The empire is big, and there are all kinds of funny things

The reason why Eli invited Sean is actually very simple, he just wanted to embarrass Raphael, make Raphael unable to get out of the vortex in the Shura field, and let Yicao see that his family is actually a long time ago. It's not clear anymore, it's not a good bird at all.

But what Eli didn't expect was that all the personnel had arrived, but the Shura field was not staged at all!

As in the old days, any hard punches to Raphael were the same as to Cotton.Raphael's favorite way to deal with it is "I don't care about you at all" and won't argue with you or fight with you. His lofty attitude of being too lazy to care about an idiot like you made Eli's evil towards Raphael The fire can never be extinguished, and every time, another bundle of firewood is added, and a glass of cold water is poured on it, which can't extinguish the fire at all.

All the fires were covered in wet firewood, and they couldn't burn well, but the smoke became more and more fierce, and it was choking in all kinds of stuffiness.

Before stimulating Rhea or other people around Raphael, there was still some noise, but since the closest person around Raphael was replaced by Fabeya, Eli found it more difficult to make some sparks. Yep, Yicao's style of doing things complements Raphael's.One is "I don't care about you" and the other is "I only care about you". The difference is that the "you" of the former refers to all Raphael's opponents and enemies, while the "you" of the latter is limited to the tie flowers of the Yicao family.

This time, Eli thought that there would be an undercurrent between Sean and Faber, creating a gap between Raphael and Yicao.But what he never expected was that the person standing upstairs who almost got into a fight with Sean was his fiancé-to-be, Neil...

"Have you figured out your position?" Eli grabbed Neil, dragged him into his room, and said with suppressed anger, "A few days ago you went to find Rafael. I didn’t settle accounts with you, so what are you going to do now? You didn’t change your dress even if you were given it, and you’re still staring at Lieutenant Colonel Neil, what exactly do you want?”

"You're the one who hasn't figured out where you stand!" Neil opened Eli's hand and smoothed the wrinkles on the white coat, "Do you really want to become a family with me when you're with me, or do you just want to suppress her? Live in Raphael? Sean and I have disliked each other for so many years, you invited him here, did you ask me?"

"You..." Eli never thought that Neil would betray him at this time.

It's just a poor boy from the countryside, who can't even afford a boat ticket to attend the engagement banquet, so what right do you have to yell at him?If you can make some inventions, you really think you are great?If it hadn't been for those guys from Carlisle who came up with bad ideas by his side, how could he have fallen in love with this kind of phoenix man?

Eli already wanted to take advantage of Neil, but now that Neil stopped using him and began to resist, Eli felt that Neil was more and more disliked.

As for Neil, he just finally saw clearly, finally understood.He turned and opened the door to leave here, but Eli called him after gritting his teeth.

To be honest, Eli really wanted to give Neil a few punches right now, but he couldn't.He spent too much time and energy on this engagement banquet, and even after receiving the news that the eldest prince was coming soon, other people in the privileged group squeezed him out of the preparation work under the pretext that he was too busy to get engaged outside.He sacrificed so much to bring about this banquet, and he said that he would never create a situation of "newcomers disagreeing" at this time.

Endure, must endure!Eli took a deep breath, pressed the call button on the smart brain, and said to the servants at home, "Look for a man's medium-sized dress and send it to my room."

Then he looked at Neil coldly and said, "You'd better be honest today, and don't make any more fools. You have to be clear, he can't give you what you want, only I can."

May I?Not necessarily.There was a sneer on the corner of Neil's mouth, and he went out without saying a word, without any intention of changing into the spare dress that Eli asked someone to find for him.

He wants a home, a place where he can rely on and care about, so that he can have a thought in his heart and know what he is living for.In the past, when he thought of home, he would yearn and yearn for it, but today Neil has completely lost the expectation of the past. There is only a black hole in front of him. When he turns around, he can no longer see which is the way out. If he jumps down, he will be crushed.

Neil was looking for his redemption among the crowd, but he knew better than anyone else that that person would no longer reach out to him like in the past, even if he grabbed hold of it firmly, someone else would take his redemption take it from him.

Regret, reluctance, annoyance, all kinds of irritability made him dizzy, Neil covered his eyes with his hands, and folded his fingers interlaced until only one person could be seen through the gap between his fingertips, that was his only light .

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The engagement ceremony was held in the middle of the banquet. After Linyuan and Raphael had almost received everyone's admiration and worship, someone finally led the guests to the banquet hall for engagement. Before this, there were only members of the Capone family in this banquet hall. Can come and go.

After Raphael stepped into the main banquet hall, he saw the familiar grand piano in the middle of the banquet hall at first sight. When the violinist opened the cover to reveal the upside-down black and white keys, Raphael showed a look of uneasiness and peace on his face. restless.

It turned out that the black and white keys he didn't buy were snatched away by Eli... Rafael's knuckles trembled slightly, and an ominous premonition arose spontaneously.

The characteristics of the black and white keys determine its tone and melody. The depressing and dull tone has always been the best way to express the pain of broken love. No one has ever used the black and white keys in wedding ceremonies.Even if you didn't know this kind of thing before, you should understand once you have heard the timbre of the black and white keys.So when the joyful and melodious tune was played, Raphael felt dizzy for a while, and all the strings broke at this moment.

Someone nearby asked in surprise, "Why does the piano have such a voice?"

Raphael replied in a voice he didn't know, "He changed both the key value and the pizzicato." When he said this, he only felt a chill down his back.

Aslinia has produced more than 200 inverted pianos in his life, among which the top three "Sunrise" series and the "Bailing" series produced by Aslinia in the last 18 years of his life are the most valuable for collection. The two series respectively represent the birth of the inverted piano concept and Asrinia's most superb manufacturing technology.

The remaining black and white keys are classified as experimental pianos and special pianos according to their birth time, and different pianos have different values.The black-and-white keys that are being played now belong to the experimental piano made by Aslinia earlier, and its value is considered to be a relatively medium one among all the pianos.

Raphael clearly remembers that when he first inquired about this piano, the owner sent him a purchase policy that clearly listed 98 rules that must be followed after purchase.The average person may think this kind of code is troublesome, but for collectors and buyers who really like this thing, they love this kind of collection with additional purchase agreements.

Because generally speaking, the more detailed the agreement, the more the previous owner of the item cared for it and eagerly hoped that the new buyer who acquired such a thing would love it as much as they did.Therefore, the integrity of such items is often particularly high, and it is as close as possible to its original appearance when it was born.

The music was still playing, but Raphael bowed his head and turned around, no longer having the patience to stay in this place.

Not that he wanted that piano badly, but what Eli did was not only ruining a piano, but also ruining the expectations of the previous owner.Raphael suddenly realized that his original choice was so wrong.If he had given Eli a hard blow early, so that Eli could never get up again, maybe he could have avoided the current situation.

Outside the banquet hall, Eli, the protagonist, was urging people to get Neil back. When he bumped into Raphael's black face, he forgot to hide the joy on his face.

What's wrong with Raphael?Was it provoked by the piano inside?ha!It won't be so easy!This year, how about spending so much time and not giving anyone to Raphael? Didn't expect a broken violin to succeed?Eli couldn't help but laugh.

Just as he pretended to ask why Raphael came out at this moment, he saw Raphael's blue eyes slid across Eli's face as if seeing ants.

"Soon you will regret everything you did today." Raphael said in a tone that could freeze the air around him, and walked straight away without stopping.

Neil, who was being urged to go to the banquet hall on the way, couldn't help frowning, his eyes followed closely behind Raphael, and his footsteps moved unconsciously. He was about to run away but was grabbed by someone.He watched Lin Yuan pass behind him and quickly got into the royal red sports car.

Neil shook off the hand on his shoulder, and turned to glare at the guy in the military uniform.

Sean yawned and said boredly, "I advise you not to go to him now. He looks really angry. When I broke up with him back then, I never looked so bad."

Neil didn't see what happened just now, and he was the first to suspect that the culprit was Sean.

"Don't look, it's not me." Sean motioned Neil to look towards the banquet hall, and put his hand on the man's shoulder again, "Your little mane dog did something. Let's go, you can't book today Married. I think that black-haired guy just now seems to have called the police, and it is estimated that guys from the Art Conservation Association will come to the door in a while, and you don’t want to stay here anyway, so go have a drink with me."

"By the way... let's talk about that new favorite."

Neil originally refused to be dragged away by Sean, but as a scientific researcher, he really couldn't do a mecha, so he was dragged to the garage after a while.

Driving along the main road in front of Capone's house, Rafael drove the car for more than 50 kilometers in just a few words. It is estimated that he will be surrounded by traffic police now.After a burst of venting acceleration, Rafael finally realized that it was meaningless to do so, so he slowed down and parked the car at a rest point on the side of the road.

At this moment, something cold touched Raphael's lips, and he looked back... Lin Yuan actually held a fruit bowl full of candies in his arms.

Raphael: "When did you bring it?"

Lin Yuan: "When you ran away suddenly."

Raphael looked at the half-breed boy sitting in the co-pilot in horror. He never expected that such a cool and handsome girl would have a habit of stealing sheep. How many men and women would be frightened if this was told!

"Come on, open your mouth, ah!" Lin Yuan didn't care what Raphael was thinking, and directly stuffed the candy into Raphael's mouth, "When you are in a bad mood, you should eat sweets, although I don't believe in that Sugar can trigger enough mood-altering endorphins, but give it a try."

The candy was directly stuffed into his mouth, and the sweet taste overflowed in his mouth... Then, he resolutely spit out the candy.

Lin Yuan: "..."

Raphael didn't explain: "Take one and try it."

Lin Yuan grabbed one and licked it carefully, making sure it was sweet, and then stuffed it into his mouth, but within five seconds he also spit it out, sticking out his red tongue, and the whole fruit bowl He threw them all into the back seat, took the water bottle handed by Rafael, didn't care at all that the other party had already taken a sip, and hurriedly poured all the water into his mouth.

Lin Yuan was about to get angry, "Don't tell me, this is from that big fat guy Kles's house again!"

Raphael shrugged regretfully, "I don't know, but judging from the spicy taste of the second layer, it seems that it is really something from his family."

Lin Yuan stuck out half of his tongue, and slapped his hands angrily.

Seeing that it was fun, Raphael leaned on the steering wheel and stretched out his hand to poke Lin Yuan's side face, and Lin Yuan held his finger with just one click.Following that hand, Linyuan looked at Raphael, and Raphael looked at Linyuan.

The golden and blue gazes met in the air, and they didn't even know why they were staring at each other like this, but no one looked away.After a long time, it was Lin Yuan who broke the silence first.

"Tell me. Why did you come out suddenly?"

Raphael withdrew his hand, shifted his gaze out of the window somewhat unnaturally, and asked in a lonely voice, "Do you know about inverting black and white keys?"

"En. I've heard of it." Lin Yuan nodded.In fact, before today, he didn't understand this thing at all. It wasn't until Raphael ran away without saying a word, and the people around him were surprised or commented that he asked Mistedtin to look up the information about the inverted piano. ... As a well-educated collector, he decisively chose to report.

According to the provisions of the Imperial Cultural Relics Collection Protection Law, the collections with a certain value will be subject to the principle of state supervision and individual private ownership. Citizens have the right to buy, sell, exhibit, and transfer private collections. However, if a collection of certain significance is seriously damaged Penalties will be imposed in accordance with regulations.

"It's a pity that the piano is only a fifth-level collection. At most, it will be recovered and repaired by the government..." Raphael looked out of the window in despair, and told Lin Yuan about him and the piano with dim eyes. I couldn't help but feel annoyed, "What if someone repairs and adjusts it? Is it possible for a piano whose keys and strings have been modified to return to its original appearance?"

Lin Yuan wanted to reach out and stroke Raphael's soft hair, but he raised his hand halfway and then put it down again. He understood what Raphael was thinking. For any collector, a favorite collection is in the hands of others It is an unacceptable thing to be ruined.But on this matter, he couldn't say he was consoling, he just had some different thoughts.

"Once a thing is created, no matter whether it is destroyed or not, its state is different every day. There is no way to keep a thing at the moment it was first born, so why pursue restoration? It can't go back, It just can’t be changed. Instead of being obsessed with restoration, I’m more inclined to fix it. Make them into something more perfect.”