Chapter 63 Old Rules
"Are you here to plead for my aunt?"
Ilea looked at Li Yu in front of her and frowned.
After dealing with the assassin's matter, the girl's mood became very low. Instead of being happy about finding the internal agent, she locked herself in the room alone, saw no one, and didn't even eat dinner until Li Yu came. Knock on the door.
"It's not a plea, I just think there might 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, "Did my aunt come to see you a few days ago?"
"Well, she wants me to help her prove that Torres's matter has nothing to do with her." Li Yu didn't hide anything.
"You promised her?"
"No."
"Why?"
"I have little interest in the internal affairs of the Arias family."
"Then why have you changed your mind now? Did someone come to you again and offer you a price you can't refuse?"
Miss Rabbit is now suffering from PTSD due to being stabbed in the back by her relatives, making everyone look suspicious.
Li Yu shook his head, "You hope that I can provide you with advice when necessary. Now is a time like this. No matter who left that note, his or her purpose is very clear, which is to further divide you and Other members of the Arias family ”
"Of course I have thought of this possibility, but... assassins or spies are real, you can't deny this, and now the scope has been narrowed down to three people.
"Paz, Aunt Tamara, and my aunt," the girl clasped her fingers, "Also don't forget a very important point, neither Paz nor Aunt Tamara can read or write. Drop the note.”
"Maybe someone outside wrote the note, handed it to them, and then they put it in that room."
"It is indeed possible." Ilea also admitted, "But how do you explain why they didn't take action against me? As long as they ambush in the room, there is a high chance that they can successfully assassinate me and save their lives. In exchange for my life, this is a good deal.
"But if the person who threw the note is my aunt, then everything will be explained. No matter how much she wants to help my stepmother and brother, she will not sacrifice herself."
"Your analytical reasoning ability has improved a lot," Li Yu said, "but I still don't think your aunt is the spy hiding in the castle with your stepmother and brother."
"What's the reason?"
"Well, I re-read the voting list that day and found that your aunt is the only person who Vanessa would have a hard time winning over no matter what.
"Even if you put aside the personal feelings between you, just from the perspective of profit, the benefits you can bring to her by becoming the lord of Green Field far exceed the most profitable offer your brother Blanco can offer her. The condition of sincerity, after all, your brother already has a mother and uncle, no matter how generous you are, the benefits you can share with her are very limited
"Unlike you, both of your parents are dead, and the person you trust the most is her. Once you become the head of the Arias family, you will definitely need to rely on her. By then, she will be the number two person in the entire Arias family."< br>
"I don't know why Aunt Alisa betrayed me." Ilea took a deep breath and said, "But you told me at the beginning that all the people in the family knew the election results in advance, and I was the only one who still Being kept in the dark, if my aunt was really not bribed by my stepmother, why didn’t she tell me in advance?”
"Alissa must have her own difficulties."
"What difficulties? In the final analysis, it's not for yourself." The girl said coldly.
Li Yu did not refute, but just said, "I have said almost everything I want to say. In short, I am here to tell you that you may have found the wrong person. In fact, you may not have doubts deep down in your heart, right? It must be difficult for you to accept that someone you believed in betrayed you for no reason.”
Miss Rabbit fell into silence after hearing the words, and sighed after a while, "You are right, I am still a little in a daze. I just remembered that my aunt took me to play a treasure hunt game near the castle when I was a child. We used a broken She used old maps to search for the treasures left by the Arias family’s ancestors, but in fact the silver coins were buried by someone else.”
The girl's eyes flashed with nostalgia, "I didn't know how difficult it was to be a lord. I dream of going back to the carefree life of the past. Alas... If only my father was still here, everything would be different. will happen.”
Having said that, Ilea obviously knew that she could not go back.
She forced herself to break away from the memories and return to the cold reality world, "I also want to believe aunt, but the facts are already in front of me. If it wasn't Aunt Alisa, how did that note appear under the table? < br>
"Is it possible that there is a guy who can be invisible, hiding from everyone's eyes in broad daylight, swaggering into the room where I handle government affairs, putting down the note, and then drifting away without alerting the guards at all? , this is too bizarre.”
"Indeed." Li Yu nodded. After he finished speaking, he found that the girl had been secretly sizing him up, so he added, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Since you think I have found the wrong person, can you help me find the real insider?" Miss Rabbit blinked and said with hope, "Well, it may be difficult to allow you to preach in the green field, but other things It's all negotiable. Let's do this. 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 Diaz's place. It's in a pretty good location. It's not far from Teacup Castle. My brother is unwilling to fail and tries to usurp the position of lord. He is the mastermind like my stepmother. Vanessa sees the situation. When something went wrong, he escaped with Blanco, but Dias was captured by the Purple Sparrow Knight and is now locked in the dungeon below the castle
"His property and fief were also deprived of him. However, that guy drank too much and hunted on weekdays, and didn't manage his fief very well. As a result, there were only a few families left on it, and many fields were abandoned. What he earned He used all the money to drink. I sent people to search his residence and found less than five gold coins and many IOUs.
"But don't worry, I have almost repaid the debt he owed by selling valuable things on his territory. Of course, the rest is basically a piece of white land, but if you can recruit enough farmers, You should still be able to make some money by reclaiming those abandoned fields.”
Miss Rabbit has already done the calculations for Li Yu, "If the harvest is good, plus other miscellaneous taxes, thirty gold coins a year should be fine. Although it is not as profitable as selling pepper, the point is that as long as the door is closed, Come on, you can also engage in some pagan activities. As per the old rules, as long as it’s not too extreme, I can pretend not to know.” (End of Chapter)