"Louis, I just said you should be careful!" Mr. Henry de Foix roared after staring at the mice for a few seconds.

"I just don't know that those people are completely blinded by their interests to do such a reckless thing!" Duke Louis said with a dark face.

"They're just taking advantage of the loopholes, betting that you think your home is safe." Mr. Henry de Foix said.

"I was indeed a little too careless this time, but such a death is really disgusting." Duke Louis said, and then he walked out of the room, stood in the corridor and shouted the butler's name loudly.

"Charlie, Charlie, I think there's something you need to fix."

Butler Charlie, who was taking a short rest in the kitchen, ran out immediately. His face turned pale when he saw Duke Louis standing. His face was pale at the time, but he still said calmly in front of him: "Your Highness, I guarantee that everything in the kitchen is clean, and I guarantee that I have carefully inspected every food sent out, and I will also give it to these mice. Pass."

"I know how careful you are." Duke Louis said, he put the wine glass he had been holding into the hand of Butler Charlie, "Go and bring the servant who brought me the wine, I think he must know What the hell is going on."

The dance hall was still full of singing and dancing, but the atmosphere in the kitchen behind the ball hall was not very good. The male servant who delivered wine to Yang Yi and the others was quickly brought to them quietly, and he told them that he was delivering wine. On the way, I ran into something about Charles.

"So you put the wine there and left?" Butler Charlie asked sternly, "What did I tell you, did I tell you not to let anyone have the opportunity to touch the edible food given to the Duke?"

The manservant was trembling with fear, and dared not make any excuses. After all, his negligence almost killed the Duke, which was a serious crime.

"Your Highness, do you want me to send someone to capture that Charles Grandet?" Butler Charlie asked.

"No, you just need to send someone to follow him. I believe he is just a pawn! I want to see who is standing behind him. Although I have basically guessed it, we need definite evidence after all. Isn't it." Duke Louis said, and then he looked at Yang Yi and asked, "Why do you think your cousin wanted to attack us?"

"Maybe someone can change the future for him."

"What do you mean?" asked Mr. Henri de Foix.

"His father went bankrupt and committed suicide a few days ago, leaving him a huge debt to repay, and begged my father in his suicide note to send him to India to let him find his own future. Obviously he was very reluctant to leave France , and don't want to accept the fact that he has a huge debt. In fact, yesterday he asked me to help my father let him come to the dance. He said he knew someone here who could help him speak well in front of Louis. Good job or something," Yang Yi said.

"Well, we have found the reason. It is obvious that he is lying. My servants are all loyal retainers. They will not know an anonymous businessman."

"But I don't understand why he was chosen. He doesn't look very smart, he left evidence casually, and he is still in the ballroom." Mr. Henry de Foix said.

"Obviously this is just a temptation, a temptation to find trouble for me. If it works, then it's a great thing for them that I die, and it doesn't matter to them if I don't die. The only unlucky thing is Sidney, your dear cousin is just an idiot." Duke Louis patted Yang Yi's shoulder, as if he felt sorry for having such a brainless cousin.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, Charles Grandet has left the ballroom." A servant ran over and said.

"Let Tom and Steele follow him, go quickly." Butler Charlie ordered.

Charles had been waiting in the ballroom for the situation upstairs to be discovered, but he had waited for more than half an hour but there was no movement, which made him even more nervous, and when he saw the Grandet family, his heart was full. Feeling tormented because he actually poisoned his cousin, even before yesterday he still wanted to develop a friendship with Yang Yi.

Mr. Grandet had finished chatting with several merchants from Saumur, but when he turned around, he saw Eugenie and Charles sitting on a couch together, and Eugenie was smiling next to Charles. What.Mr. Grandet snorted displeasedly, then walked over and squeezed between the two rudely, he said to Charles: "Charles, since you begged to come, then enjoy this night well, come back tonight Now you can start packing your bags."

"Father, why do you talk about such a sad topic in such a place where there should only be laughter!" Eugenie said dissatisfied.

"Whatever it is, it's always going to be talked about. Now, have you seen Sidney, I haven't seen him dance all evening?" asked M. Grandet.

Hearing the name Sidney, Charles couldn't help shaking.Charles is not a good person, but he hasn't done any serious bad things either. He is just a spoiled son who has lost his masculinity by his parents.In order to live a good life, he persuaded himself to give Yang Yi medicine, and kept comforting himself that in the end, as long as Duke Louis let go and returned the land belonging to the Bourbon family, Yang Yi would also get the antidote, but he knew very well that he was hurting himself Blood relatives.

The last thing Eugenie wants to see now is Yang Yi, she wished she would not see Yang Yi on such a happy night, so she said sarcastically: "No, isn't he with some duke!"

"Eugenie, don't speak in that tone. Go, go, go to your mother!" said M. Grandet, pushing Eugenie's back.

Mr. Grandet's action forced Eugenie to stand up, otherwise she might be pushed to the ground.Eugenie did not want to speak to M. Grandet, she looked at Charles and asked: "Cousin, do you want to go with me to my mother's?"

Charles' body trembled again, he covered his forehead to cover his forehead which was sweating again, and said, "No, I think I need to go home first, I'm not feeling well."

"Not feeling well, did you catch a cold? You don't wear too much clothes today." Eugenie asked with concern.

"Yes, so I want to go back and rest." Charles said, standing up to go outside.

Eugenie ran two quick steps to catch up with him, and said, "Cousin, I'll go back with you."

"Eugenie, Charles is just suffering from a cold. It's not that he has lost his ability to move. He doesn't need your company. Go away and go to your mother, he will go back by himself!" Mr. Grandet stared sternly. said Eugenie.

Eugenie shrank her neck under Mr. Grandet's angry eyes, and then she looked at Charles again, and after confirming that he was fine except for his pale face, she ran to the sitting room angrily. On the other side, Mrs. Grandet chatting with several ladies.

Charles walked out of the Duke's mansion calmly, until he was sure that the guards standing at the door could no longer see him, then he started to run wildly, he never wanted to go through this kind of thing tonight , he now only wants to get the reward he deserves, a baronship, and enough francs to repay the debt.

Originally, it took more than half an hour to reach the market in Saumur, but Charles ran too fast, so he stood outside the only hotel in Saumur in less than 10 minutes.

People in Saumer City are used to going to bed early and getting up early, even the hotel where people drink every night will be closed before ten o'clock, so now the hotel is closed as usual, and the owner of the hotel, Old Soko, is doing the last of the day Cleaning once, when he was about to sweep the floor, he heard a knock on the door.

"Who is outside, is he going to stay in the hotel?" Old Suoko asked as he walked to the door holding a broom.

"No, I'm here to look for someone. I was here this morning, and I'm here to look for Mr. Baheil Bey." Charles said standing outside the door.

After hearing this, old Soko opened a small hole the size of a palm on the door, and he breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Charles' face clearly through the light in the room, "It's you, Monsieur Grandet from Paris, you Is there something urgent, I'll open the door for you right now."

Ciel stamped his feet on the spot and waited. As soon as the door opened, Old Soko rushed in, and then ran from the stairwell to Baheil Bey's room.

"Mr. Bay, are you asleep?" Charles asked while standing at the door of the room, knocking on the door.

"No, come in by yourself." A man's hoarse voice came from the room.

Charles immediately pushed open the door. He walked into the room and saw Mr. Bay sitting on a sofa with his back to the fireplace. He said eagerly: "Sir, I have finished what you said, now I Need to get paid from me, shall we go back to Paris tomorrow?"

"Hehe." Mr. Bay laughed twice and said, "Close the door, dear Charles, and don't let people outside hear your words."

"Oh, sorry." Only then did Charles realize that he hadn't closed the door, and he immediately turned around to close the door, and he continued while locking the door: "I think it's better for us to leave overnight, it's a crime after all. "

"It is true that I have to leave overnight, but I am the only one who left, and you are about to stay and receive punishment!"

Mr. Bay's voice suddenly came from behind Charles, and Charles turned his head abruptly, only to see Mr. Bay attacking him with a sharp dagger in his hand.Charles stepped aside immediately, and the dagger passed by the side of his head, cutting off a lock of his blond hair.

"What are you doing?" Charles asked in fear.

"Of course I killed you." Mr. Bey smiled and continued to attack Shire. "Do you know what's in the ring? It's poison. It's poison that will cause people to die instantly and painfully!"

When Charles heard these words, his whole body seemed to fall into the ice cellar. He knew that he had been fooled and committed a capital crime.But Charles didn't want to die, so he fought hard and started to resist.

Mr. Bay is a mediocre man in his forties. Although he is strong, he is not young, and his physical strength is still far behind that of a young man like Charles. Therefore, his hand holding the dagger was crushed after a few strokes. Charles was held, and he wanted to insert the dagger into Charles' stomach, while Charles twisted his wrist vigorously.

"Pfft!" The poisoned dagger was inserted into Mr. Bay's own stomach, his eyes widened in horror, and before he could yell out, he fell back motionless.

Charles froze in fright, and he woke up with a shock until Mr. Bay completely fell to the ground. He wanted to rush out the door, but he failed to open the door several times because his hands were trembling.The smell of blood began to fill the room. Charles stared blankly at the corpse on the ground. After a while, he suddenly walked to the bed and lifted the quilt, then put Mr. Bay's body on the bed, and covered the quilt , which makes it look like Mr. Bey is sleeping.Then he went to the washstand and took a towel to dry the blood on the floor. After doing all this, he ran out of the hotel.

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