Chapter 24: Old Rules
"You're here to intercede for my aunt?"
Ilea looked at Li Yu in front of her and frowned.
After dealing with the assassin's affairs, the girl's mood became very low, and instead of being happy that she had found Neiying, she locked herself in the room alone, and did not see anyone, and did not even eat dinner until Li Yu came and knocked on the door.
"It's not a plea, it's just that I think there may be someone else who put the note." Li Yu said.
"Who?"
"It's not clear yet."
Ilea glanced at Li Yu again, and suddenly said, "A few days ago, did my aunt go to look for you?" ”
"Well, she wants me to help her prove that Torres has nothing to do with her." Li Yu did not hide it.
"You promised her?"
"Nope."
"Why?"
"I don't have much interest in the internal affairs of the Arias family."
"Then why did you change your mind now, did someone come to you again and offer you any price that you can't refuse?"
Miss Rabbit has been suffering from PTSD because she has been backstabbed by her relatives continuously, and everyone is a little suspicious.
Li Yu shook his head, "You want me to give you advice when necessary, now is the time, no matter who left that note, his or her purpose is clear, which is to further divide you and the other members of the Arias family." ”
"Of course I thought about it, but ...... You can't deny that the Assassins, or Neiying, are real, but it's now narrowed down to three.
"Paz, Mama Tamara, and my aunt," the girl snapped her fingers, "and don't forget that neither Paz nor Mama Tamara are illiterate and can't write notes. ”
"Maybe someone from outside wrote the note, gave it to them, and put it in that room."
"There is indeed a possibility of that." Ilea also admitted, "But how do you explain why they didn't do anything to me, as long as they are ambushed in the room, there is a great chance that they can successfully assassinate me, and exchange their lives for my life, how can this deal be cost-effective."
"But if the person who threw the note was my aunt, then all this would be explained, and she wouldn't sacrifice herself no matter how much she wanted to help my stepmother and brother."
"Your analytical reasoning skills have improved a lot," Li Yu said, "but I still don't think that your aunt is your stepmother and brother's hidden insider in the castle." ”
"Why?"
"Well, I re-checked the voting list for that day and saw that your aunt was the only one Vanessa couldn't have had a hard time wooing anyway.
"Even putting aside the personal feelings between you, from the perspective of interests alone, the benefits you can bring to you as the lord of the green field far exceed the most sincere conditions that your brother Blanca can offer her, after all, your brother already has a mother and uncle by his side, and no matter how generous he can give her, the benefits he can share with her are limited.
"Unlike you, both parents died, and the most trusted person around you is her, once you become the head of the Arias family, you will inevitably need to rely on her, and then she will be the number two person in the entire Arias family."
"I don't know why Aunt Alyssa betrayed me." Ilea took a deep breath and said, "But you told me at the beginning, saying that these people in the family already knew the election results in advance, and only I was kept in the dark, if my aunt was really not bought by my stepmother, why didn't she tell me in advance?" ”
"Alyssa must have had her troubles too."
"What's the problem, in the end, it's not planning for yourself." The girl said coldly.
Li Yu didn't refute, but said, "I'm almost the same as I want to say, in short, I'm here to tell you that you are probably looking for the wrong person, in fact, you don't have no doubts in your heart, the person you have always believed in betrayed you for no reason, you must be difficult to accept." ”
Miss Rabbit fell silent when she heard this, and after a moment she sighed, "You're right, I'm still a little in a trance, and I just thought that when I was a child, my aunt took me to play a treasure game near the castle, and we used a broken old map to find the treasure left by the ancestors of the Arias family, but in fact, those silver coins were buried by someone she found someone to bury in advance." ”
The girl's eyes flashed with remembrance, "I just know that it is so difficult to be a lord, and I want to return to the carefree life of the past in my dreams, alas...... If only my father were still around, nothing would have happened. ”
That being said, Ilea clearly knew she couldn't go back.
She forced herself to break free from her memories and return to the cold real world, "I want to believe my aunt too, but the facts are already in front of me, if it wasn't for Aunt Elisa, how did that note end up under the table?"
"It's too bizarre to have a guy who can hide from everyone's eyes in broad daylight, swagger into the room where I was dealing with government affairs, put down the note, and then float away without alarming the guards at all."
"Indeed." Li Yu nodded, and after finishing speaking, he found that the girl had been secretly looking at him, so he said, "If you have anything to say, just say it." ”
"Since you think I'm looking for the wrong person, can you help me find the real guilt?" Miss Rabbit blinked her eyes and said expectantly, "Well, it may be difficult to allow you to preach in the Greenfields, but other things can be discussed. In this way, as long as you can help me solve this trouble, I will give you a piece of land first, what do you think?
"It's my uncle Dias's, the location is quite good, it's not too far from the teacup fort, my brother is not willing to fail, he is trying to usurp the lordship, he is the same mastermind as my stepmother, Vanessa saw that the situation was not good and fled with Blanca, but Dias was caught by the Knight of the Purple Sparrow and is now locked up in the dungeon under the castle.
"His property and fief were also deprived together, but that guy was drunk and hunting on weekdays, and he didn't manage his fief very well, so there were few families left, many fields were abandoned, and the little money he earned was also used by him to drink, and I sent people to search his residence and found less than five gold cohens, and many IOUs.
"But don't worry, I've almost paid off his debt by selling the valuable things in his territory. Of course, the rest is basically a blank slate, but if you can recruit enough farmers to reclaim those abandoned fields, you should still be able to make some money. ”
Miss Rabbit has already helped Li Yu calculate, "If the harvest is good, plus other miscellaneous taxes, it should be no problem for thirty gold cohen in a Chinese New Year's Eve, although it can't catch up with selling pepper to make money, but the point is that as long as you close the door, you can also engage in a little pagan activities, the old rules, as long as you don't go too far, I can pretend not to know." ”