Clothes and brocade night travel [comprehensive]

Chapter 41

Earl Phantomhin sat with his back straight and felt his back go numb. It would be wrong to say that a certain feeling in people is particularly supernatural, although the maid who poured tea for him was as beautiful as a flower, with a frown. A smile can be a picture, but he can feel a kind of creepy coldness from her, as if she is not a living person.

"Your Majesty, please take your time." The maid bent her knees and offered tea and cakes. The light pink frilly skirt made ripples at her feet. Her skin was as white as snow, her eyes were as bright as daisy, and her ten fingers were as white as jade. Staring at her, he lowered his head shyly, showing a shy smile, with two dimples on his cheeks.

Earl Phantomhine felt cold and shivered unconsciously.

"If you like it, I'll send you off." The belated hostess arrived before the sound, still the same indifferent and arrogant as when they said goodbye half a year ago, the maid bowed respectfully, stepping on lotus steps Withdrew silently.

"My family has no shortage of servants." Earl Phantomhine stood up, turned around, smiled and stretched out his hand, "Long time no see, Mr. Zhu."

"Long time no see, Your Excellency Earl." The winter clothes are dark-colored, and Kyogokuhiko is wearing a crow-blue thin cloak. To the guests, he is a little careless, but vaguely reveals a bit of intimacy. Phantom Sea Earl En's stern face relaxed slightly, and he shook hands with Kyogokuhiko.

"Greetings from Jiushu, it's really a pleasure to see that you still have the same demeanor."

Kyogokuhiko raised his legs, leaned on the back of the chair and looked at Earl Phantom Hein with his head, and said, "Your Excellency, how can you be so haggard in just half a year?"

Earl Phantomhine coughed twice and said, "There is something wrong with the cargo on that ship."

Jing Jiyan raised his eyebrows slightly, and said: "I don't know, there are people who dare to rob your goods."

"If it wasn't for people, they would have dared to rob my goods." Earl Phantomhine sighed, expressing that he had a splitting headache from the group of elusive Akumas.

"Then why are you looking for me?" Kyogokuhiko said in a lack of interest, "Shouldn't you be looking for the black sect?"

"The Black Order is also interested in what I have in my hand." Earl Phantomhine said, "Akuma and the Black Order both want what the Queen asked me to take. For the safety of the Queen, it It’s still in my hand now.” He said, took out a pocket watch from his coat pocket and opened it, lifted the watch cover and poured out a bronze thing from inside, a small one no longer than the length of a thumb, shaped like A key, with curved and irregular lines carved on the surface, and a hole at the top, it should be used as a pendant.

Kyogokuhiko took out the handkerchief stuffed in the belt of Diarmuid's chest and shook it off, picked up the pendant through the handkerchief and looked at it carefully, "It doesn't look like anything special."

Count Phantomhine said: "This should be part of a map."

"Treasure map?" Kyogokuhiko threw the pendant back into the hands of Earl Phantomhine, the handkerchief ignited a pinch of flames, and disappeared with a shake.

"Who knows?" Earl Phantomhine smiled and put the pendant back into his pocket watch, then pushed it towards Kyogokuhiko.

"What does that mean?" Kyogokuhiko asked.

"Deal." Earl Phantomhine had a gentle but undeniable smile on his face, "Earl Phantomhine will die in an accident, and the secret treasure he was protecting with him will also disappear. His friend Mr. Zhu was entrusted by him. Look after the young children until they receive their knighthood."

"You are dying." Kyogokuhiko was not surprised at all. The Phantom Hein family has handled too many private matters for the royal family, and it will be a matter of time before they are completely uprooted. This task is already It's a prelude.

It can only be said that Earl Phantomhein still has a little brain and has no way to go to the dark. He knows that his death is inevitable, and he can still find a way to make full use of it to earn a way out for his young only son.

—A puppy as young as nine years old, if there is no guardian, it will only be completely swallowed by the cold night of London.

"When I took over my father's position, I already expected that such a day would come. Don't you have a saying in the east that the cunning rabbit dies and the lackey cooks it?" Earl Phantom Hein looked very calm and easy, He put a beautifully wrapped gift box in his hand on the table, and said, "This is Vincent's birthday present. It's a pity that I couldn't celebrate his birthday."

Kyogokuhiko propped his chin and listened to the non-stop babbling of the man in front of him who was not yet 30 years old, and suddenly asked: "Why me?" , Earl Phantomhain obviously has countless choices, so there is no need to find him.

"Because I can't trust anyone except you." It was precisely because I just met him that I chose him. Earl Phantom Hein can't trust anyone who is related to the royal family now, and besides Kyogoku Yan, he couldn't find another person who could resist the simultaneous attacks of the Black Order and Akuma at the same time.

This is the best choice he can make in desperation.

He stuffed the documents hidden in his clothes in the document bag he brought, and all the original things in the document bag were placed in front of Kyogokuhiko, "Please, at least, please let the children live safely !"

……

Silence, Kyogokuhiko did not speak, he just stared fixedly at Earl Phantomhine who was bending over him, and asked after a long time: "Is it worth it?"

"I don't know," replied Count Phantomhive, "but I don't regret it."

He doesn't know if it's worth it, since he was taught the duties and responsibilities he should shoulder as the sole heir of this generation of hidden family in darkness, compared to Midford who stands on the bright side , What he saw was the darkness beneath the city, a deep pool that was so dirty that he could never get out after stepping in with one foot.

He must be loyal to the queen, loyal to the country, and he will not hesitate to charge and die for an order.His father taught him this way, and he died like this, but he didn't want to be trapped in such a cage again, and he didn't want his children to be trapped in such a fate again.The reason why the queen made up her mind to get rid of him is probably because she saw a restless heart under his loyal and serious appearance.

Earl Phantomhein is a man who is keen and unscrupulous, and he is also a crazy gambler, so he lives like a fish in water under the night in London. Even Kyogokuhiko has to admit that even if he knows that his pitiful attitude is probably If he is acting, there is a [-]% chance that it is full of calculations, and he still has to step into the trap he set.

This kind of person, if he met the Lord at the right time in his life, he would never be what he is now.

"I don't have the habit of helping others raise their sons." Kyogokuhiko stood up and slapped Earl Phantom Hein on the head, "I have to raise it for myself."

Having said that, he still kept the things that Earl Phantomhine brought, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Why don't we talk about another business?"

From the beginning to the end, Diarmuid stood quietly behind Kyogokuhiko, acting as a qualified vase, not talking, listening or watching, and wandering calmly.

Don't talk, watch or listen, as if everything has nothing to do with him.

It wasn't until Earl Phantomhain left that he quietly got up and followed the receding carriage like a ghostly shadow.

……

On the night when Earl Phantomhine came to visit them, he was attacked. A fire burned down the mansion of the Phantomhine family. The flames spread all night and were not slowly extinguished until noon the next day. Inside, Count Phantomhein and his two young children were all burned to death in the house, beyond recognition and almost unrecognizable.

And the whole magnificent mansion was also riddled with holes by the strange fire, leaving only the scorched foundation and the frame of the mansion. The servants escaped because of the Christmas holiday, but there were also a few unlucky ghosts. died in the fire.

But in any case, this family that used to control the entire underground world of London was completely wiped out after this day. What is even more embarrassing is that according to the will of Earl Phantomhine, all properties under his name were donated to The country is used to accommodate the homeless orphans, so that all the coveted families can get nothing.

Later, the state-owned mansion was auctioned off by the state. The new owner built a more magnificent mansion there, but died strangely within a year after living in it. After that, this mansion has been repeatedly auctioned, built, and dead , and then the auction process until no one cares about it.

This beautiful place in the past has become a famous haunted house in London and even in the whole of the UK. The story of this place is still circulating until countless years later.

It is said that the ghosts of Phantomhine's family still linger here, killing every human who steps into their house to pay homage to their undead.

"Is the matter settled?" Kyogokuhiko asked, the weather today is very good, it is a good day suitable for going out to sea, and it is also a good day suitable for reading in the study.

"They have already left." Diarmuid said, and then frowned helplessly, "Before leaving, Lord Earl asked me to tell you, happy birthday to you."

Kyogokuhiko was taken aback, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the gift box he had placed on the bookshelf. It was originally a birthday present that Earl Phantomhine had given him to pass on to his son, but he never took it back and gave it to him if he said yes. him.

The gift box is just the size of a palm, carefully wrapped in blue paper, with a cute bow tied on the outside, and a nutcracker inside. Kyogokuhiko picked up the puppet and shook it, it seems that it is not hollow, like An ordinary gift that every father would buy for his young son, nothing special.

Kyogokuhiko looked at the puppet left and right, and squeezed the puppet into pieces neatly with his hands. In the wood all over the floor, another bronze key-shaped pendant rolled out. It was probably inserted during the puppet making. in wood.

This key is somewhat similar to the one given to Kyogokuhiko by Earl Phantomhine, but the patterns engraved on the surface are not the same, and they cannot be put together. He also found a note in the sawdust of the nutcracker, On it was Earl Phantomhine's distinctive cursive script, spelling out the address of an abandoned manor in the outskirts of London.

Kyogokuhiko dropped the two keys on the desk, patted the table and laughed out loud.

At this time, the sea was calm, a pair of young brother and sister were lying on the side of the boat to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the sea, and their father and mother were standing behind them.They were the passengers on this big ship bound for the United States. The middle-aged gray-haired husband, the frail and gentle wife, took a pair of children and several servants, and went to the New World to do business.

No one will care about such an ordinary and ordinary family. There are dozens of boats from London to all over the world every day, and each boat is full. The Phantom Hein family has long been buried in the ground, and now they are alive. Only the Fann family, with countless money and a safe and legal identity, looking forward to a new start in the New World.

"I gave him all the family heirlooms." Mr. Fann shrugged, planning to eat two more cookies while his wife was not paying attention.