, people will think that he is playing right and wrong.
After all, from his point of view, Charlotte was nothing more than a bit of a blatant entanglement with Fran, and the guards she found were useless.
This is not a big problem, the former can be understood as the madness of love, and the latter can shirk and say that I was also cheated.
What's more, human nature is changeable, and Fran has little experience in the affairs of men and women, and now he is suspicious, and he can't turn his head and be coaxed by Charlotte again.
So Kane said from a different angle: "As far as I know, pure-blood families pay a lot of attention to blood. This situation can be either a weapon for others to discredit you, or it can be used by you. ”
Fran wasn't stupid, Kane was a little bit and he understood right away.
Slandered by others, if he goes back and declares Charlotte Byron to be his fiancée, he will be immediately used, and the pure-blood wizard who inherited the Carrett family wants to marry a Muggle woman, can you still do it?
In turn, he can also use this to scare others.
Eldest son, you are the son of the old marquis, and what if you are the oldest?Are you pure-blood? Your mother is considered a low-status among Muggles, a servant! You deserve to fight with me? Ask the pure-blood families in the wizarding world if they agree.
Ryan's daughter, whose two uncles hated her. You want to fight with me with Ryan's daughter, even if you don't consider that she is a girl, she has not yet awakened her bloodline, and she is qualified to fight with me? What if it is a squib?
My sister and brother-in-law, my sister is a squib herself, married to a Muggle, what qualifications do you have to fight with me?
Auntie, a married person, do you still have the surname Carret? You fight with me, is it because I haven't died yet, you want your son to merge and merge the two families?
Therefore, if he goes back this time and declares Charlotte Byron as his fiancée, then there will be nothing to force him, and his relatives may have heard that he was having a hot relationship with Charlotte, so they gathered together to talk about his inheritance qualifications.
Kane hit the nail on the head, making Fran break out in a cold sweat.
He finally realized that this was not inheritance in the ordinary sense, and it could even be said that the pure-blood wizard family was the big one compared to the worldly status.
The Carrett family's nobility in the world is precisely because of the identity of pure-blood wizards.
To put it simply: if he hadn't had this status, the Ministry of Magic would have been able to strictly prohibit him from using magic in the secular realm. Will he still be able to use his magic in his factory to easily defeat those competitors in the textile world through a series of hangings?
When Kane saw Fran's face, he knew he had these practical questions in mind.
This is actually the same meaning as what he said to his wife and mother when he boldly broke into the house of Baron Willingborough before: Are you willing to pay the price for the rights and interests you now enjoy?
What's more ugly to say, what is the song of killing and grass? ruthless and self-dignity betrayal!
It's embarrassing to kneel and lick, but it's better than a broken family, right? The higher you go, the more you will die, and the struggle for power has always been brutal.
Fran is facing a similar problem now, it's not that he can't play true love, he is willing to pay that price.
As for what the cost, for example, the fall from the privileged class, there is immediately a system that can handle it.
The people of the Ministry of Magic can handle the relevant regulations, and the royal family or those in power in the world can also come to find trouble.
Why? The link between the transcendent and secular rulers has been lost, so why should they still enjoy privileges?
There was no doubt that Kane's dose of psychic poison was quite deadly, even if he only nodded to the point.
Fran, who is in a state of love, has a hard time listening to persuasion.
Kane never underestimated the power of stubbornness and true temperament, and when there was still blood splattered five steps.
But now, this question is the last cloud of snow that caused the avalanche, and the rest of Fran has no problem making up for it himself.
Fran first thought about the disadvantages of losing his privileges.
I thought of the trade-off between the beauties of the country again.
I have to say that in the face of this choice, there are only a handful of people who choose beauties instead of Jiangshan.
Kane even thought it was a simple IQ question.
There are rivers and mountains, and there are countless beauties to choose from.
Just has a beauty, Li Mao said that he and Yang Yuhuan were very affectionate after marriage, but Yang Yuhuan was finally chosen by Tang Xuanzong, who had a country, and he had to call his mother......
Fran figured it out, and even thought too well that he didn't want to go back and share a ride with Charlotte.
"I suspect that I was poured love medicine, and what I did a while ago was very irrational!"
Kane said in his heart: "No matter how clever the temptation of the devil is, it only takes effect from the moment you nod your head." ”
It is common for women to be scolded as sluts, but in fact, men are cheap, and that is quite impressive.
The more Fran thought about it, the more wrong it became, and seeing that he had entered the Scarborough territory, he actually started to think about how to send Charlotte home.
He couldn't think of a good solution himself, so he asked Kane.
"That's not realistic. My personal opinion is that I should take over the throne with all my might, and then explain it to Miss Byron. Marquis Carrett needs to be in charge of Crimson Hills, and it will be difficult for him to return to the worldly circle......"
This is purely to find a reason, in this era but the moral etiquette has been elevated to the highest time in British history, the fiancée was released into the pigeon, it is absolutely discredited, and the parents can't hold their heads up.
But Fran is in the stage of being in a lowly seizure, and he just thinks that this reason is sufficient.
"Yes, the wizarding world is very different from the world, and it is difficult for her to adapt. Besides, I don't want to, I didn't think of inheriting the title before!I'm ashamed, I'll make it up to her, I'm willing to go to London and use the Oblivion Charm on people one by one to eliminate the negative effects......"
Kane listened a little absent-mindedly, coping with a few words from time to time, and things were going as he expected, but to be honest, there was nothing to be happy about, just another witness to the selfishness of human nature.
He looked through the car window at the vast frozen tundra.
It was not a plain, but a swamp, and in 1990 this area was a wetland park.
Kane felt that the human heart was like the scene here at this moment, and it would not be obvious if it was not studied deeply.
He didn't want to laugh at Fran, and replacing him in Fran's place didn't guarantee that he would do better.
He sincerely believes that many times the reason why people look good is because they have not been put on the fire that is really used to test the baseness.
Therefore, wise men will always find ways to avoid the appearance of this kind of burning at the stake, after all, no matter who is on the shelf, it is a disappointing thing.
The convoy turned onto a side road from the main road leading to the Scarborough market.
Kane glanced at the cliff north of the town, where there was a wall built on the edge of the cliff, and he had thought it was Crimson Hills, but it wasn't.
Fran explained that it was a coastal fortification in the old days, and there was no castle, but there were battery emplacements.
Kane nodded, understanding that the town was not only a place to receive seafarers who sang the original song to Scarborough Market, but also to marauding pirates.
Heading north along the trail, Kane suddenly felt it and stopped Lincoln.
He got out of the car and stood on a small hill beam, looking north.
Through the sunlight slanting to the west, you can clearly see a strange place in the snowy fields hundreds of meters away, a crater of blood-red earth.
Inward is a steep face that borders on a cliff, while outward facing is a gentle slope.
Kane Analysis:
The effect of a meteorite impact is similar to the effect of a high-speed camera shooting water dripping into the water, with ripples on the outer ring and a bulge caused by reaction in the center.
The ripples are craters, and the inner circle presents a cliff-like steep effect.
This is not the case unless the force being released is abruptly withdrawn, and the soil cliff is pushed very high, but the force is not weak enough to cause any serious push.
He also found that the effect of the meteorite was a little too positive, so to speak, vertical, so that the soil waves set off were stressed in all directions, and eventually led to the same height of the crater.
A meteorite that falls vertically, which is also a point that defies common sense.
"Isn't it amazing that it's a masterpiece of nature?" said Fran.
Kane smiled and said in his heart, "Nature? This is a typical man-made trace! In the Vientiane Gate system, this is called divine punishment." Actually made the gods directly intervene in the real world, and something big did happen here. ”
He also knew that such a strange terrain was not recorded in any of the classics or photographs, which could only be done by means of divine obliteration level strikes (such as the killing of the fourth person by the Divine Gold).
What's more, this blow should have occurred not long after, and it is even very likely that it is the real reason for the regional disappearance of the Carrett family.
Why is it so easy to say?
Because only in this way can two points be met:
For one, Fran and many people of his time knew and knew it well.
Second, there is no mention of it in Richard's letter to modern times, as impressive as it may be.
All relevant information was erased from the moment it was erased.
But it doesn't seem right, because people have memories of the Carrett family, and even know very well.
Does that mean that what was erased was actually something else, and that the Carrett family was just affected?
Kane thinks it's a big possibility.
Even, it can be deduced like this: the first divine punishment did not destroy the thing. This has led to the current bizarre scene. The Carrett family chose to build their ancestral home in this vision.
A second time later, a divine blow, erased the object, and the Carrett family was wiped out by the Flame-like Generative Force.
Kane was pondering as Dumbledore walked over to him and looked at the strange scene with a solemn expression.
Fran was a little puzzled by his serious demeanor, and asked, "Miss Percival, you know about the Crimson, don't you? ”
"The terrain here is the most amazing feature I've ever seen. Dumbledore replied ambiguously.
In fact, Dumbledore's biggest feeling now was that the operation had gone off the rails and that the incident was clearly going out of hand. Even if he is willing to sacrifice, he may not be able to cope with it......