Chapter 254 Brothers (Update 1)
In the next few days, Kevin has been 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 control his feelings.
Black rage burned in his chest every time he saw Derai.
When the other party was talking to others, when he was chatting with his children, and when his wife's children looked at Dele with admiration, Kevin felt that the other party looked like a sun, setting off himself. extremely humble.
But what was even more hateful was that he found that he actually admired his younger brother.
Even if he gnashes his teeth with hatred every night because the other party stole the attention of the people around him, when De Lai greets him, he can't help but smile and continue to be jealous.
But overall, it's still acceptable, as long as you don't look at the other person.
The salon was managed by the other party and Tang Mo, and big nobles were occasionally invited to visit.
Thanks to these two people, the cultural salon was very successful. Some scholars also became interested in this place and regarded it as a cultural and cultural exchange center.
The salon that was originally just in the study room grew bigger and bigger, and some high-level 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 noble evaluation is coming soon. A large number of high-ranking nobles will judge whether the nobles below are eligible for promotion. Most of the high-ranking nobles have visited here before, and some are even frequent visitors here.
With them as his recommenders, I believe he can push the family to the fourth-level noble position this year.
By then, their family's property can be expanded, and perhaps a group of priests can be invited to divide a nearby town into their own territory.
But just as he was preparing gifts and planning a big fight, he got a surprising news.
Quarry, on strike.
The quarry where De Lai worked was one of his most important industries. The output there was very high, so the treatment he gave was good, so he never expected that the other party would go on strike.
At this juncture in the evaluation of nobles, a strike will undoubtedly become a stain. If it is not handled well, others will doubt his management ability and use it to attack him.
Immediately asking the housekeeper to deal with the matter, Kevin soon knew the reason for the strike.
No one knew how to run the steam engine, the new foreman made everything around him messy, and the schedule was not based on everyone's expertise.
If these were the only things that could be said, workers could work hard to overcome these problems.
However, in order to show his performance, the new foreman increased the existing quota by 30%, and when he did not complete the quota, he beat a woman with her child so hard that she almost went blind.
The workers' anger was ignited, and the foreman was immediately arrested and demanded compensation to admit his mistake. However, the foreman continued to speak harshly and clamored to "fire everyone" and nonsense like "I am still alive, you must die."
As a result, the workers survived, and the foreman...
The angry workers smashed their tools and started to cause trouble. A large-scale strike appeared in the quarry and tended to become more and more violent.
If the situation escalates further, then this matter is likely to form a rebellion, and then I will never even think about being promoted to a fourth-level noble.
While there was still room for recovery, he immediately found a noble friend of his.
The other party was very experienced in quelling strikes, but after hearing that there was a strike in Kevin's friend's quarry, the friend smiled meaningfully and said: "It's very simple, just seal the passage and then close the barrier." In less than two or three days, the place will be occupied by shadows, and everyone will die. After that, just open the passages and barriers, and send people in to collect the bodies."
Then, the friend took out a business card and put it on Kevin In hand: "These are the corpse collectors I have often contacted before. They work quickly and covertly. In less than a week, your quarry will be able to continue operating." "
Then workers..."
"Is there a special shortage of people according to law? Don't worry about the law enforcers, these body collectors will help."
Finding that Kevin was still in a daze, the other party patted Kevin on the shoulder and said, "I have said it before, you are too good to those workers. They They are tools, and they are renewable and cheaper than machinery. The prison is selling some interesting props recently, some of which can significantly reduce labor costs. You can go and have a look after you finish this batch." We chatted for a while
. After saying this, Kevin said goodbye and returned to his villa with his business card.
Locking himself in the room, Kevin never expected to be able to do this.
If it had been before, he might have done it.
But now, when he thinks about where his brother Dele grew up, how would he react if all his former friends disappeared.
He is so smart, he will definitely investigate the truth, discover the real culprit, and finally find himself full of hatred.
With a long sigh, he felt that he might as well forget it.
Calling De Lai, he said to the other party: "There's a strike in the quarry. Go and deal with it. If you need to appease him, appease him. If you need to raise your salary, raise your salary. But don't report it to me, otherwise I will be sad."
Kevin felt uncomfortable when he thought that those greedy workers could actually get money out of his own hands.
De Lai looked at Kevin in surprise and couldn't help but said: "Master, I thought you would choose to use force to suppress it."
"Am I that kind of person?"
"Always have been."
"Get out of here!"
The other person smiled and nodded, then walked to the door.
Standing at the door, he turned his head and said to the angry Kevin: "Master, I admire you very much. Among the nobles I have met, you are a true nobleman." "
Stop flattering and get out of here! "
Looking at the other party leaving coldly, Kevin leaned on the chair and let out a sigh of relief.
He pinched his beard and a smile appeared on his face, but he didn't even notice it.
De Lai quickly calmed down the quarry workers and put the quarry back into production.
The widow of the unlucky foreman received a sum of money as compensation, and she immediately took the money to marry another worker, which shows that scabs generally do not end well.
This episode quickly subsided, but Kevin found that Dele seemed to be much closer to him.
The other party began to take care of his own diet and daily life, and proper planning and arrangements greatly improved his work efficiency.
He usually had 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 and often said they could have one more "child of ours."
But Kevin didn't dare.
He knew that he was half non-noble blood, and later gave birth to children with aristocratic blood and half non-noble blood.
He had been lucky a few times before, but he really didn't dare to gamble anymore.
The days should have continued to be ordinary, but one day, he received a message.
The nobleman who was very good at putting down strikes was hanged.
The other party was hung on the street lamp, swinging back and forth like a pendulum, and he and his fellow corpse collectors seemed to resonate one after another.
And this noble's rank is not low, he is also a fifth-level noble, and he is also one of the few fifth-level nobles to be assassinated.
A large number of relevant people have been imprisoned, and countless people have been affected. Some time ago, the incident of the beating of a young noble for education was also revealed, and there is a lot of evidence that a certain nun named "Unexpectedly Encountered" was involved in this incident. It cannot be separated.
But just before the law enforcers came to the door, the other party took everyone in the monastery and ran away overnight, and their whereabouts are still unknown. I thought this matter would end there, but the subsequent investigation was even more shocking.
The unexpected encounter was only related to the beating of a minor nobleman, but it was not her fault. The person who really did it was a distant relative of this fifth-level nobleman, a minor nobleman.
This kind of thing should be related to making money, but of course it may be a more confusing relationship.
I thought the fun was over, but Kevin just didn't feel right.
Kevin is usually easily angry and doesn't like to empathize with civilians, but his intuition is particularly good and he can easily deduce the truth from complicated clues.
This time, he also realized that there was a problem, and then continued to dig deeper into this little nobleman.
This young nobleman had just turned twenty. After arriving in Ifat, he had a lot of fun and debauchery. After that, he worked as a factory owner at a construction site for a period of time. He recently continued to wander around in Ifat.
And his favorite place to go is nowhere else but his own cultural salon.
Seeing this, Kevin felt a splitting headache and his heart was beating crazily.
Don't do it...
After taking two sips of wine, he reluctantly calmed himself down, and then asked the butler to fetch the salon's recent records.
The salon has a special secretary, whose task is to record the conversations of important people in the salon and compile them into a book.
Looking through these records, Kevin became more and more frightened.
The content of the cultural salon discussion at the beginning was still history, but as more and more people joined, the focus of the discussion inevitably involved the recent apostles.
As the apostle present, Tang Mo began to explain their mission and brought the topic to nobles and commoners, bourgeoisie and proletariat.
According to different positions, everyone is expressing their own opinions, and everyone is trying to convince others. They will occasionally break out a series of quarrels, but in the end they will slowly converge to the same.
Ideas are constantly colliding, sparks are being ignited, and the addition of Dele has become a new representative, drawing everyone's attention to him.
His eloquence and personal experience made his words full of temptation, and even Kevin, a real aristocrat, thought it made sense.
The aristocratic class has become a shackles to the progress of the times, and if possible, this class must be broken.
This sentence was so outrageous that it was quickly dismissed, but one young man wrote it down anyway and burned it into a blazing fire in his chest.
"Damn thing!"
After combing through it now, Kevin picked up the wine bottle on the table and smashed it against the wall. Wine bottles were broken on the wall, and red wine flowed like blood, making the wall look like a murder scene.
Compared to this argument, the death of a fifth-level noble is nothing.
Someone had mentioned a similar point of view before, so the other party quickly disappeared and never appeared again.
De Lai went further and directly stated that there was no problem in abandoning the aristocracy.
What's even more frightening is that under the guidance of Tang Mo, he demonstrated this argument to an extremely high level through his profound knowledge and personal experience.
The pen is better than the knife. A knife can only kill one person, but a thought can kill thousands of people.
The Supreme Management Committee will not ignore this problem. They have been troubled by the apostles of the God of Education. At this time, stability is more important than anything else, and no trouble can occur.
There is only one ending waiting for Delai, and that is death.
"Damn it! Delai, why did you say such a thing!"
The fourth-level noble didn't need to think about it. At this time, he should consider how to save Delai.
Calling the housekeeper, Kevin asked him to quickly list the family's properties and then start monetizing the contacts.
The quarry has to be sold, the jewelry in the home has to be sold, the famous paintings have to be sold, and even the villa has to be sold.
What's even more despicable is that other people seem to have gotten some wind of it.
Their offer was very low, almost a clear robbery, but for the sake of his younger brother, Kevin could only vomit blood and sell off his assets.
Finally, he even considered whether to sell his noble title, but unfortunately it was too troublesome to sell and could not be sold easily.
The incident at home quickly caught Dele's attention. When he found Kevin and asked what was going on, Kevin just looked at him and said coldly: "Get out."
"Master Kevin, I think Since I am the trainee housekeeper here, I have the obligation to know and help you solve your problems." "I tell
you to get out! If you really want to help me solve your problems, don't say that sentence in the first place!"
"Which sentence?"
"The aristocracy should be abandoned! Because of that sentence, a fifth-level noble was assassinated. The first-level nobles are secretly investigating the matter, and it's coming soon!"
Only then did Dele understand why Kevin did this. , his face was immediately filled with guilt.
Half-kneeling in front of Kevin, he said with shame: "I'm sorry, sir, I..."
"Don't apologize to me! I won't forgive you idiot! Do you think you are very popular? The world of aristocrats is better than yours. Imagination is even dirtier!"
"I'm sorry, but you don't have to save me. Just hand me over..."
After hearing this, Kevin couldn't bear it anymore.
He put his foot into the opponent'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...brother?"
" You haven't noticed it until now! Even the laundry girls are more discerning than you!"
At this time, someone knocked on the door, and the housekeeper's voice sounded outside the door: "Sir, I don't want to disturb the touching reunion between your brothers. , but I have to tell you that the investigators from the first-class nobles have arrived."
"Huh, pretty quick."
Released his hand, Kevin wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked towards the door.
Pointing to the safe in the corner where the photo album was stored, he said to De Lai: "Look there. If it's me who comes back later, don't ask anything. If it's the housekeeper, just open it and the password is your name." . Also, give me your butler uniform."
After changing into a butler uniform, Kevin left, called the butler, and went downstairs with him.
De Lai was still in shock and couldn't recover for a long time.
But after sitting down, he thought for a long time and found that Kevin's attitude was not quite right from the beginning.
He waited silently for news, but it wasn't until midnight that he heard light footsteps.
Just hearing this voice gave De Lai a bad feeling.
And when the housekeeper walked in and told him, "Master Kevin has been arrested," he finally covered his face and wailed in pain.
His brother is gone.
(End of chapter)