Mr. Phil, please don't bow your head

on the bookcase.

Regarding her actions, Uno frowned indistinctly, and said: "Your Excellency should know my background, I am just a commoner, powerless, and poor—"

Smiling, Uno looked at the Duchess clearly, and the following words were self-evident.

"Hahaha!" The Duchess immediately understood his hint, quickly put out the cigarette on the bookcase, took out the cigarette butt and threw it away, turned on the optical brain, and asked, "How much do you want? Give me the account number!"

"Give it according to the price in your mind, I hope you can give me an unexpected surprise."

Casually reported the account number to the Duchess.

After 2 minutes, a message popped up from the optical brain.

Uno opened it and saw a series of zeros behind a value, and smiled, "Your Excellency is really understanding, no wonder His Majesty had a soft spot for you back then."

"Hmph!" The Duchess sneered disdainfully at his flattery, and said, "I don't need to tell you what to do next, right? I'll tell His Majesty the emperor what happened today so that he can feel at ease."

"If we meet again next time, I'm afraid you won't be so lively."

After leaving the warning, the duchess who walked to the door of the study suddenly stopped and looked back at Uno's stomach, "I almost forgot! You shouldn't be leaving right away, are you?"

Uno followed her gaze and looked down at his stomach.

Is it suspected that he has a child?

I couldn't help but sneered, "You should know the success rate of this operation. Besides, I have always been a person who is not favored by God. Maybe it is rotting in my stomach now!"

While speaking, there was a faint pain from the scar hidden under the clothes, and Uno looked at the duchess as if nothing had happened.

These words made the duchess, who had been domineering since entering the door, feel unbearable, but then she raised her head and looked at Uno with her still cold eyes, "That's not necessarily true! Just to be safe, I will send the court doctor over tomorrow." , do a daily checkup before you leave."

After speaking, the guard who brought the doorway left with enchanting steps.

-Complete-

42. Omen

In the study, Uno leaning on the desk looked at the book that was placed on the floor. The ash on the book was blown by the wind blowing through the window and scattered to the floor. The cigarette next to him curled up like a dead maggot.

"Don't blame me, Hein!"

After a long time, a sigh came from the study.

In the past week, Field has been unable to get through his father's phone calls and videos. He asked the family servants, his friends and neighbors, and only got ambiguous answers, saying that he had to travel to a confidential area for work.

Buonarroti had occasionally traveled like this before, but every time he would tell Field in advance, and he had never been unable to contact him without leaving a half message.

I couldn't help but feel a little worried. After arriving at the airport and saying goodbye to the captain of the spaceship that sent me off, I called a car and went straight home. Sheng Lin still couldn't get in touch, so I had to leave a message for him in the car telling him that I had arrived. After going back to see my father just go home.

However, Field hurried back home. There was only one old nun waiting for him, and the other servants left.

It was already evening at that time, and the old mother was sitting by the window of the living room knitting a sweater. When she saw Field, she was dazed and old-eyed. She didn't recognize Field, who had completely lost weight, and her appearance and figure changed drastically. She opened her eyes and looked at him. After a while, I saw the resemblance between Field's eyebrows and the hostess who left more than ten years ago. Immediately, I was so excited that I covered my face and cried out, put down the sweater, and walked over with open hands, crying, "Phil , you are finally back!"

Field put down his luggage bag and hugged the old nanny, looked around upstairs and downstairs, and found that it was very deserted, "Susan, what happened, where is Dad?"

Susan couldn't help crying, and said: "Master, Master has been arrested!"

"What?!" Field let go of Susan in shock, and kept asking, "When did it happen? Why didn't anyone tell me!"

Susan looked at his face, and it looked more and more like the passed away mistress, so she was even more sad, and said: "The master went to work more than a week ago and didn't come back. I asked someone to ask around, and I found out that he was arrested." , Later, a few people came to the house to search for things, and the servants were scared away, woo woo!"

Field couldn't believe it, and ran to his father's bedroom in a daze. The old lady had cleaned it up and couldn't see anything. Then he ran upstairs to the study room and saw that the safe at home had been violently opened, and some documents were missing. .

When he came downstairs again, Field had gradually calmed down, and asked Susan, who was watching him worriedly at the top of the stairs, "Dad had an accident, why didn't you contact me?"

Susan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "For the first two days, I thought it was not a big deal, and I didn't dare to disturb your work, but I couldn't contact you in the next few days. Sheng Lin came back a few days ago and told us not to tell You, I'm afraid you are in a hurry, saying that he will find a way."

"Then Sheng Lin—"

Seeing Susan's appearance, I'm afraid I don't know anything, so it's useless to ask. Field turned on the optical brain to call Sheng Lin, but he couldn't get through, and the previous message after getting off the spaceship has never been read.

In the end, he hung up the phone in disappointment. Field was so flustered that he hurriedly said to Susan: "Susan, you are the only one at home now, and no one is looking after you. You should go back to your family first. I will find a way to deal with Dad's business." .”

After finishing speaking, she didn't care about Susan, put on her luggage and rushed out of the house.

On the way home by taxi, Field contacted Yi Lei. Unexpectedly, he was also unable to contact him. He hurriedly contacted other management of the company. After several careful inquiries, he roughly figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that Yi Lei accidentally offended Stokar, a district councilor in the Kateray District of the Central Star, when he took a military project. The other party was running for a member of Congress. been deliberately retaliated against.

This Stokar, Field knew, was Sheng Lin's second stepfather, his nominal father-in-law.

After three years of marriage, I only saw this self-important district councilor—the father-in-law of a fallen noble in the old interstellar immigration era—two or three times.

After a brief search of Stokar's background, it turned out that he was just an inconspicuous district councilor. It was only in the past few years after he married Mrs. Sheng that he gradually emerged with the help of the Sheng family's money.

As for his father, Field called some of his father's former comrades-in-arms, but he didn't seem to know the cause of the incident. Some people speculated that Buonarrotti's current position was favored by others, and he was trying to get him out of the way.

Both things are trickier.

Regarding Yi Lei's matter, his family has a lot of contacts, so there should be a turning point.

As for his father, Field's social circle in Central Star is not big, most of his contacts are in the Frontier Corps, and his relationship with those military generals is not very good.

Hey!

It's all my own fault, I live too loosely, I don't manage my interpersonal relationship well, when the critical moment comes, there's nothing I can do!

Annoyed in his heart, Field got off the suspension car, walked to the door of the house and called Sheng Lin again, looking up at the window where the two of them lived on the second floor.

The phone didn't get through, and there was no movement in the bedroom.

Running back and forth, it was dark before I knew it. In the night, only the restaurant on the first floor of the small villa at home was lit, and several figures were reflected on the stained glass.

Sheng Lin might not be at home.

With this in mind, Field pushed open the door and walked in.

Autumn is coming, and most of the flowers in the yard are finished blooming, and the petals all over the ground fly into the gate with the breeze following Field's footsteps.

Hearing the sound from the foyer, the servant turned on the light in the living room, and Field stood at the door covered in dust.

"Mr. Phil, you are back!"

Several people ran over excitedly. Field handed them the luggage and asked, "Is Mr. Sheng at home?"

The few people looked at each other, and looked at Field hesitantly, as if too many things had happened and they didn't know how to talk about it.

One of them stared at Field and said something irrelevant to the question: "Mr. Phil, you have lost a lot of weight!"

Now Field's figure, not to mention being fat, has even shown a slender body outline with delicate eyebrows.

Xu Shi was tired from the journey and had just learned of the accident at home, and there was a touch of sadness in his expression, which was very lovable.

Fortunately, weight loss is not plastic surgery, and Field's face is still recognizable at a glance.

"Help Mr. Phil take the luggage upstairs, and prepare hot water for bathing by the way."

Mira and Sophie appeared behind the crowd, and Mira instructed the servants.

These two people have different expressions and attitudes, one is slightly sympathetic and worried, and the other is gloating.

"Ok."

The servants hurriedly dispersed and went upstairs, and went their own way.

Field took off his suit jacket, which was already in a size that was seriously inappropriate, and asked, "Mira, what happened, where is Sheng Lin?"

Sophie opened her mouth to speak with a sneering look, but Mira gave her a warning look, so she had to shut her mouth and snort coldly.

Mira looked at Field with pity, and said softly: "Mr. Sheng has something to do, and he didn't come back tonight. Mr. Phil, you have been on a business trip for a month, and you are exhausted. Sit down and have a dinner in peace, and you can rest for other things." It will be resolved by tomorrow."

Facing the pleasant-looking Mira, Field was a little unaccustomed, scratched his hair, and said, "But I can't get through to Sheng Lin."

It stopped working two days ago.

"Please don't worry, Mr. Sheng is fine." Mira stood behind the restaurant door and bowed slightly, inviting Field into the restaurant, "I just talked to Mr. Sheng in the afternoon, and he asked me to tell you, don't worry about anything , he'll take care of everything."

"Is that so?" Hearing these words, the sadness in Field's heart dissipated a little.

however