Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 21 Christmas 1991

Christmas 1991 came with a heavy snow.

Forest Manor was covered with a thick layer of snow, and the inside and outside of the manor were decorated with Christmas trees and festive lights.

However, compared to the importance that Muggles attach to Christmas, the Forresters, who come from the magical world, don't really care about the religious connotations of this holiday. Their so-called festive attire is only to fit in with their family's status and to facilitate fulfilling their "social obligations" during the holiday season.

As the sky gradually darkened and all the "social obligations" inside and outside were completed, Lin You, the host, lazily lay down on the recliner and refused to move; he was warming himself by the fireplace in the living room, with a large baby carriage next to him.

Minerva, who was evolving from a three-head body to a four-head body, was lying in the stroller; in nearly three months, the little girl's purple hair had grown a lot and was almost covering her big eyes.

Now she can drink from the bottle by herself without anyone's help.

Two small hands hold the bottle neck, and two small feet are raised to the bottom of the bottle, with chubby knees and calves supporting the bottle body; three natural fulcrums make it stable to drink. The chubby cheeks bulge, and under the bottle, the gem suspended on the chest emits a faint and warm golden light.

The warm fire, the golden light, and the warm milk made the little girl feel warm from the inside out, so comfortable that her eyes narrowed into slits; but the gaze that came through the slits of her eyes kept slanting towards Lin You.

Lin You held a roll of parchment in his hand, which was the record of the advanced magic "Return of Beasts" that he had created with a quill pen. However, he was already drowsy from the heat of the stove, and couldn't read a single word. He simply spread out the parchment and covered his stomach with it, like a thin blanket, ready to go to sleep.

The old butler reported his work dutifully, but his eyes would drift to the baby carriage from time to time. Every time the little girl made a loud or vague laugh or murmur, the old butler would smile with genuine joy, causing his report to pause unnaturally from time to time.

"Before Christmas, the trade volume with the wizarding world increased only slightly, and can be considered to have basically remained stable."

"Well... with the small population of the magic world and the backward market mechanism, there won't be any big stir." Lin You yawned and had no interest in this part.

"Then there are the changes in the financial market." The old butler continued to report, "During Christmas, all financial markets were closed, but we found that almost all financial investment institutions were mobilizing funds on a large scale. Everyone was eagerly waiting for the moment when the market opened."

"What they are waiting for is not the moment the market opens, but the moment when the most ferocious polar bear in history is issued a death certificate." This topic aroused a little interest in Lin You, but not much.

In the previous life, on Christmas Day of 1991 in the real dimension, what later generations called "the greatest geopolitical disaster in human history" occurred; now in the Christmas Day of 1991 in the virtual dimension, the same story is repeated in this story world.

Thanks to the influence of numerous historical dramas in the real dimension, as well as novels and dramas with reality as the background, the historical process of the virtual dimension world basically retains a large framework that is highly similar to the real dimension.

Major events that have occurred in the real dimension, especially those that are remembered by all mankind and are bound to be recorded in the history of all mankind, will inevitably be repeated in the big world.

Just like the American Independence, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the Two Opium Wars, the October Revolution, etc., they have all been repeated in the Great World, except that the dates of occurrence and the characters involved have slightly changed due to artistic transformation.

A typical example can be found in China's "Water Margin".

In the real dimension, the Song Jiang Uprising is only a few words in the official history, but in the history of the big world, as portrayed in "Water Margin", he is one of the four great bandits and cooperates with Huaixi Wang Qing, Hebei Tian Hu, and Jiangnan Fang La, which occupies a considerable space in "History of the Song Dynasty".

Even Wang Qing and Tian Hu benefited from it and became historical figures in the world. A similar situation also happened in the story of "The Count of Monte Cristo"; during the Hundred Days when Napoleon was briefly restored, there was a man named Edmond Dantes who delivered a letter on behalf of the deposed French emperor and was imprisoned for more than ten years.

These stories that are integrated into the big world add many vivid details to history, making it very different from the real dimension.

But beyond the details, the general trend of history remains unchanged. Therefore, the polar bear will still be issued a death certificate on the 26th - that is, tomorrow; and the certificate will be issued by the country's own highest ruling body.

Although the incident has not happened yet, the final result has already been determined, and it is not difficult for those who are interested to get the news; the collapse of such a behemoth will inevitably cause a violent earthquake in the global market, and the unusual movements of financial investment institutions reported by the old butler are nothing more than giant crocodiles and man-eating sharks smelling the blood.

"Since the financial market is bound to experience severe fluctuations, do we need to take any countermeasures, young master?" the old butler reminded dutifully.

"No need. Our business focus in the Muggle world is not in the financial industry. Moreover, as aristocrats, we must learn to be low-key in this era and not compete with the new rich in the financial world for money."

Lin You yawned lazily again, and it was obvious that he didn't really care about the question of "whether nobles should keep a low profile".

At this time, the little girl made a hollow inhalation sound; she looked closely and found that the bottle was empty. The little girl took two more sips and found that she couldn't get any more, so she spit out the pacifier, grabbed the pacifier with her two little hands and swung the empty bottle back and forth.

"Wow, your appetite has obviously increased, and even your strength has increased a lot!" Lin You was still lying on the recliner, too lazy to move.

The old butler was much more agile than the young master. He decisively threw the report materials in his hand and stepped forward to take the empty bottle, fearing that the little girl would accidentally hit him.

"Hehe...ha..." The little girl laughed at the old butler, almost melting the old man's heart.

"Master, look, has Miss Minerva started to grow her baby teeth? My eyesight is poor and I can't see clearly." The old butler shouted in surprise, stretched out his fingers to gently pry open the little girl's jaw, and squinted his eyes to peer inside.

Lin You looked at the two milky white lines on his gums and smiled. He scratched the little girl's cheek and congratulated her, "Indeed, you will no longer be a toothless person."

"By the way, today is Christmas. Don't you have any gift prepared for Minerva?" The old housekeeper righteously begged for benefits on behalf of the precious girl.

"Okay, okay, I didn't forget her gift." Lin You was helpless, and waved his hand. A dimensional door opened, and he took out a small golden pendant box. The spherical box was decorated with golden olive branches, and the branches and leaves were clearly visible; at the same time, there was a circle of golden rings on the outside, and the English abbreviations of the thirteen constellations were engraved on the rings, symbolizing the zodiac and the thirteen palaces.

Opening the locket, Lin You gently pushed the gemstone on Minerva's chest into the box. The gemstone's light suddenly disappeared, and only when holding the locket could he vaguely feel the warmth coming from inside.

"Okay, now it won't be so conspicuous." Lin You hung the locket on the little girl's chest. "You little conspicuous bag, you dare to show such a precious thing out in the open, and there's not even a chain. Are you afraid that others won't know that there's something wrong with this thing?"

How could a little girl who had just grown teeth understand these scoldings? She fiddled with the locket curiously, as if she had received a new gift, and then danced and laughed at Lin You.

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