13 Mink Street

This slightly delayed lunch, Karen ate very cautiously.

To the image of the Allen family,

Regarding the treatment he may suffer after coming to the Allen family,

Before coming, he had made many assumptions, but the scene before him was beyond all his assumptions.

When Karen put down his fork and picked up a napkin to wipe the corners of his mouth, old Mr. Anderson immediately ordered to Eunice:

"Take Master Karen to the bedroom to rest. Of course, if Master Karen is interested, you can show him his study first."

"Okay, Grandpa."

Eunice stood up and walked to Karen. Karen also stood up, nodded to everyone present, and followed Eunice out of the restaurant and up the stairs.

At the entrance of the third floor, Eunice pointed to the study doorway ahead:

"Karen, this is your study."

"My study?"

The door of the study room is very large, and the decorations on both sides are also very simple and restrained. After Eunice opened the door of the study room, Karen immediately realized that this is definitely not a study room that was cleaned out casually. It should have always been owned by the owner. .

Because a room can be clearly felt whether it has been idle or used all the time.

There are many paintings hanging on the walls of the study.

What instantly attracted Karen were the three paintings.

The first painting is a middle-aged man wearing island clothes and a one-eyed eye mask, holding a luxuriously dressed woman with a crown in his arms.

Eunice followed Karen's gaze and introduced, "This is the ancestor Earl Recar. He is the pride of our family history. He was once the leader of the Changqin Sea Pirate Legion."

"Then the woman in his arms is..."

"It was his lover, Queen of the Wien Royal Family at the time—Gloria III."

Wayne was originally an island country, and gradually formed its current empire through maritime hegemony;

In the early days, in the face of pressure from the outside world, both the royal family and the government issued documents to encourage pirate organizations to work for the empire;

And the most powerful pirate leader back then actually made Queen Wien his lover.

No wonder the Allen family has maintained a good relationship with the Wien royal family until now. The women of the family can often enter the palace to have afternoon tea with the Queen's family. It turns out that there is such a period in the history of the two ancestors.

I just don't know if the blood has been mixed up?

Karen looked at another painting. In the painting was a huge sea monster with the flag of the Allen family emblem on the sea monster's forehead. Behind it, a group of pirate warships followed it.

"This one, you have seen it, Arcelus, but it should not be the one that sent us back."

Karen nodded, and his eyes fell on the last one.

That painting, it's... a black cat.

Wearing a pink top hat and a string of pearls around its neck, the black cat sits on a golden chair with serious and dignified eyes.

The corner of Karen's mouth could not help but twitch,

This...is Pu'er?

It is really difficult for you to overlap the Pu'er in this painting with the black cat who always likes to lie on the window sill on the third floor to bask in the sun when you are at home.

Even if they are cats.

It's like it's hard for you to connect the king with the beggar, even though they are all human beings.

"This is the most famous genius in our family history. She raised the family's belief system to a new level. I don't know much about her specific case, because people in the family mean, no rush to let me go I am not very keen on the road to the family system.

But I remember asking my grandfather when I was a child, why the portraits of the ancestors in the study are so heroic, but this ancestor is a cat?

Grandpa told me that this is the temper of a genius. Many years ago, when the family invited a court painter to paint her, she deliberately turned herself into a cat.

She said that there are too many portraits in the family, and she does not want to lose herself in one of the many portraits. She hopes that every time the younger generations look at these portraits, they will always see her at first sight and find her, which is interesting . "

Karen nodded;

Yes, very interesting.

But you probably didn't know that at the time, you will have to be a cat for a hundred years in the future.

"This ancestor is very important in our family history, not inferior to Earl Recar, but she belongs to another level of achievement, Karen, you should know."

"Well, I know, what happened next?"

"Later, I couldn't explain clearly. This ancestor seemed to have some problems with the family. In the end, there was no record of her in the family records, as if she had just evaporated.

But our family does not allow cats because of her. "

Karen remembered that Pu'er said that the Allen family once obtained a mysterious item, and then Pu'er felt that this item would bring huge disasters to the family, so he directly took this item out of the family, and tore with the family from then on.

Therefore, the Allen family was not allowed to keep cats. Karen felt that it was not because of "Pall", but because the patriarch of that generation hated "Pall".

But because "Pall" is a glorious point in the history of the family, and even at that time, the name "Pall" could still deter the enemy, so the conflict cannot be made public, and the anger can only be directed at the "cat".

"That one is the ancestor of our Allen family - Allen." Eunice pointed to the painting behind the desk.

In the painting, a shirtless man walks in the ice and snow, but his body is burning with flames.

His first name was given a surname.

Karen looked at the painting, so, is he the beginning of the Allen family's belief system, and he obviously combined the two attributes of water and fire on himself;

It's no wonder that Mike did not hesitate to blow up his legs in order to practice this. The portrait of the ancestor has been hanging at home, which is equivalent to teaching future generations: I can do it like this!

Or, it can be called "instigating" and "bewitching".

Without this portrait of the ancestor, the people of the Allen family in the past should have lost many legs or arms.

"Whose study is this?" Karen asked.

"It used to be my father's study. Grandpa said, this will be your study from now on," Eunice said.

"My study?" Karen laughed, "Aren't you kidding me?"

Eunice shook her head, "Earlier, when Uncle Mike heard about this arrangement, he also said, 'Aren't you joking?', and then Uncle Mike's face..."

Karen noticed that when Mike pushed the wheelchair in, there was a red crutch mark on his face.

"No, Eunice, how could I use your father's study as soon as I came here? This is the patriarch's study, right?"

"But, that's what grandpa meant. Besides, the master bedroom opposite the study room was originally the master bedroom of my father and mother. Now it has been tidied up and replaced with new supplies. From now on, it will be your bedroom."

"What exactly is Grandpa Anderson trying to do?" Karen looked at Eunice.

Eunice blinked, looked at Karen, and said, "Don't you understand?"

"I don't think it's true."

"But this is the arrangement of grandpa, and my mother did not expect such an arrangement, but my father should have discussed it with grandpa a long time ago.

Previously, when you rang the summoning bell and the door of the restaurant cabinet was opened;

Grandpa standing in the front row said:

Everyone cheered up and accepted the call of the new patriarch. "

"Grandpa Anderson wants me to be the new patriarch?"

"Grandpa said so."

Karen subconsciously covered her head: "Your family... all do things like this?"

What Karen originally wanted to ask was: Is your family always doing things so casually?

The position of patriarch is directly given to an outsider who came to the door for the first time?

Giving it to his son-in-law is outrageous, not to mention that he and Eunice are not yet married, and the engagement ceremony has not yet been held in Wayne.

At this time, a maid came over:

"Miss, master come and let me call you down."

"Okay, I see." Eunice said to Karen, "You sit in your study for a while, I'm going down, Grandpa should have something to tell me."

Eunice went down,

Then two maids walked in and placed tea, snacks, cigars, cigarettes and other things on the desk and side cabinet.

After they also go out,

Karen walked to the desk helplessly,

Looking at the row of exquisite quill pens and fountain pens, I suddenly wanted to laugh.

"Master?"

At this moment, Alfred walked in.

"Alfred."

Karen pointed around.

Alfred understood immediately, his blood-colored eyes lit up, he scanned the surroundings, and said, "Master, there are many restrictions and magic circles outside, but this study is very clean. Generally speaking, a place like a study is often Cleanest."

"Um."

Karen leaned back against the desk and said to Alfred:

"cigarette."

Alfred immediately took out a cigarette and handed it to the young master's mouth. After that, he took out the lighter and twirled it to help the young master light it with the outer flame.

Alfred had practiced this set of movements many times in private, and he called them "smoke pulling technique" and "cigarette lighting technique".

It's just that my young master seems to be quitting smoking intentionally, and the "spells" he practiced are becoming more and more difficult to use.

This is indeed the case, except for the moment when Karen just woke up, Karen needed tobacco to stabilize the anxiety at that moment, and when the days stabilized, he tried his best not to touch this kind of thing that was harmful to health.

But still the same reason,

He needs to "quiet" now,

Either smoke yourself twice, or light a cigarette;

Since it has the same effect, he still chooses the latter.

"The Allen family will give me the patriarch's study and bedroom."

"Master, I can see that they want you to take over the management of this family."

"Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

"The subordinates find it extremely ridiculous."

"Yes, you also think..."

"The Alan family, who are as humble as a loach in the mud, dare to hope to cling to you, young master, it is wishful thinking!"

"..." Karen.

…

Kevin wanted to follow it upstairs, but Pu'er's two paws were right next to its two ears. If it dared to go now, Pu'er would tear off its two ears directly.

The big golden retriever chose to protect its ears and stood at the door, while Pu'er continued to sit on its back, erecting its two cat ears and listening carefully to the speeches of the members of the Allen family at the dining table.

"boom!"

Mr. Anderson raised his walking stick and slammed it hard on the dining table, shaking the coffee table. Everyone here is in awe;

"Wood, you're an idiot!"

Pu'er nodded, yes, that's right!

"An idiot who only knows how to be fierce and fierce, and an idiot who only knows how to pay attention to the island style, in his mind, he didn't realize at all that the Alan family today is no longer the pirate family that galloped the sea back then!

We have been ashore for more than two hundred years!

The environment we are facing, the development trajectory of the family, and the era of the sea have been completely decoupled.

so,

I dispatched Wood to Corona Island, because I knew that if he were to be the patriarch, he would definitely wipe out all the remaining wealth of the family! "

"boom!"

Mr. Anderson picked up his crutch again, and yanked the table. The coffee table bounced up again, and everyone in the room was stunned.

"Mike, you're an idiot too!"

Pu'er nodded, yes, that's right!

The idiot Mike who was named didn't dare to say anything.

"He originally had a good talent for cultivation, and I hope that he can go further in the family's belief system. In the future, I can rest assured that I will hand over the family to him.

After all, the foundation of our family is actually strength!

But, but, but...

However, he tried to merge privately, and blew up his own legs, cutting off the possibility of continuing to go up this road. Now, he is completely reduced to a useless person, even worse than the gardener servant in the garden! "

Mike lowered his head.

"boom!"

Mr. Anderson knocked his walking stick on the table again, and the coffee table bounced up. Everyone in the room pretended to be serious.

"Bed!"

Bede immediately raised his hand and said:

"I'm a fool."

"boom!"

The good attitude of pleading guilty did not get lenient treatment, the old man swiped his crutches and directly hit Bader's ribs.

"Hiss..." Patriarch Bede was in pain for a while, but he still couldn't cry out, he could only hold his face.

"You're a complete idiot!"

Pu'er nodded: Yes, that's right!

"I asked you to go to the appointment with the Inmeles family, but you actually went to Sangpu for a painting exhibition, and then sent your wife and daughter to go to the appointment instead of you?

The reason is still that Jenny is from Luo Jia, so she can just go back to visit her relatives?

You're a patriarch, not an artist you idiot! "

Pu'er, who heard this explanation, immediately widened his cat's eyes: Give this idiot another shot, I don't know how to hate him!

"Do you know that the relationship with the Inmeles family was established by your great-great-great-aunt?

Is this how you treat the Inmeles family perfunctorily?

You are still the patriarch, you are still the patriarch! "

Old man Anderson raised his crutch again, but suddenly seemed to have a flash, and Bede immediately stood up and supported the old man.

The old man began to breathe heavily,

Then he pointed to his face:

"As for me, I'm even more of an idiot, because I've given birth to three idiot sons."

Pu'er nodded: Yes, you are a big idiot.

"Under my governance, the Raphael family rose step by step, and finally began to eat away at our family's property. I was incompetent, failed to restore the family's decline, and failed to train a good successor for the future of the family.

I,

You big brother, you, and you;

hehe,

We are all idiots. "

Everyone bowed their heads in silence.

"The patriarch of the Rafael family died suddenly. Fortunately, the Raphael family is not a family with a solid background. The sudden death of a patriarch is enough to make them fall into internal friction and internal strife. The first person in front of us The great enemy has collapsed.

However, is the Rafael family the only enemy in our Allen family?

I really don't want the family's decline to continue. Jenny, Lisa and the others have to go to the palace to chat with the Queen and the others from time to time.

Hehehe, you must know that the queen of the Wayne royal family back then was the lover of our ancestors who came and went as soon as they were called. A few days before the ancestors went ashore, the queen had to wait for the ancestors to come to bed on the shore wharf!

What now,

We actually have to rely on the relationship with the royal family to improve our family's reputation, shame, shame!

But the future may be even more embarrassing,

When the next generation..."

The old man pointed at Eunice's cousins:

"weak,

It's the original sin of our family!

But if our family continues to be weak,

It is estimated that in your generation, you will be tacitly suppressed and disintegrated by other families.

You, you, and you;

They have to be reduced to the reproductive tools of the family, and become a part of the family's enrichment of their own belief system!

We are not an ordinary family, the glory of our ancestors is destined to be our shackles, even a curse!

Because you don’t even have the option of going into the market as workers, as porters at the docks, or as beggars. You can only become pigs waiting to be bred in someone else’s pigsty! "

The old man sat down,

Jenny delivered the tea,

The old man took a sip,

continued:

"So, that's why I made this arrangement.

I used to vaguely feel that Diss was an unusual person. The Inmeles family was not as ordinary as it seemed. But I still feel that Diss and his family are not simple.

Otherwise, the ancestor of our family would not have deliberately entered into a relationship between our family and the Inmeles family.

It turns out that

Diss, he is really extraordinary!

When Jenny called and told me that Diess had given her a purple bookmark, I wished I could kill that rebellious Bede right after answering the phone! "

Patriarch Bede sat there obediently.

"You should be lucky, we should all be lucky, lucky that Eunice also went to Luojia City with her mother, otherwise, if Diss is really angry because of this, he will come directly and push our family away because of negligence." It's a very simple matter, it just depends on his heart.

Fortunately, Eunice went to Luojia City.

Although it is shameful to say it so bluntly, it is the best choice for the family for Eunice to complete this marriage, compared to the whole clan of the next generation or the next generation being reduced to pigs for breeding.

certainly……"

Anderson looked at Eunice who had just returned and sat down:

"The men in the Inmeles family are all handsome, haha."

Eunice lowered her head, she really didn't know how to answer Grandpa's words.

"I even suspect that when the ancestor went to the Inmeles family to form a relationship, he also took a fancy to the handsome man of the Inmeles family."

The big golden retriever grinned, laughed, and shook his tail excitedly.

Pu'er: "..."

"Yes, Diss is in a deep sleep. But he had been depressed for decades, and I personally persuaded Diss to cheer up in the study of the Inmeles family on Minke Street, Roja City.

He said he found it meaningless.

I believed it back then,

All right,

That's what he said without meaning!

If the Inmeles family finds it boring, then our Allen family can completely cover the pigsty in advance, so that when they are bred in the future, the living conditions can be better.

If he said he was negative, was he really negative?

Did he really fall asleep when he said he fell asleep?

He won't wake up?

The Inmeles family offended such a behemoth as the Cult of Order, and Diss broke with the Cult of Order, so now the Inmeles family has been wiped out?

Is their family still living well in Luojia City? Tadis, is he still sleeping soundly on the bed at home?

The Cult of Order endured this tone. What right do our Allen family have to go up and step on it?

The blood sacrifice ceremony turned the Inmeles family from this generation to the following generations into ordinary people, unable to rejoin the church.

hehe,

hey-hey,

Ha ha ha ha……"

The old man suddenly laughed loudly:

"Then why did he send Karen to our house?"

The audience was in awe, this time it was really awe.

"If Karen is willing to be an ordinary person and live his life in peace, why doesn't he stay at home?

It is precisely because Diss thinks that his grandson cannot be an ordinary person, is not suitable to be an ordinary person, and cannot be an ordinary person, so he arranged to send his grandson out!

He even gave our family a purple bookmark for this grandson.

That's something only the elders of the Temple of Order are qualified to distribute!

Although our Allen family wrote Raphael's name on it, which is equivalent to killing a mosquito with a pirate ship's cannon, but you think, that's how it is, and Diss is willing to do it, and he has fulfilled the contract!

What does this mean,

It shows that Diss has high hopes for his grandson, and infinite high hopes!

this means,

Diss put Karen,

As the hope of the revival of the Inmeles family!

so,

Please tell me, tell me this old man,

This train from Luojia City, should my Alan's family rub against it?

the most important is,

Since you want to rub, you can't save face. Rubbing the car is shameful to save face. This is really stupid and unimaginably stupid!

We, the Allen family, just bet!

Anyway, if you continue, you will die in a pigsty!

Just bet on him, Karen, who can bring Inmeles and our Alan's family along to rise together! "

at last,

The old man pointed to the scrolls of ancestors around the restaurant,

laughed:

"I've been incompetent and stupid all my life, but I have a hunch, maybe because of my decision today, my picture scroll will be eligible to hang in the center here in the future."

In the corner, Pu'er nodded: trust me, you can do it.

"At the very least, I can squeeze out the picture scroll of the black cat. There is a cat in the picture scroll of the family ancestors. In fact, I have disliked this for a long time."

"..." Pu'er.