Victory Utopia

"My name is Ryander, ma'am," insisted Gordon.

"It's not troublesome to have a false surname, is it? Your name in Hills County is indeed impeccable. From the date of birth to the records of your wealth, you can't find any loopholes. It can be seen that you have put in some effort. .”

"lady……"

"Your self-cultivation is not bad, but there are some important things missing. Listen to me, children, no noble will send their children to unfamiliar places for training, even if the family you mentioned has fallen. And you specially learned from Hill Everyone would laugh at saying that Sijun came here to be an apprentice knight."

Gordon didn't know how to answer the conversation. Winteney only told him what to say, but didn't teach him how to deal with the questioning of these real nobles.In the eyes of outsiders, he is just a poor boy who regards the Countess of Stirling as his "benefactor".

"Eliza—" Sterling wanted to change the subject.

"Mrs. Sterling, if you really deny that he is not your son, then this matter has nothing to do with you. Because I am talking to a knight who led my daughter into disaster."

Elizabeth paused: "Or if you admit now that Gordon came out of your stomach, which is beyond reproach, maybe things won't be so embarrassing."

Sterling shook his fan, as if killing her and having nothing to do with Gordon: "You know that the Earl and I have no heirs."

"It is true that Earl Stirling has no children in his life, but you have not only been married once."

Sterling's face changed, and she lost her proud self-confidence: "Madam, I'm advising you to be careful with your words and deeds."

"What I'm saying is the truth, Wintney. When you married Earl Stirling after the death of your first husband, you didn't think about arranging a better home for the child? Or did you just want to one day , can you make him willing to control for you?"

Sterling didn't lose her composure because of this, she bit her lip and snorted.

It can be regarded as admitting that someone has turned his back on him.

Elizabeth led them to the living room, and Sterling hid her panic with a smile on her face. She wondered why Elizabeth would still find out about her past under her nose.

That happened more than ten years ago. Her good-for-nothing husband who squandered all his family property was drunk and beaten to death. If she hadn't met Earl Stirling, she might have become a poor widow who was ridiculed for a lifetime.

This ex-husband's child cannot become a burden for her to marry into a noble family.However, it is possible to take control for her and do what she wants.

Things couldn't be done absolutely, Sterling didn't take Gordon to her husband's mansion, but entrusted a dumb old woman to take care of his life, visit the child occasionally, so as not to make the mother and child feel weak.

Hearing such a big secret, the expressions on the faces of the survivors were very exciting.

Qu Shan lingered to the end, she called the boy to stop, whispered something and slipped away while everyone was not paying attention.

"Sister Qu Shan said she was going to get the housekeeper back," the boy asked a little suspiciously, "Where did Baker go?"

Qin Yu whispered: "He shipped out the wine from the manor and sold it for thirty pounds. The tavern he received was owned by Sterling. What do you think? He probably ran away because he was afraid of being exposed."

"Ah??? So, Baker is actually lying to us? He is the Countess' subordinate. How much is thirty pounds worth?"

Qin Yu couldn't be sure about this matter. The way Baker revealed Sterling's intention that day did not look like a fake.However, as soon as the wine sale happened, he became the object of suspicion again.

Qu Shan is very powerful, he thought, maybe she can really track Baker's whereabouts.

Qin Yu explained: "The total value is quite a lot. One pound in the 19th century was worth about 2000 yuan today. It is estimated that it is not much worse in this period."

The boy clicked his tongue secretly, this Baker is very courageous.

Lisa stood in the living room, and had already prepared several chairs, as if they had been arranged long ago.

Everyone was seated, but Gordon stood by at a loss.He looked at Sterling with a livid face, and his mind was muddled. This lie has been pulled out from the root, and it will never come back.

Elizabeth took off her gloves and said, "Why don't you sit down, Gordon?"

"Don't dare." Gordon felt uneasy. He couldn't understand the meaning of every word these people said, and the hypocritical smile was driven by profit. "I'm just a nobody..."

"Tsk." Sterling gave him a disgusted look. "I said you are hopelessly stupid, don't be ashamed. Let you sit down and forget all the manners taught you?"

The woman turned her face very quickly, Gordon muttered something, but did not make a sound.

For the rest of the time, Elizabeth asked questions, Gordon answered, and Sterling felt like sitting on pins and needles listening to those words.

Why is Margaret so close to you?

For what purpose did you approach her to deceive her?

What did she write in correspondence with you?

Did you know that she was killed by rumors?

The pendulum kept ticking, and Gordon was more afraid of his mother than Qin Yu imagined. When Sterling glared at each other, he couldn't sit still and kept buttoning his frayed pants.

"I think he might create the world's first ripped pants." Qin Yu's eyes fell on Ge Yin and said, "Do you know ripped pants?"

"I know, it's just stored in the museum as a cultural display." Ge Yin replied, he glanced at Qin Yu: "What are you paying attention to?"

Qin Yu smiled indifferently: "All of them."

Gordon told all the people present, including Lisa, who was no less angry than Elizabeth when she heard the words of those who approached and used Margaret with a purpose.

The encounter at St. Pad's Church was indeed not a "coincidence". Margaret followed Elizabeth to church, and while waiting outside, she ran into Gordon.

Sterling said that the daughter of that family is used to the routines of various famous and noble men trying to strike up a conversation, and you can't find any loopholes just from this way.Your face is the only thing that can catch her eyes, but this alone is certainly not enough. Do you remember what Margaret likes most?

Elizabeth was a little distracted: "Maggie is a kind child. She always goes to the town to talk to the common people. What she likes most is to do favors for those poor people."

She looked up at Gordon's face, and shook her head slightly in disappointment: "You used her sympathy to approach her at that time."

A battered Gordon passed Margaret's carriage, and if he fell in due course she would immediately ask how he was doing.

Gordon had never done a thing so well. Margaret sent him to the hospital, and Gordon sold out again. Making up a story could easily keep this rich lady.

But he was not good at pretending to be injured, so he found a group of punks and bought a "beating".

It is always useful to be miserable in front of kind people. Gordon later regretted it because he had deceived Margaret's sincerity in this way.

Even Gordon himself couldn't believe what happened afterwards.He didn't even have the courage to face Margaret squarely, yet he exchanged letters with her for two months.

In the beginning, it was just simple polite words. Gordon knew how to measure, and he didn't rush to find out the secrets of the Bister family immediately. Instead, he chatted with her, about who he met in the prison, how angry he was, and all kinds of nonsense gossip.

Until there was a different content in Margaret's letter.

"Miss Margaret asked me to teach her how to tell time in the field, judge danger, and tell her anything about being in battle."

Gordon told the truth.

Elizabeth frowned, Qin Yu saw that no one was talking and Gordon didn't dare to speak out, so he asked, "Why does she want to learn this?"

"This is not something a lady should know." Sterling said aloud, even though her purpose was all revealed in front of the white line for others to despise, she still sat with her expression unchanged.

What she said made Qin Yu startled, and it took him a second to understand what she was referring to.

His expression at that moment was seen by Ge Yin, perhaps because the playfulness in those blue eyes was too obvious, Qin Yu was a little embarrassed, and said helplessly: "I didn't hear it."

Gordon looked at Elizabeth uneasily and then at Sterling: "I didn't ask her why she wanted to learn this. But after that, I did something against my will."

He rushed to Elizabeth and knelt down, sincerely said: "I'm guilty, Mrs. Beester, I lied to her and you. But you have to believe that those rumors were deliberately framed, and she never did anything out of the ordinary Things. It has always been my wishful thinking and my self-righteousness, and there is nothing in those letters that would damage her reputation."

"I never doubted that my daughter would do that kind of thing." Elizabeth closed her eyes, and she took a deep breath to try to calm herself down: "But those rumors are all because of you."

Gordon used Margaret's trust to dig out information on Bicester Manor, and he was really good at this, otherwise Sterling would not have kept him.

The naive lady shared her living place with this friend, but she didn't know how to drag herself into hell.

"You will pay for this!" Hearing this, Lisa couldn't help shouting, she looked at Sterling mother and child in disbelief, her voice trembling. "So, the blackening of the river and the matter of cattle and sheep are also your actions, right? It is premeditated to seize the fields of the Bicester family by any means, right?"

Qin Yu pretended not to see that she was faking it.

After all, none of the four people present was innocent.

The matter of the necklace has not been clarified yet, now I just hope that Qu Shan can find Baker's whereabouts as soon as possible.

Gordon's heart was squeezed and he couldn't breathe, as if something was blocked in his throat, he was at a loss: "No, no, I didn't do it..."

Sterling was a little dissatisfied, and she looked at Lisa contemptuously: "Mrs. Biester, is that why you lack servants? If you can't find any who can do the job, I can send a few over. Such dirty water can also be splashed indiscriminately." ?”

Elizabeth ignored her, and subconsciously touched her ring, only to remember that she had given it to Qin Yu as a reward.

She said to Gordon: "You will know what will happen if you offend Bicester."

"Ma'am, I am willing to be at your disposal for atonement—" Gordon was disheartened and willing to die.

At this moment, a moderate shout outside the door interrupted everyone's conversation.

"Where is the person? I have brought back your good housekeeper, come out and meet him!"

Elizabeth waved her hand and asked Lisa to go out and watch: "Bring people in."

Qin Yu's legs that were about to stand up suddenly returned to their original positions, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "Let's see, maybe this time we can complete the task before the deadline."

Less than half a minute after Lisa went out, she heard Qu Shan's voice again:

"Still going in? No need, it's not easy to clean the dirty carpet. Please lift your legs and walk two steps."

Two minutes later, everyone with doubts in their hearts saw Qu Shan and——

Baker looked a little indescribable.

Qin Yu turned his head and complained to Ge Yin: "It's like a newly unearthed terracotta warrior."