[Zhongyingmei] That snake

"Mr. Butler." When the butler passed by the living room again, Oliver stopped him, "I don't know if you have time."

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Mr. Butler asked respectfully.

"How long have you been working on this estate?"

"Around five years."

"Then do you know why my mother Lim left?"

Mr. Housekeeper stood upright, with some embarrassed expressions on his face, "Has Miss Lim never talked to you?"

"I've said a little bit, and I probably have some speculations. Is it a permanent damage incident, right? She mentioned to us, King'sman, mission failure or teammate sacrifice?

The housekeeper gave Oliver a helpless look, "If you ask Lim, she will tell you. Then I can also tell you here, but what I know will not be more detailed than her client."

He turned around and told the maids in the corridor not to come in to disturb them, and then met Kate who had changed her clothes and walked down, "What are you talking about?"

"The reason why Lim left," Oliver replied.

"Can I hear it? To be honest, I'm curious too. That's why Dad's legs hurt, right?"

Kate remembers that when she was young, James' temper was moody and unreasonable, and he didn't hug his daughter very much. Over the years, it has gradually improved a lot, probably because time gradually healed the pain.

The butler nodded and turned to let Kate enter the living room, while the servants left.

He took a breath and said solemnly: "Everyone here knows King'sman, right?"

The three nodded, and only Kate touched her nose in embarrassment. As the only person surnamed Joyner among the few present, she didn't know the name.

"Then you must know the King'sman tailor on Savile Row." The butler patiently explained.

Kate replied seriously like a student, "Father goes there every year to order suits."

"King'sman is also an underground spy organization, which has nothing to do with the governments of any country. It is an intelligence agency founded by the owners of King'sman who gathered a lot of wealth. The headquarters is under the tailor shop."

"My father was a member of King'sman." Kate said silently.

Mr. Butler affirmed her statement, and then added, "King'sman was indeed a tailor shop that customized suits for the British royal family and nobles at the beginning, and the Joyner family was one of their big customers a hundred years ago. At that time, King'sman The Joyner family also helped with funding as investors when the 'sman organization was created. My family has managed estates and family businesses for the Joyner family for generations, so I understand the flow of money in that regard. But your father, JamesJoyner Mister was the first person to join King'sman in person, with the position of Gao Wen. Ms. Lim followed in his footsteps and joined, but she is Merlin, and this position is more inclined to the logistics staff."

"However, during that mission, due to the critical situation, Arthur personally took the command, and Merlin also walked out of the underground control room to go to the scene with Gawain, but due to some technical mistakes, the enemy's missiles locked on the area where Arthur was. , the front and rear actions were all exposed. Gao Wen was seriously injured, and in the end Merlin broke into the enemy camp alone to complete the mission. But the price of that mission was Arthur's death, Gao Wen's retirement, and Merlin's departure. Miss Lim I have always felt that the failure of the mission was due to her mistake. When she comes back this time, I hope she has taken it easy."

"Is that why Dad tried to stop me from joining Scotland Yard?" Kate said.

"You know, Miss Kate," the butler looked at her kindly, "sometimes the master will tell you what you can and cannot do, but he doesn't say the reason. It's just because these reasons will hurt people, no It's just suitable for speaking."

"Mr. Housekeeper." At this moment a beautiful woman walked into the living room.

Kate stood up, "Mom."

It was Lim and Kate's mother, Christine, who was wearing a black lace high-necked silk dress. She handed over a large bouquet of roses and daisies to the following maid, and whispered to put them on the dining table. vase.

After that, he looked at the Williams family who stood up after hearing Kate's words, "They just told me that Kathleen is back, you should be my granddaughter, Lily, right?" Although Christine's face looked serious, the words But very gentle.

"Your name is Oliver, and my son-in-law Colin Williams. They told me. Kathleen changed her name too, Lim, maybe you guys prefer to call her that."

Colin seemed a little embarrassed, and Christine also saw it, and thoughtfully saved them from standing up, "Don't be so restrained, it's time to go home now."

"Lim has been away for 30 years, which makes us very sad. But I thought maybe I would go into the coffin and I would not see my grandchildren," said Kate, who gave a helpless smile, "Welcome You come back. You must stay at home for dinner on Christmas Eve, and stay here tonight if you like."

Colin thought for a while, but didn't immediately agree, "It depends on what Lim means."

"Did she tell you that she was afraid of being kicked out by James?" The old woman who was not young was still elegant and calm when she joked, and her meticulous makeup made it impossible to guess how old she was.

Colin nodded.

Christine pursed her lips and smiled, "Then she should know that James can't really drive her out."

"Then what if I just want to drive her out today?" A loud voice came from the stairs.

James came down leaning on his cane, and Lim followed carefully behind him.

"Then I'll kick you out." Christine didn't look back, she could tell who said it just by the sound.

"Christine!"

"Then let them stay here tonight."

"I didn't say no." Oliver actually heard a little grievance from his grandfather's words.

Lim walked over and took Colin's arm.

"Come here, lad, let me see." James beckoned Oliver to pass.

When Oliver got closer, he discovered the powerful power of genetic atavism. He and James were really, really similar.This is also the reason why Kate showed a surprised expression when she saw Oliver for the first time, and her attitude was submissive.

"Grandpa."

The golden soft curly hair, blue irises and tough facial features make people feel a sense of intimacy.

"And you, cutie." James patted Oliver's shoulder with one hand, and with the other he simply threw his cane and pulled Lily over, "You're much cuter than your mother was back then."

"It's because he has a lovely father," Lim said.

Colin, who was named, smiled embarrassedly.

Oliver turned his head and didn't want to watch this scene. He felt that Colin's IQ had really dropped. Shouldn't he reply that you are the cutest one?

"Your mother told me about the mutants. And the kids. You worked in the CIA and the FBI, administrative or field?"

"In the CIA it's a clerical job, but it's not an executive job. In the FBI it's a field agent."

"The field work is good, and the skills are not bad. Although I don't like the government department very much, it's good that you like it. The risk factor of the FBI is not high."

Compared with James breaking into the base and blowing up the bunker, the risk factor of BAU's work is indeed not high.

He continued, "You still have a boyfriend, when will you bring it back for a look?"

Sure enough, he is British, and James is very open to these things at a young age.

"He's in London. He can come today." Oliver said with a smile.

"Then let him come to dinner. It's rare that so many people come back for Christmas one year. That long dining table hasn't been used for a long time? Christine."

"If you want to use it, I have to go to the greenhouse to pick some more flower arrangements."

"Go, go, don't forget the sunflowers, I like sunflowers."

"Can I still forget?" Christine smiled and kissed James' cheeks, put on lace gloves and walked out of the living room.

"Colin, I never asked about your job," James said.

"I opened a coffee shop in a small town and met Lim there."

"That must be a peaceful life." James' tone was regretful and yearning.

"Before that, he was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." Lim added abruptly, she still remembered it.

James froze for a moment.

Lim smiled, rebelling against the general.

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The dinner process was very pleasant, and Oliver brought Hotch along.

An Italian chef is in charge, but the desserts are made by Christine himself.

I believe she must have been a socialite when she was young.She rattled the bell very skillfully for the servants to bring up the dishes and, during the meal, to throw up some suitable conversation.Leave the simple and gentle topics to James and Lim, two fathers and daughters who quarreled after a long absence.

Occasionally talk about the scandals of James in the past, everyone smiled easily, so as not to embarrass the family members who met for the first time, and talked about the international economic-political-political situation with Oliver and Hotch, and locked himself in the room with James to draw Compared with the elderly artists who painted, Christine has to preside over the family business owned by both husband and wife. She usually has a lot of affairs, but this also makes her always look energetic and never sluggish.

In fact, in terms of property, the Joyner family is a hereditary nobleman and has some estates, but compared with the huge property held by James and Christine, it is still slightly inferior.

At that time, the story of James and Christine can be summarized by Colin as the love between a downtrodden nobleman and an upstart lady.

Anyway, Colin listened very attentively when Christine told about the past.This made Oliver feel ominous.

After the meal, Christine proposed to take Lim back to King'sman's base to have a look, and a new member joined. Lim readily agreed and called Colin.Even if James had a little resistance, he was stubbornly dragged away by Lim.

Only Lily, Kate, Oliver and Hotch remained in the manor.

Kate asked the servants to light several boxes of fireworks in the garden, and the multicolored lights illuminated the white snow.When everyone was admiring the night sky on the windowsill, Oliver found Lily running back into the room.

This is not like her style. Under normal circumstances, Lily should go crazy and roll twice in the snow at this time.

Oliver returned to the room curiously, and then saw Lily kissing a wild boy who came from nowhere under the mistletoe.

Look at his messy silver hair, who else could there be besides Kuaiyin, the son of Lao Wan who collects scrap metal?

The two noticed Oliver with an ugly face. Pietro was too frightened to say a word. He ran away like the wind, and it was difficult for the naked eye to track his trajectory. Lily blushed, took a sneak look at Oliver, and ran back to the room and locked it. Door.

Hotch, who was following Oliver, also saw this scene. He patted Oliver's shoulder comfortingly, pretending that he couldn't hear the groan of bones when he clenched his palms, but he couldn't ignore the ferocious look on Oliver's face. laugh.

"Look out." Hotch put his arm around Oliver's shoulders.

"I will," he said through gritted teeth, "I'm going to find the two of them to talk, talk, talk."

Although the naked eye cannot capture Quicksilver's movement path, Oliver can still use his ability to outline Pietro's footsteps.

Oliver knocked on Lily's door, walked in and looked around, it was fine, there was no one in the room.

Lily looked at her brother obediently.

After walking around the room with a smile, he went straight to the window sill, and picked up a silver-haired boy from the window sill, and threw it into the room.

Kuaiyin was found spread out on the ground and did not want to speak, Lily looked like he was crying stupidly.

"You came with Lily?"

"No, brother, it won't take long for him to come here from the United States."

Oliver smiled and had a heart-to-heart talk with the two teenagers.

As a result, Kuaiyin only dared to shrink his neck to look at him. Oliver exited the room satisfied.

Of course he has no objection to Lily's love affair, but the premise is that he should not hide it from his family.

Hotch was standing under some mistletoe hanging on the wall, looking up at the little green plant, "How's it going?"

Hotch understood Oliver's feeling of being abducted by a child who had been raised so hard.

"It's okay," Oliver walked over, "Pietro isn't too bad. You like this kind of mistletoe?"

"Sometimes." Hotch held a glass of champagne in his hand, and he took a sip before wrapping his other hand around Oliver's waist and pulling him closer, "like now."

Hotch kissed Oliver's lips, Oliver opened his mouth obediently, leaned forward, pressed his chest against Hotch's neck, enjoying the rare aroma of wine between his lips and teeth.

When Lily came out of the room, she saw her brother and her boyfriend entangled, standing under the mistletoe. "Oliv..." In the middle of speaking, she quickly covered her mouth.

Oliver's arms tightened, and he half-opened his eyes, giving Lily a lazy look.

Lily immediately turned around and ran back.

After a long time, until both of them were a little out of breath, Hotch let go of him, and said seriously, "Don't be teasing little girls all the time."

Oliver shrugged, with a smile in his eyes, "Blame me, who took the initiative first?"

"Oliver!" A scream interrupted them, but this time, the sister's voice didn't sound like a joke, and Oliver immediately frowned and looked over, she was rushing over with her phone in a hurry.

"Slow down, what's going on?"

"It's Jarvis, see for yourself," Lily threw the phone to Oliver, and a 3D projection of Jarvis was displayed on the phone.

On the screen was a detailed map of London, six red dots were moving across the map, and a sharp siren sounded from the phone.

"There are missiles attacking your area, Ms. Williams. Missiles have been detected attacking five other places in London from the same direction. Do you want to intercept them?"

"Can it be intercepted?" Oliver asked first.

"After calculation, it was confirmed within 20 seconds that Mr. Stark's space anti-missile system can carry out precise interception."

"Confirm interception."

After it was confirmed, everyone didn't know what happened for a while, they couldn't see the flight path of the missile, until the two collided, the dazzling fire burned the plain, the earth shook, and the land directly below the missile explosion even sank a few centimeters.Fortunately, this place is located in the suburbs, and the two missiles that exploded in the air would not cause casualties.

At the same time, attack missiles and interceptor missiles were simultaneously exploded over the King'sman tailor shop in London, Galahad's residence and the training base on the outskirts of London.This is definitely the most thrilling fireworks display on Christmas Eve this year.

Lim and his party are at King'sman's training base. Colin opened the space barrier. People in the room can only see the firelight hitting the transparent barrier through the tall glass windows, but they cannot move forward. The power of the missile is visually more ferocious, and the fire swept across the spherical transparent barrier like a wave, as if covering the entire building.

Mycroft, who was spending Christmas with his younger brother at Holmes' old house, received the report of the incident within 5 minutes and had to leave the dinner table. Sherlock taunted him for this, and dug out a dusty number from the contact list .

"Mr. Joyner, could you please help me contact the current general manager of King's?"