Working Prophet.

Chapter 63 The old rules

"Are you here to plead for my aunt?"

Ilea looked at Li Yu in front of her and frowned.

After dealing with the assassin, the girl's mood became very depressed, and she was not happy because she found an insider. Instead, she locked herself in the room alone, didn't see anyone, and didn't even eat dinner until Li Yu came. knock on the door.

"It's not an intercession, it's just that the person who put the note might be someone else." Li Yu said.

"Who?"

"It's not clear yet."

Yi Liya glanced at Li Yu again, and said suddenly, "Did my aunt visit you a few days ago?"

"Well, she wants me to help her prove that Torres' matter has nothing to do with her." Li Yu didn't hide anything.

"You promised her?"

"No."

"why?"

"I have little interest in the internal affairs of the Arias family."

"Then why did you change your mind now? Did someone come to you again and offer you some price you couldn't refuse?"

Miss Rabbit has already suffered from ptsd because of being repeatedly backstabbed by her relatives, and everyone looks a little suspicious.

Li Yu shook his head, "You hope that I can give you advice when necessary, and this is the time, no matter who left that note, his or her purpose is very clear, which is to further divide you and me." Other members of the Arias family."

"Of course I also thought of this possibility, but... Assassins or internal agents do exist, you can't deny this, and now the scope has been narrowed down to three people.

"Paz, Aunt Tamara, and my aunt," the girl snapped her fingers, "and don't forget the very important point, neither Paz nor Aunt Tamara can read and write. Write a note."

"Maybe someone outside wrote the note and handed it to them, and then they put it in that room."

"There is indeed such a possibility." Ilea also admitted, "But how do you explain why they didn't attack me? As long as they ambush in the room, there is a great chance of successfully assassinating me and taking their lives In exchange for my life, this deal is a good deal no matter how you look at it.

"But if the person who threw the note was my aunt, then all this would make sense. No matter how much she wanted to help my stepmother and brother, she would not sacrifice herself."

"Your analytical and reasoning skills have improved a lot," Li Yu said, "but I still don't think that your aunt is the inner agent of your stepmother and younger brother hiding in the castle."

"What's the reason?"

"Well, I re-checked the voting list that day, and found that your aunt is the only one that Vanessa has a hard time winning over anyway.

"Even if you put aside the personal feelings between you, just from the perspective of interests, the benefits you can bring to her by becoming the lord of the green field far exceed what your younger brother Blanca can offer her. The condition of sincerity, after all, your younger brother already has a mother and uncle by his side, no matter how generous you are, the benefits you can distribute to her are very limited.

"It's not like you, both of your parents are dead, and the person you trust the most is her. Once you become the head of the Arias family, you will definitely need to rely on her. At that time, she will be the number two person in the entire Arias family."

"I don't know why Aunt Alisa betrayed me." Ilea took a deep breath and said, "But you told me that the people in the family had already known the election results in advance, and only I Keeping it in the dark, if my aunt really wasn't bought by my stepmother, why didn't she tell me in advance?"

"Alissa must have her reasons."

"What are the difficulties? After all, it's not for my own sake." The girl said coldly.

Li Yu didn't refute, but said, "I've said almost everything I want to say. In short, I came here this time to tell you that you probably found the wrong person. In fact, you may have doubts deep down in your heart. It must be difficult for you to accept that someone who believes in you betrayed you without any reason."

Miss Rabbit fell into silence after hearing the words, and sighed after a while, "You're right, I'm still in a trance, and I just remembered that when I was young, my aunt took me to play treasure hunting near the castle. Old maps, let’s look for the treasures left by the ancestors of the Arias family together, but in fact those silver coins were buried in advance by someone she asked for.”

A look of nostalgia flashed in the girl's eyes, "I didn't realize how difficult it is to be a lord. In my dreams, I want to go back to the carefree life in the past. Alas... If only my father was still there, everything would be fine." will happen."

That being said, Ilea clearly knew that she could not go back.

She forced herself to break free from her memories and return to the cold real world, "I also want to believe in my aunt, but the facts are already in front of me, if it wasn't for Aunt Alisa, how did that note appear under the table?

"Could it be possible that there is a guy who can be invisible, hiding from everyone's eyes in broad daylight, swaggering into the room where I handle government affairs, putting down the note, and then drifting away without disturbing the guards at all? , this is too bizarre."

"Indeed." Li Yu nodded, and after finishing speaking, he found that the girl had been secretly looking at him, so he said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Since you think I've found the wrong person, can you help me find the real insider?" Miss Rabbit blinked her eyes, full of expectation, "Well, it may be difficult to allow you to preach in the green field, but other things It's all negotiable. How about this, as long as you can help me solve this trouble, I will give you a piece of land first, what do you think?
"It's my uncle Diaz's area. The location is quite good. It's not too far from Teacup Castle. My younger brother was unwilling to fail and tried to usurp the lord's position. He is the mastermind just like my stepmother. Vanessa saw the situation Unfortunately, he took Blanca and escaped, but Dias was caught by the purple broom knight, and now he is locked in the dungeon under the castle.

"His property and fief were also taken away, but that guy was drinking and hunting on weekdays, and he didn't manage his fief very well. As a result, there were not many families left on it, and many fields were abandoned. He took all the money for drinking. I sent people to search his residence and found less than five gold coins and many IOUs.

"But don't worry, I have almost paid off the debt he owed by selling valuable things on his territory. Of course, the rest is basically a piece of white land, but if you can recruit enough farmers, Reclaiming those abandoned fields should still make some money."

Miss Rabbit has already done the calculations for Li Yu, "If the harvest is good, plus other miscellaneous taxes, thirty gold coins a year should be no problem, although it can't keep up with selling pepper to make money, but the point is that as long as the door is closed Come on, you can also engage in some pagan activities, the old rules, as long as it's not too extreme, I can pretend not to know."

(End of this chapter)