Chapter 253: Brothers (1st Update)
For the next few days, Kevin was hesitating and struggling.
He asked himself that he was a very moral nobleman and that he should not be jealous, but he just couldn't restrain his feelings.
Whenever he saw Delai, a black rage burned in his chest.
When the other party was talking to others, when he was chatting with his children, and when his wife's children showed admiring eyes at Delai, Kevin felt that the other party looked like a sun, and he was extremely humble.
But what is even more hateful is that he finds that he actually admires his younger brother.
Even if it is because the other party has stolen the attention of the people around him, even if he grits his teeth with hatred every night, when Delai asks him for peace, he still can't help but smile, and then continue to be jealous.
But overall, it's acceptable, as long as you don't look at each other.
The salon was handed over to the other party and Tang Mo to manage together, and occasionally invited the big nobles to visit.
Thanks to these two people, the cultural salon is very good, and some scholars have also become interested in this place and regard it as a cultural exchange center.
The salon, which was originally just a study, grew larger, and some high-ranking scholars even rented a house in Kevin's villa and began to settle here and discuss various issues.
Kevin naturally accepted this.
The day of aristocratic evaluation is approaching, and a large number of high-ranking nobles will judge whether the nobles below are eligible for promotion, and most of the high-ranking nobles have visited here, and some are even frequent visitors here.
With them as his recommenders, I believe that this year he can push the family to the position of fourth-level noble.
At that time, their family's estate could be expanded a little more, and perhaps a group of priests could be hired to divide a nearby town into their domain.
But just as he was preparing the gift and planning a big deal, he got a surprising piece of news.
Quarry, strike.
The quarry where Delai used to work was one of his most important industries, and the production there was very high, so he was treated well, so he didn't expect the other party to strike at all.
At this juncture in aristocratic evaluation, the strike will undoubtedly become a stain, and if it is not handled well, it will make others doubt his management ability and attack him on it.
Immediately let the housekeeper deal with the matter, and Kevin soon knew the reason for the other party's strike.
No one could turn on the steam engine, the new foreman messed up everything around, and the schedule didn't come according to everyone's specialty.
If that's all there is to it, workers can work hard to overcome these problems.
However, in order to show something, the new foreman also increased the existing quota by 30%, and beat a woman with a child when the quota was not completed, almost blinding the other party.
The anger of the workers was ignited, and the foreman was directly arrested and demanded compensation and confession, but the foreman was still stubborn and shouted for such nonsense as "fire everyone" and "I am still alive, you must die".
As a result, the workers survived, and the foreman ......
Angry workers smashed tools and began to make trouble, and large-scale strikes appeared in the quarries, which tended to get worse.
If the situation rises further, then this matter is likely to form a rebellion, and then he will not want to be promoted to a fourth-level noble.
While there was still room for redemption, he immediately found one of his noble friends.
The other party is experienced in quelling strikes, but when he heard about the strike at Kevin's friend's quarry, the friend smiled meaningfully and said, "It's very simple, just close the passage and close the barrier." In two or three days, it will be occupied by shadows, and everyone will die. After that, open the passage and barrier, and send someone in to collect the body. ”
Then, the friend took out a business card and put it in Kevin's hand: "This is the corpse collector I used to contact before, they work quickly and covertly, and in less than a week, your quarry will be in business." ”
"The Worker ......"
"Is there a special shortage of people according to the law? Don't worry on the law enforcement side, these collectors will help with it. ”
Finding that Kevin was still in a daze, the other party patted Kevin on the shoulder and said, "I wanted to say it before, you are too good to those workers." They are tools, and they are renewable, cheaper tools than machinery. It is said that the prison has been selling some interesting props recently, some of which can greatly reduce the cost of employment, and you can go and see it after you solve this batch. ”
After chatting a few words, Kevin took his leave and returned to his villa with his business card.
Locking himself in his room, Kevin didn't expect this at all.
If it had been before, he might have done it.
But now, when he thinks that his younger brother Delai grew up there, how will he react if all his former friends disappear.
He is so smart that he will definitely investigate the truth, then find the real murderer, and finally find himself with hatred.
With a long sigh, he felt like he might as well forget it.
Calling Delai, he said to the other party: "The quarry is on strike, you go and take care of it." If you should be appeased, you should be appeased, and if you should be raised, you should raise your salary. But don't report it to me, or I'll be sad. ”
The thought of those greedy workers being able to make money out of his own hands makes Kevin feel uncomfortable.
Delai looked at Kevin in surprise and couldn't help but say, "Master, I thought you would choose to suppress it by force." ”
"Am I that kind of person?"
"It always has been."
"Get out of here!"
The other party smiled and nodded, and then walked to the door.
Standing at the door, he turned his head and said to Kevin, who had an angry face, "Master, I admire you very much. Of all the nobles I have seen, you are a true nobleman. ”
"Don't pat yourself on the back, get out of here!"
Watching the other party leave coldly, Kevin leaned back in his chair and let out a sigh.
Pinching his beard, a smile appeared on his face, but he didn't notice it himself.
Delai quickly pacified the quarry workers and put the quarry back into production.
The widow of the unlucky foreman received a sum of compensation, and the other party immediately took the money to marry another worker, which shows that the end of the thief is generally not very good.
The episode quickly subsided, but Kevin found that Delai seemed to be quite much closer to him.
The other party began to take care of his own diet and daily life, and proper planning and arrangement made his work efficiency greatly improved.
He used to work until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, but now he can go to bed at ten o'clock.
His current wife was overjoyed by this and often said they could have one more "our child."
Kevin didn't dare, though.
He knew that he had half non-noble blood, and then gave birth to half noble blood and half non-noble blood.
The previous few times were lucky, but he really didn't dare to gamble anymore.
Life was supposed to continue to be dull, but one day, he received a message.
The nobleman, who was very good at quelling strikes, was hanged.
The other party was hung on a street lamp, swaying back and forth like a pendulum, and his fellow corpse collectors seemed to resonate one after another.
And this nobleman's rank is not low, he is also a fifth-level nobleman, and he is also one of the few fifth-level nobles who have been assassinated.
A large number of related people were imprisoned, and countless people were affected, and the matter of the little nobles being beaten and educated some time ago was also revealed, and there is a lot of evidence that a certain little nun named "Pingshui Meeting" has nothing to do with this incident.
However, just before the enforcers came to the door, the other party ran away overnight with the people in the monastery, and their whereabouts are still unknown.
I thought that this matter would end there, but the follow-up investigation was even more shocking.
The meeting in Pingshui was only related to the beating of the little nobleman, but this incident was not done by her, it was a distant relative of the fifth-level nobleman, a little nobleman, who really did it.
This kind of thing should have something to do with money, but it could also be a more chaotic relationship.
I thought the fun was over, but Kevin just didn't feel right.
Kevin, who is usually prone to anger and doesn't like to empathize with civilians, has excellent instincts and is able to easily deduce the truth from intricate clues.
This time, he also realized that there was something wrong with it, and then continued to dig deeper into the little nobleman.
The little nobleman, who had just turned twenty, spent a lot of time drinking and drinking when he came to Legal, and then worked as a workshop master in the construction site for a while, and only recently continued to wander in Legal.
And his favorite place to go is not elsewhere, it is his own cultural salon.
Seeing this, Kevin felt a splitting headache and his heart beat wildly.
Don't......
After two sips, he managed to calm himself down, and then asked the butler to retrieve Sharon's recent records.
The salon has a special clerk, and the task of the other party is to record the conversations of important people in the salon and compile them into a book.
Flipping through the records, the more Kevin looked at them, the more terrified he became.
At first, the discussion at the Salon of Culture was history, but as more and more people joined, the focus of the discussion inevitably turned to the most recent apostles.
As the apostles present, Tang Mo began to explain their tasks and led the conversation to the nobility and commoners, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
And according to different positions, everyone is expressing their opinions, everyone is trying to convince others, and they occasionally break out into a series of quarrels, but eventually they will slowly get closer to the same.
Ideas are constantly colliding, sparks are being ignited all the time, and the addition of Delai has become a new representative, drawing everyone's attention to him.
His eloquence and personal experience made his language so alluring that even Kevin, a real nobleman, thought it made sense.
The aristocratic class has become a shackle to the progress of the times, and this class must be broken if it can.
It was a great rebellion, so it was quickly discarded, but one young man wrote it down and burned into a raging fire in his chest.
"Damn it!"
Combing through now, Kevin picked up the wine bottle on the table and slammed it against the wall. Wine bottles shattered on the walls, and red wine flowed like blood, making the walls look like murder scenes.
Compared to this argument, the death of the fifth-level nobles is nothing.
Someone else had made a similar point before, so the other party quickly disappeared and never appeared again.
And Delai went one step further and directly said that there was no problem in abandoning the aristocracy.
What's even more terrifying is that under the guidance of Tang Mo, through profound knowledge and personal experience, he has demonstrated this argument to an extremely high level.
A pen is good for a knife, a knife can only stab one person, but a single thought can kill thousands of people.
The Supreme Council of Management will not ignore this issue, they have been overwhelmed by the apostles of the god of education, and at this time stability is more important than everything else, and there can be no chaos.
And there is only one ending waiting for Delai, and that is death.
"Damn! Dray, why do you say such things! ”
Fourth-level nobles don't have to think about it, at this time they should think about how to protect Delai.
Calling the housekeeper, Kevin asked the other party to quickly list the family business, and then start to monetize the contacts.
Quarries have to be sold, homes have to be sold, famous paintings have to be sold, and even villas have to be sold.
What's even more hateful is that others seem to have gotten some rumors.
Their offer was very low, almost an open robbery, but for the sake of his younger brother, Kevin could only vomit blood while selling assets.
In the end, he even considered whether to sell his title of nobility, but it was too cumbersome to sell.
The incident at home quickly caught Delai's attention, and when he approached Kevin and asked what was going on, Kevin just looked at him and said coldly, "Get out." ”
"Master Kevin, I feel that since I am the trainee housekeeper here, I have an obligation to know and help you solve your problems."
"I'll tell you to get out! If you really want to help me with my worries, don't say that in the first place! ”
"Which one?"
"The aristocracy should be abandoned! Because of that sentence, a fifth-level nobleman was assassinated, and the first-level nobles are secretly investigating this matter, and it is coming! ”
Only then did Delay understand why Kevin did this, and his face was suddenly full of guilt.
Half-kneeling in front of Kevin, he said ashamedly, "I'm sorry, my lord, I ......"
"Don't apologize to me! I won't forgive you for being an idiot! Do you think you're popular? The world of the nobility is dirtier than you think! ”
"I'm sorry, but you don't have to save me. Just hand me over......"
Hearing this, Kevin couldn't hold back any longer.
He slammed his foot in the other's chest, but the solid chest made him almost twist his foot.
Holding back the pain, he grabbed the other party's collar and yelled angrily, "Don't say such things to me!" You are my brother, I must save you! ”
"I ...... You...... Brothers? ”
"You still don't see it! The laundry ladies are more discerning than you! ”
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and the butler's voice sounded outside the door: "My lord, I don't want to disturb the touching reunion between your brothers, but I have to tell you that the investigators of the first-class nobles have arrived. ”
"Hmph, it's fast."
Letting go, hand, Kevin wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked to the door.
Pointing to the safe in the corner where the album was kept, he said to Delai, "Look there, and if it's me who comes back in a moment, don't ask anything." If it's a housekeeper, you open it, and the password is your name. Also, give me your butler's clothes. ”
Changing into a butler suit, Kevin left the place, called the butler, and went downstairs with him.
Delai was still in shock, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
But after sitting down, he thought about it for a long time and realized that Kevin's attitude was not quite right in the first place.
He waited silently for news, but did not hear the sound of light footsteps until midnight.
Just hearing this voice, Delai had a bad feeling.
And when the butler walked in and told him that "Master Kevin has been arrested", he finally covered his face and wailed in pain.
His brother, gone.
(End of chapter)