Delicate and slender eyebrows, slightly raised peach blossom eyes, delicate and flawless skin and full lips, especially a dazzling blonde hair like a waterfall, and the figure is not at all obvious that she has just given birth......

Looking at Monet's expression, Madeleine frowned slightly: "Mr. Monet, I heard Doris say, do you have something to look for me?" ”

Monet hurriedly replied: "That's right, I have something important to discuss with you, Madame, I have a friend named Rick-Aster, presumably Madame, you still have an impression of him, right?" ”

Madeleine recalled, then whispered, "What?!" He's not dead? ”

Hearing Madeleine say this, Monet was stunned for a moment, and only after thinking for a while did he react, maybe in Madeleine's thinking, if Rick hadn't died, he would have come to the door a long time ago, how could it have been several months, her sons had been born, and they hadn't appeared yet? So it was already assumed that he was dead.

So Monet explained: "Rick was lucky enough to be rescued by a lifeboat like me. ”

"Then why didn't he come to confess?" Madeleine asked as Monet had guessed.

"Because he didn't want to recognize his relatives at first, he came to the United States to find his biological father, but he had already found it on the Titanic, and the father and son had already recognized each other, and even learned that Mr. Fourth had died, so naturally there was no need to recognize his relatives again!"

Madeleine replied with a disapproving sneer: "If he really doesn't want to recognize his relatives, then you shouldn't have to go through so much trouble to come to me, right?" ”

"It's because something happened the other day...... Monet then recounts that Vincent snatched Rick's girlfriend and pocket watch.

Madeleine nodded and said, "Well, Vincent can do such a thing!" ”

"So now Rick wants to enter the family and get this out of Vincent, so he needs your help, Madame!" Monet said.

Madeleine spread her hands and said, "But I can't help him, as you know, most of John's estate is divided among Vincent, and I only have half a million dollars a year and two houses." (Astor IV's original name was John Jacob Astor, but each generation was actually called by this name, so it is necessary to distinguish it by generations, and the title of V was inherited by the English branch.) ）

Monet waved his hand and said: "Madam, you misunderstood, Rick doesn't need your material help, what he needs is for you to prove his identity, otherwise he won't be able to enter the Astor family at all!" ”

"Oh yes, I almost forgot that he didn't have any evidence to prove his identity, and John had planned to reveal Rick's identity when he arrived in New York, so he didn't introduce it to anyone, so even if Rick was John's illegitimate child, he couldn't prove his identity, and I was the only one on the ship who learned his true identity!" Madeleine suddenly realized,

But then she changed her tone and asked, "But why should I help him?" What's in it for me? I've only met Rick once, but I don't like me! ”

"Of course it's good, Madam, your and Rick's common enemy is Vincent, as far as I know, he has never been very disrespectful to you, and even sent someone to secretly seduce you in an attempt to drive you out of the Astor family, and even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about little Hans, right?"

Mother's love is the greatest selfless love in the world, although Madeleine is only nineteen years old now, but after all, she is a mother, so when Monet talked about the little Hans she had just given birth to, Madeleine couldn't help but pinch in her heart, because she knew that with Vincent's temperament, she would never be good to little Hans, his half-brother, which can be seen from his half-brother Rick, so now she really needs a helper to deal with Vincent, Then there is no doubt that Rick, who is in urgent need of his help now, is the most suitable person, and I think he can also help him get a little more inheritance, after all, five million is still a bit less, even Alice has ten million.

Just when Madeleine was analyzing the pros and cons, Monet said: "As for the first impression that Rick gave you just now, in fact, you can understand it from a different angle, after all, you are about the same age as him, I believe that no matter who you are, it will definitely be embarrassing for a while, in fact, Rick's impression of you has always been very good." ”

Madeleine thought about it, but if she suddenly had a stepmother who was only one year older than herself, she couldn't accept it, so she nodded and replied: "Okay, I promise you, after all, Rick is indeed John's son, and I believe that John will also want me to help him in Heaven!" ”

Monet said in his heart, if John saw his three sons in heaven like this, he would probably have died of a headache......

But on the surface, he had to be grateful: "Then I'll thank Rick first, Madame!" ”

After confirming the alliance, Madeleine quickly adjusted her mentality, and said to Monet with a frown: "Although I have my identity now, isn't it more reasonable to have some physical evidence?" I've got quite a few letters from John, and we can make a difference! ”

"I've considered this, but this kind of fake thing is too risky, and we are not people who are used to lying, it is easy to show flaws, once it is exposed, there is no way back, and as you just said, the fourth originally planned to reveal Rick's identity after he arrived in New York, so there is no need for him to write another written proof, and in the case of your testimony, that pocket watch has become the best physical evidence, because under normal circumstances, if not an extremely intimate relationship, The fourth generation would not give this pocket watch away.

Especially now that Vincent has actually snatched it, this proves the authenticity of the pocket watch even more, so I think the existing evidence is enough. Monet analyzed.

Madeleine nodded approvingly, "What you say makes sense, we are all honest gentlemen and will not lie!" ”

PS: Push a treasure book "Treasure Hunting Starts in England", in fact, I wanted to find a novel about treasure hunting abroad a long time ago, but unfortunately it seems that everyone is familiar with domestic antiques, so there are very few people who write in this direction, so this book is worth my attention!