living in the world of reincarnation

Chapter 198 History of the Leon Family

Robert talked about the story incessantly, and when he got excited, he began to make vivid gestures. Professor Leonard threw out the questions he had prepared in order. The one-on-one-off one-on-one, turned into a history seminar on the rise of the chat.

Lin Yiyi played with her fingers boredly, and Mu Lan didn't miss the details of their discussion. Except for being a little distracted at the beginning, she listened carefully to the rest, and sometimes participated in the discussion between the two.

In Robert's description, the history of the Leon family's wealth is extremely legendary. His grandfather Leon sailed out to sea when he was young and won the first pot of gold. Although he did not specify the details, Mu Lan thinks it should be all It is a shameful thing that the old Leon who obtained the "private plunder license" should have robbed many merchant ships from other countries, that is to say, the Leon family started out as pirates.

With the gradual formation of the Victorian empire in the mid-19th century, there was no need to support pirates to rob enemy countries, and the authority to privately plunder was also abolished. Little Leon, who inherited his father's business, could only do business honestly, but his business The brain is really limited, the Leon family turned from prosperity to decline, and began to squander their ancestral property. Of course, Robert only mentioned this part, and Mu Lan combined specific clues to associate it.

Little Captain Leon did nothing outside, so he returned to the town of Hezros, where his wife lived, to settle down, but the magic is that he created a world in Hezros, and the fishing company he established became the leading large enterprise in Lanstershire. , It also brought wealth to the townspeople.

More and more people settled in the town of Hezros, and most of them became fishermen. After the death of Captain Leon, that is, Robert's era, fishing was no longer so profitable. The attack of multinational companies and the depletion of offshore fisheries In the background, fishermen on the west coast changed their jobs one after another. Only the town of Hezros still sticks to its old business, but the gradually meager profits can no longer attract immigrants, so the town of Hezros has declined.

At this point, Robert was full of emotions. He sighed and said, "Everything in the world is impermanent."

Mu Lan feels the social changes in Hezros Town in the past hundred years, and she is also a little emotional, but Robert's narration is a bit spring and autumn, such as involving cult groups and the appearance of the townspeople, as well as rumors from the outside world, which are similar to the 1860 Great Plague. Things are not mentioned at all.

They discussed until about eleven o'clock at noon, when Robert's wife began to work in the back kitchen, and the four of them were also left for lunch. Taking advantage of this gap, Mu Lan proposed to visit the house of the Leon family.

Robert frowned, thought for a moment and agreed to the request. He generously led the four of them to the old house where his grandfather lived in the backyard. At this time, a servant from the Leon family walked over quickly.

"What's wrong?" Robert asked casually.

The servant looked at Mu Lan and the four of them and stood there hesitantly without making a sound.

Mu Lan said empathetically, "Let's go in and take a look by ourselves, you are busy with business."

Robert smiled politely. Seeing the four people walking away, the servant whispered a few words in his ear, while Robert looked at the backs of Mu Lan and the others, his complexion gradually darkened.

Mu Lan caressed the old objects half a century ago, then looked at Ah Feng and said, "What did you see last night? Did you gain anything?"

Afeng glanced at Robert outside the door, and then said in a lower voice: "Didn't the townspeople disappear? They all came out of Leon's house, about six o'clock in the morning."

This time also corresponds to what she discovered this morning, Mu Lan nodded, and whispered: "This place has a large underground space, I think they all entered there at night."

"That's right." Ah Feng suddenly realized: "I sneaked in here this morning. There is a mystery in the house of the Leon family. I found a cavity leading to the bottom in some rooms, which should be a secret room."

Mu Lan thought that she should find an opportunity to sneak in, and wanted to ask Ah Feng for his opinion, but he nodded knowingly, expressing that he had the same intention.

Although this man walked alone and felt a little distant from others, the opinions of the two always coincided with each other, which reminded Mu Lan of the tacit cooperation in the first dungeon, and couldn't help laughing.

Robert walked into the room at this time. He saw Mu Lan touching a quartz clock, and said with a smile, "This is a masterpiece from Switzerland. It is the spoils my grandfather got from fighting the Dutch. You really know it."

When he spoke, he smiled but did not smile. Mu Lan could feel his slight expression, and felt that his eyelids were raised and his eyes were full of gloom. Something must have happened just now.

"Let's go to the restaurant to eat." Robert said again: "Madam has prepared delicious dishes, all of which are authentic Welsh dishes, handed down from her ancestors."

"Welsh food!" Leonard's eyes lit up. "The cheese there is pretty good. To be honest, I've had enough of the taste of potatoes. I can't taste any kind of fried fish. It seems like it's right to come here."

"And some Porto wine." Robert laughed.

The two walked ahead like old friends, and began to talk about the taste of various red wines. When Mu Lan was left behind, Robert turned around suggestively: "Professor's assistants, the restaurant is here!"

After walking around the corridor for a long time, as soon as he entered the restaurant, he smelled the fragrant aroma, and Lin Yiyi's stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

Mrs. Robert personally brought the delicacies with tray lids, and put them on the table for everyone to open. The dishes were indeed much richer than the restaurants in Newport City. The color of the cheese and red wine was very attractive, and the aroma of the steak was tangy.

After telling Lin Yiyi in the spiritual link not to touch the knife and fork in a hurry, Mu Lan found that Mrs. Robert and the two servants had withdrawn and did not intend to eat together.

"Isn't your wife coming with you?" Professor Leonard asked.

"She still has something to do, let's eat first." Robert said casually.

During the detection technique, Mu Lan sensed that Robert's wife had left the restaurant far away, and at this time many unidentified people were approaching sneakily.

After marking their location, Lin Yiyi slowly touched the bow and arrow bag. Afeng noticed this keenly. Only Leonard and Robert were still discussing the ingredients.

There were eleven of these people who came around, and they were all hiding behind the wall where everyone couldn't see, but they couldn't hide Mu Lan's spiritual perception, Robert said apologetically at this moment:
"I have an even better bottle of wine that's been in the cellar for over 50 years and I'm going to get it."

Then he turned and left, with a somewhat hasty pace.

"I won't let you spend any more money, I'll just look at the bottle." Mu Lan said with a light smile, shaking the red wine glass.

"It's so far away that we are guests. You and I are destined to be together. This must be God's arrangement." While Robert was speaking, his pace did not slow down at all.

With a sneer, Mu Lan released the tearing spell, and the head of the Leon family screamed loudly, covered his head and fell to his knees.

The townspeople who were hiding behind the wall rushed out, their expressions were unkind, and they all had the unique "Hezros town-style looks". He rushed over with a short knife.

(End of this chapter)