I have a cub that escapes the boss

He acts like every guy who does something wrong, gets caught, and gets pissed off about it.

And the butler watched him quietly, and finally, sighed.

He whispered to Ji Hanchuan: "Mr. Han, please don't mention this to the young master."

"Why?" Ji Hanchuan looked surprised and hesitated, "But the door of the study is not..."

Is it broken?

The housekeeper was silent for a moment, "I can't tell you the reason. But don't mention it, the young master won't know."

Ji Hanchuan calmed down, and raised his brows a little bit, looking very surprised.He seemed to be unable to accept the condemnation of his conscience, and looked at the housekeeper silently, with a hasty and pitiful expression on his expression.But until the end, the housekeeper still insisted, so Ji Hanchuan could only sigh, and murmured: "Okay."

He thought about it, and thanked the other party: "Mr. Cook, thank you for your tolerance."

But the housekeeper looked at him, looked gentle and tolerant, and said: "Tolerance, yes. Mr. Han, the young master likes you very much in the past few days." Ji Hanchuan paused.Then, the housekeeper said: "If the young master asks why the door of the study is broken, then please don't talk."

Ji Hanchuan cooperatively made a gesture of sealing his mouth.

The butler smiled with satisfaction.

Ji Hanchuan remembered something and asked, "However, Mr. Cook, if the door is broken, do you need to repair it?"

The butler was startled, and said slowly, "This...it is true."

Ji Hanchuan said: "I have an idea. I have a lesson for Owen today, can I go to his room?"

Hearing this, the housekeeper's expression changed slightly, and he looked at Ji Hanchuan.

He seemed to be looking at something.But after a long while, the butler slowly said, "It still depends on the young master's wishes."

Ji Hanchuan smiled: "Of course, I'll ask Owen for his opinion."

There is nothing more to say.

The butler fell silent, and the air between the two of them seemed to stagnate for a moment.Afterwards, a faint sound came from the dining room, and the butler seemed to have finally come to his senses, and said to Ji Hanchuan, "Now, Mr. Han, let's come out for dinner."

The breakfast is almost the same as yesterday and every day in the past, but the taste has changed, some have been left for too long, and the taste is between edible and spoiled.

After Ji Hanchuan tasted it, he put down his knife and fork.

The little fat man has a good appetite, and after eating up the food in front of him, he was eager to try it and looked at Ji Hanchuan's dinner plate.He asked, "Master, why don't you finish eating the bread?"

Ji Hanchuan said: "Oh, I've eaten the food here for too long, and I miss the taste of my hometown. When I feel like this, I can't eat it."

Owen listened, and looked at Ji Hanchuan worriedly.

Ji Hanchuan smirked and said, "Please don't worry about me. This kind of mood has a special and beautiful name in my hometown. It's just that such words are too profound, and you haven't learned them yet."

Owen showed interest and said, "I'm looking forward to it."

After that, Owen still had to go upstairs and finish the homework assigned by Mr. Moulton.But before that, he looked at the gloomy sky outside and asked Ji Hanchuan: "Teacher, do you want to hunt today?"

Ji Hanchuan glanced out the window, "It seems to be raining."

Owen: "It seems..."

Ji Hanchuan decided happily, "Today, I won't go out. After coming to Europa, I saw a lot of beautiful flowers that are only here. Although I knew something about it before, it was only a superficial understanding after all. Owen, I want to learn something from Mr. Gardener at the manor. If you relax after studying today, take a look outside, and you may see me and the gardener, oh, they are called Ivan and Blake - we together."

Owen pouted, "I'm even a little envious."

Ji Hanchuan smiled and said, "Is that so?"

Owen: "I haven't gone out for a while." Shrugged, "You know, my father really assigned me too much homework. Although I was completing it step by step, I thought that when he came back, I didn't do well in my homework." Perfect, or something else, I can't help but tremble."

"Owen." Ji Hanchuan sighed, and looked at the little boy worriedly, "You put too much pressure on yourself."

"Maybe." Owen was quiet, "but my father said it would make me a better person."

This pair of teachers and students came and went and chatted a lot.Afterwards, Cook reminded Owen that it was time for him to study, so Owen reluctantly went upstairs.

The ones who came to clean up the dishes today were two maids who were not in the annex yesterday.Ji Hanchuan looked at their faces, trying to overlap them with the figures in the sketch.But this is really a difficult task. In the final analysis, there is no photography technology in this era, and the paintings of others, let alone whether the facial features are accurate, can't even see the hair, eye color and other characteristics.

Forget it, the age of the girl in the sketch is also different from the present one.

One of the children was only five or six years old, with a baby face like a little angel.The clothes she was wearing were also outlined in great detail.The western realistic painting method is reflected here, and Ji Hanchuan can see the folds on the girl's collar.If there is only one painting, it may not be obvious.But look at the girl on the other picture, put the two sides together, the latter looks especially simple in her clothes.

After thinking about it, Ji Hanchuan spoke up and asked, "Carol, where is your hometown?"

The maid named "Carol" looked at Ji Hanchuan in a daze.

Ji Hanchuan calmed down and said, "Although you are only here as a servant, I can see that your posture is elegant and smooth, not like an ordinary maid."

Carol listened with a little shame on her face.She looked around and saw her companion Nicole on the other side of the table.Carol held the sackcloth in her hand and said, "Sir, you are joking. I am just an ordinary girl who grew up in a village. The difference is Nicole."

"Carol!"

The other maid reprimanded dissatisfiedly.

Carol obediently closed her mouth, but because of the conversation just now, her pale face turned a little bloody.

Ji Hanchuan looked at her and said with a smile, "You seem to have a good relationship? Are you friends from a village?"

Because of the conversation just now, at this moment, Carol glanced at Nicole, not knowing how to answer.And Nicole looked at her and told Ji Hanchuan: "It's true, but sir, you know this, what are you going to do?"

Ji Hanchuan said: "What to do... No, I don't want to 'do something'. It's just that the weather is bad today, and the young master has his own homework to do."

When he was talking about this, there was a faint scream from upstairs. It was Owen who asked the housekeeper: "My study! How did it become like this!"

Ji Hanchuan's brows furrowed immediately.

Owen's voice is actually very vague, he can only capture some sporadic words.But after putting it all together, one can still guess what the young master is talking about.

Next, the butler's reassurance was completely inaudible.Ji Hanchuan pondered for a moment, made an apologetic gesture to Nicole and Carol, and then moved forward, wanting to know the current state of Owen and the housekeeper.

The two maids were left in the restaurant by him.Nicole and Carol looked at each other without speaking, and continued to complete the work just now.

And Ji Hanchuan stepped on the spiral staircase.By this time, he was finally able to catch a few words from the housekeeper.Unexpectedly, he actually pushed everything to another person, and Ji Hanchuan was completely picked off.

"...This morning, we discovered that Vera was missing."

The housekeeper said so.

"Missing?" Owen asked back, his voice was still raised high, obviously dissatisfied, "Cook, I don't know what you mean by that!"

When the voice fell, Ji Hanchuan once again felt a familiar atmosphere that he had had before.An invisible pressure came from his left hand side, and the voice on the second floor paused for a moment, as if the housekeeper lost his words under the young master's repeated questions.Ji Hanchuan kept his eyes straight, pretending not to notice anything unusual around him.But all the way upstairs, there are lamp sockets on both sides.In the reflection of a lamp holder, Ji Hanchuan saw——

His Adam's apple rolled slightly.

The huge oil painting that had attracted his full attention the first time he entered the castle raised his eyes at this moment.

Although Ji Hanchuan had such a guess long ago.But seeing this scene, he still felt oppressed.Ji Hanchuan quickly retracted his gaze, as if it was just the most ordinary and ordinary, and he would not notice any information.He listened to the housekeeper's soft voice, comforting the young master.He pushed the problem of the study to Vera.

Ji Hanchuan was silent: It's very strange.

He wanted to start thinking and analyzing what the butler was going to do, but this time, another part of his rationality stopped before that, and told him: To do it again, is nothing more than falling into the previous endless loop.Who do you believe and who do you not believe, which side is true and which side is false... Instead of starting to struggle with "why does the housekeeper 'protect' me in front of Owen", it is better to listen to the next words carefully.And, most importantly, look for clues about the tulip sculpture.

He thought: Of course I should go to Mr. Moulton's study once.This job may not be suitable to be done at night.

Ji Hanchuan was [-]% sure, knowing that after last night, as long as he went out at night again, he would definitely meet that monster.But this time, the other party will not let him go lightly like last night.

Throughout the afternoon, I have to teach Owen.The remaining time, of course, is early morning.But in this way, he still had to find a way to avoid the eyes of others—maybe it wasn't too difficult, the door of the study was broken, and of course the manservant was in charge of repairing it.The butler, the overseer, can enter that room from the outside without attracting anyone's attention, as long as he finds something else for the cook and gardener to do.

Ji Hanchuan considered these matters, and then listened to the housekeeper.