Yellow hair can also have a husband-chasing crematorium

Langdon thought this statement was a bit strange, but he couldn't figure out why, because it sounded very reasonable.

"Also, if you have any opinion on me, you can raise it now, and let's see if we can work it out."

Shalltear jokingly said: "Sometimes I hope you can be more ruthless, like that Kane, if you lock him up from the beginning, he won't ruin your reputation outside."

Langdon almost forgot about Kane. After all, he was so busy every day that he didn't bother to pay attention to a person who couldn't make a splash—a scumbag who was stuck in the second year of the Imperial School of Magic and could not be promoted. what?

Just like when he sent the flower girl's parents to dig coal, he never worried about the resentment of the scumbag parents, the foreman who escaped the overseer, and flew most of the empire from his duchy to the imperial capital to retaliate against him.

Cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots also depends on whether the other party is worthy of this high-level treatment.

Kane's only value now is as a bargaining chip that Langdon uses to negotiate with Kane's parents... A little nobleman is also a nobleman, and no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Let's see what price the other party can pay to maintain the family's reputation.

Langdon never thought of himself as a good person, and he couldn't help laughing when he heard Shalltear say that he wished him to be more ruthless.

"You really care about this... I'm not as good as you think."

"It seems to me that you are forgiving enough."

Langdon thought for a while: "Since there may be a long-term cooperation in the future, I think it is necessary to explain, lest you have strange misunderstandings about me... It doesn't mean that I have to do something myself to count as hands-on."

Xia Tiya was curious: "How to say?"

"Take Kane as an example..."

Langdon said calmly: "All I did was to expel him, but as the Duke, I expressed an attitude that even if I don't do anything, Kane will not be able to live well, so the school It will dissuade him, the 'companions' who used to play with him will abandon him or even suppress him, and he can't find a job that meets his status."

Shalltear still understood this. Although she didn't enjoy the life of the royal family with peace of mind, she just depended on others, but she still saw a lot of bullying postures of the nobles. In fact, what she wanted to talk about was not Kane, but Helena.

In her opinion, Helena was so sorry to Langdon that Langdon should drive Helena away instead of moving out by himself.

But she shouldn't know so much about Langdon's family, and it's not easy to intervene, so she can only talk about Kane.

"I don't think I have misunderstood you...Even so, that's the retribution he deserves, isn't it? If he doesn't use his power, then when he loses power, it's impossible for so many people to make trouble, and there is no one Willing to help him."

Langdon thought for a while: "Well, what you said makes sense."

But if no one is willing to help, that's not necessarily the case. Helena came to be a lobbyist at that time, trying to make him not fire Kane.

Speaking of Helena...

In fact, what Langdon said just now had the same meaning for Helena.

As the duke and the head of the Stuart family, he didn't need to say anything, because someone would make things difficult for Helena just to please him.

The previous batch of maids and servants couldn't react because they were too used to Helena being the master of the house, not necessarily those who have been living in the Dukedom.

If it was before, Langdon might still show up politely out of gentlemanly manners, but now he has no idea about Helena, he just hopes that Helena will stay in the old Duke's mansion and not come out to find trouble for him, and now someone has come forward Hounding Helena, he naturally wouldn't do anything else.

Anyway, with Helena's ability, it should be easy to deal with those people, right?

Helena, who was casually classified by Langdon into the "don't care" project, has not been in such a good state recently as Langdon thought.

Rather, she was in a state of embarrassment that she hadn't seen for a long time.

After her younger brother inherited the title, he moved out regardless of her mood. She had a fever for several days and was finally able to get out of bed, only to find that all the maids and servants at home and even the guards outside had been replaced by newcomers.

In order to maintain the dignity of the Duke's Mansion, these people are meticulous in cleaning, receiving guests and other things. Helena can't blame anything, but in other aspects...

For example, when it comes to carrying out Helena's orders, even if she does do it in the end, there will be many details that make Helena feel neglected, especially compared to the group of people who were replaced. The attitude of paying attention is more obvious.

Helena was lying on the bed sick and wanted to drink water, but found that there was no kettle beside the bed that should have been placed there, and the maid was not guarding the bedroom.

She rang the bell to call someone, and it took several times before someone rushed over, and it took a long time to bring her water...

If it was before, Helena could of course let them leave directly.

But when she couldn't hold back and said, "If you can't do it, find someone who can do it", the maid on the opposite side smiled humbly and answered politely but without fear.

"I'm sorry, Miss Helena, I am someone hired by Your Excellency the Duke, and you are not qualified to fire me."

Helena was speechless on the spot.

She didn't feel offended—maybe she was a little bit, but at that time, what was more in her heart was a kind of anger and grievance.

Helena felt that the reason why these servants acted like this was, in the final analysis, all because of Langdon's attitude.

It was because Langdon showed contempt towards her that these people also looked down on her.

Langdon was really cruel, even though she had a high fever in bed for several days, he never visited her once, and he never even came back to this home.

It was as if this duke's mansion, including her living in the duke's mansion, had nothing to do with him.

Sometimes Helena looked at the Duke's Mansion where she had lived for several years, and felt that it was terribly strange.

No one else thought there was anything wrong with Langdon.

It was like a relative of the Stuart family who sat on the sofa in the reception room one day, removed his usual mask, revealed his dislike for her origin, and talked endlessly about what she didn't like to hear.

"—Moved out? If you want me to say that Langdon is still too kind, even if he doesn't want to see you, he doesn't have to move out by himself. Wouldn't it be fine to let you, an adopted daughter, move out? Helena, you are too ignorant Well, I see it like this, my nephew's wife has passed away for half a year, and now there is a missing mistress at home, making a mess, you marry my nephew and help him, you will be a decent noble lady if you go, we don't I despise you as an adopted daughter!"

Helena's haggard face still couldn't hide her beauty.

Her eyelids drooped slightly, her icy blue eyes stared at the steaming scented tea in her hand, silently patient.

She sent someone to deliver a message to Langdon.

Relatives came to the door, Langdon would not still refuse to come to see him?

[ps: The monthly pass is over a hundred, and I owe one more change, and there is still one more change for last month's reward, I remember it all]

[pps: add updates at night]

44. Helena's Pain (reward plus more)

The person who came to find Helena was Langdon's distant relative, the kind of distant relative who wasn't even invited to the funeral. According to seniority, he was Langdon's aunt.

But he didn't feel that he was alienated from the duke, he kept saying "our duke", and didn't change his face when he said that he wasn't even qualified to attend the funeral.

"Because the funeral was held in the imperial capital, the Duke understands that we can't make it... It would be great if the funeral was held later. I heard that you are in charge? Helena, you are not considerate enough."

In fact, this distant aunt was not even qualified to appear in front of Helena, let alone say such rude words in front of her.

But Helena wanted to use her as an excuse to meet Langdon, so she could only bear with it for the time being.

When the distant aunt was talking, Helena kept her head down, looking at the water in the teacup in her hand, and found her haggard face from the swaying ripples.

Although she has a lot of clothes and jewelry, Helena just doesn't look as energetic as before, and she even looks a little sickly thin.

Girls need pampering.

With flowers, with jewels, with power...or with love.

The former Helena, as the acting head of the family, held great power and said what she said. Even her already glamorous beauty became more radiant, and her eyes were full of confidence and confidence.

She doesn't need jewels and flowers to adorn herself, she is unquestionably beautiful, and she doesn't think she needs love, no matter how Langdon makes her sad and disappointed, she doesn't care—

But now she's not sure.

There are dozens of people living in the huge duke's mansion, but it is as quiet as a tomb.

But obviously it was the same before.

It was the foundation for the servants not to disturb the master when they walked around. Helena never felt that it was a problem in the past, and even enjoyed this kind of tranquility.

Even Langdon actually spends most of his time at school and only comes back occasionally, even if he comes back, he doesn't take the initiative to come to her. Every time she finds out what's wrong with Langdon, she can meet Langdon.

Regardless, Langdon would return to this home.

Even if he didn't speak, and didn't come to see Helena, as long as he knew that he would come back, Helena would have a natural sense of stability in her heart.

...But now, everything has changed.

Strange faces came and went, and the house she had lived in for several years could no longer give her a sense of security.

Langdon seemed unwilling to step into the duke's mansion again.

What would it be without Langdon?It has lost all meaning.

In the dead of night, she tossed and turned, and even because she couldn't sleep, she wore only a thin white nightgown, carried a lamp through the deep corridor, and entered the collection room.

She would open the blackout curtains and quietly stare at the oil paintings hanging on the wall, looking at them all night.

As the real estate of the Stuart family in the Imperial Capital, it was not used frequently before Langdon came to the Imperial Capital, and the collection room was filled with unimportant things. In fact, these oil paintings were specially designed by Helena Brought from the Duchy of Stuart.

Only by staying in the collection room can Helena regain the feeling that this is "home".

There are five paintings in the collection, three of which are single portraits of Langdon at the ages of five, ten and fifteen.

The other two, one is a family portrait - the deceased ex-duchess is sitting on the sofa chair, Langdon is standing behind her - originally he didn't want to take her with him, but Langdon pestered the ex-duchess to take her , and this is the only family portrait in which she appears.

The last one is a double painting of her and Langdon.

When this picture was painted, their relationship was not so bad.

Helena in the painting is only 12 years old, sitting on a chair facing the picture, her hairstyle is different from the current updo, but the shawl hair down.

There was a slight smile on her cold and beautiful face, even though her hair and eyes were cool blue, she still looked warm and affectionate.

Standing next to the chair, Langdon also had a relaxed posture. His blond hair was fluffy and soft. Anyone who saw it would praise him for being cute. His immature face was full of smiles, as if he was looking at Helian outside the painting. Na laughed.

This was the smile Langdon hadn't shown Helena for a long time.

She thought that she could find some solace in this time-freezing portrait.

But in fact, the sense of loss that was empty in her heart deepened even more.

"Mother, I have become very useful, but, it's so strange, why did Langdon say that he doesn't need me? It's obvious...it was so smooth before..."

In the collection room in the middle of the night, confused and sad questions came.

No one answered.

This unspeakable pain made Helena very anxious.

Sometimes, she even felt that Langdon kept her and moved away to torture her.

But Langdon's move, in the eyes of others, has a completely different meaning.

The distant aunt talked about this topic: "—Look, how kind-hearted our Duke is, knowing that you are used to living here, he will move out by himself, don't get angry with him because of this, after all, the Duke It's normal for you to want to live by yourself when you grow up, how embarrassing you are as an unmarried girl, why don't you hurry up and get married..."

"……certainly not……"

"What? What did you just say?"

"..."

She is not used to living here.

If you have to say it, she is used to living in Stuart Castle in the Duchy!

It was full of childhood memories there, and the advantage here was only because Langdon—

...but Langdon doesn't live here anymore either.

What is she still insisting on?

Is she insisting on being "right"?

But, if she's actually "not right"...

The aunt didn't care what Helena said just now, she just focused on expressing her own opinion: "Forget it, what my aunt said may not sound good, but you too, it's time to get married, you can't just stay at home and let the Duke take care of you , you will only cause him trouble..."

While talking, my aunt suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The teacups on the table made a slight and crisp sound of colliding cups and saucers, as if someone pushed the table.

But no one touches the table at all?

illusion?

The aunt was a little puzzled, but she kept talking: "... You shouldn't be the housekeeper. What do you look like? Can you be better than the Duke? Listen to my aunt, marry a good family, and don't let the Duke worry about you. You have helped him the most..."

This time my aunt saw clearly.

The table moved towards her out of thin air, and the liquid in the teacup also swayed. This is not an illusion at all!

Even my aunt faintly felt a sense of tension in the air, which made her nervous.

Is it magic?But isn't this adopted daughter incapable of magic?

"what happened……"

At this moment, a maid came over: "Miss Helena, the servant who went to find the Duke is back."